[Youtube] This is a 16-minute video analysis by an Austrian army officer on the fighting in the Donbass, notably including a comparison (at about 13:00) of the 1943 Battle of Kursk to the current fighting. H/T the US naval milblogger cdrsalamander.
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I'm sure salamander is a fine officer but the 'comparing this battle and that battle' effort has been responsible for a lot of mistakes.
for example, yes there have been successful 'pincer movement' battle plans based on Hannibal's tactic at Canae but many times battles were blown by trying to do this with troops unprepared for the coordination required.
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...an egregious case of attempted suicide by cop by a gentleman whose brief stint in the Navy did not cure the various problems he had before he enlisted, and twenty-three innocent bystanders paid for that fact...
31, is on trial for killing an 18-year-old girl and injuring 22 others when he plowed an SUV through Times Square in 2017
The trial is expected to take several months and include testimony from victims who suffered severe injuries
Alyssa Elsman, 18, of Michigan, was killed. Her sister, Ava, 13, was injured
Prosecutor Alfred Peterson told the jury in opening statements that it is 'impossible for him not to know exactly what was happening'
After Rojas crashed his car, his first words to a traffic agent were, 'I wanted to kill them all,' the prosecutor said
Defense attorney Enrico DeMarco said Rojas has a history of mental illness that made him unable to understand the consequences of his actions that day
At the time, the U.S. Navy veteran told police after his arrest that he had been smoking marijuana laced with the hallucinogenic drug PCP before the incident
Rojas pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in 2017 and has since been jailed at New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail complex
That’s five years. Whatever sentence he gets will have to include credit for time served, but at least while locked up he couldn’t try again, with the same consequences.
[RadioFreeEurope] A former top manager of LUKoil, Aleksandr Subbotin, has reportedly died under strange circumstances, the latest in a series of mysterious deaths of Russian businessmen since Moscow launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Citing sources close to the Moscow regional police on May 9, media reported that forensic tests were held to find possible drugs in Subbotin's body, which was found in a basement in a house in the town of Mytishchi near the Russian capital on May 8.
According to the sources, the owner of the house where the billionaire's body was found, Aleksei Pindyurin, also known as Shaman Magua, testified to police that Subbotin came to his house under the influence of alcohol and drugs seeking a ritual he often asked Pindyurin to perform to relieve hangover symptoms.
Less than three weeks ago, on April 21, Vagit Alekperov, the founder and co-owner of LUKoil -- Russia's largest private oil company -- resigned after he and other Russian tycoons were hit by sanctions by Australia and the United Kingdom over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The same day, media reports in Spain reported that a former top manager at Russian gas giant Novatek, Sergei Protosenya, his wife, and daughter had been found dead in a rented villa in the town of Lloret de Mar near Barcelona two days earlier.
The 55-year-old millionaire was found hanged, while his wife and daughter had been stabbed to death in the villa, police were quoted as saying.
On April 18, Vladislav Avayev, a former vice president of one of Russia’s leading financial institutions, Gazprombank, was found dead in his Moscow apartment together with the bodies of his wife and daughter.
Police said at the time that the apartment was locked from the inside and a pistol was found in Avayev's hands, leading them to conclude that Avayev shot his wife and his teenage daughter before killing himself.
On March 24, another Russian billionaire, Vasily Melnikov, who owned the medical-supply company MedStom, his wife, and two sons were found stabbed to death in their apartment in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
On February 28, Russian tycoon Mikhail Watford was found hanged in the garage of his home in Surrey in the United Kingdom. U.K. officials said at the time there were no signs of a foul play.
On February 25, the day after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, a top manager of Russia's Gazprom energy giant, Aleksandr Tyulyakov, was found hanged in the garage of his house near St. Peterburg. Police said at the time that they found a suicide note next to the body.
Another top Gazprom executive, Leonid Shulman, was found dead in a cottage near St. Peterburg in January, weeks before Russia began its invasion. A suicide note was also found next to his body.
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Preemptive purge and the Russian equivalent of "Saudi Survivor"?
When the Old Sultan dies there is generally a bloodbath in the Palace and Seraglio...
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Individuals whose wealth is largely dependent on trimming the 'float' from moving money. Sanctions have mostly stopped the money, the float dried up, and they are no longer able to pay for tolerance from the powers that be.
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nah, I think has a pretty good reputation of taking care of his own people.
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[Townhall] Washington never learns. Never. Politicians are like collective Alzheimer's disease patients. They have no short-term memories.
Does anyone remember 2008? It was only 14 years ago. Then, America suffered through one of the most significant and most painful financial crises in our nation's history -- and the worst losses since the crash of 1929. Millions of people lost their jobs. Hundreds of thousands defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes.
Trillions of dollars of lifetime savings and wealth evaporated. Central billion-dollar banks and investment houses that were thought to be invincible were swept away like straw huts in the face of a tsunami.
The calamity resulted from government policies that intentionally inflated a housing bubble year after year. Few saw the bursting of the bubble coming. When it popped, the carnage was everywhere and felt from coast to coast.
Now there are many of the same flashing signs of a housing bubble -- and again, no one is paying attention.
A well-respected housing affordability index fell last month to near the lowest level ever as home prices surged.
Mortgage interest rates now exceed 5.2% -- up from 3.6% just two years ago. In some markets, rates are nearing 6%. And the Fed is raising rates again, as it should, but this too will likely further inflate mortgage rates.
The average mortgage payment is now $1,800 a month -- 70% higher than before COVID-19 hit. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and are already financially squeezed due to prices rising faster than paychecks. The only other time home payments were as high as they are today was in 2007. Yes, on the eve of the Great Financial Crisis.
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YES! I remember 2008-2010 painfully well.
We were comfortably in 2,400 Sq/ft 5/3 brick valued at $185K + near Lawrenceville Ga. that could not be sold for even $150K nor rented to cover the mortgage payment.
NOTE:
Housing Sales are still slowing in our Mid-Eastern GA area. The House Time on Market has increased from around 21 days before offer, to 30+ days.
We are now seeing more selling price reductions of around $5K per month on 30+ day listings.
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The current housing bubble is part & parcel of what you could reasonably call the "unpayable debts bubble". There is no way the USA could ever pay off its national debt (public and private), short of a collapse of the US economy and of the dollar. At least the US financial situation is the least horrible of all other nations.
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The calamity resulted from government policies that intentionally inflated a housing bubble year after year.
Yeah, and now they're doing it with student loans too. Can't wait to see the universities in trouble and laying off academics.
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Won't happen, they will still give out the student loans for bullshit degrees to a greater degree with all the idiots getting said degrees knowing they will not have to pay them back. In other words this is a way for us to continually pay for them to be indoctrinated by the university system, which seems to be churning out plenty of leftist shit.
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back in 2006-2008 the banks were coersed into giving out under capitalized loans without even much of an appraisal
I think now there are fewer of these so the bubble should not be as big
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A home in San Diego that sold for $650,000 a few months ago sold for $1,000,000 yesterday.
[ZERO] Cases of Covid-19 among attendees to the White House correspondents' dinner two weekends ago continue to mount, as the fully vaccinated and boosted 'elites' who condescended to non-compliant Americans participated in a superspreader event.
As The Hill notes, "High-profile cases following the dinner include ABC reporter Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and reporters from The Washington Post, Voice of America and other outlets."
There is no exact count, and it is not clear which dinner attendees contracted the virus at the dinner itself or at one of the many parties last weekend surrounding it.
But the string of reported cases does emphasize the point that even as the country seeks to move on from the virus, large indoor gatherings do carry some risk.
The cases have also played into an ongoing debate, with some arguing that the current era of COVID-19 allows vaccinated and boosted people to decide to attend large gatherings even if it means a small risk, while others are more cautious, pointing to the downstream effects on other people of increased transmission. -The Hill
No - it's not a debate over whether large gatherings are a good idea since the dominant strain of Covid is only slightly more deadly than the common cold and the vast majority of people will make it through Covid-19 without issue. The point is that those who refused to play the lockdown game were chastised by the very people at this superspreader event.
"I’m yet another [White House Correspondents’ Association] weekend casualty," tweeted Puck News correspondent Julia Ioffe. "I knew I was taking a risk and, well, here we are!"
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Having had it, and a hospital bill I'll be paying on for about 2 more years despite having Medical/Health ins. I honestly CAN NOT wish it on anyone.
But, If I were to...
I'd say it couldn't have happened to a MORE DESERVING, lying, deceitful collection of people. A Political Propaganda Group that even PRAVDA would be jealous of.
Interesting to note:
Those demanding and claiming they are Vaccinated & Boostered seems to be the biggest recent infected demographic group.
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the vax booster is not particularly effective in preventing infection after about 3 months
it does prevent severe cases at least through 5 months
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So, we now know vermin are susceptible as well
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The only country in the world except China so preoccupied with this fake event. Watch now as elections draw closer the hysteria will inflate.I will go about my business and continue to avoid the word pollution.
[ZERO] Congressional Democrats are rushing forward to whip up $39.8 billion in additional Ukraine aid, after agreeing to drop a a proposal for additional COVID-19 related funding they planned to combine.
The package, which tops President Joe Biden's $33 billion request in April, could receive a House vote as soon as Tuesday, with Senate Democrats indicating that they are prepared to move swiftly according to Reuters.
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They want us to believe that the mighty Ukrainian Army will liberate Mariupol, Donbass and the Crimean Peninsula instead of just getting thousands of people killed.
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But, yes, at least they dropped the covid bullshit. Thank goodness for some small favors.
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I know Elenskyy is so hot right now U2 shows up at his concerts. So hot.
War Powers Resolution calls for affirmation within some 60 days of actively participating in a war zone. I see calls for No-Fly Zone March 1. Calls for financial, RPG, tanks, Special Ops all at the same time frame.
I know the neocon: generations are trying to keep their laundry mats open, and the Satraps of McConnell are trying to scare normal people into thinking the dismissal of RvW will usher in an era of knee stapling and kitchen cuffing - strangely in line with the dusting off of the sadmaiden costumes eh?
Just saying, open that other front and have them sign their names on $40billion dollars marked for Covid relief, such as maintaining the grocery infrastructure so baby formula can make it to the shelves instead of going.....where, exactly? Gonna defend selling missiles to the IMC at the cost of starving babies?
[American Thinker] Supplying uniforms to the German empire, textile magnate Gunther Quandt made millions during World War I. Shortly after, when electrification was booming worldwide, he gained control of one of the world's largest battery-makers. He soon acquired one of Germany's primary arms and ammo manufacturers. This was just the beginning. He went on to gain stupendous wealth and power through deals with the Nazis. The story of Quandt, as told in David de Jong's Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties, evokes awe and dread. For it is about soulless profiteering and participation without any qualms in the enslavement and massacre of millions of Jews.
It is well known that many dynastic German companies owe their standing to their complicity — even willful participation — in Nazi evil. De Jong investigated five key industrialists who funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power, were complicit in horrendous crimes, and reaped billions from that cold-blooded investment: Quandt, automaker Ferdinand Porsche, Richard Kaselowsky of the Dr. Oetker Group, financier August von Finck, and industrialist Frederick Flick. His book details their deals and post-war cover-ups. It also tells how they were virtually absolved of all wrongdoing because the West needed Germany as a bulwark against Russia and its East European satellites.
Quandt's first engagement with Nazism happened in the early 1920s. On a visit to the U.S. with his wife Magda, they were approached by Kurt Ludecke, an ardent German nationalist raising funds for the fledgling, cash-strapped National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). Rejected by the anti-Semite Henry Ford, he hoped to convert Quandt to the Aryan cause. Quandt was noncommittal, but Magda was swayed. By the time the couple divorced in 1929, with a generous settlement for her, she was mingling socially with the Nazis. She devoured Mein Kampf and joined the party, where she worked for her future husband, Joseph Goebbels, later chief of propaganda minister for the Reichstag. Quandt, who remained friendly with Magda and Goebbels, came under their influence. He began to believe, like many in post-WWI Germany, that Jews and communists were responsible for all the country's ills.
World War II and Hitler's atrocities would not have happened without the millions Quandt and the other industrialists pledged for arming the stormtroopers who ensured his election. In turn, the plutocrats profited hugely when he began the war in Europe: there was an insatiable demand for uniforms, ammo, fighter planes, and batteries for torpedoes and rockets. The financiers of Hitler's rise were now the hardware merchants of his war effort.
Quandt gained a seat on the board of Daimler-Benz in 1933 and was soon producing arms, besides batteries and textiles. He became a key supplier to the Luftwaffe. Auto engineer Porsche, who had served in the SS, wired the Fuhrer that he and his staff were putting their "will and ability at the disposal of the German people." His firms produced advanced tanks, the V-1 flying bomb, and other weapons systems. In 1934, Hitler gave him the contract to design a people's car — the Volkswagen. August von Finck, who acquired a financial empire that included the Merck Finck bank and insurers Allianz and Munich Re, believed that G-d had sent the Fuhrer to save the German people. Kaselowsky, who married the widowed daughter-in-law of the founder of the Dr. Oetker group and became its chief executive, had a portrait of Hitler in his office suite. He'd gift signed copies of Mein Kampf to new employees. The company was a major supplier of food to frontline soldiers. (His stepson, Rudolf August Oetker, who ran the company and turned it into a household name after Kaselowsky's death in a 1944 air raid, was a former SS officer and ardent Nazi.) Frederick Flick profited handsomely from the army's demand for weapons-grade steel, acquired several mines and heavy industries, and was the Reich's top producer of light machine guns.
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In turn, the plutocrats profited hugely when he began the war in Europe
This is hand-waving. In conditions of total war, corporations are squeezed until they scream. I suspect the major contributor to their post-war prosperity of their connections to the Nazis was their continued survival during the war, a time when scarcity of labor and materials squeezed every single private enterprise. If you did not use slave labor, you went out of business, because everyone else did. The US won the war, and its corporations did not enjoy significant inflation-adjusted gains in profits.
Germany, which lost, would presumably have seen its postwar government welsh on large amounts of payables to the corporations that made war materials. There's a reason businesses hate war - much as people are drafted and fed into the meat grinder, private capital is requisitioned and incinerated in the fires of war, whether through horrendous wartime inflation or outright seizure through unprofitable contracts.
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'Cold Wars' are where the Big Money is at. There is an anecdote in William Manchester's "The Arms of Krupp" where the government minister bitterly complains about the large caliber coastal artillery that were newly sold to foreigners. Krupp gallantly replied "...as a truly patriotic German he has even larger artillery ready to sell to Germany!"
More like proxy wars like the one we're fighting now in Ukraine or chickenshit little wars against piss ant countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Gotta get kinetic to destroy some of that hardware so you can sell more of it.
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Either that or leave it behind when you bail.
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[IsraelTimes] Troops operate in Rummanah and Qarawat Bani Hassan following deadly terror attacks in Elad and Ariel; 11 others arrested across West Bank
Security forces raided the hometowns of recent Paleostinian Lions of Islam in the predawn hours of Monday and arrested several suspects wanted for involvement in a series of deadly attacks, the military said.
In Rummanah near Jenin, two Paleostinians were arrested on suspicion that they aided two Lions of Islam who hacked three Israelis to death with an axe in the central city of Elad on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The two terrorists, As’ad Yusef As’ad al-Rifa’i, 19, and Subhi Emad Sbeihat, 20, were arrested Sunday morning in a forested area near Elad, about a kilometer from the scene of the attack. Later on Sunday, troops entered Rummanah to map out their residences ahead of a potential demolition.
In Qarawat Bani Hassan, troops detained two Paleostinians suspected of aiding two members of the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group who killed a security guard at the entrance of Ariel, a nearby settlement, in late April.
Youssef Sameeh Assi and Yahya Marei were arrested a day after the deadly attack. The IDF has since mapped out their homes ahead of a potential demolition, and arrested another suspect who allegedly helped the pair commit the attack.
In other areas of the West Bank, troops detained 11 others over suspected involvement in terror activities, the IDF said. Two firearms were also seized in the town of Azzun.
[OneIndia] Himachal Pradesh on high alert after Khalistan
...Khalistan is the idea of an independent Sikh homeland in the Indian (and Pak, but they don't dwell on that) Punjab. The local troublemakers are financed by the Sikh diaspora, who love the idea of the folks they left behind murdering their neighbours before dying romantically for a hopeless idea, with training and additional funding from Pakistain’s ISI via Lashkar-e-Taiba as yet another arrow aimed at the Indian throat...
flags were found tied on the main gate and slogans scrawled on the walls of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly complex on Sunday.
The flags, which were removed by the administration, were put up on the outer side of the gate number one of the assembly complex.
Amid some pro-Khalistan activities in parts of Himachal and other neighbouring states and the announcement of June 6 as Khalistan "referendum day", the state police chief also ordered the "sealing" of the border and beefing up state-wide security at sensitive and crowded places.
The state border has been "sealed" to regulate movements of suspicious elements across it and keeping a strict vigil there, the HP police said said.
Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police Sanjay Kundu said Pannun has been booked as the main accused under section 13 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and sections 153 A and 153 B of the India Penal Code, besides section 3 of the HP Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement) Act, 1985.
While section 13 of the UAPA pertains to the offence of inciting or abetting terror acts, sections 153 A and 153 B of the IPC deal with the offences of promoting communal or sectarian divides and animosity.
Condemning the incident, Chief Minister Thakur said the culprits will be caught soon.
"I condemn the cowardly incident of raising Khalistan flags at the gate of Dharamshala Assembly Complex in the dark of night. Only the winter session of the assembly is held there, and hence require tighter security arrangements during that time only," he tweeted. "Taking advantage of this, the cowardly incident was carried out, but the government will not tolerate it. Wherever the culprits are, they will be caught soon.
Strict action will be taken against the perpetrators of this incident," Thakur said. SDM, Dharamshala, Shilpi Beakta said, "It is an alert call for us." "We received an information this morning around 7.30am. We have removed the flags and walls have been painted again. We are inquiring about the matter and are going to register a case under relevant sections of Himachal Pradesh Open Places (Prevention of Disfigurement Act), 1985."
The rest of the details can be shared after investigation, she added.
[Washington Examiner] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot set social media ablaze Monday evening with a "call to arms" in response to an impending ruling from the Supreme Court. the Picnic Ant Lady (as B calls her, LOL)
Pegged as incitement by critics, a warning was sent by the Democrat about how gay rights could be next after a leaked draft opinion signaled a crackdown on abortion access.
"To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community — the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms," Lightfoot said in a brief and now viral Twitter thread. "We will not surrender our rights without a fight — a fight to victory!" Lightfoot added.
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#1 I don't know B, having a forward observer like Mayor Beetlejuice there is akin to calling for Final Protective Fires and getting leaflet rounds in response.
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Yes but when the Chicago rebels surge out of Chicago into rural Illinois, they will learn the difference between thug shooting and rural shooting. It won't be pretty.
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"Chicago rebels surge out of Chicago into rural Illinois" as if they could cross I-80 & the always-under-construction access roads serving as a barrier between Chicago and rural Illinois. Truckers would turn them into roadkill.
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I think that many Americans are willing to challenge one particular gay right, the right to indoctrination.
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I understood that during the George Floyd riots, the Chicago rioters stopped dead at the Cicero town line. Cicero is apparently under the control of the Latin Kings, who did not want their property destroyed. A good example to follow.
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I understand there were many no-go lines they were stopped at. Basically, they operated where nobody was allowed a counter-force.
One of the funniest videos I saw was in LA (I believe) with a Crip (likely) chasing off some Blamtifa like a scene in Gran Torino.
[Washington Examiner] A conservative lawyer who claimed Justice Samuel Alito fled to an undisclosed location now says he cannot verify whether the Supreme Court member is actually in hiding, saying, "It was a rumor, and I never claimed it was anything other than a rumor."
"Last week, I had heard from somewhere — I can't remember where — that Alito had been taken to a secure location for his and his family's protection," author and attorney Ilya Shapiro told the Washington Examiner on Monday after he said on a Fox News program Saturday that he "heard that Justice Alito has been taken to an undisclosed location with his family."
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Given this current Coup / Junta Administration, it would not surprise me if there was a Wetwork group plan to take out a few Constitution Based voting Justices.
Then their media to place the blame on some new previously unheard of Militant Abortion Group.
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Federal judges supervise a thing called the US Marshall Service. The Marshalls run a thing called the Witness Protection Program. So I imagine there's any number of cubbyholes that you could go into.
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Reposting a comment I put elsewhere earlier today: If any ill effects are experienced by SC justices or their families from these illegal protests without legal actions from the DOJ/FBI/etc, IMNSHO, Biden will have committed a "high crime or misdemeanor" as mentioned in Article II, section 4 of the US Constitution simply by the failure to act of the Executive Branch. Not that the Left gives a damn about the Constitution, though.
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The Rule of Law pretty much ends when the people who control the government decide that "Prosecutorial Discretion" is a synonym for only enforcing the laws when it suits their agenda. Tragically, the level of corruption/political bias within the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government has reached a level never anticipated in our history.
“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
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A very old man of Valencia
And son of la gran Convivencia
Cries, "Christians and Jews
Can all live as they choose...
Just like then!" [molotovs residencia]
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says it has arrested three suspects during an alleged attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a strong argument in favor of European colonialism, even French colonialism... The military says troops operating security cameras identified the three approaching the border near the town of Ghajar.
The suspects left a bag in the area with five MP5 sub-machine guns and ammunition, according to the military.
Troops and coppers were dispatched to the scene and the men were arrested.
[Times of Israel] In a briefing to Hebrew media, unnamed IDF officials say the military believes the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group is not behind recent deadly terror attacks, but rather is "riding the wave" to encourage further violence.
This assessment has been presented to politicians. The military says it believes the recent attacks were not directed by organizations but were so-called lone-wolf attacks.
Officials also tell outlets they believe there is deterrence against Hamas 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 and the group is unlikely to seek a major escalation.
There are a million stories in the little country. This is one of them.
[Breitbart] An Israeli man was sipping tea with his family on the porch of his home in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa on Sunday evening when he spotted an armed Palestinian trying to scale the security fence. The man, a father of seven, rushed his family inside and grabbed his M16 rifle and shot the terrorist.
"I was sitting with my wife and children on the balcony and we drank a cup of tea," Yair Maimon recounted. "Suddenly I saw a guy climbing a pole in a fence next to my house. I shouted at him ’Who are you?’ And he mumbled something indecipherable. I immediately realized it was a terrorist attack. I rushed my wife and children inside the house, and told them to close the doors. I took out the gun.
"I immediately went outside and realized that the terrorist had managed to get to the parking lot of the house. I heard a rustling noise from the bushes, I turned around and saw him in front of my eyes with the knife in hand. I immediately fired several bullets until he was neutralized. It could’ve ended very differently."
As a civilian member of the settlement’s security team, Maimon is allowed to possess a weapon.
His 13-year-old daughter caught the whole incident on her camera phone. She can be heard saying "Die!" to the terrorist once her father had shot him, before bursting into tears and exclaiming, "Mommy!"
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Gun Control in Israel is done with the background that a lot of civilians have military or other security experience and that experience includes firearms training.
Israel does not suffer from the kind of chronic urban violence that is common in say, Chicago or Baltimore. It does suffer from aspiring killers from the territories or even from some natives who want to kill for political reasons.
Population in Israel is about 10 million.
Active IDF is about 160k
Reservists are about 500k
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Israel does not suffer from the kind of chronic urban violence that is common in say, Chicago
The Arab-Israeli villages do. That’s one reason the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party joined Naftali Bennett’s government.
[AnNahar] Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit on Monday after a day of violence saw three people including an MP killed and over 150 maimed as government supporters armed with sticks and clubs attacked protestors.
Lawmaker Amarakeerthi Athukorala from the ruling party shot two people -- killing a 27-year-old man -- and then himself after being surrounded by a mob of anti-government protestors outside the city, police said.
Sri Lanka has suffered months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines in its worst economic crisis since independence, sparking weeks of overwhelmingly peaceful anti-government demonstrations.
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 9, 2022
Since early hours on Monday, the Turkish forces have been targeting villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo, northern Syria, reporting no human losses.
The Turkish artillery targeted each of the villages Smoqa and Umm al-Hosh in the northern countryside of Aleppo with four shells each, a military source said.
Residents of the aforementioned villages “were horrified” by the attack compelling them to stay at homes, residents of the villages told North Press.
Villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo including Smoqa, Ziwaniya and Shaala were pounded by the Turkish artillery before midnight on Sunday.
Since early May, the Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions have escalated the shelling of villages in Aleppo northern countryside.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 9, 2022
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched on Sunday a successful attack against a weapons’ facilitator of ISIS in al-Busayrah town, east of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A source of the US-led Global Coalition said “The SDF conducted a successful operation against a Da’esh weapons and lethal aid facilitator who supplied weapons and illegal equipment into the Euphrates river Valley.”
The SDF keeps pursuing ISIS sleeper cells in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside with the aim to maintain security and stability of the region.
On May 7, the SDF arrested 4 ISIS members with rockets and IED materials in possession in Deir ez-Zor.
“The SDF will continue to fight Da’esh until they are all gone from Syria. The protection and safety of the people of Syria will always be a priority of the SDF,” the coalition source added.
On Sunday, a joint training between the SDF and the Global Coalition was attacked with rockets in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside.
On Monday, a joint security force arrested a terrorist who killed a policeman before the liberation operations in Dujail district, south of Saladin governorate.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that a joint intelligence force from the Samarra and Dujail Operations Commands and the Commandos Regiment ambushed an ISISA MEMBER in the Albu Hamid area of Dujail and arrested him for killing a police officer in Qara Gul before the liberation operations.
A security source revealed that only a few ISIS members are still present in the Waqf Basin, between Al-Abbara and Abu Saida, 25 kilometers to the northeast of Baqubah.
The source told Shafaq News Agency, "No more than 16 ISIS elements are deployed in the Waqf Basin, including 17 villages."
"The surveillance cameras monitor daily the movements of terrorists in the agricultural villages."
"It is not possible to eliminate ISIS elements with missiles or mortar shells because they are present in residential villages, which would affect the civilian casualties."
The source denied that ISIS controls any village or hotspot in Diyala, especially since ISIS elements cannot appear publicly but attack at night with sniper weapons.
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[REGNUM] On May 4, a citizen of the Netherlands, who had previously volunteered for a foreign legion, died in Ukraine. This was reported by the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
According to journalists, family representatives are already confirming the information about the death of a 55-year-old man as a result of artillery shelling.
Note that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands does not confirm these reports yet.
As reported by news agency REGNUM , the previously captured commander of the 36th separate brigade of Ukrainian marines Vladimir Baranyuk told reporters that foreign mercenaries served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who were simply "looking for adventure."
By Karolina Hird, Kateryna Stepanenko, and Mason Clark
[UnderstandingWar] Russian forces continue to face widespread force generation challenges. A senior US defense official stated on May 9 that the US has not observed any indicators of a “new major Russian mobilization” and that members of the private military company Wagner Group “urgently” requested hundreds of thousands of additional troops to reinforce Russian efforts in Donbas.[1]
The official noted that Russia currently has 97 battalion tactical groups (BTGs) in Ukraine, but that BTGs have been moving in and out of Ukraine to refit and resupply, suggesting that Russian troops continue to sustain substantial damage in combat.[2] ISW has previously assessed that most Russian BTGs are heavily degraded and counting BTGs is not a useful metric of Russian combat power.[3] The Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claimed that under-trained, ill-equipped Russian conscripts are still being sent into active combat despite the Kremlin denying this practice.[4] A prisoner of war from the BARS-7 detachment of the Wagner Group claimed that a ”covert mobilization” is underway in Russian to send conscripts to clean damage caused by combat in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.[5]
Russian troops in Ukraine continue to display low morale and poor discipline as fighting in many areas has stalled out against Ukrainian resistance. A senior US defense official claimed that Russian troops in Donbas are failing to obey orders from top generals.[6] Russian forces deployed to the Zaporizhzhia area reportedly are experiencing very low morale and psychological conditions, complain about the ineffectiveness of operations in the area, frequently abuse alcohol, and shoot at their own vehicles in order to avoid going to the frontline.[7] This is consistent with reports made by the Ukrainian General Staff that the extent of Russian losses is having widespread impacts on the willingness of Russian troops to engage in offensive operations.[8]
Russian authorities are likely setting conditions to integrate occupied Ukrainian territories directly into Russia, as opposed to creating proxy “People’s Republics.” The Kherson occupation Deputy Chairman of Military Civil Administration Kirill Stremousov stated on May 9 that the Kherson region intends to become part of Russia and that Kherson authorities do not intend to hold a referendum to create an independent republic.[9] Spokesperson for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Oleksandr Motuzyanyk reported that Russian occupation authorities are intensifying reconnaissance measures and increasing checkpoints and patrols in occupied areas in order to prepare to integrate these regions directly into Russia.[10] Motuzyanyk noted that Russian and Crimean groups have been arriving to occupied regions to intensify propaganda measures to prepare for integration. ISW will publish our assessment of the Kremlin’s most likely course of actions towards their occupied territories in Ukraine in the coming days.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Russian forces did not make any confirmed advances to the southeast or southwest of Izyum on May 9 but are likely attempting to concentrate the forces necessary to resume offensive operations in the coming days.
Russian forces made marginal gains around Severodonetsk in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces are likely continuing to amass troops in Belgorod Oblast to stop Ukrainian counterattacks around Kharkiv City from reaching the Ukrainian-Russian border.
Russian units in Zaporizhia Oblast are regrouping and will likely receive reinforcements from forces previously deployed in Mariupol.
The Kremlin continues to face severe force mobilization challenges, and ongoing “covert mobilization” efforts are unlikely to generate substantial combat power.
Russian authorities are likely setting conditions to integrate occupied Ukrainian territories directly into Russia, as opposed to creating proxy “People’s Republics.”
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Skidmark do you get payed by the daily mail?
Because money always is the reason why people prostitute themselves..
..or you just link British trash cause your Russians neighbors? Those British pathetic propaganda articles are a little fake and nobody care all we have heard in this trash rag is:
Hundreds of Russian generals and colonels killed
All Russian ships blown out if the water
Russian troops killing their commanders
50,000 Russian casualties and 500+ Russian tanks destroyed
Russians totally defeated with no supply or leadership
Your trashy links are pathetic
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Getting paid would take all the fun out of it, dear Frank A. The difference between a prostitute and a slut, if you will — it’s dreadfully important to get your insults sighted in so you hit your target.
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*snort*
I notice when our trolls get worked up, the common english connective words get forgotten. It's just:
"You insult homeland. You British rags, wrong shit Putin Boy/Nazi!"
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Truth be told, Skid just links to the DM for the T&A in the sidebars. We can't help it. It's how we roll.
As for the articles and their tone, they give you a sense of what the buzz is over in that part of the world, the official Message of the Day which is always useful, and sometimes they cover events that never show up in the media here for some reason.
tl;dr: the DM is useful if you are smart enough to see thru it and don't go all monkey-brain.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:01 In the Nazi-occupied part of the Kharkiv region, a group of English-speaking doctors was seen, who, accompanied by the Ukrainian military and SBU officers, are conducting an examination of the population. All actions are recorded on photos and videos.
What is especially strange: after a medical examination, citizens are given certain drugs that are recommended to be taken. What kind of pills - is unknown. Alternatively, we are witnessing the beginning of a provocation, similar to staged chemical attacks in Syria. 21:40 Documents found by the Russian military during a special operation indicate that there were specific plans to strike at Russia from the territory of Ukraine - Deputy Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky.
19:34 In Ukraine, two radar stations for detecting air targets in the regions of Kramatorsk and Krestishche were hit, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
19:11 In Ukraine, the symbols Z and V will be excluded from the new license plates for electric vehicles. The symbol Y will be introduced instead of the prohibited letters.
18:57 Kharkov tenth grader on Victory Day in Kupyansktold, which for the first time in my life came out on May 9 with a St. George ribbon and a portrait of my great-grandfather.
According to him, in the Ukrainian school curriculum, the Soviet period is consigned to oblivion and called "totalitarian"
18:25 During the offensive in Severodonetsk, the “O” group liquidated especially outstanding Ukrainian militants.
They had state awards with them. Unusual trophy - Turkish pistol Retay Mod 92 Beretta.
17:33 For the first time in eight years in the village of Cossack Lopan, Kharkov region, Victory Day has been celebrated.
16:47 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine did not remove from the official Twitter account a post about Victory Day with a photograph of a nationalist with a patch of the 3rd SS Panzer Division "Dead Head"
15:14 In Kherson, the vocal and instrumental ensemble of the National Guard of the Southern Military District from Rostov-on-Don gave a concert.
14:38 Urgent! In the sky over Kherson, Russian air defense systems shot down eight Uragan MLRS missiles.
Today people came out to celebrate the Great Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, in which seven million Ukrainians were killed. No politics, no referendums or anything else. Just for your favorite holiday. And this is how the Kyiv regime wishes to congratulate.
14:29Nothing unusual, just the President of Ukraine Zelensky publishes a selection of photographs on Victory Day over fascism, the first of which shows a Ukrainian Nazi with the chevron of the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Dead Head”.
14:22 Sloviansk was subjected to rocket attacks in the central part of the city by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
12:30 Five Ukrainian missiles were shot down near Chernobaevka in the Kherson region, aimed at the northern part of Kherson
12:04 Foreign journalists visited Museum-reserve "Stone Grave" in the Melitopol region.
11:30 Berdyansk, Kherson, Kakhovka, Melitopol and other liberated cities today celebrate real Victory Day.
11:29 Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine have not been terminated, they are taking place remotely, Medinsky said.
11:21 The head of the Italian Foreign Ministry said that the weapons sent to Kyiv cannot be used to strike at the Russian Federation.
10:29 Head of the Zaporozhye Regional Civil-Military Administration Evgeny Balitsky and Acting Mayor of the Melitopol Administration Galina Danilchenko laid flowers to the Eternal Flame at the memorial "Brotherly Cemetery".
10:27 Melitopol. Immortal Regiment. Inhabitants remember and honor their heroes.
9:57 In Skadovsk, Kherson region, people bring flowers to the Eternal Flame.
9:47 According to Telegram channels, it is very important for the Office of the President to muffle the information field today about the results of Russian missile strikes so as not to create an image of the “power of Russian weapons”, which will contribute to a drop in morale in Ukrainian society and the ranks of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
9:37 Ukrainian men are not planning to be allowed to travel abroad while the special operation is underway, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal said.
8:59 In the Izyum direction, the Russian military took a whole warehouse of ammunition to Grady.
8:23 Air raid sirens sounded throughout the night in Odessa and Mykolaiv regions.
[NYPOST] An Alabama murder suspect and the jail boss who helped him escape were captured on Monday after a 10-day long manhunt that ended after a car chase in Indiana, officials said.
Prison honcho Vicky White and inmate Casey Cole White were tracked down to a hotel in Lauderdale County after the United States Marshall Services received a citizen tip late last night, Sheriff Rick Singleton told news hounds at a presser.
The pair were captured after a car chase and crash.
When they were discovered by authorities, the suspects took off in a black Ford F-150 truck and were chased by authorities.
During the pursuit, the US Marshals collided with the truck, causing the vehicle to crash. Casey White was taken into custody. Vicky White was transported to a hospital.
At a separate presser on Monday, Evansville Sheriff Dave Wedding told news hounds on Monday that Vicky shot herself, but could not confirm her condition. prolly not the only time she got "shot in the head" this week IYKWIMAITYD
Sheriff Wedding also said that Vicky White was driving the vehicle, conflicting with Sheriff Singleton’s comments.
The pair have been on the lam since their alleged April 29 escape from Lauderdale County jail in Alabama.
"This has ended a very long and stressful and challenging week and a half. It ended the way we knew it would," Sington said, adding he was thankful that "no citizens were hurt, no law enforcement officers were hurt as a result of this escape."
"We got a dangerous man off the street today. He is never going to see the light of day again," he said.
Escaped murder suspect Casey White has been captured and his prison guard lover has died in the hospital
The pair were found at a motel in Indiana and led US Marshals on a brief car chase Monday afternoon
Vicky White, 57, shot herself at some point during the capture and was first said to be in 'pretty serious shape'
She helped break Casey, 38, out of county jail in Alabama on April 29 with the excuse that she was taking him in for a mental health evaluation that was actually never scheduled
She was spotted buying men's clothes at Kohl's and shopping at a sex store a week before the they ran off
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[NYPOST] An ex-porn star demanded that Elon Musk ban X-rated content when he takes over Twitter, accusing the social media giant of being "the largest distributor of illegal content to minors."
Lisa Ann, 49, who made a name for herself in the adult film industry by parodying Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin ... the babe libs love to hate ...
in several videos, told listeners on her podcast last week that Musk needs to take action in order to protect children.
"Something I really hope Elon Musk takes a step ahead and says, ’We’re not doing this anymore, and if we are, you’ll have to enter in your birthday, there will have to be an ID situation,’ there will be levels to this s—t, that’s what I’m hoping," she said.
Ann said there was no contradiction between her message and her career as a pornographic film star.
"Yes, I did porn for many years of my life, and I’m not hiding my past as people tell me every day on social media when I’m wearing clothes, ’Why are you trying to deny your past? You’re this, you’re that,'" she said.
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I tried to watch the first 1, never could make it through. This will be a flop too.
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Predicated on humans not dropping ice bolides from orbit to genocide the annoying natives -- they own the orbitals, right? and the only objective is mining the Unobtanium...
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Avatar is interesting. Biggest movie in history (at the time) and yet once it left theaters it was basically forgotten. I think it was a mediocre (and preachy) story carried by new 3d tech and the 3d faded quickly as well.
It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out. Trailer has meh all over it but Cameron often surprises his nay-sayers.
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Don't even need VR, just off phone to tablet like with Pokeman Go!, watch group of 6 or whatever, can look around but little cursors show where the action is/will be, shit even dress up your own Poopoo or whatever they were called so your watch group can see you, I See You!, bobbing and weaving. Add a couple places where group decision changes the ending, but not too many, just enough to get everyone to watch it four times, get hooked. Use best data to assist the third movie.
Wait, sorry, got off topic of pronouns and genders, making sure the orange Poopoos are properly represented even though totally not from that environment of blue water and sky.
[NYPOST] Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Monday requiring Sunshine State students to learn about the "Victims of Communism" in high school.
Beginning in the 2023-2024 academic year, high school students enrolled in US government courses will get at least 45 minutes of instruction each November 7 describing how "victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech."
DeSantis inked the law at the Freedom Tower in Miami, where 650,000 Cubans were processed after fleeing their homeland upon Fidel Castro’s seizure of power in 1959.
"I think this tower is a reminder that freedom is not free, that you have to fight for your rights and that there are a lot of people out there that would love nothing more than to put you under some form of oppression," DeSantis said.
DeSantis said the new bill will seek to combat a "tremendous ignorance" among young Americans about the history of the ideology and its impact in various parts of the world.
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But will the left call it the "do say omelets - eggs law?"
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Do Say Gulag Law.
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Cue the "educators" shrieking that they'll teach about "capitalists victims".
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I read somewhere that although Communism is a complete failure as an economic system, we shouldn't underestimate its success as a religion.
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Once we teach them about the ~100 million dead, something that really does get overlooked, we can teach them about the Nazis being Socialists. That will really blow their minds.
"Since I started to use the word 'commie,'
The future looks brilliant and balmy!
Not one disagrees
Red's a dreadful disease...
Well, except for my kids and their mommy,
For whom the word means
Mostly skylines and screens,
And who welcome the Chinese tsunami.
Other than that, we're pretty much unanimous in our contempt for communism."
[NYPOST] Adreian Payne, a big man who starred at Michigan State and played four seasons in the NBA, died at 31 on Monday.
Chris Solari, who covers Michigan State for the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... Free Press, confirmed the news.
Payne died as a result of a shooting that took place at 1:30 a.m. in Florida, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. Payne was shot in a townhome community in the Econ Landing neighborhood. He was rushed to the hospital but pronounced dead.
The suspected shooter, 29-year-old Lawrence Dority, remained on the scene and cooperated with authorities. Dority was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder.
The Ohio native played at Michigan State under Tom Izzo from 2010-14. Payne was Second-Team All Big Ten in his junior and senior seasons. During his final campaign with the Spartans, he entered the season on the Wooden and Naismith award watch-lists and proceeded to average 16.4 points and 7.3 rebounds per game.
Payne and Michigan State won Big Ten tournament titles in 2012 and 2014.
The former Spartan gained national notoriety when he befriended Lacey Holsworth, a maiden of tender years who inspired Michigan State’s basketball team before succumbing to nervous system cancer at eight years old in 2014.
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Nothing much good takes place at that hour of the morning.
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Journalism is absolutely shit these days. Lots of fluff about his basketball career that is completely irrelevant other than the only reason we are reading about another instance of black murder in America. A dozen a day or more happen. The shooter remained on scene and cooperated. There’s the real story. Something went down. Befriending a cancer kid in the past is pr spin to deflect. Not having read the full article (because I simply don’t care) my take is that basketball Jones was probably the aggressor for some reason and it was at the shooter’s home. Since the writer refuses to report any real facts, I suppose I’m free to make up my own.
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After posting the above comment, I read the full article just in case. I am correct on three counts. I assumed race correctly. There were no relevant facts. Rantburg summaries provide all the information unless specifically stated that there is more detail in the article.
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Since the writer refuses to report any real facts, I suppose I’m free to make up my own.
Your facts are really just educated guesses but they're probably as close to the truth as we're gonna get.
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It sounds like you are well educated.
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Can’t speak for Florida. In most cases premeditation can be established by simply getting a gun from a cabinet. Second degree is usually the old crime of passion or a fight that got out of hand. There was no intent to kill up to the exact instance. Getting a gun from a car or other place gives time to think about one’s actions. Also police tend to over charge on crimes. It gives the prosecutors lots of bargaining chips. If one is charged with first degree murder and facing life or even death, a plea bargain becomes a very large carrot with reduced charges and drastically reduced sentences. One always has the right to trial. A trial by a jury of pissed off peers who we’re forced to take off work and be bored to death. A jury with fastest way to get out of jury duty is a guilty verdict. Besides, if he wasn’t guilty he wouldn’t be sitting in that chair, amiright? Every second costs money too. Bleed ‘em and plead ‘em is the saying. A far cry from the Founding Fathers’ ideal that it be better for 1,000 guilty men to go free than 1 innocent man be punished. Wow. I reckon I tangented there for a second. I apologize for off topic commentary.
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No great answer; I guess what I was pondering was if suspect hosted a party which led to circumstances related to a crime, such as drug use, if that ups a charge, if you will.
These athletes with causes are usually in deference to jail time. "We measured your BAL at 2.3 and found something other than coffee in your vehicle. Now, Hizzonour wouldn't like the cityball's starting position player on the news, and he has a cousin Vinny trying to get into office over in midnight basketballville. Suppose you go down there, get some face time, papers write a good story, and this never happened. That work for you Mr. Sports Union Lawyer? Oh, and Officer Rico who pulled you over, see he ain't from around here, so he has $20,000 bet on the other team next game, understand? We're trying to get him to cheer for the home team, but you know, things take time."
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It absolutely can, swksvolFF. I guarantee cat daddy is facing a lot more charges than just 1st degree murder. All of which are going to be complicated by who, what, when, where, why, and to what extent. The premeditation for a 1st degree must be proved. Hosting a party with dope and shooting an out of control guest in self defense isn’t premeditation. Baiting someone you don’t like to a party might be. Then you get into the civil tort shit where the property owner gets sued by all parties involved. It’s all in the facts. Which we will never get.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 20:57 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of 3 civilians as a result of the shelling of the AFU on the previously liberated territory of the Republic:
n.p. Valerianovka:
- men born in 2003, born in 1960;
- a woman born in 1975.
Thus, the total number of recorded victims in the liberated territories of the DPR is 1,336 people, incl. 68 children.
20:54 On Victory Day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled Donetsk again
Accomplices of modern Nazism opened fire from mortars on residential areas of the Republic. This time, the area of the first residential area came under fire from militants.
19:53 Shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
14:40 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - n.p. Staromikhaylovka: fired 6 mines in 82 mm caliber;
15:01 — n.p. Majorsk - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of mine 6\7): nine mines were fired with a caliber of 120mm;
16:57 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired eight mines with a caliber of 82mm;
18:05 — n.p. Nevelskoye - n.p. Berezovoe: 20 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
19:12 — n.p. Nevelskoye - Donetsk: 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
19:38 Consequences of a shell hit by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which provoked a fire in the extension to the house on the street. Sivashskaya, Leninsky district of Donetsk.
19:30 The servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic, together with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, continue to liberate the settlements of our Republic from the Ukrainian occupiers. Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 30 Ukrainian nationalists, one infantry fighting vehicle, two armored personnel carriers, two firing positions of 122mm D-30 artillery howitzers and two cargo vehicles. One tank, two armored personnel carriers and two2 cargo vehicles were captured.
19:09 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the street. Sivashskaya, Leninsky district of Donetsk, a woman died.
19:01 Confirmed information: During the shelling of Tekstilshchik in Donetsk on the street. Petrovsky 126b, a 16-year-old boy died.
19:00 As a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the street. Zamoskvorechnaya wounded a woman.
19:00 Consequences of the shelling of the market "Mercury" in the Kirovsky district. Information from the mayor of Donetsk Aleksey Kulemzin.
18:54 Shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
18:27 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Leninsky district): five missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:27 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:30 n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
18:25 Telegram channels report a series of arrivals along Tektilshchik in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk around 18:00. The market is on fire. Arrivals near DIMT. The house is on fire. The pipeline is on fire. Let's check on the victims. There is information about the death of a 16-year-old boy.
18:08 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction:
17:30 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kirov district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
18:02 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): 20 missiles were fired from the BM-21 "Grad".
17:59 AFU fired at Yasinovataya. The building of the lyceum and the apartment building on the street were under fire. Lermontov. Details are being specified.
17:00 The authorities of the DPR expect that the gas supply to Mariupol, liberated from Ukrainian armed formations, will be resumed in the summer.
“We will do our best to get gas as soon as possible. Even in the summer, probably. We are counting on it very much,” said the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.
15:40 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
15:30 — n.p. Georgievka - n.p. Luhansk: 15 missiles fired from BM-21 Grad;
15:30 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
15:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine:
14:50 from the direction of n.p. Gorskoe along the settlement Zolote-5 with the use of MLRS BM-21 (10 shells).
15:09 Telegram channels report a fire behind the railway station in Donetsk
15:06 Power supply to Gorlovka has been fully restored – Headquarters of TerO DPR
15:00 The AFU militants attacked a boarding school in Dokuchaevsk. Ukrainian militants fired at a boarding school and a bakery on the street. Lenin. Seven residential buildings along Lenin and Melnikov streets were also damaged.
14:55 Shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
13:45 — n.p. Dyleevka - n.p. Gorlovka (village of the mine named after Lenin): six shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
13:55 — n.p. Sands - n.p. Lozovoe: fired six mines with 82mm caliber;
14:30 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 10 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
14:20 As a result of the morning shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the Gagarin mine, damage to housing constructions was revealed from the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On st. Cherkasova 23 - the farm building was completely destroyed. Also recorded damage to housing construction on the street. Mining, 82/1 and outbuildings on the street. Mining, 89/2 - mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
14:10 Electricity has been brought to Mariupol. Water supply will begin in a week - the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
13:55 At the end of the parade, Vladimir Putin met with Artem Zhoga, the father of Vladimir Zhoga, commander of the Sparta battalion. “At the meeting, the head of state presented the star of the Hero to the father of Vladimir Zhoga,” Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov
13:46 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
09:13 — n.p. Zaitsevo (northern) - n.p. Golmovsky: 18 mines fired in 82mm caliber;
10:23 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired 11 mines with 82mm caliber;
10:42 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Zheleznaya Beam: two mines with a caliber of 120mm, six mines with a caliber of 82mm were fired, heavy machine guns were also used.
12:45 — n.p. Sands - Mr. Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): eight mines fired with a caliber of 120mm.
13:15 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
12:59 During the night, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two command posts and a Ukrainian battery of Grad multiple launch rocket systems in the area of Popasnaya settlement, 18 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment in the Lisichansk area, and a counter-battery radar station, made in the USA, in the area of Zolote.
During the night, Russian air defense systems shot down three Ukrainian air force aircraft: two MiG-29s in the Iverskoye and Novodonetskoye regions of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as one Su-25 in the Pogonovka region of the Kharkiv region.
In addition, drones were shot down in the air in the areas of Bryanka and Avdievka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Pavlovka of the Luhansk People's Republic. — MO RF
12:47 In Yakutsk, Omsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Grozny, one of the streets will be named after the deceased head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko.
12:38 AFU militants using the 9M79-1 Tochka-U tactical missile system fired at a residential area in Novaya Astrakhan, LPR. A tactical missile was shot down on approach to a populated area.
12:33 On Victory Day, activists of the Public Movement "Donetsk Republic" in all cities and regions of the Republic held an action "St. George's Ribbon". In the squares and streets, public figures handed out St. George ribbons and small copies of the Banner of Victory to pedestrians and car drivers - ODDR
12:20 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the direction:
12:15 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: five missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
12:19 Consequences of the shelling of the streets of Granovsky and Arkhipov in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk.
12:01 Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk was subjected to shelling of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of Ukrainian shells hitting the village of Severny, the roof, parapet and floor slab in an apartment building on the street were damaged. Vakhrusheva, 84.
11:40 AFU militants resumed shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. On st. Outskirts suffered housing construction. Details are being specified.
11:30 According to updated data, as a result of the shelling of the Gagarin mine village in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, a number of housing constructions were destroyed. On st. Fomina, 8 as a result of a hit by a Ukrainian GP, the ceiling was damaged, the summer kitchen and outbuildings were completely destroyed, two houses on the street. Fomin, 6 and 10 (non-residential) were destroyed to the ground as a result of an explosive object fired from the positions of Ukrainian nationalists. A number of houses along the streets were also damaged: Tushinskaya, 10/1, Yakub Kolos, 11/2, 11/1, 4/1, Yakub Kolos, 4/2, Voznesensky, 3a - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
11:15 On Victory Day, units of the People's Militia of the LPR liberated the settlement of Nizhnee, fighting began on the outskirts of neighboring Toshkovka.
11:07 In Mariupol today deployed a 300-meter St. George ribbon The event was attended by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
10:59 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
10:50 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Dokuchaevsk: eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired;
10:55 — n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Yasinovataya: 20 missiles fired from the BM-21 Grad.
10:30 Over the past day, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired more than 425 shells and mines from 122mm BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 122mm cannon artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars across the territory of the DPR.
The areas of 9 settlements of the DPR came under shelling. As a result of Ukrainian aggression, one civilian was killed and six were injured. 19 residential buildings and four civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.
10:21 The official representative of the NM of the LPR, Captain Filiponenko I.M.: during the clashes with units of the defense department, over the past day, the enemy suffered losses in manpower and military equipment, namely:
➖ Seven personnel;
➖ One armored personnel carrier;
➖ Five vehicles.
➖ One serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made the right decision, laid down his arms and thus saved his life.
10:20 Over the past day, the armed formations of Ukraine have fired seven shells from multiple launch rocket systems BM-27 "Hurricane" in the village of Novogrigorovka, LPR.
9:35 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
07:30 — n.p. Dzerzhinsk (South mine) - settlement Gorlovka (settlement of the mine "Glubokaya"): four mines of 120mm caliber were fired;
07:30 — n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of the mine named after Gagarin): four shells were fired from a tank;
07:30 — n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired eight mines with a caliber of 82mm;
08:08 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:14 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Yelenovka: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired;
08:14 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Share: three shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
09:05 — n.p. Novomikhailovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): five missiles were fired from the BM-21 Grad.
8:36 As a result of the morning attack, the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded numerous damage to residential buildings in the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova. On st. Yakub Kolos, 11/2 - a direct hit by a Ukrainian shell on the roof of the house, an extension was broken, glazing and a utility building were damaged. Good without sacrifice. On st. Yakub Kolos, 11/1 (non-residential house). Damaged roof and glazing - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
8:34 During the night shelling of the Oktyabrsky mine village of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, a fire broke out at the address: st. Legal, 77. The pediment and glazing of the house were damaged, households were destroyed. the buildings. No one was living in the house at the time of the incident.
8:23 A whole brigade of the Ukrainian military left Lisichansk, leaving their positions after small clashes - LPR Ambassador to Russia
8:21 For a day from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Novogrigorovka with the use of multiple launch rocket systems BM-27 "Hurricane" (seven shells) - Representation of the Luhansk People's Republic in the JCCC
8:19 As a result of the shelling of the Gorlovsky village of the mine. ON THE. Izotov, a shell of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the roof of a residential building on the street. Tushinskaya, 10. Fortunately, no one was injured. Data on the consequences of shelling continue to come in - the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko
8:17 A total of 408 people, including 65 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in a day - DPR territorial defense headquarters
8:15 In the LPR, allied forces have liberated a number of settlements and are fighting for Severodonetsk and Lysichansk. The information is confirmed by local residents that the village. Voevodovka (between Rubizhne and Severodonetsk), after several attempts to counterattack by the AFU, was completely cleared of Ukrainian formations - Ambassador of the Luhansk People's Republic in Russia
8:08 Shelling by militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
01:30 — n.p. Sands - Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
04:55 — n.p. Noises - Gorlovka (settlement sh-you 6/7): heavy machine guns were used.
06:30 — n.p. Dzerzhinsk - n.p. Gorlovka (settlement of Izotov sh-ty): 10 shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
06:52 — n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
07:20 — n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (village of Gagarin sh-ty): eight shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
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[Korrespondent] 23:42 Zelensky on the visit of Charles Michel and the explosions in Odessa: "Today, despite the presence of the President of the European Council, Russian troops again launched a missile attack on Odessa. This is the real attitude of Russia towards the European Union."
23:38 The Pulitzer Prize Jury in 2022 recognized Ukrainian journalists covering the war in Ukraine unleashed by Russia with a special award: "The Pulitzer Prize Board is pleased to award a special distinction to Ukrainian journalists for their courage, endurance and dedication to truthful reporting during Vladimir Putin's ruthless invasion of their country and his propaganda war in Russia. Despite bombardments, kidnappings, occupations and even deaths in their ranks, they persist in trying to provide an accurate representation of the horrific reality, which does credit to Ukraine and journalists around the world."
23:31 Ursula von der Leyen said that in negotiations with Orban on the oil embargo, "some progress has been made, but the issue needs further development." The head of the European Commission also added that she would convene a video conference with regional players "on strengthening regional cooperation in the field of oil infrastructure."
23:29 Residents of Odessa hear explosions and report that a shopping center is on fire in the city. There is no official information yet.
23:14 Ex-People's Deputy David Zhvania died during shelling in the "gray zone", Anton Gerashchenko said, citing sources. According to them, Zhvania died on Monday, May 9, from artillery fire near the checkpoint of the invaders near the village of Novopokrovka, Zaporozhye region. It is also known that Zhvania had Russian citizenship and was an unofficial representative of Rosatom.
22:51 Zelensky thanked Biden: "I am grateful to the US president for supporting Ukraine in the fight for our freedom and future. The signing of the Lend-Lease law today is a historic step. I am convinced that we will win together again. And we will defend democracy in Ukraine and Europe. How and 77 years ago.
22:27 What is Lend-Lease for Ukraine:
22:24 More than 100 civilians remain at Azovstal , Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said on the air of the telethon. He also said that aircraft and artillery of the Russian military are constantly shelling the territory of the plant. In general, according to the governor, up to 100 thousand people remain in Mariupol.
22:19 Biden signed the law on lend-lease for Ukraine , the White House said.
22:12 The United States has about $100 million left to finance Ukraine, which will be enough "until about the third week of this month," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. He recalled that the Biden administration had asked for an additional $33 billion aid package, "so we urge Congress to act quickly."
21:56 April was the hardest month for the Ukrainian economy, Shmygal said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine: "April was really the hardest, because the economy adapted to the war. More than 32% of enterprises completely ceased their activities. Today, this figure is less - already 17%. According to the prime minister, in March "there was a slight drop" in the implementation of the budget, and "now tax collections exceed the plan."
21:30 Scholz tweeted: "Ukraine will survive. Freedom and security will prevail - just as freedom and security triumphed over slavery, violence and dictatorship 77 years ago. Do your part, today it means never again!" this is the legacy of May 8th."
21:19 There are currently 97 battalion-tactical groups of Russian troops in Ukraine - compared to 92 BTGs as of April 28, a US Department of Defense spokesman said at a briefing.
"It's not uncommon for them to transfer one or two BTGs from the Donbass back to Russia for re-equipment or resupply, and then return them back," the official said. But in general, according to him, "they added about five BTGs, and all these BTGs are either in the east or in the south of Ukraine."
21:11 The occupants launched another missile attack on the Odessa region - three Kinzhal missiles were fired from a Tu-22 strategic aircraft. A hit on tourist infrastructure facilities was recorded, five buildings were destroyed, OK Pivden reported. The fire was extinguished and two people were injured.
21:05 The United States has canceled customs duties on Ukrainian steel and products made from it, said First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko. She clarified that we are talking about stopping the 25 percent duties introduced in 2018 by the Trump administration.
21:03 In their statement following the meeting, the G7 leaders promised to tighten the economic isolation of Russia and "raise to a new level" the campaign against the Russian elites who support Putin. Read more about what awaits Moscow now in the article New sanctions from the US and the G7 .
20:48 About 45% of the inhabitants of the occupied Kherson left the region, about 20% left the region, the head of the OVA Gennady Laguta said in an interview with Ukrinform.
20:30 The United States receives unconfirmed information that Russian troops and mid-level officers of various levels, up to the battalion level, refuse to obey orders to continue offensives in Donbas. According to CNN, citing a U.S. official, these officers "have either refused to obey orders or are not obeying them with the zeal you would expect from an officer."
20:24 The UN is not yet ready to confirm that all civilians have been evacuated from Azovstal, Guterres' office said. In this regard, the organization continues to maintain contacts with the Ukrainian and Russian sides and allows for new evacuation operations from Mariupol.
20:22 The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting on May 12 on Russia's alleged human rights violations during its war in Ukraine, The Guardian reports, citing a UN official.
20:09 The United States stepped up its investigation into Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky Lab amid heightened concerns about Russian cyberattacks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Reuters writes. In March, Kaspersky Lab was included in the list of companies that threaten US national security.
20:05 In the "LPR" they said that they "liberated" the village of Nizhne on the outskirts of Lisichansk. Also, the militants once again declared that they were in full control of Popasnaya.
19:59 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that Kiev "with the participation of advisers from the United States and Britain planned a major provocation to seize Snake Island from May 7 on Zelensky's direct order," however, the attempt to seize Snake Island was allegedly thwarted by the Russian Armed Forces.
19:47 Ukraine loses $170 million daily due to blocked seaports, and exports have fallen by more than half, Shmyhal said during a meeting with European Commission President Charles Michel in Odessa. The prime minister added that about 70 vessels are now blocked in the seaports of Ukraine, most of them are intended for the transport of general cargo.
19:36 Putin's speech at the parade on May 9 was expected to announce a general mobilization in Russia or even war to the whole world. Instead, the president of the aggressor country limited himself to a short speech without loud statements. Now the world press is speculating about why Putin's performance was so weak. Details - in the material Victory Day without victories .
19:31 Johnson said he "never was so sure that Ukraine would win." He also assured that "Britain will stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine for as long as necessary."
19:22 Moscow metro workers were warned about the possibility of an early dispatch to the front and responsibility for evading service. At a meeting in the metro depot, all men were told to undergo an extraordinary medical examination for a subsequent possible sending to the war in Ukraine. This was told to Nestka by a woman who turned to human rights activists for help after her husband was told at work that he might be mobilized. Sending to the front will begin "if there are not enough soldiers to send for a special operation," workers of the capital's metro warned.
18:58 The invaders are massively withdrawing troops from Borovaya and Boguslavka, Kharkiv region, in the direction of Kupyansk. At the same time, a large number of manpower and equipment remains in the villages of Izyumskoye, Druzhelyubovka, Olgovka, Cherneshchina, Pervomayskoye, Podvysokoye, Gorokhovatka, Bakhtin. Enemy equipment is camouflaged in the fields nearby, Borovskoye village council said.
Probably, the occupiers have problems with provision: they catch chickens, ducks, geese on the streets, and also take or exchange pigs and food from local residents.
18:56 The Ministry of Internal Affairs will exclude the symbols Z and V from the new license plates for electric vehicles, MP Igor Fris said, citing Deputy Interior Minister Bogdan Drapyaty. The character Y will be entered instead of forbidden letters.
18:54 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report reports that in the Severodonetsk direction there is a battle for Rubizhne - the enemy is trying to capture the city and move in the directions of the settlements of Liman and Severodonetsk; made an unsuccessful attempt to storm the village of Voevodovka and retreated to previously occupied positions.
In the Limansky direction, the enemy is trying to advance in battle in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovka and Shandrigolovo, in the Bakhmutsky direction, he unsuccessfully fought in the area of the settlement of Toshkovka. In the Avdeevka direction, fighting continues in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovka, Novoselovka Vtoraya, Verkhnetoretskoye.
18:44 Russia has fired about half of its missiles in Ukraine, but still has the capacity and stock of components to produce new ones, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said.
18:42 The occupiers "appointed" a deputy of the Zaporozhye Regional Council Yevgeny Balitsky as the "head of the military-civil administration" of the Zaporozhye region, local media report. Balitsky is a former people's deputy, now a deputy of the Zaporozhye Regional Council from the Opposition Bloc party. Instead of the Opposition Bloc, the regional council created a group For Ukraine, but Balitsky was not a member of it.
18:39 The occupants have already forcibly deported more than 1.18 million Ukrainians to Russia, Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova said. According to her, more than 20,000 people are in Russian filtration camps. Denisova also said that Russia was preparing for the forced deportation of Ukrainians in advance: the Russian Federation issued directives for its districts on how many and where to take Ukrainians. Deported Ukrainians are placed in 50 regions of Russia.
18:35 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is heading to Budapest for a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said its speaker, Eric Mamer. Today, Hungary again announced that it would not support the sixth package of sanctions against Russia.
18:32 The Russian occupiers pulled additional artillery units to the north of the Crimean peninsula for future battles for the Kherson region. According to the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanyk, such actions of the enemy have several goals.
Firstly, this is the pinning down of troops - a maneuver that is designed to prevent the movement of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to other operational zones. Secondly, given that Russia aims to capture the Kherson region as well, there is a possibility that this technique can be used by the enemy.
18:23 In Ukraine, on May 4, a citizen of the Netherlands, Ron Vogelar, was killed, he was 55 years old, and with the outbreak of hostilities, he left to fight on the Ukrainian side. He became the first citizen of the Netherlands to die in this war, of which there are about 70 in total, writes De Telegraaf.
18:02 At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, they denied the information about the flask with mercury, allegedly stolen at the station by Russian invaders. At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, they assured that no nuclear or radioactive substances were stolen, and the workers of the power plant retained full control over potentially hazardous materials.
17:56 Scholz said that Russia leaves Germany no choice but to supply weapons to Ukraine.
17:54 In the Azovstal area, the Russians today focused on blowing up the bridge along which the evacuation was taking place, trying to cut off the Ukrainian defenders as much as possible from the possibility of an exit, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
17:49 Ukraine has handed over to the European Union the completed second part of the questionnaire required to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership , said Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanyshina.
In the document, Kyiv assessed the compliance of Ukrainian legislation with the European one (acquis communautaire). The responses to the second part are about 4,000 pages long and provide a picture of the state of Ukrainian legislation after eight years of implementing the Association Agreement with the EU.
17:26 The entire territory of Irpen has been superficially processed by sappers, the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin said. At the same time, he asks local residents, if suspicious objects are found, in no case to touch them and contact the rescuers or the hotline: (093) 700 78 72.
17:04 The EU intends to weaken its package of sanctions against Russian oil and remove from it a ban on European ships to transport Russian oil and fuel to third countries, writes Bloomberg. The exclusion of the item from the sanctions package was promoted among other countries by Greece, which is among the largest shipowners in the world, allegedly due to a lack of agreement between the G7 countries.
16:54 On the night of May 9, Russian invaders massively fired on Nikolaev, there are dead and wounded among the civilian population, the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim said. According to him, this time the regional center was shelled more intensively than before.
16:36 The theft of grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine takes place under the leadership of the Russian special services, said the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky. According to him, 400-500 thousand tons of Ukrainian grain have already been sent in the direction of the Crimea. "This is a big business, it is supervised by people, not at all those who simply stole televisions. It is obvious that representatives of the Russian special services, the highest echelons of the military, are engaged in this," he stressed.
According to the minister, for the past few years, Crimea has not grown grain, so it is stolen mainly for their own needs. The invaders are also establishing distribution channels through Sevastopol: "All ships coming from Sevastopol are ships loaded with Ukrainian stolen grain. There were cases to which our Foreign Ministry reacted, and some ships were deployed from Egypt and other countries. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office has already begun criminal proceedings We are also working so that this grain can be seized and sold with the help of our Western partners."
16:23 In the Black Sea today there are seven carriers of sea-based cruise missiles of the Caliber type with a total salvo of up to 50 missiles, Defense Ministry spokesman Alexander Motuzyanik said.
He also said that the operational-tactical aviation of the occupiers inflicted 48 strikes on targets in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. Long-range Russian aviation carried out five strikes on targets in the Nikolaev and Odessa regions.
16:18 In Popasnaya, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding the line on new fortified positions, there are no breakthroughs. Soon the situation should change in our direction, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, in Rubezhnoye, the Russians daily suffer losses - just yesterday minus five tanks, about 20 killed, many wounded. Voevodka near Severodonetsk is completely under control, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have secured their positions.
More than 40 thousand people still remain in the free Luhansk region, the evacuation will resume after the cleansing of Bialogorivka, Gaidai added.
16:15 The Rutube video service has undergone a powerful cyber attack today, it is impossible to enter the platform. The sudden “failure” was commented by the head of the Ministry of Digital Development of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov: “And now I’ll show you where the attack was being prepared on Rutube. And if six hours before the parade the servers weren’t turned off - four servers, I’ll show you would have shown everyone this nonsense ... Well, you understand.
16:08 Fighting is underway near Lisichansk on the territory of Belogorivka - the Armed Forces of Ukraine are clearing the village, where the enemy crossed over the pontoon crossing along the river, said the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. "As soon as they remove all the 'superfluous', the rescuers will be able to start clearing the rubble at the school and the neighboring village of Shipilovo," he added.
16:05 Macron said he is in favor of a new type of "political European community" that will allow non-EU countries to join "core European values". According to the French president, any steps to allow Ukraine to join the EU will require "actually several years or, no doubt, several decades," writes Reuters.
16:01 Near the village of Makarov, Kiev region, the bodies of three more civilians were found - the Russian invaders killed them with shots in the head, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
15:59 The Russian military failed to hold May 9 in the occupied Melitopol, people risk leaving the city, but they are either fired at or not let through, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
15:57 The laying of flowers by the Russian Ambassador to Poland was disrupted by Ukrainian activists. As one of them, Irina Zemlyanaya, told, the activists came close to the ambassador Sergei Andreev and tore the artificial blood on themselves, the same "blood" fell on the ambassador. Under the cries of "shame" and "fascists" the ambassador left.
Andreev himself later said that he was doused not with paint, but with sweet syrup.
15:54 The occupying "authorities" of Crimea are seriously preparing for possible popular protests against the war in Ukraine and, in this regard, create several new punitive "police" units, said Lyudmila Denisova, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada. In addition, 500 outdoor surveillance cameras are being installed in Sevastopol.
15:48 The occupiers are planning to use chemical weapons in Mariupol, city council deputy Alexander Lashin said. According to him, in this way the Russian military wants to destroy the defenders of the city at Azovstal. Local residents are urged not to go outside from tomorrow, and the chemical attack itself may occur on May 11.
15:37 Zelensky, in a video conversation with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, stated the importance of "preventing a food crisis in the world caused by Russia's aggressive actions" and the need to "take immediate measures to unblock Ukrainian ports for wheat exports."
15:33 Chinese President Xi Jinping phoned Scholz via video and told the chancellor that every effort must be made to prevent the conflict in Ukraine from turning into an "uncontrollable situation." He also invited Germany to support the principle of "indivisible security" - a concept that Russia uses to justify its invasion of Ukraine, writes Reuters.
15:29 The head of the European Council Charles Michel arrived in Odessa: "I came to celebrate Europe Day in Odessa, the city about which Pushkin said that "you can feel Europe." Where today the Ukrainian people protect their monuments from missiles and freedom from Russian aggression. You you are not alone. The EU supports you."
15:26 Pushilin said that Mariupol should be made a resort city. In addition, he said that electricity was supplied to Mariupol, and water supply would begin in a week.
15:22 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council announced that Russia canceled the air part of the parade on May 9 in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don and other large cities not because of the weather. According to the Russian opposition, the flights were canceled because Russian planes in some cities were afraid to meet Ukrainian MANPADS on the way.
In 2020, the Russian media wrote that the Russian Federation spent more than 540 million rubles to disperse clouds for the safety of military aviation flights. Last year, this amount amounted to 417 million rubles. So the "bad weather" story is just a manipulation.
15:07 The Russians for the first time launched a missile attack on Ukraine with Soviet Kh-22 missiles, according to Defense Express. The mass of the warhead of the rocket can reach one ton, its warhead is twice as powerful as that of Caliber and Iskander. The use of the X-22 may indicate that the stocks of Caliber and Iskander in Russia are indeed depleted, experts say.
15:00 The Russian invaders, who were mobilized in April, have already been taken prisoner and are giving evidence. According to the SBU, citing the testimonies of the invaders, they were promised big money and relatively quiet tasks: to dismantle the rubble and put the streets in order in the so-called "LDNR", to transfer and load the dead and wounded, and also to be on duty at checkpoints. In fact, all "reservists" are sent to the hottest battlefields.
14:52 Ukravtodor opened a crossing on the Kyiv-Ovruch highway in the Zhytomyr region.
14:33 Expectations of an official declaration of war on Ukraine and mobilization at the parade on May 9 turned out to be far from reality. Putin's speech was sluggish. About how the social networks reacted to the event - in the material The last parade in Russia .
14:19 In the Kiev region near the village of Borshchev, the construction of a temporary bypass road near the destroyed bridge has been completed, which made it possible to resume communication between Kiev and Poltava along the M-03 road, said Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov.
14:16 The European Commission is waiting for the second part of the questionnaire from Ukraine, a decision on the status of a candidate for EU membership will be made in June, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Zelensky, in turn, said that during today's conversation with von der Leyen, he had already shown her the second part of the questionnaire.
13:47 The mayor of Slavyansk Vadim Lyakh announced a strike on the city center, the degree of destruction is being specified.
13:31 Russia is heading for defeat in its war against Ukraine, Podolyak said on the air of the telethon: "Russia is definitely heading for defeat. It is a matter of time and the number of our victims that we will have to pay for freedom."
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, all the hardships that the Russians will go through should be associated with Ukraine: "Because Ukraine is a symbol of the end of the era of these show-offs that they have lived for the past 20 years."
13:29 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace called Putin a Nazi during a speech at the Museum of the National Army in Chelsea, reports The Guardian. He mentioned the Russian soldiers who died during World War II and continued: “I was thinking about the extent of the suffering throughout the Soviet Union, and also how the suffering was used then, as now, to cover up the inadequacy of those who rule in safety. and comfort because of the Kremlin walls upstairs and in the General Staff nearby."
Speaking about the Russian army and the military leadership of the Russian Federation, he said that "for them and for Putin there can be no day of victory, only dishonor and obligatory defeat in Ukraine."
13:15 Russian media, citing the occupying "authorities" of Kherson, report that on Victory Day, eight Ukrainian Uragan MLRS missiles were allegedly fired at the city, which they managed to shoot down.
Ukrainian media report that explosions were heard from Chernobaevka.
13:13 The Russian ambassador to Poland was attacked: he was doused with red paint while trying to lay a wreath at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw, Russian media report.
13:11 On Victory Day over Nazism, Stoltenberg called on Putin to "immediately end the war, withdraw his troops from Ukraine and start peace negotiations." At the same time, the NATO Secretary General stressed that the alliance "is on the side of Ukraine and will help the country to defend the right to self-defense."
13:05 On the morning of May 9, a number of materials appeared on the Lenta.ru website criticizing Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. The employees of the publication reported that these were not hackers - they themselves replaced the texts in the already published news.
13:02 Arestovich commented on Putin's speech: "Putin's key phrase in his speech is" the inadmissibility of a global war.
12:59 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation commented on the strikes on the Odessa region: allegedly near Artsyz, the Onyx missiles of the Bastion coastal complex "destroyed Ukrainian helicopters at the jump site."
12:56 In some microdistricts of Kherson, the invaders demand lists of empty apartments from the heads of condominiums. They are planned to accommodate Russian military personnel and intelligence officers, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The number of checkpoints and mobile patrols is increasing in the city. Residents are convinced that there will be no advancement from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Kherson, which means that they need to accept reality and work under the guidance of the "new government."
12:53 In Latvia today, flags were lowered to half-mast in memory of the dead Ukrainians, said the head of the country's Foreign Ministry, Edgar Rinkevich.
12:51 Secretary General of the Council of Europe Maria Peychynovych Burych arrived in Ukraine on May 9. She has already visited the Kyiv region and visited Borodyanka and Irpen. The European delegation was met by the head of the Kyiv military administration, Alexander Pavlyuk, and the curator of the humanitarian direction of the KOVA, Oleksiy Kuleba.
12:46 Sweden will make a decision on joining NATO on May 15, said the secretary of the ruling Social Democratic Party Tobias Baudin: "What the decision will be is still unknown today. Our message is that on May 15 there will be a decision on which the leadership of the party will take a position ".
12:35 In the Kharkiv region over the past day, three people were killed and nine wounded due to shelling by Russians, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
12:32 During the parade and Putin's speech in Moscow, which were broadcast by all Russian propaganda channels, the broadcast from the Russian satellite to the occupied Ukrainian regions was "unexpectedly turned off," the State Special Communications Service reported.
12:28 Bulgaria threatens to veto a ban on oil supplies from Russia if it is not granted an exception under the embargo, writes Euractiv.
12:26 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine appealed to the world community: "We call on the international community to perceive the Russian celebrations of May 9 as they are: propaganda shows that have nothing to do with the memory of the Second World War."
12:14 During the last evacuation from Azov, the occupiers separated the military doctor Viktoria Obidina and her four-year-old daughter Alice, who herself came to Zaporozhye. According to preliminary data, Victoria was left in a filtration camp in Mangush, on the territory of the so-called "DPR", journalist Sevgil Musayeva said.
11:40 a.m. Medinsky again announced that negotiations with Kiev are continuing in a remote format.
11:38 One of the best pilots of Ukraine, the former commander of the 10th Saki Naval Aviation Brigade of the Navy, Igor Bedzai, died in battle, Dumskaya writes. The publication recalls that in 2014 the 10th Naval Aviation Brigade became the only unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that managed to withdraw its military equipment from the annexed Crimea. The operation was carried out under the leadership of Bedzai.
11:32 Podolyak commented on Putin's speech: "Let's talk again. NATO countries were not going to attack Russia. Ukraine did not plan to attack Crimea. The Russian military are dying not defending their country, but trying to occupy another. There were no optimal factors in this war except painful imperial ambitions of Russia".
11:21 There was no parade in Mariupol, but "ceremonial events" took place. According to the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko, a 300-meter "St. George's ribbon" was carried along Nakhimov Avenue. According to local residents, "volunteers" from Novoazovsk and Donetsk were specially brought for this purpose, mostly Russians. They also selectively attracted old people from Mariupol, they are lured to the square with promises of a field kitchen and additional sets of products.
"The eternal flame from Moscow itself is in place. The occupiers are in place. Collaborators are in place. The only one who is not there is Mariupol residents. Something went wrong with the holiday," Andryushchenko wrote.
11:12 Russia launched a missile attack on the Odessa region with four Onyx-type missiles from the Bastion missile system, which is located on the territory of Crimea, the Operational Command Pivden reports. "The probability of continued missile attacks in the region is very high. Do not neglect warnings about the danger," the command urged.
11:11 Biden today at 21:45 Kyiv time will sign a law on lend-lease and the protection of democracy in Ukraine, the White House said.
11:08 Police have identified 1,100 soldiers who committed war crimes in Bucha, another 6,000 "are in process." Suspicion has already been reported to 24 servicemen of the Russian Federation in absentia, said Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs.
11:06 In Nikolaev began to restore water supply, the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim reported. At the same time, he stressed that this is technical water, you should not drink it in any case - "you can thunder into an infectious disease." There has been no water in Nikolaev since April 12.
11:04 In Pologi, Zaporozhye region, the Russian military shot about 20 of their vehicles in order not to go to the front line, the OVA reported.
11:02 The American Institute for the Study of War reports that the front northeast of Kharkov has not changed. The Ukrainian counter-offensive, which a few days ago advanced into several settlements, has so far stalled and "has not yielded any confirmed achievements."
In the north of the Donetsk region, the Russians expanded the zone of control around Oleksandrivka, and experts also point out that in the Lugansk region, the invaders captured Popasnaya. According to the Institute's analysts, on May 8, Russian forces stepped up ground, air and artillery attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"Ukrainian sources have reported active fighting in Bialogorivka, Voevodovka and Lysichansk, which indicates that Russian forces may intend to encircle Severodonetsk from the south (in support of ongoing operations in Rubizhne, north of Severodonetsk) and move west towards the border of Lugansk region" , - analysts of the Institute note.
10:58 In Kherson, they held a "march of the immortal regiment", in Energodar Putin's speech was broadcast on the square, people gathered with portraits of their relatives who fought.
10:46 The Cabinet of Ministers allocated 43.7 million hryvnia for the maintenance of prisoners of war in camps and sites for the maintenance of prisoners of war.
10:20 Putin mentioned the "special operation" in Ukraine at a parade in Moscow: "These days you are fighting for our people in the Donbass, for the security of our homeland Russia. Russia gave a preemptive rebuff to aggression, it was a forced, timely and only right decision. Today Donbass militias, together with the Russian army, are fighting on their own land."
10:03 The Russian army is trying to cut off the Lugansk region from Ukraine, taking control of the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway. The Russians have already transported military equipment through the Seversky Donets, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
Today will be decisive in terms of the development of the situation at the front in the Lugansk region , Gaidai said. According to him, the Russians managed to cross the Seversky Donetsk and attack Belogorovka, a settlement near the key Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, which connects the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Luhansk region with the mainland.
"If the route could be captured, this would completely block the connection with the Lugansk region," says Gaidai.
10:01 The parade has begun in Moscow, its air part has been canceled due to the weather.
09:59 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of May 9. The greatest losses of the enemy over the past day were observed in the Avdeevsky direction.
personnel - about 25,650 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1145 (+15),
armored combat vehicles - 2764 (+23),
artillery systems - 513 (+4),
MLRS - 185 (+6),
air defense systems - 87 (+1),
aircraft - 199 (+0),
helicopters - 158 (+2),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 1970 (+9),
ships/boats - 12 (+0),
UAVs of the operational-tactical level - 377 (+17),
special equipment - 41 (+2),
cruise missiles - 94 (+2).
09:52 Greece was suspected of helping the Russian Federation to circumvent sanctions, writes Die Welt. Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, Greek shipowners are expanding their business with Russia, and in April of this year, 190 oil tankers left Russian ports, 76 of them under the Greek flag.
09:34 Russians are massively looking for their military in Ukraine - 32,000 appeals have already been received, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Viktor Andrusiv said: "We often ask why, for example, you write this, why can't you ask your own? And they say that they are being lied to."
09:30 EU Ambassador to Ukraine Matti Maasikas congratulated Ukrainians on Europe Day and promised that "the European Union, together with partners, will continue to fully support Ukraine's struggle for its sovereignty and freedom."
09:27 At night, the invaders again fired at the Dnepropetrovsk region. According to the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko, the enemy fired on the Zelenodolsk community - it hit the outskirts of the village of Bolshaya Kostromka. Several streets were left without power, people were not injured.
09:25 Japan, as a member of the G7, will gradually reduce imports of Russian oil, despite the fact that it is highly dependent on foreign energy sources, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said: "This is a very difficult decision for a country that mainly depends on energy imports, including oil, but the unity of the G7 is most important right now."
09:22 The Russian military is accused of crimes against women in Africa. Mercenaries from the PMC Wagner raped the residents of the Central African Republic in the maternity ward of the capital's hospital, reports The Daily Beast, citing local military and police officers. Among the victims are women who have just given birth, as well as on-call health workers. These cases are known to the CAR police, but they do not take any action because they are afraid to anger the Russians.
09:16 In the Odessa region yesterday, out of nine missiles, six were shot down, OK Pivden reported. Also, according to the information of the command, there are now six enemy ships and two submarines in the Odessa water area, which carry more than 50 cruise missiles.
09:13 Zelensky: "Very soon there will be two Victory Days in Ukraine. And someone will have none left. We won then. We will win now. And Khreshchatyk will see the victory parade - the victory of Ukraine! Happy Victory Day over Nazism!"
09:10 Russia has exhausted its stocks of precision-guided munitions and will try to replenish them, according to British intelligence. Therefore, the Russian Federation is forced to use easily accessible but outdated ammunition in Ukraine, which is less reliable, less accurate and easier to intercept.
According to London, the invasion of Ukraine exposed the shortcomings in the ability of the Russian army to deliver precision strikes on a large scale. Despite Kremlin propaganda, Russia has subjected Ukrainian population centers to intense and indiscriminate bombing, with little regard for civilian casualties.
09:07 Ukraine cannot export about 90 million tons of agricultural products produced due to the blocking of ports by Russia, Shmyhal said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
09:06 Men of military age are not planned to be allowed to travel abroad while the war with Russia is going on. The decision to lift the travel ban depends on the military, Shmyhal said. “Here, in fact, the military makes decisions, but I believe that while the war is going on, all men should be in Ukraine,” the prime minister said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
09:04 After the departure of the UN column from Mariupol, the invaders began the assault on Azovstal. In particular, they made an unsuccessful attempt to break through the bridge, which was the gate for evacuation, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of the city.
08:59 Lockheed Martin CEO James Tyclet said that due to increased demand, his company plans to double the production of Javelin missiles. According to him, it is planned to increase production from 2,100 to 4,000 missiles per year.
08:55 Elon Musk commented on Rogozin's threats to him: "If I die under mysterious circumstances, it was nice to talk with you."
And commenting on Rogozin's words about the "Nazi" battalion of Ukrainian defenders of Azov, Musk noted that "the word" Nazi "does not mean what he thinks of him."
08:52 Blinken said that the new sanctions include a visa ban, which applies to 2596 Russian and 13 Belarusian military. This list also includes the military of the Russian Federation, suspected of participating in the massacre of civilians in Bucha.
08:46 In Russia this morning on all satellite TV channels there was a line: "The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and their murdered children is on your hands. TV and the authorities are lying. No war." The photo was published in her channel by Ksenia Sobchak. Its subscribers reported that this is a built-in player in Smart TV, in which the Ukrainian code.
08:43 Journalist Andrey Tsaplienko reported that another military enlistment office was set on fire this night in Russia: “Several Molotov cocktails flew to the polling station in Cherepovets. By the way, this is the seventh burning military enlistment office in the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war. cases have become more frequent. People are burning military records so as not to go to war."
08:35 The occupiers fired a rocket at the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hlukhiv, Sumy region. This information first appeared in the media, then it was confirmed by the United Jewish Community of Ukraine. More than 600 tombstones have been preserved in the ancient cemetery, the oldest readable of which dates back to 1824.
08:33 UN Crisis Coordinator in Ukraine and Assistant Secretary General Amin Awad called the airstrike on a school in Belogorovka "a strong reminder of the brutality of this war": "Civilians and civilian infrastructure must be spared during the war. These obligations under international humanitarian law are not subject to discussion. The sooner we work towards a peaceful end to the war, the better for people in Ukraine and around the world."
08:26 In the Luhansk region, after Russian shelling, it is still impossible to make out the rubble of the Belogorivka school, where 60 people were allegedly killed. In addition, 11 people were hiding in the basement in Shipilovo, who stopped communicating, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Gaidai.
He said that on May 8, the invaders fired at the population of the region 24 times. A woman died in Severodonetsk, two Transcarpathian volunteers died in Belogorivka. There are wounded, including children.
08:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have increased the number of airstrikes on Russian positions in the past few weeks against the backdrop of a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense that the Ukrainian air fleet has been disabled, writes Defense-Blog.
Observers record increased activity of the Ukrainian Air Force in the eastern and southern regions. Ukrainian military planes and helicopters carry out massive airstrikes on Russian targets using air bombs, rockets, rockets and even machine guns. In addition, Ukrainian military aviation is actively involved in the implementation of landing operations.
08:13 The "DNR" stated that 408 people, including 65 children, were "evacuated" from Mariupol to Bezymennoe per day.
08:08 Borrell, in an interview with the Financial Times, spoke in favor of helping Ukraine from Russian reserves frozen in the West: “I would be very much in favor, because it is completely logical. We have the money, and let someone explain to me why doing this with Afghan money is fine, but not with Russian money."
07:44 The greatest activity of the enemy troops is observed in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk directions. As the State Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in the morning report , in the Donetsk direction, the Russian army, with the support of aviation and artillery, is trying to take control of Rubizhne and Popasnaya, and is also preparing for an attack on Seversk, Slavyansk, Lisichansk and Avdeevka.
In the Izyum direction, the enemy is preparing to continue the offensive along the Suligovka-Novaya Dmitrovka and Suligovka-Kurulka directions. In order to prevent the advance of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy concentrated up to 19 battalion tactical groups in the Belgorod region. The transfer of personnel and military equipment to replenish the units that suffered losses in Ukraine continues.
04:54 One of the Russian oligarchs close to Putin said that the head of the Kremlin is seriously ill. Hristo Grozev, lead investigator of the Bellingcat group, spoke about this on Ukraine 24. According to the journalist, Putin has a "serious oncological disease."
03:55 The British government introduces increased 35% duties on goods from Russia and Belarus totaling $1.72 billion. We are talking about products of the chemical industry, polymers and industrial equipment, in particular platinum and palladium.
01:20 Canada announced additional measures and investments to support Ukraine, including the provision of $38.8 million in military assistance. Kyiv will receive, in particular, ammunition for M777 howitzers and small arms, as well as the necessary high-resolution satellite images.
In addition, the Canadian authorities decided to abolish customs duties on all Ukrainian goods for a year, as well as introduce new sanctions against Russia, which included 40 more individuals, including businessmen and the military.
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There is not reason to show Ukraine anything this is such crap really! Even in combat footage they try to doctor up events to make it look like Ukraine is blowing up something when really it's just the opposite, it's Russia decimating Ukraine! Slanted media and narrative everywhere! Pathetic!
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[REGNUM] Several desperate attempts to land air and sea assault on Zmeiny Island over the past 48 hours have been made by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on May 9 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov , at a briefing.
"The Ukrainian provocation was thwarted," he said. The enemy suffered heavy losses.
Konashenkov added that three Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters with troops on board, one Mi-24 helicopter, as well as three Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft and one Su-27 aircraft were shot down in the Zmeinoye area. According to him, the Russian Armed Forces also shot down 29 UAVs in the air.
In addition, he noted, three armored assault boats of the Ukrainian Navy with military personnel were destroyed during an attempted landing on the night of May 8.
According to him, the Russian military in total destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian saboteurs during the landing and attempt to gain a foothold on the island.
As REGNUM reported , on May 8, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed by Russian air defense systems over Zmeiny Island over the past night.
According to Live Journal blogger Donetsk:
1. Odessa. 81 years later, history repeats itself. Only then was Constanta as a logistics hub for the Wehrmacht, now Odessa as a logistics hub for the UGIL. Even the ship called "Moskva" died, then the leader, now the cruiser. What's happening? And the following happens - in the first days of the NMD, having captured the Serpent (more rock than an island) and establishing control over the water area, the KChF completely blocked Odessa from the air, sea and created a threat of landing, diverting large forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The death of "Moscow" showed a simple thing - without ships with heavy and long-range air defense systems, such a blockade is impossible. And there was only one such ship. Unmodernized and outdated. Even frigates carry a marine analogue of the Buk, but this is not at all the same. As a result, the Snake was under attack.
The enemy began to inflict these blows with the help of the UAV. We lost (presumably) several (2-3) small boats and air defense systems and decided to evacuate the garrison, which turned out to be without cover. The helicopter was killed during the evacuation. After that, the crests stopped raising the ensign and lost a boat, two planes, several helicopters. The buildings on the island have been destroyed. Nobody's island.
It has been proved once again that without heavy ships with modern air defense, such operations are impossible. There are few frigates for them. There are no heavy ships at the KChF. Odessa was well leveled with rockets, several dozen arrivals, but this does not solve the problem. It can only be solved by taking the city, or reaching its outskirts with the erasure of the MLRS and artillery of all military and port infrastructure facilities. Elsewhere in the Russian blogosphere it has been commented that whoever controls Serpent Island controls Ukraine's access to ports of the Danube.
[DAILYCALLER] MSNBC guest Laurie Kilmartin said Sunday that she wants to "make sweet love" to whoever leaked the Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade and that she would "joyfully abort the baby."
Kilmartin shared her comments on MSNBC’s "Ayman Mohyeldin Reports" in a clip shared on Twitter. The guest panel was discussing the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion that favored overturning Roe v. Wade, returning the rights on child sacrifice abortion laws to each of the 50 states.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Gloating Russians have taunted Ukraine by holding Victory Day parades in Mariupol and other occupied cities in a display of blind patriotism despite the stalling invasion.
In the port city brought to ruin by persistent Russian shelling and blockades, Kremlin puppet Denis Pushilin marched through the streets waving the traditional orange and black ribbon of Saint George associated with the military celebrations.
The leader of the Donetsk People's Republic wore a Z symbol on his chest as he chanted with fellow senior pro-Russian officials and even lit a torch at Mariupol's memorial for the victims of fascism in a display of breathtaking arrogance.
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[NYPOST] US motorists gearing up for their warm weather road trips are set to encounter fresh record high gas prices this week as inflation continues to hammer household budgets.
The national average price of a gallon of gas was $4.328 as of Monday afternoon, according to AAA data. That price was up about 20 cents compared to one month ago and well over a dollar higher than the same day one year ago.
The cost of gas is within a fraction of the all-time high established in March, when the national average hit an unprecedented $4.331 as the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused disruption to global energy shipments.
In New York, gas prices have already hit a new record. The statewide price of regular gas was $4.518 — nearly 30 cents higher than one month ago — while diesel hit an absurd $6.383.
"Increasing gas demand and rising oil prices have pushed pump prices higher. Pump prices will likely face upward pressure as oil prices remain above $105 per barrel," AAA said in a blog post detailing the price surge.
Oil prices hovered near $110 per barrel last week as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... weighed a possible ban on Russian energy shipments in response to the Ukraine war. A possible embargo further upended an energy market that was already contending with supply concerns and disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Irregular supplies also. Especially Diesel. So increase ethanol big problems. Evaporates quickly, more explosive, lower power and mileage performance. Supply line costs and what do you use for feed for cows. To the moon Alice.
[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for the terrorist attack that killed 11 Egyptian Armed Forces men and injured five others on Saturday in western Sinai.
The terrorist group grabbed credit in a statement on Sunday via its Amaq News Agency, which was also released on Telegram, according to AFP.
The so-called ’Wilayat Sina’ (’Sinai Province’) — an affiliate of Islamic State in North Sinai — repeatedly grabbed credit for several terrorist attacks in North Sinai in recent years.
Thousands of people attended on Sunday the funerals for the dear departed soldiers.
The Armed Forces announced in a Saturday statement that it foiled an attack on a water lifting station, noting that the bully boyz who carried out the attack are currently being hunted down and besieged in an isolated area in Sinai.
Locals reportedly claimed the bad guys were cornered in the town of Qantara in Ismailia province, but nothing further has been reported from there.
Terrorist attacks in North Sinai have declined in recent years following massive and successive security and military operations.
These attacks targeted security forces, particularly at military and police checkpoints, as well as civilians, causing hundreds of casualties.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... hundreds of bad boyz were potted in anti-terror military operations, according to periodical Armed Forces reports.
In 2018, the Armed Forces launched a major counter-terrorist drive titled ’Comprehensive Operation Sinai 2018’ that has succeeded in almost eradicating terrorism from North Sinai as well as the Nile Delta and desert areas.
[IsraelTimes] Cop moderately maimed after suspect draws knife during questioning in police holding area overlooking Old City entrance
A police officer was stabbed and moderately hurt by a Paleostinian assailant at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate on Sunday evening, Israeli officials said.
The alleged attacker — a Paleostinian from the West Bank, illegally in Israel — was taken into a police booth that overlooks the entrance to the Old City for questioning, after officers found him to be suspicious, according to police.
The assailant then drew a knife and stabbed the officer in the neck, medics said.
Other officers at the scene shot the man, police said. He was listed at death's door and was taken to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem for further medical treatment.
The alleged assailant was named as 20-year-old Nadheer Marzouq, from the West Bank town of Abwein, north of Ramallah, according to his lawyer Khaldoun Najm.
"He’s at death's door. He’s ventilated in an induced coma and his life is very much in danger," Najm said in a phone call.
Najm charged that the police had focused on treating the maimed officer and had "left [Marzouq] to bleed out."
Police said the suspect was carrying a second knife.
"The coppers acted courageously while engaging a person who aroused their suspicion, and thus effectively prevented harm to innocent civilians," the Israel Police said in a statement.
In response, officers closed off the area and other entrances to the Old City.
The attack came hours after two Paleostinians were arrested for a deadly terror attack last week in the central city of Elad last week.
[APNEWS] The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan.
The Post’s extensive reporting, published in a sophisticated interactive series, found numerous problems and failures in political systems and security before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the newspaper’s own backyard. So, Fiction?
The "compellingly told and vividly presented account" gave the public "a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days," said Marjorie Miller, administrator of the prizes, in announcing the award.
Five Getty Images photographers were awarded one of the two prizes in breaking news photography for their coverage of the riot.
The other prize awarded in breaking news photography went to Los Angeles Times correspondent and photographer Marcus Yam, for work related to the fall of Kabul.
The U.S. pullout and resurrection of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s grip on Afghanistan permeated across categories, with The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... winning in the international reporting category for reporting challenging official accounts of civilian deaths from U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hoping to pass the Times for most Pulitzer's in the Fiction Category?
[NYPOST] Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has admitted to throwing two parties at the organization’s swanky $6 million Los Angeles mansion — despite previously suggesting she’d never used the property for personal gain.
The 38-year-old fat lady told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Monday that she hosted her son’s birthday party and a gathering to celebrate President Biden’s inauguration at the six-bedroom property early last year.
BLM faced a torrent of criticism and backlash last month when it publicly emerged that the organization had "secretly" purchased the LA mansion — which boasts a home with six bedrooms and bathrooms, a swimming pool, a soundstage and office space — back in 2020.
At the time, Cullors said the property was purchased by BLM to serve as a meeting venue and campus. She also issued a statement denying suggestions she had lived at the property — or taken advantage of it for personal gain.
But Cullors, who resigned as BLM’s executive director a year ago after spending six years at the helm, said she used the property twice for events that weren’t business related.
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It's not as if there are going to be any consequences, so...
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I was surprised she wasn’t living in it. I think she is stealing the money by contracting her relatives to mow the lawn on the empty mansion. Seems like it would have been more useful to buy an office building or storage locker facility for bricks and Molotov cocktails.
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She is a trained Marxist but she is terrible at it.
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[NYPOST] The former Russian gymnast rumored to be Vladimir Putin ..President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... ’s longtime baby mama is pregnant again, according to a report.
Alina Kabaeva, the 38-year-old Olympic gold medal-winning rhythmic gymnast-turned-media mogul who has been linked to the 69-year-old Russian strongman since at least 2008, is believed to already have four children with Putin, according to the General SVR Telegram channel.
"We have already reported that yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to eyewitnesses, looked depressed and somewhat aloof," a translation of the May 3 post reads. "This is understandable, yesterday Putin learned that his long-term cohabitant and mother of his children, Alina Kabaeva, was pregnant for another, or rather, apparently, an extraordinary time."
The report, which began circulating Monday, could not be independently confirmed. But the channel is purportedly run by a former Russian Foreign Intelligence Service lieutenant general known by the alias "Viktor Mikhailovich."
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Now this deserves the Russian troll rants about British and American tabloids and their misinformation. :)
[NYPOST] A viral video of an anti-abortion activist in FDNY garb shouting outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral over the weekend is not a member of the city’s ranks of firefighters, a department spokesman said Monday.
“A video circulating from a protest in Manhattan over the weekend shows an individual wearing a FDNY sweatshirt. The individual in the video is not a member of the FDNY,” said Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Frank Dwyer.
The video emerged Sunday showing the man screaming at pro-choice demonstrators from the steps of the church, “I am the people!
[NYPOST] The knife-wielding man who knocked a Brooklyn straphanger onto subway tracks and slashed him during a wild caught-on-video scuffle last week has been arrested, cops said.
Anthony Melendez, 35, was busted Sunday in connection with the Wednesday morning attack at the Broadway Junction A and C station in East New York, police said.
Footage released by the NYPD over the weekend shows the 52-year-old victim first walking through the station past Melendez, who began to argue with him for an unknown reason, authorities said.
Melendez then jabbed at his adversary, who deflected the weapon and swung at him with what appears to be a jacket, according to the footage and cops.
The men chase each other around the train platform, knocking over the contents of the suspect’s shopping cart as other straphangers try to get out of the way, the footage shows.
After a few seconds, the suspect tackled the victim, causing them both to fall onto the southbound tracks, police said.
There, Melendez slashed the victim in the chest, ear, finger and head, cops said.
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This NYC Subway Testosterone exchange was going good up to the point where the victim combatant #2 got his back to the tracks and only needed to be pushed.
But, the victim combatant #2 did take combatant #1 knife attacker with him to the tracks.
[IsraelTimes] Tekoa security officer opens fire after armed suspect enters community, approaches his home; no Israelis hurt in incident; Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, claims Muatasem Atallah, 17, as terror group member
A Paleostinian armed with a knife was rubbed out after apparently infiltrating the West Bank settlement of Tekoa on Sunday night.
The suspect was shot by a security officer at the entrance to his home, near the community’s perimeter fence.
Large military forces were scanning the area for other possible suspects, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
"IDF forces were rushed to the scene and are now searching for more suspects in the area," the military said in a statement.
Sirens resounded in the settlement and residents were told to lock their doors. The Rescuers Without Borders emergency service said there were no other injuries in the incident.
The incident came shortly after a Paleostinian man — who had illegally entered Israel — stabbed a police officer in the neck at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate.
[NEWSWEEK] If you worked really hard, you might be able to come up with an idea as unappealing as a government disinformation board. Voters already distrust the government and are especially concerned about its excessive intrusion and unchecked regulatory power.
If you worked even harder, you might find as bad a person to lead it as Nina Jankowicz, a self-styled "disinformation expert" whose real specialty seems to be spreading disinformation to support her left-wing views.
If you tried hard to justify this mess, you might come up with a defender as ineffective as Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security. The secretary, already in deep trouble because of the porous southern border, faced a hostile Senate hearing and admitted he knew nothing about Ms. Jankowicz's dismal history of ideological fulminations and partisan statements. He refused to say whose bright idea it was to hire her—only that he was clueless about her background. Still, Mayorkas refused to apologize, refused to replace her and refused to back down from creating this ill-conceived (and ill-defined) board.
If you did all these things, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has, you would be committing political malpractice. You would be mocking the Constitution's fundamental protection of free speech, encoded in the First Amendment. Although a few ideologues might applaud you, you would hear only groans from moderate Democrats running for reelection. This ill-conceived board would lash them, at their peril, to a high-profile effort to monitor private speech, conducted by a very unpopular administration. That's dangerous constitutionally and incompetent politically.
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[NYPOST] "The Biden White House doesn’t seem to care that angry mobs have gone to the homes of six conservative Supreme Court justices to protest the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade," thunders Joe Concha at The Hill. The lefty group Ruth Sent Us published the addresses of six justices, including several with "children at home." Pushed on whether that’s "extreme," Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama... replied, "I don’t have an official US government position on where people protest." Federal law prohibits "pickets or parades" with "intent of influencing any judge" if it’s "in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge." Says Concha: "Perhaps another news hound in the daily briefing can circle back on this": "By not condemning it," Team Biden is "tacitly approving the intimidation of justices at their homes."
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If any ill effects are experienced by SC justices or their families from these illegal protests without legal actions from the DOJ/FBI/etc, IMNSHO, Biden will have committed a "high crime or misdemeanor" as mentioned in Article II, section 4 of the US Constitution simply by the failure to act of the Executive Branch. Not that the Left gives a damn about the Constitution, though.
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Betcha the moment protestors show up at the Lefty Justice's houses, the Federal Bureau of Idiots will swoop in instantly.
They are failing to understand that a 2 tiered Justice system will very quickly turn into a 3 tier one, one for 'elites', one for the rabble, and one for the pissed off rabble who are done with the courts and police and will handle things....biblically.
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It would be fun to get some tee-shirted counter protests together. We could call the group Smith and Wesson Sent Us.
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My undisclosed location will be either in Golden Corral, Waffle House or Akron, OH. There is too much inherent violence in all three locations for lib Antifa-types to seek me out. Most of Akron looks like the abandoned Richmond dock area in Dirty Harry. It will spook them out.
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Pushed on whether that’s "extreme," Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki replied, "I don’t have an official US government position on where people protest."
Lying bitch. Of course she has a position. She and Biden want the angry mobs to do exactly what they're doing.
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They'd put a stop to it if they didn't want it.
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Not even the professional courtesy to pretend to.
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Don't you have to have a permit supposedly to protest? Just saying, or how about disturbing the peace. Disorderly conduct, I got that charge for saying bullshit in my own house. Or just shoot the fuckers and take it to court, I have a feeling the justices know some people who would take their case.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. Mariupol.
Shelling and a gradual cleansing of Azovstal continue. From the cellars they continue to demand salvation, which will not be.
2.Zaporozhye.
On the line Kamenskoye-Orekhov-Gulyaipole without major changes. The fighting went south of Orekhov and southeast of Gulyaipol. Fighting continues in the villages between Gulyaipole and Velikaya Novoselovka.
3. Ugledar.
There is no significant progress on the Novomikhailovka-Ugledar-Velikaya Novoseloveka line.
4. Marinka.
No significant changes. Fights are positional in nature.
5. Avdievka.
In the Avdievka industrial zone, no changes. There is no promotion. Fighting continued in the area of Troitsky and Novoselka-2.
6. LPR.
The RF Armed Forces crossed the Seversky Donets and entered Belogorskoye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched counterattacks throughout the day. Fighting in the area of the village continues. The loss of the village will pose a threat to the communications of the Severodonetsk grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Fighting also continued in the Voevodovka area. Popasnaya has been completely cleared.
7. Izyum.
Bolshaya Kamyshevakha was taken. Fighting continues north of the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway, as well as near Krasny Liman. The enemy is preparing for encirclement battles in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
8. Kharkov.
The enemy advanced near Stary Saltov in the direction of Rubizhny. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation take up defense here on the line Kazachya-Lopan-Liptsy-Veseloe-Ternovaya Staritsa. Attempts to attack Lipcy were not successful.
9. Nikolaev.
Positional battles continued in the Nikolaev and Nikopol directions. The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Nikolaev continue to be subjected to systematic strikes. The enemy periodically tries to shell Kherson.
10. Odessa.
Attempts to attack Zmeiny Island and land troops there ended in heavy losses for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in people and materiel.
In addition, this activity caused an intensification of attacks on the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Odessa, which also led to losses in people and equipment.
[OneIndia] Officials have learnt that the account fb.com/shaanti.patel.89737, had managed to lure some persons in the establishment and get information.
The ISI appears to be on overdrive mode and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is now probing a case where the spy agency of Pakistain is attempting to inject a malware into the computers and phones of defence personnel.
The agency took over the probe after an account named fb.com/shaanti.patel.89737, managed to gain unauthorised accedes to restricted data of computer resources.
Intelligence Bureau officials have been keeping a close watch on such activities for sometime now. Recently the Andhra Pradesh police launched a probe into the matter based on source based information. Following this the officers and soldiers were told to delete several social networking, micro-blogging and gaming applications including Facebook and Instagram.
Officials have learnt that the account fb.com/shaanti.patel.89737, had managed to lure some persons in the establishment and get information. It is a classic case of honey trapping an official tells OneIndia.
An assessment by the Intelligence agencies earlier this said that honey trapping would continue to remain one of the key concerns for the security agencies.
The honey trap wing of the ISI is being run from Faridkot. Since 2015, the ISI has earmarked a budget of nearly Rs 3,500 crore for this unit. This only goes on to show, how important the unit is for the ISI.
After a trap is laid, the information is either elicited through blackmail or in the lure for cash.
The ISI agents, who set the trap pay anything between Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh for the information.
The amount would however depend on the rank of the officer. The higher the rank, higher the money.
The Union Home Ministry was recently told by the Intelligence Agencies that in 2017, a fresh push was made by Pakistain to trap as many young recruits of the Indian Army. The traps were being set on those who had just joined the Army and as well as on those who were in the process of joining the forces. The Anika Chopra case is part of the same plan, IB officials say.
The ISI has been looking to trap as many as 200 such young recruits and recent investigations showed that the Pakistain agents were already in touch with over 50 of them. When the police had arrested Gaurav Kumar, a resident of Rohtak, they found that he was asked to click pictures, each time he visited the Army training camp. He had plans of joining the Indian Army and was training for the same.
He had already been trapped before he could join the forces. It was found that he had visited 18 Army recruitment camps from where he is alleged to have shared a lot of information.
Not only do the operations run from Faridkot, but the ISI has also managed to set up dedicated modules within India to honey trap officials. There are modules in Rajasthan, Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, which exclusively report to the Faridkot.
The ISI agents first create a fake profile on the social media and then begin chatting. Once they find that the target is vulnerable, they lead him to the Hookup chat site. Over here the information is shared. The biggest problem that Sherlocks face is that once a person logs out of Hookup, the chats are automatically deleted.
Officials tell OneIndia that the problem is likely to get worse in the coming months. The challenge ahead is huge. The official however adds that while the problem has been immense, the agencies have however managed to nip such incidents in the bud. It could have been much worse had it not been detected early, the official also added.
[NYPOST] A new study by Columbia University and the Robin Hood Foundation finds that nearly half of Asian New Yorkers live in poverty — twice the level for white New Yorkers and comparable to that of black and Hispanic communities. That’s a huge problem for progressives who routinely seek "justice" for blacks and Latinos mainly at Asians’ expense.
Asians, after all, also suffer from bigotry: The same study found that about 80% of New Yorkers of Chinese descent reported experiencing high levels of racism-related violence in 2020.
Documented, an online site covering immigrant issues, reports that Manhattan’s Chinatown has become "a place where anti-Asian hate, increased poverty and housing issues have been felt acutely" since the onset of the pandemic.
Yet progressives for years have sought to dismantle city Gifted & Talented programs, undermine the selective middle and high schools and otherwise wage war on excellence in the name of serving poor and minority students — though that agenda attacks the interests of Asians, the "inconvenient" minority.
De Blasio-era schools Chancellor Richard Carranza went so far as to publicly slam Asian parents who objected to his policies. Asian parents, he griped, act as if they "own" the city’s test-in-only specialized high schools. He even derided those schools as "the epicenter of privilege."
How inconvenient that race-blind testing leads Asian kids to earn a "disproportionate" share of seats in those schools, despite challenges of poverty and bigotry. How awkward that the complex formula that aims to get more black and Hispanic kids in (without actually teaching them enough to earn higher scores) inevitably reduces Asian enrollment far more than white.
Asian communities aren’t looking for government handouts or set-aside programs. They, like a majority of New Yorkers, simply want the chance for their kids to succeed through hard work, good grades and fair play. That puts them at odds with the woke agenda.
With rising anti-Asian attacks adding to the community’s grievances, and the left-wing establishment opposed to any serious action against crime, a political awakening is underway. We look forward to the coming political reckoning.
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[JPost] As much a disruptive prick as he's been, could he possibly hate the Mideast Trump Peace this badly?
US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to Al Makassed Hospital, the largest Palestinian medical center in east Jerusalem, an Israeli source said on Monday. The visit, during Biden’s trip to Israel planned for next month, would be in the framework of an American initiative regarding the hospital.
Biden would visit the hospital unaccompanied by Israeli officials, which would be viewed as not recognizing Israeli sovereignty over that part of the capital.
No previous US presidents have made similar visits. Biden’s plan to visit east Jerusalem, in general, was first reported by Kan.
Though the Biden administration has sought to strengthen the current Israeli coalition government, the visit signifying a divided Jerusalem would likely spark disputes within the coalition.
The visit would be in the framework of an American initiative regarding the hospital, which could mean renewed funding after the Trump administration cut $25 million to the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network, of which Al Makassed is a member.
Biden’s trip to Israel has not yet been finalized, but is expected to be scheduled around the G7, which is on June 26-28.
Then Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday in response to a query whether Biden's visit to Israel would occur on the tail end of his June visit to Europe, that while the president was "looking forward to coming, but we haven’t quite locked in the date yet."
Ahead of the visit, The White House denounced Bennett's approval and advancement of 3,988 Israeli homes in Judea and Samaria. According to N12, the White House conditioned Biden's trip on the issue.
"Israel’s program of expanding settlements deeply damages the prospect for a two-state solution," Deputy State Department spokesperson Jalina Porter told reporters on Friday.
Biden's consideration of a visit to east Jerusalem comes as tensions spike over issues of sovereignty over the territory. On Sunday a Palestinian Authority spokesperson said that the "State of Palestine" had rights to east Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
The US president is also set to meet Jordan's King Abdullah later this week, Reuters reported.
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Biden would visit the hospital unaccompanied by Israeli officials
What if a... random Abdul... were to... you know, rush at him with a machete or something. Just thinking aloud.
Naah, after SS had shot the bastitch, the old dunce would likely conclude, "Well gee whiz, we musta really oppressed these folks by arming the Jews all this while, to get that in the way of gratitude!" And he'd go back to correct the 'moral errors' of his predecessors.
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[Townhall] Washington never learns. Never. Politicians are like collective Alzheimer's disease patients. They have no short-term memories.
[ZERO] Cases of Covid-19 among attendees to the White House correspondents' dinner two weekends ago continue to mount, as the fully vaccinated and boosted 'elites' who condescended to non-compliant Americans participated in a superspreader event.
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