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Sad they didn't catch the guy who tried to rob him -- HE is the one who should be facing felony murder charges.
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Reading the article I think the guy needs to be charged with negligent homicide. He didn't verify his target and just blasted the vehicle he assumed they were in. This is why you don't shoot at fleeing criminals.
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Have to agree with " Silentbrick" in part.
Gun ownership and use comes with responsibilities.
When to use, where to use, and hitting the target and not innocence bystanders are a few.
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Not much different from motorcycles, in the sense that the idiots make everyone else look bad. Of course, an idiot with a gun can cause unnecessary, tragic things to happen.
Imagine if the answer to corrupt politicians was to ban politics. That would get them started...
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I live in Texas and it's not worth it to shoot a fleeing criminal over property. Hurt my family and it's another thing entirely. But I can't face the legal risk of shooting outside of a imminent threat
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My understanding is that green plants, i.e. suburban landscaping, produces oxygen and reduces carbon dioxide through the process of photosynthesis. So, how is it good for global warming if we let our landscaping die?
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They have to work up to "no water for white people" slowly...
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I bet the Water Cops don't go into gated communities...
[FOXNEWS] Police say a 26-year-old man was on a "violent mostly peaceful crime spree" targeting multiple gas stations in St. Charles, Mo., early Saturday morning when a customer taking a bathroom break at a third station shot and killed him.
The St. Charles Police Department said they were already investigating an armed robbery at one gas station and a burglary at another when they received reports of shots fired at a third: a Quik Trip location roughly 22 miles outside St. Louis.
"Police Officers arrived to discover the suspect had been shot by a citizen during the armed robbery. The suspect was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased," St. Charles police said in a Facebook post.
Police said the citizen in question, a 26-year-old man from St. Louis, told them he stopped at the gas station to use the bathroom and purchase an item in the store. The man told cops that after he left to return to his car he saw a black SUV pull up in front of the store, with the suspect exiting and going into the store while holding a backpack. The man said he then observed the suspect drag a female employee to the front counter while holding a knife to her throat.
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(New York Post) A crew member working for "Law & Order: Organized Crime’’ was fatally shot at the TV show’s Brooklyn set early Tuesday — in a scene that could have been pulled straight out of the script, authorities said.
Johnny Pizarro, a 31-year-old married dad of three, had just started his shift and was sitting in the driver’s seat of a 2008 red Honda Civic that was saving a parking space in Greenpoint around 5:15 a.m. when another man suddenly opened the driver’s door and blasted him, officials and pals said.
"It was crazy,’’ said a distraught colleague of Pizarro, who was saving the spot on North Henry Street near Norman Avenue for the film crews’ trucks to use later.
"I didn’t hear an argument or nothing. It was quiet, early morning,’’ said the colleague, who asked not to be named. "It was just a pop, and the [gunman] ran up towards Nassau [Avenue]. I only heard one bang, but I don’t know how many shots.
[Breitbart] The University of California San Diego (UCSD) wants to pay for “gender-affirming” treatment for students who identify as transgender, including penile and vaginal surgeries.
And it is likely that Joe Biden’s expansion of the federal Title IX statute that protects females from discrimination based on sex to include “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” could make this happen.
[MAIL] This is the moment a furious nun split up two female models as they shared a kiss for a magazine photoshoot in Italy.
The unidentified nun — dressed in her all white habit — saw red as she walked past Serena de Ferrari and Briton Kyshan Wilson taking part in the shoot in a Naples backstreet.
Dragging the two women apart as they locked lips, the nun shouted:' What are you doing? This is the devil's work,' as the women giggled at her outburst.
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Not that I object to two women kissing, but is anyone else getting a "Weimar Republic in 1928" vibe from what we're seeing in the media lately? You know: one last crazy dance before the curtain falls?
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Imagine if the nun kicked one of them in the groin just as they were giggling. And proceeded to drag the other by her hair, multiple extensions coming off in handfuls, to the nearest wall. Then pushed her into it and gave her a kidney punch.
Then she dusts her hands and says, "The power of Christ compels you... you tarts."
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#3 Imagine if the nun kicked one of them in the groin just as they were giggling. And proceeded to drag the other by her hair, multiple extensions coming off in handfuls, to the nearest wall. Then pushed her into it and gave her a kidney punch.
Then she dusts her hands and says, "The power of Christ compels you... you tarts."
Posted by: Dron66046 2022-07-20 06:55
...That sounds like most of the nuns I grew up knowing.
Two models in modo Bikini
Are kissin'. Cue Mutha Cabrini.
One quips, "You big meanie,"
Whips out a zucchini
And bow-- er, I mean, beans and weenie,
Begins the G minor Tartini!
And it's on like Dron (or have I been mispronounc8ng that all this time?).
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Buried in that article are some ugly crime stats, and I don't believe that shootings and murders are down with a 40% overall increase in crimes....reported.
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Wonder how many were ‘rein-whipped’ during the pursuit?
( For some sick reason a vision of Jackie Gleason from his Smokey and the Bandit role on horseback in ‘hot pursuit’….)
As he tanned by a grand allamanda,
Young Dan was a man in demand. ["Duh!"]
"A little bit old--"
"But an agent so bold..."
"We must make him an acting commander!"
[NYPOST] An Iranian bride tragically died at her own wedding after getting hit by a stray bullet during a round of celebratory gunfire.
Mahvash Leghaei, 24, had reportedly just tied the knot when a male guest decided to mark the occasion by firing off some ceremonial gunshots — a custom that’s illegal in Iran.
Unfortunately, the shooter’s festive firearm display, in which he allegedly used an unlicensed hunting rifle, backfired horribly: While the first shot went off without incident, a second round reportedly went through Leghaei’s skull and brain before hitting two male guests, according to reports.
"We had an emergency call of a shooting at a wedding hall in Firuzabad city and officers were dispatched immediately," a police spokesperson, Colonel Mehdi Jokar, told Newsflash of the freak accident, which occurred at the wedding south of Shiraz.
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There ar no liquor stores in Iran, liquor is illegal, so you have to get it from the black market or from Armenians who live in Iran who usually have liquor. The first thing Iranians do when they move to the US is open a liquor store...
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"There! Are you happy now? I'm widowed, you motherfucker!"
[Zero Hedge] As much of the Western US suffers from a historic drought, all eyes have shifted to Californian farmers as hundreds of thousands of acres become fallow in a state responsible for a tremendous amount of US food production.
Unprecedented cuts to water supplies are jeopardizing the future of growing for many farmers. Drought conditions are worsening, making it harder for farmers to irrigate crops.
Just like that, multi-year, multi-decade investments in farm production have been wiped out over new water restrictions. Much of the fallow land is in California's Central Valley, which produces more than half of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the US. Water Warden in the photo to the right
Farmers that remain in operation are seeing sharp reductions in surface water rights due to low snowmelt and dwindling storage from last year.
California's most productive agricultural region is turning into dust, which should concern every American.
As a reminder, California produces a quarter of the nation's food -- shrinking crop output is more alarming news that reveals food inflation is becoming structural and won't abate anytime soon.
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The following is a =n answer to why California's demokrat state government is an utter disaster: Prop 1 was passed in 2014, and of the 7.5 Billion for water issues, 2.7 Billion was actually dedicated to water project construction. EIGHT years later, not one shovelful of dirt has moved:
>In November 2014, California voters approved Proposition 1: The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act. The $7.5 billion bond dedicated $2.7 billion for the public benefits of new water storage projects. Some ask, “Why have no new reservoirs been built in the seven years since?” Rest assured, there are projects in the works. All recently passed a key milestone and are moving forward.
Any large-scale water storage project is complex and requires a high degree of planning, engineering, coordination — and significant financing. The California Water Commission has actively overseen the proposed projects over the past six years to help ensure they meet statutory requirements, progress at the rate dictated by the bond legislation, and meet the public benefits promised to voters."
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Any large-scale water storage project is complex and requires a high degree of planning, engineering, coordination ...
Yeah...all that is virtually impossible in California these days.
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I lived in the Bay Area during the Delta Smelt controversy. It looked to me like there was plenty of water coming through the San Joaquin River into the bay. Choosing not to engage in agriculture to save an anchovy is a recipe for skinniness. Woman and minorities will be the most impacted.
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He who delta, smelt it...
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Add to this the never ending effort by the Left to drain and dismantle Hetch-Hetchy. By God I hope they finally succeed. Want to kill the Bay Area? That's how you do it. God Speed!
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I had a friend from California in agriculture, they created an invention , a screened apparatus that prevented the smelt from being pumped out, It was not acceptable to the State, makes you think that is more about control than actually saving the smelt.
[Daily Mail Online] Wildfires broke out across the UK today as families fled for their lives as their homes which they tried to save with buckets of water were engulfed amid blazes across the country in record 40.3C heat.
Firefighters have described blazes tearing through homes and buildings in London as 'absolute hell' - with residents evacuated after homes were destroyed, two people taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, and 1,600 calls for assistance.
Elsewhere in the country hundreds of fire crews are out battling raging infernos in Wales, Scotland and the rest of England as 'tinderbox' dry conditions in the UK caused wildfires to threaten homes, animals and people and a children's nursery was destroyed along with most of a street in Yorkshire.
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Notice how the MSM is avoiding calling him a HERO
and providing little if any coverage on his HEROIC actions, because it shows citizens with guns do protect themselves and others.
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The left is all about process. It's people on the right who are appalled at the Uvalde popo's non-response to the situation there. The left is happy with the message that a bad guy with a gun will always be allowed to run wild. Their answer for that is "you proles give up your guns."
OTOH, Dicken got results, right quick, with his legally carried (don't give me bushwa about the mall's no guns policy. It didn't stop the shooter) firearm which he used with high proficiency. The process was "see shooter, stop shooter."
Anyone dissatisfied with the results really doesn't care about mass shootings at all. They're blowing smoke.
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Oh, and I read a story this morning that Dicken was at the mall "with his girlfriend." I'm sure that alone infuriated a lot of leftists.
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The Leftist "Hill" included a blurb, that only 3% of mass shootings in the past 21 years were stopped by a civilian.
Leaving aside the certainty that they cherry picked the data, how many lives did that 3% save? What ever happened to "If it saves only one life....."?
[ZH] The place where Joe Biden face planted into the concrete falling off his bike last month has been named as ’Brandon Falls’ on Google Maps. Several people I sent the link to say Gurgle has already scrubbed it. Considering they have to use people who'd normally be watching for "COVID disinformation" or "anti-trans bigotry," it's still a ripple effect win.
Someone has managed to place a landmark in the Delaware location, naming it after the infamous ’Lets go Brandon’ chant, which was initiated after the White House claimed Nascar fans were not chanting ’F*ck Joe Biden’ when they totally were.At time of writing, ’Brandon Falls’ is still listed as a ’historical landmark’ on Google Maps: You simply must hit the link to see all the hilarious Gurgle "reviews"
The same article was also submitted by Chuckles Johnson5749, so clearly it’s important to our readers. :-)
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For you Three Stooges fans out there, Brandon Falls is nowhere near Niagara Falls...
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If it was one of their newest front line attack planes, shot down by an S300 or S400, (I don't know if that's the case) that's a mixed message to the world's arms customers for sure.
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It was an SU-34M which the first 20 were delivered a month or so ago. Order placed in May 2020.
So anti-missile tech is crap
Pilot training is crap
or all of the above.
Pro-Russian Telegram channel published footage of flaming wreck falling from the sky over Luhansk overnight Sunday, saying Moscow's forces shot it down
Video taken in region on Monday showed wreckage of the aircraft on the ground
But visible on the side of the aircraft was the name of Russia's Aerospace Forces
It is now thought Putin's forces shot down one of their own jets - likely a $40million variant of the Su-34 fighter-bomber
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More than half of the Russian air force aircraft in service and shot down, at the time of the war in south Ossetia (2008), were shot down by friendly fire.
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Friendly fire is a common… The rate of friendly fire deaths for all U.S. troops in War II was 12-14 percent.
But something more important happened today, July 18
The United States Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, has increased its Alert status and is now publicly advising all Americans to get out of Ukraine IMMEDIATELY. All Embassy functions will be transferred to Lviv, in western Ukraine.
This also seems to coincide with intelligence reports saying Ukraine plans to use new HIMARS MLRS to attack Crimea. Russia has previously stated that if U.S. long range weapons are used against "Russian territory" then Russia will declare the US an active combatant, and will take military action.
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Russia has previously stated that if U.S. long range weapons are used against "Russian territory" then Russia will declare the US an active combatant, and will take military action.
They've been promising to kill themselves with nukes pretty much since the war started. I don't see it. If they use nukes, we get MAD. Russia's population goes down 90%. In fact, Russia becomes China - not figuratively, but literally, as the PLA streams across the border, and heads over the Urals to Ukraine.
If they don't use nukes, they lose in Ukraine. If they use nukes, they lose in Ukraine anyway, in addition to losing Russia to China*. My bet is they don't use nukes.
Nuclear war with the Russians wasn't averted because they were such great humanitarians. The leadership consisted of normal human beings who wanted to live. The extermination of Russia would have been a far worse fate than losing the Cold War. So they settled for losing the Cold War.
If they could kill the West without being killed in return, they might have pushed the button. But that's exactly why we have the nuclear triad - so they can only by paying the ultimate price.
* In the unlikely scenario China doesn't invade a Russia with 90% of the population dead, well - 90% of Russia's population is dead. A Russia with 15m people left is a Russia that will whack the Putins and every single associate of his, related by blood or not. Someone has to take the blame.
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[LB] The identities of the dead are being established.
Natalka Lototska
In Slovyansk, Donetsk region, after shelling by the Russian army, the bodies of two people were recovered from the rubble of a private residential building.
This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
"The structural elements of a private residential building were destroyed. Slavic rescuers worked on the spot. Emergency and rescue work on the demolition of the rubble of a private residential building has now been completed," the message says.
The identities of the dead are being established.
There was also a car fire, which was extinguished. Information about the victims and the dead is being clarified.
We will remind, according to the city mayor Vadym Lyakh , four explosions were recorded in Sloviansk . The occupiers covered the city with Tornado-S MLRS with a 9m55f reactive charge.
In addition, in Kramatorsk, at least 5 five-story buildings were damaged by an air missile, and in Bakhmut, the arrivals of "Gradiv" were recorded.
[LB] Law enforcement officers coordinated the work of rescue services.
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This afternoon, explosions rang out almost simultaneously in at least three large cities of Donetsk region .
This was reported in the regional police department.
At the time of the attack, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Yenin and Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine - Head of the Main Investigative Department Maksym Tsutskiridze were on a working visit to Donetsk region . Together with law enforcement officers and rescuers, the heads of the department arrived at the scene.
In Kramatorsk, at least 5 five-story buildings were damaged by an aircraft missile.
The occupiers covered Sloviansk with Tornado-S MLRS with a 9m55f reactive charge - private houses were destroyed. People remained under the rubble. A rescue operation is underway there.
Arrivals of "Grads" were recorded in Bakhmut.
Yenin and Tsutskiridze coordinated the work of rescue services and documented the consequences of enemy shelling.
Also, during the controlled explosion, a Russian cluster rocket that was found in a wheat field during harvest was neutralized.
The heads of the department emphasized the maximum consolidation of efforts of all defense and security forces and honored the best investigators of Donetsk region and Luhansk region with awards.
We will remind, on July 19, the occupiers set fire to nine settlements of Donetsk region , killing and wounding civilians, the police registered 26 enemy shelling.
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[Vesti] There are no significant changes in the activities of the Belarusian military in the Volyn and Polesye directions . The rotation of units involved before covering the section of the Belarusian-Ukrainian border is being completed. This is stated in the operational summary of the General Staff as of 18.00 Tuesday, July 19.
In the Seversk direction, the enemy fired from cannon artillery and multiple launch rocket systems from the territory of the Russian Federation on Nikolaevka in the Chernihiv region and Zarutskoye, Zhuravka, Belopolye, Iskraskovshchina, Miropolye, Esman and Volkovka in the Sumy region.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy continued shelling from artillery settlements in areas north, east and southeast of Kharkov. He made unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in the directions of the villages of Udy and Gusarovka . Near the latter, he launched an air strike.
In the Slavic direction , the enemy fired from cannon, rocket artillery and tanks at the areas of the settlements of Dibrovno, Novonikolaevka, Bolshaya Kamyshevakha, Dolina, Chepil, Semilanne, Adamovka, Barvenkovo, Bogorodichnoe, Arkhangelovka and Novaya Dmitrovka. An attempt at reconnaissance in combat in the direction of Dmitrovka ended unsuccessfully , the Russians withdrew with losses.
In the Donetsk direction , the enemy is concentrating his main efforts on attempts to advance in the directions of Seversk and Bakhmut . The enemy carried out artillery shelling near Kramatorsk, Raygorodok, Donetsk, Verkhnekamensky, Spirna, Starodubovka, Seversk, Dronovka and Ivano-Daryevka. Launched an air strike near Verkhnekamenskoye. Ukrainian soldiers inflicted significant losses on the Russians when they tried to advance in the directions of Grigorovka, Spirna and Ivano-Daryevka , the enemy retreated in disarray.
In the Bakhmut direction, the invaders fired at the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Novoluganskoye, Pokrovskoye, Vershina, Veselaia Dolina, Yakovlevka, Berestovo and Zaitsevo. Air strikes were carried out near the Uglegorsk TPP, Pokrovsky, Mayorsk, Toretskaya, Berestovoy and Vershina. The enemy led assault operations in the direction of Pokrovsky, has a partial success , is fixed on the southern outskirts of the settlement. But the enemy's attempts to advance in the directions of Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Vershina and the territory of the Uglegorsk TPP were unsuccessful .
On the Avdeevsky, Novopavlovsky and Zaporizhzhya directions, the enemy did not conduct active operations. He carried out shelling from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Vladimirovka, Avdeevka, Prechistovka, Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka, Ugledar, Maryinka, Tonechko, Bolshaya Mikhailovka, Yanvarskoye, Kamenskoye, Malye Shcherbaki, Novoandreevka. Launched an airstrike near Kamenka.
In the Yuzhnobuzhsk direction, the situation has not undergone significant changes. Mutual shelling from cannon and rocket artillery and tanks continues along the entire line of contact.
In the waters of the Black and Azov seas , the enemy ship grouping continues to carry out tasks to support the actions of ground troops and block the northwestern part of the Black Sea. Three carriers of cruise missiles are in readiness for missile strikes against targets on the territory of Ukraine.
" The enemy continues to suffer losses in manpower and equipment. Explosions of enemy ammunition depots continue. An increase in cases of desertion of Russian invaders who are trying to get into Russian territory by any means is recorded ," the General Staff added.
July 19 - 146th day of the war between Russia and Ukraine . The RF Armed Forces are trying to create conditions for the resumption of the offensive in the direction of Slavyansk. Briefly about the main thing that happened in the country on that day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
[Vesti] The Ukrainian military killed at least 11,000 Russian troops during the battles for Lisichansk and Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. This was announced on Tuesday, July 19, by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov during a discussion organized by the Atlantic Council.
" According to unofficial estimates of the Russians, about 10-11 thousand invaders died in the battles for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, " the minister said. Moreover, according to Reznikov, the Ukrainian military killed about two thousand soldiers of the so-called "LPR", and up to nine thousand more soldiers directly by the RF Armed Forces.
During the assault on Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, at least 20,000 enemy soldiers were injured, the minister specified. Of these, about 6.5 thousand were seriously injured with further amputation of limbs.
Over the past 24 hours alone, the Ukrainian military liquidated at least 100 military personnel of the Russian Federation .
And in just over four months of a full-scale war, 38,550 Russian soldiers have been destroyed.
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[Korrespondent] 23:52 Mayor of Nova Kakhovka Vladimir Kovalenko, together with First Deputy Oleg Tarabaka, left their city today and arrived in Zaporozhye, the mayor himself told Suspilny: "From the beginning of the war, on February 24, for almost five months we continued to fulfill our duties. Today it becomes it is impossible to work due to the constant pressure of the Russian military, so we are forced to go to the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and will work remotely."
23:48 The United States does not recognize the entry of any regions of Ukraine into the Russian Federation and will impose new sanctions against Moscow if this happens, said John Kirby, coordinator of the National Security Council for strategic communications at the White House.
22:59 The White House is due to announce a new package of military aid to Ukraine this week, John Kirby, coordinator of the US National Security and Strategic Communications Council, said: "We will continue to provide Ukraine with historic levels of assistance. Later this week, the administration will announce a new military aid package. equipment for Ukraine. This will be the 16th such package to support Ukraine since the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency."
Kirby specified that the new aid package will include additional HIMARS systems "which the Ukrainians have used very effectively to change the situation on the battlefield," as well as additional rounds for multiple launch rocket systems and artillery.
22:12 Ukraine needs about 50 HIMARS and M270s to stop Russian troops, and 100 systems will help the Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct an effective counteroffensive, Reznikov said at the Atlantic Council discussion: "Considering that our active front line is almost 2,500 kilometers, this is like the distance between Warsaw and Barcelona - for effective protection, we need about 50 of these systems."
And for an effective counteroffensive, according to the minister, Ukraine needs about 100 HIMARS launchers, as well as additional armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and reconnaissance drones.
21:56 Six additional self-propelled guns CAESAR are going to Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said. The Armed Forces of Ukraine already have 12 such self-propelled artillery mounts.
21:27 Due to rocket attacks by Russians on the civilian population of our country, Ukraine calls on the world community to recognize Russia as a terrorist state. Is it possible and what will it give? Details - in the material Does the world recognize Russia as a terrorist state .
21:13 In the sky over the Kherson region tonight, Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter, which was trying to attack the planes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The pilot ejected, OK Pivden reported.
21:04 In the Zaporozhye region, the Russians are shelling the positions of the Ukrainian military, but they are unable to advance in the direction of the regional center. At the same time, terror continues against civilians in the occupied territories, said the head of the UVA, Oleksandr Starukh. Also on the territory of the nuclear power plant in Energodar, in addition to violence against civilian Ukrainians, internal misunderstandings arise between the terrorists, which end in shooting and new victims. The invaders place weapons on the territory of the ZNPP and in neighboring settlements, launch rockets over a nuclear power plant, which is an example of nuclear terrorism and can lead to disaster, Starukh stressed.
20:57 Zelensky said that he had held telephone conversations with Polish President Andrzej Duda, with whom they discussed defense support for Ukraine, as well as with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whom he thanked for his significant personal contribution in granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate country.
20:44 Reznikov, speaking via video link at the American think tank Atlantic Council, suggested that the West test new weapons on the territory of Ukraine: "I think for our partners in Poland, the USA, France, Germany or for our Turkish partners this is a good chance to test their weapons So give us the tools, we'll finish the job and you'll have new information."
20:33 Yermak, in an interview with NV, said that the main task of Lend-Lease is for Ukraine to receive everything on time: “It is very important for us not to enter the winter. After the winter, when the Russians have more time to dig in, it will certainly be more difficult. they are pulled into it. It is very important for us not to give them that opportunity."
As for security guarantees for Ukraine, according to the head of the Presidential Office, today Kyiv is negotiating primarily with countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Australia and many others: "We need the Budepasht Memorandum No. 2 is not interesting. I think that this will be a structure in which there will be a large agreement with many participants, and then additionally there will be bilateral, more detailed agreements with our partners. Today both the UK and Poland have declared their interest in such agreements, in principle we We're talking to the US too.
Yermak also said that to date, the only negotiations that are taking place with the Russian Federation are negotiations on the unblocking of Ukrainian ports: “They are taking place at the level of our military and at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but only through the mediation of the UN. I communicate with UN Secretary General António Guterres, I don't communicate with the Russians. I think that we have some progress. But for us, the issue of security is number one. We definitely don't trust the Russians - that's understandable."
20:01 Hungary agreed to let through its territory all aid for Ukraine, including military, said the Minister of Foreign Economy and Foreign Affairs of the country Levente Madyar at a meeting with Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadov: "Hungary itself will not supply its weapons - this is our strategic position. However, third countries may use our territory."
19:54 After the attack on Ukraine, Russia has not many allies left in the world. One of them is Iran, which is used to living in isolation for many years. Putin came to Tehran to attend a meeting with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as well as to hold bilateral talks with each of the leaders. He will also meet with Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei for the fifth time. In Tehran, grain exports and the war in Ukraine will be discussed. Read more in the material Drones and grain .
19:38 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that it was the United States that was to blame for the war in Ukraine: "As the one who started the crisis in Ukraine and is the main factor fueling it, the United States should deeply reflect on its erroneous actions and stop creating a new cold war."
19:27 German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said that the resources of the Bundeswehr to help Ukraine are running out: "We can no longer give much from the reserves of the Bundeswehr, I will say this very clearly, and my colleague [Reznikov] also knows about it."
19:20 The Russians are concentrating their main efforts on trying to advance in the directions of Seversk and Bakhmut. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy conducted assault operations in the direction of Pokrovsky, has a partial success, is fixed on the southern outskirts of the settlement, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the evening report .
At the same time, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to attack in the direction of the villages of Udy and Gusarovka, and in the Slavyansk direction, an enemy attempt to reconnoiter in battle in the direction of Dmitrovka ended unsuccessfully, the invaders withdrew with losses. The Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted significant losses on the invaders when they tried to advance in the directions of Grigorovka, Disputed and Ivano-Daryevka. Enemy attempts to advance in the directions of Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Vershina and the territory of the Uglegorsk TPP were also unsuccessful.
18:46 Ireland suspends the visa-free regime for refugees from 20 EU countries to accept Ukrainians, writes Politico. The decision was made after the places intended for newly arrived Ukrainians ran out, because they were occupied by refugees from other countries. At the same time, there are already more than 43,000 Ukrainian refugees in Ireland.
18:20 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians fired at the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts today, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. In particular, in Nikopol, the Russian army hit a recreation center from Gradov, and in the Zelenodolsk community fired a tractor brigade from cannon artillery. In both cases, there were no casualties.
18:16 Ukraine and the EU have signed a memorandum on the provision of the first tranche of macro-financial assistance in the amount of 1 billion euros, said the Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis. According to him, this amount will be paid at the end of July to support the government and people of Ukraine.
18:10 The occupiers kidnapped two more employees of the Zaporozhye NPP from the senior staff, Energoatom reports. This time - Sergey Pykhtin, deputy head of the decontamination shop for operation and handling of radioactive waste, and Elena Ryabtseva, foreman of the decontamination shop. The location of the abductees is unknown.
17:42 As a result of today's missile attack on Kramatorsk, one person was killed, six were injured, said the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Pavel Kirilenko. The enemy used an R-37 aviation cruise missile, ten high-rise buildings in the central part of the city were damaged.
17:36 A Swedish officer died during the fighting in the Donetsk region, fighting for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Swedish television company SVT reported. According to journalists, he came to Ukraine a couple of months ago to share his tactical knowledge.
17:27 Slovenian Ambassador to Ukraine Tomasz Mencin visited Irpin, Mayor Alexander Markushin said. According to him, the embassy delegation arrived to find out the city's need for international assistance.
17:06 In Mariupol, the occupation authorities have adopted a "decision" according to which, from today, all citizens of Ukraine are deprived of the right to own real estate in the city. The property of all those who have not passed "registration" will be "nationalized". In the surviving premises will be resettled according to "orders", said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko. He warned the residents of Mariupol, who will move into such apartments, that this decision is absolutely illegal, "therefore, if you have already moved in, take care of someone else's property, otherwise you will be liable under the law."
16:42 The White House added Russia to the list of countries where there is a risk of "wrongful detention" and recommended that American citizens avoid traveling to Russia. The list also includes China, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar and Venezuela.
16:39 The IMF has warned that a complete cessation of Russian gas supplies will lead to a recession in some EU countries. In particular, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will suffer the most, Italy, Germany and Austria will be under attack.
16:34 They want to close Nikolaev for several days and conduct a raid against collaborators, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim on Khodorkovsky LIVE: "There are those who have been here for a long time, with some idea. There are people who are desperate or do not think about the consequences, or decided to make money. These are isolated cases, but each such case entails potential victims when they begin to monitor the locations of the military, air defense or something. We want to nip this in the bud. We are still planning curfews, working off. We will close the city for a few days, go home and work off those bad people."
16:10 The European Commission is preparing for the fact that Nord Stream will not resume operation after the official end of scheduled maintenance on July 21, writes Bloomberg, citing a high-ranking source: “We are working on the assumption that it will not return to operation. And in this case, it is necessary take some additional steps."
The European Commission is expected to unveil a plan for a coordinated cut in demand for gas on July 20 to mitigate the impact of a possible shutdown by Gazprom.
15:46 The US State Department approved the sale of six HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to Estonia. The delivery will also include several types of missiles, including operational-tactical ATACMS, which hit targets at a distance of up to 300 km. Ukraine also counts on the same missiles. Reznikov said that negotiations with the United States on this issue are underway and there is hope. And the National Security and Defense Council promised a quick transition from parity to the advantage of Ukraine on the battlefield. More details - in the material Estonia will receive long-range HIMARS. And Ukraine?
15:12 The EU intends to partially unfreeze the funds of sanctioned banks of the Russian Federation, which may be needed for food exports, writes Reuters. In particular, we are talking about Sovcombank, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, VEB, Otkritie and Russia banks. According to the publication, the decision was made amid criticism from African countries about the negative impact of sanctions on trade.
14:50 The Ukrainian Society in Canada announced that it had begun fundraising for Bayraktar for Ukraine. In total, it is planned to raise $7 million to give Ukraine a gift for Independence Day on August 24th.
14:46 The State Emergency Service clarified that as a result of today's shelling of Kramatorsk in a five-story apartment building, a fire broke out on balconies on the third and fourth floors, which has already been eliminated. Ten people were injured, five of whom were hospitalized.
14:41 The Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the Ministry of Education, will conduct special exercises for schoolchildren, lessons on mine safety will be added to the program, special stands will be installed in educational institutions and security will be strengthened, Interior Ministry Speaker Alena Matveeva said. Evacuation drills will be held at every school that wants to return to face-to-face instruction, she said. A special application for children will also be created, where all safety issues will be explained in an accessible way.
14:22 North Korean workers will come "to restore Donbass," Russian Ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora said in an interview with Izvestia. According to him, North Korean builders "will become a very serious help in resolving the tasks of restoring destroyed social, infrastructural and industrial facilities." The ambassador also added that the DPRK operates equipment produced in the Donbass, and in this regard, "Korean partners are very interested in spare parts and assemblies manufactured there, in updating their production base."
14:18 Slovyansk was subjected to rocket fire, there is damage to private houses, people remain under the rubble. There are wounded, said the mayor of the city Vadim Lyakh.
13:52 All settlements of the Kiev region were examined for the presence of explosive objects, said the head of the Kiev OVA Oleksiy Kuleba. According to him, these are 270 cities, villages and settlements within the Buchansky, Brovarsky and Vyshgorodsky districts of the Kyiv region. Since the beginning of the work, rescuers have neutralized 52,862 explosive items.
13:49 In Kramatorsk, as a result of a missile attack on the city center, a civilian was killed, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
13:30 In the Kherson region, the Russians abducted 63 representatives of local governments, said acting. head of the OVA Dmitry Butriy. He also said that the invaders are trying to transfer schools to their programs and put pressure on teachers. Teachers are even broken into at home, but most of them refuse to cooperate with the Russians. The humanitarian situation in the Kherson region is critical - there is neither food nor medicine in sufficient quantities.
13:27 The Russians attacked the center of Kramatorsk, there are casualties, Mayor Alexander Goncharenko said.
13:24 From the occupied part of the Lugansk region, you can leave through the Zaporozhye region, as well as through a pedestrian crossing to the Kharkiv region. People also leave through the territory of Russia, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai. According to him, fierce battles continue in the vicinity of the Lugansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding out in two settlements, and the Russians are throwing all their reserves into battle. 300,000 IDPs from the Luhansk region have already been registered, humanitarian hubs for assistance are open throughout the country.
13:03 Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves and its leaders, including the famous biker Surgeon, will be included in the EU sanctions list, reports Reuters. The EU will also strengthen sanctions against Sberbank and add the CEO of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company to the sanctions list. In addition, Russian actors Sergei Bezrukov and Vladimir Mashkov, as well as the youth army, were included in the draft new sanctions list. Sanctions will be imposed against Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov.
12:59 Rada dismissed Irina Venediktova from the post of Prosecutor General. Arakhamia said that she remains in the team: "Her experience will serve the state in a new place, requiring strengthening by professional managers and lawyers."
12:43 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region said that Ukrainian troops fired from Kherson from HIMARS, five out of six missiles allegedly shot down air defense, one fell near the Antonovsky bridge.
12:20 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation commented on the night strike on the Odessa region: allegedly destroyed "storages with ammunition for weapons supplied by the US and Europe."
12:14 Ukraine returned the bodies of another 45 dead soldiers, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
12:10 The Rada created the VSK to monitor the receipt and use of international material and technical assistance during martial law. Rustem Umerov became the chairman of the commission, people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
12:08 Rada dismissed Ivan Bakanov from the post of head of the SBU. He was not present in the hall, the consideration was formal, said People's Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak. The Rada also appointed Oksana Zholnovich to the post of Minister of Social Policy.
12:04 In the occupied territories of the Kherson region, the invaders are strengthening the police regime. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Saldo issued an "order" on the measures of responsibility for committing "certain offenses that encroach on public order and public safety." The "document" prohibits activities that impede the work of the occupation administrations, "election commissions" and other "bodies"; "discrediting the authorities of the Russian Federation" and any information propaganda directed against the occupying authorities is also prohibited.
In addition, by order of the "head of the Kakhovka VGA" Vladimir Leontiev, access control is being strengthened on the territory of the Kakhovka district. Permission was given for searches, detention and restriction of freedom, which can be carried out at the discretion of the occupiers. The population has been warned about increased penalties in case of violation of the curfew - violators are threatened with execution on the spot.
11:56 In the Kherson region, the occupiers unblocked the exit to the territory controlled by Ukraine through Vasilievka, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson OVA, deputy of the regional council Serhiy Khlan. According to him, the other day the Russians forced people to stand in the heat, waiting for passage, some turned around and drove back, someone left their things and walked. Hlan noted that this is the last opportunity to leave the occupied territory.
11:52 Zelensky, by his decrees, dismissed the deputy chairman of the SBU Volodymyr Gorbenko, as well as the heads of the SBU of five regions - Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Transcarpathian and Dnipropetrovsk.
11:40 The Russian military in the amount of about 1,000 people, who were based on the border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions in the villages along the line Demyanovka - Starodubovka - Zakharovka, together with military equipment, left the parking lot in the morning and set off in columns in the direction of Zaporozhye. Most of the military personnel are young people under 23 years old, some of them are conscripts, said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
11:22 Oleksandr Klymenko will become the new head of the SAPO - his appointment was approved by the competition commission , people's deputies Yaroslav Zheleznyak and Oleksiy Goncharenko said. The appointment of the head of the SAP is one of the requirements of the EU for the admission of Ukraine to the EU.
11:16 The first Abrams tanks arrived in Poland to train the Polish military in the amount of 28 units, said Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. This is the first stage of a contract signed in April for the supply of 250 Abrams tanks of the modern version to Poland. In addition, the States will send another 116 old-style tanks in exchange for what the Polish authorities sent the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:07 Ukraine will destroy the Russian Black Sea Fleet and recapture Crimea, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Gavrilov told The Times. According to him, the Ukrainian military is building up capacity and waiting for longer-range weapons before launching an assault. However, the cleaning of the Black Sea has already begun with the Serpent Sea. Gavrilov added that Russia must give up Crimea if it wants to continue to exist as a state.
10:40 The Rada has equalized the rights of military women and men who have children, in terms of the right to parental leave during a special period, People's Deputy Alexander Fedienko said. We are talking about the adopted bill No. 7464 On the social and legal protection of military personnel and members of their families.
10:34 In the morning Russians fired at the private sector of one of the districts of Nikolaev. Houses were damaged, two people were injured, said the head of the regional council, Anna Zamazeeva. Also, the settlements of the Bashtansky and Nikolaevsky districts, in particular in the Galitsinovsky, Shirokovskaya and Bereznegovatskaya communities, came under shelling. Under shelling and settlements on the line of demarcation. In total, 29 people were injured in the Nikolaev region over the past day.
10:17 In the Belopol community of the Sumy region, as a result of a mortar attack, one person was wounded, the Krasnopol community was also fired at, there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
09:58 According to the materials of the SBU, another Russian agent received a prison term. The Svalyavsky District Court of the Transcarpathian Region issued a guilty verdict on a Russian agent who collected public and political information for the FSB in Ukraine. He was sentenced to seven years in prison.
09:56 The number of victims of the rocket attack on Vinnitsa has increased to 25 people, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov. According to him, the neurologist of the Neuromed clinic died in the hospital.
09:41 Three people were injured due to morning shelling of the villages of Mospanovo and Tsirkuny in the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA, said.
09:33 Zelensky submitted to the Rada a draft resolution on the dismissal of Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova.
09:32 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of July 19. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Kramatorsk direction.
personnel - about 38,550 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1691 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3892 (+6),
artillery systems - 851 (+2),
MLRS - 248 (+0),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 220 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 693 (+3),
cruise missiles - 167 (+1),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2767 (+14),
special equipment - 70 (+0).
09:11 As a result of the shelling of the controlled part of the Donetsk region over the past day, one person was killed in Avdiivka, two more were injured - in Avdiivka and Soledar, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
09:04 Kramatorsk again came under missile attack, said the mayor of the city Alexander Goncharenko. The hit had on the plant.
09:00 British intelligence notes that the nearest declared political goal of the Russian Federation in the war in Ukraine is to capture the entire Donetsk region. However, now the Russian command is faced with a shortage of personnel and a dilemma: to transfer reserves to the Donbass or to defend against Ukrainian counterattacks in the southwestern Kherson direction.
Analysts say the Russian Federation can still continue its territorial gains, but the operational pace and speed of its advance is likely to be very slow without significant operational pause for reorganization and re-equipment. Russia continues to deploy nominally six separate armies for its offensive in the Donbas. In full force, before the invasion, these formations numbered up to 150 thousand people. In recent weeks, the RF has often operated in company-sized groups of around 100 men in offensive operations in any one sector at a time.
08:38 On the part of the Luhansk region that remains under the control of Ukraine, the Russians are inflicting massive strikes, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said. Thus, four missile and two air strikes were inflicted on settlements on the border with the Donetsk region, 11 shelling of civilian infrastructure from artillery was recorded. The Russian forces tried to storm in four directions, in many places the offensive was suspended.
08:36 As a result of attacks of Nikolaev two people were wounded the night before, the head of IVA Vitaly Kim reported. According to him, the target of the attack was the Ship District of the city, residential buildings were damaged. There were also shelling in the Nikolaevsky and Bashtansky districts, shelling of the village of Shirokoye and along the line of demarcation in the Bereznegovatsky community continues. Houses and infrastructure facilities were damaged.
08:33 The American Institute for the Study of War believes that at this stage the Russian Federation will not focus on the capture of Slavyansk, but instead will give priority to attempts to take control of Seversk and Bakhmut. Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have carried out a series of ground attacks east of Seversk and south of Bakhmut. In addition, they stepped up efforts to advance on Avdiivka and carried out limited ground attacks along the Donetsk-Avdiivka front line.
The ISW also notes that Putin's likely attempt to use ethnic minorities in the war in Ukraine to avoid general mobilization may cause their resistance.
07:37 Russian troops are trying to resume the offensive on Slavyansk, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the assault on Gusarovka in the Slavyansk direction, stopped the enemy near Disputed in the Kramatorsk direction and repelled the offensive near Semigorye, Vershina, Pokrovsky and on the territory of the Uglegorskaya TPP in the Bakhmut direction, the General Staff said in the morning summary . The threat of missile strikes from the territory of Belarus also remains.
There is growing dissatisfaction with the actions of the Russian command among servicemen of non-Slavic nationalities, who are not sparingly thrown into the most risky attacks on the territory of Ukraine.
07:23 Russian troops covered the Nikopol and Krivoy Rog districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with fire at night, the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, said. Up to 40 rockets were fired at Nikopol, there are destructions at two industrial enterprises, and fires broke out. Several private houses and power grids were damaged in the city. In the Krivoy Rog region, the enemy hit the Zelenodolsk community with artillery. In both cases, no casualties were reported.
05:16 At night, the Russians fired seven Caliber cruise missiles in the Odessa region from the Black Sea. One missile was shot down by air defense, the remaining six hit the village. A fire broke out in an area of 300 square meters. m, it has already been eliminated. Six people were injured, including a child, said Sergey Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odesa OVA. Three private houses and two courtyard structures were destroyed and caught fire, several more private estates, cars, a school, and a cultural center were damaged.
04:21 The "DPR Prosecutor General's Office" stated that the explosion in the building of the Drama Theater in Mariupol in March occurred inside, "and the allegations of a Russian airstrike are fake." They also claim that the remains of 14 dead were found inside, and the death of 300 people is also a "fake".
03:50 Kherson region strengthens the air defense system against the backdrop of increased rocket attacks from the Ukrainian army, said the "deputy head of administration" of the occupied region Kirill Stremousov.
03:37 AFU in the Kherson region struck at the accumulation of weapons, equipment and ammunition depot in the Raisky area and at the ammunition depot in the Beryslav area, the objects were destroyed, OK Pivden reported. Also, Ukrainian aviation worked with two attack aircraft at the ammunition depot and the accumulation of enemy forces in the Snigirevka area.
00:25 The enemy in the Kherson region places warehouses closer to the civilian population, said the first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council Yuri Sobolevsky on the air of the telethon. In his opinion, this indicates a panic among the enemy. At the same time, the number of Kherson residents who want to leave the region has grown, but now leaving the territory of the region is complicated by the occupation authorities, in particular, it takes 3-4 days to leave.
Sobolevsky stressed that the system of bringing information to Ukrainian citizens is working - in particular, all Kherson residents are aware that participation in the so-called "referendum" is a crime.
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[RIA Novosti] A Swedish lieutenant who previously served in the Swedish Air Force in Uppsala died in battle near Donetsk, SVT reported.
The military man was 28 years old, he was wounded in the chest and died.
"He came here (to Donbass ) a couple of months ago and was here to share his tactical knowledge," a source told SVT.
According to the channel, several hundred Swedes went to Ukraine to participate in hostilities , including to join the so-called international brigade. It is noted that there is no official confirmation of this information.
According to Swedish television sources, some of the subjects previously served in the Swedish Armed Forces and retired to go to Ukraine. Others, breaking the rules, came to fight as members of the Swedish Armed Forces.
Officer of the People's Militia of the DPR with the call sign Grom spoke about foreign mercenaries.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, noted that foreign mercenaries are not combatants and the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison. According to presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Americans participated in the shelling of the Russian military and should be held accountable for this, but their fate will be decided by the court.
In Donetsk , on June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death : two British citizens - Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR.
In addition, in mid-June, in the battles near Kharkov, the Russian military captured two former servicemen of the American army. They were 39-year-old Alexander Dryuke, who served in Iraq, and 27-year-old Andy Hyun. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that Washington is in direct contact with the Russian authorities on this issue.
In total, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 7,107 mercenaries from more than 60 states have arrived in Ukraine since the beginning of the special operation. At the same time, 2347 of them died, 2019 left.
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[NewsFrontInfo] Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level. 23:29 On July 19, 2022, six humanitarian actions took place in the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions, during which 559.1 tons of essentials and food were transferred to the population. 22:51 Despite the obstacles created by the Ukrainian authorities, without their participation, over the past day, 23,761 people, including 3,964 children, have been evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine and the republics of Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation, and in total since the beginning of the special military operation - 2 691,833 people, of which 426,686 are children.
22:27 A total of 197 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit by Russian operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery.
21:36 Russia evacuated more than 2.5 million people from Ukraine and Donbass.
18:16 The administration of Cossack Lopan (Kharkiv region) decided to evacuate residents to the Belgorod region due to Ukrainian shelling. On the bus, LNR fighters take off their bulletproof vests to protect passengers from possible shelling.
17:32 About a hundred children from Energodar and nearby settlements went to rest on the Azov coast in Kirillovka.
15:41 Kherson region is reinforcing air defense systems after the shelling of the bridge across the Dnieper by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the deputy head of the VGA.
15:38 The first Russian passports have been issued in Nova Kakhovka. Residents of the city promised to abide by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, respect the history and traditions of the country.
15:17 Teachers from Melitopol continue to take refresher courses in Russia. The third group of teachers has already gone to the seminars. Classes were organized for them in Evpatoria. Retraining of teachers from the liberated territories will continue throughout the summer, and by the beginning of the school year, all teachers will be ready to teach children according to the standards of education of the Russian Federation.
15:06 47-year-old tractor driver from the village of Yareski, Poltava region, Kinash Vitaliy Nikolaevich told how he was mobilized under the threat of criminal prosecution. The soldiers who were with him in the ranks were advised by the "fathers commanders" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to watch a training video on the Internet with instructions for firing from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, after which they were sent to the front line. The serviceman is sure that it is better to serve time in prison than to carry out the criminal orders of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:25 Missiles for HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems with a range of up to 300 km have already been delivered to Ukraine, Eduard Basurin, official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, said on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.
13:43 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
The RF Armed Forces hit the point of temporary deployment of the "Right Sector" (banned in the Russian Federation) with high-precision weapons, 200 militants were killed;
During the day, Russian air defense systems shot down a Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR, as well as four Ukrainian UAVs in the Kharkiv region;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed storage facilities with ammunition for US and EU-supplied weapons near Odessa with high-precision weapons;
Russian air defense in the Kherson and Kharkov regions intercepted four Tochka-U ballistic missiles and five Uragan MLRS shells of Ukraine.
13:42 Slutsky: if negotiations with Ukraine resume, the conditions from Russia will be qualitatively tougher.
13:01 Kherson was attacked from the HIMARS MLRS, the authorities of the region reported. Five out of six missiles were shot down by air defense, one fell in the area of the Antonovsky bridge, the consequences are being investigated.
11:44 Another exchange of the dead took place in the area of Kamensky (Zaporozhye direction). Changed in the ratio of 1 to 1, only 45 dead on each side. Ukraine was mainly transferred those killed in the spring in the Mariupol direction.
11:40 Zelensky opened 651 criminal cases on treason and collaborationism against employees of the prosecutor's office and the SBU. On his social networks, he wrote: "I have purged thousands of prosecutors and security officers. But my fault lies in the fact that I did not clean them enough."
11:23 Two days ago, an assassination attempt on Zelensky was prevented - adviser to the head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Podolyak.
11:02 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon on the wanted list.
10:50 Russia will achieve all its goals. And there will be peace. On our terms. And by no means on those about whom bewildered political impotents squeal in Europe and overseas - Medvedev.
08:22 Odessa. Moment of the arrival of a rocket at the object of the Nazis. In total, there were about five of them.
#2
Anti Russki Chechens declare jihad against Kadyrov, hopefully all the non Russian groups take this propitious moment to revolt against Russian hegemony in the colonies.
#4
Good news, Russians are going to be either indicted and convicted by the ICC or they are going to be hunted down and executed like Israel hunted down the 72 Olympic murderers.
#6
Not Russian nor French, this distressing
New product. "So... Gulag?" "Depressing."
Though profits will go
To our faux emperor, Joe,
It's Zelensky Democracy Dressing!
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:51 Demining units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to carry out tasks to clear the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics of explosive objects.
Total verified: 4,191.48 hectares of territory; 41 buildings (of which 13 are socially significant objects); four bridges and 9.64 km of roads. 72,170 explosive objects were found and neutralized.
23:33 As a result of the complex of measures taken, the Russian Navy has eliminated the mine danger in the water area of the port of Mariupol, and the restoration of the port infrastructure continues as planned.
22:41 In Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, neo-Nazis, under the pretext of allegedly saving from artillery shelling, brought civilians to the territory of the coke plant and are holding them as a "human shield."
22:17 In Artemovsk of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of the city water canal, units of the Ukrainian armed formations deployed a temporary deployment point, and positions of artillery and MLRS were placed on the adjacent territory.
21:50 Nationalists are shelling settlements from Avdievka in order to cause return fire and accuse the RF Armed Forces of the death of the civilian population.
21:38 Almost 600 tons of humanitarian aid were handed over to residents of the DPR, LPR and southern Ukraine.
21:12 Ukrainian punishers fired more than 320 shells at the DPR in a day.
20:46 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of a civilian - a man born in 1946. as a resultshellingVFU of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk at the address: 41 "a" Kremlevsky avenue.
Receivedadditionalinformation on damages as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Marshal Zhukov, 15 - an apartment building, a fire was recorded;
— 25, 29, 41 Kremlevsky Ave. “a” – multi-apartment residential buildings.
Petrovsky district:
- st. Kryukova, 120 - the gas pipeline is damaged.
n.p. Gorlovka, the village of Shirokaya Balka:
- st. Dam - damaged power lines.
For today, as of 20:00, the enemy fired 371 ammunition of various types, including MLRS BM-21 "Grad", as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
19:29 Ukrainian militants attacked the Petrovsky district of Donetsk
As a result of the shelling on the street. Kryukov's gas pipeline was interrupted.
19:15 A man was wounded in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk
As a result of the shelling of the VFU on the Kremlin Avenue, a man was injured. He is currently receiving medical attention.
18:42 N.p. Staromayorskoye came under the control of the DPR.
18:40 Ukrainian militants have practically lost the opportunity to conduct aerial reconnaissance with drones along the entire front line in the DPR, EW units on time and clearly intercept almost all types of short- and medium-range UAVs of Ukrainian militants. The enemy does not have the ability to conduct aerial reconnaissance in the main directions, - NM LPR.
18:15 As a result of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region, a fire broke out at the address: st. Marshal Zhukov, 5. There is an injured civilian on Kremlin Avenue. The information is being specified. The sounds of cannonade continue to sound over the city. Be careful.
18:13 The Russian Emergencies Ministry has delivered 43,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Donbass since March, neutralized 46,000 explosive objects in the region - head of department Alexander Kurenkov.
18:02 They report on the work of air defense in Donetsk.
17:52 MI-6 sent intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that the Russian army is preparing for a large-scale offensive in the Donbas salient, the purpose of which is to encircle the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. The offensive operation will begin after the capture of Seversk and the start of street fighting in Bakhmut.
17:17 A Swedish lieutenant who previously served in the Swedish Air Force in Uppsala died during the fighting in the Donetsk region, the SVT television company reported.
17:02 Petrovsky district of Donetsk under heavy enemy artillery fire. Our units are pushing the enemy on Marinka, while these nonhumans are taking revenge for a fire defeat by striking at the city.
17:01 It is reported that the Kyiv region of Donetsk is under shelling.
15:21 As a result of the daytime shelling of the Kirovsky district, the glazing of residential buildings on the street was damaged. Kollontai, 9, 11, 12, 16. No casualties were reported.
15:15 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: six missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
15:06 A 47-year-old tractor driver from the village of Yareski, Poltava region, Kinash Vitaliy Nikolaevich told how he was mobilized under the threat of criminal prosecution. The soldiers who were with him in the ranks were advised by the "fathers commanders" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to watch a training video on the Internet with instructions for firing from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, after which they were sent to the front line. The serviceman is sure that it is better to serve time in prison than to carry out the criminal orders of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:04 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired 15 shells with a caliber of 152mm;
n.p. Codema - n.p. Dolomite: fired five mines with a caliber of 120mm;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Verkhnetoretskoe: six shells fired caliber 152mm
14:00 HIMARS missiles with a range of up to 300 km have already been delivered to Ukraine - Eduard Basurin, official representative of the NM DPR.
13:16 The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is preparing a counteroffensive in the direction of Popasnyansky - an officer of the NM of the LPR.
13:00 Our troops have already occupied half of the village of Novoluganskoye. Information from the field. Also, this information was published in his tg channel by the head of Gorlovka Prikhodko.
12:35 The first pharmacy has started operating in Severodonetsk, next week the first pharmacy will start operating in Rubizhne - Minister of Health of the Luhansk People's Republic Natalia Pashchenko.
11:45 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired eight shells with a caliber of 155mm.
11:03 Chelyabinsk Region Governor Alexei Teksler handed over five ventilators to the Yasinovatsky Central District Hospital.
11:00 The NM forces of the DPR suppressed two enemy firing points in the area of Avdeevka and Zhelanny.
Irretrievable losses of the enemy:
- installation of the MLRS "Hurricane";
- two installations of the multiple launch rocket system BM-21 "Grad";
- two trucks;
- more than 30 fighters.
09:34 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement.
Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells with a caliber of 152mm were fired.
09:25 Soldiers of the NM DPR hold back positions in the area of n.p. Sands. The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR continue to pin down the enemy in the area of the settlement. Sands. The soldiers of the rifle battalion 1117 "Rus" do not allow the enemy to attack Donetsk with impunity and constantly suppress the firing points of Ukrainian militants. The servicemen are confident that victory is close.
09:00 The DPR prosecutor's office claims that, following the results of the analysis of the rubble of Drama theater in Mariupol were found the remains of 14 people. Statements about the death of 300 people in the Drama Theater were not confirmed.
08:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:33 APU continues to transfer heavy equipment price Kramatorsk | This time, the T-72M tanks, which the Ukrainian army transports on trawls.
08:31 Joint forces of the RF Armed Forces and the NM DPR intensified fire destruction of Nazi objects in the Avdievka area. The work is going on 24/7, artillery and aircraft destroy both enemy fortifications and mobile firing points. Due to heavy defeats, it is known from some sources that these ducks are preparing to leave the city.
08:11 During the day, one person died on the territory of the DPR, two more were injured.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Dolomite: fired five shells with a caliber of 155mm;
n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the Izotov mine): four shells of 155mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
[Yahoo] Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.
Never mind the myriad reports of Russian troops refusing to fight by the thousands, sabotaging their own shoddy equipment and even deliberately wounding themselves to abandon the war, Russian lawmakers claim the real setback for Moscow was “drugged up” Ukrainian soldiers.
That claim was made Monday by two Russian lawmakers heading up a commission to investigate “biolaboratories” in Ukraine, Kommersant reported.
Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chair of the State Duma, touted what they described as bombshell findings from the “investigation.”
Testing of Ukrainian POWs’ blood, they claimed, uncovered “a range of diseases” that suggest they were secretly experimented on “for military purposes.”
“And we see: the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States,” Yarovaya was quoted telling reporters.
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Yes. One foot soldier can take out a tank with a javelin, one foot soldier can take out a Su plane with a stinger, one foot soldier with a cheap drone can direct a HIMARS rocket from 35 miles away into a warehouse full of ammo.
Welcome to the 21st century Russia's WWII ancient military.
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Drugs have been used for many years. Why not experiment on your own people. Sounds familiar.
Aah those painful nights spent in a bunk, arms smarting from all the rope climbing, legs destroyed, wishing someone would die at the academy so they'd have to slacken the suck. And the groans all round. I know you remember, fellow murder machines.
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No brake fluid but when an enlisted Marine we did have a Navy Corpsman when did a land office business in cuaght syrup extract and a nasty aqua vit made by pouring a bottle of Listerine through a filter made by 1/2 loaf of italian bread. Circa 1970.
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Yep, once they christen it and smash champagne on it the ship isn't fully built. It still needs a few years of work and a year or two of sea trials before being declared as an operational ship for the fleet.
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And keep in mind -- the US entered WWII with 19 years of experience operating aircraft carriers. This is China's first.
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#5 And keep in mind -- the US entered WWII with 19 years of experience operating aircraft carriers. This is China's first.
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Exactly. To put it in our frame of reference, it's like going from LANGLEY (CV-1) to ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) in about ten years...
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One thing the Chinese have not figured out is how to sustain high operational tempo. The US, Brits, French and to a degree the Indians can all sustain a high tempo of planes constantly taking off, landing and being refueled and rearmed for several days at a time.
So far the Chinese can only launch a few planes before stopping. Granted this may be due to the ramp on their other carriers and the J-15 being an underpowered piece of shit that can't carry a full combat load so it can launch. The Chinese do not have a long tradition of high intensity naval operations, damage and fire control like the west does. I suspect if a Chinese ship gets hit it will go down very fast.
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The Chinese do not have a long tradition of high intensity naval operations, damage and fire control like the west does. I suspect if a Chinese ship gets hit it will go down very fast.
So a new submarine...or reef
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This common in large ship building. At this point, it's not a ship, it's technically called a 'hulk'.
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[NYP] Wall Street had one of its best days in weeks Tuesday as the Dow jumped more than 700 points and investors pored over how much profit companies made during the spring.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 754.44 points, or 2.4%, to 31,827.05, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 353 points, or 3.1% higher. The S&P 500 was 2.8% higher, a day after an early 1% gain gave way to a loss.
Stocks have dropped roughly 20% so far this year on worries about rising interest rates and high inflation, which puts an even brighter spotlight than usual on how much profit companies are making. If earnings hold up, it would provide a major support for markets. But if CEOs warn about troubles ahead, another tumble may be on the way.
More types of companies are reporting how much they earned during the spring, broadening out from the banks that dominated the earliest part of the reporting season.
Toy company Hasbro jumped 2.9% after it reported stronger profit than analysts expected. Oilfield services provider Halliburton rose 0.9% after its profit and revenue topped forecasts. Health care giant Johnson & Johnson added 0.6% after it likewise beat expectations.
[AtlantaFed] Latest estimate: -1.6 percent — July 19, 2022
The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2022 is -1.6 percent on July 19, down from -1.5 percent on July 15. After this morning's housing starts report from the US Census Bureau, the nowcast of second-quarter real residential investment growth decreased from -8.8 percent to -10.1 percent.
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First look ("flash") coming on July 28. We'll know then.
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well if the Flash estimate is, say within 0.5% of zero, we'll have to wait for the next two revisions
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[France24] Israel’s army chief arrived in Morocco on Monday for meetings with senior defence officials, military sources said, as cooperation between the countries expands following a normalisation of ties.
Aviv Kohavi’s three-day trip is the first official visit of an Israeli army chief to the North African kingdom.
Kohavi will meet Morocco’s minister delegate in charge of defence administration, Abdellatif Loudiyi, as well as the Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Belkhir El Farouk, and senior defence officials, an Israeli spokesman said.
Morocco had cut relations with Israel in 2000 following the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, but re-established ties two decades later in a deal that saw Washington recognise Rabat’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara.
[ZERO] Former top White House COVID-19 adviser Deborah Birx said Sunday that COVID-19 "came out of the box ready to infect" when it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in 2019.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Birx said that COVID-19 "was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived," saying that most viruses take months or years to become highly transmissible among humans.
Birx, who had worked under former President Donald Trump, told the paper that either COVID-19 was "an abnormal thing of nature" or that Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were "working on coronavirus vaccines." Researchers could have contracted the virus before spreading it to others or it escaped from the lab, she said.
Lab Leak
"It happens, labs aren’t perfect, people aren’t perfect, we make mistakes and there can be contamination," Birx said, noting that individuals with COVID-19 can be asymptomatic. "Someone working in the lab with one of the strains could’ve caught it and not known they had it," she said.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could have reduced deaths if officials told health leaders that the virus can spread asymptomatically, she said.
"China was implying that they were containing it, but asymptomatic spread cannot be contained without testing," Birx told the publication. "I think the world lost several months of preparation because we were thinking there wasn’t that level of human-to-human spread when there clearly was."
While some news outlets and so-called fact-checking websites labeled the lab leak hypothesis as a conspiracy theory, top U.S. officials conceded later in 2021 that it’s within the realm of possibility. A report released by the 17-agency Intelligence Community in 2021 shows that some federal officials believe the virus emerged from the Wuhan laboratory, according to the White House in a May 26 news release.
Chinese officials, meanwhile, have claimed the virus was first found in December 2019, emerging from a wet market in Wuhan about 10 miles from the lab’s location. It was later revealed by the National Institutes of Health that it provided funding to researchers who were carrying out research on bat coronaviruses.
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It was later revealed by the National Institutes of Health that it provided funding to researchers who were carrying out research on bat coronaviruses.
#3
It's all part of a cover operation to avoid blame. Standard practice among elites. They've always got a fall guy, or an excuse, or an outright lie. Anything other than being exposed as doing exactly what they did.
You have to understand, they're used to being above the law. They're lifelong white collar criminals who know every trick in the book. Dangerous research being banned in the US just means they have to go to other countries to do it. But if they get caught? Never going to be allowed to happen. Conspiracy theory! Conspiracy theory!
[LibertyDaily] Update: Reuters is reporting that it was a transformer. That is good news if it wasn’t terrorism, though there have been no reports about the cause of the explosion yet.
A transformer caught fire at Nevada’s Hoover Dam on Tuesday and was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade without any injuries or interruption to the power grid, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said.
Video circulating on social media, apparently taken by a tourist, showed a small explosion and smoke and fire coming from the base of the dam, the largest in the United States and the source for a 2,080-megawatt hydroelectric plant, enough for about 1.3 million households.
No one was hurt in the explosion near the base of the dam, an engineering marvel on the Colorado River that straddles the border of Arizona and Nevada. Electricity produced at Hoover Dam continued flowing to the 8 million people in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California who the Daily Mail rely on it, the Western Area Power Administration said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation and officials were working to determine the extent of damage to the transformer, one of 15 at the complex that control the voltages for power sent to customers.
“There is no risk to the power grid,” said Jacklynn Gould, a regional director for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The fire ignited around 10 a.m. and was out within a half-hour, Gould said in a statement.
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You blow a big transformer, but "there is no risk to the power grid"?
Maybe if you were running it at a reduced level? Because the lake level is so low? And the upcoming brownouts on the west coast will be due to low lake levels/climate change?
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Can't you just pump that water downstream of the turbines back up into the lake ?
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.
(New York Post) A crew member working for "Law & Order: Organized Crime’’ was fatally shot at the TV show’s Brooklyn set early Tuesday — in a scene that could have been pulled straight out of the script, authorities said.
[NYPOST] An Iranian bride tragically died at her own wedding after getting hit by a stray bullet during a round of celebratory gunfire.
[Zero Hedge] As much of the Western US suffers from a historic drought, all eyes have shifted to Californian farmers as hundreds of thousands of acres become fallow in a state responsible for a tremendous amount of US food production. 
[NYP] Wall Street had one of its best days in weeks Tuesday as the Dow jumped more than 700 points and investors pored over how much profit companies made during the spring.
[France24] Israel’s army chief arrived in Morocco on Monday for meetings with senior defence officials, military sources said, as cooperation between the countries expands following a normalisation of ties.
[ZERO] Former top White House COVID-19 adviser 
