[NYPOST] A Bronx gangbanger who was cut loose by a judge only to allegedly murder an innocent man months later is out of jail again, The Post has learned.
Steven Mendez, 17, accused of shooting 21-year-old Saikou Koma in the head during a botched gang hit in Fordham Heights last year, was set free Tuesday when Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj dismissed the indictment against him, the Bronx District Attorney’s office confirmed.
Semaj gave prosecutors leave to present their case in front of a grand jury, which by law must happen within 45 days. The DA’s office had no further comment.
Koma’s distraught mother, Haja Kaira, told The Post she broke down in tears while streaming Mendez’s court appearance.
“When I hear the judge say, ‘Release him.’ To be honest, I had to stand up,” Kaira said. “I could not believe it. I said out loud, ‘What! Release him?!’”
“The judge believes my son’s life means nothing,” Kaira went on. “This is why they will keep killing because they know there are no consequences.”
The grieving mom said an assistant district attorney who had sent her the link to watch the court proceeding had been seeking life in prison for Mendez before he was freed.
“If not that, he was trying to get the maximum sentence,” Kaira said. “But then the judge just let him free that minute.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the judge’s decision. The Office of Court Administration didn’t respond to an email from The Post on Wednesday.
Even before his guilty plea, Mendez had at least three previous run-ins with the law — including a 2019 case where he allegedly pulled a loaded gun on his own mother. Mendez, allegedly angry after his mother refused to give him money, slapped her with an open hand then pointed a .357 at her, sources said.
His guilty plea came after he was charged for his role as an accomplice in a violent July 17, 2020 robbery in The Bronx that left the victim with a gunshot wound to leg, sources said. Mendez faced charges of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and felony gun-possession charges.
The then-16-year-old Mendez was prosecuted as a “youthful offender” in that case and had temporarily been placed in a non-secure facility pending sentencing.
But in May 2021, then-Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle granted him five years probation. Prosecutors objected to that decision after they sought up to four years, which would’ve been the maximum allowed under youthful offender status.
Boyle had cited a report that said Mendez was performing well in school, The Post reported at the time. A state court spokesman said at the time the judge didn’t think that a prison sentence was appropriate for “a crime committed as an accomplice at the age of 16.”
Youthful offender status for people between 16 and 19 years old means they can get reduced sentenced and sealed criminal records.
On Oct. 24, Mendez and other reputed gangbangers allegedly sought payback for a beatdown of one of their own members. They came upon Koma on Ryer Avenue on Fordham Heights in what sources said was likely a case of mistaken identity.
Mendez was the trigger man who fatally shot Koma in the head, sources said.
Two others were arrested related to the shooting of Koma, a college student.
[CNBC] Gross domestic productunexpectedly declined 1.4% in the first quarter, marking an abrupt reversal for an economy coming off its best performance since 1984, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.
The negative growth rate missed even the subdued Dow Jones estimate of a 1% gain for the quarter.
A plethora of factors conspired to weigh against growth during the first three months of 2022, which fell off a cliff following the 6.9% gain to close out last year.
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I think the dems messed up a bit. They were supposed to crash the economy and let a pub administration inherit it.
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and next quarter the economy will have to deal with an increase in Fed Funds rate, increase in prime, etc. as well as the continuing supply chain mess and nasty inflation
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Will be a perfect time for the new pub congress to say "there's no money, we can't borrow more, our hands are tied."
Of course, that won't happen...
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This is, as we learned in the 1970s, the only way to stop inflation. Best to take our medicine now. The longer you wait, as we also learned in the 1970s, the worse the medicine is.
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Just priced some things since end of 1st quarter, new 2nd quarter prices.
Good news is Biden may get his opportunity to make a re-election bid. Any other Dem would be stupid to stamp on the burning lunch bag that this Administration has left on our doorstep. Abrams might run but she probably has Galactic ambitions.
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[Dawn] A police official was martyred when unknown button men attacked him in Wana, the headquarters of South Wazoo district, on Wednesday.
Residents said Assistant Sub-Inspector Aslam Javed was walking after Iftar in the main town when attackers driving a non-custom paid car opened fire on him near Pir Sultan Mosque. He died instantly.
The body of the martyred official was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Wana.
According to doctors, the official received two bullets in head.
The police said investigations had begun into the killing.
[Dawn] TUESDAY’s suicide kaboom at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University may be the harbinger of a new and unexpected dimension in the dynamics of terrorism in Pakistain, particularly the Baloch insurgency.
It was appalling enough that a jacket wallah had targeted the faculty of the Confucius Institute on campus, killing three Chinese nationals and their Pak driver on the spot. But the shock was further compounded when the identity of the attacker came to light. Less than an hour following the incident, the banned Baloch Liberation Army took to social media to claim responsibility and announce that the bomber was a woman named Shaari Baloch.
Details emerging later revealed her to be a highly educated mother of two young children, belonging to a well-established family and working as a school teacher in her native Turbat, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... . Moreover, it appears that no one in her close family was missing or had ever been forcibly disappeared — all of which adds up to an unlikely profile for a suicide bomber. It does, however, suggest that the insurgency is evolving in a direction that makes it imperative for the authorities to revisit their approach to it.
Suicide attacks, which involve an implicit belief in a reward in the afterlife for the act of ’self-sacrifice’, have almost always been the preserve of religious Death Eater groups, with some notable exceptions such as Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers. Much like the latter, the Baloch insurgency too is based on a secular ideology, and the KU bombing is among few such attacks perpetrated by the separatists.
The phenomenon ofexploding trollop female suicide bombers is also rare in Pakistain, and except for the very first instance in the 1980s — the details of which remain unknown — three other such attacks, in 2010 and 2011, were claimed by the TTP. For a woman like Shaari Baloch to choose to go down this route despite her not disadvantageous circumstances is significant, and speaks to an increasing frustration in Baloch society.
Enforced disappearances, profiling of Baloch students at university campuses, the province’s lack of agency over the proceeds of its natural resources, etc have exacerbated the yawning deficit between the people and the state. That combined with increasing access to information via social media and deeper engagement in nationalist discourse has seen young Baloch become less reticent about expressing their anger and resentment, even in interactions with the military’s big shotship. It is a critical point in time.
That said, to attack soft targets is utterly reprehensible. And for teachers to be singled out, as happened in the latest instance, is all the more surprising given that the current insurgency is distinguished from its previous iterations by the fact that its support base largely comprises educated young Baloch.
For there to be any possibility of peaceful coexistence, the Baloch must shun such acts of senseless violence and the authorities reach out to them.
[Breitbart] Britannia’s Justice Tsar was greeted by shouts of ’Allahu Akbar’ on a visit to a UK prison, in which Islamists are now said to be running amok.
Islamists are reportedly running riot within Britannia’s prison system, frequently being left alone by staff who apparently fear accusations of racism or homophobia should they try and restore order. homophobia?
Such are the findings of a report on the prevalence of terrorist behaviour in UK prisons, which has released not long after Britannia’s deputy Prime Minister and Justice Tsar, Dominic Raab, was reportedly greeted by chants of "Allahu Akbar" while visiting Woodhill Prison in England.
According to a report by The Times, prisoners greeted Conservative Party bigwig with the Islamist-linked slogan during his visit to the facility, the purpose of which was to promise harsher action on extremism within the UK’s incarceration system.
Such action seems to be badly needed, with an independent report finding that hard boyMoslemhard boyz are obtaining ever-greater control over prison life, with unofficial "emirs" or Islamist commanders becoming de facto decision-makers within jails with which actual prison staff are forced to routinely cooperate with.
According to the report, these Islamist hard boyz are exercising soft power in prisons so as to exclude fellow inmates who don’t live according to their rules from prison amenities, such as kitchens and showers.
Such radical Moslems have even become so powerful as to be able to hold their own sharia courts behind bars, with floggings reportedly being conducted as punishment for rulebreakers.
This status quo is somehow maintained, according to the report, with "insincere allegations of racism and Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... " directed toward staff who attempt to intervene, who often back down for fear of being labelled a bigot.
"HMPPS officials sometimes doubt the extent to which it is possible to distinguish terrorist risk behaviour from other behaviour," the report reads. "They worry about making false assumptions based on a lack of cultural familiarity with Islam or Moslems."
The report concludes by recommending that the process of using so-called "separation centres" — which see hard boyz cut off from the rest of the prison population — should be streamlined so as to reduce terror-related risk in prisons, and that staff should receive more training to recognise danger signs.
In response to the crisis behind bars in Britannia, authorities look set to attempt a clampdown on Islamist radicals.
While current human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... law in the UK is seemingly making it difficult to use "separation centres" effectively, the Conservative Party look set to curb protections in the hopes of combating Islamism in prisons.
Warning that such hard boyz "will poison the well, they will radicalise if they’re left in general population", Raab said that he and his colleagues would stop inmates from using "cultural and religious sensitivities" to exercise control and recruit more terrorists.
"We must nip in the bud the kind of coercive controlling behaviour by hard boyz which can lead to radicalisation and terrorism," the Deputy PM told Sky News, before saying that he wants to take away the right of radical prisoners to socialise with their fellow inmates.
[Breitbart] The Spanish government has revoked the nationality of 78 babies from Moroccan mothers who gave birth in a Spanish North African exclave and lied about the father of their child being Spanish.
The women were clients of an organised criminal group which paid men of Spanish nationality to sign documentation declaring themselves the father of the babies after they were born in the North African city of Melilla, in order that the children to receive Spanish nationality.
The women are said to have entered Melilla before giving birth and were put in contact with men of Spanish nationality by the criminal network, with the men being paid between €1,500 and €3,000 (£1,261-£2523/$1,607-$3215) for stating they were the biological father of the children at the Civil Registry of Melilla, newspaper El Pais reports.
By their children attaining Spanish nationality, the women were then allowed to apply for residency themselves in Spain and police say that, in turn, allowed for family reunification and the children’s real fathers could be brought to Spain later as well.
While police say they do not know how long the criminal network has been operating, they say that at least 117 people, including fake fathers, mothers and intermediaries, were involved in the network. So far 79 people have been arrested and 38 others remain wanted and on the lam. Additionally, 78 babies have had their citizenships revoked after the fraud was detected.
Melilla, which borders Morocco and is one of the two Spanish exclaves on the African mainland, has seen multiple attempts by illegal immigrants colonists in recent years to climb the high fences of the city and make an attempt to claim asylum in Spain.
Earlier this year in March, a group of around 1,200 illegals attempted to climb the 20-foot high barrier, with 380 migrants colonists successfully scaling the border barrier and gaining access to Spanish territory.
Not all illegal immigrants colonists attempt to scale the walls, however. In February, five suspected members of a people trafficking network were charged for helping migrants colonists sneak into the city by boat, with migrants colonists being charged €4,000 (£3,370/$4,566) or more for the trip.
[Breitbart] Far-left Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... holy warriors protested and rioted in multiple French cities following the election victory of President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, with festivities breaking out between police and Antifa bad boys.
Demonstrations and riots broke out in several French cities on Sunday night, following the announcement that President EmmanuelMmacron had secured victory in the second round of the French presidential elections, defeating rival Marine Le Pen.
In Gay Paree, several hundred people gathered at the Place du Châtelet before they were dispersed by police and then later gathered at the Place de la République, where they demonstrated against Macron, with one writing "Antifa" on the statue of the monument of the Republic, while others threw projectiles at police, La Belle Franceinfo reports.
Police made several attempts to charge protestors in order to disperse them and at least 12 people were arrested during the course of the evening, but no injuries were reported.
In Lyon, festivities broke out between far-left holy warriors and police shortly after the result of the election was announced, with holy warriors attacking the town hall of the 4th arrondissement, as well as attacking a cop shoppe and a local bank.
The French riot police, the CRS, were present at the scene and deployed tear gas on the holy warriors to disperse the crowd and carried out identity checks. At least one person was arrested.
Tensions were also reported in Rennes, Nantes, Marseilles, Strasbourg and Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... . In Rennes, around 250 holy warriors erupted into the streets and set fires, while also clashing with police. Seven people were arrested during the course of the rioting.
Rennes had seen rioting after the first round of the presidential election as well, with at least 500 holy warriors taking part in a riot that saw windows of local shops smashed, and graffiti calling for "social war."
In the centre of Nantes, 400 to 500 people gathered and marched behind a banner that called for a revolution in the country.
Antifa extremism remains a major issue in La Belle France, with the Macron government taking a major step prior to the election by banning a Lyon branch of the murderous Moslem group over calls of violence toward police as well as past violent mostly peaceful actions by members of the group.
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By now, most people see ANTI-FA is NOT a US homegrown grassroots radical Antifascist political movement started against Trump. But a Movement started by deep pockets to achieve or maintain certain political wants, goals and/or to maintain a Status Quo.
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It is my understanding that Antifa started in Germany in the 1930s battling the Nazi Brownshirts in the streets. It dates back to Antifaschistische Aktion, set up by the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
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I'm not that familiar with French politics; but from what I know, it seems a stretch to lable Macron a Fascist. Or are they just rioting for the sake of rioting?
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Macron is the status quo. He's a globalist. How is antifa rioting against him? Why would they attack their own side?
Today's antifa has no connection to the 1930s one. They like to pretend they do, though because it makes them sound cool.
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Sometimes you need to demonstrate that you are a force to be reckoned with, and must be heard. If you are a source of violence, hence always newsworthy, you get a disproportionate level of influence. That your rank-and-file are just hired mutts and crazies means nothing, and their arrest or loss is unimportant, there are always more. What is important is the limousines parked in the alley behind the organizational headquarters planning the next event, and whose agents ride in them. Until they are arrested for conspiracy, and roll over on the actual puppet masters and the source of their "Dark Money", its all mystery to the uninformed across the world.
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When they had the WTO riots in Seattle the same players were just called anarchists then. Now they've found a name they can use to fool the rubes, just like BLM, and the Democratic Socialist Republics.
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Your agony aunt, Minnie Love,
Is here, friends, when push comes to shove
In affairs of the hole,
Helping Party or prole,
And her answer is, always, "More, guv!"
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Same reason Democrats want illegal aliens in America. But Hispanic voters are getting wise and leaving the Democrat party. I don't think we can count on that ever happening with the Muslims in Europe.
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Interesting candor from an Indian source.
"Muslim Population is increasing rapidly in secular democratic nations while being restricted in Muslim countries because they have nothing to conquer. They grow to outnumber the Kaffirs and then impose Sharia law or Islamic control in the nation...
A reminder that the big, relatively rich Shiite country next door is keeping an eye on their religious compatriots. Not to mention borrowing some of them for a few years to give them military training in faraway lands — perhaps they, too, will one day be Iranian catspaws striking out on Iran’s orders.
[ToloNews] Families of victims of the mosque blast in northern Mazar-e-Sharif city gained cash assistance from the Iranian Consulate General in Mazar-e-Sharif.
The twenty-three families who lost their loved ones received $500 dollars, and 63 families whose members were maimed received $300 dollars.
This follows a kaboom that targeted worshippers offering prayers in the She-Dokan Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday. More than 30 worshippers were killed, and 87 others were maimed in the blast.
The consulate general said that the families would receive food, medicine and clothes packages in addition to cash assistance.
"Today, a military aircraft is landing in Mazar-e-Sharif from 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... to bring humanitarian aid including food, medicine and clothes and we hope these will be distributed very correctly between families of the victims and needy people," said Sayed Hussain Yahyawe, head of the Consulate General.
The families gathered to receive the assistance and said that almost all of them are struggling with economic challenges.
Atta Mohammad, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif, talked about the blast. "We had started prayers, it blew up, there was smoke and dust everywhere ... all were shocked and horrified," said Atta Mohammad.
Mohammad Aref, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif, lost his 20-year-old son at the incident. Mohammad Aref called the blast a crime against humanity and stated that these incidents must come to an end.
"These incidents must be prevented, how long should people be martyred and suffer? People suffered for more than four decades," said Mohammad Aref.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... the Ottoman Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has provided food assistance to 350 needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Families who received aid,said they lost their employment and are struggling with severe poverty. They asked for job opportunities to start work.
More kaffir funds donated to Talib Big Turban pockets.
[KhaamaPress] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Afghanistan announced that the Netherlands has contributed an additional EUR 20 million for humanitarian purposes in Afghanistan.
The UNOCHA in a Twitter post on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, said that the money will be supporting emergency life-saving responses to assist the most vulnerable people in need in Afghanistan.
...whatever is left after various officials take their baksheesh.
As per the UN office, the Netherlands has contributed EUR 49 million to the Afghanistan humanitarian fund since 2016.
The assistance is good timing as Afghanistan is going through the worst humanitarian condition in its history with 24 million people in need of life-saving assistance while 95 of the population is under the poverty line.
Oddly enough, they didn’t have this problem before the Talibs took over last August. What could have made the difference?
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Vice and Virtue said it has formed local offices in order to investigate the problems of the people who complained about harassment from the forces of the Islamic Emirate.
“We’re the government and we’re here to help.”
The move comes after reports were published over harassment by individuals related to the Islamic Emirate.
“I see you made a complaint about my cousin’s son-in-law’s nephew Abdulmahmudullahaddin. That was a mistake, you say? I’ll just mark it as resolved, then.”
The ministry called on the people to file complains if they face any mistreatment by the Islamic Emirate forces.
"The responsibility of this department is to register the complaints of the people if they are being mistreated by our military," said Mohammad Sadeq Akis, a front man for the ministry.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... Kabul residents called on the ministry to transparently probe the complaints of the people.
"When a soldier is doing his duty, he should consider that he is being monitored," said Najib Rahman, a resident of Kabul.
"(Those) who violated the general amnesty—which must be respected by the members of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... -- should be brought to justice," said Mahmood Raghi, a political analyst.
That won’t help those already murdered and so forth by the turbans, but it’s a nice sentiment.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... analysts said that addressing discipline problems is the responsibility of the security institutions.
"Any kind of security and stability in the capital and in the provinces is the responsibility of the police and Ministry of Interior," said Samar Sadat, a military veteran.
This comes as citizens have voiced concerns over mistreatment at the hands of individuals related to the Islamic Emirate.
[Townhall] Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ...Republican governor of Florida, stone in the shoe of the Dems and their ilk, maybe one-day president... signed a law on Monday aimed at ensuring the Sunshine State's elections are secure. Officially known as Senate Bill 524, the new law instructs Florida's election officials to take further steps to ensure voter rolls are up-to-date, provides for more transparency in elections and stiffer penalties for fraud, and creates a new office to investigate alleged election irregularities.
The Office of Election Crimes and Security, as it will be called, falls under the Florida Department of State and has multiple duties. In addition to "receiving and reviewing notices and reports generated by government officials or any other person regarding alleged occurrences of election law violations or election irregularities," the office will launch "independent inquiries" and conduct "preliminary investigations into allegations." The Office of Election Crimes and Security will also oversee the Florida Department of State's "voter fraud hotline," and complete annual reports to be sent to Florida's governor and legislative leaders.
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[Rudaw] Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the UNHCR Representative in Iraq since November 2021, spoke to Rudaw last week about the situation of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region, praising the recent move to integrate children into the Region’s public schools, and warning of both the agency’s limited humanitarian funding, and the fraud schemes targeting some of the most vulnerable.
The Syrian conflict has displaced over 240,000 Syrians of Kurdish origin to the Kurdistan Region, mainly from northeast Syria (Rojava), and the UN Refugee Agency official opened the interview by commending the Region for welcoming so many, and providing them with a safe place to "rebuild" their lives.
"Over the last ten years, their children have been able to go to school, sick patients have been able to have access to medical care, and a lot of Syrians have found jobs'' in Erbil, Duhok, and Sulaimani, the official told Rudaw’s Dilbixwin Dara. "The Kurdish and Iraqi people have shown a lot of compassion, a lot of empathy [and] a lot of support for their refugee brothers and sisters."
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[Rudaw] Around 50 square kilometers of woodland have been damaged in Duhok in 2021 due to the conflict between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the head of Duhok’s forestry and agriculture directory told Rudaw on Wednesday, as he lamented the destruction of the Region’s forests.
For years, Duhok has played host to the decades-long conflict between the PKK and Turkey in the Kurdistan Region, being the subject of constant bombardment and other offenses that have harmed Duhok, its people, and its environment greatly.
Kawa Sabri, head of Duhok’s forestry and agriculture directory, told Rudaw on Wednesday that some 18-20,000 dunams (between 45 and 50 square kilometers) of forest and over 1,200 dunams (three square kilometers) of agricultural fields in Duhok - from the Zakho border to Amedi - were damaged last year due to the continuous conflict. An Iraqi dunam is roughly 2,500 square meters.
[Rudaw] Nine children in northeast Syria (Rojava) have been killed and many others maimed due to attacks by Ottoman Turkish armed forces since the beginning of the year, according to local media reports published on Wednesday, as The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... continues to intensify its military offenses.
Turkey often targets Rojava, killing and injuring civilians and security forces, and has conducted several military operations in the area since 2016. It claims that the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the backbone of the SDF, is the Syrian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — an gang struggling for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey and considered a terrorist organization by Ankara.
A human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... watchdog from Rojava’s Jazira region stated that the attacks are continuing and intensifying as a result of the silence and lack of action on behalf of the international community and rights groups. Human Rights Organization Jazeera, a rights group which calls itself independent and claims to have no political affiliation, also called for international recognition of Ottoman Turkish occupation of Syrian land, and for the country to be held accountable.
"The hostile acts committed by Turkey and its transgression of Syrian land is a clear occupation, which must be recognized internationally and hold it accountable for all the war crimes it committed against the safe Syrian civilians inside their lands," Hawar News Agency (ANHA), a media outlet affiliated with Kurdish authorities in Rojava, cited Aveen Jumaa, head of the rights watchdog as saying.
The outlet also reported that nine children have been killed and 24 others maimed in suspected Ottoman Turkish attacks on the districts of Ain Issa, Zirgan, and Tel Tamer in 2022, also reporting 21 women killed and maimed.
Jumaa added that international committees and rights groups condemn the violations committed in the area, but do not explicitly condemn the Ottoman Turkish state "despite their actual participation in them."
Gire Spi (Tal Abyad) and the neighboring Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) were controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), until Turkey and its Syrian proxies invaded in October 2019. Both towns were Kurdish-majority, but most people of the ethnicity have fled to other areas under the control of the SDF.
Sari Kani and Gire Spi now lie at opposite ends of a resulting ’buffer zone’ under the control of Ottoman Turkish-backed militias.
[Garowe] Rebellious Tigrayan forces are fully withdrawing from the neighbouring area of Afar in Æthiopia, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces advised Rooters on Monday, saying he hoped it meant that desperately wanted meals support might lastly pour into famine-hit Tigray.
"Our forces have left all of Afar," Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the Tigray Folks’s Liberation Entrance (TPLF), advised Rooters on Monday.
Afar’s police commissioner Ahmed Harif mentioned Tigrayan forces had withdrawn from the city of Abala however had been nonetheless in three of the area’s districts.
He mentioned the forces had been additionally accountable for the freeway between Abala and Tigray’s capital Mekelle, and that he was in contact with native officers and militias who had been protecting him up to date.
Authorities spokesperson Legesse Tulu couldn’t be reached for a remark.
Combating in northern Æthiopia, which started in November 2020 within the Tigray area and spilled over into Afar's final 12 months, has eased because the federal authorities declared a unilateral ceasefire final month, saying it will enable humanitarian support to enter.
Tigrayan forces mentioned they might respect the ceasefire so long as enough support was delivered to their area "inside cheap time".
Solely a trickle of support has made it into Tigray, the place greater than 90% of the inhabitants want meals support because the Æthiopian army pulled out at the finish of June after months of bloody festivities.
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... has blamed forms and insecurity for blocking convoys and mentioned at least 100 vans of support are wanted to enter Tigray on daily basis.
Solely 144 vans have made it in because the ceasefire was introduced a month in the past, with the newest 74 arriving on Monday, in keeping with the U.N. World Meals Programme.
It was unclear if the pull-out was negotiated with the Æthiopian authorities.
The battle in northern Æthiopia has killed hundreds of civilians and displaced hundreds of thousands throughout three areas in Æthiopia and into neighboring Sudan.
The TPLF has accused Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of attempting to centralize energy at the expense of the areas and Abiy has accused the TPLF of attempting to regain nationwide energy — accusations either side has denied.
[BenarNews] President Rodrigo Duterte signed a law this month that sets up a board to compensate people who lost their homes in Marawi during a five-month battle after Islamic holy warriors seized the southern Philippine city in 2017, his front man said Wednesday.
Street fighting between government forces and pro-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.... holy warriors, combined with aerial bombardments by the military, left much of this once-picturesque lakeside city in ruins.
Nearly five years after the military ended the siege and killed top holy warriors who led it, sections of Marawi — the only predominantly Moslem city in the majority-Catholic Philippines — remain uninhabitable. Thousands of families live in transitional shelters.
They’ve been thoroughly punished enough for hosting the local branch of ISIS. Perhaps next time they’ll push back against the jihadis.
"President Duterte has signed Republic Act 11696 which gives compensation to those who lost their property and those who lost lives in the 2017 Marawi siege," acting presidential front man Martin Andanar told news hounds on Wednesday.
The law, which Duterte signed two weeks ago, allows the creation of a nine-member compensation board, but it does not state a figure for how much money Marawi residents could receive to compensate them for homes or properties destroyed during the fighting.
"According to this law, an independent and quasi-judicial body called Marawi Compensation Board will be created and will have a chairman and eight members which will be appointed by the president," he said.
More than 1,200 holy warriors, soldiers, police and non-combatants were killed when Islamic State holy warriors from the Middle East and Southeast Asia joined Filipino fighters who took over Marawi in May 2017. Government forces reclaimed the city in late October that year.
In January, the Philippine Senate passed its version of the act after the House passed similar legislation that were reconciled and sent to Duterte. The reconciled act did not specify amounts to be awarded or the number of people who would benefit from it.
The president signed the law on April 13, barely two months before he will be required to leave office at the end of June. Voters are to go to the polls on May 9 to elect his successor along with 12 members of the Senate, all 316 members of the House of Representatives as well as thousands of officials, who range from governors and mayors to village chiefs and council members.
[Garowe] More than 20 people have been killed in an attack on Moslems in the northern Æthiopian city of Gondar during the funeral of a Moslem elder, a local Islamic group said on Wednesday.
The Islamic Affairs Council of Amhara, the region where Gondar is located, described Tuesday's attack at a cemetery as a "massacre" by heavily armed "extremist Christians."
Interesting. And what triggered local Christians to attack?
The attackers "fired a barrage of heavy machine guns and grenades... leaving many dead while others who were maimed have been taken to hospital," the religious body said.
"More than 20 have died due to yesterday's attack which also saw the looting of Moslem properties," it added.
The mayor of Gondar, Zewdu Malede, told Æthiopian public broadcaster EBC that the "incident was carried out by a few bad boy individuals."
"There has been some destruction and loss of lives from all sides," he said, without offering further details about the identity of the attackers or the victims.
"The situation was (brought) under control by 7:00 pm."
The cemetery where the attack occurred neighbours a mosque and church and has been the subject of an ongoing dispute between Moslems and Orthodox Christians, who are the dominant group in Æthiopia.
"Although ongoing wide-ranging measures have been taken to invade the... cemetery, the place has been historically at all times a Moslem cemetery," the Islamic Affairs Council said in its statement.
Tuesday's violence erupted like lava from a volcano as people clashed over using stones from the area for burial purposes, fighting over whether the materials were being taken from the cemetery or church compound, the Amhara regional government said in a statement.
It sounds like the Moslems raided Christian graves, which does tend to annoy friends and relations of the deceased...
The government described the dear departedMoslem elder as "a father to Gondar city residents, Gondar Christians, and Moslems as well as a father to all" and vowed to investigate the attack and hold the perpetrators accountable.
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"An effort has been made to break the people's unity in the historic city of Gondar, a symbol of co-existence and tolerance, by aiming to create conflict using religion as a guide," the government said.
A senior Moslem official in the capital Addis Ababa told AFP on condition of anonymity that "the attack was planned" and said the gunnies set fire to the mosque and the Koran.
The city's mayor said the attackers were snuffies who had sought "to burn down, to destroy, to destabilize and to loot Gondar."
"This in no way represents the Moslem and Christian communities," he added.
Moslems make up about one-third of Æthiopia's population of 110 million and are a small minority in Amhara, the country's second-most-populous region which is dominated by Orthodox Christians.
In 2019, multiple mosques were attacked in the town of Mota in Amhara, more than 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Addis Ababa, in a wave of religious violence that sparked condemnation by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Analysts caution that conflicts that appear to be rooted in religion in Æthiopia are often also shaped by disputes over land use, ethnicity, and other issues.
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Can’t be Christians because they are like Repubs., you must forgive people who trespass against you!
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you must forgive people who trespass against you!
Doesn't mean you can't shoot them first. Remember that when you ask What Would Jesus Do?, the answer might involve knocking over tables and chasing people with around with whips.
If only Master of the Universe and over-exuberant sensualist Mr. Bill Gates had concentrated in ensuring basic vaccinations instead of trying to make a killing in Covid-19...
[AlAhram] Measles cases have surged by nearly 80 percent worldwide this year, the UN said Wednesday, warning that the rise of the "canary in a coal mine" illness indicates that outbreaks of other diseases are likely on the way.
The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic has interrupted vaccination campaigns for non-Covid diseases around the world, creating a "perfect storm" that could put millions of children's lives at risk, the UN's children's agency UNICEF and the World Health Organization said in a statement.
More than 17,300 measles cases were reported globally in January and February, compared to around 9,600 during those months last year, according to new data from the UN agencies.
There have been 21 large and disruptive measles outbreaks in the last 12 months to April, most of them in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, the data showed.
Christopher Gregory, a senior health adviser in UNICEF's immunization section, told AFP that because measles is the "most contagious vaccine-preventable disease" it often serves as a warning sign.
"Measles is what we call the tracer, or the canary in the coal mine, that really shows us where those weaknesses in the immunization system are," he said.
He said yellow fever was among the diseases that could surge next after rising cases were reported in West Africa.
"We're particularly worried about those countries that are most fragile, where the healthcare systems are already really struggling, where they're still trying to deal with the impacts of Covid on top of these outbreaks," he said.
Somalia recorded by far the most measles cases in the last 12 months with more than 9,000, the UN data showed, followed by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Æthiopia -- all countries battling some form of conflict.
There are also fears that the war in Ukraine could spark a resurgence in the country after it recorded Europe's highest rate of measles between 2017-and 2019.
Gregory said that it had been very difficult to keep track of any disease in Ukraine since the war began, adding that the biggest concern was "what we could be missing".
IMPACT 'FELT FOR DECADES'
More than 23 million children missed out on routine vaccinations in 2020 as the Covid pandemic descended, the largest number in more than a decade.
The UN agencies said that 57 vaccination campaigns in 43 countries postponed at the start of the pandemic had still not been completed, affecting 203 million people -- most of them children.
Covid also continues to pile pressure on healthcare facilities and drag staffing and attention away from vaccination for long-standing deadly diseases.
"The impact of these disruptions to immunization services will be felt for decades to come," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in the statement.
"Now is the moment to get essential immunization back on track and launch catch-up campaigns so that everybody can have access to these life-saving vaccines."
Gregory said it was time to put childhood immunization on "at least the same level of priority as finishing Covid vaccination".
Measles is a disease caused by a virus that attacks mainly children. The most serious complications include blindness, brain swelling, diarrhea, and severe respiratory infections.
Vaccination uptake of at least 95 percent is the best way to avoid it spreading, though many countries fall far short of that goal -- Somalia is at just 46 percent, according to the UN data.
President Joe Biden defended teachers Wednesday, decrying GOP-led efforts in some states to ban books and shape curriculum
'Today, there are too many politicians trying to score political points banning books,' Biden said in the East Room as he hosted the Teachers of the Year
'All because it doesn't fit somebody's political agenda,' Biden said
He added of teachers, 'We have got to stop making them the target of the culture wars'
In comments that quickly incensed conservatives online, Biden told the group representing the best teachers in the nation, 'They are all our children'
'They are not somebody's else children. They're like yours when they're in the classroom,' the president said
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^ That would have been instantly blocked by Twitter just a few days ago.
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Our governor, who bragged about how she got her job by who she slept with, one of those strange old single lesb!@ns, has in her commercial a classroom setting, naturally, to show her dedication to education, of course.
Here's the thing. The child is sitting at desk, and she, Ms. Kelley, comes up from behind, has her head on little kid's should, and is reaching around both right and left to help with the desk items.
"Can't be that weird, H8TR!" Uhmmmm...it is: Creepy Uncle Joe weird.
15 second still frame of Gov. Kelly giving that child the reach-around while trapped at her desk, captioned, "Keep Big Mouse away from our toddlers." Campaign Over other than Republican Primary.
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^ Maybe the syntax / grammar of the post is confusing me. A non-straight person is campaigning on keep Disney wokeness away from our kids? It doesn't line up.
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Go on, keep it up, and watch the gummint school racket be torn down to the last brick.
About damn time.
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Now is the time for pedophiles of the world to unite! And the beauty of it is that, even if parents put their kids in private schools, they still have to pay taxes to support the pedophiles!
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Remember "It Takes a Village" ? This has been the goal for a long time. Remove the parental influence.
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^ Maybe the syntax / grammar of the post is confusing me. A non-straight person is campaigning on keep Disney wokeness away from our kids? It doesn't line up.
No, she is an absolute kreeper, like in the link, all coming in from behind on children. Can't find the commercial, strangely enough. With all the takes they could have kept, the little girl still has a face like, "OMG I can smell her nose breath!"
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The Kansas Senate on Monday voted to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto on The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, a bill that would ban biological male athletes from competing in women’s school sports across the state.
Also known as SB 160, the legislation “requires interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by public educational institutions” to ban male students from joining teams or sports “designated for females.”
It does not ban female athletes or girls from participating in men’s or boys’ sports.
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^ Funny thing. For the longest time the US Fencing sport wouldn't let females fence males nor use anything but foils (no epees or sabers). The reason given of course was the safety of the poor, weak ladies. The actual reason was that before intersex bouts were banned, Helena Meyer immigrated to the US and beat the s#it out of ALL the competition in all 3 weapons.
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If I had a daughter competing at a high level in college sports, I'd have years of encouraging her, driving her to practice in high school, maybe money invested in outside training, and of course a father's unconditional love for his daughter. If all her effort was wiped out by some a$$hole guy (sorry not sorry, trans is bullshit) being allowed to compete as a female. I'd. Be. Royally. Pi$$ed...
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Looking at the governor’s commercial, in addition to all the rest, the child looks somewhat Down’s Syndrome to me.
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Would be even more reason not to do that, but I'd be making faces too if it were take whatever some stranger touching my shoulders at that age.
Absolutely. See that shoe commercial pandering toward dudes in women's sports, absolutely Barkley dunking at the net on two gals...my daughter's face catching that...Basketball getting a knee blown out by a power forward chuck...softball dude drilling back at the pitcher with a metal bat. Ludicrous.
[IsraelTimes] Walid Abu Madiam was caught in Jerusalem’s Old City in November 2020 with a knife and a screwdriver and convicted of attempting to stab a police officer or IDF soldier
An Israeli man from the southern Bedouin city of Rahat was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Wednesday for planning a terror attack against security forces at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site in November 2020.
Walid Abu Madiam, now 23, arrived in Jerusalem on November 6, 2020, armed with a utility knife and a screwdriver. Prosecutors said he planned to murder a police officer or a soldier by stabbing them in the neck, and was driven by nationalistic motives.
Beersheba District Court Judge Daniel Ben Tolila told the court that Abu Madiam’s sentence took into account the fact that he was an Israeli citizen.
According to Haaretz, Ben Tolila wrote in his ruling that Abu Madiam’s citizenship means that "he has a duty of loyalty to the state," and therefore his intention to commit terror was even more severe.
Abu Madiam had told his wife the plan before heading to Jerusalem and asked her not to tell anyone, according to the indictment. She tried to dissuade him, but he warned that he would divorce her if she revealed the plan to anyone.
He called a friend and asked him to give him a ride to Jerusalem to pray. On the way, Abu Madiam’s behavior prompted the friend to ask whether he was planning an attack, and he confessed.
According to the indictment, the friend immediately stopped the car and told him to rethink his plan. Abu Madiam then claimed he had been joking and was in fact going to attack a man who had disrespected his wife. That persuaded the friend to continue.
*sigh*
Abu Madiam got off at Damascus Gate around 1 a.m., the indictment says, and tried to make his way to al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. His behavior raised the suspicion of police forces near the Lion’s Gate, and he was arrested and taken for questioning by police and the Shin Bet security agency.
He reportedly stated that he was motivated to attack due to the fact that "Israel abuses those who come to the Temple Mount and soldiers beat Arabs for no reason."
He was indicted several weeks later and convicted in January 2022 of attempted murder with terrorist intent.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council President Dr. Rashad al-Alimi arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah on Wednesday, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
Mecca’s governor Prince Khaled al-Faisal, the Kingdom’s ambassador to Yemen Mohammed al-Jaber and other officials received Alimi at King Abdulaziz International Airport, the report added.
Al-Alimi was picked to head the eight-man leadership council, which assumed power from former President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadii earlier this month.
On April 19, the council performed a largely symbolic swearing-in in Aden in front of members of a parliament elected in 2003.
A fragile, UN-brokered truce has been holding since April 2, the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, providing a rare respite from fighting.
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[FoxNews] A man who killed a police officer in South Carolina over the weekend did so intentionally, tracking him with his rifle before firing the fatal shot, a police chief said during a press conference Tuesday.
Cayce Public Safety Officer Roy Andrew "Drew" Barr was shot and killed Sunday after he responded to a domestic violence call at a residence shortly before 3 a.m., when a woman told dispatch a man was threatening her and her child with a rifle, the department said.
That man, later identified as 36-year-old Austin Leigh Henderson, was intentional in his actions, shooting Barr once inside the home, then firing again at a group of officers who were attempting to pull Barr to safety, Cayce Police Chief Chris Cowen said.
"He was calculated in what he did. He murdered our officer," Cowen said at the presser.
After firing at the officers, Henderson reportedly put his wife and daughter in a closet, keeping them in a hostage situation for hours before he died of a self-inflicted wound, police said.
Photos and videos at the link. There are lots of Jews from the former Soviet Union in Israel, and many have ties of sentiment to their former homeland.
[Jpost] A video of what appears to be Israelis fighting for Ukraine has been circulating on social media since Sunday, as Russia's invasion has entered into its third month.
"We want to give many thanks to all the nation of Israel, to the government of Israel, for helping us while we can fight against the Russians, in this difficult war," said one fighter in accented Hebrew.
The footage was posted by a popular Twitter account of a Canadian volunteer that claims to be fighting the Russian military in the Kherson area. The strategic port city of Kherson was conquered by Russia early in the war.
UKRAINIAN FOREIGN LEGION
It is unknown if the alleged Israelis shown in the video are joint Ukrainian-Israeli citizens who have enlisted into the main military branches of Ukraine's armed forces or have enlisted as foreign fighters.
Ukraine has formed a foreign legion division and a foreign fighter special forces unit for foreign volunteers. The Ukrainian military has claimed that 20,000 foreigners from 52 countries have applied to enlist. The International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine website lists Israel on its website, with local contact information to facilitate Israeli enlistment.
At the war's outset, the Ukrainian embassy in Israel invited Israelis to volunteer in the fight in Ukraine, but the Facebook post was soon deleted. Over a dozen Israelis reportedly joined the fight after the embassy's call to arms, but since then, there has not been much news about Israelis fighting in Ukraine.
At the beginning of March, Russia warned that it would not treat what it calls "foreign mercenaries" as lawful combatants, and would not provide them the rights due under international humanitarian law.
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Police work over Social media, I feel we all agree.
BUT, many times that call could be for police related work, or family emergencies.
So Mayor Adams is just playing the LSD Hate and Screw Police card differently.
I know us clod pickers ain't no such lerned as Mister Adams, but we use our phones on calls for a ton of shit, including DMs with person specific info not important enough for radio, or radio is such occupied, for locating teammates, environment updates, taking notes and photos/video.
Real life: Officer: "Can you re-play security camera # at 00:00 - 00:00+:15".
-Winds it up- "Do you want a copy of that timeline?"
-gets out phone, points at monitor- "Nah, just push play after I push play."
But you Kansas boys are assholes. Maybe; I'd grab a partner, go to one of those tunnel camps and/or hazard posts, and have partner record me recording the shit, and posting something about Waiting for You, Mr. Adams.
[BBC] A former US marine held in a Russian jail since 2019 has been released in a prisoner swap.
US and Russian officials confirmed on Wednesday that Trevor Reed is on his way back to the US.
In exchange, Russia's foreign ministry secured the release of Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian national jailed on drug smuggling charges.
The Reed family said in a statement that their "prayers have been answered".
They said the marine would tell his story publicly after addressing "the myriad of health issues" brought on by living in a Russian gulag.
President Joe Biden said he had been "delighted" to share the news of Mr Reed's return with his parents.
Mr Reed went to Moscow in 2019 to learn Russian and visit his Russian girlfriend.
On a drunken night out, he was detained by two police officers after attending a party. While being driven to the police station, he is said to have grabbed the police officer driving, causing him to swerve dangerously, and elbowed the other officer who tried to intervene.
Maintaining that he had no recollection of the incident, he pleaded not guilty but was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 on assault charges.
The US government voiced several concerns about the fairness of his trial, with US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan recently saying that Mr Reed "remains in prison for a crime he didn't commit".
According to the Reeds, their son was poorly treated in prison and even contracted tuberculosis at one point.
The prisoner swap was carried out via Turkey after President Biden commuted the sentence of Mr Yaroshenko.
The Russian pilot had been serving a 20-year sentence since 2010 for smuggling cocaine into the US. His lawyer has confirmed the Russian national is also headed home.
Senior US officials said Wednesday's exchange was not the start of a broader diplomatic dialogue and instead focused narrowly on Mr Reed's release.
That means the fate of other Americans currently detained in Russia - including Brittney Griner, a double Olympic gold medallist in women's basketball - remains unclear for now.
In a statement, the family of Paul Whelan, a former US marine being held on spying charges, said it was "full of happiness for the Reeds" but time was running out for Mr Whelan.
"Paul has already spent three-and-a-quarter years as a Russian hostage," they wrote. "Is President Biden's failure to bring Paul home an admission that some cases are too hard to solve? Is the administration's piecemeal approach picking low hanging fruit?"
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[Korrespondent] 23:37 The United States is considering adding Russia to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Blinken said.
22:52 More than 50 “arrivals” from Russia were recorded in the Esman community of the Sumy region in half an hour, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky.
22:47 Arestovich said that by the end of May - beginning of June, Western weapons would arrive "in commercial quantities capable of changing the balance of forces in specific areas." "The end of June - July - there will be a hot offensive from our side," the adviser to the head of the OP added.
22:45 The South Ukrainian NPP has been renamed Pivdennoukrainska, Energoatom reported. In short - PAES.
22:42 A team has been set up in the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office to evacuate the civilian population from Azovstal, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq said.
22:19 According to the Cabinet of Ministers, in 2022 Ukraine's GDP may be reduced by 30-50%, Shmyhal said. According to the prime minister, in the first six weeks of the war, the total damage to the Ukrainian economy exceeded $500 billion.
22:18 Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger called for the permanent abolition of import duties on all Ukrainian exports to the EU countries.
22:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of three ammunition depots in Chervonoye and Ilyichevka, Kharkiv region.
22:11 Russian media report that the fourth issue of the Kharkiv Z newspaper has already been published in the occupied territory of the Kharkiv region. The radio of the same name is also working, and after electricity is supplied to the region, it is planned to launch TV towers to broadcast Russian channels.
21:53 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, a series of fires have occurred at facilities that are in one way or another connected with the war against Ukraine. More about this in the article Russia on fire .
21:46 Washington has lifted some restrictions on the exchange of intelligence with Kiev in connection with the new military offensive of the Russian Federation in the east and south of the country, writes Bloomberg.
21:43 Moscow warned the West about a new "fake" that Kiev is allegedly preparing: in Lisichansk, broken equipment is brought to the central market, "fired upon by Ukrainian units," "the bodies of Ukrainian servicemen dressed in civilian clothes are delivered."
"Fake" with the death of civilians as a result of Russian shelling was prepared by "Ukrainian specialists in information operations", and "representatives of Ukrainian and Western news agencies, including the United States, Great Britain and Poland" were invited for staged filming," the Interdepartmental Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response said.
21:41 Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Lieutenant General Serhiy Naev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:40 Podolyak believes that the intensity of Russia's "demilitarization" in the areas bordering Ukraine will increase: "Panic moods will grow rapidly there, conflict situations will appear there, warehouses will explode there, and this will only deepen."
21:26 Germany no longer sees a reliable partner in Russia, said German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. According to him, Moscow's actions have demonstrated that it cannot be relied upon in the long term.
21:23 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko spoke about the situation with the bridge across the Dniester estuary. According to him, today the enemy launched a missile attack on the region with three missiles - one hit the bridge, the second fell nearby, the third - into the water. There were no casualties, and the railroad is being repaired. Traffic across the bridge has already resumed on one lane in both directions.
21:20 Russian government hackers carried out a total of 37 “destructive” cyberattacks from Russia in Ukraine between February 23 and April 8, Reuters reports citing a Microsoft report.
21:18 The European Commission proposes to simplify legal migration to the EU, including for Ukrainian refugees. A package of proposals on this topic was presented at a press conference in Brussels by the Deputy Head of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, and the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, reports DW.
21:11 Zelensky, in his evening address, announced the preparation of an important EU decision: the European Commission agreed on the abolition of all duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports for a year, as well as the suspension of anti-dumping tariffs.
Today, the President of Ukraine discussed the details of this proposal with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen: "I am grateful to her personally and to all our European friends for this step. Right now, this will allow us to maintain maximum economic activity in Ukraine, our national production."
"Ukrainian exports are also beneficial to the European Union. Therefore, today we discussed how to increase the potential of transport corridors on our western border," Zelensky said.
21:08 Bulgaria, in response to Gazprom's decision to cut off gas supplies due to refusal to pay in rubles, is going to revise contracts with the Russian monopoly, including for the transit of gas, which is pumped through the Turkish Stream pipeline to Serbia and Hungary, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said: "We must show that unilateral blackmail is not a relationship that Bulgaria will tolerate."
20:54 Podolyak believes that in the case of Pridnestrovie, it is more about informational pressure on Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine has always considered Pridnestrovie as a springboard for a possible offensive, so the defense in this direction has been thought out. He also stated that drawing Transnistria into the war would mean the end of this enclave, and Tiraspol understands this.
20:52 The UK Ministry of Defense reported that London has sent more than 5,000 anti-tank missiles, 1,360 anti-tank ammunition, 4.5 tons of explosives and five air defense systems to Kiev since the beginning of the war.
20:38 The Wall Street Journal claims that Putin has three children from gymnast Alina Kabaeva and the United States even considered imposing sanctions against her. Details - in the material The real first lady of the Russian Federation.
20:32 Russian occupiers are forcing the personnel of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant to hang a portrait of Putin until May 9, Energoatom reports.
20:24 The UN Humanitarian Affairs Office has formed an evacuation team from Mariupol, the office of UN Secretary General António Guterres said. On the issue of the team's activities, contacts have already been established with representatives of Ukraine and Russia.
20:16 In May, Russia plans to hold a referendum on joining the LDNR, and in the Kherson region - a referendum on independence from Ukraine and the creation of KhNR, Meduza reports, citing its sources.
In turn, the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko, reports that there is more and more talk about joining the city to the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. Local residents are already reporting that children sign notebooks at school: "Mariupol, Rostov Region."
“I don’t understand what this will change in a war where we are already at war with Russia. But such information rather speaks of the reality of the Kremlin’s plans,” he wrote.
20:06 Reznikov said that there are several very difficult weeks ahead: “In the coming days, all our resilience and extraordinary unity will be required. The enemy is already aware of his strategic defeat, but will still try to inflict great pain on us. Unfortunately, before victory we still "We will lose our warriors. There will be more destruction and painful casualties. We must endure. And we will endure!"
20:02 Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said that after the war the city council would rename all toponyms associated with Russia. In the near future, a special section will appear on the City Council website, where all Kharkiv residents will be able to report which name should be changed and offer their own version.
19:56 At their meeting, the defense ministers of 40 countries of the world made a strategic decision on the transition of the Ukrainian army to Western calibers and equipment, Reznikov said. According to him, Ukraine is already receiving 155 mm artillery, and gradually this will ensure full cooperation of the Ukrainian army with the armies of NATO countries.
19:31 German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock revealed the details of the supply of weapons to Ukraine: Germany has already provided the Armed Forces of Ukraine with several thousand hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, portable Stinger air defense systems, tens of millions of ammunition, bunker grenades, machine guns, anti-tank mines, hand grenades and explosives.
In addition, the federal government organized the supply of weapons through defense concerns, the surplus of which the Bundeswehr had exhausted. We are talking about anti-tank mines and, especially, artillery ammunition, Burbock said. She also noted that the decision to supply Ukraine with heavy armored vehicles, which became known the day before, was not hasty, it was prepared and closely coordinated with the allies.
19:10 In April, the National Bank issued 50 billion hryvnias by purchasing military bonds for the corresponding amount. According to the press service of the NBU, as of April 28, the portfolio of military bonds owned by the regulator will amount to UAH 70 billion.
19:07 At an extraordinary session of the UN General Assembly, Russia was suspended from participation in the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Kuleba said.
19:04 The invaders are preparing a propaganda "press tour" to Mariupol for loyal media. According to Ukrainian intelligence, a large-scale political provocation is being prepared in the city for April 28 with an attempt to attract some Western journalists.
The program of the event includes "alternative facts" about the defense of Mariupol. Trained "witnesses" will tell that allegedly Ukrainian defenders themselves bombed the city and destroyed local residents, this will be confirmed by "eyewitnesses".
18:57 In Bucha, the invaders killed people according to pre-compiled lists, Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said. In particular, they were looking for activists, ATO participants and officials. Perhaps the list was helped by local collaborators.
"They had lists - I saw these lists. They were not written by hand. One of the locals dictated. Perhaps there were some collaborations. That is, they knew in advance who they were going to, at what address, and what kind of man," the mayor said. According to him, among the people who were supposed to be killed were the names of officials.
18:53 Finland will not pay for Russian gas in rubles, Titti Tuppurainen, Minister of European and Corporate Governance, said.
18:49 Pridnestrovie does not pose a real military threat to Ukraine, such as the opening of a second front, an attack on Odessa, and so on, analysts are sure. About why this is so - in the material Non-working army: the military potential of Pridnestrovie .
18:47 48 kg of gold was confiscated from the former deputy minister, it was collected in favor of the state to ensure defense capability, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. The value of the seized in monetary terms is more than 90 million hryvnia.
We are talking about "one of the former high-ranking officials from the entourage of the fugitive ex-president, who was involved in the seizure of the Mezhyhirya state residence." The media write that this is probably Eduard Stavitsky.
18:40 Russia is increasing the pace of the offensive, carrying out intense fire in almost all directions. The greatest activity is observed in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions, the occupier is preparing additional units to participate in hostilities, Motuzyanyk said.
18:31 The speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanik said that the Russians are striving to establish full control over the settlement of Velikaya Kamyshevakha, which is 20 km southwest of Izyum, and also to capture the village of Kurulka, 20 km south of Izyum.
18:25 UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Ukraine after visiting Moscow. "We will continue our work to expand humanitarian assistance and ensure the evacuation of civilians from conflict zones. The sooner this war ends, the better for Ukraine, Russia and the world," he said.
18:24 Switzerland has banned the import of coal from Russia, as well as timber, seafood, caviar and other products.
Noooooooo!! Not caviar!
18:20 Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov did not rule out a 17% reduction in oil production in Russia in 2022 "due to the refusal of a number of countries to buy it."
18:18 The GPU announced suspicion of infringement on the territorial integrity of Ukraine to the chairman and 418 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
18:16 EU representatives sent an official letter to Hungary, which was the first step towards the application of a new mechanism to reduce funding for undermining the rule of law standards in the bloc.
17:39 In the early days of the Russian invasion, American intelligence provided Kiev with data on where the invaders plan to drop their missiles and bombs. This helped the Ukrainian side save its planes and air defense systems, writes NBC News, citing official statements.
In addition, intelligence sharing enabled the Ukrainian military to shoot down a Russian transport aircraft carrying hundreds of troops, which helped repel an attack on a key airport near Kyiv.
17:16 Zelensky spoke with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, thanked for joining his country in the investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Russia, as well as for supporting sanctions and for providing shelter for more than 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
17:03 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that the former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Georgia to prepare the opening of a second front against Russia in case of hostilities in Ukraine.
The Prime Minister of Georgia once again stated that no one will drag the republic into the war, there will be no second front: "If Saakashvili were in power today, there would be a war here, they would get a second Mairupol here."
16:46 Putin again threatens the world: "If someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine from the outside and creates a strategic threat, the strikes will be lightning. All decisions on lightning strikes in the event of a threat to the strategic security of the Russian Federation have been adopted."
16:43 Military counterintelligence of the SBU exposed an official of a defense facility in the Zhytomyr region while collecting classified information about Ukrainian combat aircraft and air force infrastructure.
16:31 Moldovan President Maia Sandu admitted that now the country actually does not have a combat-ready army and the situation needs to be changed.
16:22 Canada has imposed sanctions against 203 representatives of the "DNR" and "LNR" leadership.
15:51 General Motors donated 50 Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs to Ukraine to provide humanitarian assistance. The American concern also allocated financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 250 thousand dollars and another 50 thousand additionally collected by the company's employees.
15:49 In the occupied territories, men of military age are massively kidnapped - they replenish the exchange fund and prepare for May 9, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Thus, large-scale filtration measures are being carried out in the territories of Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev, Luhansk, Donetsk regions occupied by the enemy, the victims of which are most often men of military age. First of all - ATO/JFO veterans, former military and law enforcement officers, pro-Ukrainian activists.
More than 300 pro-Ukrainian activists and ATO/JFO veterans are being interrogated and tortured in the premises of the Kherson temporary detention facility.
In the village of Bolshaya Lepetikha, Kherson region, a filtration camp has been set up, where about 400 Russian servicemen dressed in the uniform of the National Guard have recently arrived. They are looking for and detaining men of military age, who are massively taken out in the direction of the Crimea.
The main goal of such actions is "replenishment of the exchange fund." They plan to exchange Ukrainian hostages for Russian war criminals. Also, the organization of propaganda "victory parades" with the participation of detained Ukrainians is not ruled out. According to the information received, they may be passed off as "prisoners of war" and led through the streets of occupied cities. Similar events were held in Donetsk in 2014. Then, after numerous tortures, Ukrainian heroes were forced to walk along the central street of Donetsk, where they were subjected to bullying and humiliation.
15:44 Austria returned its embassy to Kiev.
15:27 Poland and Bulgaria receive gas from their EU neighbors, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
15:13 Kyiv City State Administration announced the completion of the laying of a water pipeline in Irpen.
15:07 Israel canceled the parade of veterans on May 9 due to Russian aggression in Ukraine, Minister of Aliyah and Integration Pnina Tamano-Shata said.
14:43 "Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pridnestrovie" stated that Ukraine is behind the explosions in the village of Kolbasna, the organizers of the explosions allegedly left for the territory of Ukraine after the attacks.
14:42 European Parliament President Roberta Metsola called for a pan-European embargo on Russian energy resources: "We will not allow the European Union to be blackmailed. We are not afraid of Putin."
14:40 Russia is preparing provocations with missile strikes on Transnistria in order to accuse Ukraine of attacking the unrecognized "republic", OK Pivden said.
14:35 Member states of the CSTO (a military-political organization that includes Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan) do not support the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine.
Hmmmm....
Thus, the members of the organization do not want to make decisions on conducting peacekeeping operations outside their countries, including in the "DNR" and "LNR", reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Instead, CSTO members admit the possibility of a limited deployment of national contingents on the territory of the Russian Federation or Belarus, but only after an official announcement of Ukraine's attack on their territory.
Kazakh Defense Minister Ruslan Zhaksylykov said on April 15 that his country had not received a request to send national troops to Ukraine. He confirmed that during the last meeting of the CSTO military committee, the issue of participation in the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine was not considered.
Currently, all CSTO member countries (except Russia and Belarus) are neutral on the issue of Russian invasion. None of them recognized the annexation of Crimea and the independence of the LDNR.
14:16 Acting Commander of the marine brigade Sergei Volynsky with the call sign Volyn, who is surrounded in Mariupol, spoke about the extremely difficult situation at Azovstal. According to him, there are 600 wounded soldiers who cannot be given proper assistance. There are big problems with water, food and ammunition.
Volynsky called for an extraction procedure - to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian units from Mariupol. As an example, he cited the evacuation of Anglo-French troops from Dunkirk in 1940.
13:57 Norway will allocate almost 41 million euros to the British initiative to purchase weapons for Ukraine, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stere announced. He also added that Norway could make additional direct arms deliveries to Ukraine on top of what it had already handed over to Ukrainian defenders.
13:55 Today, 58 people were evacuated from Popasna, the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said. According to him, "almost every day 40, 60, 80 priests choose life and leave." He added that it is no longer possible to rely on humanitarian corridors - it is almost impossible to negotiate with the Russians.
13:53 Peskov said that there were no specific agreements on involving the UN and the ICRC in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal at the meeting between Putin and Guterres.
13:52 The economy of Ukraine continues to function at about 60-70%, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported.
13:51 Podolyak says that the time and context of the meeting between Zelensky and Putin have not yet been determined.
13:33 The Swedish government has asked the EU for compensation for military supplies to Ukraine - in particular, for the supply of five thousand helmets, Swedish Radio reported. According to the publication, Stockholm demanded 9 million euros more than the helmets sent were worth. At the same time, it is reported that Sweden will receive compensation for only a small part of the military supplies.
13:30 The Office of the President of Ukraine proposes to impose sanctions against Gazprombank in order to make it impossible to circumvent sanctions and pay for gas in rubles, Yermak said. According to Western media, four European companies have already agreed to the scheme proposed by Moscow.
13:22 A delegation of the Bulgarian government headed by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov is going to Kiev to make a decision on military assistance to Ukraine, the Bulgarian TV channel NOVA reported. Representatives of three of the four parties in the ruling coalition are traveling with Petkov, while the fourth party (the Socialists) opposes military assistance to Kyiv.
13:17 The Kremlin has appointed a new curator of relations with the "LDNR" - he was the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia and the curator of domestic policy of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko, Russian media report citing their sources. Previously, the department for border cooperation, subordinated to Dmitry Kozak, was responsible for interaction with the LDNR. Now the department for domestic policy will be responsible for this direction.
13:15 The EU is considering the possibility of abolishing all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian exports in order to support the country's economy during the war, writes Bloomberg.
13:14 In Kharkiv and the region, after night shelling, three people were killed, 15 were injured. Shelling continues in Zolochiv, Dergachi, Chuguev, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
13:07 CNN reports that it has received a new exclusive video confirming Russia's involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha. The publication itself has not yet published the video, but provided its description: “The video of March 13 shows that Russian military equipment is standing at a crossroads. CNN identified three objects in the video a little further down the street - these are the bodies seen in the April 1 video and in satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies on March 18.
It is noted that the bodies of the killed people and military equipment of the Russian Federation were also recorded on another video made from a drone.
CNN has received a new video confirming Russia's involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha
12:38 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer called fake Russian propaganda the message of Vienna's consent to pay for gas in rubles: "OMV will continue to pay for gas supplies from Russia in euros. Austria strictly complies with the jointly agreed EU sanctions."
12:35 Ten European buyers have already opened special accounts with Gazprombank to pay for gas in rubles, Bloomberg reports.
12:33 Poland is ready to accept wounded and sick citizens from Mariupol for treatment, Andrzej Duda's office said.
12:19 In Kherson, as a result of the dispersal of the rally, four people have already suffered, the media write.
12:14 Taiwan will hold the largest annual exercise to test a possible Chinese attack. The exercises will be based on the experience of military operations in Ukraine and will focus on the tactics and strategy of asymmetric and cognitive warfare, writes Reuters.
11:55 The authorities of Kiev are asking citizens to refrain from visiting cemeteries during memorial days for the period of martial law due to danger. “Do not create crowds of people these days in the territories of cemeteries, do not endanger yourself and your loved ones,” urged the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Nikolai Povoroznik.
11:38 The occupiers hit Avdeevka twice with phosphorus shells, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military District Kirilenko said. According to him, one strike last night fell on the area of the coking plant, and the second this morning - in the city center. This was followed by an air strike on a high-rise building, fires broke out in the city, at least one person was injured.
11:27 British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said that Russia's threats about the likelihood of strikes against military targets of NATO countries supplying weapons to Ukraine are illegal, while assistance to Ukraine is legal: "International law speaks very clearly about this. States have the right to provide military support to any State exercising the right to legitimate defense against invasion."
11:25 Podolyak on explosions in Russian regions: "Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk regions are now also beginning to actively study such a thing as" demilitarization. ammunition depots. For various reasons. And they are doing it more actively and more confidently."
"How to explain this? It's very simple. If you (the Russians) decide to massively attack another country, massively kill everyone there, massively crush peaceful people with tanks, and use warehouses in your regions to ensure the killings, then sooner or later you will have to repay the debts. When such intensity and volume of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine will not work. And therefore, the disarmament of the Belgorod-Voronezh warehouses of murderers is an absolutely natural, natural process. Karma is a cruel thing, "wrote the adviser to the head of the Presidential Administration.
11:23 Ukraine could seize Transnistria "at the click of a finger," but only if there is a corresponding request from Moldova, Arestovich said.
He considers the current escalation in Transnistria a Moscow provocation and says that Moldova may find itself in a difficult situation: “Moldova may have very big troubles. And the best thing that Moldova can do in this case, it seems to me, is to turn to Ukraine for help and Romania".
11:20 Erdogan again initiated a meeting between Zelensky and Putin. According to Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, he "has hope" that the meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia will take place "despite some difficulties," "perhaps in the coming days."
11:17 In Lutsk, the dismantling of Soviet symbols at the memorial of Eternal Glory has begun. The numbers 1941 will be replaced by 1939.
11:14 Air attacks on Azovstal do not subside, but publications of battles have disappeared from the public information field, Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. According to him, again there are street fights in the sector from the plant management of Azovstal to the street. Ukrainian Cossacks (Rainbow Park).
11:11 Johnson said that Britain would not object if Ukraine used the weapons provided to it against targets in Russia.
11:10 Poland no longer intends to buy gas from Russia, said government spokesman for strategic energy infrastructure Piotr Najimski.
11:06 Australia will give Ukraine six British-made M777 155-mm howitzers and ammunition for them. The delivery was approved by the government of the country. Earlier, similar equipment was transferred to the Ukrainian military by Canada.
11:04 US Attorney General Merrick Garland supported the initiative to transfer part of the assets confiscated from Russian oligarchs directly to Ukraine: "Government, we would support a law that would allow part of this money to go directly to Ukraine."
He also denounced Russian atrocities in Ukraine: “All these pictures are just awful, and who grew up in the 20th century never expected to see this again in the 21st century.
11:01 In Kherson, the Russian invaders dispersed a peaceful rally on Svoboda Square. Local residents report the use of tear gas and stun grenades.
10:56 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called Gazprom's statements about the suspension of gas supplies blackmail and said that the EU is ready for such a scenario and is planning a response: "We are ready for such a scenario. We are planning our coordinated response to the EU. Europeans can be sure that we are united and in solidarity with the affected Member States."
10:55 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 27:
personnel - about 22,400 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 939 (+21),
armored combat vehicles - 2342 (+34),
artillery systems - 421 (+5),
MLRS - 149 (+0),
air defense systems - 71 (+2),
aircraft - 185 (+1),
helicopters - 155 (+1),
automotive equipment - 1666 (+23),
ships/boats - 8 (+0),
tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 207 (+2),
special equipment - 31 (+0),
launchers OTRK / TRK - 4 (+0).
10:47 Russian special services arrange staged stories for the media: they forcibly take foreigners from Kherson to Crimea for PR. The SBU has received evidence that FSB officers invent fakes by organizing the forcible evacuation of people from the occupied territories.
Thus, the SBU gained access to the phone of an FSB officer who oversaw the creation of a "picture" for the occupiers in the Kherson region. He was responsible for the "special operation to evacuate" to the Crimea 19 Vietnamese citizens who worked at the market in Kherson. In the final, a video was supposed to turn out, where foreigners would thank the Russian Federation for saving. However, it turned out that the Vietnamese did not want to go to the Crimea and tried to leave for Odessa. The Russians managed to detain 14 out of 19 Vietnamese. On the same day, the Russian press spread "news" about the evacuation of 140 grateful foreigners to Crimea.
10:43 Raytheon Technologies has told investors that it will not be able to increase production of Stinger missiles until 2023 due to a lack of parts and materials for weapons that Western allies urgently sent to Ukraine. The American newspaper Politico writes that thousands of Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems have been removed from warehouses in Europe and the United States and sent to Ukraine, but so far there is no clear resupply plan for the countries that transferred them.
This would be a perfect time for Russia to attack America, if only they had an army that could handle such a thing, and supplies with which to do so. China’s army is no doubt all locked down at the moment, so they can’t attack either...
Bloomberg, citing military experts, also reports that US stockpiles of weapons risk running out in a few months if the Biden administration continues to send them to Ukraine.
10:40 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that Russian forces are now moving more rationally than before in eastern Ukraine, "at least along the line from Izyum to Rubizhne."
"Russian troops are advancing in several parallel paths, at a distance that allows them to support each other. This helps them use more combat power than before," the report says.
10:38 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of hangars "with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops" with Caliber missiles on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant.
10:21 Transnistrian media report shooting in the area of warehouses near the village of Kolbasna, not far from the border with Ukraine, there are no casualties. There is a large ammunition depot in this settlement.
10:12 Austria has accepted the Russian terms on the new payment for gas, the chancellor said.
09:53 A citizen of Russia and a citizen of Belarus were detained in Poland on charges of espionage in favor of the Russian special services. The suspects collected information about Polish military units. Previously, they were arrested for three months, the Polish authorities said. They face up to ten years in prison.
09:50 At night, a large grain elevator came under fire in the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk.
09:48 The FSB announced that two Russians - "supporters of Ukrainian Nazism" - were detained while preparing a sabotage at a transport infrastructure facility in the Belgorod Region.
09:45 Head of the Mountain Military Administration Aleksey Babchenko said that tank battles were taking place in Orekhovo south of Lisichansk. About ten local residents remained in the village, the rest were evacuated. The village itself was completely destroyed.
09:37 Over 100,000 citizens of Ukraine entered Crimea in two months, more than a thousand foreigners asked for temporary asylum, Russian media report, citing Crimean "border guards".
09:35 Podolyak - about bad news for the Russian Federation: "One of Russia's strange demands at the beginning of the war was the "complete demilitarization" of Ukraine. Well, after yesterday's landmark meeting of 40 defense ministers of the world, I have very bad news for Russia. Volume, speed , simplified logistics, expanded range of weapons - Ukraine is getting stronger."
09:08 Gazprom confirmed that it had completely suspended gas supplies to Bulgarian Bulgargaz and Polish PGNiG due to non-payment in rubles.
09:05 In Zaporozhye, violators of the curfew are sent to the military registration and enlistment offices. According to the OVA, out of 22 men detained in the region that night, 11 received summons with direction to the territorial recruiting centers.
08:39 In the United States on April 27, a vote will be held for Lend-Lease for Ukraine. According to the White House, voting should begin at 21:00 Kyiv time. If the law is passed, it would give Biden greater powers and significantly speed up the supply of weapons from the United States for rent or without payment.
08:36 In Russia, emergency services reported that the number of Ukrainian refugees in the Russian Federation exceeded one million people.
08:35 In Severodonetsk, a clergyman of the UOC-MP passed information to the enemy about the deployment of Ukrainian troops, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
08:33 In the Zatoka of the Odessa region, the Russians again fired at the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the morning. There were no casualties, the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Alexander Kamyshin said.
08:29 British intelligence reports that Ukraine retains control over most of its airspace, while Russia has not been able to effectively destroy the Ukrainian air force or suppress the Ukrainian air defense system. Ukraine continues to put Russian air assets at risk.
Aviation of the Russian Federation is mainly concentrated in the South and East of Ukraine, providing support to the Russian ground forces. Russia has very limited air access to the north and west of Ukraine, mostly with remote strikes.
Most Russian airstrikes on Mariupol are likely to be carried out by unguided free-falling bombs. These weapons increase the risk of civilian casualties.
08:11 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, the occupiers from the artillery fired on the Zelenodolsk community, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. They hit an energy infrastructure enterprise, as a result, a strong fire broke out, which rescuers extinguished for several hours. One employee of the enterprise was injured.
07:57 US efforts to supply weapons to Ukraine are supported by 73% of Americans, the highest level since the Russian invasion, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
07:40 The US Department of Defense has created a control center for coordinating deliveries and optimizing the delivery of military assistance to Ukraine in Stuttgart, Germany, in the area of responsibility of the US European Command.
07:38 Explosions were heard in Voronezh and the Kursk region of the Russian Federation tonight, according to local authorities, air defense was working.
07:14 In the Liman direction , the enemy established control over the settlement of Zarechnoye , stormed in the area of the settlement of Yampol. In the Severodonetsk direction, the invaders have established control over the settlement of Novotoshkovskoye , they are advancing in the direction of the settlements of Nizhnee and Orekhovo.
07:12 The invaders transferred from the territory of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation to Izyum two BTGs from the 76th airborne assault division of the airborne troops. In addition, in the areas of settlements in the Belgorod region, the enemy deployed two missile divisions of the Iskander-M OTRK.
07:09 The occupiers have taken control of the village of Zavodie near Izyum , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The enemy is also conducting offensive operations in the direction of Barvenkovo, captured the northeastern outskirts of the Bolshaya Kamyshevakha settlement.
06:33 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will address the Allies on April 27 in London. She plans to call on Western countries to provide aircraft to Ukraine, the BBC reports.
"If Putin succeeds, untold suffering will follow across Europe and terrible consequences for the whole world. We will never feel safe again," she will address the entire civilized world with such a speech.
06:05 Johnson believes that Putin will not use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine if he encounters new military setbacks.
06:00 Scholz opposes the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine, even if he now authorizes the sale, Der Tagesspiegel writes. The publication also cites data from opinion polls, according to which at least 50% of the German population is skeptical about the supply of weapons to Ukraine, especially heavy weapons.
05:37 Governor of the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Gladkov said that, according to preliminary data, an ammunition depot is on fire near the village of Staraya Nelidovka.
05:18 Slovak President Zuzana Chaputova addressed the Russians in Russian and called for an end to the war in Ukraine. She called it "undesirable" and started "without any reason". Chaputova stressed that no one threatened the Russians and did not want to harm, "but you do the harm."
Chaputova criticized the Russians for justifying the invasion of Ukraine with words of "liberation" and said that the Russian military had lost officer honor and military discipline.
04:16 Ukrainian defenders attacked the positions of Russian troops on Zmeiny Island. Enemy losses are being specified, OK Pivden reported. Fixed hit in the control center, the destruction of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system.
02:48 The Russian Federation is trying to destabilize the situation in the Transnistrian region, but the Ukrainian army is ready for a possible escalation, Zelensky said. He said that he had already discussed the aggravation of the situation in the so-called "MRT" with the leaders of Moldova and Romania.
02:19 Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russian army has fired about 1,300 missiles on the territory of Ukraine - about half of its stock, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. According to her, Moscow will not be able to replenish stocks quickly due to sanctions, but the remaining missiles will last for a long time.
01:31 The UK will deliver high-tech Brimstone missiles to Ukraine in the next few weeks, Minister of the Armed Forces James Hippie said. The homing air-to-ground missile is equipped with an active radar homing head, which makes it possible to hit moving targets with great accuracy.
01:23 Russia stops deliveries of its gas to European countries in order to blackmail them and split the unity of Ukraine's allies, Yermak said: "We are seeing a typical increase in rates for Russians and a departure from any rules and obligations. The EU has repeatedly said that paying for gas in rubles will not be, since the signed contracts do not talk about settlements in "wooden" currency.
According to him, in this way Moscow proves that energy resources are a weapon for it, and called on the European Union to be united and impose an embargo on them.
00:58 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that it is no longer enough to supply only defensive weapons to Ukraine: "For too long there has been an erroneous distinction between defensive and offensive weapons. For some, this has become a reason to delay deliveries. That time has passed."
00:47 Putin shows no signs of readiness to end the war through peaceful negotiations, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. According to him, Washington is doing everything possible to ensure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine receive weapons in record time, and this greatly narrows the possibilities for aggression by the Russian invaders.
00:25 Arestovich believes that the war in Ukraine will last until the New Year: “We need to tune in to a long story. The cessation of the active phase in the Donbass is not the end of the war. All the same, there will be tactical actions, raids ... This is a long story, and maybe be quite long, it may be before the New Year, it all depends on a number of circumstances.
00:02 Pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned to the international community with a request to provide more modern aircraft to counter the enemy in the air. Colonel Yuri Bulavka, 1st class fighter pilot, winner of several air shows in Europe, said that his friend and mentor, the legendary ace pilot Alexander Oksanchenko, died on February 25 in the sky over Kyiv.
“Even aerobatics of this level will not save us from invaders’ missiles. We need more modern aircraft to counter the enemy in the air. American Falcon F-16s, F-15s, and maybe F-18s, would be enough to gain an advantage. After all, these aircraft have powerful airborne radars, technological equipment, and most importantly, missiles with active homing heads," the colonel explained.
He also stressed that an action plan has already been developed for the fastest possible retraining of pilots and aviation engineering personnel.
Prostitute Angelina Barini, 43, of Queens, was convicted of fatally drugging four men with fentanyl and the 'date rape' drug GBL in the summer of 2019
Italian-born chef Andrea Zamperoni, 33, of New York's Cipriani Dolci, was among the victims, with his body was found inside a garbage bin at an Elmhurst motel
Prosecutors said Barini had met up with them men as a sex worker and drugged the victims in order to knock them out and rob them
Barini's sister called the sentence 'harsh' and said she will file an appeal
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She was just working on her IRA.
And I'm fairly sure she didn't put the chef in a dumpster all by herself.
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A closer examination of the lady in question suggests she was trending towards the end of her shelf life, reminding me of an old horse buyers adage, "rode hard and put up wet"!
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Heh. Haha, even. [sneaks off for peek at Bigelow filmography]
Angel of Whatever, or, Rehab in Time of Covid
That new student nurse on probation
Befriends yet another fresh patient:
"If there's anything more
You require -- like a whore... or a notary? --
I'll be checking your meds at the station."
[PAGESIX] “90 Day Fiancé” alum Caroline Schwitzky’s boyfriend has been arrested and charged with first-degree attempted murder after he tried to strangle and drown her. "We knew and loved each other for over three days. It was Kismet. We wuz in luv, no matter what she said!"
Jail records seen by Page Six show the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in West Palm Beach, Fla., took Cole Goldberg into custody and booked him just after midnight Monday. He was also hit with one charge of battery — touch or strike.
Goldberg, 23, was released at 10:09 p.m. Monday after posting a $60,000 bond.
The police report, obtained by TMZ, states witnesses saw Goldberg and Schwitzky, who have been dating for one year, getting into a heated argument on a boat.
The onlookers alleged the former TLC star, 32, attempted to escape Cole, but he aggressively held her to keep her on board their vessel. The pair’s struggle went on for around 20 minutes, and then Schwitzky began punching her beau’s arms to free herself.
Schwitzky, who appeared on “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” in 2016, eventually wrangled herself free and jumped in the water to swim to a nearby boat, according to the witnesses, but Goldberg caught up to her and allegedly tried to drown her. She was able to escape when bystanders jumped in and intervened.
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The onlookers stated the former TLC star, 32, attempted to escape Cole, but he aggressively held her to keep her on board their vessel. The pair’s struggle went on for around 20 minutes.
We see this a lot nowadays. Where the onlookers are too busy to help, because they are videotaping the attack/murder for Social Media?
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No, people don't help because they don't want to get hurt, sued or possibly even arrested. For example, beating the boyfriend so bad that he ends up in the hospital (even if the POS deserved that).
[IsraelTimes] Police say mass prayer event for Qadr Night proceeds as planned; thousands of officers deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City amid high tensions in recent weeks.
Over 100,000 Moslem worshippers took part in mass prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Wednesday evening on one of the few remaining nights before the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan on May 1.
Worshippers were gathered on Wednesday night for Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny) when Moslems believe the first verses of the Koran were revealed to Muhammad. Worshipers gather for intense nighttime prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Thousands of police were deployed to Jerusalem’s Old City ahead of the prayers Wednesday and into Thursday on the compound, where officials have been trying to prevent a flare-up of violence for several weeks.
Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai held a security assessment with Jerusalem police officials Wednesday evening, according to the Israel Police. The prayers were proceeding as planned, the police said.
Nina Jankowicz has the right pedigree, with sinecures at all the right media and educational institutions.
Ace O' Spades has a comprehensive explication on Jankowicz
[PostMillennial] The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new board designed to counter misinformation related to homeland security, with a focus specifically on Russia and irregular migration. The board will be called the "Disinformation Governance Board, and will be headed by executive director Nina Jankowicz.
Speaking with the House Appropriations DHS Subcommittee on Wednesday afternoon, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said, "Our Undersecretary for Policy, Rob Silvers is co-chair with our Principal Deputy General Counsel, Jennifer Gaskell, in leading a just recently constituted misinformation disinformation governance board. So we're bringing — the goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat." We are gonna need more fascism to fight the fascism.
They need to do something to replace the information gateway role filled by Twitter in 2020 and before.
[IsraelTimes] Teenagers raise posters of placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Paleostinian Death Eaters who plotted Second Intifada attacks alongside local PA officials
Paleostinian Authority education officials in the West Bank governorate of Tulkarem last week held an event for high school girls supporting Paleostinian security prisoners in Israeli jails, including some who criminal masterminded deadly terror attacks against Israelis.
Local politicians turned out at the Adawiya Girls High School in the city to found a garden in honor of Paleostinian prisoners. Teenage girls were given posters to express their support for the placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Paleostinians.
Many of the Paleostinians in question were convicted of deadly attacks. One of the teenage girls photographed with the officials held a poster in support of convicted Paleostinian terrorist Abbas al-Sayed, who is serving 35 life sentences in Israeli prison for his role in plotting attacks against Israelis.
Al-Sayed is particularly notorious for helping to plot the 2002 Netanya Park Hotelsuicide kaboom that left 30 civilians dead and 140 maimed. The attack was one of the bloodiest in the Second Intifada.
"Because you are free — support their freedom," the poster read, next to a stylized drawing of al-Sayed.
Other students supportively held photos of other convicted terrorists, including Nasser Abu Hmeid, whom Israel says was responsible for the murder of seven Israelis in separate attacks.
The activity was exposed by Paleostinian Media Watch, which monitors incitement to violence and hate speech in Paleostinian media.
As part of the PA-sponsored event, the Tulkarem high school students also paid homage to the six Paleostinian security prisoners who last year participated in a jailbreak that captured the attention of both Israelis and Paleostinians. Some of the runaways had unrepentantly confessed to involvement in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Israel has repeatedly denounced what it considers incitement to terror and hate speech in Paleostinian media and textbooks. American and European politicians have also held hearings on the matter.
The Paleostinian Authority says that its media and curricula content reflect the national narrative and do not constitute hate speech.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , the PA’s largest donor, has become embroiled in months-long bureaucratic deadlock over whether to condition a small fraction of its aid to Ramallah on changes to PA education materials. Although European and Paleostinian officials have repeatedly met in recent month, there has yet to be a solution to the freeze in aid.
The old fuddy-duddy was caught by a sudden rules change, and offered up as a sacrifice to the screaming mob to protect the rest, who weren’t caught out acting the exact same way.
Prince Andrew has been stripped of the Freedom of the City of York after councillors unanimously voted to remove his title in the wake of his settled sexual abuse case.
Councillors in York gathered this evening to debate revoking the prince's Freedom of the City honour, awarded to him in 1987. After discussing the motion for around half an hour, it passed unanimously.
The prince was branded 'an utter disgrace' during the extraordinary meeting and his continued clinging to the title Duke of York was described as a 'stain' on the city, Daily Mail reports.
Although symbolic, the new humiliation places Andrew under renewed pressure to quit as Duke of York, with civic leaders calling on the Queen, Palace or government to step in and strip him of the title if he refuses 'to do the right thing' and resign.
The council also noted objections from the public calling for the prince to be banned from attending horse racing events in the city. Another said he should be referred to as 'Andrew Windsor' in the future.
Andrew had been warned in advance that he would be losing the freedom of the city, an honour bestowed on him on February 23, 1987, as a wedding gift to Sarah Ferguson. He is the first person ever to have the Freedom of the City removed, councillors were told. There were two formal abstentions - from the Lord Mayor and Lord Mayor-elect.
Lib Dem Darryl Smalley, City of York Council's executive member for culture, leisure & communities proposed the motion.
He said tonight: 'The Honorary Freedom of York is the highest honour we, as a city, can bestow on those who represent the very best of York. The honour is held by many notable and accomplished people who carry it with pride and responsibly.
'Having been stripped of his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, we believe that it is right to remove all links that Prince Andrew still has with our great city.
'I was pleased to see councillors of all parties support this motion and make it clear that it is no longer appropriate for Prince Andrew to represent York and its residents.
'The removal of this honorary title sends the right message that we as a city stand with victims of abuse. The next logical step is now for Prince Andrew to do the right thing and relinquish his Duke of York title.
'If he fails to do so, the Government and Buckingham Palace must step in to remove his title to finally end Prince Andrew's connection to York.'
It follows a slew of authorities, institutions, schools and even golf clubs, which have all sought to distance themselves from the disgraced duke since he settled his civil case with Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... sex trafficking victim Virginia Roberts.
In the wake of the case, which was settled in February, the 62-year-old was also stripped of his military roles and royal patronages and was told he would no longer be known as 'His Royal Highness'.
Both Buckingham Palace and a spokesperson for the Duke of York declined to comment.
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"...There's only 11,999."
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Police said domestic security agency PET took part in the operation, but they did not give further details, including the suspect’s age.
"We still have a longer investigation ahead of us," Copenhagen Police Inspector Dannie Rise said.
PET reported last month that Denmark’s "biggest terrorist threat" remains people who sympathize with Death Eater bad boys, including ISIS and al-Qaeda.
The agency said "a significant number of terrorist attacks have been averted in Denmark" and the threat against the country "remains serious."
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Great Britannia has sent new military reinforcements to the 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... i coasts, in conjunction with the presence of the United States and other Western powers involved in Yemeni territorial waters, in recent weeks.
The account of the Combined Maritime Forces in the Gulf said on Twitter that the British frigate T-23 arrived in the Arabian Gulf, confirming that the British battleship began its missions on April 20.
The Combined Maritime forces indicated that the frigate would work to support the joint task force known as CTF, conducting maritime navigation in the region.
The British move comes at a time when the United States is reinforcing its presence with the mutual Western powers in the Yemeni territorial waters, in recent weeks, after American forces conducted joint naval patrols in the Red Sea and Arab Sea.
These developments also came in light of British efforts to restore its colonial role in the southern provinces under the cover of the Saudi-Emirati coalition, after establishing an illegal military base in Mahrah, in the east of the country.
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[NYPOST] Dr. Anthony Fauci ...American epidemiologist with rotating opinions, warnings about the unlikely, and reassurances that if you wear a mask you won't get COVID, as long as you're wearing multiple masks, assuming wearing a mask is necessary in the first place... says the US is no longer in the "pandemic phase" of COVID-19 — more than two years after the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... first began wreaking havoc on the nation. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff pressed the White House chief medical adviser Tuesday on the state of the virus in the US, particularly as many Americans prepare to receive their second booster shots and mask requirements are lifted across the country.
"Here we are. It’s the end of April. It’s the spring of 2022. How close are we to the end of the pandemic?" Woodruff asked.
"We are certainly, right now, in this country out of the pandemic phase," Fauci replied. "Namely, we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now."
"So, if you’re saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are," he added.
But the health adviser warned: "We’re not going to eradicate this virus."
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Russia gained more territory, (about anther 5 km) in North Central Donbas south and south east of Izium. This area is not heavily populated and was, perhaps, not heavily defended. A theory is that this is the beginning of a Rus offense to outflank the Ukraine positions further south.
Elsewhere, Russian forces, infantry and armor, are slowly approaching the heavily defended perimeter of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Most analysts think the Ukraine positions there are supported by armored vehicles but how many is uncertain.
Not much territory change elsewhere.
Substantial bombardment of positions (Ukraine by Rus, Rus by Ukraine) continues.
Ukraine forces still holding out in small part of Mariupol.
less than 2 weeks until May 9 when Russia traditionally celebrates victory with parades
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According to Nolan Peterson on Twitter, Manus McCaffrey and Paul Gray, two American combat veterans and volunteers working with the Ukrainian military were wounded in action today in Ukraine.
Manus McCaffrey, a former Army Ranger, and Paul Gray, formerly of the 101st Airborne, were both wounded in action at 1435 EEST when Russian artillery struck their position as they waited to ambush a Russian tank. McCaffrey suffered serious injuries from shrapnel to his face, head, and torso. Gray was sheltered from a majority of the shrapnel, however was injured when a nearby rock wall collapsed on his leg.
They were taken to a nearby hospital with McCaffrey being conscious and speaking the last time he was seen. Both men are currently being treated for their wounds in an undisclosed hospital inside of Ukraine.
“We were ready for a tank to come down the road when the artillery hit us. A concrete wall protected me but then fell on me. Manus took the hardest blow and shrapnel.” Gray said in a message to reporter Nolan Peterson. “We were next together this entire deployment. Every minute,” Gray added about McCaffrey. “He’s such a great fighter.”Funker530.com
[IsraelTimes] A delegation of bigwigs 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... -ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group is visiting Tehran, according to Iran’s official news agency.
The IRNA report says the delegation is being led by Khalil al-Hayya and will attend a meeting tomorrow on "the latest status of the Paleostinian nation’s resistance."
[BIZPACREVIEW] Former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) has remained unrelenting over his concerns about voter integrity and, in the first formal gubernatorial debate against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), he wasted no time in asserting his views that the 2020 election "was rigged and stolen" and that Kemp is partially responsible.
In the first of three scheduled debates leading up to the May 24 primary, the challenger, endorsed by former President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... , had been granted the opportunity to lead off the introductions Sunday. Perdue capitalized on his chance to set the stage and made his belief clear that Kemp is as much to blame for the woes Georgia voters are feeling from the failed leadership of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... "First off, folks, let me be very clear tonight. The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen," Perdue declared in his opening. "All the madness we see from the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra) ...the collection of boodlers, grifters, hangers-on, and self-proclaimed experts affiliated with the Biden Crime Family. Entrusted with an entire nation as the result of a suspicious election, they set about happily implementing stuff they absorbed in college, all of which blew up and splattered the rest of us... : two million illegals, rising gas prices, unbelievable inflation, the brink of war; all that started right here in Georgia when our governor caved and allowed radical Democrats to steal our election. And because of that, he has divided our party and cannot win."
The former senator was referring to previous assertions that Kemp was complicit when Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams ...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary... had entered into an agreement with state Republican officials that weakened the state’s election laws and allowed Biden to win the electoral votes.
"What you’re going to see tonight," Perdue continued, "unfortunately, is an embattled governor. A career politician, 20-year career politician, who’s gonna parrot his political handlers to distract you away from the fact that he sold us out and cost us the majority in the United States Senate. I’m proud to have President Trump’s endorsement. With your help, we will get this done. We will win."
Citing his pride in being from Georgia and his 40-year business career that created thousands of jobs, Perdue stated, "What I wanna tell you tonight is, the only reason that I’m running is to try to save our state. What I’m worried about is that the woke left has entrenched themselves here. What we have to do right now is to make sure we get criminals off our streets, the woke mob off, out of our schools, eliminate the state income tax and prosecute voter fraud.
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So Biden has decided that our right to free speech is fully dependent on what "his" people think is correct to be or truthful... So when the science stands up and says we evolve from apes and Christianity is false do we eliminate all Churches because they do not meet the criteria as truth? And last point, free speech does not say telling the truth. If it did, the news media would all have to go away.
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free speech does not say telling the truth. If it did, the news media would all have to go away.
Ding-Ding-DING! We have a winner!
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Currently they are only supposed to talk about the border and foreign policy type stuff. I"m assuming the latino shift away from Democrats its he main rational at this point, that and hiding the flood of immigrants at the border.
U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper denied John Durham's request to allow Hillary Clinton's tweets in the trial against her former campaign lawyer
The October 31, 2016, tweets involve Clinton demanding Donald Trump answer to a Slate article alleging his connections to the Kremlin-tied Alfa Bank
The allegations against Trump stem from leaked documents from former Clinton Campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, with the files heavily scrutinized
Sussmann was indicted for lying to the FBI when he denied working for the Clintons when he released the files, which Durham said were fabricated
The judge ultimately denied allowing the tweets in court, excluding them as hearsay and that it would be 'duplicative of other evidence'
[NYPOST] An autopsy is underway in the murder of 10-year-old Wisconsin girl Lily Peters, who was found dead near a walking trail while visiting her aunt’s home, authorities said.
The autopsy began early Tuesday and may not be completed until Wednesday, Chippewa County Coroner Ronald Patten told WQOW.
Lily’s body, which was discovered Monday in a wooded area not far from her aunt’s Chippewa Falls home, was taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office in Minnesota, Patten said. That agency told The Post the autopsy had not been completed as of early Wednesday.
Chippewa Falls Police Chief Matthew Kelm announced Tuesday that a juvenile suspect who was known to the victim had been arrested in Lily’s murder.
The chief declined to provide details on the underage suspect, including the person’s age, gender or relationship to Lily. Charges were not immediately announced.
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We live in a nation of pre-adolescent children committing adult crimes and 35-year-olds living with their parents.
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Given the knowledge, mentality and criminality of a 21st century teen verses a 20th or 19th century teen. We are long overdue in reviewing and updating criminal laws and sentencing regarding this age group when they commit adult crimes.
We are seeing some really evil kids in recent years that have figured out if they even commit MURDER they get to walkaway in a few years or just get mental health counseling.
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A 14-year-old boy is accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl, Lily Peters, after killing her. (Chippewa Falls Police Department)
1st court hearing in the case in Chippewa County, Newell said he requested the high $1 million bond because of the boy's "statements regarding his intentions and his statements regarding that when he did get off the trail, he punched the victim in the stomach, knocked her to the ground, essentially strangled her, hit her with a stick, before strangling her to the point of death before he then sexually assaulted her."
If convicted as a Juvy he'll be out and walking around in 7 years or less.
[NYPOST] A Russian ammunition depot was hit in the latest series of Dire Revenge blasts early Wednesday — which a top Ukrainian official called "karma" for the Kremlin’s ongoing war.
The depot in Belgorod, close to Russia’s border with Ukraine, was left in a giant ball of flames after a loud explosion woke locals just after 3:30 a.m., regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
"There were no casualties among the civilian population," the official said, without detailing if that included those at the ammunition site.
Explosions were also heard in another border province, Kursk, where the local governor claimed an unmanned Ukrainian aerial vehicle was intercepted over Russian skies.
Two blasts were also heard in Voronezh, where officials said its air defense systems also destroyed a small reconnaissance drone.
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When the thing's blown up, you won't be able to tell that 90% of it's been sold abroad by the big shots. So who set the thing off?
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Send it all to the Ukraine Still, quite a bit of it is high maintenance, so by now that portion at least are become very, very large paperweights. Offer them to Putin
Pentagon report details billion of dollars in arms left in Afghanistan after exit
It was prepared for Congress, and obtained by CNN
It says $7 billion in hardware was left behind last year after chaotic withdrawal
That includes $1 billion of aircraft and some 22,000 military Humvees
The details will provide ammunition for critics who say President Biden should have done a better job of ensuring weapons did not fall into Taliban hands
Some 9,524 air-to-ground munitions were also left in the country
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Having worked around the DOD as a ITSEC consultant in the 80's and 90's. Even back then we had written instructions, processes & procedures on when and how, what to remove or destroy prior to bugout vs withdrawal?
What US DOD Leadership level idiot in Afghanistan allowed this?
Or was it a Hunter Biden type weasel looking at selling replacement parts and etc... later on?
A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates for cracking down on immigration overall, found that the undocumented immigrant population in the U.S. grew from 14.5 million in 2020 to 15.5 million now
The conservative group estimates cost the American taxpayer an additional $9.4 billion, up to $143.1 billion per year
FAIR attributed the rise in border apprehensions to both economic upturn at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic and new immigration policies under Biden
Tracking the number of unlawful migrants residing in the U.S. is a difficult task, and FAIR admits that any figure is going to be 'inexact'
The new estimate comes as migration at the southern border is surging again and in March 221,000 migrants were apprehended, nearly a 20-year high
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While eating out, I started listening to the HLS Sec. Mayorkas on a restaurant TV, while he was being interviewed (FOX).
When asked directly about the border situation, he provided a carefully worded, and ambiguous answer. something like 'We are managing the border situation'.
Leaving me to wonder if the 1,000,000+++ illegals in just 1 year were allowed in or slipped in, were Biden/LSD's Goal, or their failure?
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Local Congresscritter put out a survey asking what questions she should pose to Mayorkas during some dog and pony show or another. I doubt she'll use my suggestions... don't think her vocabulary runs in the same gutters...
#Lebanon’s efforts to secure $3 billion in #IMF support to help it tackle its financial crisis could be derailed by divisions over how to deal with massive financial sector losses, the economy minister says.https://t.co/UysSCWkrq3
[IsraelTimes] Odeh Abu Jaudah, who faces separate accusations tied to the case, tells Boaz Kokia: ’We know where you live, you are murderers’; police later detain him over threats
The father of a man convicted of murdering IDF soldier Ron Kokia in 2017 threatened the victim’s father on Wednesday and called him a murderer.
Odeh Abu Jaudah, whose son Khaled stabbed Kokia to death in Arad, clashed with Boaz Kokia at the Beersheba District Court. The two confronted each other, after a hearing for the elder Abu Jaudah, a resident of an unrecognized Bedouin village, who is facing charges tied to the attack, but is not accused of involvement in murder.
Abu Jaudah and his brother shouted at Kokia, who came to the hearing along with activists from Im Tirzu, a right-wing advocacy group.
A verbal altercation ensued between the two camps.
"We know where you live, let’s take this outside," Abu Jaudah shouted at Kokia, according to a Channel 12 news report. "You are murderers, you are shit."
In a statement later, Kokia called on the court to severely punish Abu Jaudah. The illegal presence of Paleostinians who do not have permits to be in Israel is what leads to terror attacks, he said, and pointed to the recent deadly assaults in Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv, both committed by Paleostinian who were illegally in Israel.
Later Wednesday, police detained Abu Jaudah and his brother for questioning over the threats.
Abu Jaudah is accused of twice helping the terrorist’s mother illegally enter Israel before and after the stabbing attack, including after she had already been caught without a permit and expelled in the wake of the murder. His relationship with the woman was not clear from the Channel 12 report, but Kokia has in the past accused Abu Jaudah of polygamy, according to media.
Kokia and Abu Jaudah have clashed at the courthouse in the past.
In February 2020, Abu Jaudah and his family condemned the killing carried out by his own son and begged forgiveness for the act.
A year later, the Ynet news site reported that Kokia pressured prosecutors to drop a plea deal with stabber Khaled Abu Jaudah’s half-brother Zahi, who the Shin Bet said acted as an accomplice and assisted him after the attack. Zahi has been indicted for attempted murder, possession of a knife, and obstruction of justice, among other charges.
Kokia has called for the death penalty for both Khaled and Zahi Abu Jaudah. Though not an option for the court, some right-wing politicians have in recent years called for legally instituting a death penalty for attackers.
The Shin Bet said Khaled Abu Jaudah, from an unrecognized Bedouin village in southern Israel, fatally stabbed Kokia, a sergeant in the IDF’s Nahal Infantry Brigade, while the serviceman waited at a bus stop on November 30, 2017. He was convicted in 2019 of first-degree murder.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:52 Painted in the center of Kherson hit at least two Tochka-U missiles and several Hurricanes. A series of powerful explosions thundered in the center of Kherson, next to the television center. 23:42 The Armed Forces of Ukraine wanted to hit Tochka-U in the center of Kherson. The rocket was shot down. Most likely, the target was the administration building, which is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
23:21 High-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces defeated 17 military facilities of Ukraine. Among them were destroyed: two command posts of Ukrainian troops, as well as 15 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment.
22:31 A total of 331 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred to the population of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kharkiv regions.
21:52 In the liberated territory of the Kharkiv region, the fourth issue of the newspaper Kharkiv Z has already been published.
There is also a radio of the same name, and after the supply of electricity to the region, television towers will be launched to broadcast Russian channels.
21:30 The flag of Russia was hoisted over the administration of the liberated Volchansk in the Kharkiv region.
21:16 In the Nikolaev region are happening events traditional for the Ukrainian theater of operations.
In the children's town "Skazka" the basement was turned into a cache for storing weapons and ammunition. Coordinates: 46.964247, 31.984844
In the Ship area, they continue to intensively dig in and create long-term firing points. Coordinates: 46.859005, 32.023822 | 46.859211, 32.025550
The old Nikolaevsky cemetery was converted to the needs of the front and a firing position was created. Coordinates: 46.964495, 32.036435 | 46.963635, 32.033802
Taking into account the decommissioning of the capacities of the Ukrainian Navy, it was decided to turn the Nikolaev shipbuilding plant "Ocean" into a fortified area. Coordinates: 46.858188, 31.99185
South of Nikolaev, in the village of Novaya Zarya, units received a new batch of Javelin and Corsair anti-tank systems. Coordinates: 46.743374, 32.091699
20:44 In the Kherson region, an employee of the Ukrainian KORD (similar to SOBR)gave out Russian special forces caches with weapons and ammunition. An AK-74 assault rifle, a pistol, two hand grenades and ammunition of various calibers were confiscated. According to the Cordovian, he refused to carry out the "crazy" orders of the Kyiv authorities to organize sabotage activities against Russian troops in Kherson.
Currently, the security of the employee and his family is provided by the Russian security forces.
19:39 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the aircraft of the Aerospace Forces hit 38 military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 27 places of concentration of manpower and military equipment.
As specified in the department, over 210 nationalists and 43 units of armored vehicles and cars were destroyed.
19:30 Ukrainian Gauleiter of Kherson Kolykhaev was fired. Kobets, a member of the local council, became the new mayor of the city liberated from the Nazis.
19:10 Today at 13.30 two drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of the Polish manufacturer "Warmate" attacked the city of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, exposing the world to the danger of a new nuclear catastrophe.
The goal of the first was the Zaporozhye NPP, the second - the city administration of Energodar. Thanks to the professional actions of the National Guard employees, both UAVs were shot down, and human lives were saved.
18:51 Vladimir Putin sent an unambiguous signal to those who decide to intervene in the course of a special military operation:
“For a lightning-fast response, we have all the tools. The kind that no one else can boast of right now. We won't brag. We will use them if needed. And I want everyone to know about it.”
18:34 Melitopol notes May 9. For eight years, Kyiv forbade celebrating Victory Day. Today Russia re-lit the Eternal Flame. The townspeople are preparing with might and main to celebrate the great holiday. People repair monuments with their own hands, young mothers with tears in their eyes tell their children the real history of the family and the Motherland, flowers again lie on the memorials. As it should be.
18:21 Today On the Arch of Victory in Melitopol, the Order of Victory, the St. George ribbon and the inscription Glory to the winners were returned.
17.09 Vladimir Putin: all tasks of the Russian special operation in Ukraine and Donbass will be unconditionally fulfilled. We guarantee that Russia will adequately respond to all challenges and threats, as it has always been and will continue to be.
16:25 In the Russian-controlled Kakhovka, a stele with the coat of arms of Ukraine, installed at the entrance, is being dismantled.
15:49 The sixth humanitarian convoy has arrived in Berdyansk. The total weight of the cargo is 47 tons. Food packages were delivered to the residents of Berdyansk: buckwheat, rice, cereals, pasta, flour, stew, tea and coffee, sweets and cookies. In addition, they delivered detergents, personal hygiene items, baby food, diapers and diapers. Aid was collected in all regions of Russia, including the Crimea. The trucks were loaded in Armyansk. The convoy of the Russian Emergencies Ministry was accompanied by a convoy of the Russian Guard. Food packages will be distributed to needy Berdyansk residents on Saturday.
15:27 As a result of a long negotiation process, Trevor Reed was exchanged for Yaroshenko on April 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry reports.
In 2020, a Russian court sentenced Trevor Reed, a student from Texas, to 9 years in prison for using violence against police officers - in August 2019, he quarreled on the street with two women and attacked an arriving PPS squad, hitting a policeman.
Konstantin Yaroshenko was sentenced in the United States to 20 years in a general security prison in 2011 on charges of preparing a conspiracy to deliver a large consignment of drugs to the United States.
15:21 Cossack teams of Melitopol guard the city's educational institutions.
15:17 According to the Arbalet news agency, a group of Ukrainian negotiators arrived in Bezymennoye near the city of Mariupol, who will try to convince the terrorists of Azov * (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) to release civilians from Azovstal.
15:15 In Kyiv, they propose to rename Leo Tolstoy Street into the street of the Azov Regiment. This was reported in the mayor's office of the Ukrainian capital.
13:43 In Ukraine, the dismantling of Soviet monuments continues. The Star of Glory and the Order of the Red Banner of War were removed from the Eternal Glory Memorial in Lutsk. The photo was published by the mayor of the city Igor Polishchuk. In addition, he said that instead of the number "1941" the authorities are going to set "1939" by May 1.
13:25 Residents of the Kherson region and other liberated territories can travel to Crimea without restrictions if they have valid documents. So all three automobile checkpoints: "Armyansk", "Perekop" and "Dzhankoy" operate in a regular and round-the-clock mode.
13:18 In the liberated city of Kamenka-Dniprovska (Zaporozhye region), a cash withdrawal point has been opened.
13:12 The radius of the shock wave in the event of an explosion at military depots in Kolbasna. According to experts, brick walls and reinforced concrete structures will be destroyed at a distance of 4.5 km. In this case, the total radius of the shock wave can exceed 50 kilometers.
13:03 New head of the Kherson regional administration Volodymyr Saldo delivered "Holy Fire", which arrived from Jerusalem, in the main Orthodox church of Kherson - the Holy Spirit Cathedral. The head of the Kherson region personally carried the fire, which arrived in Kherson from the Crimea, to the temple.
12:17 The air defense system in Kursk shot down a Ukrainian drone tonight, regional governor Roman Starovoit said:
“No one was hurt, there was no damage. The military, special services and the regional administration are in full control of the situation, there is no cause for concern.”
11:28 Hangars with weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine were destroyed by Kalibr on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant - Russian Defense Ministry.
11:23 In the Kharkiv region, Russian military doctors continue to provide medical assistance to civilians who are being shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. People are being helped and given medicines. In emergency cases, patients are hospitalized in Russian medical facilities.
11:04 In the liberated city of Golaya Pristan (Kherson region), the Russian military lit the Eternal Flame on the Alley of Glory of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
11:02 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense 04/27/2022 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision long-range sea-based missiles "Caliber" on the territory of the Zaporozhye aluminum plant destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries for Ukrainian troops.
Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 59 military facilities of Ukraine overnight. Among them: 50 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment, four warehouses with weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of CHERVONOE, DOLGENKOE, PASHKOVO and VESELOE, as well as the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system in the SLAVIANSK region. As a result of the strikes, more than 120 nationalists and 35 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
Rocket troops and artillery completed 573 fire missions during the night. Affected: 432 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, 67 artillery positions, two batteries of multiple launch rocket systems, as well as seven ammunition depots.
Russian air defense systems shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of ALEKSANDROVKA, BALAKLEYA, BRYANKA, ZAPOROZHSKOE, IZYUM, KAPITOLOVKA, PEREMOGA, PETROVKA, PAPASNOE, PROLETARSKOE, TRUDOLYUBOVKA, including two Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs in the area of settlements Kalesnikovka and Krasny Liman. In addition, a Ukrainian tactical missile "Tochka-U" was shot down over the settlement of ILYCHEVKA.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 607 unmanned aerial vehicles, 273 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,596 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 296 multiple rocket launchers, 1,134 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,413 units of special military vehicles.
09:51 FSB delayed supporters of the Ukrainian Nazis who planned sabotage. Two Russians were preparing a sabotage at a transport infrastructure facility in the Belgorod region.
09:43 Volunteers, with the support of the National Guard and the mayor's office of Berdyansk, hoisted the Russian flag on the flagpole of the Monument to the sailors of the Azov Flotilla.
09:19 A sowing campaign has begun in Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions - the Russian Defense Ministry.
08:27 In the morning, a second strike was made on the railway bridge in Zatoka, which had already received damage yesterday after the first strike. The results of the 2nd strike are still unknown.
08:13 Ukrainian militants have prepared a provocation with many victims in Nikolaev, said the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia Mikhail Mizintsev.
08:00 Military police provided help to a family with small children from the Kharkov region in evacuation to the territory of Russia.
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[REGNUM] If the main burden of Kolchak's offensive fell on his center and right flank, then his opponents launched a counteroffensive on his left flank, where Frunze created the Southern shock group. He was supposed to strike at the flank and deep rear of the enemy - in the area of Buguruslan and Belebey, where the main supply line of Kolchak was located - the railway.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Pakistain separatist group warned Wednesday of more deadly attacks on Chinese targets, a day after a woman jacket wallah killed four people - including three teachers posted from Beijing.
The Baloch Liberation Army - one of several groups fighting for independence in Pakistain’s biggest province - grabbed credit for Tuesday’s blast, saying it was the first time a woman had "self sacrificed" for the group.
Chinese nationals and interests have regularly been targeted by separatists in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , where Beijing is involved in lucrative mining and energy projects.
"Hundreds of highly trained male and female members of the Baloch Liberation Army’s Majeed Brigade are ready to carry out deadly attacks in any part of Balochistan and Pakistain," front man Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement published in English.
He threatened Beijing with "even harsher" attacks unless the neighboring country halted its "exploitation projects" and "occupying of the Pak state."
Three Chinese teachers and a Pak driver were killed near the gate of the Confucius Institute at Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... University, when the bomber detonated explosives next to their minibus.
A security official at the university told AFP he had previously raised concerns about the safety of 15 Chinese staff on the campus.
"Reports emerged in February that an attack might be carried out on campus," the source, who asked not be named, told AFP.
The bomber was named as 30-year-old Shaari Baloch, a married mother of an eight-year-old girl and four-year-old boy, the BLA said, adding that she was a science teacher studying for a master’s degree.
Police confirmed the details.
Suicide attacks by women are very rare in Pakistain, reported only four times in recent years.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged Pakistain to ensure the safety of all Chinese citizens and interests in the country and to launch a full investigation.
It also advised citizens to "take strict precautions, and do not go out unless necessary."
China is upgrading energy links and infrastructure as part of a $54 billion program known as the China-Pakistain Economic Corridor, with both nations wary of security threats to the projects.
CTD official Raja Umar Khattab said that the jacket wallah, identified as Shari Baloch alias Brimash, was born in Turbat in 1991. She was married and had two children.
He said that her husband, Dr Haibatan, originally hailed from Kech, was currently doing a public health course at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and was staying at a nearby five-star hotel. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... his wife lived in Gulistan-e-Jauhar with her children.
He said that she and her husband had left their places a week before the attack and the husband’s whereabouts were not known. Raids were being carried out to find the husband and other controllers, he said.
The CTD official also clarified that the suicide bomber was not a student of KU. He said she got all her education up to university level in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and later she was employed as a government schoolteacher.
The officer added that the outlawed BLA had grabbed credit for the attack and shared details about the attacker on their social media platforms.
INJURED OUT OF DANGER
Separately, SSP-East Syed Abdul Rahim Sherazi said the condition of all four injured persons, including one Chinese, was out of danger.
He said two Rangers personnel escorting the van of the Chinese faculty members suffered minor injuries. One private guard, Hamid, suffered injuries in the leg and face. Chinese teacher Wang Yuqing underwent surgery.
Additional Police Surgeon at the JPMC Dr Summaiya Syed said that four charred bodies and remains of a fifth person were brought to the hospital on Tuesday evening for a post-mortem examination.
She said that four bodies — two males and two females — were beyond recognition and 100pc burnt. Their multiple samples for DNA profiling were taken.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli forces killed a Paleostinian man and maimed three others in West Bank festivities early Wednesday, the official Paleostinian news agency WAFA said, a day after the fatal shooting of another Paleostinian.
The Israeli army told AFP it was "conducting counterterrorism activity" in the city of Jenin, but did not comment on any casualties.
Israeli security forces have stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank, particularly around Jenin where there are active fighters from several gangs, after a series of attacks in Israel since late March.
The man killed in the latest incident was identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Massad, from the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank.
He was shot in the head, a hospital official told WAFA.
Massad’s death follows that of another Paleostinian killed Tuesday when Israeli forces stormed a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank during what the army called a "counter-terrorism" operation that sparked violent mostly peaceful riots.
The Paleostinian health ministry said 20-year-old Ahmed Ibrahim Oweidat "succumbed to critical wounds sustained by live bullets to the head," during the shooting in Aqabat Jaber camp near Jericho.
Clashes between Israeli forces and Paleostinians are common in the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
But there has been a wave of bloodshed in the territory and in Israel as the Moslem holy month of Ramadan and the Jewish holiday of Passover overlapped this month.
Massad is among 26 Paleostinians and Israeli Arabs killed since late March, among them several assailants, according to an AFP tally.
During the same period, 14 Israelis were killed in various attacks.
Violent festivities have also rocked the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, sparking fears of another conflict after last year’s 11-day war between Israel and gangs in 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.
Concerns of fresh al-Aqsa festivities are building, though, ahead of Friday prayers at the compound, with the end of Ramadan also approaching in early May.
Following the al-Aqsa festivities, isolated rocket fire towards Israel from the Gaza Strip resumed, prompting Israeli reprisals on targets linked to Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,, the group which controls the coastal Paleostinian enclave.
No injuries have been reported on either side as a result of the rocket fire or retaliatory air strikes.
Paleostinian Moslems have been angered by an uptick in Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa compound, Islam’s third-holiest site. It is also Judaism’s holiest place and known to Jews as the Temple Mount.
In an apparent attempt to ease tensions, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told news hounds on Sunday that Israel was committed to the "status quo" at al-Aqsa, meaning an adherence to long-standing convention allowing Jews to visit the compound but not pray there.
Troops detain 5 suspects in West Bank city area and raid home of terrorist who killed 3 in Tel Aviv shooting; Palestinian media reports Ahmad Massad, 20, killed
A Palestinian was killed during a firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, according to Palestinian Authority health officials and the Islamic Jihad terror group.
Israeli troops raided Jenin and the nearby town of Qabatiya in the pre-dawn hours in an attempt to arrest Palestinian terror suspects. Soldiers also pinned a demolition order to the home of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who killed three people when he opened fire in a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 7.
The military said five Palestinians were detained in the Jenin area. Palestinian media identified one as Asim Abu al-Heija, the son of a senior official in the Hamas terror group.
Palestinian gunmen opened fire on the soldiers after they entered the city’s incendiary refugee camp, the army said. A local branch of the Islamic Jihad terror group claimed responsibility for the firefight in a statement circulated in Palestinian media.
“During the operation in Jenin, Israel Defense Forces troops acted to quell a violent riot at the scene with dozens of Palestinians who opened fire, burned trash, and hurled explosive devices at troops, who responded with gunfire,” the army said in a statement.
According to the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, an 18-year-old Palestinian was killed during the clashes. The official WAFA news outlet identified the deceased as Ahmad Massad, 21, a resident of the nearby town of Burqin.
Another three Palestinians were injured by live fire during the gunfight with Israeli troops, although all were in stable condition, the PA Health Ministry said.
The operation was the military’s first in Jenin in two weeks. Israeli forces conducted a spate of raids in mid-April in an attempt to crack down on a wave of Palestinian violence emanating from the northern West Bank city.
There was no immediate word from Palestinian health officials on Massad’s death. But the terror group confirmed it and claimed the young man as a member.
“With pride and regard we hail the heroic martyr, our son Ahmed Muhammad Fathi Massad,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement, adding that Massad had formerly served time in Israeli prison for security offenses.
Not exactly an innocent...
A string of four attacks that preceded the Israeli crackdown killed 14 people in Israel — the deadliest outbreak of terrorism in years. The ensuing raids sparked clashes that left at least 25 Palestinians dead, many of whom took part in the clashes, while others appeared to have been uninvolved civilians.
The Israeli army said 12 Palestinians suspected of involvement in terror activities were arrested during overnight raids across the West Bank, including two in Jenin and three in the nearby town of Qabatiya.
The Jenin area has emerged as a major hotspot for terror activity in recent months. Two perpetrators of recent attacks — Hazem and Diaa Hamarsheh, whose shooting spree left five dead in Bnei Brak — hailed from Jenin and its environs.
“We are not terrorists. We are defending our land and country and the path of our prophet,” Hazem’s father Fathi told local Palestinian media after the demolition order was posted on his Jenin home. The former PA security officer has repeatedly praised his son’s terror attack.
The Shin Bet security service said Monday that it had foiled an attempt by the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad to enlist residents of the West Bank to commit attacks against Israeli targets.
The agency said several Palestinians from the Jenin area — including Yasmin Shaaban, a 40-year-old mother of four — were detained for planning a bombing attack against Israeli farmers in the area.
[AlArabiya] Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... and China have agreed to expand their military cooperation, Iran’s top military commander said on Wednesday during a visit by the Chinese defense minister to Tehran.
China’s Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe met with senior Iranian officials in Tehran, including President Ebrahim Raisi.
"In [Wednesday’s] meeting with the Chinese minister of defense, we agreed to expand bilateral cooperation in joint military drills, exchange of strategies, training issues and other common fields between the two countries’ armed forces so that we can provide better security for the two countries’ territories," Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, told news hounds in Tehran after meeting with Wei.
Military ties between Iran and China have deepened in recent years. In January, the two countries, along with Russia, held their third joint naval drills since 2019 in the northern Indian Ocean.
Raisi described Tehran-Beijing ties as "strategic" in his meeting with Wei.
"We pursue these strategic relations [with China] regardless of international developments and based on mutual political trust, and the successful implementation of the 25-year comprehensive cooperation agreement is a priority in this regard," state news agency IRNA quoted Raisi as saying.
In 2021, Iran and China signed a 25-year cooperation agreement to strengthen economic and political relations.
Wei’s visit to Tehran came as talks between Iran and world powers aimed at reviving the abandoned 2015 nuclear deal, of which China is a signatory, have stalled.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A man opened fire at a kindergarten in Ulyanovsk, Russia killing a nanny and two children. According to local reports the shooter took his own life after opening fire on his three victims.
Dominick Krankall, 6, was playing in the backyard of his family's Bridgeport home with other children when the horrifying incident occurred
The bully, identified as an 8-year-old neighbor, lured Krankall to meet him around the corner when he poured gasoline on a tennis ball, lit it and threw it
The young victim ran home screaming: 'Mommy, they lit me on fire'
Family members said this is not the first time their boy was bullied and hospitalized by the same child
Krankall was rushed to the burn unit at Bridgeport Hospital and is suffering from severe burns to his face and legs
Now, the family is asking for donations that will go toward Dominick's hospital bills and a new home.
'It is not safe here. Anything helps, even a share. Thank you all for the support. I'm sure Dominick appreciates it,' the family wrote.
As of Wednesday afternoon, their GoFundMe has amassed more than $58,000 donations, surpassing their initial goal of $50,000.
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[NYPOST] Elon Musk said Twitter’s move to ban The New York Post’s exclusive story about Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... ’s overseas business dealings ahead of the 2020 presidential election was "obviously incredibly inappropriate."
Musk, who is set to buy the social media platform, wrote his opinion Tuesday evening in response to news hound Saagar Enjeti, who tweeted a Politico article about how the social media company’s top lawyer was brought to tears when discussing its new ownership.
"Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover," Enjeti wrote.
"Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate," Musk replied.
The Post’s exposé revealed the existence of tens of thousands of emails that detailed how the then-presidential candidate’s son leveraged his political access in a series of eyebrow-raising overseas business deals after the newspaper obtained a copy of the hard drive from the laptop.
The piece was banned by major social media sites in the weeks before the election, with Twitter justifying accusations of censorship by labeling the story "content obtained through hacking that contains private information."
"The images contained in the articles include personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules," the company tweeted about the article at the time.
Many mainstream outlets also discredited the article, before later reporting on its veracity long after President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... was elected.
The Republican National Committee accused the site of being in cahoots with the Biden campaign, but the Federal Election Commission ruled that Twitter did not suppress the article in an effort to tip the scales to the Democrats. "Maybe they're just control-freak assholes? Nahhhh. It was to protect Slow Joe"
Gadde, who is known as Twitter’s "moral authority," cried during a staff meeting Monday while discussing the "significant uncertainties" that Musk’s leadership will bring, Politico wrote.
The world’s richest man reached a deal to buy the company for $44 billion Monday after saying the platform’s moderation policies were too restrictive.
Twitter exec suggests Elon Musk, other critics are misogynists
[NYPOST] A top Twitter executive has suggested that many of the platform’s critics — including soon-to-be owner Elon Musk, who ripped the firm’s top female lawyer over her censorship of the New York Post — are merely misogynists.
Lara Cohen, Twitter’s global head of partners, went on the attack hours after Musk singled out the site’s lead lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, over what he called the "obviously incredibly inappropriate" ban of The Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... ’s shady business dealings.
She also shared messages of support for Leslie Berland, the company’s chief marketing officer who was caught in leaked audio suggesting that Musk’s plans for free speech put them in "a very difficult position."
Despite such scandals motivating Musk to spend a staggering $44 billion to buy the site, Cohen suggested criticism was based on her colleagues’ gender.
"When Elon Musk says, ’Wow, this is about free speech,’ it seems to me that this is about free speech of straight white men, so let them have it," Hostin told her "View" co-hosts on Tuesday.
"Let them just go at it."
Hostin added: "I think Twitter can be a really horrible place, and I think people are excited because he is sort of going to unleash the trolls, right?"
"I think he is saying, ’You get to say whatever you want. I’m going to take away the guardrails.’ And for me, that is something that is a bit scary."
Hostin cited a statistic according to which 38% of women on Twitter have been "on the receiving end of abuse."
Hostin added that her favorite feature on Twitter is the "block button." She bemoaned the fact that Twitter "has an outsize influence in our world because politicians and celebrities are on it."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:30 The areas of nine settlements of the DPR fell under the shelling of the VFU. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, six residential buildings and four civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. 22:21 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 100 shells and mines from 122-mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122-mm cannon artillery, 120 and 82-mm mortars, as well as BMP weapons.
21:34 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 19 civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territories of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Mariupol:
- men: born in 1965, 1957, 1989, 1981, 1936, 1991, 1937, 1941, 1982;
- women: born in 1978, 1961, 1970, 1953.
n.p. Staromlinovka:
- men: born in 1952, 1956;
is a woman born in 1959.
n.p. Volnovakha (Volnovakha district):
- men: born in 1971, 1997.
n.p. Pavlovka:
- a woman born in 1957.
20:49 As a result of the armed aggression, the AFU recorded the destruction of private housing construction in the village. mines. V.I. Lenin (Central-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka) at the following addresses: st. Lemesheva, 36, 65. There were no victims!
20:10 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Gorlovka at the following addresses:
- st. Altaiskaya, 26, 26a - private houses.
The production facilities of the Elastomer plant were also damaged.
As a result of the shelling of the VFU n.p. Elenovka fixed damage to the glazing at the address of the street. Forest, 19.
19:40 The UN Humanitarian Affairs Office is creating a team to coordinate the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, the organization's Secretary General's office said.
“Today, Wednesday, we had discussions with the authorities in Moscow and Kyiv to develop an operational framework for the evacuation of the civilian population,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the Secretary General.
19:29 Three prisoner-of-war detention centers have been formed in the DPR, there are about 2,600 people there.
“We have deployed three sites on the territory of the DPR, which have been reformatted and are able to contain prisoners of war - former servicemen of Ukraine. Today, we have about 2,600 people at all sites,” said Minister of Justice of the Republic Yuri Sirovatko.
18:30 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine, shelling was recorded from the direction of the settlement. Kamyshevakh along the settlement Pervomaisk with the use of 152mm artillery guns (four shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
18:05 International Committee of the Red Cross is ready to help coordinate measures for the evacuation of civilians who may be at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol - ICRC official
17:43 In the liberated lands of the DPR, a full-fledged work of justice bodies has been established. Most of the employees of the Ukrainian justice authorities in the former Donetsk region expressed a desire to continue working in the DPR. This was announced today at a press conference in Donetsk by Minister of Justice of the Republic Yuriy Sirovatko.
17:26 Fighters of the Luhansk People's Republic continue to storm the positions of Ukrainian nationalists in Popasna. Fierce battles are going on in the city.
Our correspondent Denis Kulaga took refuge in one of the houses, which is literally shaking. Being in the zone of direct visibility of hostilities, he showed how the defenders of Lugansk overcome the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:22 On the stretch of the railway station Volnovakha-Khlebodarovka, 2 km of the overhead line of longitudinal power supply have been restored. Employees of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the DPR accepted 1,343 applications for the renewal and appointment of pensions. Doctors in the liberated territories continue to receive citizens. 853 patients received qualified medical care.
16:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the settlement. Clear:
- st. Zheleznodorozhnaya, 19 - private sector;
- st. Shchorsa, 25 - the private sector.
16:21 The child died during the shelling of Stakhanov by the Kyiv security forces - the Prosecutor General's Office of the LPR.
16:18 Another 200 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe. During the day on April 27, from 08:00 to 16:00, 200 people, including 35 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District. Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR.
16:10 In a forest plantation near the village. Cretaceous (LPR) found ammunition and explosive devices. Employees of the prosecutor's office of the Melovsky district of the LPR during the inspection of the scene seized:
2,160 rounds of 5.45 mm caliber
two rounds of VMG
two rounds of a heavy machine gun
RGD grenade
16:00 Consequences of shelling Makeevka and Kirovsky district of Donetsk 27.04.2022.
According to the clarified data of military experts of the operational group of the DPR JCCC, the shelling of the settlement Makeevka was produced from the positions of the VFU located in the area of the settlement. Avdievka with the use of MLRS BM-27 "Hurricane" cluster type stuffed with anti-tank mines PTM-1. The zone of responsibility of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade (commander - Colonel Evgeny Yuryevich Kurash). Krasnogorovka with the use of artillery systems of caliber 122mm. The area of responsibility of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the VFU (commander - Colonel Maistrenko Alexey Sergeevich), 2nd mechanized battalion - (commander Lieutenant Colonel Stets Sergey Olegovich). As a result of shelling, damage was recorded at the following addresses:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): st. Kirova, 429 - MBOU "School No. 77 in Donetsk".
n.p. Makeevka (Tsentralno-gorodskoy district): Avenue of the 250th anniversary of Donbass, 78 - State Enterprise Trading House "Medicines of Donbass".
15:45 Pharmacies and drugstores are open in Volnovakha, Bugas and Staroygnatievka. In the near future, the Ministry of Health plans to open pharmacies and pharmacy points in the village. Yalta, town. Mangush, p. Anadol, town. Donskoye, Mariupol, Volnovakha, town. Volodarskoye, town. Novotroitskoe.
15:43 Work UAV of the DPR army for adjusting artillery and MLRS attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Avdievka direction.
15:24 The logistics unit of the Southern Military District provides drinking water to the residents of Mariupol. A total of 100 tons of water are delivered daily by tank trucks to different areas of the liberated city.
15:20 The 100th Brigade of the People's Militia of the DPR continues to cover with artillery the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the equipment they have hidden on the outskirts of Maryinka. Fighting in this area goes on day and night. By frame from a quadcopter, you can evaluate the intensity and accuracy of the work of the DPR artillery.
15:19 The front-line village of Golmovsky in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka is again under fire from the VFU! Information was received about a hit in the roof of the garage in the Soyuz car cooperative. Enemy shells exploded in the industrial zone of the Nikitovsky Dolomite Plant, the slate roof was cut in the building of boiler house No. 69, and the glazing was damaged. Information about the consequences of Ukraine's armed aggression continues to flow - Prikhodko Mayor of Gorlovka.
13:42 EMERCOM of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region opened an additional hotline for evacuated residents of the LPR and DPR: 8 (800) 201 59 79. In addition, the phone continues to work: 8 (863) 239 99 99.
13:37 Troops of Russia and LPRknocked out APU from the suburbs of Rubizhne. Under the control of the Ukrainian security forces in the suburbs of Rubizhne, only the Zarya chemical plant, Kadyrov’s assistant in the Alaudins’ power unit, remains.
13:30 Ministry of Construction: There are 42 unfinished apartment buildings in the DPR. The level of completion of unfinished buildings is 50-80 percent . The completion of the construction of these facilities would make it possible to replenish the housing stock with more than 3,000 apartments.
13:27 As a result of today's shelling of the Oktyabrsky Rudnik village of the Kuibyshev region, residential buildings of the private sector were damaged by Ukrainian militants:
- st. Kovalko, 104 - damaged glazing, facade, roof, fence. The gas pipeline was also broken, the emergency team left to repair the damage.
13:22 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm.
13:20 109 agro-industrial enterprises in the liberated territories were registered in the DPR.
13:14 Personnel trophies of the Russian Armed Forces from a captured Ukrainian warehouse. Many objects were hastily abandoned by the nationalist units of Ukraine during their retreat on the territory of the Lugansk People's Republic. Among the captured weapons there are both Soviet samples and modern samples of anti-tank guided missiles and portable anti-aircraft missile systems from NATO countries. In total, about one thousand pieces of weapons of various nomenclature and ammunition for them were found in the field warehouse captured by the Russian military.
13:08 Russian special forces broke in on the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and captured a new batch of weapons in a battle in the Limansky district of the DPR. At n.p. Torskoye, in addition to small arms and grenade launchers, captured a significant amount of ammunition for the Grad MLRS.
13:07 "We had a well, we went there, then a sniper shot a woman there." Refugee from Mariupol told that he saw with his own eyes how a Ukrainian sniper aimed at civilians.
13:02 Former employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are in captivity, write a massive petition to the Head of the DPR with a request to issue them passports of a citizen of the Republic.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 mines with a caliber of 120 mm were fired.
12:02 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
11:52 All children evacuated from Donbass and Ukraine were placed in educational institutions in Russia. Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, spoke about this. She noted that the children are provided with everything necessary for study.
11:44 Mariupol is rapidly returning to peaceful life. Residents of Mariupol, together with the municipal services of the city and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, are beautifying the city for the holidays. More and more volunteers are taking part in the aftermath of shelling of the city by Ukrainian militants. The roads are cleared of broken wires and broken cars, and now most of the streets are accessible for vehicles.
11:26 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Vrubovka on n.p. Irmino using MLRS BM-30 Smerch (three shells) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
11:24 Another bridge has been blown up in the Krasny Liman area, this time a road bridge. Most likely, this is a bridge on the Krasny Liman - Seversk section near Yampol. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are retreating from their positions, destroying the road infrastructure.
11:05 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling from the direction of N of the item is recorded. Vrubovka on n.p. Irmino with the use of BM-30 MLRS (three rounds) - Representation of the LPR in the JCCC and in the negotiation process.
10:45 NM DPR: over the past day, our servicemen destroyed 64 Ukrainian nationalists, 12 firing points, one 122mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 "Gvozdika", 1 infantry fighting vehicle and two armored personnel carriers. one infantry fighting vehicle, one armored personnel carrier and two cargo vehicles were captured.
10:28 Ukrainian militants continue to conduct indiscriminate artillery fire on Yasinovataya from positions in Avdievka. 122mm artillery was used against the civilian population. Details are being specified.
10:07 VFU attacked the Petrovsky district. Damage was received by a residential apartment building on the street. Osoaviakhima.
09:42 Sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR daily conduct a survey of territories, social facilities and residential buildings of the liberated territories for the presence of explosive objects. In total, since the start of work, sappers have examined about 619 hectares of open areas and more than 229,000 m² of buildings, more than 42,000 explosive objects have been discovered and neutralized.
09:41 Three people were killed, six were injured in the Donetsk People's Republic per day as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops.
09:33 The Russian military seized about a thousand units of weapons in a field warehouse during the retreat of Ukrainian troops in the LPR. This is reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
08:54 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 RPG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6/7): 3 RPG grenades were fired, small arms were also used.
08:41 In the liberated territory, power supply has already been restored to 62 settlements - Minugol.
08:07 This night in Donetsk, they repeatedly triggered systems air defense. Ukrainian Nazis are hitting a peaceful city with hailstones.
07:03 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Yasinovataya: fired five shells of 122mm caliber.
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[REGNUM] Russia will achieve the goals for which the special operation in Ukraine is being carried out, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on April 27 at a meeting with the Council of Legislators.
"All the tasks of the special military operation we are conducting in the Donbass and Ukraine, launched on February 24, will certainly be fulfilled."
This is necessary, the head of state noted, "in order to guarantee security measures for the residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Russian Crimea and our entire country for a historical perspective."
Recall that during the special operation of the RF Armed Forces, a number of settlements were liberated from Ukrainian militants, including the city of Mariupol.
Russian diplomat says denazification of Ukraine will be completed
[RIA Novosti] Those responsible for the torture and murder of Ukrainians disloyal to the Kyiv regime will be punished, the denazification of Ukraine will be completed, Sergei Leonidchenko, head of the legal section of the Russian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, said at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council.
"Torture centers in the 21st century really do not fit in the head. There is a lot of factual evidence and testimonies of witnesses about the secret SBU torture center at the Mariupol airport. It was cynically called the "library" and was created in 2014, when the nationalist battalion "Azov" occupied Mariupol," Leonidchenko said.
According to him, this particular center was used to torture, rape and kill "books" - as neo-Nazis called ordinary civilians held there who were suspected of disloyalty to the Kyiv regime.
"Be sure that those responsible for these and all other heinous crimes will be brought to justice. No one will escape responsibility. The denazification of Ukraine will be completed," he concluded.
Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Vladimir Putin emphasized , its goal is to "protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
Putin warns of "lightning strikes" in case of a threat to Russia
[RIA Novosti] If someone wants to intervene in the situation in Ukraine from the outside and create a strategic threat, then the blows will be lightning-fast, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Council of Legislators.
"We have made all the decisions on this matter," he said.
He stressed that the country has all the tools for this, which no one else can boast of now. "But we will not brag. We will use them if necessary. And I want everyone to know about it," the president said.
In addition, the Russian leader assured that all the tasks of the special operation in Ukraine would be unconditionally fulfilled in order to guarantee peace and security to the people of Russia and Donbass in the historical perspective.
According to him, Russian soldiers and officers averted "a real danger that has already hung over our homeland" and prevented a large-scale conflict that "would have unfolded on our territory, but according to someone else's scenarios."
Putin noted that unfriendly countries relied on Russophobia and neo-Nazis and consistently created anti-Russia from a neighboring state. At the same time, the West has turned the Ukrainian people into expendable material, but the realization of this is already coming to the majority of the population.
"When Russia reacted favorably, in a friendly, comradely, fraternal way to the creation of an independent Ukrainian state, of course, then they proceeded from the fact that it would be a friendly state, that we would go further together, strengthening and developing each other, "creating the most competitive conditions for our development. Yes, in new historical conditions, but, of course, no one expected the creation of anti-Russia on the historical Russian territories, and we cannot allow this to happen," the head of state explained.
Moscow's reaction to these actions was correct and timely, which confirms the course of recent events, including Kyiv's claims to possess nuclear weapons, the discovery of Western biological laboratories in Ukraine and the supply of weapons, the president added.
"The day before yesterday, at the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office, I spoke about the need to form a detailed and irrefutable evidence base for all heinous crimes, violations of international humanitarian law by neo-Nazis, foreign mercenaries, and there are more and more of them in Ukraine. Once again <...> several people were killed, several were detained. Soon the Ministry of Defense will present them to the public," Putin also announced.
Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Putin emphasized , its goal is "to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The main goal of the operation in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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[LIBYAREVIEW] The United States (US) Embassy in Libya stated that they remain "deeply concerned by the continued oil shutdown, which is depriving Libyans of substantial revenue, contributing to increasing prices."In a statement, the US Embassy added that this could lead to electricity blackouts, water supply problems, and fuel shortages. "The damage the shutdown is causing to oil infrastructure will cost Libya additional millions, and risks an environmental disaster."
The statement stressed that the shutdown could impact the country’s ability to "utilize this infrastructure in the future to reach its full production potential."
The US embassy called on responsible leaders to "recognize that the shutdown harms Libyans throughout the country, and has repercussions across the global economy."
"The United States reminds Libyan leaders of the multiple UNSCR’s that protect the National Oil Corporation (NOC), and reaffirms our commitment to work with Libyan leaders on a mechanism that will give the Libyan people confidence that the country’s revenues are being distributed for the benefit of the Libyan people," it stated.
Prior to the shutdown, the United States had recommended "an incremental transfer of revenue, subject to monitoring and oversight by a Libyan-led financial mechanism. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Libyan leaders independently decided to make more substantial transfers," according to the statement.
"The US advised and continues to advise the creation of a temporary Libyan financial mechanism with broad support to address how Libya’s revenues should be spent, in the absence of an agreed national budget," the statement said.
"Such a mechanism could be used by Libyan authorities to give the Libyan people confidence regarding how oil revenues from the NOC would be used. As well as to prevent the diversion of funds for partisan political purposes that could undermine Libya’s peace and security. We recommend the mechanism be designed to allow Libyans to ensure the payment of critical expenditures for the people, with the highest degree of transparency. In order to build trust, all parties must know when and to whom funds are transferred to finance the agreed expenditures," It added.
The Embassy underscored that "Libya’s wealth should serve Libyans throughout the country — no outsider should decide the fate of Libyan resources. Any mechanism must only allow an avenue for Libyans to find agreement among themselves, and avoid unnecessary economic disruptions that only serve to hurt all Libyans."
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President Vladimir #Putin warns if any other country intervenes in #Moscow’s military operation in #Ukraine, Russia will launch a quick-fire military response.https://t.co/Sy9nkm4wRz
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#2
With how the Russian military is faring, can anyone here give their assessment of how well they think the Russian nukes are kept up?
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^ Just a guess, but well enough to be a problem all around.
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#2 Chris, I sure don't know, and more to the point, I don't think Putin knows either.
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Moscow media is warning the population that they must prepare to die in a nuclear attack. They said Russians will go to heaven while the rest of the world will just croak.
#6
Moscow media is warning the population that they must prepare to die in a nuclear attack. They said Russians will go to heaven while the rest of the world will just croak.
#8
Russian doctrine was described as thinking they could get away with using small tactical nukes without precipitating a strategic exchange. The huge number of tac nukes in their inventory would seem to support that theory.
The last time the US went to DEFCON 3 according to the site below was after Sep 11, 2001.
About UsNewsAlertsLevels
DEFCON 3, Round House Or Yellow Alert Level:
https://www.defconlevel.com/levels/defcon-3.php
What Is DEFCON 3 Or "Round House" Warning Level?
DEFCON 3, or Round House is an increase in alertness and military readiness, also known as 'yellow alert' status. With Defcon 3 the air force is in a higher state or level of readiness so that they can deploy and mobilize within 15 minutes time.
The alert color for DEFCON 3, or Round House is yellow. The meaning behind this condition level is similar to that of a yellow "caution" sign. We are prepared, cautious and in a state of military readiness. This condition represents a state of preparedness and a high level of caution.
The alert status may be raised to Defcon 3, or Round House after a precision strike is carried out by an an enemy. This condition may also be reached after a precision strike is carried out by the United States military or any event that warrants a cautious state of military readiness and alert by U.S forces. Taken from Defcon Level Warning System: https://www.defconlevel.com/levels/defcon-3.php
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defense chief who became Sri Lanka’s president in 2019.
But the 43-year-old army pensioner is one of several dozen veterans now camping out at a protest site near the president’s office in Colombo, having lost faith in a leader who stubbornly resisted calls to resign when the economy began to implode and most of his cabinet quit.
"We dedicated our lives to save this country and it is extremely sad to see what has happened to it now," Kumara said, sat surrounded by old comrades, several with prosthetic limbs.
Weakened by the pandemic, the Indian Ocean island’s economy was fast-tracked toward disaster by a surge in global oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. The government finances were already in a parlous state, partly owing to populist policies, including tax cuts.
Rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves left Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, without enough dollars to pay for vital imports of fuel, food and medicine, and sometimes violent mostly peaceful street demonstrations erupted this month as shortages and power cuts became acute.
Earlier this month Sri Lanka kicked off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a program to stabilize the economy. The government is also in talks with several countries and multilateral agencies to line up about $3 billion in bridge financing and has suspended repayment on some of its foreign debt to divert funds to pay for essential imports.
Amid the unfolding crisis, there have been street protests countrywide, with thousands of people joining some demonstrations.
"I get a pension because of the taxpayers of this country, and we have a responsibility to step up now and support the brave efforts by these young people to save this country," Kumara said.
"They are fighting for this country’s future," said the veteran, who had served in the army for 16 years. "That is why we are here."
Father to three children, Kumara lost his limbs in a mortar explosion weeks before Sri Lanka’s bloody 26-year war against Tamil separatists ended in May 2009.
Rajapaksa and his brother, then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, ordered the offensive that finally broke the rebels’ resistance, but thousands of people died in the onslaught.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least five Syrian soldiers were among nine people killed in Israeli air strikes near Damascus, in the deadliest such raid this year, a war monitor said on Wednesday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran’s military presence in Syria were among the targets.
Air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile strike near the capital, state media reported earlier on Wednesday.
"Our air defenses confronted an Israeli aggression over the outskirts of Damascus," the SANA news agency said.
AFP correspondents in the Syrian capital said they heard loud explosions.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes inside the country, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... ’s Shia bad boy group Hezbollah.
While Israel rarely comments on individual strikes, it has acknowledged mounting hundreds since 2011.
The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an ammunition depot and several positions linked to Iran’s military presence in Syria were among the targets.
“The Israeli enemy carried out an air assault at dawn... targeting several positions around Damascus,” a military source was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA. “The investigation indicated that four soldiers were killed, three others injured and material damage noted.”
The latest strike follows another near Damascus on April 14, without casualties, according to SANA.
The UK-based Observatory, which relies on a vast network of sources across Syria, said eight people were also wounded in the strikes.
The other four killed were not members of the Syrian military but belonged to Iran-backed militia, Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said, adding that he could not verify their nationality.
He said at least five separate sites were targeted in the latest Israeli raid.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] According to the Ukrainian President, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the special operation are only 2,500 - 3,000 people
. Zelensky is voicing an absolutely clear and blatant lie. The proof of this is enough to look at just two numbers:
- only now there are more than four thousand Ukrainian soldiers in captivity, and this is after all the exchanges, when Kiev did not have an exchange fund left
- at least five to six thousand Ukrainian militants died in Mariupol alone.
Judging by these two figures alone, it is clear that Zelensky is lying, and by multiple times. But in addition to what was voiced, the Ukrainian side also suffers very serious losses in the Izyum, Donetsk and Nikolaev directions, receiving hundreds of losses in its rear from missile attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on barracks and places of concentration of troops. And this is only the Armed Forces of Ukraine, border guards and the National Guard - no one considers terrorist defense and mercenaries.
I noticed a long time ago that the Ukrainians underestimate their losses by exactly 10 times, overestimating the losses of the enemy in their statements again by 10 times.
Now. the estimated real losses for the Ukrainian side are at least 30 thousand dead military personnel, with prisoners and wounded, and all 70 thousand. Of the combat-ready units and subdivisions of Ukraine, staffed and trained according to NATO standards, about 40-50 percent died, the rest (about 30 percent) were withdrawn to the west of the country, others were given in small groups to reinforce the Donbass group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Speaking about the losses that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to suffer without signing surrender, it is necessary to take into account the fact that Kyiv is not completely independent in making decisions. The Americans are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian. Kyiv supplies meat for the war, no other functions are assigned to it. And they will regularly supply this meat.
Among the killed and captured, the bulk of the soldiers are not those of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who were in the army before February 24, 2022, but mobilized middle-aged men. Frightened, dirty, hungry, with a doomed look. And in fact, those who were captured pulled out their lucky ticket.
A typical example from a conversation with such a lucky man: "Our unit was thrown into the forest belt, the defense sector was indicated, after which the officers left. For three days we lay under fire, we lost half of our personnel. Then they saw Russian tanks and surrendered."
Many Ukrainian prisoners ask not to exchange them, they are ready to work on construction sites and clear rubble in order to sit out the events - those who have been to the war are beginning to understand it.
As for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, after the losses in the first period of hostilities, when there were many cavalry attacks with bare rears, the tactics changed dramatically. Artillery works first, then sweeping.
Slowly, but the losses are 1:7-1:10. Due to rocket attacks and air superiority, the Russian troops keep the advantage and significantly (by an order of magnitude) lag behind in the loss of equipment and manpower. About 100,000 soldiers from an army of 1 million have been sent to Ukraine, mobilization in Russia is not planned. But strengthening the grouping is required.
Returning to Zelensky and his statements, one anecdote comes to mind:
- Have you read Anna Karenina?
- Oh sure.
- What do you think of the heroine?
Heroin is a powerful thing.
#12
If badanov really is a Russian stooge, he is not doing a very good job of stooging, no offense. Of course, the perfect disguise for a Russian stooge would be to appear to not be a Russian stooge at all. The fact that he as been around awhile implies a sleeper agent under deep cover.
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Shhh! I think he's an agent for Chernarus, SteveS.
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Hurling insults seems to be the one thing that both Russian and Ukrainian trolls have in common and badanov does not hurl insults so it's tough to believe he's working for either side.
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[NYPOST] A young London man who butchered his best friend in front of his family has been sentenced to prison for the horrifying crime.
Romello Harley, 19, was sentenced to a minimum of 22 years behind bars Monday for the murder of Tashawn Watt, also 19.
Harley was convicted of murder and possession of a bladed weapon last month.
On June 25, 2021, a heated argument broke out between Harley and Watt’s brother, Kashawn, at the Watts’ home in Sydenham, London.
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After Watt was punched in the face, the two brothers called for their mom to ask Harley to leave, police said.
Surveillance footage captured Harley returning to the property with "apparent determination" just 15 minutes later, armed with a knife.
He lured Watt outside and stabbed him to death as his family watched in horror, according to police.
During the trial, Watt’s heartbroken mother, Denise Campbell, called her late son — known in the family as "Tata" — a "calm, kind character" who "would walk away from any confrontation."
"My last memory of Tata was him dying on the floor in front of me," the anguished mom added.
Speaking about Harley, Watt’s mother said, "We showed Romello nothing but kindness and allowed him into our home as though he was one of our family members. I sometimes have questions which I know will never be answered."
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"Well, Harley, street physician,
Tell why, on pain of perjury,
You wrought unlicensed surgery!"
"Ain't got no ammunition."
#2
A wiz with a blade was Romello.
"A killer, but still, a nice fellow!"
"Amends have been made."
"And we've taught him a trade!"
Now he's treading the boards in... Hamlet! Macbeth! Titus... Julius Caesar... Romello and Juliet...
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NYPOST] A young London man who butchered his best friend in front of his family has been sentenced to prison for the horrifying crime.
