[NYP] NYPD cops busted five men and seized 182 handguns in an illegal gun-trafficking ring that ran weapons from Tennessee to sell on the streets of Queens, officials said Thursday.
The men exploited the lax gun laws in Tennessee and used the infamous "gun show loophole" to funnel the weapons through the so-called Iron Pipeline into New York, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said at a news conference.
The members of the ring were hit with a 1,611-count indictment with charges including criminal sale of a weapon and criminal possession of a weapon in an investigation cops nicknamed "Operation Hot Cakes," Katz said.
"Illegal gun traffickers who flood our neighborhoods with dangerous firearms put every resident of our borough at grave risk," the DA said in a statement. "We have seen far too many instances of guns, purchased down South and trafficked into New York that are then recovered at devastating crime scenes, leaving bloodshed and tragedy on our streets."
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The have it backwards. Nobody in Tennessee is pushing guns to New York. What is happening is people who do not see a need to obey firearms laws in New York are creating a demand.
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The "gun show loophole" is irrelevant. The scam could have also been supplied by legal gun purchases at gun shops. The sales and purchases in NYC were illegal and most purchasers & sellers are being charged - minus the stoolies, Feds and well connected folks.
A person in NYC could get on a bus to anywhere and legally purchased a gun if they wanted. These purchasers paid 2 times the value of the guns because they were not legal purchasers or they wanted a gun with no paper trail so it could be used illicitly - likely both. The guns were sold in NYC because there are a lot of criminals there with many potential unarmed victims.
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I really hope the attacker turns out to be nuts instead of some sort of Democrat or leftist coldly attempting to ensure the election by taking out the Republican candidate for governor, like the gentleman who shot up the Republican Congressional baseball practice a few years ago..
[IsraelTimes] US House Representative Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was assaulted by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday.
The congressman, a rare Jewish Republican in Congress, escaped serious injury.
"I’m OK," Zeldin said in a statement. "Fortunately, I was able to grab his wrist and stop him for a few moments until others tackled him."
Zeldin’s campaign said the attacker was taken into custody and the congressman continued his speech.
The attacker climbed onto a low stage where the congressman spoke to a crowd of dozens outside Rochester, flanked by bales of hay and American flags. A video posted on Twitter shows the two falling to the ground as other people try to intervene.
Among those who helped to subdue the attacker was Zeldin’s running mate, former New York Police Department Deputy Inspector Alison Esposito, said state GOP Chair Nick Langworthy.
Langworthy told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he didn’t have any details on the attacker or his weapon but exchanged text messages with Zeldin afterward while the congressman was speaking to police.
"He is fine. He’s not seriously injured. It’s just a chaotic scene there," Langworthy said. He said Zeldin had "just a little scrape" but it wasn’t what anyone would consider an injury.
Langworthy called on Hochul to issue a security detail for Zeldin to protect him on the campaign trail.
"This could have gone a lot worse. This could have really ended in a horrible way tonight and this is unacceptable," he said.
In a statement, Hochul condemned the attack and said she was "relieved to hear that Congressman Zeldin was not injured and that the suspect is in jug."
Zeldin, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who has represented eastern Long Island in Congress since 2015, is a staunch ally of former US president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... and was among the Republicans in Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election results.
He has focused his campaign on fighting crime but faces an uphill battle against Hochul. He’ll need to persuade independent voters — which outnumber Republicans in the state — as well as Democrats in order to win the general election.
Democrats are expected to focus on Zeldin’s vocal defense of Trump during both of his impeachments and objection to the election results.
The NY Post has lots more about events at the VFW post campaign stop, including photos of the weapon — which looks like this, apparently popular as a defense against rapists — and a side view the unnamed miscreant, said to be an Iraq War veteran. Update from CNBC at 2:30 a.m. EDT:
The attacker, identified by three senior law enforcement officials as David Jakubonis of Fairport, was subdued by members of the audience after he charged Zeldin, WHEC-TV reported.
That NBC affiliate reported that audience members disarmed the man, and put him in zip-ties that were pulled from campaign posters.
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Because we don't want either side to start assassinating the politicians on the other side. That's a very quick way to turn this into a kinetic civil war.
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Okay let's process this a bit? And mods, please 'smoky the bear' me whenever you deem fit. Don't wanna give Fred any trouble.
Your primary worry is that the republicans wouldn't win such an engagement, at this time, right? I understand that totally. But the reluctance to get dirty in conservatives is very counterproductive. I for one think as soon as the Right is back in, they should start dishing out the kinetic. Kashoggis and Epsteins left and right. None of this 'ye oldè constitution wilt save us eventually, it was written perfect' philosophy will help sustain the Republic in the long run. Your enemies are killers, inhuman, sadistic, worse than Nazis, insane Satan spawn. That is evident.
A Pakistani guy once told me an Urdu couplet about conflict. It said something like 'when the thug and the lawyer fight it out, only the thug will win'.
My worldview may be hopelessly flawed, but I think every society needs to take out the trash once in a while. It accumulates, see? And if you don't do it, the trash takes you out. Do unto others as soon as they can't do it back to you and all that.
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I'm not worried about the conservatives winning such a conflict, I am just hopefully that we haven't reached the cartridge box stage yet. And yes, they are evil. But I would much rather, given the signs of parents realizing how evil these twit are, take the culture back from them, such as we are with the schools, etc. If we can pull out of it without it going kinetic, good.
If not, war to the knife and we leave our enemies impaled from sea to shining sea along I-40 as a message of what happens to such evil. So if we can avoid it good, if not, I'd rather see it happen now than when my kids wind up having to fight this. I would much rather they deal with the aftermath of "All the lefties are dead" vs having to be the ones to do it.
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I share Dron66046 viewpoint, have for decades. The Trash has been allowed to accumulate to the point that kinetic response is unavoidable. Better to do it sooner rather than later.
1. Jakubonis Is an Iraq War Veteran & the Man Who Subdued Him Wants to help Him, Reports Say
According to Rochester First, the suspect is “reportedly an Iraq War veteran under the influence of alcohol.” Authorities have not confirmed the information.
He was zip-tied on the scene, the site reported. AMVETS national Director Joe Chenelly stopped him, and Jakubonis was taken into custody, reported Mytwintiers.com.
“When he said he served in Iraq, I got down hands on my knees and said, ‘You know, we’re going to get through whatever you’ve done here tonight,’ and told him, ‘You’re going to get better and focus on that,’ and said, ‘You can contact me after this thing is done,” Chenelly told Rochester First. “I was told not the engage with him right now. I think it’s very important we obviously have a mental health crisis nationwide— not just with our veterans but we especially have it with our veterans.”
2. Jakubonis Was at Fort Bragg in 2008 & Wrote On LinkedIn, ‘Hire me’
In 2008, Fort Bragg posted a photo of Jakubonis. The caption read, “(Another service member), right, 432nd Blood Supply Detachment, checks the blood type as Pfc. David Jakubonis reads off the list of blood needed by the simulated clinic in the field during their week-long training Oct. 14 through 18.”
He has an Instagram page, but it only has a single photo on it.
On a LinkedIn page, he wrote, “hire me. Actively seeking employment.” He wrote that he was a medical laboratory technician in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2012, but other positions were “candidate for various agencies” and prospective asset.” He also wrote that he was “chief of Morale” for the RIT Veterans club.
The page also says he received a bachelor’s degree from RIT. “Bachelor’s Degree, summa cum laude, Criminal Justice, concentration in Psychology,” it reads, listing his GPA as 3.87. Under “activities and societies,” he listed, “President, Criminal Justice Student Association, 2013-2014.”
He also wrote that he received an associate of science degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences from George Washington University in 2008. The page lists “5 years of work experience in all departments within the laboratory of Army medical hospitals and clinics. Laboratory Technician duties also included blood donation work in all sections of the process.”
His wife’s Facebook page indicates she is deceased.
I would prefer the Democrats and their militant wing not take the irrevocable step while they also control most of the levers of government power. The election in November should see more state and local governments in total or stronger Republican hands, which leads on one hand to things like shipping President Biden’s illegals to New York City and Washington, DC, and on the other hand to overruling or replacing Soros district attorneys and enforcing tighter voting laws.
Yes, I do strongly hope the culture war does not go more kinetic than it already has. But if it must, I would prefer the battlefield to be better shaped than it is at present.
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The Golden Rule says libs are fine with us doing this to them.
Just sayin'...
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Ref #3, Not flawed at all, just uncomfortable to face for many. Good times have created soft men, and a LOT of trash unfortunately.It may be entropy, but it can be checked.
Entropy is simply a measure of disorder and affects all aspects of our daily lives. In fact, you can think of it as nature's tax. Left unchecked disorder increases over time. Energy disperses, and systems dissolve into chaos. The more disordered something is, the more entropic we consider it.
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Another rule would be that he is not a Trump supporter or this would be a bigger story.
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Very true, NMBS. This is my observation as well. And my theory stems from it. The universe is a cauldron of violent forces. Everything including man was born from a volatile churn of entropy and controlled force by... Someone. The greater the entropy the greater force is required to contain it. If He won't, we must.
Controlled violence, in this case. The fear of death deters timid men. And the plodding, conspiratorial bastitches who abuse our constitutions into working for them, they can all be put in their place. Just a bit of culling is necessary and they learn, I know. The men we appoint today unfortunately to wield violence are screened to be the kind wired to worry more about their pensions than doing what must be done. So sooner or later, it'll be up to citizens.
Of course there's a Biblical purpose to all this, whatever it is. The fall of the kingdoms of man and all that. The uniting of them under some monumental fucker who then gets trampled by Gawd on a white horse and such. But until then we stand here, with our fingers plugging holes in a dam that is going to burst one day. And people suffer. Those who naively believe in nonsense like laws and conventions. Shit.
You are not a bastard, Dron, and I will not allow you to say such things about yourself. Go ask Mrs. Dron to make you some chamomile tea or a mango lassi — something soothing that does not involve alcohol if you are still on painkillers — and sit with you until you are quite calm again.
"the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S."
Thank you, President Biden.
[FoxNews] The New York Department of Health on Thursday reported a case of polio in a resident of the state's Rockland County.
This case marks the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade.
The department said it was identified through sequencing at the Wadsworth Center — its public health laboratory — and confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The sequencing showed revertant polio Sabin type 2 virus.
"This is indicative of a transmission chain from an individual who received the oral polio vaccine (OPV), which is no longer authorized or administered in the U.S., where only the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) has been given since 2000," the department wrote. "This suggests that the virus may have originated in a location outside of the U.S. where OPV is administered, since revertant strains cannot emerge from inactivated vaccines."
Polio is endemic in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A viral disease that can affect the nervous system and cause muscle weakness, the polio virus typically enters through the mouth.
While it is usually transmitted by hands contaminated with the fecal matter of an infected person, respiratory and oral-to-oral transmission through saliva may also occur.
Polio is very contagious, and a person can spread the virus even if they aren't sick. The majority of people infected with polio have no symptoms.
Symptoms can be mild and flu-like and can take up to 30 days to present, during which time the infected individual can spread the virus to others.
Although rare, some cases can result in paralysis or death.
Due to the success of the polio vaccine, introduced in 1955, cases were cut dramatically in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The last naturally occurring cases of polio in the U.S. were reported in 1979, and the last known case in the country was recorded by the CDC in 2013.
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It was, but Pak and Afghan inbreds love killing Polio-vax teams, because they think it's Jooo juice, makes their doinkers fall of, or just Islamic stupidity.
Perhaps we need to screen? Dya think?
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[Western Journal] Officials in the state of Missouri have publicly refused to obey the FBI’s demands that they hand over the personal information of the state’s concealed carry weapons permit holders, saying the agency is attempting "to illegally obtain" the information.
Scotland County Sheriff Bryan Whitney, for one, is adamant that the FBI is trying to assemble an illegal gun registry of Missouri citizens.
"As the sheriff of Scotland County, I want all my citizens to know that I will not allow, cooperate or release any CCW information to the FBI, ’even at the threat of a federal arrest," Whitney, a Republican, told his constituents in a letter released on Monday, Fox News reported.
"Point Blank, I will go down with the ship if need be," Whitney added in his letter.
Whitney told his constituents that the FBI had alerted Missouri’s 24 county sheriffs that it intended to launch an audit of Missouri CCW holders starting in August.
[NSSF] NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, updated the industry estimate of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in circulation in the United States to 24,446,000 since 1990. That is an increase of over 4.5 million rifles since the last estimate was released in 2020.
The estimate is derived from NSSF research, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report (AFMER) and U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC) data, in cooperation with manufacturers, importers and exporters of MSRs, or AR-15 and AK-style rifles. This most recent estimate includes production figures current through 2020, when the industry estimates over 2,798,000 of these rifles were produced or imported. This estimate does not include MSRs that were produced and exported or imported and later exported.
The MSR remains the most-popular selling centerfire semiautomatic rifle in the United States today. There are more MSRs in circulation today than there are Ford F-Series trucks on the road.
"This is a truly significant figure that demonstrates — again — the popularity of this commonly-owned style of rifle," said NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi. "The firearm industry responds to market demand and this shows that during the elevated period of firearm sales that began in 2020, this particular style of rifle is the top choice for law-abiding citizens for hunting, recreational shooting and self-defense."
The MSR’s popularity for lawful ownership is attributable to several factors, including accuracy, reliability, modularity and low recoil.
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The MSR’s popularity for lawful ownership is attributable to several factors, including accuracy, reliability, modularity and low recoil.
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MSR = Modern Sporting Rifle. Because it's not an "assault weapon." It's not a "machine gun," It's not even selective fire.
As for the "physicians" and politicians weighing in on how devastating a 5.56 round is, note that most deer hunting states consider 5.56 / .223 too small and weak to make a humane kill on a deer, and don't allow it's use for that purpose.
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More than a nine, which I have on good authority will rip your lungs out.
[CitizenFreePress/NYPost] Video shows a Georgia woman plowing her SUV into cops and police cars while a small child sits in the backseat — then claiming “I didn’t do it!” once she’s finally caught.
Sierra Hibbert took police on a short but bizarre chase after they pulled her over on reports she was driving erratically and veering into oncoming traffic on Highway 42, Byron Police Department said in a news release Monday.
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What a bunch of inept cops.
Why after that initial behavior they just not put a police car just in front and another just on the rear to block any movement?
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Saw this video yesterday, she almost ran down around 6-10 people. Why was she not ventilated?
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That Infinity obviously has some torque. As for the woman, WTF? And who was the pissed off skinny woman? A plainclothes cop? A passenger from the Infinity?
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The queer thing is that, as far as I can tell, these cults started out as university fraternities, several generations ago, but then turned vicious. The old boys clubs still work though — reportedly many leading Nigerians are secretly members of one or another of these so-called cults.
Police authorities in Anambra State have arrested suspected cult members who killed a member of a rival group and used his head to play football.
The incident happened on premises suspected to be the residence of some students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University in Igbariam in September 2021.
The video which trended on social media shows how a young man with dreadlocks was dragged out of his car and shot at close range.
His head was later brought to a square, where the assailants used it to play football.
In another trending video, two arrested suspected young cult members, Chisom Okafor and Ikechukwu Chinweze, admit to being members of Ayes cult and participating in killings.
Twenty-three-year-old Okafor is seen in the video confessing, "I’m also known as Stamina. I’m from Igboukwu, but my mum is from Awka. I am 23 years old. I belong to Ayes cult group, and have killed only three people before."
How many need one kill before the number is not only?
He identified two persons out of the three he said he had killed as Edu Obara and Savage. Both are suspected cultists who were murdered in 2021 and beheaded in a like manner. While Edu Obara was killed in Igbariam, Savage was killed and beheaded in Oko in the Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, while his trunk was taken to Awka.
"I was among the cultists who went to Obj’s place (just nickname) and killed some coppers. We were seven in number that went for the operation. I dropped out of school, but I’m a tiler, and I do tiling very well."
Another cultist, who was also interviewed in the video said, "I’m Ikechukwu Chinweze, I’m 19 years old, from Umuzocha in Awka. I’m a school leaver. I was learning phone repairs before I met Chisom here in Ifite."
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... some residents of Anambra State have stated that the man named Savage, who was killed last year, was the same person, whose head was used to play soccer, suggesting that the now arrested cultists were responsible for the act.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Brits have a long history of sending their men abroad to sow their wild oats.
British sex offenders went to refugee-laden Poland in the early weeks of war
Ten convicted paedophiles travelled east in the first six weeks as 'volunteers'
As many as 5,000 unaccompanied children displaced in first weeks of conflict
All ten were interviewed by Polish authorities and removed from the country, said an NCA spokesman, adding: 'We have an international network that identifies these threats... we contact our partners and say you have a convicted sex offender on your patch.'
Now two thirds of Ukraine's children have been driven from their homes, according to UNICEF, with 200,000 forced into Russia where some are being put up for adoption.
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UK INTELLIGENCE OVERTHREW THE ELECTED GOV'T OF THE USA
First attempt was the UK aka Steele Russiagate Doc
Steele is an MI-6 Intelligence Officer
Second attempt was Smartmatic-Dominion on Election Night
UK INTELLIGENCE QUARTERBACKED THE OVERTHROW
MI-6 Created the Russia Gate Doc working closely with the FBI, DOJ, CIA & State Dept
Mitch McConnell working with Sen's McCain & Graham approved and provided cover for the operation
They guaranteed no resistance from Republicans and ZERO prosecutions for the overthrow implementers at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and State Dept.
Barr admitted he reported directly to McConnell, and investigated and prosecuted no one. While lying to Trump non stop. Durham and Barr have committed obstruction of Justice, insurrection and treason
Roberts controls the FISA Court and provided hundreds if not thousands of wire tap, surveillance and silent search warrants against every Trump relative, friend, key employee and business associate.
The Republican Senate wanted first Hilary then Biden for President
UK INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE DOMINION ELECTION FRAUD MACHINES
MI-6 controls the Smartmatic fraud software used to overthrow the elected US gov't in 2020
Smartmatic-Dominion put Biden over the top in 2020, to the cheers of 90 Senators, the Supreme Court and many corrupt State Govts.
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I've said "gouge out the Five Eyes" for some time now. Caca Joe is late to the game.
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^ One of the downsides to hiring non-native speakers to staff your troll farm is they tend to trip over idioms and colloquial language.
Murciélago was a Navarra fighting bull, who gained fame after Lamborghini chose to name a supercar after him, to continue the passion for bullfighting Ferruccio Lamborghini, the company's founder, was famous for. According to the PR-specialists, the bull survived 90 sword strokes in an October 5, 1879 fight against Rafael "El Lagartijo" Molina Sanchez, at the Coso de los califas bullring in Córdoba, Spain. Its name means bat in Spanish. It is said that Murciélago fought with such passion and spirit that the crowd called for his life to be spared, an honour which the torero bestowed. The bull, which came from the farm of Joaquin del Val de Navarra, was later presented as a gift to Don Antonio Miura. Together with his brother, Don Eduardo Miura, they brought Murciélago into the Miura line by siring him with 70 cows. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near Seville, Spain, are known for being large and ferocious.
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[Korrespondent] 23:39 Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said at the Aspen Security Forum that his country supports Ukraine, but it does not need a conflict with Russia: "Israel is definitely on the western side. Israel is definitely on the Ukrainian side. We support it with all diplomatic measures. We support her with humanitarian aid… We have opened a field hospital.”
However, when asked why not do more for Ukraine, Gantz replied: “We have our own operational considerations. We have a common air border with Russia over Syria ... So we have other calculations that we must take into account. Russia does not threatens us directly. But we have to make sure we have a dialogue with the Russians. We have to reduce the conflict with them."
“Also, we’re in the middle of several wars over here, and can’t afford to send off all our weapons and ammunition while we still need them,” he added.
23:28 The EU has published the seventh package of sanctions against the Russian Federation. It provides, in particular, a ban on "direct and indirect" imports of Russian gold, freezing the assets of Sberbank; in addition, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, artists Vladimir Mashkov and Sergei Bezrukov, and the president of the Night Wolves motorcycle club, Alexander Zaldastanov (Surgeon), fell under the sanctions.
22:56 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko does not rule out that following tomorrow's meeting in Turkey, a document may be signed containing the obligations of the parties for the safe operation of export routes in the Black Sea: "The Ukrainian delegation will support only those decisions that will guarantee the security of the southern regions of Ukraine , the strong position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black Sea and the safe export of Ukrainian agricultural products to world markets."
22:53 After the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Antonovsky bridge, the occupiers stopped throwing military equipment across it, said the adviser to the head of the Kherson Regional Military District Serhiy Khlan.
22:49 Iran is ready to export military equipment and weapons to friendly countries, said the commander of the country's Land Forces Kiomars Heydari, reports Tasnim News Agency. According to him, the Iranian army has been able to develop the most advanced UAVs, which are used in long-range and cross-border reconnaissance, as well as in combat operations. At the same time, efforts are being made to expand the range and improve the accuracy of weapons.
22:46 Zelensky said that he had held talks with the president of Costa Rica today - for the first time in the history of relations between states: "I thanked him for supporting Ukraine - you can feel it, for opposing Russian propaganda and imposing sanctions." The head of state also noted that tomorrow he expects news from Turkey about the unblocking of Ukrainian ports.
22:40 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a regular meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief today: “We discussed the current situation on the front line, around Ukraine. We identified tasks in some tactical areas to strengthen our positions. And we worked out the issue of supplying the latest weapons to the troops in a very substantive manner "We still need to increase the intensity of strikes against the enemy. The participants in the Stavka meeting agreed that there is a significant potential for advancing our forces at the front and for inflicting new tangible losses on the invaders."
22:17 Zelensky said in an evening video message about the "first real result" of the first lady's visit to the United States: "The senators submitted a draft resolution recognizing Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. The resolution notes that Russia's actions in Ukraine, including forced deportation to the Russian Federation and purposeful the killing of Ukrainian civilians during mass atrocities constitutes genocide against the people of Ukraine."
21:34 In the occupied part of the Kharkiv region, they began to pay pensions in rubles, Vitaly Ganchev, the head of the CAA, said: "The first tranche has been received and distributed among the districts of the Kharkiv region ... It's already July, we pay for June, soon people will receive for July."
21:29 Lukashenka said in an interview with AFP that he was ready to recognize the status of Crimea and the "LDPR": "If we have to, we will admit it. We cooperate with them and do not hide it. That is, we de facto recognized that there is Crimea, Lugansk and Donetsk. And this is all chatter: why Lukashenka was recognized there, not recognized. It is necessary - we recognize it by presidential decree."
21:18 The European Union has imposed sanctions against six Syrian citizens and the private security company Al-Sayyad Company for recruiting mercenaries for the war in Ukraine on the side of Russia, the official EU magazine reports. The Al-Sayyad Company itself, known as the ISIS Hunters, has been sanctioned for setting up a recruiting network. She works with PMC Wagner in Syria and is engaged in protecting the interests of the Russian Federation (protection of oil facilities).
20:52 The document on the "grain issue" will be signed in Istanbul on Friday, July 22, at 16:30. Erdogan and Guterres will attend the ceremony, the Turkish presidential administration said.
20:45 The tactics of Russian shelling of Kharkov has changed - if earlier the attacks were at night, then for the third day in a row the city has been shelled in the early morning, Mayor Igor Terekhov said on the air of the telethon. He also urged Kharkiv residents not to be at public transport stops during periods when shelling is most common.
20:08 UK intelligence chief Richard Moore believes that the Russian military will again pause the operational pause in the next few weeks, which will give Ukraine the opportunity to strike back: "I think they are about to run out of potential. Our assessment is that the Russians it will become increasingly difficult to supply manpower over the next few weeks... They will have to pause for a while, and this will give the Ukrainians an opportunity to strike back."
19:43 Lavrov admitted that the Kremlin is waging an aggressive war in Ukraine. He stated that the "geographical tasks" of the Russian war are expanding. Following Putin's "hawk" Medvedev said that the Russian army intends to "push Ukrainian troops not only from Donetsk, but also wider." Details about what this means - in the material Russia "expands the geography" of the war .
19:27 The National Security and Defense Council together with the Ministry of Defense launched a new module of the SOTA information and analytical system for the supply of weapons from partner countries, Alexey Danilov said at the presentation. He assured that all weapons from Western partners that enter Ukraine "are under close control, which can be seen."
19:08 UN Secretary General António Guterres will travel to Istanbul tonight as part of efforts to reach agreements on grain exports from Ukraine and Russia, the office of the Secretary General said.
18:52 A single information hub will be created in Ukraine, which will facilitate the work of military journalists, correspondents of Ukrainian and foreign media. This will allow the world community to be informed as quickly as possible about the situation at the front and about the use of equipment and weapons received by the Ukrainian army from partners, Yermak said following joint talks with Zaluzhny with Biden's national security adviser Jacob Sullivan and head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley.
18:04 In the Kharkiv region, from tomorrow alcohol will be sold in stores from 8:00 to 20:00, and in cafes, bars and restaurants from 8:00 to 22:00. The corresponding order was signed by the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
17:51 A new Prosecutor General of Ukraine will be appointed in the next ten days, Arakhamia said. His first and main task should be the appointment of the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
17:24 Russia has canceled the military parade in Sevastopol, which was traditionally held on the Day of the Russian Navy on July 31, Russian media write. In addition, there will be no solemn meeting of sailors in the House of Officers, a festive reception for the commander, as well as a traditional military sports festival for residents of the city in the waters of the Sevastopol Bay. The reasons for the cancellation of events are not reported.
16:51 Lavrov, after talks in Moscow with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, said that Budapest wants to purchase additional volumes of gas from the Russian Federation.
16:27 Tomorrow's meeting in Turkey, which was supposed to finalize the agreements on grain, was canceled by the Russians. Meetings will continue online, people's deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko said. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry today confirmed that the discussions are taking place online, and stated that "the parties have a constructive approach to the negotiations."
15:55 Lavrov's statement about the "expansion of the geography" of the war against Ukraine testifies to the preparation of the ground for the "attachment" of the occupied territories in the south, Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said. According to him, at first the picture in the information field of the Russian Federation was based on the hostilities in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but now the Kremlin is "creating the ground for resolving the status of the temporarily occupied territories in the south." This can happen through a pseudo-referendum or direct annexation of the occupied territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
15:41 The NBU estimates the fall of the Ukrainian economy in the second quarter of this year at 40%, and in general, by the end of 2022, it expects it to fall by a third. At the same time, the regulator notes that when the Black Sea ports are unblocked, the economy will return to growth in 2023-2024.
15:33 The UK will soon transfer more than 20 M109 self-propelled guns, 36 L119 105-mm howitzers and 50,000 artillery shells to Ukraine , Defense Minister Ben Wallace said. Also, Ukraine will be supplied with counter-battery radars, hundreds of drones and 1,600 anti-tank shells.
15:28 The Russian troops have never managed to destroy the HIMARS MLRS, and the Ukrainian military personnel are very effective in using American systems, destroying enemy warehouses, said the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley: "To date, these systems have not been destroyed by the Russians, I'm knocking on wood every time I say something like that."
15:02 In the Diya application, a survey on what to do with the coat of arms of the USSR on the Motherland monument in Kiev has ended. Almost 800 thousand people took part in the voting, which lasted two weeks. As a result, 85% of respondents voted to replace the coat of arms of the USSR with the coat of arms of Ukraine. Another 9% supported the idea of leaving the shield empty, simply removing the Soviet coat of arms, and only 6% would like everything to remain as it is.
14:46 Zelensky announced the creation of an English-language digital media @U24_gov_ua. Today starts the first show on YouTube called Fight for Freedom about the power of Ukrainian defenders. The pilot episode focuses on the role of military drones in this war.
14:29 Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow today with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó, Russian media report.
14:25 Russia has used 55-60% of its stocks of high-precision weapons, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the MOU's Main Intelligence Directorate, said. He clarified that we are talking about the Iskander, Kalibr systems, air-launched cruise missiles. At the same time, ballistic missiles were most used for the Iskander complex, although their use has not been recorded for a long time. According to Skibitsky, this is due to sanctions against Russia, since many of the components of this missile were foreign-made.
At the same time, he added that there are large stocks of old Soviet weapons - these are Kh-22 cruise missiles, which have already been used twice from the territory of Belarus, as well as other cruise missiles, a set of Smerch, Uragan rockets, aerial bombs. "It is very difficult to calculate what they have left there," Skibitsky admitted.
14:13 The Russian military dragged at least 14 units of heavy equipment with ammunition, weapons and explosives into the engine room of the first power unit of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Energoatom reports. The equipment of the Russians is located very close to the equipment responsible for the operation of the turbogenerator. In particular, in close proximity to the main oil tank, where flammable oil is stored. Also there is explosive hydrogen.
Energoatom notes that if, for example, an ammunition load accidentally detonates, the scale of the fire can be the same as during the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
13:32 The Russian occupiers not only demand from Mariupol farmers to collect and give the entire crop to the "DPR" property, but also force them to sign legal "papers" on the transfer of ownership of land plots and property to certain people free of charge. According to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, after that, farmers are forbidden to evacuate in any direction, and they are obliged to work for hire practically for free.
13:11 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi appealed to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with a proposal to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism - otherwise Congress will do it, writes Politico.
12:46 EU countries agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia , which included a ban on gold imports, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: "Member states have agreed to our strengthened and extended EU sanctions against the Kremlin. I welcome this. This sends a strong a signal to Moscow: we will maintain high pressure for as long as it takes."
12:27 The number of victims of the attack on Kharkov has increased to 21 people, two people remain dead, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
11:50 "LPR" leader Leonid Pasechnik accused Google of promoting terrorism and extremism and said that the "LPR" would do without it: "We can manage without Google. If they improve, they start respecting people, we'll think about returning." According to Pasechnik, Google "is deliberately promoting terrorism and extremism, which means that it simply does not value its users from the Luhansk People's Republic."
11:33 As a result of the shelling of one of the districts of Kharkiv by Russian Hurricanes, there are already 19 wounded, among them one child. Four of the wounded are in critical condition. We also know of two deaths. As Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA, said, the enemy hits only the streets of the city, shopping pavilions, and housing infrastructure. There is a hit in a residential building where a private dental office was located, there were no people inside the premises.
11:29 British intelligence reports that the Russian Federation and separatist forces continue to attempt small-scale attacks along the front line in Donbas. Russian forces are likely to be approaching Ukraine's second largest power plant, Uglegorska, 50km northeast of Donetsk. The Russians prioritize capturing critical national infrastructure such as power plants. But, probably, the Russian Federation is also trying to break through to Uglegorsk, trying to restore the pace of its advance towards Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.
11:23 SBU detained the spotter of missile strikes at the airport of Krivoy Rog - he turned out to be "an official of one of the most powerful industrial giants in the region." Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the man has been collecting intelligence on the deployment and movement of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, recording the geolocation of critical infrastructure facilities and transmitting them to the occupiers through closed communication channels. Among other facts, the involvement of the detainee in adjusting the missile attack on the Krivoy Rog airport on March 10 is being checked.
11:19 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 21. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Slavic direction.
personnel - about 38,850 (+100) people liquidated,
tanks - 1704 (+4),
armored combat vehicles - 3912 (+7),
artillery systems - 859 (+3),
MLRS - 251 (+1),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 221 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 710 (+7),
cruise missiles - 167 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2781 (+6),
special equipment - 72 (+2).
11:12 The head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim said that tonight the Russians hit two missiles at one of the humanitarian headquarters, as a result of which thousands of tons of products were completely burned.
11:05 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, it is already known about one dead, Mayor Igor Terekhov said. According to him, for the second day in a row, at about the same time, the occupier hits public transport stops. 17 people were injured today, of which one is in critical condition.
10:49 The death toll as a result of a rocket attack on Vinnitsa has grown to 26 people: a 20-year-old girl who had 98% of burns died in the hospital, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Borzov.
10:28 As a result of the shelling of one of the residential areas of Kharkiv, according to preliminary data, 17 people were injured , the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
10:24 For the first time since the beginning of a full-scale war, the National Bank lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate. The hryvnia has fallen in price by 25%, and now the rate is 36.5 hryvnia per dollar. The rate will remain fixed.
10:02 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that right now one of the most densely populated areas of the city is being shelled, there are wounded. There is a hit in one of the medical facilities.
09:55 T.S. The "military-civilian administration" of the Zaporozhye region stated that in the Russian-occupied city of Pologi, a fire broke out at an elevator due to shelling, as a result of which the roof collapsed. Due to the ongoing shelling, it is now impossible to extinguish the roof.
Also, the Russian media, citing Kirill Stremousov, the "deputy head of the VGA" of the Kherson region, report that they again tried to hit HIMARS on the Antonovsky bridge, but all 12 missiles were allegedly shot down by air defense.
09:43 CDU Bundestag member Roderich Kiesewetter shared details of German military aid deliveries to Ukraine: "The German" offer "after three months of deliberation: 20 Leopard 2 tanks. Delivery from April 2023, one per month, from October 2023 - three pieces per month. Let me remind you: Poland handed over almost 300 T-72 tanks to Ukraine in the first two months."
09:39 Settlements of the Lugansk region on July 20 were subjected to two powerful missile strikes, four long-term artillery attacks, five shelling from mortars, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the occupiers are trying to develop an offensive on Bakhmut, but in every settlement they are given worthy resistance: "The Russians organized several attempts to storm from different sides from the Lisichansk region and the surrounding villages. Damage was added in Verkhnekamenskoye. Belogorovka was once again shelled from the air" .
09:33 The UK will impose new sanctions on the import of coal and oil from Russia, according to the government's amendments to existing sanctions. The ban on coal imports will come into force on August 10, oil - from December 31. Also, London introduces a ban on the import of gold, it takes effect from today.
09:29 At night Russians have let out seven rockets across Nikolaev, the head of OVA Vitaly Kim reported. According to preliminary information, it is known that it hit an infrastructure facility, a gas station, a gas pipeline and a warehouse. Rescue services eliminated all fires that arose as a result of shelling. Currently, one victim is known.
09:15 In the Kharkiv region, Russians attacked the Chuguevsky district tonight. From the destroyed part of the building of the utility company, there were no preliminary victims, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. During the day, the enemy also conducted a massive shelling of the settlements of Chuguevsky, Bogodukhovsky, Izyumsky districts and Kharkov. Residential houses, outbuildings were damaged, fires broke out.
09:03 In the Donetsk region, the invaders destroyed two schools today - in Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka, said the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko. In addition, the industrial part of Kramatorsk - the enterprises of SKMZ and NKMZ - was shelled that night. The Russians also fired at Ivanovka of the Cherkasy community with cluster munitions and damaged a private house. On July 20, one civilian was killed by Russian shelling - in Konstantinovka. Another five people were injured.
08:58 Yermak again stated that now "it is important not to let the Russians drag us out of the war into the winter," and announced "many surprises": "The President is serious and ready to do everything so that we liberate our territories as soon as possible. Ready talk to world leaders, convey Ukraine's position to them. A lot depends on the training of our soldiers. We will turn the tide of this war. Soon there will be many surprises."
08:24 A number of US senators called on the Pentagon to provide Ukraine with modern fighters. This is stated in a letter from politicians to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, which is published by Fox News.
In turn, the US Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Brown supported the training of Ukrainian pilots to fly NATO aircraft and admitted the possibility of transferring military aircraft to Ukraine, but did not specify which ones.
08:11 Peskov said that neither Putin nor Lavrov "never said that the issue of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev is closed."
07:58 A Russian tank opened fire on Ukrainian combine operators who drove into the field, said Alexander Vilkul, head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog. According to him, the incident took place on July 20 near the village of Koshevoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region: "Two of our harvesters were gathering grain near the village of Koshevoye, an enemy tank drove out and began to aim at these combines. Thank God, the guys managed to escape. There were only small shrapnel hits on the equipment."
Vilkul also said that tonight the invaders again fired at the Nikopol district from Gradov - more than 20 rockets were fired at the Krasnogrigoryevsk community. There were no casualties.
07:46 Gas began to flow to Germany again via Nord Stream after technical work, DPA reports with reference to Nord Stream AG.
07:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled the assault on the Uglegorsk TPP, fighting continues in the Novolugansky area in the Bakhmut direction and near Ivano-Daryevka in the Kramatorsk direction, the General Staff reports in the morning report .
07:11 Polish scientists have named a new species of sea lily discovered in Africa, about 150 million years old, in honor of Zelensky. The find was named Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi "in honor of the sixth and current President of Ukraine, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelensky, for his courage and bravery in defending a free Ukraine," according to an article in the scientific journal Royal Society Open Science. Fossils found in Ethiopia. This is the first representative of the echinoderms of the Jurassic period, which was found on the African continent.
06:28 Invaders massively fired at Nikolaev at night, the mayor of the city Alexander Senkevich reported.
05:33 The United States estimates the losses of the Russian Federation in Ukraine "in the region of 15 thousand killed and somewhere three times more wounded," said CIA director William Burns. At the same time, he noted that the Ukrainians also suffered considerable losses: "And the Ukrainians also suffered - probably a little less, but still, you know, these are significant losses."
05:05 The German state railway company Deutsche Bahn plans to transport grain by freight trains from Ukraine to German ports, Reuters reports. Deutsche Bahn said that they are already working on the formation of a transport network designed to transport humanitarian aid, deliver grain from Ukraine to the German ports of Rostock, Hamburg and Brake. The railway operator plans to run several trains a week, most of the grain will be transported through Romania and Poland.
04:36 In Melitopol, the Russian invaders intend to take away apartments from those residents of the city who bought them before February 19 this year, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said on the air of the telethon. He said that the occupiers make a total tour of all residential buildings and apartments and conduct a population census: “They look at who lives in the apartment, and they look especially carefully at when the ownership right or the sale and purchase agreement is formalized. Everything that is formalized before February 19 ", the enemy does not recognize. He says that he will take these apartments and settle in them some of his residents from distant regions of Russia."
Fedorov also said that the occupiers demand that the entrepreneurs who remained in the occupied territories re-register with their "tax office".
04:01 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the current Russian offensive in the Donetsk region may end with the capture of Slavyansk or Bakhmut. Analysts predict that the current Russian offensive in Donbas will result in minor territorial gains northeast of the E40 highway and culminate somewhere along the E40 in the coming weeks. In doing so, Russian forces will encounter terrain that will be much more favorable to the Ukrainian defenders as they advance towards the E40 around Sloviansk and Bakhmut.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have resumed limited ground attacks northwest of Slavyansk and in the Donetsk-Avdiivka area. The invaders continued local ground advances east of Seversk and achieved minor successes northeast of Bakhmut.
Experts also suggest that the Russian occupation authorities are using the latest Ukrainian precision strikes and partisan activities to create conditions for the mass deportation of Ukrainian citizens to the territory of the Russian Federation.
02:14 Ukrainian defenders in the south inflicted ten air strikes on the enemy - by helicopters, bombers and attack aircraft, the Pivden Operational Command reported. The destruction of a command and command and observation post, six more ammunition depots in the Kherson, Berislav and Kakhov regions was confirmed.
00:39 France will allocate 85 million euros to replenish stocks of the Caesar self-propelled guns, which she transferred to Ukraine, said the Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu: "The package of 85 million euros will allow us to carry out this replenishment, the point is not to cause harm training and training plans of our shooters".
00:52 Russia's war against Ukraine is likely to escalate into a protracted military conflict, General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "Today is the 147th day since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, illegal and unprovoked, large-scale, strong against weak. This struggle is likely to remain a protracted conflict."
Milli also said that weapons are delivered to Ukraine from the United States within 48 hours after Biden's decision, and to the front line after two weeks of training.
00:24 Every day , Russia spends about $400 million on military operations in Ukraine , Forbes calculated. One of the smallest items of expenditure in the war is the salaries of military personnel.
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[KavkazUzel] The authorities are looking for more than 22,000 military personnel through the state portal "Jobs of Russia"; more than 3,600 vacancies fall on the regions of the south and the North Caucasus. The Rostov Region is the leader in terms of the number of such vacancies, Important Stories reported.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that information regularly appears about sending volunteers to Ukraine. Thus, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, often reports about the dispatch of volunteer detachments from Chechnya to participate in a special operation, including residents of other regions of the country. In addition, on May 18, he announced that about 3,000 Chechen fighters had been sent to Ukraine since the beginning of the military special operation. On July 10, Ramzan Kadyrov called rumors about the forced Chechen residents to fight in Ukraine.
In the state database of vacancies "Work of Russia" created by the Federal Service for Labor and Employment, vacancies for admission to contract service are published. 2,075 vacancies - more than in other regions of the country, are open for contract service in the Rostov region. In mid-June, the authorities searched for more than 22,200 thousand military personnel through the state portal "Work of Russia", the publication "Important stories" reported today in its Telegram channel.
In general, in the regions of the South and North Caucasus, more than 3,600 contract workers are looking for through the labor exchange: 690 vacancies are open in the Krasnodar Territory, 588 in the Volgograd Region, 124 in the Stavropol Territory, 103 in Chechnya, 60 in North Ossetia and 12 in Kalmykia, the publication says. site of the publication "Important stories." The authorities do not announce mobilization, but continue to massively recruit contract soldiers and immediately send them to Ukraine to compensate for the lack of people, the publication believes.
"Employment services are just an auxiliary channel for recruitment. Contract soldiers have always been recruited mainly from conscripts: they are regularly offered to conclude a contract during their service," the publication quoted military expert Pavel Luzin as saying.
Contractors are not required to go to Ukraine, but if there is an order, it is difficult to refuse to comply with it, Pavel Luzin explained. “You can refuse to carry out an order only through a report, and such a report is a black mark for a serviceman, this will turn the service into hell before the contract expires. opinion In fact, the army is a collective organism, and you are either with the team or against it, but then the team is against you," the expert explained.
According to the state portal "Work of Russia", in the Rostov region, private and sergeant personnel are offered from 80,000 to 200 thousand rubles when serving under a contract, in Chechnya, military personnel in junior command positions are offered from 25 to 100 thousand rubles, in the Krasnodar Territory - from 15 to 45 thousand rubles. Servicemen in the Astrakhan region are offered from 20 thousand rubles, in the Stavropol Territory - from 22 to 41 thousand rubles.
Recall that on June 3, a military court in Chechnya appointed ten days of arrest for Ali Musaev, an employee of the military commandant's office, because of his refusal to go on a business trip "to the area where special tasks are being carried out."
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:52 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that the following will be transferred to Kiev in the near future:
- 20 self-propelled guns M109;
- 36 towed howitzers L119;
- counter-battery radar;
- 1,600 anti-tank weapons;
- a large number of UAVs, including loitering ammunition;
- over 50,000 artillery shells of Soviet caliber.
Armaments were mainly purchased by London for Ukraine in third countries.
21:49 In Poland, they are assembling their own territorial defense capable of waging street battles. Now in the Polish defense forces there are 15 brigades with a total number of 32,000 fighters. New brigades will be deployed - one in Warsaw, two more - near the Ukrainian border. The recruits will be trained not only by Polish officers, but also by instructors from the US and the UK. Official Warsaw declares that "all militarization measures are exclusively defensive in nature and are aimed at protecting against external threats." 21:44 The National Security and Defense Council and the Ministry of Defense have launched a system for tracking the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. This was announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov. True, access to it, according to Danilov, will have a very limited circle of people:
"The system is absolutely closed. Only the military-political leadership of our state has access to it. However, thanks to her, we know that not a single bullet from the supply has disappeared anywhere."
21:43 The main thing from the statement of the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev:
▪️In total, since the beginning of the special operation, Russian sappers have checked more than 4,700 hectares of the territory of Donbass, defused 102,695 explosive objects;
▪️Ukrainian soldiers in Russian uniforms demonstratively engaged in robbery in Slavyansk, while filming;
▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing and sniper positions in the houses of the city of Kramatorsk in the DPR, and placed MLRS in the yards.
20:28 Map from Reuters, showing the places of the most intense fighting in Ukraine from July 6 to 12, created on the basis of satellite images and data on the fires. Each red dot is usually a shelling point - the more there are in one place, the more intense the shelling or clash was.
19:44 Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu handed over stars of "Heroes of Russia" to the participants of the special military operation in Ukraine:
- Deputy commander of the fighter aviation regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Ilya Sizov;
- commander of a tank regiment, Colonel Ivan Shits;
- Flamethrower platoon commander Senior Lieutenant Andrey Solovyov.
18:35 As previously reported yesterday and as a result of a strike by Ukrainian kamikaze drones on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, 11 plant specialists were injured, four of them are still in a stable serious condition.
Physicians provide all necessary medical care. According to doctors, there is no threat to life. We keep in touch with the families of the victims, they will be provided with all the necessary assistance. The nuclear power plant is operating normally, the radiation background is normal.
18:35 On enemy targets in Mykolaiv region applied impacts: pillars of smoke are visible from the arrivals
17:01 UK put to Ukraine a new batch of weapons. The UK will supply Ukraine with a batch of 105mm L-119 artillery pieces (36 units) and 20 155mm M-109 self-propelled guns. Together with them, 50 thousand shells will be delivered. In addition, Kyiv will receive more than a hundred drones and radars from the British for counter-battery combat.
16:05 Soldiers of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complain that the officers of the brigade beat their brother to death. The Ukrainian 36th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade had been on the front line in southern Donetsk since 2015, and was the main Ukrainian military unit defending Mariupol 15:28 All tasks of the SVO will be completed so that it is "calm, peaceful and comfortable" in Donbass - Medvedev at a meeting with refugees
14:07 Russian special services in Kherson revealed a group of wounded Ukrainian servicemen hiding in the region. All of them were provided with comprehensive medical care in one of the hospitals in the Kherson region.
The Ukrainian servicemen made a request to include them in the exchange lists. However, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a manner characteristic of the junta, wrote off the guys who, without proper equipment, were thrown to the front line like cannon fodder.
14:06 The UK will send 50,000 artillery shells and hundreds of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in the coming weeks. This was stated by Minister of Defense Ben Wallace.
12:31 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
▪️More than 600 militants were killed on July 16 by a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on a point of temporary deployment of nationalists in a recreation center in the Odessa region;
▪️Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kramatorsk region shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force;
▪️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed a battery of MLRS "Uragan" and a battery of self-propelled artillery howitzers "Acacia" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region;
▪️More than 320 nationalists were destroyed by the strike of the RF Armed Forces on July 17 at the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev;
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Mykolaiv region, as well as five UAVs in the Kharkiv region and the DPR;
▪️Mobilized residents of the western regions of Ukraine refuse to go to Donbass due to significant losses in the east of the country;
▪️Servicemen of the 100th Terodefense Brigade in Lutsk refused to take part in the hostilities;
▪️The RF Armed Forces intercepted eight Ukrainian shells of the Urgan MLRS in the Kherson and Kharkov regions.
11:32 The result of the night blows according to the Ukrainian warehouse in Nikolaev
10:58 The air defense system over Kherson, where the Armed Forces are shelling the bridge, is being strengthened, new forces are on alert, the authorities of the region said.
09:55 The RF Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kharkiv. According to Country V, the strikes were carried out last night on Ukrainian units in Kharkiv and military depots.
"A series of arrivals in Kharkov. Warehouses and locations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the source said. According to him, again, strikes were inflicted on Chuguev in the Kharkiv region.
08:55 The CAA of the Kherson region reports a new attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to attack the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson. 12 HIMARS missiles were fired - all were shot down.
08:01 The roof of the elevator in the city of Pologi in the Zaporozhye region collapsed due to fire, caused by shelling from the APU. Now it is not possible to extinguish the elevator, since the plant is constantly under fire from the Ukrainian troops.
07:06 The US Air Force Chief of Staff said that Western countries could soon supply fighter jets to Ukraine.
01:13 Information about explosions in Kherson is spreading. Air defense works over the city.
01:03 Night battles: The Russian army hit the enemy positions in Chuguev near Kharkov, in Nikopol and Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
0:36 Crimea will give Zaporozhye and Kherson regions 70 grain harvesters. The first batch of six harvesters will be sent to the Zaporozhye region on July 21, the Crimean Ministry of Information reported.
0:28 Fire defeat of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a kamikaze drone in the Kherson direction. During the fighting in the Kherson direction, separate units of the airborne troops of the RF Armed Forces used the Russian kamikaze drone Kub-BLA against the positions of Ukrainian formations.
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Yes, Frank, it is news when a large nation invades a smaller neighbor because it can't stand to sit back and watch it develop into a democratic nation on it's border.
Maybe not to soul less people like you are, but, it is to normal humans.
Here, Frank, maybe you or one of your relatives is next for this kind of treatment since you think so little of it happening to others.
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News.
It's happened for thousands of years, and I don't approve of it now. Your point? Nobody wants it. You seem to be intimately aware of it and have the capacity to do something about it, right? Why are you here posting symp tweets, and not doing kinetic resistance?
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Yes, Frank, it is news when a large nation invades a smaller neighbor because it can't stand to sit back and watch it develop into a democratic nation on it's border.
Rantburg has been tracking all that since 9/11/2001, Omineling Forkbeard1962. Quite a few of us have privately or professionally been tracking it all for decades before that.
The proper response from you, Omineling Forkbeard1962, is an apology to Frank G. for your rudeness and — after you have read it — florid thanks to badanov for all his hard work in learning both Russian and Ukrainian so he can give us both perspectives.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:50 The DPR reports that 624 artillery shots has already been fired at the DPR today 21:19 Lukashenko said that Belarus is cooperating with Crimea, the LPR and the DPR, de facto recognized their status, if necessary, recognizes it by presidential decree, media reports
20:46 Ukrainian troops fired ten shells with a caliber of 155mm in the direction of Gorlovka, three shells with a caliber of 152mm were fired at Donetsk, reported representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the ceasefire regime.
"Shells were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions: 1930 hrs (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Dyleevka - the settlement of Gorlovka: 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired,” the message says in the Telegram channel of the representative office.
20:46 Ukrainian troops fired on Dolomitnoe and Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People's Republic with NATO-caliber shells, informs representation of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC).
19:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR: over the current day, according to information from the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired more than 470 shells from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, barreled artillery of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120 and 82 mm caliber mortars, and also used unguided aircraft rockets with a caliber of 80mm (without the use of aviation).
The fire was fired at areas of 15 settlements of the Republic. As a result of the shelling, five civilians were injured. Twenty-five residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about the injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
We regret to inform you that in the performance of military duty in the struggle for independence, three defenders of the Donetsk People's Republic were killed and eleven were injured. We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
19:21 Unfortunately, the guy V.V.V., who was wounded in the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova, died before the ambulance arrived on his birthday. He was only 19 years old.
19:10 The Kurensky family from the village of Novosvetlovka, whose house was destroyed as a result of hostilities in 2014, received a new house in Krasnodon as part of the implementation of the state target program "Maintaining housing and social facilities in the Luhansk People's Republic in proper condition for 2022-2024 years." This was reported by the press service of the administration of Krasnodon and the Krasnodon region.
18:37 As a result of the shelling of the village of the mine. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) on the street. Ordzhonikidze was wounded by a civilian. Alas, today in Gorlovka there are already four civilians who suffered from Ukrainian aggression.
18:36 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Ozaryanovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Izotov mine): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Mineral: fired three mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 11 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Kondratievka): four rounds fired 122mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - Donetsk (Leninsky district): four rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
18:23 Khartsyzsk, Makeevka - air defense is working.
17:57 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: eight each 122 mm rounds were fired;
-n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of sh-you named after Gagarin): seven rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Gorlovka (Kondratievka): four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:53 The first deputy chairman of the all-Russian public organization of veterans "Combat Brotherhood" awarded medals to the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik and life support workers.
17:46 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Red Partizan: fired five rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): seven missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalinin district): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
17:36 Consequences of today shelling at 6 Ivana Franko St. in Yasinovatoi
17:27 eyewitness testimony: how Ukrainian "defenders" destroyed Severodonetsk
"They pretended to defend the city. They destroyed the city, destroyed shops. Who did they fight? They hid behind people. They said: "We will die, and you will be with us." Well, what kind of protection is that? Is that how they protect their people?
Local resident Mikhail tells how VFU "liberated" the city of Severodonetsk: how they robbed pharmacies in search of drugs, and then, while intoxicated, destroyed shops, fired at queues for humanitarian aid and hid behind the backs of civilians...
17:11 According to preliminary information, as a result of the shelling by the armed formations of Ukraine of the village of the mine named after. Kalinin at the address: st. Krasnoselskaya, 34, a civilian was wounded.
In the village of the Gagarin mine, damage to residential buildings was recorded at the following addresses: st. Stozhka, 138, st. Yaroshenko, 33, 37, 41, 43, 16, near the street. Stozhka, 125, 127 the gas pipeline was broken.
17:05 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 10 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: five rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:28 Destruction of anti-personnel mines "petal" that were scattered along the residential streets of the city of Yasinovataya with the help of a rocket launcher MLRS Uragan.
16:28 Ukrainian militants are shelling the village of the Gagarin mine. The village is empty.
15:51 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleymonovka: eight each 155mm rounds were fired;
- n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): 15 mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Golmovsky: seven missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: five rounds fired from the tank;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk: five mines fired in 120mm caliber.
15:30 The People's Front, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered food packages for needy residents in the village. Cretaceous
15:06 Denis Pushilin and Vitaly Ganchev signed a joint communiqué between the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic and the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kharkiv region.
15:04 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nikolaevka-2 - n.p. Dolomite: fired 15 rounds of 122mm caliber;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 13 rounds with a caliber of 155mm.
14:55 The Russians are replacing the emergency section of the Aidar conduit with a length of more than 1 km. The Aidar main water conduit from the Aidarskaya VNS-2 to the city of Lugansk with a diameter of 900 mm and a length of more than 15 km was laid in 1977. Currently, specialists from the Russian Federation, together with employees of the State Unitary Enterprise of the LPR "Luganskvoda", are replacing the emergency section of the pipeline with a length of 1.155 km using a new high-quality plastic pipe. Works are carried out by the method of sanitation.
14:36 Minister of Agriculture and Food Yuriy Pronko about the pig-breeding complex being built near the urban-type settlement of Georgievka, Lutuginsky district: "A unique enterprise, there was no such enterprise during the years of independent Ukraine, and even during the years of the Soviet Union."
14:31 During the morning hours, VFU fired about 150 large-caliber shells (rocket and barrel artillery) in the city of Yasinovataya and the Yasinovatsky district. In the city and the district, houses of the private sector received multiple destructions. All fires in the city have been extinguished. The city's power supply has been restored.
14:31 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Vodyane - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky districts): five missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad";
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yakovlevka: three missiles fired from BM-21 Grad.
13:53 The head of the administration of Donetsk, Aleksey Kulemzin, spoke in detail about the consequences of the shelling: “as a result of the shelling of the Kirovsky district, private houses were destroyed:
- st. Priozernaya, 72 - a direct hit, the house is completely destroyed;
- st. Priozernaya, 74 - the roof is damaged;
- st. Krasnaya Zarya, 61 - the glazing is damaged.
13:24 APU released 10 rounds shells of 152mm caliber in the Kirovsky district of the city of Donetsk. Everything flies through residential buildings.
13:15 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): five rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): five rounds fired caliber 152mm;
12:41 Accurate blows by Aerospace Forces of Russia on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.
12:40 Personnel objective control of the development of positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine between the village of Lisichansky and the village of Spornoye by the forces of the 6th detachment of B.A.R.S.
12:30 DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Dolomite: fired nine mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: four mines of 120mm caliber were fired.
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired 14 rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Ozaryanovka - n.p. Gorlovka: 10 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: 12 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
- n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka: six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
12:11 As a result of the shelling, a field near the street caught fire. Vodnaya, the village of Korolenko.
12:10 Against the backdrop of significant losses in the east of Ukraine, residents of the western regions mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to go to Donbass. Thus, the military personnel of the 100th Territorial Defense Brigade in the city of Lutsk, Volyn region, in full force refused to participate in hostilities. The brigade was disarmed by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the instigators were arrested, and a decision was made to reorganize this unit.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Kramatorsk region of the Donetsk People's Republic shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
11:52 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- n.p. Dzerzhinsk (Yuzhnaya mine) - n.p. Gorlovka (village named after Gagarin): released in six mines with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: three rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 20 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Ozeryanovka: 10 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:49 The head of the LPR, Pasechnik, accused Google of conducting "targeted propaganda of terrorism and extremism," and said that the republic could cope without Google.
"We don’t need such information arrivals either from Ukraine or from the West. We can do it without Google. If they fix it, they start respecting people, we’ll think about returning," Pasechnik wrote on Telegram.
11:33 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Marinka - n.p. Aleksandrovka: 10 each 122mm rounds were fired;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: nine rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: four rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:31 N.A. Pokrovskoye (a suburb of Artyomovsk) came under the control of the Allied Forces.
11:17 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Dacha - n.p. Zaitsevo: fired seven mines in 82mm caliber;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Codema - n.p. Golmovsky: eight rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:14 AFU conduct aimed fire at the village of Golmovsky, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka
11:03 At least two HIMARS operate in the southern direction, including in the Kherson region, the rest - in the Donbass, a RIAN source in the Russian law enforcement agencies said.
According to him, the HIMARS crews are staffed by NATO military personnel who have been withdrawn from the state, and are guarding installations associated with the PMC Pentagon.
Targeting takes place through American military satellites, while NATO does not trust the Ukrainians - only the launch time and coordinates of targets fall into their possession.!
10:42 In Volnovakha, they started pouring the foundations of new five-story houses.
10:06 JCCC DPR Recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Nelepovka - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement sh-you named after Gagarin): seven mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 12 shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: six shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation as of July 21, 2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
-31 personnel;
-six armored personnel carriers;
-three units of automotive equipment;
-two long-term firing points;
Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic. So, yesterday, sappers of the NM LNR cleared more than nine hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Belaya Gora and Podlesnoe.
The people's militia of the LPR seeks to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and calls to lay down their arms, so the artillery units of the defense department continue to cover the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with propaganda leaflets.
The forces of the NM of the LPR, together with public organizations, continue to deliver humanitarian aid to residents of the liberated territories of the Republic. So, yesterday, with the assistance of the People's Militia of the LPR, representatives of the "People's Front" delivered the first humanitarian cargo to needy residents in Novodruzhesk, which included food, hygiene products and baby food.
09:55 LPR farmers threshed more than 330,000 tons of early cereals and legumes. This was reported in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the LPR.
09:21 Shelling in Yasinovataya. Fires in private houses have been reported.
09:11 Cars of the next, 171st, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 50 tons of food to Lugansk. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
08:53 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Share: five rounds fired caliber 152mm;
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Dolomite: fired five rounds with a caliber of 155mm;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
08:41 Konstantinovka (temporarily controlled by the Ukrainians) the base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed.
08:35 In the period from 02/17/2022 to 07/21/2022, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded:
-1,034 shots on the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine with the use of heavy weapons.
-In total, the enemy used 10,400 rounds of various calibers, including missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (33 missiles) and the American M142 HIMARS MLRS (32 missiles), MLRS (BM-21 Grad, BM-27 Uragan, BM -30 "Smerch") - 2,164 shells.
- 295 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression during the above period, of which 74 people died and 221 were injured. As a result of the shelling, three children were killed and 19 children were injured.
- Destroyed and damaged 1,904 houses in 31 settlements. 173 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Representation of the LPR in the JCCC.
07:30 Personnel clearance of Mariupol airport by the Russian military.
07:15 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the VFU in the direction:
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[REGNUM] Ukraine will not be able to win back all the territories occupied by Russian troops. This was stated by the head of Estonian foreign intelligence Mikka Marran, speaking at a security forum held in Aspen.
According to the news portal of the Estonian state television and radio broadcasting ERR, while Marran continues to believe in the victory of Ukraine in the confrontation with Russia: "It will not be easy, it will take time, and Ukraine probably will not be able to return all its territories."
He added that in the strategic plan, Russia "will fail to achieve its goal of conquering Kyiv and most of Ukraine."
According to Marran, a quick end to the military conflict is not expected: "It will take time until Ukraine is ready to go on the counteroffensive and win back at least part of the territories."
He also noted that dozens of Russian officials, diplomats and big businessmen privately admit that they oppose the CVO in Ukraine.
#1
I said that 4 months ago! I also said that 2023 will be a year of civil unrest and assassinations in Europe and USA
That is why the Russophobic immigrants resident posters have anxiety and mental health issues at the regard.
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Lavrov gives the biggest official signal yet that Russia is planning to annex southern Ukraine.
"Now the geography has changed. It's not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it's Kherson, Zaporizhia, and several other territories. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent." pic.twitter.com/xN6IMmAr5R
[Axios] The U.S. has intelligence indicating the Kremlin is "reviewing detailed plans" to annex multiple Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday.
Why it matters: The four regions — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk — are contiguous and together would connect Russia with the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow occupied and annexed in 2014.
Annexing them would mean claiming large swaths of Ukraine's territory and fundamentally shifting the outlook for any peaceful resolution to the war.
The big picture: Ukrainian officials have been warning for months that Russia's shadow government in Kherson was issuing Russian passports, mandating the use of the Russian ruble, and potentially planning a "referendum" on joining Russia. The plan Kirby laid out, which echoes U.S. intelligence warnings made in May, would be even more drastic.
Russia has previously denied any intention to annex additional parts of Ukraine. The Kremlin decided against annexing Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014, opting instead to arm and support separatist "republics" there.
Russia took control of most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine in the early days of the war. In its current offensive in eastern Ukraine, Russia has cemented its control of Luhansk and is now focusing on Donetsk. Read the rest at the link
#3
^ For once, I agree with you. At least I hope so. But this shit is going to go on well past that. The conflict long brewing between the globalist bastards and sovereign nations has just had its first flashpoint. The huffing and puffing will not stop. And there're so many Zelenskys in the world... everybody wants to be a prince, with the sceptre of Brussels on his shoulder. They've already started a micro 'revolution' to oust Vlad himself.
#9
The purported basis of the border realignment is the domestic population being culturally and historically Russian. To some that seems an acceptable form of reasoning for the invasion and occupation.
Now consider the possible long-term dissection of the United States through the cultural realignment of the past thirty years of illegal immigration. Even ten years ago I would have scoffed at such an absurd idea, But, with an estimated 8-10 MILLION illegals added by Biden to the 30+ already settled in over since the Clinton flood began, not as ridiculous as it once sounded. One world power would benefit the most from our decline and fracturing, and they seem behind so much of what has happened in the past decade, up to an including the present, the CCP.
The Reconquista ("reconquest") is a term to describe an irredentist vision by different individuals, groups, and/or nations that the Southwestern United States should be politically or culturally returned to Mexico
#10
The more territory they lose, the lower the bill for us to rebuild the place after it is all over. In actuality, it probably won't matter as all the money is getting stolen regardless.
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Now consider the possible long-term dissection of the United States through the cultural realignment of the past thirty years of illegal immigration. Even ten years ago I would have scoffed at such an absurd idea,
This idea is not the least bit absurd. It has been a cause for great concern for many more than 10 years for many of us in southern California. And when Brandon has replaced all the straight, white males in the military with LGBTQ+ POC, who will be left to resist?
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#2
"Battle tanks"? Stupid journalists, I swear. These people do not understand what they are talking about. Battle tanks is like writing a story about agriculture and talking about fuzzy duckies and bunnies. It's the same level of lack of understanding.
[CNBC] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday gave investors his top stock picks for three different recession outcomes.
"We’ve got mild, we’ve got moderate and we’ve got severe. ... . Can we avoid a recession altogether? There’s always the chance," but investors shouldn’t hold their breath, he said.
Investors have piled into tech stocks this week, betting on a market bottom and driving this week’s rally. All the major averages gained on Thursday.
The "Mad Money" host said that while he’s outlining three possible scenarios for the economy and his favorite stocks for each, investors shouldn’t build their portfolios by betting on just one outcome. "You need something for every possibility," he said.
Here are his top stock picks for a possible mild, moderate or severe recession.
#1
Screw Jim Cramer, I want Pelosi's picks. She is a stock genius.
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Disclosure: Cramer’s Charitable Trust owns shares of Amazon, Constellation Brands, Coterra, Johnson & Johnson and Pioneer Natural Resources.
Pump&Dump
[Bloomberg via Western Journal] The Ford Motor Co. is expected to slash 8,000 jobs in the coming weeks to help fund its push into the electric-vehicle market, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.
Workers in the Ford Blue unit tasked with manufacturing internal combustion engine vehicles and employees working for the company’s other departments could lose their jobs under the to-be-finalized layoff plan, according to the report, which cited "people familiar with the plan."
If finalized, the layoffs are expected to occur in stages, starting this summer, Bloomberg reported. It said most of the job cuts are expected to occur among the company’s 31,000-strong U.S. workforce.
According to Bloomberg, the layoffs would help fund the company’s electronic vehicle expansion by cutting costs and increasing profitability.
The company has announced several significant steps toward that end in recent months.
QUICK QUESTION:
Where is all this extra required Electricity Coming from?
Maybe the shutdown Fossil Fuel (COAL) powered Power plants? Because Nukes take years just to get Earth Hugger approval, then 7 to 10 years to build. Solar Power Panels? Also think amount the rare earth materials needed and the massive amount of needed to extract, produce and install. All Energy not available.
#4
There is no excess capacity to be had. Solar will not supply the demand for EV. The bastards in power know this and it's all part of the plan to eliminate our ability to travel. Easier to control a population that can't escape.
#5
What if a MAGA candidate made eliminating the EV subsidy a plank in their campaign platform in Michigan? I think the result would be chaos in a good way.
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[Washington Examiner] Top Western companies continue to abandon operations in China and Russia, highlighting the obstacles to profitability in the powerful Eurasian countries.
On July 18, fast-fashion retailer H&M announced that it would be "winding down" its operations in Russia due to "current operational challenges and an unpredictable future," becoming the latest business to depart Russia as a result of its attack on neighboring Ukraine. The invasion has killed thousands of civilians and demolished cities, prompting global outcry and sanctions.
"After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia," Helena Helmersson, CEO of H&M Group, said in a statement.
That same day, automotive manufacturer Stellantis revealed that it was ending a joint venture with Guangzhou Automobile Group, or GAC, to build Jeep vehicles in China and would instead focus on importing the SUVs. Stellantis cited "a lack of progress in the previously announced plan for Stellantis to take a majority share of the GAC-Stellantis joint venture" as the reason for the exit.
"Stellantis intends to cooperate with GAC Group in an orderly termination of the joint venture formed in March 2010, which has been loss-making in recent years, and will recognize a non-cash impairment charge of approximately €297 million in its first half 2022 results," the company said.
[IsraelTimes] German officials had feared that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas — might not reopen at all, amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
[Gateway] Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who was named the "most powerful man in Europe" just months ago, was officially relieved of his post on Thursday after failing to garner enough support from his ruling party ahead of yesterday’s no-confidence vote in Parliament.
"After yesterday’s debate I have drawn my conclusions," Draghi explained briefly before his meeting with the President.
The Italian Parliament also announced that it would dissolve following Draghi’s announcement.
After rejecting his request last week, Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted Draghi’s resignation, making the PM the FIFTH international leader to have stepped down from their position in recent weeks (not to even mention dozens of lower-level elected officials that have been ousted). The former PM will, however, continue to remain in charge of "current affairs" until a replacement is named. The move puts the country on course to hold snap elections by as early as mid-September or early October, according to several news sources.
#1
See? It's not even about representation anymore. It's just no-confidence motions and poaching members and crossing aisles, the political class and elites rotating mandates among themselves. Democracy, the biggest con of our civilization, finally its facade is crumbling. And everywhere.
#2
^ A big theme of the Z Blog writer is that democracy is not a stable or desirable system. It's amusing that the same idiots who say the US Constitution (which does not describe a democracy) is "outdated," while they screech about the need for a much more vague system that is downright ancient.
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#3
Dron, before you start the chicken little routine, be aware, the Italian have seen their government collapse 67 times since the end of WW2. It's not meaningful.
#4
#3 Dron, before you start the chicken little routine, be aware, the Italian have seen their government collapse 67 times since the end of WW2. It's not meaningful.
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#6
As I said yesterday, Five Year Plans never seemed to work out. The Gerbalists at the WEF and Davos are in for a sad ending.
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#7
As a Cleveland Brown's fan, I am deeply offended that this entire Great Reset appears to be entirely cribbed from Sashi Brown's short tenure as Brown's GM. No one could tank a franchise like Sashi. I am surprised that Biden was never considered for a Brown's HC job during Sashi's reset.
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#6 Unfortunately, it will be a shared experience.
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[cybernews.com]While Boston Dynamics show off their robot’s dance moves, others turn similar-looking devices into dystopian killing machines.
Much like their flesh-made cousins, robot dogs do not lack attention on the internet. Many have seen the footage of Spot, a high-tech quadruped developed by the US-based company Boston Dynamics, flaunting its dance moves.
However, the latest addition to the robot dog content stream looks like something out of a science fiction movie. Twitter user Sean Chiplock shared a video of someone in Russia firing a gun from a quadruped robot.
Even though the post’s author discusses robots Boston Dynamics make, the one seen in the video is not made by the American company. As Sean Gallagher, a Senior Threat Researcher at Sophos points out, the robot dog is of Chinese origin.
The design of the robot looks a lot like Go1 robot dog Unitree Robotics makes. For example, the back side of the device in the video exhibits a distinct pattern on a plastic covering between its hind legs. A similar design is visible on devices in Unitree’s promotional material.
The Hangzhou-based company is selling the Go1 model of the robot for $2,700 on its website, a fraction of over $75k that American-made Spot would cost its owner.
While the robot doesn’t seem to handle recoil very well with the gun on ’burst fire’ mode, switching to a ’semi-automatic’ setting allows the robot to hit targets without moving around too much.
The robot in the video has patches on its surfaces with insignia associated with the Russian military: a Russian flag on one side and what seems to be a Wolf, which Russian special forces use.
The original video was posted on Youtube by Moscow-resident Alexander Atamanov.ecently reports came out that the US Army had agreed to send one of its two Boston Dynamic-made robot dogs to Ukraine, where it will carry out demining operations around the capital Kyiv.
The robot dog will help an American non-profit HALO Trust remove unexploded ordnance, including cluster munitions, and drag them to be safely exploded in batches far from civilians.
Although Boston Dynamics prohibits using the Spot platform as a weapon, its possible application for military and law-enforcement purposes is evident.
The robot dog trained alongside French troops in a reconnaissance exercise earlier this spring. However, its employment in the NYPD ended quickly last year after the public deemed it too creepy.
Fears that robot dogs will be used against humans have been vocal for several years. Most notably, a cult anthology TV series Black Mirror dedicated a whole episode, Metalhead, to the device in 2017.
The plot follows a group of humans hunted by a robot dog. Series creator Charlies Brooker said the inspiration for the episode came after he saw one of Boston Dynamics’ promotional videos.
#5
Instead of putting all the batteries and motors in the cars, why not make cars like soap box derby racers (longest, fastest coast wins) and put EMALS in the roadway every so far? (Yes, I am being facetious)
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#6
After going to the grocery store yesterday with the missus, it feels like we are already living the dystopian future in the present. The only thing missing was Cujo, the robot dog with a machine gun.
#3
Simply put, infinity is every single possible outcome of every single physical change moment existing simultaneously, parallel in time, and that it is the observation of the change moment(s) that creates the particular, singular outcome that is the present for the observer. Consider the trees in the forest falling creating sound only is there is a listening observer question, that observation is in fact a component of the event, not merely witness to it. Regardless, it remains that Schrodinger's cat is always dead for all practical purposes! lol
#4
In one sense, an intellectual abstraction is a form of reality, because it exists, if only in the mind.
In another sense, it's all-night backgammon bong-hit bullshit.
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07/22/2022 12:59 Comments ||
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#5
I've lately been wondering how Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle might apply to the observations of the JWST.
Does looking at something that happened billions of years ago affect what is being observed? I suspect Heisenberg and Einstein would smile, laugh, drink a shot and say "I haff a headache."
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#6
I sometimes think the observer effect, the whole Copenhagen thingy, may also have to do with what Jesus said. In a way.
If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this tree, be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea, and it should obey you.
He didn't say 'if thou art pure of heart' or 'lest thou hast pleased the bishop with 'nuff tithes' etc. Think about it. Just believe it's gonna do something as ridiculous as uproot itself, like a cartoon tree and go and ploop! In the sea.
What if what we're 'observing' is all mutable, malleable, subject to something that only comes from whatever faith is. I don't have it. I have met people who did, but they didn't uproot any trees for my benefit now. They just had enough to get 'em by in this place. Maybe it's given in verrry careful measures to folks doubly triply tested, all QCs passed by Him? Because if someone like me could do the tree thing, why a third of this planet would be dead.
Goddamit how'd I get to here from computing? It's the painkillers.
#11
You have The Word. You know more than you know.
Hey! That's exactly what my mamma used to say, MM. She would say it is a filter, a lamp to walk by even in a world darkened by stupid people who think themselves smart.
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#15
We are all sinners. The Lord will not look away from a Believer.
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#16
"Two time symmetries" is not the same as two time dimensions. I don't think the reporter understood.
Two time dimensions would be pretty cool, though. Several people, myself included, have played with the idea. I think macroscopic extra time dimensions are ruled out on astrophysical grounds, though.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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