Seriously ick. Try him fair and hang him high — twice.
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Exclusive investigating from me w/@HannahNighting: A radio host for far-left Portland station @KBOO allegedly kidnapped a child & raped her. His various social media accounts that I uncovered expressed graphic pedophilic sentiments. https://t.co/UZo8OysiZ8
Following the disappearance of a Canadian child last month, a 40-year-old Portland ...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others... -area man and radio host on the left-wing station, KBOO, has been arrested for child trafficking and child rape.
Noah Whitefield Madrano, of Gladstone, Ore., allegedly kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from Edmonton, Alberta. She was reported missing by her family on June 24 after never showing up for school and was finally discovered in an Oregon City hotel room more than a week later by local police and agents with the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... . Oregon City is about 12 miles south of Portland.
Madrano is currently being held on a $500,000 bond in Clackamas County, Ore. on felony charges of first-degree sexual abuse, second-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping.
Madrano used male, female and nonbinary pronouns and the monikers, "Bud Jackson," "NoMad" and "Noah Zark."
At a bail hearing last week, Clackamas County prosecutors said the girl was targeted and groomed "over the course of a year" before being kidnapped. They also accuse Madrano of making "threats to kill her and have sex with her dead corpse."
Until the publicity around Madrano’s arrest, he was a producer and co-host of the "Sub-Human Intellect Theater" (S.H.I.T.) monthly show at far-left self-described Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... Portland radio station, KBOO-FM. The show’s other host is Karen Green, who has deleted all her social media accounts after the arrest of her co-host.
KBOO broadcasts far-left political content and one of its main membership programs is called the "Fight Fascism Power Pack" which gives donors a flash drive with access to content from violent mostly peaceful group Rose City Antifa and Portland Antifa members, Alexander Reid Ross and Shane Burley. (Rose City Antifa members were involved in assaulting TPM journalist Andy Ngo in 2019 and he is suing the group.)
After the child was found, she was taken to a local children’s hospital for evaluation, and has since returned home with her parents to Edmonton.
Madrano is also expected to face charges in Canada. He has a no contact order with the child and his Oregon indictment is scheduled for July 12.
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How does a radio station openly aligned with domestic terrorists keep its license?
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#4
The FCC is another weaponized governemnt agency. ^^^^
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#5
The death penalty needs to come back for crimes like this. And any DA who doesn't go full bore on these or offers a plea deal should also be charged as an accessory and receive the death penalty.
#6
I would build some gallows but I don't thik I could afford the wood these days.
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My wife used to say the way to handle a child molester was to train a very large gorilla to like taking them from behind and put them in a cage to find out what it's like from the little kid's perspective.
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Re #7. Reminds me of a joke's punchline "Death by Boomfa", where Boomfa is a gorilla.
[National Review] The Secret Service confirmed Monday that it is aware of reports that the contents of Hunter Biden’s iCloud account were hacked over the weekend, exposing alleged texts, pictures, and videos of the president’s son doing drugs and engaging in other salacious and likely illegal activities.
4chan users claimed they hacked Biden’s phone late Saturday night, posting pictures to the website’s main political forum, according to the Washington Examiner. Many of the posts were taken down by the website.
The Secret Service said they are "aware" of the "social media posts and claims" about Biden, but are not in position to "make public comments on potential investigative actions," in a statement to National Review.
One video purports to show Biden measuring the amount of crack he had while in conversation with a prostitute.
Another alleged video shows Biden going down a water slide naked, and texts allegedly revealed show Biden claiming that President Joe Biden was in possession of five guns in 2019, despite campaigning on gun control.
Many of the files posted by 4chan were already found on Biden’s abandoned laptop via an iPhone XS backup, according to the Washington Examiner.
Former Secret Service agent and cyber forensics expert Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos previously told the outlet that the contents of the iPhone are authentic.
#4
They are about to discover how hard it is to get all the dog sh*t off the shoe once it's been stepped in.
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#5
It's all part of the plan.
Biden, the patsy, does all the dirty work, takes the blame. Michele O to the rescue in 24 (or sooner).
The Democrats never intended for Biden to finish his 1st term.
#8
When you can buy a one trillion byte solid state hard drive for about $100, why would anybody trust their data to iCloud?
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Michele O to the rescue in 24 (or sooner).
Gag me with a spoon. I fear you might be right.
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I don't think Big Mike wants to make that much effort, but being the Most Powerful Black Woman in the history of the world does have a certain appeal, and it will make the white people go nuts. So if they sell her on the idea of the campaign and election being delivered on a silver platter....
#11
What is with criminals filming their crimes? I mean I"m happy they do, must make prosecutions easier (when prosecutors actually do their jobs) but still it's bizarre.
#12
The poor Hunter Biden and his family are one American family groomed and used and abused by the criminal American federal civil servants illegal associations
This family of poor bastards are been blackmailed and forced to act, I’m sure they are very aware on how their ends will be. …they are just prolonging their existence and taking their lives day by day. Especially now that this "mysterious British handlers behind Biden pet project Ukraine has miserably failed.
The poor Hunter is just keeping notes so he can use them when needed
it’s called planning you idiots! So that the criminal American CS can’t accuse him of the wrong facts..
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India rising, China falling — the future belongs to those who show up.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
2030, the world's population will reach 8.5 billion and by 2100, 10.4 billion ...or somewhat less, given how many countries have been overcounting their populations...
Population growth was growing at its slowest pace since 1950, estimates show
India's population was 1.21 billion in 2011 and will now surpass China at 1.4 billion
In 2021, the average fertility of the world's population stood at 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, having fallen from about 5 births in 1950
Global fertility is projected to decline further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050
Researcher questions China's population data, says it may be lower
Dec 3, 2021
[Reuters] China may be downplaying how fast its population is shrinking, and a recent policy to promote three-child families has poor chances to improve birth rates, a fertility expert told the Rooters Next conference on Friday.Fuxian Yi, senior scientist in the obstetrics and gynecology department at the University of Wisconsin, said he estimated that China’s 2020 population was 1.28 billion rather than the 1.41 billion census number reported and that fertility rates were lower than reported.
Yi estimates that China's population has been shrinking since 2018.
China’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The country's rapidly shrinking birth rate has raised concerns of slower economic growth and the potential challenges created by fewer workers supporting an older population.
Beijing scrapped its decades-old one-child policy in 2016, replacing it with a two-child limit to try to stave off those risks. In May a three-child policy was announced as the birth rates continued to drop given the high cost of raising children in Chinese cities.
China had a fertility rate of just 1.3 children per woman in 2020, recent state data showed, on par with aging societies like Japan and Italia and far short of the roughly 2.1 needed for replacement level.
Yi estimates that the real fertility rate is much lower based on a drop in fertility rates over the years by China’s ethnic minority groups which were not restricted by the one-child policy, and he calculated the population based on his own lower estimate rates.
Yi said local governments overstate their population to obtain more subsidies, including education fees they collect from the central government. He said that with over 20 social benefits linked to a birth registration, some families were using the black market to buy a second birth certificate online.
"The population numbers have been inflated mainly for financial benefits," Yi said.
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From the demographic data from multiple sources I've seen, the birthrates are so terrible in most countries the world population will peak around 9 billion mid-century, then slowly drop back to 7 billion in a century after that. There simple aren't enough people to keep the population up.
If global famine and war take hold in the next few years, expect that number to drop even faster.
It's true that there are more potential parents than ever before. And the American population has soared to over 330 million.
But our population is radically leveling off.
In just 14 years the fertility rate has crashed from 2.12 to 1.64 – meaning that both citizens and resident aliens in America are not replacing themselves.
While past demographic momentum has led to an all-time population high, the United States has already peaked demographically. And it will soon shrink and further age.
Thirty years ago, America had 80 million fewer people, but a quarter-million more annual births.
#8
Fake people in the "metaverse," spending imaginary money on non-existent stuff will solve it all...
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Some of it is just people putting things on hold during the uncertainty of the lockdown and the Biden nonsense. There’s a divide in the key age group — one portion avoiding kids altogether while the other portion has three or more.
#10
Is anything counted for political purposes ever counted accurately?
I seriously hope they're not counting the folks who supposedly voted in districts where the vote totals exceeded the population of eligible voters.
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#11
I see that the populaion of Pakistan is increasing despite Dron's best efforts to reduce it.
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#12
End the ridiculous American practice of prolonged adolescence. Replace high schools with trade schools and let those kids grow up normally and naturally. End government sponsored college loans so kids have to grow up and go to work instead of living on the taxpayers' dime. Get inflation under control so moms can stay home. Repeal minimum wage laws so American workers can compete with their counterparts in other countries. Do these things before the lights go out.
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Repeal minimum wage laws so American workers can compete with their counterparts in other countries
Why? They're just letting those counterparts in through the border. Simple supply and demand. Excess labor reduces the demand and wages. Those with technical skills, heck no problem, loads of 1HB visas.
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"Global fertility is projected to decline... "
Kinda Think ?
Finding significant amounts of Birth Control and other pregnancy inhabiting Medications in 1st and 2nd World water supplies might have something to do with it?
While in still developing 3rd world nations, it is a rarity.
[FoxNews] A Texas father shot two attempted robbery suspects who approached his SUV with his wife and two infant children inside, police announced Monday.
The husband and wife were arriving to their home just after midnight Sunday evening when the two teenage suspects approached the vehicle. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said that the suspects attempted to open the vehicle's rear door, where the two children were seated.
"The adult male feared for the safety of his family and fired shots and struck both suspects," Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote in a statement. "The wife was driving and drove away after the shooting to get away from the suspects."
"A car pulled up after the shooting driven by an [unknown] male believed to be with the suspects. Both wounded suspects were taken to hospitals by private vehicles. Both suspects are teens, 16 yrs old. Both are said to be stable & in fair condition," Gonzalez added.
#5
They can't enforece the laws on the books now, how they gonna enforce curfew laws? Hell, the ones they would be for are the ones doing all the killing, I think they will not give a shit.
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Referring to children and teen curfews. Back in civilization, those were required to be off the streets by 10pm. Nothing much good happens after that with those age groups.
[Townhall] Shortly after Meghan Markle voiced her disapproval of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, reports broke that she promoted a "woman power" necklace that raises money for abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Page Six reported Thursday that Markle, 40, donned the necklace from the company Awe Inspired for a VAX Live Event, an event that celebrates the COVID-19 vaccine. Reportedly, 100 percent of the proceeds from the necklace and the company’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg collection will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
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Conservatives have lost on every battlefront: free speech, the military, the universities, marriage, nuclear family, child education, the media, the government, Boy Scouts, business, law and justice, Christianity, patriarchy, immigration, the welfare state, and capitalism. The right to bear arms in time will be win to it’s on the early stages right now
Abortion is and was practiced all through history all over the world different culture
But the idiots don’t understand, that is why will loose.
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But the idiots don’t understand, that is why will loose.
[Rudaw] Moslems in the Ukrainian capital came together to perform Eid prayer on Saturday morning, praying for a lasting triumph for their country that continues to be locked in a war with Russia for five months now.
A large number of Moslems living in Kyiv are those who abandoned homes in Crimea in 2015 and sought shelter in the Ukrainian capital following the Russian takeover of the southern region.
"I hope this war will end as soon as possible. I have six sons and the eldest among them is a Ukrainian army soldier. All we wish is for this war to end," Anas Abu Warda, a Paleostinian man who moved to Ukraine 30 years ago, told Rudaw on Saturday.
Around 1.5 million Moslems live in Ukraine, 500,000 of which are from Crimea... 300,000 from Azerbaijan and the rest are from the Arab countries, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistain and the African countries.
"Around 1.5 million Moslems live in Ukraine, 500,000 of which are from Crimea... 300,000 from Azerbaijan and the rest are from the Arab countries, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistain and the African countries," Emad Abu Alrub, member of Cabinet of Ministers Council for religion, national minorities, and education said.
Hamza Issa, 48, moved to Ukraine from Paleostine in 1992 to pursue higher education in the eastern European country. He is now a surgeon. The father of eight moved to Kyiv from Donbas in 2014 following escalations.
Moslems in Kyiv slaughtered 250 sheep and 55 calves to be given to 5,000 destitute and needy families in Kyiv oblast, according to Issa.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on June 7 said over 4 thousand non-combatants were killed and more than 5 thousand others were maimed as a result of the conflict across Ukraine.
#5
It’s the impressed vision …..left on me and the pervasive continuous Malefic or Benefic Jewish institutions and foundations propaganda year after year. So any time I see a race of people in an hostile territory I think of that.
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#6
It’s important always to pull back and look at the bigger picture, my dear. After your career you should have experience looking beyond superficial similarities.
#6
Sorry, DarthVader. He’d wandered too deep into racism. I realize that as an elderly Mexican his boundaries are different, but as a claimed sophisticate he should be able to master when in Rome.
#7
Fake news
Junk articles like this were called disinformation in the era of WW2.
The so call ammunition depot hit
Was a potassium sulfate manufacturer factory.
You bastards disinformation prostitutes.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Shelling continues along the entire front line.
Iryna Gamalii
In the East, the occupiers are trying to advance in the Bakhmut, Lyman and Donetsk directions, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding their positions.
Pavlo Kyrylenko , the head of the Donetsk OVA, announced this on the air of the UArazom telethon .
"The shelling continues along the entire front line. Indeed, during the past day, the enemy used all measures of defeat in order to advance in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, but had no success. Similarly, in the Donetsk direction, these are Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Avdiivka. The armed forces of Ukraine are holding their positions, and the enemy has no opportunity to advance," Kyrylenko said.
According to him, the invaders occasionally carry out offensive actions in small groups in Donetsk region, but the Ukrainian defense is ready to repel the enemy.
"But, understanding how many enemy armored personnel carriers are concentrated in the Bakhmut and Lyman directions, in the direction of the cities of Bakhmut, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, we understand that there will be attempts and further aggressive actions of the enemy," he said.
Kyrylenko added that the Donetsk OVA, together with the military command, "are building a defense that will make it possible to stop the enemy."
"And then we can already talk about de-occupation, the General Staff will additionally inform about it," Kyrilenko concluded.
We will remind, today the Russian occupiers fired rockets at Toretsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Raihorodok in the Donetsk region. There are victims among the civilian population.
[LB] On July 11, rescuers continued to search for the dead and injured in the rubble of the five-story building, according to the message of the Emergency Department of Donetsk Oblast.
As of 5:47 p.m., according to the information of the deputy head of the Office of the President Kyril Tymoshenko, rescuers retrieved 9 wounded and 30 dead from the rubble. "Employees of the State Emergency Service dismantled 65% of the debris. They removed 170 tons of destroyed elements of the building. The work is ongoing," Tymoshenko added.
As of 8:00 p.m., rescuers reported that they had pulled out the bodies of 31 dead people from under the rubble.
The General Staff informed that the Armed Forces inflict losses on the enemy in all directions where hostilities are ongoing.
The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on establishing final control over the Luhansk region.
In the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy is trying to hold the occupied lines and prevent our troops from advancing to the state border.
About the situation in other directions - in our news.
According to preliminary data, three people were killed as a result of the shelling by the Russians of a shopping center and houses in Kharkiv with multiple rocket launchers.
More than 30 people were injured.
In the evening of July 11, the Russians launched another missile attack on Odesa.
According to the head of OVA Maksym Marchenko, there were no casualties.
Serhii Bratchuk, the spokesman of the Odesa Regional Military Administration, added that the Russian Federation had fired two missiles over the region.
Ukrainian forces are confidently advancing in the south of the country . Over the past two days, it was possible to destroy about a dozen of the enemy's barrel artillery and rocket salvo systems.
The destruction of command posts and logistics centers with ammunition and fuel and lubricants, as well as the occupiers' manpower, continues, Natalya Humenyuk, head of the United Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine, said at the briefing.
"The situation in the southern region remains steadily tense. The advance of our troops is taking place, but it is slow. But it is sure. The announcement of our successes will be made when the consolidation takes place," she said.
According to the Commissioner Oleh Kotenko, more than 7,000 military personnel are considered missing in Ukraine.
"If we are talking about the military, let's understand who the military are. There is the Armed Forces, there is the National Guard, there are border guards, there are the SBU, and these are different institutions. They are not included in the figure given by the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces provides data on 2,000 missing military. Our call center has approximately 7,200 people," Kotenko said.
He added that most of the missing soldiers are in captivity.
Due to the law on oligarchs, Akhmetivska SCM is leaving the media business.
Media Group Ukraine will give up all broadcast and satellite television licenses and print media licenses in Ukraine in favor of the state.
The Akhmetiv media holding includes 10 broadcast and satellite television channels, including "Ukraine", "Ukraine24", "Football1/2/3", as well as the multimedia platform "Today" and other resources and print media. According to Akhmetov, the total amount of investments invested in this media holding exceeded $1.5 billion.
The consequences of this decision for the domestic media market can be very serious.
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[Vesti] Russian troops are already experiencing problems with the supply of ammunition
Russian troops are trying unsuccessfully to "squeeze" the Lugansk region, but they are daily held back by Ukrainian defenders. This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
According to him, enemy warehouses in the deep rear continue to burn. Some detonate for several days, and the invaders are already experiencing problems with the supply of ammunition. The logistics of the Russians are broken.
"The Luhansk region is holding back the Russians from attacking the cities of the Donetsk region. The so-called "operational pause" of the Russians is their helplessness, as a result of "pops" in the warehouses," Gaidai noted.
The head of the Luhansk OVA added that people in the occupied territories want to leave en masse, but there are no ways to do it safely, and not everyone decides to travel through several countries.
[Vesti] The body of a dead child was found under the rubble of the house
Russian troops shelled a residential building in the town of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region: the death toll rose to 33 people. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"As of 23:30, during rescue operations in a five-story residential building in the town of Chasovoy Yar, the body of 1 dead child (born approximately 2013) was found. In total, since the start of work, the bodies of 33 dead people have been found at the scene, 1 of them is a child (approximately born in 2013), 9 people were rescued from the rubble. Work continues ," the statement said.
Direct Translation via Google Translate Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:38 Russian media reports, citing the "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region, that warehouses with saltpeter allegedly exploded in Nova Kakhovka after the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the explosions continue. According to them, there are victims, the hospital and houses were damaged.
23:35 The occupiers are unsuccessfully trying to "squeeze" the Luhansk region, the transfer of equipment does not help them, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the enemy's warehouses in the rear continue to burn, because of this, the invaders are already experiencing problems with the delivery of ammunition, their logistics have been disrupted. Gaidai stressed that the so-called "operational pause" of the Russians is "their helplessness due to" pops "in warehouses."
23:31 Adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Serhiy Khlan confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine got into the ammunition depot, which the invaders placed in Nova Kakhovka: "People's windows are flying out, but they are still happy ... because it means that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are close."
23:29 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he spoke with Erdogan today: "The key issue is the resumption of our export routes through the Black Sea. We are working to make this possible. The sooner this happens, the fewer people in the world will feel the impact of the food crisis , which was so diligently prepared by Russia".
23:04 Ukrainian troops attacked Nova Kakhovka, Russian media report. Ukrainian telegram channels report that the other day, the Russians unloaded ammunition there for three days, which are now exploding.
22:39 In the evening, the Russians again attacked the Odessa region with two rockets, there were no damages or casualties, said the head of the OVA, Maxim Marchenko.
22:37 Zelensky, in an evening video message, called on Canada to cancel the decision to supply a turbine for Nord Stream: “Now there is no doubt that Russia will try not only to limit as much as possible, but completely stop gas supplies to Europe at the most critical moment. prepare, this is what is being provoked now, because every concession under such conditions is perceived by the Russian leadership as an incentive for further, stronger pressure. won't play now if he doesn't see the strength."
22:06 The Stratcom of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the elimination of three representatives of the command of the Russian troops. In particular, in Ukraine, the deputy commander of the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel Sergei Kens, the deputy commander of the 106th Division, Colonel Sergei Kuzminov, and the chief of staff - deputy commander of the detachment of the 16th separate special forces brigade, Major Dmitry Semenov, were liquidated.
21:47 In the two days after the liberation of Zmeiny Island, eight ships passed through the Bystry channel, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuriy Vaskov said on the air of the telethon. According to him, with the capacity of the Romanian Sulina Canal from the Danube to the Black Sea, Ukrainian ports can now receive not four, but 12 ships.
At the same time, the Ukrainian side is negotiating with the European Commission to increase the capacity of the Sulina Canal, which will quickly eliminate the accumulation of 80 ships in the roadstead, many of which have been idle for more than a month. In total, according to Vaskov's estimates, the volume of grain for export can reach 40 million tons, there are no capacities for storing such volumes in Ukraine, and the situation may become critical within a month. Without unblocking Ukrainian seaports, it will be impossible to export such volumes of grain, Vaskov stressed.
21:16 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned Putin's decree on a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to all citizens of Ukraine: "This decision is another infringement on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, incompatible with the norms and principles of international law. <...> Russia uses a simplified procedure issuance of passports to tighten the noose around the necks of the residents of the temporarily occupied territories of our state, forcing them to participate in the criminal activities of the occupation administrations and the Russian army of conquest."
21:07 The appointed "general director" of the Kupyanskaya railway, Oleg Glebov, said that the Russian Federation would provide rolling stock to "help" organize the export of grain left over from the 2021 harvest in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region.
21:00 On Pivden, they clarified that in the Odessa region, seven missiles attacked the coastal strip, the production and critical infrastructure of the region. Three more Kh-31 missiles hit the agricultural land of the region. There were no casualties.
20:58 In the evening, a missile attack was delivered to Odessa - the second one in the city today, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. Both times there were no casualties. Marchenko also said that the SBU detained a spotter who himself got in touch with the Russian special services and passed them information about military facilities in the region.
20:45 Today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the likely positions of the Russian S-300 air defense systems in the Aleshkovsky Sands area. And at night, Ukrainian troops attacked the command post of enemy troops in Tavriysk. The final losses of the enemy are being reconnoitered and specified, the OK Pivden reported.
20:28 The Netherlands will help with the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, Shmyhal said after a meeting with his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte. The parties discussed strengthening sanctions, Russia's responsibility for war crimes, as well as assistance with the restoration of regions.
20:03 From September, the new academic year in Kharkiv will begin online, the mayor of the city Igor Terekhov said on the air of the telethon: "With such cruelty with which our schools are bombarded and shelled, I now understand that we no longer have to talk about teaching children in the offline. We are preparing for online training from September 1, because the shelling does not stop."
20:00 In the coming days, Ukraine may be attacked with missiles from the territory of Belarus, the founder of the monitoring group Belarus Gayun Anton Motolko told Channel 24. According to him, in recent days, Russian cargo planes have been actively flying to Belarus, which are likely to bring new missiles, and now the occupiers are actively discussing the targets of strikes on the territory of Ukraine. "We shouldn't expect good news until at least July 14," Motolko said.
19:47 The permanent representative of the Verkhovna Rada in the Constitutional Court Olga Sovgirya published the details of the presidential bill on a special status for Polish citizens. The document, in particular, provides for the possibility of employment without a separate permit, registration of taxpayers, social protection, economic activity on the same conditions as for Ukrainians, education on a par with Ukrainian citizens, social benefits, medical care, etc.
19:28 Podolyak reacted to Rinat Akhmetov's decision to abandon the media business : "A key feature of mature states is the obligation to comply with laws. The law on deoligarchization is the beginning of a new page in relations between the state and business. Relations based on transparency and the rejection of backstage. Today there is a worthy an example from the SCM group - the law is one for all."
19:25 The OP confirmed that Zelensky had submitted to the Rada a draft law on the establishment of legal and social guarantees for citizens of the Republic of Poland located on the territory of Ukraine . In addition, the President signed Decree No. 484/2022 on awarding the Polish city of Przemysl with an honorary insignia of the Savior City .
19:19 The Ukrainian military repulsed an attempt by the Russian invaders to attack Maryinka, and also continue to hold back the aggressor's troops in other directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report .
19:01 Russian troops are suffering from a shortage of shells after the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a series of attacks on ammunition depots and Russian bases in the occupied territories, writes The Telegraph.
18:58 G7 ambassadors in Kyiv emphasize the critical importance of the timely appointment of the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office: "As we discussed with Vice Prime Minister Olga Stefanyshina on July 7, G7 ambassadors reiterate that the timely appointment of the head of the SAPO is critical to strengthening Ukraine's anti-corruption institutions ".
18:33 The number of those killed as a result of the strike on Chasovoy Yar has increased to 31 people , Tatiana Ignatchenko, press secretary of the Donetsk OVA, said on the air of the telethon.
18:26 The operational command of Pivden published a video of the liberation of the APU of Zmeiny Island. In particular, footage of the death of the cruiser Moskva and the strike on the floating drilling rig Tavrida are shown for the first time.
18:13 Zelensky said at a briefing that he had not read Reznikov's interview, in which he announced the order of the head of state to recapture the south of Ukraine. According to the President, the task of de-occupation of territories is before all the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but he will not share specific plans.
18:10 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires ad interim of Canada and called for a reconsideration of the decision to return the Nord Stream turbine to Germany, the ministry said in a statement.
18:08 The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with modern heavy weapons, shells and self-propelled howitzers, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said at a joint briefing with Zelensky in Kiev: "I call on all my colleagues in Europe and in other parts of the world to help Ukraine with heavy weapons. Our country will provide heavy weapons, shells and self-propelled howitzers. I want to encourage our allies to do the same."
Rutte stressed that the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine may last longer than everyone hoped, but this does not mean that the world can stand back and passively watch what is happening.
17:57 Former people's deputy Evgeny Balitsky, whom the Russians have appointed as the "head" of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, oversees the theft of Ukrainian grain. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Russians created a "state unitary company" for this purpose. They seized the port elevator of the Novaya Khortitsa enterprise in Berdyansk, the Asket Shipping loading complex in the port of Berdyansk, as well as the grain elevators of Kernel, Optimus and other grain traders.
The first ship for loading was supposed to arrive on July 10, and on July 17, the ship Zhibek Zholy, which was already taking out the stolen grain from Berdyansk (it was released by Turkey), should arrive. The occupying company has set very low prices for agricultural products, which do not suit agricultural producers. Therefore, they try not to sell the harvest, but to keep it in storage.
17:52 Ukraine does not record the formation of enemy strike groups on the borders with Belarus, as well as in the Bryansk and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation, Andrei Demchenko, the speaker of the State Border Guard Service, said at a briefing. At the same time, according to him, paramilitary units are in the border areas to demonstrate their presence in order to prevent the Armed Forces of Ukraine from transferring troops to other directions.
Demchenko also said that the Russian Federation is actively using electronic warfare and continues to shell the cities of Ukraine. Thus, about 130 attacks on border areas were recorded during the week.
17:45 In Mariupol, after several Russian sappers were blown up while demining MMK them. Ilyich and Azovstal, a command has been received to involve only Mariupol residents in clearing the factories, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor. To do this, they are told gossip that the factories were allegedly bought by the Chinese, now they need to work for free, and after that there will be a high salary. The mayor's office urges residents of the city not to agree to work in factories and emphasizes that all these promises are false.
Andryushchenko also said that the administration of collaborators in Mariupol received an order on a plan for mobilization into the "DPR" army. The start of open mobilization is scheduled for mid-September, after the "referendum" on joining Russia. Therefore, Mariupol residents, especially men, are advised to urgently leave the city, to avoid official registrations and dubious "employment" at all costs.
17:13 The occupant, in a conversation with a friend who intercepted the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the "most important command" in Kherson, as a result of which 12 Russians were killed.
17:08 Zelensky said that he had held constructive talks with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte. In particular, the president thanked him for his decision to provide Ukraine with additional heavy weapons and for supporting Ukrainian candidacy for EU membership.
"Ukraine and the Netherlands equally see the need to protect the rights and freedoms of people. And while Russia is trying to destroy all this, we must work to strengthen sanctions against Russian terrorism," Zelensky said following the talks.
16:51 For two weeks - from the end of June to the beginning of July - Ukraine delivered at least 14 accurate strikes on ammunition depots and military bases of Russian troops in the occupied Ukrainian territories. About what this can lead to - in the material New Tactics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine .
16:47 The Kremlin announced that a "Russian-Turkish summit meeting" is planned in the near future, on the eve of it, Putin and Erdogan discussed the current agenda.
16:44 Erdogan had a telephone conversation with Putin. The parties discussed the war in Ukraine and the creation of a grain corridor, the Turkish presidential administration said.
16:42 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov from the MLRS, six people have already died, 31 people have been injured, the prosecutor's office reported. The blow fell on the building of the shopping center, as well as residential buildings and cars.
16:40 Adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Andrusiv said that he had left the OP and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
16:34 The US supports Canada's decision to return to Germany a refurbished turbine that is needed for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "In the short term, the turbine will allow Germany and other European countries to replenish their gas reserves, increasing energy security and sustainability, and countering Russia's efforts to weaponize energy."
16:21 The death toll in Chasovoy Yar has increased by 26 people , rescue work continues, the State Emergency Service reports.
16:07 The EU will create a hub in Moldova to prevent the illegal sale of weapons used in the war in Ukraine to criminal groups in Europe, said European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson. It will be a one-stop shop that will allow Europol to share information and the EU border agency Frontex to support border management and detect illegal arms circulation. The center will also counter human trafficking.
Swedish Migration Minister Anders Igeman, in turn, added that most of the weapons supplied to Ukraine remain in the hands of the Ukrainian military, and "only a limited amount can be used by organized crime later." But, he said, "we must have measures to control the flow of weapons after the war in Ukraine."
15:52 Zelensky submitted to the Rada a bill on granting Poles a special status in Ukraine, said Polish President Andrzej Duda.
15:49 The "administration" of the occupied Kharkiv region confirmed that the car of the Gauleiter, the "head of administration" of the Great Burluk Yevgeny Yunakov was blown up, the official died.
15:33 Putin signed a decree allowing all citizens of Ukraine to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. Previously, this right was given only to Ukrainian citizens living in the "DPR", "LPR", Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
15:18 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region said that in Kherson they prevented an attempt on the "head" of the region Vladimir Saldo, the bomb on the route of his car was detected and defused in time.
15:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the area of the settlement of Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, "the point of temporary deployment of the 118th brigade of territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" was destroyed by "high-precision weapons" of ground-based deployment. And in the Osnovyansky and Slobodsky districts of Kharkov, according to Moscow, the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out "precise strikes" on the points of deployment of "nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries."
14:37 About 7,200 Ukrainian servicemen are listed as missing, Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, said. According to him, these are military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, soldiers of the National Guard, employees of the SBU and others, most of them are in captivity.
Kotenko specified that Azovstal's defenders, who are currently being held in the occupied territories or in Russia, are on the list of missing persons. There is no connection with them, so the prisoners are included in this list.
14:26 In the city of Chasov Yar, as of 13:55, the bodies of 24 dead were found , nine people were rescued from the rubble, the State Emergency Service said.
14:11 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte visited the Kiev region, said the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksiy Kuleba. Rutte visited Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpen, expressed his support and stressed that countries should unite in helping Ukraine.
13:58 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said that the quantitative advantages of the Russian army are offset by Ukrainian missile and artillery accuracy: "Western weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already changing the course of the war. And we haven't started it yet!"
13:50 On Pivden, they clarified that the enemy launched two missile attacks on the Odessa region using aviation. Four Kh-31 missiles were fired from the Su-30. One rocket hit a private one-story house in one of the coastal villages, three more rockets were directed at the agricultural land of the region. There was no fire, no casualties.
13:24 A complete ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages has been introduced in the Donetsk region since July 11, the OVA reported. The sale of alcoholic beverages and alcohol-based substances (with the exception of medicines) is prohibited for the period of martial law. Patrols will be introduced for the purpose of control.
13:09 The Russians were hitting the Odessa region with X-31 missiles from SU-30 aircraft. There is a hit on a residential building in one of the coastal villages, several more houses are damaged by the shock wave, rescuers are working on the spot, Natalya Gumenyuk said.
13:07 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed about ten enemy MLRS installations over the weekend, Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint coordination center for the defense forces of southern Ukraine, said at a briefing.
13:05 Adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, called on the residents of the city to evacuate while the occupiers opened a canal to Zaporozhye. According to him, in this way they cover their own military maneuvers - columns of equipment that moves through the city. "As long as there is a way, use it. There can be no second opportunity," he stressed.
Andryushchenko explained the need for evacuation by saying that it was impossible to restore the city’s infrastructure before winter, the medical system would not work, criminals were gaining strength, and besides, the occupiers planned to begin official mobilization in the fall. Also, the mayor's adviser is convinced that soon the Armed Forces of Ukraine will launch a counteroffensive.
12:59 There is no consensus among the EU countries on providing Ukraine with a 9 billion euro assistance package, Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko said in an interview with Corriere della Sera: "Of course, we receive weapons and military assistance, but this is not enough. This is a clear sign that The European Union and the world around Ukraine are a little tired. I can understand that they are suffering from oil and gas prices." Earlier, the newspaper wrote that Germany had been blocking the aid package for 9 billion for a month.
12:57 The situation with the influx of Ukrainian refugees into the EU has stabilized - an approximately equal number of Ukrainians enter the EU and leave it, said European Commissioner for Internal Affairs Ylva Johansson. She predicts that the situation may change by the beginning of the school year: "I foresee that many Ukrainians in the EU will make a decision before they start school whether to send their children to school - in an EU country or return to Ukraine."
Johansson said that the Czech Republic is the country with the highest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita, followed by Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia.
12:54 The Kremlin said that Putin and Lukashenko, in the context of the restriction of Kaliningrad transit by Lithuania, discussed "some possible joint steps."
12:51 Zelensky responded to the petition, the author of which asked to introduce a mandatory exam for obtaining Ukrainian citizenship: "I turned to Prime Minister D. Shmygal with a request to comprehensively work out the issue raised in the electronic petition." The President specified that the issue would require a legislative settlement.
12:44 In Melitopol, the invaders blocked the passage to the Novy Melitopol district, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said: "Tens of thousands of residents of the sleeping microdistrict were cut off from the city, arguing their actions with explosives found. We are clarifying the circumstances of the incident."
12:42 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Moscow is trying to stop unofficial coverage of the war in order to cover up its blunders. Russian bloggers and military correspondents are increasingly critical of Russian strategy and military leadership. The dissatisfaction became especially evident after a failed attempt to cross the river at Belogorovka in mid-May and led to Putin being forced to meet with two military correspondents during SPIEF. This closed-door meeting was supposed to defuse the conflict, but led to its further escalation.
ISW analysts note that Putin received a more objective view of what is happening on the front lines than what he received from the military command. After that, war correspondents turned from a "poorly controlled problem" into a "threat" for the RF Ministry of Defense.
12:36 The death toll from the strike on the high-rise building in Chasovoy Yar has risen to 20 people , eight more are injured, the rubble is being cleared, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko.
12:34 According to preliminary information, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted a powerful blow on the Russians at night in Tavriysk, Kherson region. The invaders' command post, military equipment, radars and antennas, air defense are on fire, manpower has also been destroyed, said Sergei Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District.
12:31 The number of victims of the morning shelling of Kharkov has increased to 31, all of them were hospitalized in medical institutions. Of these, one child is four years old and a teenager is 16 years old. There are still three dead, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
12:29 A plane with 150 servicemen landed in Buryatia, who terminated the contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense because of their unwillingness to fight further in Ukraine, said Alexander Garmazhapova, head of the Free Buryatia Foundation.
12:05 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that Russian Caliber missiles destroyed near Radushnoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region "storages with ammunition for HIMARS systems, M777 howitzers and 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns supplied from the United States." Earlier, the head of the city military administration, Oleksandr Vilkul, reported that an industrial enterprise was completely destroyed as a result of three Kalibr missiles hitting the village of Radushnoye in the Krivoy Rog region.
11:44 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Odessa region, one of the four missiles hit an infrastructure facility, said OVA speaker Sergei Bratchuk.
11:29 According to the updated information of the Regional Center for Emergency Medical Assistance, by this minute , as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv, three people were killed, 28 people were injured , among them a teenager of 16 years old, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:23 Shelling of the border areas of Sumy and Chernihiv regions continues from the territory of Russia. The fire was fired from the side of Russian villages from cannon artillery and mortars of 120 mm caliber. In total, almost 80 explosions were recorded, the State Border Service said.
11:20 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, there are already three dead and 16 wounded , the information is being updated, rescue and emergency services are working on the spot, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:18 According to Nikolaev, Russians fired six rockets, according to preliminary data, there are no victims, one person was injured, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said.
11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaliy Kim, also said about Zelensky’s team to liberate the south of Ukraine: “The situation is such that the president’s command was to liberate the south, which cannot but rejoice. The further, the more BC warehouses and enemy command posts will burn in Kherson ".
11:05 The body of another deceased was pulled out from under the rubble in Chasovoy Yar, the total number of victims has grown to 19 , the State Emergency Service reports. The number of rescued has grown to eight people.
11:03 Ukrainian entrepreneurs will be able to use corporate mail, cloud storage and other Google Workspace services for free until the end of the war, Mikhail Fedorov, head of the Ministry of Digital Development, said.
10:54 Russians in Kherson are preparing for street fighting, adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA Sergey Khlan said on the air of the telethon: "The last few days I have been hearing these alarming signals about the strengthening of points for street fighting. And this is a great danger for civilians. I hope that the Russians will be able to knock out from Kherson without a fight, and they will go to the left bank of the Dnieper. But you have to be ready for anything."
10:50 Lithuania has expanded restrictions on the transit of goods to Kaliningrad through its territory, writes Reuters. It is forbidden to carry cement, alcohol and a number of other Russian-made products.
10:34 Explosions are heard again in Kharkiv, the Russian occupiers struck, previously, with multiple launch rocket systems, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
10:06 This morning, the Russians launched 20 missile strikes from the MLRS on the Shalygin community of the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to preliminary information, there are no victims.
09:35 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 11. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Avdeevsky direction.
personnel - about 37,400 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1645 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3828 (+5),
artillery systems - 838 (+4),
MLRS - 247 (+0),
air defense systems - 109 (+1),
aircraft - 217 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 676 (+0),
cruise missiles - 155 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2696 (+2),
special equipment - 66 (+0).
09:31 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR" said that they had liberated the village of Bogorodichnoye in the "DPR", "the organization of a powerful springboard for an attack on Slavyansk" is underway.
09:29 The "Ministry of Internal Affairs" of the occupied Zaporozhye region stated that "Kyiv made an assassination attempt" on the head of the "administration" of the Melitopol district Andriy Siguta, he was not injured.
09:23 There are already 18 dead in Chasovoy Yar , the State Emergency Service reports data as of 8:45. Six people were rescued from the rubble, about 137 tons of destroyed elements of the house were cleared and dismantled, and speech contact was established with two people under the rubble.
09:21 British intelligence reports that on July 10, Russian shelling continued in the northern sector of Donbass, however, probably without major territorial gains. Ukrainian forces continued to exert local pressure on Russian defensive lines in the northeast of the Kherson region, also, probably without territorial gain.
Analysts note that one of the most devastating problems of the Russian Federation is the lack of planned breaks in intense hostilities. Thus, intelligence mentions a video in which the wives of soldiers of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the Eastern Military District turn to a local politician with a request to return their husbands home from service in Ukraine. One of the women says that the personnel of the 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade are "mentally and physically exhausted" because they have been on combat duty since February 24th.
09:06 In Ukraine, schools, shopping and entertainment centers, sports and concert halls are being checked for compliance with safety rules during air raids, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said.
08:52 AFU liberated Ivanovka in the Kherson region , the 60th separate infantry brigade reported.
08:50 Russia today stopped gas supplies to Europe via Nord Stream. The reason is "annual scheduled maintenance".
08:48 The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said on the air of the telethon that explosions were heard in the north of the city at night: "The information about the explosions is now being clarified, there were several of them. Something fascist that is on our territory was definitely destroyed."
08:46 The number of victims of the shelling of a high-rise building in Chasovoy Yar, Donetsk region, has grown to 17 - two more bodies were pulled out from under the rubble at night, the State Emergency Service reports.
08:44 Borrell, following the G20 meeting, expressed disappointment that most of the participants refused to "name the aggressor" in the situation around Ukraine: "The main conclusion is that in abstract terms everyone agrees on the need to protect such principles as territorial sovereignty and the non-use of force However, it often looks different when the specifics kick in. <...> The hard truth is that national interests often outweigh a shared commitment to higher ideals."
08:39 Russian Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov has arrived in occupied Melitopol. He stated that the main language of instruction from September 1 will be Russian. At the same time, according to him, "no one will ban the Ukrainian language in the occupied territories," children will continue to study it in schools "at a sufficient level."
08:35 In the Nikolaev region, Russians over the past day fired at the Shirokovskaya community in the Bashtansky district - they hit the already destroyed building of the TsNAP, a school, residential buildings and open areas of households, there were no casualties, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. Not far from with. Novonikolaevka of the May Day community, as well as in the village. The estuaries of the Galitsyn community, as a result of shelling, fields with crops and forest belts caught fire, no one was injured. Explosions were also heard in Nikolaev itself, the information is being specified.
08:31 The occupiers use aircraft, but stand still, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. On the night of July 11, the Russians launched five rocket attacks and four massive artillery attacks on settlements on the border of the Luhansk region and Donbass. They use aircraft, cannon and rocket artillery, trying to break through from Lisichanskoye and other directions to Seversk and Slavyansk, but for more than a week these attempts have been unsuccessful, they are trying to move from Popasnaya. According to Gaidai, there are daily reports of the loss of ammunition depots by the invaders, the last one was from Luhansk.
08:28 In the controlled territory of the Donetsk region, on July 10, the Russians delivered the biggest blow to Chasovoy Yar, where 15 people died under the rubble of a high-rise building. Another person died in Zaitsevo, two civilians were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:26 At night, Russian troops fired several times at the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, hit two communities from the MLRS - Apostolovsky and Zelenodolsk, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. They hit the villages of Novosemenovtsy and Maryanskoe, previously people were not injured. In the villages there is destruction of housing, livestock suffered.
08:15 The Russians launched three missile strikes on Kharkiv tonight. According to the State Emergency Service, one rocket hit a six-story residential building in the Osnovyansky district. As a result of the explosion, one of the entrances was completely destroyed, one person was rescued from the rubble, there were no other victims or victims.
Two more enemy rockets hit the courtyard of a warehouse in the Osnovyansky district and a school building in the Slobodsky district of Kharkov. In total, over the past day, 11 fires occurred in the region due to enemy shelling - in Chuguevsky, Izyumsky and Bogodukhovsky districts. A residential building, outbuildings, industrial buildings, a car, a landfill and grass in an open area were on fire.
08:00 AFU successfully repelled an enemy assault in the direction of Krasnopolye and another attempt to attack in the direction of Maryinka, Donetsk region, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
06:02 The UN has already recorded 124 cases of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine. At the same time, the organization admits that these data are only the tip of the iceberg, which does not reflect the full scale of sexual violence.
05:41 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the Russians, although they have taken an "operational pause", are participating in operations to prepare the conditions for future offensives. In particular, Russian troops conducted a limited and unsuccessful ground attack north of Donetsk and limited reconnaissance operations northwest of Sloviansk. The Russians are allegedly intensifying artillery and rocket attacks west of Bakhmut to isolate the city from lines of communication.
ISW also writes that the Russian military leadership continues to form special volunteer units and combat organizations of PMCs, partly consisting of elderly men and criminals.
03:25 OK Pivden clarified that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region hit the command and observation post of the Russian artillery brigade and the control and command post of the National Guard. The blow was delivered by a pair of stormtroopers.
00:43 Biden a few weeks ago allocated $ 500 million to stimulate an increase in the production of fertilizers in the United States, which can be shipped to other countries, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.
In 2015, nationalist battalion Tornado was formed from a collection of released violent convicts, so bad that the Ukrainian Army was preparing to engage in combat with them, until they surrendered.
[RIA Novosti] Former commander of the national battalion "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released after serving seven years out of eleven, ex-deputy Igor Mosiychuk said.
"Ex-battalion commander "Tornado" Ruslan Onishchenko was released from prison. He spent almost seven years behind bars. <...> He was accused of torturing separatists and prisoners," the Strana.ua online edition quotes the text of his message.
The consideration of the case, in which there were 80 volumes, 111 witnesses and 13 victims, lasted almost two years, and on April 7, 2017, the Obolonsky District Court of Kiev sentenced the former fighters of the National Battalion: the Tornadists received 74 years in prison for all.
According to the prosecutor's office, Tornado militants are involved in serious crimes - "satisfaction of sexual passion in an unnatural way under the threat of violence", kidnapping and illegal detention, torture, incitement to suicide, extortion, robbery, robbery.
The unit was created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in September 2014, and its ranks included militants from the Shakhtersk battalion disbanded for looting and crimes against local residents. At the same time, speaking about its dissolution, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that they "fought beautifully near Ilovaisk."
Onishchenko himself, before joining the ranks of the Tornado, had already served time twice.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 A very powerful explosion thundered in Novaya Kakhovka. It is reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Russian ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region. 21:43 Source in OP told that Akhmetov will be followed by Pinchuk, who can no longer support his media group. Business has become unprofitable and cannot influence the political processes in the country, and it is very expensive to maintain such an asset. The Office of the President continues to form a new information reality, which will be a replica of the Russian media market.
19:17 In the village. Chaplinka, Kherson region, opened a point for receiving documents for registration of Russian citizenship
This was told by the head of the State Administration of the Chaplinsky district Alexander Khlyustov.
Employees of the Russian Guard ensure the safety of the operation of the point. Servicemen protect public order, carry out access control. The National Guard also helps people with limited mobility get to the places of paperwork.
16:18 "The commuter train between Mariupol and Volnovakha started its first flight today." - This was announced today by the mayor of Mariupol Konstantin Ivashchenko.
15:45 Third attack. This one is unfortunately successful. The head of the administration of Veliky Burluk (Kharkiv region), who went over to the side of Russia, died as a result of a car explosion.
15:43 Zelensky ordered the Armed Forces of Ukraine to "recapture the southern coastal territories", which are now under the control of the Russian army.
15:09 Putin signed a decree allowing all citizens of Ukraine to apply for Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. Previously, this right was given only to Ukrainian citizens who live in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
14:49 An assassination attempt on the head of the VGA Saldo was prevented in Kherson - RIA Novosti.
14:18 More than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers are considered missing.
This was told by the Ukrainian Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances Oleg Kotenko.
13:08 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
▪️243 aircraft,
▪️137 helicopters,
▪️1,506 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▪️354 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▪️4,020 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▪️741 multiple rocket launcher combat vehicles,
▪️3,132 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▪️4,149 units of special military vehicles.
13:07 The leadership of the group, which commits assassination attempts and terrorist attacks in Zaporozhye, is located on the territory controlled by Kyiv - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Zaporozhye.
13:06 Destruction storages with ammunition for the American MLRS "HIMARS". M777 howitzers and 2S7 Pion self-propelled guns were also destroyed in the Radushnoye area in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
11:50 In Melitopol, a Ukrainian terrorist was eliminated, who attempted to assassinate the head of the district in the Zaporozhye region, Andriy Siguta. Local authorities confirm that the assailant resisted the arrest and was shot dead. Siguta himself was not injured.
11:40 According to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the CAA of the liberated part of the Zaporozhye region, law enforcement agencies stopped an assassination attempt on the head of the Melitopol district, Andrei Siguta.
11:39 Rocket and artillery strikes are carried out on Kharkov and Odessa
11:16 Local sources reported explosions in the Odessa region. An air raid alarm sounds.
08:23 Today, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are at least 50-70,000 killed, learned members of the Russian hacker group RaHDIt.
08:17 US intelligence supplies Ukraine with radar data and satellite images, including Russian cities. This was stated to RIA Novosti by a member of the Russian hacker group RaHDIt.
According to him, this information is used for subsequent rocket and artillery attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:11 According to the radio interception of the special forces of the Armed Forces of the DPR, information was received about the threat of a missile attack on the city of Donetsk. Be careful - the mayor of Donetsk. 20:36 Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Bezsonov: “Our fighters have noticed a new tactic of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which sometimes brings results. First, the enemy makes two volleys of the Uragan MLRS at the selected target in order to defuse our air defense, and then makes a volley of more expensive and accurate Himars MLRS missiles.
16:29 The division of the People's Militia received help from the Spas-TV channel.
16:00 In Lisichansk, a Soviet monument, the iconic T-34 tank, will be returned to its place. According to local residents, the Ukrainian military pulled him off the pedestal and dragged him over several blocks. The first thing our guys asked when they liberated the city was to return the monument back.
15:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired twice at Gorlovka, firing a total of ten mines with a caliber of 120mm - the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
13:40 Artillery of the DPR army continues to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka area. The fire is corrected by the Mavic-3 quadrocopter.
13:26 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, additional information was received about civilian casualties as a result of shelling using the M142 HIMARS MLRS of the VFU of the Amvrosievsky district. Killed:
- men born in 2003, 1992 and 2003
39 people received injuries of varying severity:
13:20 AFU launched an artillery strike on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
Fighters from positions in the village. Pobeda in the direction of residential areas of the Petrovsky district of the city used NATO artillery with a caliber of 155mm.
13:05 As a result of yesterday's shelling of the Kyiv region on the street. Soviet Army, 64 damaged glazing and roof of a private house.
13:03 The stele at the entrance to the liberated Severodonetsk was repainted in the colors of the Russian flag.
13:00 The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin signed a decree on the establishment of a day of remembrance for children - victims of the war in Donbass on July 27.
12:08 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: A Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by a Su-35S fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Bogatyr in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:38 Grigorovka passed under the control of the DPR. In total, 242 settlements were liberated on the territory of the DPR.
11:00 As a result of the ongoing shelling of Donetsk, the 35 kV overhead line was disconnected, a number of substations were de-energized, 127 transformer substations, 18,700 household subscribers of the Petrovsky Western and Petrovsky Eastern Distribution Zones remained without voltage.
10:55 One of the downed Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles fired at Luhansk was supposed to hit an elevator with grain from a new crop - Andrey Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR.
10:54 Mariupol will not be fully restored until September, given the scale of destruction in the city, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
"Given the degree of destruction in Mariupol, it will not be possible to do everything before September. Nevertheless, the work has already been carried out very seriously," he said.
10:23 After the liberation of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk from the Ukrainian Nazis, a new path for the offensive opened up - the road to Ugledar. This should not take long, since the Russian Army is actively using a large amount of artillery and heavy equipment in this direction.
09:41 During the day, one person died on the territory of the DPR, four more were injured - Terodefense Headquarters.
09:39 The day before, a serious stock of ammunition for M-777 howitzers was destroyed in Slavyansk, from which the cities of the Republic are being shelled - Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of Rossiya 24.
09:37 Kyiv militants are knocked out from the Blue Lakes. The famous Blue Lakes resort in Donbass has been cleared of national battalions. Having fled to Slavyansk, they take revenge by destroying the infrastructure of the resort.
09:30 The leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region plans to train its personnel at the universities of the DPR and LPR.
09:20 Allied forces liberated the village of Bogorodichnoye in the DPR, a powerful bridgehead is being organized for an attack on Slavyansk, a TASS source said.
08:13 The forces of the DPR, LPR and Russia took control of Vladimirovka and Trypillya in the Donetsk People's Republic, the People's Militia of the LPR reported.
08:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
--Marinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
[DW] Fingers were pointed to the church as the alleged shooter of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had said the church drove his mother into bankruptcy.
The Japanese branch of the South Korean Unification Church acknowledged on Monday that the mother of the man arrested for the shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was indeed a member, but said that neither the suspect himself nor Abe had been.
Abe was shot on Friday during a campaign speech in western Japan by who the police identified as a 41-year-old unemployed man who had previously been part of the country's navy.
The alleged shooter told police that he had targeted Abe because he believed the former prime minister had promoted a religious group to which his mother had made a large donation, driving her into bankruptcy.
"Trying to understand how such hatred may have possibly led to the killing is totally perplexing," the head of the church, Tomihiro Tanaka, told news hounds in Tokyo.
While denying that Abe was a member, however, he said that the former prime minister had supported the church in promoting peace.
WHAT IS THE UNIFICATION CHURCH?
Japanese media had pointed to the church, known fully as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification
The church was founded in 1954. Its founder, the self-declared messiah and ardent anti-communist from South Korea, Sun Myung Moon also ran a business empire.
Critics have long called the church a cult and questioned where its financing comes from.
Abe, the longest-serving prime minister in Japan's history, attended an event held by an organization with connections to the church last September where he gave a speech praising that organization's work in promoting peace in South Korea.
DONATIONS SCANDALS
Church head Tanaka confirmed that some people make generous donations, but on a voluntary basis.
"The amount of donations is up to each individual,'' he said. "We are grateful to those who give large donations, but nothing is required."
He acknowledged several scandals related to donations in the past but said there had not been any problems since measures were set up in 2009.
A spokesperson for the church said that it has around 300,000 followers in Japan and up to 200,000 in South Korea. Its appeal in Japan has attracted celebrities as well as the attention of politicians who seek to court its influence.
[AnNahar] Boosted by a new mandate in weekend elections, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met Monday with the U.S.'s top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who delivered condolences over the death of influential former leader Shinzo Abe and reassurances of a strong bilateral alliance.
Kishida's governing Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner Komeito secured a solid majority in elections for parliament's upper, less powerful, chamber in a vote Sunday that was imbued with meaning after Abe was assassinated while campaigning Friday.
Abe's death imbued new meaning in Sunday's vote, with all of Japan's politicians emphasizing the importance of free speech and defending democracy against acts of violence. It also may have generated sympathy votes, with turnout around 52%, up about 3 points from the previous 48.8% in 2019.
The vote gave the LDP-led coalition 146 seats in the 248-seat chamber — far beyond the majority — and means Kishida stands to rule without interruption until a scheduled election in 2025. That would allow him to work on long-term policies such as national security, his signature but still vague "new capitalism" economic policy, and his party's long-cherished goal to amend the U.S.-drafted postwar pacifist constitution.
Advancement on changing the charter is now a realistic possibility. With the help of two opposition parties supportive of a charter change, the governing bloc now has two-thirds majority in the chamber needed to propose an amendment. The governing bloc already has secured support in the lower house.
Kishida welcomed the victory but also acknowledged that unifying the party will be a hard task without Abe, who even after resigning as prime minister in 2020 had led a powerful party faction. In media interviews late Sunday, Kishida repeated: "Party unity is more important than anything else."
He said responses to COVID-19, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and rising prices will be his priorities. He said he will also steadily push for reinforcing Japan's national security as well the constitutional amendment.
Kishida and senior party politicians observed a moment of silence for Abe at the party election headquarters before placing on the whiteboard victory ribbons next to the names of candidates who secured their seats.
On the final day of campaigning Saturday, party leaders avoided fist-bumps and other friendly gestures in close contact with the public — a sign of tightened security after Abe was shot on a city street by a man carrying a homemade weapon.
On Sunday, the suspect accused of his murder was transferred to a local prosecutors' office for further investigation, and a top regional police official acknowledged possible security lapses allowed the gunman to get close to Abe.
The suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, told Sherlocks he acted because of Abe's rumored connection to an organization that he resented, police said. Some Japanese media identified the group as the Unification Church.
Oh? Interesting.
Abe stepped down two years ago, citing health reasons. He said he regretted leave many of his goals unfinished, including revising Japan's war-renouncing constitution that some ultra-conservatives consider a humiliation.
He was the grandson of another prime minister and became Japan's youngest prime minister in 2006, at age 52. The overly nationalistic stint in office abruptly ended a year later, also because of his health, prompting six years of annual leadership change.
He returned to the premiership in 2012, vowing to revitalize the nation and get its economy out of its deflationary doldrums with his "Abenomics" formula, which combines fiscal stimulus, monetary easing and structural reforms. He won six national elections and built a rock-solid grip on power.
Surveillance footage from an AMPM gas station in Roseville caught the moment
The amount that the unsuspected driver ended up paying for remains unclear
The suspect, who was wearing a black windbreaker, remains unidentified
He switched out nozzles and walked in between pumps with no other cars around him before the unsuspected driver's arrival
He then goes back to his black Mercedes and observes the other driver filling up his car with the wrong nozzle, while pretending to be filling up his own car
Similar tacks to steal gas across the country have been reported due to a spike in prices
The average price of gas is staying above $4 in all 50 states - and in California, the price exceeds $6 a gallon, while in New York, the price is almost $5
#1
In addition to whatever punishment the court issue, the Mercedes driver should also be made to pay for the hapless driver gas for the next year or so.
#3
Considering a guy got killed in Gwinnett the other day while getting AIR for his tired I would suggest people start paying attention. I watch every person around when I go to the store across the street.
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And we also damn well know why there's no perp descriptions, fotos, or video.
There’s so much veiled racism in that disgusting comment
Why in the world you want the melanins levels? what’s your scope?
It’s was an American! the race is irrelevant,you racist!
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Re: #7 by Thor Grundy4358: "It's was an American". IT'S WAS AN AMERICAN????????? HOW GRAMMATICIST OF YOU!!!! How dare you attack the language like that!!! There's so much velied Grammaticism in that disgusting comment!!! You can't even write the King's Engish properly, can you? The race is to the fastest you blithering grammaticist and apostrophe injurer!!!
This happened about ten minutes ago; a couple of knuckleheads laying down in the road and set off some red smoke bombs. Race was temporarily stopped by race officials.
If you get USA Network, check it out now; I'll post links as they become available.
#3
Darth - yes, quite a few cliffs in the Alps & Pyrenees mountains when they're coming down off of one; Fabio Casartelli went off one back in 1995 doing 50 MPH and was killed instantly.
#6
Years & years ago there was this Catalan separatist group (forget the name right now) that used to pull these stunts whenever they went through the Pyrenees mountain stages. Haven't seen those guys in ages now.
#10
M. Murcek, no, because of all the extra CO2 the cyclists breathe out.
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They should have a car go before the cyclists. If anyone is in the road the car will either squish them or force them to reconsider their protests.
#14
When the NBC crew was covering this live, I spotted a picture from the 1980's of Bernard Hinault ('The Badger', five time TdF winner) punching a protestor hard in the face with an overhand right when they pulled that shit back then. To me, that's the right response.
[NYPOST] Europe is fearful that the Kremlin will indefinitely extend this week’s planned shutdown of a key Russian natural gas pipeline in a bid to ratchet up pressure on Western nations during the war in Ukraine, according to multiple reports.
Operator Nord Stream AG confirmed Monday that its Nord Stream 1 pipeline — a key artery for natural gas shipments from Russia to Europe — had shut down for routine maintenance. The annual shutdown typically lasts for about 10 days and is expected to conclude on July 21.
But rising tensions between Russia and Western allies have added to concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will cut off the flow of natural gas for a much longer period in response to crippling economic sanctions — a move that could push Europe into a full-blown energy crisis.
“The last few months have shown one thing: Putin knows no taboos. A complete halt to gas supplies through the Nord Stream pipeline cannot therefore be ruled out,” Timm Kehler, managing director of German industry association Zukunft Gas, told Reuters.
Germany and other European nations remain heavily reliant on Russia oil and gas — a reality that has undercut a movement backed by Ukraine’s government and some members of the European Union to end purchases from Russian sources in response to the invasion.
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Why wouldn’t they start it back up - now. The EU is effectively funding the Russian SMO by purchasing gas. Now later - when it’s 20 degrees colder - there might be “unscheduled maintenance”…
#4
In addition to its continuing battlefield supremacy, Russia now has time on its side, thanks to the booming commodity market and Russia’s many willing energy buyers.
@MktsInsider:
Russia snagged $24 billion in just three months from its energy sales to India and China, report says
Russia has reaped bumper revenues from its oil, gas and coal sales to Asian buyers like India and China that have pounced on cheap prices.
Ukraine is in the polar opposite situation. Kiev is becoming a massive financial liability for the West. Even as Western powers have already allocated over 100 billion dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine, the Zelensky-led government continues to demand incredible sums to sustain the war effort.
The West’s “long Ukraine” leveraged bet is facing another margin call and demanding additional collateral. On top of tens of billions already spent on protecting the position, hundreds of billions more will need to be injected into the Ukrainian government in perpetuity in order to avoid total liquidation, which would present itself through the loss of western control over Kiev. With over one hundred billion dollars already allocated to the country, the Ukrainian government is again in dire economic straits, while piling up major losses on the battlefield…
#5
Germany is being forced to fire up eleven COAL (!) PLANTS it was going to decommission -- just to keep its population from freezing in the dark this winter.
Germany is blocking more aid to the Ukraine grifters' cesspool:
#6
Not just hindsight. Most people who are not in on the Ukraine grift saw that sanctions were the most idiotic policy of the most incompetent set of leaders we've ever seen.
In hindsight, it should be clear by now that the sanctions never had a chance of achieving the stated objective of bankrupting the Russian economy and slowing its military. China, India, and dozens of other countries remained neutral and continued to trade openly with Moscow. Despite U.S. pressure, they did not even consider joining the sanctions effort.
As U.S. sanctions against Russia continue to collapse, the Biden Admin may find itself being able to count the remaining parties to the coalition on one hand.
With all of these continuing crises, coupled with a historic failure on the part of the Biden Administration, don’t be shocked if the war in Ukraine comes to an end sooner rather than later.
#7
I see no Russian advantage to ending the SMO before the end of the year. By rotating their troops through the theater they will become the most experienced modern army in conventional modern warfare. EU/US forces participating vicariously don’t have skin in the game and won’t take away lessons viscerally - just academically. That’ll provide an advantage in next year’s operations (where ever they may be).
#10
Germany is being forced to fire up eleven COAL (!) PLANTS it was going to decommission -- just to keep its population from freezing in the dark this winter.
Oh thank goodness, they’re being sensible on the subject for the first time in years. Shutting down the coal plants, then depending on France and Russia for substitute energy, was suicidally stupid. As is currently being demonstrated.
"Nero" is an anonymous coward and a troll
Not one word of that claim is true. Except for the verb. Nero is — without the scare quotes — is true, though not terribly useful information.
#11
He's right. The public has realized, much faster than they did wrt to the other big train wrecks in Iraq and Afghanistan, that Ukraine is a fiasco and the sanctions are blowing up in Biden's face.
There's no support for continuing this disaster. The allies have already lost interest and ditchtched first Macron's party and now Johnson.
It's already over. What a long, strange, total shitshow it's been
#12
"“There was an explosion in Kherson. They used HIMARS. There’s nothing that can be done about it? And there’s only 8 HIMARS and they’ve already f--ked us up. What’ll happen next?
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Igor Girkin: While Kremlin continues leisurely chewing snot, the respected Ukrainian partners continue busily destroying everything they can reach with HIMARS, 777 and Ceasars which our Ministry of Defence (represented by General-chatter Konashenkov and his Radiant Boss – the Plywood Marshall) continues cracking like nuts.
Ukrs are strictly consistent in their primary interests. Their priority is ammunition depots and air defence positions. Just tonight they “put in the air” another ammunitions cache in Nova Kakhovka. The partners have already carefully posted the video online.
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Igor Strelkov here: "The Russian air defence system … turned out to be ineffective against massive strikes by Himar missiles," he said on his Telegram channel, which has 400,000 followers.
"There have been big losses in personnel and equipment"
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^ The Russian army will at least be very up to date on "taking cover" and "retreat" field experience.
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Another Russian, here" sees a broader problem:
"Another thing regarding the effectiveness of Ukrainian rocket strikes. Many write about how to minimise losses from them. Aside from strengthening air defence it is suggested to disperse ammunition storages, avoid bringing armoured vehicles to one base, avoid lining up helicopters in one line, and decentralise everything in general. But you see what the problem is – you can decentralise, but this will be a completely different army, not the Russian-Soviet army. Decentralisation is contrary to the structure of not just the army itself but the whole state structure in general. Indeed, along with distribution of ammunitions to different stockpiles, along with moving vehicles to various forests, also the powers must be transferred down – to these forests and stockpiles. But these powers for hundreds of years have been carefully focused in one location. And that is how the authority preserved itself. But here – decentralisation. This is worse than military losses."
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As imagery and other battlefield sensors improve and weapons get smarter, dispersal will be a minimal improvement anyway.
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And of course a picture is worth a thousand words.
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And from the American side, here's Jim Mattis, whatever you think of his politics:
Mattis, a former Marine four-star general who led the Pentagon during the first two years of the Trump administration, condemned "the immoral, the tactically incompetent, operationally stupid and strategically foolish effort" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
When asked during the forum what military lessons could be learned from Russia's more than four-month-long war with Ukraine, Mattis replied, "One is don't have incompetent generals in charge of your operations".
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And separately there's the matter of the Russian air force being downright bashful. What was all that money actually spent on? Putin's Palace, maybe?
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And the absence of the air force would explain the reluctance of "thousands" of ground pounders to go into battle:
“A couple of weeks ago one of my followers wrote to me that her son and some of his fellow soldiers at the front handed in their notices,” said Rinchino, who is head of the legal department at the Free Buryatia Foundation, an anti-war organization founded by members of Russia’s indigenous Buryat community.
“A hundred people all [resigned] at the same time,” he told The Moscow Times.
Since the start of Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine in February, thousands of Russian contract soldiers and National Guard employees have refused to be sent into battle.
Helping these conscientious objectors are a handful of Russian human rights organizations, NGOs and individuals with legal training. But, as the Kremlin looks to shore up support for the war and crush dissent, Russian lawyers have faced an unprecedented wave of pressure.
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The war in Ukraine may come to an end sooner than expected.
When Russian trolls keep repeating that, for months now, and yet the war continues, you lose credibility. You will not win this war with propaganda because you are up against BBC, CNN, CBS and others who are much better at it.
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^ The war ends when Putin runs out of Buryats and other ethnic minorities to send to the slaughterhouse. When Muscovites start seeing their kids coming home in closed coffins, the political calculus -- by which I mean Putin's life expectancy-- changes.
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Which is not to say that the families of the ethnic minority troops are happy about losing their children, as explained here. They just don't have the same political stroke as Muscovites.
"My brother was sent for 333 exercises," said a woman from the south Siberian region of Buryatia about her relative serving in the Russian military in Ukraine. "He didn't sign up for a war in another country. It was basically a deception. Only on the eve of the invasion were they informed they would cross the border."
The woman, who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions for her anti-war activities, is one of a growing number of mothers, sisters, and partners of Russian soldiers from poor regions like Buryatia and Tyva who are coming together to press officials to let their loved ones return home."
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#28
Hey MATT all the bs the you are linking it’s British sourced malarkey and fakery…
Each and every one.
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#29
"Lies! All lies!" Isn't that what a middle east dictator's press secretary supposed to say?
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#28 Let's focus on an example. My No. 14 quotes a Russian, Igor Strelkhov, as saying that Russian air defenses are ineffective against HIMARS attacks, So: (1) Is there an Igor Strelkhov? (2) Did he say that? And (3) Are Russian air defenses ineffective against HIMARS strikes?
Show your sources. And try to answer without reference to Ann Frank or her father.
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Per Tom Cooper, an Austrian military analyst over at Medium dot com the Russians can stop a Himars attack. But given a salvo of 6-12 at a time leakers will get through. Accurate description for literally any defensive system at some point. And Tom is a very pro Ukrainian analyst (in my opinion)
#32
^ Thanks for that civil response. I will take a look.
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^ Slenter, that's a good-looking source, and I follow his point. I appreciate the reference.
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#34
Smells like teen spirit desperation.
Face it: Ukraine's lost nearly all its valuable territory, fir good. Zelensky's demanding $60 billion in loot for himself and his corruptocrats, plus another $700 billion to Build Back Better. And he's now losing about 1,100 soldiers every day.
Delusion reigns here but not in Europe. Latest evidence of returning sanity: 59% of Europeans say it's not worth defending Ukraine if food prices go up.
#38
You are correct, Comrade Thing. It's timed to coincide with the Lithuanian assault on Kalininwhatever.
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Latest evidence of returning sanity: 59% of Europeans say it's not worth defending Ukraine if food prices go up.
I’m sure, if asked, a similar percent would have said the same about Czechoslovakia or Poland before the official start of World War II. And then they didn’t, with the result written in our history books: in the end they suffered the dubious pleasures of being conquered by the conquerer of Poland and Czechoslovakia — half the continent being conquered twice when the Soviets came through.
To be fair, the other half of the continent was reconquered by the Allies with all the destruction that entailed, but unlike the Soviets they gave it back to the original owners.
Please just stop. The Ukraine shitshow is bringing down western governments and destroying the West's economies.
For fucks sake, the Germans are actually going to ration hot water, reduce street lighting, curb electricity usage.
Because of your idiotic war. Yo, because Putin's like Hitler, dude!
Start thinking. This is a complete disaster for the West. It's become absolutely ridiculous and rational people across Europe are refusing to stand for any more of this neocon bullshit.
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the Germans are actually going to ration hot water, reduce street lighting, curb electricity usage.
Predicted as soon as Germany decided to mothball her own power plants and use Russia as a primary supplier. If it weren’t this war, it would have been something else — turning off the tap is just too deliciously easy to use, and Germany does like to posture, ignoring how annoying that is to countries that can do something about it.
[CFP] A Bill Gates Foundation supermarket in the Netherlands that focuses on new-age foods like plant protein meat has spontaneously caught fire in the middle of the night.
While a distribution center operated by a Dutch online grocery service was destroyed in a fire in the eastern Netherlands, the facility was not a factory that produced meat alternatives, nor was it owned or operated by Gates. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust invested in the e-grocer in 2021, but the trust is not a controlling shareholder, the gates foundation is a very minor investor,
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[TheDrive] The Air Force now has all the major components for its pod-mounted defensive laser weapon, paving the way for first airborne tests.
The U.S. Air Force has received a high-energy laser weapon that can be carried by aircraft in podded form. The news came today when Lockheed Martin disclosed that at least one of the weapons, which it developed, has been delivered to the Air Force for test work. This effort falls within the wider framework of still-evolving plans to have laser-armed fighter jets that can engage enemy missiles, and possibly other targets too.
A report today from Breaking Defense confirmed that Lockheed Martin delivered its LANCE high-energy laser weapon to the Air Force in February this year. In this context, LANCE stands for “Laser Advancements for Next-generation Compact Environments.” The recipient for the new weapon is the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, which is charged with developing and integrating new technologies in the air, space, and cyberspace realms.
Tyler Griffin, a Lockheed executive, had previously told reporters that LANCE “is the smallest, lightest, high-energy laser of its power class that Lockheed Martin has built to date.”
Indeed, Griffin added that LANCE is “one-sixth the size” of a previous directed-energy weapon that Lockheed produced for the Army. That earlier laser was part of the Robust Electric Laser Initiative program and had an output in the 60-kilowatt class. We don’t yet know what kind of power LANCE can produce although there have been suggestions it will likely be below 100 kilowatts.
As well as being notably small and light, LANCE has reduced power requirements compared to other previous weapons, a key consideration for a fighter-based laser, especially one that can be mounted within the confines of a pod.
#1
I can see replacing a spooky gunship's weapons with lasers so you could blast things silently with no evidence, but on a fighter it seems daft. You would need to keep the laser on target forever in fighter jet time.
#3
You would need to keep the laser on target forever in fighter jet time.
Maybe. They already have autolock systems for targeting lasers and to take down missiles and mortar shells. How long would it take to drill through the aluminum skin and start cutting engine fan blades off? That is the interesting question.
[NYPOST] Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing of the Tamil Tigers snuffies as defense secretary, is set to resign on Wednesday. His brothers and nephew earlier quit as ministers as Sri Lanka began running out of fuel, food and other essentials in the worst crisis since independence from Britannia in 1948.
Parliament will reconvene on Friday and will vote to elect a new president five days later, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a statement.
"During the party leaders’ meeting held today it was agreed that this was essential to ensure a new all-party government is in place in accordance with the Constitution," the statement added.
"The ruling party has said the prime minister and the Cabinet are ready to resign to appoint an all-party government."
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose private home was set alight by protesters, has said he will step down. His office said Rajapaksa had confirmed his resignation plans to the prime minister, adding that the cabinet would resign once a deal was reached to form an all-party government.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a formerly lovely city in Oregon, governed by an unholy alliance of communists, anarchists, and incompetents. In 2017 the city was named as the fifth most business-friendly in the nation. It took only three years for the city to degenerate to the point where it became a national embarrassment, with antifa and Black Lives Matter bullying taxpayers and occasionally shooting one as an example to the others...
