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-Lurid Crime Tales-
9 people killed in 'mass fentanyl poisoning event' in Florida
[WND] A string of recent overdoses in Gadsden County, Florida, are believed to be tied to laced pills containing fentanyl in what the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) characterized as a "mass fentanyl poisoning event."

Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young said his office received about 15 calls on Friday related to the incident. There were nine deaths between Friday and Tuesday, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

The fatalities are due to a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl, Young explained on a Sunday Facebook livestream, citing his conversations with the DEA.

"So, we suspect that this was due to some type of an opioid or poisoning, such as fentanyl," Young said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 01:34 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Either by COVID or Fentanyl, we appear to be the subject of a rather large eradication effort by our trading partners, the Chinese.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  They learned the technique from the British and the dumping of opium.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2022 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  a suspected strain of fentanyl suspected to be 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl,

That sounds like BS. Unlike viruses, isomers or variants of organic chemicals are seldom referred to as strains, and if there was a 'strain' of fentanyl 1000x more potent (whatever that means exactly), wouldn't that be in common medical use instead?

Some of the fentanyl consumed was believed to be laced with cocaine and marijuana.

That is not how that works at all.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2022 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Kill all illicit drug users!
Posted by: Pearl Thud6115 || 07/07/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm basically in agreement with #4. Fair and speedy trial of course.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Kill all illicit drug users? How retarded. Let people kill themselves with drugs on their own. That's their business, not yours or mine. Drugs should be legal. Whether you or I want to indulge
in drugs or whether we detest drugs or not should be up to us.

One of the biggest causes of death in the country is from prescribed medication. What's the difference?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2022 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7 

Puzzling
?????????????? ... 1,000 times more potent than pure fentanyl ... ???????????????

I guess I am a little milder on the situation.
I purposed Death Sentences for any addictive Illegal Drug Dealer.

Where I feel, users should be at least treated.

WHY?
I have known several addicted Vet's that Army & VA Hospitals have strung out and dumped, that never got addiction treatment.

Why?
Because it pointed the finger back at the Military & VA DOC's for not doing their jobs in treating instead of tossing a pill at them to handle the case loads dump on them due Congressional UNDER $$$$$ FUNDING.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Kill all illicit drug users!

No need. They're killing themselves.

What we need is drug control!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/07/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  The opioids that originally started the current epidemic were controlled. Look at how well that turned out.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Drugs should be legal.

You wanna see school children dropping dead on their playgrounds? Because that's what would happen. You'd be stepping over their excrement and their lifeless bodies on the sidewalks too. We know this because in San Francisco drugs are essentially legal and that is exactly what is happening there. Yeah, and they're too stoned to hold jobs so they steal and rob when they need money for their next fix so you'll have to deal with that too. Don't believe me? Ask the Chinese. It only ended in that country when Mao had them all shot. Millions of them. That's what you want for America?

But, yes, we are stuck with the problem in America as long as our political and corporate elites keep pretending that it's OK to do business with China and that it's OK to leave our southern border wide open.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/07/2022 11:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Stop making drugs a grift for the gummint. Don't let the law enforcement community make any money off it. Don't let the courts make any money off it. Don't let the "drug treatment" community suck at the gummint teat.

Accept that it's a human weakness and some people will succumb to their weaknesses.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||


#13  Now keep in mind this was reporters...if they could understand science, they might have learned to code instead. Getting crap wrong is what they do. Anytime they are right it's purely accidental.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/07/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#14  an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021

How many of those who died had first been saved repeatedly by that emergency injection first responders now routinely carry in their kit? Because X died, 5X saved who would otherwise have died , or possibly X died, on average each one who died had been saved from an overdose death three times previously would put the raw death number into perspective.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||


Parkland school shooter’s swastika carvings are focus of court fight
[IsraelTimes] Prosecutors say Nikolas Cruz’s Nazi symbols, racist posts, cruelty to animals show he’s not mentally ill, was not impaired when he killed 17 people in Florida in 2018.

Prosecutors and attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz
...pre-attack diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police came to the family home frequently to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, also has a long rap sheet and is classified as a habitual violent offender...
battled Wednesday over whether jurors at his upcoming penalty trial should learn about the swastikas carved on his gun’s magazine, his racist, homophobic and threatening online posts, his computer searches for child pornography and his cruelty to animals.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 00:55 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

He's still alive?
What type of Prison System are they running in FLA.?

Hell, even in isolation, he could have hung himself.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2022 6:46 Comments || Top||

#2  This is still pre-trial stuff, NN2N1.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ...When I was a mere lad, in the Jurassic '60s, I remember a lot of - shall we say - rebellious - young men thought it was cool to draw or carve swastikas in things to show how tough and edgy they were.

Many were never caught, but those that were usually ended facing a teacher or principal who had seen up close what the swastika stood for, and received guidance. And then they were marched up to their parents, many of whom had boots on the ground in the ETO...and from who more guidance was given.

And did not do it again. I wish this young man had had just one man like that in his life; maybe things would have been different.

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/07/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Crosby, Stills & Nash Returns to Spotify Months After Boycott
Ain't no tellin' where the money went: Boycott's only as good as the money comin' in...
By Zoe Papadakis

[NewsMax] Singers David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash returned to Spotify months after pulling their music from the streaming platform in protest over comments by podcaster Joe Rogan.

The folk-rock band's music returned to Spotify on Saturday, according to Billboard which cited a source as saying that the group will donate proceeds to COVID-19 charities for at least a month.

Earlier this year the group denounced Rogan after he came under fire for controversial comments he and some guests on his podcasts made about COVID-19. Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in an attempt to pressure Spotify from de-platforming Rogan, and several musicians followed suit, including Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Typical of the champagne/cocaine socialist all bluster and loud, Che-like exhortations to 'fight to the death my brothers' while in the reality of their world the eternity of the struggle is about 5 months.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/07/2022 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  So, just a tantrum?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2022 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Who?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2022 10:13 Comments || Top||

#4  So?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/07/2022 11:02 Comments || Top||

#5  This must be old news. I've been listening to Stephen Still solo and CSN on Spotify ever since obtaining an account in May.
Posted by: Thumper Darling of the Boskonians9953 || 07/07/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Saw Stephen Stills in concert just before the pandemic hit. I think he was using a teleprompter for the lyrics but he can still play that guitar. It's just amazing that a man can have all that talent and so little common sense. Maybe he was just out voted by his band mates. From what I've heard they never even speak to each other anymore.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/07/2022 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Our grandkids will be ecstatic upon hearing this news.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/07/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Just In Time For Summer - Lena Dunham Shows Off Her Bikini Body
Prepare the wide-angle lenses!
[Page Six - NY Post] - Lena Dunham is living her best bikini life.

The "Girls" creator, 36, gave her Instagram followers a glimpse at her colorful swimsuit collection on Instagram Wednesday, posing in a series of bikinis (plus a classic one-piece) from Hollywood-loved label Hunza G.

"One piece two piece red piece blue piece," Dunham captioned the playful pictures, in which she models the brand’s black "Pamela" suit ($215), lime green "Juno" bikini ($215), lavender "Jean" bikini ($177) and orange "Gigi" bikini ($215).

Famous for its signature crinkle-stretch fabric, the sustainable company makes its swimsuits in just one size that promises to fit UK sizes 6 through 16 (or US sizes 4 through 14).
Click on the link for lots & lots of 'stretch fabric'...
No doubt it’s better, health-wise to bare as much skin to the sun as possible, to maximize conversion of cholesterol to Vitamin D. Still, she ought to be able to afford pieces cut better for her body.
So, there IS a good use for a Burqa
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unless you have a LARGE amount of eye bleach, do NOT follow the link to the article!!!!!!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/07/2022 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  That was not right... not right.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/07/2022 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3 

Can see the new TV show now....

Plus Size Gal's Gone Wild
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#4  That's just cruel to do to people Raj! If you post bikini pics of Hillary, I vote you be exiled to a metal box in the Texas sun.

(Just kidding but jeez....)
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/07/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Is she really only 36? It seems so very much longer.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/07/2022 7:43 Comments || Top||

#6  That's the reason my Fantasy Football Team name is Lena Dunham's FUPA

;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  When merely appearing in public = public indecency.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Ugly individual...inside and out. On the other hand...think of all the landscape for more "flattering"tats
Posted by: Warthog || 07/07/2022 10:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Speaking of showing off her body..... Speaker Pelosi on vacation in Italy.

Posted by: jpal || 07/07/2022 10:42 Comments || Top||

#10  jpal, you need to be dealt with. Ewww! LD pix? Oh, HELL, NO!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/07/2022 11:01 Comments || Top||

#11  Ugly individual...inside and out.

From the Murphy's Law Calendar - "Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly is clean down to the bone..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12  wtf did you post that for?
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2022 11:56 Comments || Top||

#13  I would rather watch a hog killin'
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/07/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Drayton Sawyer in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: "Get that hog peeled, boy!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2022 13:09 Comments || Top||

#15  ...I hope no one will take it amiss if I say - with all honesty, sincerity, and candor - 'squick'.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/07/2022 13:35 Comments || Top||

#16  This should be an illustrated book for plastic surgeons' waiting rooms, called 'Crinkle-stretch and Cellulite'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/07/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#17  And speaking of stretches...

Fats Waller: "Gesundheit! Good night!"
He rallies, face pallid from fright
As, leering, he croons
A new quodlibet tune,
Lena left hand and Lydia right.
Posted by: Crelet tse Tung7962 || 07/07/2022 16:46 Comments || Top||

#18  Can't do it. Afraid it will knock my monitor off balance.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2022 18:37 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Biden speaks with wife of basketball star detained in Russia
[Aljazeera] United States President Joe Biden spoke with the wife of basketball star Brittney Griner, who is being detained in Russia, the White House has said, and assured her that he is working to win Griner’s freedom as soon as possible.

During Biden’s conversation with Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, on Wednesday, he offered his support to the family and committed to making sure they receive "all possible assistance" while the administration pursues steps to win her release, according to a White House statement.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 01:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  10 years for being stupid?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Since she does anti-American grandstanding, of course the Biden (or Biddin, as my wife calls him) WH is working to help this stupid bint.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/07/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#3  To quote the great social observer Eliza Doolittle, "Words, words, words! Is that all you blighters can do?"

Though in this case I doubt there is actually anything that Biden can do. Griner is about to find out that Moscow doesn't have a Soros prosecutor.
Posted by: Tom || 07/07/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  She plead guilty today
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Wife. Naturally.

Didn't Russia pass a law that stated promoting GROQMER+ gets you Siberian Gulag?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Took me a number of seconds to understand just wtf was going on with two wives an' no husbands in the picture.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/07/2022 14:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Its even more fun if you believe the rumors Brittney is a tranny.

I don't; I think even a shitty male athlete at that height would be able to accidentally dunk and would have dominated college ball instead of just being a big presence. Still, lady looks like a dude...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2022 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8 

Found this funny thingy.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/07/2022 23:30 Comments || Top||


The enemy hit the university in Kharkiv with a rocket and does not stop shelling Donetsk region, regional administration
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] In one day, the Russians killed six civilians in the Donetsk region. Two of them - during the massive attack on Slovyansk.

Iryna Lysohor


The enemy hit the university in Kharkiv with a rocket and does not stop shelling Donetsk region, regional administration

The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Zakarpattia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Chernivtsi, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhya, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil Oblasts, Kirovohrad Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and Kyiv Oblast.

This is stated in the summary from the regional military administrations. In Khmelnytskyi last night, during the air raid, the Rashists fired four rockets. One rocket was shot down by our air defense forces, the debris fell on the territory of the Shepetiv district. Three other rockets hit the territory of one of the Khmelnytskyi district communities. As a result of the explosions, one person was injured. There are no victims.

In the Sumy region, the enemy shelled five border communities yesterday. There were 10 mortar attacks in the Novoslobodsk community, two houses were damaged, windows and power lines were broken. Shalyginsk community - 18 arrivals. Drones also dropped explosives there. There was shelling from small arms and mortars of the Krasnopil community. The fertilizer warehouse was damaged. 4 mines flew over the Seredino-Buda territorial community. Previously - without victims.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian artillery again hit the Kryvorizka district. The Shirokiv community was shelled. Several residential buildings were damaged in the village of Shestirnia. Previously, people were not injured.

In Kharkiv, nighttime rocket strikes hit an open area, the administrative building of Novobavarskyi, Osnovyanskyi and Kyiv districts . The Russians hit the building of the National Pedagogical University named after H.S. Frying pans

The Izyum, Kharkiv, Chuguyiv, Bogoduhiv districts were shelled across the region. Residential buildings and open areas were burning. Previously, three people were injured in the region in one day: two in the Chuguyiv district, including a child.

In the Luhansk region, artillery shelling of our military positions on the administrative border near Lysychansk in the direction of Bakhmut continues . Russia does not stop "missile terrorism".

The establishment of "people's power" continues in the recently occupied territories: a "prosecutor's office" has been opened in Severodonetsk, the occupiers are appointing traitors to Ukraine to leadership positions, and simulating the restoration of infrastructure.

In the Donetsk region, shelling of the entire territory. Toretsk (school, repair and mechanical plant), Sloviansk (housing sector, market), Bakhmut, Kurakhove, Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka (vocational technical school, residential sector, railway crossing) came under fire; with. Pervomaiske, village Orlivka, village Semenivka 26 objects were damaged, including 19 residential buildings, a school, a school, a vocational school. During the day, six people died, 21 civilians were wounded.

Mykolaiv Oblast: in the past day there were shellings in Shirokivska hromada, as a result of which one residential building was damaged and another was destroyed. There are no victims. Shelling of villages along the demarcation line continues in the Berezneguvat community. Information on casualties and damage is being clarified. Mykolaiv district: the village of Nechayane of the Nechayan community was shelled at night. According to preliminary information, one person died.

Kherson Oblast: shelling and explosions in Beryslav district, part of wheat and forests burned down there. The situation is consistently difficult, hundreds of occupied villages and towns are without water and electricity, gas, mobile and Internet connections.

Again, shelling and numerous explosions destroyed the social infrastructure in the Visokopil and Novovorontsov communities, and damaged many houses in the neighboring TG.

The Russian military and newly appointed local authorities continue to make loud statements, in particular, they want to join the existing wind power plants in the Kherson region to Crimea and continue active preparations for the new school year.

It will be recalled that the Ukrainian defenders repelled an attempt by the Russians to cut the Lysychansk-Bakhmut road. The enemy retreated with losses. A small part of Luhansk region is under our control.

Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Situation in Sloviansk is tense, the city is being shelled with anti-aircraft guns, the mayor said
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] There are many wounded and dead.

by Anna Steshenko

​The situation in Sloviansk is tense, the city is being shelled with anti-aircraft guns, the mayor said

Due to constant shelling, the number of people willing to evacuate has increased. 23,000 people remain in the city. The authorities ensure safe and free evacuation.

This was announced at the briefing by the mayor of Sloviansk, Vadym Lyakh.

"The situation in the city (Slovyansk - ed.) is tense. The city has been bombarded with MLRS for the past two weeks, these are cluster charges. There are many wounded and dead. A total of 17 residents of the community have died since the beginning of hostilities in the city. 67 were injured," he said.

According to the mayor, critical infrastructure continues to work, but centralized water supply has been missing for over a month.

"We deliver water. Wells are working. There are also problems with electricity. Periodically, about a third of the population remains without electricity. We are restoring it. But the enemy is constantly destroying it."

The evacuation of the civilian population also continues.

"We are evacuating people... There are still approximately 23,000 residents of the city. The number of people willing to leave has increased. Unfortunately, the latest "arrivals" were the impetus... But there is an opportunity to safely leave in the direction of the Dnipro. We work on evacuation to Lviv, Dnipro or Rivne. All this is done free of charge and with the accommodation of people," added Vadym Lyakh.

At the same time, all ATMs are working, so payment obligations are fulfilled.

"People can receive all pensions and social benefits."

We will remind, yesterday around 15:00 the occupying forces of the Russian army covered the city of Slovyansk with artillery fire . As a result of the shelling, one civilian died on the spot, and seven others were injured.

Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


A strike on the arsenal of Russian troops and a fire at an oil depot - all about the situation in Donbass
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Vesti] Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a military facility in the "DPR" in the area of ​​"Technosnab"

Ukrainian defenders dealt a precise blow to the arsenal of Russian troops in Makiivka in the Donbass. On Wednesday, July 6, eyewitnesses reported on social networks .

"Makiivka, Donetsk region. The city has been occupied by Russia since 2014. A blow was struck at a military facility of the Rashists," the report says.

Local residents report that the strike was carried out on a military facility of the so-called "DPR" in the "Technosnab" area.

As of 22:00 , information has been confirmed that an oil depot is on fire in Donetsk.

As of 20:00 , it is reported that three children were killed during the shelling of the center of Makeyevka, and three more were injured. Updated information was provided by the so-called "DPR" territorial defense headquarters. They added that two adult civilians were also wounded.

As of 18:30 , local Tg-channels write that in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, which is not controlled by Ukraine, a fire broke out at an oil depot as a result of shelling.

In addition, the "DPR" claims that a child was killed as a result of the shelling of Makeevka, which is not controlled by Ukraine.

Also, according to media reports, the Azotny microdistrict in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk came under fire. In particular, a large column of smoke is visible from the Kievsky district.

Russian troops shelled Toretsk. This was announced by the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.

The rockets hit two private houses. One person was injured, three are under the rubble. The rescue operation continues.

THE SITUATION IN THE DONETSK REGION ON JULY 6
As a result of the shelling of Slavyansk on July 6, one person was killed, seven were injured. This was announced by the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh.

According to the Donetsk OVA, now 350,000 people need to be evacuated from the region so that the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can focus on defending the region from the onset of Russian troops.

In addition, the head of the city military administration of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh said that the enemy still needs to go a long distance to the city.

He said this on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels.

"Urban battles in Slavyansk are still far away. The enemy has yet to overcome our fortified areas. Ukrainian defenders courageously defend the borders. They are in dugouts and ready for arrivals, and civilians, not understanding the threat, are on the street. Since the beginning of hostilities in Slavyansk, 17 people have died civilians, 67 were injured. The enemy is not successful at the front and is moving slowly. In the Izyum direction, the front line has changed by 5 km, but this is not for long," Lyakh emphasized.

The head of the city military administration also added that all medical institutions in Slovyansk are working.

In addition, residents of Slavyansk, for which fierce fighting may begin in the coming days , are being urged to evacuate.

As reported in the Slavyanskaya VA, on July 7, a bus is scheduled to go to the Pokrovsk railway station to the Pokrovsk-Lviv evacuation train.

On Friday, July 8, another bus trip to the Rivne region is expected.

It also became known that the Russian Ministry of Defense is spreading a fake about the preparation of a terrorist attack at the Slavyanskaya TPP by our servicemen in order to hide their crimes and blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine for everything.

THE SITUATION IN THE LUHANSK REGION ON JULY 6
In Severodonetsk , enterprises where engineers and workers worked are hosting occupying authorities, said the head of the UVA, Sergei Gaidai. The Russians promise a lot to the remaining people.

In the villages around Lisichansk, heavy fighting is underway, some settlements have already passed under one control or another twice.

Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: July 6th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:25 Zelensky said that for the first time in the history of Ukrainian-Paraguayan relations he had a conversation with the President of Paraguay. I also spoke today with the President of Mozambique - I congratulated him on the election of his state to the UN Security Council. "I believe that Africa should receive greater representation on international platforms and in solving global issues. It is African countries that are most threatened by the food crisis provoked by Russia, and we must do everything to force the terrorist state to unblock Ukrainian agricultural exports," Zelensky stressed.

23:21 Zelensky commented on the supply of Western weapons: “Finally, it is felt that Western artillery, the weapon that we received from our partners, has started to work very powerfully. Its accuracy is really as it should be. "are important for the logistics of the occupiers. And this significantly reduces the offensive potential of the Russian army. The losses of the occupiers will only grow every week, as will the complexity of their supplies."

22:48 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come close to resigning, but until the last he refuses to leave. Read more about what is happening - in the material of the Friend of Ukraine, will they be fired?

22:42 The UOC and the OCU signed a Declaration of Understanding and condemned the position of the Moscow Patriarchate, which has become a "servant" of the Putin regime and blesses Russian soldiers for bloodshed.

22:24 Zelensky, in an evening video message, said that Ukrainian forces are advancing in several tactical directions, including in the south, and asked to communicate with people in the occupied territories: "In the south of our country, in the occupied areas, Russian forces have blocked any opportunity for people to know the truth about what is happening. They block access to social networks, instant messengers and YouTube. People should know about it. Therefore, if you have the opportunity to talk with people in the south - with Kherson, Genichesk, Berdyansk, Melitopol and other cities and villages, spread "please tell the truth there. Use every opportunity to tell the people in the occupied areas that we remember them and we are fighting for them."

22:01 The Lugansk region is not 100% occupied, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, in four and a half months, the Russians traveled only 30 km. Fighting continues in the vicinity of the region, the Russians continue to suffer losses. Gaidai also noted that in the occupied territories in the rear, "pops" continue to occur - Russians have fewer ammunition depots every day. Gaidai predicts that the Russian army will develop an offensive against Bakhmut and Slavyansk.

21:39 Scholz announced new military supplies to Ukraine on the principle of "circular exchange". Speaking in the Bundestag, the chancellor said that these deliveries would take place in the near future according to the following principle: the countries of Eastern Europe would give Kyiv their remaining Soviet weapons, and in return they would receive modern ones from the FRG.

21:36 The Bayraktar drone, which was raised in Lithuania, has already been sent to Ukraine.

21:19 Tonight, the Russians fired at the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region from the MLRS, hit the Pokrovskaya community. Three people were injured, one of them in serious condition. A fire started at one of the enterprises, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. Also, from the very morning, the enemy has been shelling the Krivoy Rog region - Shirokovskaya, Apostolovsky, Nivotrudovskaya and Zelenodolsk communities.

20:45 Another bridge between the occupied Melitopol and Tokmak is "tired", said the head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Oleksandr Starukh.

20:27 During the conference in Lugano, agreements were reached on the allocation of almost $1.9 billion for the restoration of Ukraine, Shmyhal said. In particular, 600 million will go to financial support; more than $500 million - for the development of the agricultural sector, storage, improved logistics, liquidity for enterprises; $500 million - to prepare for the heating season; almost $250 million - for the development of digital transformation projects.

19:59 Russian troops are planning a large-scale offensive from Izyum to Slavyansk and are now concentrating forces in this direction, Konstantin Mashovets , a military expert and coordinator of the Information Resistance group, said. According to him, the Russians south of Izyum are now regrouping, there are massive artillery strikes on the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Also, the Russian Federation has a small tactical success in the Mazanovka area.

19:47 The timing of the end of the war depends on sanctions against Russia and the supply of weapons to Ukraine, Zelensky said, answering the question of how long the war will continue. According to him, it depends on when Russia realizes what it has done and starts to leave the territory of Ukraine: “I don’t really believe that they can understand this on their own. Therefore, the second thing is how the whole world puts pressure on Russia and ousts them from our We are on the battlefield with weapons, and the whole world is sanctions, politically, with help and quick deliveries of weapons to us." The President added that the timing of the end of the war also depends on the citizens of Ukraine - their support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the domestic economy.

19:41 Ukraine no longer expects planes from the West, but expects to receive air defense systems, Zelensky said at a joint briefing with Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin: "Maybe I'm very persistent, but still, the safety of the sky is a priority. And no one expects that or other aviation, but we all count and have confirmation, so far theoretically, but we count on the arrival of powerful air defense systems in Ukraine."

19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled enemy attacks in several directions, the General Staff announced in the evening summary . Thus, the invaders were rebuffed in the direction of Dolgenka - Mazanovka and retreated with losses. In addition, the defenders of Ukraine successfully repulsed the enemy assault in the direction of Cossack Lopan - Sosnovka. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped the enemy’s offensive in the directions of Mironovka-Lugansk and Golmovsky-Novoluhansk: the invaders had to withdraw.

19:26 Head of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin reminded the United States that Alaska was Russian and the Russian Federation can begin to "return" it.

19:17 The General Staff reported that ValriZaluzhnyi's Twitter account is fake. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny is not on this social network.

18:40 Due to a full-scale attack by Russia, Ukraine is facing incredible economic challenges. One of the ways to overcome them was the additional issue of the hryvnia, that is, in other words, its printing. But this cannot go on for long. For more details, see What's Happening in the Economy .

18:38 The United States and allies are discussing setting a ceiling price for Russian oil at $40-60, Bloomberg reports. The US Secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, came up with the idea of ​​introducing a ceiling price. The concept is to tie the provision of important services related to the transportation of Russian oil to a predetermined price ceiling.

18:35 China and India have bought $24 billion worth of energy resources from Russia since the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. So, according to customs data, in the three months before the end of May, China spent $18.9 billion on Russian oil, gas and coal. This is almost twice as much as a year earlier. India paid $5.1 billion in the same period, more than five times last year's amount. Thus, the Russian Federation received an additional $13 billion in revenue from both countries compared to the same period in 2021. Analysts note that China is already buying almost everything that Russia can export through pipelines and Pacific ports.

18:17 The Russians attacked the Odessa region from a Su-35 aircraft with an X-31 missile, they managed to shoot it down over the sea, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk.

17:37 The Russian army turns the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant into a military base, writes The Wall Street Journal. At the nuclear power plant, more than 500 Russian soldiers deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel mines along the banks of the reservoir.

17:19 As a result of the Russian missile attack on Kharkiv on June 30, the 39-year-old Brazilian actress and supermodel Talita Do Valle, who worked as a volunteer in the structures providing the Armed Forces of Ukraine, died. At the time of the impact, she was hiding in a shelter along with another Brazilian volunteer, former soldier Douglas Burigo, writes with the BBC. As a result of the impact, a fire started in the bunker, the woman suffocated from the smoke. Burigo also died: he returned to the hideout to find Talita and try to save her. Also, according to the Brazilian media, in early June, the Brazilian volunteer Andre Hac Bahi died.

17:14 Ukraine doubts that an agreement on unblocking grain exports will be reached in the near future, Kuleba said in an interview with Bloomberg: "We are just a few steps away from the agreement, but these steps are the most difficult. I do not want to join the chorus of those who say that the agreement will take place next week." According to the Foreign Minister, the negotiators have not yet reached an agreement on protecting Odessa from Russian attack, as well as foreign patrols guarding non-military cargo. "We need firm guarantees," Kuleba stressed.

16:53 The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law on providing for the armed forces during "operations" outside the country. Under the new rules, companies in Russia will not have the right to refuse contracts in order to ensure such operations. The Cabinet will also be able to regulate labor relations in individual organizations, including the conditions for granting leave, work after hours, at night or on weekends.

16:51 Zelensky told reporters that there are no misunderstandings between him and the General Staff, and the issue of permits for the movement of conscripts is a "minor mistake" compared to unity against Russia: "Today we had a meeting with the military. Every day we have these meetings, but today there was a separate meeting on the decision of the General Staff on July 5 ... We decided that the decision was not taken quite correctly, and it will be canceled."

16:47 GTS of Ukraine is ready to work in conditions of "zero" transit, said the head of the GTS Operator of Ukraine Serhiy Makogon: "It will be necessary to carry out a very large-scale optimization, we no longer need such a capacity of the GTS. We understand: most likely, in the years, Europe will completely abandon Russian gas, and there will be no actual need for transit through Ukraine's GTS."

16:35 In Kherson, near the railway station, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the warehouses of the occupiers, the adviser to the head of the OVA Serhiy Khlan confirmed.

16:32 Russian propagandists are actively spreading a fake that the Russian army destroyed HIMARS, but this is not true, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "This is that they wishful thinking. Perhaps information that we have HIMARS , led to panic and increased fear in Russian society. Therefore, they were advised to provide such information. This is work for their internal information market."

16:26 Another fuel depot caught fire in Kherson. According to local residents, the explosion occurred near the railway station. At the same time, they note that there were no shelling, although an explosion was heard. The enemy used the warehouse to refuel armored personnel carriers and other military equipment. A column of thick black smoke is visible from several places in the city.

15:58 The State Bureau of Investigation reported on suspicion of treason to ex-People's Deputy Alexei Kovalev, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Kovalyov joined the Russian-appointed "government of the Kherson region" as "deputy prime minister for agriculture."

15:47 The security guarantees promised to Ukraine by the German federal government at the G7 summit cannot yet be specified, Scholz said. He explained that the procedure for guarantees should first be discussed with partners, as well as with Ukraine itself.

15:33 Zaluzhny confirmed that the order banning men from leaving their place of residence without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office was canceled and sent for revision: “I emphasize that this document initially dealt exclusively with the internal work of the TCC and the Joint Venture and did not create obligations, restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens of Ukraine. Despite to this, his appearance on the network led to numerous manipulations, discrepancies and even illegal actions to prevent the movement of citizens, which became the basis for discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the military-political leadership of the state.Therefore, the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in order to prevent further manipulation around this issue, a decision was made to cancel the procedure with sending it for revision.

15:22 The Armed Forces of Ukraine handed over a helicopter and a plane used by the family of a people's deputy suspected of treason, the Prosecutor General's Office said. Earlier, at the request of the prosecutors, the Medvezhya Oakwood complex and other assets were seized, the ultimate beneficiary of which is the wife of a people's deputy of Ukraine, suspected of treason. The name of the deputy is not disclosed, but ex-People's Deputy Sergei Leshchenko wrote that the property belonged to Medvedchuk.

15:16 The restoration of Mariupol will cost more than $14 billion and will take 7-10 years, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said. According to him, 1,356 multi-storey buildings were destroyed or damaged in the city, 40% of private houses were bombed. Most of them are not subject to reconstruction.

15:14 Peskov said that Japan "occupies an extremely unfriendly position towards Russia. In any case, such an unfriendly position does not contribute to the establishment of trade and economic relations, including energy dialogue."

15:11 The European Commission will present in mid-July an emergency EU action plan in case Russia cuts off gas, Ursula von der Leyen said.

15:07 Russia tried to attack Serpent's Island after the Ukrainian flag was returned there, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces, said. According to her, the occupiers tried to carry out aerial reconnaissance and, probably, strike, but when they realized that weapons would be used against them, they decided to stay away.

15:05 The White House gift shop has released a collector's coin dedicated to the defenders of the Serpentine. The coin costs 100 dollars, it is delivered free of charge to Ukraine and residents of NATO countries. 20% of sales will go to help Ukrainian women and children.

14:43 The European Commission is preparing a legislative framework for the transfer of frozen Russian assets for the restoration of Ukraine , Ursula von der Leyen said: "The European Commission considers it fair and is preparing a legal framework for the frozen Russian assets and the assets of Russian oligarchs to be transferred for the needs of the restoration of Ukraine."

14:20 Yermak criticized the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on human rights violations during the war in Ukraine, which notes violations from both sides of the conflict: "There is one culprit in this war - this is Russia. Given this, make sacrifices and the aggressor in one row - this is a blurring of responsibility and a shift in focus from the main problem. From the fact that Russia attacked Ukraine. And it is killing our people."

"The Ukrainian side is investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Russian side is covering up its tracks. This is a fundamental difference between us," the head of the Presidential Office stressed.

14:11 Zelensky instructed the General Staff to cancel the scandalous procedure for issuing travel permits for military personnel in the country, Ukraine 24 TV channel reported, citing sources.

13:58 After Russian troops captured Severodonetsk and neighboring Lisichansk, the entire Luhansk region was under their control. Now the main battles are going west and south - for the cities controlled by Kyiv in the neighboring Donetsk region. The main ones - Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Bakhmut - have not only strategic, but also symbolic significance for both sides. Read more about this in the article Decisive Battle for Donbass .

13:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of two HIMARS MLRS launchers near the village of Malotaranovka in the Donetsk region. Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, said that this is not true - "all HIMARS complexes are ready to strike the enemy."

13:33 Limiting the movement of those liable for military service violates the principle of legal certainty and contains corruption risks, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said. According to him, when preparing the order of the General Staff, "one of the constituent principles of the rule of law was not observed - the principle of legal certainty, which guarantees the ease of clarifying the content of the law and the opportunity to use this right if necessary."

13:19 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov urged Kharkiv residents to refrain from walking: “If you choose between refraining from walking and taking a walk around the square, of course, you need to refrain. I understand how hard it is: good weather, I want to go out into the fresh air, but it is very dangerous ". He stressed that the residents are being psychologically affected by regular shelling at 4 am, but added that "despite this, we will stand: we will not be intimidated, we have a very strong spirit."

12:57 Irish Prime Minister Michal Martin visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen, head of the Kiev OVA Oleksiy Kuleba said.

12:48 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, reported on the shelling of Toretsk: rockets hit two houses in the private sector, it is known for sure that one was wounded. Also, according to preliminary information, three people are under the rubble. Another rocket hit near a social facility, but did not explode.

12:43 Podolyak explained why Russia needs "constant performances" with the shelling of its own cities: "To distract the Russians from the" refrigerator ", maintain the degree of anti-Ukrainian hysteria and disrupt the supply of Western weapons. But everything is fixed. The Kremlin is waiting for a tribunal for crimes not only against the Ukrainian people , but also in front of one's own.

12:19 The guerrilla movement BOAK - the Combat Organization of the Anarcho-Communists - claimed responsibility for the arson of military registration and enlistment offices in Russia. According to the partisans, the war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine forced them to declare their existence publicly. They plan to continue to commit sabotage on the territory of the Russian Federation without harm to the civilian population.

12:03 Russia has several scenarios for waging war in Ukraine, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said in an interview with Channel 24. According to her, it is difficult to predict the course of the war, since it is influenced by many factors, and besides, the Russian Federation cannot predict Ukraine's actions: "We also focus on how they will act, and in this way we will counteract."

According to Malyar, the Russian Federation also has several scenarios for integrating the occupied territories of Ukraine, but these processes are facing resistance from local residents. Of the forecasts, Malyar named the imminent depletion of the resources of the Russian Federation: "We can make predictions that it will be more and more difficult for them to fight at such an intensity."

11:49 Danilov said that after four months of war in Ukraine, "instead of demilitarization, maximum militarization took place - Ukraine is rapidly rearming according to NATO standards, there is a constant accumulation and saturation of defense forces with Western weapons and technologies." He also added that about a million Ukrainians receive combat and military experience.

The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council also stressed that the Russian troops were not "tired" after the battles for Lysychansk - "they were very battered by our military, and many Russian military are already" resting "in another world." At the same time, he added that the war would not be short - "the enemy is powerful, insidious and has not changed its plans for the complete destruction of Ukraine." Danilov added that the final unified anti-Putin coalition does not yet exist today, it is only being formed. And the main security guarantees for Ukraine are membership in NATO.

11:33 Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijarto said that Budapest refused to participate in the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine so as not to endanger the Hungarians living in Transcarpathia: "Obviously, these supplies will be the target of the Russians for shelling. We do not want them to shoot at regions where Hungarians live. We must take into account the security of Hungary and Hungarians."

11:29 In the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region, the invaders intend to create four "administrations" - Kupyanskaya, Izyumskaya, Volchanskaya and Kharkiv, Vitaly Ganchev, appointed by the Russians, told TASS. According to him, a "regional temporary civil administration" has already been created. Ganchev stressed that "the authorities and residents of the Kharkiv region are striving to ensure that the region becomes part of Russia."

11:25 In Latvia, following Germany, they are discussing the return of conscription to military service as a reaction to the Russian threat. "Now we have no reason to believe that Russia will change its behavior," Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said. Compulsory military service is planned to be introduced from 2023 for men from 18 to 27 years old. The call will be carried out for 11 months. For women - on a voluntary basis.
I guess they never reinstated military training for schoolboys after the Soviet Union broke up.
11:23 After a rocket attack on a university in Kharkov, a 40-year-old watchman died, the regional prosecutor's office said.

11:21 In the Mariupol port, the invaders seized two foreign cargo ships. According to Reuters, the invaders told the owners of the ships that their property was being transferred to "state property." The first vessel arrived at the port of Mariupol on February 21 and is the property of the Liberian company Smarta Shipping, the second was set with the flag of Panama, its name is Blue Star.

11:10 In the occupied Mikhailovskaya and Razdolsky communities of the Zaporozhye region, local "authorities" have banned the sale of any alcohol to Russian servicemen. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, there is a massive abuse of alcoholic beverages by Russians in the region, which leads to numerous violations of discipline and serious offenses.

10:48 YouTube and Instagram have been disabled in the occupied territory of the Kherson region, the press secretary of the "military-civilian administration" Serhiy Moroz said in Telegram: "We are now without YouTube, without Instagram. Well, nothing, we manage somehow, normally." According to him, the resources were turned off a few days ago.

10:37 Irish Prime Minister Michol Martin has arrived in Ukraine. He will hold a series of meetings designed to reaffirm Ireland's solidarity with the Ukrainian authorities, writes The Guardian. "The spirit and determination of the Ukrainian people have inspired us all, and Ireland will provide all possible support for Ukraine's path to full EU membership and will continue to welcome and support civilians fleeing this war," the prime minister said.

10:21 Tonight, the military of the anti-aircraft missile division of the Pivden air command destroyed two enemy sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type, with which the Russians tried to attack Nikolayevshchina. The missiles were fired from a submarine in the Black Sea.

09:44 Russia has stopped the transit of oil from Kazakhstan to Europe. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), by decision of the Primorsky District Court of Novorossiysk, will suspend the operation of the marine terminal for 30 days. The reason for this decision was violations allegedly revealed by Rostransnadzor during the assessment of the technical condition of hazardous production facilities and compliance with environmental requirements during their operation.

Last night, President of Kazakhstan Tokayev said that Kazakhstan is ready to use its hydrocarbon potential in order to stabilize the situation on the world and European markets. According to Tokayev, the country is committed to developing sustainable ties with the European Union, Kazakhstan's largest trading partner.

09:32 The State Bureau of Investigation initiated the dismissal of the deputy head of the Kharkiv Regional Council, who had a Russian passport he received in 2014, as well as a driver's license and a tax number, which is needed, in particular, to pay taxes in Russia.

09:21 As a result of rocket attacks in the Kievsky district of Kharkov, the building of a higher educational institution was almost completely destroyed, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. Three people were injured in the area during the day.

08:55 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 6. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic and Donetsk directions.

  • personnel - about 36,500 (+150) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 1600 (+6),

  • armored combat vehicles - 3789 (+17),

  • artillery systems - 812 (+6),

  • MLRS - 247 (+0),

  • air defense systems - 107 (+2),

  • aircraft - 217 (+0),

  • helicopters - 187 (+0),

  • UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 664 (+4),

  • cruise missiles - 153 (+9),

  • ships/boats - 15 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 2648 (+14),

  • special equipment - 65 (+0).

08:49 In the Nikolaev area for the past day two people were lost, reported OVA. One of them - as a result of the shelling of the village of Zaselye of the Pervomaisky community, the second - during the shelling of the village of Nechayane. Also on July 5, the Russians fired at the water zone of the Ochakovo community and the village of Aprilskoe of the Pervomaisky community. As a result, crop fields caught fire.

08:31 British intelligence believes that the next key battle in the fight for Donbass could be the battle for Slavyansk. Continuing to strengthen its control over Lisichansk and Lugansk region, the Russian Federation transferred most of the remaining units of the Eastern and Western groups of forces to the Izyum direction. Over the past week, Russian forces have likely advanced another 5km towards Slovyansk along the main E40 highway from Izyum, analysts say.

According to them, Russian forces from the Eastern and Western Groups of Forces are now probably located about 16 km north of Slovyansk. In addition, the city is also under threat from the Central and Southern groups of troops.

08:25 Ukrainian and Russian telegram channels report that during the battles for Lisichansk, a Belarusian unit, which fought in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, suffered losses. So, on June 26, the commander of the Belarusian battalion Volat Ivan Marchuk with the call sign Brest died. The battalion was part of the regiment of Kastus Kalinovsky, where mostly people from the Republic of Belarus fight. Several more Belarusians went missing in Lisichansk and one was taken prisoner.

08:23 The Russians are trying to seize the Bakhmut-Lysichansk road, at the moment the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding back the onslaught, said the head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, as soon as more long-range weapons appear, the advantage of the Russian Federation in personnel will be leveled.

08:20 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh said that as a result of yesterday's shelling of the city, one person was killed, seven more were injured. In total, since the beginning of hostilities, 17 people have been killed and 67 injured in the community.

08:18 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region over the past day, five civilians were killed by Russian shelling: two in Avdeevka, one each in Slavyansk, Krasnohorivka and Kurakhovo. Another 21 people were injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.

08:11 The head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, announced the shelling of the Krivoy Rog region. The village of Shesternya, Shirokovskaya community, was hit, several houses were damaged, but no one was injured.

08:00 The Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped the enemy offensive near Seversk, in the area of ​​​​Disputed, not far from Vershina, as well as in the area of ​​​​Bakhmut and Slavyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .

05:15 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the goal of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is regime change in Kiev and the destruction of the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.

ISW also reports that Russian troops continued offensive operations to the northwest and east of Slovyansk, trying to move west of the Lisichansk area in the direction of Seversk. It is likely that Russian troops are trying to gain access to rural roads southeast of Bakhmut in order to attack the city from the south.

Ukrainian forces launched a limited counterattack southwest of Donetsk. Russian troops continued limited and unsuccessful assaults in the north of the Kharkov region. The Russian authorities are carrying out enhanced conscription measures in the occupied territories in order to compensate for the losses incurred in manpower. The Kremlin continues to consolidate administrative control over the occupied territories of Ukraine, which is likely to create conditions for the direct accession of these territories to the Russian Federation, analysts say.

04:37 Kadyrovites deliberately destroyed a Muslim mosque in Severodonetsk. According to the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai, in June, Kadyrov's men opened fire on the Bismelie Islamic Cultural Center in Severodonetsk. They knew that people were hiding there, and they deliberately started shelling when the civilians went into the yard to draw water from the well. Probably, there are dead, the information is being specified. The religious center was completely destroyed.

03:16 About 200 Russian intelligence officers are working in Germany. The German security authorities are now shadowing them while their curator works at the Russian embassy, ​​writes Bild. The main task of spies is to collect and transmit information about local politicians and leaders of large companies.

01:40 The first rotation of the Ukrainian military arrived in the UK for exercises. According to the press service of the British Parliament, the Ukrainian military will take courses based on basic military training. These will include weapons handling, battlefield first aid, combat skills, patrolling tactics, and training in the laws of armed conflict. Each course will last several weeks.

00:34 The Ukrainian company UkrSpecSystems, which produces PD-2 drones, has decided to move production to Poland. Such a step is necessary to ensure that the needs of the Ukrainian military are met.

00:22 For the Register of Oligarchs, information is collected on potential defendants, the decision of the Venice Commission is expected on the work of the Register, Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the war significantly "deoligarchized" many of the holders of the status, and the oligarchs in Ukraine no longer have their former influence.

00:09 Erdogan hopes that it will be possible to reach an agreement on opening grain corridors in 7-10 days. According to him, Ankara seeks to be a mediator for a speedy resolution of the issue under the auspices of the UN: "The Black Sea Grain Corridor is of great importance. The approaches of both leaders are important - both Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky. We continue our negotiations."

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Court arrested the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Umnov
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[RIA Novosti] The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has arrested Assistant Minister of the Interior of Russia Sergei Umnov, accused of abuse of power, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

"The court ruled: to satisfy the investigator's petition, to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention," the judge announced the decision.

She motivated her decision by the presence of the defendant's many years of experience in law enforcement - he is familiar with the methods of investigation and at large he can try to oppose him, hide and agree on a position with accomplices.

The judge also pointed to the confirmation of involvement in the crime - the testimony of witnesses and evidence.

The defense, in response, announced the expiration of the statute of limitations and the positive characteristics of the accused.

The meeting was held behind closed doors in order to protect the data of prosecution witnesses and prevent disclosure of information on the investigation. The deadline for the investigation of the case was set until October 5.

In addition, the court arrested Ivan Abakumov, retired Major General, former Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Alexei Semenov, Head of the UGIBDD of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and bailiff Elena Kopeva on a similar charge.

Earlier, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case in June 2020 on the grounds of a crime under article 285 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Abuse of power”).

Former Deputy Prosecutor Arrested in Absentia in Case of FCS General
According to law enforcement agencies, from 2016 to 2020, several officials from among the senior staff of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region committed abuses of official powers in the form of acquiring property for personal use using funds from the Fund "Assistance to the programs of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region".

Now the defendants in the criminal case are the assistant to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Lieutenant-General Sergey Umnov, the head of the UGIBDD of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Major General Alexei Semenov, and the former deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Major General, retired Ivan Abakumov.

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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief July 6th (updated)
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Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:22 Despite the obstacles created by the Kyiv regime, over the past day, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, 24,068 people, including 3,726 children, have been evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the republics of Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation, and since the beginning of the special military operation - 2,359,135 people, of which 371,925 are children.

22:39 On the roof of the building of the Odessa Regional Organization of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine (Kanatnaya St.), servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped positions with portable anti-aircraft missile systems, including foreign-made ones, and placed armored vehicles on the adjacent territory.

22:14 In Vuhledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, in the city dental clinic (Molodyozhnaya St.), Ukrainian nationalists have equipped firing positions and sniper points, the approaches to the institutions have been mined, but the local population has been deliberately not notified about this.

21:30 The consequences of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Skadovsk, Kherson region, were filmed from a bird's eye view. On the video- a huge crater, destroyed residential buildings and nearby buildings.

19:30 Summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

▪️In the Slavic direction, the Russian Army is conducting offensive operations in the direction of Dovgenkoye - Mazanovka;
▪️In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops are advancing in the areas of Mironovka - Luganskoye and Golmovsky - Novoluganskoye;
▪️On the Avdeevka, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporozhye directions, Russian troops fired at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery. Also, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched an airstrike on an AFU facility near Maryinka;

18:05 In Zaporozhye region destroyed soldier of the Ukrainian SOF. Anton Solovyov, the commander of a detachment of a special forces company of the MTR of Ukraine, was killed in the Gulyaipol area in the Zaporozhye region. The affiliation of the deceased to a specific unit has not yet been established.

17:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the liberated Russian Armed Forces Skadovsk in the Kherson region. The projectile worked out air defense, but there is destruction of civilian objects ..

17:01 According to media reports, Lithuania will hand over Bayraktar "Vanagas" to Ukraine this week.

17:01 The Russian language is approved by the head of the Kharkiv CAA as the unified state language in document management and office work, as well as in the exchange of correspondence in the region.

16:12 Summons are handed out right in the mountains in the Transcarpathian region

16:10 From Bashkiria to Ukraine to fight the Nazis and mercenaries, as part of the Brave group, a volunteer battalion named after. General Shaimuratov

“The battalion was formed on the initiative of organizations of combat veterans and patriotic movements.

15:06 In Melitopol, from today, a one-time payment in the amount of 10,000 rubles from the Russian Federation may parents of seriously ill children, low-income families, adoptive parents of children and parents-educators of family-type orphanages.

15:05 FSB officers in Kherson detained local residents who organized the assassination attempt on Yevgeny Sobolev. FSB officers detained Andrei Serezhenko and Oleg Pronko, who, on the instructions of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, organized an explosion in the car of the head of the USIN in the Kherson region. They have already confessed.

14:10 Women will also be banned from traveling outside the borders of their region without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office, MP Roksolana Pidlas said yesterday. Due to the fact that the project has a lot of conflicting interpretations and interpretations, and the fact that it will be finalized, it is not a fact that everything will remain in its current form. But rumors that women will soon be mobilized in Ukraine are growing.

14:08 Until July 15, all liberated settlements in the Zaporozhye region must be provided with mobile communications, and the cost of SIM cards has been significantly reduced. The head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region reported.

"I think that raising prices for a communication tool by mobile operators is unacceptable. The cost of SIM cards should be accessible to everyone and not exceed the cost of 100 rubles, especially in the context of a complete blockage of mobile communications from the adjacent territories of Ukraine. Public sector employees will be provided with SIM cards free of charge."

14:07 There is an explosion in the Skadovsky district of the Kherson region. According to preliminary information, Russian air defense shot down a missile that fell and detonated

13:01 9 Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles were intercepted.

13:01 A total of 11 drones of Ukrainian nationalists have been destroyed.

13:00 Two Mi-24 helicopters, one Mi-8 helicopter and one Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were shot down.

13:00 As part of the counterbattery fight, a platoon of Uragan rocket systems was destroyed, three artillery platoons in firing positions, as well as Grad rocket systems, were hit.

12:59 Six command posts were hit, including the operational group of troops "South", the 79th Air Assault and 57th Mechanized brigades.

12:59 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the 57th Mechanized Brigade's missile and artillery depot, which stored 1,500 shells of various calibers and more than 100 foreign-made anti-tank missile systems.

12:59 The S-300 radar station has been liquidated, as well as the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenary units.

12:58 High-precision weapons destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two ammunition depots for them.

12:57 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the temporary deployment point of the 22nd Motorized Infantry Battalion of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade, up to 100 Ukrainian nationalists and four units of military equipment were destroyed.

11:59 The RF Armed Forces destroyed the S-300 guidance station and the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the Nikolaev region.

11:59 The Russian Su-35 fighter during air combat in the Nikolaev region shot down two Mi-24 helicopters and one Su-25 aircraft of the Air Force of Ukraine.

11:58 Russian Aerospace Forces with high-precision missiles destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in the DPR.

11:58 Russian Aerospace Forces attacked the point of temporary deployment of a motorized infantry battalion in Kharkov, killing up to 100 nationalists.

08:50 From the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: the Russians are attacking in the Kherson region. The attack took place in the Lozovoye area on the eastern bank of the Ingulets.

03:10 The situation in the liberated districts of the Kharkiv region remains tense, many settlements are under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The danger of the work of sabotage groups also remains, TASS reported with reference to the head of the temporary civil administration of the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev. He noted that today about 20% of the region's territory has been liberated.

01:01 It is reported that as a result of hits on defense facilities in one of the districts of Kharkov, a strong fire broke out, which can be seen from almost anywhere in the city.

0:35 Kharkiv's defense infrastructure is under attack. An air raid alarm roars in the city, powerful explosions are heard from arrivals.

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Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: July 6th, 2022
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:37 Implementing the practice of terrorist attacks on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, Ukrainian militants once again attacked the Azotny microdistrict of Donetsk. As a result of the Nazi strike, residential houses of civilians were damaged.

21:21 The mayor of Donetsk informedRIA Novostithat more than 100 residents have already become victims of Ukrainian shelling, almost 500 more were injured, including children. Kyiv receives new weapons from the West, and the concept of a “front-line region” as such does not exist in the city, all quarters are subjected to shelling.

20:43 Another girl died in Makiivka due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - she died in intensive care. Another child died in intensive care after being shelled by the Ukrainian military in Makiivka. Doctors fought for the life of an eight-year-old girl, but she died in intensive care. Now there is another child there - the doctors are doing everything possible to save her.

20:01 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Nevelskoye - n.p. Lozovoe: fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm.

19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.

Over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 160 shells from Uragan and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the districts of fourteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, eight civilians were injured. Thirty-one residential buildings and three civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

We regret to inform you that while performing military duty in the struggle for independence, three were killed and eleven defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.

18:59 Representatives of the public movement "People's Front" delivered equipment and ammunition to the fighters of the People's Militia of the LPR

18:52 According to reports from social networks, an oil depot is on fire in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

18:47 In Makiivka, a little boy was killed as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine In Makiivka, near the Cheryomushki microdistrict, a small boy was killed by shelling by the Ukrainian military - two more girls are in intensive care.

According to eyewitnesses, the boy died due to the fact that the projectile fired from Ukraine had a cluster warhead - air defense worked over the city, fragments scattered in different directions. A powerful gap was also heard in Donetsk.

In addition, according to the headquarters of the DPR’s territorial defense, four civilians were injured due to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and three civilians were injured in the village of Mironovsky. Petrovsky district of Donetsk was also subjected to shelling - a woman was killed, there are wounded.

According to updated data, two children were killed, three children were injured. Two adult civilians were also wounded.

18:46 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pravdovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

18:46 Kyiv district of Donetsk in these minutes under artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A. Rudenko

18:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdiivka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

17:54 Makiivka - loud! Air defense works!

17:39 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired six shells with a caliber of 152mm;
— n.p. Kalinovo - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

17:24 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

17:04 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

16:59 "People's Front" with the support of the NM of the LPR delivered humanitarian aid to the village of Borovskoye.

16:42 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Georgievka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

16:32 Khartsyzsk city administration showed the consequences of the morning shelling of the city, as a result of which two civilians were injured.

16:26 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

16:21 Denis Pushilin awarded unit "Somalia" for the liberation of Mariupol.

16:14 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 15 mm caliber were fired.

16:10 State educational institutions in Severodonetsk leaves much to be desired, because it was in them that Ukrainian militants were located.

16:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

15:52 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, reports:

According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, residential buildings were damaged at the following addresses:

- st. Marshal Zhukov, 3 - the glazing of the balcony block was damaged;
- st. Electronic, 8 - window glazing is damaged;
- st. Umova, 48 (a) - the glazing of the windows of the Plant store was damaged.

15:51 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

15:41 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Mironovsky: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

15:34 NM of the LPR, together with the volunteers of the Loaf project, delivered humanitarian aid to the city of Lisichansk

15:26 Employees of the prosecutor's office of Pervomaisk visited the residents of Gorskoye, who, due to constant shelling from the armed forces of Ukraine, were forced to live for more than two months in a bomb shelter, on the territory of the Gorskaya mine, without electricity and water supply. Employees of the prosecutor's office handed over the necessary food and sweets for children to the residents.

15:22 By the forces of our air defense in the district of the settlement Stakhanov destroyed missile tactical missile system "Tochka-U". As a result of the scattering of fragments of the body of the downed rocket, four garages in the Severyanochka garage cooperative, two cars, as well as a scooter and bicycles were damaged. There are no victims or injured. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC

15:21 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: 13.30 from the direction of Uglegorskaya TPP along the settlement Mironovsky (DPR) using 120mm mortars (two mines). As a result of the shelling, three civilians were injured of varying severity. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.

15:17 AFU attacked Mironovsky, wounding three civilians. As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants, a man and a woman were injured on the street. Artem, a civilian was also wounded on the street. Lenin, residential buildings were damaged.

14:44 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Codema - n.p. Bayrak: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

14:34 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— settlement Avdiivka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

13:47 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

13:42 Only according to the official data of the RF Ministry of Defense, Ukraine lost 5,500 militants in the battles for Lisichansk, dozens of units of military equipment were abandoned or destroyed, and they tried to build barricades from city minibuses. Reported by Rodion Miroshnik.

13:40 About 700 teachers from the liberated territories of the Republic completed advanced training courses at the Luhansk State Pedagogical University. This was announced by the director of the Institute for Professional Development of the Leningrad State Pedagogical University, candidate of philological sciences, associate professor Oksana Shkuran.

13:35 Footage of damaged and abandoned vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Lisichansk.Personnel: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

13:19 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

13:17 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Artemivsk (ukr. Bakhmut) - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

13:09 They report arrivals in the Azotny microdistrict in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

12:57 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Kurakhovo - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): two missiles were fired from the BM-27 "Hurricane";
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): three shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

12:48 The second St. Mitrofanov Church in Lisichansk was seriously damaged during the hostilities. Its roof has completely collapsed. During the fighting, services were held in the basement of a nearby building.

12:11 From the report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (07/06/2022):

- In the area of ​​​​the settlement of Malotaranovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, high-precision air-launched missiles destroyed two launchers of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and two ammunition depots for them.
- As part of the counter-battery fight, a platoon of multiple launch rocket systems "Hurricane" was destroyed, three artillery platoons were hit at firing positions in the areas of Dzerzhinsk and Leninskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic
- On the eastern outskirts of the village of Soledar, Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft destroyed the depot of rocket and artillery weapons of the 57th Mechanized Brigade, which stored 1,500 shells of various calibers and more than a hundred anti-tank missile systems of foreign production.

12:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

11:38 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

11:20 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): seven shells of 152mm caliber were fired.

11:11 Shelling was recorded from the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Zaitsevo (southern): four mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Bayrak: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.

11:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired three shells with a caliber of 122mm.

10:53 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:

— settlement Kleshcheevka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine named after Izotov): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdiivka - settlement Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.

10:35 The 11th Regiment of the NM DPR took the Controversial settlement. By the morning of July 6th, Disputed is completely controlled by the allied forces. The area is currently being cleaned up. The Armed Forces of Ukraine, which retreated in the direction of Seversk, are actively shelling. Disputed with artillery.

10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: the Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn are not military facilities and do not pose a danger to the enemy.

Over the past day, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 500 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm and 82mm mortars.

The fire was fired at the areas of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, twelve civilians were injured, and four civilians were killed, of which one was a child. Twenty-five residential buildings and 16 civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.

Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two BM-21 Grad MLRS, two M-777 howitzers, one truck and more than 30 personnel. Two enemy firing points were suppressed in the areas of the settlement. Avdievka and Kurdyumovka.

We appeal to all citizens who are on the territory temporarily controlled by Ukrainian nationalists. If you have become eyewitnesses to the crimes of Ukrainian militants, try to covertly record a video or photo recording of these facts without endangering yourself.

We guarantee your anonymity. After sending the specified information through the official feedback bot (@nmdnr_bot) of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Telegram application, these materials will be used as an evidence base for punishing Ukrainian war criminals to the fullest extent of the law.

10:20 Air defense worked over the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

10:12 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: four each 122mm rounds were fired

09:58 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of 07/06/2022:

"the enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure facilities of the front-line settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.

So, as a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine from the Tochka-U shopping center in the settlement of Stakhanov, 6 residential buildings, the office building of the First Transport Company and the State Unitary Enterprise LPR Republican Grid Company were damaged. There are no victims or injured.

Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic.

So yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than 3 hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk.

The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic.

Yesterday, volunteers from the Russian Humanitarian Mission, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered humanitarian aid to the needy residents of Lisichansk."

09:50 Fires per day destroyed 13 hectares of wheat in Starobelsky and Stanichno-Lugansk districts. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.

09:48 Two employees of the state unitary enterprise of the LPR "Republican Grid Company" were blown up by an unidentified explosive device near the Seversky Donets in the Slavyanoserbsky district. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.

09:43 Belarusian nationalist Ivan Marchuk, who fought on the side of Kyiv, was eliminated near Lisichansk - NM LPR

09:07 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Khartsyzsk, two people were injured.

09:05 The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR reports: over the past day, from 08:00 on July 5 to 08:00 on July 6, as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, four people were killed and another 14 civilians were injured.

09:04 Makeyevka DPR under fire. Since the morning, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been hitting the outskirts of the Soviet district of the city, as a result of an artillery strike, a fire broke out.

08:56 Cars of the next, 161st, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered food, medical equipment and building materials to Lugansk, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry of the LPR reported.

08:56 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.

08:48 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Khartsyzsk: five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

08:29 Report on a series of arrivals in the Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk. The network also reports arrivals in the Topaz area.

08:24 Shelling was recorded from the VFU in the following directions:

— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Sovietsky District): five shells fired with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

07:59 After 03:00, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction:

— n.p. Pervomaiskoye - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky and Kyiv districts): five shells of 155mm caliber were fired.

05:39 Over the past day, on July 5, 2022, the LPR representation in the JCCC did not record shelling in settlements.

0:01 Kyiv propagandist Arestovich accidentally let slip that the Russian Army occupied the village of Novoluganskoye in the DPR. This fact is also confirmed by a number of media. The settlement is located to the west of Svetlodarsk and south of Bakhmut (Artemovsk), which means success in the assault operations of the Russian troops in the Bakhmut direction.

0:05 Air defense is working on Stakhanov in the LPR, a series of powerful explosions is heard, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The day before, at about the same time, Ukrainian troops hit Stakhanov with Tochka-U.

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Science & Technology
Young George Dunnett builds 'tiny home' in village of Kinneswood
[Insider] There were plenty of nice houses in the village, but this building was one of the few that was left to crumble. The cottage was old and weathered, and the masonry walls were full of cracks.

"It was kind of dilapidated, so I always thought it was a bit of a shame that it was left to this condition," Dunnett, a 28-year-old video editor, told Insider.

Even so, he could see the potential the home had.
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#1  Renovated a rock house once.
Previous owner didn't want to pay for a garbage service so he packed the crawl space with trash bags. Painted the windows shut. Had a huge gun safe next to the bed to sag the floor.

A lovely riverside farm.
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#2  I think it looks great. They did a nice clean job, given what they had to work with. Exterior stonemason did really well, in my opinion.

Would not be my choice with interior design, but what they have uses the spaces efficiently.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/07/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Not sure about the bookkeeper, but I think I could be happy there, if it was in walking distance to some pub grub.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Stone mason did excellent work. Tuck pointing that much rock would be a tedious job.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||


60-Year Old U-2 Spyplane Still Seeks Out The Enemy
[History.net] Behold the Lockheed U-2, as imperfect an airplane as has ever flown. A hastily designed stopgap intended to fly for two or perhaps four years at most, its fragility and truculence a destroyer of airframes and killer of pilots at an unprecedented rate. An airplane so difficult to land that YouTube is filled with videos of careening U-2s being chased by landing coaches in Camaros and Firebirds. A quasi-military spyplane that was originally ordered and paid for by civilians—that in fact was largely postulated and laid out by MIT and Harvard academics and a Cambridge entrepreneur, nary a pilot nor aeronautical engineer among them.

Some in the U.S. Air Force called it the Useless Deuce, yet the U-2 became one of the most important aircraft ever to fly. The U-2 kept us out of World War III with the Soviet secrets it revealed during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. And though its Soviet overflights ended in disaster—the infamous Francis Gary Powers shootdown in May 1960—the U-2 had already proved that Americans needn’t have worried about Soviet bombers targeting us. Mutually assured destruction, if it ever came to that, meant the U.S. would assuredly destroy the USSR.

Sixty years after the U-2A entered service, the latest model, the U-2S (an improved version of the highly modified U-2R), continues to fly carrying sensors undreamed of during the U-2’s photorecon glory days. Its intended successor, the SR-71, quickly came and went at Mach 3, and is today parked in museums. Surveillance satellites that supposedly could read license plates from space have yet to fully replace the U-2, and this remarkable reconnaissance platform’s real successor will be a drone—a UAV based on, yes, the U-2R.
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#1  Satchel Paige: "It ain't braggin' if you can do it..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2022 15:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Loiter time and relatively cheap to operate compared to the Blackbird or orbital platforms, and it goes where you have minimal coverage and boosts imagery bigly. I'm reminded of large scale maneuvers at Ft. Irwin in the early 80's when we would stop certain things or reconfigure the location of key assets so that the SovBirds couldn't get a solid template of what went where for targeting doctrine. The Sat overpass times were specific and upon occasion we wrote things on white packing materials that were decidedly impolite and often anatomically impossible.
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#3  You can predict orbital passes. U2 flights, not so easy to predict.
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Possible cause of long COVID ‘brain fog' revealed - study
BLUF:
[Jerusalem Post] In the course of their research, scientists found that the neurological effects of long-COVID were strikingly similar to neurodegenerative diseases caused by cytotoxic aggregates on the brain. This is to say, they witnessed a buildup of protein fragments from the SARS-CoV-2 virus which formed clumps in the brain, similar to those found in patients with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diseases.
"If further studies are able to prove that the formation of these amyloids is causing long-COVID, then anti-amyloid drugs developed to treat Alzheimer’s might be used to treat some of the neurological symptoms of long-COVID."

Dr. Mirren Charnley

The study also showed that the clumps, in addition to being problematic by their presence, are highly toxic to brain cells.

However, this grim prognosis may actually be a compass to point in the direction of a treatment plan.

Dr. Mirren Charnley, a postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne explained that "if further studies are able to prove that the formation of these amyloids is causing long-COVID, then anti-amyloid drugs developed to treat Alzheimer’s might be used to treat some of the neurological symptoms of long-COVID."
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#1  Doctors of Audiology have been running commercials on this subject (in my area) to encourage testing. They speak of this subject specifically.
Posted by: Dale || 07/07/2022 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Why specifically audiology doctors, Dale?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 4:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "Safe and effective".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2022 6:57 Comments || Top||

#4  When you lose you sense of taste and smell, it sort of follows that there's some kind of brain housing group connection. But what do I know ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5 

A plague virus that kills off older and medically ill burdensome humans, reduces mental capabilities and coupled with a Vax that reduces fertility and causes Blood Clot / Heart related death for a certain healthy part of the population.

Do people still doubt it wasn't developed in a lab for a greater reason?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Social Security is [going] broke, so, fewer......
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/07/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#7 
Trailing wife,

Ref: Audiology issues.

My Example.
Hearing aide test taken about 7-8 weeks after my C-19/22 infection. Showed I lost additional hearing starting in the 3,800hz high frequencies, Plus, I now need more DB amplification than just 6 months before the Pre-C19/22 infection.

Plus Side ... is I can actually feel very low audio sounds like our Postal Mail Vehicle 1/2 a block away or feel a car rolling down the street.

My Audiologist said he has seen this in a number C-19/22 post infected people.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2022 8:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks for explaining, Besoeker and NN2N1.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||

#9  TW because they specifically mention need for testing in their info add on radio. This office has at least two Doctors of Audiology at my location. Losing high frequency at 3800 and above is normal for most people. Age related but more common in men but that's because he hears only what he wants to hear. 3,500 inner hair cells and 12,000 outer hair cells at birth but outer are the ones that suffer most damage. When you hear ringing after a loud noise that is damage. I have always felt magnesium helped hair cells. Say the word Thaw and high frequency loss is Th sound whereas aw is low frequency sound. Yes, most will want to fit you with hearing aids for both ears 4000 on up. Use both ears to hear and cup each ear for a 10db increase in hearing for each ear. Lip read works also. A pair might cost 3-11,000 dollars and be good for 3-5 years. I would say you are borderline. It is your own mind that will motivate you. I don't believe you will see much benefit. Use speaker phone as this will aid you for the summation effect. Little things like cell phone ring on TV you may not hear. Rubbing fingers together next to your ear you might not hear (that shows you range of hearing). Pen click sound also.
Posted by: Dale || 07/07/2022 16:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Ah. Thank you for unpacking your original statement for me, Dale.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2022 22:28 Comments || Top||



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