[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is what happens when yet another Soros attorney general refuses to jail criminals.
Ashkan Amirsoleymani, 35, has been booked on three counts of attempted murder related to Friday's attack, the LAPD said Saturday
Amirsoleymani is being held on $3million bail
Police have not yet disclosed Amirsoleymani's motive and Los Angeles Police Officer Rosario Cervantes said no other information was available Saturday
Amirsoleymani walked into Encino Hospital Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, police said
He had parked his car in the middle of a street and went to the emergency room, where he asked for treatment for anxiety before stabbing his victims
The assailant was taken into custody at 5pm PST, according a representative for the hospital
Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center said two of the victims have been treated and released
The third victim remains hospitalized in fair but stable condition, the TV station reported
LAPD said that the suspect had a lengthy record, including two arrests last year for resisting arrest, and for battery of a police officer.
Benjamin Roman, an ultrasound technician, told NBC4 that before the stabbing, he saw the suspect, who had a dog with him and who might have been high on drugs because he looked anxious and was drenched in sweat.
[FoxNews] At least three people are dead in Philadelphia and nearly a dozen other victims have been injured during a shooting incident Saturday evening, according to multiple reports.
Authorities responded to the scene in the South Street neighborhood just before midnight, where they found multiple shooters, with one firing into a crowd of people, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Philadelphia Police Department Inspector D.F. Pace said 14 people had been shot, including three who died, per the outlet.
"You can imagine there were hundreds of individuals enjoying South Street, as they do every single weekend, when this shooting broke out," Pace said, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
According to the report, a Philadelphia police officer fired their own weapon at least once toward the suspect before the individual fled.
The suspect was reportedly struck in the arm, but it is not immediately clear if the suspect was hit by the officers' gunfire amid the chaotic situation.
Eric Walsh, an employee of the nearby O'Neals Pub, said he heard gunshots around 11:30 p.m. and acted swiftly to usher those in and around the bar to seek shelter, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
"People were coming off the street with blood splatters on white sneakers and skinned knees and skinned elbows," Walsh said per the report. "We literally just were balling up napkins and wetting them and handing them to people... it was chaos."
One shooter reportedly dropped a handgun with an extended magazine, which was recovered by police, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Officers recovered a second firearm early Sunday.
No arrests were made at the scene though police said the first suspect is a woman, Fox 29 reported. She was last seen in a 2018 Volkswagen Atlas with the NJ license plate K88-EUL, according to the report.
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Media disinterest indicates that the incident was not on the talking points distributed for this weekend. These lives will not push the narrative forward. These politically inconvenient deaths will not be exploited until the WEF rolls out Soylent Green.
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Angeli Rose Gomez, who was handcuffed trying to rescue her kids at the Uvalde school shooting, said police are threatening her to keep her quiet
Gomez has been critical of the local police's late response in getting into the Robb Elementary school to stop the rampage that left 21 dead
She said she got a call from law enforcement saying she could face a probation violation for obstruction of justice if she keeps talking with the media
The heroic mom said the judge overseeing her probation told her she would be save and encouraged her to share her story
It comes as Uvalde chief Pete Arredondo faces criticism for instructing police to stand back when he incorrectly believed the shooter was barricaded alone
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Strange ... Dug for about 20+ mins. can't seem to find Uvalde chief Pete (Pedro) Arredondo political affiliation or the vote count for Uvalde City Council District 3 May 7th election.
Taken to a fire station secure location?
Was he rendered aid?
[FoxNews] President Biden was spotted on a beach in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on Saturday afternoon.
Fox News obtained a picture of Biden walking down the beach on Saturday afternoon around 3 p.m.,which was after a private aircraft entered restricted airspace near the president's beach house.
Biden was taken to a nearby fire station after the airplane was detected.
"Shortly before 1 p.m. today a privately owned aircraft entered the restricted airspace over Rehoboth Delaware after mistakenly entering a secured area," the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement. "The aircraft was immediately escorted out of the restricted airspace."
"Preliminary investigation reveals the pilot was not on the proper radio channel, was not following the NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) that had been filed and was not following published flight guidance," the statement reads. "The United States Secret Service will be interviewing the pilot."
[ET] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate monkeypox after recent cases suggest that the disease may be spreading through person-to-person community transmission. Are you sure it's not just a small "community"?
"Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel history to an area with endemic monkeypox suggests person-to-person community spread," wrote the authors of the CDC report. I didn't see anything about people violating social distancing regulations; might that be a factor? While a high proportion of individuals currently diagnosed with the disease are men who identify as gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men (MSM), CDC cautions that the early cases may simply reflect an "early introduction into interconnected social networks" suggesting that the currently observed trends may be biased.
The health agency speculated that current observations of the disease mostly affecting MSM individuals may be due to selection bias by clinicians due to previous established medical relationships between MSM and some clinical STIs and infectious diseases.
Close contact with infected persons or objects likely to carry infection such as linen still remains the most significant risk factor for monkeypox virus infection in humans.
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Let me get this straight (pun intended) "Men who have sex with men" is a third group? Wouldn't they be either Gay or Bi? Odd that the vast majority of infected are men, 98% in in the UK. Strange virus.....
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Identification of monkeypox clusters in several countries that do not have endemic disease and involving patients with no direct travel history to an area with endemic monkeypox suggests person-to-person community spread
In which California judicial contortions astound even Russia Today. More on this story from a few days ago.
[RT] Insects don’t qualify for California Endangered Species Act protection, so bumblebees are being reclassed.
Four species of bumblebees have been reclassified as ‘fish’ in the state of California so that they can be protected under its Endangered Species Act, a court ruled on Tuesday, reversing a 2020 ruling and affirming that the term ‘fish’ shouldn’t be confined to merely ‘aquatic’ invertebrates under the law.
“We acknowledge the scope of the definition is ambiguous but also recognize we are not interpreting the definition on a blank slate,” the California Court of Appeal for the Third District declared in its ruling.
The four species of bumblebees are now protected by the California Fish and Game Commission as at-risk plants and animals, sheltering the insects from import, export, possession, purchase, or sale. The move is a blow to agricultural groups, in particular the Almond Alliance of California, which has lashed out against the ruling, arguing it would further financially burden growers of the crop who use pesticides known to harm bees.
Because insects are not a protected category under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), the agency had to get creative. Candidates for CESA protection are limited to “a native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant” under California’s fish and game laws. While some species of insect are protected in the state, they fall under the federal Endangered Species Act.
The agency opted to split biological hairs in order to save the bees, noting the legal definition of fish – “a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals” – includes invertebrates, which includes bumblebees.
While the trial court dismissed their claim, the appellate court countered that bees could in fact qualify as fish, because “although the term fish is colloquially and commonly understood to refer to aquatic species, the term of art employed by the Legislature in the definition of fish… is not so limited.”
The decision pointed out that a snail had previously been listed under CESA, noting that because such a terrestrial invertebrate “could have qualified as such only within the definition of fish,” the Commission’s authority was not limited to listing only aquatic invertebrates.
“Accordingly, a terrestrial invertebrate, like each of the four bumble bee species, may be listed as an endangered or threatened species under the Act,” the ruling stated. “The legislative history supports the liberal interpretation of the Act (the lens through which we are required to construe the Act) that the Commission may list any invertebrate as an endangered or threatened species.”
The newly-protected species include Crotch, Franklin, Suckley, and Western bumble bees.
Note that these are native bee species, not the imported European honeybee, so they nest in the ground and provide neither honey nor wax.
They are “highly endangered,” according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, whose spokeswoman, Sarina Jepsen, argued that classifying the critical pollinators as endangered is essential to their survival.
The California Endangered Species Act protects about 250 species of plant and animal. However, it doesn’t cover insects, theoretically leaving bumblebees in a legal no man’s land. Over the years, the definition of fish has slowly been expanded to include amphibians and later invertebrates in general, opening the door to the inclusion of bees.
#2
Back in the late 18th century, the Catholic church decided that beavers and a host of other semi aquatic animals were fish. Had to do with the "eat fish on Friday" thing, for people who lived in areas where there weren't edible fish.
Totally serious here.
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Does this mean we can now eat Bumble Bees on Fridays now? (Chocolate coated bees anyone?)
#4
Fillet of bumblebee sounds like it might require a special pallet to truly appreciate. I will probably wait until I see it on a kitchen stadium show. I am a hard pass on robot cloned pig even if the guy who travels the globe sampling roast penis declares that it is succulent.
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Wasn’t ‘Filet of Bumblebee’ in that movie ‘Fantasia?’
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Back in the late 18th century, the Catholic church decided that beavers and a host of other semi aquatic animals were fish. Had to do with the "eat fish on Friday" thing
Even before that, monks were trying to get pigs to live in the water so they could be classified as fish and get around the restriction.
[FoxNews] A Chicago man was arrested Thursday after he shot and wounded a U.S. Marshal and his police dog who were serving an arrest warrant on the city’s Northwest Side, authorities said.
Tarrion Johnson, 19, was taken into custody shortly after he opened fire on an officer with the U.S. Marshals Service’s fugitive apprehension team and his federal police dog in the 5200 block of West Belmont around 1:20 p.m., Chicago police said.
The unit was serving Tarrion with an arrest warrant for a previous attempted murder charge, the Chicago Sun-Times reported prosecutors as saying during the suspect’s appearance in bond court Saturday.
The marshal rushed the wounded K-9 to a veterinary clinic immediately after the shooting, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford told the paper. The officer then realized he was shot in the hand but declined to be taken to a hospital.
The U.S. Marshals Service said the police dog was in the intensive care unit of an emergency veterinary hospital on Friday, WLS-TV reported. No update on the K-9’s condition was immediately available.
During Saturday's hearing, the paper reported that a Cook County judge declared Tarrion a threat to the public and denied him bail.
[FoxNews] A suburban Chicago-area police officer shot and killed a hatchet-wielding man seen on shocking body camera footage pulling up during a traffic stop in the city of Naperville, Illinois, police said.
The Naperville Police Department, in releasing a still from the bodycam footage, said an officer was conducting a traffic stop around 11 a.m. Friday near the intersection of Bond Street and McDowell Road when an unrelated vehicle pulled up next to the vehicle the officer had pulled over.
A man, described as a White male in his 20s, exited the vehicle and charged at the officer with a hatchet in his hand, police said. A still image taken from the officer’s bodycam shows the man dressed in all black clothing brandishing the weapon in his right hand as he appears to barrel toward the officer.
White male, 20s, all in black...could he be Antifa?
The officer, a 22-year-veteran of the Naperville Police Department, which serves the city of about 145,000 people approximately 28 miles west of Chicago, discharged a firearm, striking the suspect.
The man was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The officer was not injured in the incident, the department said.
[BenarNews] Bangladesh’s elite police force, the Rapid Action Battalion, has operated effectively despite U.S. sanctions in December 2021 over alleged human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, Dhaka’s state minister for foreign affairs told BenarNews in an interview in Washington.
Md. Shahriar Alam was in the U.S. capital this week as part of a delegation meeting with American officials for the Second High-Level Economic Consultation between the two nations.
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[NY Post] It’s not just the royal family giving them a frosty reception.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were loudly booed Friday while returning together to royal events in the UK for the first time in two years.
A small cheer initially greeted the exiled royal couple’s exit from St Paul’s Cathedral — just to be quickly drowned out by a chorus of shouted boos, video shows.
Similar booing broke out when the couple arrived for the National Service of Thanksgiving, their first public royal event together since officially quitting royal life two years ago.
Just like then, they appeared to get a frosty reception from other royals, too — with Harry’s brother, Prince William, and wife Kate sitting far away from them inside the cathedral. Harry thought he was marrying up...
She is older by a few years, so there’s that.
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The Queen Elisabeth is the definition of what is royalty is, not this pair of celebrity want-a-be's nor Prince Charles.
I honestly feel Queen Elisabeth is the last true monarch.
#2
The picture of Meghan pushing herface into the group of children at the window so the press would have a photo is so utterly telling.
They skipped the party at the Guildhall to avoid the bad press that would follow all the snubs, and I think Harry is stunned by the public display of disapproval. I suspect he had no idea how badly damaged he has become with both family and public.
#3
Harry looks like a dork in the pic above. He did serious military service. That's apparently no inoculant. There are more than a few here who need to absorb that lesson.
I don't give an F how angry that will make some here.
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Guy who allegedly shot bin Laden thinks Second Amendment should have guardrails.
See my thoughts above.
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When i look at harry i see 'enery-d-8th'.
he manned a heli-gunship in vietnam.
he fired at bad people.
i like him.
so what who he married?
[ZERO] Following on the heels of the Biden administration announcing it would send longer range rocket systems to Ukraine, the Kremlin has issued a veiled threat that if it's territory is hit it could strike back directly at the West.
"One of President Putin’s closest allies has warned that Moscow could target western cities if Ukraine uses rocket systems supplied by the United States to carry out strikes on Russian territory," the UK Times is reporting. The dire warning was given by close top Putin ally and former president Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as the Russian security council deputy chairman.
"If, God forbid, these weapons are used against Russian territory then our armed forces will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers," Medvedev warned in the new statements.
That's when he suggested the following for the first time, marking a severe escalation of rhetoric:
"Of course, it needs to be understood that the final decision-making centers in this case, unfortunately, are not located on the territory of Kyiv" - with the suggesting being that those Western capitals supplying the advanced arms could come under attack in response.
Previously Russia has threatened to hit "decision-making centers" within Ukraine, such as Kiev and Lviv. These cities have been targeted on occasion, but rarely, throughout the war now in its fourth month.
The US confirmed this past week that Ukraine would receive M142 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, which are medium-ranged, capable of striking targets some 50 miles away.
President Biden on Tuesday stressed that "we're not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia" - which the Kremlin acknowledged as a "rational" decision, while stilling condemning the transfer of the systems.
Ukraine's government, meanwhile, has reportedly given Washington "assurances" that it will not uses US-supplied weaponry to target Russian territory, which Moscow has long made clear would mark severe violation of its 'red lines'.
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Here is what the Russian SOB is talking about. I'd be keeping an eye on air bases and data centers in Estonia and Poland.
NATO’s military presence in the east of the Alliance
An important component of NATO’s deterrence and defence posture is military presence in the eastern part of Alliance territory. In recent years, Allies have enhanced NATO’s forward presence by establishing multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They have also sent more ships, planes and troops to NATO’s eastern flank, from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south. These actions demonstrate Allies’ solidarity, determination and ability to defend Alliance territory and populations.
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Medvedev the western-oriented Russian liberal may or may not be an "SOB," but it's striking that even the pro-western Russian elite, such as Medvedev, are so willing to thumb their nose at Biden and fling his poo right back at him.
Have Biden's puppet masters bothered to consider that maybe their wished-for alternatives to Putin are even more militant?
Do they even know that their liberal wet dream, Navalny, is a strident Russian nationalist who supported Russia's Crimean annexation (as do 90% of the Russian public including the residents of Crimea)?
Does Biden or his puppet master have even the faintest idea about the consequences of what they are doing?
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Actually, maybe the Deep Staters do understand the consequences. The sanctions are actually funding Russia's war machine. Russia has more than tripled its current account surplus and has also taken three times as much territory as they held on Feb. 24 -- they're already up to 20% according to the little man in Kyiv. If this goes on much longer they'll have close to 1/3 of Ukraine. Poland will take another chunk around Lwow/Lviv.
So now the Deep Staters are shifting the Narrative again: all the talk is about the urgent need for "NEGOTIATIONS"
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Red flag from Russia is a true Red flag. Should Russia be hit I see a greater probability of Poland being hit first since they have been so helpful supping needs to Ukraine. Certainly Belarus is having serious thoughts concerning Poland. China could, any day move on Taiwan. This would divert attention from Russia. So if hostilities escalate who else might want to move on another. They talked of Domino effect in the Arab world. Perhaps this is the plan towards NATO or USA. Biden has certainly weakened America, money, military equipment of all types and very low morale in our military. Spend, spend and spend.
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^ The Russians are hitting the tunnel and the roads on the border with Poland through which much of the NATO materiel gets transported. In the East, most of the ammo for the weapons sent to the Ukrainians is used up in a day or two, and then many of those weapons are captured by the Russians.
It's a complete clownshow, just theater now. Especially because they're actually preparing the western public and their little Kyiv puppet for negotiations.
Even CNN's faithful administration lackey Natasha Bertrand is reporting that negotiations are being prepared now.
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Just returned from 3 weeks in Baltic Sea area; all countries in the area are supporting Ukraine; typical man-in-the - street conversation supports the state and also the many Ukrainian refugees. Several I spoke with have taken folks in, or their church was sponsoring.
Was in Stockholm when Kersarge pulled in; extremely supportive population.
Yes they are worried about any Russian advances, but all countries we were in were actually turning away people that wanted to join their military….
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They are smart to be scared. Maybe the USA should work with existing NATO members instead of worrying about minting questionable new ones?
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Official Washington is turning decisively away from the war... now that Raytheon and Lockheed and the rest of the Seamp's Ukraine grifters have their loot, they're trying to wind down this shitshow as fast as they possibly can. The phrase on everyone's lips now is NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT.
CNN's big story is about frantic maneuvering for a "negotiated settlement." A long editorial in The Hill urges the same and quashes all previous talk of "victory" by those plucky Ukrainians.
CNN: Western allies meeting regularly to game out potential framework for Ukraine negotiated settlement
"US officials have in recent weeks been meeting regularly with their British and European counterparts to discuss potential frameworks for a ceasefire and for ending the war through a negotiated settlement, multiple sources familiar with the talks told CNN"
The Hill: "Russia’s inevitable victory is [not desirable and won't be] total. The outcome of this war is a Pyrrhic victory [for Russia] at best. But it will be a victory nonetheless — and we in the West had better come to grips with that hard truth. ...
"Just as Ukraine lacks the ability to liberate all its pre-2014 territory, it also lacks the ability to liberate the recently conquered territory in the Donbas or along the Azov coast. Unlike in the north of Ukraine, these territories are central to Russian interests in Ukraine and, as such, Russia simply will not withdraw from them ....
"Nor will Ukrainian forces – themselves, it should be noted, suffering terrible attrition all along the battle front and growing weaker with each passing day – be strong enough to compel them to do so. No, like the previous two scenarios, this one is simply an impossibility.
"And that leaves only one other conceivable outcome: a fragmented and partly dismembered Ukraine, neither fully part of the West nor entirely within the Russian sphere of influence.
"A Ukraine fragmented in that the whole of the Donbas and perhaps other territories will be left beyond Kyiv’s control; partly dismembered in that Crimea will remain part of Russia (at least in Russian eyes); and not fully part of the West in that it will not be free to join NATO or even to have a meaningful partnership with the EU. Simply put, this outcome is not only not impossible, it’s not even improbable.
"And when this final scenario comes to pass, who will have won the war in Ukraine? Well, it won’t be Ukraine."
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NATO never should have expanded in the first place.
Our bloody Ukraine shitshow was completely predictable. Bush's father had the right idea. If Clinton had simply pursued HWBush's policies none of this would have happened.
America would be vastly wealthier, safer and better off today if NATO had been allowed to die a natural death in 1992.
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Btw, in case you missed it, the other $9B in "military aid to Ukraine" isn't going to Ukraine. It's actually staying here, because our fuckwits have wasted so much money on their Ukrainian shitshow that they've depleted our own stocks of weaponry to dangerously low levels.
By throwing billions in weaponry into this absolutely pointless dumpster fire in Ukraine, they've degraded our ability to wage a real war with China.
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Thank you for that link, Dale dear. It could only have been more useful if it had photos of the actual damage.
Just returned from 3 weeks in Baltic Sea area ... but all countries we were in were actually turning away people that wanted to join their military….
Good to know, USN, Ret. I hope you had a wonderful trip.
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Conservative Inc. grifter Jack Posobiec (We must be willing to destroy America to save Poland!) covered this several days ago. Yes. It's not exactly the work of a fading military power.
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Yes: brave Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians! Like the...
Brave Ukrainians! (slaughtered)
Brave Afghans! (abandoned)
Brave Libyans! (who dat?)
Brave Kurds! (hung out to dry)
Brave Vietnamese! (so long, suckers)
"To be America's enemy can be dangerous; to be America's friend can be fatal"
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"To be America's enemy can be dangerous; to be America's friend can be fatal"
Dr Kissinger, I presume?
Memo to Ukrainians (and bolshy Balts): Lie back and think of Kissinger
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#16 Yes: brave Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians! Like the...
Brave Ukrainians! (slaughtered)
Brave Afghans! (abandoned)
Brave Libyans! (who dat?)
Brave Kurds! (hung out to dry)
Brave Vietnamese! (so long, suckers)
Don't forget the Hungarian uprising in 1956. America did nothing to help them against the Soviets.... although in retrospect that was probably the right decision.
Eisenhower was the wisest and most successful foreign policy president that America has had since 1945
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Funny how you list everyone who's been betrayed by Washington in your sales pitch for adding Ukraine to the list of people betrayed by Washington.
Although I do like the way you mock that newcomer asshole "USN Ret." person, who's only been posting here for twenty years. That's not nearly enough time for him to have the same credibilty as the nick you've been using the first time today. Twenty years is such a _short_ period of time compared to twelve hours, and his actual on-the-ground reporting has got to be useless compared to whatever snark is handed out on the mimeographs distributed around the boiler room in St. Leninburg.
#25
On Ukraine, CNN's Natasha Bertrand is just a mouthpiece for the Deep State. They're pushing the New Narrative, the one that Biden inserted into his May 31 editorial: There will be a NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT. Ukraine will be carved up. Russia will of course keep Crimea and Mariupol and the Donbas.
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adding Ukraine to the list of people betrayed by Washington
I didn't do that, bud.. that betrayal was the work of Nuland, and Sullivan, and Biden and Obama and Graham and McCain and all the other neo-con shitheads who led the poor Ukrainians down the garden path.
It was unbelievably foolish and reckless to encourage them to believe for even a second that they could join NATO, or seize Crimea.
What Nuland and then Miss Lindsey and McCain did was criminal. We're all paying the price for their criminal negligence and recklessness.
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Oh no, it's the "look at what they made us do!" endless line of excuses.
I had no idea that John McCain is directing Putin's actions some four years after his death.
Maybe you should try sprinkling holy water on him, see if it helps?
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Even more seriously: NATO spent the last eight years since the first two Russian invasions doing _nothing_ and now a third one has been launched with heavy loss of life, both civilian and military, on the Ukranian side, claiming "We need to do this to fight NATO!" and you're surprised and upset that NATO is finally doing something?
They finally got off their ass and did something in reaction to _Russian_ actions and the Russian propaganda coordinated with it.
#32
In Hell, McShame is gritting his teeth that he isn't here for it.
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The former Soviet states remember the crushing boot communists placed on them for decades. They reject the Russian aggression for obvious reasons. I know Ukraine is corrupt, but your "Nazi!, Nazi!, Nazi!" bleatings to defend Vlad's war to resubjugate is hypocritical and evil. "Just let him take what he wants" is the cry of Commie symps when Russia is threatening anyone who supplies the means to help stop his grasping evil.
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Seems most Russians are mostly nostalgic for the USSR. In its outward facing manifestations, anyway. That doesn't get near enough discussion.
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Never trust an Arab. Never trust a Russian. There, I said it again.
#36
The Putinists are just being the normal bullies here -- HOW DARE THE NATION WE INVADED STRIKE BACK!!!
I feel sorry for the soldiers fated to die a long, painful, lingering death because Putin sent them to dig into the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
What a shame all that pain can't be put onto Putin and his defenders.
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There’s minimal incentive for Putin to negotiate. Currently Russia is using stand-off weapons to bleed Ukrainian manpower with acceptable Russian casualty rate (Uke infantry targeted by RF arty and missiles). While 99% not their first choice, the general staff can elect to “go slow” and “demilitarize” the Ukraine by letting them feed troops into a meat grinder. Simultaneously the West is running down their war stocks significantly enough for open commentary regarding the same. Add in that effectively the West is funding the operation by continuing to purchase Russian oil and gas in rubles - whose exchange rate versus the dollar is higher than at the beginning of the operation. Russia has also continued to sell uranium fuel for reactors to the West, aluminum, steel and other essential materials. Very likely they are turning a profit on this exercise. An old maxim is “don’t correct your opponent when they continue making mistakes.” All that being said - if NATO, the US or the Ukraine offered Russia the moon and stars on a silver platter, what have they done to engender any sense of trust? The Minsk accords were not enforced - had they been, the current fracas wouldn’t have occurred. Bottom line - the US doesn’t keep its word on international agreements or domestic ones either (“no amendment to the constitution is absolute” per Biden Thursday).
Fighter mafia will put off reading the memo indefinitely.
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Fok a bunch of Russian SOB's! I'm personally sick and tired of their constant threatening. If they fire on Poland, say NOTHING! Immediately sink their 50 (plus or minus) subs and put the entire Russian military establishment to the sword and be done with it.
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Will the Russians FIRST target the DC area, plus CIA, FBI, and NSA HQ and such .............. ???
Seems like a reasonable choice ...
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Why would they target their allies?
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demilitarize” the Ukraine by letting them feed troops into a meat grinder.
In the Donbas, Ukraine's Territorial Defense Force is experiencing a 65% casualty rate.
Egging on the Ukrainians to send thousands of untrained, inexperienced ordinary citizens into a slaughterhouse was nothing short of criminal.
Nuland, Sullivan, Graham, Biden et alia should be prosecuted for war crimes.
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There’s minimal incentive for Putin to negotiate. Currently Russia is using stand-off weapons to bleed Ukrainian manpower with acceptable Russian casualty rate
Heckuva job, Brandon. Unfuckingbelievable.
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#39 Fok a bunch of Russian SOB's! I'm personally sick and tired of their constant threatening. If they fire on Poland, say NOTHING! Immediately sink their 50 (plus or minus) subs and put the entire Russian military establishment to the sword and be done with it.
Is that you, General Buck Turgidsson?
Or is it actually Jack Ripper, going off the deep end...
"Just... give me the code, Jack... Jack? JACK?"
-BLAM!-
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Btw, in case you missed it, the other $9B in "military aid to Ukraine" isn't going to Ukraine. It's actually staying here, because our fuckwits have wasted so much money on their Ukrainian shitshow that they've depleted our own stocks of weaponry to dangerously low levels.
I consider this a good thing. Before that, this administration was not willing to spend for replacing stocks expended since 9/11.
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There’s minimal incentive for Putin to negotiate. Currently Russia is using stand-off weapons to bleed Ukrainian manpower with acceptable Russian casualty rate (Uke infantry targeted by RF arty and missiles). While 99% not their first choice, the general staff can elect to “go slow” and “demilitarize” the Ukraine by letting them feed troops into a meat grinder
And the ten or so battalions sent into Severodonetsk over the last week were just someone's imagination? I was hoping to see the news about how that went, but there doesn't seem to be any here, just trolls telling us to shut up and listen to Kissenger. Guess I'll have to go back to twitter to find out the actual news.
If you are curious about the 10 BTGs you can see pro Ukrainian speculation over at Tom Cooper on Medium or pro Russian speculation over at Moon over Alabama. The two best sources I’ve located for orbats and sitreps stopped producing same due opsec. Folks on neither side like to see their dirty laundry aired in public
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In the Donbas, Ukraine's Territorial Defense Force is experiencing a 65% casualty rate.
So slightly lower than the casualty rate among Russian generals.
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Lie back and think of Crawford!
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Slenter: thanks.
There are two guys on twitter I've been following: Trent Telenko and Osinttechnical. The former has a really heavy emphasis on military logistics because it's his day job.
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BREAKING
Nicole Tung
Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine
"At a bar in Kyiv, patrons watched the World Cup qualifier match between Wales and Ukraine, a contest delayed three months by the Russian invasion. The Ukrainians lost 1-0 in heartbreaking fashion: An own goal in the 34th minute by forward Andriy Yarmolenko."
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Nuland, Sullivan, Graham, Biden et alia should be prosecuted for war crimes.
But not the guy who ordered the invasion, ordered troops to dig into the contaminated soil in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and orders the shelling of cities?
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Pooty pays the bills
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Lie back and think of Crawford!
Nice little town on the River Clyde in Scotland. Two iron-age hill forts, a couple of Roman camp sites, and the ruins of a Norman fort nearby.
Oh, and the "Treenis" on the hillside above the town. That was the detail that convinced me my ancestors came from the region.
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US generals lead from the rear. Except during their #PrideMonth, when they lead with their rears.
Historians gathered today to enjoy a week of fellowship, exchange of perspectives, and gorgeous Appalachian views in our nation’s new capital, formerly Charleston, West Virginia.
Some 365 miles away, and little visited due to ongoing fallout, the ruins of the old national seat still gape beneath the sky, the graveyard of millions. It’s little comfort to know that faraway Moscow stands as even more of a ghost town, after punitive U.S. ground burst missiles rendered the region uninhabitable for tens of thousands of years.
The Post-American Historical Society has gathered scholars from every still-inhabitable region of the U.S. to explore a painful question.
The Origins of the Third World War
The keynote address, by visiting Oxford scholar Prof. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, offered a provocative thesis. “While the question of war guilt still vexes relations between the remaining populations of North America and Eurasia, too few scholars have delved into the specific political history that led up to the conflict. Surviving records from before 2023 are limited, of course. We can only work with a few paper archives, and highly degraded electronic media discovered in cities that escaped nuclear attack. In a sense, it is easier to study the ancient Sumerians than pre-war America,” Wooster admitted.
“Nevertheless, we must strive to piece together from shards the story of the last intact America, the last intact Europe, in the hope of understanding what went wrong.”
War Was Avoidable
His fellow scholars were fascinated by records Wooster had unearthed of a major political scandal in the presidency of the last pre-war U.S. leader, Donald Trump. By careful reconstruction of recently restored court records, Wooster has concluded that the tensions which escalated between the one-time “NATO” alliance, the United States, and the Russian Federation need not have ended in a mutually suicidal conflict. “There was an off-ramp on the road to war,” Wooster said. “Alas, it was the road not taken.”
Wooster admits that the relentless drive for expansion by the U.S. and NATO in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 made such a war always likely. “The world saw on both the putatively antiwar left, and supposedly prudent right, a broad consensus that the West should move in to traditionally Russian spheres of influence.
“While every Russian regime for 500 years had sought to increase a buffer to its west for fear of invasion, Western politicians insisted on stripping that away. They surrounded a shrinking, humiliated, resentful one-time great power with small, weak new countries connected via the NATO treaty to a nuclear hair-trigger. One really must wonder what they were thinking, or if they were thinking at all.”
The Road Not Taken
But this escalating provocation need not have continued, Wooster claims. He adduces campaign statements, policy documents, and other indications that Donald Trump, elected in 2016, sought to deescalate tensions. “Trump did not see the benefit to the United States of an endless confrontation with Russia, particularly as China was both growing economically and rearming itself at a breakneck speed. We have seen, of course, the outcome, in the doubling of Chinese territory since the Russo-American War, and Beijing’s occupation of Japan, Indochina, and the Philippines. None of this, I argue, was inevitable.”
Trump’s basic worldview argued for a rapprochement with Russia, including a negotiated settlement to the very real territorial disputes between that country and “Ukraine,” an independent nation-state whose territory was once home to tens of millions. Of course, it is now mostly empty, irradiated forests, with ghost cities roamed by animals.
The Hoax That Ended the World
“What prevented Trump from acting on his peaceful, patriotic instincts?” Wooster asked rhetorically. “I believe that I’ve found the answer.”
[IsraelTimes] Ukrainian intelligence official calls Russian threat ’pretty severe’ when it comes to disrupting reconnaissance efforts, commanders’ communications with troops.
On Ukraine’s battlefields, the simple act of powering up a cellphone can beckon a rain of deathly fire. Artillery radar and remote controls for unmanned aerial vehicles may also invite showers of shrapnel.
This is electronic warfare, a critical but largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Military commanders largely shun discussing it, fearing they’ll jeopardize operations by revealing secrets.
Electronic warfare technology targets communications, navigation and guidance systems to locate, blind and deceive the enemy and direct lethal blows. It is used against artillery, fighter jets, cruise missiles, drones and more. Militaries also use it to protect their forces.
It’s an area where Russia was thought to have a clear advantage going into the war. Yet, for reasons not entirely clear, its much-touted electronic warfare prowess was barely seen in the war’s early stages in the chaotic failure to seize the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
It has become far more of a factor in fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine, where shorter, easier-to-defend supply lines let Russia move electronic warfare gear closer to the battlefield.
"They are jamming everything their systems can reach," said an official of Aerorozvidka, a reconnaissance team of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle tinkerers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of safety concerns. "We can’t say they dominate, but they hinder us greatly."
A Ukrainian intelligence official called the Russian threat "pretty severe" when it comes to disrupting reconnaissance efforts and commanders’ communications with troops. Russian jamming of GPS receivers on drones that Ukraine uses to locate the enemy and direct artillery fire is particularly intense "on the line of contact," he said.
Ukraine has scored some successes in countering Russia’s electronic warfare efforts. It has captured important pieces of hardware — a significant intelligence coup — and destroyed at least two multi-vehicle mobile electronic warfare units.
Its own electronic warfare capability is hard to assess. Analysts say it has markedly improved since 2014, when Russia seized Crimea and instigated a separatist revolt in eastern Ukraine. But there are setbacks. Last week, Russia claimed it destroyed a Ukrainian electronic intelligence center in the southeastern town of Dniprovske. The claim could not be independently confirmed, and Ukrainian officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Ukraine has also made effective use of technology and intelligence from the United States and other NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... members. Such information helped Ukraine sink the battle cruiser Moskva. Allied satellites and surveillance aircraft help from nearby skies, as does billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications network.
Electronic war has three basic elements: probe, attack and protect. First, intelligence is gathered by locating enemy electronic signals. On attack, "white noise" jamming disables and degrades enemy systems, including radio and cellphone communications, air defense and artillery radars. Then there is spoofing, which confuses and deceives. When it works, munitions miss their targets.
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[Censor] In the Luhansk region, Ukrainian troops regrouped and are taking steps to return Severodonetsk to full control.
The head of VCA of Severodonetsk Alexander Stryuk reported about it, informs Censor.NET with reference to UE .
Asked what percentage of the city was occupied, Stryuk said: "I would not say that it is occupied. There was some military success on the part of the orcs, who managed to get into the city and capture a significant part of it, almost splitting in half, if we talk about residential areas where they can feel confident. But our military has managed to regroup, build a line of defense. And now all necessary measures are being taken to return the city to full control of Ukraine. The city remains Ukrainian. "
"Our military is taking all appropriate measures to push the enemy out of the city, positional street battles are being fought. This is accompanied by constant artillery shelling. The situation is quite tense, but there is hope and there is confidence in our Armed Forces that everything will work out."
Read on "Censor.NET": Russian troops captured almost all of Severodonetsk, - Butusov
According to the head of the military civilian administration, about 13,000 people remained in Severodonetsk before the assault.
"Given that there have been constant street fights for three days now, the population that was there is still there, except for a small part, which the orcs managed to forcibly remove from the city to the occupied territories," the official said.
We will remind , on June 3 the head of the Luhansk regional military administration Sergey Gaidai reported that occupation troops earlier captured about 70% of Severodonetsk, but the Armed Forces moved them back by about 20%.
[Vesti] Severodonetsk remains Ukrainian. This was announced on Saturday, June 4, on the air of the telethon by the head of the military-civilian administration of the city Alexander Stryuk.
According to him, the Russian military "had some military success" - they managed to capture part of the city. However, the Ukrainian military has regrouped, built a line of defense and they are trying to return Severodonetsk under full control.
" The city remains Ukrainian ... Our military is taking all appropriate measures to push the enemy out of the city, positional street battles are being waged. This is accompanied by constant artillery shelling. The situation is quite tense, but there is hope and confidence of our armed forces that everything will work out," he said Stryuk.
As Vesti.ua wrote, the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, said that the occupying troops had previously captured about 70% of Severodonetsk, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine moved them back by about 20% .
Severodonetsk and neighboring Lisichansk are the last major cities that Russian troops have been unable to fully control.
In 2014, after Lugansk came under the control of the self-proclaimed LPR, Severodonetsk became the administrative center of the Luhansk region of Ukraine.
And now the Russians: Ukrainian troops lost in the battles for Severodonetsk up to 90% of the personnel Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Some units of the Ukrainian troops lost up to 90 percent of their personnel in the battles for Severodonetsk, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center.
"Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having suffered critical losses, are retreating in the direction of Lisichansk," the general said.
According to him, the Kiev authorities ordered the combined tactical group to mine containers with one hundred tons of saltpeter and acid in Severodonetsk in order to delay the advance of the Russian army "by creating a zone of chemical contamination."
He stressed that in the implementation of the planned provocation, Kiev plans to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of creating a man-made environmental disaster with the dissemination of materials in Ukrainian and Western media.
At the beginning of the week, Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the DPR, said that the forces of the republic in a few days expect to take the AFU grouping in the Severodonetsk region into the "cauldron". As LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said, the Azot plant located in this city continues to be cleared of Ukrainian militants, but it is held back by the possibility that they have civilians as hostages and containers with chemicals. Nevertheless, he noted that "there will be no second Azovstal here."
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[Korrespondent] 23:05 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin confirmed that the third meeting in the Ramstein format, which will be attended by ministers from more than 40 countries, will be held in Brussels on June 15: "I will go to Brussels to organize the next personal meeting of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. There will be defense leaders from literally all over the world to discuss the current crisis in Ukraine against the backdrop of Russia's unprovoked invasion."
22:24 Reznikov proposed creating a trust fund for Ukraine in the EU: "There are states, for example Luxembourg, that are ready to invest in security - to help Ukraine. But they cannot, because they do not have the weapons that we need. A good solution would be to create a trust fund in Europe and that could be the next step."
22:09 The "DNR" stated that Ukraine is shelling the center of Donetsk - the Voroshilovsky district, as well as the Kirovsky district from Gradov.
21:46 Lavrov said in an interview with the Bosnian-Serb television and radio company that the West does not allow Ukraine to negotiate with Russia. He also complained that NATO "bluntly and rudely" told Moscow that the expansion of the alliance and the possible participation of Ukraine in it does not concern Russia.
21:00 The "Prosecutor General's Office" of the so-called "DNR" stated that according to the results of the trial of the "mercenaries" from Britain and Morocco who fought in the Ukrainian troops, they could be sentenced to death.
20:53 Turkey expects to determine a mechanism for the export of grain from Ukrainian ports during Lavrov's visit, which is scheduled for June 8, said spokesman, Erdogan's chief foreign policy adviser Ibrahim Kalyn. In his opinion, it will take 3-5 weeks to start the process.
20:19 Reznikov at the GLOBSEC-2022 International Security Forum: "Russia continues to make efforts to occupy our entire state. It is still impossible to predict when the war will end, but my optimistic forecasts are that it can really be done this year." He stressed that Poland, the Baltic countries, Slovakia and others could be next, so "we must stop Russia and contain it in the future."
The head of the Defense Ministry also said that the Russian military is not a regular civilized army, but murderers, marauders and rapists: "This is not the second army in the world. We call them orcs."
20:10 The Ukrainian military is taking measures to return Severodonetsk under the full control of Ukraine and are confident that "everything will succeed," said the head of the city's CAA Alexander Stryuk on the air of the telethon: "There was a certain military success on the part of the orcs, who managed to enter the city and capture quite a significant part, almost dividing in half, if we are talking about residential areas, where they can feel confident.But our military managed to regroup, build a line of defense.And now all the necessary measures are being taken to still return the city under the full control of Ukraine. The city remains Ukrainian."
"Our military is taking all appropriate measures to push the enemy out of the city, positional street battles are being carried out. This is accompanied by constant artillery shelling. The situation is quite tense, but there is hope and confidence of our armed forces that everything will work out," Stryuk added.
20:05 The transfer of one railway line to the EU standard will cost Ukraine from 2 to 3 billion dollars, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said in a comment to the FT. According to him, additional investments are also needed to increase the throughput at border crossings.
20:03 The city of Liman in the Donetsk region no longer exists, Mayor Alexander Zhuravlev said: "The city simply does not exist, the rashists have completely destroyed it."
19:17 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko said that as a result of a cruise missile attack on the region, the warehouses of an agricultural enterprise were damaged, two people were injured. But the Ukrainian air defense units shot down the Forpost unmanned aerial vehicle.
19:02 The International Legion of Terror Defense, in whose ranks volunteers from other countries are fighting for Ukraine, reported new deaths. In particular, volunteers from the Netherlands, Germany, France and Australia died.
18:49 On Saturday, June 4, the enemy launched four missile strikes from the Tochka-U tactical missile system in the areas of the cities of Bakhmut, Kramatorsk, Konstantinovka and Lisichansk. In addition, the Russian invaders launched missile and air strikes on the cities of Slavyansk and Soledar, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In the Donetsk region, the enemy fired at the settlements of Nikolskoye, Krasnogorovka, Veseloye and Novoselovka. He used the armament of Su-25 aircraft in the areas of Novomikhailovka, Maryinka. Rocket and air strikes were carried out on Kurakhovo.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Ustinovka and Toshkovka from cannon artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Inflicted air strikes by Ka-52 helicopters near Gorny, Yakovlevka and Mirnaya Dolina, and by Su-25 aircraft - in the Ustinovka area. In the Liman direction, the enemy used artillery near Svyatogorsk, Starodubovka and Nikolaevka.
In the Donetsk direction, the invaders are trying to contain the Ukrainian forces by violating the logistics system. Fighting continues to establish full control over Severodonetsk.
17:36 The EU has already started working on the next package of sanctions against Russia, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski told PAP. He made it clear that the main areas of restrictions should be gas supplies and expanding the list of banks that will be disconnected from SWIFT. The issue of confiscation of Russian frozen assets is also being considered, which can then be used to strengthen the defense and post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. According to Yablonsky, the European Union also stepped up pressure on Hungary, which blocked the inclusion of a number of items in the sixth sanctions package.
17:32 Pope Francis said in response to a question from a Ukrainian child during a meeting in the courtyard of San Damaso that "I would like to go to Ukraine, but we need to wait for the right moment." The pontiff added that he would soon meet with the Ukrainian authorities to find out if his visit to Ukraine was possible.
17:30 On the front line in the Zaporozhye region on June 2, an exchange of bodies of the dead military between Ukraine and Russia took place. As a result of negotiations with the participation of the Commissioner for People Missing in Special Circumstances, an agreement was reached on the exchange of bodies according to the formula "160 to 160". The operation was carried out by the Ministry for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Security Service of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other law enforcement agencies of Ukraine, the press service of the Ministry reported.
17:26 Zelensky commented on the shelling of the Svyatogorsk Lavra in the Donetsk region by Russians: "The invaders know exactly what object they are shelling. They know that there are no military targets on the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra. They know that about 300 laymen are hiding there from hostilities, including 60 children. But all the same, the Russian army shells the Lavra, like the entire Donbass. Like any other territory and any other object of Ukraine that it can reach. They don’t care what exactly they turn into ruins.”
The President recalled that on May 31, the Verkhovna Rada appealed to UNESCO with a demand to deprive Russia of membership in the organization. According to him, Ukrainian diplomacy is working on this: “No state, except Russia, has destroyed so many monuments, cultural and social objects in Europe since the Second World War. Every church burned by Russia in Ukraine, every school blown up, every destroyed the memorial proves that Russia has no place in UNESCO. What can we talk about with a barbarian state, with a terrorist state? About what artillery shells are better to destroy historical heritage? We expect a logical and fair answer from the UN and UNESCO. This is the United Nations , and its charter does not provide for association with terrorists.The isolation of Russia must be complete,
17:19 Kuleba commented on Macron's call not to humiliate Russia: "Calls to avoid humiliating Russia can only humiliate France and any other country that calls for it. Because it is Russia that humiliates itself. We are all better off focusing on how to put Russia in its place. It will bring peace and save lives."
16:44 The first Russian bank came to the occupied territory of Donetsk region. As Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol, said, the Russian Promsvyazbank opened in the region. It should ensure, in particular, the mass issuance of Mir cards.
16:33 The second vessel under the flag of Russia has entered the water area of the Mariupol port and is moored for loading rolled metal products, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of the city, said.
16:22 The Ukrainian military hoped to the last that Russia would start active hostilities precisely on the territory of Donbass. According to Brigadier General, commander of the Pivnich operational-tactical group Dmitry Krasilnikov, the JFO forces were absolutely ready for an enemy attack there. "Until the end, we believed that our enemy would not go into large-scale aggression on all fronts, along all lines. We hoped for the best, but prepared for the worst," he said.
16:08 Ukraine has offered India to become one of the guarantors of the country's security, writes The Hindu. "We also expect India to take an active part in post-war construction. We also expect more humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and some technical and financial assistance," a diplomatic source told the publication.
16:04 The flag that fluttered over Azovstal and was taken out of the surrounded Mariupol along with the last defender will become one of the main exhibits of the exhibition Ukraine - the crucifixion of the Museum of the History of Ukraine. The flag was handed over to the museum by the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov. "This flag is a symbol of valor and heroism of all those who were at Azovstal," he said.
15:31 Russians continue to fire at residential quarters of Nikolaev: this morning the Ship area once again suffered. As of 15:00, three dead are known (two of them died at the scene of shelling, one died on the way to the hospital). Also, four more people were injured, doctors are fighting for their lives, said the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich. It is preliminary known about three damaged high-rise buildings.
14:19 In Svyatogorsk, Donetsk region, as a result of shelling by the invaders , the wooden All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra caught fire.
13:40 Norway has decided to permanently deploy the US military at its bases. The corresponding initiative was supported by the Parliament.
13:23 In Kherson, under the guise of a humanitarian aid center, collaborators opened a branch of United Russia. Party secretary Andriy Turchak, who came to "help", said that the townspeople would be sent "to work on the restoration of Mariupol's infrastructure," Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
12:56 Stefanchuk, during a meeting with German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht, asked to provide Ukraine with submarines. "I do not rule out receiving submarines from Germany, because we are ready to become the defensive eastern border of the whole of Europe," Stefanchuk said after talking with Lambrecht.
12:17 In the village of Lazurnoye, Kherson region, where many boarding houses and recreation centers are located, the Russians mined the beach, because of which three people died by blowing themselves up, the regional prosecutor's office said.
11:48 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 4. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Zaporozhye direction.
personnel - about 31,050 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1376 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 3379 (+13),
artillery systems - 680 (+5),
MLRS - 207 (+0),
air defense systems - 95 (+0),
aircraft - 210 (+0),
helicopters - 175 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 540 (+5),
cruise missiles - 122 (+1),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2337 (+8),
special equipment - 52 (+1).
11:13 Switzerland has allowed the supply of parts for military equipment to Ukraine, the country's Federal Council said. The government has examined two requests for Swiss companies to export spare parts and components to arms companies in Germany and Italy. In the first case, we are talking about the components of anti-tank launchers, in the second - air defense systems. It is noted that such activities do not contradict the principles of Swiss neutrality.
11:01 British intelligence considers the combination of air and artillery strikes a key factor in the latest tactical successes of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine. The review notes that with the shift in operational focus to the Donbas, Russia has been able to increase the use of tactical aircraft to support its creeping advance, combining airstrikes and massive artillery fire.
10:28 The US military is in touch with their Ukrainian counterparts every day. Personally, this is done by Major General David Baldwin, who heads the State War Department, which includes the ground forces and the air national guard, CNN reports. According to the publication, Baldwin conducts video calls with the top leadership of the Ukrainian armed forces about once a week and exchanges text messages every day.
At the headquarters level, Brigadier Generals and Colonels of the Guard are working with Ukraine's defense attaché and Ukrainian leaders to refine their requests for weapons systems, Baldwin said. The major general also said that Ukrainians are being trained in Western weapons systems, and "Ukrainians grasp very quickly."
10:24 An enemy plane was working on the territory of the Sumy region this morning. Four explosions were in the territory of the Sumy region, and six launches of unguided rockets that exploded in the vicinity of border settlements were also recorded. There were no civilian casualties, the interior ministry said.
10:21 The Russians are throwing all their reserves at Severodonetsk - now this is their main goal, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. He also said that the Kadyrovites, who usually do not fight on the front line, lost fighters in the regional center. "They are bringing in fighting Buryats, who are not human in their attitude and behavior," Gaidai added.
The humanitarian situation, according to him, is difficult: food and medicine cannot be delivered to Severodonetsk, and aid is still being brought to Lisichansk and Gornaya communities.
10:17 The Vatican issued a special silver coin dedicated to Ukraine. All profits from sales will go to help Ukraine. The cost of one coin is 50 euros.
10:09 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of Russian shelling, seven fires broke out, at least one person died, three were injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
10:00 In Mariupol, after the publication of data on the bodies of those who died under the rubble, the occupiers began to demolish houses without sorting the rubble. The first houses at 56-60 Unity Avenue under heavy guard with the involvement of "state volunteers" have been demolished, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol. According to him, data on the new bodies of the dead cannot be obtained due to the fact that after the demolition everything is taken to the dump of the Levoberezhny district. If there were corpses in the buildings, then they, along with the garbage, were unloaded at the landfill.
09:34 A group of five large landing ships, assembled from three fleets of the Russian Navy, entered the Black Sea, Krym.Realii reports.
09:15 US officials have been meeting regularly with British and European counterparts in recent weeks to discuss a possible framework for ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations, CNN reports, citing sources close to the talks. In particular, the four-point plan proposed by Italy was discussed, which includes Ukrainian neutrality with respect to NATO in exchange for security guarantees, as well as Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on the future of Crimea and Donbass.
Ukraine does not directly participate in these discussions, despite the US promise "nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine." U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Washington was not pressuring Kyiv to comply with a specific plan or pushing directly to meet with the Russians.
09:11 Zelensky spoke at the 90th annual Conference of Mayors of the United States and invited American cities, companies and specialists to take part in the implementation of an "ambitious project" to rebuild Ukraine after the war - to take patronage over a city, region or industry destroyed by Russian strikes.
"The world has seen different tyrannies. At different times. Under different flags. And all of them are united by the fact that they violate the rights and freedoms of ordinary people. Tyrants do not recognize the rights and freedoms of local self-government. And usually it is free people in cities who still choose freedom , put an end to the history of tyrants. And to put an end to it, it is necessary not to allow tyrants to use ties with the free world, any ties," Zelensky said.
08:53 For 100 days of the war, Ukrainian military aviation carried out more than 1000 raids on the troops of the Russian invaders, the press service of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
08:51 The war in Ukraine activates a three-dimensional global crisis - food, energy and financial, said UN Secretary General António Guterres on the occasion of 100 days since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
08:48 Almost the entire 35th combined-arms army of the Russian Federation was destroyed in Izyum due to incompetent commanders. The occupiers carried out several unsuccessful assaults, according to experts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
08:45 Macron urged "not to humiliate" Russia because of the war in Ukraine. According to him, this is necessary so that at the end of the war it would be possible to bring the Russian Federation out of isolation "by diplomatic means."
08:33 A missile attack was carried out in the Odesa region in the morning, OVA speaker Serhiy Bratchuk said. Two people were injured, an investigative-operational group is working on the spot. According to OK Pivden, the blow fell on the agricultural enterprise, the fire has already been eliminated. The strike was delivered by an air-launched Kh-59 missile.
08:18 Canada "very soon" will announce new sanctions against the Russian Federation, said Foreign Minister Melanie Joly.
08:07 The occupiers are storming Severodonetsk, there are wounded, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy is trying to cut off the city, is shelling the bridge on which the movement continues (in particular, the wounded are being evacuated).
Gaidai also said that on June 3, in Gorskoye, a mother and a child were killed by shelling, and another person died in Zolote.
07:46 The pace of advancement of the Russian army in the Donetsk direction has decreased, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . The reason is physical exhaustion and the low moral and psychological state of the personnel. At the same time, the enemy holds positions in the Kharkov direction, shelling the settlements of Glubokoe, Russian Tishki, Stary Saltov and Cherkasy Tishki. In the Liman direction, the occupiers are trying to take control of the left bank of the Seversky Donets River near the village of Stary Karavan.
04:54 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops have made unsuccessful assaults southeast and southwest of Izyum and west of Liman, but are unlikely to be able to advance significantly towards Slavyansk. At the same time, the occupiers have made minor gains in the eastern part of Severodonetsk, but Ukrainian forces continue localized counterattacks in and around Severodonetsk.
The invaders did not try to storm Avdiivka and could not regain their lost positions in the north-east of the Kherson region, they continued to defend their previously occupied positions.
03:17 Holding a "referendum" in the Kherson region is not yet on the agenda, today the priority is "returning the region to a normal peaceful life," Kirill Stremousov, "deputy head of the military-civilian administration," said. "Plebiscite", he said, is possible after "stabilization of the situation".
03:01 In the Kherson region, the "authorities" of the invaders are afraid of the resistance of local residents, because of this, the invaders pulled up four self-propelled guns of high power such as Pion, the Operational Command Pivden reported. According to the OK, every day flags, motivational inscriptions and "links" for the occupiers appear in the regional center, and leaflets are distributed. The leadership of the occupying authorities moves with a large number of guards, in bulletproof vests, in armored vehicles.
00:40 In the next ten years, the United States plans to build more than a hundred military facilities for various purposes in Poland, said the American ambassador to Warsaw, Marek Brzezinski.
Oh? That should be nice — they like America in Poland.
00:22 Ukrainian intelligence officers keep in touch with the captured fighters of the Azov regiment, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said: “It is through them that we will learn more information about the conditions of detention, food and the possibilities of their release. We all know that they will all end up here, in Kiev, and we are doing our best to do so."
00:15 Ukraine has prepared a sanctions list of 12,000 Russians who are involved in Russia's invasion of Ukraine or are actively promoting it, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said. Among them are officials, oligarchs, propagandists, war criminals, as well as Patriarch Kirill, who escaped sanctions thanks to Hungary. According to Nikolenko, Ukraine and partners are working to create an effective mechanism that will prioritize the application of personal sanctions to all those responsible.
00:03 The defense forces shot down one cruise missile over the sea near the Odessa region and three more missiles over the Mykolaiv region, the Pivden Operational Command reported. The missiles were launched from a submarine in the Crimea. There are currently three Russian missile ships and one submarine in the Black Sea, as well as five large landing ships.
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[RIA Novosti] The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR has submitted to court a criminal case against foreign mercenaries, two citizens of Great Britain and a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco, the press service of the department said.
"The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR has completed the investigation of the criminal case against foreign mercenaries - Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as Saadun Brahim ...", the message says.
They are charged under several articles, namely "commission of a crime by a group of persons...", "forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power...", "mercenarism", "undertaking training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities."
Taking into account wartime, on the basis of the provisions of the criminal law, mercenaries can be sentenced to the death penalty, the Prosecutor General's Office added.
The investigation established that the defendants, for a fee, took part on the side of the Ukrainian troops in the operation to forcibly seize power in the DPR.
Earlier, the DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova said that the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the republic was collecting evidence of the crimes of the armed formations of Ukraine , which would be used in a military tribunal against the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to her, the first "intermediate" meeting of the tribunal may take place at the end of summer, it will be the "Mariupol Tribunal" - by analogy with the tribunals of the Second World War.
As Elena Shishkina, chairman of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, noted, not only citizens of Ukraine, but mercenaries from European states, as well as instructors from NATO countries will be in the dock.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:11 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports on the use by Kyiv of houses, schools, kindergartens and other social infrastructure facilities for military purposes:
▪️In Kharkov, on Astronomicheskaya Street, nationalists equipped positions with artillery, residents are forbidden to leave their apartments
▪️In Slavyansk, Ukrainian militants settled in schools, colleges and a boarding school, heavy weapons and armored vehicles were placed at the feed mill
▪️At the Druzhkovka school in the DPR, the Ukrainian military equipped a command post, MLRS were placed in the courtyards, the evacuation of residents was deliberately not carried out
20:15 In the Kherson region, four new centers for receiving documents for obtaining Russian citizenship will be opened, at the moment one center is working - the head of the regional CAA Vladimir Saldo. 20:15 The object of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region was destroyed - a missile attack was carried out on the base of FC Metalist.
19:15 The Russian army is grinding the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. Correspondents of The Washingot Post spoke about the plight of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area. The journalists talked about the situation with the Ukrainians, who said that it was difficult for them to hold their positions.
🔹The Russian military is an order of magnitude superior to the APU in firepower.
🔹The armed forces of Ukraine are suffering heavy losses, which affects the morale of the troops.
🔹Of particular horror are the heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepyok", which destroy them even in the trenches.
🔹The Russian military prefer not to engage in direct confrontation, grinding the APU with artillery.
The summary of journalists - the defense of the Ukrainian army at Severodonetsk is on the verge of collapse, and their morale is as low as ever.
19:14 Four guys living in Berdyansk showed a desire to raise the Russian flag in their hometown. It was with such a proposal that they turned to the CAA of their native city. The city administration supported the initiative of the youth. The guys said that in this way they want to express their civic position and a sense of joy at the arrival of Russian power in Berdyansk.
19:12 In the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporozhye region, the issuance of a one-time financial assistance. Today, pensioners from the village of Lyubimovka received a payment of 10,000 rubles. Also, today there was a meeting of the villagers with the head of the Administration of the village of Mikhailovka I.V. Sushko. Problematic issues and possible solutions were on the agenda.
18:25 Surrender to the Russians is the only chance for Ukraine. We quote the words from an interview with General Stephen Twitty, a former deputy. U.S. European Command Commander to Military Watch:
“Ukrainians are doomed in this war, the only way to stop the collapse of Ukraine is to accept Russia’s conditions as soon as possible and capitulate. The Ukrainians do not have enough combat power to resist the Russians, they are not sufficiently motivated and shamelessly inferior to the Russian army in aviation and technology. No amount of Western help will fix this.”
18:24 Ukraine appealed to India with an appeal to increase the volume of assistance and asked to become one of the countries-guarantors of security.
18:23 The EU has already begun work on the seventh package of anti-Russian sanctions - the Polish Foreign Ministry. According to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, the new restrictions may affect gas supplies from Russia and expand the list of banks that will be disconnected from the SWIFT system. In the list of potential banks for shutdown, Gazprombank was mentioned, through which payment for Russian gas was organized.
17:05 More than 20,000 people were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine per day.
17:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine placed MLRS in the courtyards of residential buildings in the city of Druzhkovka in Donbass.
17:05 Kyiv ordered to mine containers with chemicals weighing more than 100 tons at an enterprise in Severodonetsk and intends to blame the RF Armed Forces.
17:04 The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having suffered critical losses (in a number of units - up to 90 percent) during the battles for Severodonetsk, are retreating in the direction of Lysichansk - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
16:03 Details on shellingthe village of Sluchevsk in the Bryansk region from the APU. According to updated data, the fire occurred in one non-residential and one country house. One man received shrapnel wounds. Currently, he has been taken to the Pogar Central District Hospital, he has been provided with comprehensive medical care, the local governor reports.
Fire brigades and all operational services are on site.
16:01 Slovakia will continue to supply howitzers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and not for its own army. This was stated by the head of the defense department of Slovakia, Martina Koval-Kakashchikova. She added that it is impossible to determine the time when the next batch of Zuzana 2 howitzers will be delivered to the troops of the Slovak Republic, so it was decided to give priority to the needs of the UAF militants.
15:11 Most residents of the Zaporozhye region share the course towards the region's entry into the Russian Federation. What is the current mood of the inhabitants of Zaporozhye told Aleksey Selivanov, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region:
"On the territory of the Zaporozhye region, life is returning to normal. People saw that Russia came seriously and for a long time. Russia's steps testify to this. The Ukrainian connection has been replaced by a Russian operator. This cuts off Ukrainian propaganda and sabotage. Ukrainian services are trying to attract people to commit terrorist attacks and sabotage.
The local population changes SIM cards for Russian ones and receives Russian material assistance. The vast majority of the population of the Zaporozhye region share the course towards the region's entry into the Russian Federation. Russia has brought peace to the region. Residents do not want to participate in Ukrainian sabotage. People choose Russia.
15:10 The US military is in daily contact with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and coordinates the actions of the Ukrainian army - CNN.
14:28 right now lit the largest wooden church in Ukraine is the wooden All Saints Skete of the Svyatogorsk Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate, opened in the 16th century. There are fights in the city.
14:26 AFU fired at the village of Sluchevsk, Pogarsky district, Bryansk region. The shell hit a residential building. There is no information about the victims yet.
14:25 In Kherson, the premises of the TV channel, radio and local printing house have been restored.
"Restoration work is almost completed. Now we need cameramen, journalists, sound engineers," told press secretary of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Sergey Moroz.
Thanks to Russian specialists, a radio station was launched in the Kherson region, and now work is being completed to start broadcasting the first local TV channel.
13:40 Artillery of the Russian army destroys mortar position of the 28th Brigade of the forces of the Kyiv regime near Nikolaev.
13:39 Assault group of Russian paratroopers attacks Opponent of the enemy in the Bakhmut (Artemovsk) direction.
13:38 Ukraine asks Germany to transfer submarines to the country.
12:22 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 187 aircraft, 129 helicopters, 1,104 unmanned aerial vehicles, 328 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,406 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 466 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,769 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3405 units of special military vehicles.
12:22 During the day, missile troops and artillery hit: 33 command posts, 131 firing positions of artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as 542 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment.
12:21 Russian air defense systems in the Odessa region shot down a military transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, which was delivering weapons and ammunition. Also during the day, 17 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Popasnaya, Varvarovka, Stakhanov of the Luhansk People's Republic, Dementyevka, Volkhov Yar, Mospanovo, Novaya Gnilitsa, Doslipnoye, Bolshiye Prokhody, Kapitolovka of the Kharkiv region, Novoaleksandrovka of the Nikolaev region.
Including, in the Kamenka region of the Nikolaev region, Russian air defense systems shot down two Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles.
12:21 Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit 54 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In total, as a result of air strikes, more than 400 nationalists, 20 tanks and armored vehicles, four BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, nine artillery pieces and 29 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.
12:20 High-precision air-launched missiles hit the artillery training center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Stetskovka, Sumy region. In this center, the arrived foreign instructors carried out practical training for Ukrainian military personnel in the operation and fire control of 155mm M777 howitzers.
Also, in the Dachnoye district of the Odessa region, as a result of a missile attack, the deployment point of foreign mercenaries was destroyed.
11:21 The bodies of the dead have been exchanged between Russia and Ukraine. The exchange took place on the line of contact in the Zaporozhye region.
11:10 Ukraine blocked bank accounts in the Kherson region, actually stealing the savings of the population - Stremousov.
"People can't withdraw money. Their cards are no longer being serviced. ATMs, after the disconnection of communications and the Internet by Ukraine, do not work. Ukraine has done everything to rob people so as not to pay the money that they have left in their bank accounts. These are Privatbank, Oschadbank. They did everything on purpose so that people could not withdraw funds from their accounts," said Kirill Stremousov, deputy chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration.
11:09 Ukrainian nationalists to the area of Severodonetsk pulled up MLRS RM-70 on the chassis Tatra T813 (8×8) of Czech production.
10:48 In the Kherson region, about 1,500 people applied for Russian citizenship.
10:48 Reuters: The US is preparing to sell four MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones to Ukraine, which are almost three times more powerful than the Bayraktar TB2 and have a significantly longer flight range.
10:47 Near Krivoy Rog, Russian troops hit the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Osokorovka, Trudolyubovka and Lepetykha.
10:47 Mutual shelling continues in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.
10:46 In the Kharkiv direction, the RF Armed Forces are conducting a counterattack on Stary Saltov.
10:46 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to advance in the Zaporozhye direction under the settlement of Pologi.
10:44 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces with the help of TOS-1A "Solntsepyok" worked company stronghold of the 63rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krivoy Rog direction. Exclusive shared by our security forces, which is "Kherson messenger".
10:44 The other day in the Melitopol district, a neutralized DRG terrorists Zelensky.
09:00 — Zelensky urged US mayors to sever ties with Russian sister cities. According to The New York Times, this statement was made during a video address by the President of Ukraine during the US Conference of Mayors.
08:20 -Zelensky's regime is considered illegal) in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. Carrying out the nationalization of property left by the Ukrainian authorities before secession from the country is legal, said Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:04 During today, five civilians were killed, 20 more were injured as a result of shelling of the settlements of the Republic-DPR in the JCCC by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The total number of civilian casualties as a result of the Ukrainian aggression on June 4 is 25 people. 22:16 The DPR representative office in the JCCC reported that as of 22:05 on 04.06.2022, 10 people were injured as a result of the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, of which 1 was a child:
- nine patients of moderate severity;
- one patient is in critical condition.
All the victims were hospitalized in healthcare facilities in Donetsk. The number of victims continues to be specified.
21:53 AFU fired 40 shells from Gradov across Donetsk, reports the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
21:52 As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the center of Donetsk, two schools and an indoor market were damaged, the mayor said.
21:04 Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodk opublishes footage of the consequences of shelling by the Ukrainian military of one of the residential areas of the city. Damaged two-story residential building in the village of mashzavod them. Kirov.
21:04 A special commission consisting of representatives of the BSME, the GP LPR and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the LPR is actively working on the procedural recording of crimes committed by militants of the VFU against civilians in the city of Rubizhne.
From a spontaneous burial in the local area retrieved the remains of Sergei Onishchenko, who was cynically killed by a VFU sniper while trying to cover the windows of the house with film, smashed as a result of shelling by Ukrainian artillery.
The house of the Onishchenko family was in direct line of sight from the checkpoint set up by Ukrainian soldiers down the street. During the few days that the Ukrainian neo-Nazis terrorized the residents, arranging house searches and inspections, the Ukrainian militants had the opportunity to learn everyone by sight.
Consequently, when opening fire, the Ukrainian killer perfectly saw and realized that his target was a civilian. But the simple murder of a civilian was not enough for Ukrainian terrorists. With special cynicism, they mocked the relatives of the deceased for two more days, shooting at everyone who tried to approach the body.
21:04 The Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR announced that, based on the results of the trial of mercenaries from Britain and Morocco, who fought in the Ukrainian troops, they could be given the death penalty.
19:44 French journalist Christel Néan, who works in the DPR, today came under artillery fire from nationalists in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. She, along with civilians, had to sit for five hours in one of the basements, hiding from the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A civilian died before her eyes, houses exploded from shells.
19:20 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 18 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
19:15 - As a result of shelling from the side of the VFU, along Rabochaya Street, 65, 66, in the village of Mirny, the Central City District of Gorlovka, houses were damaged. At the indicated addresses, as well as along Tamanskaya Street, 40, the gas pipeline was interrupted.
Along Tamanskaya Street, 42 - a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell into the house (no casualties).
On st. Tkachenko 7 and on the street. Gorlovskaya Division revealed damage to gas pipelines.
Employees of the Gorlovsky department for gas supply and gasification of the State Concern "Donbassgaz" eliminated the damage.
In the village of Poklonsk, Kalininsky district of Gorlovka, according to residents, a Ukrainian shell fell in the middle of the street. Sibirskaya, near houses 7, 9. Buildings and fences at these addresses were damaged.
19:10 — n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
19:07 - Leader of the Just Russia - For Truth party Sergei Mironov said that the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Kherson region and other regions of Ukraine should become part of the Russian Federation.
The politician believes that it is necessary to remove the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky from power and bring him to trial. According to Mironov, the task set by the President of Russia to denazify Ukraine will not be fulfilled without the elimination of the Zelensky regime.
“How it will be done, I do not know. But Zelensky, who brought death and destruction to the fraternal Slavic people, deserves an international tribunal. It would be right if such a tribunal took place in Odessa, in the House of Trade Unions,” he said.
18:50 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired six mines in 82mm caliber.
19:00 - According to the official representative of the NM DPR: Over the current day, the enemy fired more than 410 shells and mines from multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane", "Grad", 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
Districts of 12 settlements of the Republic were fired upon. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, a civilian was killed and eleven were injured. A total of 28 residential buildings, one vehicle and six civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified. Materials on the facts of the death and injury of civilians, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Over the current day, joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles, a truck and up to 40 personnel. Powerful fire impact suppressed three enemy firing points in the area of the settlement. Sands.
We regret to inform you that over the past day in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic died in the line of military duty and 25 were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
18:45 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:45 DPR forces, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, suppressed three firing points of Ukrainian formations in the area with. Water.
Vodyanoye is located 6 km southwest of Avdievka near Opytnoye and Peski. A large grouping of VFU is concentrated in this direction, which regularly fires at Donetsk. From there they are attacking Makiivka.
Ukrainian units were knocked out from two more villages in the Krasnolimansky district in the north of the DPR - Sosnovoe and Brusovka. Thus, the group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with the fire support of the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 226 settlements. Our troops are moving towards Slavyansk with battles. E. Poddubny
18:30 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:04 — n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:50 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired 10 minutes with a caliber of 120mm;
17:40 — n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
16.20 The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC from the armed formations of Ukraine recorded shelling from the direction of the settlement. Liberty in the settlement Flint with the use of mortars 120mm (30 mines).
17:58- Horlivka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko:
From the very morning, VFU began shelling Gorlovka. As a result of the aggression of Ukrainian nationalists, a peaceful resident of K. L. T., born on April 26, 1957, was wounded. near the station "Bayrak" (Kalinin district of Gorlovka).
In the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka on the street. Dadasheva, 38 (private sector) a Ukrainian shell ruptured near the house and a direct hit of the shell in apartment No. 36 of a four-story building on the street was recorded. Chernikova, 47.
Alas, another wounded civilian resident of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka. On Nemirovicha-Danchenko Street, 2/20, as a result of the aggression of the VFU, a Gorlovka resident R.T.A was wounded on 10/28/68. r.
Ukrainian militants attacked the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka. Shell explosions were recorded along Mayakovsky Street, 7 and 42 (house buildings were damaged), the gas pipeline was broken. Also, a Ukrainian shell fell near the local church on Shevchenko Street, 1.
As a result of the aggression of the VFU, a civilian resident of the village of Panteleymonovka V.A.I. was wounded by shrapnel. The victim during the shelling was at the dacha on Oktyabrskaya Street. An ambulance left for the scene.
Unfortunately, as a result of the aggression of the VFU, three more civilians of Gorlovka were injured. On st. Berestovskaya, 28 a woman was wounded in the head, on the street. Working, 66 a man was wounded in the leg, on the street. Tkachenko, 5/7 a man received a wound in the abdominal cavity.
At the moment, Ukrainian neo-Nazis are shelling the Gorlovka village of Poklonsk. Residents are in shelters. One of the shells fell into the garden on the street. Rotornaya, 19, damaged housing and fencing. According to the information of the director of the boarding school, 2 shells flew along Fialkova Street, 23, 1 fell on the sports ground behind the dormitory building, the second - in front of the training building. Buildings are damaged.
17:27 Effects this morning of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants. Armed forces of Ukraine fired on the Kuibyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of the city, including with the help of NATO M-777 towed howitzers of 155mm caliber, DPR military experts report.
17:00 — n.p. Kudryumovka - n.p. Gorlovka: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
17:03 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
- Parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are retreating from Severodonetsk in the direction of Lysychansk, the losses of a number of units amounted to 90 percent;
- Kyiv ordered to mine containers with chemicals weighing more than 100 tons at an enterprise in Severodonetsk and intends to blame the RF Armed Forces;
- Armed Forces of Ukraine placed MLRS in the courtyards of residential buildings in the city of Druzhkovka in the Donbass;
-More than 20,000 were evacuated per day to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine;
-A total of 624.4 tons of humanitarian aid are transferred to residents of the south of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR;
-A total of 310 explosive objects were neutralized in the DPR and LPR.
16:45 n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
16:14 A man died in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the DPR reported.
15:31 The Headquarters of the Tero DPR reports: the MAF fired at the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. As a result of the shelling in the village. Sverdlov, two transformer substations were de-energized, more than 600 private sector subscribers were left without electricity. Also, Ukrainian militants attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, City Hospital No. 14 was damaged.
15:25 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
15:00 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
16:00 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:57 The city hospital in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was damaged due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the DPR reported.
15:10 — n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:00 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:55 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: 5 shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
14:45 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 25 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
14:50 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:44- The head of the administration of the city of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports: As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, civilians were injured: - a woman born in 1931. with a shrapnel wound was hospitalized in the Central City Clinical Hospital No. 1. - a man born in 1984, an ambulance driver, with a closed craniocerebral injury, a concussion and a shrapnel wound to the occipital region was hospitalized in the Central City Hospital. Kalinin.
14:41 In Svyatogorsk, the wooden skete of All Saints of the local Lavra of the Moscow Patriarchate is on fire. Undervideoin social networks, some claim that the building caught fire after the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, others talk about it being set on fire by the Ukrainian military.
14:20 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
14:00 — n.p. Metalist (Ukrainian: Travnevoe) — n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:45 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 20 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:43 Ukrainian Armed Forces inflicted a terrible blow with "Tornados" and "Hurricanes" in Donetsk. Under attack hit Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky districts, as well as the village of Shakhty. Chelyuskintsev. The arrival was even in the yard of the 62nd school.
13:03 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka: seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
13:02 Donetsk. Consequences of yesterday's shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Budyonnovsky district.
"When we arrived, the windows were closed. It was heard that “barked”, and then the glass fell down," told one of the civilians. According to residents of the microdistrict, this area is peaceful and the quietest.
13:00 - Spotter NM LNR transmit shells to the AFU soldiers who settled in the trenches. Ukrainian soldiers used an unmarked civilian car to transport anti-tank systems in order to destroy the NM LPR tank, but the tank itself drove the negligent warriors into the trenches, from where they were forced only to look sadly at the drone flying nearby.
After the shelling, the Ukrainians began to retreat so hastily that they forgot one of their own in the trench, after which he was taken prisoner.
12:59 - Promsvyazbank is preparing to start working in the DPR. In the spring, this bank has already decided to start working in the Crimea. Sanctions have already been introduced, there is nothing to be afraid of.
12:55 Heavy fighting is underway, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have turned Maryinka into a fortress. DPR fighter told German journalist Alina Lipp about the course of the offensive against the enemy near Donetsk.
12:55 — n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad;
12:28 - Ukrainian militants attacked the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka. Shell explosions were recorded along Mayakovsky Street, 7 and 42 (house buildings were damaged), the gas pipeline was broken, the team of the Gorlovsky Department for Gas Supply and Gasification of the State Concern Donbassgaz is working to eliminate the damage.
Also, a Ukrainian shell fell near the local church on Shevchenko Street, 1. As a result of the aggression of the VFU, a civilian resident of the village of Panteleymonovka V. A. I. was born on 03.03.1960. The victim during the shelling was at the dacha on Oktyabrskaya Street. An ambulance left for the scene
12:15 - As of June 4, 2022, on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a group of troops of the DPR and LPR, with fire support from the RF Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 226 settlements, including Brusovka and Sosnovoye in the Krasnolimansky district.
12:10 — n.p. Peski - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
12:10 — n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".
12:09 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
12:06 Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which the building of the training and profile plant and an apartment building were damaged, the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR reported
12:00 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:55 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:50 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:45 The clearing of the village of Sosnovoe to the north of Svyatogorsk is reported to have been completed, for which fighting continues. Also in the DPR, they report the completion of the cleansing of Brusovka south of Krasny Liman.
11:28 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 6 missiles were fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane", 40 missiles from the BM-21 "Grad", 28 shells of 122mm caliber.
11:28 - Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling of residential areas of the city on the street. Kuznechnaya house building was damaged, the gas pipeline was interrupted.
11:26 DPR and LPR forces, with the support of the Russian military, control 226 settlements, battles are underway for Svyatogorsk, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports
11:05 — n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:57- So fast "change shoes" in Russian captivity Nazi evil spirits from the regiment "Azov"
10:56 - The second ship for loading metal products arrived at the port of Mariupol
10:45 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
10:40 — n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired
10:30 Frontline summary on the morning of 06/04/22 Preparations for the assault: the allied forces reached the outskirts of Svyatogorsk. Lugansk solitaire: units of the People's Militia of the LPR established control over Kamyshevakha and took the AFU grouping in Zolote into an operational encirclement.
10:30 According to the official representative of the NM of the DPR: Over the current day, the enemy fired more than four hundred and sixty shells and mines from Grad multiple launch rocket systems of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.
Areas of thirteen settlements of the Republic were fired upon. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, a civilian was killed and fourteen were injured. Sixty residential buildings, eleven vehicles and seven civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Materials on the facts of the death and injury of civilians, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Over the current day, joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed TWO BMP-2s and up to thirty personnel. Powerful fire impact suppressed three enemy firing points in the area of the settlement. Water.
10:27 - As a result of the aggression of the AFU along Nemirovicha-Danchenko Street, 2/20, a civilian resident of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka R. T. A was injured on 28.10.68. r.
10:22 NM LPR reports that during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely: 27 personnel; 3 armored personnel carriers; five vehicles.
10:22 In the Donetsk direction, our fighters from the "Miner's Division" of the DPR Armed Forces, so simply, dropping a grenade from a quadrocopter, destroyed the calculations of MANPADS and ATGMs. If you look at the video you can see how a grenade explosion throws off spare tubes of MANPADS.
10:19 Kuybyshevsky district of Donetsk under fire. There are arrivals in the village of Gornyak. Details are being specified.
10:15 - Assault units of the NM LPR with fire support of the RF Armed Forces continue to demilitarize the armed formations of the Kyiv regime in the area of Severodonetsk. As a result of clashes with units of the NM LPR, the enemy suffered significant losses in manpower and armored vehicles.
9:55 In the Kherson region, about 1,500 people applied for Russian citizenship
9:40 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four rockets were fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane", 11 shells of 122mm caliber
9:49 Inhabitant of Krasny Liman with joy meets fighters of the "Brave" who liberated the city from Ukrainian militants. "The most beloved, the best. We have been waiting for you for so long…"
"We are not at war with Ukraine. It is NATO that is fighting us with proxy hands," Russian fighters share their thoughts
9:39 As a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a 78-year-old pensioner was killed. Fire from the BM-27 Uragan was opened on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. All the days since the beginning of the special operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been simply destroying this area of the capital of the DPR. But the last days are just some kind of hell.
09:15 From the very morning, the AFU started shelling Gorlovka. As a result of the aggression of Ukrainian nationalists, a civilian O.L.T. near the house on Dadasheva street, 23 (Kalinin district of Gorlovka). In the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka on the street. Dadasheva, 38 (private sector) a Ukrainian shell ruptured near the house and a direct hit of the shell in apartment No. 36 of a four-story building on the street was recorded. Chernikova, 47.
09:10 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): nine shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
09:05 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:50 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:40 - Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:28 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:20 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:20 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:05 — Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Gorlovka: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[REGNUM] NATO continued to grow with new countries and wanted to involve Ukraine, despite warnings from Russia and a promise not to expand. This was stated on June 4 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Radio and Television Company of the Republika Srpska.
“In parallel with the demands to fulfill the Minsk agreements, we have been reminding the West for many years that its course towards NATO expansion will end badly. The sixth expansion is now planned. We warned long ago when they began to draw Ukraine into NATO that this would be seen as a direct threat to the Russian Federation. They rejected the draft Treaty on Security Guarantees in Europe, which we proposed in 2009,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
He also expressed regret that in Europe they did not understand what was happening and did not touch on these topics in the media space. The purpose of these actions, Sergey Lavrov called the intention to conceal the real state of affairs from the population of European countries.
As REGNUM reported , the minister also expressed the opinion that the transfer of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) to Ukraine is a risky path. He suggested that these actions would increase the death toll in Ukraine.
#1
If it wasn't NATO expansion, there'd be another excuse to invade. Putin wants to be remembered as a strong man, not the wuss he really is.
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Interesting that the men who would make Germany or Russia great again display their 'greatness' by invading and annexing their neighbor. Meanwhile, the American who wanted to make America great again was involved in resuscitating the homeland within its own borders.
#2
Every country has its saboteurs. Then copycats. I see it as a breakdown in social order. See this in our cities today. Here it can only increase. No family, no faith, just a bunch of homeless street people. Solution then is what they do to children now, drug-em.
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Fires happen. Just like with the "food processing plant fires" and "epidemic of black church fires" in the US, people try to make sense out of randomness and just end up making up garbage.
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[DW] The South Korean military said at least eight missiles were shot by North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... off its east coast. The move follows joint US-South Korea naval exercises in the Philippine Sea.
North Korea shot off multiplesuspected ballistic missiles off its east coast on Sunday, the South Korean military said.
WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR?
At least eight short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea over a 35-minute period, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The weapons were fired from the Sunan area near the capital city of Pyongyang.
"North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile(s) into the East Sea," Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff had said early in the day, referring to the Sea of Japan. This comes a day after a top United States envoy left Seoul.
US Special Representative Sung Kim on Friday met with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts — Kim Gunn and Funakoshi Takehiro — in Seoul to prepare for "all contingencies" as North Korea extended a provocative streak of weapons demonstrations this year.
This was North Korea's 18th round of missile launches this year alone, leading to more speculation about the country’s push to conduct a nuclear test for the first time since 2017.
Last month, Pyongyang test-fired at least three missiles, including possibly its largest intercontinental ballistic missile: Hwasong-17.
LATEST LAUNCHES FOLLIOW JOINT US-SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY EXERCISES
The move follows joint US and South Korean naval maneuvers including air defense, anti-ship, anti-submarine, and maritime interdiction operations. USS Ronald Reagan, a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was among the major warships that took part.
This also comes days after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan.... left South Korea after meeting newly elected President Yoon Seok-youl. They had agreed to increase bilateral military drills to deter North Korea’s nuclear expansionism.
[DetroitNews] Abbott Nutrition has restarted production at the Michigan baby formula factory that has been closed for months due to contamination, the company said Saturday, taking a step toward easing a nationwide supply shortage expected to persist into the summer.
The February shutdown of the largest formula factory in the country led to the supply problems that have forced some parents to seek formula from food banks, friends and doctor's offices.
Abbott said it initially will prioritize production of its EleCare specialty formulas for infants with severe food allergies and digestive problems who have few other options for nutrition. The company said it will take about three weeks before new formula from the plant begins getting to consumers.
“We will ramp production as quickly as we can while meeting all requirements,” Abbott said in a statement.
The plant’s reopening is one of several federal actions that are expected to improve supplies in the weeks ahead. President Joe Biden’s administration has eased import rules for foreign manufacturers, airlifted formula from Europe and invoked federal emergency rules to prioritize U.S. production.
Abbott closed the Sturgis, Michigan, factory in February after the Food and Drug Administration began investigating four bacterial infections among infants who consumed powdered formula from the plant. Two of the babies died. The company continues to state that its products have not been directly linked to the infections, which involved different bacterial strains.
FDA inspectors eventually uncovered a host of violations at the plant, including bacterial contamination, a leaky roof and lax safety protocols. The FDA has faced intense scrutiny for taking months to close the plant and then negotiate its reopening. Agency leaders recently told Congress they had to enter a legally binding agreement with Abbott to assure all the problems were fixed.
Abbott’s February recall of several leading brands, including Similac, squeezed supplies that had already been strained by supply chain disruptions and stockpiling during COVID-19 shutdowns.
The shortage has been most dire for children with allergies, digestive problems and metabolic disorders who rely on specialty formulas. The Abbott factory is the only source of many of those products, providing nutrition to about 5,000 U.S. babies, according to federal officials.
Abbott is one of just four companies that produce about 90% of U.S. formula. The company’s recalls and shutdown triggered a cascade of effects: Retailers have limited customer purchasing to conserve supplies and parents have been told to switch brands to whatever formula is in stock.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf recently told lawmakers it could be about two months before formula supplies return to normal levels. The agency has waived many of its regulatory requirements to accept more formula from the United Kingdom, Australia and other nations.
U.S. manufacturers, including Reckitt and Gerber, have also stepped up production, running plants 24/7 and sourcing more formula from alternate facilities.
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Abbott puts this info out on a Saturday, one day after the US Inspector General announces an investigation into the FDA's role in the crisis. Sounds like the FDA's Califf called the Abbott CEO begging for Abbott to start up immediately this weekend.
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Abbott has been saying they would restart production in early June, and here we are. The only odd thing is that they started the lines up on a Saturday.
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Man! How bad did the polling have to be for the FDA bureaucrats to cave?
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Makes you wonder if the Abbott people got a call from the Puppet Show/Jill directly?
This continuing PR nightmare is hugely damaging to the remaining meager credibility that remains to their control of power.
The Faustian Bargain between Jojo and the Kalorama Cabal always had an exit ejection seat strategy for when he became incapable of taking further political damage as he implemented their agenda of a Watermelon Dream Future (Green outside, deep Red fruit and seeds inside).
So the Puppet Show is seeing the predicate for Jojo's mid-summer departure building, and his own brief glimpses of situational awareness suggest he thinks he actually is the President, and is increasingly going off script and is dangerously unfocused on actual issues. A lifetime of learned soundbites from the past often are inconsistent with reality, especially if mangled in Biden Word-Salad. Biden Inc is approaching its Planned Parenthood Moment.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Humanity getting a second basket for its eggs...
The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket in the early hours of the morning
They docked with their Tiangong space station after a seven hour flight
Tiangong, or 'heavenly palace,' should become fully operational by year's end
China has poured billions into its military-run space programme in recent years
It aims to launch a manned mission to the lunar surface by the end of the decade
Beijing built its own orbital habitat after Chinese astronauts were banned from the International Space Station in 2011
The ISS was built by five space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The reason given in 2011 for barring China was that China’s space program was too new to add anything useful, but subsequent actions made it clear distrust was the real problem.
[News Jungle] Scientists may have discovered a biological way to detect this Difference between psychopaths and non-psychopaths. The biological marker is essentially a difference in the way certain parts of the brain form in psychopathic individuals. As a result of this research, they now believe that the size of a person’s striatum could be a psychopathic marker to identify those with psychopathic tendencies.
Neuroscientists from three different universities discovered the psychopathic marker. They used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to look for markers in the brains of both psychopathic and non-psychopathic people.
They published their findings on biological psychopathic markers in the Journal of Psychiatric Research back in March 2022. Essentially, they found that psychopaths had a 10 percent larger striatum than those in a control group of non-psychopaths
"Results from recent imaging genetics studies suggest there may be a genetic basis to reward-related striatum activity that may increase the risk for impulsivity and reward dependency, such as that observed in psychopathy."
A "genetic" component? I am shocked that this study is seeing the light of day. SHOCKED !
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Biological marks not disclosed; Liberal, socialist,and have large mouth projecting loud verbal abuses. Oblivious to thoughts divergent from their own. I think I just described the View, Mad Maxine, and AOC come to mind.
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They'll just abort them like they mostly do with Down Syndrome babies now.
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^ Sorry Mr B. but "Psychopathic individuals showed a 9.6% increase in striatum volumes". Such a small percentage would require further study for myself. Hardly a smoking gun; so to say, is not an example of prescient evidence in my humble opinion. OH, my I can see it now mass rapid testing with kits provided by China. Biden would go for that in a heart beat. WHO also if mass human sterilizations could be performed.Sorry , I seem to have wandered off into my rabbit hole. Scotty beam me back please.
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The guy in the old Midas commercials. Eugene was the guy who jacked up the old lady's car's rear end. "It feels like I'm going downhill, Eugene..."
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The San, people who invented Yoga 20,000 years ago. In the modern era (1967), famous 'San' tribal physician Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.
No, of course not. Genetics has nothing at all to do with anything. Move along please, nothing to see here.
[Breitbart] "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs pigs of war”
Researchers at China’s Nankai University claimed this week that they successfully cloned pigs through an entirely automated process for the first time in March, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Thursday.
A surrogate sow allegedly birthed seven cloned piglets in March at the College of Artificial Intelligence at Nankai University in northern China’s Tianjin city.
Nankai University’s cloning development, if true, is especially significant in China, which is the world’s top consumer and producer of pork. The nation currently relies heavily on the import of breeding pigs to sustain its pork industry. A reliable technique for cloning pigs could provide a cheaper pork source for China’s agriculture industry that would additionally benefit Chinese consumers.
China’s pork industry took a massive hit from 2018 to 2019 when a nationwide outbreak of the African swine fever virus decimated the nation’s pig population and killed off much of its domestic breeding pool. Beijing has promoted an agricultural campaign in the years since then designed to wean Chinese pig farmers off of imported stock and encourage them to instead breed self-sustaining herds.
“Raising a pig in China costs about two-and-a-half times more than in the United States due to costly imported feed and high levels of disease,” Reuters observed in May, adding, “Genetic improvements for cheaper meat are thus in high demand.”
The announcement of China’s latest pig cloning development this week follows years of bizarre reproductive experiments out of China, including scientists claiming to have impregnated male rats (in 2021) and produced gene-edited human babies (in 2018). In the rodent experiment, Chinese scientists say they stitched together a male and female rat. They subsequently transferred a uterus from the female to the male, and then implanted embryos from the female into the male’s transplanted uterus. In the gene-editing experiment, scientists said they created “the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls,” using the CRISPR gene-editing tool. A Chinese court sentenced the lead scientist on the project, He Jiankui, to three years in prison in December 2019 for “illegal medical practice,” as the use of CRISPR on human embryos is considered unethical.
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.
[FoxNews] At least three people are dead in Philadelphia and nearly a dozen other victims have been injured during a shooting incident Saturday evening, according to multiple reports.
[ET] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will be initiating an emergency response to monitor and investigate 
While a high proportion of individuals currently diagnosed with the disease are men who identify as gay, bisexual, or men who have sex with men (MSM), CDC cautions that the early cases may simply reflect an "early introduction into interconnected social networks" suggesting that the currently observed trends may be biased.
[NY Post] It’s not just the royal family giving them a frosty reception.
[DW] The South Korean military said at least eight missiles were shot by 
...46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter, close friend of an imaginary negro named Corn Pop. He blames Trump for losing Afghanistan....
[DetroitNews] Abbott Nutrition has restarted production at the Michigan 
The San, people who invented Yoga 20,000 years ago. In the modern era (1967), famous 'San' tribal physician Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.
