[NYPOST] A teen who was twice charged with possessing loaded handguns got treated with kid gloves both times under the state’s controversial "Raise the Age" law — allowing him to allegedly use another weapon to accidentally shoot himself in his bedroom, The Post has learned.
But even the self-inflicted wound wasn’t enough to get reputed gang member Rodney Sanders of Brooklyn locked up, which only happened after his fourth gun arrest in less than nine months, according to law enforcement sources.
"What does it take for politicians to realize some people should not be treated as minors?" one Brooklyn cop fumed.
"Do they have to shoot someone besides themselves?"
Sanders, 17, is an alleged member of the Bloods-affiliated "Miller Made Crew" of about 30 teens who live in the area around his apartment on Miller Avenue in East New York, sources said.
"He likes carrying guns," said a Brooklyn cop familiar with Sanders’ case.
Sanders was first arrested on Oct. 17 while allegedly in possession of a loaded gun and again on March 1 after cops allegedly found two loaded guns while carrying out a court-authorized search of his bedroom, sources said.
Following both busts, Sanders his cases diverted to Family Court and was released from custody under the 2017 "Raise the Age" law thon the lamly ended criminal prosecutions of teens younger than 18 charged with misdemeanors and non-violent mostly peaceful felonies, sources said.
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[REDSTATE] At 1:10 p.m. on Friday, a joint task force made up of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Santa Ana Police Department, the Fullerton Police Department, the Brea Police Department, and Sherlocks from the Orange County District Attorney Bureau of Investigations apprehended 20-year-old Malike Patt, and 44-year-old Jason Payne in connection with the July 11, 7-Eleven serial robberies and murders in Ontario, Upland, Riverside, Santa Ana, Brea, and La Habra.
The fact that these suspects were apprehended within FIVE days of the commission of the crimes is highly unusual, if not unprecedented. The coordination of agencies across the counties, and community involvement, including a $100,000 bounty for information leading to the killers, was pivotal in the apprehension and arrests.
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Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a violent mostly peaceful robbery spree earlier this week at several 7-Eleven stores in Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in which two people were killed and three others maimed.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced one arrest Friday afternoon, according to CBS Los Angeles. The Brea Police Department later announced a second arrest.
In a news briefing Friday evening, Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin identified the two suspects as 20-year-old Malike Patt and 44-year-old Jason Payne, both of Los Angeles. Patt is believed to be the primary suspect responsible for the robberies, Valentin said. Payne’s role in the crimes is unclear.
The two were arrested together in L.A. at about 1:10 p.m. on Friday, Valentin said. One of the suspects was injured during the arrest and taken to a hospital for treatment.
All of the agencies involved in taking down the 7-11 Spree Killers held a presser on 5:00 p.m. on Friday in Santa Ana, California.
Santa Ana Police Chief David Valentin laid out the facts of the spree, and talked about the suspects who were apprehended. Twenty-year-old Patt seemed to be the primary subject behind the murder-robberies, while the forty-four year old Payne’s involvement was stated to be unclear at this point.
Valentin outlined the timeline from July 11:
12:11 a.m. armed robbery at the 7-Eleven in Ontario
1:35 a.m. armed robbery at the 7-Eleven in Upland
1:50 a.m. armed robbery and attempted murder shooting at the 7-Eleven in Riverside
3:03 a.m. armed robbery at Yum Yum Donuts in Santa Ana
3:25 a.m. a murder/shooting at the 7-Eleven in Santa Ana
4:18 a.m. at the 7-Eleven in Brea
4:55 a.m. armed robbery and murder at the 7-Eleven in La Habra
According to ATF Special Agent in Charge Monique Villegas, the investigation covered extensive work from various agencies, and she stated that the Orange County Violent Crime Task Force was formed five years ago for just this purpose: to pursue and solve violent mostly peaceful serial robberies across the Southland.
Santa Ana Mayor Vicente Sarmiento expressed his sympathies and condolences to those who have bit the dust.
"This crime spree received national attention, regional attention because of the depravity and the randomness of the act. It chilled, really our communities."
Sarmiento praised Chief Valentin, his staff, and his officers.
"[they] know how important it is for many of us, and especially the families to have closure, to have justice, and to have some solace. And we know that this can’t undo the crimes that have been enacted against our communities, but what is does is it gives a sense of at least finality. And so, I am certainly grateful for all the work that has been done up here from all the agencies."
This is a stark contrast to Los Angeles County and their District Attorney George Gascòn, whose soft-on-crime directives, and coddling of criminals in the name of reform has him under threat of recall. Gascòn’s most recent action is disbanding the Lifer Unit, which informs and aids victims and their families when a convict has a parole hearing or may receive early release. Gascòn’s special directives have stripped crime victims of any closure, and only serve to re-victimize and traumatize those families that only seek finality and justice.
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JUSTICE, SOUTHERN STYLE.
Some years ago, a certain GA. County had a string of 7-11 and Mom-Pop convenience store armed robberies.
The sheriff, during that summer, placed some armed deputies in several stores coolers aligned with the customer/robbers side of the register.
RESULTS: After a few dead robbers, and the robberies quickly dissipated.
Fareed Zakari's op-ed was titled 'Forget Pronouns: Democrats need to become the party of building things'
Zakari insisted tangible achievements were more important than extreme leftists' obsessions with social issues including pronouns for trans people
Predictably, a woke Twitter mob descended on Zakari, including Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg's husband Chasten
Chasten scolded that Zakari's writing was 'wildly inappropriate.' The Washington Post has since removed the mention of pronouns from the column headline
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Zakaria is a gerbil gummint dolt. So, I'm good with this, even though it does show that decadence in prosperous societies eventually descends into the gutter and even lower.
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Grow up.
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Even if they want to be known as the "party of building things" the work force will have to be 'diverse'. Personally I could care less if all the people on the job are Drag Queens. As long as the job gets done on time and on budget.
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^ Exactly. There was a trans-man nurse in my house this morning to check on a family member who has Covid. (He's fine BTW.) But the Democratic Party isn't the party of trans nurses... or auto-mechanics, bus drivers, delivery persons, waiters, or anything else useful.
It's the party of trans activists. And that's a profession of a different sort entirely.
[New York Post] As Josephine Baker moved through international checkpoints in Spain and Morocco, the dancer and singer teased the agents who asked to see her papers, saying they just wanted her "autograph."
Her official story was that she was on a "tour of Spain." She was really working as a spy for the resistance, with state secrets neatly hidden in her bra.
Baker took a gamble that no one would dare to strip-search her. She smiled her famous smile — she was at the time the most photographed woman in the world — as the documents stayed "snugly in place, secured by a safety pin."
Baker’s role as one of the true heroes of World War II, fighting against the Nazis at great risk to herself, is detailed in the new book "Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy" (PublicAffairs) by Damien Lewis. In 1961, she received a Legion D’Honneur, France’s highest decoration for military service, for her Spain and Morocco mission, and was commended for retrieving "precious information."
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I'm still pretty confused. I thought Ukraine needed all the weapons they could get their hands on to fight the Russians? Why are they sending anything at all out of the country? Not sarcasm or snark--I genuinely don't get this.
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Serbian goods being transported by a Ukrainian company (Meridian) to Bangla.
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No, Bangladesh did make an order of tracer mortars for training a year ago. They shopped around, Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine... before they selected a Serbian firm; the Bangladesh defence ministry have a standing contract with them to supply trainer equipment and explosives ordnance.
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I'm like Tom confused. I would think with the situation as it is, screw the contracts.
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Dron - Tracer Mortars? Hot visual rounds that let you know adjustments needed? Never heard of them and Wiki is stoopid on it
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^ Yupp. For training purposes. Round contains pyrophoric powders like iron sulphate mixed with magnesium. Brightly shining tracers to track performance and such, learn how to aim.
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Which is why when the rescue op landed in the area, they had to wait hours before the smoke cleared. There was magnesium fires burning, and all sorts of bright bangetty bangs. So I'm told.
[CBSNEWS] An elderly woman was killed by two alligators in a pond near her home, officials in Sarasota County, Florida, said late Friday night. Officials said the alligators grabbed her after she fell into the water.
At approximately 7:47 p.m., the woman was seen falling into a pond along the course at the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club in Englewood, according to a statement from the Sarasota County Sheriff's office. The woman "struggled to stay afloat" before two nearby alligators grabbed her, authorities said.
The woman, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities have since captured the alligators and have removed them from the pond.
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Dead I hope. The gators that is. For her sake I hope it was quick.
[Breitbart] That’s one way to meet President Biden’s demand that Saudi Arabia provide more oil to offset Russia sanctions. MBS clearly does not like him.
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Mixing with Saudi oil and it's all legal
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The insults are not even subtle. Peace is maintained by being powerful and credible. Worldwide, public opinion is that the US is rapidly declining in both areas, prompting more confrontational and provocative acts. This at a time when the Puppet Show is in panic mode and reactive on a far too emotional, simplistic level.
This is a very dangerous time...
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Apparently, Joe has now said MBS "lied" about Joe not bringing up Khashoggi. Well, that's certainly possible. I really don't see how accusing the head of state of an honor-based society can lead to the desired results.
Of course, Joe was not the adult in the room...
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accusing the head of state of an honor-based society of lying
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They should be required to paint a clown face on the front of Air Farce One. The Puppet Show insults a needed ally to help offset the Iranian menace, the Saudi's create a scheme to get more profit by mixing cheaper Russian Oil with theirs, hence circumventing the "sanctions" crushing our own economy, and we will have to buy this "increased production" gimmick caused by the moronic clowns that inhabit this administration.
Masterful stupidity, Jojo, even by Biden standards of the past.
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We will find out whose side GOP is on shortly. They will not be able to make Joe increase domestic oil production, but they can essentially gut Dept of Energy and Dept of Interior budgets until they come around.
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/\ My fear is the Pubs will do very little other than continue to permit the Dems to destroy their 2024 chances. We are drawing very near the midterm and none of the Pubs has articulated a plan or pasted a bullseye on any of the Dem programs.
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^ Given the lead time to get oil production up, the GOP needs to start squeezing the greenies immediately so that stuff happens fast after a Pub president is sworn in in 2024.
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What the GOP needs to do is start playing a long game, signaling that people like Buttgig, Haaland, Granholm and all the cross-dressers will never be confirmed to any political position ever again.
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This is the relevant bit:
Riyadh has recently indicated a reluctance to increase its oil production, an action unofficially sought by Western leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to reduce record-high fuel prices in countries such as the U.S.
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on March 29 that attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists in previous days had compromised Riyadh’s ability to provide the world with sufficient fuel supplies.
The Saudi energy minister referenced “attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Saudi oil facilities, including a wave of drone and missile strikes on Friday [March 25],” AFP reported at the time.
Bin Salman said the nefarious acts had “put into question our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements.”
I've never understood the Western reluctance to help the Saudis crush the Houthis. Thanks to Dubya, Iraq is now a Iranian puppet state to the north of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis exist as a fighting force only because of the Iranians. Their victory means another Iranian puppet state to Saudi Arabia's south. Will the West only be happy if the Persian empire invades and incorporates all of the Gulf states? Is this part of the West's plan to phase out fossil fuels, by giving a greater Iran a 1/3 share of the world's oil supplies, thereby spiking oil prices to levels previously unimaginable?
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certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence
but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.
Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.
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^ Still pissed at their Dental Plan Coverage
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they sure got cocky in a hurry after Sloe Joe shut off "Our": The USA's, oil supply to the world
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certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence
but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.
Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.
Iranian-sponsored militias in Iraq are a state within a state. Apart from US fire support, they claim to be the key factor in turning back ISIS in Iraq. Note that the Iraqi army was *unable* to do so. A militia force that is able to do what the army cannot is equally able to subdue that army. Iranian militias in Iraq are pretty close to having the power that Hezbollah does in Lebanon. The one thing holding them back from hosting more Iranian missile strikes on Saudi Arabia is perhaps the fear that the Saudis will start financing ISIS remnants (on the principle that the enemy of my enemy ...) and perhaps even stage an incursion or two into Iraq.
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Overthrowing the current Saudi government as a Biden Administration Policy Goal probably didn't help much either.
Might have been explained away as campaign speech but for the calling for the same with Russia and the weight thrown behind that.
The Democrat policy is to punish friends (e.g. Saudis and Israelis) and reward enemies (e.g. Iran). Increasingly many countries are starting to see the US as a dangerous friend. Whatever happened to realism (i.e. he's a bastard, but he's our bastard)? As long as they don't annex neighboring countries, what the heck are we doing getting into their business? The Saudis are basically trying to prevent the Iranians from adding Yemen to their empire, same as their opposition in the 60's in North Yemen to the Egyptian-sponsored revolt.
[Institute for the Study of War (ISW)] Ukraine's destruction of Russian ammunition depots using HIMARS is likely one of several factors that reduced the quantity of observed heat anomalies in Donbas between July 10-15. The reduced number of observed heat anomalies also corresponds in part to the assessed Russian operational pause from July 6 to July 15. The number of observed heat anomalies began increasing on July 15; the day ISW assessed that Russian forces began emerging from their operational pause.The intensity of Russian artillery attacks along the Slovyansk-Bakhmut axis in the coming days may clarify the degree to which the reduction in intensity was due to the operational pause or the result of Ukrainian attacks.
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...I understand that one new nickname for HIMARS is 'the eighty-kilometer sniper rifle."
The Russians aren't helping; their idea of an ammo dump is to dump everything in one place and call it a day. The pictures I've seen of their ammo handling and storage are, to put it gently, horrifying to anyone who worked with ordnance. US/NATO/Pacific Allied practices ensure minimum damage and loss if you take a hit, whereas Russian standards seem to be designed to guarantee the exact opposite. They lose massive quantities of ammo every time a HIMARS hits an ammo dump, and that has got to be having an effect on their traditional reliance on artillery.
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Russia since WWI has placed ammo dumps near railroad depots. They don't even use forklifts, they use Russian soldier's backs.
Sooner those people die off the better for earth and for the non siloviki who are still essentially slaves.
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[Vesti] At the moment, fierce battles are going on in the Luhansk region in two settlements. On Saturday evening, July 16, the military head of the Lugansk regional administration, Leonid Gaidai, spoke about this. Thus, he partially refuted the words of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Shoigu about complete control over the Lugansk region.
"I can say - yes, they control most of the region, but fierce battles are going on in two settlements , they cannot get through there, they are losing both personnel and a huge amount of equipment. The assaults are constant, but so far nothing has come of them," - said Gaidai on Ukrainian television.
According to Gaidai, the Russian army wants to regroup and continue to storm Bakhmut from different sides, but today these attempts have been unsuccessful. The head of the region confirmed that now the enemy is delivering resources (equipment, ammunition, etc.) immediately to the front line, they have no "short shoulder" because of the executions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy warehouses.
And it did us good, because the number of attacks decreased. At the same time, the enemy’s DRGs were weakened or liquidated, the head of the Luhansk region noted and emphasized that the enemy forcibly mobilizes all men in the occupied territories and is experiencing problems with working personnel. Even the miners are given rides at night.
There are no opportunities for evacuation from the settlements of the region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities yet - the density of shelling does not allow, Gaidai specified.
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[Vesti] Aleksey Arestovich , adviser to the head of the President's Office, believes that all Putin's latest assurances are part of psychological pressure to enter Minsk-3. The situation on the fronts is not one in which the Russian leader can dictate any ultimatums, he notes. " If you can make us a mess, why negotiate with us?" - figuratively explained the adviser.
Arestovich recalled that in 2014 the Russian Federation brilliantly carried out an information-psychological operation, fixing successfully for itself everything that it could demand by political means, just at the moment when the possibilities for a further offensive were exhausted. This is how "Minsk-1" appeared, and the Kremlin is now striving for the same development of events. " If they could advance further, they would have captured more ... That's where they were stopped, they signed. History is repeating itself now, like a carbon copy. They understand that they have reached a plateau, they may have tactical successes, but the strategic perspective ," the source said. Moreover, as Western weapons arrive in Ukraine, the situation will turn not in their favor, Arestovich specifies.
He also expressed the opinion that now the media activity of the Russian Minister of War Shoigu and other statements indicate that the war in Ukraine is "slipping" for the Russian leadership, but no one knows the reaction of Russian society to the defeat of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, Arestovich emphasized that he separates the leadership and people of the Russian Federation. Again, rather figuratively, the adviser claims that "we have a plan, we are following the plan," and the leadership of the Russian Federation "we will throw off together, and we will agree with the peoples of the Russian Federation."
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[Korrespondent] 23:03 Zelensky, in an evening video message, urged Ukrainians to be very careful and prudent in the information field: "How many people were scared today by a fake about a massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine?.. How many nerves are spoiled daily by the circulation of horror stories from Russian propagandists and officials... How many problems Ukrainians create for themselves, trusting any anonymous source... This sometimes takes on simply unhealthy forms when deliberate stuffing from Russia spreads through social networks and websites, the purpose of which is to supplement rocket and artillery terror against our state with informational terror."
21:59 The SBU and the SBI detained the former head of the Crimean SBU Oleg Kulinich. He headed the department of the ARC until March 2022. Zelensky removed him from office after a full-scale Russian invasion.
21:21 The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to advance in the Kherson direction, the head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the Pivden operational command, Natalia Gumenyuk, said on Espresso air: “We are moving, maybe not as fast as those who feed positive news would like, but, Believe me, these steps are very confident."
21:15 Ukrainian defenders repelled the attempts of the Russians to cut the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. The occupiers wanted to seize the "road of life" so that after the regrouping they could begin to storm Bakhmut, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
20:38 From the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra, a group of civilians was evacuated - this is a family that was hiding in the walls of the Lavra from constant artillery shelling by the Russians: a father, mother and three children. At the same time, the youngest child was born on the territory of the Lavra a few days ago. A couple of elderly people, a man and a woman, were also able to leave, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. Up to 600 civilians remain on the territory of the Lavra, of which more than 50 are children, including four babies.
On June 1, the territory of the Svyatogorsk Lavra came under artillery fire from Russian troops, as a result of which Archimandrite Galaktion, the monk Aristokliy and the nun Varvara were killed, and several priests were seriously injured.
20:33 The International Court of Justice in The Hague may start considering the case of accusing Russia of the genocide of Ukrainians in the fall, said Ukraine's agent at the International Court of Justice, Ambassador-at-Large of the Foreign Ministry Anton Korynevych. According to him, Kyiv can bring to justice not only the Russian Federation as a state, but also specific individuals guilty of the genocide.
20:22 The Russians attacked Pokrovsk with an Iskander missile. The shelling hit the private sector, 27 houses were damaged, there are dead and wounded, the National Police said.
20:01 The head of the Vinnitsa OVA, Sergei Borzov, said that there are no more missing Russians after the strike in the center of Vinnitsa, the death toll is 24 people. 68 victims are still in hospitals, 14 of them are in serious condition, four are in critical condition.
19:30 In the Slavic and Bakhmut directions, the Russians tried to improve the tactical situation and establish control over the Uglegorsk thermal power plant, but the Ukrainian military forced the enemy to withdraw, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening report .
19:04 The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that today at about 15:20 Russian strategic Tu-95MS bombers launched a missile attack on Ukraine from the Caspian Sea region. Six X-101 (X-555) type missiles were fired, four of them were destroyed over the territory of Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions around 16:30. Two more missiles hit an agricultural enterprise in the Cherkasy region.
18:26 The head of the Cherkassy OVA, Igor Taburets, announced two explosions in one of the villages of the Chigirin territorial community. The blow fell on the agricultural enterprise. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. Agricultural machinery was destroyed and a few livestock were damaged.
17:51 The mayor of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ruslan Trebushkin, announced explosions in the city - residential buildings were damaged, there are casualties among the civilian population.
17:47 Ukraine can use HIMARS against Russian facilities in Crimea, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said on the air of the telethon. According to him, the Crimean peninsula has become a hub for the movement of all equipment and weapons that come from the Russian Federation to the southern regions of Ukraine.
In addition, Skibitsky recalled the ships in the Black Sea, from which Ukrainian territory is being shelled: "This is also one of the targets that must be hit in order to ensure the safety of citizens, our facilities and Ukraine in general."
Skibitsky also named two factors, under which a turning point in the war with Russia is possible: the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to stop the enemy’s offensive pace and the help of Western partners. Skibitsky himself expressed confidence that a turning point in the war would definitely happen.
17:29 The Netherlands will join the training of Ukrainian soldiers in the UK, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. Soldiers from various units of the Royal Netherlands Army and the Marine Corps will be involved in the exercises. Classes will start at the end of August.
17:13 "The head of the administration" of the occupied Zaporozhye region, Yevhen Balitsky, said that 100,000 tons of grain are planned to be exported from Ukraine through the port of Berdyansk. According to him, four large ships are already in the Berdyansk roadstead and are ready for loading. Balitsky added that the export of grain is also carried out by rail - more than 100 wagons have already been sent, a "contract" has been concluded for another 150,000 tons.
17:06 Bulgaria, contrary to Moscow's demands, will continue the repair of Ukrainian military equipment. In response to this, the Russian Federation is going to revoke the licenses of Bulgarian enterprises for the repair of Russian helicopters, AP writes. According to Bulgarian Defense Minister Dragomir Zakov, this decision will not seriously affect Bulgaria and will not interfere with the repair of Ukrainian equipment: "What happened with gas has now happened with helicopter licenses."
17:04 In Odessa, four people were detained who were photographing a warehouse after a missile strike. Pictures of infrastructure facilities and checkpoints were also found on their phones, said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the UVA. According to the police, one of the detainees behaved inappropriately and did not respond to the lawful demands of the patrolmen. Evidence of active communication with Russian subscribers was found in his phone.
16:56 Yesterday, in Nova Kakhovka, rocket and artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two command posts of enemy troops and a landing site. Also, over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed warehouses with ammunition in the Chernobaevka and Chaplinsky districts, the Kherson Regional Police Department reported.
16:51 In the Lugansk region, which continues to hold the line, the number of attacks by the Russian army has significantly decreased. According to the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai, due to the destruction of enemy ammunition depots in the rear by Ukrainian artillerymen, the Russians are now working "on wheels" - that is, they no longer store ammunition in warehouses, but are immediately transported to the front by cars. At the same time, they have difficulties with logistics.
“If earlier the invaders had a significant advantage in firepower, now thanks to Western weapons we have caught up and become stronger. High-precision hits on warehouses confirm this,” Gaidai said.
16:42 In a joint statement following the meeting between Biden and King Abdullah II of Jordan, UN General Assembly resolutions are mentioned calling on the Russian Federation to withdraw troops from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. The parties also reaffirmed their commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and unity of Ukraine, condemned "violations of international humanitarian law and violations of human rights in conflict zones, calling for respect for international humanitarian law."
16:28 The White House released a joint statement by the United States and Saudi Arabia following an official visit to Biden's kingdom. In the communiqué, a separate paragraph is dedicated to Ukraine: "The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to providing critical assistance to the Ukrainian people, as well as ensuring the unhindered export of grain and grain products to mitigate the global food crisis, which threatens a sharp blow to a number of Middle Eastern and African states."
15:53 The Chinese are supplying Russia with dual-use goods. Based on data from Chinese customs, The Wall Street Journal found that local companies have increased the supply of microchips, aluminum oxide and other goods that can be used for military purposes to the Russian Federation. For example, the export of aluminum oxide increased 400 times. As the newspaper notes, these deliveries neutralize the efforts of the West to counter Russia's military aggression.
15:37 As a result of yesterday's attack on Kramatorsk, seven residential buildings and two infrastructure facilities were damaged, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said. According to him, the blow was delivered by a Tornado-S missile with a high-explosive fragmentation charge.
15:30 In Vinnytsia, work has been completed on the removal of rubble after a missile attack. According to the State Emergency Service, as a result of shelling of the Russian Federation, 55 multi-apartment and private residential buildings, 40 cars and two trams were damaged and destroyed.
15:18 Germany to reduce the shortage of energy resources resumes the work of coal and oil-fired power plants, but this measure will be temporary, said Scholz. According to him, the German government remains committed to combating the climate crisis and will not extend the life of the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany.
15:02 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that "shops for the production of components and the repair of Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers at the defense enterprise Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant" were destroyed in Dnipro.
14:47 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed the lifting of the ban for those liable for military service to leave the region without the decision of the military registration and enlistment office. According to the decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this procedure is being finalized "taking into account changes to legislative acts," the department said in response to a request from People's Deputy Alexander Fedienko.
14:13 Ukraine will receive two batteries of the Norwegian NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system, and not two installations, as mentioned earlier, Yuri Ignat, a representative of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. The battery includes three fire platoons armed with 54 missiles. All 54 missiles can be fired within 12 seconds.
13:52 Against the backdrop of ongoing mobilization and the issuance of subpoenas to men in public places , the Armed Forces of Ukraine once again explained the procedure for mobilization . According to the head of the Personnel Department of the Headquarters of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Gorbach, handing a summons to a citizen of Ukraine in any place not prohibited by law does not mean an instant draft into the army. It is necessary first of all in order for a person to register with the military.
13:31 Assistant to the Russian-appointed "deputy head of administration" of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, was sentenced to five years in prison, SBU spokesman Artem Dekhtyarenko said. According to him, SBU officers detained her in Ivano-Frankivsk. During the searches, she was found to have a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and computer equipment with evidence of illegal activity. In particular, she promoted slogans in support of Russia via the Internet and spread calls for the restoration of the USSR. For maximum coverage, she started anonymous accounts on several social networks, using different pseudonyms.
13:04 Residents of Sumy and Belopolye are advised to leave the cities for the weekend due to the high threat of Russian shelling. Such advice is given by the mayors of the cities Alexander Lysenko and Yuri Zarko.
12:37 Special services of the Russian Federation have stepped up their activities in the countries of Eastern Europe. As Ukrainian military intelligence found out, Russian agents were ordered to intensify the recruitment of police officers and citizens involved in the transportation of weapons to Ukraine. In the regions bordering Ukraine, Russian special services are trying to use representatives of local communities and pro-Russian activists. However, the Europeans, having received proposals for cooperation from the Russians, immediately turn to the police and security agencies.
12:32 Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said in an interview with Politico that the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi threatens to deprive Ukraine of Italy's military support: "The Russians are right now celebrating the fall of another Western government. Now I doubt that we can send weapons. This is one of many serious problems. He recalled that Draghi was one of the most active Western leaders who opposed Putin.
12:06 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that Ukrainian strikes from HIMARS likely killed or wounded four deputy commanders of the Russian 106th airborne division. Russian news agencies reported the deaths of the deputy commanders of the 106th division, Colonel Sergei Kuzminov, Colonel Andrei Vasilyev, and Colonel Maxim Kudrin. This, ISW suggests, corroborates earlier Ukrainian claims that HIMARS strikes on Shakhtyorsk on July 9 killed or wounded several senior Russian military officials.
11:21 A Russian missile was shot down yesterday over Kremenchug, head of the Poltava OVA Dmitry Lunin said. The wreckage of the rocket was found, there were no casualties and no damage.
10:39 The movement of Russian military equipment continues past Mariupol. So, yesterday a large convoy of military equipment in the amount of up to 100 units passed through the city towards the Zaporozhye region. BMD-4s, as well as a large number of armored personnel carriers, were seen in the convoy on tractors, Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
In addition, according to him, a large number of Russian soldiers brought by KamAZ trucks settled in the villages of Nikolsky and Mangushsky districts bordering the Zaporozhye region. They settle mainly in the premises of schools. Locals report that the vast majority of the occupiers are young men, some mention in conversations that they are serving on conscription.
10:36 From under the rubble of a house in Nikopol, after the Russian shelling, rescuers got the bodies of two dead, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko. Another wounded remains in the hospital in a moderate condition. The Russians fired 53 rockets into residential areas of the city.
10:31 The Pentagon has no information that Ukraine is reselling weapons received from the United States to anyone, a high-ranking representative of the department said at a special briefing. He noted that the US Department of Defense "does not monitor" the fate of the weapons delivered to Ukraine, but also sees "no signs that these weapons were transferred to anyone other than the Armed Forces of Ukraine." "Not tracking and not knowing where these weapons are going, I think they are two different things," he said.
10:29 A missile attack was carried out on Odessa using Tu-95 strategic aircraft from the direction of Stavropol, OK Pivden reported. As a result of a missile hit, previously X-101, a fire broke out in the warehouse of a production and trading company on an area of about 1000 square meters. m. Rescuers are working on the spot, there is no information about the victims.
10:27 The death toll from a rocket attack on Vinnitsa has risen to 24 , said the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov. According to him, another woman died in the hospital with 85% burns. Four people are wanted as missing.
10:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped another attempt by the enemy to seize the road between Lisichansk and Bakhmut, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the attempts of the Russian Federation to seize a section of the road have been going on for more than two months, but the Ukrainian army does not allow them to do so. During July 15, four rocket attacks, three artillery attacks and five more prolonged mortar attacks were carried out by the enemy on the settlements of the Lugansk region and around them.
10:23 On the morning of July 16, Nikolaev was subjected to shelling, information about the victims is being specified, the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim, said. The day before, there were also shelling in the region, residential buildings, critical infrastructure and agricultural facilities were damaged, one of the villages was left without gas and electricity. There are wounded in the Shirokovskaya community.
10:21 Sumy region was subjected to massive shelling last night and this morning, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. The Novoslobodskaya, Znob-Novgorodskaya, Belopolsk and Esmanskaya communities were hit. There is damage in the Esman community, more details will come later.
10:18 British military intelligence notes that offensive operations of Russian troops west of Lysichansk remain limited in scope and scale, while they are concentrated on Seversk and Bakhmut. The Russians claim they have reached the outskirts of Seversk, but this has not yet been the case, analysts say.
According to British intelligence, after the retreat from Lysichansk, Ukrainian troops improved their defensive capabilities by shortening and straightening the front line. Such tactics, according to experts, proved to be effective and helped to weaken the Russian offensive.
10:14 Ukraine sent letters to the largest American and European banks demanding not to serve companies trading in Russian oil. Oleg Ustenko, Zelensky's economic adviser, told the Financial Times. In particular, the message was sent to American banks JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, British HSBC and French Credit Agricole.
Ustenko accused the banks of dragging out the hostilities and criticized JPMorgan's forecast that the price of oil would rise to $380 per barrel when a ceiling was set on Russian energy prices: "From my point of view, they are committing war crimes because they are helping Putin's regime."
10:11 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 16. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 38,140 (+140) people liquidated,
tanks - 1677 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 3874 (+8),
artillery systems - 846 (+4),
MLRS - 247 (+0),
air defense systems - 109 (+0),
aircraft - 220 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 687 (+6),
cruise missiles - 162 (+7),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2735 (+4),
special equipment - 68 (+1).
09:56 Shoigu inspected the Russian groupings of troops South and Center, performing the tasks of a "special military operation" in Ukraine and gave instructions "to increase the actions of the Armed Forces in all directions to prevent Kiev from inflicting massive strikes on civilian infrastructure, residents of Donbass and other regions."
09:08 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, specified that as a result of rocket attacks on Chuguev, three people were killed, three more were hospitalized. An apartment building was destroyed, a school, a building materials store were damaged. During the day, the invaders also fired at the Kharkov and Izyum regions.
08:44 At night, Russian troops fired on Chuguev, Kharkiv region, a two-story residential building was partially destroyed, two people were injured, and the bodies of two more people were removed from under the rubble. The search for victims continues, the State Emergency Service said.
08:41 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that the operational pause in the fighting in the Donbass is ending, it lasted about ten days. Over the past 24 hours, the Russians carried out several ground attacks northwest of Slovyansk, southeast of Seversk, along the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway, southeast of Bakhmut and southwest of Donetsk. And although the offensive is not yet of a large-scale nature, they may expand in the next 72 hours, analysts say.
08:29 Russian invaders hit residential areas of Nikopol from Gradov, head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko said. According to him, as a result of the morning shelling, 12 five-story houses, a school and a vocational school building were damaged. One person was wounded, two more, preliminary, are under rubble.
The enemy also struck civilian infrastructure in the Zelenodolsk, Apostolovsky and Shirokovskaya communities, no one was injured.
08:25 In Konstantinovka this morning, Russians destroyed houses in the private sector with missiles, attacked industrial facilities, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. In just one day, seven civilians were killed by Russian shelling in the controlled part of the region: two in Krasnohorivka, one each in Slavyansk, Avdeevka, Zakotny, Gornyak and Ostrovsky. Another 14 people were injured.
08:11 In Odessa, at about 5:00 am, an enemy missile hit a warehouse. The guards were not injured, because they went to the shelter on the air raid signal, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk.
07:26 After the regrouping, the enemy resumed the attack on the Uglegorsk TPP, the fighting continues. The Ukrainian defenders repulsed the assault in the direction of Disputed - Ivano-Daryevka in the Donetsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report .
In order to export the seized property by sea, the occupiers are trying to resume the activities of ports on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In readiness for missile strikes, three carriers of high-precision weapons are kept.
05:49 The Russian delegation visited the Kashan airfield in Iran at least twice over the past month to study the Shahed-191 and Shahed-129 combat drones, which can carry precision-guided missiles, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. A US official told CNN that the growing partnership between Iran and Russia is an example of why the US needs to maintain its presence and influence in the Middle East.
04:13 The US State Department approved the sale of HIMARS missile systems to Estonia for $500 million. The package will include up to six HIMARS installations, ammunition, support equipment and spare parts. The State Department also approved a possible sale of up to $950 million worth of medium-range air-to-air missiles to Norway and $130 million worth of MK 54 torpedoes to South Korea.
03:37 OSCE confirms that Russians raped and killed children in Ukraine. The second report of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism confirmed mass killings of civilians and cases of sexual violence committed by the Russian military in Ukraine, including against children. The report also documents that Russian troops in Bucha were engaged in systematic robbery, and the loot was sold, for example, in Belarus. The mission participants claim that the events of the period of Russian occupation of Bucha and Irpen are "illustrative examples of violations of international humanitarian law" and "constitute war crimes."
00:55 Canadian Cyber Security Center warns Russia is planning cyber strikes on NATO and EU: "Russia is almost certainly in the process of developing cyber capabilities against targets in the European Union and NATO, including the US and Canada." In addition, according to Canadian experts, Russian-sponsored entities almost certainly stepped up cyber espionage in NATO countries in response to the alliance's support for Ukraine.
00:24 The Air Force Command reports that X-101 missiles from Tu-95 Ms aircraft were fired across the Dnieper today. The launches were carried out over the northern part of the Caspian Sea. Four missiles were shot down by the forces and means of air defense of the Air Command Skhid.
00:12 Representatives of the EU member states on July 18 will discuss the seventh package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, proposed by the European Commission. The adoption of the package is expected on Wednesday, July 20, according to the EC: "Today's package introduces a new ban on the import of Russian gold, while strengthening our control over the export of dual-use and advanced technologies. In doing so, this will strengthen the alignment of EU sanctions with those of our G7 partners. This will also increase reporting requirements to tighten the EU asset freeze."
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 20:11 Kharkov, Saltovka district.
Foreign reporters so badly wanted to show the consequences of the "strikes of the RF Armed Forces on civilian objects in Kharkov", but treacherouslywormed his wayUkrainian T-64.
19:41 Melitopol Youth Sports School N3 continues its work in the summer. 17:30 "WE ARE ONE PEOPLE" - such posters appear in all settlements of the Zaporozhye region.
17:05 A total of 114 facts of aggression against the Russian Federation by Ukraine have been recorded since the beginning of the NWO. For the last 70 days there are 44 facts of aggression. Most of them were in the Belgorod region.
The general statistics since the beginning of the NMD are as follows:
▪️65 shelling of settlements
▪️14 attacks using UAVs
▪️13 attacks on border checkpoints
▪️12 facts of air defense activations without confirmation of shelling
▪️5 facts of open clashes
▪️4 blowing up bridges
▪️1 arson of an oil depot
17:00 Air raid alert sounds throughout Ukraine.
15:45 Above the building of the administration of the liberated territories of the Kharkiv region in Kupyanskraisednew flag.
13:30 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (07/16/2022). The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
As a result of high-precision strikes by the Russian Aerospace Forces, the 115th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which operated in the Seversk direction, was actually destroyed. Over the past two days alone, the loss of personnel in this unit amounted to more than 600 people. Residents of Seversk, Nikolaevka and other nearby settlements under the control of the Ukrainian army are urgently mobilized to complete the brigade.
As a result of a strike with high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the temporary deployment point of the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Nikolaev, up to 200 nationalists and foreign mercenaries, as well as 13 units of armored and automotive equipment, were destroyed.
Against the backdrop of the successful actions of the Russian Armed Forces and significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian nationalists refuse to take further part in the hostilities in the Donbass. In particular, 45 nationalists of the 204th battalion of the 241st Territorial Defense Brigade left their combat positions in the Artemovsk region and demanded that they be rotated to the west of Ukraine.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to strike at military facilities on the territory of Ukraine.
High-precision long-range air-launched weapons in the city of Dnepropetrovsk destroyed the workshops for the production of components and the repair of ballistic missiles "Tochka-U" and rockets of multiple rocket launchers at the defense enterprise "Southern Machine-Building Plant."
In addition, the high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed in a day: four command posts, including the 80th Airborne Assault Brigade in the Serebryanka area of the Donetsk People's Republic and the 3rd Tank Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Novopokrovka area of the Kharkov region, an ammunition depot in the Konstantinovka area of Donetsk People's Republic, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 25 districts.
As part of the counterbattery fight, two platoons of multiple launch rocket systems, 15 units of Giatsint-B howitzers and D-30 artillery pieces were hit at firing positions in the areas of the settlements of Verkhnekamenskoye, Serebryanka, Seversk, Artemovsk, Avdeevka and Georgievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as artillery units at firing positions in 73 districts.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery hit in a day: 21 command posts, five ammunition depots, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 189 districts.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in an air battle destroyed three aircraft of the Ukrainian air forces: two MiG-29s in the areas of the settlements of Novopavlovka in the Nikolaev region, Vladimirovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region and one Su-25 in the Seversk region.
Also, two Ukrainian helicopters were shot down in the air: Mi-8 in the area of Velyka Novoselka and Mi-24 in the area of Seversk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
Russian air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Dolgenkoye, Izyum, Malaya Kamyshevakha of the Kharkiv region, Kamyshany of the Kherson region, Reshetilovskoe of the Zaporozhye region, Alchevsk of the Luhansk People's Republic, Serebryanka, Grigorovka, Spartak, Krasny Oktyabr and Krinichnaya of the Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, a Tochka-U ballistic missile was intercepted in the area of the settlement of Novozvanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and two shells of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system were intercepted in the Izyum area of the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 256 aircraft, 139 helicopters, 1,557 unmanned aerial vehicles, 355 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,073 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 746 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,149 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4,253 units of special military vehicles.
13:24 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an air strike on the positions of the Ukrainian army in Nikolaev, up to 200 military and foreign mercenaries were destroyed.
13:15 In Dnepropetrovsk, workshops for the production of components and the repair of Tochka-U and MLRS at a defense enterprise - the Russian Ministry of Defense were destroyed.
13:00 Our officers asked to publish. Last time ukry install radio beacons on their abandoned equipment before the retreat. After connecting the terminals to the battery, after a short time, an enemy artillery strike is applied to this place. They began to inspect more or less living units of captured equipment, a radio beacon was installed on six of the eight. We ask our fighters to be extremely vigilant and take this fact into account.
12:25 VFU attacked Kherson again. Arrival was from Nikolaev. Information about the victims is being specified.
11:40 Russian security forces showed the arsenal of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices that the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group operating in Kherson had at its disposal. Material - TASS.
11:27 Fighters of the group "Victory" in the shortest possible time terms restore traffic in the settlements of the Kharkiv region. The bridge destroyed by Ukrainian militants disrupted the supply of food to civilians. Thanks to the clear and well-coordinated work of our guys, the bridge was restored and is now under the reliable protection of the fighters of the Russian Federation.
09:56 Shoigu gave instructions to increase the actions of groups in all operational areas in Ukraine in order to exclude the possibility of the Kyiv regime to launch massive rocket and artillery strikes on civilian infrastructure and residents of Donbass and other regions.
09:22 Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced the arrival of the first American MLRS M270 MLRS in the country. Their difference from HIMARS is in the tracked platform and the number of missiles in the package - 12 versus 6 for HIMARS.
09:07 Curfew in Melitopol is now in effect from 22:00 to 05:00 (previously it was from 21:00 to 05:00).
09:06 More than 20 arrivals were recorded today during the morning mortar shelling of the village of Tetkino - governor.
08:13 In the morning, the RF Armed Forces struck one of warehouses of Armed Forces of Ukraine in the western regions of Odessa.
08:12 Yuzhmash plant in Dnepropetrovsklooksnow so. This plant produced components for rocket and space technology.
08:09 Work of Russian paratroopers on armored units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region.
#1
Look at all this manly man denazification Russia is doing!
Badanov and all the lemmings he and Tucker have led into worship of Putin and Russia's illiberal culture of hatred ought to be real proud this beautiful Sunday morning:
https://twitter.com/AKurkov/status/1548647659015118848/photo/1
#3
^ As I said before, that is all on Zelensky and the globalists backing his bid to become a NATO coddled EU choir boy taking Ukr into slavery with him.
I personally think Vlad really dragged this out, just to minimize unnecessary collateral. And only later realised he didn't have the time and resources for a long drawn out conflict. Let's hope he can wrap it up quick.
I don't think so. They've certainly had some pretty evil characters (Stalin, Rasputin) but they have given the world a lot of good stuff too. Tarring the entire culture with your sad Ukrainian brush ain't cutting it, Forkbeard.
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#11
Badanov might have been raped by his superiors in the Russian Army, but, he doesn't have to want to be like his torturers, some people want to be better.
Get the help you desperately need.
Here, Frank. Look at this dead little girl. Do you have kids or grandkids? Is it OK if Russia murders them? It isn't OK anywhere on earth,Frank.
I first saw the photo in 2014, during the part of the war where the Ukrainian military used artillery against civilians.
The little girl is but one of a long line of victims in this war due to attacks on civilians 2014-2022, which are still ongoing, and which adds casualties almost daily.
#12
I think there was this book about a guy who went insane over his obsession with something he hated. Something about a whale, I think...
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#10, yes, M. Unwise to write off an entire people. They can be clumsy, boorish, violent and sometimes actually evil. But every now and then they do something wonderful.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 The shelling of Donetsk does not stop. Local residents report arrivals in the Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts. In the area of m-n Quiet and televyshki. 23:50 According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, Ukrainian militants fired 5 shells with a caliber of 152 mm in the Kirovsky district of the city of Makeevka.
22:25 A missile strike from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Alchevsk destroyed the trolleybus and bus depot and the dispensary, said the head of the city administration, Albert Apshev.
"Preliminarily, as a result of a missile attack, the depot where our trolleybus and bus fleet is located was destroyed. The dispensary building was also half destroyed. The incident happened at 21:04," the mayor said.
21:30 VFU launched a missile attack on Yasinovataya
Fighters from their positions in Avdiivka attacked the residential areas of Yasinovataya using MLRS BM-21 Grad missiles.
20:38 As a result of today's shelling of the AFU in the Donetsk People's Republic, two people were killed and one more civilian was injured.
20:21 The defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Seversk has been broken.
Assault detachments of the allied forces overcame the security zone of the Seversky garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and completed the creation of conditions for the encirclement of the city. There is a strong artillery preparation in order to close the cauldron around the city.
18:32 Pushilin awarded the soldiers of the mobilization reserve with medals for the liberation of Mariupol. Servicemen of the 105th and 107th Rifle Regiments received 47 awards.
18:17 Avdievka is completely surrounded! All approaches to the city are blocked! Boiler shut down three hours ago. The forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city are doomed. TG channels report.
17:40 According to updated information, as a result of daytime shelling of the Kirovsky district, the following destruction was recorded:
- st. Lozovaya, 160: the glazing of the windows in the house was damaged, the gate and the car were cut;
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 109: 3 plastic window blocks were destroyed, the roof was broken, the power line was damaged;
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 86: window glazing was damaged, the roof was pierced, a gas pipe and power lines were damaged.
17:34 APU launched a missile attack on Stakhanov from M142 HIMARS.
17:28 As a result of shelling from the VFU in Yasinovataya, a man was wounded along Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Street.
16:15 The Russian Humanitarian Mission, together with the NM of the LPR, delivered humanitarian aid to needy residents in Privolye and Rubezhnoye.
15:35 Personnel provision of humanitarian assistance by military personnel of the Central Military District to residents of the Lugansk People's Republic.
15:30 According to additional information, in the Kirovsky district, Ukrainian artillerymen committed the following atrocities:
- damaged the roof and destroyed the glazing in the house on the street. Railway, 109;
- damaged the outer wall of the house, destroyed the roof and outbuildings on the street. Lozova, 208;
- damaged glazing, doors, roofing of the house and outbuildings on the street. Lozova, 210.
15:20 BMPT "Terminator" sent to the front in the Seversk region.
15:15 Dispatcher of the bus station "Center" through tearstellsabout the constant shelling by the Nazis. In two days, two drivers and passengers were killed. People are tired of the constant terror from the Nazis.
15:00 VFU attacked the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, on the street. Lozovoi died a man.
14:27 The LPR and the Kharkiv region have signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation.
13:06 As a result of the morning shelling of the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, a warehouse was destroyed and the building of Rezinpromsnab LLC was damaged along Gorlovskaya Division Street, 66a. Fortunately, no casualties.
11:35 Damage due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was received by the garage and one of the buildings of the state enterprise "Stirol", in the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka.
11:20 After the shelling of the VFU bus station "Center" in Donetsk to the Republican Trauma Center received three victims with mine-explosive wounds. Doctors assess the patient's condition as serious, but stable.
11:13 At night they again poured shells Nazis in the center of Donetsk. The bus station "Centre" was hit. A purely peaceful place, surrounded by residential buildings.
10:53 Allied troops occupied a section of the Konstantinovka-Avdeevka highway near the village of Kamenka in the DPR - Colonel of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitaly Kiselev.
10:00 Situation in the morning in Donbass. Our units are conducting offensive operations against the Uglegorsk TPP. The task is not easy, you have to work with jewelry so as not to destroy the object. There is a fear that the Nazis may undermine the thermal power plant.
In the Donetsk direction, joint forces are conducting assault operations in the area of Disputed - Ivano-Daryevka. The capture of these villages will open a bridgehead to Artyomovsk and Soledar. From the other flank, our units enter Artemovsk from the direction of Dolomitnoye - Novoluganskoye, Dolomitnoye - Semigorye and Roty - Vershina. On Avdeevskiy, Kurakhovsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya, there is no active promotion here. Our artillery and the forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces are working to destroy enemy concentrations and firing points.
09:05 Kulemzin: Information continues to come in about casualties and destruction as a result of night shelling. At 00.30, the Center bus station in the Voroshilovsky district was again under fire. Recorded hit at st. Pervomaiskaya, 4. A cinder block fence was damaged behind the bus station building. At 6.00 in the Petrovsky district along Petrovsky Street at the Dobrovolsky bus stop, a woman born in 1970 was wounded. With shrapnel wounds of the abdominal cavity, she was hospitalized in city hospital No. 14.
09:03 More than 22,500 residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics crossed the border of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region over the past day - the Border Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the region.
09:00 Kulemzin: Donetsk survived another sleepless night under enemy shelling. As a result of the aggression on the part of the VFU, there are dead and wounded, numerous damages to residential buildings and infrastructure have been recorded.
Kirovsky district
At 23.50, a woman born in 1958 was injured. The victim was hospitalized with a closed craniocerebral injury.
The market on the street also suffered from shelling.
Petrovsky 111. Containers No. 120,121 burned down completely, containers No. 119,122,123 were damaged by shrapnel.
On st. Lyashenko, 4 (a) in an apartment building damaged glazing.
On st. N. Ostrovsky, 33, 35 glazing is damaged.
Leninsky district
At 0.30 at st. 1st Aleksandrovka, 1, a residential building was damaged;
Kyiv district
At 02.28, a woman born in 1979 died as a result of a direct hit on the roof of a private house at 2 (d) Partizansky Ave. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
Victims:
- a girl born in 2011 - was hospitalized with contusion in the Republican Trauma Center;
- man born in 1980 with numerous shrapnel wounds was hospitalized in the Republican trauma center.
Petrovsky district
At 05.45 on Dobrovolsky street, 3/98, a woman born in 1985 died. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
Direct hits on residential buildings were also recorded at the following addresses:
- st. Dobrovolsky, 3, 5. At 6.00 as a result of shelling, in the area of the city hospital No. 14, a man born in 1974 was killed. - the driver of the bus route 42 (a), was at the exit without passengers. Death occurred before the arrival of doctors.
08:36 Over the past day, from 08:00 on July 15 to 08:00 on July 16, seven people were killed and another 19 civilians were injured as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
08:15 AFU forcibly evacuate people from the Kramatorsk and Slavyansk regions of the DPR under their control to Dnepropetrovsk - TASS source.
08:10 AFU fired at a residential area of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, three people were killed, including a child. Two more were injured, according to the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.
08:07 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Skargovka with the use of MLRS HIMARS (1 rocket) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Kurakhovo - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Dry Balka - Gorlovka (Central - City District): 15 shells fired with a caliber of 152mm.
n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Golmovsky: eight shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 17 shells with a caliber of 155mm;
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
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Counter Russians with a PsyOp - Send this music, with Russian Subtitles, to any Russians protesting Putin's War in the Ukraine --- Could make soldiers very uneasy, given the losses of many in Russia's Army.
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The minute Putin is forced to draft ethnic Russians, this war ends and his life might end. Heretofore, this war has been driven by Russia's colonies. Very, very few ethnic Russians have died so far.
Like almost 0 deaths from St Petersburg, Moscow, etc.
Dr Deborah Birx said most viruses take months or years to become infectious
But the infectious diseases expert and former presidential Covid adviser said Covid ‘was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived’
She said that meant Covid was either an ‘abnormal thing of nature’ or that Chinese scientists were ‘working on coronavirus vaccines’ and became infected
She accused China of initially covering up how infectious Covid was
‘China was implying that they were containing it, but asymptomatic spread cannot be contained without testing,’ she said
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It surprises me that people still listen to Birx and Fauci and their ever evolving reality that directly refutes their previous reality.
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^ Well, there are people with Tony Fauxi coffee mugs and Scarf Woman plush dolls. They don't listen. They hang on every word. In the Venn diagram with "media" and "people who know they are charlatans," the media and "listen to Fauxi and Birx" circles are the same.
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[Aljazeera] Sebastian Deisenberger leaned over the table in his garden, at his home on the edge of the Australian outback, his eyes glistening. He was explaining his obsession with rare black opals and why he uprooted his life in Germany to mine them.
Finding opals is "one of the best feelings you can get," he said. "It took a hundred million years to form and come to that stage and then you’re the first one who sees that."
Deisenberger is one of a few hundred full-time miners in Lightning Ridge, Australia, home to the black opal, one of the most sought-after gemstones in the world. They are only found in two places: this remote corner of the world and Ethiopia. And they can fetch a lot of money.
The most valuable one ever found, the Aurora Australis discovered in 1938, is worth about $1m today. But even less famous black opals have a spell-binding allure. Some stones contain just a few of the gem's potential colours - peacock blue, soft, feathery white, shards of green or deep blood-red. Others ripple with all the hues of the rainbow, and all against a jet-black base.
[ZERO] After two years of COVID-related restrictions and inhibitions, travelers are ready to hit the beaches in masses this summer - that is if they can still afford it...
[Washington Examiner] Donald Trump appears to be losing steam among Republican voters after his fundraising numbers have experienced a dip over the last few months — positioning himself behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has surpassed the former president in donations.
Trump raked in at least $36 million during the first six months of 2022, a decrease from the $56 million he made during the same time period the year before, according to his campaign finance filings. The new numbers mark the first time Trump has raised less than $50 million in any six-month period since leaving the White House, and they put him below DeSantis, who raised about $45 million in the first half of this year, records show.
Trump’s numbers may be slightly higher, as the tallies don’t include numbers raised from Trump’s Save America PAC that will be released later this month. The political action committee has raised at least $23,000 so far this quarter from WinRed, a Republican fundraising platform.
There are limitations to comparing the two, as DeSantis is up for reelection, whereas Trump is not actively campaigning. But some strategists say it might be an indication of fatigue among GOP voters toward the former president.
Trump’s fundraising has slowed in recent months, falling to an average of $200,000 a day in the last four months compared to about $300,000 a day in September, according to filings with WinRed. But this may be because donors are turning their attention to more urgent races as Republicans seek to gain control of Congress in November rather than to Trump, who has not yet announced any candidacy plans.
Despite the lull in fundraising, Trump remains the favored candidate among GOP voters in a hypothetical matchup between other potential Republican nominees. Nearly 50% said they would vote for Trump if the GOP presidential primary was held today, with 25% saying they would back DeSantis, according to a poll by the New York Times and Siena College.
Maybe Trump does not need more $$$$ than DeSantis?
Note:
With Trump only allowed to hold office 1 more term.
DeSantis taking an initial VP slot on a Trump/DeSantis Admin can be seen as a win win. Since, VP's are already in a better position of running and winning over challengers. This would then allow 12 years of sanity and morality in the WH.
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^ Agreed. I just wish it didn't involve Florida giving up two more years of DeSantis as governor.
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07/17/2022 8:49 Comments ||
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#3
A Trump/DeSantis arrangement would be nice if the former can then focus on the economy and the latter be let loose to gut Deep State. That would provide DeSantis better stability when he does take the office.
#4
My biggest problem with Trump redux is I have no expectation that he would do any better than last time in surrounding himself with backstabbers and saboteurs.
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07/17/2022 9:34 Comments ||
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#5
/\ He's got to take the recruitment program on 'the road' and out of the beltway. The beltway is a 'backstabbers and saboteurs' incubator.
#6
^ There is that. In a second term, he would not be an "outsider" (though, still, ironically, he would remain the ultimate outsider) so he would not be under any pressure to recruit beltway creatures to give his administration "credibility."
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#7
I really like Trump and voted for him twice.
But I am concerned about the sheer numbers of foaming-at-the-mouth Trump haters who give any opponent a fairly large base to work from.
Granted the Democrats will demonize anyone the Republicans nominate, but someone else will at least start behind a much smaller 8 ball.
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[ZERO] Since Covid vaccines first became available more than a year and a half ago, women have been sounding alarms about the shots' adverse effect on their menstruation.
For example, in an August 2021 article at The Grayzone that criticized the U.S. medical establishment's failure to study the effects of the vaccines on women's reproductive systems, Marcie Smith Parenti recounted disturbing experiences from her own circle of friends:
Their symptoms have included hemorrhagic bleeding lasting more than a month; heavy intermittent bleeding for four months; passing golf-ball size clots of blood; and extreme cramping, serious enough to land one friend in the ER.
On social media, the The Grayzone was accused of "fearmongering," being "anti-vax," and peddling "dangerous disinformation." Meanwhile, the response of the FDA and CDC to women's pleas might be best characterized as a bureaucratic shrug.
Something else to add to the growing list of VAX documented issues. Issues that many of us were called crazy, paranoid, delusional, conspiracy theory nuts, & etc. for not trusting the DC Swamp's hastily produced Faux-Science data narrative to support their Political-Social Agenda. Data that we have since found out excluded adverse reaction data to get emergency FDA/CDC approval.
SUMMARY:
Despite the DC Elitists attempted clamp downs, ridicule, blackballing of researchers and actual aggressive Social Media censorship of real data. More and more studies, based on actual Science data, are finally seeing the light of day.
The VAX has major issues.
The study I still want to see . Is the one on whether, or not, the VAX and the 3-5 month boosters have long term repercussions on the next generation's gene pool, mental capabilities' and reproduction abilities.
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^^^^ The study I still want to see .
Is the one on whether, or not, the VAX and the 3-5 month boosters have long term repercussions on the next generation's gene pool, mental capabilities' and reproduction abilities Sorry Friend, the truth is there will not be a spawn from this generation of vaxxed as they are now sterile, reproductively impaired, and further unlikely to live very much longer.
[Express] AS THE world celebrated the historic moment when Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the Moon, a NASA scientist told Express.co.uk that the space agency was thrown into chaos after they realised they had no idea where the astronauts were. We're the Fugawi!
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Bu twhen Armstrong looked outside, he saw that the computer's landing target was heading for a huge crater and so he was forced to take over control.
The former test pilot cleared the crater and found a patch of level ground with just seconds of fuel remaining,
None of which was in the minds of the 'scientists' even though the engineers had given the astronauts the means to do so which had they not, would have ended the mission early where the 'scientists' had decided.
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.
/\ Lifetime Busch Wildlife Range, St. Chas, Mo. Fee waiver. Tell them I sent you. 
[New York Post] As Josephine Baker moved through international checkpoints in Spain and Morocco, the dancer and singer teased the agents who asked to see her papers, saying they just wanted her "autograph."
