[ZERO] Amid the deluge of dire predictions that the human population will rise exponentially, deplete the earth’s resources, and overheat the planet, two recent demographic studies predict the opposite—that the number of people will peak within the next several decades and then begin a phase of steady, irreversible decline. Irreversible. Like the rise of the tides, and the melting of the ice caps, and the Gulfstream jets of the Davos elites
In some places, including Japan, Russia, South Korea, and most countries in Europe, that population collapse has already begun. China is not far behind.
The United Nations has predicted that humanity will continue its rapid expansion into the next century, growing from just under 8 billion today to more than 11 billion by 2100. An oft-repeated interpretation of this data is that people are having too many babies, and many of the models for climate change and environmental degradation are based on projections like these. In August, the U.N. declared a "code red for humanity" over climate change and overpopulation, and analysts at investment bank Morgan Stanley stated that the "movement to not have children owing to fears over climate change is growing."
However, a demographic study funded by the Gates Foundation and published in the Lancet, a medical journal, paints a much different picture. This study, conducted by researchers at the University of Washington, predicts that the global human population will peak at 9.7 billion within several decades, and then start to decline. "Once global population decline begins," the authors write, "it will probably continue inexorably."
#8
Population is too high for the carrying capacity of the land in many places. Doesn’t mean it will decline- just that life will get rougher and people will die younger. When that happened in the past people had more children and earlier. How’s the population of Somalia holding out?
#9
Climate, population and economic predictions are like saying you predict you will win more than 50% of your guesses in a ca$ino. The bosses just quietly smirk.
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#10
They get it and they don't. When they're found to be wrong they change the narrative - equity and socialism.
There is no doubt Humanity is like a Virus, it grows and spreads itself.
Currently, the USA is the #1 importer of its food.
Followed by Communist China, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom as Countries Who Import the Most Food.
The Earth only has so much farmland, and we are seeing more and more of it used as human habitat.
Maybe, as some have said, Covid-19 is Mother Natures way of trying to heal itself of a growing human virus?
Or maybe it was part of some rumored Elite's worldwide human reduction plan?
Or maybe the VAX will corrupt the next human reproductive gene pool?
Or maybe another Government created pandemic, a Regional or limited World War might be seen by the rumored Elite as a means for population reduction.
However you look at it, the Earths resources and cropland are finite. It's the Human population that is not.
Experts predict in 30 years, more than half of the world’s population is expected to rely mainly on food imported from other countries.
On the lighter side: It seems we already have Soylent Green on the market. 🍴
#14
Hand-blended, extruded, and stewed
In a process that's better not viewed,
It's whatever was left:
Envy, prejudice, theft,
Anti-racism! Dude!
Antifood!
[France24] A British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert have gone missing in a remote region of the Amazon rainforest after receiving threats, authorities and indigenous-rights groups said Monday, raising fears for their safety.
Veteran foreign correspondent Dom Phillips, 57, went missing while researching a book in the Brazilian Amazon's Javari Valley with respected indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, said The Guardian newspaper, where Phillips has been a longtime contributor.
The pair had traveled by boat to Jaburu lake, in the northern state of Amazonas near Brazil's border with Peru, and were expected to return to the city of Atalaia do Norte by around 9:00 am Sunday, two rights groups said in a statement.
The men had "received threats in the field" last week, said the groups, the Union of Indigenous Organizations of the Javari Valley (UNIVAJA) and the Observatory for the Human Rights of Isolated and Recently Contacted Indigenous Peoples (OPI).
They did not give further details, but Pereira, an expert at Brazil's indigenous affairs agency FUNAI with deep knowledge of the region, has regularly received threats from loggers and miners trying to invade isolated indigenous groups' land.
FUNAI told AFP it was collaborating with local authorities on the search effort. It added that Pereira was on leave from the agency "to pursue personal interests."
Phillips and Pereira had traveled to the region around a FUNAI monitoring base, and reached Jaburu lake Friday evening, UNIVAJA and OPI said.
The Kremlin-backed mayor of the Ukrainian town of Enerhodar was standing on his mother’s porch when a powerful blast struck, leaving him critically wounded. A week later, about 75 miles away, a car packed with explosives rocked the office of another Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Melitopol.
In a rarity, both Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed the blasts, which struck deep inside Russian-controlled territory. And both explosions appeared to be the work of what analysts say is a growing partisan resistance movement — one fueled by increasingly brutal Russian repression and worsening humanitarian conditions.
By their very nature, the clandestine activities of any insurgency are murky and often impossible to verify independently. It is as much in the interest of Ukrainians to play up talk of rebellion as it is for Russians to play it down.
But the explosion that injured the Enerhodar mayor, Andrei Shevchik, is one of more than a dozen high-profile attacks in recent weeks that analysts say indicate increased partisan activity aimed at Russian occupation forces in the Kherson and Zaporizka regions of southern Ukraine.
Stretching tens of thousands of square miles from eastern Ukraine to Russian-occupied Crimea and into Russia itself, those regions were among the first to fall under Russian control following the invasion of Ukraine in late February. Many of their towns and cities were spared the wholesale destruction unleashed by Russian forces elsewhere. In recent days, Ukrainian forces have launched a series of counterattacks in the regions.
In the past month, Ukrainian partisans claim, insurgents have attacked Russian trains and killed dozens of Russian soldiers, as well as supporting the Ukrainian military's counterattacks. Their claims are impossible to independently verify. The partisans also have established a virtual Center of National Resistance, which features instructions for things like setting up ambushes and what to do if arrested.
Alexander Motyl, a historian and Ukraine expert at Rutgers University, has scoured publicly available statements about possible insurgent activity. He said that the data suggests it is growing.
"It is, of course, possible that Ukrainian special forces may have been involved in some of these actions; it is also likely that the data are incomplete," he wrote for the online journal 1945. "Even so, the number of guerrilla actions is impressive and bespeaks a trend toward ever-greater partisan activity."
[JPost] Bring it on, Trolls Researchers analyzed 11 Russian-language online publications that wrote about Crimea, including RIA, KP, Realia, Russian Spring and others, from December 2020 to the end of May 2021.
badanov has been translating articles for us from RIA and KP, among others. But we expect bias and blatant propaganda.
Even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia was preparing residents of Crimea for escalation by splitting Ukrainian society through propaganda in Russian media, Human rights activists and researchers said on June 6 during a press conference, where they presented a study about "Hate speech in online media covering events in Crimea."
Researchers analyzed 11 Russian-language online publications that wrote about Crimea, including RIA, KP, Realia, Russian Spring and others, from December 2020 to the end of May 2021.
"In the study, we recorded many calls for the extermination of Ukrainians in the Russian media. Given the atrocities of the Russian occupiers, which they have been committing on our land since February 24 and until today, these appeals had one goal - informational preparation for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide of the Ukrainian people, " said Crimean human rights group researcher Irina Sedova.
The search for materials was carried out with the help of keywords that express hatred for Ukrainians: "Bandera", "Little Russians", "pig-speaking", "Ukrofascists", "Khokhlovs", "Dill", "Khokhlostan" and others.
Researchers found 560 publications containing manifestations of hate speech. Said points of interest contained profanity, direct insults and dehumanization (for example, " these are not people, but animals ").
There were also calls for violence, the division of society on the principle of "us and them", disrespect and contempt for another group or culture.
On ten of the eleven sites selected for the study, the publications contained hate speech, particularly against Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, as well as strong anti-American rhetoric.
"These media outlets use manipulative and covert hate speech to influence the audience's beliefs. This is done to avoid legal liability, which is provided by the legislation of many European countries," said expert psycholinguist Dr. Julia Krylova-Grek.
"It has become possible to prove and substantiate the presence of psycholinguistic manipulations thanks to the psycholinguistic analysis of media text. In particular, manipulations are the violation of causation, the logic of coverage of events, the substitution of concepts in the materials," she added.
Russian media manipulation
Russian journalists often consciously use methods and techniques that cause an emotional or sensory effect, while blocking areas of rational thinking, Krylova-Grek explained. The media often cover the situation one-sidedly and deliberately create a negative image.
Publications often methodically deny the state sovereignty of Ukraine and Ukrainian national identity. Yulia Krylova-Grek notes that such methods are intended to engrave in the minds of the audience the idea that Ukrainians are an ethnographic group of Russians, Ukraine is an artificial state entity, and the Ukrainian language is a regional dialect.
There are also phenomena like Banderophobia and Ukrainophobia, which act as "scarecrows" for readers of Russian-language content.
The researchers concluded by saying that the full-scale Russian invasion and tragic events currently taking place in Ukraine testify to the effectiveness of Russia's media influence and methods.
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The residents posters in this blog are like trained parrots when stories have to do with Russia
This Rantburg is a Russophobic fellowship.
This it’s very interesting, I wonder how the USA government brainwashed so intensely this bunch of ‘’educated‘ persons.
How long that take….
Fascinating……
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/\ Think of it as a guild Aco Joe. A guild without portfolio. Fellowships and cults generally require memberships. Thanks for thinking of us. Don't be a stranger.
#3
I think back to the time when I watched Diane Sawyer on ABC Nightly News deliver a report about Border Patrol officer Brian Terry's death at the hands of narco terrorists on the Mexican border. The report was so shallow and lacking in any basic facts that I could only conclude it was a cover up for the actions of Baraq Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder in the Fast and Furious scandal.
That's when it hit me upside the head that American main stream media cannot be trusted. Maybe I was late to the party. A lot of other thinking people already knew it.
That doesn't mean I trust Russian media any more than America's or, for that matter, Ukraine's.
Russian and Ukrainian trolls who post nasty and simplistic comments about Rantburg do not help their cause. Just like Diane Sawyer, they deliver trite and childish propaganda. They're just as bad as ABC, CBS, CNN or, even worse, a White House press briefing.
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The search for materials was carried out with the help of keywords that express hatred for Ukrainians: "Bandera", "Little Russians", "pig-speaking", "Ukrofascists", "Khokhlovs", "Dill", "Khokhlostan" and others.
Bandera has to do with the WWII era Ukrainian nationalist Stephan Bandera who sided with the Germans. Bandera loved him some pogroms.
Pig-speaking and Little Russians I never have read those "keywords" in RIA Novosti, Russkaya Vesna (Russian Spring), or Komsomol Prada (KP)
Dill is the plant Russian writers have used to refer to Ukrainians. Pronounced Ukro. The Ukrainians were so offended by the term, one of them came up with a shoulder patch with a depiction of the dill plant. Presumably it was worn with some pride.
They left out the Russian term for forelock which also is called crest. Ukrainians are referred to a firelocks because of the Cossack forelock.
Personally I would think forelock would be a term of endearment.
The upshot is I read those publications, and in regular news articles, not columns and not editorials, I never have read those terms.
#6
^ Correction: Russia is not America's enemy and has not been since 1992. Ukraine is not America's ally. Most Americans don't give a shit about either nation and would prefer that our politicians fix our own country.
#8
Believe whatever you like, but just spewing these Democrat talking points doesn't make them true. Russia isn't throwing our southern border open and flooding our country with fentanyl. Russia's not attacking our country with viruses hatched in gain of function labs. Russia isn't pointing missiles pointed at our cities -- at least not until Biden and Austin are so foolish as to encourage their little puppet to fire missiles into Russia.
Wake up, it's not the 1980s any more. Even Hollywood knows better than to beat that dead horse
#10
Russia isn't pointing missiles pointed at our cities
Riiight. That's why Putin threatens to nuc the US. Four strikes with his "Satan 2" last I read.
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[Vesti] HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE CITY
The Ukrainian military maintain control in Severodonetsk, fighting continues in the eastern part of the city. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 on Monday, June 6, 2022.
In order to replenish the units, the Russian invaders continue the measures of forced mobilization in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Besides:
in the Volyn and Polesye directions, the enemy did not conduct active operations. The situation has not changed much;
in the Seversk direction in the border areas of the Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation, the enemy is holding separate units from the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Western Military District. Also, in the Bryansk region, in the immediate vicinity of the state border with our state, enemy artillery units are located;
in the Slobozhansky direction, the enemy continues to conduct combat operations in the border areas north of the city of Kharkov.
Enemy repair and restoration units are working to restore the destroyed railway bridge across the Oskol River in the area of the Kupyansk-Uzlovaya railway station;
in the Kharkiv direction, the enemy is conducting defensive battles in order to deter the advance of the Defense Forces units to the state border and control the Belgorod-Kupyansk highway. In the areas of the settlements of Shestakovo, Pobeda and Bayrak, he carried out remote mining of areas of the area;
in the Slavyansk direction, the enemy is preparing to resume assault operations in order to improve the tactical situation. To compensate for the losses suffered by the grouping of troops, it trains personnel on the territory of the Russian Federation;
units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repulsed the assault in the direction of the settlement of Dovgenkoye and dealt a serious blow to the Russian military;
in the Donetsk direction, measures are being taken to restore the combat capability of the occupying units. At some training grounds, measures were taken to coordinate the combat coordination of enemy motorized rifle and tank units, which were understaffed with mobilized ones;
The main efforts of the Russian army are focused on attempts to establish full control over the city of Severodonetsk and block our troops in the area of the settlement of Lisichansk. Our soldiers nullify the enemy's attempts to take control of the Bakhmut-Severodonetsk highway;
in the Liman direction, in order to destroy fortifications, the enemy fired on our units from mortars and artillery in the areas of Tatyanovka and Piskunovka. Launched a missile attack on Nikolaevka;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the enemy assault in the direction of Novoohtyrka and Voronovo;
in the Bakhmut direction, in order to support the actions of units, the enemy is shelling the areas of the settlements of Berestovo, Fedorovka and Mironovka from cannon and rocket artillery, mortars. Launched an air strike with Ka-52 helicopters near Rotov;
for reconnaissance of routes of advance and clarification of the positions of our troops, the enemy uses sabotage and reconnaissance groups operating in the Belogorovka area;
in the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, the enemy did not conduct active hostilities. The Russian army carried out attacks using artillery, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of the settlements of Bogoyavlenka, Vladimirovka, Malinovka and Shcherbaki;
in the Yuzhnobugsky direction, the enemy is concentrating efforts on holding occupied lines, conducting reconnaissance and engineering equipment for defense lines. Carries out preparations for the intensification of hostilities;
in the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy reinforced the grouping of troops to a battalion tactical group.
[Vesti] In Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, in some areas, a tenfold advantage of the Russians in artillery is recorded.
This was announced by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov, who inspected the work of the GUR MO unit in Severodonetsk.
He noted that today Severodonetsk is the "hottest" direction of the Russian-Ukrainian war, where Ukrainian defenders in heavy battles destroy the Russian military.
"In certain areas, there is a tenfold advantage of the enemy in artillery. Despite this, we are gradually pushing the occupiers out of the city," he stressed.
It should be noted that earlier the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could recapture Severodonetsk, but the city does not have great strategic importance.
[Censor] Commander of the Svoboda Battalion, Captain of the National Guard of Ukraine Petro Kuzyk spoke about the fighting in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to Radio Liberty .
"The enemy has a certain advantage in barrel artillery, the number of tanks, and possibly in the number of people, and actively uses this advantage.
According to him, the situation is extremely difficult in Severodonetsk, there are fierce street fights.
"There were attempts to counterattack somewhere successful, somewhere not very. They are also under constant pressure. Some units were forced to withdraw to the quarter, some units held their positions, including ours.
But it's all in very difficult conditions, very scary, but reminiscent." ". Strategically, we are waiting for reinforcements, especially to close the problem in the artillery. For their part, some incomprehensible assaults, as we call the" meat "of the infantry. We are constantly destroying them, they are throwing new and new reserves already. data, pulled up more reserves, " the commander of a battalion Svoboda added.
At the same time, according to the captain, the dynamics of the battle is very high, the situation changes several times a day.
"We are literally fighting for every house, for every street. Sometimes one day we can move a quarter, one day we can be thrown out a quarter. This is constantly going on and will continue. If our side is interested in keeping it, then, except to count on the stability of the infantry, we still need enough forces and means here - tanks, artillery, "he concluded.
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[Korrespondent] 23:15 In Slavyansk, no more than 24 thousand inhabitants remained - the rest were evacuated, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
23:03 Johnson remains as prime minister of Great Britain - he received a vote of confidence. He was supported by 211 deputies of the Conservative Party, 148 voted for his resignation.
Sadly, it appears at the moment that Britain has no better candidates. If only he felt the need to execute his promises to the voters.
22:51 Greece will send military equipment to Ukraine only after it receives a replacement from Germany, government spokesman Yannis Oikonomou said. He noted that Athens would supply Kyiv with about 100 infantry fighting vehicles from the stocks of the GDR, but only if the promised German infantry fighting vehicles actually arrive in Greece. Oikonomou explained this position by the unwillingness to weaken the defense of Greece because of the conflict with Turkey.
22:12 In the Melitopol region, the Russians have left almost all the checkpoints because they are afraid of the offensive of the Ukrainian defenders, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said: "The invaders have left almost all the checkpoints of the Melitopol region. The heroic Ukrainian military is doing everything possible to liberate the settlements from the Rashists." He also said that the invaders blocked Ukrainian communications and the Internet in Melitopol.
22:05 English can get the status of the language of business communication in Ukraine, Shmyhal said: "The Cabinet of Ministers is working on a relevant legislative initiative. Today, English is used in business communication throughout the civilized world, so granting it such a status in Ukraine will contribute to the development of business, attracting investments and accelerate the European integration of Ukraine. The relevant ministries were given the task to develop proposals and draw up relevant documents."
22:02 The Singapore Red Cross has raised more than $7.4 million for Ukraine and pledged $6 million to help affected communities in Ukraine, reports The Strait Times.
21:56 Nevzorov has not yet received Ukrainian citizenship, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov. According to him, the Russian journalist only applied to get it. At the same time, in order to obtain a Ukrainian passport, you need to "go through a certain procedure." Only one citizenship is allowed in Ukraine, so in order to get it, you need to get rid of the previous one, Danilov added.
21:43 In Kiev, a militant "LDNR" and three collaborators were detained, documenting the consequences of the strike on the Far East. The militant was detained at a checkpoint in the Obolonsky district - he was traveling in an intercity bus, the National Police reported.
21:36 The OPEC Fund will allocate $ 1 billion to ensure food security in the world because of the war in Ukraine. According to Arab News, the fund will also send public and private secret loans and grants to the countries most affected by the war in Ukraine.
21:19 An artillery duel is underway in Severodonetsk, Mayor Alexander Stryuk said on the air of the telethon: "There are fierce battles in Severodonetsk, street battles, it is very difficult. At the same time, an artillery duel is being waged. Of course, we hope, we believe in our Armed Forces. But no one is not going to leave the city. <...> It was like that at the beginning of the assault, when they tried to attack the city, and this is happening now. They are throwing and throwing a new human resource. And this still complicates the situation."
21:01 The "DPR" named the names of foreign volunteers who fought in the Donbass in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who began to be "tried" today in Donetsk. British citizens Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadoun Brahim, appeared before the "supreme court of the DNR".
20:58 Zelensky said that neither he nor Kuleba were invited to a meeting in Ankara on June 8, which, in particular, will consider issues of the Black Sea shipping. According to the president, he discussed with Erdogan, among other things, the mediation of the Turkish side in unblocking Ukrainian ports.
20:36 Sweden, in response to a request from the Ukrainian government, will provide Kiev with short-range anti-ship missile systems RBS-17, the country's defense minister and finance minister said. Ukraine will also receive AG 90 automatic rifles, ammunition for them and 5,000 light anti-tank launchers, writes Militaryleak.
20:30 The situation in Severodonetsk is changing every hour, said Alexander Stryuk, head of the military administration of the city. According to him, street fighting continues, and Russian troops level the city to the ground. At the same time, according to the General Staff, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the assault of the Russians in the direction of Novoakhtyrka and Voronovo and hold control in Severodonetsk. The Ukrainian military prevent the Russians from seizing the Bakhmut-Severodonetsk highway.
20:24 The military of the Russian Federation began to build a pontoon crossing across the river near the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Kharkiv region. This is evidenced by satellite images, which are at the disposal of Radio Liberty. Earlier, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russian army is trying to restore the transport infrastructure in the occupied territories of this region.
20:19 Russia began to hand over to the Ukrainian side the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers who died at Azovstal, writes Associated Press. According to the agency, dozens of bodies of the fighters were taken to Kyiv, where DNA testing is being carried out to identify them.
20:17 Biden declared a state of emergency in the United States, the White House said. He made this decision because of the threat of a shortage of electricity generating capacity. Biden also extended duty exemptions on solar panel imports from Asia.
20:02 There is a "clear and real risk to safety and safeguards" at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said IAEA chief Rafael Grossi: "At least five of the seven basic elements of nuclear safety have been compromised at the facility."
19:50 Ukraine needs to form six new brigades for the counteroffensive, and this is 25,000 military, Danilov said in an interview with the FT: "Ukraine needs to form six new brigades of 25,000 people for a counteroffensive in order to return the territory held by Russia in the east and south, as well as hundreds of rocket launchers and artillery, aircraft and tanks, and thousands of drones."
19:37 The British government has allocated a package of assistance to investigate the crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, said Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab. The new support package includes, inter alia, the work of a special officer of the British police, seven lawyers with extensive experience in international criminal law, two police officers; ongoing defense analysis and monitoring of events in Ukraine; conducting a war crimes investigation training for the Ukrainian police; providing forensic and technical investigative capabilities, including biometrics and digital device forensics.
19:14 The "DNR" stated that Ukrainian troops allegedly fired at the residential areas of Donetsk from the French self-propelled gun CAESAR with a caliber of 155 mm.
19:03 German Minister of Culture Claudia Roth arrived in Odessa on a two-day visit. She became the first member of the German government to visit the city since the start of the war.
18:42 Great Britain, following the United States, will send long-range artillery to Ukraine, despite the threat of aggravation of relations with Russia. Read more about this in the material Rocket Systems from Britain - what they will change .
18:35 Ukraine is not ready to consider the export of its grain through Belarus, Zelensky said: "We were offered to go through Belarus by rail. We even understand how much. But we understand why we were offered this. We are not yet ready to follow this format and help our "friendly" neighbors".
18:21 In Western Ukraine, a special camp was created for Russian prisoners of war who are not subject to exchange, said the head of the Ministry of Justice, Denis Malyuska. At the same time, prisoners who have recently been captured or the Ukrainian side has plans to exchange them are placed in pre-trial detention centers throughout Ukraine.
18:06 Kiev is ready to release Russian prisoners of war after the end of the fighting, but reserves the right to hold them accountable , the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
18:02 The world is growing tired of the war in Ukraine, and "people want some kind of result for themselves," therefore Kiev is being persuaded to an unfavorable result of negotiations with the Russian Federation, Zelensky said: "Of course, everyone wants to push us as little as possible to some a result that is definitely not beneficial for us, because we are not being asked yet, but beneficial for certain parties that have their own interests.Again, different - both financial and political."
18:01 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council declares that the Russian Federation can commit a provocation in Europe using similar weapons that are being transferred to Ukraine. Thus, the Kremlin wants to prevent further arms supplies to Ukraine and use the attack for propaganda.
18:00 Ukraine has no alternatives to joining the European Union, Zelensky said: "There are no alternatives to our membership in the EU, our candidacy for EU membership. And no one offered it to us, and if it was offered, we would not agree." Zelensky does not consider discussions with Britain of a defense alliance an alternative to the EU.
17:58 At the checkpoints of the Kherson region, the Russian military was allowed to shoot "suspicious" civilians, the SBU reports, citing the interception of the invaders' conversations.
17:56 Zelensky said that weapons that Ukraine would deploy in the region could be acceptable guarantees to clear ports and unblock grain exports: "We are working on this and we will get anti-ship systems. These are not threats. These will be the best guarantees."
The President also confirmed that Turkey could become an intermediary in deblocking the ports: "We are ready to export grain and we break Russia's rhetoric that we do not want to export and provoke a food crisis. We are ready, but we need a security corridor."
17:54 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian forces are completing the "liberation" of Svyatogorsk and the surrounding area. Moscow claims that "Ukrainian nationalist formations", allegedly to prevent the retreat of Ukrainian troops, blew up the bridge across the Seversky Donets.
17:51 Today, after 9:00, the Russians opened fire from mortars from their territory, inflicting about four blows on the Velykopisarevskaya community of the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. After 14:00, the enemy, for its part, opened fire from mortars on the territory of the Shalygin community - about 30 hits were recorded, mortar fire also continued on the territory of the Velikopisarevskaya community - 10 hits. And before that, an enemy UAV dropped an improvised explosive device.
"There is also positive news: the Russians, like complete cretins, continue to attack their territories themselves. They fired at some Tetkino in the Kursk region, inflicted damage," Zhivitsky added.
17:47 The introduction of a visa regime with Russia is "a good idea that needs to be brought to an end," Zelensky said.
17:43 The temporary loss of territories during the retreat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not a tragedy, Danilov said in an interview with the Financial Times. According to him, today the enemy in Severodonetsk and Lisichansk has an advantage in artillery. "Unfortunately, now we cannot adequately respond in kind, provided that the weapons that we so badly need are not available at the moment," Danilov stressed.
He noted that Ukrainian forces may resort to retreat from Severodonetsk and other cities in the Donbas while they regroup. "The temporary loss of territories is just not a tragedy. The absence of a nation would be a tragedy," Danilov added.
17:34 Zelensky on granting citizenship to Nevzorov: "If we have the opportunity to pump Russian power, we must do it, we must use any weapon." At the same time, the president stressed that Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich or Oleg Deripaska would not be granted Ukrainian citizenship.
17:21 British Conservatives today will consider a vote of no confidence in their leader, who has become one of the main allies of the Ukrainians in the Russian war. More details - in the material, Johnson is threatened with resignation: what to expect for Ukraine .
17:10 Zelensky said that Ukrainian analysts do not yet see real risks of a repeated invasion of Ukraine from the territory of Belarus. At the same time, he added that "we are preparing for all the risks of an invasion."
16:59 There are five Russian ships in the Black Sea with a possible total salvo of up to 34 Kalibr-type sea-launched cruise missiles, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
16:48 In the unrecognized Transnistria, they say that "an unknown drone dropped two RGD-5 grenades on the location of the army's auto unit."
16:39 Zelensky, after a visit to the front line, spoke about the situation at the front. According to him, a threatening situation is observed in the Zaporozhye region and Severodonetsk: "In the Severodonetsk direction, Ukraine is holding the situation. There are more of them, they are more powerful, but we have a chance to hold the offensive." Zelensky stressed that Severodonetsk should not be given away, since its de-occupation will be "given with very great sacrifices."
16:20 When leaving Azovstal, 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers were captured by Russia, the GUR is engaged in their exchange , Zelensky said. According to the president, it is unprofitable for Russia to use torture against the Ukrainian military, since they have become "public prisoners." He also noted that he does not take seriously the statements of the Russian authorities and representatives of the "DPR" regarding the future fate of Ukrainian fighters, since in this way they are trying to promote themselves on this.
15:52 Reznikov said that he had held talks with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. In particular, we discussed new projects in the Black Sea to ensure free navigation and security of commercial traffic.
15:50 In the Slavic direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suspended the offensive and repulsed the forces of the Russians, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. The Russian army advanced in the directions of Bolshaya Kamyshevakhi, Vernopolye, Dibrovnoye, Dolina and Bogorodichny. In total, the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repulsed seven Russian attacks, destroyed four tanks, three artillery systems, eight armored fighting vehicles and three vehicles.
15:48 In Mariupol, cholera is probably spreading , the invaders are closing the city for quarantine, adviser to the mayor of the city Petr Andryushchenko said on the air of the telethon: "We are watching the city close. In addition, information has begun to come in that the Russian side in Rostov-on- Donu has already prepared separate infectious diseases departments, where they are preparing to receive their own military, who may fall as a result of the epidemic, and the word "cholera" sounds inside the city, inside the occupying authorities and their curators."
15:35 Bloomberg writes that Turkey and Russia have agreed on a roadmap for the safe export of Ukrainian grain and unblocking the port in Odessa. However, in Ukraine there are still doubts whether to agree to this plan. In particular, Turkey offered to help clear the area around the Odessa port, as well as escort Ukrainian grain carriers to a certain point in the Black Sea. There they should be taken under control by Russian ships and escorted to the Bosphorus. Russia also wants to get the right to inspect ships.
Kyiv agreed to Turkish participation in the operation, but is still skeptical about clearing mines around Odessa, as this could open the way for Russia to a naval attack. Ankara hopes that the participation of the UN will help to remove doubts about security.
15:29 Turkey and Ukraine discussed the issues of ensuring the safe passage of Turkish bulk carriers, which are awaiting departure in Ukrainian ports, the Turkish Defense Ministry said.
Earlier today, Russian Izvestia, citing sources, reported that Ukraine, Russia and Turkey agreed on a preliminary scheme for the export of grain from the port of Odessa. Kyiv did not confirm this information, and Kuleba said that Ukraine cannot trust Putin's words about "guarantees" for shipping.
15:27 Russia is deploying additional S-300 divisions in Crimea, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "The deployment of two S-300 anti-aircraft missile divisions continues in the northwestern part of the peninsula in the areas of Olenevka and Razdolnoye."
15:26 The Armed Forces of Ukraine pushed back the Russian fleet 100 km from the coast of Ukraine , the Ministry of Defense reports. In order to regain control over the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russians are changing tactics and deploying Bal and Bastion coastal missile systems in Crimea and the Kherson region. They are also forced to transfer additional forces to Snake Island.
According to the Navy, there are currently up to 12 large landing ships in the Black Sea, but more than a third of them are under repair. After the destruction of three landing craft of the Raptor type and a landing craft of the Serna type, the enemy grouping has up to 15 landing craft of various types. There is still a risk of landing tactical troops and sabotage and reconnaissance groups on the Odessa coast, especially in favorable weather conditions in the summer.
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry imitates the organization of so-called "humanitarian corridors" supposedly to withdraw civilian foreign ships from Ukrainian ports. An attempt to play on humanity may actually be nothing more than an opportunity for enemy ships to approach the Ukrainian coast under the cover of civilian ships, the Ministry of Defense notes.
14:57 The speaker of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said that Ukrainian soldiers are mastering any samples of the latest weapons from Western partners very quickly - in record time.
14:55 Today, the first foreigners who fought for Ukraine and were captured by the "DPR" will be "tried", Pushilin said. He does not exclude that the death penalty will be applied to them. He did not name the prisoners, specifying only that they were from Britain and Morocco.
14:53 "Mayor" of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin said that as a result of "Ukrainian shelling" hits on the territory of the Donetsk city water canal were recorded, there are victims.
14:39 Lavrov said that "Ukraine does not want to negotiate" and "refused this process." At the same time, he said that "specialists from Russia are already leaving for Turkey today to discuss the problems of food supplies." The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed hope that at the talks in Turkey, the parties would be able to "work out in detail the mechanisms for unblocking the export of Ukrainian grain."
14:35 The head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Andrey Kartapolov specified that the "peacekeepers" of the CSTO will not appear in Ukraine and the Donbass until the end of the "special operation", but their appearance there after the conflict cannot be ruled out.
14:22 In the de-occupied territories of Ukraine, there is a risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases, said Igor Kuzin, chief medical officer. According to him, the liberated territories are threatened with problems with drinking water, flooding of territories, stopping vaccination, and the spread of infectious diseases.
Kuzin said that the specialists of the epidemiological services have already fully explored the de-occupied territories of the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions, research continues in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions. Studies have shown that the quality of drinking water has deteriorated as a result of destruction and disruption of infrastructure.
14:06 Irish Prime Minister Michal Martin believes that Ukraine should join the EU as soon as possible. He stated this while speaking at a conference of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe party . Martin stressed that he was "originally a strong supporter" of Ukraine's accession to the EU and that in general he supports a "fast and accelerated" accession process.
13:53 Kuleba responded to Putin's initiative to export Ukrainian grain under the escort of Russian ships: "Putin says he will not use trade routes to attack Odessa. This is the same Putin who told German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron that he would not attack Ukraine - a few days before the start of a full-scale invasion of our country. We cannot trust Putin, his words are empty."
13:51 Lavrov said that the more long-range systems that the West supplies to Ukraine, the further the Russian Federation will "push the Nazis away from the territories where the threat to Russia comes from."
13:49 The head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Andrey Kartapolov said that Russia could strike at the infrastructure and state institutions of Ukraine in the event of deliveries of long-range MLRS to Kiev.
He also does not rule out that the CSTO peacekeepers "may be in demand" in the "LPR", "DPR" and in the "liberated" territories of Ukraine.
13:20 British President Liz Truss supported Johnson, mentioning Ukraine: "The Prime Minister has my 100% support in today's vote, and I urge my colleagues to support him. He showed results during the country's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and supported Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. He apologized for the mistakes he made."
13:12 In Latvia, from June 9, the remaining 80 TV channels registered in Russia will stop broadcasting, the head of the national regulator said. At the same time, the department decided to issue a broadcasting permit to the Dozhd TV channel, which will be Latvian from June 9.
13:11 Rector of the Banchensky Monastery, Metropolitan of the UOC-MP Longin "thanked" Patriarch Kirill for the blessing of the war: "Thank you" for your blessing. Because people die and blood is shed. Because you are bombing our churches and monasteries. Because our monks and priests are dying. Thank you, Your Holiness, for your "great and important" blessing on the bloodshed."
13:08 Arakhamia said that a meeting was held with representatives of the South Korean Parliament: "We have a lot in common with South Korea. Both countries have an inadequate neighbor with a dictatorship, both countries are young democracies, Ukraine and Korea have occupied territories, they want their peoples to developed, and must be prepared to defend themselves in war."
Arakhamia noted that South Korea has gone through a period of renewal and has become one of the most powerful economies in the world, so "it can become a role model for us in the reconstruction of the country." The parties also discussed the possibilities of military-technical cooperation, cooperation in the field of high technologies, and in the near future a Ukrainian delegation, partly from politicians, partly from businessmen, will go to South Korea to consolidate the agreements reached.
12:55 Johnson officially confirmed the transfer of the M270 MLRS to Ukraine with missiles with a range of up to 80 km: “We cannot stand aside while Russian long-range artillery wipes cities off the face of the earth and kills innocent civilians. salvo fire systems so that they can effectively counter the ongoing Russian advance."
12:39 Ukraine sent a request to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry with a request to provide weapons, Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Vitaliy Moskalenko said: "I sent a note on Friday. It is impossible to get an answer in such a short time, but I will send similar appeals to other relevant institutions, for example, to Ministry of Defense".
According to the ambassador, he requested howitzers and missile systems: "We need weapons, we are talking about howitzers and missile systems - old Soviet weapons that we can handle." Moskalenko also said that 80 Ukrainian tanks would be repaired in Bulgaria.
12:35 The so-called "head" of the occupation administration in the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, said that Russia Day will be celebrated in the occupied region on June 12.
11:52 The Yermak-McFaul International Working Group presented the Roadmap for individual sanctions, the OP said. Potentially individual sanctions may affect 12,000 individuals and 3,000 legal entities .
11:50 Ukraine can completely abandon gas imports through the development of its own extraction and production of biogas, said the general director of OGTSU Sergey Makogon. According to him, Ukraine has a very large potential for biogas production - up to 8 billion cubic meters per year. "This is a very ambitious goal for the next ten years. But 0.5 billion cubic meters of biogas in two years is quite realistic," Makogon added.
11:45 The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kirill Budanov, inspected the work of the units of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in Severodonetsk. According to the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate, today this is a "hot" direction of the war, where in some areas there is a tenfold advantage of the enemy in artillery. Despite this, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are gradually pushing the invaders out of the city. Budanov got acquainted with the operational situation in this sector of the front and determined the further actions of the units of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
11:42 Fake notifications began to come to the numbers of Ukrainians that the National Security and Defense Council allegedly decided to stop providing services by Ukrainian operators in the Zaporozhye region. Gosspetssvyaz declares that this information is not true and is another information-psychological operation of Russia. The National Security and Defense Council did not and could not give any such orders, Ukraine will not disconnect Ukrainians from communications.
In turn, Vodafone CEO Olga Ustinova said in an interview with Forbes that the operator's base stations in Kherson were turned off. According to her, the lack of communication is often associated either with a lack of electricity or with fiber optic breaks. Check what happened in each case, the company can not yet because of the hostilities.
11:37 The German government is blocking the supply of tanks to Ukraine, as it fears that the Armed Forces of Ukraine may use them to invade Russia, writes Spiegel. According to sources of the publication, in Berlin they believe that there is no need to prepare armored vehicles yet. In this matter, Germany is guided by the United States and believes that if the States decide to send armored vehicles to Ukraine, then preparations for sending Marder infantry fighting vehicles will take several months.
11:32 A complete severance of relations between Russia and the United States is impossible, says US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan: "We cannot take and break off diplomatic relations and stop talking to each other. We sit next to each other at least daily at meetings of the Security Council United Nations in New York. Whatever it is, it's better when we talk to each other in the UN, in the Security Council."
Sullivan also opined that "some basic stuff" needed to keep embassies and bank accounts open should be kept.
11:16 Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko called for a ban on entry to Ukraine for former Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova: “What is she doing in Ukraine? The question must be answered: what is this journalist doing in the German media and why was she allowed into Ukraine?
10:55 Washington will not agree to a deal with Moscow, under which part of the sanctions against the Russian Federation will be lifted in exchange for lifting the blockade of Ukrainian ports for grain exports, Politico writes, citing its sources.
10:42 In Britain, the Conservatives will vote tonight on no confidence in their leader Boris Johnson. To remain party leader, Johnson needs the support of half of the voters.
Earlier it was reported that the UK Parliament may express no confidence in Johnson on Wednesday, June 8, due to the party scandal at the height of the lockdown in May 2020. In the event of a successful resignation vote, Johnson will act as prime minister until a new party leader is elected.
10:38 In Ukraine, about 1,500 Belarusians are fighting on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told Corriere della Sera: “When the war began, many in Belarus thought that they needed to help the Ukrainians, so battalions were organized. Now it is about 1,500 people. They are different in different cities, under the supervision of the Ukrainian army." She also added that now a certain number of Belarusians are undergoing military training abroad in order to also join the defenders of Ukraine.
10:21 Russian telegram channels write that the deputy commander of the special regiment named after. Kadyrov Lieutenant Colonel Mezhed Utsmigov ("Mujahid") was wounded in the Luhansk region on June 2. As a result of artillery shelling, the occupier was wounded in the leg and concussion.
10:19 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the situation in Severodonetsk "has worsened somewhat, the battles are very dynamic." According to him, now the Armed Forces of Ukraine control only the industrial zone: "During the counteroffensive, half of the city was recaptured, but now we are holding positions in the industrial zone."
10:17 In Mariupol, scammers are spreading fake information about the organization of the evacuation in Zaporozhye under the patronage of the UN and the Red Cross, offering the services of their own carriers for money, who will allegedly join the convoy. Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko warns that this is a hoax, no evacuation from the city is currently planned.
10:14 In many regions of Russia, the authorities are buying hundreds of graves for citizens whose funerals cannot be paid for by their families. There were no purchases of this magnitude in previous years. As correspondents found out , we can explain , a lot of lots appeared on the State Procurement portal in May for organizing burials in different cities. As a rule, graves are purchased for people without relatives or from vulnerable social groups, while the number of graves is anomalous.
So, in the Khabarovsk Territory, 700 graves were ordered at once, in Krasnoyarsk they buy about 100 graves - for the first time in the history of the customer, in the Kopeysky district of the Chelyabinsk region they ordered the burial of 37 dead at once, in Karelia - 39, and in Murmansk the number of new burials is not indicated: in the documentation it is said that they are planned in "queues".
10:07 Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reports explosions in the city and asks inhabitants not to leave shelters.
10:06 Ukrainian "nationalists" who will be "tried" by a military tribunal in the "LPR" will be punished in accordance with the legislation of the "republic", the LPR Foreign Ministry said. They clarified that the punishment can be imposed on the amount of articles, while a number of articles of the "Criminal Code of the LPR" provide for life imprisonment, and there is a moratorium on the death penalty in the "republic".
10:00 The representative of the occupying "authority" of the Zaporozhye region - a member of the "main council of the military-civilian administration" Volodymyr Rogov said that the property of Ukrainian oligarchs, including Kolomoisky, Akhmetov and Pinchuk, in the region should be "nationalized". In his opinion, "it would be unreasonable to fulfill obligations to the owners of enterprises that finance Ukrainian nationalists."
09:37 Kyiv City State Administration published a photo of the consequences of yesterday's strike on the car repair plant on Darnitsa, where four Russian missiles hit.
09:20 The Russians are regrouping forces in the Black Sea, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk. According to him, the enemy has withdrawn some ships to their bases in the Crimea, but can deliver up to 12 strikes with cruise missiles. In the Black Sea, the enemy left a ship and a submarine equipped with cruise missiles, and several large landing ships. The risk of an amphibious landing remains, but so far there is no visible preparation of the enemy for the active phase of the amphibious operation.
At the same time, according to Bratchuk, the Russians are building up their combat potential on Zmeiny Island, but the Odessa Region Defense Forces are also implementing a set of deterrent measures.
09:15 In Mariupol, the daily queue for humanitarian aid in the former Metro shopping center reaches 1,500-2,000 people, while up to 400 sets are issued per day. People stand in line in the heat for six hours, no drinking water, no shade to hide. In recent days, every hour up to ten people are taken to the hospital with fainting. There is a mortuary 200 meters away, the smell is getting stronger every day, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
09:11 Erdogan requires Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson to fire Defense Minister Peter Gultqvist, writes Expressen. According to the publication, the Turkish president reminded the Swedish government of Gultqvist's speech at a party ten years ago, where he spoke approvingly of the PKK and its imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan.
09:09 Lavrov's visit to Belgrade on June 6-7 was canceled after three countries neighboring Serbia refused to let his plane into their airspace. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the cancellation of the visit of the head of the department. Earlier it was reported that Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro refused to let Lavrov's plane through.
09:07 Britain will provide Ukraine with M270 multiple launch rocket systems, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said, Reuters writes. These MLRS can hit targets at a distance of up to 80 km. London said Ukrainian troops would be trained to use the new launchers in Britain, after previously announcing they would be training Ukrainian personnel to use armored vehicles.
09:03 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of June 6. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic direction.
personnel - about 31,250 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1386 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 3400 (+8),
artillery systems - 690 (+4),
MLRS - 207 (+0),
air defense systems - 96 (+1),
aircraft - 211 (+1),
helicopters - 176 (+1),
UAV operational-tactical level - 551 (+3),
cruise missiles - 125 (+3),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2395 (+35),
special equipment - 53 (+0).
08:49 British intelligence reports that early on the morning of June 5, Russian Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles hit the railway infrastructure in Kiev, apparently in an attempt to disrupt the supply of Western military equipment to forward Ukrainian units.
In the Donbas, heavy fighting continues in Severodonetsk, and Russian troops continue to advance towards Slovyansk as part of an attempt to encircle Ukrainian forces.
At sea, after the loss of the cruiser Moskva, Russian forces probably transferred several air defense systems to Zmeiny Island, including the Tor and Pantsir C1 systems. This weapon is intended for air defense of Russian warships operating in the area of Zmeiny Island. The activities of the Russian Federation on this island contribute to the blockade of the Ukrainian coast and prevent the resumption of maritime trade, including the export of Ukrainian grain, analysts say.
08:30 Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a Russian missile over the Poltava region, Poltava Mayor Oleksandr Mamay said.
08:07 A meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine will take place today. The start is scheduled for 17:00 Kyiv time. According to the organization's secretariat, the focus will be on "conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking in the context of the war in Ukraine." Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, will address this issue. The head of the European Council, Charles Michel, will also be present.
07:26 The invaders are trying to advance on Slavyansk, from artillery of various calibers they fired at civilian infrastructure in the areas of the settlements of Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Vernopolye, Dubrovno, Novaya Dmitrovka, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
On the territory of Belarus, along the border of Ukraine, the presence of individual units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, armed with Iskander-M operational-tactical missile systems, Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft gun systems, S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems and operational-tactical aviation aircraft, remains.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from mortars, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Zolote, Orekhovoe, Gornoye, Vrubovka, Klinovo, Belogorovka, Pokrovskoye. Attack aircraft were used.
04:14 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the successful counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Severodonetsk indicate a decrease in the combat strength of the Russians. Ukrainian counterattacks are likely to continue drawing the attention of Russian forces into Luhansk Oblast and therefore leave vulnerabilities in Russian defenses in Kharkiv Oblast and along the southern axis. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are likely trying to use Russia's concentration on Severodonetsk to launch counterattacks on other lines of advance, analysts say.
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[RIA Novosti] Ukrainian troops abandoned their equipment and fled Svyatogorsk despite efforts by nationalist barrage units to stop them, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
According to him, for this purpose, detachments blew up a bridge across the Seversky Donets River.
"Under the onslaught of Russian units, the remnants of the battalions of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade and the 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned military equipment along with weapons and dispersed along the coast," the general said.
He noted that up to 80 Ukrainian soldiers crossed the river by swimming, they did not deliberately open fire on them.
"We regard the refusal of Ukrainian servicemen to defend the useless Kyiv regime led by nationalists as the only right thing to do, not cowardice," Konashenkov stressed.
Konashenkov also called on all the military and members of the territorial defense units of Ukraine to follow this example and stop "thoughtless resistance in order to save their lives." The Russian Armed Forces, in turn, guarantee all those who voluntarily laid down their arms to be treated with dignity and return to their families, the Defense Ministry spokesman added.
Konashenkov concluded that the Russian army had moved on to the final stage of the liberation of Svyatogorsk and the surrounding territory.
Svyatogorsk (until 2003 Slavyanogorsk) is located in the northern part of the Donetsk People's Republic, just over forty kilometers southeast of the city of Izyum , Kharkiv Oblast , which is under the control of the Russian military.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:35 Ukrainian media report:
Our source in the OP said that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the difficult situation in Severodonetsk and the losses among the military special forces.
The counteroffensive attempt bogged down on the first day, but Bankova Street continues to insist on the need for street fighting and the creation of the city as a symbol of heroic resistance to Russian aggression.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again asks the President to withdraw troops to the high ground in Lisichansk and not to spend reserves on PR campaigns in order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the group and not undermine the authority of the command.
21:37 Special Forces of the RF Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye directionfall apartspecial group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
22:00 The 1,300th prisoner was taken.
20:56 English can get the status of the language of business communication in Ukraine, media reports referring to Shmyhal.
17:39 A new group of volunteers has gone to Ukraine to carry out tasks within the framework of a special operation, Ramzan Kadyrov said. "These are ready-made specialists who have been trained at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes," the head of Chechnya emphasized.
12:34 Ministry of Defense published new footage of the combat work of the Russian MLRS "Grad" during a special operation in Ukraine.
11:11 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
▪️190 aircraft,
▪️129 helicopters,
▪️1,127 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▪️330 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▪️3,424 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles,
▪️473 installations of multiple launch rocket systems,
▪️1,795 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▪️3,446 units of special military vehicles.
11:04 The Melitopol School of Culture and the Medical College have returned to work. From Thursday, students will return to full-time classes. By the end of June, teachers plan to complete the academic year.
10:24 Russian liberators have taken almost 60 percent of the Zaporozhye region under control.
09:50 The UK will provide Ukraine with American-made M270 MLRS, which are capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 km, Reuters writes with reference to the country's Defense Minister Ben Wallace.
08:51 Effects of strikes on the Darnitsa car repair plant, where military equipment was being prepared for shipment to the front. Calibrated by the RF Armed Forces.
08:50 Results of the fire damage on the night of June 5-6, 2022:
Last night was relatively calm for Ukraine. Artillery strikes were carried out mainly on the positions of the Ukrainian army. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, fired at the border village of Tyotkino, Glukhovsky district, Kursk region:
The largest number of "arrivals" was recorded in the Kharkiv region. Attacks were made against enemy positions in Lozovaya, Merefa and Kharkov itself.
The head of the Poltava region, Dmitry Lunin, said that Ukrainian air defense systems shot down a flying missile of the Russian Armed Forces.
08:33 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for June 5, 2022:
In the north of the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a counteroffensive.
Fights in Tsupovka and Great Passages.
Clashes in the vicinity of Ternovaya.
There are active battles in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied Davydov Brod and entrenched themselves on the southern bank of the Ingulets River.
The RF Armed Forces are counterattacking the enemy near the village of Belaya Krynnitsa.
08:30 Personnel sorties of Su-34 fighter-bombers during a special operation in Ukraine.
08:27 Another foreign mercenary was eliminated by the Russian armed forces in Ukraine. 43-year-old Brazilian Andre Bahi from Porto Alegre was killed at an unidentified location. He is reported to have been a veteran of the French Foreign Legion. ! 08:04 Auto-da-fé in the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction. Joy over the “downed Russian litak” turned into zrada - Ukrainian Air Defense Forces killed the Su-27 of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, passing it off as an enemy aircraft. Nothing the Russians haven't done in the past.
Reisner's excellent summary is otganized along four main levels of analysis: Time, Terrain, Information and Force. He discusses how each of these four works to the advantage or disadvantage of the combatants. He does not gloss over the Russians' failures from May 2-6 in the northern river crossings, praises the Ukrainians' "cleverness" in using small boats to transport a few troops at a time across the river and also does not mince words in saying the Russian forces were "annihilated" in their last attempt to cross the river in the northwest part of the Donbas before they transitioned their forces east and south.
Reisner also makes clear the enormous disadvantages faced by the Ukrainians and the failure of their forces to hold the high positions which their special forces occupied in the south. The Ukrainians are extraordinarily vulnerable outside of these few pockets. They are trying to fill in the large gaps with their lightly armed, poorly trained Territorial troops who have been overrun by the Russians' "flower" i.e. multi-pronged thrust north, west and south that began in late May.
He also provides an objective and fascinating overview of how the aging Soviet-era Russian tanks are actually "perfectly" suited to the conditions of this Battle for the Donbas.
Reisner also provides an expert overview of the severe limitations on the Ukrainians' ability to make effective use of the artillery they've been given recently, noting that the Czech and Polish artillery supplied are not the recent NATO hubs but much older Soviet-era materiel.
In sum this is the best and most objective military analysis that anyone has provided.
A pity that more people did not know of Colonel Reisner and gave access to his expert, neutral commentary back in February and March.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 As a result of hostilities on the territory of the Petrovsky district, destruction was recorded:
- st. Serafimovicha, 10, shop: direct hit;
- st. Bagritsky, 20, a private residential building: burned down completely. 23:16 Brief evening briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry:
- Russian troops complete the liberation of Svyatogorsk and its environs;
- On the Ukrainian side, in order to prevent a retreat, the bridge across the Seversky Donets was blown up;
- The remnants of the battalions of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 81st Separate Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, having abandoned military equipment, scattered along the coast;
- Up to 80 Ukrainian militants swam across the river. The Russian servicemen deliberately did not open fire on them.
23:12 Shelling from the side of the VFU on the settlement was recorded. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: 4 rockets were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
20:47 Ukrainian militants are again shelling Gorlovka from heavy weapons. It is reported about the explosions of Ukrainian shells in the Golmovsky settlement, the Solnechny residential area, the village of mine 19/20 - the mayor of Gorlovka.
20:45 The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, announced that the city of Svyatogorsk was almost liberated.
20:32 Decree of the Head of the DPR No. 266 of June 6, 2022 amended the Decree of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic of March 3, 2022 No. 45.
According to the change, temporarily included in the zone of influence and responsibility of the administration of the city of Enakievo:
- Yarovaya urban-type settlement.
- The village of Dibrova.
- The village of Old Caravan.
- Shchurovo village.
19:15 VFU attacked Petrovsky district of Donetsk
Ukrainian militants from positions in Novomikhailovka used 155-mm NATO artillery, the shells fall in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
18:05 The Bryansk region has become twinned with Bryanka in the LPR and will now help with the restoration of territories. So far - road and construction equipment.
18:03 Family members of those who died in the DPR, LPR, in Ukraine and in Syria, employees of the Russian Guard will receive five million rubles - Putin's decree.
17:36 The Russian military is completing the liberation of the city of Svyatogorsk and the surrounding territory in the DPR - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
17:00 New road signs appeared in Yelenovka - now in Russian! Under the control of the Ministry of Transport of the DPR in the settlements of the Republic, the systematic replacement of information road signs continues.
15:38 As of June 6, 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 229 settlements, including Zeleny Gay and Petrivske. There are battles for Svyatogorsk.
15:23 According to updated information from the administration of Donetsk, as a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district, the following were injured:
- a woman, 75 years old, lives on the street. Shuyskoy, 5/6. She received a shrapnel wound in her apartment. Sent for outpatient treatment in hospital No. 14;
- woman, 69 years old, lives on the street. Petrovsky, 187/39. I received a concussion in my own apartment. She refused hospitalization;
- a man, approximately 55 years old, was found on the street with a diagnosis of amputation of both legs, was hospitalized in the emergency room of City Hospital No. 14. He died today.
In addition, in the Kuibyshev district, a direct hit on a residential building on the street was recorded. Stepnoy, 162, which provoked a fire in the house, the roof, glazing and facade were damaged.
15:07 Representative offices of the Search Movement of Russia will open in the DPR and LPR. The representative in the DPR will be the head of the Republican search association "Donbass" Alexander Maltsev. The representative in the LPR is the deputy of the parliament of the Republic Svetlana Gizai.
14:51 As a result of hits of Ukrainian shells in the Leninsky district of Donetsk, warehouses with building materials are burning.
14:34 VFU attacked the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka. On st. Antropov, three people were injured.
14:22 From positions in Avdievka, Ukrainian militants fired about 50 BM-21 Grad rockets into the Kalininsky district of Donetsk. Detailed information is being specified.
14:20 VFU attacked Volnovakha
As a result of the shelling, 2 people were killed and 1 was injured.
14:02 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking Yasinovataya using Uragan MLRS.
13:47 Pasechnik: "I know for sure that we have no plans to retreat. I can assure the population of the liberated territories that no one will go back to where we entered. This is long and serious."
13:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:21 Civilians of the city continue to suffer from VFU shells. According to updated information, three civilians were killed as a result of the shelling of the Petrovsky district, personal data is being established.
As a result of the shelling of St. Verstovsky, 13, Kievsky district, a woman born in 1950 was wounded in her own house. The victim was taken to the Republican Traumatological Center with a mine-explosive injury, a fragmentation fracture. A woman, born in 1971, living at the same address with a shrapnel wound to the chest, was taken to the emergency room of City Hospital No. 20.
In the house number 10 on the street. Volnovakha, a man received a soft tissue injury. He went to a medical institution on his own.
In addition, the following damage was recorded:
Petrovsky district:
- st. Petrovsky, 189/14 - the glazing in the apartment is damaged.
Kyiv district:
- st. Revolutionary, 20, st. Volnovahskaya, 8, 10 - window blocks and roof were damaged;
- st. Volnovahskaya, 7 - window blocks are damaged.
13:17 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about civilian casualties as a result of the shelling of the AFU of the following settlements:
n.p. Yasinovataya:
wounded woman born in 1963
Donetsk (Kyiv region):
two women born in 1950 and 1971 were wounded.
Information was also received about damage as a result of shelling by the VFU of the following settlements:
Kyiv district of Donetsk:
st. Revolutionary, 20, 26 - private residential buildings
st. Economic, 15 - damage to the workshop of the Remkommunelektrotrans plant was recorded;
st. Volnovahskaya 7, 8, 10 - private residential buildings.
Petrovsky district of Donetsk:
st. Amudaryinskaya, 33 "a" - a private residential building;
st. Shuiskaya, 5 - apartment building;
st. Art. Schipacheva, 41 "a" - a fire was recorded at the MBDOU "Nursery-garden of a combined type No. 386 in Donetsk";
st. Petrovsky, 189/14 - apartment building.
Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk:
st. Sofiyskaya, 16 - a gas distribution substation was damaged.
n.p. Alexandrovka:
st. Gorky, 83 - a private residential building.
n.p. Yasinovataya:
Fixed damage to the locomotive depot.
12:27 As a result of shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk on the street. Verestovskaya was injured by two women.
12:12 Ukrainian militants attacked the Kyiv region of Donetsk. Destroyed housing on the street. Revolutionary and Volnovakha, a man was injured.
12:00 According to updated information, as a result of the morning shelling of the Petrovsky district, the MBDOU “Nursery-garden of a combined type No. 386 in Donetsk”, located on the street. Stepan Shchipachev, 41a. The hit of the shells caused the fire of the roof, the glazing was damaged. There were no casualties.
11:55 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:45 “When they retreated, they burned everything in their path” - civilians of Popasna testify to the war crimes of Ukrainian punishers.
11:19 AFU continues to strike at the Petrovsky district and adjacent villages. Last night, as a result of the shelling of the village of Aleksandrovka, the glazing of windows and the roof of a residential building on the street were damaged. Gorky, 83. In the morning in the Petrovsky district shells damaged:
- roof and window glazing of the house on the street. Amudaryinskaya, 33a;
- glazing of the house on the street. Shuyskoy, 5
11:07 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
10:44 AFU attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a civilian was killed. As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants on the street. Aleutian killed a civilian.
10:43 During the 110 days of the escalation, 146 civilians were killed, incl. 7 children.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 706 civilians, incl. 55 children.*
Damage:
— 4,125 residential buildings;
— 874 civil infrastructure facilities, incl. 54 medical institutions, 161 educational institutions, 273 social security facilities, 29 critical infrastructure facilities, 357 electricity, water and gas supply facilities.
The Kyiv and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk and Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district, Kalininsky district, TsGR) are under attack by the VFU - 449 vehicles.
During the 110 days of the escalation of the DPR JCCC, 3,891 facts of firing were recorded, of which 3,579 were using heavy weapons.
In total, the enemy fired 34,947 ammunition of various calibers, including 28 missiles from the Tochka-U OTRK, 14 BM-30 Smerch MLRS missiles, 50 BM-27 Uragan MLRS missiles and 6,086 BM-21 Grad MLRS missiles.
10:34 As a result of the shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants in Avdievka in Yasinovataya, a woman born in 1963 was wounded. 122mm artillery is used against the population.
10:21 AFU shelled the Kyiv district of Donetsk. On st. The revolutionary house-building suffered.
09:31 According to updated information, as a result of the night shelling of the street. Infantry, 14 Petrovsky district, a civilian was wounded. Man born in 1958 with a shrapnel wound and an open fracture was taken to the emergency room of the Central City Hospital No. 14.
In addition, a GP hit with a fire in a non-residential building on the street was recorded. Vasilkova, 11.
09:20 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - lies down with a whistle between 1 and 2 Sites.
09:11 The DPR army occupied the next positions of the APU near Avdievka. The soldiers of the second battalion of the territorial defense of the People's Militia of the DPR knocked out the Ukrainian militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of positions that they had been preparing for years.
09:03 Since the very morning, Ukrainian Nazis have been subjecting the long-suffering Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky to massive shelling. Shell explosions were recorded on the territory of the dolomite plant, on the street. Stepan Babia, 56a, 56b gas pipeline was interrupted.
As a result of the shelling from the side of the VFU, the house on the street was significantly damaged. Stepan Babia, 56a and 56b (pictured). It is reported about the arrivals of Ukrainian shells behind a residential building 23 on the street. Hospital and near the village administration (the building was damaged), the house on the street received significant damage. Soviet Army, 66g, the shelling of the village continues
09:00 Results of fire damage on the night of June 5-6, 2022:
Russian troops continued to suppress the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lisichansk using tactical aircraft and artillery.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a bridge and civilian enterprises in the Glukhovsky district of the Kursk region. The bridge and several outbuildings in Tyotkino were damaged.
Ukrainian troops again fired on Yasinovataya from Avdiivka.
08:40 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for June 5, 2022:
In the Donbass, the allied forces are systematically developing success.
➖There are unverified reports about the beginning of the battles for Tatyanovka.
➖In Severodonetsk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered serious losses and are retreating to reserve positions.
➖During the assault on Nikolaevka, the commander of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR, Major General Roman Kutuzov, was killed.
➖The forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novolugansk and at the Uglegorsk TPP fell into an operational encirclement.
➖Reinforcements have arrived in Avdievka: the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for a counterattack.
08:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
08:12 Mortar shelling positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Gorlovka. From the drone you can see both killed and wounded Ukrainian soldiers.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[REGNUM] In the Central Federal District (CFD), agrometeorologists predict a good winter crop this year, exceeding the harvest in 2021. Roman Vilfand , scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, spoke about this on June 7 .
"Agrometeorologists of Roshydromet predict a good harvest of winter crops in the Central Federal District. Gross harvest is expected to be higher than last year. The fact is that the weather conditions were very good, the wintering went well too," reports the words of Vilf and TASS.
The meteorologist stressed that the final forecast, which takes into account all factors, is provided by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. The harvest, in addition to the weather, is affected by the conditions of fertilization, harvesting and other circumstances.
On May 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in 2022 the country could reach a record grain harvest, harvesting at least 130 million tons.
As REGNUM reported , the spring sowing campaign is coming to an end in the Ryazan region.
#4
Actually, less grain for the US. And a LOT less grain for Ukraine and Europe. Meanwhile Russian production and market share are soaring.
The US Department of Agriculture's latest report indicates a "worsening condition of the U.S. winter crop, deepening worries about supply in an already-tight market.
“In 2022/23, a draw down in global ending stocks is forecasted (down 5 percent from 2021/22) as consumption exceeds production. Major exporters’ ending stocks are projected 10 percent lower than 2021/22 and would be the lowest since 2012/13 at 54.5 million MT.”
Expected change in share of global wheat exports, 2021/2022 to 2022/2023:
Russia: increase of 20% (will remain market leader with 20% of global wheat export market)
Ukraine: decrease of 45% (will have only 5% of market)
#5
Russia and Ukraine together will still have about 25% of the global wheat export market, but the balance will go from 16-9 to 20-5 in favor of Russia over Ukraine.
Ukraine's economy is dying. If the war continues much longer Ukraine will be dead. All the valuable parts of the country are now controlled by the Russians -- the valuable farmland, the mineral and natural gas reserves, the industry and ports.
#7
Ukrainian grain production has fallen off a cliff. The country is finished. It's basically a ward of the American state, like Afghanistan was before we bugged out last year.
#8
Hard to produce wheat in the winter. Ukraine stores were stolen.
Ukraine wheat production will decline from 21 to 22.
Mainly because a Russian invasion destroyed the economy.
#9
You and your fellow Demorats can go pay for it with your own pocket change then. Not one dollar of American taxpayer money should go into this sinkhole
[Yahoo]\ A Chinese fighter jet veered in front of an Australian military plane and fired off a cloud of debris that entered its engine, Australia's defense ministry said.
The incident happened on May 26 in international airspace over the South China Sea, the ministry said Sunday. The South China Sea is an area where China has tried to assert dominance to gain a strategic advantage in recent years.
Richard Marles, Australia's defense minister, told 9News that a Chinese J-16 fighter jet cut across an Australian P-8 maritime-surveillance aircraft and released "chaff," which are small pieces of metal debris used to confuse missiles.
"The J-16 then accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at a very close distance," Marles said.
"At that moment it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminum, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft," he added. "Quite obviously, this is very dangerous."
Peter Layton, a former Royal Australian Air Force officer, told CNN that the incident would have forced the P-8 to return to base, though the defense ministry did not give details as to the state of the aircraft.
Chinese aircraft regularly fly close to or try and interfere with foreign aircraft that fly over the South China Sea.
As a resident of Hong Kong said, "China is asshole!"
#1
...The chaff I worked with looked very much like small, thin strips of magnetic recording tape (what used to be in a 'cassette' or '8-Track', for you younger 'Burgers ;) )with a reflective backing. What probably saved the P-8 from a really short, exciting flight is that a chaff cloud spreads out fast - the engine probably didn't ingest that much of it, and it likely melted once it was in. The engine probably stayed running but even if the A/C shut it down out of an abundance of caution, the P-8 flies quite nicely on one. The engine is probably done, though.
[AnNahar] When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed on June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine.
As a bright sun was rising over the wide band of sand of Omaha Beach on Monday, 78 years on, U.S. D-Day veteran Charles Shay expressed thoughts for his comrades who fell that day. "I have never forgotten them and I know that their spirits are here," he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The 98-year-old Penobscot Native American from Indian Island, Maine, took part in a sage-burning ceremony near the beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer.
Continued on Page 49
#3
...On the other hand, the White House - which missed any D-Day commemorations completely last year - suddenly remembered about 8PM EST last night that they should do something. Posted a quick graphic and called it a day.
[Breitbart] Gun stores in Canada have seen handguns fly off the shelves, with many selling out altogether after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced gun control legislation freezing all pistol purchases.
In what appears to be a seismic political misfire, Canadian gun stores have been reporting a massive surge in handgun sales after the country’s leftist prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced that he would be implementing gun control laws totally freezing the import and sale of this class of firearm.
Many shops in the country have now reportedly sold out of pistols entirely, despite extremely restrictive laws already in place in the country which can make the purchase of a handgun onerously difficult.
According to a report by the AFP, every gun store owner who spoke to the agency openly derided Trudeau’s declaration that he would ban the sale of handguns, while also saying that they had all seen a massive surge in pistol sales since he made the announcement last week.
The surge in pistol sales occurred in Canada despite the fact that this class of firearm is extremely difficult to buy in the country, requiring would-be owners to obtain multiple character references and signatures from their partners, on top of obtaining a licence and passing a stringent background check.
According to a Newsweek article on the matter, handgun owners are also compelled by law to register their newly acquired firearms with the local police before even being allowed to take the weapon home.
However, none of these draconian restrictions seem to be enough for Justin Trudeau, who announced that he had brought new legislation to Parliament which would totally freeze the sale and import of pistols in all Canada.
“What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer or import handguns anywhere in Canada,” the leftist Prime Minister said, while seemingly using mass shootings in the United States to justify the ban.
#2
Say....isn't this the guy who sent a cavalry charge against grandma, shut off the heat, and just maneuvered in two divisions of Haitians? Likes to grab his socks?
[CitizenFreePress] Study Leaves Every Patient Cancer-Free
Results from a small cancer trial that left every patient in remission is being praised as “unprecedented” and “remarkable.” A paper published on Sunday at The New England Journal of Medicine outlined a study of 18 rectal cancer patients who were given dostarlimab every three weeks for six months and ended up cancer-free, including the first patient who is now two years out from the trial.
“I believe this is the first time this has happened in the history of cancer,” said Dr. Luis A. Diaz Jr. said, an author of the paper, The New York Times reported. Dr. Andrea Cercek, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and another author of the paper, described “a lot of happy tears” at the end of the trial.
While noting the study needs replication, Dr. Kimmie Ng, a colorectal cancer expert at Harvard Medical School, called the trial results “remarkable” and “unprecedented.”
“We initiated a prospective phase 2 study in which single-agent dostarlimab, an anti–PD-1 monoclonal antibody, was administered every 3 weeks for 6 months in patients with mismatch repair–deficient stage II or III rectal adenocarcinoma. This treatment was to be followed by standard chemoradiotherapy and surgery.”
Those who took the drug, which “unmasks cancer cells, allowing the immune system to identify and destroy them,” did not have to move on to further cancer treatments.
“All the patients had a clinical complete response, with no evidence of tumor on magnetic resonance imaging,” the paper explained. “At the time of this report, no patients had received chemoradiotherapy or undergone surgery, and no cases of progression or recurrence had been reported during follow-up (range, 6 to 25 months). No adverse events of grade 3 or higher have been reported.”
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.
The Kremlin-backed mayor of the Ukrainian town of Enerhodar was standing on his mother’s porch when a powerful blast struck, leaving him critically wounded. A week later, about 75 miles away, a car packed with explosives rocked the office of another Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Melitopol.
[JPost] 
22:51 Greece will send military equipment to Ukraine only after it receives a replacement from Germany, government spokesman Yannis Oikonomou said. He noted that Athens would supply Kyiv with about 100 infantry fighting vehicles from the stocks of the GDR, but only if the promised German infantry fighting vehicles actually arrive in Greece. Oikonomou explained this position by the unwillingness to weaken the defense of Greece because of the conflict with Turkey.
[Yahoo]\ A Chinese fighter jet veered in front of an Australian military plane and fired off a cloud of debris that entered its engine, Australia's defense ministry said.
[AnNahar] When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed on June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine.
