[NYPOST] A convicted murderer serving a life sentence for an unrelated killing has been indicted by a Georgia grand jury in connection with the death of an Army private who was found dead on the side of a road from a gunshot blast decades ago.
Marcellus McCluster, 64, was served with an arrest warrant for the death of René Dawn Blackmore at a correctional facility near Augusta, where he is incarcerated for a 1983 Stewart County murder conviction. The indictment charges him with one count of malice murder and four alternative counts of felony murder, officials said.
Blackmore, 20, an Arizona native, was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia when she disappeared on April 29, 1982. She vanished while on the way back to her barracks from Columbus, the town outside the military installation.
A month later, her wallet and sweater were found on a roadside in nearby Cusseta, a few miles from the Army post.
On June 28, 1982, Blackmore’s remains were found off a logging road a few miles south of Chattahoochee County, Vic Reynolds, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said during a Thursday news conference. It was determined she died from a shotgun blast.
Kimberly Schwartz, an assistant district attorney for the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit, noted there are no statute of limitations for murder.
"Out of all the crimes on all the books, this is the one crime that takes from the victim that fundamental right that we all have, which is the right to live out the rest of our lives that we’ve been given,’’ she said.
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I am a firm believer in Executions should be conducted in the same matter that the murder was committed.
[NYPOST] A Long Island man was arrested Friday and charged with the fatal shooting of a Northwell Health employee last week, police said.
Quay-Sean Renard Hines, 30, One of the more grandiose names we've seen sported by a low-life...
was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old Amelia Laguerre, according to the Nassau County Police Department.
Laguerre was shot in a publicly-accessible parking garage underneath a medical office complex in New Hyde Park, hospital and law enforcement officials said.
The slain woman was a Queens resident who had worked for Northwell Health for a decade, according to PIX11.
Earlier in the investigation, police indicated she may have been targeted in the attack, possibly by someone she knew.
"This person was probably waiting in the wings. If you were down in that parking garage, it’s kind of dim lighting," Police Capt. Stephen Fitzpatrick said during an April 1 presser. "He was probably lurking ... and then just came out on her."
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Once again the Left's outstanding example of a Liberal run peaceful city has produced another example of Citizen Gun Control. But they still need to work on Criminals with guns issue.
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^ it's to emphasize that guns don't kill people, people kill people. A la the Tsarnaev brothers and their Boston Marathon pressure cooker bombs. Only a sure and timely enforced death penalty will ever put a stop to it.
[NYPOST] Two teenage girls were stabbed — one of them fatally — during a parade celebrating the Mount Vernon High School basketball team’s state championship season on Friday, police said.
What began as a city-wide celebration turned to tragedy at around 3:55 p.m. when cops found the two stabbed teens and multiple women fighting near the end of the parade route, according to a statement from the city.
One of the girls suffered non-life threatening injuries while the other victim, a 16-year-old, was "gravely injured" and died as she was being rushed to Jacobi Medical Center.
"I am devastated and completely outraged," Mayor Shawyn Patterson Howard said in a statement.
"We began our day celebrating the greatness and success of our youth and we ended it with a young life that has been taken by senseless and inexcusable violence," Howard said. "The mental emotional and spiritual health of our community especially of our children must be the priority and we must come together."
The parade kicked off around 11 a.m. with members of the Mount Vernon Knights’ undefeated team snaking through the city in a police-escorted motorcade, passing by 15 other schools city schools before ending at Mount Vernon City Hall for a ceremony where the team was honored for its 12th state title.
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[NYPOST] A Florida teen was killed and two of his pals were arrested after taking turns shooting live rounds at each other while wearing armored vests, police said Friday.
Christopher Broad, 16, was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound inside a home in Belleview on Sunday. He was rushed to a local hospital where he died from the injuries, cops said.
An ensuing probe revealed that Broad and another boy, Joshua Vining, 17, were taking turns "shooting each other while wearing a vest which contained a form of body armor," the Belleview Police Department said in a statement.
A third teen, Colton Whitler, was present at the time of the tragedy and allegedly gave officers a false account of what took place, authorities said.
"Vining shot at Broad while he was wearing the vest and he was struck," the statement stated.
Vining and Whitler were arrested in connection with Broad’s death Thursday and will be charged as adults, cops said.
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Well, I guess its one way to run a quality assurance test on your product/purchase. O.o
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Maybe you ought to make sure everyone can hit a target before the game begins. Also taking one in your vest might impact your accuracy on the following shot. Overall good news for the gene pool unless Florida allows conjugal visits.
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^ Interesting, I have made my own observations on local history. Pa. Maryland area. I have talked to people who spoke of 1936 as I recall people seeing some unusual weather events in this area. Hottest summer on record they said. Very cold winter where the bay was bombed to opened from ice to allow shipping to pass. Trees topped in Oakland Maryland 15 feet up to gather firewood.Then Johnstown flood which might have occurred due to excessive runoff from snow melt.Yes, an old dam of poor construction quality didn't help.
It was a major large storm with heavy 6"+ rain totals.
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The big Johnstown Flood, the one involving the failed dam, was in 1889. The "other" Johnstown flood was in 1977.
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The big Johnstown Flood, the one involving the failed dam, was in 1889. The "other" Johnstown flood was in 1977.
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Global warming is a bitch!
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1977 Johnstown PA flood was in July - heavy rain from thunderstorms
Back in 1997, Bismarck ND had about 18" of snow in the April 4-7 storm. Depending on cold front timing, intrusion of moisture, etc. this storm could hit 20"+
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^ thanks for the updates. Built later as I recall. This information I provided was from people alive at that time. So memory errors perhaps. Before my time but 1936 kept coming up in their memories. Incline plane
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Been looking at houses in Fort Worth Tx last week. Housing market is crazy - Seller's market for sure.
Many sellers are taking bids for 'best and highest'. I wasn't interested in that - too easy to have a buddy bid up the price.
Most builders can only contract a few houses per month due to supply problems. They don't want to commit to a schedule / closing date unless they know they can meet it - due to the unreliable supply chain. Don't like buyers getting pissed off because of delays caused by supply problems.
Just about every builder has a 'waiting list'.
Most seem to increase their prices every few 'sells'. They flat out tell you: "I sell three or four houses and then up the price". They say it's because of supply prices.
Nevertheless construction is everywhere. 400-500 acre masterplan communities with thousands of homes. Some are even building schools inside their communities.
Went to one model home where the person said "From Washington? We entirely understand - no need to explain!". Everyone seems to be moving to Texas. I'm hoping that more conservatives than liberals are going there.
We did find a place. Waiting to contract it out. Like the area - hit 95F on Monday. Good food and the people are genuinely nicer.
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By design. Biggest investors in residential real estate are the Wall Street crowd, Buffett / Berkshire, Blackrock etc. They've been using their cash board's buying up a large chunk of the housing stock and sitting on it (very nice returns because of high rents) and occasionally flipping it.
It was a seller’s market when trailing daughter #2 and her very tall husband were house hunting in Dallas in 2016. For months they made multiple offers above asking price on new listings, sight unseen, and ended up writing a letter to last seller explaining how they wanted that house to be the forever home for them and their future children. Just money even then wasn’t enough.
[AlAhram] Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... said Saturday it will permit one million Moslems from inside and outside the country to participate in this year's hajj, a sharp uptick after pandemic restrictions forced two years of drastically pared-down pilgrimages.
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people are supposed to be vaxxed but with Omicron that doesn't really stop the virus so we'll see
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[Korrespondent] 23:33 The Defense Express publication writes that the parachute shells that the mayor of Kharkov warned about are 9M55K1 cluster munitions, they can be launched by the Smerch multiple launch rocket system. Such submunitions are very dangerous because they can aim at the target while they fall. They have a thermal homing head that reacts not only to armored vehicles, but also to civilian vehicles. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported three weeks ago that the Russians fired at Kyiv with such ammunition. 23:30 Putin's longtime friend Berlusconi criticized the Russian president for the war with Ukraine: "I cannot and do not want to hide that I am deeply disappointed and saddened by the behavior of Vladimir Putin ... Russia cannot deny its responsibility in the face of the horror of the massacres of civilians in Bucha and other settlements of Ukraine".
23:26 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that his country decided to buy Bayraktars from Turkey - Erdogan has already promised to put them out of turn.
23:23 The Cabinet of Ministers has extended the deadline for applying for assistance to IDPs until April 30. Everyone who moved from hot spots will be able to receive two thousand hryvnias for an adult and three thousand for a child.
23:17 Journalist Denis Kazansky said that in Vorzel, Kiev region (five kilometers from Bucha), the Russians set up a checkpoint on the Warsaw highway almost from the first days of the war and shot civilians who tried to pass by. The bodies of those killed are still lying on the side of the road. One of the dead is a guard at the Skipper restaurant, located not far from the road.
23:15 According to the OP, 4532 people were evacuated today.
23:10 USAID has provided Ukraine with five thousand Starlink satellite terminals, the US Embassy in Ukraine has reported.
23:08 Zelensky said following a meeting with Johnson that the British are ready to take patronage over the restoration of Kiev and the Kiev region after the war.
23:00 One of the main shrines, one of the most revered shrines of St. Sophia of Kiev - the icon of St. Nicholas (Wet) will return to Ukraine, Zelensky said. This is the first miraculous icon of Russia.
22:36 Arakhamia said that negotiations with Russia are difficult, there are not many positions for rapprochement: "I would say, not many at all." According to him, everything depends on the situation at the front. But now the negotiations allow solving the issues of humanitarian corridors, thanks to which more than 300 thousand people were able to evacuate.
As for the guarantor countries, Germany, Turkey, France and Italy have publicly agreed to become them. China, according to Arakhamia, "became interested and is actively working on the document." There is no response from the US and Britain yet.
He also said that they did not agree with Russia on the withdrawal of troops from Kyiv, "it was their good will or military necessity disguised as good will." Arakhamia claims that Ukraine learned about this, like everyone else, at a press conference in Istanbul.
22:21 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that since the beginning of the military "special operation" from the Donbass and "dangerous regions of Ukraine" more than 700 thousand people have been evacuated to Russia.
22:17 The governor of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation said that from the side of Ukraine, mortars were fired at the border post in the area of the settlement. Elizavetovka, there were no casualties or damage.
22:14 Bellingcat investigative journalist Hristo Grozev believes that, from a military point of view, hostilities in Ukraine may last until the end of the year. As for the political component, in this case, in his opinion, everything will end within a month with a social crisis in Russia. Grozev considers a new Russian offensive against Kyiv unlikely.
22:05 In the hospitals of the Dnepropetrovsk region there are 80 people who were injured during the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk. Some of them are in a very critical condition. Also in the hospitals of the region are 19 children affected by the explosion in Kramatorsk.
22:00 The Czech Republic has issued a collectible banknote called Sláva Ukraine. The new banknote with a circulation of 20 thousand units is not a means of payment, but is equipped with security elements, like other local crowns. A bill can be bought for 1,500 kroons (about 2,000 hryvnias), and the money from the sale will be sent to help Ukraine.
The Czech Republic issued a collector's banknote Sláva Ukraine
21:47 The mayor of Kharkov, Igor Terekhov, says that the Russians have begun to use a new type of bombs - they are lowered by parachute. Anyone who sees such a bomb is asked to call 101. He also said that 1716 residential buildings were destroyed in Kharkov.
21:41 The EU considers the attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk a war crime of Russia, the official representative for foreign policy said in a statement. "The perpetrators of this war crime must be held accountable. War crimes must not go unpunished," the statement said.
21:38 Vatican Commissioner for Social Affairs Cardinal Konrad Kraevsky will visit Ukraine for the third time since the beginning of the war. He will again bring the ambulance donated by Pope Francis. Kraevsky is expected to arrive in Kyiv on April 14 and take part in Easter celebrations with local Catholic communities.
21:35 The European Commission allocates one billion euros to support Ukrainian refugees and their host countries, said Ursula von der Leyen. According to her, 600 million "will go to Ukraine, to the Ukrainian authorities and partly to the UN," another 400 million euros will go to the front-line states, "which do such an outstanding job and help the incoming refugees."
21:29 Zelensky and Johnson walked around the center of Kiev and talked to the people:
21:12 Energoatom provided transportation for the next shift of personnel at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The boat delivered 49 workers along the Pripyat River to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and took 51 from there. There are no other ways to deliver people to the station from Slavutych.
21:11 In the Rivne region, since the beginning of the war, 233 vehicles have been confiscated from drunk drivers for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the regional administration reported.
21:08 The Cabinet of Ministers at today's meeting introduced a complete trade embargo on trade with Russia.
20:31 Johnson offered Ukraine military assistance in the form of 120 armored vehicles and new anti-ship missile systems, the British government told UP.
20:27 By order of Zelensky, the third exchange of prisoners took place today. 12 Ukrainian soldiers are returning home, of which one is a female officer. They also released 14 civilians, including nine women, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said.
20:24 On the outskirts of Mariupol, in the underpass near Sadkov, the bodies of killed civilians were found. The City Council reported that the Russian military had set up a body collection point there. The occupiers daily bring hundreds of corpses to such places, and then destroy them in mobile crematoria or bury them in mass graves.
20:13 Zelensky about the meeting with Johnson: "It was more than a fruitful meeting. We are sure that we should put even more pressure on Russia, forcing it to peace. Thank you for the effective sanctions measures, for strengthening the defense capability of Ukraine. Western democracies should follow the example of Great Britain. We look to London to play a key role in the security of our nation."
19:49 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Ukrainian cargo ship Apache under the Maltese flag was fired upon by a Russian warship in the Sea of Azov. Moscow claims that on the evening of April 8, the dry cargo ship "tried to break into the seaport of Mariupol blocked from the sea by the Black Sea Fleet to evacuate Azov."
19:44 Johnson wrote following his visit to Ukraine: "Today I met my friend Zelensky in Kiev as a sign of our unwavering support for the people of Ukraine. We are introducing a new financial and military assistance package that is evidence of our commitment to his country's fight against Russia's barbaric campaign" .
19:38 According to the General Staff, the Russians continue to partially block Kharkov. In order to covertly move occupation units across the territory of the Kharkiv region, the enemy jams cellular networks. In addition, in order to increase the grouping of troops from the Belgorod region to the Shevchenkovo region of the Kharkov region, up to two enemy BTGs were moved.
In the Donetsk direction, the main efforts of the Russian Federation are focused on taking control of Rubizhne, Popasnaya and Novobakhmutovka. The invaders continue to inflict air strikes on the settlement. Ugledar and Novoselovka Second. They are trying to resume the offensive in the areas of Novotoshkovsky, Stepnoy and Maryinka.
19:20 In Warsaw, fundraising #StandUpForUkraine managed to raise 9.1 billion euros, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
19:18 The head of Energoatom Petr Kotin visited one of the sections of the Red Forest in the Exclusion Zone, where the Russian invaders dug trenches and tried to build fortifications. Abnormally high levels of the radiation state were recorded at this place. Thus, all the invaders, who have been based and digging in the Red Forest for almost 30 days, will face radiation sickness of varying degrees of severity.
19:03 The wind drove towards the positions of the Russian military near Kudryashivka and Varvarovka a cloud with nitric acid, formed after the attack of the invaders on Rubizhne. There is no threat to the life of the population, said the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai.
18:58 Some countries are ready to help Ukraine with the transition from Soviet-era weapons to more modern NATO equipment, given the prospect that the war with Russia could drag on for months or years, according to Bloomberg. Some allies may start training Ukrainian troops outside the country to help gradually move towards NATO standards.
18:52 During his visit to Kiev, Johnson presented Zelensky with a new package of financial and military assistance, a British government spokesman said.
18:48 The European Investment Bank will provide four billion euros to EU member states hosting Ukrainian refugees.
18:42 The media recalled a video from a parade in Russia last year, where they demonstrated Tochka-U, which, as Moscow said after the strike on Kramatorsk, is allegedly not in service with the Russian Federation.
18:37 The amount of frozen Russian assets in Switzerland has grown to eight billion dollars, writes Bloomberg.
18:33 In Kharkov, after a missile attack on a residential building, seven people were pulled out from under the rubble, eight more were evacuated. Information about the dead is being specified, according to the State Emergency Service.
18:05 Johnson visited Kiev today without any announcement. "The Prime Minister of Great Britain is one of the most principled opponents of the Russian invasion, the leader of sanctions pressure on Russia and defense support for Ukraine. Greetings in Kyiv, friend!" Zelensky wrote.
18:00 According to the UN, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 4.44 million people have left Ukraine, of which 2.57 million have crossed the border with Poland.
17:57 Borrell said that the war with Russia will be won on the battlefield. "This war will be won on the battlefield. An additional 500 million euros from the EU is underway. Arms deliveries will be tailored to the needs of Ukraine," Borrell wrote on Twitter.
He added that the brutal strike of Russian troops on defenseless people in Kramatorsk once again demonstrates Moscow's complete disrespect for human life. According to the chief European diplomat, this will only strengthen the EU's support for Ukraine. He also stressed that it is necessary to continue to increase sanctions pressure on Russia.
17:49 Russian invaders are illegally arresting civilians in the Kherson region and Melitopol and sending them to pre-trial detention centers in Crimea. They are brutally tortured there, Mustafa Dzhemilev, the national leader of the Crimean Tatars, said.
17:47 The SBU detained Dmytro Marunich, a pro-Russian "energy expert" who spread propaganda in the Ukrainian information space. When he was found documents certifying his work in Russia today.
17:45 Arestovich is convinced that after the battles for Donbass, Putin will want to come to negotiations with Zelensky.
17:37 Near Rubizhne, Russian invaders got into a tank with nitric acid , said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. He urged residents of the city not to leave their shelters, and those who are indoors to close windows and doors. It is also necessary to prepare protective face masks moistened with a soda solution.
17:08 Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said that over the past three days, 67 kilometers of the Kyiv-Chop road have been cleared, and the Kyiv-Zhytomyr route will be opened in the near future.
17:06 EU Ambassador to Ukraine Matti Maasikas returned to Kiev, the EU Delegation resumes work in the Ukrainian capital.
17:03 About a quarter of the Russian troops that were used in the invasion of Ukraine are "virtually incompetent," CNN reported, citing a European official. So, on the eve of the invasion, Russia deployed about 120 BTGs around Ukraine, but during the six weeks of the war, about 29 of them failed.
17:01 Johnson arrived in Kiev and is currently meeting with Zelensky, Deputy Head of the President's Office Andrei Sibiga said.
16:58 Russian shipyards stop the production of ships due to the difficult financial situation and the lack of foreign components. According to Ukrainian intelligence, we are talking, in particular, about JSC Vostochnaya Verf (Vladivostok), where they are laying off staff and preparing the company for bankruptcy proceedings.
16:54 Zelensky, at a meeting with the Austrian Chancellor, confirmed Ukraine's readiness to continue negotiations with Russia. According to him, the development of the situation will depend on assistance to Kiev from other states, on how far Putin is ready to go, as well as on the readiness of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:37 Reznikov said that Kiev needs modern heavy weapons from Western partners: multiple launch rocket systems with a range of more than 40 kilometers, anti-ship missiles, tanks, armored vehicles and artillery with a caliber of 155, not 152, as in Soviet-made guns.
16:35 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional State Administration, Valentin Reznichenko, said that 15 children injured in a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station are being treated in hospitals in the region.
16:31 Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer said after a meeting with Zelensky that the EU will tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation until the war stops. At the same time, he stressed that Vienna is militarily neutral, but cannot agree with the ongoing crimes.
16:15 Orbán's spokesman Bertalan Havasi said that the Hungarian prime minister condemns the killings in Bucha and that Budapest fully supports the international investigation aimed at identifying the perpetrators of the bloodshed.
"Viktor Orban made it clear at an international press conference on Wednesday that it was Russia who attacked Ukraine, and this is aggression. This is the common position of the European Union, and Hungary is part of this position," the spokesman said.
16:13 The Polish railway has simplified the rules for the free use of trains in Poland for Ukrainians, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. Now Ukrainians who do not have a foreign passport or PESEL number, but have a train ticket from Ukrzaliznytsia, issued in Ukraine for travel to Poland, can show it to issue free travel documents through Poland.
16:09 Yermak said that traffic on the Romanovsky bridge across the Irpin River would resume tomorrow.
15:51 Podolyak said that Russia received 37 billion euros for energy in the first 40 days of the war in Ukraine. “Unfortunately, this is the extent of the participation of European partners in co-financing the war. Not only did Ukraine objectively not have such a volume of weapons as the aggressor country, but every day the Russians receive direct bulk payments from the Europeans to finance additional deliveries of missiles and shells on the battlefield," wrote the adviser to the head of the OP.
He emphasizes that such a position of partners, along with unfinished sanctions (there is no real shutdown of key Russian banks from SWIFT, no total seizure of property of members of the ruling United Russia party, no direct and indirect embargo on energy carriers) encourages Russians to expand military operations.
15:32 The Embassy of Tajikistan has resumed work in Kiev.
15:27 In the Church of the Ascension in the village of Lukashevka, Chernihiv region, where the Russians have set up a headquarters, rescuers find the bodies of tortured people. According to the State Emergency Service, these are local residents who were shot by the occupiers.
15:26 Arestovich says that there will be two weeks of heavy fighting in the Donbass, and their fate will determine the second phase of the war.
15:17 Poland will freeze relations with Hungary in connection with its position on Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Kaczynski said. According to him, "Orban needs an ophthalmologist to see Bucha." The Deputy Prime Minister stressed that the restoration of relations is possible "only after a change in assessments of the war in Ukraine."
14:59 Yermak is convinced that the Russian Federation will not be able to occupy the entire territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions: "Russia will break its teeth. There are as many of them as locusts, but they will not win in Donbass."
14:54 During the cleansing of the village of Olkhovka by Kharkiv, the fighters of the 92nd Motorized Brigade discovered the mass grave of the occupiers.
14:45 Zelensky replied to a Bild journalist who asked if he hates Russia: "Yes, I feel hatred for Russia, for Russian soldiers. When I see these images before my eyes. Killed children without legs, without arms. I can't cry anymore."
14:40 The head of the Kiev regional administration, Alexander Pavlyuk, said that new defense lines are being built near Kiev in case of a possible repeated offensive by Russian troops. They are already occupied by the Armed Forces.
“We have taken into account all possible directions of enemy movement if the offensive is resumed. Therefore, new defensive lines are being intensively equipped now, which we have moved as far as possible from Kyiv in order to prevent the possibility of either artillery shelling or the entry of troops,” Pavlyuk explained.
14:38 Scholz said that Putin "is destroying the future of his country." The chancellor stressed that the Russian leader is characterized by imperial thinking, "known to us from the 19th, 18th, 17th and other centuries."
Scholz also said that those responsible for war crimes in Bucha near Kiev should be punished. He promised that Berlin would continue to supply Ukraine with defensive weapons.
14:36 In the Luhansk region, the Russians attacked the positions of Ukrainian border guards with kamikaze drones. According to the State Border Service, one drone was destroyed, another one attacked the position again a few minutes later, where at that time there were no military personnel.
14:34 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim said that he does not yet see the intention of the invaders to capture Nikolaev.
14:30 The National Bank announced that the official rate will be kept at the level of 29.25 hryvnia per dollar until the end of the war.
14:29 In Lisichansk, after the shelling of the invaders, a high-rise building, a gas station and an enterprise are on fire, said the governor of the Luhansk region Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the shelling of the region does not stop in the morning. The fire cannot be extinguished due to ongoing fighting.
In Rubizhne, a residential building came under fire, as a result four civilians were wounded. A woman died in Severodonetsk.
14:22 Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said that mobile crematoria are working hard in Mariupol, the invaders are cleaning the streets from the bodies of the dead. The Russians placed the crematorium in the industrial area along the Volodarskoye Highway near the Metro shopping center. They use the large warehouse refrigerators to store the bodies.
In Makarov, Kiev region, liberated from the invaders, the bodies of 132 executed were found - there are both mass graves and single bodies of the dead.
In Bucha, on 144 Yablonskaya Street, the Russians set up a real torture chamber. According to survivors, the headquarters of the Kadyrovites was here. They shot people at point-blank range, burned out their eyes, cut off body parts, tortured not only adults, but also children to death. According to the city authorities, there are 360 civilians killed in Bucha at this moment, including at least ten children.
Denisova argues that such actions by the Russian terrorist army fall under the definition of the crime of "genocide" in accordance with the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide.
14:13 In the settlements of the Gostomel village council, the curfew will last until 6:00 on Thursday, April 14, in Irpen - until 9:00 on Monday, April 11.
14:06 Zelensky meets with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Kiev.
14:04 According to the publication Pskov province, at least 60 paratroopers after huge losses in Gostomel refuse to fight against Ukraine. It is expected that in the near future the number of refuseniks will increase markedly.
Soldiers are threatened with criminal prosecution for desertion or disobedience, but they and their families stand their ground. The publication reports that now commanders do not accept dismissal reports, so many submit them through the military prosecutor's office.
13:56 Scholz and Macron continue to communicate with Putin in order to "bring him the truth about Russia's military losses." As Scholz said during a visit to London, this is information that the Russian president probably does not receive from his inner circle.
13:49 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that in the territories liberated from the occupiers of the region, the same atrocities of Russians against the civilian population are recorded, as in the suburbs of Kiev.
So, in the village of Gusarovka, Izyumsky district, after prolonged bullying, the Russians burned three people alive. The body of a hospital paramedic was also found with signs of torture, his hands were tied behind his back.
13:42 Germany has begun to strengthen its basement storage facilities, as well as create crisis stocks in case of war, Interior Minister Nancy Feather said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.
13:37 In accordance with the new EU sanctions, Russian and Belarusian trucks are prohibited from entering the territory of the EU countries. All of them must leave the EU by April 16.
13:35 Many Russian murderers who committed atrocities in Bucha and Irpin have already been identified using facial recognition and artificial intelligence technologies, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said.
13:27 Estonia has begun to cancel the visas of people who publicly use the letters Z and V, as well as St. George ribbons. They are sent for an additional check, during which they find out what to do next. As of April 8, visas were canceled for several violators, Estonian media write.
13:09 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that Slovakia will receive the Patriot missile system in exchange for the S-300 air defense system, which it transferred to Ukraine.
13:04 Ukraine expects to be granted the status of a candidate member of the EU in June, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna said.
13:01 In Kramatorsk, 60,000 residents do not plan to leave the city under any development of events, the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko said. According to him, most of the 220,000 residents have already left the city during the 45 days of the war. Now about 80 thousand people remain in it, about 20 thousand of them will leave. He clarified that in 2014 the situation was similar - 50-60 thousand remained and did not leave the city.
12:57 Zelensky said in an interview with Bild that India and China can join the list of guarantors of Ukraine's security.
12:39 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio announced the return of Italian diplomats to Kiev from Lviv. According to him, this will happen after Easter.
12:37 In the Sumy region, about 200 people were killed as a result of hostilities, said the head of the regional military administration Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, the bodies of 118 civilians have already been found, more than 70 soldiers have also died. Victims of the invaders continue to be found.
12:35 The evacuation buses hijacked the day before by the Russian military were returned, but the invaders do not let them into Melitopol, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
12:32 France, after the shelling of the railway station in Kramatorsk by the Russian military, decided to abandon Russian oil, Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire said in an interview with CNN.
12:11 In Kazakhstan, local activists held a rally in support of Ukraine near the Russian consulate in Almaty. They were detained by policemen: people were loaded by force into paddy wagons.
12:06 In Kherson, masked invaders seized and took away in an unknown direction the former head of the Regional State Administration, People's Deputy of the VII convocation Andrey Putilov, Gerashchenko said.
12:01 Google blocked the channel of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on YouTube. Zakharova wrote that he "signed his own sentence" and called on the Russians to transfer all content to other resources.
11:48 It cannot be ruled out that Kiev and Odessa will be the directions of the next Russian attacks, said Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. At the same time, he added that now "all key military actions will be focused on the Donbass."
11:39 In Ternopil, following Mukachevo, a monument to Pushkin was dismantled. This decision was made by the City Council.
"The crimes of Russians against the Ukrainian people: murders, torture of people, rape of women and children, the destruction of Ukrainian cities - crossed out the entire culture of the Russian people. There is no explanation for these crimes. They leave us no choice. Everything Russian must be dismantled," wrote Mayor Sergei Nadal .
11:16 The Japanese security service excluded the Azov regiment from the International Terrorism 2021 list. The Ukrainian unit got there as a "neo-Nazi group." Now the Japanese security forces have apologized to the Azov people and promised not to make such mistakes again when classifying units.
11:09 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Kiev is preparing a provocation to accuse Russia of massacres of civilians in Irpin, Kiev region. The agency stressed that units of the Russian Armed Forces left Irpin more than a week ago.
11:07 Explosions are heard in some areas of Kiev - these are explosives clearing the territory in the region, said the head of the Kiev OVA Alexander Pavlyuk.
11:04 As a result of today's attack on Chernomorsk, there are no casualties, the mayor said. According to him, the situation in the city is calm.
10:55 In the Kharkiv region, the Russians inflicted about 50 strikes in a day, the infrastructure of the Kharkiv districts suffered, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, there was an intensive shelling of Dergachi - the buildings of the hospital, outpatient clinics, and residential buildings were damaged. There were no casualties.
The Russian troops are trying to bypass the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Izyum and concentrate their forces in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
10:37 S&P Global Ratings downgraded Russia's foreign currency rating from CC/C to SD/SD, which means selective default.
10:33 Ukrzaliznytsia reported that despite the attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk, the evacuation from Donbass will continue. In particular, trains will run from Slovyansk and Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, as well as from Novozolotarevka station in the Lugansk region.
10:30 Kuleba said that Russia's unjustified aggression and atrocities have destroyed the foundations of the Helsinki Final Act. According to him, Russia's membership in the OSCE poses a threat to security and cooperation in Europe.
"If the OSCE does not have appropriate mechanisms for suspending the membership of countries, then it is necessary to create a procedure and exclude the Russian Federation," the Foreign Minister stressed.
10:26 Zelensky told the German Bild that one of the leaders of an EU member state asked for evidence that the massacres of Bucha residents by Russians were not staged.
10:17 The Russian military is regrouping and planning to advance in the direction of Kharkov, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with CNN. According to him, the invaders are regrouping in the city of Izyum from Belgorod and receive additional troops in Belgorod to make up for their losses in Ukraine. They will try to capture Mariupol and only after that they can try to go to Kharkov.
Earlier, Arestovich said that he did not believe in an attack on Kharkov and that Russia deliberately launched such a rumor in order to force Ukraine to keep troops under the city, and not transfer them to Izyum.
10:15 In Melitopol, the invaders are offering Ukrainians to join the Russian army, the mayor of the city Fedorov said. According to him, since yesterday, at checkpoints located in the vicinity of Melitopol, the Russians have been offering Ukrainian men to join the Russian army. If they refuse, they are released.
“But we clearly understand: today they offer, and tomorrow they will be forced to issue a machine gun and send it to the trenches,” Fedorov added.
10:11 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced that it had signed a "cooperation agreement" with "colleagues" from the "DPR" and "LPR".
09:52 The SBU reported suspicion of treason to a collaborator, whom the occupiers declared the "mayor" of Mariupol. Konstantin Ivashchenko, a city council deputy from the Opposition Platform for Life, voluntarily took the side of the Russian invaders and now, under the leadership of the RF Armed Forces, organizes the work of the occupying authorities and calls himself "the head of the administration of the city of Mariupol." He publicly calls on the Ukrainian military to lay down their arms and not resist the invaders.
09:19 APU defeated up to 20% of the forces that Russia allocated for the invasion of Ukraine, ABC News reported, citing a source in the Pentagon. The US Department of Defense estimates that more than 40 Russian BTGs are stationed in or near the Donbas, with up to 10,000 troops arriving there in recent days.
09:15 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 9:
personnel - about 19,100 people,
tanks - 705,
armored fighting vehicles - 1895,
artillery systems - 335,
MLRS - 108,
air defense systems - 55,
aircraft - 151,
helicopters - 136,
automotive equipment - 1363,
ships/boats - 7,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 112,
special equipment - 25,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:02 Ten humanitarian corridors agreed on April 9:
Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
Zaporozhye region (by own transport and buses): Berdyansk - Zaporozhye; Tokmak - Zaporozhye; Energodar - Zaporozhye; Melitopol - Zaporozhye
08:59 The Pentagon believes that the Russians fired the Tochka-U missile at the railway station in Kramatorsk. "Obviously we didn't believe the Russians' objection that they weren't responsible. At first they claimed it was a successful strike, but then they denied it when the aftermath was reported," a senior US Defense Department official said at a private press briefing. Radio Liberty.
08:54 At midnight, the enemy struck another blow at Severodonetsk, the Regional State Administration reported. The Russians are storming Rubizhne and Popasnaya in the Luhansk region and at the same time launching artillery strikes on residential areas in other cities. In Severodonetsk, an apartment building caught fire as a result of the impact, the number of victims is being specified.
08:51 British intelligence reports that Russian troops continue to focus on the region of Donbass, Mariupol and Nikolaev, with the support of their Navy, which launch cruise missiles in Ukraine. London expects an increase in airstrikes in these directions, and warns that Russia continues to select non-military targets for strikes.
08:50 The Russians captured 169 fighters of the National Guard of Ukraine, who guarded the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The engineer of the station, Valery Semyonov, spoke about this in an interview with the BBC. He suggested that they might be in Russia.
08:49 Instagram star - Kharkiv cat Stepan - nominated for the World Influencers and Bloggers Awards 2022 - the most prestigious award in the influencer industry. The ceremony will take place on May 18 in Cannes, during which they will collect money for Ukraine.
08:45 The Cayman Islands, which are an offshore zone, said that as part of anti-Russian sanctions, they froze $ 7.3 billion of funds belonging to the oligarchs of the Russian Federation.
08:42 Biden signed two new laws on anti-Russian sanctions: one of them suspends normal trade relations with the Russian Federation and Belarus and introduces higher duties on their goods, the second prohibits the import of energy resources from Russia, including oil, coal and natural gas.
08:39 The Russians launched a missile attack on Mirgorod, Poltava region. According to the Poltava Regional State Administration, they hit an infrastructure facility, there is significant damage. Two people were hurt.
08:38 In Finland, from today a ban on the entry of trucks on Russian and Belarusian license plates has been introduced. This is being done as part of the fifth round of EU sanctions.
07:33 The UK Ministry of Defense announced that another 800 NLAW anti-tank systems will be delivered to Ukraine, as well as more Javelins, Starstreak portable air defense systems, helmets, equipment and night vision devices.
07:25 The General Staff announces the transfer of tank and air assault brigades from Belarus, as well as the Kursk and Bryansk regions in the direction of the Belgorod and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation. Field camps for these formations were built near Belgorod.
According to the General Staff, the enemy is shelling villages in the Krivoy Rog direction, and also the Odessa region with missiles from the Crimea. The "LDNR" attempts to seize Rubizhne, Popasna and Nizhne in the Lugansk region, as well as Novobakhmutovka north of Donetsk, continue.
06:27 The IMF Board of Directors agreed on the opening of a special administrative account for sending money from donor countries to help Ukraine. The corresponding decision was lobbied by the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance together with the government of Canada, which will transfer one billion dollars to this account.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:45 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya - 10 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad. 21:46 The number of victims of shelling by Ukrainian troops on the territory of the DPR over the past 52 days has increased to 73 people, these are civilians, the representative office of the republic in the JCCC reported
21:45 More than 80 residents were evacuated from the areas of Mariupol that remain in the zone of destruction of Ukrainian nationalists in a day, the Russian Defense Ministry reports
21:43 Ukrainian national formations blew up a tank with nitric acid in Rubizhne, there was a release of sending substances, the people's militia of the LPR said.
21:39 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced a new unsuccessful attempt by the Kiev regime to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol
21:30 Military prosecutors of the Russian Federation and LPR work in the liberated territories
20:39 Ukrainian troops shelled Lugansk in the DPR
20:33 Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka and Zaitsevo in five minutes.
20:30 LNR accused Ukraine of nitric acid tank explosion in Rubizhne.
20:07 More than 40,000 tons of sulfuric, hydrochloric, nitric acid and ammonia remain on the territory of the Zarya chemical plant for the production of explosives, located in Rubezhnoye, the explosion of which will cause irreparable damage to the ecology of the region, destroy all life within a radius of 30 kilometers, and endanger the lives of more than 300,000 people living in Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Zolote and Seversk. This was announced by the official representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenko.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than 200 shells in the DPR, caliber 122mm and 120mm. In total, 34 residential buildings and seven civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged in eight settlements.
19:00 Today, two civilians were killed and six more were injured.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, have destroyed 39 Ukrainian nationalists, two firing positions of 120mm and 82mm mortars, one tank and one cargo vehicle.
18:33 Another tank car with nitric acid exploded in Rubizhne in the LPR. The first was blown up by Kiev militants during the retreat.
18:27 Kiev militants fired at Panteleymonovka in the DPR, firing six 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:26 AFU fired at Yasinovataya in the DPR from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:47 Constant shelling of Rubizhne by Ukrainian Nazis does not allow civilians to evacuate bedridden patients.
16:47 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Golmovsky in the DPR, using large-caliber shells. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
16:14 Another 178 civilians were taken out of Mariupol.
16:14 During the shelling by the Ukrainian punishers, a civilian from Donetsk suffered.
15:33 Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:30 A resident of Zolote-5 in the LPR suffered under fire from Ukrainian punishers.
14:15 Ukrainian Nazis fired on Lyubovka in the DPR. They fired 20 missiles at it from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:15 AFU opened fire on the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. They fired 120mm mines at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:19 A man was injured under shelling by the Kiev Nazis in Gorlovka.
13:19 Ukrainian militants fired ten rockets across Donetsk from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:39 In Makiivka, a woman and a child were wounded under shelling by Ukrainian Nazis.
11:46 A peaceful resident of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk died under fire from the Kiev Nazis.
11:31 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Donetsk from Grad MLRS. Residential buildings are on fire, information about the victims is being specified.
10:52 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Donetsk, firing eight 122mm shells at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
10:52 Ukrainian Nazis fired at Yasinovataya, firing four shells of 152mm caliber at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
10:07 Over the past day, the Kiev Nazis fired more than 200 shells at the DPR, using the Grad MLRS, 122mm artillery and 120mm mortars. Nine settlements came under fire. Nine residential buildings and eight civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:06 Yesterday, 32 civilians of the DPR, including a child, were injured under shelling by Kiev militants.
10:05 Over the past day, the People's Militia of the DPR, with the support of the Russian army, destroyed 83 Ukrainian nationalists, three firing positions of 122mm D-30 artillery howitzers, one 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system, one tank and two armored vehicles. Two infantry fighting vehicles, one 122mm self-propelled gun 2S1 "Acacia" and one cargo vehicle were captured.
10:04 During the day, 16 soldiers of the 54th and 25th brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down their arms and voluntarily went over to the side of the DPR.
09:27 Kiev militants fired at Donetsk and Panteleymonovka, firing ten shells of 122mm caliber at them. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:52 The Russian army and the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR evacuated more than 80 civilians from Mariupol.
08:40 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the city of Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired 12 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:35 Over the past day, Kiev militants opened fire three times on the territory of the LPR.
08:30 Kiev Nazis fired at the village of Zolote-5 in the LPR. They fired six 120mm mines at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:25 Ukrainian punishers fired at the village of Donetsk in the LPR. They fired six 152mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:20 Kiev militants fired on Yasinovataya in the DPR. They fired six 122mm rounds at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 Kharkiv region: Russian column on rough terrain. All goals set will be achieved. 21:15 Russian tricolor was hoisted over the city administration of Kherson
21:15 In the Kursk region, a border post was fired from Ukraine
21:14 Japan stated that it no longer considers the Ukrainian national battalion "Azov" (against whose militants a criminal case was initiated in the Russian Federation) "created by neo-Nazi organizations", this wording will be removed from the list of terrorist groups of the Japanese Ministry of Justice
21:00 Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened two more criminal cases on the facts of the shelling of the territory of Donbass on April 6-9
20:36 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced a new unsuccessful attempt by the Kiev regime to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol
20:29 Units of the Russian armed forces left Irpen, where a provocation of Kyiv is expected, more than a week ago - Russian Defense Ministry
20:13 According to confirmed data, Kyiv is preparing a provocation to accuse Russia of alleged massacres of civilians in Irpin, Kiev region, the Russian Defense Ministry said
20:01 High-precision air-launched missiles destroyed a large ammunition depot of Ukrainian troops in the Dnipropetrovsk region
20:00 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces hit 85 military facilities of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense reported
19:31 Russian Armed Forces opened fire on a ship that tried to take out the leaders of "Azov"
18:52 The EC reported that a charity event in Warsaw raised €9.1 billion in aid to Ukraine
17:38 The head of Eurodiplomacy, Josep Borrell, during his visit to Kyiv, wished that the conflict be resolved by military means, not by diplomatic means. “This war must be won on the battlefield,” Borrell tweeted. Such a statement was made for the first time in the history of the European Union.
16:49 Message from military officer Oleg Blokhin: “There are disturbing thoughts in Odessa. Today, from 21:00 to 6:00 the day after tomorrow, a curfew has been announced in the city.
Tomorrow, several trains will be sent from the Odessa railway station. Considering that they will be packed to capacity, one can imagine the number of people who will be there tomorrow. Everyone who was going to leave tomorrow was told to arrive at the station before 21:00 this evening in order not to fall under the curfew.
After the incident with the UAF strike with Point U on the Kramatorsk railway station, I would not be surprised if the current Ukrainian authorities do not try to do the same thing again, traditionally blaming Russia for this.”
15:40 Servicemen of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the retreat, mined the bridge in the village of Malaya Kamyshevakha. Thanks to the rapid advance of the Russian troops, the pyrotechnics left their positions in a hurry and did not have time to blow up an important infrastructure facility for local residents.
14:48 Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian military cleared a settlement in the Kharkiv region
13:41 Operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile forces hit 85 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: two command posts, three installations of multiple launch rocket systems, four self-propelled artillery pieces, a field ammunition depot with an ammunition supply point, two logistics depots, as well as four strong points and areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment.
12:59 In the Kharkiv region near Izyum, the commander of the second battalion of the so-called Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK) of the Right Sector extremist organization banned in Russia, Taras Bobanich, was killed
11:48 In Kharkiv, new neo-Nazi formations began to form from the criminals of the Alekseevskaya, Kachanovskaya and 43rd correctional colonies
11:47 Russian air defense systems shot down four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the settlements of Belogorka, Krasnogorovka and Krutaya Balka
11:17 In the Poltava region at the Mirgorod military airfield, the MiG-29 fighter and the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, identified during aerial reconnaissance, were destroyed, as well as a warehouse with aviation weapons
11:01 SBU plans to shoot a staged video of the murder of the Russian military who arrived in Irpen "to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes"
10:28 Russian Armed Forces destroyed a large ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novomoskovsk with high-precision air-launched missiles
10:19 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of Su-30cm and Su-35 sorties that destroyed the Ukrainian radar station and the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft system
09:18 Residents of Kherson independently installed the Russian flag over the city hall building.
In Mariupol, 13 civilians were injured due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
[REGNUM] During the shelling of the liberated part of Mariupol by the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU), 13 civilians were injured. This was announced on April 9 by the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"In the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 13 civilians in the previously liberated territory of the Mariupol settlement," the report says.
As reported by news agency REGNUM , earlier the Investigative Committee of Russia opened two more criminal cases on the fact that Ukrainian militants shelled Donbass with heavy weapons.
AFU fired three shells at the settlement of Irmino in the LPR
[REGNUM] The settlement of Irmino in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) was fired upon by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on April 9 by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
"From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded: 21:10 from the direction of the settlement of Zolote-4 towards the settlement of Irmino using a 152mm artillery gun (three shells)," the report says.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
Captured nationalist spoke about foreign troops in Azovstal
[REGNUM] About 200-300 non-Ukrainian servicemen are located with Azov fighters (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) in the building of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol. This was told by a captured nationalist, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in his telegram channel .
He posted a video in which the man expressed regret that he had fought against Russia. The prisoner gave the Russian servicemen information about how many people are in Azovstal, where they are stationed and how they are armed.
"There are foreign troops at Azovstal, I don’t know which country, 200-300 people, and Azov (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) 1500-2000," the prisoner said.
"Did you see how they are transformed and filled with a nightingale when it’s tight? Now they regret that they chose this path, they remember the unity of peoples, the brotherhood of the Slavs," Ramzan Kadyrov commented on his words.
Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 10 rockets from BM-21 Grad at Yasinovataya
[REGNUM] The settlement of Yasinovataya in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was fired upon by Ukrainian security forces. This was announced on April 9 by the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"Fire was recorded from the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction ... the settlement of Yasinovataya: 10 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad," the report said.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
In the DPR, four servicemen were killed during the day during the fighting
[REGNUM] In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), four servicemen were killed during the battles with representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) in a day. This was stated on April 9 in the message of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram channel.
"Over the past day, in the struggle for independence, four defenders of the DPR were killed in the line of military duty and 23 were injured," the report said. "We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims."
Armed Forces of Ukraine fired four shells at the settlement of Dokuchaevsk
[REGNUM] Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired at the village of Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was announced on April 9 by the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"The shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction ... the settlement of Dokuchaevsk: four shells with a caliber of 152mm were fired," the message said.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
DPR reported the destruction of 39 Ukrainian nationalists
[REGNUM] Almost 40 Ukrainian nationalists have been killed since the beginning of the current day by the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was reported on April 9 by the People's Militia of the DPR.
"Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 39 Ukrainian nationalists, two firing positions of 120 and 82-mm mortars, one tank and one cargo vehicle," the message said.
Ukrainian military accused of blowing up nitric acid tank in LPR
[REGNUM] A container with nitric acid in the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk People's Republic, was blown up by the Ukrainian military. This was stated by the representative of the People's Militia of the LPR Ivan Filiponenk.
It is assumed that the time of the cistern explosion was chosen with the expectation that nitric acid would get into the liberated village of Kudryashovka, Severodonetsk region of the Luhansk People's Republic. The Ukrainian military blame the people's militia of the LPR for the explosion.
“Ukrainian nationalist formations continue to use terrorist methods against civilians of the Luhansk People's Republic and Ukraine, and also destroy civilian infrastructure. So, today, once again, a nitric acid tank was blown up on the territory of the Zarya chemical enterprise in the village of Rubizhnoye, as a result of which the sending substances were released into the environment, ”said Ivan Filiponenko.
Ukrainian security forces shelled Gorlovka and Zaitsevo
[REGNUM] The settlements of Gorlovka and Zaitsevo (southern) in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) were fired upon by representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on April 9 by the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
"Fishes were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction ... the settlement of Gorlovka (village of the mine named after Gagarin), ... the settlement of Zaitsevo (southern)," the report said.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
Ukrainian Armed Forces fired four shells at the settlement of Luganskoye in the DPR
[REGNUM] Ukrainian security forces shelled the village of Luhanske in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was announced on April 9 by the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"The shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction ... the settlement of Luhanske," the report said. "Four 122mm rounds fired."
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Aleksandrovka in the DPR
[REGNUM] The village of Aleksandrovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was fired upon by Ukrainian security forces. This was announced on April 9 by the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
"The shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the direction ... the settlement of Aleksandrovka: five shells of 122 mm caliber were fired," the report says.
No casualties or injuries have been reported.
As REGNUM reported, on April 9, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on the settlement of Panteleymonovka in the DPR.
BREAKING: The UK said it will send 120 armoured vehicles + new anti-ship missile systems to support Ukraine's armed forces. Announcement made after talks in Kyiv between @BorisJohnson & @ZelenskyyUa. The UK PM made his first visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded
[SAHARAREPORTERS] Top Russian military officer, Colonel Alexander Bespalov, a tank commander has been killed in Ukraine, the ninth senior officer to be lost in the battle. I thought we were only counting generals? They're counting flag officers.
All those who are, or were going to become, generals? I’m not sure exactly what a flag officer is.
A flag officer is someone who commands a brigade sized unit or larger, or an officer who commands an independant combat unit. Usually colonel or higher.
He was given a funeral back in Russia but many soldiers corpses had been left to rot on the battlefield, to the despair of their mourning relatives. There's lots more dead privates than there are dead colonels.
Each colonel has only one set of privates, surely. And only two ears, no matter how many extras show up on the field of battle.
Ukraine claimed 19,000 Russian invaders have died, but Russia only admitted “significant losses of troops”, without disclosing a tally. 19,000 is significant.
Bespalov's death comes after Ukraine announced it had “eliminated” Colonel Denis Kurilo, commander of the 200th motorised rifle brigade, in fierce fighting outside the country’s second city Kharkiv. "Duck, colonel!... Whoops! Too late!"
"Don't worry. He'll have a nice funeral."
"Let's get started scraping him up."
Bespalov was commander of the 59th Guards Tank Regiment, Russia’s 74.RU news website reports.
A video posted online Monday appears to show a group of Ukrainian troops shooting captured Russia soldiers dead outside a village west of Kyiv.
The New York Times verified the video, which was shared on the social messaging app Telegram, on Thursday. The apparent killing of prisoners of war, which would be forbidden under the Geneva convention, comes as Ukraine has accused Russia of multiple war crimes since it invaded in February.
"He's still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he's still alive. He's gasping," a man in the video says while an apparent Russian soldier with a jacket covering his head, is seen breathing heavily, surrounded by a pool of blood.
A soldier then shoots the man in the head twice. The man keeps moving, so the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.
At least three other Russian soldiers, including one with a head wound and his hands tied behind his back, can be seen dead next to the victim. The dead men are all wearing camouflage and three of them have white armbands often worn by Russian soldiers.
The soldiers who are alive in the video, including the apparent shooter, are wearing Ukrainian colors of blue and yellow on their arms. They can be heard saying "glory to Ukraine" several times.
Lurid and false atrocity stories have been used before to encourage Western involvement in unnecessary wars.
By Christopher Roach
... Four, the timeline of reports creates real doubts about whether Russia perpetrated the Bucha Massacre. It is widely acknowledged that Russian forces left Bucha on March 30. Then, Bucha’s mayor happily announced their withdrawal on March 31 without any mention of massacres, bodies in the streets, or other war crimes.
Finally, the Ukrainian SBU said it was moving into Bucha on April 2 to conduct a “cleansing” operation against saboteurs and traitors.
The photos of the dead only appeared on April 2, and Zelenskyy soon appeared in order to give international journalists a tour. Reuters and the New York Times have also posted Maxar satellite images apparently showing bodies in the streets earlier on March 19. This is not as compelling as it might otherwise be; bodies left outside for two weeks would not be in the condition seen in the April 2 photos, but instead would be significantly decomposed. If there were bodies on the street earlier in March—whether combatants or civilians—they had to be different people than the dead civilians on display from April 2.
Fifth, in at least some of the photos of Bucha , the victims appear to have white armbands—a sign of friendliness towards Russian forces and an indicator used by Russian forces themselves—and Russian-supplied emergency rations. Perhaps unsure of who was truly controlling the town as Russian forces were withdrawing and desperate for food to feed their families, these actions were deemed sufficient proof for collaboration and led the Ukrainian forces to shoot them. There is also some evidence that at least some of the victims may have been caught in an artillery barrage by Ukraine forces entering the city (or possibly Russian forces who had retreated).
Finally, the Ukrainians surely know that allegations of Russian atrocities—like earlier stories about Russia attacking nuclear plants and suggestions of Russia’s imminent use of chemical weapons—are the easiest way to manipulate the West into becoming a combatant. Similar “just so” stories had much to do with American involvement in the Syrian civil war. They were timed to appear just as the United States made noises about withdrawing. Stories about either genocide or the use of weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine are likely to amplify NATO’s already significant assistance to the Ukrainians.
#4
All those who are, or were going to become, generals? I’m not sure exactly what a flag officer is.
Miss TW,
In the US, it works like this:
*Company grade officers are 01 through 03 - 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, and Captain. These are the officers 'down in the trenches', as it were. In the Russian tradition, these poor bastards are going to be out front providing a good example before they get the dead.
*Field grade officers are 04 through 06 - Major, Lieutenant Colonel, and full Colonel. These folks command the sub-units such as Squadrons, Battalions, Regiments, and Wings. In the Russian system, they tend to be a lot closer to the fight than we get.
*Flag Officers are Generals and Admirals, 07 through 010 - Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, and full General. In Western practice they tend to stay some distance behind the lines to the point where they will likely never hear any of the shooting. In Russian practice, these guys are expected if necessary to go forward and die to correct any errors.
Mike
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04/10/2022 7:42 Comments ||
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#5
When you make your first star in the American Army, you are literally given a flag. It's a tradition. Normally its in his/her office but is to present when the individual is at an official event (speaking, review, et al), in which case the highest take precedent if several are present.
Was that like they verified the Hunter Laptop was disinformation, or verified it was mostly accurate?
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#11
It's all smoke and mirrors now that Biden's son's connections to Chinese intelligence and Russian politicians are finally being reported on by the New York Times and the Washington Post. They're trying to redirect from the fact that Biden has been compromised by both China and Russia. His son's business partner was a Chinese intelligence operative and he received $3.5 million in a bribe from the wife of Putin's political rival.
Captain General There ain't no such rank. They mean colonel general. Aleksandr Dvornikov has been dubbed as the 'Butcher of Syria'
From 2016, Dvornikov oversaw Russia's brutal intervention in the middle east that helped Syrian president Bashar al-Assad crush his enemies in the civil war
He is also believed to be man behind attack on Kramatorsk railway station Friday
Now, he has been ordered by Putin to take charge of seizing the whole of Donbas
#2
"Disastrous"? "Seizing all of Donbas"?
What bullshit. He's already "seized" 90% or more of the Donbas. This is just mopping up. It's so obvious that the Russians have achieved their main objectives that even this shit tabloid has to under the qualifier "all of" as a way of recognizing the fact that it's practically finished in the Donbas. Even the notorious liars at the London tabloids aren't willing to deny that Russia us just finishing up now in the East and South.
Ukraine's Defense Minister is hysterically begging the EU for more weapons, saying that they're on their last legs and nearly out of supplies and materiel. Why does this site link to bullshit planted in the garbage press instead of interviews with the desperate Ukrainian officials?
Who are these trolls that think British tabloids are anything other than propaganda outlets for the U.K. Intelligence services?
#4
Because everyone from the New York Times to The Independent to The Guardian to Newsweek to right-wing pro-Trump publications like the New York Post and American Greatness is calling them war criminals.
"Grisly video footage emerged Wednesday showing Ukrainian forces shooting and killing a wounded Russian soldier on a road west of Kyiv."
""Look, he's still alive. He's gasping," a man in the video says while an apparent Russian soldier with a jacket covering his head, is seen breathing heavily, surrounded by a pool of blood. A soldier then shoots the man in the head twice. The man keeps moving, so the soldier shoots him again, and he stops"
#6
His SF units offed more ISIS and Al-Nusra than regular Syrians, so maybe he's their butcher. As I said everybody is somebody's Nazi.
Hell, I'd do anything to get that moniker before I croak. The butcher of Kashmir, or the butcher of west bengal... Sigh!
intervention in the middle east that helped Syrian president Bashar al-Assad crush his enemies in the civil war prevent regime change. There are some overly 'wise' people who believe upending functional dictatorships in favour of Sunni sasquatchery and calling it islamic democracy is a noble ideal. Anyone who prevents it by mass murdering said sasquatches is a butcher to them.
Either you're trolling us, or you're not acquainted with concepts like Karma or nemesis. Those who actually have been to war would never toss around that horrific term of scorn. A real butcher of men will be butchered by others in due course.
#8
That was just my point. These days all one has to do to earn that 'orrific term of scorn is kill enough of those Mohammed pushers. Or Maoist militants. Or commie or mohammed pushing afri-cans. Kill 'em in enough numbers together and voila, you're a 'butcher'! Internationally infamous and... scorned. Which is why Dvornikov's a butcher for you and your brothers. But at home he's a hero. See? Everyone is somebody's Hitler.
#17
there are large and important cities in the Donbas that are currently controlled by Ukraine
they are:
Slovyansk
Kramatorst
Sievierodonetsk
the last of these is very close to the Russian position but all three have considerable defense in place
Ukraine is evacuating civilians from these places as well as the smaller cities and towns in anticipation of Russian attacks.
On the other hand there are some cities in Russian occupied territory that are close to the Ukrainian lines and could be taken if matters go that way
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Putin Probably Knows Why The Mayor Of Moscow's Wife Gave The Biden Family $3.5 Million
Of course he does. This is why the Biden Administration and its media mouthpieces are so hysterically trying to distract us with fake news about the course of the war.
Calling Putin a "war criminal" is the ultimate redirect from the fact that Biden and his family are themselves real criminals.
#19
The best way to try to keep everyone off the trail that leads to Biden being convicted of influence-peddling is to keep the war on the front pages for as long as possible. Any normal or rational leader would want to end the war and end the sanctions, but Biden is doing everything possible to prolong the killing.
This keeps Biden's family's crimes off the front page and allows Biden to pretend to be a serious leader instead of being seen as the compromised criminal he is.
#21
Yuri Luzhkov was Putin's rival for the presidency back at the end of the Yeltsin era. He was the most corrupt politician in Russia. His ex-wife wired $3.5 million directly to Hunter Biden - for what, the Bidens have never said.
Putin obviously has the goods on Hunter Biden and his dad. The Chinese obviously do as well ... see Hunter's comments about how his partner Philip Ho was "the f*ckin' spy chief of China". Not true literally but Ho and CEFC were in fact agents of the CCP and instruments by which it entraps corrupt foreign politicians.
The point is, Joe Biden has been compromised by both the Chinese and the Russians.
Everything we hear from them and their media tools about this war has to be adjusted for this fact.
#24
#19 Any normal or rational leader would want to end the war and end the sanctions, but Biden is doing everything possible to prolong the killing.
Yes, ending the war and relieving the burden of sanctions on the French publique (and the world) is exactly what Macron and Le Pen are trying to achieve. It's crazy to prolong the war. The only reason for doing so, is that Biden personally stands to gain from it.
Actually it makes sense if you're a Washington lobbyist or part of the MIC. When Ukraine is completely destroyed and Congress (plus Nato, the EU, the World Bank etc) allocates hundreds of billions in reconstruction and defense contracts, the opportunities for graft will be immense.
Remember James Biden's three-man "construction" company that miraculously won a billion dollar contract to help rebuild Iraq?
Rebuilding and rearming Ukraine will be the Mother of All Boondoggles for our swamp critters. The worse the Ukrainians get pounded, the more money flowing into the pockets of the Bidens and other D.C. grifters.
#28
I think that’s Military-Industrial Complex, Vespasian Omereque5237. President Eisenhower, former general that he was, and therefore presumably knowledgeable about such things, warned against allowing it too much influence in his farewell address in 1961.
Same for Afghanistan, where we threw away $90 billion by 2013.
Not unreasonable to expect that we and the EU will waste $200 billion in reconstruction and military aid to Ukraine over the next 10 years. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.
Brother James Biden must be salivating at the thought.
#32
expect that we and the EU will waste $200 billion in reconstruction and military aid to Ukraine over the next 10 years. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.
So "Build Back Better" will happen after all!
More billions for D.C. grifters, none for American cities or states. What's not to like?
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#33
So "Build Back Better" will happen after all!
"Stuff Back Pocket"
Ukraine will be the biggest grift in history. Piggies already lining up at Biden's trough. 100 times bigger than Burisma, Paul Manafort and Sally Painter
#36
#31 The reconstruction effort will cost at least as much, probably 2x as much, as Washington pissed away on rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan. As of 2013 Iraq had already cost the US over $60 billion Same for Afghanistan, where we threw away $90 billion by 2013. If Biden can keep the war going another year, then the piñata could swell to $300 billion.
Definitely the higher figure. MUCH higher. Think about it. Ukraine's an industrial nation. Putin's already trashed much of it, and the longer the war goes on the more it will cost us to rebuild.
You know these grifters are gonna waste our money the way did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Half a trillion to a trillion $, easily, will go down the toilet. BUILD BACK BETTER!!
#39
I didn't vote for giving them weapons. Was there even a vote?
Biden is wasting our money. He's making us poorer. For what, exactly? To drag out the worth and get more people killed and reduce Ukraine to ashes? Not with my money.
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