[NYPOST] A Bronx gangbanger who was cut loose by a judge only to allegedly murder an innocent man months later is out of jail again, The Post has learned.
Steven Mendez, 17, accused of shooting 21-year-old Saikou Koma in the head during a botched gang hit in Fordham Heights last year, was set free Tuesday when Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj dismissed the indictment against him, the Bronx District Attorney’s office confirmed.
Semaj gave prosecutors leave to present their case in front of a grand jury, which by law must happen within 45 days. The DA’s office had no further comment.
Koma’s distraught mother, Haja Kaira, told The Post she broke down in tears while streaming Mendez’s court appearance.
“When I hear the judge say, ‘Release him.’ To be honest, I had to stand up,” Kaira said. “I could not believe it. I said out loud, ‘What! Release him?!’”
“The judge believes my son’s life means nothing,” Kaira went on. “This is why they will keep killing because they know there are no consequences.”
The grieving mom said an assistant district attorney who had sent her the link to watch the court proceeding had been seeking life in prison for Mendez before he was freed.
“If not that, he was trying to get the maximum sentence,” Kaira said. “But then the judge just let him free that minute.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the judge’s decision. The Office of Court Administration didn’t respond to an email from The Post on Wednesday.
Even before his guilty plea, Mendez had at least three previous run-ins with the law — including a 2019 case where he allegedly pulled a loaded gun on his own mother. Mendez, allegedly angry after his mother refused to give him money, slapped her with an open hand then pointed a .357 at her, sources said.
His guilty plea came after he was charged for his role as an accomplice in a violent July 17, 2020 robbery in The Bronx that left the victim with a gunshot wound to leg, sources said. Mendez faced charges of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and felony gun-possession charges.
The then-16-year-old Mendez was prosecuted as a “youthful offender” in that case and had temporarily been placed in a non-secure facility pending sentencing.
But in May 2021, then-Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle granted him five years probation. Prosecutors objected to that decision after they sought up to four years, which would’ve been the maximum allowed under youthful offender status.
Boyle had cited a report that said Mendez was performing well in school, The Post reported at the time. A state court spokesman said at the time the judge didn’t think that a prison sentence was appropriate for “a crime committed as an accomplice at the age of 16.”
Youthful offender status for people between 16 and 19 years old means they can get reduced sentenced and sealed criminal records.
On Oct. 24, Mendez and other reputed gangbangers allegedly sought payback for a beatdown of one of their own members. They came upon Koma on Ryer Avenue on Fordham Heights in what sources said was likely a case of mistaken identity.
Mendez was the trigger man who fatally shot Koma in the head, sources said.
Two others were arrested related to the shooting of Koma, a college student.
Dominick Krankall, 6, was playing in the backyard of his family's Bridgeport home with other children when the horrifying incident occurred
The bully, identified as an 8-year-old neighbor, lured Krankall to meet him around the corner when he poured gasoline on a tennis ball, lit it and threw it
The young victim ran home screaming: 'Mommy, they lit me on fire'
Family members said this is not the first time their boy was bullied and hospitalized by the same child
Krankall was rushed to the burn unit at Bridgeport Hospital and is suffering from severe burns to his face and legs
Now, the family is asking for donations that will go toward Dominick's hospital bills and a new home.
'It is not safe here. Anything helps, even a share. Thank you all for the support. I'm sure Dominick appreciates it,' the family wrote.
As of Wednesday afternoon, their GoFundMe has amassed more than $58,000 donations, surpassing their initial goal of $50,000.
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The parents will turn out to be not worth suing.
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curious as to how he could light the ball, then throw it without setting his own hands on fire. Gloves maybe - guess so - it is a late spring in NE.
[NYPOST] An autopsy is underway in the murder of 10-year-old Wisconsin girl Lily Peters, who was found dead near a walking trail while visiting her aunt’s home, authorities said.
The autopsy began early Tuesday and may not be completed until Wednesday, Chippewa County Coroner Ronald Patten told WQOW.
Lily’s body, which was discovered Monday in a wooded area not far from her aunt’s Chippewa Falls home, was taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office in Minnesota, Patten said. That agency told The Post the autopsy had not been completed as of early Wednesday.
Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm announced Tuesday that a juvenile suspect who was known to the victim had been arrested in Lily’s murder.
The chief declined to provide details on the underage suspect, including the person’s age, gender or relationship to Lily. Charges were not immediately announced.
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We live in a nation of pre-adolescent children committing adult crimes and 35-year-olds living with their parents.
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Given the knowledge, mentality and criminality of a 21st century teen verses a 20th or 19th century teen. We are long overdue in reviewing and updating criminal laws and sentencing regarding this age group when they commit adult crimes.
We are seeing some really evil kids in recent years that have figured out if they even commit MURDER they get to walkaway in a few years or just get mental health counseling.
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A 14-year-old boy is accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl, Lily Peters, after killing her. (Chippewa Falls Police Department)
1st court hearing in the case in Chippewa County, Newell said he requested the high $1 million bond because of the boy's "statements regarding his intentions and his statements regarding that when he did get off the trail, he punched the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, essentially strangled her, hit her with a stick, before strangling her to the point of death before he then sexually assaulted her."
If convicted as a Juvy he'll be out and walking around in 7 years or less.
[PAGESIX] “90 Day Fiancé” alum Caroline Schwitzky’s boyfriend has been arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder after he tried to strangle and drown her. "We knew and loved each other for over three days. It was Kismet. We wuz in luv, no matter what she said!"
Jail records seen by Page Six show the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in West Palm Beach, Fla., took Cole Goldberg into custody and booked him just after midnight Monday. He was also hit with one charge of battery — touch or strike.
Goldberg, 23, was released at 10:09 p.m. Monday after posting a $60,000 bond.
The police report, obtained by TMZ, states witnesses saw Goldberg and Schwitzky, who have been dating for one year, getting into a heated argument on a boat.
The onlookers alleged the former TLC star, 32, attempted to escape Cole, but he aggressively held her to keep her on board their vessel. The pair’s struggle went on for around 20 minutes, and then Schwitzky began punching her beau’s arms to free herself.
Schwitzky, who appeared on “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” in 2016, eventually wrangled herself free and jumped in the water to swim to a nearby boat, according to the witnesses, but Goldberg caught up to her and allegedly tried to drown her. She was able to escape when bystanders jumped in and intervened.
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The onlookers stated the former TLC star, 32, attempted to escape Cole, but he aggressively held her to keep her on board their vessel. The pair’s struggle went on for around 20 minutes.
We see this a lot nowadays. Where the onlookers are too busy to help, because they are videotaping the attack/murder for Social Media?
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No, people don't help because they don't want to get hurt, sued or possibly even arrested. For example, beating the boyfriend so bad that he ends up in the hospital (even if the POS deserved that).
Prostitute Angelina Barini, 43, of Queens, was convicted of fatally drugging four men with fentanyl and the 'date rape' drug GBL in the summer of 2019
Italian-born chef Andrea Zamperoni, 33, of New York's Cipriani Dolci, was among the victims, with his body was found inside a garbage bin at an Elmhurst motel
Prosecutors said Barini had met up with them men as a sex worker and drugged the victims in order to knock them out and rob them
Barini's sister called the sentence 'harsh' and said she will file an appeal
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She was just working on her IRA.
And I'm fairly sure she didn't put the chef in a dumpster all by herself.
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A closer examination of the lady in question suggests she was trending towards the end of her shelf life, reminding me of an old horse buyers adage, "rode hard and put up wet"!
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Heh. Haha, even. [sneaks off for peek at Bigelow filmography]
Angel of Whatever, or, Rehab in Time of Covid
That new student nurse on probation
Befriends yet another fresh patient:
"If there's anything more
You require -- like a whore... or a notary? --
I'll be checking your meds at the station."
[BBC] A former US marine held in a Russian jail since 2019 has been released in a prisoner swap.
US and Russian officials confirmed on Wednesday that Trevor Reed is on his way back to the US.
In exchange, Russia's foreign ministry secured the release of Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian national jailed on drug smuggling charges.
The Reed family said in a statement that their "prayers have been answered".
They said the marine would tell his story publicly after addressing "the myriad of health issues" brought on by living in a Russian gulag.
President Joe Biden said he had been "delighted" to share the news of Mr Reed's return with his parents.
Mr Reed went to Moscow in 2019 to learn Russian and visit his Russian girlfriend.
On a drunken night out, he was detained by two police officers after attending a party. While being driven to the police station, he is said to have grabbed the police officer driving, causing him to swerve dangerously, and elbowed the other officer who tried to intervene.
Maintaining that he had no recollection of the incident, he pleaded not guilty but was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 on assault charges.
The US government voiced several concerns about the fairness of his trial, with US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan recently saying that Mr Reed "remains in prison for a crime he didn't commit".
According to the Reeds, their son was poorly treated in prison and even contracted tuberculosis at one point.
The prisoner swap was carried out via Turkey after President Biden commuted the sentence of Mr Yaroshenko.
The Russian pilot had been serving a 20-year sentence since 2010 for smuggling cocaine into the US. His lawyer has confirmed the Russian national is also headed home.
Senior US officials said Wednesday's exchange was not the start of a broader diplomatic dialogue and instead focused narrowly on Mr Reed's release.
That means the fate of other Americans currently detained in Russia - including Brittney Griner, a double Olympic gold medallist in women's basketball - remains unclear for now.
In a statement, the family of Paul Whelan, a former US marine being held on spying charges, said it was "full of happiness for the Reeds" but time was running out for Mr Whelan.
"Paul has already spent three-and-a-quarter years as a Russian hostage," they wrote. "Is President Biden's failure to bring Paul home an admission that some cases are too hard to solve? Is the administration's piecemeal approach picking low hanging fruit?"
If only Master of the Universe and over-exuberant sensualist Mr. Bill Gates had concentrated in ensuring basic vaccinations instead of trying to make a killing in Covid-19...
[AlAhram] Measles cases have surged by nearly 80 percent worldwide this year, the UN said Wednesday, warning that the rise of the "canary in a coal mine" illness indicates that outbreaks of other diseases are likely on the way.
The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic has interrupted vaccination campaigns for non-Covid diseases around the world, creating a "perfect storm" that could put millions of children's lives at risk, the UN's children's agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization said in a statement.
More than 17,300 measles cases were reported globally in January and February, compared to around 9,600 during those months last year, according to new data from the UN agencies.
There have been 21 large and disruptive measles outbreaks in the last 12 months to April, most of them in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, the data showed.
Christopher Gregory, a senior health adviser in UNICEF's immunization section, told AFP that because measles is the "most contagious vaccine-preventable disease" it often serves as a warning sign.
"Measles is what we call the tracer, or the canary in the coal mine, that really shows us where those weaknesses in the immunization system are," he said.
He said yellow fever was among the diseases that could surge next after rising cases were reported in West Africa.
"We're particularly worried about those countries that are most fragile, where the healthcare systems are already really struggling, where they're still trying to deal with the impacts of Covid on top of these outbreaks," he said.
Somalia recorded by far the most measles cases in the last 12 months with more than 9,000, the UN data showed, followed by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Æthiopia -- all countries battling some form of conflict.
There are also fears that the war in Ukraine could spark a resurgence in the country after it recorded Europe's highest rate of measles between 2017-and 2019.
Gregory said that it had been very difficult to keep track of any disease in Ukraine since the war began, adding that the biggest concern was "what we could be missing".
IMPACT 'FELT FOR DECADES'
More than 23 million children missed out on routine vaccinations in 2020 as the Covid pandemic descended, the largest number in more than a decade.
The UN agencies said that 57 vaccination campaigns in 43 countries postponed at the start of the pandemic had still not been completed, affecting 203 million people -- most of them children.
Covid also continues to pile pressure on healthcare facilities and drag staffing and attention away from vaccination for long-standing deadly diseases.
"The impact of these disruptions to immunization services will be felt for decades to come," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the statement.
"Now is the moment to get essential immunization back on track and launch catch-up campaigns so that everybody can have access to these life-saving vaccines."
Gregory said it was time to put childhood immunization on "at least the same level of priority as finishing Covid vaccination".
Measles is a disease caused by a virus that attacks mainly children. The most serious complications include blindness, brain swelling, diarrhea, and severe respiratory infections.
Vaccination uptake of at least 95 percent is the best way to avoid it spreading, though many countries fall far short of that goal -- Somalia is at just 46 percent, according to the UN data.
[NYPOST] Elon Musk said Twitter’s move to ban The New York Post’s exclusive story about Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... ’s overseas business dealings ahead of the 2020 presidential election was "obviously incredibly inappropriate."
Musk, who is set to buy the social media platform, wrote his opinion Tuesday evening in response to news hound Saagar Enjeti, who tweeted a Politico article about how the social media company’s top lawyer was brought to tears when discussing its new ownership.
"Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover," Enjeti wrote.
"Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate," Musk replied.
The Post’s exposé revealed the existence of tens of thousands of emails that detailed how the then-presidential candidate’s son leveraged his political access in a series of eyebrow-raising overseas business deals after the newspaper obtained a copy of the hard drive from the laptop.
The piece was banned by major social media sites in the weeks before the election, with Twitter justifying accusations of censorship by labeling the story "content obtained through hacking that contains private information."
"The images contained in the articles include personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules," the company tweeted about the article at the time.
Many mainstream outlets also discredited the article, before later reporting on its veracity long after President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... was elected.
The Republican National Committee accused the site of being in cahoots with the Biden campaign, but the Federal Election Commission ruled that Twitter did not suppress the article in an effort to tip the scales to the Democrats. "Maybe they're just control-freak assholes? Nahhhh. It was to protect Slow Joe"
Gadde, who is known as Twitter’s "moral authority," cried during a staff meeting Monday while discussing the "significant uncertainties" that Musk’s leadership will bring, Politico wrote.
The world’s richest man reached a deal to buy the company for $44 billion Monday after saying the platform’s moderation policies were too restrictive.
Twitter exec suggests Elon Musk, other critics are misogynists
[NYPOST] A top Twitter executive has suggested that many of the platform’s critics — including soon-to-be owner Elon Musk, who ripped the firm’s top female lawyer over her censorship of the New York Post — are merely misogynists.
Lara Cohen, Twitter’s global head of partners, went on the attack hours after Musk singled out the site’s lead lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, over what he called the "obviously incredibly inappropriate" ban of The Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... ’s shady business dealings.
She also shared messages of support for Leslie Berland, the company’s chief marketing officer who was caught in leaked audio suggesting that Musk’s plans for free speech put them in "a very difficult position."
Despite such scandals motivating Musk to spend a staggering $44 billion to buy the site, Cohen suggested criticism was based on her colleagues’ gender.
"When Elon Musk says, ’Wow, this is about free speech,’ it seems to me that this is about free speech of straight white men, so let them have it," Hostin told her "View" co-hosts on Tuesday.
"Let them just go at it."
Hostin added: "I think Twitter can be a really horrible place, and I think people are excited because he is sort of going to unleash the trolls, right?"
"I think he is saying, ’You get to say whatever you want. I’m going to take away the guardrails.’ And for me, that is something that is a bit scary."
Hostin cited a statistic according to which 38% of women on Twitter have been "on the receiving end of abuse."
Hostin added that her favorite feature on Twitter is the "block button." She bemoaned the fact that Twitter "has an outsize influence in our world because politicians and celebrities are on it."
[FoxNews] A man who killed a police officer in South Carolina over the weekend did so intentionally, tracking him with his rifle before firing the fatal shot, a police chief said during a press conference Tuesday.
Cayce Public Safety Officer Roy Andrew "Drew" Barr was shot and killed Sunday after he responded to a domestic violence call at a residence shortly before 3 a.m., when a woman told dispatch a man was threatening her and her child with a rifle, the department said.
That man, later identified as 36-year-old Austin Leigh Henderson, was intentional in his actions, shooting Barr once inside the home, then firing again at a group of officers who were attempting to pull Barr to safety, Cayce Police Chief Chris Cowen said.
"He was calculated in what he did. He murdered our officer," Cowen said at the presser.
After firing at the officers, Henderson reportedly put his wife and daughter in a closet, keeping them in a hostage situation for hours before he died of a self-inflicted wound, police said.
The old fuddy-duddy was caught by a sudden rules change, and offered up as a sacrifice to the screaming mob to protect the rest, who weren’t caught out acting the exact same way.
Prince Andrew has been stripped of the Freedom of the City of York after councillors unanimously voted to remove his title in the wake of his settled sexual abuse case.
Councillors in York gathered this evening to debate revoking the prince's Freedom of the City honour, awarded to him in 1987. After discussing the motion for around half an hour, it passed unanimously.
The prince was branded 'an utter disgrace' during the extraordinary meeting and his continued clinging to the title Duke of York was described as a 'stain' on the city, Daily Mail reports.
Although symbolic, the new humiliation places Andrew under renewed pressure to quit as Duke of York, with civic leaders calling on the Queen, Palace or government to step in and strip him of the title if he refuses 'to do the right thing' and resign.
The council also noted objections from the public calling for the prince to be banned from attending horse racing events in the city. Another said he should be referred to as 'Andrew Windsor' in the future.
Andrew had been warned in advance that he would be losing the freedom of the city, an honour bestowed on him on February 23, 1987, as a wedding gift to Sarah Ferguson. He is the first person ever to have the Freedom of the City removed, councillors were told. There were two formal abstentions - from the Lord Mayor and Lord Mayor-elect.
Lib Dem Darryl Smalley, City of York Council's executive member for culture, leisure & communities proposed the motion.
He said tonight: 'The Honorary Freedom of York is the highest honour we, as a city, can bestow on those who represent the very best of York. The honour is held by many notable and accomplished people who carry it with pride and responsibly.
'Having been stripped of his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, we believe that it is right to remove all links that Prince Andrew still has with our great city.
'I was pleased to see councillors of all parties support this motion and make it clear that it is no longer appropriate for Prince Andrew to represent York and its residents.
'The removal of this honorary title sends the right message that we as a city stand with victims of abuse. The next logical step is now for Prince Andrew to do the right thing and relinquish his Duke of York title.
'If he fails to do so, the Government and Buckingham Palace must step in to remove his title to finally end Prince Andrew's connection to York.'
It follows a slew of authorities, institutions, schools and even golf clubs, which have all sought to distance themselves from the disgraced duke since he settled his civil case with Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... sex trafficking victim Virginia Roberts.
In the wake of the case, which was settled in February, the 62-year-old was also stripped of his military roles and royal patronages and was told he would no longer be known as 'His Royal Highness'.
Both Buckingham Palace and a spokesperson for the Duke of York declined to comment.
[NYPOST] A young London man who butchered his best friend in front of his family has been sentenced to prison for the horrifying crime.
Romello Harley, 19, was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years behind bars Monday for the murder of Tashawn Watt, also 19.
Harley was convicted of murder and possession of a bladed weapon last month.
On June 25, 2021, a heated argument broke out between Harley and Watt’s brother, Kashawn, at the Watts’ home in Sydenham, London.
A community described by the internet as historically very affluent but now diverse, which explains a great deal...
After Watt was punched in the face, the two brothers called for their mom to ask Harley to leave, police said.
Surveillance footage captured Harley returning to the property with "apparent determination" just 15 minutes later, armed with a knife.
He lured Watt outside and stabbed him to death as his family watched in horror, according to police.
During the trial, Watt’s heartbroken mother, Denise Campbell, called her late son — known in the family as "Tata" — a "calm, kind character" who "would walk away from any confrontation."
"My last memory of Tata was him dying on the floor in front of me," the anguished mom added.
Speaking about Harley, Watt’s mother said, "We showed Romello nothing but kindness and allowed him into our home as though he was one of our family members. I sometimes have questions which I know will never be answered."
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"Well, Harley, street physician,
Tell why, on pain of perjury,
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"Ain't got no ammunition."
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A wiz with a blade was Romello.
"A killer, but still, a nice fellow!"
"Amends have been made."
"And we've taught him a trade!"
Now he's treading the boards in... Hamlet! Macbeth! Titus... Julius Caesar... Romello and Juliet...
Russia gained more territory, (about anther 5 km) in North Central Donbas south and south east of Izium. This area is not heavily populated and was, perhaps, not heavily defended. A theory is that this is the beginning of a Rus offense to outflank the Ukraine positions further south.
Elsewhere, Russian forces, infantry and armor, are slowly approaching the heavily defended perimeter of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Most analysts think the Ukraine positions there are supported by armored vehicles but how many is uncertain.
Not much territory change elsewhere.
Substantial bombardment of positions (Ukraine by Rus, Rus by Ukraine) continues.
Ukraine forces still holding out in small part of Mariupol.
less than 2 weeks until May 9 when Russia traditionally celebrates victory with parades
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According to Nolan Peterson on Twitter, Manus McCaffrey and Paul Gray, two American combat veterans and volunteers working with the Ukrainian military were wounded in action today in Ukraine.
Manus McCaffrey, a former Army Ranger, and Paul Gray, formerly of the 101st Airborne, were both wounded in action at 1435 EEST when Russian artillery struck their position as they waited to ambush a Russian tank. McCaffrey suffered serious injuries from shrapnel to his face, head, and torso. Gray was sheltered from a majority of the shrapnel, however was injured when a nearby rock wall collapsed on his leg.
They were taken to a nearby hospital with McCaffrey being conscious and speaking the last time he was seen. Both men are currently being treated for their wounds in an undisclosed hospital inside of Ukraine.
“We were ready for a tank to come down the road when the artillery hit us. A concrete wall protected me but then fell on me. Manus took the hardest blow and shrapnel.” Gray said in a message to reporter Nolan Peterson. “We were next together this entire deployment. Every minute,” Gray added about McCaffrey. “He’s such a great fighter.”Funker530.com
President Vladimir #Putin warns if any other country intervenes in #Moscow’s military operation in #Ukraine, Russia will launch a quick-fire military response.https://t.co/Sy9nkm4wRz
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With how the Russian military is faring, can anyone here give their assessment of how well they think the Russian nukes are kept up?
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^ Just a guess, but well enough to be a problem all around.
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Moscow media is warning the population that they must prepare to die in a nuclear attack. They said Russians will go to heaven while the rest of the world will just croak.
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Moscow media is warning the population that they must prepare to die in a nuclear attack. They said Russians will go to heaven while the rest of the world will just croak.
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Russian doctrine was described as thinking they could get away with using small tactical nukes without precipitating a strategic exchange. The huge number of tac nukes in their inventory would seem to support that theory.
The last time the US went to DEFCON 3 according to the site below was after Sep 11, 2001.
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DEFCON 3, Round House Or Yellow Alert Level:
https://www.defconlevel.com/levels/defcon-3.php
What Is DEFCON 3 Or "Round House" Warning Level?
DEFCON 3, or Round House is an increase in alertness and military readiness, also known as 'yellow alert' status. With Defcon 3 the air force is in a higher state or level of readiness so that they can deploy and mobilize within 15 minutes time.
The alert color for DEFCON 3, or Round House is yellow. The meaning behind this condition level is similar to that of a yellow "caution" sign. We are prepared, cautious and in a state of military readiness. This condition represents a state of preparedness and a high level of caution.
The alert status may be raised to Defcon 3, or Round House after a precision strike is carried out by an an enemy. This condition may also be reached after a precision strike is carried out by the United States military or any event that warrants a cautious state of military readiness and alert by U.S forces. Taken from Defcon Level Warning System: https://www.defconlevel.com/levels/defcon-3.php
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[Korrespondent] 23:37 The United States is considering adding Russia to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Blinken said.
22:52 More than 50 “arrivals” from Russia were recorded in the Esman community of the Sumy region in half an hour, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
22:47 Arestovich said that by the end of May - beginning of June, Western weapons would arrive "in commercial quantities capable of changing the balance of forces in specific areas." "The end of June - July - there will be a hot offensive from our side," the adviser to the head of the OP added.
22:45 The South Ukrainian NPP has been renamed Pivdennoukrainska, Energoatom reported. In short - PAES.
22:42 A team has been set up in the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office to evacuate the civilian population from Azovstal, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq said.
22:19 According to the Cabinet of Ministers, in 2022 Ukraine's GDP may be reduced by 30-50%, Shmyhal said. According to the prime minister, in the first six weeks of the war, the total damage to the Ukrainian economy exceeded $500 billion.
22:18 Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger called for the permanent abolition of import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the EU countries.
22:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of three ammunition depots in Chervonoye and Ilyichevka, Kharkiv region.
22:11 Russian media report that the fourth issue of the Kharkiv Z newspaper has already been published in the occupied territory of the Kharkiv region. The radio of the same name is also working, and after electricity is supplied to the region, it is planned to launch TV towers to broadcast Russian channels.
21:53 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, a series of fires have occurred at facilities that are in one way or another connected with the war against Ukraine. More about this in the article Russia on fire .
21:46 Washington has lifted some restrictions on the exchange of intelligence with Kiev in connection with the new military offensive of the Russian Federation in the east and south of the country, writes Bloomberg.
21:43 Moscow warned the West about a new "fake" that Kiev is allegedly preparing: in Lisichansk, broken equipment is brought to the central market, "fired upon by Ukrainian units," "the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen dressed in civilian clothes are delivered."
"Fake" with the death of civilians as a result of Russian shelling was prepared by "Ukrainian specialists in information operations", and "representatives of Ukrainian and Western news agencies, including the United States, Great Britain and Poland" were invited for staged filming," the Interdepartmental Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response said.
21:41 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Lieutenant General Serhiy Naev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:40 Podolyak believes that the intensity of Russia's "demilitarization" in the areas bordering Ukraine will increase: "Panic moods will grow rapidly there, conflict situations will appear there, warehouses will explode there, and this will only deepen."
21:26 Germany no longer sees a reliable partner in Russia, said German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. According to him, Moscow's actions have demonstrated that it cannot be relied upon in the long term.
21:23 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko spoke about the situation with the bridge across the Dniester estuary. According to him, today the enemy launched a missile attack on the region with three missiles - one hit the bridge, the second fell nearby, the third - into the water. There were no casualties, and the railroad is being repaired. Traffic across the bridge has already resumed on one lane in both directions.
21:20 Russian government hackers carried out a total of 37 “destructive” cyberattacks from Russia in Ukraine between February 23 and April 8, Reuters reports citing a Microsoft report.
21:18 The European Commission proposes to simplify legal migration to the EU, including for Ukrainian refugees. A package of proposals on this topic was presented at a press conference in Brussels by the Deputy Head of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, reports DW.
21:11 Zelensky, in his evening address, announced the preparation of an important EU decision: the European Commission agreed on the abolition of all duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports for a year, as well as the suspension of anti-dumping tariffs.
Today, the President of Ukraine discussed the details of this proposal with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen: "I am grateful to her personally and to all our European friends for this step. Right now, this will allow us to maintain maximum economic activity in Ukraine, our national production."
"Ukrainian exports are also beneficial to the European Union. Therefore, today we discussed how to increase the potential of transport corridors on our western border," Zelensky said.
21:08 Bulgaria, in response to Gazprom's decision to cut off gas supplies due to refusal to pay in rubles, is going to revise contracts with the Russian monopoly, including for the transit of gas, which is pumped through the Turkish Stream pipeline to Serbia and Hungary, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said: "We must show that unilateral blackmail is not a relationship that Bulgaria will tolerate."
20:54 Podolyak believes that in the case of Pridnestrovie, it is more about informational pressure on Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine has always considered Pridnestrovie as a springboard for a possible offensive, so the defense in this direction has been thought out. He also stated that drawing Transnistria into the war would mean the end of this enclave, and Tiraspol understands this.
20:52 The UK Ministry of Defense reported that London has sent more than 5,000 anti-tank missiles, 1,360 anti-tank ammunition, 4.5 tons of explosives and five air defense systems to Kiev since the beginning of the war.
20:38 The Wall Street Journal claims that Putin has three children from gymnast Alina Kabaeva and the United States even considered imposing sanctions against her. Details - in the material The real first lady of the Russian Federation.
20:32 Russian occupiers are forcing the personnel of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant to hang a portrait of Putin until May 9, Energoatom reports.
20:24 The UN Humanitarian Affairs Office has formed an evacuation team from Mariupol, the office of UN Secretary General António Guterres said. On the issue of the team's activities, contacts have already been established with representatives of Ukraine and Russia.
20:16 In May, Russia plans to hold a referendum on joining the LDNR, and in the Kherson region - a referendum on independence from Ukraine and the creation of KhNR, Meduza reports, citing its sources.
In turn, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, reports that there is more and more talk about joining the city to the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. Local residents are already reporting that children sign notebooks at school: "Mariupol, Rostov Region."
“I don’t understand what this will change in a war where we are already at war with Russia. But such information rather speaks of the reality of the Kremlin’s plans,” he wrote.
20:06 Reznikov said that there are several very difficult weeks ahead: “In the coming days, all our resilience and extraordinary unity will be required. The enemy is already aware of his strategic defeat, but will still try to inflict great pain on us. Unfortunately, before victory we still "We will lose our warriors. There will be more destruction and painful casualties. We must endure. And we will endure!"
20:02 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that after the war the city council would rename all toponyms associated with Russia. In the near future, a special section will appear on the City Council website, where all Kharkiv residents will be able to report which name should be changed and offer their own version.
19:56 At their meeting, the defense ministers of 40 countries of the world made a strategic decision on the transition of the Ukrainian army to Western calibers and equipment, Reznikov said. According to him, Ukraine is already receiving 155 mm artillery, and gradually this will ensure full cooperation of the Ukrainian army with the armies of NATO countries.
19:31 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock revealed the details of the supply of weapons to Ukraine: Germany has already provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with several thousand hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, portable Stinger air defense systems, tens of millions of ammunition, bunker grenades, machine guns, anti-tank mines, hand grenades and explosives.
In addition, the federal government organized the supply of weapons through defense concerns, the surplus of which the Bundeswehr had exhausted. We are talking about anti-tank mines and, especially, artillery ammunition, Burbock said. She also noted that the decision to supply Ukraine with heavy armored vehicles, which became known the day before, was not hasty, it was prepared and closely coordinated with the allies.
19:10 In April, the National Bank issued 50 billion hryvnias by purchasing military bonds for the corresponding amount. According to the press service of the NBU, as of April 28, the portfolio of military bonds owned by the regulator will amount to UAH 70 billion.
19:07 At an extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly, Russia was suspended from participation in the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Kuleba said.
19:04 The invaders are preparing a propaganda "press tour" to Mariupol for loyal media. According to Ukrainian intelligence, a large-scale political provocation is being prepared in the city for April 28 with an attempt to attract some Western journalists.
The program of the event includes "alternative facts" about the defense of Mariupol. Trained "witnesses" will tell that allegedly Ukrainian defenders themselves bombed the city and destroyed local residents, this will be confirmed by "eyewitnesses".
18:57 In Bucha, the invaders killed people according to pre-compiled lists, Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said. In particular, they were looking for activists, ATO participants and officials. Perhaps the list was helped by local collaborators.
"They had lists - I saw these lists. They were not written by hand. One of the locals dictated. Perhaps there were some collaborations. That is, they knew in advance who they were going to, at what address, and what kind of man," the mayor said. According to him, among the people who were supposed to be killed were the names of officials.
18:53 Finland will not pay for Russian gas in rubles, Titti Tuppurainen, Minister of European and Corporate Governance, said.
18:49 Pridnestrovie does not pose a real military threat to Ukraine, such as the opening of a second front, an attack on Odessa, and so on, analysts are sure. About why this is so - in the material Non-working army: the military potential of Pridnestrovie .
18:47 48 kg of gold was confiscated from the former deputy minister, it was collected in favor of the state to ensure defense capability, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The value of the seized in monetary terms is more than 90 million hryvnia.
We are talking about "one of the former high-ranking officials from the entourage of the fugitive ex-president, who was involved in the seizure of the Mezhyhirya state residence." The media write that this is probably Eduard Stavitsky.
18:40 Russia is increasing the pace of the offensive, carrying out intense fire in almost all directions. The greatest activity is observed in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions, the occupier is preparing additional units to participate in hostilities, Motuzyanyk said.
18:31 The speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanik said that the Russians are striving to establish full control over the settlement of Velikaya Kamyshevakha, which is 20 km southwest of Izyum, and also to capture the village of Kurulka, 20 km south of Izyum.
18:25 UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Ukraine after visiting Moscow. "We will continue our work to expand humanitarian assistance and ensure the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones. The sooner this war ends, the better for Ukraine, Russia and the world," he said.
18:24 Switzerland has banned the import of coal from Russia, as well as timber, seafood, caviar and other products.
Noooooooo!! Not caviar!
18:20 Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov did not rule out a 17% reduction in oil production in Russia in 2022 "due to the refusal of a number of countries to buy it."
18:18 The GPU announced suspicion of infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine to the chairman and 418 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
18:16 EU representatives sent an official letter to Hungary, which was the first step towards the application of a new mechanism to reduce funding for undermining the rule of law standards in the bloc.
17:39 In the early days of the Russian invasion, American intelligence provided Kiev with data on where the invaders plan to drop their missiles and bombs. This helped the Ukrainian side save its planes and air defense systems, writes NBC News, citing official statements.
In addition, intelligence sharing enabled the Ukrainian military to shoot down a Russian transport aircraft carrying hundreds of troops, which helped repel an attack on a key airport near Kyiv.
17:16 Zelensky spoke with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, thanked for joining his country in the investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Russia, as well as for supporting sanctions and for providing shelter for more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
17:03 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that the former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Georgia to prepare the opening of a second front against Russia in case of hostilities in Ukraine.
The Prime Minister of Georgia once again stated that no one will drag the republic into the war, there will be no second front: "If Saakashvili were in power today, there would be a war here, they would get a second Mairupol here."
16:46 Putin again threatens the world: "If someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine from the outside and creates a strategic threat, the strikes will be lightning. All decisions on lightning strikes in the event of a threat to the strategic security of the Russian Federation have been adopted."
16:43 Military counterintelligence of the SBU exposed an official of a defense facility in the Zhytomyr region while collecting classified information about Ukrainian combat aircraft and air force infrastructure.
16:31 Moldovan President Maia Sandu admitted that now the country actually does not have a combat-ready army and the situation needs to be changed.
16:22 Canada has imposed sanctions against 203 representatives of the "DNR" and "LNR" leadership.
15:51 General Motors donated 50 Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs to Ukraine to provide humanitarian assistance. The American concern also allocated financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 250 thousand dollars and another 50 thousand additionally collected by the company's employees.
15:49 In the occupied territories, men of military age are massively kidnapped - they replenish the exchange fund and prepare for May 9, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Thus, large-scale filtration measures are being carried out in the territories of Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev, Luhansk, Donetsk regions occupied by the enemy, the victims of which are most often men of military age. First of all - ATO/JFO veterans, former military and law enforcement officers, pro-Ukrainian activists.
More than 300 pro-Ukrainian activists and ATO/JFO veterans are being interrogated and tortured in the premises of the Kherson temporary detention facility.
In the village of Bolshaya Lepetikha, Kherson region, a filtration camp has been set up, where about 400 Russian servicemen dressed in the uniform of the National Guard have recently arrived. They are looking for and detaining men of military age, who are massively taken out in the direction of the Crimea.
The main goal of such actions is "replenishment of the exchange fund." They plan to exchange Ukrainian hostages for Russian war criminals. Also, the organization of propaganda "victory parades" with the participation of detained Ukrainians is not ruled out. According to the information received, they may be passed off as "prisoners of war" and led through the streets of occupied cities. Similar events were held in Donetsk in 2014. Then, after numerous tortures, Ukrainian heroes were forced to walk along the central street of Donetsk, where they were subjected to bullying and humiliation.
15:44 Austria returned its embassy to Kiev.
15:27 Poland and Bulgaria receive gas from their EU neighbors, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
15:13 Kyiv City State Administration announced the completion of the laying of a water pipeline in Irpen.
15:07 Israel canceled the parade of veterans on May 9 due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata said.
14:43 "Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pridnestrovie" stated that Ukraine is behind the explosions in the village of Kolbasna, the organizers of the explosions allegedly left for the territory of Ukraine after the attacks.
14:42 European Parliament President Roberta Metsola called for a pan-European embargo on Russian energy resources: "We will not allow the European Union to be blackmailed. We are not afraid of Putin."
14:40 Russia is preparing provocations with missile strikes on Transnistria in order to accuse Ukraine of attacking the unrecognized "republic", OK Pivden said.
14:35 Member states of the CSTO (a military-political organization that includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan) do not support the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine.
Hmmmm....
Thus, the members of the organization do not want to make decisions on conducting peacekeeping operations outside their countries, including in the "DNR" and "LNR", reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Instead, CSTO members admit the possibility of a limited deployment of national contingents on the territory of the Russian Federation or Belarus, but only after an official announcement of Ukraine's attack on their territory.
Kazakh Defense Minister Ruslan Zhaksylykov said on April 15 that his country had not received a request to send national troops to Ukraine. He confirmed that during the last meeting of the CSTO military committee, the issue of participation in the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine was not considered.
Currently, all CSTO member countries (except Russia and Belarus) are neutral on the issue of Russian invasion. None of them recognized the annexation of Crimea and the independence of the LDNR.
14:16 Acting Commander of the marine brigade Sergei Volynsky with the call sign Volyn, who is surrounded in Mariupol, spoke about the extremely difficult situation at Azovstal. According to him, there are 600 wounded soldiers who cannot be given proper assistance. There are big problems with water, food and ammunition.
Volynsky called for an extraction procedure - to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian units from Mariupol. As an example, he cited the evacuation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk in 1940.
13:57 Norway will allocate almost 41 million euros to the British initiative to purchase weapons for Ukraine, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere announced. He also added that Norway could make additional direct arms deliveries to Ukraine on top of what it had already handed over to Ukrainian defenders.
13:55 Today, 58 people were evacuated from Popasna, the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said. According to him, "almost every day 40, 60, 80 priests choose life and leave." He added that it is no longer possible to rely on humanitarian corridors - it is almost impossible to negotiate with the Russians.
13:53 Peskov said that there were no specific agreements on involving the UN and the ICRC in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal at the meeting between Putin and Guterres.
13:52 The economy of Ukraine continues to function at about 60-70%, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported.
13:51 Podolyak says that the time and context of the meeting between Zelensky and Putin have not yet been determined.
13:33 The Swedish government has asked the EU for compensation for military supplies to Ukraine - in particular, for the supply of five thousand helmets, Swedish Radio reported. According to the publication, Stockholm demanded 9 million euros more than the helmets sent were worth. At the same time, it is reported that Sweden will receive compensation for only a small part of the military supplies.
13:30 The Office of the President of Ukraine proposes to impose sanctions against Gazprombank in order to make it impossible to circumvent sanctions and pay for gas in rubles, Yermak said. According to Western media, four European companies have already agreed to the scheme proposed by Moscow.
13:22 A delegation of the Bulgarian government headed by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is going to Kiev to make a decision on military assistance to Ukraine, the Bulgarian TV channel NOVA reported. Representatives of three of the four parties in the ruling coalition are traveling with Petkov, while the fourth party (the Socialists) opposes military assistance to Kyiv.
13:17 The Kremlin has appointed a new curator of relations with the "LDNR" - he was the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia and the curator of domestic policy of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko, Russian media report citing their sources. Previously, the department for border cooperation, subordinated to Dmitry Kozak, was responsible for interaction with the LDNR. Now the department for domestic policy will be responsible for this direction.
13:15 The EU is considering the possibility of abolishing all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian exports in order to support the country's economy during the war, writes Bloomberg.
13:14 In Kharkiv and the region, after night shelling, three people were killed, 15 were injured. Shelling continues in Zolochiv, Dergachi, Chuguev, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
13:07 CNN reports that it has received a new exclusive video confirming Russia's involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha. The publication itself has not yet published the video, but provided its description: “The video of March 13 shows that Russian military equipment is standing at a crossroads. CNN identified three objects in the video a little further down the street - these are the bodies seen in the April 1 video and in satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies on March 18.
It is noted that the bodies of the killed people and military equipment of the Russian Federation were also recorded on another video made from a drone.
CNN has received a new video confirming Russia's involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha
12:38 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer called fake Russian propaganda the message of Vienna's consent to pay for gas in rubles: "OMV will continue to pay for gas supplies from Russia in euros. Austria strictly complies with the jointly agreed EU sanctions."
12:35 Ten European buyers have already opened special accounts with Gazprombank to pay for gas in rubles, Bloomberg reports.
12:33 Poland is ready to accept wounded and sick citizens from Mariupol for treatment, Andrzej Duda's office said.
12:19 In Kherson, as a result of the dispersal of the rally, four people have already suffered, the media write.
12:14 Taiwan will hold the largest annual exercise to test a possible Chinese attack. The exercises will be based on the experience of military operations in Ukraine and will focus on the tactics and strategy of asymmetric and cognitive warfare, writes Reuters.
11:55 The authorities of Kiev are asking citizens to refrain from visiting cemeteries during memorial days for the period of martial law due to danger. “Do not create crowds of people these days in the territories of cemeteries, do not endanger yourself and your loved ones,” urged the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Nikolai Povoroznik.
11:38 The occupiers hit Avdeevka twice with phosphorus shells, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Kirilenko said. According to him, one strike last night fell on the area of the coking plant, and the second this morning - in the city center. This was followed by an air strike on a high-rise building, fires broke out in the city, at least one person was injured.
11:27 British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said that Russia's threats about the likelihood of strikes against military targets of NATO countries supplying weapons to Ukraine are illegal, while assistance to Ukraine is legal: "International law speaks very clearly about this. States have the right to provide military support to any State exercising the right to legitimate defense against invasion."
11:25 Podolyak on explosions in Russian regions: "Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk regions are now also beginning to actively study such a thing as" demilitarization. ammunition depots. For various reasons. And they are doing it more actively and more confidently."
"How to explain this? It's very simple. If you (the Russians) decide to massively attack another country, massively kill everyone there, massively crush peaceful people with tanks, and use warehouses in your regions to ensure the killings, then sooner or later you will have to repay the debts. When such intensity and volume of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine will not work. And therefore, the disarmament of the Belgorod-Voronezh warehouses of murderers is an absolutely natural, natural process. Karma is a cruel thing, "wrote the adviser to the head of the Presidential Administration.
11:23 Ukraine could seize Transnistria "at the click of a finger," but only if there is a corresponding request from Moldova, Arestovich said.
He considers the current escalation in Transnistria a Moscow provocation and says that Moldova may find itself in a difficult situation: “Moldova may have very big troubles. And the best thing that Moldova can do in this case, it seems to me, is to turn to Ukraine for help and Romania".
11:20 Erdogan again initiated a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. According to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, he "has hope" that the meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia will take place "despite some difficulties," "perhaps in the coming days."
11:17 In Lutsk, the dismantling of Soviet symbols at the memorial of Eternal Glory has begun. The numbers 1941 will be replaced by 1939.
11:14 Air attacks on Azovstal do not subside, but publications of battles have disappeared from the public information field, Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. According to him, again there are street fights in the sector from the plant management of Azovstal to the street. Ukrainian Cossacks (Rainbow Park).
11:11 Johnson said that Britain would not object if Ukraine used the weapons provided to it against targets in Russia.
11:10 Poland no longer intends to buy gas from Russia, said government spokesman for strategic energy infrastructure Piotr Najimski.
11:06 Australia will give Ukraine six British-made M777 155-mm howitzers and ammunition for them. The delivery was approved by the government of the country. Earlier, similar equipment was transferred to the Ukrainian military by Canada.
11:04 US Attorney General Merrick Garland supported the initiative to transfer part of the assets confiscated from Russian oligarchs directly to Ukraine: "Government, we would support a law that would allow part of this money to go directly to Ukraine."
He also denounced Russian atrocities in Ukraine: “All these pictures are just awful, and who grew up in the 20th century never expected to see this again in the 21st century.
11:01 In Kherson, the Russian invaders dispersed a peaceful rally on Svoboda Square. Local residents report the use of tear gas and stun grenades.
10:56 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called Gazprom's statements about the suspension of gas supplies blackmail and said that the EU is ready for such a scenario and is planning a response: "We are ready for such a scenario. We are planning our coordinated response to the EU. Europeans can be sure that we are united and in solidarity with the affected Member States."
10:55 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 27:
personnel - about 22,400 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 939 (+21),
armored combat vehicles - 2342 (+34),
artillery systems - 421 (+5),
MLRS - 149 (+0),
air defense systems - 71 (+2),
aircraft - 185 (+1),
helicopters - 155 (+1),
automotive equipment - 1666 (+23),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 207 (+2),
special equipment - 31 (+0),
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4 (+0).
10:47 Russian special services arrange staged stories for the media: they forcibly take foreigners from Kherson to Crimea for PR. The SBU has received evidence that FSB officers invent fakes by organizing the forcible evacuation of people from the occupied territories.
Thus, the SBU gained access to the phone of an FSB officer who oversaw the creation of a "picture" for the occupiers in the Kherson region. He was responsible for the "special operation to evacuate" to the Crimea 19 Vietnamese citizens who worked at the market in Kherson. In the final, a video was supposed to turn out, where foreigners would thank the Russian Federation for saving. However, it turned out that the Vietnamese did not want to go to the Crimea and tried to leave for Odessa. The Russians managed to detain 14 out of 19 Vietnamese. On the same day, the Russian press spread "news" about the evacuation of 140 grateful foreigners to Crimea.
10:43 Raytheon Technologies has told investors that it will not be able to increase production of Stinger missiles until 2023 due to a lack of parts and materials for weapons that Western allies urgently sent to Ukraine. The American newspaper Politico writes that thousands of Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems have been removed from warehouses in Europe and the United States and sent to Ukraine, but so far there is no clear resupply plan for the countries that transferred them.
This would be a perfect time for Russia to attack America, if only they had an army that could handle such a thing, and supplies with which to do so. China’s army is no doubt all locked down at the moment, so they can’t attack either...
Bloomberg, citing military experts, also reports that US stockpiles of weapons risk running out in a few months if the Biden administration continues to send them to Ukraine.
10:40 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that Russian forces are now moving more rationally than before in eastern Ukraine, "at least along the line from Izyum to Rubizhne."
"Russian troops are advancing in several parallel paths, at a distance that allows them to support each other. This helps them use more combat power than before," the report says.
10:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of hangars "with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops" with Caliber missiles on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant.
10:21 Transnistrian media report shooting in the area of warehouses near the village of Kolbasna, not far from the border with Ukraine, there are no casualties. There is a large ammunition depot in this settlement.
10:12 Austria has accepted the Russian terms on the new payment for gas, the chancellor said.
09:53 A citizen of Russia and a citizen of Belarus were detained in Poland on charges of espionage in favor of the Russian special services. The suspects collected information about Polish military units. Previously, they were arrested for three months, the Polish authorities said. They face up to ten years in prison.
09:50 At night, a large grain elevator came under fire in the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk.
09:48 The FSB announced that two Russians - "supporters of Ukrainian Nazism" - were detained while preparing a sabotage at a transport infrastructure facility in the Belgorod Region.
09:45 Head of the Mountain Military Administration Aleksey Babchenko said that tank battles were taking place in Orekhovo south of Lisichansk. About ten local residents remained in the village, the rest were evacuated. The village itself was completely destroyed.
09:37 Over 100,000 citizens of Ukraine entered Crimea in two months, more than a thousand foreigners asked for temporary asylum, Russian media report, citing Crimean "border guards".
09:35 Podolyak - about bad news for the Russian Federation: "One of Russia's strange demands at the beginning of the war was the "complete demilitarization" of Ukraine. Well, after yesterday's landmark meeting of 40 defense ministers of the world, I have very bad news for Russia. Volume, speed , simplified logistics, expanded range of weapons - Ukraine is getting stronger."
09:08 Gazprom confirmed that it had completely suspended gas supplies to Bulgarian Bulgargaz and Polish PGNiG due to non-payment in rubles.
09:05 In Zaporozhye, violators of the curfew are sent to the military registration and enlistment offices. According to the OVA, out of 22 men detained in the region that night, 11 received summons with direction to the territorial recruiting centers.
08:39 In the United States on April 27, a vote will be held for Lend-Lease for Ukraine. According to the White House, voting should begin at 21:00 Kyiv time. If the law is passed, it would give Biden greater powers and significantly speed up the supply of weapons from the United States for rent or without payment.
08:36 In Russia, emergency services reported that the number of Ukrainian refugees in the Russian Federation exceeded one million people.
08:35 In Severodonetsk, a clergyman of the UOC-MP passed information to the enemy about the deployment of Ukrainian troops, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
08:33 In the Zatoka of the Odessa region, the Russians again fired at the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the morning. There were no casualties, the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Alexander Kamyshin said.
08:29 British intelligence reports that Ukraine retains control over most of its airspace, while Russia has not been able to effectively destroy the Ukrainian air force or suppress the Ukrainian air defense system. Ukraine continues to put Russian air assets at risk.
Aviation of the Russian Federation is mainly concentrated in the South and East of Ukraine, providing support to the Russian ground forces. Russia has very limited air access to the north and west of Ukraine, mostly with remote strikes.
Most Russian airstrikes on Mariupol are likely to be carried out by unguided free-falling bombs. These weapons increase the risk of civilian casualties.
08:11 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the occupiers from the artillery fired on the Zelenodolsk community, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. They hit an energy infrastructure enterprise, as a result, a strong fire broke out, which rescuers extinguished for several hours. One employee of the enterprise was injured.
07:57 US efforts to supply weapons to Ukraine are supported by 73% of Americans, the highest level since the Russian invasion, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
07:40 The US Department of Defense has created a control center for coordinating deliveries and optimizing the delivery of military assistance to Ukraine in Stuttgart, Germany, in the area of responsibility of the US European Command.
07:38 Explosions were heard in Voronezh and the Kursk region of the Russian Federation tonight, according to local authorities, air defense was working.
07:14 In the Liman direction , the enemy established control over the settlement of Zarechnoye , stormed in the area of the settlement of Yampol. In the Severodonetsk direction, the invaders have established control over the settlement of Novotoshkovskoye , they are advancing in the direction of the settlements of Nizhnee and Orekhovo.
07:12 The invaders transferred from the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation to Izyum two BTGs from the 76th airborne assault division of the airborne troops. In addition, in the areas of settlements in the Belgorod region, the enemy deployed two missile divisions of the Iskander-M OTRK.
07:09 The occupiers have taken control of the village of Zavodie near Izyum , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The enemy is also conducting offensive operations in the direction of Barvenkovo, captured the northeastern outskirts of the Bolshaya Kamyshevakha settlement.
06:33 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will address the Allies on April 27 in London. She plans to call on Western countries to provide aircraft to Ukraine, the BBC reports.
"If Putin succeeds, untold suffering will follow across Europe and terrible consequences for the whole world. We will never feel safe again," she will address the entire civilized world with such a speech.
06:05 Johnson believes that Putin will not use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine if he encounters new military setbacks.
06:00 Scholz opposes the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine, even if he now authorizes the sale, Der Tagesspiegel writes. The publication also cites data from opinion polls, according to which at least 50% of the German population is skeptical about the supply of weapons to Ukraine, especially heavy weapons.
05:37 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that, according to preliminary data, an ammunition depot is on fire near the village of Staraya Nelidovka.
05:18 Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova addressed the Russians in Russian and called for an end to the war in Ukraine. She called it "undesirable" and started "without any reason". Chaputova stressed that no one threatened the Russians and did not want to harm, "but you do the harm."
Chaputova criticized the Russians for justifying the invasion of Ukraine with words of "liberation" and said that the Russian military had lost officer honor and military discipline.
04:16 Ukrainian defenders attacked the positions of Russian troops on Zmeiny Island. Enemy losses are being specified, OK Pivden reported. Fixed hit in the control center, the destruction of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system.
02:48 The Russian Federation is trying to destabilize the situation in the Transnistrian region, but the Ukrainian army is ready for a possible escalation, Zelensky said. He said that he had already discussed the aggravation of the situation in the so-called "MRT" with the leaders of Moldova and Romania.
02:19 Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian army has fired about 1,300 missiles on the territory of Ukraine - about half of its stock, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. According to her, Moscow will not be able to replenish stocks quickly due to sanctions, but the remaining missiles will last for a long time.
01:31 The UK will deliver high-tech Brimstone missiles to Ukraine in the next few weeks, Minister of the Armed Forces James Hippie said. The homing air-to-ground missile is equipped with an active radar homing head, which makes it possible to hit moving targets with great accuracy.
01:23 Russia stops deliveries of its gas to European countries in order to blackmail them and split the unity of Ukraine's allies, Yermak said: "We are seeing a typical increase in rates for Russians and a departure from any rules and obligations. The EU has repeatedly said that paying for gas in rubles will not be, since the signed contracts do not talk about settlements in "wooden" currency.
According to him, in this way Moscow proves that energy resources are a weapon for it, and called on the European Union to be united and impose an embargo on them.
00:58 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that it is no longer enough to supply only defensive weapons to Ukraine: "For too long there has been an erroneous distinction between defensive and offensive weapons. For some, this has become a reason to delay deliveries. That time has passed."
00:47 Putin shows no signs of readiness to end the war through peaceful negotiations, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. According to him, Washington is doing everything possible to ensure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine receive weapons in record time, and this greatly narrows the possibilities for aggression by the Russian invaders.
00:25 Arestovich believes that the war in Ukraine will last until the New Year: “We need to tune in to a long story. The cessation of the active phase in the Donbass is not the end of the war. All the same, there will be tactical actions, raids ... This is a long story, and maybe be quite long, it may be before the New Year, it all depends on a number of circumstances.
00:02 Pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned to the international community with a request to provide more modern aircraft to counter the enemy in the air. Colonel Yuri Bulavka, 1st class fighter pilot, winner of several air shows in Europe, said that his friend and mentor, the legendary ace pilot Alexander Oksanchenko, died on February 25 in the sky over Kyiv.
“Even aerobatics of this level will not save us from invaders’ missiles. We need more modern aircraft to counter the enemy in the air. American Falcon F-16s, F-15s, and maybe F-18s, would be enough to gain an advantage. After all, these aircraft have powerful airborne radars, technological equipment, and most importantly, missiles with active homing heads," the colonel explained.
He also stressed that an action plan has already been developed for the fastest possible retraining of pilots and aviation engineering personnel.
[NYPOST] A Russian ammunition depot was hit in the latest series of Dire Revenge blasts early Wednesday — which a top Ukrainian official called "karma" for the Kremlin’s ongoing war.
The depot in Belgorod, close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, was left in a giant ball of flames after a loud explosion woke locals just after 3:30 a.m., regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
"There were no casualties among the civilian population," the official said, without detailing if that included those at the ammunition site.
Explosions were also heard in another border province, Kursk, where the local governor claimed an unmanned Ukrainian aerial vehicle was intercepted over Russian skies.
Two blasts were also heard in Voronezh, where officials said its air defense systems also destroyed a small reconnaissance drone.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:52 Painted in the center of Kherson hit at least two Tochka-U missiles and several Hurricanes. A series of powerful explosions thundered in the center of Kherson, next to the television center. 23:42 The Armed Forces of Ukraine wanted to hit Tochka-U in the center of Kherson. The rocket was shot down. Most likely, the target was the administration building, which is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
23:21 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces defeated 17 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them were destroyed: two command posts of Ukrainian troops, as well as 15 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment.
22:31 A total of 331 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions.
21:52 In the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region, the fourth issue of the newspaper Kharkiv Z has already been published.
There is also a radio of the same name, and after the supply of electricity to the region, television towers will be launched to broadcast Russian channels.
21:30 The flag of Russia was hoisted over the administration of the liberated Volchansk in the Kharkiv region.
21:16 In the Nikolaev region are happening events traditional for the Ukrainian theater of operations.
In the children's town "Skazka" the basement was turned into a cache for storing weapons and ammunition. Coordinates: 46.964247, 31.984844
In the Ship area, they continue to intensively dig in and create long-term firing points. Coordinates: 46.859005, 32.023822 | 46.859211, 32.025550
The old Nikolaevsky cemetery was converted to the needs of the front and a firing position was created. Coordinates: 46.964495, 32.036435 | 46.963635, 32.033802
Taking into account the decommissioning of the capacities of the Ukrainian Navy, it was decided to turn the Nikolaev shipbuilding plant "Ocean" into a fortified area. Coordinates: 46.858188, 31.99185
South of Nikolaev, in the village of Novaya Zarya, units received a new batch of Javelin and Corsair anti-tank systems. Coordinates: 46.743374, 32.091699
20:44 In the Kherson region, an employee of the Ukrainian KORD (similar to SOBR)gave out Russian special forces caches with weapons and ammunition. An AK-74 assault rifle, a pistol, two hand grenades and ammunition of various calibers were confiscated. According to the Cordovian, he refused to carry out the "crazy" orders of the Kyiv authorities to organize sabotage activities against Russian troops in Kherson.
Currently, the security of the employee and his family is provided by the Russian security forces.
19:39 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the aircraft of the Aerospace Forces hit 38 military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 27 places of concentration of manpower and military equipment.
As specified in the department, over 210 nationalists and 43 units of armored vehicles and cars were destroyed.
19:30 Ukrainian Gauleiter of Kherson Kolykhaev was fired. Kobets, a member of the local council, became the new mayor of the city liberated from the Nazis.
19:10 Today at 13.30 two drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Polish manufacturer "Warmate" attacked the city of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, exposing the world to the danger of a new nuclear catastrophe.
The goal of the first was the Zaporozhye NPP, the second - the city administration of Energodar. Thanks to the professional actions of the National Guard employees, both UAVs were shot down, and human lives were saved.
18:51 Vladimir Putin sent an unambiguous signal to those who decide to intervene in the course of a special military operation:
“For a lightning-fast response, we have all the tools. The kind that no one else can boast of right now. We won't brag. We will use them if needed. And I want everyone to know about it.”
18:34 Melitopol notes May 9. For eight years, Kyiv forbade celebrating Victory Day. Today Russia re-lit the Eternal Flame. The townspeople are preparing with might and main to celebrate the great holiday. People repair monuments with their own hands, young mothers with tears in their eyes tell their children the real history of the family and the Motherland, flowers again lie on the memorials. As it should be.
18:21 Today On the Arch of Victory in Melitopol, the Order of Victory, the St. George ribbon and the inscription Glory to the winners were returned.
17.09 Vladimir Putin: all tasks of the Russian special operation in Ukraine and Donbass will be unconditionally fulfilled. We guarantee that Russia will adequately respond to all challenges and threats, as it has always been and will continue to be.
16:25 In the Russian-controlled Kakhovka, a stele with the coat of arms of Ukraine, installed at the entrance, is being dismantled.
15:49 The sixth humanitarian convoy has arrived in Berdyansk. The total weight of the cargo is 47 tons. Food packages were delivered to the residents of Berdyansk: buckwheat, rice, cereals, pasta, flour, stew, tea and coffee, sweets and cookies. In addition, they delivered detergents, personal hygiene items, baby food, diapers and diapers. Aid was collected in all regions of Russia, including the Crimea. The trucks were loaded in Armyansk. The convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was accompanied by a convoy of the Russian Guard. Food packages will be distributed to needy Berdyansk residents on Saturday.
15:27 As a result of a long negotiation process, Trevor Reed was exchanged for Yaroshenko on April 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.
In 2020, a Russian court sentenced Trevor Reed, a student from Texas, to 9 years in prison for using violence against police officers - in August 2019, he quarreled on the street with two women and attacked an arriving PPS squad, hitting a policeman.
Konstantin Yaroshenko was sentenced in the United States to 20 years in a general security prison in 2011 on charges of preparing a conspiracy to deliver a large consignment of drugs to the United States.
15:21 Cossack teams of Melitopol guard the city's educational institutions.
15:17 According to the Arbalet news agency, a group of Ukrainian negotiators arrived in Bezymennoye near the city of Mariupol, who will try to convince the terrorists of Azov * (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) to release civilians from Azovstal.
15:15 In Kyiv, they propose to rename Leo Tolstoy Street into the street of the Azov Regiment. This was reported in the mayor's office of the Ukrainian capital.
13:43 In Ukraine, the dismantling of Soviet monuments continues. The Star of Glory and the Order of the Red Banner of War were removed from the Eternal Glory Memorial in Lutsk. The photo was published by the mayor of the city Igor Polishchuk. In addition, he said that instead of the number "1941" the authorities are going to set "1939" by May 1.
13:25 Residents of the Kherson region and other liberated territories can travel to Crimea without restrictions if they have valid documents. So all three automobile checkpoints: "Armyansk", "Perekop" and "Dzhankoy" operate in a regular and round-the-clock mode.
13:18 In the liberated city of Kamenka-Dniprovska (Zaporozhye region), a cash withdrawal point has been opened.
13:12 The radius of the shock wave in the event of an explosion at military depots in Kolbasna. According to experts, brick walls and reinforced concrete structures will be destroyed at a distance of 4.5 km. In this case, the total radius of the shock wave can exceed 50 kilometers.
13:03 New head of the Kherson regional administration Volodymyr Saldo delivered "Holy Fire", which arrived from Jerusalem, in the main Orthodox church of Kherson - the Holy Spirit Cathedral. The head of the Kherson region personally carried the fire, which arrived in Kherson from the Crimea, to the temple.
12:17 The air defense system in Kursk shot down a Ukrainian drone tonight, regional governor Roman Starovoit said:
“No one was hurt, there was no damage. The military, special services and the regional administration are in full control of the situation, there is no cause for concern.”
11:28 Hangars with weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine were destroyed by Kalibr on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant - Russian Defense Ministry.
11:23 In the Kharkiv region, Russian military doctors continue to provide medical assistance to civilians who are being shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. People are being helped and given medicines. In emergency cases, patients are hospitalized in Russian medical facilities.
11:04 In the liberated city of Golaya Pristan (Kherson region), the Russian military lit the Eternal Flame on the Alley of Glory of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
11:02 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense 04/27/2022 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision long-range sea-based missiles "Caliber" on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine overnight. Among them: 50 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, four warehouses with weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of CHERVONOE, DOLGENKOE, PASHKOVO and VESELOE, as well as the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the SLAVIANSK region. As a result of the strikes, more than 120 nationalists and 35 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
Rocket troops and artillery completed 573 fire missions during the night. Affected: 432 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, 67 artillery positions, two batteries of multiple launch rocket systems, as well as seven ammunition depots.
Russian air defense systems shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of ALEKSANDROVKA, BALAKLEYA, BRYANKA, ZAPOROZHSKOE, IZYUM, KAPITOLOVKA, PEREMOGA, PETROVKA, PAPASNOE, PROLETARSKOE, TRUDOLYUBOVKA, including two Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs in the area of settlements Kalesnikovka and Krasny Liman. In addition, a Ukrainian tactical missile "Tochka-U" was shot down over the settlement of ILYCHEVKA.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 607 unmanned aerial vehicles, 273 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,596 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 296 multiple rocket launchers, 1,134 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,413 units of special military vehicles.
09:51 FSB delayed supporters of the Ukrainian Nazis who planned sabotage. Two Russians were preparing a sabotage at a transport infrastructure facility in the Belgorod region.
09:43 Volunteers, with the support of the National Guard and the mayor's office of Berdyansk, hoisted the Russian flag on the flagpole of the Monument to the sailors of the Azov Flotilla.
09:19 A sowing campaign has begun in Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions - the Russian Defense Ministry.
08:27 In the morning, a second strike was made on the railway bridge in Zatoka, which had already received damage yesterday after the first strike. The results of the 2nd strike are still unknown.
08:13 Ukrainian militants have prepared a provocation with many victims in Nikolaev, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia Mikhail Mizintsev.
08:00 Military police provided help to a family with small children from the Kharkov region in evacuation to the territory of Russia.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:30 The areas of nine settlements of the DPR fell under the shelling of the VFU. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, six residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. 22:21 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 100 shells and mines from 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122-mm cannon artillery, 120 and 82-mm mortars, as well as BMP weapons.
21:34 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 19 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: born in 1965, 1957, 1989, 1981, 1936, 1991, 1937, 1941, 1982;
- women: born in 1978, 1961, 1970, 1953.
n.p. Staromlinovka:
- men: born in 1952, 1956;
is a woman born in 1959.
n.p. Volnovakha (Volnovakha district):
- men: born in 1971, 1997.
n.p. Pavlovka:
- a woman born in 1957.
20:49 As a result of the armed aggression, the AFU recorded the destruction of private housing construction in the village. mines. V.I. Lenin (Central-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka) at the following addresses: st. Lemesheva, 36, 65. There were no victims!
20:10 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- st. Altaiskaya, 26, 26a - private houses.
The production facilities of the Elastomer plant were also damaged.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Elenovka fixed damage to the glazing at the address of the street. Forest, 19.
19:40 The UN Humanitarian Affairs Office is creating a team to coordinate the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the organization's Secretary General's office said.
“Today, Wednesday, we had discussions with the authorities in Moscow and Kyiv to develop an operational framework for the evacuation of the civilian population,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the Secretary General.
19:29 Three prisoner-of-war detention centers have been formed in the DPR, there are about 2,600 people there.
“We have deployed three sites on the territory of the DPR, which have been reformatted and are able to contain prisoners of war - former servicemen of Ukraine. Today, we have about 2,600 people at all sites,” said Minister of Justice of the Republic Yuri Sirovatko.
18:30 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 152mm artillery guns (four shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
18:05 International Committee of the Red Cross is ready to help coordinate measures for the evacuation of civilians who may be at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol - ICRC official
17:43 In the liberated lands of the DPR, a full-fledged work of justice bodies has been established. Most of the employees of the Ukrainian justice authorities in the former Donetsk region expressed a desire to continue working in the DPR. This was announced today at a press conference in Donetsk by Minister of Justice of the Republic Yuriy Sirovatko.
17:26 Fighters of the Luhansk People's Republic continue to storm the positions of Ukrainian nationalists in Popasna. Fierce battles are going on in the city.
Our correspondent Denis Kulaga took refuge in one of the houses, which is literally shaking. Being in the zone of direct visibility of hostilities, he showed how the defenders of Lugansk overcome the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:22 On the stretch of the railway station Volnovakha-Khlebodarovka, 2 km of the overhead line of longitudinal power supply have been restored. Employees of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the DPR accepted 1,343 applications for the renewal and appointment of pensions. Doctors in the liberated territories continue to receive citizens. 853 patients received qualified medical care.
16:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Clear:
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 19 - private sector;
- st. Shchorsa, 25 - the private sector.
16:21 The child died during the shelling of Stakhanov by the Kyiv security forces - the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR.
16:18 Another 200 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe. During the day on April 27, from 08:00 to 16:00, 200 people, including 35 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, 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.
16:10 In a forest plantation near the village. Cretaceous (LPR) found ammunition and explosive devices. Employees of the prosecutor's office of the Melovsky district of the LPR during the inspection of the scene seized:
2,160 rounds of 5.45 mm caliber
two rounds of VMG
two rounds of a heavy machine gun
RGD grenade
16:00 Consequences of shelling Makeevka and Kirovsky district of Donetsk 27.04.2022.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC, the shelling of the settlement Makeevka was produced from the positions of the VFU located in the area of the settlement. Avdievka with the use of MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane" cluster type stuffed with anti-tank mines PTM-1. The zone of responsibility of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Evgeny Yuryevich Kurash). Krasnogorovka with the use of artillery systems of caliber 122mm. The area of responsibility of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the VFU (commander - Colonel Maistrenko Alexey Sergeevich), 2nd mechanized battalion - (commander Lieutenant Colonel Stets Sergey Olegovich). As a result of shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): st. Kirova, 429 - MBOU "School No. 77 in Donetsk".
n.p. Makeevka (Tsentralno-gorodskoy district): Avenue of the 250th anniversary of Donbass, 78 - State Enterprise Trading House "Medicines of Donbass".
15:45 Pharmacies and drugstores are open in Volnovakha, Bugas and Staroygnatievka. In the near future, the Ministry of Health plans to open pharmacies and pharmacy points in the village. Yalta, town. Mangush, p. Anadol, town. Donskoye, Mariupol, Volnovakha, town. Volodarskoye, town. Novotroitskoe.
15:43 Work UAV of the DPR army for adjusting artillery and MLRS attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka direction.
15:24 The logistics unit of the Southern Military District provides drinking water to the residents of Mariupol. A total of 100 tons of water are delivered daily by tank trucks to different areas of the liberated city.
15:20 The 100th Brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR continues to cover with artillery the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the equipment they have hidden on the outskirts of Maryinka. Fighting in this area goes on day and night. By frame from a quadcopter, you can evaluate the intensity and accuracy of the work of the DPR artillery.
15:19 The front-line village of Golmovsky in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka is again under fire from the VFU! Information was received about a hit in the roof of the garage in the Soyuz car cooperative. Enemy shells exploded in the industrial zone of the Nikitovsky Dolomite Plant, the slate roof was cut in the building of boiler house No. 69, and the glazing was damaged. Information about the consequences of Ukraine's armed aggression continues to flow - Prikhodko Mayor of Gorlovka.
13:42 EMERCOM of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region opened an additional hotline for evacuated residents of the LPR and DPR: 8 (800) 201 59 79. In addition, the phone continues to work: 8 (863) 239 99 99.
13:37 Troops of Russia and LPRknocked out APU from the suburbs of Rubizhne. Under the control of the Ukrainian security forces in the suburbs of Rubizhne, only the Zarya chemical plant, Kadyrov’s assistant in the Alaudins’ power unit, remains.
13:30 Ministry of Construction: There are 42 unfinished apartment buildings in the DPR. The level of completion of unfinished buildings is 50-80 percent . The completion of the construction of these facilities would make it possible to replenish the housing stock with more than 3,000 apartments.
13:27 As a result of today's shelling of the Oktyabrsky Rudnik village of the Kuibyshev region, residential buildings of the private sector were damaged by Ukrainian militants:
- st. Kovalko, 104 - damaged glazing, facade, roof, fence. The gas pipeline was also broken, the emergency team left to repair the damage.
13:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
13:20 109 agro-industrial enterprises in the liberated territories were registered in the DPR.
13:14 Personnel trophies of the Russian Armed Forces from a captured Ukrainian warehouse. Many objects were hastily abandoned by the nationalist units of Ukraine during their retreat on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. Among the captured weapons there are both Soviet samples and modern samples of anti-tank guided missiles and portable anti-aircraft missile systems from NATO countries. In total, about one thousand pieces of weapons of various nomenclature and ammunition for them were found in the field warehouse captured by the Russian military.
13:08 Russian special forces broke in on the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and captured a new batch of weapons in a battle in the Limansky district of the DPR. At n.p. Torskoye, in addition to small arms and grenade launchers, captured a significant amount of ammunition for the Grad MLRS.
13:07 "We had a well, we went there, then a sniper shot a woman there." Refugee from Mariupol told that he saw with his own eyes how a Ukrainian sniper aimed at civilians.
13:02 Former employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are in captivity, write a massive petition to the Head of the DPR with a request to issue them passports of a citizen of the Republic.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
12:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:52 All children evacuated from Donbass and Ukraine were placed in educational institutions in Russia. Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, spoke about this. She noted that the children are provided with everything necessary for study.
11:44 Mariupol is rapidly returning to peaceful life. Residents of Mariupol, together with the municipal services of the city and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, are beautifying the city for the holidays. More and more volunteers are taking part in the aftermath of shelling of the city by Ukrainian militants. The roads are cleared of broken wires and broken cars, and now most of the streets are accessible for vehicles.
11:26 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Vrubovka on n.p. Irmino using MLRS BM-30 Smerch (three shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
11:24 Another bridge has been blown up in the Krasny Liman area, this time a road bridge. Most likely, this is a bridge on the Krasny Liman - Seversk section near Yampol. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are retreating from their positions, destroying the road infrastructure.
11:05 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Vrubovka on n.p. Irmino with the use of BM-30 MLRS (three rounds) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
10:45 NM DPR: over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 64 Ukrainian nationalists, 12 firing points, one 122mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 "Gvozdika", 1 infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers. one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored personnel carrier and two cargo vehicles were captured.
10:28 Ukrainian militants continue to conduct indiscriminate artillery fire on Yasinovataya from positions in Avdievka. 122mm artillery was used against the civilian population. Details are being specified.
10:07 VFU attacked the Petrovsky district. Damage was received by a residential apartment building on the street. Osoaviakhima.
09:42 Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR daily conduct a survey of territories, social facilities and residential buildings of the liberated territories for the presence of explosive objects. In total, since the start of work, sappers have examined about 619 hectares of open areas and more than 229,000 m² of buildings, more than 42,000 explosive objects have been discovered and neutralized.
09:41 Three people were killed, six were injured in the Donetsk People's Republic per day as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops.
09:33 The Russian military seized about a thousand units of weapons in a field warehouse during the retreat of Ukrainian troops in the LPR. This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
08:54 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 RPG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 RPG grenades were fired, small arms were also used.
08:41 In the liberated territory, power supply has already been restored to 62 settlements - Minugol.
08:07 This night in Donetsk, they repeatedly triggered systems air defense. Ukrainian Nazis are hitting a peaceful city with hailstones.
07:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
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[REGNUM] Russia will achieve the goals for which the special operation in Ukraine is being carried out, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 27 at a meeting with the Council of Legislators.
"All the tasks of the special military operation we are conducting in the Donbass and Ukraine, launched on February 24, will certainly be fulfilled."
This is necessary, the head of state noted, "in order to guarantee security measures for the residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Russian Crimea and our entire country for a historical perspective."
Recall that during the special operation of the RF Armed Forces, a number of settlements were liberated from Ukrainian militants, including the city of Mariupol.
Russian diplomat says denazification of Ukraine will be completed
[RIA Novosti] Those responsible for the torture and murder of Ukrainians disloyal to the Kyiv regime will be punished, the denazification of Ukraine will be completed, Sergei Leonidchenko, head of the legal section of the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council.
"Torture centers in the 21st century really do not fit in the head. There is a lot of factual evidence and testimonies of witnesses about the secret SBU torture center at the Mariupol airport. It was cynically called the "library" and was created in 2014, when the nationalist battalion "Azov" occupied Mariupol," Leonidchenko said.
According to him, this particular center was used to torture, rape and kill "books" - as neo-Nazis called ordinary civilians held there who were suspected of disloyalty to the Kyiv regime.
"Be sure that those responsible for these and all other heinous crimes will be brought to justice. No one will escape responsibility. The denazification of Ukraine will be completed," he concluded.
Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Vladimir Putin emphasized , its goal is to "protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
Putin warns of "lightning strikes" in case of a threat to Russia
[RIA Novosti] If someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine from the outside and create a strategic threat, then the blows will be lightning-fast, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council of Legislators.
"We have made all the decisions on this matter," he said.
He stressed that the country has all the tools for this, which no one else can boast of now. "But we will not brag. We will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know about it," the president said.
In addition, the Russian leader assured that all the tasks of the special operation in Ukraine would be unconditionally fulfilled in order to guarantee peace and security to the people of Russia and Donbass in the historical perspective.
According to him, Russian soldiers and officers averted "a real danger that has already hung over our homeland" and prevented a large-scale conflict that "would have unfolded on our territory, but according to someone else's scenarios."
Putin noted that unfriendly countries relied on Russophobia and neo-Nazis and consistently created anti-Russia from a neighboring state. At the same time, the West has turned the Ukrainian people into expendable material, but the realization of this is already coming to the majority of the population.
"When Russia reacted favorably, in a friendly, comradely, fraternal way to the creation of an independent Ukrainian state, of course, then they proceeded from the fact that it would be a friendly state, that we would go further together, strengthening and developing each other, "creating the most competitive conditions for our development. Yes, in new historical conditions, but, of course, no one expected the creation of anti-Russia on the historical Russian territories, and we cannot allow this to happen," the head of state explained.
Moscow's reaction to these actions was correct and timely, which confirms the course of recent events, including Kyiv's claims to possess nuclear weapons, the discovery of Western biological laboratories in Ukraine and the supply of weapons, the president added.
"The day before yesterday, at the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office, I spoke about the need to form a detailed and irrefutable evidence base for all heinous crimes, violations of international humanitarian law by neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries, and there are more and more of them in Ukraine. Once again <...> several people were killed, several were detained. Soon the Ministry of Defense will present them to the public," Putin also announced.
Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Putin emphasized , its goal is "to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
Photos and videos at the link. There are lots of Jews from the former Soviet Union in Israel, and many have ties of sentiment to their former homeland.
[Jpost] A video of what appears to be Israelis fighting for Ukraine has been circulating on social media since Sunday, as Russia's invasion has entered into its third month.
"We want to give many thanks to all the nation of Israel, to the government of Israel, for helping us while we can fight against the Russians, in this difficult war," said one fighter in accented Hebrew.
The footage was posted by a popular Twitter account of a Canadian volunteer that claims to be fighting the Russian military in the Kherson area. The strategic port city of Kherson was conquered by Russia early in the war.
UKRAINIAN FOREIGN LEGION
It is unknown if the alleged Israelis shown in the video are joint Ukrainian-Israeli citizens who have enlisted into the main military branches of Ukraine's armed forces or have enlisted as foreign fighters.
Ukraine has formed a foreign legion division and a foreign fighter special forces unit for foreign volunteers. The Ukrainian military has claimed that 20,000 foreigners from 52 countries have applied to enlist. The International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine website lists Israel on its website, with local contact information to facilitate Israeli enlistment.
At the war's outset, the Ukrainian embassy in Israel invited Israelis to volunteer in the fight in Ukraine, but the Facebook post was soon deleted. Over a dozen Israelis reportedly joined the fight after the embassy's call to arms, but since then, there has not been much news about Israelis fighting in Ukraine.
At the beginning of March, Russia warned that it would not treat what it calls "foreign mercenaries" as lawful combatants, and would not provide them the rights due under international humanitarian law.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A man opened fire at a kindergarten in Ulyanovsk, Russia killing a nanny and two children. According to local reports the shooter took his own life after opening fire on his three victims.
[CNBC] Gross domestic productunexpectedly declined 1.4% in the first quarter, marking an abrupt reversal for an economy coming off its best performance since 1984, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
The negative growth rate missed even the subdued Dow Jones estimate of a 1% gain for the quarter.
A plethora of factors conspired to weigh against growth during the first three months of 2022, which fell off a cliff following the 6.9% gain to close out last year.
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I think the dems messed up a bit. They were supposed to crash the economy and let a pub administration inherit it.
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and next quarter the economy will have to deal with an increase in Fed Funds rate, increase in prime, etc. as well as the continuing supply chain mess and nasty inflation
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Will be a perfect time for the new pub congress to say "there's no money, we can't borrow more, our hands are tied."
Of course, that won't happen...
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This is, as we learned in the 1970s, the only way to stop inflation. Best to take our medicine now. The longer you wait, as we also learned in the 1970s, the worse the medicine is.
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Just priced some things since end of 1st quarter, new 2nd quarter prices.
Good news is Biden may get his opportunity to make a re-election bid. Any other Dem would be stupid to stamp on the burning lunch bag that this Administration has left on our doorstep. Abrams might run but she probably has Galactic ambitions.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defense chief who became Sri Lanka’s president in 2019.
But the 43-year-old army pensioner is one of several dozen veterans now camping out at a protest site near the president’s office in Colombo, having lost faith in a leader who stubbornly resisted calls to resign when the economy began to implode and most of his cabinet quit.
"We dedicated our lives to save this country and it is extremely sad to see what has happened to it now," Kumara said, sat surrounded by old comrades, several with prosthetic limbs.
Weakened by the pandemic, the Indian Ocean island’s economy was fast-tracked toward disaster by a surge in global oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. The government finances were already in a parlous state, partly owing to populist policies, including tax cuts.
Rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves left Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, without enough dollars to pay for vital imports of fuel, food and medicine, and sometimes violent mostly peaceful street demonstrations erupted this month as shortages and power cuts became acute.
Earlier this month Sri Lanka kicked off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a program to stabilize the economy. The government is also in talks with several countries and multilateral agencies to line up about $3 billion in bridge financing and has suspended repayment on some of its foreign debt to divert funds to pay for essential imports.
Amid the unfolding crisis, there have been street protests countrywide, with thousands of people joining some demonstrations.
"I get a pension because of the taxpayers of this country, and we have a responsibility to step up now and support the brave efforts by these young people to save this country," Kumara said.
"They are fighting for this country’s future," said the veteran, who had served in the army for 16 years. "That is why we are here."
Father to three children, Kumara lost his limbs in a mortar explosion weeks before Sri Lanka’s bloody 26-year war against Tamil separatists ended in May 2009.
Rajapaksa and his brother, then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, ordered the offensive that finally broke the rebels’ resistance, but thousands of people died in the onslaught.
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lost faith in a leader who stubbornly resisted calls to resign when the economy began to implode and most of his cabinet quit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[PAGESIX] “90 Day Fiancé” alum Caroline Schwitzky’s boyfriend has been arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder after he tried to strangle and drown her.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
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NYPOST] A young London man who butchered his best friend in front of his family has been sentenced to prison for the horrifying crime.
/\ Excellent post and link. Thank you Clusosh.
