TURLEY: “I mean, he is facing a jury that has three Clinton donors, an AOC donor, and a woman whose daughter is on the same sports team with Sussmann’s daughter. With the exception of randomly selecting people out of the DNC headquarters, you could not come up with a worse jury” pic.twitter.com/RHqen6AMAc
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Shocking! Absolutely shocking. What will become of the legions of Durham lawyers? All who could not have seen this coming could easily fit into a London call box.
What happens inside the Beltway stays inside the Beltway.
If I were the Orange Man I'd write it all off and take up permanent residence at the links in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire.
He and many others did their very best, but sadly, the Republic appears to be lost.
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He literally had the billing receipt to Clinton for the time spend with the FBI where he stated he was acting on his own. Jury nullification of material fact for political advantage. We are now in a place where fact is less important than political allegiance for fellow citizens duty bound to judge impartially. Tragic clue to the future end of public trust in government.
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The American government just stole you the 2020 elections,
The American government today just shows to his citizens how from now on justice will work.
Your 2022 midterm will be manipulated
Trump will be arrested
Guns will be confiscated
Digital passport will be mandatory
But you still can post in your favorite conservative sites like this one.
See….you still have your American exceptionalism style freedom…
Moving back to Mexico soon…..
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Assume "Jury Nullification" was in play as the evidence was pretty damning. Now think how willing you'd be to convict someone of lying to the KGB , excuse me, the FBI.
Cooper served on the Obama/Biden transition team in 2008 as an advisor on Justice Department issues.
Cooper is married to Amy Jeffress, a former Justice Department official and national security counselor to criminal and indicted former United States Attorney General Eric Holder
[PJMedia] California Votes To End Mandatory Reporting On Students Who Threaten Schools
Two days after the Uvalde massacre at Robb Elementary School, the California state senate voted to end mandatory reporting of students who threaten to do what the Uvalde killer did.
Before the California law was passed, existing law stated that whenever a school official is "attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil," staff was "required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities." The new bill repealed this requirement.
A heads-up to police to maybe start keeping an eye on the social media postings of would-be killers strikes me as a no-brainer.
The language in the bill was endorsed by the ACLU. The organization said that "Once students make contact with law enforcement, they are less likely to graduate high school and more likely to wind up in jail or prison." Master of the Obvious here.
The ACLU conveniently forgets that the reason kids usually "make contact" with law enforcement — how’s that for a euphemism? — is because they were doing something illegal.
We’ve come to expect this kind of thing from the ACLU. Sadly, we’ve come to expect it from Sacramento as well.
There’s so much self-inflicted wrong going on in the once-Golden State.
California’s water infrastructure was built in the 20th Century for a population half its current size. Instead of getting serious about new construction, the drought-prone state is tearing down existing infrastructure.
California has some of the nation’s most expensive gasoline — by choice — but is closing the nuclear plants needed to power electric vehicles.
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People used to homeschool to keep their kids free of corruption and to promote higher academic performance. In California it may just be a way to keep them alive.
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Between this, and Biden "not interested" in helping to harden schools, it's clear that Democrats want to create the environments that produce murdered children. They see it as their best vehicle to overturning the 2nd Amendment.
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[ScarcityNews] David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations’ (UN) World Food Program (WFP), recently said that the global food crisis has gotten so bad that the WFP has had no choice but to take food aid from countries with already limited resources to provide for those that are on the brink of famine.
Beasley made these remarks at a meeting with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, following a two-day visit to Yemen, which is currently spiraling into a catastrophe that the WFP’s own resources are unable to deal with as funding dries up.
“We have no choice but to take food from the hungry to feed the starving and, unless we receive immediate funding, in a few weeks we risk not even being able to feed the starving,” said Beasley. “This will be hell on earth.”
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I have a novel idea, ask all those rich middle eastern countries to fund your bullshit.
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So the Globalists provoke a war, demand we fund a response to the aggression, demand we fund the mitigation of the war they instigated, and advise us to take economic action against the aggressor which cripples our economy when coupled with their globalist green initiatives. When it’s over, they will guilt us into repairing the damage caused by the weapons that they demanded that we introduce into the conflict. We would have a better outcome if we gave 100 random teenagers control of worldwide policy.
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Arabs, Islamists, Muslim Supremacists and Commies are perfectly capable of starving their populaces. We don't have to help
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[NBCNews] Amid a rolling series of calamities and sinking approval ratings, the president’s feeling lately is that he just can’t catch a break — and that angst is rippling through his party.
Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they’ve tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.
Biden is rattled by his sinking approval ratings and is looking to regain voters’ confidence that he can provide the sure-handed leadership he promised during the campaign, people close to the president say.
Crises have piled up in ways that have at times made the Biden White House look flat-footed: record inflation, high gas prices, a rise in Covid case numbers — and now a Texas school massacre that is one more horrific reminder that he has been unable to get Congress to pass legislation to curb gun violence. Democratic leaders are at a loss about how he can revive his prospects by November, when midterm elections may cost his party control of Congress.
[Red State]"Rules for thee, but not for me"
Looks like more shoes are now dropping in the Paul Pelosi DUI arrest in Napa County, California.
As we’ve already reported, Pelosi, 82, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), was arrested on Saturday night shortly before midnight, at 11:44 PM, when he had an accident with another car. Fortunately, there were no injuries, but Pelosi was then charged with two misdemeanors: driving under the influence and driving with a blood-alcohol level at or above 0.08.
For some reason that hasn’t been fully explained yet, it took law enforcement officers more than four hours to book him after he was arrested. He wasn’t booked until 4:13 a.m. Was he resisting a breathalyzer? Causing a problem? Were they debating whether or not to charge him? It’s not clear. And if he was still blowing more than 0.08 after that time, what was he like at the time of the crash? He was released about three hours after he was booked on $5000 bail.
But now there’s more information on the accident. Pelosi was allegedly driving drunk when he piloted a 2021 Porsche through a stop sign while crossing State Route 29 and drove right into the path of an oncoming car driven by Jesus Lopez, 48, at about 10:26 p.m. So based on the report, Pelosi allegedly caused the crash. Notice he wasn’t driving an electric vehicle, but a nice gas-guzzling new Porsche.
This happened about five miles south of the Pelosi vineyard in St. Helena. This is just one of their many estates. Nancy Pelosi claimed she wasn’t with her husband but was in Rhode Island because she was going to be delivering a commencement address at Brown University.
From The Hill:
A representative for Pelosi told CBS News that he had been at a dinner party in Oakville until about 10:15 p.m., and drove the "short distance" home by himself. They added he was "fully cooperative" with authorities and that processing took until 7:30 a.m. on Sunday.
"Fully cooperative?" I’d like to hear the police say that and explain the four hours between the arrest and booking.
One of the neighbors described the Pelosis in a way that seems right on target and screams "elitism."
One vineyard owner who lives nearby told DailyMail.com the couple often block the road with their convoy of blacked-out SUVs when they come to town, but that they didn’t seen anything this weekend.
Some suggested that Paul might have been attending the Bottle Rocks festival which Snoop Dogg was playing at this weekend.
’It probably tracks more with the younger Paul,’ the neighbor said, referring to the couple’s 53-year-old son, Paul Pelosi Jr.
’I wouldn’t be going to the kinds of fundraisers and parties they go to.
’I don’t like them very much or find them very interesting,’ the vineyard owner said.
According to the neighbors, the Pelosis also throw lavish parties for Silicon Valley executives. I’m sure there are no conflicts at all there.
Nancy Pelosi isn’t talking about her husband’s arrest. She has no problem going after anyone and everyone else, but his arrest, she’s calling a "private matter."
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I think I read the other party in the wreck was an illegal immigrant; I wonder if he’s been deported yet.
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^ Quite the opposite, driving while illegal, unlicensed and uninsured in Cali probably doubles his social credit score. About ten points may be temporarily deducted for being involved in an incident that embarrassed a leftist pol.
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I mean so he won’t be available to make a statement etc.
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And if he was still blowing more than 0.08 after that time, what was he like at the time of the crash?
Wasted.
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its reported that Pelosi blew .09, over the limit at booking, which was at a curious 4:13 AM. The accident happened at 10:26, CHP was on-scene withing 10 minutes, the arrest occurred at 11:44 and the breathalyzer was at 4:13 am, six hours after the event. If you apply the general status of BAC decline form my post yesterday:
Drinkers who have stopped drinking burn off alcohol at the rate of .015% per hour as a general rule unless they have compounding health issues.
and you compute that rate backwards for six hours, you get an approximate BAC level of .19. How impaired is .19, consider that its borderline .20 in the chart below:
https://www.pinelandsrecovery.com/all-about-blood-alcohol-levels/
The Impact of Blood Alcohol Levels
As an individual’s blood alcohol level increases, so do their impairments. To know when your blood alcohol concentration may be too high, it helps to understand how levels of alcohol in blood can affect you.
0.01 – 0.03% – This is the lowest measurable blood alcohol level. At this mild level of intoxication, you may feel slightly warmer and more relaxed.
0.04 – 0.06% – Your behavior will become exaggerated (speaking louder, gesturing more), you may begin to lose control of small muscles (resulting in things like blurrier vision), and your judgment will be impaired.
0.07 – 0.09% – Mild impairment of speech, vision, coordination and reaction times make it dangerous for you to drive. In the United States (aside from Utah), it is illegal to drive at or above .08% BAC; you will test as legally impaired at this blood alcohol level if you’re 21 or older.
0.10 – 0.12% – Obvious physical impairment and loss of judgment. Speech may be slurred.
0.13 – 0.15% – At this point, your blood alcohol level is quite high. You’ll be affected by blurred vision, loss of coordination and balance, and potentially dysphoria (anxiety or restlessness).
0.16 – 0.19% – The term “sloppy drunk” applies. Dysphoria will become stronger, and nausea may occur. Walking becomes difficult, and you may fall and hurt yourself.
0.20 – 0.29% – You’ll feel dazed, confused, and disoriented. Balance and muscle control have deteriorated, and you may need help walking. You may not notice if you injure yourself, as feelings of pain are numbed. Nausea and vomiting are likely, and an impaired gag reflex could cause you to choke on your own vomit. Blackouts occur at this blood alcohol level.
Now does the six hour delay seem curious as the case is considered by a judge about how impaired the driver was and how his future driving behavior might endanger the public?
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y'all act as if anything will ever come from this, whether law enforcement let him sit too long or not. They also do breathalyzers at the scene also.
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I generally shoot for .20.
Self medicating of course.
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I think he tried to Doordash, but Hunter Biden showed up and he was obviously tweaking, so he decided to just give it a go. He probably would have slept it off if he had been driving one of their high end vehicles. Not sure why they don’t have a driver. Maybe Jeeves was with Nancy in Rhode Island.
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[ZDNet] US-based Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)'s Frontier system has been declared as the most powerful supercomputer and the "first true exascale machine" by the 59th edition of the Top500 global supercomputer list. American made by American companies.
Based on the HPE Cray EX235a architecture and equipped with AMD EPYC 64C 2GHz processors, the system features more than 8,730,000 cores and surpassed the one exaflop barrier with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.102 exaflops. The supercomputer is currently being integrated and tested at the ORNL where it will be operated by the Department of Energy.
By taking the top spot, Frontier knocks Japan's Fugaku system, which has held the number one ranking for the last two consecutive years, to number two as it continues to hit a HPL benchmark score of 442 PFlops.
"Considering the fact that Fugaku's theoretical peak is above the one exaflop barrier, there's cause to also call this system an exascale machine as well. However, Frontier is the only system able to demonstrate this on the HPL benchmark test," according to the list.
Rounding out the top three is newcomer Finland's Lumi system -- another HPE Cray EX system and Europe's largest system -- that has a performance of 151.9 Pflops using just over 1,110,100 cores.
The Top500 also welcomed the addition of France's Adastra system -- the second most powerful machine in Europe and third HPE Cray EX system on the list -- to the 10th position, after it achieved an HPL benchmark score of 46.1 Pflops.
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The hardware can do whatever the software instructs. ORNL does lots of stuff besides nuke explosion simulations, but I don't think cancer genetic modeling is part of their portfolio.
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When the PS3 came out someone discovered the power of those systems linked together could help when you're not using them. Also because of that, the PS3 was banned for certain countries which might be interested in such computer power. On September 16, 2007, due in large part to the participation of PlayStation 3 consoles, the Folding@home project officially attained a sustained performance level higher than one native petaFLOPS, becoming the first computing system of any kind to do so. Originally, players were recruited for folding proteins on their system in cancer research. Now its been expanded to cover additional systems and venues.
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Maybe there will be one of him playing with fire. If there is a video of him peeing the bed, I will take a hard pass. Perhaps the FBI could spare some assets that are bugging parents, trying to organize kidnappings and surveil Trump supporters and have them profile some sociopaths. If they are surveilling us illegally, at least they could do a better job of it. Please feel free to hassle anyone who tortures animals. Collect their DNA. Also the pedo’s and soon to be rapists. Stop the political stuff and protect us better. You don’t need new powers to do it, as you are already breaking the law facilitating corruption on the regular. Stop one of these school shootings before they happen.
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[InformationLiberation] This Memorial Day, we must remember the valiant sacrifice of the Azov Battalion.
From The Daily Mail, "'Democracy is not perfect... but it's worth fighting for': Biden pays tribute to Beau, Ukraine and the U.S. troops who died in Afghanistan and Iraq after laying a wreath at Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier":
President Joe Biden championed the ideals of democracy and took time to reflect on the loss of his son Beau Biden and the losses of families across the country who have lost loved ones in the military in a Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
Looking abroad the president also paid tribute to Ukraine's defenders fighting against a Russian invasion and the American service members who died during the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan and in Iraq.
He made no mention, however, of the recent military deaths under his administration - including the 13 service members who were killed in Afghanistan during a suicide attack amid the military's withdrawal from the country.
'Ladies and gentlemen, today remember and we reaffirm freedom is worth the sacrifice,' Biden said after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
'Democracy is not perfect. It's never been perfect. But it's worth fighting for - if necessary, worth dying for.'
Remarking on the seventh anniversary of his eldest child's death, the president continued: 'Memorial Day is always a day where pain and pride are mixed together. We all know it, sitting here. Jill and I know it. Today is the day my son died.'
Beau Biden, who had been a Major in the Delaware National Guard, died after a battle with brain cancer on May 30, 2015, while his father was vice president.
'He didn't die in the line of duty, he came home from Iraq with cancer. It was the horrific cancer what stolen us from him - and him from us. But still, it always feels to me on Memorial Day - I see him not as it was the last time I held his hand, but the day I pinned his bars on him as a second lieutenant,' the president said.
He went on say the '7,054 American military members' who 'gave their lives over 20 years of our Iraq and Afghan conflicts' and 'untold others who died of injury and illness connected to their service' should serve as a reminder that 'there is nothing low risk or low cost about war.'
He says this while cavalierly threatening to get us into World War III with Russia over Ukraine, his one true love.
During the speech he also commented on the war in Ukraine - which Vladimir Putin has now been waging for more than three months - stating that the Eastern European country's struggle is a reminder of the cost of freedom.
'In this moment, when a war of aggression is once more being waged by Russia to snuff out the freedom and democracy - the very culture and identity - of neighboring Ukraine, we see so clearly...that freedom has never been free,' Biden said.
Does this sound like someone interested in "securing our homeland"?
Biden DHS Official: Americans Trying to Preserve Their Heritage 'Makes Me Sick' https://t.co/LioktnIXUl
'Democracy has always required champions. Today, in the perennial struggle for democracy and freedom, Ukraine and its people are on the front lines fighting to save their nation.
'But their fight is part of a larger fight that unites all people. it is a fight that so many of the Patriots whose eternal rest is here in these hallowed grounds were part of. A battle between democracy and autocracy - between liberty and repression, between appetites and ambition.'
In a veiled jab at Republican legislatures' clamp-down on personal freedoms like abortion and voting rights, Biden called out 'a few who forever seek to dominate the lives and liberties of many' in 'a battle for essential democratic principles - the rule of law, free and fair elections, freedom to speak and write and to assemble. Freedom to worship as one chooses, freedom of the press - principles that are essential for a free society.'
What we're seeing in Ukraine is the cost of occupation, just as we're seeing in America.
Right before giving this speech, Biden told reporters that "the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute."
He's pushing to disarm the American people and designate his political opposition domestic terrorists -- all while shipping billions in weapons to the Azov Battalion and throwing the border wide open to millions of illegal aliens.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden pushed for more gun control on Monday, even though it was Memorial Day, a national patriotic holiday.
"The Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute," Biden said to reporters.
The president spoke to reporters about gun control as he returned to Washington, DC, from Delaware for Memorial Day ceremonies.
Biden falsely claimed again that Americans were unable to purchase a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed, despite being repeatedly fact-checked as false by even the Washington Post and Politifact.
"You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed and you couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons," he said.
Biden recalled a briefing he had when he was a senator on bullet calibers and the damage they caused to the human body.
"The 22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out," Biden said. "A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body."
"The idea of a high caliber weapon, there is no rationale for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," he said.
Biden also referred to a quote from Thomas Jefferson who said "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," tying it in with his argument about the Second Amendment.
"There was a while there, where people were saying, you know, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, and what we have to do is to be able take on the government when they are wrong," Biden said.
Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.
"To do that you need an F-15, you need an Abrams tank," he said, suggesting it was an outrageous idea.
Biden revealed he had not had any conversations with Republicans on the issue of gun control but said he wanted to act.
"I know that it makes no sense to be able to be able to purchase something that can fire up to 300 rounds," he said. ^ THIS shows he's an absolute ignorant moron
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Great talking point for every conservative pol and candidate: "The Constitution is absolute. What isn't absolute is your feelings."
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Constitution has a built in method to change.
If you think you have the support to change the 2nd Amendment the pathway is clear. Since liberals have never even attempted to actually change the Amendment we know they know they are vastly outnumbered on the issue.
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Madison put forward the Bill of Rights amendments as a first order of business in the new Congress after he had promised people that he would make that effort during the ratification process. Many people were concerned that Federal Power could grow unchecked if personal and state rights were not codified within the Constitution. The argument that the 2nd Amendment does not reserve the individual right to bear arms doesn’t make any sense logically or historically. Canada is certainly proving why the 2nd Amendment was a good idea. I don’t think Canada’s Charter of Rights includes a similar provision.
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The lie about the Second Amendment is telling, the Second Amendment is a statement of absolute right. The unorganized militia, essentially the entire population of fighting age, was to have personal arms to provide for national defense and as a bulwark against any form of tyranny, whether foreign or domestic The deflection about hunting and "self-defense" as a primary basis for the 2A is pure BS. As a poster in CTH notes succinctly:
"Moondoggie
May 31, 2022 9:27 am
Joe LIES!
When the Constitution was ratified there were NO laws prohibiting the purchase of cannon. Most of the cannon used by local militias were privately owned. Also, many merchant ships had their own cannon…not only for self protection, but also so that merchant ships could be rapidly converted to “Naval Auxiliaries” by issuing “Letters of Marque”. “Privateers” existed up until the time of the Civil War…possibly longer.
You could own any weapon you wanted up until the National Firearms Act of 1934. There was a Remmington Model 1907 rifle…30.06 caliber, semi-automatic, 20 round detachable magazine, 180,000 sold…zero mass shooting..."
Make no mistake, this is the emerging predicate for the long term goal of disarming the public.
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Re: #15 above. The first paragraph of the Canuckistanian Rights and Freedoms dismisses everything that follows it. It is a document that lists all the Rights and Freedoms that the Federal Canuckistanian Gummint MAY let you enjoy if it so pleases them.
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Thank you for the clarification. Stateside, I would like to see handguns banned for Alek Baldwin. That may be a violation of the Constitution, but I think it is a good idea.
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He's the hairy legged gent who ran amok in Kent,
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair.
You better stay away from him,
He'll shoot your lungs out, Jim,
Huh! I'd like to meet his tailor.
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The US got its ass kicked in Afghanistan by men with rifles and no F-15s or tanks
Kicked? Where? What's the name of the battle? The loss in Afghanistan was due to politics that 1) expanded its mission beyond the retribution for 9/11 and 2) didn't allow the military to 'win'.
[Townhall] It's Kurt
Look around and all you see is failure.
A bunch of kids are being murdered by some semi-human, so what do you do? Draw your weapon and put him down or die trying? Or do you sit there, doing nothing?
The same government we’re supposed to give up our guns to because they have it all under control chose Option B. It chose failure.
Tell me more about how the real problem is that we have the capacity to defend ourselves. When all you have is seconds, the cops are minutes an hour away
But the real problem, to our enemies, is not that murderers murder. The real problem, to our enemies, is the very fact that we can defend ourselves. The objective of our trash elite is not to have a country that runs well, where people are secure, and where rights are respected. The objective is to rule. And if a bunch of kids die for that, they’re fine with it. They can live with failure, but not accountability.
The clusterfark in Uvalde is just a symptom of a much bigger pathology. It is a symbol of the failure of every institution in our society. And the solution is never to revamp the institutions and eject the parasites heading them. It’s always — always — to take power from us and give it to the people who screwed up in the first place.
Show of hands — who was shocked to hear that this creep was on law enforcement’s radar before his killing spree?
I see a distinct lack of hands.
But the failure is not limited to being unable to stop murderers. It’s not even the only failure involving schools. The schools are churning out a generation of quasi-literates and have been turned into a Grindr for perverted weirdos to use for grooming their prey. We got a good view of the failure during another epic failure, the COVID response.
This is systemic.
Everything is failing.
Go try to get baby formula.
See if you can afford gas. Hell, roll up to a Mickey D’s drive-thru and try to roll away with lunch for four under $30. nice try
The courts don’t work, the Congress doesn’t work, and our alleged president is a borderline clinical moron who is lying when he’s not merely stupid. This human sex toy got up at Annapolis and told the Naval Academy grads that he had been accepted there. It was a lie — of course, he’s senile so maybe he believed it — and the regime media skipped over it like they skip over everything else that offends the official narrative.
Failure, failure, failure.
What is one institution that works? Just one.
Our military? Oh please. Just last week the military demonstrated its real priorities when it released a list of proposed new names for various forts and bases that are currently labeled with insufficiently PC monikers. Now, here’s a meaningful list challenge for them: Provide a list of names of real wars these people have won since 1991.
Here it is: ___________________________.
We’re getting tired of nothing but disasters, debacles, and decline. And that’s when things get dangerous. What cannot go on will not go on, and we Americans are not going accept muddling through forever, lurching from crisis to crisis created by our garbage ruling class and that cannot be solved by our garbage ruling class. Jimmy Carter was like that — President Peanut tried to tell us to embrace the suck. We told him to suck on his malaise. We turned to Ronald Reagan, and Carter was in a funk for forty years until Grandpa Badfinger finally relieved him of the title of "Worst President of the Last Century."
We will turn to someone, because this is unsustainable. The question is "Who?" And that is not precisely a question of individuals. It might be Trump, it might be DeSantis, it might be someone else. The question is what kind of person. Will it be a positive American leader in the vein of a Ronald Reagan, or will it be an American Caesar?
I write about the authoritarian temptation in my upcoming nonfiction book We’ll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America:
"His rise would come as the result of a backlash against the left, and it would be propelled by a sense that the institutions, left to their own devices, would frustrate the true intent of the Framers and the people. He would call himself the restorer of American democracy (which sounds better to American ears than "restorer of the Republic" even if not technically correct). He would observe the rituals and symbols of the old United States, yet his reign would be distinguished by the unbridled use of his power. He would ignore the norms and unofficial rules of American politics that have so far restrained the conservatives but, to their mind, not the left. Checks and balances? Nah, it’s an emergency. We’ll get back to having those later.
And later never comes. His supporters would see him as cutting through the obstacles to enact the necessary reforms to restore America to greatness. His opponents would call him an authoritarian. And they might have a point."
The danger of systemic institutional failure is not merely the damage from the fallout, though as we saw in Uvalde, it can be monstrously horrific. The danger is that the failure is so pervasive and the ruling caste behind it so committed to retaining its own power at the expense of anything else that people may confuse this perversion of our constitutional system with the real thing and simply give up on the Founder’s vision. They might embrace a strongman who is empowered sufficiently to break the hold of our garbage ruling class — at the price of our republic. The failure we are seeing is so complete, so comprehensive, that maybe Americans will come to think that this harsh cure is not worse than the disease. But, of course, it will be. Maybe not with the first dictator, or the second, but it will. Augustus was okay, unless you crossed him. But a Caligula is eventually going to come along.
These clowns risk failing their way into an even bigger nightmare. So we have to stop them, because they are too corrupt and stupid to stop themselves.
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran has amassed more than 3,800 kilos of material, IAEA reports, after detecting radioactivity at potential undeclared nuclear sites
The UN nuclear watchdog said Monday that it estimated Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit laid down in Tehran’s 2015 deal with world powers.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency said in its latest report on Iran’s nuclear program that it "estimated that, as of May 15, 2022, Iran’s total enriched stockpile was 3,809.3 kilograms."
The limit in the 2015 deal was set at 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of a specific compound, the equivalent of 202.8 kilograms of uranium. The report also said that Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... is continuing its enrichment of uranium to levels higher than the 3.67 percent limit in the deal.
The stockpile of uranium enriched up to 20% is now estimated to be 238.4 kilograms, up 56.3 kilograms since the last report in March, while the amount enriched to 60% stands at 43.1 kilograms, an increase of 9.9 kilograms.
Enrichment levels of around 90% are required for use in a nuclear weapon.
Earlier in May, the IAEA announced that it was "extremely concerned" by Iranian silence on potential undeclared nuclear sites.
"I am referring to the fact that we, in the last few months, were able to identify traces of enriched uranium in places that had never been declared by Iran as places where any activity was taking place," IAEA head Rafael Grossi told a European Parliament Committee.
"The situation does not look very good. Iran, for the time being, has not been forthcoming in the kind of information we need from them... We are extremely concerned about this," Grossi said.
Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful. Israel views a nuclear-threshold Iran as an unacceptable threat, as Tehran is avowedly committed to the destruction of the Jewish state.
Both American and Israeli officials have assessed that Iran now needs only a few weeks to amass enough fissile material for a bomb, should it choose to make one, though it would need additional time to assemble the device’s other components.
"[Iran] stands just a few weeks away from accumulating fissile material that will be sufficient for a first bomb, holds 60 kilograms of enriched material at 60%, produces metallic uranium at the enrichment level of 20%, and prevents the IAEA from accessing its facilities," Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on May 17.
Officials in the current US administration, led by President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... , blame the drop in Iran’s breakout time on former president Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... ’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement in 2018.
"Their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal, to just a few weeks or less," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... said at a presser in February.
The latest report comes as talks to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers remain deadlocked after stalling in March.
[IsraelTimes] Delegation prompts fierce outcry in Islamabad, with one participant getting fired from his job; Herzog says trip shows possibility of growing ties between Israel and Moslem world
A Pak-American woman who came under fire in the Islamic nation for leading a delegation to Israel defended the trip Monday, saying she traveled to Jerusalem with a small group of Moslems and non-Moslems to promote interfaith harmony.
Anila Ali, a Pak-born US citizen living in Washington, DC, responded to growing criticism from Paks, some of whom questioned who was actually behind the visit. She said the goal of the visit was to seek truth and to reconcile Moslems and Jews.
"(The president) of Israel received us warmly, and the people of Israel opened up their hearts and homes to us and they knew that we were Moslems and they knew that we were Paks," she said, adding that Israelis knew that members of her delegation included Sikhs and Christians, and they were still welcomed.
Pakistain is among the countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel because of the lingering issue of Paleostinian statehood, and Pakistain says no delegation from Pakistain visited Israel.
Ali said she led a 15-member delegation made of Pak expatriates to Israel earlier this month. She told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that neither Pakistain’s government nor the US was behind the trip.
The state-run Pakistain Television took to Twitter on Monday to say it fired news anchor Ahmed Qureshi, who visited Israel in a "personal capacity." Qureshi was part of the delegation that visited Israel with Ali, it said.
The visit was confirmed by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who said he received the Pak expatriates. He spoke about the visit at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, saying it "showed me the great change" taking place in the aftermath of the Abraham Accords.
The Abraham Accords refers to a series of diplomatic pacts brokered by the Trump administration in 2020 that normalized relations between Israel and four Arab countries — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Israel already had peace deals with Jordan and Egypt, with which it fought several wars.
"This was an amazing experience because we haven’t had a group of Pak leaders in Israel ever in such scope, and that all stemmed from the Abraham Accords, meaning Jew and Moslem can dwell together in the region," he said.
Ali told the AP that there was no truth to remarks by Pak opposition leader Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... in a speech at a rally Sunday, in which he said a Pak delegation had gone to Israel. Khan also alleged, without providing evidence, that the current rulers in Pakistain "are going to recognize Israel."
"We have no intentions of speaking for the Pak government, whether to normalize relations with Israel or not," Ali said. "The matter is between the Israeli government and Pakistain."
For Israel, while the delegation was small and did not involve Pak officials, it marked somewhat of a milestone in its relations with Pakistain, coming after other Moslem states have changed course and agreed to normalize ties with Israel. That’s despite Israel’s continuing occupation of lands the Paleostinians want for a future state.
For decades, the Paleostinians counted on a wall of support from Arab and Moslem states for its cause, as a way to exert leverage on Israel so that it might make concessions to the Paleostinians in exchange for recognition by those Moslem allies.
But after the Abraham Accords, that wall of support crumbled, perhaps paving the way in the future for other countries to take the same step.
Israel and Pakistain have made overtures to each other in the past, most notably when the country’s foreign ministers met in Istanbul in 2005 following Israel’s withdrawal from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip. Though the two countries have participated in joint military exercises sponsored by their shared ally, the United States, including one earlier this year. But there hasn’t been any major public push to bring the countries closer, even as Israel has tightened ties in recent years with India.
Herzog’s office did not release an official statement about the meeting, but rather retweeted one of the participants. The visit appeared to go under the radar in Israel, with few media covering it and those that did doing so belatedly.
[IsraelTimes] Visiting Surinamese FM Albert Camdin informs FM Lapid of development during talks in capital; Israel to offer humanitarian aid to flood-stricken South American nation
[IsraelTimes] 40% of those polled are opposed, while the rest are unsure; survey comes as record numbers of Jews ascended to the esplanade on Jerusalem Day.
[IsraelTimes] Telephoned alerts come after National Security Council publishes dire travel advisory, as Israel braces for Tehran’s retaliation to liquidation of senior IRGC officer
Israeli security officials called and directly warned more than 100 Israeli citizens in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... that they are in Iran’s crosshairs, and asked them to return, according to a television report Monday.
Earlier in the day, Israel’s National Security Council issued a public travel warning for Turkey, saying there was a concrete threat to Israelis by "Iranian terrorist operatives" there and in nearby countries.
According to the unsourced report on Channel 12 news, the threat of Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... attacking Israelis in Turkey is "concrete and immediate... Evidently, there is [an Iranian] infrastructure that has planned to act right now."
The Mossad has thwarted recent Iranian efforts to target senior Israeli figures and Israeli businesspeople around the world, the report said, and, after those failures, Iran is now widening its target to ordinary Israelis in Turkey. A Kan TV report also said Israel fears that Iran is about to target ordinary Israeli tourists there.
The alleged Iranian plot is apparently a response to the liquidation of a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps last week, which Iran attributed to Israel.
"For several weeks now, and even more so since Iran blamed Israel for the death of the Revolutionary Guards officer last week, there has been growing concern in the defense establishment about Iranian attempts to harm Israeli targets around the world," a statement from the National Security Council said Monday.
Despite the highly irregular recent warnings, the travel advisory for Turkey has remained at its same level, three of four, a "moderate threat," with recommendations to avoid visiting the country for nonessential reasons. At level four, "high threat," Israelis are explicitly told not to visit the country and to leave if they are already there. Countries with this warning include Iraq, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Afghanistan, and Iran.
According to the NSC, in recent weeks there have been "a number of attempts" by Iranian operatives to attack Israeli businessmen and consular staff, but they were thwarted.
Since the Iranians did not succeed with those efforts, they were widening the target to ordinary Israelis in Turkey, Channel 12 reported.
Israel’s irregular travel warnings against Turkey have apparently rankled Ankara, but Ottoman Turkish authorities hope that the public outing of Iran’s intentions along with increased efforts to thwart the attacks would allow the threat to pass more quickly.
Former national security adviser Giora Eiland told Channel 12 news earlier in the day that the repeated public warnings likely indicated that Israeli security services were aware of a specific Iranian plot, rather than acting out of more general assessments.
The National Security Council recommended that all Israelis who are in Turkey avoid contact with strangers; refrain from giving out personal details, particularly about military service; make sure they have the phone numbers of Israeli legations and emergency services; and not publicly display signs that they are Israeli.
"Israeli citizens must remain vigilant and adhere to the necessary precautions when traveling to one of these countries," it said.
Iranian authorities have yet to pin down any suspects in Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei’s killing, even though the incident took place in the heart of one of the most secure areas in Tehran — Mohahedin-e Eslam Street, home to other bigwigs in the IRGC and its elite Quds Force.
[Garowe] African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... member states have agreed to fully operationalize the African Standby Force (ASF) to strengthen the fight against terrorism in the continent and end Africa’s dependence on foreign forces to fight terrorism.
The agreement was announced by the AU’s director of conflict management Sarjoh Bah following an extraordinary summit of African Heads of State and Government in Malabo on Saturday.
"Member States condemned terrorism, agreed to fully operationalize the African Standby Force, share intelligence and jointly fight terrorism and transnational organized crime, improve natural resource governance, secure sustainable/predictable financing and support conflict victims," Bah said in a statement on Sunday.
During the summit, AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat noted that terrorism had increased on the continent from 2011 with the Libyan crisis which resulted from the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed ouster of longtime Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... According to Mahamat, the crisis "opened the way for the arrival of foreign mercenaries in the Sahel and an influx of terrorist organizations defeated in the Middle East."
Terrorism, he noted, had now spread to other parts of Africa, including Mozambique, Mali, the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, Somalia, the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, and the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... Mahamat blamed a lack of inter-African solidarity between countries fighting terrorism and a failure by African countries to honor their commitments as some of the major reasons behind the spread of terrorism on the continent.
He also noted there were double standards applied by the international community in tackling the challenges of terrorism in Africa compared to other parts of the world.
Some of the established joint forces to fight terrorism, include the AU Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) in Somalia, the Joint Multinational Force in the Lake Chad Basin, the G5 Sahel Joint Force, and the SADC mission in Mozambique (SAMIM).
According to the 2022 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 48 percent of global terrorism deaths with four of the ten countries with the largest increases in deaths from terrorism coming from the region (Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , DR Congo, Mali, and Niger).
The report further noted that terrorism was becoming increasingly concentrated and contracting into countries already suffering from violent mostly peaceful conflict.
The Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , which contains such countries, had become home to the world’s fastest-growing and most-deadly terrorist groups especially with 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.... shifting its attention thereafter military defeats in Syria and Iraq.
[IsraelTimes] Army says suspects were throwing stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires as soldiers operated near village of Hursa; no word on condition of man hit by Israeli fire
The IDF said its troops fired at Paleostinians who were violent mostly peacefully rioting near the southern West Bank village of Hursa late Monday night.
The army said the suspects were throwing stones and Molotov cocktails in addition to burning tires near a military checkpost, as soldiers carried out a nighttime operation. The troops fired at the Paleostinians and hit one of them, according to the IDF.
There was no immediate word on the condition of the suspect, nor as to whether the soldiers had used live fire.
None of the Israeli soldiers were maimed in the incident near Hursa, which lies in Area A of the West Bank. Though the Oslo Accords intended such territory to be under full Paleostinian control, the Israeli army regularly carries out raids in such villages, which it says are aimed at countering terror.
The clash took place as tensions across the Green Line were again charged following Sunday’s controversial Jerusalem Day Flag March, which saw some 70,000 religious nationalists parade through the Old City by way of the Damascus Gate and the Moslem Quarter in celebration of the reunification of the capital. Hundreds of participants were filmed chanting "Death to Arabs," "Muhammad is dead," "May your village burn," and other racist slogans while harassing some of the Paleostinian onlookers. The march took place in the shadow of threats by Paleostinian terror groups, warning they would violent mostly peacefully respond if it went through.
[Garowe] Æthiopia has launched a sweeping crackdown against an influential armed militia in its Amhara region that has led to the arrest of more than 4,000 people, including journalists, activists, and a former general.
The militia group, known as the Fano, played a key role alongside the federal military in beating back November’s southward advance through the Amhara region by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which is fighting an 18-month-long civil war against the government and its allies.
Since then, the TPLF has retreated to its northern home region of Tigray, and the government has made attempts to disarm and demobilize the Fano militia, leading to a series of festivities with regional security forces.
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[Garowe] It's now evident that the US will be dispatched at least 500 soldiers to Somalia in the coming days, just over a year after their unceremonious exit, which was occasioned by a strategy to reduce expenses incurred on troops abroad.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We get to suffer the consequences. So does Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle... 's administration was keen to have the soldiers back to the country, following an outcry from senior government and opposition politicians in Somalia besides strong backing from the Senate and Pentagon, which had initially opposed withdrawal plans.
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#1 Keep the narrow chokepoint of Bab el-Mandeb, leading to or from the Suez Canal, semi-safe. So that about 9.7% of the US consumed OIL & 3rd World produced goods can flow.
#2 Mid-Terms and the badly needed backdoor Big $$$$$ donations.
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Commuting to war can be a drag. What if we set up FOBs in Minneapolis and Fort Wayne? Would we be more effective at keeping a large number of Somalis safe? We’ve been trying to restore order in Somalia since HW Bush was president. If someone can propose a coherent plan for restoring order in Somalia or Haiti, I am all ears. It looks like the best recipe is to install a brutal regime. I guess that’s where we ended up by default in Afghanistan. If this is some kind of QRF to help out “allies,” I can see that. If we are running guns to Syria again that is not OK.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] DPR troops are advancing towards Slavyansk, fighting is going on in the vicinity of the city, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic said.
"As of May 30, 2022 <...> a grouping of troops from the DPR and LPR , with fire support from the Russian Armed Forces, liberated and established full control over 222 settlements, including Dibrova and Stary Karavan. Our troops are advancing towards Slavyansk with battles," it said in a statement.
Last week, the head of the DPR , Denis Pushilin , said that the troops "need to accelerate" in operations in the north of the region.
The neighboring city of Krasny Lyman is already under the control of the Russian military.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Asker Khamukov to 18 years in prison, and his sister was sentenced to 16.5 years in prison for assisting a terrorist organization.
The "Caucasian Knot" reported that Asker Khamukov was detained on October 7, 2019 in Baksan together with his sister Lianna, who gave birth the next day. Asker's wife was also detained, but she was released from the police on the same day. Brother and sister Khamukov are accused of organizing the financing of terrorist activities.
The case was initiated on September 24, 2019 by the Moscow Department of the TFR. According to investigators, part of the funds to the Khamukovs' accounts came from contractors suspected of involvement in terrorism. The defense insists that there are no grounds for criminal prosecution of the Khamukovs, since there is no evidence that the One Body Foundation used this money for criminal needs.
The Southern District Military Court today issued a verdict in the case of financing a terrorist organization against Asker and Lianna Khamukov. According to the investigation and the court, in 2013 they joined the structural unit of the Caucasus Emirate*. In 2013, the brother and sister provided the militants with their housing for shelter, food, food, and kept prohibited items and substances at home . In 2015, the defendants organized an online fundraiser and donated 1,402,900 rubles
...at the current conversion rate that’s US$21,920, which doesn’t sound nearly as impressive...
for IS* militants, the press service of the court reported today.
The court sentenced Lianna Khamukova to 16 years and six months in a penal colony, Asker Khamukov to 18 years in a penal colony of strict regime, he must spend the first four years of this term in prison, the press service of the court said in a message on the Telegram channel.
The criminal case of the Khamukovs was received by the Southern District Military Court on March 11, 2021, 35 court sessions were held. The verdict was announced today, follows from the case card on the court's website.
There were no comments from the convicts or their official representatives regarding the court verdict.
Recall that earlier Khamukova’s defenders sought to mitigate the measure of restraint for her, noting that Khamukova is raising young children , for whom proper care is impossible under house arrest. Lawyers Magomed Abubakarov and Ramzan Uzuev urged them to write letters to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee with a request to stop the criminal prosecution of the Khamukovs. The prosecution, not finding evidence of the guilt of the Khamukovs, can "materialize a secret witness out of nowhere," Ramzan Uzuyev explained to the "Caucasian Knot" at the time.
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[Censor] Ukrainian defenders liberated the village of Mykolaivka in the Kherson region.
This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
"During the successful offensive of the Defense Forces, the enemy suffered losses and withdrew from the village of Nikolaevka, Kherson region, which led to panic among servicemen of other units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation," the statement said.
From Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets, who claims a strategic command center of the Ukrainian Southern Group was wiped out by a Russian missile strike: Exactly
May 30, 10:19
It is reported that tonight the command post of the operational command "South" (n.p. Novy Bug) was struck . Mykolaiv - Kherson direction
Caution, very strange Ukrainian language. The author of the video describes his impressions very briefly and artistically.
They wrote about the hit at 12 at night Moscow time. The video, judging by the fact that it was dawn, was filmed at four in the morning. A crowd of onlookers gathered, began to shoot, before the start of the analysis of the rubble. We'll soon find out if anyone has actually been caught.
The command of the southern grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - people are too public for no one to notice their disappearance, in a few days everything will be clear.
[AnNahar] Greek authorities say they are planning a major extension of a wall along the country's border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... and are seeking European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... financial support for the additional construction.
Notis Mitarachi, the migration affairs minister, said the steel wall would be extended from 40 to 120 kilometers (25 to 75 miles), with construction work due to start later this year.
"It is a government decision to extend the border wall further and we have requested European funding," Mitarachi said, speaking in an interview Sunday with a radio station near Athens. The minister posted the audio of the interview on social media Monday. He gave no details on the projected cost of the project.
Greece has accused neighbor and fellow-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally Turkey of "instrumentalizing" migration as a means of exerting pressure on EU countries. That is an assertion rejected by Ankara, which says it has shouldered a disproportionately heavy burden, hosting some 4 million refugees, most of whom fled the civil war in neighboring Syria.
Last year, twelve countries including Greece requested EU funding for border walls which are currently financed by national budgets. The EU Commission does not currently pay for wall construction at its external borders, arguing that it would drain funds from other migration-related activities, including financing the EU border protection agency, Frontex.
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Greece has a well earned dislike for Turkey. Island is split because of Turkish invasion. Turkey being in NATO will scuttle anything that favors Greece.
[AnNahar] China fell short Monday on a bold plan to have 10 Pacific nations endorse a sweeping new agreement covering everything from security to fisheries as some in the region expressed deep concerns.
But there have been plenty of smaller wins for China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi as he continues an island-hopping tour of the region. Wang was in Fiji to co-host a key meeting with the foreign ministers from the 10 island nations.
At an unusual news conference afterward, Wang and Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bananarama Bainimarama spoke for about 30 minutes and then abruptly left the stage as news hounds tried to shout out questions. That left many details of what transpired at the meeting undisclosed.
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[REGNUM] After the end of hostilities in Tbilisi, armed clashes moved to the provinces. In early January 1992, a fierce battle took place between the "Zviadists" and their opponents near the city of Mtskheta, which led to a large number of dead and wounded. On January 11, a large detachment, assembled from supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who fled from Tbilisi to Armenia, crossed the Armenian-Georgian border and entered the territory of Georgia, but was surrounded and then defeated. A significant part of the "Zviadists" was captured.
#4
Bless you, Palmerston. Though badanov is a tank man, by preference, which explains much. ;-)
Omineling Forkbeard1962, you mean peddling, trying to sell things like a peddler on the street with his little cart full of ribbons and tin pots and pans.
#5
In grade school, a friend pointed out a picture in a history book with the caption A dried blini peddler. He asked, reasonably enough, did dried refer to the blinis or the peddler.
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Two Turkish soldiers had been killed in military operations against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, Turkey's Defence Ministry said.
Within a week, Ankara had lost eight soldiers killed in the region.
On Saturday, an improvised explosive device (IED) killed one soldier.
Another soldier was wounded on Friday during the fighting and died in hospital.
Last April, Ankara launched an action called "Operation Claw Lock" to "prevent terror attacks" and ensure border security following an assessment that the PKK was planning a large-scale attack.
Turkey regularly launches air strikes into northern Iraq, a region where it has repeatedly sent commandos to support its offensives.
For the uninitiated, "cockroach" is the Azov Nazis' preferred epithet for the Russian-speaking Donbas citizens whom they have been terrorising used to terrorise. Used to, before those Azov Nazis surrendered or were killed at Mariupol -- what the Daily Mail laughably called the "evacuation" by Ukraine after their "mission concluded."
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Back on earth... Severodonetsk is surrounded. Ukrainian resistance is collapsing. Lysychansk will fall next.
US General Mark Milley is calling for negotiations as what Gen. Milley argues is "the logical outcome" based on the military situation today. Biden ruled out any shipment of long range weaponry.
It's basically over. Negotiations must begin soon, or else all of Ukraine's east and south will be completely devastated.
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Ron Klain and Biden's other puppetmasters want to get Ukraine off their plate before November so they can talk about "gun violence," abortion rights, and Trump.
It's over. On to the next CurrentThing.
"Don't Cry For Me, Mariupol...."
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Meanwhile, the guy in the trench fights tough (regardless of his flavor). Could you guys?
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Another defection to the New Narrative - former Chief Propagandist at the Telegraph, columnist / blatherer / pseudo-"Defence Editor" and professional clown Con Coughlin:
FEB. 24: "Vladimir Putin may have just made the error that ends his bloody rule"
APR. 3: "The West is beating Russia at its own game"
APR. 21: "Putin's War has been a fiasco. It's about to get worse"
MAY 5: "Humiliated Russia faces an epoch-defining defeat"
MAY 12: "Total victory over Putin cannot be bought cheap"
MAY 26: "PUTIN COULD BE ABOUT TO PULL OFF A SHOCK TRIUMPH"
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No surrender, yes. Use the Zelensky / GWB-speak: "be evacuated" after "completing their mission"
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Could you?
Me? I have no idea, though I hope — should the time come — that I would be as useful as my parents and grandparents (and all but one of the boy cousins — Cousin Robert rode Mama’s bike past the SS office in Amsterdam and was never seen again. Neither was the bike) were when war was thrust upon them. On the other hand, though Rantburg is a warblog, not a milblog, quite a few here see events through the lens of personal experience.
*Correction: He fought. He's dead.
Yes, but how many did he make casualties before he succumbed? In this war between two countries with shrinking populations, both winning and losing are Pyrrhic. And China’s population is also shrinking, so even if they are the last of the three left standing, their triumph will not be measured in centuries.
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Russian National Guard soldiers from Krasnodar, who took part in the war against Ukraine in February-April and whom the National Guard tried to send there again, submitted reports with a refusal to go to fight, mass media reports say. AP
So the New York Times Editorial board demanded that the Biden Administration define exactly what it was willing and unwilling to do for and in Ukraine...and now, something called "Joseph R. Biden, Jr." pens a NYT op-ed piece!
This is really funny.
Also disgusting. Ron Klain or Ben Rhodes or someone on Avril Haines's staff penned this DIRECT CONTRADICTION of everything Joe the Moron has been blathering for weeks.
Read it and laugh (or weep, as you choose):
"We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia. As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, *** the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow. ***
"So long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending American troops to fight in Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces.
" *** We are not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders. We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia *** ."
You lying sack of shit.
FJB
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That is a truly extraordinary about-face. We expect Biden to lie but this is unprecedented.
"We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia" - President Joseph R Biden Jr., June 1, 2022
"We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine" - Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, April 26, 2022
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"The United States will not try to bring about [President Putin's] ouster in Moscow." - President Joseph R Biden Jr., June 1, 2022
"For God’s sake this man cannot remain in power" - Biden in Poland, March 26, 2022
For God's and the world's sake, this mendacious buffoon cannot remain in power.
He is extraordinarily reckless, and foolish, and his lies and somersaults have made the world an extremely dangerous place. Please remove him before it's too late.
The UK Health Security Agency confirmed 71 new cases in today, bringing the UK total since May 6 to 179 How many of ‘em went to that recent Gay Pride festival in Spain, or have interacted with someone who has?
WHO said outbreak is 'moderate risk' because clusters have been reported in different places simultaneously
The outbreak, which was first detected in early May, has spread to 24 countries and struck 106 Britons
The UN health agency said risk from the virus 'could become high' if it spreads to more vulnerable groups
WHO said surge in infections suggests virus 'may have been circulating unrecognised' for weeks or longer
There are growing concerns that monkeypox will spill into wild animals and never be eradicated I’m confused. Doesn’t monkey pox come from an animal reservoir, which has never been eradicated?
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Doing their absolute best not to name the group and practices that are pushing this pox
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^ Yes. And "jump to animals?" How is that going to happen? Yuck.
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Medical science has reverted a hundred years by throwing out sound statistical analysis. I'm still waiting for that AIDS pan-epidemic that was suppose to sweep the straight community in the 80s.
Commander in the Peshmerga forces, Jamal Warani, revealed that two attacks against security patrols were thwarted, between Kifri and Garmyan, and Tuz Khurmatu.
Warani told Shafaq News agency that an explosive device planted on the side of the road was detected on the outskirts of Kifri and Tuz Khurmatu.
He added that the explosive ordnance disposal squads intervened and located another bomb, before dismantling both devices.
Peshmerga units are deployed on the borders separating the Kurdistan Region and east of Saladin governorate, to monitor ISIS terrorists coming from Hamrin and the outskirts of Kirkuk.
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[RIA Novosti] In the Kharkiv region, punitive raids are being carried out against the SBU suspected of pro-Russian sentiments, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia.
"In the Kharkiv region, militants of the Kraken nationalist unit, formed mainly of radicals and rapists and murderers released from prisons, carry out punitive raids, during which the so-called death squads break into the houses of local residents at night, suspected by the SBU of pro-Russian sentiments, expose them to physical violence and taken away in an unknown direction," the general said.
He stressed that dozens of city residents did not return home after such actions, there is no information about their fate.
The head of the NCUO also pointed out that such criminal actions by the Ukrainian authorities demonstrate the inhuman attitude of the regime in Kiev towards its own citizens and complete disregard for international norms of humanitarian law.
Pushilin sees no reason to delay the trial of the Ukrainian Nazis
In addition, Mizintsev added that the West is not interested in conducting an impartial investigation and searching for those responsible for the current catastrophic humanitarian situation in Ukraine , the United States and Europe actually "turn a blind eye" to Kiev's numerous violations of international conventions, unsubstantiated shifting the blame to Russia.
On Monday, the Iraqi Military Intelligence arrested an ISIS member west of Nineveh.
In a statement, the Agency said that the 15th Division, backed by the ground forces, raided the location of a terrorist in the village of Al-Sumoud in Zummar district, west of Nineveh, and arrested him.
The detainee is “an ISIS member working in the so-called Mutah Division
...I’m not sure what is meant in this context, but mutah is that short duration marriage Muslims are so fond of — by contract only hours or days — that to Western eyes looks like cleric-assisted prostitution...
– Wilayat Al-Jazira.
...that’s ISIS’s media department. My confusion is not hereby lessened.
His brother and son had worked with the terrorist organization, but the first was killed, and his son was arrested earlier.
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Russian Military Police (MP) and Turkish forces conducted on Monday a joint military patrol in the western countryside of Kobani, a city in northern Syria.
This is the 100th patrol between the two forces in the region since the signing of the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement.
In October 2019, following a Turkish military operation in areas of northeast Syria, the Turkish president signed two ceasefire agreements, one with Russia and the other with the US.
The ceasefire agreements stipulating halt of all hostilities there and the withdrawal of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 30 kilometers in depth away from the Turkish border in addition to conducting joint patrols with Russia in order to monitor the implementation of the agreements.
The patrol, which consisted of eight Russian and Turkish military vehicles, set off from the village of Ashma, 20 kilometers west of Kobani.
It roamed the villages of Jarqli Fouqani, Qeran, Dikmatash, Khorkhori, Boban and Joul Bek reaching to the village of Tel Sha’ir, 4 kilometers west of Kobani.
The patrol returned to the set off point in Ashma, passing by the villages of Sosan, Kola, Qaraqwi Tahtani, Binder, Mishko, Jebnah, Jarqli Fouqani.
The Turkish military vehicles returned to Turkey through the gate near Ashma, while the Russian military vehicles returned to their position near the town of Sirrin south of Kobani.
On May 23, the 99th Russian-Turkish patrol in the region was conducted in the eastern countryside of Kobani.
[FoxNews] A Florida teen was arrested on a felony charge after allegedly posting pictures of himself online with what appeared to be a rifle, handgun and tactical vest, and a threatening message.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced Monday that their detectives received a tip about the images, which they said included the caption, "Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school." Detectives investigated and learned the weapons were not true firearms but airsoft guns, the sheriff's office said.
"This type of threat is unacceptable. This man intentionally instilled fear into our community as a sick joke, but be warned, this is no laughing matter," Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. "We will do everything within our power to apprehend, and pursue charges on those who make school-based threats. Protecting students is our greatest priority. We take school threats very seriously, if you see something suspicious, please contact us immediately."
That day, officers located and arrested Corey Anderson of Lutz, Florida, located outside Tampa. Anderson now faces a charge of written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism, a second-degree felony that carries a punishment of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Anderson was placed into custody upon his arrest on Sunday. Records show he was released Monday on a $7,500 bond.
Written by a Russian militiaman, resident of Rostov, Russia, who served with the separatists in Donetsk 2014-2015. Call sign "Shakespeare." From his Facebook page: By Pavel Kukhmirov
[Sevastopol] Despite the fact that the negotiation process (for better or for worse) has finally come to naught, the forces counting on a diplomatic settlement remain in our society, including at the intra-elite level.
How good such an outcome would be in principle - I will not argue. But how is it even possible? Under what circumstances is it possible to update the process, as a variant of the development of events?
There can be two prerequisites for this (the possibility is actualized both in the presence of one, and both at once).
First: a large-scale military defeat of one of the parties. Russia or Ukraine - it's not so important here.
Second: a massive political change in the US. At the elite level.
The current situation in the theater of operations can be described as a positional war. Russia and Ukraine collect reserves and throw them into battle, carry out attacking and counterattacking actions, suffer losses in manpower and equipment.
The fact that Ukraine's losses are many times greater does not matter in this case. This is a positional war without much change in the picture. Russia and Ukraine still have a lot of resources to continue in the same spirit.
The situation is in equilibrium, in which both sides do not seek a settlement. But if the picture changes, this will change too.
For example, if there is a big victory for Russia in the Donbass arc, such as the capture of the Kramatorsk-Slavic agglomeration or Nikolaev/Zaporozhye/Kharkov, or, conversely, a serious counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the capture of, for example, Kherson (which is also possible, we like it or no) - in this case, opportunities for diplomacy may open up.
The collapse of the Ukrainian Donbass front will enable the allied forces of Russia and the People's Republics to significantly and, most importantly, rapidly advance in the southern regions of Ukraine and create a threat to Nikolaev and Odessa.
In turn, the capture of Kherson by the Kyiv regime will raise the fundamental question of a land corridor to Crimea, and of Crimea itself.
In both situations, external players will again begin to actively intervene, and at the same time, internal opposition groups will become more active both in Kyiv and in Moscow.
The changing domestic political landscape in the US is also a powerful factor that could potentially change the level of support for the Kyiv regime from Washington.
And we can not say that such an option is unbelievable.
In November, the United States will hold elections to both houses of Congress. At the moment, the Democrats have control over both chambers, but rather shaky. The Senate is 50 to 48 in favor of the Republicans, plus 2 for independent Democrats, but Vice President Kamala Harris has a decisive vote in a tie vote, and thus the Democrats still control the upper house.
The House of Representatives has a direct majority of Democrats. But the fall in the ratings of Biden and the Democratic Party as a whole is already clearly leading to a loss of control over Congress in both chambers.
Powerful problems in the US economy (first of all, rising fuel prices) have given the Ukrainian issue special significance - now this is almost the only area where Biden can demonstrate the power of the United States, tritely trying to distract voters from internal problems.
But the loss of Congress could drastically reduce NATO's pressure on the Ukrainian direction.
Theoretically, this could loosen the American leash and allow European countries to try to find a diplomatic solution.
The Republicans will definitely begin to curtail support for the Armed Forces at the expense of the US budget, publicly burying Biden's policies with a clear eye on the US presidency in 2024. And even impeachment - this can also be.
Although, in principle, Biden can also give the go-ahead to look for a diplomatic solution, if the Russian armed forces make a decisive turn in the hostilities and begin a rapid advance.
After all, they also always loved to play the role of "peacekeepers".
Actually, this is the schedule. I note that there is nothing wrong with the diplomatic settlement itself. The only question is the conditions. And they will simply depend on how things turn out at the front. And no matter how the negotiations go (if they resume again), this will still remain primary.
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First: a large-scale military defeat of one of the parties. Russia or Ukraine -
This condition is already been met: the major defeat was at Mariupol, several weeks ago. That turned the tide. Russia will certainly win the war.
Second: a massive political change in the US. At the elite level.
I disagree. The change need NOT be "massive." The central change has already happened within the Intelligence Community, as it is called -- they were the ones behind the New York Times editorial and they were the ones who pushed Kissinger to put forth his peace arguments at Davos.
Arguably, the Intelligence Community (or so-called 'Deep State') can drive policy toward a negotiated solution. In any case Biden is a walking corpse. He is irrelevant.
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Too bad, a lot of Republicans seem to be as enthusiastic about this war as Biden.
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General Milley's no longer enthusiastic about the war.
Here's what Milley said on Fox yesterday:
"A negotiated outcome is a logical choice, but both sides have to come to that conclusion on their own. ... There's always a possibility of escalation. And we have to closely manage the escalation... and prevent this thing from expanding into something much more horrific than it already is."
On Monday, five rockets landed near the Ain al-Assad military base in Al-Anbar Governorate, western Iraq.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the rockets were launched from the western side of the Base.
He did not provide further details.
Earlier this year, five rockets landed inside the Base.
Ain Al-Asad is located in Al-Anbar Governorate of western Iraq, approximately 180km west of Baghdad.
The Base hosts Iraqi Armed Forces and Global Coalition forces.
It was the second-largest US military airbase in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
It is worth noting that the foreign military facilities were subjected to repeated targeting in the country.
No one claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Washington accuses armed Iraqi factions linked to Iran of being behind the attacks, especially following the killing of the Iranian Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, in an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.
Two Iraqi security officials said the Grad missiles struck inside the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq's western Anbar province and caused minor damages but no casualties.
A previously unknown group hostile to the United States’ military presence in Iraq, “International Resistance,” claimed responsibility for the attack on a pro-Iran Telegram channel.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Home surveillance video shows the rogue marsupial chasing down the man in Ballina, New South Wales, as he flees for safety.
#Sudanese authorities free several dozen political detainees though others remain jailed, a lawyers’ group says, a day after Sudan’s military ruler announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed after an October coup.https://t.co/H3AtDEOmRF
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:55 According to the operational line of the DPR JCCC, information was received about the wounding of five civilians as a result of shelling of the previously liberated territory of the Republic by the AFU:
n.p. Blagodatnoye (temporarily attached to the administration of the Starobeshevsky district):
- women born in 1950 and 1967;
n.p. Stepnoye (temporarily attached to the administration of the city of Donetsk):
- a teenager (girl) born in 2008.
n.p. Mironovsky (temporarily attached to the administration of the settlement of Debaltseve):
- male, born in 1961;
is a woman born in 1953.
21:37 Lyman is under Russian control - Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President's Office.
21:37 The head of the Lugansk People's Republic made a statement about shelling of Stakhanov:
Vile and cynical Ukrainian Nazis again fired at Stakhanov. Enemy fire claimed the lives of two women, both pregnant. Another 24 people were injured by Ukrainian rocket artillery, eight of whom were children.
On behalf of all the people of the Lugansk People's Republic, I express my deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
I sincerely wish a speedy recovery to all the victims!
Neo-Nazis, feeling their inevitable destruction, continue to “fight” with the civilian population: they destroy exclusively civilian infrastructure, they kill the inhabitants of the republic.
Very soon, the Ukrainian fascists involved in the shelling of our territory will answer for all crimes. The hour of reckoning is near!
21:30 The French citizen who died on the territory of the LPR controlled by Kyiv received accreditation from the Security Service of Ukraine and at the time of death did not wear identification marks of the press, said Leonard Svidovsky, chairman of the Luhansk Republican Union of Journalists, artistic director of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the LPR.
21:07 A large supply of long-range artillery to the Ukrainian security forces was carried out in the city of Artemovsk, north of Donetsk, said Andrei Marochko, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR.
21:07 In Donetsk, the most serious shelling since 2014 was recorded - the Ministry of Information of the DPR.
21:07 The Kyiv security forces fired on Popasnaya using the installations of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system. This was reported by the representative office of the LPR in the JCCC.
20:21 Mayor Stakhanov Sergei Zhelvakovgavea detailed commentary on the shelling of the city by Ukrainian security forces:
“On May 30, 2022, the city of Stakhanov was shelled by Ukrainian troops. There are dead and wounded on our territory: 15 civilians were wounded and two dead. Among the dead was a pregnant woman who never gave birth to a child. She and the child died in intensive care.
Brigades are now working to help rebuild houses and apartments. We express our condolences to all the relatives of the victims, all the necessary assistance and assistance will be provided to the wounded.”
19:44 According to the updated data of the General Prosecutor's Office of the LPR, as a result of the shelling of Stakhanov, two pregnant women were killed, 25 people were injured, including eight children.
19:30 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 Ukrainian occupiers. Since the beginning of the current day, our servicemen have destroyed 33 Ukrainian nationalists, four tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles. Captured two armored personnel carriers.
19:30 Since the beginning of the current day, the enemy has fired more than 150 Smerch, Uragan and Grad MLRS shells, as well as 155mm, 152mm and 122mm artillery. Areas of 13 settlements of the Republic were fired upon.
As a result of the Ukrainian aggression, five civilians were killed and 17 were injured. A total of 19 residential buildings and nine civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Materials on the facts of the death and injury of civilians, damage to infrastructure will be transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office of the DPR and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for inclusion in criminal cases initiated against the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:06 Yasinovataya. Arrival near apartment buildings.
18:37 During the shelling of Stakhanov died two pregnant women. One died on the spot, the other died in intensive care.
18:10 Units of the NM of the LPR and allied forces began to clean up Severodonetsk. Ukrainian Nazis destroy the city with tanks and artillery.
17:55 Stakhanov - a pregnant girl who was walking down the street died as a result of shelling from the Ukrainian "Hurricanes". At the moment, the shelling of the cities of Donbass continues - the Armed Forces of Ukraine are hit by artillery and MLRS.
17:43 Ukrainian security forces are shelling residential areas of Severodonetsk, which came under the control of the LPR, wounded a civilian, transmits RIA Novosti correspondent.
17:31 Eight people were injured and one died as a result of the shelling of Stakhanov by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Among the victims were two children aged 10 and 15. The fire was fired at the area of school No. 9.
17:31 In Severodonetsk, Russian troops and units of the people's republics are pushing out the Ukrainian military who had previously taken positions in a residential building. Foreign-made weapons are found in recaptured positions. Also in the strategically important city, mine clearance is already underway, according to the military commander of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Nikolai Dolgachev.
17:24 The entire southern bank of the Seversky Donets River has passed under Russian control, with the exception of a small section near Severodonetsk.
17:17 Residents of Gorlovka report explosions of shells in the village of the mine. Residents urgently need to find shelter!
17:11 One person died, eight more were injured during the shelling of Stakhanov by the Kyiv security forces. This was reported to the city administration.
“(As a result of the shelling), eight people were previously injured, one person died,” the report says.
17:10 The representative office of the LPR in the JCCC from the armed formations of Ukraine recorded shelling: from the direction of N. p. Artemovsk (Bakhmut) according to the settlement Stakhanov with the use of the Uragan MLRS (three rounds).
17:10 The headquarters of the DPR TeroO reports: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired on Yasinovataya, a woman was wounded, as a result of shelling on the street. Skripnik was wounded by a woman. He is currently receiving medical attention."
16:26 The number of civilians who were injured during shelling by the Ukrainian military in Donetsk has increased to 21, among them there are children. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexei Kostrubitsky.
"A total of 21 people were injured, among them there are children," he said on air. Channel One.
16:10 Near Severodonetsk killed French journalist of the BFMTV channel - Frederic Leclerc. He worked on the side of the Armed Forces.
16:00 On the attack on Slavyansk. Today they report about the capture of the Old Caravan and Dibrov and battles in the Raygorodok area.
On the one hand, it was expected that after the capture and cleansing of the Krasny Liman, the RF Armed Forces would quickly clear everything on the northern bank of the Seversky Donets (Brusovka would also be taken today or tomorrow).
Further it will be more difficult - there it is necessary to force the Seversky Donets. The bridge across it has been blown up.
So far, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Raygorodok are being covered by artillery. The battles themselves are taking place on the northern bank and the RF Armed Forces have not yet crossed the river here, so there will undoubtedly be tactical difficulties here and the enemy clearly expects to resist relying on the occupied heights and the river.
15:59 The Russian army is storming a number of areas in the Donbass, street battles are taking place in Severodonetsk, - the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
"Regarding Severodonetsk itself: the situation is difficult, street battles are already taking place in the vicinity ..." - said the speaker of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Motuzyanyk.
15:59 The Russian army is conducting assaults in several directions. The most fierce battles are going on in the Severodonetsk, Artyomovsky and Kurakhovsky directions. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to prevent encirclement near Severodonetsk and Lysichansk.
15:58 The forces of the republics of Donbass, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, liberated the villages of Dibrova and Stary Karavan in the north of the DPR from Ukrainian troops and are advancing with battles towards the city of Slavyansk, the Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR reported.
15:32 The DPR said that their forces after Krasny Liman liberated Dibrova and Stary Karavan and are moving towards Slavyansk with battles.
15:06 For crimes similar to those committed by militants from Azovstal, the death penalty is provided - Minister of Justice of the DPR.
15:05 The DPR Ombudsman said that the rear territories, where the situation was calm even in 2014-2015, have entered the risk zone.
15:05 Minister of Justice of the DPR Yuri Sirovatko said that all the prisoners from Azovstal are on the territory of the DPR.
"The content is no different. For us, it makes no difference whether it is the Azov battalion or some other brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," he said on the air of the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.
According to Sirovatko, investigators, investigative teams, the Prosecutor General's Office, as well as special forces of the Ministry of State Security are working with the prisoners.
15:05 The DPR announced that their forces after Krasny Liman had liberated Dibrova and Stary Karavan and were advancing towards Slavyansk with fighting.
14:43 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: from the direction of the settlement. Zolote-4 by settlement Pervomaisk with 120mm mortars (12 mines).
14:42 A humanitarian center from the United Russia party can be opened in the city of Popasna, Lugansk People's Republic, said Viktor Vodolatsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.
14:42 "Alligator" Ka-52 attack helicopter is low and goes over the Luhansk region to destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Reconnaissance and attack helicopters of army aviation play an important role in the liberation of Donbass. They destroy military equipment and firing points of the Kyiv invaders, supporting the offensive of the allied forces of Russia and the LDNR.
14:02 The Minister of Justice of the DPR said that for crimes similar to those committed by militants from Azovstal, the death penalty is provided, but the court will decide. The DPR now contains 2,300 prisoners from Azovstal, the Ministry of Justice of the republic said. Looks like the death penalty is on the menu in Donetsk and Lugansk. 14:01 Russian rescuers have begun clearing debris in Mariupol, hundreds of pieces of equipment are working in different parts of the city.
14:00 At the Donetsk gymnasium, which was fired upon by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this morning they were supposed to distribute water.
An accident saved the tragedy: if everything had not been canceled, dozens of people would have gathered there at the time of arrival. She told about it @ruptlynews director of gymnasium No. 5. Bad assumptions come to mind that Ukrainian militants knew where and when to beat. And that everything was canceled - they did not know.
13:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine failed the counterattack near Lisichansk. This is reported at the front line in the LPR. The incident happened the night before.
13:58 The number of those wounded during the shelling of the Voroshilovsky and Budyonovsky districts of Donetsk has grown to 18, the DPR Ministry of Health said.
13:30 There is shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk. In the direction of the inhabitants of the city, from the positions of the Nazis in Pisky, eight artillery shells of 122m caliber were fired. - reports the Headquarters of the TerO DPR
12:46 In the town of Panteleymonovka (Central-Gorodskoy district of Gorlovka) on the street. Pervomaiskaya, 73, the gas pipeline is damaged, emergency work is being carried out. According to the Gorlovsky RES, as a result of the shelling of the VFU in the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka), one transformer substation was de-energized, part of the village without electricity.
12:46 Ukrainian militants continue to shell Gorlovka chaotically. According to updated information, equipment was damaged in OOO TD "Gornyak" on the street. Uglegorsk highway, 309a; Ukrainian shell exploded near kindergarten No. 109 on the street. Paustovsky, 40 (Kalininsky district of the city), the building received shrapnel damage. Residents hear arrivals near the Kalininskaya CEP.
12:26 Units from the Chechen Republic, together with the security forces of the Luhansk People's Republic, took control of up to 90 percent of the territory of the village of Kamyshevakha-Kadyrov
12:26 AFU shelled the village of Panteleymonovka, as a result, the gas pipeline was broken - DPR.
12:25 Ukrainian Armed Forces fired two rockets with cluster munitions from the Smerch during the shelling of Donetsk and used 155mm artillery - DPR.
12:00 As a result of the shelling of the Budennovsky district of Donetsk, two girls of 14 years old were injured. One of them died, the second was hospitalized in a medical facility - Alexei Kulemzin.
11:50 Among the dead in Donetsk, a child born in 2009 is the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR. It is noted that during the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk, the number of victims increased to 21 people - five were killed, including a teenager born in 2009, another 16 people were injured.
11:50 Ten Russian regions announced their participation in the restoration of cities and regions of the DPR:
Moscow provides patronage assistance to Donetsk
Moscow region - Telmanovsky and Novoazovsky districts
Kursk region - Pervomaisky district
Sverdlovsk region and KhMAO-Yugra - Makeevka
Kemerovo region - Gorlovka
Leningrad region - Yenakiyevo
Nizhny Novgorod region - Khartsyzsk
Samara region - Snezhny
Chelyabinsk region - Yasinovataya
11:32 New attacks on Donetsk were carried out by Ukrainian troops from American heavy weapons - the mayor of the city.
11:32 According to preliminary information, as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donetsk, the number of victims increased to 20 people: six were killed and 14 were injured - Headquarters of the TerO DPR.
11:10 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Donetsk, three people were killed and three more were injured - Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR.
10:53 Powerful claps in the center of Donetsk. Messages about getting into the Prosecutor General's Office. The information is being verified.
10:52 Hits in Donetsk, Budyonnovsky district.
10:51 Hits in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. The area of the embankment of the river Kalmius. They hit with artillery.
10:42 At the captured positions of the Ukrainian military and Azov militants in Volnovakha and in the Azovstal industrial zone in Mariupol found American forms for the evacuation of the wounded from the battlefield. According to these forms, Ukrainians should be rescued last.
10:40 Russian "Hurricane" near Donetsk inflicts strikes on the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the capital of the DPR.
09:32 About a hundred shells have already landed in different districts of Gorlovka in the morning. At this moment, the shelling continues.
09:18 In Mariupol, the loading of the first ship that entered the port after the liberation of the city was completed - a representative of the port.
09:10 Gauleiter of the territories of the Lugansk People's Republic occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that the fighting is taking place directly in the center of Severodonetsk.
Russian troops, after occupying a number of key facilities on the northern outskirts of the city, moved forward. The Artemovsk-Lysichansk supply route has actually been cut off - due to tight fire control, it is practically impossible to use it in the interests of supplying troops - cars and equipment are simply destroyed on the route. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have to make do with the bypass road Artemovsk-Seversk-Lysichansk.
08:48 A total of 300 volunteers from Primorsky Krai getting ready for a trip to the Donbass.
08:08 The Ukrainian army fired on Makiivka from heavy artillery - DPR.
08:01 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): four shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: six shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Dolomite: fired five mines in 120mm caliber.
n.p. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Bayrak: five shells of 122mm caliber were fired.
08:00 According to updated information, as a result of a direct hit in a residential building on the street. Sandomirskoy, 15 in the Kuibyshev region, a woman born in 1988 suffered. and a girl born in 2021 The victims were examined by medical workers of the State Budgetary Institution "Clinical City Hospital No. 17." They refused hospitalization. In addition, damage to the roof and glazing was recorded in the house.
Following Turkish threats to launch a military operation in northern #Syria, government forces send more reinforcements to Menagh military Air Base in Aleppo northern countryside. #SNA.https://t.co/eVZ5pzurTj
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An Iraqi court sentences to death an #ISIS group member convicted of plotting a 2021 bomb attack that killed 32 people in a crowded #Baghdad market.https://t.co/1nA5dsUOwy
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 30, 2022
An Iraqi court on Monday sentenced to death an ISIS group member convicted of plotting a 2021 bomb attack that killed 32 people in a crowded Baghdad market.
It was the city’s first major suicide bombing in three years that ended a period of relative calm after Iraq declared the defeat of the extremist group in late 2017.
The man, who was not named, was found guilty of planning the January 2021 twin suicide bombing that hit the market at Baghdad’s Tayaran Square and also wounded 110 people.
A Baghdad court has sentenced the attack’s “primary perpetrator,” the Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement.
He had confessed to being part of ISIS since 2012 and to having equipped the two suicide attackers.
In the attack, one man drew a crowd by claiming to feel sick before he detonated his explosives belt, the interior ministry said at the time.
As more people flocked to the scene to help the victims, the second suicide bomber set off his explosives.
Iraq frequently hands down death sentences, usually for terrorism or murder convictions.
Amnesty International’s 2021 death penalty report ranks Iraq near the top worldwide in terms of death sentences and executions.
The London-based rights group recorded at least 17 executions in Iraq in 2021, down from 50 the previous year, but said death sentences “rose more than threefold from 2020.”
In April, eight people were sentenced to death in two trials, four over a car bombing and four for murder.
The last major ISIS attack in the capital came in July 2021, when a bomb ripped through the crowded al-Woheilat Market in the Sadr City suburb, killing more than 30 people.
The ISIS group has “maintained the ability to launch attacks at a steady rate in Iraq, including hit-and-run operations, ambushes and roadside bombs,” a UN report said in January.
Three teenagers and three policemen were shot dead in northern Iraq as they put out a crop fire last week, an attack that officials blamed on ISIS extremists.
[Consortium News] As the war becomes less popular and it takes its toll, an electoral disaster looms ahead in 2022 and 2024 for Biden and the Democratic Party, for which the Times serves as a mouthpiece, writes John Walsh.
On May 11 The New York Times ran an article documenting that all was not going well for the U.S. in Ukraine, and a companion opinion piece hinting that a shift in direction might be in order.
Then on May 19, the editorial board, the full Magisterium of the Times, moved from hints to a clarion call for a change in direction, declaring that "total victory" over Russia is not possible and that Ukraine will have to negotiate a peace in a way that reflects a "realistic assessment" and the "limits" of U.S. commitment.
The Times serves as one the main shapers of public opinion for the elite and so its pronouncements are not to be taken lightly.
US LIMITS
The editorial contains the following key passages:
"In March, this board argued that the message from the United States and its allies to Ukrainians and Russians alike must be: No matter how long it takes, Ukraine will be free. ..."
"That goal cannot shift, but in the end, it is still not in America’s best interest to plunge into an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require Ukraine to make some hard decisions."
And, to ensure that there is no ambiguity, it went on:
"A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal. ... Russia remains too strong..."
The, to make certain that President Joe Biden and the Ukrainians understand what they should do, it adds:
"... Mr. Biden should also make clear to President Volodymyr Zelensky and his people that there is a limit to how far the United States and NATO will go to confront Russia, and limits to the arms, money and political support they can muster. It is imperative that the Ukrainian government’s decisions be based on a realistic assessment of its means and how much more destruction Ukraine can sustain."
As Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky read those words, he must surely have begun to sweat. The voice of his masters was telling him that he and Ukraine will have to make some sacrifices for the U.S. to save face. As he contemplates his options, his thoughts must surely run back to February 2014, and the U.S.-backed Maidan coup that culminated in the hasty exit of President Viktor Yanukovych from his office, his country and almost from this earth.
Alexander Mercouris of The Duran explains the shift in Western media reporting:.... Video and more at the link
At the bottom of the article at the link it notes that it was originally published at the Paleocon site Antiwar.com. We’ve had their articles here from time to time — they tend to be controversial.
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Not just the New York Times. Virtually every single American and British media outlet has shifted from embarrassing jingoism to cold hard pragmatism -- recognizing that Russia is winning and trading territory for peace will be essential -- during the last 2-3 days.
Another poster gave a roundup yesterday of the many backflips in the formerly (hilariously) compliant US/UK press. Here are some of them:
Ukraine Is in Worse Shape than You Think - Time Magazine
Ukraine suffers on battlefield while pleading for U.S. arms - the Washington Post
Russian Wins in Eastern Ukraine Spark Debate Over Course of War - Bloomberg
Russia’s ‘cauldron’ tactic may be tipping Donbas battle in its favour - Guardian
Shrapnel in the forests and shells from the sky: ‘I’ve never seen such hell.’ - New York Times
Boris Johnson warns Russia is 'chewing through ground' in eastern Ukraine as he urges more support for Kyiv forces - The Daily Mail
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"...the United States has helped turn this tragic, local and ambiguous conflict into a potential world conflagration. By misunderstanding the war’s logic, [French presidential advisor Henri] Guaino argues, the West, led by the Biden administration, is giving the conflict a momentum that may be impossible to stop. ...
"One can argue about Russian claims to Crimea, but Russians take them seriously. Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Soviet fighters died defending the Crimean city of Sevastopol from European forces during two sieges — one during the Crimean War and one during World War II. In recent years, Russian control of Crimea has seemed to provide a stable regional arrangement: Russia’s European neighbors, at least, have let sleeping dogs lie.
But the United States never accepted the arrangement. On Nov. 10, 2021, the United States and Ukraine signed a “charter on strategic partnership” that called for Ukraine to join NATO, condemned “ongoing Russian aggression” and affirmed an “unwavering commitment” to the reintegration of Crimea into Ukraine.
That charter “convinced Russia that it must attack or be attacked,” Mr. Guaino wrote. “It is the ineluctable process of 1914 in all its terrifying purity.”
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Perpetual leftist idiot Tom Freidman has a column out today (I won't link to it) saying that Kissinger is wrong on Ukraine. That's pretty much all I need to hear to decide Kissinger is exactly right.
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I think the tipping point in the US was Rand Paul’s protest. Many Americans because less enthusiastic when they discovered there would be no general ledger for the dollar pipeline. This is like a Clinton Global Initiative on steroids with missiles.
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^ Thanks to this bill, the American people are on the hook to fund all the operations of the entireUkrainian government. A notoriously corrupt regime that never had any oversight or scrutiny to begin with.
Administered by Biden and his Freakshow -- that would be the same Joe Biden who boasted about forcing the Ukrainian regime to fire their prosecutor who was looking into his son's illicit dealings with a criminal enterprise.
This isn't Clinton Global Initiative, this is the Mother of All Boondoggles. Iraq and Afghanistan combined, on an accelerated timeline so that Hunter, Jimmy and The Big Guy can grab their loot while they're all still alive and in power.
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Thanks to this bill, the American people are on the hook to fund all the operations of the entireUkrainian government.
That is what's known as a giant fucking lie. Anything Oye Como Va says from now on should be treated as such. Watch the switch to a new lying nym
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The bill "also provides for $6 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funding, which can be used to buy weapons directly from contractors and then provide those weapons to Ukraine.
"On the surface, this would appear to be simply about weapons. However, buriedin this funding is up to a billion dollars earmarked to pay the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian government workers and soldiers.
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This is just the beginning, folks. Remember Karzai? Remember SIGAR's report?
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"• $8.766 billion for the Economic Support Fund to respond to emergent needs in Ukraine, provide needed budget support to assist with Ukraine’s continuity of government, and counter human trafficking. Includes $760 million to prevent and respond to global food insecurity.
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#10 Giant fucking ... boondoggle, agreed.
$8.96 Billion, suckers!
🤡 Read it and weep:
US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ADDITIONAL UKRAINE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2022
From Title V:
"• $8.766 billion for the Economic Support Fund to respond to emergent needs in Ukraine, provide needed budget support to assist with Ukraine’s continuity of government, and counter human trafficking. Includes $760 million to prevent and respond to global food insecurity.
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Don't worry. Plenty of graft to come. Did you like "Build Back Better"? Wasn't Iraq Reconstruction a blast?
How about $1 TRILLION for "Build a Greener Denser Carbon-Neutral Ukraine"?
"We can also look at other measures and similar efforts that were done in the past. For example, what was the cost of reconstructing Iraq or Afghanistan? If you look at the size of these countries, the level of damage, and scale it to the Ukrainian case, you come to somewhere between $500 billion, maybe $1 trillion."
How should Ukraine rebuild?
Although Russia's invasion has caused massive damage, some experts also see reconstruction as a once-in-a-generation chance to modernize Ukraine.
Gorodnichenko believes the country's newly rebuilt cities should be carbon-neutral and dense, with much needed upgrades to housing and public transport.
Are we having fun yet??
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Screwed up HTML fixed in #10 so it wasn’t breaking the Burg, though you fixed it nicely in the next comment, Oye Como Va.
A billion dollars here, a billion more there, eventually you’re talking real money. Seriously, the way the current administration is throwing money around in trillion dollar amounts, any specific item isn’t worth getting upset over.
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^ No offense but that's a really mindless comment. They are indeed "worried about trillions." In fact Biden is meeting with Jay Powell to pressure him to REDUCE a trillion or more in money supply now.
Rand Paul nailed it: it's utterly insane to be slamming the brakes on credit and money supply via the Fed's shock therapy interest rate hikes while they're contemplating the exact opposite, in the form of sending a trillion dollars overseas for yet another idiotic intervention + kleptopalooza
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No, it's defensive. A trillion for defending "freedom and democracy" ... by paying for Zelensky & Co's offshore accounts salaries and pensions.
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Biden is meeting with Jay Powell to pressure him to REDUCE a trillion or more in money supply now.
Let me unpack my statement a bit: The issue, as I see it, is endlessly increasing government spending on anything and everything. Until that drive to spend is stopped, fixing this or that particular item will make no difference whatsoever.
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Headlines of the Daily Mail are aimed at their target audience: Britons reading the newspaper while sipping tea at breakfast marveling at the quaint barbarisms of foreigners (who were unfortunate not to have been born British!).
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:40 Norway's decision to supply artillery systems to Ukraine is not due to the will of the kingdom's government, but to pressure from the American leadership, Yulia Vilhelmsen, senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, said in an interview with Klassenkampen.
“The question of what Norway sends should be considered in the context of the steps of other NATO countries and the United States. We must be aware that the contribution of Norway naturally fits into the larger contribution of Washington, ”said Vilhelmsen.
21:12 Westerners in Lvivmockedover Russian-speaking refugees from eastern Ukraine. Humanitarian aid is issued only to those who speak the language. A worker distributing UN humanitarian aid refused to distribute food because the women spoke Russian. The impudent man was rude and pretended not to understand.
21:12 Zelensky, addressing the heads of state and government of the EU countries, criticized the European Union for the fact that the sixth package of sanctions against Russia has not yet been put into effect.
21:12 Mass appeal of Ukrainian prisoners to Zelensky: Nobody cares about us, everyone cares only about Azov*. The Armed Forces demand that Zelensky stop ignoring his duties and return them home to their families.
“We have been here for more than a month and no one is taking care of us. Everyone is puzzled only by the Azov Regiment*. For some reason, no one asks all the presidents of Europe, the Pope, Elon Musk to assist in our exchange. We also have families, there are children who need us very much... When we were in need, we honestly performed our duty, stood as a "human shield". Why are we just forgotten and no one needs us now?
21:12 Drunken armed teroboronists staged a showdown right in the center of Odessa. The footage shows the fighters of the 126th Terodefense Brigade and their drunken performance on Zhukovsky Street. The cause of the conflict remains a mystery.
20:23 Ukraine turned off mobile communications in the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region. The Ukrainian authorities deliberately turned off Ukrainian mobile communications so that residents of the liberated territories could not call their relatives living in the territory controlled by Ukraine.
This is revenge on the inhabitants for not taking the path of fascism. In this regard, the Kyiv regime is in agony. This was stated by the Head of the CAA of the Zaporozhye region Evgeny Balitsky. Head of the Zaporozhye regiontoldon the restoration of mobile communications and called for switching to Russian operators.
20:22 Starting today, the internal affairs bodies in the Zaporozhye region organized acceptance of documents for entry into Russian citizenship, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.
18:48 More than half a million subscribers were left without mobile communications in the Kherson region after shelling of infrastructure by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The leadership of the region asked Russia to use the capabilities of Russian companies to restore cellular communications.
18:43 The bridge in Zatoka got completely damaged as a result of another Russian missile strike.
18:30 Effects of the terrorist act of the Kyiv regime against the civilians of Melitopol.
18:21 The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation terminated the memorandum of understanding with the United States in the field of culture, education and the media.
18:04 Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure for granting Russian citizenship to orphans from the DPR, LPR and Ukraine.
18:00 Serious battles near Snegirevka are reported. The Armed Forces of Ukraine attack with forces up to the 1st BTG with the support of artillery. Intense fighting continues in the city area.
17:41 The Dutch Gasterra refused to comply with the requirements to pay for Russian gas in rubles. The Netherlands expects Gazprom to stop deliveries from May 31.
17:30 Head of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky commented on a terrorist act by the Kyiv government aimed at destabilizing the peaceful life of Melitopol.
"Today, the Kyiv regime has carried out a terrorist act against the peaceful and peaceful life of our city. Peaceful life that haunts the Kyiv regime, the fact that the city can live, work and develop without "their love and hugs."
Today, two volunteers who were going to work, 25 and 28 years old, were injured. They are in the hospital and their lives are not in danger. We cannot be stopped by this, this is an agony, senseless and directed against our peaceful life. We will continue to live peacefully and develop our region," he said.
17:27 In Ukraine, they may ban the public performance of Russian music and tours of performers from the Russian Federation. Such a bill was submitted to the Rada.!
17:24 Erdogan invited Putin to hold a meeting in Istanbul between the delegations of Russia, Ukraine and the UN.
17:08 EU needs to reach an agreement with Russia to export 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat - Borrell.
17:00 Medvedev on Biden's decision not to send missile systems to Ukraine that could reach Russian territory: “Reasonable! Otherwise, when attacking our cities, the Russian Armed Forces would have fulfilled their threat and struck at the centers for making these criminal decisions. Some of them are not in Kyiv at all.”
16:34 Defeat Ukrainian equipment with high-precision munitions in the Kherson direction. Presumably, the self-propelled guns were destroyed.
16:27 Biden said that the United States will not send missile systems to Ukraine that can reach Russian territory.
16:00 In Ukraine, a mine was blown up by the leader of the oppositional Belarusian "Young Front" Denis Urbanovich, who is fighting as part of the so-called "Kalinovsky Regiment", staffed by citizens of Belarus. According to some reports, the militant who arrived on the "Russian safari" escaped with a shell shock and hearing loss, according to others, he is in a hospital in critical condition.
15:35 An artillery duel is underway in Kharkiv. Residents report the sounds of artillery from the city limits and reciprocal arrivals from the MLRS.
15:30 Captured fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told that the Ukrainian command is sending untrained servicemen into battle and urged colleagues to lay down their arms:
“I was told that if you get into a tank, if you want to live, you will learn to shoot. We arrived in the forest, I fired once, then shells flew at us, the commander was killed, I miraculously managed to jump out."
15:22 The Black Sea Fleet has begun to assess the possibility of lifting the command ship of the Ukrainian Navy "Donbass" - Southern Military District.
15:00 Kherson is safe, despite attempts by the Ukrainian army to attack the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the north of the region - deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region
14:58 Authorities plan to open all schools in the Kherson region by September 1. Sept. 1st is the traditional start of the school year in Russia 14:50 Kherson region is considering the possibility of transshipment of grain through the ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol - the deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region.
14:41 A total of 72 percent of Russians support the decision to conduct a special military operation of Russia in Ukraine - VICOM. The level of Russian society's support for a special military operation during the three months of monitoring remains at a consistently high level.
14:24 Paris wanted "its own" street in Kyiv. The mayor's office of the Ukrainian capital is considering the appeal of the French authorities to rename Moskovskaya Street into Charles de Gaulle, Paris or French Street. This was announced by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia Sergey Naryshkin.
13:21 Residents of Kherson voluntarily surrender their weapons. Only in recent days, residents of the Kherson region have voluntarily handed over an AK-74 assault rifle with 4 magazines and a bayonet, 3 Makarov pistols, a Fort pistol and a traumatic revolver to the police of the Kherson region. Earlier, residents of Kherson voluntarily handed over another 13 short-barreled and 21 automatic long-barreled combat firearms to the police.
13:18 Khersongaz has repaired the gas pipelines in Stanislav and Antonovka that were broken by shelling. Khersongaz repaired a low-pressure gas pipeline damaged by shelling and resumed gas supply to 400 houses in the village.
Stanislav through the streets 200 years of Stanislav and Sportivnaya. Gas supply was also restored in Antonovka (a suburb of Kherson) along the street. Central on the damaged gas pipeline - low pressure input.
13:08 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine complains about the population of the Kherson region. It does not want to return to Ukraine.
"We are facing a difficult situation when there are some representatives of the local population who start working for the occupier. Of course, these people are found out, they are worked with, but their destructive work complicates both the process of release and work in the territories that are occupied," Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon.
13:00 The Russian military destroyed a battery of Italian-made howitzers in Ukraine. -- Personnel Ministry of Defense.
12:44 Near Kherson, a group of the 73rd naval center of the SOF of Ukraine was destroyed. On the Kinburn Spit in the Kherson region, servicemen of the 73rd Marine Special Operations Center of Ukraine were destroyed. It is they who oppose our military in this direction.
12:33 In Kherson, travel from regions controlled by Kyiv was called unsafe:
"Travel to the Kherson region is open today, but it is not recommended to go, because there are military operations. The Ukrainian military is shooting in the back to all those who are moving today.
Our checkpoints on the line of demarcation are not against the arrival of residents of the Kherson region, who are now returning home en masse, but we warn them to be careful, because the Ukrainian army is shooting civilians who are returning to the territory of the Kherson region," said Kirill Stremousov.
12:06 An explosive device was placed in a manhole during the terrorist attack in Melitopol, the explosion occurred when a car with volunteers was driving past -
RIA Novosti source.
11:52 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/30/2022) The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-launched missiles hit two command and observation posts of battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a communications center, as well as 34 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Operational-tactical, army and unmanned aircraft hit three command posts and 67 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In total, as a result of air strikes, up to 320 nationalists were destroyed per day, as well as 47 units of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian air defense systems shot down 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Severodonetsk, Novochervonoe, Vasilevka of the Lugansk People's Republic, Panteleymonovka, Grigorovka, Krasnogorovka, Nevelskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Petrapolye, Petrovskoye, Glinskoye of the Kharkiv region, Chernobaevka and Aleksandrovka of the Kherson region.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Kamenka, Brazhkovka, Glinskoye, Kharkiv region and Chernobaevka, Kherson region, 9 Ukrainian rockets of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system were intercepted.
Missile forces and artillery hit 62 command posts, including the operational command "South" in the area of the settlement of Novy Bug in the Nikolaev region, as well as 593 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 55 artillery and mortar batteries in firing positions.
Four BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 46 weapons and Ukrainian military equipment, as well as an ammunition depot in the Novomikhailovka area of the Donetsk People's Republic were destroyed.
In addition, as a result of an artillery strike on a hangar on the territory of the Okean shipbuilding plant in the city of Nikolaev, more than 15 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and five large-caliber artillery pieces were destroyed.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 183 aircraft, 128 helicopters, 1,064 unmanned aerial vehicles, 325 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,323 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 451 multiple rocket launchers, 1,731 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 3,294 units of special military vehicles.
11:02 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than 15 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles with a strike on the territory of the Okean shipbuilding plant in Nikolaev, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
11:01 Additional troops sent to the border of the Kursk region after shelling from Ukraine - the governor.
10:42 The authorities of Melitopol qualified the car explosion in the city center as a terrorist attack. His goal was to destabilize the peaceful life of the city.
10:00 Victory Square, where the administration of Melitopol is located, is cordoned off after a car explosion. The security of local government buildings has also been strengthened. Employees of power structures on the spot confirm that, according to the preliminary version, a car exploded in the city center.
Ukrainian saboteurs are behind the explosion in Melitopol, it is necessary to strengthen anti-terror measures, the administration of the Zaporozhye region said. After the explosion in Melitopol, two people were hospitalized.
09:20 Financial assistance in the Zaporozhye region. More than 5,000 pensioners, public sector employees and socially vulnerable citizens have already received a lump sum payment of 10,000 rubles in Melitopol. Payments are ongoing.
09:16 The main results of the SVO in Ukraine for May 29, 2022
Positional battles continue in the Kharkiv direction.
➖The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Dementievka was thwarted.
➖Russian Armed Forces struck at Slatino and Prudyanka.
➖In Khotoml, on the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets, engineering units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were seen.
In the Donbass, the allied forces are systematically developing success.
➖Under Liman, the clearing of forests continues, fighting is underway in Dibrov.
➖They report about the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk.
➖The compression of the ring around the APU grouping in Zolote continues.
➖DPR people's militia units storm Novoluganskoye and continue their attempts to move towards Avdievka from the north and northeast.
In the Nikolaev-Kherson direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are probing the defense of the RF Armed Forces.
➖The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the outskirts of Snigirevka.
➖The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Olgino was thwarted.
09:00 It is reported that a blow was struck at the command post of the operational command "South" (n. p. Novy Bug) tonight. It became known that as a result of the strike, 3 generals, 34 officers of the operational command, as well as communications equipment providing control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Nikolaev-Kherson direction were destroyed.
08:52 A powerful explosion thundered in Melitopol. Today at about 7.40 a powerful explosion was heard in the very center of the city.
The inhabitants of the streets of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, Sergey Kirov, Petro Doroshenko, the windows and walls in the houses trembled. The center of the city was filled with clouds of black smoke. Such attacks will not stop as long as the UGIL (Ukrainian State of Ivano-Frankivsk and Lvov) terrorist entity exists. The Zelensky regime hates peaceful life in Melitopol and other liberated territories.
08:07 Personnelcombat work of "Iskander" on Ukrainian positions. Cruise missiles are located under the camouflage hatch of the complex. The camouflage net was specially designed for this combat vehicle. It masks the complex under the ground of the area and protects it from electromagnetic radiation.
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Re: #2 and #3, thanks Skidmark, yhat was informative!
I notced the following statement from the second article above:
"It is important to note that baby formula is highly toxic and does not in any way resemble actual human breast milk. Most of it is loaded with health-destroying ingredients like corn syrup solids, high-fructose corn syrup, and various soy derivatives."
so it is looking like goat milk maynot be so bad after all.
Based on the first article, it seems that Almond Milk and and maybe boiled Cream Of Wheat, over cooked grit ( add a cup or so more water than normal) or watery rice porridge would be a good substitute for breast mil
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Remember the state WIC (women, infants, children) programs subsidize formula, et al. Welfare chits issued for formula are black-marketed(can I say that?) for cash or traded for drugs. So the subsidized manufacturing demand drops.
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Liberal regressive political madness is very real. Mask mandate and containment has created an army of malfunctioning individuals who look, act, speak and think alike as if controlled by an unseen force. The man or woman behind the curtain.
#2
The extracts I read seem pretty much dead on for the style and direction of the LSD controlled government currently holding power.
In short the Flower Power Generation associated with Liberalism has been adulterated and power hungry. It has already adopted many of the totalitarian political processes needed to control a societies knowledge, speech and rights.
#3
In future history, if its honest, the impact of the Magic Kenyan and the massive salting of government/academia/media during his 8 years will be seen as a turning point in the arc of American political behavior. Woke-Think is the visible product of it, but especially the deeper animus concepts of America as hyper-racist, "toxic" masculinity, transgender/psychosis, climate insanity against fossil fuels with magic thinking of the "green" replacement disregarding nuclear, fiscal profligacy, massive corruption, selective criminal enforcement, regulatory Imperialism and globalism as the virtuous end-state for mankind.
This cannot end well...
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[KavkazUzel] The court sentenced four residents of Ingushetia to lengthy prison terms, finding them guilty of plotting a terrorist attack during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, justifying terrorism, illegal possession of weapons, and membership in the Islamic State**. The convicts themselves stated that they confessed under torture.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 9, 2018, a resident of Ingushetia announced the kidnapping of his cousin, 29-year-old resident of Nazran, Ibragim Aliyev. According to the relative, on the morning of June 8, 2018, security forces searched the man’s house, beat him and took him away in an unknown direction. The relative is sure that a grenade and a homemade bomb were planted on Aliyev. Five days later, the security forces told Aliyev's family that he had been killed while trying to attack the investigator and escape. Ibrahim's brother Bashir Aliyev was also detained.
On July 7, 2018, the security forces handed over the body of a resident of Ingushetia, Ibragim Aliyev, who was killed after being detained, to his relatives after they refused the help of human rights activists in verifying the official version of his death.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Ingushetia to various terms of imprisonment - from 18 to 21 years - on charges of preparing a terrorist attack during the 2018 World Cup, Kavkaz. Realii reported today. *.
According to the case file on the website of the Southern District Military Court, Bashir Aliyev, Aslan Bekov, Muslim Galaev and Ruslan Tsitskiev were sentenced today.
Bashir Aliyev and Ruslan Tsitskiyev each received 20 years of strict regime, Aslan Bekov - 21 years, Muslim Galaev - 18 years, Fortanga reported in her Telegram channel. They were convicted of attempting a terrorist attack, justifying terrorism, illegal possession of weapons and membership in the "Islamic state" **, the publication specified.
Two more people appear in the case - Islam Kartoev and Zalimkhan Bogatyrev, Fortanga informed. In February 2020, both Islam Kartoev and Zalimkhan Bogatyrev were sentenced to 14 years in a strict regime.
Four residents of Ingushetia, convicted today in court, said earlier that they confessed under torture. In court, Bashir Aliyev stated that the grenades found on him were originally planted on his brother Ibrahim Aliyev, "but after he was killed, [the grenades] were handed over to me. We decided that the dead would no longer be needed, and they certainly wouldn't interfere with the living." Also at the beginning of the trial, all the defendants retracted their confessions. They stated that the security forces beat them to get a confession, Kavkaz. Realii informed.*
The operation against the alleged members of the Islamic State cell**, who, according to the security forces, planned to stage a terrorist attack near the building of the government of Ingushetia during the World Cup and attack law enforcement officials, took place in June 2018 in Nazran.
As a result, three people from the Ayupov family - brothers Umar and Mokhmad and their mother Madina - were killed and their house was destroyed. On the same day, Ibrahim Aliyev was detained in this case. During a search, they found a grenade and components for making an explosive device, which, according to the Aliyev family, were planted. A few days later, relatives were informed that Ibrahim Aliyev had been killed while trying to escape, the publication informed.
Recall that this special operation in Nazran caused indignation among the inhabitants of Ingushetia. Those killed during a special operation in Ingushetia are members of the family of a retired police colonel, none of them had anything to do with the militants and did not shoot at the security forces, local residents said. The security forces claimed that the dead swore allegiance to IS**. The militants killed in Ingushetia were preparing terrorist attacks on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, then head of the republic, said.
[FoxNews] Initial reports indicate the incident occurred after a car reportedly ran a red light, struck another vehicle and the two cars hit the crowd.
Authorities in Lincoln, Nebraska responded to a mass casualty incident Sunday evening where at least two people are dead and many others are believed to be injured after multiple vehicles crashed and rolled into a crowd of people.
Two female victims were declared dead at the scene, both believed to be occupants of the vehicles, and 19 others have been hospitalized, the Lincoln Police Department said.
"One is in critical condition. The other 18 people are believed to be in non-life-threatening condition at this time," the police said.
Videos posted online show a large fire formed from the wreckage near the intersection of South 52nd Street and O Street, outside the Barnes & Noble's Bookstore, while people, several dizzied and stumbling, were fleeing the area. The contents of the videos have not been independently verified.
The Head of Kidnapped Yazidi Rescue Office, Hussein Kuro, said today that 2867 Yazidis are still kidnapped by ISIS.
Kuro added that 6417 Yazidis have been freed from the grip of ISIS, including men, women and children who have been kidnapped when the terrorist organization invaded Sinjar district in 2014.
Back in 2014, ISIS invaded Sinjar, killed thousands of them, and forced more than 300,000 others to leave their homes.
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Video shows a man restraining Asian man whilst another two take it in turns to punch him at Fulton Street Station in Manhattan
Footage shows one hitting the man so hard in the face that his body goes limp
The NYPD are investigating the incident which took place on Friday night
Some posters claim the victim was targeted for molesting a girl on the train
One Twitter user, who said they had filmed the footage, replied to NYPD Transit writing: 'I am commenting on this thread because I was there and witnessed it.'
They claimed: 'The Asian man attempted to rape a young girl on the train and was stopped by the man holding him.'
The user added: 'I'm really afraid these guys are gonna get in trouble. They were good citizens stopping this man. I watch stories all day from NYC of people getting attacked and no one doing anything because they're afraid this will happen.'
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[Korrespondent] 23:15 The EU countries have decided to abandon plans to introduce a ban on the purchase of real estate by Russians, which was proposed to be added to the new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Bloomberg reported. Previously, Cyprus opposed such a ban.
23:11 The European Union cannot afford not to reach an agreement on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, including the oil embargo, said the head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metzola: "I really hope that the agreement will be. We cannot afford not to have it. Although I I understand the realities faced by different countries, there is a limit of flexibility that we cannot cross without losing the confidence of our population."
She also commented on the prospect of Ukraine's EU bid: "In my opinion, we have no choice but to bring Ukraine even closer to us, and the worst signal we could send at this point would be to waver. And what Ukraine needs now is hope and perspective."
23:08 Zelensky said on his Twitter that on the evening of May 30 he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan, discussed the threats to food security created by Russia, ways to unblock ports and cooperation in the field of security.
According to CNN Turk, during the conversation, Erdogan assured that Turkey, as a mediator, is making every effort to resume negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. Erdogan also touched upon the topic of a safe corridor for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products. To ensure the transportation of grain and other crops by sea, the Turkish president supported the creation of a monitoring center that will work under the auspices of the UN in Istanbul.
23:05 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation in the Donbas remains very difficult overall, the Russian army is trying to selectively gather superior forces to put more pressure on the Ukrainian defenders: "The maximum combat power of the Russian army is now gathered there. Severodonetsk, Lysichansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and other settlements remain key targets for the occupiers in this direction."
22:59 French journalist Frédéric Leclerc, who died in the Luhansk region from Russian shelling while trying to evacuate civilians from combat areas, became the 32nd media worker who died in Ukraine after February 24, Zelensky said in an evening video message and expressed his condolences to colleagues and relatives Frederick.
22:50 Boris Yeltsin's son-in-law Valentin Yumashev resigned from his position as Putin's adviser, where he worked for 22 years, writes Reuters.
22:48 Russians who oppose Russia's war with Ukraine can now obtain a German national visa and a residence permit in Germany under a simplified procedure, German Interior Minister Nancy Feather said: "We offer Russian women and Russians who are subjected to harassment and threats, protection in Germany. Especially for Russian journalists, we will provide free and independent coverage of events from Germany."
22:09 France is ready to become a mediator in negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, said Foreign Minister of the country Catherine Colonna in Kiev at a joint briefing with Kuleba: "Now there are intense, fierce battles, and there is no talk of negotiations. But the day will come when negotiations And in order to have an open and serious dialogue, to really reach a result, we will be next to Ukraine in order to be a mediator in such negotiations and in those conditions, in the context when these negotiations will be needed" .
22:01 Arestovich said that over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed a command post, a communication center in Liman, two columns of 40 units and an echelon of tanks in the Kherson region.
21:44 The Russians are trying to attack the eastern communities of the Zaporozhye region, artillery, rocket and air strikes are being applied along the line of collision, the OVA reported.
21:27 Russian troops have advanced deep into Severodonetsk, street fighting is underway in the city, said the head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai. In turn, Arestovich said that the enemy was trying to bypass Severodonetsk from the south. According to him, this is an attempt to cut off Severodonetsk from Lisichansk.
20:39 New US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has arrived in Kiev, reports The Guardian.
20:37 The head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko announced a missile attack on the railway bridge across the Dniester estuary in the Zatoka region: "Today, the enemy fired two missiles at the broken bridge across the Dniester estuary. It received additional serious damage." The third missile, he said, was shot down by Ukrainian air defense.
20:21 On May 30, the occupiers fired on Kharkiv again - three civilians were wounded, the regional prosecutor's office reports.
20:19 Rada tomorrow intends to express no confidence in the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova, the Ombudsman herself said. Head of NGO ZMINA. The Human Rights Center Tatyana Pechonchik notes that there are no constitutional grounds for removing Denisova from her post. Earlier, Ukrainian journalists were outraged by Denisova's rhetoric in the context of sexual crimes committed by Russian occupiers.
20:12 From 50 to 100 killed citizens are found under almost every blockage or destroyed house in Mariupol. In total, in Mariupol, the invaders completely destroyed more than a thousand high-rise buildings in two months, the mayor of the city, Vadym Boycheno, said on Freedom.
20:09 Zelensky addressed the European Council: "Europe must demonstrate strength. Because Russia perceives only force as an argument. This time has come. The time has come to be not separate, not fragments, but a single whole. Ukraine showed by its example why this is important. In our country, since February 24, there has been maximum unification, everyone is working for one result - to protect the state. And thanks to this, something that the world did not expect was possible: Ukraine stopped the Russian army - and everyone was afraid of it, remember? - and was able to release part of its occupied territory. Greater unity is the foundation of this strength. And you know it. Finally, any divisions in Europe, internal disputes, which only encourage Russia to put more pressure on you, must stop."
19:53 Today, about 95% of the Luhansk region is under Russian occupation. Severodonetsk and Lysichansk are the last major settlements in the region under Ukrainian control. About why Russia threw huge forces into their capture, and about the further development of the situation in the east - in the material Why Russia needs the Lugansk region .
19:25 In Mariupol, the occupiers have begun the procedure for accepting documents to obtain a Russian passport. To do this, Mariupol residents must first obtain a certificate of registration in Donetsk, and then apply for a passport in Novoazovsk to the "DPR migration service."
"Given the state of communication with Donetsk, this is a bit problematic. For now. But we can state that the annexation of Mariupol by Russia has moved into the next stage of implementation. Active," said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
19:12 Lukashenka announced "mobilization exercises" near Ukraine. According to Belta, the exercises will be held in the Gomel region from June 22 to July 1 "to increase the level of combat and mobilization readiness of military commissariats, improve military knowledge and practical skills of those liable for military service."
19:10 In the "DPR" they began to actively disperse fakes about "crimes of the Red Cross." The search of the premises of the Red Cross in Mariupol on the street was used as a pretext. Trading, which was previously destroyed by a Russian air bomb. In the premises, according to the occupiers, more than a thousand medical records of children with healthy organs marked, instructions for handling weapons for children, as well as reports on the purchase of incubators for laboratories designed to grow biological microorganisms, were found.
Propaganda concludes that the Red Cross covered the Azov Regiment in the cultivation of militant nationalists from childhood, planned to launch the process of mass transplantation of children's organs for sale and promoted the activities of biolaboratories.
"All this would be funny, but do not forget that it is the Red Cross that is an active intermediary of humanitarian missions in Mariupol, in particular, in Azovstal. We should expect arrests of Red Cross employees, new "evidence" and other things, as was the case with the OSCE," - wrote the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko.
18:58 The UK Ministry of Defense initiated the creation of an innovation fund to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine and called on the British industry to accelerate the development of equipment for Ukraine by creating a fund in the amount of 25 million pounds.
18:54 During the successful offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy suffered losses and retreated from the settlement of Nikolaevka, Kherson region , which led to panic among servicemen of other units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.
18:33 EU countries will decide on an embargo on Russian oil at the next summit in June, Scholz believes. In turn, Borrell said that EU leaders could agree on a sixth package of sanctions against Russia today.
18:29 Putin signed a decree on the simplified admission of orphans from the "LDNR" and Ukraine to Russian citizenship.
18:27 The Kremlin reported that Putin, in a telephone conversation with Erdogan, announced Russia's readiness to "facilitate unhindered maritime transit" of goods in coordination with Turkey, including when exporting grain from Ukrainian ports. The President of the Russian Federation also confirmed that in the light of problems in the world food market, Russia can export significant volumes of fertilizers and agricultural products - if the relevant sanctions are lifted.
18:23 The Dutch GasTerra refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles, after which Gazprom notified it of the termination of supplies from May 31. The Danish energy company Orsted also stated that it would not switch to paying for Russian gas in rubles, and therefore did not rule out the termination of supplies from the Russian Federation.
18:17 The National Guard reported that their conscript with the call sign Bandit shot down the third Russian Su-25 attack aircraft from the Igla MANPADS.
18:13 In Stockholm, in the Mariebergsparken park next to the Russian Embassy, the Free Ukraine Square appeared, the Dagens Nyheter newspaper reports.
18:05 The occupiers in the Mariupol port have completed loading rolled steel onto the PM3 vessel of the Slavutich class under the flag of the Russian Federation. The exit from the port water area is tentatively scheduled for the morning of May 31, the destination is Rostov-on-Don, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
18:03 Ukraine has information about the conditions of detention of the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol, but cannot disclose them, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the Rada channel: "We have all the information, but now it is secret, and this is connected not only with the negotiation process itself but also with the safety of these people. This is personal data."
17:57 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced new deliveries of Caesar self-propelled artillery systems to Ukraine: "There will soon be new deliveries of Caesar self-propelled guns, and we will continue cooperation in this context."
17:46 Kuleba, at a joint briefing with his French colleague Catherine Colonna in Kiev, commented on Macron's idea of a new format of European cooperation: "I received the necessary explanations and I am satisfied with what I heard. Both France and Ukraine proceed from the fact that the idea of a European political union is not what -an alternative for the future membership of Ukraine in the EU, is not some special solution for Ukraine.You already know how tired we are of some half-measures, special approaches, separate models that are constantly invented in individual countries in order to prevent Ukraine from being a candidate ... I am very grateful to my colleague, who reasonably explained that this idea is not some kind of alternative, a third solution, but a pan-European process that will make both Ukraine and the EU stronger."
17:42 Orban said he would support the embargo on Russian oil if pipelines were excluded from its action and Budapest would have a guarantee to receive this oil even in the event of an "accident" on the pipeline.
17:40 Ursula von der Leyen said that at the EU summit on May 30-31, the sixth sanctions package against Russia will not be agreed: "I do not expect that this will be resolved in the next 48 hours, but I am sure that there will be such an opportunity later. My message to EU members is clear: we have one key path to victory, and that is solidarity with Ukraine and EU unity."
17:37 In the Bakhmut district, as a result of hostilities, an ammonia leak occurred, the tightness of the branch of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline was damaged, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko. A cloud of ammonia is moving over the soil from the village of Maya towards Bakhmut. Bakhmut, Gladosovo, Dacha, Nikolaevka Second, Odradovka and Experienced can get into the affected area.
This branch has not been used since 2014, the latches are closed, but ammonia is now flowing out of it by gravity. Information about the injured and dead is not yet available.
17:35 Putin and Erdogan held telephone conversations. According to the office of the Turkish President, Erdogan invited Putin to hold a meeting in Istanbul between the delegations of Russia, Ukraine and the UN: "Turkey is ready to take part in a possible monitoring mechanism in Ukraine, if Moscow and Kyiv reach an agreement on this."
17:13 The fighting in the east of Ukraine has reached its maximum intensity, the most fierce battles are taking place in the Severodonetsk, Bakhmut and Kurakhov directions, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk. According to him, Russia's goals now are to seize the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, establish a land corridor from the Rostov region to the Crimea and block Ukraine's maritime communications.
17:07 Biden said that Washington will not supply Ukraine with long-range missile systems , Reuters writes: "The United States will not send Ukraine missile systems that can reach Russian territory."
16:59 There is not a single surviving building left in Avdiivka, the shelling lasts for 16 hours a day, said the head of the CAA Vitaliy Barabash. According to him, there is no water in the city, due to damage to communal equipment as a result of the fighting, the authorities cannot organize the supply of either drinking or technical water. Citizens can collect it only in wells.
Barabash urged the people who remained in the city, especially those with children, to evacuate while there was still an opportunity. Three people died in Avdiivka yesterday.
16:52 Negotiations with Russia continue only in the humanitarian part, the political and diplomatic part is suspended, Podolyak said in an interview with lb.ua. He noted that the humanitarian side of the negotiation process includes the issues of the exchange of prisoners, humanitarian corridors, and evacuation.
The political-diplomatic part has been stopped because it is a question of connection between what is happening in the world, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added: "Russia looks at it inadequately. This is a paradox that will also be written into textbooks."
16:46 Vereshchuk announced that she was transferring her powers for the exchange of prisoners of war to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and the SBU. According to her, the corresponding registers for prisoners of war have already been created, organizational issues have been worked out and communication channels have been established with the Russian Federation. Vereshchuk noted that the Ministry of Reintegration remains responsible for maintaining the registers of prisoners of war and working with specialized international organizations.
16:22 The situation in Severodonetsk is difficult, street fighting is taking place in the vicinity, Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said: "Ukrainian servicemen are holding back the enemy's assault, which is also abandoning personnel, somewhere he fails - he retreats."
16:07 Ukraine intends to identify sailors who take part in the export of looted grain, Podolyak said: "Russia continues to export bloody Ukrainian grain to Syria. Each sailor participating in the scheme and helping to sell property obtained by criminal means will be identified and submitted to the international wanted. In every port of the world, Interpol will be waiting for marauders with an arrest warrant."
15:48 Israel is resuming exploration of natural gas and hopes to conclude an agreement on its export to Europe in the near future, Energy Minister Karin Elharrar said.
15:44 There are two versions of today's explosion in Melitopol - internal disassembly and the actions of Ukrainian partisans, the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov said. According to the first version, the occupiers are cleaning up collaborators because they do not fulfill their promises. As for the second version, according to Fedorov, "in Melitopol, of course, there are resistance forces, but law enforcement officers should comment on this version."
15:42 Last year's wheat crop, which was stored in the Kherson region, began to be exported to Russia, said the "deputy head" of the region Kirill Stremousov.
That’s what Stalin did, back in the day...
According to him, the region is now preparing for the winter grain harvest, which will begin on June 20, and the sale of last year's grain should free up space for storage.
"There is a place where to put the new crop, although, of course, a lot of grain is here. Now people are partially exporting, agreed with those who buy from the Russian Federation," Stremousov said.
15:37 In Mariupol, the invaders found seven surviving trolleybuses in the premises of the trolleybus and tram department and sent them to Donetsk. Now the trolleybuses are being repainted in the colors of United Russia and are planned to be launched in early June, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.
15:35 Permanent representatives of the EU countries at a meeting on Monday, May 30, again failed to agree on the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, Radio Liberty journalist Rikard Jozwiak said.
15:30 The occupiers fired on the evacuation vehicle in the Luhansk region, a French journalist was killed. The evacuation of people from the region is no longer possible, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
An armored evacuation transport was going to pick up ten people from the area and came under enemy fire. Shell fragments pierced the car's armor, an accredited French journalist who wrote a story about the evacuation was mortally wounded in the neck, and a helmet saved a patrol policeman.
15:01 Soldiers of the Russian Guard from Krasnodar, who fought in Ukraine in February-April and whom they tried to send back here, filed reports with a refusal, Kavkaz.Realii reports, citing a source in the main department of the federal troops of the National Guard of the Krasnodar Territory. According to him, the National Guard is extremely dissatisfied with the payments received for the two months of their stay in Ukraine - they turned out to be much lower than what the propaganda media say.
14:47 Russian invaders abducted more than 500 civilians in Melitopol in three months, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
14:43 In the Kharkiv region, the curfew has been reduced, now it will operate from 22:00 to 6:00.
14:37 There are no signs of the formation of Russian troops for an attack on Kiev, but the danger remains, said the head of the Kiev GVA Nikolai Zhirnov.
14:35 Support for Ukraine in the war with Russia must be "constant and unyielding," said Gerald Connolly, president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He also reaffirmed full support for Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemned recent offers to Kyiv to surrender territories in exchange for a peace deal.
14:31 Families of Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal will create a Council of wives and mothers of servicemen. As Natalya Zaritskaya, wife of a military man from the Azov Regiment, said at a briefing, the Council will become "a mediator between relatives and authorities, a powerful public force and a ray of light in preserving human values."
14:22 As a result of morning shelling by Russians of Nikolaev in one of districts of the city 21 private houses are damaged, it is known about one wounded. In the city the threat of artillery attacks is declared, the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich reported.
14:16 The Kiev regional prosecutor's office has submitted to court the first case of sexual violence by Russian servicemen, Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said. Mikhail Romanov, a serviceman of the 239th regiment of the 90th Guards Tank Vitebsk-Novgorod Division, will be tried for the murder of a civilian man and sexual abuse of his wife.
14:07 The main battles between the Ukrainian and Russian military in the east are now going for two goals, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar: "The first goal is to completely take control of the Luhansk region from the Russian troops, the second goal is to encircle the Ukrainian troops. So far, no they fail in one or the other, but the battles are fierce."
14:05 The Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced 8-10 km in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said.
13:54 Poland has stopped free supplies of fuel to Ukraine, Anna Moskva, Minister of Climate and Environment, said in an interview with BiznesAlert: "At the beginning of the war and after the bombing of the refinery, we sent fuel free of charge. Currently, these are Orlen's commercial supplies, which require large logistics costs. Usually these deliveries are carried out via pipelines, so we had to build new supply channels. We implement them on an ongoing basis, maintaining the priority of deliveries to the Polish market."
13:39 The confiscation of Russian reserves frozen in the EU in favor of Ukraine is being discussed, but the result is not guaranteed, said European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni: "The transfer of reserves is being discussed, but a legally complex process is envisaged from freezing to confiscation. Various European countries, with the support of the EC, are studying legal and financial arrangements.
13:35 4.8 million people out of 7.6 million who left the country have already returned to Ukraine, that is, 60%, said Viktor Andrusiv, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Some of the reasons why people are returning home include poor conditions in free housing, high rental prices and a language barrier to getting a job.
"Therefore, there is no need to fear that Ukrainians will not return home. Conflict statistics show that 80% return after the end of the war, of which 50% return before the end," Andrusiv wrote.
13:10 Minister of Defense of Slovakia Yaroslav Nagy officially confirmed the transfer of eight self-propelled guns Zuzana 2 with a caliber of 155 mm to Ukraine. Such a howitzer can strike at a distance of up to 40 km.
12:52 In the Kherson region, some representatives of the local population are hindering the process of liberation of the territories, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said on the air of the telethon: "We are faced with a difficult situation when there are some representatives of the local population who start working for the occupier. Of course, these people are found, they are worked with, but their destructive activity complicates the process of liberation."
12:26 Canada will help Ukrainian women who have suffered from sexual violence by the occupiers to receive all the necessary assistance, including access to abortions. The assistance will include assistance in moving from Poland, where abortion is prohibited, to other countries in order to terminate a pregnancy. This was announced by the Minister of National Defense of Canada Harjit Sajjan. According to him, he has already ordered that Canadian officials working in Ukraine and neighboring countries conduct all the necessary preparations.
12:22 The SBU military counterintelligence thwarted the FSB's special operation to discredit the OSCE. According to the press service of the SBU, the Russian special services in the occupied territories forcefully beat out testimony from OSCE employees that they were allegedly spying for the SBU. And from May 16 to May 23, FSB officers, threatening to kill, forced the mission workers to “testify” on camera about the robbery of the office allegedly by Ukrainian law enforcement officers, although before that the invaders themselves had come and robbed it five times.
12:17 The Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway is controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but is under fire from the Russian Federation, said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko: "Its importance in two aspects - the evacuation of residents, the delivery of products to the neighboring region, and it is also an important route for the armed forces. When the enemy "If he can't capture the highway, he just fires at it. In general, the situation in the region is difficult, the shelling does not stop, but the enemy has no success, he is in his positions." The most difficult situation is in Avdeevka, Toretsk, Liman direction, Bakhmut and Soledar.
12:13 The military of the Russian Federation fired at the border areas of the Sumy region with artillery shells stuffed with flashers. Steel rods from Russian shells damaged buildings and property of residents of the Shostka district, the State Border Service reports.
12:04 The number of those killed in Mariupol at the hands of the occupiers may increase significantly. Thus, 25 new trench-type sectors appeared at the Starokrymsky cemetery within a month. The bodies are stacked in several layers, and then "disguised" with plates as individual burials.
In total, since mid-April, the invaders have buried at least 16 thousand Mariupol residents in mass graves - near the villages of Stary Krym, Mangush and Vinogradnoye. About 5,000 more people were buried by public utilities until mid-March. Under the rubble, in spontaneous cemeteries and in temporary morgues, thousands of bodies still remain.
"We estimated the number of dead Mariupol residents at 22,000. But more and more evidence suggests that the consequences of the crimes of the rashists are much worse. This requires special attention of the world community, as well as the horrific situation of the local population in the occupation," said the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko.
11:47 The war between Russia and Ukraine may drag on significantly, while the aggressiveness of the actions of the Russian Federation will increase, Borrell said in an interview with France Info. Borrell admitted that Russia would drag out the conflict, but the Russian economy, in his words, is already "beginning to stop." He also called for strengthening anti-Russian sanctions to help Ukraine take a better position in the negotiations.
11:30 The "DPR" said that the Ukrainian military allegedly attacked the center of Donetsk, as a result of which three schools were damaged, six people died, 14 were injured. The "head" of Donetsk said that shelling "may be carried out from the Ukrainian side with American heavy weapons."
11:26 Russia has created the first filtration camps for Ukrainians in the area of the crossing points of the state border of the Russian Federation with Estonia. Now the Russians, when identifying Ukrainians who are trying to cross the border and for whom there is evidence that they received the status of refugees from the war, deliver them to such a filtration camp, said Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.
Residents of Mariupol, who came to such a camp for the first time two weeks ago, say that the camp in the Bezymenny "DPR" looks like "child's play" compared to the Russian border one. Andryushchenko urges Ukrainians who are trying to escape Russia to use other routes, in particular through Belarus and Georgia.
11:23 Russia is moving troops to the borders in the Kursk region. According to Governor Roman Starovoit, "a large number of personnel of the Ministry of Defense" were sent to the territory of the region after shelling allegedly from the Ukrainian side: "Additional weapons have already arrived and are arriving in the form of artillery installations, rocket launchers to ensure the safety of citizens' lives."
11:21 NATO at its summit on June 28-30 plans to adopt a strategic concept for the alliance, which will guide it over the next decade. As the Italian representative to NATO, Francesco Maria Talo, said, China will appear in the new concept and the attitude towards Russia will change: and hybrid safety, as well as climate change."
Also at the summit in Madrid, NATO members will discuss the war in Ukraine and the membership of Finland and Sweden.
11:16 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that more than 15 Ukrainian tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and five artillery pieces were allegedly destroyed by an artillery strike on a hangar on the territory of the Ocean shipyard in Nikolaev.
11:14 During the explosion in Melitopol, the niece of the "head" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, was wounded. According to RIA Melitopol, the explosion occurred near the cafe Storm in the area of the central square of the city. Previously, a Mercedes car exploded. Three ambulances left for the scene, among the wounded was Evgenia Zaitseva, the daughter of Balitsky's late brother Oleg.
In addition, according to preliminary data, two women and a young man were injured. After the explosion, the central square of Melitopol was cordoned off. It is here that the authorities occupied by Russians and collaborators are located. Probably, the undermining was the work of the Zaporizhzhya partisans.
Meanwhile, Russian propaganda media write that the explosion allegedly occurred during the distribution of "humanitarian aid" and "volunteers" were injured.
10:57 In Brovary, the dismantling of Soviet-era equipment in Victory Park began this morning, Mayor Igor Sapozhko said. According to him, only three objects are going to be dismantled in the city. Instead, residents will offer their own options. One of the proposals is a model of the Mriya aircraft.
10:54 Power supply of the Bakhmut and Kramatorsk districts of the Donetsk region was resumed last night, the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko said. Also this morning, repairmen began work on the launch of the second Donetsk water pipeline, "but everything will depend on the security situation." According to Kirilenko, under favorable conditions, the supply of water can be restored by lunchtime.
10:52 In the Izyum direction, in the area of Dolgenkiy, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian attack aircraft destroyed the enemy's company-tactical group - this is at least 100 military. In addition, a warehouse with ammunition and armored vehicles was bombed, the command of the Ukrainian Air Force reported. The strike was carried out with the help of a Su-25 attack aircraft and a Su-24M bomber.
10:44 The Russian command is holding hostage the families of servicemen who are fighting in Ukraine. So, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, in the Western Military District of the Russian Federation, the families of officers were forbidden to leave the country. If the occupiers refuse to carry out combat missions, their wives and children are threatened with resettlement in the depressed regions of the Far East.
The command of the Western Military District has already ordered the forcible eviction of several families of servicemen from the 332nd Separate Helicopter Regiment of the 6th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense from service apartments.
10:39 NATO may no longer comply with previous obligations to refrain from deploying its forces in Eastern Europe, since Russia has violated the agreements, said the deputy secretary general of the alliance, Mircea Joanne. In his opinion, the attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine has deprived of any sense the founding act of NATO-Russia, which describes the principles of cooperation. There is no dialogue between the parties.
"They made a decision, they pledged not to attack their neighbors, but they do it, and to hold regular consultations with NATO, but they don't. Therefore, I think that in fact this constituent act is not actually effective because of Russia," said Joan.
According to him, Russia has effectively withdrawn from the 1997 treaty: "Now we have no restrictions to have a strong position on the eastern flank and ensure that every square inch of NATO territory is protected by Article 5 and our allies."
10:23 Ukraine handed over to Erdogan's adviser a list of ships by which Russia is trying to take out the stolen Ukrainian grain and other goods, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, said. According to him, the Turkish side was informed that the Russian Federation transports goods stolen in Ukraine, including through the ports of Turkey, "although four years ago it was decided that no ships visiting ports in the occupied territories, primarily in Crimea, could be accepted and serviced in the ports of Turkey".
Dzhemilev said that a list of ships was handed over to Turkey, on which wheat stolen from the Kherson region was loaded, and they exported it through the ports of Turkey and tried to sell it to Turkey, Syria and Egypt. "We agreed that they would take it under control," Dzhemilev added.
10:16 All sanctions against pipeline oil have been removed from the new version of the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, reports Brussels correspondent of Radio Liberty Rikard Jozwiak. According to him, the sixth package of sanctions will apply to crude oil, as well as oil products - "with a temporary exception for crude oil supplied through the pipeline."
10:13 French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced that she had arrived on a visit to Ukraine.
09:46 Ukrainian saboteurs are behind the explosion in Melitopol, RIA Novosti was told in the "administration" of the Zaporozhye region and stressed that "it is necessary to strengthen anti-terror measures." Two people were hospitalized after the explosion.
09:35 In the Luhansk region, cars with volunteers and doctors came under fire. As the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said, a car with two volunteers was shot, they were wounded. Also lost contact with three doctors. There is a photo of the car, where you can see that the front of the minibus is torn.
Gaidai also said that it is now dangerous to use the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, safer options for evacuation and transportation of humanitarian cargo are being used.
09:33 Germany will change the constitution to create a special defense fund in the amount of 100 billion euros, writes Reuters. The project appeared after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to him, within two years, the German defense budget will grow by 50 billion euros. This will allow the country to meet NATO's targets of spending 2% of GDP annually on defense.
09:32 A powerful explosion thundered in the center of Melitopol. The media write about an explosion in the area of the shopping center Kvartal, where the high-rise building of the "governor" of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, is located. According to RIA Novosti, citing a source in the "administration" of the city, three people, according to preliminary data, were injured in a car explosion in the center of Melitopol.
09:30 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of May 30. The enemy suffered the greatest losses over the past day in the Zaporozhye direction.
personnel - about 30,350 (+200) people liquidated,
tanks - 1349 (+11),
armored combat vehicles - 3282 (+12),
artillery systems - 643 (+12),
MLRS - 205 (+2),
air defense systems - 93 (+0),
aircraft - 207 (+0),
helicopters - 174 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 507 (+3),
cruise missiles - 118 (+2),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2258 (+18),
special equipment - 48 (+0).
09:25 Arestovich announced the defeat of the enemy ammunition depot in Chernobaevka for the 22nd time. According to him, the detonation lasted at least an hour.
09:23 During the night, the Russians fired at the border areas of the Sumy region four times with rockets, MLRS, self-propelled guns and mortars, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties, the destruction is being specified.
09:16 British intelligence reports that Russia probably suffered huge losses among middle and junior officers. The reason is that brigade and battalion commanders are most likely to move forward into danger, since they bear uncompromising responsibility for the actions of their units.
Due to a lack of manpower, junior officers direct the lowest level tactical actions. All this will exacerbate the current problems in modernizing the approach to command and control, analysts say. Therefore, the Russian battalion tactical groups that are recreated in Ukraine from the surviving units are likely to be less effective due to the lack of junior commanders. In addition, there are local rebellions among the Russian forces.
08:44 The Crimean mobile operator has earned in the Kherson region, said the "deputy head" of the region Kirill Stremousov.
08:30 Artillery and the Russian Aerospace Forces are targeting Ukrainian grain warehouses and fields, reports France 24. Moreover, the strikes are accurate: on a small but critical bridge near the port, on a grain loading station, on a cattle shed. Confirmed attacks include multiple mines in sown fields preparing for harvest, rocket attacks on silos and cattle feeding grounds, shelling of convoys with grain (both wagons and entire trains), the abduction and removal of Ukrainian agricultural equipment and grain.
France 24 calculated that Ukraine is losing a significant part of its agricultural capacity due to these strikes, which is about 10% of GDP.
Holodomor 2.0?
08:23 The Russians entered the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Severodonetsk, two citizens were killed, five were injured. Also, two residents of Sirotinoye were seriously injured, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the invaders are transferring large quantities of ammunition and equipment to the Severodonetsk direction.
"Heavy battles for Severodonetsk and Lisichansk. The enemy used all possible weapons, uses aircraft. However, our military holds the defense firmly to prevent the enemy deep into the country," Gaidai wrote.
08:15 Enemy artillery fired again at the Kryvyi Rih region, they hit the Zelenodolsk and Apostolovsk communities, people were not injured, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
07:53 At night and at dawn, the Russians launched two missile strikes on the Odessa region, tried to get into a broken bridge across the Dniester estuary, but got into a previously broken path, OK Pivden reports. The shock wave damaged several private houses, there were no wounded or dead.
Also, the representative of the Odessa OVA, Sergey Bratchuk, said that a unit of anti-aircraft missile forces destroyed an X-type cruise missile fired by a Russian strategic bomber in the direction of the Black Sea in the Odessa region.
07:40 In the Slavyansk direction, enemy units are regrouping troops to resume the offensive in the direction of Izyum - Barvenkovo, Izyum - Slavyansk. In order to increase efficiency, the invaders restored the railway bridge near the city of Kupyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .
In the Donetsk direction, the Russian army focused on conducting offensive operations with the aim of cordoning off the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Lysichansk, Severodonetsk and blocking the main logistics routes.
In the Liman direction, the enemy is entrenched in Liman, is regrouping for an attack on Slavyansk. On Severodonetsk - it is fixed on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Severodonetsk. In the Bakhmut direction, the invaders are regrouping for a further offensive in the direction of Alexandropolye - Kamyshevakh.
05:15 Anonymous hackers said they hacked Belarusian government websites "for involvement in the invasion of Ukraine."
04:33 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests that the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian defenders in the Kherson region will violate Russia's plans to control the occupied territories in the south.
Analysts also report that the Russians continued the assault on Severodonetsk on May 29, but did not have a confirmed advance, and their progress will be slow. The Russian army in eastern Ukraine, which aimed to capture the entire Luhansk and Donetsk regions, is now almost entirely concentrated in Severodonetsk.
Experts believe that Russian forces are unlikely to be able to conduct multiple simultaneous operations and are likely to further deprioritize advances southeast of Izyum and west of Liman in favor of concentrating existing forces on Severodonetsk.
The invaders also continued offensive operations to cut Ukrainian land lines of communication northeast of Bakhmut and are unlikely to attempt a direct attack on the city.
04:16 Blinken called Lukashenka an accomplice in Russia's war against Ukraine: "On the Day of Solidarity with Belarus, we remember the suffering caused by the actions of the Lukashenka regime - the suppression of human rights, ignoring international norms and complicity in the war of Russia against Ukraine."
03:51 The occupiers fired at the New Bug of the Nikolaev region late in the evening, there is significant destruction in the city center, the City Council reported.
03:42 Lavrov said that France plays one of the initiative roles "in inciting Ukrainian nationalism, neo-Nazism." According to him, Paris is actively arming Kyiv, including with offensive weapons, "demands to wage war to a victorious end", "to defeat Russia." "This only means that all our many years of appeals to the West with a call to negotiate on an equal footing were not only not heard, but deliberately ignored," the Russian Foreign Minister said.
02:36 In Kharkov, on May 29, the creation of a new division of the Azov Special Operations Forces was officially proclaimed. Anatoly Sidorenko became the commander. The fighters of the unit are already performing combat missions in the Kharkiv region.
01:45 President of Poland Andrzej Duda confirmed in an interview with CNN that his country is ready to become a security guarantor for Ukraine: "Vladimir Zelensky asked me if I agree that Poland should be one of the security guarantors of Ukraine. We believe that, as neighbors, we simply obliged. Therefore, if Ukraine offers us to be the guarantor of security and the guarantor of peace when the war is over, and if such terms of the peace treaty are accepted - yes, Poland will participate in this."
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