[ABC] QUILCENE, Wash. -- A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state.
Brinnon Fire Department Chief Tim Manly said the woman, who was at the top of Mount Walker in the Olympic National Forest northwest of Seattle, had been using her phone when it fell into the toilet on Tuesday, The Kitsap Sun reported.
Manly said she disassembled the toilet seat and used dog leashes to try and get the phone and eventually used the leashes to tie herself off as she reached for it. That effort failed and she fell into the toilet headfirst.
"They didn’t work very well and in she went," Manly said.
The woman was alone and tried to get out for 10 to 15 minutes. Reunited with her phone, she called 911, Manly said.
Responding firefighters passed her blocks to stand on to reach a harness, which they used to pull her out of the vault. The Brinnon Fire Department said the woman said she was uninjured.
She was washed down and "strongly encouraged to seek medical attention after being exposed to human waste, but she only wanted to leave," the department said.
"I’ve been doing this for 40 years, and that was a first," Manly said.
Impressive that the phone still worked after immersion. Remember the old Timex "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" commercials? There is a great marketing opportunity here for any ad firm bold enough to go for it. Also, yuck!
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Whiny-Homing in Wyoming, or, Meeting Ms. Wright
Bananas! The sound of one Land
Sending Hallmark cards. Not what I'd planned.
The usual fun
Had when carnie meets gun,
Or plays dress-up with deer,
But no innards appear,
Plus a big fat reveal
That wrings out like a peel...
And another that's golden. Not panned.
The End. Sure, me feelings were mixed
As her tears flowed like wine, there, betwixt
Grand planets collidin'...
But wait, let's go ridin'!
"Too late, cried Claire, "Sis's transfixed."
[RepublicWorld] France, Germany, and at least 10 other European nations sold £230million worth of military hardware and defensive kits to Moscow which was used by Kremlin during the war in Ukraine, an EU analysis revealed. The selling of the weapon systems was apparently ’illegal’ under the EU embargo that bans the arms sale to Russia after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russians. Primarily, France, Germany and Italy have exploited the loophole in the arms embargo and exported missiles, rockets, guns and bombs to Moscow, as first reported by UK’s The Telegraph.
EU NATIONS FLOWED ARMS TO MOSCOW IN BREACH OF OWN EMBARGO IMPOSED POST CRIMEAN ANNEXATION
The wide ranging report revealed that EU nations evaded the sanctions that banned "the direct or indirect sale, supply, transfer or export of arms and related material of all types, including weapons and ammunition, military vehicles and equipment, paramilitary equipment, and spare parts, therefore, to Russia."
The embargo was inacted by European Union eight years ago, however, the EU nations flowed in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms in breach of the contracts signed before August 1, 2014, as per the report. France sold defence equipment to Russia worth €152 million as part of 76 export licences, pushing the total sales to €1billion by Europe. Germany had been supplying Russia with tanks and howitzers that were used by the Russian troops in its special military intervention in Ukraine.
GERMAN CHANCELLOR FACES BLACKLASH OVER 'DOUBLE STANDARDS'
The report comes at a time when Germany’s chancellor is facing growing pressure to authorise the delivery of heavy weaponry to Ukraine as Russia enters the second phase of the military offensive in the eastern Donbass region and Southern Ukraine. While Olaf Scholz’s coalition partners accused the German leader of failing to assist Ukraine, an EU ally with more advanced arms, citing German defence policy on weapons, the explosive report finds that Berlin assisted Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. This is in contrast to many other NATO countries that have scrambled to supply vital armaments to Kyiv to deter Moscow’s aggression on its territory.
"Ukraine crisis is entirely engineered by Russia and President Putin as an overt act of coercion against Ukraine," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley had said at a briefing. But Germany, in addition to Russia, sold South Korea heavy weaponry to deter DPRK’s Kim Jong Un regime. German arms supply peaked in 2017 in the crisis hit Korean Peninsula as it rampantly supplied cruise missiles and howitzers to fuel South Korea’s offensives against the North. Berlin recently agreed to provide Ukraine with £830million in aid, adding that sending heavy arms would not only upset Putin but could lead to nuclear war. EU had continued arms supply to Moscow, fuelling the crisis.
UK PRESSURIZES INDIA TO FLOW WEAPONS TO EASTERN EU
Just recently, the deputy commander of Russia's central military
district, Rustam Minnekayev, said that Moscow plans to establish a corridor between Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014, and the Donbas region, indicating that its brutal war might spill over to other occupied regions. The UK meanwhile, which is looking to backfill British tanks to Poland for its supply to Ukraine had recently expressed concerns about prospects of India’s export of spare military parts to Russia, and that the latter could evade an international arms embargo in this way.
UK’s Prime Minister in his speech made during his India visit told reporters here: "We’re looking at sending tanks to Poland to help them as they sending some of their T-72s to Ukraine." In what may have been under the West’s pressure, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to "contemplate" sending Challenger 2 tanks to eastern Europe to replace Soviet-era T-72 tanks that were deployed by the UK in the Iraq War.
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I give up. I can see well enough to copy and paste, but not to reformat into something readable, especially when the text box remains black-on-white.
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We are ruining the quality of life and future prosperity of our country in a vain attempt to stop something that ends being funded by our collective efforts (Russian energy). YJCMTSU!
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I didn't say I was surprised by anything. I just got tired of the "the world will end because you dared resist the mighty Putin!" when The West is only pretending to resist Putin.
[Daily Beast] As Russian troops tighten their grip on the strategic port town of Mariupol, their strategy is finally becoming clear. Russian military commander Rustam Minnekaev now says the second phase of President Vladimir Putin’s "special operation" is focused on establishing a "land corridor" from the Donbas all the way to Moldova, which would cut off the rest of Ukraine from the sea.
"One of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over the Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to the Crimea, as well as influence the vital objects of the Ukrainian economy," Minnekaev said Friday at a meeting with the Union of Defense Industries, as reported by the Russian state-owned Interfax. "Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population." Transnistria is a separatist region of Moldova that has so far not been officially involved in the war despite hosting a Russian military base since the 1990s.
The general’s words suggest that Moldova’s sovereign borders would also come under threat from further Russian expansion. Phony efforts to protect Russian-speaking peoples have often foreshadowed Putin’s imperial invasions.
In reality, Russian speakers have been struck down in the hundreds in eastern Ukraine during the brutal invasion.
If successful, the strategy would include taking the port of the former seaside resort town of Odesa near the Moldovan border, which has suffered sporadic bombardments but no full-fledged invasion so far. Russia’s warship Moskva was hit about 75 miles off the coast of Odesa two weeks ago, before it sank en route to Crimea.
The refocusing of troops from northern Ukraine to the southern regions of the country has further choked Mariupol, where Ukrainian troops and civilians are holed up in a steel factory surrounded by Russian troops. Satellite imagery identified a growing number of graves outside the port city, where Ukrainian officials say up to 200 new graves have been dug since April 3.
While the Russian military has largely now left northern Ukraine alone save for sporadic missile strikes, fresh evidence of Russia’s ruthless tactics there in recent weeks continue to build a case for widespread war crimes. Andrii Nebytov, the head of police for Kyiv region, told CNN that they are examining 1,084 bodies found in the region outside Kyiv, including Bucha, for signs of torture. "These are civilians who had nothing to do with territorial defense or other military formations," he said. "The vast majority—between 50 percent and 75 percent—are people killed by small arms, either a machine gun or a sniper rifle, depending on the location."
Among the atrocities are evidence of widespread rape and sexual mutilation. The youngest victim who survived to tell her story is just 15, according to CNN. Several female bodies in mass graves show evidence of horrific crimes as well.
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[Korrespondent] 23:17 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been constant reports that the Russian military from different regions refuse to go to war. Details about such cases are in the material Mass refusal . 23:14 Zelensky: "The Russian invasion of Ukraine was only supposed to be the beginning, and then they want to seize other countries. Of course, we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of Russia. But all the peoples who, like us, believe in the victory of life over death, must fight with us."
23:12 Zelensky: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding back enemy attacks in the Izyum direction, in the Donbass, the Azov region, the Kherson region. These are the places where the fate of our country is being decided today."
22:50 The reason for the crash of the An-26 aircraft was fog and low flight altitude - due to the weather, the aircraft caught on high-voltage power lines, the Zaporizhzhia OVA reported.
22:28 Ukraine is preparing a powerful counteroffensive, Podolyak said: "They [the Russians] will want to come in from Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions and try to make war with our Armed Forces of Ukraine. And they will get it in the teeth."
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office stressed that the tactics and strategy of Ukraine is to get more artillery, heavy armored vehicles and then launch "very powerful counter-offensives" against Russian groups.
22:23 People's Deputy from the Servant of the People Yegor Chernev said that he received a "mandate from the President's Office" to control the supply of US military aid to the front. So he commented on the CNN report, citing the former commander of the US Marine Corps Special Forces, Colonel Andrew Milburn, that "the logistical process of transferring American weapons to the front is completely unreliable."
22:17 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "in the course of the struggle for survivability" of the cruiser Moscow, one serviceman was killed, another 27 crew members were missing. The remaining 396 crew members were evacuated from the ship to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the area and taken to Sevastopol.
"The absolute majority of the officers, midshipmen and sailors of the contract service of the cruiser Moskva expressed their desire to continue serving on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet," the RF Defense Ministry assured.
21:51 The evacuation of tens of thousands of people trapped in Mariupol is only possible with the help of the UN, Vereshchuk said in a BBC commentary. According to her, the UN is "the only organization that can prevent death." However, it seems that while she "is just watching the events," Vereshchuk added, stressing that there was no time left to wait.
21:48 Negotiations with partner countries on security guarantees for Ukraine will be completed within a week, Podolyak predicts. According to him, consultations are currently underway with countries that have confirmed their agreement to discuss guarantees.
21:24 Anonymous hackers said they hacked 645,000 emails (432 GB) from Enerpred, the largest manufacturer of hydraulic tools in Russia and the CIS, which are used in the energy, petrochemical, coal and gas industries and construction.
21:21 The United States does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, therefore, they convey a signal to Putin that this step will have absolutely disastrous consequences, said Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
21:16 In Kiev and the region on Easter night, a curfew will be in effect from 23:00 Saturday to 5:00 Sunday morning, Klitschko said. Divine services in churches at night will be held online.
21:14 Erdogan plans to hold telephone conversations with Zelensky and Putin in the next 48 hours in the hope of meeting with both of them in Istanbul, according to CNN.
21:07 Podolyak commented on the statement about Russia's plans to seize the Donbass and the South of Ukraine: "We are well aware of all such expansionist plans and scenarios. And our Armed Forces of Ukraine will clearly speak out about this." Also, according to him, "Minnekaev publicly officially confirmed the intent of a group of Russian comrades to commit war crimes with massacres of civilians."
"The entire 'army of Russia', together with the Russian Guard, as official punishers, is not tolerated throughout the entire territory of Ukraine, which is temporarily under occupation. And therefore, the ground under their feet is clearly already on fire at the punishers," wrote the adviser to the head of the OP.
“Liberators of Transnistria, learn to pronounce the word “Ukraine” correctly. It will strongly and painfully knock down all bloody arrogance from many who still have a Russian passport,” Podolyak summed up.
20:56 WizzAir said that it did not resume flights from and to Ukrainian cities, as it did not cancel them in the long term.
20:51 Another huge mass grave was found on the outskirts of Mariupol, in the village of Grape. According to Planet satellite images from April 20, the size of the mass grave is 45 by 25 meters, at least a thousand killed Mariupol residents could be buried here, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said.
20:45 The EU is preparing to introduce new sanctions against Russia next week, writes Politico. The new package could include a specific ban on Russian oil imports, as well as cutting off new Russian banks from Swift.
20:24 There are big traffic jams at the exit from Poland to Ukraine - Ukrainians are returning home, the State Border Service reports. The largest traffic jams were recorded in front of the Dorogusk - Yagodin checkpoint: about 1000 cars and 150 trucks.
20:22 The United States has begun supplying Ukraine with MLRS and is working with NATO allies to get Ukraine even more rocket systems, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said.
20:20 Ukraine has officially applied to the Energy Community Secretariat, the EU and the member countries of the Energy Production Agreement with a proposal to ban the import of energy resources from Russia.
20:17 A stamp depicting a "Russian warship" was sold at a charity auction from Prozorro for 5 million hryvnias. The money was sent to the APU.
20:14 The British Ministry of Defense has confirmed that London is sending Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Poland to replace the T-72 tanks that Warsaw will send to Ukraine.
19:52 UN Secretary General António Guterres will travel to Moscow on April 26 to meet with Putin and Lavrov. The main topic of the talks will be the war in Ukraine.
19:39 Canada will provide Ukraine with heavy artillery, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, refusing to disclose details for security reasons. In turn, the head of the country's Ministry of Defense, Anita Anand, said that the cost of the supply would be $500 million, and the weapons would be purchased from manufacturers, since Canada's own stocks of the armed forces were exhausted.
19:37 In the Khmelnitsky region, the curfew on Easter night is lifted, and the ban on the sale of alcohol is lifted from April 23, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Gamaly.
19:33 Ukraine put forward an ultimatum to the Russian negotiators that holding the so-called "referendum" in the Kherson region by the occupiers will put an end to the negotiations, the UP writes, citing its sources.
19:20 There are now two Russian ships with Caliber cruise missiles in the Black Sea. Their potential total missile salvo is up to 16 missiles, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
19:02 A complete cessation of oil and gas imports from the Russian Federation for the entire European Union could mean a loss of 3% of GDP in 2023. At the same time, individual consequences will differ depending on the degree of dependence on Russian energy resources, the IMF believes.
18:58 In the Yuzhnobuzhsky direction, in the Aleksandrovka area, the enemy defends their positions, conducts aerial reconnaissance, an assault is not ruled out to reach the administrative borders of the Kherson region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
18:57 In the Zaporozhye direction, the invaders carried out assault actions in the direction of the settlement. Green Field, they are not successful. The enemy reinforced the grouping by moving units of the 19th motorized rifle division of the 58th combined arms army of the Southern Military District. At the same time, the BTG of the 127th motorized rifle division of the 5th combined arms army lost its combat capability and was withdrawn to the recovery area.
18:50 According to the General Staff, in the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the fighting took place along the entire line of collision. During the day, the enemy carried out assault actions in the direction of Slavyansk, entrenched in Lozovoe. In the areas of Zelenaya Dolina and Kreminnaya, the enemy continues to consolidate in occupied positions, regroup and prepare for offensive operations.
The enemy has strengthened the grouping of troops by moving separate units of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District from the territory of the Russian Federation. Unsuccessfully trying to gain a foothold in Rubizhnoye. He carried out assault operations in the direction of Novotoshkovsky and deep into Popasna, but had no success. He entrenched himself in the central part of the Steppe.
18:44 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announces the build-up of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems in the regions of the Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus bordering Ukraine. In the areas of the settlements of Klimovka and Dymamerka, posts for setting radio interference by units from the 48th separate electronic warfare battalion of the western operational command of the armed forces of Belarus have been deployed. In addition, the enemy conducted a training session of the next forces and means of air defense.
18:40 Belgium will give Ukraine several thousand machine guns that are decommissioned from the Belgian army, as well as anti-tank weapons and fuel. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo estimated Belgian military assistance at 76 million euros, including all arms supplies to the Ukrainian army since February 24. According to him, deliveries will continue, writes RTBF.
We are talking about 5,000 FN Herstal assault rifles, which are being replaced by the FN SCAR in the Belgian army, as well as 200 anti-tank weapons, 3,800 tons of fuel and protective equipment.
18:33 The Russian military spoke about their goals and said that they were at war with the whole world - "they never loved Russia." In detail - in the material Moldova to get ready. Russian plans to seize Ukraine .
18:12 Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that his country cannot refuse Russian gas now, since it is 90% dependent on it and will be able to change the situation only in five years. At the same time, he stressed that Prague supports tough sanctions against Russia, "but they should not destroy us."
17:51 A case has been opened against the mayor of Balakleya, Ivan Stolbovoy, under the articles of treason and collaborationism, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
17:44 On April 22, the Russian military entered two more territorial communities in the Kherson region - Velikolepetikha and Gornostaevskaya, local authorities report.
17:33 The head of the Novovorontsovskaya UTG of the Kherson region, Vladimir Marchuk, was released from Russian captivity, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, Alexander Vilkul, said.
17:32 Until the end of 2022, the Netherlands will completely abandon the purchase of Russian gas and coal, said Climate and Energy Minister Rob Jetten.
17:24 Electricity supply will be fully restored in Irpen next week, and water supply is also planned to be launched. Mobile communication is already working, large chain stores will soon open, Mayor Alexander Markushin said.
17:15 In Kakhovka, the invaders set up a torture chamber in the police premises, where they beat the hostages and subject them to electric shock torture, Denisova said. Also, Russian soldiers detain on the streets of the city not only activists or participants in the ATO / JFO, but also men who have nothing to do with military service and who did not go to rallies against the occupation. For this, a formal reason is used - "violation of law and order" or "violation of curfew."
According to the Ombudsman, near the police station there is a constant line of relatives of the detained men who are trying to find out their fate or to hand over food and essentials.
According to witnesses, there are more than ten civilians in the premises of the Kakhovka police, some of them have been kept there for several weeks. Men are tortured with electric shockers and beaten. The most cruel Russian military treat those who are related to power structures - the fighters of the territorial defense and former members of the ATO / JFO.
17:04 Medinsky said that today there were "several lengthy conversations" between him and Arakhamia.
17:02 Lavrov said that negotiations with Ukraine have stalled, Moscow has not received a response from Kiev to its proposals. He also said that Russia is not negotiating with anyone on security guarantees for Ukraine, although the Kremlin is not against the guarantor countries proposed by Kyiv.
16:54 The President of the Russian Federation behaves strangely at public events, which constantly provokes talk about his health. More about this in the article Strange Behavior - What is Putin sick with?
16:48 Podolyak said that Russia is using weapons against Ukraine that it illegally received from Europe in circumvention of sanctions. So, the Russians shot a family who tried to evacuate in their small car from French weapons sold in 2015 in circumvention of sanctions.
"Everyone in the EU who tries to flirt with Russia should see the result of their actions," Podolyak writes and publishes the corresponding investigation.
16:43 Today, 70 people were rescued from the Luhansk region, Gaidai said. In particular, despite the shelling, 25 people were taken out of Popasna and 45 from Lisichansk. All of them are already heading to the Dnieper.
16:30 The United States is ready for any steps to hold Russia accountable for the war in Ukraine, except for "direct military confrontation," the White House said.
16:29 In Slavyansk, after the Russian shelling, nine high-rise buildings and 12 private houses, as well as a school, a shop and public transport stops, were damaged. Currently, work is underway to restore electricity and gas supply, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
In total, 20 settlements were affected in the region today, 34 objects were destroyed or damaged.
16:25 Britain will not give Ukraine security guarantees similar to Article 5 of the NATO charter, Johnson said: "I think that in the end Kiev will receive a package from like-minded countries on security guarantees on what we can do - support them with training , weapons and intelligence sharing. It will not be the same as security guarantees under Article 5, not quite the same."
16:18 Ukraine will need two years to restore all the destroyed infrastructure, said Minister Alexander Kubrakov. According to him, in the first year, "basic things" will be brought back to life.
16:12 The ban on the sale of alcohol has been lifted in the Chernivtsi region since April 23, the Regional State Administration reported.
16:09 Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Vadim Skibitsky believes that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is likely to face a tribunal: "In fact, he was one of the initiators of the forceful solution of the issue in relation to Ukraine, there is no success, and we do not exclude that in the future, a tribunal in Russia awaits him."
15:55 After the defeat of the Russians on land and the destruction of the cruiser Moscow, another phase of repression began against the command of the Russian army and navy, said the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Igor Osipov, was removed from his post and arrested. Also, investigative actions are being carried out against the chief of staff - the first deputy commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Sergei Pinchuk.
Due to unsatisfactory preparation for the conduct of hostilities and heavy losses of personnel, weapons and military equipment, the commanders of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Ershov, the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District, Lieutenant General Kisel and one of the deputy commanders, were removed from their posts. The commander of the 22nd Army Corps of the southern military district, Major General Marzoev, was also removed from his post.
In connection with the unsatisfactory organization of logistics, the commander of the 103rd separate logistics brigade, Colonel Ponomarev, was also removed from his post.
15:38 The leadership of the Russian army is completing the identification of favorable places for delivering the main strikes. This is evidenced by the methods of fire engagement, the form of formation of battle formations, the echeloning of enemy troops and continuous offensive operations in certain areas, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk.
According to him, the greatest activity of the occupiers is observed in the direction of Izyum - Barvenkovo, in the area of the junction railway station Popasnaya, the Severodonetsk urbanized area, the city of Mariupol and on the section of the Zaporozhye - Donetsk road.
15:35 The World Bank allocated $4.8 billion for the restoration of Ukraine, Zelensky said.
15:32 Russian military victory in Ukraine is still possible, and Putin is close to securing a land crossing in Mariupol, Johnson said. According to him, at this stage the situation is unpredictable, because, on the one hand, Putin has a huge army, but a very difficult political situation, and on the other hand, Ukrainians have shown themselves to be heroes.
"Whatever military superiority Vladimir Putin can achieve in the coming months - and I agree that this can be a long period - he will not be able to conquer the spirit of the Ukrainian people," Johnson said, adding that it is necessary to strengthen sanctions and analyze how more military assistance can be provided to Ukraine.
15:27 Russian media write that from today all TV channels included in the first and second packages of the Russian multiplex have become available in Kherson.
15:21 Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko suggested that Putin did not actually meet with Shoigu, and the Russians again used special effects: "Apparently, Putin is sitting at the TV, and Shoigu is a mounted person on the video."
He also recalled that in recent years, Putin has never sat so close to anyone.
15:17 The UN human rights monitoring mission has already documented 50 cases of killing civilians in Bucha. The figure is not final, said the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravin Shamdasani.
"The Russian armed forces indiscriminately shell and bomb settlements, killing civilians and destroying hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure. These are actions that can be equated with war crimes," she stressed.
15:15 In Lviv, there will be no Easter services in churches, despite the abolition of the curfew in the region, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said.
15:11 Power has gone out throughout Severodonetsk - a high-voltage line has been killed by shelling, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
14:49 The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, during a telephone conversation with Putin called on him to facilitate the opening of humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and other cities on the occasion of Easter.
14:40 Germany will supply Ukraine with anti-tank weapons, mines and artillery ammunition, Scholz said.
14:38 Putin plans to involve the Russian Guard and the structures of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for a further attack on the Azovstal plant, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said.
“They can really refuse a large-scale assault on Azovstal,” he commented on yesterday’s statements by Putin and Shoigu. “But, according to our information, they plan to involve the Russian Guard, other structures, including the FSB structures, which will continue to attack the plant in order to destroy our resistance".
14:27 The FSB began to "protect" the Russian marauders. They seize expensive goods stolen in Ukraine from them and promise not to prosecute them in return. This is evidenced by telephone conversations of the Russian invaders, which were intercepted by the SBU.
14:23 Ukraine has almost returned to the pre-war level of stocks of basic products. According to the deputy head of the OP Rostislav Shurma, about 90% of the products on store shelves are Ukrainian-made.
Over the past ten days, 97 large stores have resumed work in the liberated territories of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv regions. In the coming month, about a hundred more large stores closed due to the war will resume work.
14:19 The London police received about 50 appeals about the commission of war crimes by Russians in Ukraine. British law enforcement officers have joined the collection of evidence to help the International Criminal Court. All British and Ukrainian refugees in the UK are encouraged to report cases they know. And we are talking about events starting from November 21, 2013.
Currently, 42 countries have joined the investigation into the atrocities and crimes of Russians in Ukraine.
14:05 France will send Caesar self-propelled artillery mounts to Ukraine, Macron said.
14:02 The curfew on Easter night is also canceled in the Lviv region, the corresponding order was signed by the head of the OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
13:59 Residents of Crimea report that recently there has been a noticeable increase in the number of freight trains, on the wagons of which "grain" is written. All of them belong to the North Caucasian Railway. Trains are sent to the railway stations, which border on the Kherson region. Crimea does not have its own grain reserves for export in such quantities, Denisova said.
According to her, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions produce large grain crops and currently there are a large number of granaries. Therefore, the Russian Federation, obviously, intends to export Ukrainian grain. A few weeks ago, the invaders had already stolen grain from the Berdyansk port.
Eyewitnesses from Crimea also report that the sale of vegetables taken from Kherson has begun on the peninsula.
13:56 Scholz said that Germany cannot afford an embargo on Russian gas, as it will lead to an economic crisis. He also believes that such a step will not lead to an end to the war in Ukraine.
13:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that over 143,000 civilians have been "evacuated" from Mariupol. Moscow is also ready to "re-introduce the regime of silence" for the evacuation of the Ukrainian military from Azovstal, who are willing to lay down their arms, "and civilians, if they are there."
13:53 The British Embassy will resume work in Kiev from next month, Johnson said.
13:50 Germany is ready to become the guarantor of Ukraine's security , Scholz said in an interview with Spiegel. The chancellor promises to do everything in such a way as to guarantee the security of Ukraine and protect himself in the future.
13:31 "DPR" is preparing to filter the residents of Kramatorsk and nearby cities in the north of the Donetsk region, which the invaders want to capture, said the "mayor" of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko: "There were many refugees from Mariupol, and now this whole agglomeration will go to us: Kramatorsk , Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, Chasov Yar, Artemovsk (Bakhmut). We will need to meet them, place them, filter them."
13:28 In the Odesa region on the night of Easter, April 24, the curfew is canceled, the city council of Belgorod-Dnestrovsk said.
13:22 In Austria, for broadcasting materials from the Russian TV channel Russia Today and the Sputnik agency, there is a fine of up to 50 thousand euros. According to the amendments to the law on audiovisual media, punishment is provided for the dissemination of Russian media materials on television, radio, the Internet, streaming platforms, social networks, etc.
13:20 The Vatican postponed the meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was scheduled for June. According to Francis, this meeting "could lead to great confusion" in the current international situation.
13:18 WizzAir started selling tickets from Kiev, Lvov, Odessa and back for July.
13:15 Scholz again said that Germany cannot transfer heavy weapons used by the Bundeswehr to Ukraine, since there is a threat of a direct confrontation between the Russian Federation and NATO.
13:10 Reznikov said in a column for the Wall Street Journal that the UN is helping Russian war crimes. According to him, both the UN, of which Russia is a permanent member, and the OSCE have failed, like the League of Nations, and, like it, should be replaced by a more effective institution.
Reznikov recalled that the West's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine was very slow, when it should have followed within the first 24 hours in the form of preventive measures - delayed sanctions that would have come into force automatically. And now, when the invasion has turned into a large-scale war, Ukraine needs help: with heavy weapons, a global oil and gas embargo from the Russian Federation, a blockade of the Russian banking system and a ban on trade with it.
12:54 Yermak on Russia's plans to seize the Donbass and the South: "We have our own scenarios for protecting Ukraine. Many of Moscow's plans have already been destroyed by the work of our army and people.
12:52 In the Kiev region, law enforcement officers have already found the bodies of 1084 civilians, up to 75% of these people were killed from small arms. More than 300 dead bodies have not yet been identified, the National Police said.
12:41 The Russian army fired at the regional trauma hospital in Liman. The fire was fired from Uragan volley fire systems, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA. The hospital was badly damaged, and nearby residential buildings were also damaged.
12:39 Cruise missiles of the Russian Federation threatened the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Nikolaev region, Energoatom reported. So, on April 16, three cruise missiles fired, probably from the territory of Belarus in the direction of Nikolaev, passed over the station site. One of them was captured by surveillance cameras. The threat of falling into a nuclear reactor with possible consequences - a nuclear catastrophe - was high, the company stressed.
12:28 Since April 23, Russian invaders have been establishing full control over Oleshky, Kherson region. Now they are looking for who will "lead" the city, the names are not yet known, Mayor Yevgeny Ryshchuk said.
12:16 France handed over to Ukraine the second column of fire fighting equipment and 50 tons of equipment, Ambassador Etienne de Ponsin said.
12:14 Danilov said in an interview with UP that only 58 people were saved from the cruiser Moscow: “We believe that they saved 58 people. We cannot confirm this, but it turns out that yes. But they hide it. cruiser 510 people. But if a person is not there, there is nothing to bury, there is no need to hold any ceremony. He went missing, disappeared. That is the policy of the Russians."
12:10 Biden announced the allocation of military assistance to Ukraine for another $ 800 million. The new shipments will include heavy weapons, dozens of howitzers, tactical drones and 144,000 ammunition. Thus, the amount of US military aid to Ukraine will reach $3.2 billion. More about this in the material Critical window .
11:56 There are Ukrainian military and about a thousand civilians at Azovstal. But the Russians only open corridors for surrender, cynically pretending not to understand the difference between a military surrender corridor and a humanitarian corridor for evacuating civilians, Vereshchuk said.
11:53 As a result of the crash of the An-26 aircraft in the Zaporozhye region, according to preliminary information, one person was killed, two more were injured, the Zaporizhzhya OVA reported. An aircraft belonging to Ukraine crashed today at about 09:00 in the Mikhailovka area of the Zaporozhye region.
The aircraft was on a technical flight. The number of crew and the cause of the fall are being investigated. According to preliminary, yet unconfirmed information, the aircraft hit an electrical pole, causing the engine to catch fire.
11:48 The task of the Russian troops in the second phase of the "special operation" is to establish full control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine , said acting. commander of the troops of the Central Military District Rustam Minnekaev.
According to him, control over the south of Ukraine will make it possible to create a land corridor to the Crimea and "will give another exit to Transnistria, where there are facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population."
11:44 SBU calls on believers to be especially vigilant on Easter, as the enemy can arrange provocations. Russian propaganda has already spread more than one statement about possible violent actions during the Easter holidays and church services in Ukraine. Thus, RosSMI is already preparing the ground for provocations by the Russian army.
In this regard, Ukrainians are asked to refrain from mass gatherings, and the heads of churches are asked to minimize the number of those present at the festive services. They are also asked to observe the curfew rules established by the civil administrations of each region.
11:39 In Borodianka, Kiev region, the bodies of more than 80 dead local residents have already been found, but this figure is not final, as the rubble continues to be cleared, said the head of the regional police Andrey Nebytov.
11:22 Danilov is convinced that Putin will not stop: "We realize that Putin is not going to stop. Neither May 9, nor May 10, nor May 20. Putin's task, which he set for his military, is quite simple - the destruction of our state. Other tasks They dont have".
11:16 Danilov said in an interview with UP that he expects "a big war in the world": "The fact that in 10-15-20 years there will be a big war in the world, I am more than sure of it. It will certainly happen."
11:15 In the occupied Energodar, the Russians began to enroll local residents in a queue for the issuance of 10 thousand rubles, according to the Defense Forces of the Zaporozhye Territory. Thus, they want to receive from the population the necessary passport data for holding a pseudo-referendum.
11:13 The European Union is convinced that the sanctions have significantly weakened Russia's ability to finance the war against Ukraine. What achievements of the sanctions are reported in Brussels? About this in the material EU Sanctions against Russia: what they managed to achieve .
11:11 An-26, which crashed in the Zaporozhye region in the morning, had nothing to do with the Armed Forces of Ukraine - this is a civilian aircraft that was performing a technical flight, People's Deputy Fyodor Venislavsky said.
"This is another crime of the Russian Federation, which shoots down peaceful planes. The airline that carried out the technical flight has nothing to do with the Armed Forces of Ukraine," he stressed.
11:08 A full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine began on February 24 at 3:40 in the Lugansk region at the Melovoe site, Danilov said in an interview with UP. "But we thought that they were entering the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions there. We believed that their goal after the recognition of the "republics" was to take them within the regions," he said. And after an hour and 20 minutes, "the offensive began everywhere."
11:05 The Times reported, citing a Western intelligence official, that Eritrea plans to send 5,000 volunteers to the Russian army in Ukraine.
10:56 Russians are disrupting the evacuation - Rubizhne is under shelling, buses cannot get there, Gaidai said: "We will try to get to the southern part of Rubizhne by cars, because people are waiting to be taken away. And bring food there. Bus for evacuation, to Unfortunately, I didn’t get there - a dense artillery shelling began.
10:52 Australia has imposed sanctions on 147 Russian citizens, the country's Foreign Ministry said. The restrictions included the daughters of Putin and Lavrov, as well as 144 members of the Federation Council.
10:50 40% of catering establishments from the pre-war number work in Kiev. At the end of March, the number of open establishments in the capital was 18% of the pre-war number, and in the region - 16%. The study is based on data from more than 9,000 Poster customers across the country and covers the period from February 23 to April 17.
10:49 Germany allocates emergency assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 37 million euros, Economic Development Minister Svenja Schulze told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. According to the newspaper, 22.5 million euros are intended for the restoration of electricity networks destroyed by Russian troops, another 12.4 million are planned to be used to build housing for internally displaced persons and 2 million for medical equipment.
10:48 The Embassy of Uzbekistan has returned from Lviv to Kiev, the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to Ukraine Alisher Kurmanov said.
10:47 Danilov said in an interview with the UP that the supplies needed to Mariupol were carried out with the help of helicopters - the defenders of the city asked only for ammunition. He also assured that everything "that is possible and impossible" is being done to help the inhabitants and defenders of the city.
10:43 "Modern" Russian cruise missiles are equipped with electronics developed in the 60s of the last century, according to Ukrainian intelligence. X-101 missiles were manufactured from 1999 to 2013 - the media reported them as the pride of the latest high-precision Russian weapons.
True, the result of the use of X-101 missiles by the invaders during the hostilities in Ukraine disproved the declared effectiveness. The electronic component base turned out to be very far from the modern one, and most of the X-101 missiles fired on the territory of Ukraine did not hit their intended targets.
An analysis of the guidance and navigation systems of cruise missiles of the Kh-55 type, as well as their modifications Kh-555 and Kh-101, showed that "modern" guidance units were developed in 1960-1970 and were produced by the Voronezh plant of radio components, the Minsk plant Integral and other enterprises of the USSR . Also in the "latest" missiles, the PGI-2M navigation system, developed in 1977, is used.
10:32 The Russian embassy in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, has begun registering men with military experience. So far, they are being told that there is no need for their services, but they may be called in the future, writes Reuters.
10:30 Russia needs Ukraine as a springboard for further war with European countries, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, the Russians are now set for a long war. And the way they destroy Ukrainian cities may indicate that they intend to continue their aggressive march towards Europe from the territory of Ukraine. In a similar way, the Russian Federation uses Belarus to conduct military operations on Ukrainian territory.
"The fact that they have become more active in the east does not mean that the east will be enough for them. They have far-sighted plans, this is all of Ukraine," Maliar said. She also said that there are certain signs that the Russians are preparing something in the unrecognized Transnistrian Republic on the territory of Moldova.
10:24 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the crime rate has decreased by 30%, the number of accidents has decreased by five times, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the Russian invasion, more than 29,000 criminal offenses and 4,600 accidents were registered. Almost half as many deaths on the roads - 194 dead.
10:18 In the Volnyansky district of the Zaporozhye region, on the morning of April 22, the An-26 plane crashed. The aircraft was performing a technical flight. There are victims, the circumstances are being investigated, the OVA said.
10:11 Danilov said in an interview with UP that after the seizure of Ukraine, Russia was going to put high-ranking Ukrainian military men in power in Kiev: "After they dreamed that they would occupy our country in 2-3 days, some people with large epaulettes had to to head the government, all our institutions - these were the Ukrainian military of the highest level."
10:05 Borrell admitted in an interview with El País that there is no unity between the EU countries on the issue of abandoning Russian energy resources. Asked when a new package of sanctions would be approved, including oil and gas from the Russian Federation, the diplomat said: "I cannot give a date. As far as I know, there are no proposals on the table, but there are options on how best to do this. None of the these proposals are not unanimous.
Meanwhile, Macron, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, said that the embargo on Russian gas is not being discussed now.
10:01 In Germany, there is a task force of representatives of 14 countries, coordinating the supply of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, the NYT reports, citing information from two high-ranking Pentagon officials.
09:57 Human Rights Watch has documented 16 apparently illegal killings in Bucha, including nine mass executions and seven random killings of civilians. The organization noted that this is only part of the war crimes of the Russian troops in Bucha.
09:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 22:
personnel - about 21,200 people liquidated,
tanks - 838,
armored combat vehicles - 2162,
artillery systems - 397,
MLRS - 138,
air defense systems - 69,
aircraft - 176,
helicopters - 153,
automotive equipment - 1523,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 172,
special equipment - 27,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:30 British intelligence believes that Putin's order not to storm Azovstal indicates that Russia does not want to lose a significant amount of forces in one area. Significant losses of the Russians will reduce the overall combat effectiveness. Putin's decision to block the plant is a desire to free up Russian forces for deployment elsewhere in eastern Ukraine.
09:27 The restoration of Ukraine will cost at least $600 billion, Shmyhal said. According to him, the damage to the Ukrainian economy has already exceeded $ 500 billion, GDP this year may fall from 30% to 50%.
09:25 Slovyansk was probably fired with cluster bombs. There are no victims, residents of the city are asked to evacuate, said Vadim Lyakh, head of the CAA.
09:24 In Melitopol, the partisans have already destroyed about a hundred invaders, said the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov.
09:23 Ukraine will fully join the EU in 2024, said Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko. According to her, Kyiv should receive the status of a candidate for membership this summer.
09:21 Biden said that Putin failed to realize his grandiose ambitions on the battlefield: "President Zelensky and his democratically elected government remain in power, and the Ukrainian armed forces, joined by brave Ukrainian citizens, prevented the conquest of their country by Russia."
He also added that Putin is betting that the West will lose interest in Ukraine and its unity will collapse. "We will prove once again that he was wrong," Biden said.
09:19 Gaidai said that the Lugansk OVA today will try to take people out of Lisichansk, Rubizhne, Severodonetsk, Popasna, Mountain communities.
09:17 Vereshchuk said that there would be no humanitarian corridors today because of the danger on the routes.
08:48 Japan has published the Blue Book on Diplomacy - an annual document published by the Foreign Ministry on the diplomatic situation - in which for the first time since 2003 it designated the South Kuriles as territories illegally occupied by Russia. Also, for the first time since 2011, the islands in it are called the original territory of Japan.
08:37 About three-quarters of the population left the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. According to him, until February 24, 1.67 million people permanently lived in the region, now there are about 430 thousand left.
08:28 Ukrposhta announced the release of a new stamp on the theme of the missile cruiser Moskva, it will be called the Russian warship - everything . The stamp will be issued with a circulation of 5 million copies.
08:25 Kharkiv and the region were shelled about 50 times in a day, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. He said that artillery hit the center of the city - again Alekseevka, again the Zhukovsky district, KhTZ, avenues, that is, "exclusively residential areas, residential areas." There are injured and dead. So, two people died on the spot from a shell hitting the car.
08:17 Damage to Ukrainian infrastructure due to the war has reached $60 billion and will continue to grow, said World Bank President David Malpass. At the same time, we are talking only about destroyed houses and objects, writes Reuters.
08:04 During the full-scale war, representatives of the Opposition Platform for Life cooperated with the invaders at least 50 times, said the head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Oleksiy Koshel. He believes that it is necessary to prohibit the activities of pro-Russian political forces and public organizations at the legislative level.
07:37 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from April 30, exit and entry into Crimea will be prohibited - the occupiers are closing the peninsula in order to prevent the disruption of the spring conscription campaign.
07:35 Russian troops during the day intensified military operations along the entire line of military clashes in the Donetsk and Tauride directions. The Russian Federation continues a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and delivers missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a morning report .
06:40 Ukrainian military for the first time since the beginning of the war began to be trained in Britain - a small group of officers are trained to work with Mastiff armored patrol cars. London donated 120 such vehicles to Kyiv, which can be used, among other things, for reconnaissance, writes Reuters.
06:04 Council of the Organization of American States has deprived Russia of the status of a permanent observer. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that he was not allowed to speak at the meeting of the OAS, where the decision was made, neither before nor after the vote. He called it "part of a targeted campaign to isolate Russia on international platforms."
05:14 The first group of forensic experts from Slovakia arrived in Kiev to help Ukrainian specialists in investigating war crimes of the Russian army, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said.
01:41 Russian occupiers can use the passport data of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories to "rig a referendum," Zelensky said in a video message. He urged residents of Kherson and Zaporozhye regions to be attentive to what information they leave to the occupiers.
01:12 Finland will apply for NATO membership in the coming weeks, said Erkki Tuomioja, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament.
00:49 Assistant to the head of the OP Elena Simonenko said that over the past day, Russian troops have captured 42 settlements, all of them in the Donetsk region. According to her, today more than 3,500 settlements are under occupation - this is almost 30% of the territory where hostilities take place.
00:08 The Pentagon excludes the possibility of the participation of the US Navy in any operations to lift the blockade of ports in the Black Sea, said US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby.
00:01 The White House has hired retired three-star general Terry Wolf to help coordinate the hundreds of millions of dollars of military aid the US is sending to Ukraine, writes CNN.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:14 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 14 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol: - men: born in 1960, 1941, 1958, 1967, 1994, 1965; - women: three women born in 1967 and one is born in 2001.
n.p. Vladimirovka: - a woman born in 1963.
n.p. Primorsk: — male born in 1985.
Velikonovoselkovsky district: - a woman born in 1950.
Maryinsky district: - a child, a boy born in 2007.
20:10 The Unified Economic Council has simplified the import of cars with Russian registration into the DPR and LPR.
19:47 The Spiritual Administration of Muslims has been created in the DPR, it will work under the canonical administration of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation.
19:10 NM DPR: since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 27 Ukrainian nationalists, 1 infantry fighting vehicle and 2 armored personnel carriers. 1 BMP, one 122nd BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system and 1 cargo vehicle were captured.
18:47 Wholecitywas taken hostage by the Azov National Battalion. People were under daily shelling. And now, with tears in their eyes, they thank the Russian military and DPR fighters for their liberation, talking about the atrocities of the Ukrainian troops. “They didn’t care who to shoot at, they shot at children”
18:43 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage to a private residential building and a car as a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Lugansk at the address: st. Friendship, 23.
18:35 VFU shelled the Gorlovsky village of Pobeda. Explosions of shells were recorded in the area of the canal road. There are also reports of hits near the Gorlovka villages of Korolenko and Ozeryanovka.
18:16 Mariupol is taken completely and irrevocably, the entire territory is systematically cleared of nationalists - Kadyrov.
18:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are doing everything so that people stay on the territory of Azovstal, for them this is a continuation of the tactics of a human shield - Zakharov.
18:13 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Lugansk: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:00 In the DPR from April 15 to April 21, 225 law enforcement officers and 42 civilians were killed, 760 law enforcement officers and 189 civilians were injured The total number of deaths since 2014 is 6,852 people, including 100 children.
17:46 At the Azov base near Mariupol, secret charters and manuals of the US Army were found, in particular for intelligence units, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. According to the Russian military, such documents are subject to destruction if they cannot be taken with them, but Azov did not have time to do this.
17:44 As a result of artillery shelling of the settlement Pervomaisk damaged three residential buildings - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
17:23 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage to a private residential building as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address: st. Kakhovskaya, 1.
17:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: - n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
16:36 Today, doctors of the Republic received ventilators delivered by the coordinator of humanitarian projects Tatiana Butrina and the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic.
16:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the directions: n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six mines fired with a caliber of 120mm.
16:10 Another 191 people evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye
During the day on April 22, from 08:00 to 16:00, 191 people, including 26 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky District.
Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
15:25 36th Marine Brigade of Ukraine lost in Mariupol, more than 700 people were killed, wounded and missing, the head of the medical service of the brigade, who decided to lay down his arms, told RIA Novosti.
15:23 The bombardment of Azovstal continues at the moment, shots are heard - the correspondent of Zvezda is on the phone from the scene.
15:20 Clearing rubble in dilapidated Mariupol is one of the main tasks of the units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR. Work is underway to dismantle floors and reinforced concrete structures in the drama theater, damaged concrete slabs are removed along with construction debris. Work is underway to search for and extract the dead from the rubble.
15:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you 6-7): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:13 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 152mm artillery guns (seven shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
15:11 There are about 3,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war on the territory of the DPR. There are about 2,500 prisoners in the correctional institutions of the Ministry of Justice. The rest of the prisoners of war are in the units of the Military Commandant's Office, the People's Militia and the Ministry of State Security. Investigative actions are being carried out with them, the degree of participation of each of them in war crimes is being established.
14:32 Since March 23, in Mariupol, employees of the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations have examined about 5,000 different premises, cleared over 124 km of roads and identified more than 7,500 explosive objects.
14:15 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): six mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
13:50 The Ukrainian group, blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, will have enough food for two weeks, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reports.
13:47 Third month in one of Yasinovataya's cellarsliveten people. Around - constant shelling from Kyiv and devastation. They sleep here, they eat here, they go to work from here, under shelling, and they return here. And believe in our Victory.
13:45 The accusations of the authorities of Ukraine and Western countries against the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR in creating obstacles for the exit of civilians from Mariupol are unfounded - from a briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry.
13:42 The beginning of the humanitarian pause will be the raising of white flags by Ukrainian formations at Azovstal - the Russian Ministry of Defense.
13:41 It was possible to evacuate about 144,000 civilians and 341 foreign citizens from Mariupol, as well as 1844 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who surrendered - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
13:37 Reportage Chinese TV channel about the fighting in the Azovstal area in Mariupol.
13:07 Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia and the DPR carry out joint demining of the territory of power lines.
13:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the directions of the settlement. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:04 The television center in Mariupol is taken under the control of the DPR. The People's Militia of the DPR provided an opportunity for the Minister of Communications of the DPR I. Khalepa to visit the television center in Mariupol. Signalers of the republic were able to preliminarily assess the condition of the equipment. A little more and the Mariupol tower will start broadcasting not only to the entire south of the Republic, but also to the territory of the Zaporozhye region.
13:02 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage to a private residential building as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk at the address. lucky, 19.
12:47 An OSCE employee detained in the LPR admitted to transferring classified information to foreign special services - the Ministry of State Security of the republic.
11:52 "Post of Donbass" opened a post office in Volnovakha - st. 60 years of the USSR, d. 4; Andreevka - st. School, d. 20 and Bugas - st. Sovetskaya, 25.
11:50 Residents of Volnovakhareceivesocial benefits. Residents of the liberated Volnovakha continue to apply to the department of labor and social protection of the population for the appointment or renewal of social benefits. At the moment, the largest number of applications comes from families with many children, parents of children under three years of age, disabled people and low-income citizens.
11:48 "Former employees of the Ukrainian policego overfor service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR ”- the head of work with the personnel of the Starobelsky District Department of Internal Affairs. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (village Komsomolets sh-ty): six mines were fired with a caliber of 12 mm.
11:31 In Mariupol, the Phoenix base station has been installed and put into operation. In addition, signalmen put into operation a base station in the settlement. Kalinino, have completed the modernization of base stations in the settlement. Azovskoye, n.p. Belosarayskaya Spit, p. Melekino. Works were completed to launch base stations in the settlement. Starchenkovo and N. p. Khlebodarovka.
11:29 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Volvo - Center): 18 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
11:12 The Russian army during the second phase of the special operation plans to establish full control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine. This will allow creating a land corridor to the Crimea and influencing important facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the deputy commander of the Central Military District.
11:11 Shelling from the side of the VFU in the direction of:
— n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Volvo - Center): five shells fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Volvo - Center): three shells of 120mm caliber were fired.
11:05 According to the statement of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are actively pressing in the direction of Slavyansk and Kramatorsk and threatening to cut off the communications of the group that defends this agglomeration. Active attempts to occupy Popasnaya are also noted.
11:01 Over the past day, 547 people, including 91 children, have been evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky district.
10:54 During the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely: 12 personnel; three armored personnel carriers; five units of automotive equipment - NM LPR.
10:35 The first filling station has started working in Mariupol. All types of fuel and gas are sold at gas stations.
10:34 10-15 percent of the housing stock in Mariupol cannot be restored - the mayor of the city.
10:33 Offers about the surrender through the loudspeakers of the Tigr armored car to the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the militants of Azov at Azovstal.
09:57 Units of the NM LPR captured dominating heights in the area of the 29th checkpoint.
09:29 Russian military delivered "Easter"humanitarian aid in the LNR. The products were donated to the local temple.
09:25 A unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which did not want to voluntarily lay down its arms, as a result assault were driven out of their fortified positions. Retreating, the nationalists left military equipment, small arms, anti-tank systems, grenade launchers and a large amount of ammunition on the positions, and also threw more than 20 bodies of dead servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The fortified area had an extensive network of trenches and trenches, armored firing points, long-term fortifications, including buried concrete bunkers.
09:14 Almost 17 tons of humanitarian aid for animals arrived in the DPR from Russia. The first truck with help for animals from Donbass arrived at the PIF animal shelter in Donetsk.
09:07 Kadyrov showed footage of the interrogation of a Ukrainian soldier who was taken prisoner in Mariupol. Colleagues abandoned the wounded. “After being abandoned today, I walked away, took a white bag and waved to your bird [UAV] to be found,” the soldier said. According to those who were taken prisoner, the fighters in Azovstal were suppressed. Many of them want to surrender, but are afraid of being shot.
08:25 The RF Armed Forces took control of the villages of Makarovka, Blagodatnoe, Storozhevoe, Rivnopol and Novosilka; The RF Armed Forces are advancing in the town of Rubizhnoye;
08:11 People participating in temporary work in Mariupol will receive 32,479 rubles for a full month. The Ministry of Labor of the DPR said that the most popular types of temporary work are landscaping and clearing damage.
08:03 About a quarter of a million inhabitants remain in Mariupol - the mayor. “Now there are at least 250,000 people in the city.”
08:01 Cleanup "Azovstal" by the special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:25 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that the crew members of the cruiser "Moskva" killed one person, 27 were missing. The vast majority of the officers, midshipmen and sailors of the contract service of the cruiser Moskva expressed their desire to continue serving on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet.
The remaining 396 crew members were evacuated from the cruiser to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the area and taken to Sevastopol. As a result of the fire, the Moskva missile cruiser was seriously damaged due to the detonation of ammunition, the crew's attempts to extinguish the fire did not lead to a result. Conscripted servicemen who served on the Moskva cruiser will be transferred to the reserve upon expiration of their terms of service. 19:42 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation took control of the arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with thousands of tons of ammunition in the Kharkiv region.
In warehouses with an area of several hundred hectares, ammunition for cannon artillery, mortars, multiple launch rocket systems and air defense weapons were stored. In addition, Western-made shells were found.
18:57 The Russian Armed Forces took control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region with thousands of tons of ammunition - the Russian Defense Ministry.
18:53 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares that the Russian Armed Forces have occupied the village of Lozovoye to the east of Izyum.
17:20 Today, in Kharkiv, the RF Armed Forces destroyed several trucks with cargo near the New Post building. It is not known what kind of cargo these trucks were transporting, but we recall that on April 16, near Nikolaev, the Russian military covered a parking lot with military trucks, which were also located opposite the post office building of the same company - then angry Ukrainian soldiers lamented about the destroyed vehicles. Most likely, the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to adapt the objects of the "Novaya Poshta" for storage buildings, and use civilian trucks and minibuses as vehicles for transporting military equipment.
17:06 The Russian Federation will not tolerate any ultimatums, including from Ukraine - Lavrov.
17:02 Sergey Lavrov spoke about why the negotiations with Ukraine "stalled".
“We were negotiating, now they have stalled, because five days ago another proposal that we handed over to the Ukrainian negotiators, which was formulated taking into account their comments received at that time, it remains unanswered. And when they asked President Zelensky how he felt about this, about the next version of Russian proposals, he said that we had not received anything, ”Lavrov said.
15:31 In Novaya Kakhovka, on the central square near the Civil-Military Administration, the flag of the Russian Federation, the Banner of Victory and the flag of the USSR are proudly fluttering.
15:31 In Novaya Kakhovka, on the central square near the Civil-Military Administration, the flag of the Russian Federation, the Banner of Victory and the flag of the USSR are proudly fluttering.
15:27 All Russian TV channels included in the first and second packages of the Russian multiplex have become available in Kherson.
14:51 In Melitopol, which is under the control of the Russian army, training has begun at gymnasium No. 1, teaching will be in Russian, the administration is ready to transfer children from other schools and has already accepted students from Mariupol
“The school has started to work, it is switching from online education to stationary full-time education, children are gradually gathering, teachers are also going to work. The immediate prospect is to gather both students and teachers and begin full-fledged education, teaching children in full, ”said Totsky, director of the gymnasium
The management of the gymnasium, according to Totsky, is ready to accept children from other schools, including those from Mariupol.
14:46 In Gostomel, the Ukrofascists set fire to the temple of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.
14:25 The wreckage of the Ukrainian An-26, which fell in the Zaporozhye region. According to the official version, he caught on a power line support while walking at a low altitude in order to evade Russian air defense systems. According to unofficial information, he was mistakenly hit from a MANPADS by a militant of a local Volkssturm, who mistook him for a Russian aircraft.
The wreckage of the Ukrainian An-26, which crashed in the Zaporozhye region
14:00 In Ukraine, a new series of fakes has been launched about the mobilization of the population of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian army. Thus, Ukrainian propagandists are trying to create social tension and cause panic in people so that they leave the liberated cities and go to Ukrainian territory. And there they are really waiting for mobilization into the Ukrainian armed formations, which are experiencing an acute shortage of cannon fodder.
13:31 DetachmentVolunteers from Kalmykia arrived on the territory of Ukraine to take part in a special military operation for denazification. The team has experienced fighters. Among them is Chimid Dzhangaev, deputy of the Elista City Assembly, who went through many hot spots as part of the special forces of the Airborne Forces.
11:25 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation named the number of military facilities destroyed since the start of the special military operation:
140 aircraft,
106 helicopters,
520 unmanned aerial vehicles,
257 anti-aircraft missile systems,
2448 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
271 multiple rocket launchers,
1062 field artillery and mortars,
2289 units of special military vehicles.
11:23 Mon.datainformed source from the Zaporozhye region, a scandal erupted in the defense. Using a high-precision foreign-made gun, the defense fighters shot down an An-26 transport aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which there were senior officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The plane flew over the positions and rear of the Ukrainian army. The authorities examined the upcoming "theater" of hostilities.
11:21 The second phase of the special operation of the Russian Federation began literally two days ago - acting. Commander of the Central Military District.
11:00 Losses of the Ukrainian side as a result of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces on April 22, 2022:
During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 517 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NGU and State Border Service are over 43,000 people. According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 8 tanks, 27 armored vehicles, 11 field artillery guns and mortars, 6 MLRS, 1 long-range and medium-range air defense systems, 1 short-range air defense system, 25 vehicles and special vehicles and 4 UAVs were lost.
10:56 The Russian security forces, while searching for the remaining saboteurs, received fullintelligenceabout the entire staff of the SBU department in the Kherson region, including special forces used by Kyiv to commit sabotage. Part of the data is at the disposal of RIA Novosti.
10:36 During the night, missile forces and artillery completed 1285 fire missions, destroyed nine fuel depots, 37 command posts - the Russian Defense Ministry.
10:30 FSB showed a mined car with which Ukrainian saboteurs wanted to blow up the Russian gumconvoy.
09:50 The FSB detained Ukrainian saboteurs who were preparing a terrorist attack against a humanitarian convoy in the territory controlled by the Russian Armed Forces. The department reported that they found a car bomb, an arsenal of explosives, grenade launchers, MANPADS and other weapons.
09:48 The largest arsenals of Ukraine in Balakliyahave crossedon the side of good. In 2017, warehouses burned, scattering rockets for tens of kilometers around. But only that which was kept under the covered sky burned. And about 300 of these concrete hangars remained untouched. A wide range of deadly iron is now in the service of the NWO.
09:45 The Ukrainian authorities will not open humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of civilians on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said.
09:40 Entrepreneurs and buyers commentedpricesin the central market of Berdyansk. Knowing. that the purchasing power of citizens is still low due to the fact that Ukraine has ceased to transfer well-deserved payments, entrepreneurs are trying not to raise prices.
09:27 "Only Russia fed us." Refugees thank the Russian military. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation publishesframesevacuation of civilians from Izyum and Kharkov region. Large families were brought to the Belgorod region.
09:12 Residents of the liberated settlements in the Kharkiv region meet the Russian military.Videopublished by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
09:00 The Ministry of Defense showed a video of the advancement of Russian troops and humanitarian convoys through the settlements of the Kharkiv region liberated from nationalists.
08:26 Clashes between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian forces continue in the south of Izyum.
08:15 Nazi symbols were seized from the Museum of Local Lore in the village of Osipenko, Berdyansk region.
08:14 For the first time in this campaign, Russia worked on the railway infrastructure. Destroyed (carefully) the bridge across the Dnieper in Zaporozhye. And the infrastructure in the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region (the area is located exactly north of Dnepropetrovsk).
08:08 Military-civilian administration of Dniprorudny, Zaporozhye regiondismantledtrident from the city council building.
[NEWS.YAHOO] As Russian troops tighten their grip on the strategic port town of Mariupol, their strategy is finally becoming clear. Russian military commander Rustam Minnekaev now says the second phase of President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s "special operation" is focused on establishing a "land corridor" from the Donbas all the way to Moldova, which would cut off the rest of Ukraine from the sea.
"One of the tasks of the Russian army is to establish full control over the Donbas and southern Ukraine. This will provide a land corridor to the Crimea, as well as influence the vital objects of the Ukrainian economy," Minnekaev said Friday at a meeting with the Union of Defense Industries, as reported by the Russian state-owned Interfax. "Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria, where there are also facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population." Transnistria is a separatist region of Moldova that has so far not been officially involved in the war despite hosting a Russian military base since the 1990s.
The general’s words suggest that Moldova’s sovereign borders would also come under threat from further Russian expansion. Phony efforts to protect Russian-speaking peoples have often foreshadowed Putin’s imperial invasions.
In reality, Russian speakers have been struck down in the hundreds in eastern Ukraine during the brutal invasion.
If successful, the strategy would include taking the port of the former seaside resort town of Odesa near the Moldovan border, which has suffered sporadic bombardments but no full-fledged invasion so far. Russia’s warship Moskva was hit about 75 miles off the coast of Odesa two weeks ago, before it sank en route to Crimea.
The refocusing of troops from northern Ukraine to the southern regions of the country has further choked Mariupol, where Ukrainian troops and civilians are holed up in a steel factory surrounded by Russian troops. Satellite imagery identified a growing number of graves outside the port city, where Ukrainian officials say up to 200 new graves have been dug since April 3.
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[RT] Russian exports of crude oil have soared despite efforts to ban energy purchases from the country by the US and its allies, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing data from TankerTrackers.com.
Shipments of crude from Russian ports have surged to about 1.6 million barrels per day over the course of April compared to 1.3 million barrels per day recorded in March, up by 300,000 barrels per day, the data shows.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... similar data from Kpler, another commodities data provider, revealed that the exports rose to 1.3 million barrels a day in April from a million of barrels per day in mid-March.
The tankers leaving Russian ports were reportedly heading to "destinations unknown," and European oil traders have been buying it up under the radar.
In April so far, more than 11.1 million barrels were reportedly shipped by tankers without a planned route, which is up from almost none before the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
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If they have to sell each barrel clandestinely for less, they have to get their profits from volume. So no surprise there.
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Not to mention that the people arranging clandestine transactions at "destinations unknown" are getting a piece of the action, cutting further into the reduced revenue stream.
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[RT] As a result of a fire on April 13, the Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva was seriously damaged due to a detonation of ammunition, Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed on Friday. One serviceman died and another 27 crew members went missing, it said.
Attempts by the crew to put out the fire were not successful.
"In the course of the struggle for the ship's damage, one serviceman was killed, another 27 crew members were missing. The remaining 396 crew members were evacuated from the cruiser to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the area and taken to Sevastopol," the ministry said.
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"In the course of the struggle for the ship's damage, one serviceman was killed, another 27 crew members were missing. The remaining 396 crew members were evacuated from the cruiser to the ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the area and taken to Sevastopol," the ministry said.
Pull the other one, Volodya, it's got bells on.
Mike
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Moskva's crew complement is told off as over 500, frequently as 514. Either they were seriously undermanned, or somebody's short counting.
Probably both.
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"We took a roll call just yesterday"
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or somebody's short counting.
And still collecting the wages for those missing sailors too.
[RT] The accelerating inflation in most developed nations has come as a result of the irresponsible actions of Western financial authorities during the pandemic, worsened by a sanctions campaign against Moscow, according to Russia’s Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. "Think about the Chilruns!"
"The scale of inflationary pressure is unprecedented in the context of recent decades," the minister said, speaking at a plenary meeting of the International Monetary and Finance Committee of the IMF.
"This is the result of the irresponsible actions of the financial authorities of Western countries, from which the whole world suffers, and above all the most vulnerable countries with a low level of income," he added.
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This is why no one outside the West supports American sanctions. The Saudis gave the finger to Biden and Jake Sullivan and the Indians, Latin Americans and Africans are deepening their ties to Russia. The Biden Administration is shitting on everyone, Americans included
[RT] The Bank of Russia announced on Thursday it plans to have a digital ruble ready by next year and capable of making international payments. It also aims to expand the number of countries that accept Russian Mir banking cards.
"The digital ruble is among the priority projects," central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina told the lower House of Parliament. "We have fairly quickly created a prototype ... now we are holding tests with banks and next year we will gradually have pilot transactions."
The concept of a national digital currency was unveiled by the Bank of Russia in late 2020. The new form of money is expected to coexist with cash and non-cash rubles. Unlike virtual currencies such as bitcoin, the digital ruble is projected to pose minimal risk as it will be issued by the state monetary regulator and backed by traditional money.
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I have to admit that when it comes to money I know just enough not to spend what we don’t have, but beyond that it’s all theoretical to me. I am profoundly grateful that Mr. Wife is good with money, and the space-time continuum, and using tools.
What seriously concerns me about the current situation is that in the end it will turn out like Churchill said about democracy (“Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”), that screwed up as the American dollar absolutely is, every other candidate for a reserve currency will turn out to be worse.
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TW: "I have to admit that when it comes to money I know just enough not to spend what we don’t have, but beyond that it’s all theoretical to me."
Like all good wives, you understand the basic idea behind Ökonomie, which us "household management." That is to say,
- living within your means
- saving prudently for future needs
- investing where appropriate, ie where ROIC is substantially > the risk-free rate
Any intelligent person would be SHORTING Nasdaq and going long gold,silver, precious metals plus fertilizers right now.
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I know just enough not to spend what we don’t have
To the left, that's nazi talk.
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Unlike virtual currencies such as bitcoin, the digital ruble is projected to pose minimal risk as it will be issued by the state monetary regulator and backed by traditional money.
"Traditional money" ... which tradition? The pre-Nixon tradition was for a currency to be backed by specie, i.e. gold or silver. Since 1973 the US currency has been backed by "confidence" alone -- confidence in US hegemony, the USN's ability to ensure free movement of oil around the world, and America's commitment to open capital markets characterized by liquidity and rule of law.
The Biden Administration's actions have destroyed the non-Western world's confidence in all of those props for the dollar. By "freezing" -- aka stealing -- the assets of a great power, the Biden people have caused every nation to reconsider its dollar holdings. The major OPEC nations immediately began to swap some of their dollars for the Chinese currency. Israel just did the same this week. Other nations will follow.
Meanwhile, that rival country's currency is backed by substantial gold reserves. Their ratio of gold to currency in circulation is almost 10x the ratio of gold to US dollars in circulation. Their debt to GDP ratio is a tiny fraction of America's.
The dollar is fast becoming that "traditional money" known as a debased currency. Nice work, Brandon!
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"Bad money pushes out good money." The trick is to follow the good money.
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follow the good money
The EU appears to be doing just that. Yesterday the European Commission announced they will eliminate the penalties they had threatened to impose on EU companies that use rubles to buy Russian gas.
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Wow. So Israel is joining the retreat and reducing its dollar holdings. That's a big f'ing deal, as Joe Biden would say.
"The Bank of Israel, which serves as Israel's central bank, has added the Chinese Yuan to its reserve currency holdings for the first time ever, while at the same time reducing its holdings of U.S. Dollars and European Union Euros. Bloomberg reported on the Israeli banking decision on Wednesday, describing it as the biggest change to its balance of reserve currencies in over a decade."
[RT] Ukrainian troops and members of the Neo-Nazi Azov battalion, who remain at the surrounded Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, can still surrender to the Russian military, the Defense Ministry explained on Friday.
A day earlier, Moscow announced the capture of Mariupol, with President Vladimir Putin " ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... calling off the assault on Azovstal, which remains the last holdout of the Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city. Russian troops should "seal the area so that a fly cannot get through," he instead ordered.
In its fresh statement, the Defense Ministry pointed out that the offer to surrender for those inside the facility remained in place. "At any given moment, Russia is ready to introduce a ceasefire and announce a humanitarian pause in order to stage the evacuation of civilians (if they’re really in the underground structures of the steel plant) and troops of the Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions."
The commander of the Ukrainian marines, holed up at the plant, had earlier claimed that "hundreds" of civilians were trapped at the premises. He didn’t explain why the people would voluntarily decide to hide out together with Ukrainian troops, who under attack by Russian forces.
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[RT] The US will send its newest Phoenix Ghost combat drones to Ukraine, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... countries have been increasingly arming Kiev since Russia launched its military offensive against the country in late February.
The drone was "rapidly developed by the Air Force in response specifically to Ukrainian requirements," US Defense Department front man John Kirby told news hounds at a regular press briefing. "In discussions with the Ukrainians about their requirements, we believed that this particular system would very nicely suit their needs, particularly in eastern Ukraine."
Kirby said the Phoenix Ghost is somewhat like the Switchblade kamikaze drones that Washington had already promised to Kiev. The drone is "designed for tactical operations," and can be used for surveillance, but "its principal focus is attack," the front man said.
"We see the benefit right now - in the moment - for Ukraine to use it. And so we’re going to provide some of them."
AEVEX Aerospace, the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based company behind the project, refused to comment on Kirby’s statement to the media.
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⚡️UN: Satellite imagery confirms massive destruction of civilian infrastructure around Kyiv.
Around 77 percent of Horenka, 71 percent of Irpin, and 58 percent of Hostomel were damaged or destroyed as of the end of March, Eri Kaneko, associate U.N. spokesperson, said on April 22
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 22, 2022
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⚡️Joint Forces Operation: Nearly 50 units of Russian equipment destroyed in Donbas on April 22.
Russia lost nine tanks, three artillery systems, 18 units of armored vehicles, one armored combat vehicle, 13 units of vehicles and one tanker, the JFO said.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 23, 2022
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GEORGIA (WTVM) - It’s good news for Georgia taxpayers.
This week, Governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 1302, providing a tax refund to residents.
Once you have filed an individual income for 2021, the Georgia Department of Revenue will credit you with a one-time refund amount for the following:
$500 if you’re married or filed together
$375 if you’re head of household
$250 if you’re single or married but filed separately
The governor talked about the legislation today in Savannah. He explained where the money would come from and when taxpayers could expect it.
He stated the one-time tax credit is state money returning to Georgian. It is not federal aid money from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Kemp attributed the surplus of more than a billion dollars to the state’s decisions during the pandemic, a strong economy and conservative budgeting by state lawmakers.
"It’s one-time money. I think it’s best when we have more than we need to send it back to the people that sent it to us, the taxpayers. That’s what we’re doing with over a billion dollars of refunds that will be in Georgians’ bank accounts in a matter of weeks. It’s what also allowed us to do the two-month moratorium on collecting gas tax at the pump," explained Kemp.
According to the governor, Georgians can expect a one-time refund in the coming weeks.
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In the old days, it was a carton of ciggies or a short-dog (or maybe both if you voted enough) and you picked it up when you had proof you had been to the polls.
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GA. Gov. Kemp, GA. SOS Raffensperger and lots of GA. Gold Dome Members understand that the REAL voters of GA. know that they are in office only because of the repeatedly proven fraudulent election crimes conducted in Dekalb, and Fulton Co.
So to protect their $$$$ & power, now they want to stay in office to continue their liberalized nutroll by returning our own $$$$$ to us and cutting fuel taxes?
aka VOTE BUYING.
Question: So I'll ask. If GA Gov. could do without the $$$$$$$$$ they are returning, then why did they take it in the 1st place?
⚡️CNN: UN secretary-general will travel to Ukraine next Thursday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Ukraine next week where he is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday, according to a UN spokesperson.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 23, 2022
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Let us demonstrate our support for the Ukrainian people by moving the UN headquarters from New York to Kiev.
[BenarNews] A private American firm has purchased a strategic shipyard on a former U.S. navy base in the Philippines by the South China Sea, U.S. and Filipino officials said, ending speculation about possible Chinese investment in the project.
This week the Filipino envoy to the United States thanked American officials for their efforts towards the agreement with New York-based private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, saying that U.S. involvement in the shipyard at Subic Bay would enhance the security of the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
"The completion of the Subic Bay shipyard will redound to benefits for the country, bring jobs to the local communities, increase economic activity, and at the same fortify our strategic security measures," Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez said during a diplomatic reception held Tuesday at the Philippine Embassy to celebrate the agreement and Manila-Washington relations, according to a statement from the embassy on Thursday.
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[ABC] QUILCENE, Wash. -- A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[RT] As a result of a fire on April 13, the Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva was seriously damaged due to a detonation of ammunition, Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed on Friday. One serviceman died and another 27 crew members went missing, it said.
" ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
