[TheHill] Just hours after handing down a ruling confirming that an immigration law in Florida was blocked, a federal judge appeared to issue a reversal of his own ruling.
Judge Roy Altman issued an injunction Tuesday, temporarily blocking a key part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) immigration law, which would make it a felony to transport undocumented migrants colonists into the state.
Altman agreed with the Farmworker Association of Florida that federal immigration laws would likely preempt the law.
In a supplemental order issued Wednesday, Altman wrote he wanted to "clarify the scope of that preliminary injunction." The judge said there were several reasons why a statewide injunction should be appropriate in the case.
Hours later, Altman seemed to backtrack. He issued another order, noting that "on further reflection," he will be hosting a briefing on "the proper scope of the injunction."
The judge wrote that all parties must submit a brief by June 6 on whether the injunction should apply to the plaintiffs or be a district- or state-wide injunction.
In his original order, Altman rejected arguments from Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) that an injunction could prevent law enforcement from doing its job, including in their efforts to identify people who are narcos.
Florida’s immigration law, SB 1718, was signed by DeSantis last year and led to some migrants colonists being relocated to blue states across the country on buses and planes.
Immigrant rights activists and the Farmworker Association of Florida filed the lawsuit last July, specifically focusing on the transportation of individuals who entered the country unlawfully.
Following Altman’s injunction, Spencer Amdur, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrants colonists’ Rights Project, said the decision was the right call. He called the law unconstitutional and said it "threatened Floridians with jail time for doing the most ordinary things, like going to work, visiting family, and driving kids to soccer games."
"This ruling is an important victory for Florida communities," he said in a statement. The Hill has reached out to the ACLU for an updated comment on Altman’s decision.
The Miami Herald noted that the conflicting back-to-back orders from Altman on Thursday have created confusion about how pending cases will be prosecuted and how the injunction will proceed.
[BBC] President Emmanuel Macron has described rioting in the French-Pacific territory of New Caledonia as an "unprecedented insurrection movement" that no-one saw coming.
During a tour of police headquarters in the capital Nouméa on Thursday, he said the coming days and weeks would be difficult, but Paris would "go until the end" to restore calm.
Six people, including two police officers, have been killed and hundreds more wounded in riots, looting and arson triggered by a controversial electoral reform.
New Caledonia, a group of islands between Australia and Fiji, has been a French territory since the 19th Century. Tensions have been high for some time between the central government in Paris and indigenous Kanaks who make up about 40% of the tiny archipelago.
Kanak protesters fear that a new law giving voting rights to French residents who have lived there for more than 10 years will dilute the influence of the indigenous population.
However, the violence that began on 13 May is the worst unrest seen there since the 1980s.
A state of emergency has been imposed and President Macron has said that a 3,000-strong force deployed from France will remain - even during the Paris Summer Olympics if required.
Arriving in Nouméa after a 24-hour flight from Paris, President Macron said he wanted the return of peace, calm and security "as quickly as possible".
He paid respects to the victims of the riots, as he met local political and business leaders.
The summit included separatist leaders, who said beforehand that they hoped it could "breathe new life" into discussions with France.
Police have held 269 people since the violence began on 13 May, and New Caledonia is currently under a state of emergency.
But Mr Macron hinted that the emergency status could be lifted in the coming days, saying: "I personally believe that the state of emergency should not be extended".
New Caledonia has a population of about 300,000 people, including 112,000 indigenous Kanaks.
Under the 1998 Nouméa Accord, France agreed to give the territory more political autonomy and to limit voting in provincial and assembly elections to those who were residents then.
More than 40,000 French nationals have moved to New Caledonia since.
Last week, the National Assembly in Paris proposed granting voting rights to French residents who have lived in the territory for 10 years.
Because this requires a change to the constitution, the measure faces further hurdles.
The Nouméa agreement allowed for three referendums on the country's future. Independence was rejected in all instances.
The first two showed slim majorities for remaining part of France. The third, in December 2021, was boycotted by pro-independence parties because it was held during the Covid pandemic.
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[Regnum] US and French military personnel committed crimes against residents of occupied Berlin in 1945. Archival documents about this were published by the Russian FSB.
Since May 1945, the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany was administered by the Soviet Military Administration. The zone was divided into 14 operational sectors. One of them, Berlinsky, observed the situation and behavior of the Allied troops in the American, British and French zones of the city.
“As has been established, cases of hooliganism, robbery and violence against Germans by American military personnel do not stop, and these facts are increasing daily,” reported the head of the Berlin operational sector, Major General Alexei Sidnev, to the Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR Ivan Serov in November 1945.
Sidnev, in particular, reported that on October 21, two American soldiers stopped two Germans on Potsdamer Street who were returning home from work and asked for a light. Then, for no reason, they fired at the Germans, seriously wounding both.
On the evening of September 27, the materials say, three French soldiers raped a resident of a Berlin suburb named Agnes and the girl Riess, who was in the house. After that, they beat the woman and left, taking 200 marks and a gold watch from her.
Artist Kalin Paul was beaten on October 26 near the intersection of Südwestkorzo and Wiesbadenorstrasse after he prevented two American soldiers from raping a woman. Paul's nose was broken and his head was fractured.
On the same day, the American military - there were up to 50 people - burst into the Femina restaurant in the Berlin-Schöneberg district and demanded that the Germans there hand over all their valuables. The Americans took possession of watches, gold rings, women's fur collars and money.
In the American sector, ordinary Germans like the night watchman or the shoemaker often suffered from violence and robbery. In the French zone on October 27, the military robbed a Berlin resident and took away his radio. In the English zone on October 30, three servicemen took valuables from an apartment on Hosterstrasse.
In addition, Soviet counterintelligence recorded an increase in the activity of American, British and French intelligence services directed against the USSR. It was noted that the British and Americans tried to recruit prisoners of war released from camps, whose families lived in the Soviet zone of occupation of Germany, as well as young people from the Hitler Youth.
As Regnum reported, from documents previously declassified by the FSB, it follows that the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, was waiting for a split between Great Britain, the USA and the USSR in 1944 in order to start fighting together with Washington and London against the Soviet Union.
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[Regnum] In the conditions of a hybrid war, Germany has ceased to fear Russia and is now demonstrating its true attitude towards the events of World War II. This opinion was expressed to a Regnum news agency correspondent on May 23 by political scientist, historian, publicist, candidate of pedagogical sciences, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Igor Shishkin, commenting on Germany’s refusal to recognize the blockade of Leningrad as an act of genocide.
Shishkin noted that Germany, which was defeated in World War II, was forced to admit its crimes. However, this does not mean that she admits her guilt for these crimes. Also, one should not conclude that today's Germans really condemn the actions of their ancestors, the political scientist added.
“They celebrated May 8th as liberation day, but did anyone really believe that the Germans on that day sincerely believed that they had been liberated? These people fought to the last drop of blood near Berlin or at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Now, in the conditions of the hybrid war of the West against Russia, the Germans believe that they can already openly express their opinion about the events of the Second World War. However, they will not say anything similar in relation to the USA and Great Britain,” the historian noted.
He recalled that the Berlin authorities on May 8 and 9 officially banned the use of symbols of the Soviet Union, which liberated the city. A document was adopted banning the symbols and songs of the Red Army, which dealt a mortal blow to the Third Reich.
The political scientist added that against this background one could expect that they would not admit that they had committed an act of genocide. This is what you would expect. They are no longer afraid of Russia in the context of a hybrid war against it, believing that the West can now defeat the Russian Federation. That is why they openly demonstrate their true attitude to the events of World War II.
“If they had the opportunity to do the same with the Americans or the British, they would do it. Russia needs to successfully complete the special operation and achieve the complete defeat of the West in the hybrid war. Then the Germans will again bring flowers to the memorials to Soviet liberating soldiers. It is important to understand that they used to do this out of fear. And the disappearance of fear has led to the fact that they now dare not recognize the crimes of Nazism,” Shishkin emphasized.
As reported by Regnum news agency, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated that the German authorities refuse to recognize as acts of genocide the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis on the territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War, primarily the blockade of Leningrad. This is exactly the answer Berlin gave to the corresponding note from Russia. The Russian Federation condemns this position, considers it immoral and disgusting, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.
On March 18, Russia demanded that Germany officially recognize the siege of Leningrad and other crimes of the Third Reich as an act of genocide. The Russian Embassy in Berlin sent a corresponding note to the German Foreign Ministry.
On April 18, Zakharova stated that the German leadership had not responded to the specified note from Russia within a month. Berlin will not be able to avoid answering this question; Moscow will continue to persistently and systematically convey to the public the truth about the crimes of Nazi Germany, the official representative of the ministry emphasized.
In April, the Foreign Ministry announced a notification that the Russian embassy in Germany had received that Germany considered the participation of Russian officials in commemorative events dedicated to the anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp prisoners undesirable.
The siege of Leningrad lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944. More than 100 thousand high-explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, and 150 thousand heavy artillery shells were fired into peaceful areas of Leningrad. Almost 17 thousand people died in the shelling, and famine claimed the lives of 632 thousand inhabitants.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said that Russia condemns the decision of the Berlin police to ban symbols associated with the Great Patriotic War (WWII), the USSR and the modern Russian Federation on May 8 and 9, and calls for it to be canceled and to stop rewriting history.
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, commenting on the ban on Victory paraphernalia in Germany, called it “blasphemy and impudence.”
According to the deputy, the Germans see a threat even in the St. George’s ribbon and this is not the first time they are trying to “retouch the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people by Hitler’s Germany.”
[GEO.TV] Israel launched devastating air strikes on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... early Thursday while also saying it is ready to resume stalled talks on a truce and hostage release deal with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... to pause the war raging since October 7.
The Gaza Strip's civil defence agency said two pre-dawn air strikes had killed 26 people, including 15 children, in Gaza City alone.
Agency front man Mahmud Bassal said one strike hit a family house, killing 16 people, in the al-Daraj area, and another killed 10 people inside a mosque compound.
Fierce street battles also raged in Gaza's Jabalia and Rafah where the armed wings of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... said they had fired mortar barrages at Israeli troops.
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[SHABELLEMEDIA] In a significant move to combat terrorism, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council has sanctioned three leaders of the al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... holy warrior group following a request from the Somali government.
That’s nice. It’ll make no noticeable difference, but no doubt someone feels better for it.
The decision was made public on May 23, 2024, and targets three individuals identified as key figures in the organization:
1. Abdukadir Ikrima, is a Somali citizen who also holds a Kenyan passport.
2. Mohammed Mohamud Mire.
3. Mohammed Omar Mohammed.
The sanctions involve the freezing of assets and a travel ban, aiming to disrupt the activities of these individuals and the organizations they represent. This action comes as part of the ongoing efforts to improve security and stability in Somalia, a country that has been grappling with terrorism and insurgency for years.
The Somali government has been working closely with international partners, including the United Nations, to combat al-Shabaab, a group known for its violent mostly peaceful attacks and control over parts of the country.
The sanctions are a significant step forward in this ongoing battle, demonstrating the international community’s commitment to supporting Somalia’s efforts to eradicate terrorism.
The UK government, through its mission in Somalia, has also expressed support for these efforts, emphasizing the importance of tackling terrorism for a safer and more secure future for all Somalis.
The move has been welcomed by many, who see it as a necessary step towards peace and stability in the region.
As of now, the impact of these sanctions on al-Shabaab’s operations and the response from the group remains to be seen. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... this action sends a strong message that the international community stands united against terrorism and is willing to take decisive measures to combat it.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] Amidst escalating violence and widespread abuses by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an estimated 60% of residents have fled the Abu Shouk camp in El-Fasher, North Darfur. The camp, home to approximately 400,000 displaced persons, was overrun by the RSF on Wednesday, triggering a wave of killings, lootings, arrests, and arson, particularly in sections 27 and 28.
Adam Rijal, spokesperson for the Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur, told Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... Tribune that the exodus began early Thursday morning, with thousands fleeing the northern sections of the camp "to unknown areas." Rijal detailed the extensive violations suffered by residents, including looting, robbery, and direct gunfire into homes.
The mass displacement is fueled by both the RSF’s brutal actions and the indiscriminate shelling of the camp by both sides of the conflict. The RSF was eventually repelled from Abu Shouk by a joint force of armed movements and pushed back to the Mali Gate.
Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... intense festivities persist near Abu Shouk and the nearby Naivasha camp, causing numerous injuries and destroying homes. Eyewitnesses report the use of heavy weaponry, with the conflict showing no signs of abating.
El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, has been engulfed in bloody conflict for two weeks between the army, allied armed movements, and the RSF, resulting in a significant civilian corpse count. In a surprising development, an army position in northern El-Fasher abruptly withdrew, citing ammunition shortages, inadvertently allowing the RSF to infiltrate the Abu Shouk camp.
In an effort to bolster the army and its allies, a military source revealed a successful airdrop operation delivering military equipment to El-Fasher. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the situation on the ground remains dire, with the humanitarian crisis deepening as thousands of displaced individuals seek safety and refuge.
[AFRICANEWS] The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt in Congo said their son, Tyler Thompson, was in Africa on vacation with family friends.
In a statement available to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the family added that their son had never been engaged in political activism.
"We are stunned and heartbroken by the videos we have seen from the coup attempt," his stepmother, Miranda Thompson, said in a message on micro-messaging platform X ( Twitter)... "We have no idea how he got wrapped up in this situation, which is completely out of character for him. We are certain he did not go to Africa with plans for political activism."
Thompson was among at least two other Americans who were named by the Congolese army as part of a failed effort to overthrow the government in Kinshasa in the early hours of Sunday morning under an eccentric, self-exiled leader, Christian Malanga.
The two other Americans allegedly involved were a convicted marijuana trafficker, Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, and Malanga's 21-year-old son, Marcel, who was arrested by Congolese forces.
Malanga, the alleged leader, was rubbed out after resisting arrest, the Congolese army said. In all, six people were killed in the attack on the presidential palace and another on the residence of a close ally of President Felix Tshisekedi.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... condemned the attack in a call with Tshisekedi and offered help from the U.S. with the investigation, according to a summary of the call.
The stepmother said Thompson was not politically engaged and was excited to see the world with family friends. "He is a good kid, a hard worker and a respectful young man. We're so lost as to how he ended up in this mess," she said.
The U.S. Embassy in Congo said Thursday that it was still waiting for the Congolese government to provide evidence that the arrested individuals were Americans before it could provide consular services to them.
The Congolese government has not given a date for when the suspects will appear in court.
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"We have no idea how he got wrapped up in this situation, which is completely out of character for him. We are certain he did not go to Africa with plans for political activism."
We were under the impression he'd gone Walleye fishing.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:52 Ukraine and Norway have finalized the text of the security agreement, Zelensky said following a conversation with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere. The head of state also held telephone conversations with the President of North Macedonia and the Prime Minister of Greece - they confirmed that their countries will be represented at the Peace Summit in Switzerland.
20:47 The number of victims of the Russian attack on Odessa on April 29 has increased to eight - a four-year-old child died in the hospital, said the mayor of the city Gennady Trukhanov.
19:21 The 110th separate mechanized brigade reported that it had shot down another Russian Su-25 attack aircraft.
19:09 Speaker of the Southern Defense Forces Dmitry Pletenchuk denied reports of the withdrawal of troops from Krynoki, Kherson region. According to him, as of today, the Ukrainian military “continues to carry out their assigned tasks in Krynki on the left bank of the Kherson region and is successful,” and the situation “remains under control.”
19:02 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters and listened to Syrsky’s report. “The intention of the occupiers is clear: to pull our forces to the north in order to advance in the east. We know how to respond,” the president assured. In addition, the head of state heard intelligence reports: “In addition to the Russian Federation’s plans on the battlefield, intelligence officers received a lot of information about the strategy for disrupting the Peace Summit. This has become the main task of Russian diplomacy and foreign intelligence in the near future.”
18:58 The Netherlands and its allies, within the framework of the International Fund for Ukraine (IFU), will purchase military equipment for Ukraine worth 175 million euros for defense against attacks from the air and at sea, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said.
18:55 Ukrainian power engineers have restored the power line of the Zaporozhye NPP PL-750kV Dneprovskaya, the Zaporozhye NPP with the unified energy system of Ukraine is again connecting two power lines, Energoatom reported.
18:52 On Friday, May 24, hourly power outage schedules will be in effect for industrial and household consumers throughout Ukraine from 00:00 to 24:00. The reason is rainy weather and dense clouds in most regions of Ukraine, which prevents solar power plants from operating at maximum capacity.
18:49 Ukraine returned home 13 children, the Presidential Office reported. Seven children and their families returned from the temporarily occupied territories, and six more were returned as part of the Bring Kids Back UA campaign.
18:46 Poland is strengthening security around the Rzeszow-Jasionka airport, which processes up to 90% of military aid to Ukraine, due to concerns about sabotage operations by the Russian Federation, Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said.
18:43 The UNITED24 platform has collected $650 million in two years, Zelensky said.
18:40 The Russians fired at the village. Redkodub, Kupyansky district, Kharkov region, one person died. Another person was injured as a result of Russian strikes on the village of Prikolotnoye, Kupyansky district, the prosecutor’s office reported.
18:37 Russia continues to shell Kharkov almost every day. On the morning of May 23, the occupiers fired at least 15 missiles from the S-300 missile system at the city. According to the latest data, seven people were killed and 20 were injured. Read more in the material Kharkov is on fire .
18:33 In the village. In Ryasnoye, Zolochiv community, Kharkov region, an 11-year-old child was injured by an explosion of an enemy drone, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
18:28 SBU Head Vasily Malyuk confirmed that Sea Baby drones are equipped with Grad systems, which makes it possible to effectively fire at the enemy from the sea: “This is a new milestone in the history of naval battles. For the first time, the SBU used a Sea Baby drone equipped with Grad multiple launch rocket systems, December 2023."
The use of MLRS on drones significantly increases the list of potential targets at sea. In particular, the Russian positions on the Kinbur Spit were recently struck, Malyuk noted. The head of the SBU also said that Sea Baby is a multi-purpose platform that can also perform remote mining. Four Russian ships were hit in this way.
18:01 The United States on Friday, May 24, plans to announce a new package of military assistance for Ukraine worth $275 million, AP writes, citing two officials. The assistance package will include 155mm and 105mm artillery shells, as well as HIMARS systems.
17:49 Today, one of the two overhead lines feeding the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant was switched off. If the latter fails, another blackout will occur at the Zaporizhia NPP, Energoatom reported.
17:03 Russia is looking for fragments of Patriot missiles in the occupied territories and is preparing an IPSO for July, said GUR representative Andrei Yusov. In particular, according to him, the enemy will use the topic of the crash of the Il-76 plane near Belgorod: “Approximately in July, certain actions on the part of the so-called Investigative Committee of the aggressor state are planned, where evidence is falsified. Immediately after this incident, the Russians set the task for their units to look for debris, in particular of Patriot missiles in the temporarily occupied territories, in order to try to create some kind of evidence base. It’s still poorly formed, otherwise there would already be activity on their part.”
16:35 A GUR operation is underway in Tatarstan to destroy Russian military-industrial complex targets using drones, Ukrainian media report citing intelligence sources. In particular, attack drones have already reached Kazan and Nizhnekamsk, where a number of strategically important enterprises are located, the products of which are used in the military industry. According to local media reports, employees are being evacuated from Nizhnekamsk Thermal Power Plant, Nizhnekamskuglerod, Orgsintez, Taneco, Taif-NK, Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Nizhnekamskshina. Information about the results of the attack is being clarified.
16:28 Defense forces left Krynki in the Kherson region, captured a more fortified territory and moved to it, the military from Aidar reported. According to their data, today the Russians “have the greatest number of losses from cassettes.”
16:24 Russian public pages write that the Ukrainian Armed Forces yesterday launched a strike with five ATACMS missiles on Russian air defense positions in the area of the Mospino airfield in the Donetsk region. As a result of the strike, two S-300/400 air defense missile launchers were destroyed and another one was damaged. The 96L6E radar and the control center of the S-300/400 air defense system were also destroyed.
16:13 The number of those wounded as a result of an enemy attack on Dergachi, Kharkov region, has increased to 13, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
15:30 After the first minor successes in the Kharkov region, the Russian army “was completely bogged down in street battles for Volchansk and suffered very high losses in the personnel of the assault units,” said Syrsky, who is now in parts of the Eastern Front. According to him, the enemy is currently transferring reserves from different directions, trying to support active assault operations, but to no avail. In the Liptsov area, the Russians also suffered significant losses and switched to active defense.
In the Kupyansk direction there is a difficult situation in the Kislovka area, where the enemy is trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses and reach the Oskol River. Also, intense fighting continues in the Ivanovsky area and on the approaches to Chasov Yar. But the most intense and tough battles are taking place in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhovsky directions. The enemy is trying to break through the defenses on a narrow section of the front between the settlements of Staromikhailovka-Berdychi.
15:24 Putin signed a decree allowing the “nationalization” of American assets in the Russian Federation in the event that Russian assets are confiscated in the United States. The decree allows the use of American property in Russia “to compensate for damage from the seizure of Russian property in the United States.”
15:15 On the morning of May 23, in the village of Gluboky, Krasnodar Territory, drones attacked the territory of military unit 41003, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. A fire broke out after the attack; no injuries were reported. Russian public pages also write that today drones attacked a facility in Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan).
14:36 The Russian Army carried out two strikes with KABs on Kharkov and Dergachi, in Dergachi there is information about one wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
14:34 The Russians attacked Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye region with artillery, one person was killed, said the head of the OBA, Ivan Fedorov.
14:23 As a result of today's massive missile attack on Kharkov and Lyubotin, according to preliminary data, seven people were killed and 23 were injured, the prosecutor's office reported. In the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov, rockets hit the territory of a printing house, and a large-scale fire started. Seven people were killed and 16 were injured. All victims are employees of the enterprise. Debris clearance continues. In the Kholodnogorsk district of Kharkov, transport infrastructure facilities were damaged.
In Lyubotin, the central part of the city was under attack. Currently, seven people are known to be injured. The park, shops and transport infrastructure were damaged. According to preliminary data, in total, the Russian Federation attacked Kharkov and Lyubotin with approximately 15 S-300 and S-400 missiles. The strikes were carried out from the territory of the Belgorod region.
The Vivat publishing house officially announced a strike on a printing house in Kharkov. As a result of the strike, the Factor Druk printing house, part of the Factor group of companies, was destroyed. The printing house printed books from almost all Ukrainian publishing houses and is one of the largest full-cycle printing complexes in Europe.
14:16 Ukraine is already expecting positive news this week about the return of children and other citizens deported by Russia, Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said: “As for mediators, Qatar is the most successful. I hope that this week we will hear new positive news about returning." At the same time, he added that “children and not only children” are expected to return to the territory of Ukraine.
In turn, the Children's Ombudsman of the Russian Federation, Maria Lvova-Belova, stated that a group of six boys who were in Russia returned to Ukraine through the mediation of Qatar. In total, according to her data, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 70 children have returned to Ukraine.
13:50 The Russians attacked several railway facilities in Kharkov and the region. According to preliminary data, six railway workers were injured; trains continue to run as scheduled, Ukrzaliznytsia reported. Meanwhile, the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov reported that the number of deaths as a result of the Russian massive missile attack on the Osnovyansky district of Kharkov had increased to seven. He also showed photos of the consequences:
13:18 In Kharkov, the number of wounded increased to 16, six people died, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to preliminary information, the enemy launched attacks with S-300 missiles.
13:12 Governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev said that on the administrative border with the “DPR” and “LPR” a “special five-kilometer zone will be established to protect against the penetration of terrorists and their accomplices.”
12:43 Zelensky, commenting on another strike on Kharkov, reproached the West for not allowing strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation and not providing sufficient air defense: “Russian terrorists take advantage of the fact that Ukraine is still deprived of sufficient air defense protection and reliable capabilities destroy terrorist launchers exactly where they are located - near our borders. And this weakness is not our weakness, but the weakness of the world, which for the third year has not dared to treat terrorists exactly as they deserve."
12:37 In Kharkov, the number of deaths has increased to six, 11 people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
12:22 Britain has sent Ukraine an aid package worth £150 million (more than €217 million) to strengthen air and sea defence, Defense Minister Grant Shapps said.
12:10 According to preliminary data, as a result of the strike on Kharkov, four people were killed, the whereabouts of two more people are being established, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In total, the Russian army carried out at least 15 strikes. The mayor of Kharkov, Igor Terekhov, clarified that the attacks included, among other things, the transport infrastructure and one of the divisions of the utility company that provides life support to the city.
11:58 The Chinese Foreign Ministry accused Great Britain of disrupting the Istanbul Agreements at the beginning of the war: “It is Great Britain, not China, that is adding fuel to the fire of the Ukrainian conflict - it was London that prevented Moscow and Kiev from reaching an agreement two years ago.” This is how Beijing called statements from London that China intends to supply weapons to Russia “irresponsible slander.”
11:34 There is already one dead and six injured in Kharkov, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. The Russians hit a civilian enterprise that deals with printing, and a fire broke out in the paper workshop. Also, two people were injured as a result of enemy shelling in Lyubotin.
11:07 The Russians launched about ten strikes on Kharkov - according to preliminary data, five people and civilian infrastructure were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. The Russian army also hit Zolochev, at least two people were injured.
10:26 In the Sumy region, Russian DRGs have become more active, said the speaker of the State Border Service Andrey Demchenko: “The activity of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups can be traced in the Sumy region. This is not recorded in the Chernihiv region, but the Sumy region is the direction where the enemy is constantly trying to carry out sabotage activities ". According to Demchenko, the Russians are not daily, but are actively crossing the border to study the Ukrainian defense and begin striking at it with heavy weapons.
10:19 New EU sanctions will ban the export to and through Belarus of technologies and goods that can be used for military purposes, as well as liquefied natural gas. The EU will also stop importing diamonds from Belarus, writes the Financial Times. If new sanctions are adopted, their main focus will be to limit the flow of sales of luxury cars to Belarus, which then go to Russia.
10:08 Senior German politicians have been urging the allies for several weeks to fulfill their obligations to transfer Patriot air and missile defense batteries to Ukraine. But the reaction of other countries was not justified, writes Politico. Germany is so far the only country that has taken concrete steps in this direction.
09:42 The US State Department, under the leadership of Blinken, is working on a proposal to weaken the ban on Ukraine striking targets on Russian territory with American weapons, The New York Times writes. According to the newspaper, there is active debate within the Biden administration to allow the Ukrainians to hit missile and artillery launchers located directly under the border with Russia. The proposal, which Blinken insisted on after his visit to Kyiv, is still in the formative stage, and it is unclear how many of his colleagues from Biden’s inner circle supported it, the publication notes.
09:24 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, two people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OBA, Alexander Prokudin. Five private houses, a cell tower, and an industrial enterprise were damaged.
09:07 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, one person was killed as a result of Russian shelling - in Toretsk, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. Four more people in the region were injured during the day.
08:55 As a result of yesterday’s KAB strikes in the Shevchenkovsky and Kholodnogorsky districts of Kharkov, 12 people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Three apartment buildings, two cafes, a car wash, a gas station, a service station, a store, two trams, as well as a business premises that was not in use were damaged.
In Chuguev, the first and second floors of a kindergarten burned as a result of shelling. Three apartment buildings, a kindergarten building, shop premises, an office building, and a pharmacy were damaged. Eight people were injured.
08:26 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed three Vilkha MLRS missiles, 32 Vampire missiles and three drones over the Belgorod region overnight.
07:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 23:
personnel - about 497,700 (+1330) people,
tanks - 7622 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 14,748 (+27),
artillery systems - 12,860 (+40),
MLRS - 1077 (+0),
air defense systems - 813 (+1),
aircraft - 355 (+1),
helicopters - 326 (+0),
UAVs of operational-tactical level - 10 391 (+45),
cruise missiles - 2209 (+1),
ships/boats - 27 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 17,513 (+71),
special equipment - 2094 (+4).
05:58 Partisans from the Atesh movement said that they destroyed the external telecommunications cabinet of a communication tower in the village. Stanichki near Smolensk, as a result of which the communication systems of the Russian air defense system of the 49th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, which were located on this tower, ceased to function. This will significantly weaken the Russian air defense system in the region, the partisans note.
04:37 DeepState analysts report that the enemy has advanced near Chasov Yar, in Kleshcheevka and Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region.
01:33 The United States does not encourage Ukraine to use Western weapons to attack Russian territory, but Kiev has the right to make its own decisions on how to wage war, Blinken said: “When it comes to authorizing and approving attacks outside of Ukraine, we did not do that, But Ukraine will have to make its own decisions, and I want to make sure that it gets the equipment it needs to effectively defend itself."
Or undercover boy. For some reason lots of these people Reveal All to cute guys who listen and reflect back what’s being said. Honestly, it’s still amazing to watch how happy people are to tell all their secrets to the one person who should never hear them.
[PM] A US Air Force analyst was caught on an OMG hidden camera revealing that no data exists to support enacting DEI policies in the US Armed Forces but that the military branch implemented them anyway and covered it up. Jake Reyna, a Department of Defense and US Air Force Operations Research Analyst for the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion revealed to an undercover O’Keefe Media Group journalist, "We basically contacted everybody who had a title like that and got them to sneakily change their title so it doesn’t sound as diversity oriented even though it is."
Reyna, knowing that the GOP has attempted to cut back the government’s use of discriminatory DEI policies, confessed that the Air Force manipulates job titles to cheat the system out of a higher salary for DEI personnel. "We just weaseled around it. There’s nothing really they [Republicans] would be able to do," Reyna claimed.
He added that the cover-up to conceal their actions moved "into this other group called Manpower and Readiness" to avoid their activity being detected. Reyna noted that DEI training is mandatory for US airmen and if one chooses not to participate, he or she "wouldn’t be qualified for promotions or he’d get reprimanded and...he’d get written up" before eventually being dishonorably discharged and stripped of all benefits.
Reyna admitted to the OMG journalist that the Air Force has no data to support enacting DEI policies confessing, "I don’t know if there’s any specific data you can provide outside of just saying like, yeah, we’re getting more diverse talking about changing officers."
He was asked by the undercover journalist "In your experience, have you seen or have you come across any data that actually serves as evidence that indeed DEIA candidates or troops perform better than non-DEIA troops?" Reyna answered, "No, I don't think so."
The analyst also said that white men are "definitely stupid" and "definitely suck." And believes that white men "probably" make the military weaker. OMG contacted the Air Force for comment and was told in a statement, "This individual was not speaking on behalf of the Department of the Air Force."
Of course he wasn’t speaking in an official capacity — it’s an undercover interview. The question is whether the Air Force is doing the things the gentleman said they’re doing.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces continue advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences.
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of the AFU 125th Mechanised Brigade and 112th Territorial Defence Brigade near Konstantinovka and Granov (Kharkov region).
Two counter-attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled near Glubokoye and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 365 Ukrainian troops, one tank, and two armoured fighting vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105mm M119 howitzer were neutralised.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 14th, 21st, and 66th Mechanised brigades near Nevskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), Ivanovka, and Novosadovoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Four counterattacks launched by the AFU assault detachments were repelled near Novovodyanoye, Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic), and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 320 Ukrainian troops, two armoured personnel carriers, including one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and two motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicles were neutralised.
As a result of active actions, units of the Yug Group of Forces liberated Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic), improved the tactical situation along the front line, and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 57th Mechanised Brigade, 105th, and 118th Territorial Defence brigades near Konstantinovka, Razdolovka and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 490 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, one U.S.-made 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer, four 152mm D-20 howitzers, and one UK-made 105mm L-119 howitzer.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation and inflicted losses on formations of the AFU 68th Jaeger Brigade and 24th Mechanised Brigade near Semyonovka and Novgorodskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Five counter-attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 71st Jaeger Brigade, 47th, and 110th Mechanised brigades were repelled near Ocheretino, Solovyovo, and Umanskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 405 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including three U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured personnel carriers, and six motor vehicles.
In the course of counter-battery warfare, one U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer, one U.S.-made 155mm M109 Paladin self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and two U.S.-made 105mm M102 light towed howitzers were neutralised.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces took more advantageous lines, as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Makarovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 120 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, one UK-made 155mm FH-70 howitzer, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
One U.S.-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery warfare station was destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 37th Marines Brigade and 65th Mechanised Brigade near Veseloye (Kherson region) and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, and one 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 112 areas during the day.
Air defence units shot down 53 unmanned aerial vehicles, six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, three French-made Hammer guided aerial bombs, four U.S.-made HARM anti-radiation missiles, 47 U.S.-made HIMARS, Czech-made Vampire, and Olkha MLRS projectiles.
In total, 601 airplanes and 274 helicopters, 24,551 unmanned aerial vehicles, 523 air defence missile systems, 16,134 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,310 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 9,771 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 21,935 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 21:03 Successfully destroyed units of the Ukrainian MT-LB in the Zaporozhye direction. 21:02 Exact hit by Russian fighters on a Ukrainian armored vehicle, followed by the detonation of the ammunition in the Donetsk direction.
19:56 Artillerymen of the “West” group of troops destroyed a column of enemy equipment transporting manpower and ammunition to forward positions.
As a result of the attack by 122mm rockets, the enemy lost three trucks and up to 20 military personnel killed and wounded.
18:50 Destruction of American howitzer "M-777" in the Khar'kov direction.
18:44 Two civilians were injured as a result of artillery attack of Avdievka by Ukrainian troops, the JCCC reported.
17:47 Soldiers of the Main Force “North” showed the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the liberated village of Strelechya, Khar'kov region –video.
17:25 Avdeevsk direction: advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Berdychi and Uman. Situation as of 17.00 May 23, 2024:
At the moment, Russian troops continue to conduct an offensive along the entire front line, including at the Berdychi-Semyonovka line.
A “half-cauldron” has formed at the Solovyovo-Semyonovka line, the clearing of which will allow Russian troops to significantly reduce the distance to Novopokrovsky. Also, the assault on enemy strongholds is also coming from Sokol.
Russian troops expanded the zone of control in Umanskoye towards the western outskirts, where they established a foothold at the intersection of Sverdlova Street and the S051801 highway leading to Netailovo. At the moment, the entire northern shore of the Uman Pond is under the confident control of the Russian army. However, the enemy still holds positions in the south of the village in the area of Batula Street.
16:50 Information is received about the advance of our forces in Staromayorsky. The secondary school building came under our control in the center of the village.
16:40 At the Lyubotin station in the Khar'kov region, a train with Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks, a training base and railway junctions were hit.
16:23 In the Avdeevsky direction, Russian troops suppressed enemy firing points and disrupted the rotation.
Along the route of our assaults, aerial reconnaissance identified camouflaged enemy firing points in the forest. 2S19 Msta-S crews fired 152mm high-explosive fragmentation rounds and suppressed the firing positions and destroyed the opornik with manpower.
16:10 Consequences of artillery attack of the territory of a supermarket in the Central City district of Gorlovka, where 11 people were injured -video.
15:49 On frames: The destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces mortar, as well as two enemy howitzers, is presented.
15:37 The Armed Forces of Ukraine left Krynki (Kherson region), - Ukrainian Telegram channels.
14:49 Consequences of artillery attack of the Central City district of Gorlovka by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces -photo.
14:42 Destroyed Ukrainian launch-loading installation 9A39M1 of the 9K37M1 Buk-M1 (Buk) complex in the Khar'kov region.
14:30 Army aviation carried out strikes on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Staromayorsky -video.
14:25 Explosions occurred in the suburb of Khar'kov - the city of Dergachi. A bomb attack was also carried out on enemy targets within the boundaries of Khar'kov.
14:05 A new explosion occurred in Khar'kov, reported the Ukrainian publication “Public. News".
13:34 A civilian was killed and 11 more were injured during massive artillery attack of the center of Gorlovka by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
13:12 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The North group of troops repelled two counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Glubokoe and Volchansk, Khar'kov region;
Units of the Center group repelled five counterattacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;
The “North” group continues to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defense, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces per day amounted to 365 military personnel;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 405 military personnel in the area of responsibility of the Central Group of the Russian Armed Forces;
The Vostok group of troops occupied more advantageous positions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 120 military personnel;
During the day, Russian air defense shot down 53 UAVs, 6 ATACMS missiles, three Hammer bombs and 47 MLRS rounds;
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 490 military personnel in the area of responsibility of the Russian group “South” per day;
Units of the “West” group repelled four counterattacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups, the enemy lost up to 320 soldiers.
13:07 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the liberation of the village of Andreevka south of Kleshcheevka, from where the enemy was forced to retreat a little earlier.
13:01 Russian intelligence officers "opened "enemy temporary deployment points and locations of weapons and military equipment.
12:45 Russian fighters struck one more Abrams, advancing behind Avdievka. In the area of the village Sokol, outside Ocheretino, artillerymen of the 27th Motorized Rifle Division of the “Center” group of troops tracked down and “covered” another American tank. He was hit by accurate fire from a 122mm D-30 howitzer.
12:14 Paratroopers from Buryatia destroyed a tracked robot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Chasov Yar area -video.
12:10 Explosions are reported in Dnepropetrovsk.
11:50 Units of the North group of troops as a result of active actions advanced into the depths of the enemy’s defense and defeated the manpower and equipment of units of the 3rd tank, 57th Motorized Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Volchanskie Khutora, Bely Kolodez and Petropavlovka in the Khar'kov region.
Three counterattacks of enemy assault groups were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Liptsy, Khar'kov region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses per day amounted to up to 255 military personnel and seven vehicles, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS combat vehicle, a 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, a 155mm US-made M777 howitzer, a 105mm US-made M119 gun, 100mm Rapier anti-tank gun, as well as two US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery stations.
11:10 After “arrivals” in different places of Khar'kov rises smoke, local groups write. There have already been about ten explosions in the city, said Mayor Terekhov.
10:48 Artillery crews of the 64th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 35th Army struck field ammunition depot and parked Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle.
10:28 Explosions in Khar'kov.
10:04 The Ukrainian army shelled Gorlovka, a civilian died as a result of fire in the interior of his car, the mayor of the city of Prikhodko said.
09:47 Artillerymen of the “Center” group of troops supported advance of motorized riflemen in the Avdeevsky direction.
Having received the target coordinates from the reconnaissance units, the crews of the 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled guns arrived at the firing position and, with shots of 152mm high-explosive fragmentation ammunition, suppressed the firing points camouflaged in the forest belt along the offensive route of the assault troops.
Next, the artillerymen defeated the enemy personnel who took up defense at the strong point. Fire adjustments and control of target destruction were carried out by crews of the Orlan-30 UAV.
09:24 Ukrainian resources confirm the advance of the Russian Army in the east of Chasov Yar and in the northern part of Kleshcheevka.
09:10 In the Svatovsko-Kremensky sector, our units have improved their position. This was reported by a military expert, retired LPR lieutenant colonel Andrei Marochko.
“In the area of the settlement of Makeyevka (LPR), during active hostilities, our units managed to knock out the enemy from their positions located in a forest belt. This fact allowed us to advance in this area to a distance of about 500 meters,” Marochko wrote in the Telegram channel.
08:22 Units of the Vostok group of troopsripped offattempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strengthen forward positions in the areas of the settlements of Dorozhnyanki, Charivnoye and Lugovskoye. This was reported by the head of the group’s press center, Alexander Gordeev.
08:19 Report for the morning of May 23 from Two Majors:
Due to the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces, the enemy is forced to transfer reinforcements from other directions to the Khar'kov direction. Thus, the 36th Separate Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Corps from the Kherson region arrived at the front, hastily staffed at the Shirokiy Lan training ground in the Nikolaev region. In addition, they report that enemy forces have been withdrawn from the Kupyansky direction.
In the Liptsovsky direction, the group’s assault units advanced to a depth of 200 to 400 meters, repelling two counterattacks. The 415th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was withdrawn from the front for replenishment;
In Chasov Yar, units of the Russian Armed Forces, with heavy fighting, occupied several positions in the high-rise buildings of the eastern microdistrict of the city. From the south, the zone of control of our troops in the forest is expanding, they report on the successes of the Russian Army in Kleshcheevka;
In the Pokrovsky direction (west of Avdievka), the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations south of the Ocheretinsky salient, near Novopokrovsky. The zone of control of our troops is being expanded to the south from the recently occupied Netailovo;
In the South Donetsk direction there are battles in Krasnogorovka, the Russian Armed Forces have occupied a building to the west of the refractory plant. The enemy is holding in high-rise buildings in the northern part of the village;
In the Vrem'evsky direction, fighting continues in Urozhainy and Staromayorsky, reports of the advance of our troops.
08:15 Special mining battalion “Phoenix” of the engineering brigade of the “South” group of troops using drones mines enemy strongholds, delivering “mines-gifts” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the entrance to the dugouts on the Artemovsky sector of the front.
08:14 Destruction of AGS Mk 19, American production in the Zaporozhye direction.
08:10 Another “Leopard” was destroyed in the Donetsk direction in the Mar'inka area.
08:04 Ussuri paratroopers by storm mastered a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Andreevka and Kurdyumovka on Artemovsky in the DPR. Having demoralized the enemy with precise attacks from grenade launchers and suppressing fire weapons, the paratroopers, under the cover of darkness, entered the enemy stronghold.
08:01 Crew of the Strela-10 air defense system of the Northern Fleet Marine CorpsdestroyedUAV of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction.
The unofficial word on the multitude of bribery cases involving top Russian Ministry of Defense officials is that a separate wing of the Lubyanka -- the notorious NKVD/KGB prison -- in Moskva is being built to house all the detainees involved.
As you will see below, the investigations involving bribery have been ongoing since last year, so there is little indication of when the investigations will be complete. An employee of the Russian Defense Ministry department for state defense procurement was detained in Moscow
[Regnum] In Moscow, Vladimir Verteletsky, head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense for Providing Defense Orders, was detainedon suspicion of taking a bribe. Izvestia writes about this with reference to sources.
According to the publication, Verteletsky helped the businessman obtain a government order and received a house and a car as a bribe.
As Regnum reported, on the same day it became known that the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Head of the Main Communications Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces, General Vadim Shamarin, had been arrested for two months. He is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The accused faces up to 15 years in prison.
On May 14, it became known that a criminal case was opened against the head of the main personnel department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, under the article of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was arrested. During the searches, about 100 million rubles, jewelry and a collection of watches were found on Kuznetsov. The defense appealed the arrest. Later it became known that, according to the investigation, Kuznetsov received a bribe in the form of a cottage on Griboyedov Street in Krasnodar worth about 30 million rubles.
On April 24, the court arrested Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov on charges of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. According to the investigation, Ivanov, having entered into a criminal conspiracy, received property benefits from contracting and subcontracting work for the needs of the military department. The Deputy Minister of Defense did not admit his guilt in committing the crime.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov at a briefing on May 23 called the fight against corruption a consistent work of law enforcement agencies.
The Main Military Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee believes that Popov, suspected of fraud, can have his preventive measure changed. This is due to the characteristics of the person involved and other circumstances established during the investigation.
“According to the investigation, Popov was involved in the theft in 2023 of more than 1,700 tons of rolled metal products purchased by the military-civil administration of the Zaporozhye region as part of the provision of humanitarian aid,” Petrenko is quoted as saying on the department’s Telegram channel.
She added that the metal structures were intended for the construction of defensive fortifications. Their cost exceeds 130 million rubles.
As Regnum reported, on May 21 the court arrested General Popov for two months. The criminal case is being investigated under the article of fraud committed by an organized group on an especially large scale.
Ivan Popov’s father, in a conversation with the agency, stated that his son was not guilty of anything. Popov Sr. is convinced that ill-wishers deliberately “digged” for the general. He called the current situation a “set-up.”
Popov’s colleagues also do not believe in the version of the security forces. The soldiers are convinced that the general could not steal from his own people. According to them, he “jumped into the trenches with ordinary privates.”
According to the source, an apartment in Rostov-on-Don worth from 3.5 million to 6.2 million rubles was registered in the name of the arrested major general. Popov also registered two cars - a 2013 Mitsubishi Outlander (average price 1.5 million rubles) and a Cruze Chevrolet (approximate cost 500 thousand rubles). In 2020, Popov’s salary was 75 thousand rubles.
Popov commanded the 58th Combined Arms Army in 2023. Previously, he was the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces in Crimea and the chief of staff of the 11th Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kaliningrad region.
Even more from regnum.ru Those involved in the case of General Shamarin have been under arrest since the summer of 2023
The defendants in the criminal case of bribery of the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Vadim Shamarin, General Director of the Perm Telephone Plant Telta OJSC Alexey Vysokov and the chief accountant of this enterprise Elena Grishina have been under arrest since the summer of 2023 on charges of fraud, it follows from the case materials.
“By the resolution of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow dated March 14, 2024, Grishina E.V. and Vysokov A.P. extended the period of detention for 2 months 13 days, and in total up to 10 months 13 days, that is, until June 2, 2024 ", the court ruling says.
According to investigators, from April 2016 to October 2023, Shamarin received a bribe from Vysokov and Grishina in the amount of 36 million rubles for increasing the volume of products supplied under government contracts for the needs of the Ministry of Defense and general patronage. Shamarin used the funds received at his own discretion, the Investigative Committee added.
As reported by IA Regnum, the detention of 52-year-old Shamarin became known on May 23. On the same day, he was arrested for two months by a military court in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Searches were carried out in his apartment.
The Kremlin explained the lieutenant general’s detention as a “fight against corruption”; the details of the case have not yet been disclosed. Shamarin could face up to 15 years in prison.
According to Vadim Shamarin’s official declaration, from 2011 to 2018, he earned from 1,975,264 to 3,119,610 rubles per year. His wife's official income ranged from 133,977 to 872,882 rubles per year. The serviceman's wife, according to official data, owned a 2013 Toyota RAV-4.
The police are also checking Shamarin for involvement in similar crimes. The investigation continues to actively collect evidence in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale.
Yet more, again from regnum.ru The court left the chief personnel officer of the Ministry of Defense Yuri Kuznetsov under arrest
The head of the main personnel department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Yuri Kuznetsov, accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, will remain under arrest. This decision was made on May 23 by the Second Western District Military Court, Izvestia writes.
The court left the decision of the first instance regarding the preventive measure against Kuznetsov unchanged. Previously, he was placed in custody for two months.
Lawyer Sergei Shcheglov asked that Kuznetsov be under house arrest in a house in the Istra district of the Moscow region. One of the owners of this home is the general’s wife.
Kuznetsov also asked to be released from custody. He said that he undermined his health when he eliminated the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The material says that Tambiev is accused of ten counts of receiving bribes in the amount of more than one and a half million dollars and 2,718 bitcoins (about 7.3 billion rubles). Moreover, according to investigators, Tambiev also tried to enrich himself by another 1.3 million dollars (about 117 million rubles).
At the same time, according to investigators, senior lieutenant Lyakhovenko acted as an accomplice of Tambiev. She is accused of receiving a bribe, abuse of power, and falsifying evidence in a criminal case.
It is noted that the Balashikha court will consider the criminal case. The publication explains that initially the trial was supposed to take place in Moscow, but the Prosecutor General’s Office petitioned the Supreme Court to change the territorial jurisdiction, justifying this by the fact that Tambiev “has acquired connections in the judiciary of Moscow.” The Supreme Court granted the request of the Prosecutor General.
As Regnum reported, in June last year the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow seized more than a thousand bitcoins from Tambiev.
In 2022, Tambiev received a bribe from the hacker group Infraud Organization. The hackers did this with the aim of stopping the case against some of them that was pending.
The alleged bribe was discovered during a search of the investigator’s apartment, where they also found a laptop, which was only hacked several months later. In it, investigators saw a folder called “Pension”, which contained a photo of a sheet of paper with codes that allowed Tambiev to gain access to 932.1 and 100 bitcoins.
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[Regnum] Ukrainian militants launched a missile attack on the territory of Crimea on the evening of May 23, killing two people. This was announced by the head of the republic Sergei Aksyonov.
“As a result of a missile attack by the enemy on the territory of the peninsula in the Simferopol region, two bystanders were killed,” Aksyonov wrote in the Telegram channel.
The head of Crimea expressed condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
In addition, hits were recorded in the Alushta area; the strikes hit an empty commercial facility. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are working at the scene of the incident, Aksyonov summarized.
As Regnum reported, on May 22, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Ukraine will decide for itself whether it should launch strikes deep into Russian territory. He emphasized that with regard to providing support for attacks outside of Ukraine, the State Department was not involved in this. At the same time, Blinken expressed a desire to ensure that Kiev receives the necessary equipment.
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives Michael McCaul also on May 22 demonstrated a map of Russia and the zone that ATACMS operational-tactical missiles transferred to the Kiev regime can reach.
State Duma deputy from Crimea, member of the Security Committee Mikhail Sheremet (United Russia) reminded the United States of Russia’s ability to destroy any aggressor. According to him, in the US Congress, madness took precedence over the sense of self-preservation. He advised sensible Americans to remove from power politicians who are trying to plunge the world into the chaos of war.
The Ates movement suggests that "there was significant damage to equipment and many occupiers were killed."
The communications center of the Russian invaders was hit on the night of Friday, May 24, in the city of Alushta in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The Atesh partisan movement announced this on its Telegram channel.
According to the partisans, military unit No. 28735, an important communication and control point for the invaders in Crimea, came under attack.
Previously, it was a Ukrainian military unit, but after the occupation the Russians began to use it.
“It seems that significant damage was caused to the equipment and many occupiers were killed. It was probably also possible to destroy the control center of this center. We are waiting for official confirmation from the JMA,” the partisans added.
Let us recall that earlier Crimean public pages reported the sounds of explosions in Simferopol, Dzhankoy, Yevpatoriya, Alushta and Partenit.
[CNN] None of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
Several desperate Gazans intercepted trucks delivering aid from the pier over the weekend, leading the UN to suspend the delivery operations until the logistical challenges are resolved.
The US is working with Israel and the United Nations to establish “alternative routes” for the safe delivery of the 569 tons of aid transported to Gaza since last week, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.
Asked whether any of the aid has been delivered to the people of Gaza, Ryder said, “As of today, I do not believe so.” He added that aid had been held in an assembly area on shore, but as of Tuesday had begun getting moved to warehouses for distribution throughout Gaza as alternative routes have been established.
A US official told CNN that the Defense Department and UN are still working to determine how much aid can be held at he staging area inside Gaza at any given time.
The amount of aid getting to the Gaza shoreline from its initial staging area in Cyprus has also fallen short of initial Pentagon estimates.
Since Friday, more than 569 metric tons of humanitarian assistance have been delivered through the temporary pier, called JLOTS, or Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, to the shore of Gaza to be distributed by humanitarian partners, Ryder said. But Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command, said last week that the US hoped to initially transport 500 tons of aid per day via the pier, and scale up as time went on.
Over the weekend, as trucks began moving the aid delivered off the floating pier, CNN reported that a group of men in Gaza intercepted the aid, saying they did not trust that it was actually meant for the Palestinian people.
“I have doubts,” Mounir Ayad, a Gaza resident, told CNN near the pier. “I don’t understand this floating pier or what it indicates and what its purpose is. They say it’s for aid, but people are apprehensive. Is this aid or something else? We know that the US has never supported the Palestinian cause, so it’s implausible that it’s giving us aid without something in return.”
Ryder acknowledged on Tuesday that some initial aid brought into Gaza was “intercepted by some people who took that aid off those vehicles.”
“Fully appreciating the desperation, but also fully appreciating the fact that it is very important that this aid get to the people who need it most, that’s going to continue to be the focus. So I understand, you know, the focus on why is this not working, or why is that not working, but what we’re focused on is how we can work to ensure that the Palestinian people get the aid.”
The Pentagon said in April that the goal was to deliver roughly 500 tons of aid — amounting to 90 truckloads — per day to the starving population of Gaza, with the intent of working up to 150 trucks daily. The pier was finally anchored to Gaza last week as the humanitarian situation in the enclave has only worsened.
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Mistake my a$$. If Joe could, he'd order US military to attack Israel.
[NEWARAB] Three U.S. troops suffered non-combat injuries in the effort to make a temporary pier off the coast of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... into a conduit for humanitarian aid, with one at death's door at an Israeli hospital, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
The injuries were the first for U.S. forces during the latest operation to bring humanitarian aid to Paleostinians.
The pier was announced by U.S. President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... in March and involved the military assembling the floating structure off the coast. Estimated to cost $320 million for the first 90 days and involve about 1,000 U.S. service members, it went into operation last week.
U.S. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, told news hounds that two of the troops had a sprained ankle and a minor back injury.
"Two were very minor, routine injuries. Those individuals returned to duty," Cooper said.
A third service member, injured on a ship at sea, was medically evacuated to a hospital in Israel, he said. A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the individual was at death's door.
U.S. politicians have voiced concern about the risks to positioning U.S. troops off the coast of Gaza. Biden has said they will not step foot in the war-torn enclave itself.
The Pentagon has said it will prioritise the safety of U.S. military personnel.
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Some of us older very early days Internet Geeks have known, or know of Karl Auerbach. Karl has been involved in Internets design since the early 1970s. Over Karl's career he has designed and fielded initial early VOIP, WiFi working prototype devices.
As a Lawyer he has even come out and stated his contempt for the SCOTUS, given its growing Political and not Constitutional rulings.
His appraisal of the current SCOTUS are felt by a growing number of American Citizens. Quotes:
[CaveBear] SCOTUS is no longer an institution with honor or integrity.
The court has replaced its historical intellectual honesty with selective, goal-oriented, tribal pseudo-logic. The enormous increase in shadow docket decisions, lacking both argument and opinions, has further eroded faith in the court.
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[Regnum] On May 22, another magnetic storm covered the Earth. Its strength according to the internationally accepted K-index indicator is not very high and reaches 4 (out of 9 possible) points. However, the storm is expected to last for a long time, and it could negatively affect the operation of power grids, satellite systems and other technologies.
A special blow threatens residents of Primorye, reports UssurMedia news agency.
Experts predict that the geomagnetic storm will end on May 25. For four days, the atmosphere will absorb bursts of solar energy. As a result, weather-sensitive people may experience headaches, muscle pain, and general weakness.
The previous magnetic storm was recorded in early May. Its power was 9 points, which is why it was recognized as a record in the 21st century. Residents of some southern regions could even observe the northern lights, which were unusual for this area.
The K-index, an indicator of geomagnetic activity, was introduced in 1938. It represents the deviation of the Earth's magnetic field over a three-hour interval - from 0 to 9 points.
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[Regnum] One of the Houthi operations was carried out against a target in the Mediterranean Sea, the leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Abdel Malik al-Houthi, said on May 23, whose speech was broadcast by Al Masirah TV channel.
The Houthi leader announced a strike on a target in the Mediterranean Sea
“One of our military operations this week was against a target in the Mediterranean,” he said.
According to the Houthi leader, a total of eight operations were carried out this week using 15 missiles and drones in the Red and Arabian Seas, the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In total, he said, the number of ships associated with Israel, the United States and Britain that were attacked reached 119.
As Regnum reported, on May 18, off the coast of the Yemeni city of Moha, an oil tanker was hit by a rocket. After this, a fire broke out on board. The ship was flying the flag of Panama. It received minor damage and continued to its next port of call.
Later, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) clarified that the Houthis allegedly attacked the M/T Wind oil tanker, which was allegedly heading to China. The US military claims that the ship moored in Russia before the voyage. It was operated by a Greek operator but flew the Panamanian flag.
On May 15, the Houthis said they attacked the US destroyer Mason in the Red Sea with a missile. In addition, they also launched a missile attack on the commercial ship Destiny, which was heading to the Israeli port of Eilat.
On May 8, the head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, said at a military parade that the United States was sending “tempting offers” to stop the movement from attacking merchant ships in the Red Sea. He called these steps by the American leadership humiliating.
Indeed. Go Brandon.
Al-Mashat said the Houthis will continue their attacks in support of the Gaza Strip, whose residents are suffering from attacks by the Israeli army.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian defenders give a tough rebuff to the enemy.
As of 20:00, Russian troops had already carried out 79 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian units. Most of the clashes occurred in the Pokrovsky and Kupyansky directions.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published operational information about the Russian invasion as of 20:00 on Thursday, May 23.
It is reported that as of 20:00, Russian troops have already carried out 79 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian units. Most of the clashes occurred in the Pokrovsky and Kupyansky directions.
“The Khar'kov region is suffering from missile and air strikes of Russian terrorists. Civilians and enterprises are suffering. The enemy continues to level the city of Volchansk and its surroundings with controlled aerial bombs. Also during the day, the areas of the settlements of Bely Kolodets, Dergachi and Veseloye suffered from UABs,” the message says.
It is noted that in the Khar'kov direction the invaders tried to move forward four times, but received a harsh rebuff. Fighting continues in the areas of the villages of Staritsa and Tikhoe. The situation is under control.
In the Kupyansk direction, the number of offensive and assault actions of the invaders has increased to 20, almost half of them are ongoing.
In the Liman direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled six enemy attacks near Torskoye and Ternov. The Russian invaders dropped two KABs in the Liman area.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy tried eight times to improve the tactical situation, but the situation is under control.
Nine engagements continue in the Pokrovsky direction, and another 13 enemy attacks have already been repulsed.
“The enemy continues to conduct its operations in the direction of Kalinovoy and Novoselovka First with the support of aviation. At the same time, Ukrainian soldiers are hunting the enemy in the air - today a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was destroyed,” the General Staff adds.
Today, 10 military clashes took place in the Kurakhovsky direction, and fighting continues in the Krasnogorovka area.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the invaders launched an airstrike in the Gulyai-Polye area.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried seven times to dislodge our soldiers from the left bank of the Dnieper.
In other areas there were no significant changes.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost 355 aircraft and 326 helicopters.
The most intense and fierce battles continue in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions.
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The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said that intensive fighting is ongoing on the approaches to the city of Chasiv Yar and in the Ivanivsky district of Donetsk region.
The Chief of the Armed Forces spoke on Facebook about the situation in the Kharkiv and Donetsk directions .
"Intensive fighting continues in the Ivanovo area and on the approaches to Chasovoy Yar. The enemy is trying to cling to the city at any cost, uses the latest T-90M, BMP-3, BMD-4, which are usually destroyed by our anti-tank weapons and FPV by drones while advancing," reports General Syrskyi.
According to the Holovkom, the most intense and fierce battles continue in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions. The enemy is trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on a narrow section of the front between the settlements of Staromykhailivka - Berdychi through offensive and assault actions of the most prepared units.
"Offensive actions take place both with the use of armored vehicles and on foot, often on motorcycles and buggies," the soldier said.
Fighting continues in the Kupyansk direction . The situation is difficult in the Kislivka area, where the enemy is trying to break through our defenses and reach the Oskil River.
There is also unrest in other directions, but the number and intensity of hostilities is much less.
668 civilians still remain in the city of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region , and it is becoming increasingly difficult to evacuate people from there and deliver humanitarian aid to them. The enemy does not stop trying to capture the city and inflicts artillery strikes.
[AFRICANEWS] Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu is accusing President Hakainde Hichilema and the Zambia Police Inspector General of plotting to arrest and detain him without justification.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, May 22, Lungu said the police are preparing to arrest him at night from his home in Lusaka.
"...the police are under instructions to arrest me in the dark of the night any day by surprise!" the post read.
This follows Lungu's controversial suggestion of a possible government change before the 2026 elections, seen by many as a threat. His statement has been condemned by political opponents and civil society groups.
Police Chief Graphael Musamba stated that Lungu will be summoned to explain his "inciting" remarks. Local media report that the police are taking Lungu’s statement seriously and are investigating.
Lungu's claims of house arrest and police harassment have raised concerns about democracy and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... in Zambia. Lungu, a vocal critic of President Hakainde Hichilema’s government, alleges persecution.
The Patriotic Front, Lungu's party, accuses the government of silencing opponents and calls for the release of Lungu and detained party members.
He had retired from politics after losing the presidency to Hakainde Hichilema in 2021.
The former leader has been accusing the government of victimizing him and members of his Patriotic Front (PF) party to block his return to politics.
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[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Kantemir Nafedzov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, finding him guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in Nalchik.
According to the prosecution, from July 7 to August 24, 2023, Nafedzov participated in the activities of the banned terrorist organization “Islamic State (The Islamic State is prohibited in Russia),” sharing its ideology.
As the court established, the young man then decided to commit a terrorist attack in Nalchik. To do this, he observed administrative buildings and the city railway station, taking photos and videos near these objects.
Nafedzov conducted preparations for the terrorist attack “under the leadership of another member of the terrorist organization,” according to a publication on the court’s official Telegram channel dated May 22.
It also follows from the verdict against a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria that on August 8, 2023, he recorded an oath of allegiance to the leader of a terrorist organization on his mobile phone and sent it to someone on the Internet.
According to the court, using a mobile phone, he also received instructions from a member of a terrorist organization on how to make explosives and an improvised explosive device based on them. From August 15 to 17, the defendant purchased components for a homemade bomb in Nalchik, and on August 23, having made explosives and a homemade bomb at his home, he hid them in a cache. The next day, security forces detained Nafedzov, seizing these items from the cache.
The court found Kantemir Nafedzov guilty, sentencing him to 15 years of maximum security, with the first two years to be served in prison.
Nafedzov was found guilty on four counts: preparation of a terrorist act (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of Russia), participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), illegal trafficking in explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) and illegal production explosive devices (part 1 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code). The statement from the court's press service did not specify whether he agreed with any part of the charges.
Nefedzov is 25 years old, he was born in the village of Shalushka in the Chegem region of Kabardino-Balkaria, as follows from the entry in the Rosfinmonitoring register of extremists and terrorists. The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from the accused regarding the court's verdict.
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[REGNUM] The first of three planned stages of exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces has started in the Southern Military District of Russia. The Ministry of Defense published a video showing the MiG-31I Dagger carrier and the Tu-22M3 missile carrier. The military department reported that the missilemen receive special ammunition for the Iskander operational-tactical missile system (OTRK), equip the launch vehicles with it, and then move to the designated area for launches. At the same time, the Aerospace Forces equip missiles, including the hypersonic Kinzhals, with special warheads, and then the fighters fly to patrol areas.
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[REGNUM] On May 24, Russia, Bulgaria and Transnistria celebrate the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture. On the same day, North Macedonia celebrates the Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius. In all cases - among us, and among the Bulgarians, and among the Macedonians, and in the unrecognized republic on the Dniester - the triumph is associated with the names of the monastic brothers who, almost 1200 years ago, created the first Slavic alphabet and the Church Slavonic language. On July 5, missionary brothers are remembered in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The choice of dates is related to church tradition. Once upon a time, in Orthodox churches, the day of remembrance of the “holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Slovenian teachers” fell on May 24 (11th according to the old style). And Catholics commemorated the same saints on July 5th. When Cyril and Methodius set out on educational journeys, church schism had not yet divided the Slavic world.
[GEO.TV] Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... 's civil defence agency said two pre-dawn Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed 26 people in Gaza City, amid fierce battles between troops and resistance fighters across the Paleostinian territory.
Civil defence agency front man Mahmud Bassal told AFP that one strike hit a family's house, killing 16 people, while 10 others died when a mosque was struck in the second strike.
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[Regnum] On May 23, the UN General Assembly approved a draft resolution submitted by Germany and Rwanda on the “genocide in Srebrenica.” Fortunately, absolutely nothing the UN Generally Assembly does matters.
Representatives of 84 countries voted in favor, and 19 countries voted against, including Russia, China, Belarus, Hungary and Cuba. Representatives of 68 countries abstained from voting.
Russia previously spoke out against the adoption of this resolution. On May 23, the Russian permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, called the voting results disgraceful and noted that the initiators of the resolution were pushing the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards confrontation.
As Regnum reported, on May 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the draft resolution on the events in Srebrenica submitted by Germany and Rwanda to the UN General Assembly was being promoted with the goal of “breaking the Serbs.” The project involves condemning only one side, Lavrov noted. Russia has previously blocked similar draft resolutions in the UN Security Council, the minister recalled.
On April 30, Nebenzya stated that the draft resolution violated the Dayton Agreement. The possible adoption of the initiative would have a disastrous effect on Bosnia and Herzegovina and could lead to destabilization of the entire Balkan region, he said. Nebenzya stressed that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina must independently come to a consensus regarding their history.
Over the past year, the Serbian entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina has faced unprecedented pressure due to its refusal to impose anti-Russian sanctions, give up its powers to Sarajevo and join NATO, noted IA Regnum columnist Bogdan Kis in his article. This pushes the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik and his circle to serious actions that the collective West does not like, but brings the republic closer to a historic decision, the expert emphasized.
On May 23, Dodik announced that within 30 days the republic would present a project for the peaceful division of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Serbian people can no longer live in Bosnia and Herzegovina in its current form, Dodik emphasized.
[GEO.TV] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... has resumed transporting humanitarian aid arriving at a US-built pier off the coast of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip after deliveries were halted for two days because some truckloads of aid were intercepted by needy Paleostinians.
Aid deliveries began arriving at a US-built pier on Friday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow more supplies into the besieged coastal enclave.
The UN halted transport for two days while it came up with a new route. WFP spokesperson Shaza Moghraby said on Thursday that deliveries resumed on Tuesday with 17 trucks arriving at the warehouse, while on Wednesday there were 27 trucks.
A US official said on Thursday that so far some 800 metric tonnes of aid had been delivered off the pier to a staging area. USAID said that as of Tuesday more than 307 metric tonnes of aid had been transported from "to onward points in Gaza."
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And Hamas resumes hijacking and selling it in the markets.
❗Al-Awda hospital in Gaza is being forced to close following a terrifying four-day siege, the latest in a series of systematic attacks on healthcare by Israeli forces. Staff and patients were forced to leave one of the only hospitals still functioning in the north of Gaza. 1/4
[GEO.TV] In yet another incident of sexual abuse, a prisoner was allegedly subjected to gang rape by two of his fellow inmates in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
Rehan Khan, the victim, lodged an FIR with Saddar Bairooni Police Station, saying that two of his fellow inmates subjected him to gang-rape on the night of May 18 at the barrack.
Narrating his ordeal, Rehan, a resident of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , said that the police personnel from Shalimar cop shoppe in Islamabad took him into custody in a case on January 25 and shifted him to Rawalpindi Jail.
The incident took place at 11pm, Rehan said, adding that he informed the deputy superintendent of jail about the sexual assault.
The jail officer told him that he would produce him before the jail superintendent the next day.
The next day, the victim said that he was produced before a court in Islamabad, where he was acquitted after completing the jail term. After the court’s verdict, Rehan said that he was released with immediate effect.
Later, the victim of sexual abuse approached the police and get registered his complaint at the Rawalpindi cop shoppe against the two suspects.
According to the coppers, they were probing the incident and collecting the evidence in this regard.
Earlier in January, an under-trial prisoner was strangled to death before being subjected to sexual abuse by four inmates.
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[NEWARAB] As the Syrian regime retook the Damascus suburb of Harasta, one soldier from the elite Tiger Forces proudly proclaimed his intentions for the former opposition stronghold.
"Everyone is stealing, looting, not leaving anything... with God’s help, nothing will remain," he tells the camera.
During the same operation, numerous videos were shot showing mobs of uniformed and plain-clothed men stripping vacated homes of all their belongings, with washing machines, furniture, and even steel facades piled onto the back of trucks and military vehicles before they departed town.
"Farewell to Harasta," one soldier taunted the survivors in a video showing part of a convoy of military and civilian vehicles, some loaded with household items, leaving the neighbourhood. "This is how looting is done."
Such admissions are frequent in an explosive new report revealed by the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, presenting evidence of widespread pillaging by regime soldiers as they 'liberated' rebel towns and suburbs.
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[AFRICANEWS] The ally President Felix Tshisekedi returns to a role he has led before. Vital Kamerhe, speaker of the national assembly from 2006-2009, was elected Wednesday to the same position, ending months of bickering and a threat by the President to dissolve parliament.
A veteran of Congolese politics, the 65-year-old became allies with Tshisekedi in 2018, when he withdrew his candidacy for president.
His Union for the Congolese Nation party also played a key role in helping Tshisekedi in dismantle a coalition with his predecessor Joseph Kabila in 2020.
But Kamerhe who served as Tshisekedi's chief of staff was soon arrested and sentenced to 20 years in jail for embezzlement. In 2022, he was acquitted on appeal and released.
In 2023, Kamerhe returned to Tshisekedi's cabinet as minister of the economy just in time for the election in which Tshisekedi won a second term as president.
His election as speaker of parliament paves way for the formation of a new government.
Our nation is being confronted with three wars: the war in Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, and the looming war over Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Actually, make that three and a half wars, if you include the war of influence we are losing in the Sahel region of Africa as U.S. forces abandon bases in Niger.
Biden, seemingly caught in the vice grip of November electoral calculus, is refusing even to acknowledge that we are already in World War III, let alone take the necessary measures to win it. As a result, our nation’s military, weapons and munitions production capacity, and its ability to engage with the cyberwarfare and disinformation emanating from Moscow and Beijing, are all woefully lacking. All require an immediate remedy.
Winning this increasingly kinetic global ideological war is our only way forward if liberal democracy is to prevail against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s shared vision of a so-called multipolar world, militarily and economically dominated by Russia and China and anchored by BRICS.
Defending Michigan’s 15 electoral votes seemingly became more important than safeguarding Israel.
Mark Toth writes on national security and foreign policy. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Sweet served 30 years as a military intelligence officer and led the U.S. European Command Intelligence Engagement Division from 2012 to 2014. This is the intelligence community speaking directly to us. Will we listen?
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[AFRICANEWS] Chad's president-elect, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, was sworn in on Thursday at a ceremony in the capital, N’Djamena, attended by several leaders from the region.
Deby’s inauguration came a week after the constitutional council confirmed he had won the disputed 6 May election outright, with 61 per cent of the vote.
He seized power three years ago after the death of his father, Idriss Déby, who had ruled Chad with an iron fist for three decades.
A career soldier, Deby junior had promised to hold elections within 18 months, but his government postponed the poll and allowed him to run for president
Opposition leader, Succes Masra, a staunch opponent of the junta won a 18,5 per cent share of the vote.
He unsuccessfully challenged the results of the election, which international NGOs described as neither credible nor free.
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[KavkazUzel] Some of the 80 abducted after the arson of a car linked to Adam Kadyrov have already been released, human rights activists said. Mass kidnappings against the backdrop of high-profile resignations indicate an unstable situation in Chechnya and are explained by the desire of the security forces to show their importance, they pointed out.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, at least 80 residents of Chechnya were, according to human rights activists, kidnapped after the arson of a car with a DUSTUM license plate associated with the son of the head of Chechnya, Adam Kadyrov. Volunteers were able to identify the names of some of the abducted people. In the village of Starye Atagi, Urus-Martan district, about 50 members of the family of Sayf-Islam Elmurzaev, who is suspected of setting fire to a car, were kidnapped, and about 30 people were kidnapped in the Shalinsky district, reported the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center*. Telegram channel opposition to the Chechen authorities reported on May 17 that most members of the Elmurzaev family had been released.
[GEO.TV] Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... said on Thursday it was holding an Israeli colonel captured on October 7, who Israel had previously reported was killed in the attacks that day.
The Hamas armed wing al-Qassam Brigades said Colonel Asaf Hamami had been maimed during his capture. It supplied no proof, and did not specify whether he was still alive now.
”He’s dead, Jim.” If he weren’t, they’d have video to prove it.
The Israeli military reported months ago that Hamami, 41, a brigade commander, had been killed in the Oct. 7 attacks and his body was being held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
[NEWARAB]Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that his government has "detailed, important, and even surprising plans" regarding Israel's front with Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , as quoted by Haaretz.
His comments come during a visit to the Israeli army's Northern Command where Netanyahu met its commander and divisional commanders.
"[The plans] are meant to bring security back to the north and return the residents safely to their homes."
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[FoxNews] Pope Francis issued a decree on Thursday announcing the recognition of a miracle attributed to Bl. Carlo Acutis — clearing the way for the Italian teenager's canonization in the near future.
Pope Francis, along with Cardinal Marcello Semaro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced the recognition of the miracle along with news that three others will be deliberated for canonization.
"Many Catholics around the world are overjoyed at the news that Carlo Acutis will be declared a saint," Courtney Mares, Vatican journalist and author of the book "Blessed Carlo Acutis: A Saint in Sneakers," told Fox News Digital on Thursday.
Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London, was a devout Catholic who created a website to document Eucharistic miracles, Fox News Digital previously reported. He died on Oct. 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy, shortly after a leukemia diagnosis. He was 15.
After his death, his website and legacy lived on — and in 2013 a miracle attributed to his intercession was approved and recognized by the Vatican. He was beatified, or given the title "Blessed," in Oct. 2020.
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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.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
