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I knew it! It's the Russians!
"How many Russian Oligarchs are propping up this @elonmusk @twitter bid right now, do ya think?
It sure would fix everything for putin, tang and the rest of the complicit super rich if this platform was run by them." "Actress Evette Nicole Brown
After the takeover, I wouldn’t DM anymore if I were you.
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If I had anything to communicate to someone else and was concerned about who might see it in the future, DM is about the last thing I'd use.
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If he buys it and makes it a OPEN / EQUAL VIEW site, I'll actually join it.
But I am already hearing rumbles from a few ITSEC buddies, that a Group Resignation is being discussed, and they suddenly have had offers from other Social Media Site headhunters.
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A glorious day. I did a test on Facebook - I posted the news of the purchase with the comment of "Schadenfreude". FB edited my post within 5 minutes, but they did include a link so folks could see my original post. Bless their hearts.
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Nobut I think Twitter wastes a lot of money on a large staff of SJWs who look for conservatives to ban. Reducing that staff and making directors take only token salary will reduce costs.
Of course, it will be privately held so no one will know for years.
If it looks like a viewpoint neutral success, I'll sign up. There is a lot of factual stuff on twitter, e.g., storm and tornado warnings, corporate financial public info releases, etc.
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SJW's : Learn to Code, bitches
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[Rantburg University] Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's Mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment for delivery to Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico.
But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank. The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and eagerly awaiting the delivery were disconsolate at the loss. Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning.
The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5 and is known, of course as - Sinko De Mayo
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I* have told this many times but only on Cinco de Mayo.
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In other news researchers have found that cows give more milk when the Farmer talks to them. That part is true. It's a classic case of in one ear and out the udder.
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[FoxNews] Rising input costs puts U.S. farmers at risk of long-term issues
Rising costs of fertilizer, fuel and equipment could cause long-lasting problems for the agricultural industry, a fifth-generation farming facing the skyrocketing prices told Fox News.
"It’s going to be a very expensive year for farmers," Chris Pollack, co-owner of Pollack Vu-Dairy, said "We are going to the field with very expensive tools in our toolbox."
"Fertilizer right now is double what it was a year ago. Fuel is over double what it was," Pollack continued. "Some chemicals are dramatically increased as much as three to four times."
The cost of fertilizer alone has risen more than 300% in some areas, according to the American Farm Bureau.
Pollack's dairy farm typically spends around $70,000 on fertilizer per year, the farmer told Fox News. But he said that will likely more than double to around $145,000 this year.
"If we do not have an adequate supply distribution network and affordable fertilizer, it really does create some concern around long term yields," said Corey Rosenbusch, who heads the advocacy group The Fertilizer Institute.
The rise in price is due to a number of factors, including increased demand, supply chain disruptions, increase in energy costs, according to the American Farm Bureau. Even the war in Ukraine plays a role.
"Natural gas makes up anywhere from 70 to 90% of the production cost of nitrogen," a necessary component for most fertilizers that farmers use, Rosenbusch said.
Russia, which faces strict sanctions for its invasion in Ukraine, was the largest natural gas exporter in 2021, according to the Energy Information Administration. It and Belarus together export about 20% of the world's fertilizer.
Pollack pointed to one tractor and said it would "go through 800 to a thousand gallons of diesel in this year alone."
"We’re going to use it either way, but it just makes it that much more expensive to operate," the farmer, whose family has managed Pollack Vu-Dairy since 1901, added.
Diesel costs have risen to an average of $5.065 a gallon as of Thursday night, up nearly $2 from a year ago, according to AAA.
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Many farmers I've talked to are stopping. Too many negatives to overcome. So you start your day and think how much will I lose today. Many small farmers have had husband and wife working full time jobs just to keep the farm going.
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Many small farmers have had husband and wife working full time jobs just to keep the farm going.
Not a new thing, Dale. Way back in the 1980s when I was involved in new-ing and improving toothpaste, half the staff of the company’s Iowa City factory gave up the idea of sleep during planting and harvesting seasons.
[FoxNews] Hunter Biden sent an email to his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, pressuring her to get an HIV test as their relationship deteriorated in July 2018, about a month before he fathered a child with another woman.
In an email titled, "YOU NEED TO GET TESTED FOR HIV HALLIE," obtained by Fox News Digital, Hunter demanded that Hallie get tested for HIV and inform him of the results that day. The email also accused Hallie of turning Hunter’s niece against him and called on Hallie to seek "serious long term professional help."
Hunter was married to Kathleen Buhle but separated at the time of the affair, and the two finalized their divorce in April 2017. During that same time, while living with Hallie, Hunter started a sexual relationship with Hallie’s older sister, Elizabeth Secundy, in addition to ex-stripper Lunden Roberts.
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Moral of the story? Don't stick your dick in:
a) Crazy,
b) Your Sister-in-law,
c) Fertile strippers,
d) All of the above
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Seems like she would have been well served to have her doctor test her for a whole variety of stuff. His recommendation to seek counseling is a good one. Anyone who would consider having a relationship with Hunter needs counseling; it’s sort of axiomatic.
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Yes. That is one reason cops aren't more aggressive in preventing gang wars which cause perhaps 50% of the fatalities. If you are a cop, why go all out to prevent thugs from killing eash other.
Of course there is collateral damage which sometimes indirectly leads to more gang opportunity.
A truly awful problem
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[Breitbart] A deputy in Florida scaled an apartment building to save a one-year-old girl from a fire on Saturday, and citizens are praising his bravery.
The baby and her mother were trapped when the fire started at the Isles at East Millenia, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release, according to ABC 7.
When deputies arrived at the scene early that morning, they saw the mother and her child on the third-floor balcony.
“Due to the imminent danger, Deputy William Puzynski began to climb the outside balconies in order to get to the baby on the third floor,” the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post.
Firefighters brought the mother and grandmother down using a ladder, the sheriff’s office said, noting there were no casualties and no deputies were hurt.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—With Russia poised to tear through Eastern Europe with terrifying military power, Biden warned Putin that if he doesn't stop advancing his army, he will be forced to deploy his deadly trans admiral.
"You think I'm joking, Vlad! I ain't messin' around here! You don't want me to use this!" said Biden to Putin in a Zoom call, motioning to a portrait of transgender admiral and Assistant HHS Secretary Admiral Rachel Levine. "This is the deadliest weapon the United States has ever produced, and I won't hesitate to use it on you! Watch out!"
Diversity and inclusion experts speculate the firepower in just one trans admiral is capable of leveling 3 Russian cities to the ground using the incredible destructive power of intersectional identity politics. Foreign policy experts believe Russia is outmatched by America's stunning diversity and inclusion capabilities and will soon be forced to surrender.
Sources say Ukrainian citizens will certainly sleep better tonight knowing the power of diversity is on their side.
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Russia pounds five railway stations in central and western Ukraine after Blinken travelled to Kyiv by train
Expect to see a lot more long range strikes into the western part of Ukr. It is the flip side of NATO sending arms and materiel. Little to do with Blinken, although it is notable he is traveling by train instead of by air.
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In the sufficiently long game, Russia runs out of Russians.
Reportedly the Ukraine runs out of Ukrainians first, Matt. While Russia is killing off its military age males, the Ukraine on one hand has sent millions of breeding females and their children to safety in exile, while Russia is reportedly taking even more into exile in Russia. It looks like a three-legged race to me with no winners.
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[SOFREP] HAVE WE SEEN CLAYMORE MINES ALREADY USED IN UKRAINE?
Remember a few days into the war; there was a 40-mile-long Russian convoy slowly heading down muddy roads into Ukraine? The satellite image below showing Russian trucks packed together like sardines in a can was taken on 28 February of this year. The red arrows are mine. I’ll talk about those in a minute.
A group of 30 Ukrainian Special Forces operators and drone operators on quad bikes managed to bring this thing to a screeching halt within hours. Munitions such as Claymore mines played a role in that.
The unit commander was Lt Col Yaroslav Honchar, and he gave an account of the ambush and the Ukrainian epic David vs. Goliath resistance.
The Ukrainian soldiers on the quads were able to approach the advancing Russian convoy from the front, riding through the woods on either side of the road. This was done at night, and they were equipped with night vision goggles, sniper rifles, remotely detonated mines (such as Claymores), drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras, and others capable of dropping small 1.5kg bombs.
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Well the Russians (Soviets) made several versions of their own Claymore mine. One was big enough to take out light skinned vehicles. Wouldn't be surprised to see that in use by the Ukrainians.
SYDNEY, April 25 (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Monday to honour military personnel on Anzac Day, after the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled or limited public gatherings and commemorations in the past two years.
Anzac Day originally commemorated a bloody battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. On April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula, in an ill-fated campaign that would claim more than 130,000 lives.
Today, Anzac Day honours all Australian and New Zealand troops from all conflicts.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who faces an election next month, attended the dawn service in the Northern Territory city of Darwin, where be paid tribute to the people of Ukraine who are fighting a Russian invasion.
"On this particular day, as we honour those who fought for our liberty and freedom, we stand with the people of Ukraine who do the same thing at this very moment," Morrison said.
Across the Tasman sea New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows peace cannot be taken for granted.
"In New Zealand we may feel a great distance from this conflict, but we are all inextricably linked to what it represents," Ardern said in her Anzac Day address in Auckland.
The Ukraine flag was flown during an Anzac Day dawn service at Auckland Museum.
Crowds gathered at dawn services across Australia and New Zealand on Monday without any pandemic restrictions.
"The last few years have been really hard with COVID-19," navy veteran Ray James, said at the dawn service in Sydney's Martin Place Cenotaph, ABC News reported.
"I'm really delighted to see the enormous crowds that have shown up today."
[AlAhram] Fifteen people, including nine soldiers, died Sunday in two separate attacks on military units in northern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , the country's army said.
"Terrorist attacks" killed nine people in Gaskinde and six in nearby Pobe Mengao near the Malian border on Sunday morning as assailants targeted military bases and civilians, the army said in a statement.
Five soldiers and four civilians died in Gaskinde, while the Pobe Mengao attack left four soldiers and two civilian auxiliaries dead. Around 30 people were maimed, the statement added.
"The situation in these two areas is now under control," the army said.
Security and local sources had earlier told AFP of around 10 deaths in Gaskinde and significant material damage.
Jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and the 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.... group have regularly carried out attacks in northern and eastern Burkina Faso since 2015, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing almost two million.
Unrest linked to jihadist groups also plagues Burkina Faso's West African neighbours Mali and Niger.
Also on Sunday, a jihadist group claimed three separate attacks on army bases in central Mali that killed six and injured 20.
The latest attack in Burkina Faso comes after an incident where 12 soldiers and four civilian auxiliaries were killed on April 8.
Anger at the government's perceived mishandling of the insurgency was used by the army as a justification for a military coup that ousted former president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January.
New leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has said Burkina Faso's security situation is his priority, but attacks in recent weeks have killed more than 100 people.
The new head of state earlier this month announced the creation of local committees made up of religious leaders and traditional chiefs to initiate dialogue with jihadist groups in a bid to stem the violence.
But the state does not negotiate directly with the fighters and continues its military operations against them.
⚡️Ukrainian forces liberate eight settlements in southern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Operational Command South reported on April 24 that the Ukrainian army has liberated eight settlements in Kherson Oblast.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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[Financial Post] A large fire was reported early on Monday at an oil storage facility in the Russian city of Bryansk, Russian news agencies reported, citing the emergency services ministry.
No further detail has been provided.
Bryansk is located about 380 km (236 miles) southwest of Moscow. The city is the administrative center of the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine. Via Free Republic, where it was reported there are multiple fires in the city.
[An Nahar] At least six people died, including a little girl, and almost 50 others were rescued after an overloaded migrant boat capsized off north Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ... during a chase by naval forces, Lebanese officials said.
The boat carrying nearly 60 people capsized on Saturday night near the port city of Tripoli
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[IsraelTimes] Incident is seemingly the latest in a series of attempts to spirit heavily subsidized fuel out of the country for sale on the black market
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested eight of its crew members on Sunday, Iranian state media claimed, in the third such incident reported this month.
The Guards "seized a foreign vessel carrying 200,000 liters (around 53,000 gallons) of smuggled fuel in the north of the Persian Gulf and directed it to Bushehr [port]," state broadcaster IRIB said, quoting a statement by the Guards’ navy.
"Eight crew members of the vessel, who are foreigners, were arrested and taken to Bushehr port, where they will be handed over to the judicial authorities to complete the investigation and legal processes," it added.
The crewmen’s nationalities were not specified.
The IRGC is the ideological arm of Iran’s military, with direct loyalty not to the country of Iran, but to the Islamic Revolution that brought to power the current regime.
Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... has seen a major surge in efforts to smuggle heavily subsidized fuel out of the country and to neighboring states for sale on the black market.
Sunday’s incident is the latest in a series of seizures of fuel-smuggling vessels in sea lanes of the Gulf, where a large portion of the world’s oil is produced and shipped.
On April 15, Iranian media reported the seizure of a boat carrying 250,000 liters of smuggled fuel and the arrest of its seven-member crew.
Another boat with 11 crew onboard was reportedly seized on April 9.
"The fight against smuggling, especially fuel smuggling, is one of the main priorities of the IRGC Navy in order to support national production and the dynamism of the country’s economy," the IRGC statement said.
[IsraelTimes] The Erez Crossing with the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip — shuttered over recent rocket attacks on southern Israel — will remain closed tomorrow, security officials say.
On Friday, Israel announced that the sole pedestrian crossing with Gaza would remain closed today, after three rockets were fired at the south.
The sanction means some 12,000 Paleostinians with permits, cannot enter Israel for work. Officials are expected to reconvene again tomorrow to discuss potentially reopening it.
⚡️Update: 9 Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast.
Governor Dmytro Lunin previously reported five missiles launched at Poltava Oblast on the evening of April 24, the day when many Ukrainians celebrate Orthodox Easter.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
⚡️Five Russian missiles hit infrastructure in Poltava Oblast.
Governor Dmytro Lunin said that the number of casualties and the damages caused by the evening strike were being verified.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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[Korrespondent] 22:46 Arestovich said that "a new Bucha is happening right now in the Zaporozhye direction - they are killing, raping ... everything is in their style."
22:31 The US Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense arrived in Ukraine, a meeting with Zelensky is underway, Arestovich said. 22:29 Servicemen of the Joint Forces group successfully repelled seven enemy attacks in a day, the Defense Ministry reports. Ukrainian defenders destroyed 13 tanks, three artillery systems, 17 armored vehicles, four armored combat vehicles, 18 vehicles and four enemy tankers. Air defense units in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbas shot down three UAVs of the Orlan-10 type.
22:27 The Azov Regiment released a video from Azovstal, where women and children are hiding in basements. They had only a few days of water and food left.
22:26 Arestovich said that mined cars and streamers are still being found in the government quarter in Kiev. "Many people think that Kyiv is safe, but it's not," he stressed.
22:22 The occupiers are preparing to attack Krivoy Rog, the city is ready to defend itself, said the head of the city administration Aleksandr Vilkul: "The enemy is forming an offensive strike formation in our direction in the Kherson region. In the coming days, we are waiting for their possible transition to the offensive. But we know there is more about them than they think, we understand all their plans, and we are fully prepared for any development of the situation."
22:20 In the Donetsk region, five civilians were killed today from enemy shelling: two in Novoselovka, two in Krasnogorovka and one in Novomikhailovka. Five more people were wounded, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
22:18 Shmygal called "not so simple" the process of discussing security guarantees for Ukraine with Western countries. He also said that Kyiv and Washington are discussing the use of frozen Russian assets for financial assistance to Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine needs up to $5 billion in financial assistance every month, and Western partners agree with this amount.
21:51 In the area of responsibility of the operational-tactical group Skhid, on April 24, Russian troops launched one attack. Ukrainian defenders destroyed up to a hundred personnel, three tanks, 17 infantry fighting vehicles, ten vehicles, two artillery systems, one UAV, the Defense Ministry said.
21:46 Dozens of civilians in Ukraine were killed by flechettes - aircraft weapons that were distributed during the First World War, The Guardian writes, citing Ukrainian forensic experts.
“We found several very small, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women,” said forensic scientist Vladislav Pirovsky. According to him, such objects are found mainly in bodies from the vicinity of Bucha and Irpin.
Dozens of civilians in Ukraine were killed by flechettes
21:44 The head of the Poltava OVA, Dmitry Lunin, said that nine Russian missiles had already hit the infrastructure of Kremenchug tonight.
21:38 Biden: "Two months after Putin launched an unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine, Kiev is still standing. President Zelensky and his democratically elected government remain in power. We will continue to support Ukrainians in their struggle to defend their homeland" .
21:35 The city authorities continue to ask the people of Kiev not to return home if they are in safe places. Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Mykola Povoroznik said that now more and more people are returning to the city, and this will push the business to open. At the same time, the war has not ended, missile attacks continue, and it is difficult to predict the course of events.
21:33 According to French exit polls, in the second round of the presidential elections, Macron is gaining about 58 percent of the vote, Le Pen - about 42 perrcent. Le Pen announced that she admits her defeat in the French presidential elections.
20:51 In the Kharkiv region today, two people died and 11 were injured, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. According to him, Saltovka and Alekseevka came under attack in Kharkov, and Chuguev and Zolochiv were shelled in the region.
20:44 Arestovich said that the main direction of the enemy now is Izyum, from where he is trying to attack Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Also, the enemy is increasing pressure in the direction of Hulyaipol (from south to north of the Zaporozhye region). During the week, the Russian troops advanced there by about 10 km, but now the pace of advance has slowed down due to opposition from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
20:41 Arestovich said at an evening briefing that Russia is concentrating ground forces around Azovstal for a likely assault - despite the fact that the Kremlin promised not to do this. The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office also urged Moscow to start negotiations on Azovstal and threatened that otherwise "you won't like the consequences."
20:28 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have successes in the Kherson direction - the enemy suffers significant losses in personnel and equipment, said the head of the Odessa OVA Maxim Marchenko. He also said that warning notices were posted on the streets of Kherson stating that occupiers and collaborators who decide to come to the so-called "referendum" will be punished.
20:23 Five Russian missiles hit infrastructure facilities in the Poltava region in the evening, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Lunin. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
20:04 White House Deputy National Security Adviser John Finer said he expects new statements about Washington's assistance to Ukraine next week.
20:01 More than 20,000 residents of Mariupol died at the hands of the invaders, said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko.
19:33 Arestovich said in an interview with Meduza that in Mariupol "there is no question" of complete control over the city: "The Putin-Shoigu scene is ridiculous... It takes three times as many troops to surround Azovstal as for an assault."
19:31 Russia has only 30% of high-precision missiles left compared to the period before February 24, investigative journalist Khristo Grozev said. However, according to him, the Russian Federation is capable of independently producing such missiles. The production cycle is about a month.
19:20 Putin has "lost interest" in diplomatic ways to end the war and is now determined to seize "as much Ukrainian territory as possible," writes the Financial Times, citing three sources familiar with the conversations with the Russian president. According to them, Putin "came into a rage after Ukraine sank Moscow ."
“There was hope for a deal. Putin hesitated. But he had to find a way to emerge victorious from this,” one of the sources said, adding that everything changed after the flooding of Moscow . “Now Putin is against signing anything. After Moscow, he wouldn't look like a winner. It would be humiliating."
19:16 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announces the intensification of offensive and assault operations of the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Pashkovo, Dovgenkoye and Bolshaya Kamyshevakha. The enemy had no success, suffered losses and was forced to retreat to the previously occupied lines.
In the Donetsk and Tauride directions, the Russian Federation is building up control and air defense systems, continues to fire at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from mortars, artillery and multiple launch rocket systems along the entire line of collision. Inflicts air strikes by aircraft of operational-tactical aviation.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy tried to carry out assault actions in the direction of the settlements of Liman and Yatskivka, but had no success. But the occupiers established control over part of the Zarechnoye settlement. They tried to gain a foothold in the western, northwestern and eastern parts of Rubizhne, but were not successful. We began to advance in the directions of Orekhovo and Nizhny.
19:13 The Russian Federation is regrouping units of the Central Military District from the areas of restoration of combat capability to the eastern regions of Ukraine. The enemy plans to move an anti-aircraft cannon division from the 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense from the Kursk to the Belgorod Region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the transfer of weapons and military equipment of the enemy to the area of the city of Kupyansk is underway. The occupiers continue partial blockade of Kharkiv, trying to carry out fire destruction of Ukrainian troops and critical infrastructure facilities.
19:06 Russia lost 90 percent of its best paratroopers in the war in Ukraine, Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev said: “I personally checked that Russia lost 90 percent of its best paratroopers in the first part of the war. This is the most important and essential part of the army, without which it is simply impossible to conquer key infrastructure facilities and capitals."
Grozev also believes that now Russia has lost the majority of the second echelon - a quality army from their point of view.
19:00 Shell has begun the process of withdrawing from its largest project in Russia - Sakhalin-2. The British-Dutch company is likely to sell its stake to the Chinese, writes the Financial Times.
18:40 Journalists of the Slidstvo.Info project found out that the Russian Orthodox Church, together with the security forces, is forcibly resettling Ukrainians in the Russian Federation. In the hacked correspondence, journalists discovered that since the first day of the war, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has been sending daily to the clergy detailed information about the course of the war, the number and routes of Ukrainians taken to Russia. Priests settle Ukrainians in churches and monasteries, conduct "spiritual conversations" with them and monitor them with the help of surveillance cameras.
18:38 In the Kherson region, Russian tanks under Ukrainian flags are shelling settlements, the Pivden operational command reports. The occupiers are trying to simulate the presence of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the territories they occupied and to discredit the Ukrainian military.
In the occupied territories of the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, the Russian military continues to agitate the locals for the creation of pseudo-republics.
18:36 The European Union intends to completely abandon Russian gas by 2027, Austrian Minister for Climate Protection, Ecology, Energy Leonora Gewessler said in a comment to Kurier. According to her, for this it is necessary to gradually reduce gas consumption, switch to heat pumps and geothermal energy, where possible, start the production of biogas and renewable hydrogen, and find other suppliers.
18:23 Arestovich said that Kiev is no longer negotiating with NATO to close the sky over Ukraine - now only air defense systems are needed: "This is a closed issue. What we need is the air defense system that we are already provided with. And the sky We will close ourselves."
18:01 Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said that everyone who does not support granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate this summer is working against the interests of Europe.
17:55 Russia is trying to exterminate the population of eastern Ukraine, Timofei Mylovanov, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said in a comment to CNN: "I think their message is quite clear - if you surrender, like Crimea did in 2014, nothing will happen to you. If you resist like the Donbass, like the east of Ukraine, you will be destroyed. It doesn't matter if you are military or civilians. So the message that Russia is sending is: Surrender or you will be exterminated."
17:28 The traditional fires in Siberia are already twice as large as last year, and they have become uncontrollable, as the Russian military, who used to fight them, is now at war in Ukraine, writes The Independent.
17:04 Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov announced that he would visit Kiev next week. He intends to leave on Wednesday, April 27, and go to Ukraine via Poland. Among the purposes of the visit are to bring a cargo of helmets and body armor, to negotiate with the Ukrainian leadership and to discuss the assistance that Bulgaria can provide to Ukraine.
16:32 Russia forcibly removed 915,000 Ukrainians from the territory of Ukraine, of which 160,000 are children, more than 2,000 are orphans. But there are those among them who were stolen from living parents, Denisova said.
According to her, there are still volunteers in Russia who quietly help Ukrainians escape from the Russian Federation and enter Europe. Seven people are known to have emigrated to Estonia and then to Sweden.
16:07 Russia, in violation of the Geneva Convention, is holding captive Ukrainian soldiers in penal colonies without converting prisons into prisoner of war camps, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said.
According to her, in the Rostov region, the invaders settled two penitentiary institutions in the south of the Russian Federation at once: a general regime colony No. 1 in the city of Zverevo, and also No. 12 in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky near the Russian-Ukrainian border.
A month and a half ago, the detainees were evicted from there to colony No. 10 of Rostov-on-Don, where prisoners now sleep in three shifts. And the institutions in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and Zverev are filled with captured Ukrainian soldiers. They are guarded by employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation and prisoners left in auxiliary work.
15:53 Russia has definitely lost seven generals in 60 days, and according to data not yet confirmed - nine, Podolyak said.
15:50 Arestovich said in an interview with Meduza that "in two or three weeks the offensive will end, and with it, the active phase of the war will quite possibly end, because the Russian troops have nothing more to attack with." According to him, now the Russian Federation has collected "the penultimate operational reserves." In particular, in the Belgorod-Valuyek region there are about 15,000: "But these are the unfortunate ones who came out from under Kyiv, Sumy and Chernigov - they have the psychology of the executed. They really do not want to fight."
15:48 According to the border guards, over the past day, more than 24,000 people left Ukraine, and 30,000 returned.
15:44 Russian troops fired on Chuguev, Kharkiv region, the National Police reported. Three people were injured, including a mother with a 12-year-old child.
15:43 In the Donetsk region, a curfew from April 25 will be in effect from 20:00 to 05:00 (it was from 19:00 to 06:00), the OVA reported.
15:42 Thanks to the efforts of military doctors, more than 80 percent of the wounded Ukrainian soldiers are returning to duty, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister.
15:40 Lithuania calls on the EU to impose sanctions on the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, who supports the war in Ukraine.
15:38 Bank of America blocked the accounts of the Russian Consulates General in Houston and New York, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said.
15:37 Kyrgyzstan has revoked distribution certificates and banned the screening of Russian propaganda films about the war in Donbas and the annexation of Crimea, Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy Azamat Zhamankulov said.
15:35 Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, will ban its export from April 28. President Joko Widodo said he wants to ensure food availability in his country after the war in Ukraine caused a record increase in global food inflation.
15:33 WHO warns that the healthcare system in eastern Ukraine is practically destroyed, the lives of thousands of people in Mariupol and other cities of Ukraine are at risk. UN health officials are asking for immediate access to Mariupol and other areas hardest hit by the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
15:31 The IAEA will provide Ukraine with all the necessary equipment for the safe operation of nuclear power plants. According to the organization, the first part has already entered the country, the rest will be brought during his visit next week by CEO Rafael Grossi.
The list sent by Ukraine recently covers a range of equipment for the country's various nuclear facilities, as well as radiation measuring instruments, shielding materials, computer assistance, power supply systems and diesel generators.
15:25 Avdievka Coke and Chemical Plant today came under heavy shelling, said the ex-director of the enterprise, People's Deputy Musa Magomedov. According to him, the fire was fired from Gradov, the shops were damaged, but there were no casualties.
He also clarified that the two girls, whom the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko spoke about earlier, died not in Ocheretino, but in Krasnogorovka.
15:19 Arestovich said in an interview with Meduza that Lukashenko is already holding separate negotiations with the West - this is evidenced by the data of both the Belarusian opposition and Western intelligence.
"But the Belarusian territory and the Belarusian military infrastructure - airfields, supply bases, the railway network - were completely used against us. Missiles were launched from there, aircraft flew, troops attacked. This, by definition, is military aggression. But we did not specifically raise this issue, because we "We understand Belarus itself and very clearly separate the Belarusian people and the Belarusian authorities. And we saw that the Belarusian people were against it. Now the Belarusian territory is used very little, practically not used," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office said.
15:11 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan on the eve of his talks with Putin. The Ukrainian president announced the need for the immediate evacuation of civilians from Mariupol, in particular from Azovstal, as well as the immediate exchange of blocked military.
The parties discussed the negotiation process, the coordination with Turkey and other countries of security guarantees for Ukraine, the defense capability of Ukraine, as well as the threat to global food security due to the blocking of shipping in the Black Sea.
15:08 Today it was possible to evacuate 16 residents of Popasna, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. They left on a bus that brought humanitarian aid in the morning. Gaidai said that there were more people who wanted to leave: "We sent cars for them, but shelling began."
14:31 In Ocheretino, Donetsk region, this morning, two girls of five and 14 years old were killed during shelling, said the head of the OVA, Pavel Kirilenko. The shell hit the house on Mira Street, where this family lived.
14:07 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called "short-sighted" the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria that Ukraine should not be offered EU membership.
“Such statements also ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of the population of the founding countries of the EU support Ukraine’s membership… To continue, under various pretexts, to postpone Ukraine’s membership in the EU or to look for an alternative to it, means to indulge Putin’s aggressive plans and slow down the strengthening of the European Union by including Ukraine’s capabilities,” - said the speaker of the Ukrainian department Oleg Nikolenko.
13:25 Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in an interview with The New York Times told how he tried to mediate in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. In early March, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities approached him with a corresponding proposal. On March 7, Schroeder met in Istanbul with a member of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, and then contacted the Russian Embassy and arranged a meeting with Putin on March 9. The next day, Schroeder also spoke with Medinsky and Abramovich.
"I can say that Putin is interested in ending the war. But it's not so easy. There are several points that need to be clarified," Schroeder said after the meeting with Putin.
The ex-chancellor is also convinced that a country like Russia cannot be isolated. According to him, the German industry needs Russian raw materials. Schroeder believes that "when this war is over, we will have to return to relations with Russia."
12:59 Residents of the occupied territories massively refuse hostile assistance and surprise Russians with self-organization. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a broad volunteer movement is being deployed in the occupied territories of the Kharkiv region.
Volunteers deliver food and medicine to the poor in the Veliko Burluksky District. To do this, they collect money on their own, refusing on principle the Russian "help".
In the Kupyansky district, where there is no water supply, volunteers organized the delivery of technical water for the elderly. The occupiers are surprised by the activity and self-organization of Ukrainians, according to them, "in Russia everything would be different, no one would volunteer."
12:04 The invaders threaten journalists of RIA-Melitopol with sending them to "correctional institutions of the FSB". According to the publication's employees, they receive such letters every day. The Russians are annoyed that the publication's policy could not be influenced even after the kidnapping of the journalist's father, Svetlana Zalizetskaya.
11:59 Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnik appealed to the coalition in the German parliament, posting a photo of a girl killed in Odessa: "While you hesitated for eight weeks with modern German weapons for Ukraine, Russia is allowed to kill new Ukrainian women and children every day. Like this young mother and child yesterday in Odessa under rocket fire. Oh, you don't want a nuclear war. Okay."
11:56 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss: "We are entering the third month of Putin's illegal war with Ukraine. Russia has committed horrific atrocities, including attacks on innocent civilians and children in Odessa and the siege of Mariupol. We will not rest until Putin loses, but Ukraine will not win."
11:52 Scholz decided to strengthen the armed forces of Germany. So, the Bundeswehr will receive CH-47F Chinook helicopters from Boeing as its new heavy vehicle, writes Bild. The Ministry of Defense intends to purchase 60 vehicles for about 5 billion euros. They will be delivered no earlier than 2025/26. These aircraft will replace the CH-53G Sikorsky helicopters, which are about 50 years old and in need of repair.
11:48 Podolyak said that right now Russia is attacking the Mariupol Azovstal without stopping, despite Putin's alleged order "not to storm." In this regard, he suggests that Moscow "think about the remnants of its reputation", for which "three Mariupol steps" are needed:
proclaim a real Easter truce over Mariupol,
immediately give a gum corridor for civilians,
agree to a "special round of negotiations" so that you can pick up / exchange the military.
11:43 The Bulgarian Foreign Ministry denied the information about the kidnapping of its consul in Melitopol, BGNEWS news agency reports. According to the Foreign Ministry, Consul Sergei Zhelev is now in his house in complete safety.
11:36 The Red Cross called the situation in Mariupol critical and demands that she be given access to the city.
11:20 Switzerland blocked Germany from re-exporting its ammunition to Ukraine for the Marder infantry fighting vehicle, writes Sonntags Zeitung. According to the publication, Switzerland received two requests from Germany on this issue and both of them answered in the negative. In addition, Switzerland in March rejected Poland's request for arms supplies to Ukraine.
10:53 Suspicion was declared against the downed Russian pilot Krasnoyartsev, the Prosecutor General's Office said. He carried out bombardments on the territory of Ukraine, including civilian objects in Chernihiv, with UFZAB-500, UFAB 250-270, FAB-50 bombs, and also shot dead a Ukrainian civilian. He is accused of violating the laws and customs of war, combined with premeditated murder. The pilot faces life imprisonment.
10:46 The National Guard of the US state of West Virginia will send M-113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. According to the state Ministry of Justice, the equipment will be sent at the request of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. The exact number was not disclosed.
10:13 Bulgaria refused to supply weapons to Ukraine. According to The Sofia Globe, the reason is that the ruling four-party coalition in Bulgaria has not yet reached an agreement on this issue.
10:10 Arestovich said that nothing threatens the Crimean bridge now: Ukrainian aviation and artillery will not reach it, besides, the bridge is covered by at least two anti-aircraft missile brigades, several ships of the fleet and a permanent detachment of forces in the air.
10:09 UN Secretary General António Guterres will visit Ankara before his trips to Moscow and Kiev (April 26 and 28, respectively). On Monday, April 25, he will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
10:06 British intelligence in its new report notes that despite the fact that Russia has made some territorial gains, Ukrainian resistance has been strong across the board and has inflicted significant damage on Russian forces. And low Russian morale and limited time to rebuild, re-equip and reorganize forces after previous offensives are likely to reduce Russia's combat effectiveness.
09:40 Not only the fate of the French, but of the whole of Europe depends on who wins the second round of the presidential elections in France. What are Macron's chances and why is Le Pen a threat to the EU? Read more about this in the material Second round of elections in France .
09:22 In Mariupol, Valery Kirsanov died from shelling by the Russian army - it was he who in 2015 directed Russian Grads to the Vostochny microdistrict. Then he managed to avoid punishment thanks to the "Savchenko law", according to the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko.
09:17 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 24:
personnel - about 21,800 people liquidated,
tanks - 873,
armored combat vehicles - 2238,
artillery systems - 408,
MLRS - 147,
air defense systems - 69,
aircraft - 179,
helicopters - 154,
automotive technology - 1557,
ships/boats - 8,
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
UAV operational-tactical level - 191,
special equipment - 28,
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
09:13 British intelligence reports that the Russian Federation plans to call up Ukrainian civilians from the occupied territories for military service, which is a violation of the Geneva Convention. Russia resorted to similar practices in the occupied territories of Donbass and in Crimea.
According to Art. 51 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, "the occupying State may not compel protected persons to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces", and "any pressure or propaganda aimed at securing voluntary entry into service is not permitted."
09:11 An investigation into Russian war crimes in Ukraine has begun in Germany, and Ukrainian migrants are invited to participate and become witnesses. The prosecutor general at the German Supreme Court, Peter Frank, will collect evidence, said Justice Minister Marco Buschman. According to him, experts are collecting testimonies, photo and video materials.
09:09 Provocations near the churches were avoided this night, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, said. More than 13,000 police officers worked across the country on Easter night, he said.
09:07 Russian diplomats expelled from Poland not only engaged in espionage, but also purposefully intimidated and blackmailed Ukrainian migrants after the start of the war, Lukasz Jasina, spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry, told Newsy.
09:05 As a result of Russian shelling of the Luhansk region, at least eight people were killed, two were injured, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians fired 12 times at peaceful houses of the residents of the Luhansk region on April 23. In particular, Mining, Zolote, Lisichansk, Severodonetsk suffered.
08:51 According to OK Pivden, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the manpower and equipment of the occupiers in the Kiselevka area of the Kherson region, after which they retreated towards Chernobaevka. The total losses of the invaders amounted to 74 people and two tanks, MLRS, six units of armored and engineering equipment, four reconnaissance UAVs.
08:34 At night, the Russian invaders fired at the Pavlogradsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region. According to the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, one rocket hit the railway infrastructure, killing a 48-year-old man. Two more rockets hit an industrial enterprise, there were no casualties.
08:28 There are about 20 enemy ships and submarines equipped with cruise missiles in the Black Sea Operational Zone. As Vladislav Nazarov, spokesman for the Pivden operational command, said, among them there are submarines equipped with Caliber-type cruise missiles.
08:04 Ukraine should not be offered EU membership, said Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. He argued this position by the fact that the countries of the Western Balkans went a much longer way to candidacy for EU membership.
Schallenberg believes that Ukraine, in principle, should not become a member of the EU, even in the future. According to the minister, there should be other models instead of Ukraine's accession to the EU. He called for "greater flexibility" in the search for mechanisms for rapprochement between Ukraine and the EU.
07:41 Russia is accumulating a group of troops, transferring and concentrating additional units in the Belgorod region in the direction of the Kharkov region, according to the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine . Thus, according to available data, OTRK Iskander-M launchers are deployed 60 kilometers from the state border of Ukraine.
Russian troops stepped up offensive and assault operations in the Severodonetsk, Kurakhovsky and Popasnyansky directions. There are fights in the areas of the settlements of Zarechnoye, Rubizhnoye and Popasnaya. In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy built pontoon crossings across the Red River. In the Avdeevka direction, it is building up an air defense system.
In Mariupol, the invaders continue to fire on Ukrainian units in the Azovstal area. Air strikes are carried out, including from long-range aircraft.
07:05 In the Kherson region, the Ukrainian military liberated eight settlements, OK Pivden reported.
03:17 The Russians captured several members of the OSCE SMM in Donetsk and Luhansk, the Organization is seeking their release, writes Reuters.
02:12 The EU plans to resume trade negotiations with India in order to limit trade ties with Russia, writes Bloomberg.
01:17 Ukrainian defenders at 22:00 shot down two more Russian cruise missiles, which were launched towards the port of Yuzhny in the Odessa region. Prior to this, the Russians "announced" supposedly Ukrainian "provocations" in Yuzhny, Pivden air command reports. The missiles were fired from the Black Sea.
01:11 In Kiev, on Victory Square, two bronze images of orders with Lenin's profile have been dismantled, eyewitnesses report.
00:50 In Melitopol, the invaders kidnapped the honorary consul of Bulgaria, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said. Nothing is known about the fate of the consul and the requirements.
00:14 On April 23, anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force and the Ground Forces hit three enemy aircraft (preliminarily Su-34, Su-35, Su-25), five cruise missiles, nine UAVs (presumably Orlan-10).
[GatewayPundit] 2000 Mules is a documentary film created by Dinesh D’Souza. The film exposes the True the Vote’s video evidence of a coordinated, funded, illegal ballot trafficking network across critical swing states during the 2020 election.
[IsraelTimes] More detainees expected to be released ahead of next week’s holiday, but thousands more likely to remain locked up on charges like spreading ‘false news’.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] The journalist spoke about the distortion of facts in the Western media:
I was three times in the south (Ukraine). The first trip was also to Melitopol. And so, on this trip, I was most impressed by the fact, or the fear that you see there in the eyes of people. And not among those who do not agree with the military operation, and this, according to my estimates, is a minority. It is they who swear, the camera writes, and they will say how much they disagree. And those who agree are the majority.
I see it in the squares, when there are hundreds of people, they walk past the soldiers and say in a whisper: “Thank you guys, don’t leave.” They are very afraid, and they said it directly. They are very afraid that the Russians will leave and there will be reprisals. What, in my understanding, happened in Bucha, by the way.
And the fact that now, Alina said, from Mariupol is another such example. The woman was afraid to just speak the truth. Afraid that, God forbid, the Russians would leave and there would be reprisals. I don’t want to take too much time now, I just want to give one example, because the West always says it’s Russian propaganda if they say that Azov and other units of the Ukrainian troops use civilians as a “human shield”.
I write in German, and the other day I read an article in the German magazine Spiegel, which is probably known to many. And there was a very surprising offer. So they wrote...
Everything, of course, sounded very positive, but they wrote that in Mariupol... More precisely, they (the newspaper) were told by people in Zaporozhye who had come from Mariupol, telling them that their national battalions held them, "politely of course", held peaceful residents to the basement, and took positions in the apartments above these basements.
It sounds in the Western media as if they are protecting them. Excuse me, what is this? If the fighters take up their combat positions above the basements where civilians are sitting, and how voluntarily they went to this basement.
P.S.
Well done German. He uses the Russian language well, puts accents correctly. And also a pen. He is clearly nervous... But he is nervous not because he has something to hide, but from anger, because he is telling the truth, but he cannot do anything with this truth.
Most people know the truth, but the Western media do not need this truth, they have a different manual, you need to do everything the other way around, and if it doesn’t work out the way America wants, sanctions are for you, and the EU countries, not Russia, they will die after the first package of sanctions.
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Ah. The "Russians are our liberators" narrative returns. This time supposedly coming from an (unnamed?) foreign journalist quoting people supposedly too afraid to say anything openly.
Garbage.
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I didn't see the German's name in the title. At least there is that.
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Ah. The "Russians are our liberators" narrative returns. This time supposedly coming from an (unnamed?) foreign journalist quoting people supposedly too afraid to say anything openly.
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So born in Germany, but as loyal to Russia as Merkel.
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Can't be any worse than CBS.
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"They are very afraid that the Russians will leave and there will be reprisals."
Rarely does the conquered fear reprisals from the liberators. If this story is true (i suspect not) the journalist is talking to traitors who let the Russians in, or assisted them during the occupation or something along those lines. Those are the folks that fear reprisals.
⚡️ General Staff: Russian forces fail to advance in Kharkiv Oblast.
According to the latest update from Ukraine’s Armed Forces, Russian troops intensified their offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, trying to advance, but suffered losses and was forced to retreat to occupied territories.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
⚡️Two people killed, 14 wounded in Kharkiv Oblast by Russian shelling on April 24.
According to governor Oleh Synehubov, one civilian was killed in Kharkiv, another one in the town of Chuhuiv. The official said that an 11-year-old child was among the injured.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
⚡️ Russian shelling of Chuhuyev, Kharkiv oblast injures 3 people, including child.
Mayor Halyna Minaeva told Suspilne media outlet that both high-rise buildings and single-family houses were damaged as a result of the attack.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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'Fail' assumes that the Russians were 'advancing' and not making sure that the Ukrainians would be unable strip forces from here to reinforce the Donbas...
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[NrwsFrontInfo] 22:45 The DPR JCCC reports that shelling from the AFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Dzerzhinsk (mine "Yuzhnaya") - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): 4 mines with a caliber of 82 mm were fired;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine named after Gagarin): heavy machine guns were used;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement Molochnoye): 15 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad. 22:36 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 8 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol: - men: born in 1957, 1967, 1989; - women: born in 1945, 1986, 1958, 1968.
n.p. Volodarskoye: - male born in 1967.
21:21 The mayor of Mariupol said that there were no hostilities in the city.
21:19 N.p. Novotoshkovskoye was liberated by the allied forces of the RF Armed Forces and the NM of the LPR.
20:19 One DPR soldier was killed and 14 more were injured in battles with Ukrainian units over the past day, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the DPR People's Militia Department.
20:18 Representation of the DPR in the JCCC: Ukrainian troops fired from "Gradov" Yasinovataya in the DPR.
19:00 Since the beginning of the current day, Ukrainian Nazis have fired 197 shells in the DPR with a caliber of 152mm, 122mm, 120mm and 82 mm. Eight settlements were under fire, in which 12 residential buildings, four infrastructure facilities and seven cars were damaged. Three civilians were injured.
19:00 Today, the forces of the People's Militia of the DPR destroyed 26 Ukrainian militants, one firing position of a 122mm D-30 howitzer and two infantry fighting vehicles. One armored personnel carrier, one ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun and one cargo vehicle were captured.
18:01 Kyiv militants fired at the village of Lugansk in the DPR. They fired five 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
17:04 The People's Militia of the DPR evacuated 149 people from Mariupol.
16:01 Ukrainian Nazis shelled Gorlovka in the DPR. They fired several mines at the local school grounds. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:23 Kyiv militants fired on Panteleymonvka in the DPR, firing five shells of 122mm caliber at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:13 Ukrainian punishers fired at the city of Pervomaisk in the LPR. They fired ten 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
15:13 Kyiv militants shelled Gorlovka in the DPR. They fired 16 120mm rounds and ten 122mm rounds at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
14:09 Kyiv punishers fired at the village of Zolote-5 in the LPR, fired four mines with a caliber of 120mm at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:48 Kyiv militants fired five rockets from the Grad MLRS at Yasinovataya in the DPR. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:45 A peaceful resident of Gorlovka in the DPR suffered under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
13:45 Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka, firing four 120mm mines at it. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
13:45 The Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Mineralnoe in the DPR in half an hour. They fired ten rockets from the Grad MLRS. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:40 Ukrainian punishers fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. They fired four 122mm shells at him. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
12:06 A peaceful resident of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk suffered under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
12:06 A civilian in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk suffered under fire from the Ukrainian Nazis.
12:06 Kyiv militants fired at Donetsk and Yasinovataya, firing six 122mm shells and ten rockets from the Grad MLRS.
10:47 Ukrainian troops in battles with the DPR military lost 53 people in a day - People's militia of the republic.
10:44 Ukrainian troops have lost 16 personnel in the LPR over the past day, the Republic's People's Militia reports.
10:41 More than 2,200 facts of firing by Ukrainian troops were recorded in the DPR in 67 days of escalation, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports.
10:40 Ukrainian troops shelled Gorlovka, fired five shells of 122mm caliber, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports.
10:39 Ukrainian troops shelled Zheleznaya Balka and Staromikhaylovka in half an hour, fired eight mines with a caliber of 120mm and four mines with a caliber of 82mm, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reports.
09:00 Kyiv militants shelled Gorlovka in the DPR. They fired three 122mm shells at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:25 In the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Mariupol, despite everything experienced in recent months and the fact that there are still militants of the Azov National Battalion at Azovstal, they celebrated Easter.
08:24 Ukrainian Nazis opened fire on Gorlovka in the DPR. They fired ten 120mm mines at her. Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
08:23 Over the past day, Kyiv punishers opened fire three times on the territory of the LPR. The settlements of Pervomaisk and Zolote-5 came under fire. They used 122 mm artillery, Grad MLRS and 120mm.
[IsraelTimes] Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank, was convicted of stabbing Ohayon to death on a Petah Tikva street
The Lod District Court on Sunday sentenced a Paleostinian man to life in prison for the murder of Rabbi Shai Ohayon in the central city of Petah Tikva in 2020.
Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank, was convicted last year of murder under aggravated circumstances and of "unlawful possession of a knife in the circumstances of an act of terrorism" for stabbing Ohayon on a street in the city.
The court on Sunday also ordered him to pay NIS 258,000 ($79,000) in compensation to the family.
The indictment against Dweikat said he worked at a construction site in the city and had a valid permit to be in Israel.
"The defendant considered and arrived at a decision to kill a Jewish Israeli citizen or soldier with a knife... for Paleostine, the Paleostinian people, al-Aqsa Mosque and Allah," prosecutors wrote.
Court papers showed that Dweikat confessed the crime to Sherlocks. Throughout his investigation the defendant did not "show any empathy, remorse, or regret for the victim or his family," prosecutors noted.
Ohayon, a 39-year-old father of four, was a member of Petah Tikva’s ultra-Orthodox community and studied full time at a religious institution known as a kollel in the nearby town of Kfar Saba, according to ultra-Orthodox news outlets.
Taking a knife from the kitchen at the building site on August 26, Dweikat went looking for a victim. After an hour, at around 1:15 p.m., he saw Ohayon, whom he identified by his appearance as an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
"The defendant pulled out the knife from his pocket and stabbed the dear departed with three deep cuts," prosecutors wrote.
Ohayon called out for help and a passerby, noticing what was happening, threw an object at Dweikat in an effort to help the defendant.
"Only then did the defendant leave the dear departed, who was already at death's door, put the blood-covered knife in his pants pocket, and start to walk away," according to the indictment.
According to Sherlocks, at that point, Dweikat considered finding other people to stab, but was arrested shortly afterward.
Camera footage from the scene showed Dweikat calmly crossing an intersection alongside civilians shortly before police closed in on him.
Dweikat, a father of six, had no history of terrorist activities, the Shin Bet said shortly after the attack.
[IsraelTimes] Cousin of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month, among those reportedly nabbed by Israeli security forces
Israeli forces arrested 12 people across the West Bank over the weekend in connection with a spate of deadly attacks inside Israel, the military announced on Sunday.
Israel’s army and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said they had conducted "joint counterterrorism activities" in several West Bank locations, including the flashpoint districts of Hebron and Jenin.
"The forces apprehended a total of 12 individuals suspected of involvement in terror activities over the weekend," they said.
Paleostinian media reports claimed that the cousin of the terrorist who carried out the deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month was among those arrested.
He was arrested in a raid carried out in a village on the outskirts of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the reports said, identifying the man as Ahmad A-Sa’ad, a cousin of Ra’ad Hazem, who killed three people when he opened fire on a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 7.
There was no immediate confirmation from the IDF, which has made several attempts to arrest Hazem’s family members, including opening fire on a car in which his brothers were traveling.
Tensions have risen sharply between Israel and the Paleostinians in recent weeks against the backdrop of repeated terror attacks in Israeli cities that left 14 dead. Some have been carried out by assailants linked to or inspired by the 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.... group.
Over the same period, 24 Paleostinians have been killed across the West Bank, many of whom were carrying out or attempting to carry out attacks, as Israel has stepped up operations in response to the terror incidents.
Tensions have further spiraled in recent days following violent mostly peacefulfestivities between Paleostinian rioters and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, leading to the injury of dozens of Paleostinians and several coppers.
There has also been rocket fire from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, including two rockets fired Friday.
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Okay, there's still time to salvage this from becoming some kind of blue state catch-and-release snafu. Maybe they can all try to escape and get shot? Maybe some Arab isis faction tries to rescue them by blowing up the holding cell, and ends up bringing it down on them? Hell, how 'bout the transport van is attacked with RPG? Thank Yawheh the driver and guards got away just in time but the paleos didn't make it. Start an investigation into how a-rab vermin got such weapons. And conclude it with some bureaucratic chazerei.
Energy Minister Walid Fayyad was physically assaulted by activists outside a restaurant on Sunday night.An online video shows an activist saying "this is a message from all the Lebanese people" before violent mostly peacefully pushing Fayyad to a wall. You need to "wake up," he tells the minister.
Another man is meanwhile seen telling Fayyad that his mother "has no electricity" and that "a massacre happened in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... " whereas he was "having a drink."
A female activist meanwhile tells the minister that she was interrogated at a State Security center along with other female activists due to his "corruption."
This is not the first time Fayyad has been intercepted by activists at a restaurant since he was appointed as minister. He is often seen at public places without bodyguards.
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- Several advances by Russia of up to 5 km along the front but mostly no movement
- Russia has not removed troops from Mariupol and actually tried to take more territory in that city. It was partly successful. Maybe Russia has changed its mind about its battleplan there or maybe the announcement a few days ago was a feint.
Continued bombardment by both sides. Ukraine claims to have had a big day downing Russian aircraft.
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Several days ago the Azov regiment sent tanks and apcs into the port area on a raid. As long as the defenders have armored vehicles with fuel the russians can't afford to relax.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The British edition of The Guardian publishes the results of a forensic medical examination of the bodies found in Irpen and Buche.
Judging by them, those people whom the experts managed to examine were killed not by bullets, but by fragments of anti-personnel shells. That is, they were killed during shelling.
The publication writes that small metal darts called flechettes were found in the bodies of the victims.
"We found some very thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women," Ukrainian forensic scientist Vladislav Perovsky told the Guardian. According to him, most of these bodies are from the Bucha-Irpensky district.
The flechette is an anti-personnel weapon that was widely used during the First World War. They are contained in the shells of tanks or field guns. Each ammunition can contain up to 8000 of these "nails". After a shot and an explosion, they scatter to a width of up to 300 meters and 100 in length.
Such ammunition is not prohibited by conventions. But their use in cities is a violation of humanitarian law.
The publication cites unnamed witnesses who saw Russian artillery firing such shells a few days before leaving the area.
Photography experts have determined that such "darts" are used in the 122mm ZSh-1 projectile.
We add that this projectile is suitable for the D-30 howitzer, which is in service with both the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
All of a sudden, the Russian Armed Forces controlled Bucha until the end of March, when they withdrew from there as part of the withdrawal of troops from the Chernihiv and Kiev regions.
As you might guess, shelling a city controlled by your own troops is a bad idea.
However, this does not negate the fact that the Ukrainians killed people with white armbands, which was highlighted in one of the videos.
French far-right leader Le Pen concedes defeat
[IsraelTimes] French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has conceded defeat in the presidential runoff, handing victory to incumbent Emmanuel Macron.
She says her unprecedented score in a presidential election represents "a shining victory in itself."
"The ideas we represent are reaching summits," she says.
French polling agencies are projecting that centrist Macron has won the runoff against Le Pen.
French exit polls: Macron set for 2nd presidential term with 58% of vote
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron appears set for a second presidential term.
[IsraelTimes] One election exit poll shows him winning the second round of the presidential race with 58.2 percent of the vote. His rival, the far-right’s Marine Le Pen, is projected to win 41.8%.
A second poll shows Macron with 57.6% to Le Pen’s 42.4%.
The incumbent would become the first French president in 20 years to win another five years in office.
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All the 'light' anti-moslem posturing, videos of Pakis burning Macron posters, and the dramatic whining of jama'at stooges in France finally paid off.
The far-right was a better bet any day under the circumstances. But dumbed down masses are trained to recognize only labels today. Say 'far-right' and their brain goes, "mon Dieu! Nazis! Fascists!"
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Say 'far-right' and their brain goes, "mon Dieu! Nazis! Fascists!"
The main stream media's 24/7 communist propaganda will do that for you. We have to wait until it gets so bad that even the television can't conceal it. Hope it's not too late.
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People will ignore a toothache for quite a while if they think the dentist is going to root canal them. In the end, they go to the dentist. The French will be ready for a change soon.
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[Garowe] Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of 17 migrants colonists after four boats trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea heading for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... capsized, a court official said on Sunday.
"The makeshift boats were in a bad condition" and had set sail overnight Friday to Saturday from the Mediterranean port city of Sfax, said Mourad Turki, front man for the court there.
The victims included a woman and "at least one baby", he said, adding that he feared the corpse count could rise.
Survivors have said "there were between 30 and 32 people onboard each boat", said Turki.
The majority of those who attempted the latest deadly crossing were sub-Saharan Africans, including citizens of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Somalia, he added.
Tunisia and neighboring Libya are key departure points for migrants colonists seeking to reach European shores, often in vessels that are barely seaworthy.
The Italian island of Lampedusa is only about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Tunisia's coast.
Libyan authorities on Sunday arrested 542 would-be migrants colonists preparing to depart for Europe in inflatable boats, a security source said.
An AFP photographer said most were originally from Bangladesh.
The International Organization for Migration has said that nearly 2,000 migrants colonists drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2021, compared to 1,401 the previous year.
It is the world's deadliest migration route, but people hoping to build a better life in Europe increasingly risk it.
On Saturday, an overloaded migrant boat capsized off north Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... with a least six people dead, including a little girl.
The boat carried nearly 60 people and Lebanese naval forces were able to rescue 48 of them, the military has said.
Lebanon is in the grips of an unprecedented financial crisis, with the currency losing more than 90 percent of its value and the majority of the population living below the poverty line.
[Rudaw] Iraq does not have enough capacity to generate a sufficient amount of electricity in the summer, the spokesperson to the country’s electricity ministry told Rudaw on Sunday, adding that an official delegation will visit Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... soon to discuss energy imports from Tehran.
"The topic of electricity imported from Iran is divided into two parts, one is that there is an amount of electricity imported that is not more than 1100 megawatts from Iranian lines," Ahmed Mousa told Rudaw’s Mohammed Sheikh Fatih, adding that this amount is prone to change.
"Last summer, for five months, all of it stopped. Not a single megawatt was imported because Iran needed electricity itself," he added.
The second way Iraq benefits from Iran generating electricity is through the import of gas.
According to Mousa, contracts between Baghdad and Tehran indicate that Iraq will import 50 million cubic meters of gas in the winter and 70 million in the summer, however this has also been decreased on multiple occasions to a point that it was at one point down to eight million.
"Following several meetings, we have been able to raise the amount from eight million to 20 million, and then to 25 million, and now we are discussing raising it to 30 million cubic meters," Mousa said, noting that even that amount would not be enough to provide 24 hours of energy.
Iraq suffers from chronic electricity shortages, especially felt when summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees Celsius. The shortages are caused by multiple factors, including poor basic services, the government’s inability to deliver these services, rampant corruption, and terror attacks on the power grid.
The Iraqi ministry has been working on increasing electricity supplies for quite some time.
Mousa earlier this month told Iraqi state media that they have finished all the technical steps required to import electricity from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... "For the line to start working, we need approval from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... given that Turkey's electricity is connected to the European Union," Mousa said, adding that initial approval has been obtained.
According to Mousa’s statement to Iraqi state media, the amount of electricity that will be imported from Turkey to provinces in the north of the country will be 500 megawatts in the summer.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:11 VFU subjected the Gorlovsky village of Molochnoye to shelling from the BM-21 Grad MLRS, as a result of which the village was de-energized. The inhabitants are in hiding. We find out the details. 21:33 Group "O" units continue to increase their combat potential. Another column of the RF Armed Forces has been spotted, which includes at least eight BMP-1AM "Basurmanin".
21:31 Destroyed positions of the mortar battery of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "Cold Yar" in the Donetsk direction, the photos are published by the Ukrainians themselves.
21:30 The Chechen military captured a Ukrainian nationalist from Azovstal - the prisoner told the fighters where the main forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Azov are located.
21:29 As a result of a missile attack on Kremenchuk, Poltava region of Ukraine, a fire is observed. The 107th Reactive Artillery Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is based in this city, armed with Tochka-U tactical missile systems and 9K58 Smerch multiple launch rocket systems.
20:31 American, British, Australian C-17A and C-130 continue to transfer thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition to Polish Rzeszow, from where it will go to Ukraine.
19:32 Kyiv and Washington are discussing the use of frozen Russian assets for financial assistance to Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said.
19:31 The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the shelling of a border checkpoint in the Kursk region, the press service of the Investigative Committee reported.
19:31 Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal called the process of discussing security guarantees for Kyiv with Western countries “not so simple”.
18:09 The head of the Belgorod region reported that a projectile had arrived in the village from Ukraine. The head of the administration of the Belgorod district of the Belgorod region, Vladimir Pertsev, said that no one was injured when a shell came from Ukraine to the village of Otradnoye, located near the border.
“Dear residents of the Belgorod region! I inform you about the incident in the village of Otradnoye. Unfortunately, indeed, there was a projectile arrival from Ukraine, but not a cemetery, as some media write, but in a field. It was one projectile, not six, as it is presented in unreliable sources,” Pertsev wrote in his Telegram channel.
17:22 Deliveries of weapons for the Kyiv regime are gaining momentum. The Italian authorities announced plans to transfer to Kyiv a batch of PzH 2000 and M109 self-propelled artillery mounts from their reserves.
On the eve of the transfer of a batch of self-propelled artillery mounts, the countries of the European Union, the United States, Canada and Great Britain reported.
16:08 A powerful blow was dealt to the base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in abandoned children's camps near Kramatorsk. A rocket or bomb hit a target near Druzhkovka, residents write that the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the National Guard have been stationed there for a long time.
15:20 Russian "Hurricanes" are aiming at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Liman direction.
14:13 The Ukrainian military fired at Tochka-U missiles at the village of Novaya Basan in the Chernihiv region. At the same time, the Ukrainian media publish footage from the scene and give it away because of the consequences of the shelling of our military, demonstrating fragments of a rocket that the Russian army has long since decommissioned.
13:02 Rocket troops and artillery hit 423 targets in Ukraine overnight.
13:01 Since the beginning of the special operation, the RF Armed Forces have destroyed 551 UAVs and 2,496 armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:59 The RF Armed Forces destroyed four strongholds and concentrations of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and weapons depots.
12:58 Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 26 military facilities of Ukraine, up to 150 nationalists were destroyed.
12:56 High-precision ground-based missiles in the Pavlograd region destroyed the workshops of an enterprise for the production of explosives for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:21 Bulgaria refused to supply weapons to Ukraine - Bloomberg.
11:19 A wounded officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was left to die, but the Russian military saved his life.
“Thank you very much doctors. To be honest, I was sure that they would mock me, beat me. Unexpectedly good attitude from the medical staff.”
10:21 More than 10,500 residents of Donbass crossed the Russian border in the Rostov region in a day. In total, 951,329 people have been evacuated to Russia since the beginning of the special military operation.
10:21 The Russian military delivered more than 160 tons of humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv region.
08:30 The Russian military carried out humanitarian demining of private houses in the Kherson region.
⚡️Official: Russians prepare to attack Kryvyi Rih, Zelensky's home town.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih’s military administration, said that the offensive is expected in the coming days, but the city is “fully prepared.”
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 24, 2022
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Riiiiight....
Considering the Satan II is already behind schedule, they can't bring it up to full production runs due to tech embargo, and the Russians have a very long history of over promising and under producing.
Food for thought
In May of 1999, during the NATO bombing of the former Yugoslavia, high-ranking members of the Russian Duma, meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation to discuss the Balkans conflict, raised the specter of a Russian EMP attack that would paralyze the United States.
[Rudaw] Internal security forces (Asayish) raided the infamous al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) and searched the area for weapons, a conflict monitor reported on Sunday amid a surge of crimes in the camp.
With the recent increase of liquidations in the squalid camp and a destabilizing security situation, security forces on Saturday scouted "all sectors" of the camp in Syria's Hasaka province in an attempt to seize weapons, the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) said.
The success of the raids is currently unclear, as the outcome has yet to be reported.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the camp's residents, where ISIS sleeper cells remain active. Multiple deaths have been reported at the camp over the past months.
SOHR reported that a displaced Syrian woman was rubbed out by ISIS cells in the camp on Thursday. Two days prior, unidentified bodies of two women were found in one of the camp's sectors, and a day before the discovery of the bodies, an Iraqi refugee was rubbed out in the camp.
The body of another Iraqi man killed by a silenced weapon was found by security forces in the camp earlier in the month.
The UK repatriated two orphans from the camp on April 5, with Russia taking back over 10 ISIS-affiliated children shortly after.
Around 450 Iraqi families returned to Iraq from the camp, an official told Rudaw earlier in April, despite the country being one of the world's top executioners.
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[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Wally Jumblat ...Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... asked Saturday for the dismissal of Energy Minister Walid Fayyad.
In a tweet Jumblat said "it is time to dismiss the minister", sarcastically accusing him of wandering through capitals, restaurants and nightclubs.
The PSP chief said the ministry is ruled by the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... party, slamming the presidency and the "son-in-law," FPM chief Jebran Bassil.
"Isn't it time for the Prime Minister to reveal that there won't be any Jordanian electricity or any World Bank funding, unless a radical reform is made at the ministry of energy," Jumblat asked.
The World Bank still hasn't financed a Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... ’s U.S.-backed plan for importing gas and electricity from Egypt and Jordan via Syria.
"It is still studying the plan’s political feasibility," Fayyad said, adding that "the ball is now in the court of the U.S. administration and the bank."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the cash-strapped state is struggling to purchase fuel for its power stations.
With state power effectively non-existent, many rely on private generators, but prices have increased after the government lifted fuel subsidies.
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[IsraelTimes] Military says rocket landed in open area near Kibbutz Matsuba, close to border, without causing damage or injuries; no warning sirens sounded and army says alert levels ’normal’
The Israel Defense Forces said early Monday that its forces attacked targets in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... after a rocket was fired into Israel earlier in the night.
"IDF artillery is now attacking targets in Lebanon and firing at the launch area in retaliation for the rocket fired into Israeli territory," the IDF said in a statement.
Earlier, a rocket was fired into Israel from Lebanon landing in an open area near Kibbutz Matsuba, close to the border, without causing damage or injuries.
Hezbollah-linked media in Lebanon also reported that a rocket had been fired toward Israel.
No rocket warning sirens sounded in Israel as the rocket landed in an open area, and the military said that alert levels in the area remain "normal."
"We reacted in a quick, deadly and effective way," said Captain Yotam Zeituni, the commander of the artillery battery that responded to the rocket fire.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping force along the border, UNIFIL, urged restraint.
"A rocket was launched from Lebanon toward Israel early this morning. Israel Defense Forces are returning fire with dozens of shells. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander @aroldo_lazaro urges calm and restraint in this volatile and ongoing situation," UNIFIL tweeted.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in Lebanon and no claims of responsibility.
There have been several instances of rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel in recent years with most blamed on Paleostinian factions in the country, not the Hezbollah terror group.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... it is unlikely that bandidosLions of Islam in southern Lebanon would be able to fire rockets without at least the tacit approval of the Iran-backed militia, which maintains a tight degree of control over southern Lebanon.
A Katyusha rocket was fired Sunday night towards northern Israel from the southern Lebanese area of Ras al-Ain south of the city of Tyre, Lebanese media reports said.
[Rudaw] Several rockets on Sunday targeted military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in northern Iraq amid The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s ongoing offensive against a Kurdish gang stationed in the Kurdistan Region’s mountains.
Around five rockets hit Zilkan base at around 7:50 pm, Mohammed Amin Gharib, the mayor of Zilkan told Rudaw.
The Kurdistan Region’s counter terrorism directorate confirmed the attack, saying at least six rockets targeted the base with "three of the rockets landing nearby the base."
An anonymous source from within the base initially told Rudaw that at least six rockets had targeted the facility.
No casualties have been reported.
Home to Ottoman Turkish personnel in Zilkan, the base is located 10 kilometers away from the town of Bashiqa in Nineveh province.
The base has been a target of at least four rocket attacks since the start of the year.
Turkey-Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. Ottoman Turkish troops were deployed to the area on the pretext of training Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against the 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).
The troops are still present in the area despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.
The recent offense coincides with Ankara’s fresh military operation targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in northern Duhok province.
[AlAhram] Britannia said on Sunday it had secured the release of a citizen held since 2017 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... , where he was allegedly tortured.
"Delighted that Luke Symons, who was unlawfully detained, without charge or trial since 2017 in Yemen by the 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, has been released and will shortly be reunited with his family," Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement issued by her department.
"I pay tribute to our Omani and Saudi partners and our team for securing his release."
Symons, 30, was detained by Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen along with his Yemeni wife on suspicion of espionage, which his family strongly denies.
They say his arm was broken during one interrogation in a bid to force a confession, and that his physical and mental health has degenerated during solitary confinement in the capital Sanaa.
His wife was released and has been able to visit him periodically in the prison, and recently voiced concern at his condition, according to Symons's grandfather Robert Cummings.
"Luke's going through hell. He's getting no medical attention, and we've been going backwards, not forward, with this (UK) government," Cummings told AFP by phone in February from the family's home in Cardiff.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Rantburg University] Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's Mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment for delivery to Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico.
[Breitbart] At least 35 people were shot, five of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
[Breitbart] A deputy in Florida scaled an apartment building to save a one-year-old girl from a fire on Saturday, and citizens are praising his bravery.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—With Russia poised to tear through Eastern Europe with terrifying military power, Biden warned Putin that if he doesn't stop advancing his army, he will be forced to deploy his deadly trans admiral.
...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 
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. ...
...The word 
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
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Hezbollah
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
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