California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a gun control bill into law that will allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, sells, transports or distributes illegal "assault weapons and ghost guns."
The measure was crafted in response to last year's Texas abortion ban that prohibits the procedure once a heartbeat was detected and allows private citizens to sue physicians, drivers or anyone else who aids a woman in receiving an abortion for $10,000.
The California gun law would grant $10,000 in damages per weapon to private citizens who sue. Citizens could also be awarded the same amount if they file a lawsuit against someone who illegally sells firearms to people under 21 years of age.
The problem on modelling the one after the other being, in my inexpert opinion, that gun ownership is protected by the U.S. Constitution, while abortion is not, as the US Supreme Court so recently ruled. Sadly, despite his varied life experiences and full head of hair, the honourable governor is a narrowly conventional California Progressive in his politics, as far as I’ve noticed.
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It speaks volumes that California can't come up with a coherent response to the Texas bill. All they can do is say, "FUCK YOU WE'RE DOING THE SAME BUT TO YOU!" in reply.
They're intellectually bankrupt. You'll notice this pattern again and again, when this kind of "reply" is made to a really good point. Once you learn how to spot it, you can't stop noticing it.
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TW, aren't both these laws a little stupid? Not to mention tyrannical? $10k incentive to busybodies of all sorts; from the local gun-hating Karen to Father Bobs of the Holy Bucolic, to effectively act as agents of a nanny state? Don't they both divide in a way?
If someone wants to get an abortion, they're making an immoral choice alright. But what future does a child have if its mother is the sort of person who wants it dead? A future in the foster care system? I have heard horror stories of that which would shame the darn ISIS. Who, or what cares for the child once it's 'saved'?
My point is, both right and left are not fighting over real issues anymore. The left is happy to keep the right engaged in these persnickety things. While it slowly transforms the very foundation of government, society and the definitions of what people think are right and wrong. The right seems pleased with winning really small battles while the war is being lost.
I don't know, maybe it just seems that way to me.
Because where I live, it's not abortions or curbs on moral turpitude of liberals, it's just temples. The 'sentiments' of gods and goddesses and the honor of long dead kings etc. And the masses seem mighty pleased with local governments giving them 'victories' which are actually gossamer and made of hot air. The moslem and the commie and the globalist agent continue to advance.
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If the so-called right didn't have the left to pretend they were opposing, they'd actually have to, you know, accomplish stuff.
All you need to know about the emptiness of the co-opted, so-called right, you can learn at The Z Blog. I don't always agree with him, but he's correct more often than not.
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When shooting anything at a cop is considered a game, well... Must be a cultural thing.
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#4 Dron66046, I would say that killing a baby is more than an "immoral choice." It is a crime, just as killing a person outside the womb is.
As for the alternative, I understand that there are quite a few infertile couples looking to adopt children. Again, I understand the best environment for a child to be raised in is a stable home with married parents. And so adoption is the preferred choice.
Finally, this might make young women think twice about giving it away to anything with pants on. If people were a bit more circumspect about sex before they are in the throes of passion, we might have fewer surprise pregnancies. In fact, I suspect we will see a drop in pregnancies staring almost immediately in states that now restrict abortion.
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The last paragraph is wishful thinking, Tom. All modern social media drives the concept of instant gratification in ways that people in the 50s-60s=70s couldn't even imagine.
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It is a crime, just as killing a person
Okay. Agreed. But are there really as many 'stable' couples, with the moral grounding and the wherewithal to raise all those 'saved' babies? I agree I'm thinking only strategically now. And we're not encouraging abortions or slimy abortionists. You know what class of people go for this sort of life. Folks will take on the responsibility to care for all their children? Who are these wonderful folks?
That being said, I brought a girl from the 'Stain for $4k, brought her to India, set her up good, inserted her in a program for hindu dissidents trying to relocate. I looked in on her time to time. Mrs. 66046 was all for adopting her formally but we couldn't. She's a mommy of three and a fine christian lady now. Point is, I always dreaded she would fuck up one day and her inherent programming would make her return to her 'roots'. But didn't happen, praise Gawd. Maybe I'm wrong, surely I am. Yes, you're probably right. Life must always be given a chance.
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Dron, look up Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation (radiancefoundation.org). He was conceived in rape. His birth mother gave him up for adoption. He was adopted by the Bombergers, who had, I believe, four of their own, who adopted 10 others besides Ryan.
There are other couples out there who will do it.
The funny thing about adoption is that the social services make you jump through hoops, PROVE you are financially and emotionally stable, and all kinds of other things, just to adopt.
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The funny thing about adoption is that the social services make you jump through hoops
But a "homeless" can give birth in an alley, no questions asked...
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We are not all in agreement on the subject, which is why kicking it back to the states is the right call — letting the various cultures across the country work out the consequences of their various beliefs on this subject in their own way. And why I am grateful that in Ohio the new abortion laws provide exceptions for physical danger to the mother if she were forced to carry to term — like that ten year old who was unnecessarily taken across state lines to deal with her mother having shared her with the illegal alien who is still her live-in boyfriend. There are few things for which a single answer is correct in all cases, and there has to be room in both law and morality for that.
The Black Hood kill kill kills Mrs Grundy in the redone series Riverdale. 🤪
Not many people know the Black Hood was a limited run character in a superhero series by Archie comics. Later, Impact comics took it up and made it my favourite hooded vigilante ever. Just... useless trivia.
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I certainly did not know. My Mrs. Grundy dates back to the 19th century, I believe. She is mentioned as a concern in some of the Heinlein tales, which are rooted in the mores of the Edwardian period.
[NewsBusters] Major League Baseball showcased its very best talents in Tuesday’s All-Star Game, and the viewing public said nah, not interested. Television ratings for a fast declining woke league were at rock bottom in the history of all-star game viewing.
Broadcast by Fox Sports, the 2022 all-star game drew just 7.5 million viewers with a lowly 4.2 rating, and Sports Business Journal documented this being the poorest television showing ever for the Midsummer Classic. That’s a 10-percent ratings drop compared to last year’s controversy-dogged game.
Not only is MLB losing popularity for its wokeness, but last year it badly damaged the integrity of the all-star game by removing it from Atlanta for political reasons. The Georgia legislature had enacted new laws designed to protect election integrity. Democrats cried "voter suppression," MLB bought into the lie and moved the 2021 all-star game to Colorado. It was a woke, bone-headed move that sent baseball’s favorability into a free fall.
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Tell me America is dying when zombie stuff like ML and CNN still rakes in billions every year.
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I didn't see any kneeling during the national anthem. So the MLB has that going for them.
OPEN MINDED People do not like being called vial names and blamed for things done by others 50 years ago. To me it is the same as saying all whites are _____. Which is RACIST thinking by BLM types.
Yes, many more fingers than one keyboardist has, but I bet Johann would have liked it anyway.
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I’ve read that the entire family had great fun with music — for generations. I’m sure he would have loved it. Hendrick van Loon’s Lives certainly suggests so, old-fashioned fiction though it is.
[FoxNews] Senate Armed Services Committee recommended the Pentagon halt its programs countering military extremism
A former Green Beret is calling on the Department of Defense to end its hunt for military extremism following a ‘fruitless’ investigation and recommendation from the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"I hope that the DOD and the Biden administration take the recommendation so that our service members can get back to the war-fighting functions that they're supposed to be training on," Derrick Anderson, a retired Green Beret and former congressional candidate in Virginia told Fox News.
The Senate Armed Services Committee submitted its 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the DOD last month, which included a recommendation to halt its programs countering extremism in the ranks.
The report accompanying the bill was approved by narrow margins, 14-12, and states, "the vast majority of service members serve with honor and distinction, and that the narrative surrounding systemic extremism in the military besmirches the men and women in uniform."
"The committee believes that spending additional time and resources to combat exceptionally rare instances of extremism in the military is an inappropriate use of taxpayer funds and should be discontinued by the Department of Defense immediately," the report continues.
Disappointed by the committee's Democrats voting against the recommendation, Anderson said, "as we've seen with the Democrats over and over again, they're digging their heels in on these types of woke policies instead of just coming to the table and saying, ‘hey, maybe we were wrong on this.’"
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a military-wide "stand down" to address extremism in February of 2021, after some defendants charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol were found to have had military ties.
On January 2, 2022, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff detailed the number of hours and dollars spent on fighting this alleged extremism in the ranks. Chairman Milley's letter to the committee indicated that there were 5,359,000 hours and over $500,000 spent on the stand down, not including the cost of compiling the CEAWG report.
"The Senate Armed Services Committee has essentially said that it's a waste of taxpayer dollars to be conducting this training when our service members should be otherwise training for combat," Anderson said of the committee’s recommendation to halt anti-extremism programs.
The Pentagon’s Countering Extremist Activity Working Group (CEAWG), established in April 2021, identified fewer than 100 instances of confirmed extremist activity in 2021, the Pentagon reported in December.
With roughly 2.1 million active and reserve personnel in the U.S. military, 100 cases is roughly .005% of the force.
An internal Defense Department survey found that only 9% of Americans ages 17-24 eligible to serve in the military had any inclination to do so, the lowest number since 2007, according to NBC.
Ret. Lt. Gen. Thomas Spoehr of the Heritage Foundation said this is the most trouble the military has had recruiting since 1973, after the U.S. left Vietnam and ended the draft.
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There is another half of this they are not showing, Retention. Enlistment goals are worked to cover for losses as members leave and don't re-up. So, what are the retention rates for those at 4yrs, 8yrs and 12 years. Those are skilled service members and you don't replace a 8 year experienced vet with a recruit. It's one big calculation of input-process-output in crunching those numbers. If your retention craters and you have terrible recruiting, its over with.
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Reports are Army recruiting is sucking a syphilitic monkey scrotum. The Marines actually exceeded their retention target. Probably because they are not woke (yet).
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I shudder to think if a situation ever develops, what Austin's 100,000 would look like.
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Going to guess the woke cadres are still a conspicuous minority. While they know the administrative corps has their backs, they still swim in a sea where dangerous stuff goes on every day and accidents do happen.
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# 6 Dron -- Oddly "McNamara's 100,000" was the first thing I thought of when I started reading about the shortfalls. A really terrible idea that had terrible consequences, so it's almost certain to happen again.
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The problem with "McNamara's 100,000" was that they left the recruit's brains in their human bodies rather than using them to manage sensors, weapons and vending machines like we are able to do now thanks to improvements in AI and wetware interfaces.
[YouTube] Julius Franklin Howell (January 17, 1846 - June 19, 1948) joined the Confederate Army when he was 16. After surviving a few battles, he eventually found himself in a Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Maryland.
In 1947, at the age of 101, Howell made this recording at the Library of Congress.
Audio has been restored for clarity.
This video is made for educational purposes for fair use under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976.
[NYPOST] A massive brawl that erupted at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom this week has resulted in two arrests as well as bans from the theme park for several alleged participants, according to a report.
The wild fracas between at least 10 people erupted outside Mickey’s PhilharMagic theater at the Orlando, Fla. theme park on Thursday after two families got into an argument while waiting in line, sparking a mass of fisticuffs that landed at least one man in the hospital. Vibrant and Diverse™
One of the alleged participants, who was hauled off in an ambulance and hospitalized due to a large cut on his chin, confirmed the clampdown in a written message to Disney blog Walt Disney World News Today.
"We got banned from Disney forever unless we contact the head," the alleged participant wrote. "2 people from other party got arrested and the rest left, no one from our fam was arrested yet and they still have us here."
The guest claimed that his family had been banned from the Magic Kingdom as well as other Disney properties including their hotel. Meanwhile two members of the other fist-throwing family — all of whom had been dressed identically in red shorts and white, Disney-themed T-shirts — were arrested, the guest claimed.
"They r making us leave our resort which is riviera even though we are here for another 2 weeks," the guest lamented in the message. "We have to leave Disney property including typhoon lagoon, and disney springs."
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It's not overly difficult to figure out the ethnic persuasion of the perpetrators, is it?
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Kenly, NC, is not exactly Boston or San Francisco. So why would they hire someone like this? I am genuinely puzzled.
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...The Town Manager in Question used to work for Richland County, down the hill and across the river from us.
She fancied herself a whistleblower, and wasn't. When that wasn't taken seriously, she made a number of charges of sexual and racial harassment against the County.
Their strength can be gauged by the fact that the Obama Administration EEOC found not a single shred of evidence in ANY of them. More fascinating details at https://www.blythewoodonline.com/2017/05/richland-county-council-at-work/
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So, how many members of city council is she servicing in intimate ways?
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This is not a woke disaster - this is a woke victory. This is what is intended. Know the rules of the game, and you'll understand the what the victory conditions are.
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Fiscally, this don't make no sense to me. How does such a small town afford all these employees?
I wish we could have a new power plant or a new bridge instead of weapons for proxy wars using corrupt countries. But...DC does have its priorities. They don't include us.
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You had all last year to complain about the money we were sending Vladimir Putin, but I guess some waste is more important than others. Oh, and that apartment building they hit with a Kh-31 was full of Nazis.
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Even if they did destroy a few, from what I have been seeing is that they took out a huge amount of officers and alot of ammo dumps before they did.
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LOL. Battle Damage Assessments are notoriously inflated. The US Army Air Force shot down almost twice (x2) the number of Luftwaffe aircraft Germany produced during WW2, for example. Wait until after the conflict when you can compare both sides records.
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Were fiction still Fleming and Clancy,
Not Twitter or Milley or Nancy,
And dummies were decoys,
Not amateur sepoys...
We'd tickle those Muscovites fancy.
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[Korrespondent] 23:44 The Pentagon has begun a preliminary assessment of the possibility of transferring modern fighter jets to Ukraine, said John Kirby, coordinator of the US National Security Council for strategic communications. According to him, the US Department of Defense is conducting "a certain preliminary assessment of the feasibility of a potential provision of fighter jets to Ukraine." At the same time, a White House spokesman warned that this would not happen quickly, given how difficult these aircraft are to fly and maintain.
23:41 Minister for Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk said that today at a closed interdepartmental meeting they discussed the issue of criminal liability for obtaining a Russian passport in the occupied territories. According to her, work is underway on the relevant bill, discussions are still ahead.
23:21 The United States will not transfer ATACMS missiles with a range of 300 km to Ukraine, which can be used in HIMARS systems, Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan said: "There are certain things that, according to the US President, he is not ready to transfer, these include missiles long-range ATACMS, whose range is 300 km.
At the same time, Sullivan emphasized Biden's readiness to do everything possible to support Ukraine, but no less important goal of the president, according to him, is to prevent a world war.
22:57 Ukrainian military personnel in the UK will be trained not only by local specialists, but also by international partners - that is, military instructors from other countries, the press service of the British government said, commenting on the results of today's telephone conversation between Johnson and Zelensky. The report said that the UK is working to expand the training of "thousands" of Ukrainian troops.
22:25 Zelensky commented on the grain export agreement in an evening video message: "Today our state and the entire civilized world have reached an important agreement - there is an agreement that allows us to unblock Ukrainian ports. About 20 million tons of last year's grain harvest will be exported. This year's harvest will it is already being harvested - it will also be possible to sell it. This is the income of farmers, the entire agricultural sector and the state budget. These are jobs. We now already have grain worth about $10 billion."
22:03 Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front have significantly decreased this month, Zelensky told the WSJ. According to him, Ukraine now loses 30 people dead and about 250 wounded every day, despite the fact that at the peak of hostilities in May and June, the losses were from 100 to 200 soldiers per day. The President explained that this was due to the supply of more powerful Western weapons, because if earlier the invaders fired 12,000 artillery shells daily against 1-2 thousand shells of Ukraine, now Ukraine can fire about 6,000 shells a day.
21:51 The Russians fired at the residential quarters of Slavyansk, Donetsk region, with cluster munitions. According to Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, there are at least three wounded, as well as six damaged five-story buildings and several private houses.
21:22 Biden signed a new package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 270 million , said White House spokesman John Kirby, Politico journalist Lara Seligman reports. The package includes five more HIMARS, 580 Phoenix Ghost drones and 36,000 artillery shells , as well as anti-tank weapons.
20:57 Zelensky said that he had held telephone conversations with Johnson: "We talked about increasing the volume of training of Ukrainian soldiers in Britain and other versatile military cooperation. I received assurances that Britain's support for Ukraine remains powerful and unconditional."
20:35 Europol denied the smuggling of weapons from Ukraine and clarified that they had in mind a potential threat, and not specific cases: "Europol is working closely with Ukrainian officials to reduce the threat of arms trafficking in the European Union. We fully trust them, because they are implementing new measures to monitor and trace these firearms."
Europol said in a statement that a potential threat seen in war zones in the past is that firearms could fall into the wrong hands. But at the moment, such facts have not been recorded.
19:57 Ukraine is ready to help Moldova get rid of the Russian occupiers in the unrecognized Transnistria, Kirill Budanov, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, said on the air of the telethon: "I support Moldova's desire to get rid of the occupying troops on its territory. And we, as a state and as a special service, will do everything to ensure that to help the fraternal state get rid of the occupiers on their land."
19:29 The Armed Forces of Ukraine did not allow the enemy to advance in the direction of Pokrovsky in the Bakhmutsky direction, in the directions of Verkhnekamenskoye and Ivano-Daryevka in the Kramatorsk direction, and also repelled the assault in the directions of the villages of Veseloye and Vodyanoye, the General Staff reports in the evening report .
19:15 UN officials hope that the first shipments of grain from Ukrainian ports can begin as early as July 23, and expect to reach the pre-war level of exports of 5 million tons per month within a few weeks, writes The Guardian. According to UN officials, there is hope that the agreement will ensure the passage of grain and essential goods such as sunflower oil from three Ukrainian ports, including Odessa.
The deal also aims to ensure the safe passage of Russian-made fertilizers amid efforts to alleviate the global food crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
18:33 Zelensky created the Primorsky city military administration of the Berdyansk district of the Zaporozhye region. Svetlana Makedonskaya has been appointed head of the Primorskaya GBA.
18:19 "Putin's cook" Yevgeny Prigozhin personally visits the colonies for former security forces and agitates them to fight in Ukraine in the Wagner PMC, promising to have their convictions expunged, said Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net. Former military, police officers, prosecutors in the Russian penal system serve their sentences separately from the rest of the convicts. Osechkin's source claims that at least 167 people have already agreed to become "volunteers."
18:14 The document that was signed today in Istanbul is called the Initiative for the Safe Transportation of Grain and Food from Ukrainian Ports. Ukraine did not sign any documents with Russia. The initiative, signed by representatives of Turkey, the UN and Ukraine, must be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers and made public in full, the UP writes. The same document was signed separately by representatives of Turkey, the UN and the Russian Federation. From the Ukrainian side, the document was signed by Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov, from the Russian side - by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
18:01 Shoigu said that the signed memorandum on UN assistance in the supply of Russian food and fertilizers to world markets and the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian grain are interconnected - this is a single package. According to him, the algorithm was proposed by Russia. Inspection of vessels with Ukrainian grain will be carried out both at the exit and at the entrance to the Black Sea. Shoigu also stressed that the safety of ships in the territorial waters of Ukraine, within the framework of the agreement, should be ensured by Kyiv.
17:42 Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain with the UN and Turkey in Istanbul , RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The deal involves the export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea from three ports (Odessa, Chornomorsk, Yuzhny), the export agreement is valid for 120 days, with the possibility of extension. The ports will not be cleared of mines, the ships will go along safe fairways. Also, the agreement does not imply military escort of ships.
Glad that’s settled — the world will be less hungry than otherwise.
A coordinating center (Russia, Turkey, Ukraine) will be created in Istanbul to monitor the process, which will resolve incidents if they occur. Vessels going to Ukraine will be inspected for the presence of weapons (access will also be received by representatives of Russia). It is assumed that the full movement of ships to and from Ukrainian ports for the export of food may begin in a couple of weeks. The Ukrainian military is confident that the routes agreed upon under the deal are safe.
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that Shoigu and the UN Secretary General signed a memorandum on facilitating the supply of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to the world market.
17:24 The European Commission has prepared an emergency plan due to the threat of Russia cutting off gas supplies to Europe. Among other things, he suggests that by March next year, EU member states should reduce their gas consumption by 15%. The President of the European Commission, followed by the European Commissioners for Climate, Energy and Industry, call for solidarity. But not all EU countries agree. Read more in the material The EU is preparing a gas plan .
17:14 The invaders close Mariupol for entry and exit from 16:00 Friday, July 22, until 6:00 Monday, July 25. According to the mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko, enhanced filtration and anti-partisan measures will be carried out. According to insiders, the reason is "a bad night for the occupiers in Berdyansk, where they suddenly lost a certain number of soldiers."
16:36 A senior Pentagon official said that the Russian military daily suffer hundreds of losses in the war against Ukraine, in particular, Russia has lost thousands of lieutenants and captains, writes Reuters.
Thousands? Ouch.
An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the media that in addition to the killed lieutenants and captains, hundreds of colonels and "many" Russian generals were killed. Russia classifies military deaths as a state secret and has not updated its official casualty figures since the spring.
The US also believes that Ukraine has destroyed more than 100 "high-value" Russian targets on its territory, including command posts, ammunition depots and air defense facilities.
15:52 The businessman and the head of the headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the Dnieper, Gennady Korban, had their Ukrainian passport taken away at the border when he was returning to Ukraine. Representatives of the SBU, NABU and the SBI arrived at the border. Korban, in a commentary to the Ukrainian media, confirmed that the passport was confiscated because he was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship. Earlier, the media reported on Zelensky’s decree, by which he deprives a number of people of Ukrainian citizenship, including Korban and Kolomoisky.
15:35 Ukraine initiates the creation of an international tribunal to try Putin, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andrey Smirnov said: "A separate tribunal against Russia with the participation of the international community will accelerate the prosecution of Putin and his inner circle, and the presence of an indictment and a warrant for the arrest of Putin or Shoigu will be a big step forward in achieving justice."
15:01 The situation in the Luhansk region is difficult, but controlled, fighting is underway in the areas of Belogorivka and Verkhnekamenka, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hold the line of defense and do not allow the enemy to advance. Ukrainian artillerymen destroyed many warehouses behind enemy lines. Gaidai said that the Russians are increasingly throwing units of private military campaigns into attacks because their army has suffered huge losses. Also, the invaders have problems with the delivery of ammunition.
14:40 One of the largest ports in Europe - Rotterdam - announced the suspension of container traffic to and from Russia.
14:22 The NBU put into circulation a new 10 hryvnia coin dedicated to the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
14:19 There will be no signing of a direct agreement between Russia and Ukraine on unblocking grain exports, Podolyak said. According to him, Ukraine will sign an agreement with Turkey and the UN, and Russia will sign a mirror document with them. The agreement is planned to be signed today at 16:30 in Istanbul.
14:17 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, said in an interview with TSN that thousands of residents of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk helped Russian troops and provided information about the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: “There were 10,000 residents left in Severodonetsk. Even if they were hypothetically traitors, it’s not even 10 "% of the total population that lived there before the full-scale invasion. So it's not a big percentage. But even if it's one or two thousand people who could help, it's still a lot."
13:43 The Rada will adopt the laws necessary to start negotiations on joining the EU by the end of the year, Stefanchuk said. According to him, the main activity on the European integration track in the session hall will begin in September. "We clearly know how we can fulfill the seven requirements that Ukraine received almost a month ago," the speaker stressed. He said that the parliament is already preparing the necessary list of bills, in particular, we are talking about the reform of the Constitutional Court.
13:38 Since the outbreak of hostilities in February, Ukraine has received 12.7 billion dollars of Western financial assistance, and the total volume of announced assistance from Western countries is 27 billion, said the head of the National Bank, Kirill Shevchenko.
13:05 The official representative of Europol, Jan Op Gen Oort, said yesterday that he allegedly has evidence of arms smuggling from Ukraine. According to him, small arms are being exported from Ukraine, and investigators from EU member states have data on the trade in heavy weapons. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said in response that Ukraine expects a substantive conversation with Europol. Danilov stressed that the publication of "arms smuggling" in the Western media coincides with the start of a large-scale information special operation of the Russian Federation MakZim, discrediting Ukraine. The main goal of the campaign is to stop the supply of weapons from the allies.
13:02 Russian media report that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Istanbul to sign an agreement on unblocking grain exports from Ukraine. From Turkey, the document will also be signed by Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar, and from the Ukrainian side - Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov.
12:59 Only 11% of educational institutions in Ukraine have their own protective structures of civil protection, the State Emergency Service reported. At the same time, the presence of bomb shelters is a key condition for launching offline training.
12:33 Since the beginning of a full-scale war, the Russian army most often hit Izyum in the Kharkiv region - a total of 476 missile strikes, said NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov. In second place - Mariupol, then Nikolaev.
12:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation explained the blow to the Kramatorsk school: according to Moscow, "the stationing point of the Black Hundred national formation" was destroyed there.
12:09 In the Kherson region, the invaders are trying to engage in "military-patriotic education" of Ukrainian youth. According to the GUR MOU, "public organizations" such as "young builders of the Kherson region", "youth of Kherson", etc. are being actively formed for this purpose. The participation of Ukrainian youth in them is increasingly becoming compulsory. At the same time, the older generation of the region is involved in the newly created organizations "union of mothers of the Kherson region", "organization of veterans of the Kherson region".
11:42 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that from July 5 to July 20, "four HIMARS launchers and one transport-loading vehicle" were allegedly destroyed in Ukraine.
11:26 In the "DNR", following the "LNR", they also decided to block Google, Pushilin said.
11:21 Head of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann announced the need for direct supplies of tanks to Ukraine. According to her, the principle of circular exchange, according to which Poland provides Kyiv with its Soviet-designed equipment, and in return receives German equipment, makes sense, but in the case of Ukraine it did not work: “We must have the courage to admit that everything does not work the way we imagine represented, and should instead supply [tanks] directly to Ukraine if needed."
Strack-Zimmermann added that Ukrainian soldiers have proven their ability to quickly master and start using new equipment.
11:15 The Japanese Ministry of Defense in its annual report warns of an increased military threat from Russia and growing pressure from China on Taiwan. The agency notes, in particular, that the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine may serve as a signal that it is permissible to change the status quo by force unilaterally.
A whole chapter is devoted to the war in Ukraine in the document, writes Die Zeit. It says Moscow may increasingly rely on its nuclear capability as a deterrent, which in turn could mean a surge in activity around Japan, where Russian nuclear submarines regularly maneuver. There are also concerns about the expansion and deepening of relations between Russia and China.
11:09 The "authorities" of the occupied Kherson region are trying to equip a pontoon crossing across the Dnieper, not being able to quickly restore the Antonovsky bridge damaged by Ukrainian strikes, Yury Sobolevsky, First Deputy Head of the Kherson Regional Council, said on the air of the telethon: "The damage is really so significant that they have already applied to Moscow with in order to raise the archival plans of this bridge and develop documentation for the repair. With the design documentation for the bridge, it is not yet formed, and without it, it will not be possible to quickly prepare a restoration work plan. "
According to Sobolevsky, the Antonovsky Bridge is a priority target for both Ukraine and the Russian Federation, so the Russians are actively protecting it with missile defense systems. As an alternative to the bridge, the occupiers have the "Kahovsky way", but it does not allow them to quickly bring heavy ammunition due to a difficult detour.
11:03 From under the rubble at the Kramatorsk school after yesterday's shelling, rescuers removed the bodies of three dead, search work continues, the State Emergency Service reported. Rescuers have already cleared 200 tons of destroyed parts of the building. As a result of the strikes, a school was destroyed in the city, a five-story building and 85 private houses were damaged.
10:44 SBU eliminated in Kiev the scheme of theft of protective equipment of the National Guard for more than 8 million hryvnias. The attackers tried to illegally sell about 2,000 plates for body armor, helmets and other military ammunition. In addition, 120,000 unregistered cartridges for firearms prepared for sale were confiscated from them.
The scheme was organized by the head of a specialized network of stores selling military equipment and the director of the capital's commercial structure. They brought into Ukraine a wholesale batch of protective equipment, allegedly for the needs of the National Guard.
10:28 After yesterday's shelling of Kharkiv, which killed three people, 16 wounded remain in the hospital. Of these, two are in extremely serious condition, the condition of three more doctors assess as serious, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
10:04 Russia has expanded the list of "unfriendly states" to include Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia.
09:47 The Ukrainian military repelled an enemy attack from the Lisichansk Oil Refinery, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, during July 21, the Russians launched two missile and two air strikes, carried out five shelling and two more with the use of mortars.
09:28 British intelligence reports that in the Donbass the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to repel attempts to storm the Uglegorsk TPP, Russian artillery is shelling in the directions of Kramatorsk and Seversk. Intelligence also cites statements by the head of the Nikolaev OVA, Vitaly Kim, that Russia has begun to use the S-300 air defense systems more often to attack ground targets. According to analysts, this is due to an acute shortage of specialized missiles for ground attacks.
Intelligence notes that these weapons have relatively small warheads designed to destroy aircraft. They can pose a significant threat to troops in open areas and in unfortified buildings, but are unlikely to penetrate through fortified structures.
08:56 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of July 22. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Krivoy Rog and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 39,000 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1704 (+0),
armored combat vehicles - 3920 (+8),
artillery systems - 863 (+4),
MLRS - 251 (+0),
air defense systems - 113 (+0),
aircraft - 221 (+0),
helicopters - 188 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 713 (+3),
cruise missiles - 167 (+0),
ships/boats - 15 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2803 (+22),
special equipment - 72 (+0).
08:50 In Transnistria, they said they want to join Russia. Foreign Minister of the "republic" Vitaly Ignatiev told the Russian media that Tiraspol intends to seek the implementation of the results of the "referendum" held in Transnistria in 2006. Its results assume "independence followed by free accession to the Russian Federation."
08:37 On July 19, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the Russian electronic warfare station Repellent-1 near the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the speaker of the Odessa OVA, Sergey Bratchuk, told. According to him, the control center of this station is located in an armored kung equipped with a system of protection against chemical and bacteriological weapons. Repellent-1 was first demonstrated in the Russian Federation in September 2016 at a defense exhibition. The station is capable of detecting miniature aerial targets at a distance of 30-35 km, as well as jamming drones at a distance of up to 2.5 km.
07:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in the Yuzhnobuzhsky and Bakhmutsky directions, battles continue near the Uglegorsk TPP and Pokrovsky, the General Staff said in the morning report .
07:49 At night, the Russian army covered three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with fire - Nikopol, Sinelnikovsky and Krivorozhsky, said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko. In particular, the Russians fired at Nikopol twice from the MLRS, fired up to 100 shells. Initially, one person was killed and one injured. 11 private houses were damaged, there are gusts of gas and water pipes, and railway tracks were destroyed.
In the Pokrovskaya community, the enemy hit the warehouses, broke the transformer - several villages were left without electricity. The Zelenodolsk community was hit by cannon artillery, touched a private house, the fire had already been extinguished. In Apostolovo, seven rocket attacks were recorded, three schools were destroyed, and residential buildings were damaged. Eight people are preliminarily wounded.
07:41 The IRIS-T air defense system is still at the production stage in Germany and will be ready for shipment to Ukraine at the end of summer, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock told DW: "Our problem, like many European countries, is that that the stocks do not have everything that Ukraine needs, so we will send to Ukraine, for example, IRIS-T - one of the most modern air defense systems, which is now only at the production stage and, I hope, will be ready at the end of summer. Thus, we are always checking what else can be done to support Ukraine even more."
02:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) states that the current operational pace of the Russian troops does not differ significantly from that which was during the officially announced operational pause between July 7 and 16. Since July 16, the Russians have continued local attacks east of Seversk and east and south of Bakhmut; as of July 21, they had not made significant territorial gains in those areas.
The lack of successful ground attacks outside the Slovyansk, Seversk and Bakhmut areas is consistent with the ISW assessment that the Russian advance is likely to end without the capture of Slovyansk or Bakhmut.
01:55 Ukrainian defenders in the south attacked five strongholds and two ammunition depots in the Skadovsky and Beryslav districts of the Kherson region, as well as at the place of accumulation of enemy personnel in the Nikolaev region, OK Pivden reported.
01:19 According to WSJ sources, the European Union at the last moment excluded the Russian titanium giant VSMPO-Avisma from the new package of sanctions. It is the main supplier of the French Airbus. In addition, the company supplies materials for Russian fighters.
00:54 The ability of the Russian Federation to spy in Europe has halved. Since February 24, European countries have expelled 400 Russian intelligence officers operating under diplomatic cover, British Foreign Intelligence Service chief Richard Moore said.
00:41 The head of the Nikopol RVA, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, announced an attack on the city from the MLRS.
Kindly note that several entries in this article were removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:52 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation made a number of statements:
- Ukrainian nationalists mined bridges across the Konka and Ploska Osokorovka rivers in the Zaporozhye region in order to blow them up and blame the RF Armed Forces;
- At a radiation hazardous facility in the DPR, Kyiv prepared a provocation to accuse the RF Armed Forces of creating a threat of radioactive contamination of regions of Ukraine;
- When retreating from the city of Konstantinovka to the DPR, the nationalists plan to blow up storage facilities for radioactive and chemical waste;
- Militants and employees of the SBU terrorize and kidnap residents of the city of Seredina-Buda, Sumy region, with pro-Russian views;
- Almost 22,500 thousand people were evacuated to the Russian Federation from the territories of Donbass and Ukraine per day.
21:27 The United States began to study the possibility of supplying combat aircraft to Ukraine - White House.
21:27 Military expert Oleg Zhdanov says that the Crimean bridge can be destroyed with one blow - it is enough to deliver it when a railway train with ammunition is moving along the bridge.
20:17 Ukrainian media publish the text of the grain export agreement signed by Ukraine today in Istanbul.
19:10 In Kherson region completed combat coordination Odessa brigade - in the near future offensive operations will begin in the Nikolaev and Odessa directions
"In the near future, together with the allied forces, we will begin to liberate the city of Nikolaev and the hero city of Odessa. There will be no mercy for the Ukrainians, mercenaries and any Bandera scum from us," a representative of the brigade said.
16:20 FSB officers detained in Crimea an accomplice of militants who planned terrorist attacks. The detained 35-year-old resident of St. Petersburg planned to illegally cross the Russian border and join the Ukrainians to participate in sabotage against Russian military and civilians.
The failed militant quit his job in advance, acquired camouflage and underwent an accelerated tactical and fire training course. At the moment, the issue of choosing a measure of punishment for him is already being decided.
16:15 Gennady Korban, the head of the “terodefense headquarters” of Dnipro, had his passport seized at the border. Ukrainian border guards reported that Korban's citizenship had been suspended and referred to Zelensky's unconfirmed decree depriving a number of well-known politicians of their citizenship. It is noteworthy that the passport was confiscated without any officially presented documents.
15:09 In Kherson, they report a strong explosion. Local publics write that it happened in the area of the Epicenter store, the smoke that rose was orange.
14:04 A powerful explosion near Chernobaevka was heard in Kherson.
14:04 Yevgeny Balitsky signed a decree approving electricity tariffs for residents of territories that suffered from Ukraine's actions after the gas supply was cut off. For the period of absence of gas supply, an electricity tariff was approved in the amount of 0.5 rubles kWh.
13:40 Military units of the Russian Armed Forces will be permanently deployed in the Kherson region. The head of the military-civilian administration of the region, Vladimir Saldo, said that the issue of the permanent presence, and not just for the period of the North Military District, of military units of the Russian army is already being worked out.
12:48 In the Bulgarian Black Sea, the annual Breeze military exercises are being held with the participation of 11 NATO countries, writes the Bulgarian news agency News Bg. The exercises are attended by: 24 combat and auxiliary ships and boats, five aircraft, four helicopters, 1,390 military personnel of the navies of Bulgaria, Albania, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, USA, Turkey, France, as well as from the NATO Naval Command.
11:50 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:
▪️The RF Armed Forces destroyed four US-made HIMARS launchers transferred to Ukraine from 5 to 20 July;
▪️Russian troops destroyed the point of temporary deployment of the Black Hundred national formation in the school of Kramatorsk, liquidated up to 300 militants;
▪️Air defense systems of the Russian Federation shot down 12 Ukrainian UAVs in the Kharkiv region and the DPR in a day, intercepted two rounds of the Uragan MLRS;
▪️The RF Armed Forces, as part of counterbattery combat, suppressed four platoons of the Grad MLRS, 24 artillery platoons of D-20 howitzers;
▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed the depot of rocket and artillery weapons of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev, up to 30 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were eliminated.
10:58 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of combat sorties by the crews of the Su-35S and Su-30SM fighters of the Eastern Military District to destroy the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special operation.
10:56 Ukraine, Transcarpathia, catching conscripts on the streets
09:30 Arestovich, commenting that Russian air strikes were carried out all day yesterday almost along the entire front line:
"This means big trouble in the Russian army. They use aviation only in extreme cases, and the fact that they do not hit along the entire front line shows that they cannot attack and cannot follow the order."
07:19 Strikes on Ukrainian targets in Nikolaev. Smoke over the city, at least five explosions reported
06:01 Payment of pensions and social benefits in the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region will begin in August. Currently, the formation of lists of recipients of payments continues, said the head of the military-civilian administration of the region, Andrei Siguta.
05:03 The Melitopol railway will work in full after the completion of its safety check. Currently, a special commission is engaged in this work, Andrey Siguta, head of the military-civilian administration of the district, said.
03:40 Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Civil-Military Administration of the Zaporozhye region, was included in the "black list" according to the new package of EU anti-Russian sanctions.
0:48 The Russian army hit the targets of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikopol region from the side of Energodar, and objects in the Nikopol region were fired from the Kherson region
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[NewsFrontInfo] 00:15 Kirovsky district of Donetsk under Ukrainian fire
Donetsk (Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts): eight rounds of 152mm caliber were fired. 23:50 Additional information was received through the operational lines of the DPR JCCC about damage as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
Donetsk, Kirovsky district:
- A total of 19 transformer substations were de-energized, 2,100 subscribers were without power supply.
n.p. Gorlovka:
the village of mashzavod im. Kirov:
- production shops on the territory of the plant were damaged;
- st. Kuznetsova-Zubarev - City polyclinic;
- st. Vokzalnaya, 11 - an apartment building.
village of Kochegarka mine:
- damaged trucks at the wholesale vegetable market.
Today, as of 21:30, the enemy fired 277 rounds of various types, including the BM-27 Uragan and BM-21 Grad MLRS, as well as artillery ammunition with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
23.00 - Donetsk: Staromikhaylovka, Abakumova - Krasnogorovka - shootout, close combat. Bullets whistle over the heads of the locals, raining down on the roofs.
22:07 n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorovka: fired six rounds of 152mm caliber;
n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: five rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district): six rounds of 152mm caliber were fired.
21:44 Fake: Armed Forces of Ukraine fire exclusively at military facilities in the Donbass and as a result only servicemen die. This is confirmed by the funeral of 58 fighters in Lugansk, who died after shelling with the use of the M142 HIMARS MLRS on July 13, Ukrainian sources report.
Truth: To illustrate the thesis about attacks on "exclusively military targets," Ukrainian Telegram channels took a video made on July 12, the day before the shelling Lugansk.
Video - part of the newsplot local TV channel "Lugansk 24" about the reburial of servicemen of the People's Militia of the LPR who died during the operation to liberate Donbass, in particular, in the battles for Rubizhne and Severodonetsk.
21:43 Air defense works directly over Krasny Luch (LNR)
20:36 STATEMENT by the official representative of the NM of the DPR on the situation as of 20.30 on 22.07.2022:
Over the current day, according to information from the JCCC of the DPR, the enemy fired more than 220 rounds from the Uragan and Grad multiple launch rocket systems, barreled artillery with a caliber 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, 120mm mortars. The fire was fired at the areas of SEMI settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, SIX civilians were injured. A total of 22 residential buildings and FOUR civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
19:36 Working artillery in the Gorlovsky direction.
19:04 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: three shots fired from a tank;
— n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: five each 122mm rounds fired
18:28 As a result of the shelling of the city of Yasinovataya, three civilians were injured.
17:31 Ukrainian nationalists carried out a terrorist attack on a strategic-level bakery. On the night of July 21-22, Ukrainian nationalists damaged the premises, equipment and glazing, as well as more than 2 tons of products of Bakery No. 2, with aimed fire from large-caliber artillery guns. Video from NM DNR.
17:24 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
— n.p. Dry Balka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: 10 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Wide Beam: fired 10 mines in 120mm caliber.
17:04 The Government of the LPR has adopted a resolution according to which the supply of gas to the Eternal Flames in the Republic will be free of charge. This was reported by the press service of the Government.
17:01 "They brought it, they gave me a machine gun and that's it," -soldier APU about the indifference of the Ukrainian military leadership to the personnel.
16:33 Deputies of the People's Council of the LPR Sergey Didenko and Vladimir Sankin handed over sets of summer uniforms to the servicemen of the People's Militia of the Republic from the deputy of the State Duma of Russia Vitaly Kushnarev. This was reported by the press service of the People's Council of the LPR.
16:12 A large number of Ukrainian militants were captured by the Bravo group near Seversk
16:17 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Artemovsk - n.p. Gorlovka: one missile was fired from the BM-27 Uragan;
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
16:12 Results of strikes in the village Good from the American MLRS HIMARS
16:08 The Headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Yasinovataya. As a result of the shelling on the street. Two people injured.
15:08 The Ministry of Coal and Energy of the DPR reports:
"This afternoon, as a result of another shelling of Gorlovka, another coal industry enterprise was in the line of fire. As a result of hits of ammunition on the territory of the mine named after K.A. Rumyantsev State Unitary Enterprise of the DPR "Main Department for the Restructuring of Mine", a fire broke out in the administrative and amenity complex of the enterprise. There are no casualties or injured - coal mining is not carried out at the mine."
14:50 JCCC DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Gorlovka: five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm.
13:50 Consequences of shelling of the village Horoshee from VFU. The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded the consequences of another shelling using the American-made MLRS M142 HIMARS. In total, the enemy fired six M31 GMLRS missiles at the village of Horohoye. As a result of the shelling, a workshop, a granary, a garage and agricultural machinery of the Kolos Agricultural Firm were damaged.
13:40 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Kurdyumovka - n.p. Gorlovka (Kalininskiy district): 10 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: three rounds of 122mm caliber were fired.
13:40 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the Kalininsky district of Gorlovka. Ukrainian militants are shelling the village. Rumyantsevo from the position of VFU in Kurdyumovka. 152-mm artillery is used against civilians. Damage was recorded to 10 housing constructions. Detailed information is being specified.
13:27 VFU conduct aimed fire at the village of Rumyantsevo (Kalinin district of Gorlovka), reports of shell explosions near the Uzlovskaya CEP.
13:25 The Supreme Court of the Republic sentenced a former LPR law enforcement officer recruited by the SBU to 12 years in prison for committing high treason, the press service of the LPR Prosecutor General's Office reported.
13:07 The destruction of bridges does not allow regular food supplies to Lisichansk - TASS with reference to the acting mayor of the city Andrey Skory.
12:52 War correspondent Yuri Kotenok in his telegram channel reports: "The Volnovakha direction is considered by the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as one of the priorities in the announced "summer offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
They expect to break through the defenses of the allied forces - the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM of the DPR - forces and reach at least Volnovakha, creating a threat to Donetsk from the south-south-west direction and, when large forces are drawn in, make a throw to Mariupol.
That is why last Monday - July 18 - the Ukrainians attacked, trying to move north of Vladimirovka (DPR) in a southeast direction. But it didn't work out.
We began reconnaissance in combat. According to the results, the main forces were to be introduced. As a result of the work of our art and aviation, we got a bunch of KIAs and three wounded.
The enemy strike units suffered heavy losses. Hospitals on the "other side” are overflowing with wounded."
12:02 Consequences of the shelling of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. As a result of a shell hit, the house was destroyed to the ground. Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation are engaged in fixing the crime on the spot. Reports the military commander Rudenko.
11:48 Russian Defense Ministry says that as a result of strikes at the school in Kramatorsk, which was used to locate the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to several enemy personnel were destroyed.
11:48 Lawyers of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the LPR have processed more than a thousand applications received by the hotline for the provision of social and legal assistance. This was announced at a briefing in LuganskInformCenter by hotline lawyer Victoria Tyutyunnikova.
11:47 A referendum on the entry of the LPR into the Russian Federation will be held at 492 polling stations located in the Republic. This was announced by the chairman of the Public Chamber of the LPR Alexei Karyakin.
11:45 Cars of the next, 172nd, convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 44 tons of humanitarian aid to Rubizhnoye. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LPR.
11:44 Russian Defense Ministry briefing:
Destroyed the location of the national formation "Black Hundred", deployed in the school of Kramatorsk, liquidated up to 300 nationalists.
The warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in Nikolaev was destroyed, the losses of the Ukrainian army amounted to 30 people.
Four HIMARS launchers were destroyed in Ukraine in 15 days.
During the day, six Ukrainian command posts, five warehouses with rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition were hit.
11:37 There are two more wounded in Gorlovka. The injured were the spouses who were near the store in the Golmovsky settlement. Thus, to the greatest regret, the number of wounded civilians in Gorlovka as a result of the aggression of the VFU increased to four.
11:29 As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of Golmovsky from the side of the VFU, another civilian was wounded on the street. Mushketovskaya 14/5.
11:17 Pushilin said that a decision had been made to block Google on the territory of the DPR.
11:04 JCCC DPR recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- n.p. Ceramic - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: seven rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Kleshcheevka - n.p. Dolomitnoye: 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS;
— n.p. Otradovka - n.p. Golmovsky: 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS;
— n.p. Artyomovo (Ukrainian Zheleznoe) - n.p. Gorlovka (village of the miners named after Gagarin): 16 rounds of 122mm caliber were fired;
— n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: six missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad MLRS.
10:30 Statement by the official representative of the NM DPR on 07/22/22: The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which in turn do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military targets.
Over the past 24 hours, according to the DPR JCCC, the enemy fired six hundred and sixty rounds from Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm and 82mm mortars, and also used unguided aircraft missiles with a caliber 80mm (without the use of aviation).
Artillery was fired at the areas of sixteen settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed and seven were injured. Thirty-eight residential buildings and seven civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: seven vehicles, two armored personnel carriers and more than thirty personnel.
10:00 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M. according to the situation on 07/22/2022: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
The enemy continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, shelling the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of the LPR, which do not pose a danger to the enemy and are not military facilities.
Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine fired at the settlement. Good with the use of American MLRS M142 HIMARS, firing three missiles. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
Engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining the territory of the Republic. So, yesterday, sappers of the NM LPR cleared more than five hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Gorskoye and Zolote.
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 the People's Front, with the support of the NM of the LPR, delivered food packages for refugees temporarily residing in the Melovsky district.
Also, representatives of the Popular Front delivered humanitarian cargo for the military personnel of the artillery battalion of the 6th Cossack regiment.
09:21 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports attempts to storm the eastern outskirts of Soledar. As indicated in the morning report, Russian troops and allies are conducting assault operations in the Stryapovka-Soledar sector, which are still being repelled by the Armed Forces. One way or another, the assault on Soledar has begun and is underway.
09:17 False firing positions of the enemy were noted in the area of Seversk and Soledar. To create the appearance of real firing points, groups of 5-10 people carry out non-aimed fire moving between positions.
08:40 The DPR JCCC reports: the total number of civilian casualties from the attacks of the VFU on July 21, 2022 is eight people (one killed, seven injured).
08:38 Aleksey Kulemzin reports on the consequences of the night shelling of Donetsk: last night, a resident of the village of Yelenovka, born in 1971, who lives at st. Krupskaya, 34. The victim received the necessary medical assistance.
And today at 03:20 enemy formations attacked a bakery in the Kirovsky district on the street. Adygeiskaya, 13a. Glazing was damaged in the building, equipment was cut, finished products were damaged. Information about the victims was not received.
08:01 Ukrainian militants fired at the village. Good in the LPR, presumably using the HIMARS MLRS.
--3.00, the LPR JCCC recorded the arrival of three missiles.
07:48 Donetsk Khlebozavod No. 2 in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk suffered as a result of night shelling.
07:42 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
— n.p. Rozovka - n.p. Novobakhmutovka: fired six mines in 120mm caliber;
n.p. Leninskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): six mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
07:36 After 06:00, the DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the direction:
— n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
05:49 Over the past day, on July 21, 2022, the LPR representation in the JCCC did not record shelling in settlements.
04:26 The Armed Forces of Ukraine, when retreating from Lisichansk, located in the LPR, blew up all the bridges and overpasses leading to the city, Acting Mayor Andrei Skory said.
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[REGNUM] The Armed Forces (AF) of Russia struck in Konstantinovka (DNR) the point of temporary deployment of mercenaries of the so-called Ukrainian "foreign legion". This was announced on July 18 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov at a briefing.
"High-precision air-launched missiles in the village of Konstantinovka of the DPR hit a temporary deployment point for mercenaries of the so-called Ukrainian “foreign legion," he said.
According to him, as a result of the explosions, 12 special vehicles, seven armored vehicles, as well as up to 250 foreign fighters were destroyed.
As REGNUM reported , on July 17, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said at a briefing that the launcher and loading vehicle of the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) of the armed Kiev formations was destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk region.
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[REGNUM] Armed Ukrainian formations mined storage facilities for radioactive and chemical waste in the city of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). This was announced on July 22 at a briefing by the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev .
"In Konstantinovka, Ukrainian nationalists mined the storage facilities for radioactive and chemical waste from a metallurgical enterprise for the production of lead," he said.
Mizintsev also clarified that with this, the Kyiv regime is preparing to conduct a new provocation at a dangerous facility in order to accuse the military of the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly creating a threat of radioactive contamination of certain Ukrainian regions.
As REGNUM reported , earlier the commander of the Vostok battalion of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Khodakovsky , wrote that the slowdown in the offensive of the allied forces in the Donbass is a "breath" before a new round .
Let's be clear: The guy who smirked was Germany's most incompetent foreign minister ever.
Germany wrongly assumed that Russia would never use gas as a weapon. That may have been reasonable until 2014. Then it became obvious that Putin was about to do whatever he wanted to do. We should have reduced dependency by 5% every year and we'd be in the clear now.
But also blame the climate church.
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A little correction of the article on Foxnews. Germany never got 66% of its gas from Russia. The high mark was 55% and this has been reduced to currently 35%.
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I also tend to believe that Putin is playing games but will not reduce gas flow to Germany to zero.
If he does he can forget about any meaningful trade with Germany for the next 10 years or more. And he needs Germany much more than he acknowledges. Much of the Russian energy industry is dependent on German technology. Next year he will painfully feel it.
Germany expects to reduce Russian gas to 10% by summer 2024.
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I concur with EC's para one above. The Russians specialize in threats and intimidation. Why would Putin push the Germans toward western energy reliance?
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Western purchases of grain, LNG, oil, titanium, aluminum, uranium fuel for reactors etc. are funding the SMO in Ukraine. The West is effectively funding both sides in the war. As the saying goes - don’t correct your opponent when they are making a mistake
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It was all Germans who were smirking at us. Remember how useless NATO was? It only functioned to start wars in the Middle East and Africa which just flooded Europe with refugees. NATO is just for protecting US interests and preserving its hegemony. The US just wanted to control Europe.
Europeans are highly skeptical of any use of force as well as the notion of permanent conflict. It is no longer the Europe of Napoleon and Bismarck, much less that of Plato and Thucydides. Instead, as Robert Kagan pointed out in his ingenious 2003 work Of Paradise and Power, it is the Europe of Immanuel Kant. Traumatized by the hideous experiences of the 20th century, Europeans have adopted a postmodern and posthistorical view that military force is unnecessary—immoral, even—in a world where problems ought to be resolved through the rule of law. This is the root of the disgust and smirking contempt for America and Americans, especially our military.
And for what? To defend a continent whose politicians and body politic *sneers* at us, over and over again for being bullies, for being warlike, for being the 'World's Police', and then *berates us* when we think it's time to look at whether or not nations are actually contributing.
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Europeans have adopted a postmodern and posthistorical view that military force is unnecessary—immoral,
Not at all. That's just the taxpayer, the fool sitting in a governorate thinking 'Europe is my great supracountry'. The rulers simply discovered proxy warfare is safer and cheaper. And if they can get others to pay for even that, even better.
[NYP] CROWELL, Texas — A North Texas wind farm is one turbine down thanks to what officials believe was a devastating lightning strike to one of the massive structures on Friday afternoon.
Videos from witnesses and firefighters showed the wind turbine generator ablaze and disintegrate in the sky over Crowell, Texas.
Doppler radar indicated there were plenty of lightning strikes around the Foard City wind facility before firefighters received the call about the high-altitude fire.
Crews with the Crowell Volunteer Fire Department responded, but Fire Chief Perry Shaw said there was little his firefighters could do to put the fire out.
"We’re not equipped to handle that kind of fire. Nobody in the area really is to speak of," Shaw said.
The fire chief estimated there were 800 gallons of oil in the gearbox and around 1,300 gallons of mineral oil in the ground-level transformer, which caused the smoke to appear dark black.
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Let me see if I understand this correctly.
Wind Turbines are Earth ECO Friendly Tree Huggers answer to Fossil Fuels and nasty oil. But they use over 5000 gallons of that nasty earth hurting oil over their life expectancy in recommended service maintenance.
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It is my understanding that much of the wind turbine components and the solar panels are manufactured in China. Obviously we should establish total reliance on these environmentally sound systems.
#6
You will always need lubricants, no matter what high falutin', earth savin', tree huggin' mission you're on. From oil for gearboxes to shafts and anti-rust to WD40 to the Vaseline for Pete Buttigieg's ass... you'll always need petroleum products.
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^ Not to mention the chemical feedstocks that basically support all of modern civilization. Oh, I forgot. They don't want modern civilization any more...
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Who coulda think the goddamn liberals would turn out to be the ultimate Luddites.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYP] CROWELL, Texas — A North Texas wind farm is one turbine down thanks to what officials believe was a devastating lightning strike to one of the massive structures on Friday afternoon.
