[Bible.org] It was Christmas Eve 1875 and Ira Sankey was traveling on a Delaware River steamboat when he was recognized by some of the passengers. His picture had been in the newspaper because he was the song leader for the famous evangelist D. L. Moody. They asked him to sing one of his own hymns, but Sankey demurred, saying that he preferred to sing William B. Bradbury’s hymn, "Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us."
As he sang, one of the stanzas began, "We are Thine; do Thou befriend us. Be the Guardian of our way." When he finished, a man stepped from the shadows and asked, "Did you ever serve in the Union Army?" "Yes," Mr. Sankey answered, "in the spring of 1860."
Can you remember if you were doing picket duty on a bright, moonlit night in 1862?"
"Yes," Mr. Sankey answered, very much surprised.
"So did I, but I was serving in the Confederate army. When I saw you standing at your post, I thought to myself, ’That fellow will never get away alive.’ I raised my musket and took aim. I was standing in the shadow, completely concealed, while the full light of the moon was falling upon you. At that instant, just as a moment ago, you raised your eyes to heaven and began to sing... ’Let him sing his song to the end,’ I said to myself, ’I can shoot him afterwards.’ He’s my victim at all events, and my bullet cannot miss him.’
But the song you sang then was the song you sang just now. I heard the words perfectly: ’We are Thine; do Thou befriend us. Be the Guardian of our way.’ Those words stirred up many memories. I began to think of my childhood and my God-fearing mother. She had many times sung that song to me. When you had finished your song, it was impossible for me to take aim again. I thought, ’The Lord who is able to save that man from certain death must surely be great and mighty.’ And my arm of its own accord dropped limp at my side."
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/\ Would be too much electronic magic for me as well jpal, had I not see it on a smaller scale elsewhere.
Single source intelligence (signals) backed up with overhead imagery or human intelligence (HUMINT) becomes MULTI-Source and actionable. Folks really need to take those cellies seriously. The Taliban seldom did, figuring switching off from a pocketful of 'selectors' (cell phones) would spoof the infidels. Didn't work then, won't work now. A good analyst can recognize the voice, even without sophisticated voice recognition tools.
Nesting or clustering of selector signals produces 'top of the deck' high value targets (HVT). Geo location technology was no friend of the Taliban.
HUMINT note... I am sure the Ukrainistas are witting and on the lookout for possible Russian infiltrators and reporters. Everybody that smiles at ya, ain't your friend.
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Regardless of how many SIMs you swap, cell phones pass a lot of device identity data that would let anyone paying attention see that some phones were not originally sold in the area where they were being used. That would be red flag city.
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^ Which is why I always carry mine in a Faraday Cage in a fake hump on my back.
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Ukraine and Russia have been zapping each other for some 8 years because soldiers using their cell phone. Ukrainian story, finally someone noticed the caught a heavy, accurate artillery barrage right after someone used a cell.
And a camp full of Tiktokers? Russians probably thought it was a trick.
March 18 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank kept its key interest rate at 20% on Friday following last month's massive emergency hike and said it would start buying OFZ government bonds, warning of an imminent spike in inflation and a looming economic contraction.
Bank of Russia policymakers held a scheduled rate meeting after more than doubling the key rate to 20% from 9.5% in a one-off action on Feb. 28 to support financial stability and shore up the rouble. The currency had crashed to record lows as Western countries imposed sanctions against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
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Funny what successful missile strikes, an interest payment and help from India and China can do for a currency. The ruble has soared on the back of these positive developments. It's almost back to where it was pre-invasion in February.
Buying Russian bonds at these prices looks like a winning bet.
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#3 is posting the same stupid lie under the nym "Frank G." He knows nothing of finance and can't even read a price curve correctly. The ruble bottomed out at 154 on March 7 and has been rising every day since. It will get below 100 tomorrow and keep rising as Russia destroys Ukraine this week.
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Russian ruble to dollar rate over the past 2 months. According to that link, the ugliest closing rate was 136.7 on March 7, so Whearong the Low-priced1146‘s 154 on that date must have occurred some time during that day.
This is why I leave all the investing stuff to Mr. Wife, and have promised to stick to basic stock and bond funds after he dies. I started reading my father’s Barrons when I was still a child, but it turns out that reading about a thing is not the same as being able to use it.
Y’all place your bets. It won’t be long before we discover who is right.
[IsraelTimes] ’Open Hands’ group releases 2020 salary and tax papers allegedly belonging to David Barnea: ’Are they sending your NEW documents to your wife’s OLD phone??’
An anonymous Telegram channel released further documents that allegedly belong to Mossad chief David Barnea, days after publishing a video with other personal information and photos.
According to unsourced Hebrew-language media reports this week, an old phone belonging to Barnea’s wife was hacked by the group, which has been ostensibly tied to Iran. Reports said there was no sensitive information on the phone that could potentially harm state security.
On Saturday, the "Open Hands" channel released Barnea’s wage and tax papers from 2020, alleging that the information was "new."
"It seems that the director of the Mossad’s wage bill can be found in his wife’s ’OLD PHONE’! Mr. Bernea [sic], are they sending your NEW documents to your wife’s OLD phone?? Are you sure that the leakage is just from your wife’s ’OLD PHONE’?" the group said in a message on Telegram.
The documents showed Barnea’s Form 106, an annual statement of salary and tax information from his employer, the Prime Minister’s Office.
There was no immediate comment from the PMO on the new documents.
On Wednesday, Open Hands published a video that showed several personal photos, flight tickets under Barnea’s name, his ID card, tax documents addressed to his wife and satellite imagery of what it claimed was his private home in the central city of Hod Hasharon.
A clip of Barnea making silly faces, apparently during a private video chat, is also seen in the video.
The group claimed it began its surveillance operation against Barnea by breaking into the database of the city’s local library. It was not immediately clear this information was used to gather the data on Barnea.
The PMO stated Wednesday on the Mossad’s behalf that Barnea’s phone was not hacked and the "materials in question are old," without elaborating further.
Open Hands did not say where it was from, but some Hebrew-language media reports were quick to point the finger at Iran. Nour News, a website linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also published details of the leak.
It was not the first time alleged Iranian hackers have published stolen personal information on targets.
An Iranian-linked hacking group, Black Shadow, targeted an Israeli hosting company last year, temporarily shutting down a number of websites and stealing user data from "Atraf," an Israeli LGBT dating site. It later published some of the data.
Black Shadow also stole a vast trove of information from Israeli insurance company Shirbit in 2020 and then sold it on the dark web when the firm refused to pay a ransom.
Israel and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... have for years been involved in a largely quiet cyberwar, which occasionally bubbles to the surface.
On Monday evening, Israeli government websites were downed for over an hour due to a major cyberattack, which has also been ostensibly tied to Iran by media reports.
Israeli officials have previously accused Iran of attempting to hack Israel’s water system in 2020.
[IsraelTimes] Anoosheh Ashoori, tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for 10 years on charges of spying for Israel, was freed alongside compatriot Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after UK reached deal with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... over historic debt.
The family of a UK-Iranian man freed this week after spending five years in a Tehran jail were forced to pay Iran £27,000 ($35,600) in order to secure his return home, they said Saturday.
Anoosheh Ashoori, a retired engineer from southeast London, was arrested in 2017 and tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for 10 years on charges of spying for Israel.
He flew home on Wednesday having been released along with compatriot Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after Britannia reached a deal with Tehran over a historic military contract debt.
But his release was only secured after the family were able to meet a last-minute demand to pay a fine, they said.
"On March 14th, Dad’s conditional release was signed and communicated to us," the family wrote on fundraising site Crowdfunder.
"We had been waiting for 5 years for Dad to come home and were suddenly told that the only thing now stopping this... was an arbitrary £27,000 fine which we suddenly had to pay," they added.
"We had less than 12 hours to raise the money, taking out loans using our credit cards, and opening new accounts," Ashoori’s wife, Sherry Izadi, told The Guardian in comments published Saturday.
"My only thought was: ’How are we going to do this in time?'"
The Crowdfunder appeal had already raised more than £33,000 on Saturday, £6,000 above the target.
FATE OF THIRD PRISONER UNCLEAR
The families of both Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori believe they were being held as political prisoners until the historic debt was settled.
The final deal was reached "after highly complex and exhaustive negotiations," UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
The fate of a third British-Iranian held in Tehran was on Saturday unclear.
Truss announced on Wednesday that Morad Tahbaz, who also holds US nationality, has been released from prison "on furlough" to his Tehran home.
But relatives said he had been taken back to Evin prison after only 48 hours at his family home in Tehran.
The UK Foreign Office said that he had gone to the prison to have an ankle tag fitted, but had yet to give an update on whether he had been returned.
The ministry said Iran would be in breach of its commitments if the 69-year-old conservationist was kept in jail.
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they may get multi billions from the UK based on a cancelled arms deal late in the Shah era
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That’s in addition to the £400 million the British government paid, a long-owed reimbursement for tanks ordered by the Shah that were not delivered to the Mad Mullahs, Glenmore.
[IsraelTimes] Baz Karim Barzinji’s home was hit in IRGC missile attack near US consulate in Erbil, in supposed response to alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed two Iranian officers
Once a lavish mansion, the sprawling home of an Iraqi Kurdish oil tycoon was laid to waste in a barrage of missiles that struck near a US consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil earlier this week
Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it launched the attack last Sunday, firing off 12 cruise missiles at what it described as a "strategic center" of the Israeli spy agency Mossad — in retaliation for an alleged Israeli strike in Syria that killed two of the Iranian paramilitary force’s members the previous week.
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[IsraelTimes] A 35-year-old Israeli man was lightly hurt when out jogging on Saturday morning in a stabbing attack on Jerusalem’s Hebron Road, near the Cinematheque and the First Station restaurant and shopping area, police and medics said.
According to Israel Police, the assailant stabbed the jogger at the intersection of David Remez Street and Hebron Road, south of the Old City. The jogger struggled with his attacker and fought him off, sustaining light injuries.
The 28-year-old Paleostinian assailant, from the adjacent neighborhood of Abu Tor, was shot by coppers. According to the Magen David Adom emergency service, the suspect was at death's door.
Magen David Adom medics said they found the Israeli man sitting on the sidewalk, fully conscious.
Both the stabbing victim and the suspect were taken by medics to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
The attack and the moment the assailant was shot were filmed from several angles. The assailant is seen pulling out a knife and attacking a man who is running across the street. They tussle, and the jogger manages to repeatedly fend off his attacker, who continues the attack until a passerby arrives. At one point the victim manages to throw the knife away, which a passerby then picks up, as the victim flees.
The suspect is then seen stumbling and dropping to his knees as a passerby pushes him to the ground. Shortly after, the suspect is seen walking toward officers, as one fires a single shot. The suspect then falls to the ground, as the officer who opened fire tells his colleagues to "cease." Or, more clearly: "head shot"
[IsraelTimes] Worshippers at dawn prayer in a suburb of Toronto tackle and subdue a 24-year-old man who allegedly entered their mosque and attacked people with bear spray, according to local police.
Peel Regional Police say the man walked into the Dar al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, and allegedly "discharged bear spray towards people in the mosque while brandishing a hatchet" just before 7 a.m.
Speaking on behalf of the mosque, Nadia Hasan of the National Council of Canadian Moslems says a group of about 20 men were praying when the man sprayed them.
"Some of the men turned around and they very bravely decided that they were not going to let him attack them," she says. "They tackled him to the ground and apprehended him until the police showed up."
Mohammad Moiz Omar
Green on green? Mentally ill? Woke up bilious that morning and felt a need to share? So many possibilities...
of Mississauga has been arrested. Police say they’re considering "all possible motivations" for the incident, and charges are pending.
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"No less than 35 companies from France’s blue-chip CAC 40 index remain active in Russia, according to a French media report. It could be argued corporate France has largely followed President Emmanuel Macron’s lead in trying not to inflame Putin and his cronies.
On a political level, Macron has repeatedly attempted to play peacemaker. While condemning the Kremlin, he was at pains to stress that France was not in a military conflict with Russia earlier this month. “There is a war on the ground, but we are not at war,” he said, following a meeting of EU heads of state at the Palace of Versailles."
[IsraelTimes] Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s targetted a facility run by oil company Aramco in Jizan, southern Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... says in a statement.
The rebels also target a desalination plant in al-Shaqeeq, says the coalition statement, quoted by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
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[Stars & Stripes] "It has just exploded," said Jonas Ohman, a Swedish-born filmmaker who started the group.
For years, Ohman said, he took no salary and had no paid staff as he fulfilled direct requests from front-line units with an annual budget of less than $200,000. Since the invasion last month, more than $20 million has poured in from within Lithuania, a country of 2.8 million residents. He is dispatching a convoy to the border every four or five days.
With a cellphone held against a days-old beard, Ohman orders military gear by the ton from around Europe, China, Israel. He argues with customs officials in a half-dozen countries to get the shipments delivered, railing against functionaries who block his way and officers who are slaves to regulation.
"I tell them all the time: 10,000 euros can be more deadly than a million if you know how to spend it," he growled between phone calls.
Ohman has filled one donated warehouse on the outskirts of Poland’s capital, Warsaw. Another in Vilnius, provided by a Lithuanian transport company, has become a drop-off site for locals wanting to give.
"These will work," one volunteer declared on a recent afternoon when a truck arrived at the Vilnius warehouse with 800 pairs of new steel-toed boots and 1,000 fleece jackets still in the wrapper, all donated by a hunting goods retailer.
A forklift unloaded the cases, depositing them next to 14 pallets of IV saline solutions and boxes filled with 13,000 trauma tourniquets and 200 satellite phones.
A local marketing company has launched a fundraising campaign for the group. And a group of Rotary Club volunteers makes calls to military suppliers in surrounding countries.
"Everything in Europe is selling out," said Zemyna Bliumenzonaite, a Blue and Yellow staffer. "But we are getting more requests than ever."
She held out her phone to show some of the texts she gets from soldiers in Ukraine. One named "Kruk" asked for 1,000 tourniquets and 40 individual first aid kits. She tells him they will be in the next convoy.
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All that is good, but if you really want to see Vlad crap his pants, offer to provide the Ukraine armed forces in Odessa with a dozen or two Harpoon missiles.
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[Maryland Today] Two University of Maryland researchers have received awards totaling $2.6 million to study how national security and climate change intersect in the United States and around the world.
Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, professor and co-director of graduate studies in the Department of Government and Politics, and Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski in the Department of Psychology were among 17 researchers nationwide to be named recipients of the grants from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative, a university-based social science research program.
Cunningham received about $1.6 million to lead a three-year project to study the role that state and non-state actors play in a country’s management of climate change. The focus is Mozambique, an East African nation that has a diverse array of environmental hazards along with a history of non-state actors, ranging from non-governmental organizations to rebel groups, engaging with the population in different ways.
The study will examine people’s understanding of the risks of climate change and how non-state actors involve themselves in governing such issues, said Cunningham, who is working with researchers from Emory University, Texas A&M, Penn State and Carleton University.
[Bloomberg] In November 1939, soon after Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland, another massive European country likewise attacked a smaller neighbor: Russia invaded Finland. After vicious fighting through a long and bitter winter, the war ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty, in which Finnish concessions fell far short of what Stalin had hoped for in launching his invasion.
Despite being heavily outgunned and outmanned by the Soviet Army, the Finns were able to largely fight the Russians to a standstill in what they call the Winter War. The scenario was eerily similar to the situation unfolding today in Ukraine, where President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is facing ferocious resistance from the scrappy Ukrainians.
Over a decade ago, when I visited Helsinki as the supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the first place the Finns took me was to their Winter War Museum. We spent two hours there, and I was fascinated by the courage portrayed in the dioramas, exhibits, maps and photographs from the war. I treasure a gift the Finns gave me of a map showing the troop locations, and the names and faces of the Finnish generals around the border.
The Finns were outnumbered roughly two to one in terms of trained soldiers, but the more staggering differences were in tank and combat aircraft inventories. The Finns had just a few dozen of each, while the Soviets had around 5,000 tanks and 4,000 aircraft. Yet by the end of the conflict, the Finns had inflicted five times as many killed in action on the Soviet army as among their own.
While the Soviet advantages in the air and with mechanized operations eventually overcame much of the Finnish resistance, the determined nature of the defenders and the threat of an ongoing insurgency did much to shape the peace. Despite the pre-war goals of conquering the entire country and installing a puppet regime, the Soviets finally settled for a small slice of Finland’s territory (around 10%) and a pledge of Finnish neutrality.
What can we learn from the Russo-Finnish War that informs our approach to events in Ukraine today?
First and most importantly, we should appreciate that a determined military force, fighting on home terrain, can face down daunting odds to achieve success on the battlefield. The Finns have a long and fierce sense of independence, as do the Ukrainians, despite Russian protestations in both wars. I know firsthand the high quality of both nation’s militaries, which deployed under my command in Afghanistan and on other NATO missions.
When soldiers are fighting to protect their children, parents and spouses — and the independence of their nation — they have a significant morale advantage over conscripts and reservists. This was true for the Finns and remains a significant factor in the Ukraine war.
A second issue that applies in both instances is the importance of outside assistance. Volunteers from around the free world made their way to Finland to fight in the Winter War, notably from neighboring Sweden. The Finns received combat equipment and diplomatic assistance as well from many nations. The League of Nations condemned the Soviet invasion of Finland, much as the United Nations has censured Russia’s actions.
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Many differences too numerous to mention. Terrain,massive exit of population uninhibited by the waving Russians, outrageous corruption within Ukrainian government and so on. A polished turd still looks like a turd. Putin is not Stalin. He is well disciplined, tenacious and goal oriented. Deep water port a highly desired need for Russia. Forcing Russia and China together has created a NATO of Asia. India, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and of course Taiwan all now see the tide of change approaching them. With the Biden leadership they can expect no consideration. They are on their own.Latin America is lost, Africa/Arab world, and even Canada. NATO is a sad joke. If I lived in Alaska now I too would be nervous. This will be a long slog for America. With bureaucrats running things only failure will be achieved.
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What! Sacrilege! Blasphemy! No self respecting American would call Putin anything but a slimeball! Disciplined? No no no no no he must be a psychopath, a sociopath, a Hitlerstalingoebbelsmao. If we don't call him that how do we face the fact that the sickest and most inhuman minds have run America for the past 3-4 decades? Excluding Donald Trump which was a one off incident and cannot be allowed again.
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Do you think the sons of the Soviet staff officers that confidently predicted that the "Afghans would welcome their fraternal Russian comrades" promised that Putin would only have to chant "Nazi! Corruption! Nazis!" three times and Ukraine would collapse?
[The Hill] The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a voter registration initiative that will run at gas stations across the country in the upcoming weeks amid a sharp rise in fuel prices.
As gas prices in the country hit record highs, "the RNC will be holding several voter registration events across the country in the coming weeks," information about the events shared with The Hill said.
The first event took place in Arizona Saturday, where volunteers and staff registered Americans to vote from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. local time.
Republicans have slammed President Biden over high fuel prices as the country continues to grapple with record inflation.
The president warned Americans that the price of fuel was likely to climb even higher earlier this month, when he announced that the U.S. would ban oil imports from Russia amid its war with Ukraine.
"Arizonans are frustrated with paying the record-high gas prices we’ve seen recently, this is an issue that affects almost every single Arizonan," Ben Petersen, the communications director for Arizona’s RNC, said.
[OneIndia] Security forces on Thursday arrested a terrorist associate of the Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and seized arms and ammunition, police said, according to news agency PTI.
Acting on specific information regarding movement of anti-national elements in Karhama, Kunzer area of Baramulla, a cordon and search operation was launched by security forces there, a police front man said.
During the search, one terrorist associate of proscribed terror outfit LeT/TRF (The Resistance® Front - a front of the LeT) was arrested by the joint search party, he said.
The front man identified the arrested as Waseem Ahmed War, a resident of Karhama Kunzer.
Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition including a hand grenade, two AK-47 magazines and 20 live rounds were seized from his possession, he said.
A case has been registered and investigation has been initiated.
[OneIndia] India has hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for inviting Masarat Alam Bhat, the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference
...an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations formed as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri separatism. In other words, a willing tool of Pakistan...
to attend a meeting of the foreign ministers of the member nations to be held in Islamabad next week.
Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi told news hounds that New Delhi does not expect the OIC to encourage actors and organizations engaged in terrorism and activities against the interests of India.
[ZERO] Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia supplied the world with one out of every ten barrels of crude consumed. But as the United States, Canada, and Australia have imposed embargoes on Russian crude and some buyers in Europe are halting purchases, the global oil market is facing one of the worst disruptions since the 1973 oil crisis when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) led by Saudi Arabia declared an oil ban on Western countries for their support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
The energy price shock of the mid-1970s led to the reduction of maximum national speed limits from 70 mph to 55 mph. The 21% reduction in speed equated to gas consumption savings.
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Having lived and worked as during the Nixon/Ford version of issued wages and prices freezes. Which were applied in the hopes of halting inflation. Simply put.... It mainly helped Nixon more to get re-elected, than is solved inflation.
Likely, even Biden and/or his handlers remember this. Along with the fact we are coming up on Mid-Terms and Joe's ☺ poll numbers pretty much equal that of Adolf Hitler's in Israel.
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March 16, 2012, when President Obama signed executive order 13603 about “National Defense Resources Preparedness.” Which Forbes called a roadmap for "...a blueprint for a federal takeover of the economy that would dwarf the looming Obamacare takeover of the health insurance business."
Some Open Ended Questions:
(that many likely know the answers to.)
Will the restrictions include the Elite?
Will they have to park their planes & limos?
Will they have to freeze their Salaries and Bonuses?
Will this result in a greater Federal control over our lives?
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To sell this and get enough MSM and social media panic to make it look justifued the morons and fellow travelers at the Kalorama Kompound will have to have the marionettes dance pretty close to DEFCON 2 flames. Given JoJo's motor skills and emotional state this is more than a little frightening.
[Gateway] "So, let’s get back to the name-calling," said "journalist" Leslie Stahl in an interview with then-President Donald Trump after dismissing what should have been one of the most consequential October surprises in presidential election history, the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The New York Post’s October 2020 bombshell story, which exposed a presidential candidate’s planned business deal with a CCP-affiliated company established precisely to enrich his family, set up so that the candidate himself, referred to as "The Big Guy," would receive a 10 percent share of future profits, should have derailed Joe Biden’s campaign. The emails revealed in this game-changing report provided a road-map of the Biden family’s long history of influence peddling.
But we quickly learned that a scandal is only a scandal if Big Tech, the legacy media and a group of former intelligence community leaders say it is.
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Crooked pols and the media. Something akin to termites in the South. Those little fellas are an assumed hazard of home ownership. If you don't have a "bug man" you're just not thinking.
[Breitbart] Amazon Flex drivers and other gig economy drivers have staged a protest outside an Amazon warehouse calling for an increase in pay to deal with surging gas prices during the unprecedented inflation under President Joe Biden.
CNBC reports that delivery drivers are pressuring Amazon to pay its Flex program drivers more in order to accommodate currently surging gas prices. Approximately 50 delivery and rideshare drivers protested outside an Amazon warehouse near Los Angeles earlier this week.
[Rudaw] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the internal security forces (Asayish) have arrested several Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) suspects and affiliates in a large-scale ongoing military operation in al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), a conflict monitor reported on Saturday.
The security forces have arrested several ISIS-affiliated men of different nationalities on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said, as the operation entered its fourth day.
SOHR did not disclose the exact number of those detained.
The SDF and Asayish launched a large-scale security operation at the camp after two ISIS-affiliated women beat feet from the fifth section of al-Hol on Wednesday as the escape alerted the forces.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested thousands of ISIS fighters and their wives and children when they took control of the group’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Most of these people are held at al-Hol, which is home to more than 60,000 people - mostly women and kiddies of different nationalities.
Security forces arrested 14 Iraqis for committing violations at the camp in late November.
Al-Hol has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups warning of squalid conditions at the camp.
There have been repeated calls from Kurdish and US officials asking the international community to repatriate their nationals from al-Hol, but only a few countries have responded positively as they are worried about security concerns.
Four Swedish nationals, including two children from ISIS families, were repatriated from the camp on Wednesday.
The US and EU have a policy of coercion, threats, hijacks of international transactions that hurt populations rather than regimes. It is a conveniently cruel attitude adopted by only truly evil cliques. Like killing off all bison just to starve native Americans and gloat over the 'masterful strategy' as 'victors'. This attitude continues to this day.
If the eastern nations do conspire together to chip away at that capacity and create a bloc to counter the overbearing influence of the west, no one can grudge them that. American peeps should instead revolt against their new establishment which is turning this age old policy of coercion and economic threats inward, toward Republicans and classic liberals and everybody who doesn't want a gay rape paradise run by afromarxist pimps and crazy women.
#2
"Ukraine War Threatens to Cause a Global Food Crisis
"A critical share of the world’s food and fertilizer is stuck in Russia and Ukraine, sending global prices soaring and foreshadowing a rise in world hunger. Rising prices and hunger present a potential new dimension to the world’s view of the war. Could they further fuel anger at Russia and calls for intervention? Or would frustration be targeted at the Western sanctions that are helping to trap food and fertilizer?"
"Calls for intervention" means World War III - there's a brilliant solution to famine and revolution. Africa, India and the Middle East will take Russia's side and blame US sanctions.
#5
Smirked a babushka, "Sure, of a surety,
Tis a pile of, er, crystaline purity
From a Bear who explained
While neck-deep in Ukraine
That the world could face 'food insecurity."
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and the Russians 50 yrs from now will wonder why the Ukrainians hate them.
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The actual headline of the linked article is "Advance of Russian Forces in Ukraine Appears to Stall", and a sub-headline is "Vladimir Putin has used outlandish falsehoods to prop up his claim that the Ukraine invasion was justified".
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"Mariupol set to fall as Russians sever Ukraine’s access to Sea of Azov"
"Strategic port city is now beyond help, admits adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, as the Kremlin’s infantry, tanks and artillery roll in"
#5
This was the accurate lead sentence a few hours ago. Guess the censors forced them to change it to fit the narrative - sort of like the CIA telling the nation in Oct-2020 that the pre-election true story about the Bidens' corruption "bears all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation":
"Russian forces made significant gains in Ukraine, advancing into the besieged port of Mariupol, destroying an underground weapons depot in the west and leaving a marine barracks in ruins"
#8
A few minutes ago:
"Russia launches second 'hypersonic missile' attack: The weapon - known as Kinzhal, meaning dagger - hit a Ukrainian fuel depot near the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, a Russian defence ministry official said. It is the second day in a row that Russia says it has used the missile, which is capable of striking targets 1,250 miles away at a speed 10 times the speed of sound."
Much more like this will follow now that Russians are finally using their hypersonic missiles
#9
What? Aren't the nazi hate rays strong enough to stop a silly missile?
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In terms of strategy this is no different from Operation Linebacker during the two weeks prior to the Jan-1973 Paris Peace Accords. The Russians are being very methodical and focused on their war aims in the East and along the coast in the South. They will keep crushing Ukraine with hypersonic missiles until they achieve their goals. They don't need to occupy Ukraine or even invade Kiev. From 2 hrs ago:
"Moscow and Kyiv are coming close to an agreement on "critical" issues regarding the invasion of Ukraine, according to the Turkish foreign minister. Mevlut Cavusoglu, who attended Ukraine-Russia talks in Antalya, added he was hopeful for a ceasefire if the two sides do not backtrack on this progress."
#11
This only ends with Zelensky stepping down and a Kremlin approved guy being installed. So everybody making money from supplies to Ukraine, everybody projecting themselves as champions of the globalist dream, everybody riding the madness to Russia-hating mass appeal and approval ratings, enjoy.
#12
The French are moving in to replace American and British companies that have exited Russia. Investors are snapping up Russian bonds. The ruble is going to rise and may even be backed by Russia's huge gold reserves. India's now accepting rubles as they buy Russian oil, arms, metals and other exports. Having and using hypersonic missiles changes everything.
A pity the Russians are so far ahead of us. Thanks to Lockheed's epic fails it will take us years to catch up to the Russians and Chinese
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#12 is correct. Combine his information with #11's "Operation Linebacker" analysis and that explains why the Russian currency is almost back to where it was in February before the invasion. More missile strikes will strengthen Russia's negotiating position further and persuade more and more countries to avoid sanctions and do business with Russia.
China, India and France are on board already. Unsentimental nations that see through the propaganda are correctly judging that Russia's winning and that their missiles will bring this to a conclusion soon. Sort of like Britain and France abandoning support for the Confederacy after Sherman pounded the shit out of the South toward the end of the Civil War
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The ruble has been rising every day since March 8. It reached 95 the other day and will be back in the 80 range this week.
The ruble is backed by gold (and hypersonic missiles).
The Indians are going to accept rubles. The Chinese will too.
French majors are expanding their presence in Russia. Total is not withdrawing and France's version of Home Depot and Walmart are strong supporters of Russia.
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^ Nothing says "financial confidence" like closing your stock market for three weeks. But hey, when it opens the Chinese and Indians willl bid it up, right?
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"France will be Russia's savior!"
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#17 The ruble has been rising every day since March 8. It reached 95 the other day and will be back in the 80 range this week.
In other news, the chocolate ration has been increased from 5 grams to 3 grams.
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The French will make huge profits.
"The French retail tycoons behind Decathlon have been setting out plans for a major Russian expansion of their multi-billion euro DIY chain.
Leroy Merlin, owned by the Mulliez family - which with a €42bn (£35bn) fortune ranks among the richest on the planet - wants to fill the vacuum left by western rivals such as Ikea after they pulled out of Russia.
In a letter to suppliers, the bosses at the Russian arm of Leroy Merlin said that “sales have significantly increased” since the start of Mr Putin’s brutal military campaign.
The letter, seen by The Telegraph, reads: “Since the disappearance of certain companies from the market, we are open to your proposals on the increase of supply and the increase of your assortment of products.
“In the next three to four months we plan to fully replace imported products with those produced in Russia.”
#23
^ So, Russians are standing in line at their banks trying to trade their Euros and dolllars for rubles? Is it possible that the supply of rubles will be exhausted?
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Just watched the latest Task and Purpose YouTube video on the "Fog of War" in the Ukraine. The Ukrainian Army in the East has reached a decision point on whether to withdraw to the West while/if they can still move in order to maintain their combat power. The Russian holding attacks appear to have have fixed the Eastern Ukrainian units into place...and the encirclement/destruction of the Ukrainian military is the apparent objective. Hazards if Ukrainians stay near their depots and risk encirclement...and huge risk if the Ukrainians attack to the west to escape the encirclement and get bottled up crossing the river...only to fall in on an uncertain supply and ammo situation in the West. The Russians want them to move into the kill zones at the river, but if they stay they will be pounded by heavy artillery. A crisis is coming...Zelensky can see it.
#25
The Mulliez family's stores (they're Europe's version of Walmart, Home Depot and a sporting goods giant) will use local suppliers. Their costs will be in rubles and their revenues will be in rubles.
The Mulliez family is worth $46 billion. 15th richest family in the world. They know their business. IKEA's Russian operation was a cash cow for that company. Now that IKEA's departing , Mulliez will clean up. No competition.
#26
^ So, it's a good thing that a French company will be able to charge Russian consumers monopoly prices? Some economists would view that differently.
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Something to watch:
Russian ruble to dollar exchange rate over the past two months
Friday 130.74342 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/18/2022
Thursday 130.55163 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/17/2022
Wednesday131.29339 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/16/2022
Tuesday 132.26508 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/15/2022
Monday 132.33844 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/14/2022
Friday 132.15595 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/11/2022
Thursday 131.26952 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/10/2022
Wednesday130.30892 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/9/2022
Tuesday 130.07843 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/8/2022
Monday 136.70994 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/7/2022
Friday 123.73144 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/4/2022
Thursday 109.93810 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/3/2022
Wednesday102.98087 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/2/2022
Tuesday 110.45433 RUB USD RUB rate for 3/1/2022
Monday 109.01300 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/28/2022
Friday 83.84154 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/25/2022
Thursday 84.77444 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/24/2022
Wednesday81.30191 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/23/2022
Tuesday 78.82736 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/22/2022
Monday 80.31931 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/21/2022
Friday 77.39246 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/18/2022
Thursday 76.15926 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/17/2022
Wednesday75.08927 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/16/2022
Tuesday 75.46769 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/15/2022
Monday 76.57488 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/14/2022
Friday 77.28465 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/11/2022
Thursday 75.03030 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/10/2022
Wednesday74.73956 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/9/2022
Tuesday 75.09469 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/8/2022
Monday 75.38730 RUB USD RUB rate for 2/7/2022
#28
#25 "the next three to four months we plan to fully replace imported products with those produced in Russia.”
Imagine Home Depot saying the same thing about replacing imported products with those produced in America. When pigs fly
#29
I am again reminded that little Rantburg and its few scores of regulars seem to draw a significant, high-end quality of FSB/GRU/unknown entitiy trolls with well researched and fluent observations undergird with psyops and propaganda done with skill and often a touch of humor. Why? Who reads RB that they are trying to influence?
#30
^ Putin. Gotta put on a good show for the boss. Hi Vlad!
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Ref #29: ....high-end quality of FSB/GRU/unknown entity trolls with well researched and fluent observations undergird with psyops and propaganda done with skill and often a touch of humor.
Home-Grown Branden leftists, and/or bored Pro-Russian Cyber Open Source 'key word' analysts stumbling through UNCLAS content, leaving kak disturbing comments and provocations. Did I mention....Home-Grown ?
Read, seed comment, copy, forward to handlers for compensation. Then jump to next story or blog.
Few people do something...for nothing. We're in a PSYOPS enterprise zone. I have suspect the site has been monitored by the left for many years. It is now being exploited.
#32
Much more like this will follow now that Russians are finally using their hypersonic missiles
Let them use them. Let them use them UP. How are they going to afford to replace them? They can't even afford good tires or basic communications. Plus, every time they fire one, the rest of the world gets a beautiful picture of their capabilities.
"Hypersonic" isn't the highest speed out there; US sensors and some of our new weapons systems operate just this side of the speed of light.
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We're in a PSYOPS enterprise zone.
I expect the content is prepared, not original, and the posters are paid for...posts. Perhaps they can research the subject matter in their prepared/key indexed repository, but they are paid.
#34
Plus, every time they fire one, the rest of the world gets a beautiful picture of their capabilities.
Testing and Evaluation of their own capabilities I guess. It looks like the Russians are learning lessons and applying them. They are firing incompetent generals and forcing the others to lead from the front, thus the high attrition rate amongst the two and three stars... And now they have NCOs and first line officers that know the deal and can improve their training base after this war is over.
We can't seem to fire the incompetent Generals, ever...and we have few that have led from the front since the first gulf war. And now the vax purge caused us to lose more qualified combat soldiers than what the losses Russians have likely suffered so far in combat...
I have hopes that we can learn lessons from this war, but from what I hear from my EUCOM friends we are little more than spectators. Same happened in Afghanistan, we didn't document the bad and realign to ensure it doesn't ever happen again...just covered it up. Same will happen here. I am depressed.
Austin and Milley need to go, as well as Jake Sullivan. Sullivan authored this set of disasters and Milley and Austin just set there playing with themselves.
#36
Seems the bulk of it was either site slander or to influence newcomers. Remember there at the beginning, long time viewers getting called trolls by noobs.
Rantburg has been on a list since at least 2003, when I heard a peer name it specifically as "a tool of the Neocons." First got called a Neocon back in 2001, as "Someone not totally against the Bush Regime and their manufactured crises to justify their war for profit!" But that was back when the radical leftists weren't fucking lazy internet surfers and had to physically ambush, or Bushwack, people at social gatherings in order to influence or at least silence the opposition. Mind you, the metal is still hot, "Just got kicked in the nuts on international TV, seems something should be done."
"Oh, you're one of those Neocons!" "Just here for the chicks and beer, man." "Yeah, only a fascist would drink Budllksthatbeer."
Worst was invited to go catch a game, 2003, stay at the apartment. Game was watched, pizza ordered, beer chilled, cards shuffled, and a steady rotation of these true believers trying to get me to denounce the whole thing, or at least stop shut up about it. One guy, "Hey, my little brother over there just turned 18 and wants to sign. You know people over there right now getting shot at, you know danger yourself, I need you to talk him out of it." Quite the pickle, honor friend's request to keep his brother safe and denounce, or break the friendship. In retrospect, didn't lose friends, but stopped being invited to events because I made them not fun, so did get separated from good friends but them, they can call me up right now and I'd be like, "Dude!"
#37
Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon on Twitter:
"A reminder that the Western media is lying to you. Sadly, Russia is not losing anything. The slow, lumbering nature of Russia’s war machine continues advancing and Western media & intelligence types keep projecting their hopes/values onto the situation & getting it wrong. Again."
#38
I don't think many people here doubt that Russia has the leg up on Ukraine. That it wasn't over in 72 hours is not in any dispute at this point, and speculations on when / how it ends are legitimate matters of discussion, not propaganda.
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#39
How would you like to be a Russian conscript doing a "quarantine and pacification" security sweep in Kyiv at night after you've destroyed the City, and you get separated from your "unit" down a dark alley pile of rubble, then you hear a noise...?
X100,000. Destroying is easier than occupying, which is even easier than governing without consent. Drink up!
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#40: Colonel-General Sergei Beseda, the head of the Fifth Service of the FSB intelligence service, and Beseda's deputy were being held under house arrest, according to a report by the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) non-partisan think tank.
"We put total confidence in our newly promoted #3, and political commissars to help 'expedite' interoffice communications and policies. Please use only OFFICIAL Communications"
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03/20/2022 16:07
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#42
Russia's culling their herd of incompetent generals, same way Deng purged the PLA of Maoist hacks after China's war with Vietnam. Meanwhile, America's promoting hacks and policing pronouns
#43
^ Can't argue with the second part of that at all. Hopefully, we won't wait until the fat's on the fire to change that.
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#44
Honestly I think most rantburgers grew up with the idea that one day we'd face Russia. So watching Russia get face punched and kicked in the balls is just popcorn time for us. So we're just making popcorn and watching the game.
#45
#43 we won't wait until the fat's on the fire to change that.
Fear not, we will. Militaries never change until enough of the people that lead them are chased out or killed
#46
most rantburgers grew up with the idea that one day we'd face Russia. So watching Russia get face punched and kicked in the balls is just popcorn time for us.
That explains why there's so much dumb hopium and lame, shitty analysis at this site. "Dumb drunk and russophobic's a sorry way to go through life, son"
#47
/\ Indeed, nothing like seeing the neighborhood bully lose it on a curve and drive off into the woods. A problem of their own making, like so many other problems the Russian has endured.
Stay out of it. Assist with weapons acquisition, coms, intelligence, and chow. Order more Orville Rickenbacher, sit back and watch it unfold.
#48
thanks, here's your...uhh *checks conversion* two cents 3 rubles
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#46....
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popcorn
I've immensely enjoyed the story about the Boogaloo Bois' adventures and the U.K. soldiers who brought their compromised +44 country code mobile phones to that training site. Darwin's having a field day with the "volunteers". Also enjoy watching the guy here who keeps getting the exchange rate curve upside down. Popcorn indeed
#51
#46 If you are so fired up about all this with all this stuff screaming, waving your fists and belly aching about everything, then do something. Run for office, become a mercenary, snort 5 pounds of meth, but do something. Because if you care so deeply and must do something, coming here to annoy us is never going to achieve whatever you have in mind. So if you really aren't just a troll, why are you here acting like we have to fix it?
Unless someone invades Texas, I have no dog in this fight. So I'm just going to enjoy the gallows humor of Russians getting panted. I have worked with many Russians and love them as a people. My wife has an amazing wool cloak and dress made by Russian small businesses. But I haven't forgotten that for 30 years of my life they were the enemy.
#52
My thinking is, you should be nice, or us dumb, lazy 'Muricans might find there's only so much we can do for two near peers (Russia, China) who are down on their luck at the same time. The way they are playing it, that's more than just a slight possibility.
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#53
if you care so deeply and must do something
My motto is, "Don't just do something; stand there." A policy that would have served America far better than the dumb Barney Fife-ism that has characterized the last 30 years of US foreign policy.
I will cheerfully take arms against stupidity. I'm an equal-opportunity abuser of dunces. I have nothing against Russians or Ukrainians or Venusians, Georgians, Alabamans Pteradactyls or any of God's children
#54
Imagine where we might be today if someone had managed to make W understand that everything beyond toppling the Taliban back then was a non-starter in terms of long-term problems.
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03/20/2022 17:35
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/\ A 'non-starter' indeed. Perhaps, just perhaps people in Washington have learned something..... or is that just crazy talk ?
#56
I like the handful of Russians I've met, and I agree with pretty much everyone here that we ought to keep our guys out of this. What amuses me about our trolls is their unwillingness to concede in the slightest way that things might not be working out quite the way Vlad had expected. This is straight out of Monty Python and the Black Knight ("The ruble's only good for toilet paper? Tis but a scratch...Nobody will do business with us? It's just a flesh wound...The Ukrainians will hate us for generations? They're all Nazis...")
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#57
or is that just crazy talk?
I'll go with something between "unrealistically optimistic" and "pretty much the exact opposite of the truth."
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03/20/2022 18:12
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#58
things might not be working out quite the way Vlad had expected.
This is insight? You mean, like every war ever waged by humans anywhere?
#59
^ But you can smell the naivety, I mean paid enthusiasm err...Russo-Chauvinist-Paranoia -Who-Are-You-To-Question? good intentions ;-)
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#58 Well then educate me -- how has the actual war differed from Vlad's expectations?
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03/20/2022 18:31
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#61
The use of "But what about yours?" isn't effective rebuttal. Why won't the Russian trolls at least concede that the Russian economy is going to feel this one for awhile?
#62
^ The Russian economy. But not the ones they're subservient/pd by. Just the proles, they'll get their messaging as necessary
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03/20/2022 19:17
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#63
Because any concession at all would open them up to the argumentum ad Lubyanka.
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03/20/2022 19:18
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#64
He said he wanted to demilitarize Ukraine - not occupy it, not rule it, not conquer it. Most importantly, he wanted to cleanse the east of the Ukrainian thugs who've terrorized the Donbas for 8 years, and build on this foundation to drive westward and secure a land bridge to Crimea. He's done so.
He wanted to encircle the Ukrainian armed forces and destroy them: he's doing so. As someone said yesterday, "Not a blitzkrieg but an anaconda." Slow, methodical, grinding, relentless. There is no evidence that there was ever another plan. Our "defense analysts" have largely beclowned themselves trying to argue otherwise - with what, telepathy?
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cult?
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^ So, everything's going according to plan. Got it. Thanks for the education.
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^ There is no evidence that there was ever another plan.
I would argue that this is Plan B and it *is* going rather well. When things jumped off, there were two special forces operations - a decapitation strike on the government and an attempt to seize Gostomel airport to create an air bridge for the assault on Kiev. Both failed. Ha-ha stupid Rus, right? Maybe not. Maybe more like heads I win/tails you lose.
If either of these ops were successful, it would give Russia a quick lead in the game, like throwing a Hail Mary on the first play. But even if they fail, both ops tie down troops and resources that are needed elsewhere which gives the Russians a bigger jump in the north, east, and especially the south. That is the main course. The airport and the government were just gravy.
I believe the failure of "Plan A" to achieve its primary goals is the source of the "Russians expected the Ukrainians to roll over" meme.
#70
FWIW Rantburg has been a long established relatively reliable source of info and opinion. It’s pinged by many contractors, Tier 1 and others operating down range to pick up relevant tidbits that aren’t available in MSM. It’s reasonable to presume that foreign intel groups do the same. Just one of several places to visit daily to get a read on what the hot topics of the day are perceived to be
#71
They should have a beer and a shot with me, then. We can split the bill..
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Perhaps the most insightful thread to the Rantburg Community collective mindset I have seen in all my years here. Thanks my friends, and for the trolls, always fun to see the reasoning of the other side, it confirms my faith in mine, raggedy-assed and grizzled though some of us are these days...!
#75
Most importantly, he wanted to cleanse the east of the Ukrainian thugs who've terrorized the Donbas
Did he ever finish cleaning out the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia? We haven’t been playing close attention to that part of the world recently, so I’ve lost track. Just for a baseline for the current cleansing effort, you see.
[DW] India is providing better pay and more training to armed local groups in the restive Kashmir region. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... their members are accused of carrying out unwarranted killings.
In early March, the Indian government announced it would reestablish Village Defense Committees (VDCs) to fight "anti-India militancy" in conflict-torn India-administered Kashmir
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Why we disregard hysterical talk about uniquely evil Ukrainian Nazis: because we know they got training and support from government supported white supremacists in Russia. We see the beams in both Russian and Ukrainian eyes. Article is from 2020.
[DeutscheWelle] German right-wing forces of Evil are receiving paramilitary training in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to a new report by news magazine Focus. Who is running the training, and what do we know about the participants?
WHAT KIND OF CAMP DID RIGHT-WING FORCES OF EVIL REPORTEDLY VISIT IN RUSSIA?
Participating in paramilitary training is legal in Russia. Such training takes place under the protective umbrella of DOSAAF (Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy), an organization whose founding dates back to the days of the Soviet Union. The actual training, in which Germans reportedly participated, is provided by a club appearing under two different names: "Rezerv" or "Partizan." It takes place at a military facility on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Until 2018, "Partizan" and its members were listed on the website of St. Petersburg's municipal office as a vigilante group in the Vyborg district. "That was prior to my taking office," a district representative told DW when asked about the matter.
If Biletsky goes on telling his storm troopers to face the Russians in Mariupol while he sits at home in his recording studio, he might survive the war and go on to make a living as an "influencer." Big market for hatred of the "Jew-led Untermenschen." YouTube's happy to help
#6
Good Lord, some people just love Putin's propaganda.
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"Remember that time in Odessa... Next week? Was the whine ever besser?"
"Those sausages--"
"Yes!"
"Were the wurst--"
"And the best!"
"Though I wonder... were we the aggressor?"
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week month
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#10
Delicious, Thor Wholuck4595. We grew up playing Bach — the others seriously, while I enjoyed sitting in the middle of it all. Kind of like here, come to think of it. ;-)
[DW] Nigeria is striving to reintegrate former Boko Haram Death Eaters who have voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered to the authorities. But in many communities, resentment towards the ex-fighters is still strong.
The regional government in Borno state recently announced the successful reintegration into the community of the first group of 500 former fighters from the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram ...not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... and a splinter group, the Islamic State
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[YouTube] Think the Europeans will need to get by without Russian crude? You are 100% correct. But you are not thinking anywhere near big enough.
Most of Russia’s oil fields are both old and extraordinarily remote from Russia’s customers. Fields in the North Caucasus are either tapped out or were never refurbished in the aftermath of the Chechen Wars, those of Russia’s Tatarstan and Bashkortostan provinces are well past their peak, and even western Siberian fields have been showing diminishing returns since the 2000s. With few exceptions, Russia’s oil discoveries of the last decade or three are deeper, smaller, more technically challenging, and even farther from population centers than the older fields they would be expected to replace. Russian output isn’t in danger of collapsing, but maintaining output will require more infrastructure, far higher up-front costs, and ongoing technical love and care to prevent steady output declines from becoming something far worse.
While the Russians are no slouches when it comes to oil field knowledge, they were out of circulation from roughly 1940 through 2000. Oil technology came a long way in those sixty years. Foreign firms—most notably supermajors BP and Shell, and services firms Halliburton and Schlumberger—have collectively done work that is probably responsible for half of Russia’s contemporary output.
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This guy shoots from the hip without bothering to verify basic facts. The Financial Times reports that none of the three oilfield services majors is leaving Russia. In fact French companies are already moving into Russia to take the place of US and U.K. companies that have left.
A railway line near the Russian-Ukrainian borders in Kharkiv Oblast, which the Russian Army intended to supply its units with MREs and ammunition, was blown off by Azov combatants.#Russia#Ukrainepic.twitter.com/L6L5xz6zQo
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 19, 2022
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Two soldiers of the Syrian government forces were killed and two others were wounded on Saturday as an IED exploded in their vehicle in the eastern countryside of Homs, central Syria.
“An IED exploded in a military vehicle that was driving some soldiers of the 11th Infantry Division near the 55-km de-confliction zone, which is adjacent to the US-led Global Coalition’s al-Tanf US military base,” a military source of the Fourth Armored Division said.
The soldiers were combing the border areas with the coalition’s base in the Syrian desert at the time of the explosion.
The dead soldiers, who were a staff sergeant and a petty officer, were sitting in the first row while the injured soldiers, who had shrapnel, were in the back, the source added.
The Syrian desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor constitute source of concern for the Iranian-backed militias and the government forces. Sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) occasionally carry out operations against them causing multiple losses despite heavy security campaigns and combing operation.
On March 16, two Syrian government soldiers were killed in an IED explosion that targeted their car in al-Asharah town, 55 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The 88-year-old congressman died while traveling home to Alaska
Young lost consciousness on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle and could not be resuscitated
'Don Young's legacy as a fighter for the state will live on, as will his fundamental goodness and honor,' his office said
Young was the longest-serving member of the current U.S. Congress and represented Alaska for 25 terms
Last year he filed to enter this November's election
In Congress, he was known for directing billions of dollars of federal money to Alaska, the largest state in the country but with one of the smallest populations
In late 2020, Young was diagnosed with COVID-19 after he had earlier ridiculed the disease as a 'beer virus'
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He was as GOPe as GOPe gets. Maybe it's bad form to bring that up at this time. The next question will be, is he replaced by someone even more GOPe, a Murkey clone, or Heaven Forbid, a dem.
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I don't dare give on thin dime to the GOP as long as there are RINOs (Liz, Mittens) or same old, same old (Graham, McConnell) types. When the lines are blurred between Dem and GOP, you know there's a problem.
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[NATION.PK] Police have arrested four persons involved in aerial firing and fireworks thereby violating marriage laws and recovered sophisticated weapons and ammunition from their possession during crackdown, informed police spokesman here Saturday. During course of action, Kahuta Police conducted a raid at a wedding ceremony and held accused Abdul Wajid, Ahsan Ali, Abdul Rehman and Adnan and recovered two rifles and two pistols from their custody. Police have registered separate cases against all of them and further investigation is in progress.
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“There is no other choice but violence.”#Antifa in Seattle are continuing to call for violence at an upcoming conservative “March for Freedom” rally on March 26. They view it as an opportunity for revenge. Some of the antifa flyers call for a shooting. https://t.co/DN37FeNAqqpic.twitter.com/GkmC0UW7Zz
Suspected forces of Evil have killed five people including a teacher and a 70-year-old man across three villages of Dogo Dawa, Layin Mahuta and Tabanni in the Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari, Chairman, Birnin-Gwari Vanguards for Security and Good Governance, said during the separate attacks, which happened between Monday to Friday, 17 people were also kidnapped by the terrorists.
Nagwari also disclosed that 32 out of the 46 residents from attacks at Ungwan Bula and Ijinga three weeks ago were set free by the bandidos after paying N16m ransom demanded.
He added that on March 14, the forces of Evil struck along the Dogo Dawa-Zaria Road in the Eastern part of Birnin-Gwari, where one Haruna Tanko Dogo Dawa was killed and eight other people were kidnapped.
Nagwari further revealed that between Wednesday and Thursday, one Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, a school teacher, was killed along Layin Lasa-Tabanni while a 70-year-old man was killed and "women kidnapped at Layin Mahuta Tabanni, two other people were kidnapped by the bandidos at old Tabanni."
He said, "We thank you for your usual support and solidarity within Birnin Gwari general area.
"In the last working days of the week, fatal security breaches were recorded mostly in the eastern part of Birnin Gwari by armed bandidos, notably Dogo Dawa, layin Mahuta and Tabanni in which five people were killed, 17 others were kidnapped from Monday 15 to Friday 18 March, 2022.
"On Tuesday, March 14, 2022, Haruna Tanko Dogo Dawa and two others were cruelly murdered in the eastern part of Birnin Gwari by armed bandidos along Dogo Dawa-Zaria, eight other people were kidnapped on the same route.
"At Layin Mahuta(Tabanni), one Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, a school teacher, was killed along Layin Lasa-Tabanni Road on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. While on Thursday, March 17, 2022, a 70-year-old man was killed and seven women kidnapped at Layin Mahuta Tabanni, two other people were kidnapped by the bandidos at old Tabanni."
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ... the chairman said no fewer than 32 people out of the 46 abductees from Ungwan Bula and Ijinga had regained their freedom three weeks after abduction, after paying N16m ransom.
"In Randagi general area, bandidos have released 32 people out of 46 abductees from attacks on Ungwan Bula and Ijinga three weeks ago, after paying N16m. Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road remained quiet during the period under review.
"We urge security personnel to always respond to distress calls around Dogo Dawa, Kuyello, Tabanni and Kutemeshi wards in Birnin Gwari," he added.
There was no official confirmation from either the state government or the state police command.
[An Nahar] The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has alleged that the Russian army has chosen around 1,000 volunteers from what it called "the so-called army of Bashir al-Assad and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... "The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to make up for the loss of personnel at the expense of foreigners. According to available information, the Russian occupiers have already picked up close to 1,000 volunteers from the so-called army of Bashir al-Assad and Hizbullah," the General Staff said in an English-language Facebook post.
"The main requirement for imported muscle is the experience of fighting in the city. At the same time, according to available information, the above-mentioned gunnies do not intend to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine, but to use ’business trips’ as opportunities to get to European countries," the General Staff added.
On Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russia had drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from Syrian army and allied militias to be put on standby for deployment in Ukraine.
The Kremlin said earlier that volunteers, including from Syria, were welcome to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.
The Observatory and activists said Russian officers, in coordination with the Syrian military and allied militia, had set up registration offices in regime-held areas.
"More than 40,000 Syrians have registered to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine so far," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the UK-based monitor. Russian officers deployed as part of the force Moscow sent to Syria in 2015 to support Damascus had approved 22,000 of them, Abdel Rahman said.
Those fighters are either combatants drawn from the army or pro-regime militias who have experience in street warfare and received Russian training.
In a country where soldiers earn between $15 and $35 per month, Russia has promised them a salary of $1,100 to fight in Ukraine, the Observatory reported.
They are also entitled to $7,700 in compensation for injuries and their families to $16,500 if they are killed in combat.
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We should soon see lots of destroyed little Toyota pickups w/machine guns mounted in the little Toyota pickup beds (aka Syrian "Tanks").
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As a cost saving measure, Vlad may wish to consider captured Ukrainian training rifles for his disposable Bashir al-Assad and Hizbullah augmentees.
At a distance, it's nearly impossible to tell the difference. Ammo savings are also a big plus and maintenance is a no brainer.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s urban water users and farmers who rely on supplies from state reservoirs will get less than planned this year as fears of a third consecutive dry year become reality, state officials announced Friday.Water agencies that serve 27 million people and 750,000 acres (303,514 hectares) of farmland, will get just 5% of what they've requested this year from state supplies beyond what's needed for critical activities such as drinking and bathing.
That's down from the 15% allocation state officials had announced in January, after a wet December fueled hopes of a lessening drought.
But a wet winter didn't materialize and unless several more inches of rain falls this month, the January-March period will be the driest start to a California year at least a century. That's when most of the state's rain and snow typically falls.
Mandatory restrictions on using water for outdoor activities like landscaping and other purposes may come from local water agencies as they continue to grapple with limited supplies, said Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources.
Local water agencies that know their communities’ unique needs are better poised than state officials to set water use restrictions, Nemeth said.
"I think with this reduced allocation we are going to see more urban areas in California move into some kind of mandatory water conservation," she said in an interview.
State officials will continue urging people to voluntarily cut water use by 15%, an amount designed to get Californians' collective water use back to what it was during the last drought, which lasted from 2012 to 2016, Nemeth said.
Statewide water use in January actually went up 2.6% compared to the same month in 2020, due to dry conditions and warm temperatures.
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they could use natural gas to desalinize ocean water but since CA is a no fracking state they can't
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Clearly Putin is to blame. Plus global covid warming
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That's by design. Poverty and food shortages for the California proles so they start to die off. Bill Gates owns more farmland in the water-rich regions than anyone outside of Sierra Pacific Industries
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#1 I have often wondered why California, which has 700+ miles of border with the Pacific Ocean, has not started a massive desalinization plan. I think the costs may be high; but how bad is the cost of not having water at all?
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^ Costs are high (energy) and the Environuts sue over the plankton and small fishkill by the intakes, making it even more expensive. I would propose that if one refuses to allow desal, they should have no pools and be limited to "Navy showers" ;-)
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Oprah and her neighbors don't have swimming pools, they have Forward Deployed Fire Suppression Caches....so she gets a pass, and he gets a pass, they all get passes!
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Not enough energy. North/west coast above Ventura is sunlight inconsistent
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Unclear power would be an excellent way to run desalination plants. Bu nooooooo!
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Put a (really big) dome over the Salton Sea, collect the condensate, pump it up to the aqueduct system, and let the Sea refill from the Gulf. Mine the salt deposited along the fringes.
Ukraine claims the commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army (CAA) of the Russian Southern Military District (SMD) Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, was killed. Waiting for confirmation in Russia.
Perhaps just aiming for the well-fed guy in the big hat?
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A violent mostly peaceful explosion has targeted a demonstration held by the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Shabwah province.
This was reported by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News Portal, based on testimonies of local sources.
According to local sources, unknown button men threw bombs at the STC’ demonstration in the city of Ataq.
Security forces tried to block the demonstration against the announcement of the Political Bureau of Tariq Saleh (also known as Tariq Afash), the nephew of the late President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... The STC fears that the Political Bureau will represent an end to its future in the oil-rich province, as the STC aspired to acquire it to boost its gains in eastern Yemen.
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RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) announced on Saturday that mine action team demined a landmine, left by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in Raqqa, north Syria.
The Asayish posted on their official website that the mine was near a gas station in the south side of the city.
The mine was stuffed with up to 60 kg of TNT, according to Asayish.
Since last year, combat engineers have defused 79 land mines, 87 shells, 365 grenades, 12 explosive belts, and 25 missiles, all were remnants left by ISIS, Asayish told North Press.
Reporting by Zana al-Ali
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People should not hail this as some great strategic victory. Instead it is the harbinger of corporates as sovereign entities, with their own foreign policies and charters superceding the interests of their parent nations. Even today, the $ multi-billion corp is answerable to no lawmaker or court, owns it's own officials and maybe even senators and representatives. Russia will not see this as the innocent volunteering of 'help' by private entities. They will pay dearly later. But even otherwise, the globalist aim of undermining the nation state and superceding of legislature decided policies by transnational corporates is ultimately being fulfilled.
Elon Musk satelites will not serve the American right so liberally when the LSDs deny them the right to get online, will they?
[NATION.PK] Taxila: Speaker of National Assembly Asad Qaiser’s nephew and brother in law assaulted motorway police personnel on a toll plaza near Taxila while they were en-route 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... According to details, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ayub Khan reached the spot and arrested those involved in the incident.
The Inspector General (IG) Inam Ghani took notice of the incident and ordered concerned officials to take action according to the law.
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[Running Iron] For years a mythology has accreted around Vladimir Putin. Both admirers and detractors in the West have seen him as a calculating genius, playing three-dimensional chess while everyone else was playing checkers. RIR never bought that analysis. We did see Putin as a cunning opportunist, parlaying strategic ambiguity and incremental bites at the periphery of the West into success in a long game of asymetric warfare — which, it must be remembered, is how the weak battle the strong. All the advantages that accrued to the spider in the Kremlin through that approach went out the window with the all-out invasion of Ukraine.
In testimony before Congress, CIA Director Bill Burns and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines concurred in the assessment that Putin grossly miscalculated both Russia’s capacity and the response of Ukraine and the West. He thought he had sanction-proofed his economy; it’s reeling. He thought he had reformed his army to allow for a quick decapitation campaign; it’s bogged down, battered and suffering from poor morale. He thought the West was weak and riven by divisions and would not respond in a unified matter; so far, the West has shown a remarkably united front. And the most fundamental miscalculation of all: He thought Ukraine would fold up, roll over and die. Instead, they have put up a fierce, profoundly inspiring resistance. He forgot what real military thinkers — and sports coaches, for that matter — never forget: Your opponent has a say.
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I wonder how Biden would be portrayed in their media. Propaganda and story telling is alive and well these days. Most people I meet have walked away from our media and they are much happier.
Three CRPF troopers were maimed after holy warriors lobbed two grenades at the security forces in south Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Shopian and Tral areas on Saturday evening, police said.
"In Shopian, at about 1950hrs holy warriors had lobbed a grenade on CRPF camp of 178Bn. In this terror incident one CRPF personnel has received minor splinter injuries, " a police front man said.
"Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... in Awantipora at about 1955hrs holy warriors had lobbed a grenade on CRPF camp of 180Bn at Nowdal Tral in which two CRPF personnel received minor splinter injuries, " it added.
Police have registered cases in the twin grenade attacks and launched investigation.
[NATION.PK] MYKOLAIV — Dozens of soldiers were killed after Russian troops struck a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, witnesses told AFP on Saturday while a rescue operation was underway. "No fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks" when Russian troops struck early Friday, a Ukrainian serviceman on the ground, 22-year-old Maxim, told AFP without providing his last name.
"At least 50 bodies have been recovered, but we do not know how many others are in the rubble," he said.
Another soldier estimated that the bombing could have killed around 100 people. Authorities have not yet released an official corpse count. The military facility located in the north of the city was fully destroyed after being hit by several rockets Friday morning. "Yesterday orcs hit our sleeping soldiers with a rocket in a cowardly manner," Vitaly Kim, head of the regional administration, said in a video on Saturday, using the Ukrainian nickname for Russian forces.
"A rescue operation is under way," he added. He did not provide further details, saying he expected to receive official information from the armed forces.
AFP journalists at the site earlier in the day saw the bodies of three people, including a shredded corpse extracted from under the rubble by rescue workers. A survivor was also pulled out.
"We are continuing to count but it is impossible to know given the state of the bodies," a rescuer told AFP.
Mykolaiv’s mayor Oleksandr Senkevych told local journalists that the city, which had a pre-war population of nearly half a million residents, had been struck from the neighbouring region of Kherson, now under Russian control.
For days, the Russians have bombarded Mykolaiv, which lies on the road to the strategic port city of Odessa some 130 kilometres (80 miles) down the Black Sea coastline.
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More FSB propaganda on Rantburg. Do you people owe money to Tucker Carlson or does he have naked pictures of the owner of this site with little boys?
Please change the accusatory tenor of your posting or take it elsewhere.
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More FSB propaganda on Rantburg. Do you people owe money to Tucker Carlson or does he have naked pictures of the owner of this site with little boys?
Please change the accusatory tenor of your posting or take it elsewhere.
Propaganda is part of the game. The Rooshuns can lie like a rug, and the Ukros do, too, but one thing they cannot lie about is time and space, which is a critical factor in military operations. And it also happens to be critical factor in propaganda, itself part of military operations.
The individual making these hints; he (or her for that matter) and his hints will be part of the background for as long as we present both sides.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:44 The participation of foreign mercenaries in the battles on the side of the Kiev regime is deadly.
The French authorities categorically do not recommend the French to enter the territory of Ukraine, however, some citizens of the republic did not follow these calls, French Ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Ponsin said on the air of the BFMTV channel.
“We have information that some French have entered the territory of Ukraine. At the same time, we do not recommend French citizens to enter this country, ”Ponsin said, answering a question from one of the journalists, is there any information about the participation of the French in hostilities in Ukraine.
21:43 Ukrainian nationalists have mined storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine at a chemical plant in Sumy in order to poison residents if the Russian Armed Forces enter the city. The nationalists also plan to blow up containers with toxic chemicals at a school in the Nikolaev region when units of the Russian Armed Forces approach.
21:07 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 201 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,443 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 147 multiple rocket launchers, 564 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 1,248 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
20:40 During the day, operational-tactical, army aviation hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them: three command posts, two installations of multiple launch rocket systems and two radar stations in the area of the city of Bogodukhov, two depots of rocket and artillery weapons, as well as 51 places where military equipment is accumulated.
20:28 The Russian army broke through the defenses of the Aidar battalion and reached the Shakhtyorskoe-Novoukrainka line, up to 30 militants were destroyed.
20:27 The Russian Aerospace Forces attacked a repair plant in Chernihiv. The Kyiv regime will no longer be able to restore military equipment there.
20:24 There are fierce battles in Kharkiv. Online appeared photos and videos showing outbreaks and fires.
19:51 Part of the top military leadership of Ukraine is ready to accept the conditions of Russia, this is the reason for the showdown between Poroshenko, Gerashchenko, Arestovich and other public figures, said a source who is familiar with the situation.
19:36 Volunteers from the public organization "Rus Triedinaya", with the support of the Russian military, delivered humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian village of Strelechye in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border.
19:24 Residents of Melitopol began to hand over weapons that were previously actively distributed by Ukrainian Nazis.
19:20 The authorities of Western states believe that the leaders of Ukraine give unclear and contradictory signals regarding the progress of negotiations with Russia, some NATO states fear that Kyiv will make too big concessions, The Washington Post writes, citing its sources.
18:45 The radiation situation at the Zaporizhzhya and Chernobyl nuclear power plants in Ukraine remains normal, the permanent mission of the Russian Federation to international organizations in Vienna said.
18:30 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed new footage of the destruction of a fortified stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists by an army aviation strike. Air strikes were carried out in pairs from low and extremely low altitudes. As a result of an air strike, a stronghold of a company of Ukrainian nationalists and camouflaged armored vehicles were destroyed. Video.
18:18 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the night strikes of the nationalists "Tochka-U" on Melitopol. Russian air defenses successfully repulsed the attack, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov. The shelling of the city came from the north, from the southeastern outskirts of the city of Zaporozhye, which is under the control of Ukrainian nationalists. After the coordinates of the ballistic missile launch were calculated, in order to prevent further attacks from this place, two Iskander missiles destroyed the enemy's launchers.
17:50 Refugees from Kyiv are going to the border with Belarus along the humanitarian corridor through the Chernobyl exclusion zone, military commander Alexander Kots reports.
17:38 These are the defense schemes found at the positions of Azov (banned in the Russian Federation). They were initially trained to seize residential buildings and to sacrifice the civilian population.
These are the defense schemes found at the positions of Azov. They were initially trained to seize residential buildings and to sacrifice the civilian population.
17:30 Mines installed by Ukraine in the Black Sea due to cable breaks threaten to drift towards the Bosphorus, reported in the FSB.
17:15 Former CIA officer Ryan Hillsberg said that after 2014, the United States sent officers to Ukraine to train the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:50 At night, the Ukronazis from Zaporozhye continued their attempts to shell the southern regions of the region, liberated by the RF Armed Forces, writes military commander Yuri Kotenok. Air defense forces of the RF Armed Forces shot down the Tochka-U OTR over Berdyansk. There were no casualties. Dozens of Tochka-U launchers and hundreds of missiles remain at the disposal of the Ukronazis. Both search and destruction are one of the priority tasks in the course of a special military operation in Ukraine.
16:08 The Russian special operation in Ukraine thwarted the anti-Russian plans of the West, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
15:49 Because of the blown up bridge in the Kharkiv region, people in the nearest settlements are forced to cross the river at their own peril and risk. The blown up bridge is an object of civilian infrastructure, and its destruction causes hardship for local residents.Video.
15:48 In the White Church of the Kiev region, the Ros hotel was converted into a coordination center between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries, the Rybar Telegram channel reports. From here it is planned to direct the actions of the "International Legion of Ukraine", operating in the Kiev region. Up to 200 foreign mercenaries are stationed on the territory of the hotel.
15:35 The consequences of the night shelling of Melitopol.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three Tochka-U missiles in the direction of the city, all three were intercepted in the air by the air defense of the Russian Armed Forces, but at least one carried cluster munitions. The fragments of this rocket, as well as the surviving cassettes, fell on these two houses, which subsequently burned down. Both houses were inhabited by families with children who, fortunately, managed to run out before the houses burned down.
15:05 The village of Demidov in the north of the Kiev region is under the threat of flooding. The water level on the floodplain of the Irpen River has reached the maximum allowable level due to destruction on the dam of the Kiev reservoir. It is worth noting that the dam was destroyed by Ukrainian troops in an attempt to prevent the Russian Armed Forces from forcing the Irpen River using pontoon crossings.
15:02 The transfer of reinforcements on passenger trains continues to Kharkiv, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya". The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and nationalist formations are carrying special equipment that is scarce for the garrison: night vision devices, thermal imagers and field medicine. So far, this cannot be prevented: Kharkov is still not blocked from the west, and strikes on the station will cause a large number of civilian casualties.
14:30 Losses of the Ukrainian side as of 12:00 March 19, 2022.
14:12 The Russian Ministry of Defense has published footage of a strike on a reconnaissance and sabotage group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.Video.
14:04 The Federal News Agency has published a map showing the success of the operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine.
13:44 From the north-eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, equipment and control cabinets are being taken out - the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions are transferring them to the center. From about the middle of yesterday, whole BTR-4s began to be transferred from Saltovka: apparently, there are no longer enough forces to deter the offensive of our forces in other sectors of the front, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya".
13:41 Ukrainian servicemen are led by representatives of the West and the United States, said President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
13:00 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the destruction of the warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by a strike of high-precision missile weapons. The footage shows the exact hit of a missile in an underground hangar with weapons and ammunition..
12:05 In the battle near Kiev, the Russian army destroyed foreign mercenaries, writes Telegram-channel "Reports of the militia of Novorossiya". On March 17, in the battle for Irpin, Georgian militants Gia "Bero" Beriashvili and Dato "Dato" Ratiani were liquidated.
11:43 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that 10 routes for the evacuation of civilians have been agreed on Saturday.
11:40 The Russian military return to the inhabitants of Melitopol the cars squeezed from them by the nationalists. A resident of the city of Melitopol said that it was possible to find and return her son's car only thanks to an appeal to the Russian military commandant's office.
11:15 Footage of objective monitoring of the destruction of a reconnaissance and sabotage unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with high-precision weapons has appeared on the Web. The video shows an attack on the DRG of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carrying out reconnaissance and search operations on four military off-road vehicles manufactured by the United States. After being hit by high-precision missile weapons, the group was destroyed.
11:14 As a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis, communications burst in one of the houses in Kharkov and the heating system froze. It has been severe frosts in the city for about a week now, the temperature drops to -10°C.Video.
10:44 NATO will not interfere in the conflict in Ukraine and create a no-fly zone there, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said.
10:30 The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
10:00 Satellite image of the aftermath of the strike on an aircraft repair plant in Lvov.
09:15 The United States and NATO countries should stop supplying weapons and sending mercenaries to Ukraine, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
09:10 Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin instructed to investigate new facts of criminal actions of Ukrainian nationalists against civilians.
08:50 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the destruction of a fortified stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists. Missile strikes were carried out in pairs from low and extremely low altitudes. In addition to the stronghold, camouflaged armored vehicles were destroyed.
08:35 On Friday, the Russian military took 112 Russians and foreigners from the Kherson region to the Crimea, including citizens of Ukraine and the United States, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
08:34 Morning explosion in HF A-3476 of the Nikolaev region.
08:33 Smog covered Kyiv - the city has been shrouded in fog since night, residents are asked not to open windows. According to preliminary data, peat bogs are burning in the region.
08:25 Photo from the ruins of the military unit of the 79th Specialized Brigade in Nikolaev. According to Ukrainian media, about 40 Ukrainian nationalists have been liquidated.
08:24 Starting from February 24, the Russian Aerospace Forces have been demonstrating a total air superiority over Ukraine, writes the Telegram channel “Reports of the militia of Novorossia”. The highest professionalism of the Russian military deprived Ukraine of the opportunity to conduct air battles and somehow cover its ground units. Here's a fresh example of the professionalism of Russian ASOVs - with a pinpoint strike, the Su-34 destroys the Ukrainian "Grads" near Chernigov.
08:22 Accurate strike by the Su-34 of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the Ukrainian MLRS "Grad" Personnel of the Ministry of Defense from the Chernihiv region of Ukraine.
08:00 More than 150 refugees from the Kharkiv region, accompanied by the Russian military, arrived at the border with Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. 5 buses arrived in the Belgorod region. People were sent to temporary accommodation centers and provided with hot meals and warm clothes. The ministry emphasized that the group of refugees organized by the Russian military had to be taken out in parts, since the shelling goes on almost without interruption.
Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has revealed that security personnel in the state detected newly planted explosives by Boko Haram terrorists in Galadima-Kogo, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.
“Compared to the American-made Javelin antitank weapon, which has been hailed by officials at the Pentagon…the NLAW weighs about half as much, costs far less, can be easily discarded & is optimized for use in the relatively short-range fights Ukrainian soldiers are getting into” https://t.co/92i2HiFmH8
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And it has less than half the range. So half the weight.
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Hopefully, the Next Gen LAW is better than Next Gen Star Trek.
While we are making comparisons, a stick weighs less than a LAW and costs only a fraction as much, even with mil-spec sticks costing a lot more than regular sticks you find in the woods. The main downside is the somewhat shorter range.
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Bit of background from a M-47 Dragon anti-tank user.
Both American and western NATO nations use the different missiles as part of an overall doctrine. So you have a infantry battalion dug in and the Soviets are assaulting with a tank brigade. You as the NATO unit have a platoon of M-1s and two Apaches in support.
The M-1s, TOWs and Hellfires are for softening up the attack by taking out the heaviest tanks at the longest range (1-2KM) along with any leadership tank (they have two antennas) you see.
Once they get to 800 meters the Javelins are used to continue taking out tanks and anti-aircraft vehicles that are seen. By 300 meters the NLAWs, AT-4s and LAWs are used against the infantry carriers. Hopefully by this time you have taken out all or most of the SAMs and AA vehicles and you call in the A-10s to have a party.
The NLAW is the close range and last line of defense for infantry. And as Lord Garth pointed out, a slow and confined tank column is a perfect place to use it as well. For our vehicle ambushes, hit the front one, hit the back then hit any SAM/AA ones, pull back and call A-10s and artillery to finish up the now trapped column. Dragons and AT-4s were perfect for that scenario.
The Florida cell of violent #antifa group, the Youth Liberation Front, has put out a call to action in the state to oppose the anti-child grooming bill. The YLF is encouraging vandalism & "anything else." The group called for & carried out serious violence during the 2020 riots. pic.twitter.com/iffSJU4MWb
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....You don't want to mess with Florida Man(TM)....
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Contrary to what some outside the state might imagine, not everyone in Florida thinks Disney is a net plus here. The notion that whatever the mouse wants is fine with all Floridians is probably not particularly accurate.
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Some gunmen in the early hours of Saturday set ablaze the Umuguma Divisional Police Headquarters situated in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.
The gunmen also killed two police constables who were on duty.
SaharaReporters learnt that the attackers stormed the division with guns and explosive ordinance disposals and they immediately opened fire at the divisional headquarters after blocking the roads leading in and out of the station and including the one close to the LGA council headquarters.
Residents of the area said the sounds of the weapons the attackers came with frightened them as they ran into bushes out of fear of being hurt by stray bullets and weapons.
A resident of the area who doesn't want to be mentioned said, “These guys are mean. On arrival, they blocked the roads, threw their dynamite into the police station and equally opened fire. They now waited to attack officers who ran out for safety.
“Unfortunately, two police constabularies by name Ifeanyi and Iyke were killed.
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[Korrespondent] 21:42 It is technically impossible to take Kiev, says Arestovich.
According to him, another attempt to capture the capital from the north will be doomed to failure: “They can try to attack, but they have to go through the suburbs of Kyiv. We have been seeing how they go for 24 days: Bucha, Gostomel, Brovary… elite units. They are gone now. Now some hodgepodge will try to perform the same operation - well, what is the prospect?"
21:36 In Poland, 57 cities have unilaterally terminated cooperation agreements with 48 cities of Russia and 12 cities of Belarus, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports.
21:34 Today, the enemy fired at the village of Novye Petrivtsi near Kiev from Gradov - a field caught fire, a gas station was damaged. According to preliminary data, no victims.
21:12 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation says that the Azov battalion allegedly plans to stage a terrorist attack in Lviv against diplomats from the United States and other Western countries in order to present it as an attack by Russia.
21:11 Enemy intelligence has come to the conclusion that due to the strong resistance of the Ukrainians, it is impossible to establish pro-Russian authorities in the territories temporarily controlled by the invaders, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says.
21:04 Today, 6,623 people have been evacuated along humanitarian corridors, according to the OP. 4,128 people left Mariupol for Zaporozhye, almost 500 Mariupol residents were transported from Mangush to Berdyansk, who will be able to leave for Zaporozhye tomorrow morning.
1820 people were evacuated from the Kiev region, 675 people from the Lugansk region. Food and medicines were delivered to the settlements of the Lugansk region.
21:03 Podolyak reacted to Poland's initiative on the Marshall Plan-2 for Ukraine: "Marshall Plan 2.0 is the moral responsibility of those who do not want to stand by when Russian missiles hit our cities. The destruction of civilian infrastructure is a war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine "Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is impeccable in his initiative to help rebuild. Poland is a sincere friend of Ukraine."
21:01 The RF Ministry of Defense declares that "Ukrainian nationalists have mined storage facilities with ammonia and chlorine at a chemical plant in Sumy in order to poison the residents if the Russian military enter the city."
In addition, according to the invaders, "Ukrainian militants brought containers with chemical substances to the school building in the village of Kotlyarovo in the Mykolaiv region, they are planned to be blown up when the Russian military approaches."
20:56 Arestovich: "Our conditions put forward at the negotiations contain many surprises for the Ukrainian society. We will not allow Putin to realize his wishes through the blood shed in Ukraine."
According to him, the Russians have chosen "the most ridiculous course of action - they will attack and lose another ten thousand people."
Arestovich believes that the Russians will agree to negotiations after another attempt to seize something. "Why do this - the questions of the Russian people to their leadership," he added.
20:54 The deputy commander of the Azov regiment "Kalina" said that the Ukrainian military is ready to launch a counteroffensive: "We can free those who are under temporary occupation in Berdyansk, Melitopol. There is only one step to liberate the South - the deblockade of Mariupol."
20:30 In the Chernihiv region, the Russian invaders tried to distribute "humanitarian aid", but the locals, even under pressure, did not take anything. The enemy is trying to hold similar events in the Kiev and Kherson regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
20:28 Refrigerators with a cargo of "200" arrive daily at the Lugansk regional hospital, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. These are the bodies of soldiers of the 2nd Army Corps, who suffered significant losses. Lines of relatives of the victims lined up near the district executive committees.
20:27 In Crimea, separate units of the Russian Marine Corps have lost up to 90% of their personnel, there are no reserves to restore losses, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
20:24 Sadovyi said that there is a complete ban on the sale of alcohol in Lviv. Earlier, the governor said that in the region the ban is valid from 21:00 to 10:00.
20:22 The governor of the Nikolaev area Vitaly Kim calls on local residents whenever possible to clean up bodies of the Russian occupiers in the released territories. According to him, they will not turn into fertilizers - this is a myth. On the contrary, cadaveric poison will then interfere with the sowing.
20:16 Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko said that the Russian invaders force people to leave Ukraine for the territory of Russia. According to him, over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents were taken there.
20:07 Johnson believes that Putin is now in "total panic" because of a possible revolution in Moscow, "so he is trying to brutally extinguish the fire of freedom in Ukraine."
20:04 The Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine refute the information of the Russian media that Rubizhne in the Luhansk region was "cleansed" by Kadyrov's and terrorists from ORDLO.
19:54 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the EU should develop a plan for the restoration of Ukraine, and called it the Marshall Plan-2. He promised to raise this issue at a meeting of the Council of Europe.
19:53 North Macedonia has canceled the visa-free regime for Russians, which has been in effect since 1989.
19:43 AFU in the Zaporozhye direction destroyed a Russian Ka-52 helicopter and damaged another one. They also eliminated about 60 Russian invaders and several enemy armored vehicles, the General Staff said.
19:39 Spokesperson of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko: "All the desperate mantras of Minister Lavrov about neo-Nazis in Ukraine and the oppression of the Russian-speaking population, to justify Russia's war against Ukraine, mean only one thing: the Russian warship is sinking. His team is trapped, and a happy ending for they won't be."
19:37 American officials confirm that the Russian Federation used hypersonic missiles against Ukraine last week , CNN reports citing its sources. US officials believe that Russia wanted to test the weapon and send a signal to the West about its capabilities.
19:31 The governor of the Nikolaev region Vitaly Kim said that the Russian occupation troops are retreating from Nikolaev. At the same time, according to him, the enemy continues to shell residential areas, doing this from a distance of 50-70 kilometers.
19:29 Former British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and John Major want to create a special tribunal to investigate Putin's actions in Ukraine.
In Britain, 140 scientists, lawyers and politicians have signed a petition calling for a legal system modeled after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
19:28 The head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Alexander Kamyshin, said that there is no longer a railway connection between Belarus and Ukraine.
19:16 The Georgian Central Bank stated that Georgian banks do not serve cards of the Mir payment system - moreover, their acceptance for payment in the country is considered a violation of the law.
19:23 Director General of Azovstal Enver Tskitishvili said that the plant can be restored: "Those two shells that hit Azovstal ... We cannot say that the plant has been stopped forever. We will return to the city and rebuild this plant, we will revive it, and it will be just work and bring glory to Ukraine, as he always did."
19:21 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, together with the fighters of the Azov regiment, blew up a railway bridge near the border with Russia. On this bridge, the Russian troops could supply ammunition and provisions to their units.
19:13 Johnson addressed Zelensky: “We know we must do more to help. I promise you that we will do it. I know that Ukraine is fighting not only for your life and your homes, but also for the cause of democracy and freedom itself."
19:00 According to the Kyiv City State Administration, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops, 228 people have died in Kiev, including four children. 912 people were injured, including 16 children.
18:35 A total of 170 civilians, including 46 children, were evacuated from the Donetsk region from under the shelling of Russian troops, the National Police reports. Including 73 people (17 children) were evacuated from Avdiivka, 71 people (20 children) from Ugledar, 22 people (7 children) from Ocheretino, four people, including two children, from Bolshaya Novoselka.
18:11 Russian cosmonauts on the ISS dressed in suits of yellow and blue . Versions of this act are very different from each other. Crew commander Oleg Artemiev said that they "had accumulated a lot of yellow material, so it was necessary to use it."
Some media, citing sources in Roscosmos, admit that this could have been a planned action, since the cosmonauts have suits of four colors at their disposal: blue, red, gray and yellow.
Roscosmos officially announced that the overalls were made in the colors of the MSTU emblem, where all three cosmonauts studied, and the design was agreed upon long before current events.
18:02 Russian occupiers are passing Ukrainian settlements, State Special Communications Service warns. Mines and other explosive objects can be anywhere: in abandoned houses, on the streets, on playgrounds, in fields, forests, water bodies, on roadsides, etc.
In cities, these are primarily valuable items - mobile phones, weapons or their parts, first aid kits, food kits, children's toys, etc. There have also been cases of mining the bodies of the dead. In forests and villages, these are mainly "stretch marks".
The authorities urge not to touch suspicious objects in any case and call 101 and 102.
18:00 Zelensky: "If Russia is not stopped now, if Russia is not punished now, other aggressors in the world will start other wars. In different regions of the world. On different continents. Everywhere where some state dreams of conquering its neighbors."
17:58 The Russian occupiers again did not let trucks with humanitarian cargo into the Kherson region, the Regional State Administration reports. The trucks turned around halfway and went to the Dnepropetrovsk region.
17:55 Johnson is convinced that the defeat of Ukraine in the war with the Russian occupiers will mean "the extinction of any hope for freedom in Georgia, and then in Moldova - this will be the beginning of a new era of intimidation throughout Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea."
17:40 About 700 residents were evacuated from the Luhansk region today. According to local authorities, people traveled from Popasna intermittently as Russian troops continued shelling.
A total of 160 people were evacuated from Severodonetsk, the same number from Lisichansk, 30 from Rubizhne, 302 from Popasna. Some also left in their own vehicles. Five trucks with humanitarian aid drove into the Lugansk region. Tomorrow they will distribute aid in the communities.
17:38 Zelensky, in an address to the Swiss Parliament, called for freezing the assets of Russian officials and oligarchs, as well as seizing the property of sanctioned persons. He also mentioned Nestle's refusal to leave the Russian market.
17:32 Eleven employees of the Belarusian embassy, headed by Ambassador Igor Sokol, left Ukraine.
17:29 In Ukraine, during the war, 30% of enterprises completely stopped their activities, another 45% reduced production. That is, the economy sank by a little less than 50%, said the deputy head of the NBU, Serhiy Nikolaychuk.
Also, according to him, the reserves of the National Bank are now higher than before the war, thanks to financial assistance from the EU, the IMF and the World Bank. If the war drags on and the sowing campaign fails, world prices for important types of food (in particular grains) will increase by 40-50% during the year, the regulator added.
17:27 Bulgaria is going to terminate the contract with Gazprom by the end of 2022. According to Deputy Prime Minister Asen Vasilev, the country is already looking for other gas suppliers - in particular, it has held talks with Greece and Turkey, and also plans to increase purchases from Azerbaijan.
17:08 British Defense Minister Wallace: "Putin made it clear that NATO countries are in danger."
17:07 In Ukraine, 562 Russian prisoners of war were officially counted, Vereshchuk said. She assured that they are being treated in accordance with International Humanitarian Law.
17:04 Podolyak believes that China can become an important element of the global security system if it makes the right decision - to support a coalition of civilized states and condemn Russia's barbarity. "This is a chance to sit at the table on an equal footing. Europeans and the United States must clearly explain to Beijing the difference between $1.6 trillion and $150 billion," Podolyak wrote.
17:01 Russian occupiers began to lower shells on the territory of Ukraine by parachute, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. This kind of weapon is the most brutal. It explodes over the object it is aimed at, forming a deadly cloud of damaging elements.
16:58 In Volnovakha, the occupiers "arrested" more than 20 Ukrainian activists - all of them were on the "hit lists" that numerous Western media wrote about in February, Denisova said.
16:51 Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng believes that the situation in Ukraine has become "proof of the absence of the need for the existence of blocs like NATO." He also said that Beijing opposes the expansion of the alliance to the east and does not accept unilateral sanctions.
16:10 Vice-Chancellor, German Economics Minister Robert Habeck called "stupidity" the fact that Germany allowed itself to become dependent on Russia for about half of its gas supplies.
16:07 The Ukrainian military shot down the enemy Tochka-U near the Popasnaya Luhansk region. It was possible to shoot down the missile with the help of the Stinger MANPADS, according to the Ground Forces.
16:04 The number of Ukrainian refugees in Germany, according to official figures, has exceeded 207,000 people.
15:57 Johnson on relations with Russia: "Trying to normalize relations with Putin after that, as we did in 2014, would mean making the same mistake again."
15:54 Lavrov said that the United States is "holding the hand" of the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with Russia, not allowing Kiev to agree "even to the minimum demands put forward by Moscow."
15:52 In the Lviv region, it is now forbidden to sell alcohol from 21:00 to 10:00.
15:05 The decisions taken by the Ukrainian authorities have already led to a decrease in fuel prices at gas stations by 5-10 hryvnia per liter, Shmyhal said.
15:01 Zaluzhny called on politicians who are in the rear cities not to humiliate Ukrainian defenders with their "expert assessments."
14:56 In Rubizhne, Luhansk region, a residential building was destroyed today as a result of shelling, two children and a woman died under the rubble, the State Emergency Service reports.
14:40 The UN sees no evidence for the statements of the Russian Federation about the alleged development of biological weapons in Ukraine with the assistance of the United States.
14:35 The command of the Ground Forces announced the size of salaries in the army during martial law:
shooter - more than 43,000 hryvnia per month (on the battlefield - over 113,000),
company sergeant or tank commander - from 46,000 (more than 116,000 in the war),
battalion commander and brigade commander in martial law - from 50-60,000 hryvnia in the rear and 124-132,000 at the front.
14:29 Since the beginning of the war, Russia has launched 291 missile strikes on Ukraine, used 459 ground, sea and air-based missiles, conducted 1403 air raids, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
14:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated the Russian Major Sergei Volynets - the commander of the aviation unit of the Russian Air Force. Under his leadership, the invaders bombed all of Ukraine. The death was announced by the head of the Russian Primorsko-Akhtarsk. According to him, the killed major also participated in the bombing of Georgia and Syria.
14:24 Russia, in order to make up for the losses of the Eastern Military District grouping, has transferred separate units of the 155th Separate Marine Brigade (Vladivostok) and the 40th Separate Marine Brigade (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) to the territory of Belarus, the General Staff reports.
14:20 Lavrov expressed his hope that the "special operation" would end with "a comprehensive agreement on Ukraine's neutral status with security guarantees for it."
13:48 The Azov Regiment reports that the invaders are putting white armbands on the residents of Mariupol so that Ukrainian defenders confuse them with Russians.
13:46 As a result of an air strike by Russian invaders on Makarov, Kiev region, seven people were killed, five more were injured. As a result of shelling on March 18, residential buildings were destroyed, an administrative building and other premises were damaged, the National Police reported.
13:19 On the Polish-Belarusian border, activists resumed the blockade of trucks that travel from Europe to Belarus and Russia. Last time there were about 20 activists, and they were dispersed by the police. There are hundreds of protesters now.
13:16 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggested that the EU consider at the next summit a new package of anti-Russian sanctions, expanding them to the level of a "trade blockade" both by sea and by land.
13:04 The occupiers launched a missile attack on an underground warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition in Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region. There is damage, destruction and detonation of ammunition, told the UP in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, they were unable to confirm or refute the statements of the Russians about the strike with the Kinzhal missile system.
12:56 The Institute of International Finance (IIF) predicts a fall in Russia's GDP in 2022 by 15%.
12:37 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 317,000 Ukrainians have returned, most of them men, according to the State Border Service.
12:09 Ukrainian intelligence reports that the invaders are using mobilized from ORDLO as cannon fodder to identify the firing positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Thus, the Russians actively "mobilize" the male population without any preparation, and then use them as a forward echelon of reconnaissance in force.
One of these units, numbering 250-300 people, on March 16-17 lost about 200 "mobilized" in the Nikolaevsky direction. The remnants of the unit that returned to the Kherson region are completely demoralized and refuse to further participate in hostilities.
12:00 On the Italian island of Sardinia, authorities have arrested a $105 million villa owned by Russian oligarch, Severstal owner Alexei Mordashov.
11:52 In the Chernihiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two artillery batteries of the occupiers, the Operational Command Pivnich reports. In particular, a battery of MLRS Uragan and a battery of self-propelled artillery mounts 2S19 MSTA-S were hit by fire.
11:36 Rogozin said that the US is considering disconnecting Russia from GPS.
11:31 Podolyak reacted to another statement by the German Defense Minister about NATO's refusal to help Ukraine: "Minister Lambrecht again said that NATO will not interfere in the conflict and will not create a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Killing. Each such statement by European politicians encourages the Russian Federation to massacre in Ukraine. If you don't want to call the war a war and you're afraid of Putin, at least don't make provocative statements."
11:29 Soldiers of the Azov regiment in Mariupol conducted a raid on the enemy command post and rear control post. Depots with ammunition, enemy officers and an infantry platoon, one tank, two armored personnel carriers and trucks were destroyed.
11:26 Zelensky instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to develop a comprehensive program to support Ukrainians who lost their homes due to the Russian invasion. The program includes three components: finances, actual housing, and support for families who have accommodated migrants.
11:22 Bosch stops deliveries of spare parts for trucks to Russia and admits the possibility of stopping its factories in the Russian Federation. Earlier it was reported that Bosch spare parts were found in Russian military equipment. According to Der Spiegel, because of this, the German authorities launched an investigation.
11:21 According to the UN, due to the Russian invasion, more than 23 percent of the population of Ukraine had to leave their homes. This includes internally displaced persons and those who have left the country.
11:20 Israel will give Ukraine four armored ambulances and 230 tons of humanitarian aid.
11:09 CEBR predicts that the fall in Russia's GDP will be 14 percent, inflation - 30 percent, real wages will decrease by 18 percent. More than 14 percent of Russia's GDP fell only once in history - in 1992, by 14.5 percent.
11:00 As a result of two rocket attacks on the suburbs of Zaporozhye on March 18, nine people were killed (one of them was a rescuer) and 17 were injured (including three rescuers and two civilians), five more were injured, the Regional State Administration reported.
10:58 The Kyiv City State Administration clarified that the cause of smog in the capital is also fires in the vicinity of the city, in particular in Gostomel, Bucha, fires at industrial facilities, as well as the movement of air masses from ignition sources and low wind speed.
10:56 Lukashenko said that Russia "is not just an ally of Belarus - it is one whole in the economy and military sphere." According to him, Russia offers Ukraine "to become like Belarus: Kyiv should not have nuclear weapons and threaten the Russian Federation."
10:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the use of the Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic missiles "to destroy a large warehouse of missiles and aviation ammunition of Ukrainian troops in the Ivano-Frankivsk region."
10:51 The Russians have mined the recommended routes from the Bosphorus to Odessa and said that these are Ukrainian mines, Andriy Klimenko, head of the Black Sea Research Institute, said.
10:26 For March 19, ten humanitarian corridors have been agreed:
Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye
Kyiv region: Bervitsa, Bogadnovka - Brovary; Bucha - Belogorodka; Borodyanka - Bila Tserkva
Lugansk region: Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Popasnaya - Bakhmut.
It is also planned to send 14 trucks of humanitarian aid to Kherson.
10:10 The General Staff announced the approximate combat losses of the enemy on the morning of March 19:
personnel - about 14,400 people,
tanks - 466,
armored combat vehicles - 1470,
artillery systems - 213,
MLRS - 72,
air defense systems - 44,
aircraft - 95,
helicopters - 115,
automotive equipment - 914,
ships/boats - 3,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 60,
UAV operational-tactical level - 17,
special equipment - 11.
10:07 In Zaporozhye, a curfew will be in effect from 16:00 Saturday, March 19, until 06:00 Monday, March 21, the Regional State Administration reported.
10:06 Having failed to achieve its initial goals in Ukraine, Russia is moving to a strategy of attrition, which could lead to chaotic shelling of civilians, the UK Ministry of Defense warns.
09:52 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian invaders have killed 112 children, more than 140 have been injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
09:40 Most of the detained saboteurs are citizens of Ukraine, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. He advised citizens to pay attention to the atypical behavior of people on the streets and from their surroundings.
09:23 Germany sends heavy fire-fighting equipment and civil protection equipment to Ukraine.
09:05 Zelensky will speak to Japanese deputies via video link on March 23 - this will be the president's first address to the legislature in Asia, writes NYT.
08:57 British Foreign Minister Liz Truss believes that Russia is using peace talks with Ukraine as a "smoke screen" to prepare new "terrifying atrocities" and war crimes: "If a country is serious about negotiations, it will not indiscriminately bomb civilians on this day".
08:54 In Belarus, a few kilometers from the border with Ukraine, Russian military equipment is being unloaded and a pontoon bridge is being built across the Pripyat, Radio Liberty reports. According to the newspaper, tanks, armored personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery units are being unloaded at the Mulyarovka railway station in the Petrikovsky district of the Gomel region of Belarus. Crossing the Pripyat will allow you to quickly get to the Lelchitsky region, bordering Ukraine.
08:46 Podolyak admits that negotiations with Russia may last several weeks "or longer." At the same time, he added that "there are signs that Moscow's position has become more adequate."
08:45 As a result of night shelling of Rubizhne, Severodonetsk and other settlements of the Luhansk region, four civilians were killed, ten were injured, Governor Sergei Gaidai said.
08:35 UN Secretary General said that the conflict in Ukraine could cause a "hurricane of hunger" around the world: "The war in Ukraine is already disrupting supply chains and causing a rapid rise in prices for fuel, food and transport. We must do everything possible to prevent hurricane of hunger and the collapse of the global food system".
08:02 Residents of Kiev complain about the strong smog. As the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko explained, the smog appeared due to a fire at a landfill in Novi Petrivtsy and calm weather.
"In the Chernobyl zone, from the point of view of the fire situation, everything is calm. The radiation background is normal," he added.
07:32 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine admits that due to heavy losses, the leadership of the Russian Federation will begin open mobilization to continue the protracted war. To justify such actions, provocations can be arranged on the territory of Russia with the death of civilians, as was done before the start of the second Chechen campaign. This will allow the pro-government elite to declare martial law and total mobilization.
07:30 Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed several columns of occupiers' equipment in the Nikolaev and Sumy regions. The commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Andrei Mordvichev, was also destroyed, the General Staff reports.
05:31 The Armed Forces of Ukraine for the sixth time destroyed the positions of the Russian invaders at the airfield in Chernobaevka near Kherson, Arestovich said.
04:37 Western journalists report that at least 40 Ukrainian soldiers were killed as a result of an attack by Russians in Nikolaev.
04:09 The General Staff admitted that the Russian invaders temporarily cut off Ukraine from access to the Sea of Azov .
03:13 Hackers from Anonymous announced the launch of "unprecedented attacks" on the official websites of the Russian authorities.
02:45 Russian occupying troops are digging holes with earthen fortifications around their equipment northwest of Kiev.
00:48 Zelensky: "Meaningful negotiations on peace and security for Ukraine is the only chance for Russia to reduce the damage from its own mistakes. It's time to meet. It's time to talk. It's time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise, Russia's losses will be such that you will not It only takes a few generations to get up."
00:01 Since the beginning of the war, Russian troops have fired 1,080 cruise and ballistic missiles across Ukraine. At the same time, more than 100 missiles have been launched over the past two days, the US Department of Defense said.
[NATIONPK] The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) in its operations conducted in different areas on Saturday managed to recover over 1,750 grams heroin and 2,500 Xanax tablets besides netting six accused.
According to ANF Headquarters front man, ANF Rawalpindi and ANF Intelligence conducted an operation at an office of a courier company in Airport Housing Society, Rawalpindi and recovered 1750 grams heroin from a parcel booked for United Kingdom and arrested three accused namely Ismail, owner of the company, Nabeel and Raza Hussain. In another raid, ANF conducted an operation at entry gate of Islamabad International Airport and recovered 2500 Xanaz (Alprazolam tablets). The ANF also arrested three accused namely Abdul Qadeer Khan, Sanaullah and Adnan Khan. Qadeer Khan was going to Dammam via Dubai from Islamabad..
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:48 Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrey Marochko said that about 80% of the territories of the republic have already been liberated. 21:43 Two more civilians of the liberated part of Mariupol suffered under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis: a woman born in 1968 and a man born in 1968.
20:41 A grouping of troops of the Lugansk People's Republic has reached the northern outskirts of the city of Lisichansk and is carrying out the destruction of scattered groups of nationalists who have retreated from the city of Rubizhne.
20:39 The People's Militia group of the DPR destroyed up to a company from the 53 Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, completely took control of the village of Taramchuk and is pursuing the retreating enemy.
20:21 Residents of Pervomaisk (LPR) report that in the city, after shelling by the Ukrainian Nazis, the workshop of the Karl Marx plant caught fire.
19:49 Tonight, six civilians from the liberated part of Mariupol and the village of Lebedinskaya were injured under shelling by Ukrainian Nazis. The youngest wounded is a child born in 2016.
19:40 Kiev militants fired at the settlement of Lugansk in the DPR. They used 152mm artillery, fired five shells. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
19:34 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the city of Pervomaisk in the LPR. They used 122mm artillery, firing ten rounds of ammunition at the settlement. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
19:32 The city of Vuhledar has already become the 98th settlement of the DPR liberated from the Nazis since the start of the operation to liberate Donbass.
19:20 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired more than a hundred ammunition in the DPR, used 122 mm artillery, 120 and 82 mm mortars, MLRS and tanks. Nine settlements came under fire, in which four civilians were injured. In addition, 24 residential buildings, six infrastructure facilities and one car were damaged. The Trudovskaya substation was de-energized, as a result of which 153 transformer substations, 26 boiler houses were disconnected, 31 thousand residents of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk were left without power supply.
19:19 Today, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 48 nationalists, three tanks, two armored personnel carriers, four armored vehicles, a field artillery depot and more than 30 enemy firing points. In addition, the NM of the republic captured two tanks, three armored vehicles, as well as samples of foreign weapons of the AN/TPQ-36 radar and NLAW grenade launchers.
19:18 The People's Militia of the DPR reports that today 15 Ukrainian militants laid down their arms, who voluntarily went over to the side of the republic.
19:16 There are reports of the liberation of the city of Vuhledar by the People's Militia of the DPR from the Ukrainian Nazis.
18:49 Ukrainian punishers fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. The Nazis used 122 mm artillery and fired eight shells into the city. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:49 Today, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR and Russian troops were able to evacuate 251 people from Mariupol, including 48 children.
18:49 Ukrainian Nazis fired at three settlements of the DPR: Signalnoye, Gorlovka and Yelenovka. They used 122mm artillery and 120 mm mortars. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:20 Over the past day, under the fire of Ukrainian punishers, four civilians of the DPR were killed. another 26 people were injured.
17:15 Another Tochka-U fired by Ukrainian Nazis was shot down near Popasna.
17:13 At the abandoned positions of the Nazis from "Azov"*, they find instructions on how best to place firing points in residential buildings. Everything suggests that they were initially prepared to seize residential buildings and sacrifice the civilian population.
17:13 At the abandoned positions of the Nazis from "Azov"*, they find instructions on how best to place firing points in residential buildings. Everything suggests that they were initially prepared to seize residential buildings and sacrifice the civilian population.
17:09 The fighting in the Left Bank of Mariupol continues - strikes are being made on the territory of the Azovstal plant, turned into a defense center by the Ukronazis. In the residential quarters of the Levoberezhny district, the assault groups of the NM and VV of the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs continue to advance, expanding the zone of control. Pockets of enemy resistance are suppressed by tank fire.
16:39 DPR special services at the exit from Mariupol are checking people with chemical detectors “for metallization”. This allows you to find out if the person was holding a weapon or explosives. None of the Nazis can escape justice.
15:33 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the village of Berezovskoye in the LPR from artillery with a caliber of 122mm. They fired five rounds. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:11 At night, Ukrainian Nazis fired on Yasinovataya (DNR). 18 residential buildings, a kindergarten and a school were damaged. One man born in 1064 was injured. The militants used rocket artillery. The shelling was carried out from Avdiivka.
14:08 Ukrainian Nazis are shelling several settlements of the DPR: arrivals to Gorlovka, Shirokaya Balka, Zheleznaya Balka and other nearby villages in the risk zone were recorded.
14:08 The first train from Starobelsk in eight years has arrived in Luhansk. The LPR is restoring transport links with the liberated territories.
13:35 According to Ukrainian sources, in Mariupol, the commander of the 2nd patrol battalion of the 23rd separate brigade of public order of the Novosibirsk State University, Lieutenant Colonel Yuriy Roy, was liquidated.
12:38 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the settlement of Donetsk in the LPR. They released 20 minutes in the village. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:01 According to updated information, as a result of the shelling of the Gorlovka village of Panteleymonovka from the side of the VFU, a shell rupture was recorded along the street. Ostrovsky, 99 and 101. Another civilian was wounded.
11:45 Ukrainian Nazis fired at the village of Panteleimonovka in the DPR. The fire damaged a kindergarten and a clinic.
11:28 For 30 days of escalation in the DPR, 55 civilians were killed. 301 people were injured, including 21 children.
11:23 In the Kiev region of Donetsk, the gas pipeline was broken by the shelling of the Ukrainian Nazis.
11:20 There is information about the liberation of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol from Ukrainian Nazis. Azov militants were hiding on the territory of the enterprise*. From there, they even recorded an appeal to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a request to unblock the city. However, their dreams are not destined to come true.
11:16 Over the past day, Ukrainian Nazis fired at 14 settlements of the DPR. 26 civilians were injured and four people were killed. 44 residential buildings, 11 infrastructure facilities and ten cars were damaged. The militants fired 311 rounds of ammunition, using mortars with a caliber of 120 and 82 mm, artillery with a caliber of 152 and 122 mm, as well as the Grad MLRS.
11:10 Kiev militants fired at the village of Yasinovataya in the DPR. eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
11:09 The forces of the People's Militia of the DPR liquidated 63 Ukrainian Nazis in a day.
11:09 The People's Militia of the DPR entered the village of Maryinka and are clearing it from Ukrainian Nazis. Nine militants voluntarily laid down their arms and are already receiving medical assistance.
10:36 The People's Militia of the DPR captured two Ukrainian Grad multiple launch rocket systems and a delivery vehicle with ammunition to the complexes that previously belonged to the 54th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
10:32 The people's militia of the LPR reported the losses of Ukrainian militants over the past day. They consisted of 40 personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored personnel carrier, three vehicles, three 120mm mortars.
09:52 Information was received from the Ministry of Health of the DPR about the wounding of fifteen civilians from the part of Mariupol previously liberated by the NM DPR, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported. It is also noted that among the victims is a baby born in 2021.
09:20 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): three shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
n.p. Victory - n.p. Oleksandrivka: seven shells of 122mm caliber were fired; n.p. Victory - n.p. Kremenets: five shells of 122 mm caliber were fired.
08:40 The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the territory of the LPR twice in a day, as a result, three civilians were killed, two more were injured. This was announced on Saturday by the representative office of the LPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC).
08:36 In Mariupol, men leaving the city are examined for the presence of Azov's Nazi tattoos (banned in the Russian Federation).
08:27 Attack helicopters of the Russian Aerospace Forces over Donetsk. Launches of unguided aircraft missiles at the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine without entering the air defense zone.
08:21 The Russian military stormed the Azovstal plant, in which the militants of the Azov national battalion took refuge. The Azovstal plant is the last section of Mariupol that the Russian military has not yet taken control of.
08:20 Artillery units of the People's Militia worked harmoniously on the positions of Ukrainian nationalists.
08:10 The head of the Mariupol patrol police turned to Zelensky with a desperate request for help. According to him, the leadership did not supply the unit with the necessary types of weapons and left it to the mercy of fate.
[TheNewRepublic] Attempting to defend Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, House Bill 1557, Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, accused the bill’s opponents of preying on children. “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill,” Pushaw wrote on Twitter, ahead of a vote in the state Senate. If you are against the bill, she added, “you are probably a groomer.” Those opponents would include gay Florida state Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, who called this out as a “bigoted attack,” to which Pushaw replied, “A hit dog hollers.”
Last week, H.B. 1557 passed the state legislature and headed to DeSantis’s desk (where he will most likely—but hasn’t yet—signed it into law). The resulting scramble to defend the Florida bill to a national audience has led the “grooming” charge to circulate more widely and perhaps more explicitly than it has before. On Fox last week, Laura Ingraham threw in behind DeSantis and the bill, scolding Democrats for calling the bill “bigoted” when “the real controversy” is “schools peddling gender ideology,” and calling schools “grooming centers.” In the Fox pantheon, “grooming” is being teed up as the next “critical race theory.”
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I’m very sorry, Spereger Graper4642 — we lost half your clever headline because it was after a double quotation mark. For some reason Rantburg cuts off all headline text after a double quote when the article is opened for editing. If you would inform me of the original, I’ll be happy to fix it, but in the meantime I just added enough so it is informative, if dull.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 19, 2022
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – A video clip circulated by activists on social media on Saturday shows members of the Public Security Service of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) in one of the main squares in the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib, saying, “We are coming, Damascus, we are coming, Aleppo.”
This came after HTS graduated dozens of groups from military and Sharia courses, some of which were attended by the leader of the organization, Abu Muhammad al-Julani.
“Our goal is not to pave a road or open a road, but rather our eyes are on Aleppo and Damascus and the liberation of all of Syria,” al-Julani said in January in a speech during the opening of the Aleppo-Bab al-Hawa road that connects the cities of Dana and Sarmada.
However, his statements aroused the ridicule of the residents at that time, as they believed that, instead of liberating Damascus, al-Julani had first to return thousands of civilians to their villages and towns, which government forces controlled without fighting or battles at the end of 2019, especially in the northern Hama and southern Idlib countryside.
“The priorities of HTS are not to confront the regime, but to work to open new fronts and restore the areas it lost,” al-Julani said in July.
Tahrir al-Sham, which first appeared in Syria at the end of 2012, controls the Idlib region and parts of the countryside of Aleppo, after expelling other Turkish-backed opposition factions.
Two Libyan boys were killed after a landmine exploded in Al-Talhaya area of Benghazi on Thursday, according to Al-Hadath TV.
The two Libyan brothers, Youssef Al-Jazoi (10 years) and Abdul-Rahman (7 years), were immediately transferred to the Al-Jalaa Hospital in Benghazi, but they were dead upon arrival, a local medical source added.
The source claimed that the accident occurred as a result of the explosion of a landmine planted by the terrorist group,”Benghazi Shura Council,” years ago during its operations against the Libyan National Army (LNA).
The LNA managed to expel the terrorists from the eastern region and pursue their remnants.
[SECURE.SAHARAREPORTERS] Two Katsina female teenagers, Mubaraka Naziru and Amina Rabiu, who beat feet from their abductors recently, have narrated their ordeal while in captivity.
Katsina is one of the North-West states badly hit by banditry.
The situation has led to tens of internally displaced persons camps in Zamfara, Sokoto and Katsina states.
The two teenagers were kidnapped when bandidos in large numbers invaded Batsari in Katsina State on Wednesday around 12:00am, Daily Trust reports.
Naziru and Rabiu escaped when their abductors drank to a stupor.
When the two teenagers were led to the bush by their abductors, they were told not to worry as they would be married off as soon as they were brought before the bandidos’ kingpin.
Upon their arrival, the two girls were provided with bottled juice drinks and loaves of bread while the bandidos drank themselves to a stupor.
"Upon realising that they were unconscious, we decided to run away. We walked kilometers to a hill and we were lost in the bush," the teenagers said.
The teenagers said they tiptoed out of the bandidos’ den and found their way into the bush, even though they did not know where they were heading to.
According to them, they met some herders at the foot of a hill and they were directed to the nearby village, Muniya, in Safana Local Government Area, Katsina State.
It was at Muniya that they were offered help and taken back home.
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Pro tip for foreign volunteers: leave your mobile phones at home
"A cruise missile attack on a Ukrainian military base housing foreign fighters was launched after Russian forces hacked into phones used by British personnel, security sources have claimed. Sources also fear some of the volunteers may have been 'turned' by Moscow's agents who have 'subverted' them by exploiting their credit card debts.
It has led to calls from the British intelligence community for the volunteers to be dissuaded from heading to the region. One source pointed the finger at Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, blaming her for encouraging Britons to volunteer. The source said: 'It is not safe. They are badly led, badly equipped and badly compromised by Russians.'
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol. Street fighting. By evening, no major progress was reported in the city. Cases of attempts by enemy soldiers to leave the city under the guise of civilians have become more frequent. The filtering generally works. Civilians continue to be actively pulled out of the combat zone and evacuated.
2. Ugledar. According to a number of reports taken, but there is no official confirmation yet. The RF Armed Forces actively advanced in the direction of Kurakhovo. There are prerequisites for an offensive from the east to Velikaya Novoselka. In Maryinka, after several days of fighting and powerful artillery preparation, it was possible to inflict serious losses on the enemy and make some progress, but the complete capture of the Maryinsky fortified area is still far away.
3. Avdiivka. No significant changes. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding here, despite many days of fire.
4. LPR. Rubizhne is almost completely cleared. The troops advanced to the northern outskirts of Lisichansk. Soon the assault on the city will begin. In Severodonetsk - street fighting. It is too early to talk about the complete capture of Popasna, fighting continues in the city.
5. Kharkov. Heavy fighting to the north and east of the city. Their results are not yet clear. In the area of Izyum, the struggle for Kamenka continues, which is of decisive importance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, holding the southern part of Izyum, which hinders the effective development of the Russian Armed Forces offensive against Slavyansk and Barvenkovo. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are well aware of the consequences of the collapse of the front near Izyum and throw here their most combat-ready reserves from the remaining ones.
6. Zaporozhye. Gulyaipole is more likely to be under the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The city was badly damaged. Most likely, pressure in this direction will increase after the liberation of Mariupol. The front between Vasilievka and Kamenskoe is unchanged. Orekhov is also under the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7. Kyiv. Some expansion of the zone of control of the RF Armed Forces to the west and south of Kyiv, but there are no operational achievements yet. Fighting continued from the east, but there are no active movements in the direction of Brovar yet. There is no special movement towards Poltava, although the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already stated that the advance towards Poltava will soon begin. Perhaps, there is still an accumulation of forces. Sumy and Chernihiv are unchanged.
8. Odessa. The Black Sea Fleet is still imitating a landing threat, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are engaged in anti-landing activities. Along the way, it is reported that part of the exposed sea mines was torn off by a storm and carried away towards Romania and Bulgaria. There are no major movements of troops from Odessa to Nikolaev. On the contrary, there is a process of building up the Odessa group in anticipation of the activation of the Nikolaev group of the RF Armed Forces.
9. Nikolaev. Losses during the strike on the barracks of the 79th brigade ranged from 80 to 200 killed and 200-300 wounded. In fact, one of the battalions of the brigade ceased to exist in a few minutes, which seriously reduced the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to conduct active operations in the Nikolaev region or to be active in the direction of Kherson. The city itself is still not stormed, the emphasis is on the methodical destruction of manpower and equipment by air strikes, missiles, MLRS and artillery.
10. Krivoy Rog. There is no serious progress yet, as under Nikolai. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation met barriers there and so far are not making active advances in the direction of these cities. Tactical reconnaissance is actively conducted deep into enemy territory due to the lack of a full-fledged front in all areas.
Areas controlled by #HTS in #Syria’s northwest witnessed a mount in the number of arrests against activists, journalists and civilians.https://t.co/GX5q9C022Z
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 19, 2022
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Areas run by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) in Idlib governorate and the countryside of Hama and Latakia have recently witnessed an increase in arrests against journalists and civilians in a way similar to that of the Syrian government’s Shabiha (state sponsored militias) without clear charges and reasons for the arrest.
Many international and local organizations reported about the arrest of activists, media workers and residents by HTS for criticizing its policies and that of the Salvation Government (the civil wing of HTS).
Meanwhile, HTS continues to tighten the screw on residents of the areas it runs by threatening with arrest and terrifying them by force of arms urging some to say, “HTS and the regime are of the same coin.”
On March 8, The public security organ of HTS arrested the media activist Mohammed Sbeh along with his wife at a checkpoint in Sarmada town north of Idlib, northwest Syria.
HTS members stormed his house, confiscated all his media equipment and his mobile phone, and arrested his wife, who was released hours later, local sources told North Press then.
HTS follows a gang- style policy in arresting the residents and activists not showing legal arrest warrants.
HTS arrested 13 civilians and journalists during the past two months, according to human rights activists.
Earlier in March, the HTS arrested the media activists Ghayath Bakir from his house in Binnish city north of Idlib on the back of a post on Facebook calling for starting new frontlines to restore areas that government has seized recently.
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.
It was Christmas Eve 1875 and Ira Sankey was traveling on a Delaware River steamboat when he was recognized by some of the passengers. His picture had been in the newspaper because he was the song leader for the famous evangelist D. L. Moody. They asked him to sing one of his own hymns, but Sankey demurred, saying that he preferred to sing William B. Bradbury’s hymn, "Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us."
/\ Would be too much electronic magic for me as well jpal, had I not see it on a smaller scale elsewhere.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
[Maryland Today] Two University of Maryland researchers have received awards totaling $2.6 million to study how national security and climate change intersect in the United States and around the world.
[The Hill] The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a voter registration initiative that will run at gas stations across the country in the upcoming weeks amid a sharp rise in fuel prices. 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Gateway] "So, let’s get back to the name-calling," said "journalist" Leslie Stahl in an interview with then-President Donald Trump after dismissing what should have been one of the most consequential October surprises in presidential election history, the Hunter Biden laptop story.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
Land-bridge to Crimea nearly complete. 
[NATION.PK] Police have arrested four persons involved in aerial firing and fireworks thereby violating marriage laws and recovered sophisticated weapons and ammunition from their possession during crackdown, informed police spokesman here Saturday. During course of action, Kahuta Police conducted a raid at a wedding ceremony and held accused Abdul Wajid, Ahsan Ali, Abdul Rehman and Adnan and recovered two rifles and two pistols from their custody. Police have registered separate cases against all of them and further investigation is in progress.
As a cost saving measure, Vlad may wish to consider captured Ukrainian training rifles for his disposable Bashir al-Assad and Hizbullah augmentees. 
[NEWS.YAHOO] 
...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....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[NATION.PK] MYKOLAIV — Dozens of soldiers were killed after Russian troops struck a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, witnesses told AFP on Saturday while a rescue operation was underway. "No fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks" when Russian troops struck early Friday, a Ukrainian serviceman on the ground, 22-year-old Maxim, told AFP without providing his last name.
