[The Hill] Russian President Vladimir Putin fired a slew of generals earlier this week as Moscow continues to experience losses among its top officers and generals during its invasion of Ukraine.
Five top generals — Maj. Gens. Vasily Kukushkin, Alexander Laas, Andrey Lipilin, Alexander Udovenko and Yuri Instrankin — in addition to Police Colonel Emil Musin were fired by the Russian president on Monday, the Russian newspaper Pravda reported, citing a decree extract, which a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia confirmed the authenticity of to the news outlet.
Pravda, citing Russian media organization RBC, noted that a standard employee reshuffle procedure accounted for why the top officials had been fired.
But the development comes as officials have noted that Russia has suffered an unprecedented loss of top officers and generals.
"In modern history, there is no situation comparable in terms of the deaths of generals. ... Here, on the Russian side, in a two-month period, we’ve seen at least a dozen, if not more, Russian generals killed," former supreme allied commander of NATO, Retired Adm. James Stavridis, told John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM in an interview early last month.
The United Kingdom’s defense ministry also noted that Russia had likely suffered serious losses of "mid and junior ranking officers" amid the ongoing conflict.
"Brigade and battalion commanders likely deploy forwards into harm’s way because they are held to an uncompromising level of responsibility for their units’ performance. Similarly, junior officers have had to lead to the lowest level tactical actions, as the army lacks the cadre of highly trained and empowered non-commissioned officers (NCOs) who fulfill that role in Western forces," the ministry said in an intelligence update late last month.
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Yes, Russia's running out of everything. They've been running out for years. I read it in, well, every publication everywhere every day forever
#5 Time is running out for Russia. It's been running out, well, forever, according to the comical press:
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Russia running out of ‘easy’ oil
Nov 28 2021 - RT
Why Putin is acting like a man who has run out of time
Dec 23 2021 - Guardian
Italy could run out of gas due to Russia crisis – analysts
Feb 23 2022 - Montel
Rubio warns Putin's 'time is running out on this earth'
Mar 2 2022 - Washington Examiner
Putin is running out of options
Mar 3 2022 - New Statesman
Russian labs running out of equipment as sanctions begin to bite
Mar 7 2022 - Science Business
Putin’s depleted army is running out of time
Mar 23 2022 - Spectator
Russia running out of precision munitions in Ukraine war- Pentagon official
Mar 25 2022 - Reuters
Pentagon claim: Russia is running out of ammunition.
Mar 25 2022 - Sach Khabrain
Is the Russian Military running out of Soldiers?
Mar 28 2022 - Russia Matters
Russia May Be running out of Missiles
Mar 29 2022 - Newsmax
Russia running out Of Kh-55 Cruise Missiles Which Iran, China Have
Apr 3 2022 - IranIntl
Putin running out of missiles, jets and tanks because they're made in Ukraine
Apr 4 2022 - Mirror
Russian billionaires are running out of havens to stash their fortunes
Apr 8 2022 - Sydney Morning Herald
The Russian army is running out of options
Apr 9 2022 - Spectator
Is Russia Running Out of Money?
Apr 26 2022 - Trustnodes
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV
May 5 2022 - Sun
‘Struggling’ Vladimir Putin is running out of missiles, UK says
May 6 2022 - News.au
Putin under intense pressure and could be running out of missiles, says UK army chief
May 6 2022 - Mirror
EMBARRASSING: Russia Now Running out of Missiles to Make War With
May 6 2022 - USSANews
Putin could be running out of missiles and is waging a 'logistics war' to keep his forces supplied
May 6 2022 - Daily Mail
Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine – UK Secretary
May 9 2022 - Daily Trust
Putin 'running out of bombs' and resorting to 'indiscriminate' civilian attacks, says UK
May 9 2022 - Daily Star
Russia is running out of precision-guided munitions and may struggle to replenish their stocks, says UK Defense Ministry
May 9 2022 - New Voice Of Ukraine
Putin is running out of Ideas on What to do Next
May 10 2022 - Bloomberg
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is running out of steam, again
May 16 2022 - Economist
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages
May 16 2022 - Jerusalem Post
'Russia is running out of manpower' and Putin may have to shrink his war aims more: national security analyst
May 16 2022 - Raw Story
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles?
May 17 2022 - Moscow Times
Vladimir Putin is running out of options to avoid defeat in Ukraine
May 17 2022 - Atlantic Council
Putin is running out of soldiers and resorts to an “army of grandfathers” who retired 10 years ago
May 17 2022 - CvvNews
Crippled Russia running out of weapons as embarrassing war ending looms 'Shockingly inept'
May 21 2022 - Express
Vladimir Putin's 'time is running out' and his behaviour has changed, claims expert
May 21 2022 - Mirror
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS TO AVOID DEFEAT IN UKRAINE
May 22 2022 - Lucorg
Russia ‘running out of ideas’ in 3-month-old war. Can Ukraine win?
May 24 2022 - Global News
The Russian Army Is Running Out Of Tanks For The War In Ukraine. These 60-Year-Old T-62s Are Proof.
May 25 2022 - Forbes
Vladimir Putin’s forces are running out of tanks
May 27 2022 - Telegraph
Exact date Putin's forces will run out of ammunition in Ukraine, according to expert
May 31 2022 - Mirror
Time is running out for Russia, German economy minister says
Jun 2 2022 - Reuters
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Is this "fired" as in "retired" with a pension, or something else.
The report seems to think that, in western armies, second lieutenants, being officers, are safe.
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Clem, that much dedication is either fanaticism or a paycheck.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration declared that June will be called "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month" in a proclamation released on Tuesday. Last year, "intersex" was not included in the proclamation.
Intersex is a chromosomal defect that affects fewer than one percent of Americans.
"Today, the rights of LGBTQI+ Americans are under relentless attack. Members of the LGBTQI+ community — especially people of color and trans people — continue to face discrimination and cruel, persistent efforts to undermine their human rights," President Joe Biden’s proclamation stated.
He criticized the “onslaught of dangerous anti-LGBTQI+ legislation [that] has been introduced,” in apparent reference to laws or actions that prohibit the chemical and genital mutilation of minors. These laws are aimed at “targeting transgender children and their parents and interfering with their access to health care,” according to the president.
The Biden administration has released several documents that urge the chemical and genital mutilation of children who struggle with gender confusion. The guidance documents support the injection of children with irreversible puberty blockers as well as the surgical removal of healthy tissue and body parts.
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside. Or a person may be born with genitals that seem to be in-between the usual male and female types—for example, a girl may be born with a noticeably large clitoris, or lacking a vaginal opening, or a boy may be born with a notably small penis, or with a scrotum that is divided so that it has formed more like labia. Or a person may be born with mosaic genetics, so that some of her cells have XX chromosomes and some of them have XY.
[FreeBeacon] The Biden administration is requiring schools to comply with its LGBT policies or lose billions in federal funding for school lunches.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service announced in May it will prevent low-income students from participating in its National School Lunch Program if their public school does not adopt the administration's interpretation of Title IX, which holds that the federal civil rights law's provision against discrimination based on sex includes designations of sexual orientation and gender identity. The move was originally reported by The Center Square.
A spokeswoman for Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R.) said the Biden administration’s decision to "withhold food from disadvantaged children in order to advance a deranged political agenda" was "appalling."
"We will not allow Biden to force Floridians to choose between children’s food and parents’ rights," DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw told the Washington Free Beacon. "That is the kind of ’decision' that a totalitarian regime would force upon its citizenry."
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem (R.) told the Free Beacon her state will take legal action.
"Joe Biden has threatened to take away children’s school lunch money to pursue his radical agenda," Noem said. "He’s targeting states like ours that make it clear biological men do NOT belong in girls’ bathrooms and sports. If you act on this, Joe, we’ll see you in court and we will win."
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The policy may not stand up in court, will definitely energize the conservative base, and will push more minority voters towards the GOP. Other than that it is brilliantly conceived.
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[Task and Purpose] Fans of the free-to-play military video game "War Thunder" are so passionate about the game that they’ve taken to sharing actual classified schematics for real-life military vehicles in an effort to win arguments with complete strangers online.
If three make a trend, well, this is a trend. Because now there is another instance of someone apparently leaking classified military documents to make sure that their tank video game more accurately conforms with reality.
The popular armored combat simulator features modern land, air, and sea craft, and has a devoted following of roughly 50,000 players. And some of them seemingly can’t help themselves from leaking classified military data to make the gaming experience more accurate.
The latest incident, first reported by the OSINTtechnical Twitter account, involves information in Mandarin on the penetrator section of a Chinese tank round along with a technical diagram.
While many of the original images have been taken down, they were essentially the schematics for a Chinese tank munition, presumably revealed to the world so a video game could more accurately depict what would happen if a Chinese tank and an American tank — or British, French, Russian, German or Israeli tank — met in combat.
And this isn’t the first time these forums have become an outlet for technical leaks.
Back in July 2021, someone who very possibly could have been a commander in the Royal Tank Regiment of the United Kingdom, uploaded some documents to the "War Thunder" forums detailing the technical specifications of Britain’s Challenger 2 tank. Presumably, this was in an effort to prove that the game had gotten details wrong about the tank.
[Summit] An expert on artificial intelligence says that within 50 years, parents will opt to have "digital offspring" that only exist in the metaverse due to concerns over the environment and overpopulation.
The prediction was made by Catriona Campbell, who is described as "one of the UK’s leading authorities on artificial intelligence."
According to Campbell, parents will decide to have digital babies, an updated version of Japanese Tamagotchi digital pet toys, for the same reasons they are already choosing not to have real babies, namely, "concerns about the environment, overpopulation, the rising cost of bringing up a child."
"Campbell predicts they will be commonplace and embraced by society within half a century," reports left-wing newspaper the Guardian.
The AI expert says the cyberspace babies will eventually be indistinguishable from the real thing and that if parents get bored of them, they can just cancel them like they would a monthly Netflix subscription.
"Campbell says virtual children will look like you, and you will be able to play with and cuddle them. They will be capable of simulated emotional responses as well as speech, which will range from "googoo gaga" to backchat, as they grow older," reports the newspaper.
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Is that Cat(lady)riona?
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Digital formula shortage in 3..2..1...
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Oh noes! Your digital baby caught a virus!
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This would be a great scam to sucker the 'binary & digitally enlightened' sector of our populace.
Recurring revenue for yearly/monthly/weekly 'upgrades' to the perceived child, with intense social media shaming for those that don't.
I wonder how one would accomplish a digital diaper change? A separate plug-in accessory (for a fee, of course) that squirts a variety of liquids and scents?
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Probably a good idea since this generation cant even define itself as boy or girls. And then they want to be referred to as unicorns and avatars... Its probably best they take more booster shots and dont have kids... And if this does not work out we can reintroduce pet rocks.
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Whatever would we do without experts? (/sarc)
...I wonder how many Pet Rocks™ and Chia Pets™ she has?
[Barely a Blog] As the sentient have presumably noticed, the United States is in crisis, the country’s problems are profound, intrinsic, without solution, and worsening. When a population reaches the point of despair, even desperation, when it sees a darkening future for itself and its children, people yearn for a strong man who will forcibly put things right. Yet it is unlikely that helicopters of Marines from Quantico will descend on the White House and announce the dictatorship of some general. Military officers are too well paid and comfortable to worry about the country. It is hard to imagine an American Mussolini. Trump is a caricature and no one else comes to mind. Yet "unrest" —less euphemistically, "chaos" on the order of Mr. Floyd’s massive riots, is possible. We have seen it. We can see it again.
Consider America today. By comparison with Japan, China, Korea, it is a barbarity, a dumpster, an asylum, an abattoir, an astonishment. San Francisco loses conventions because of needles and excrement on the sidewalks. Almost weekly we see multiple shootings in stores, high schools and, now, grade schools. Murders of whites by blacks run at thirty a month, the news being suppressed. In cities across the country crime is out of control, the tax bases moving out, bail abolished so criminals are freed in hours. Stores leave to escape undiscouraged shoplifting and robbery. Seven hundred homicides a year in Chicago, 300 in Baltimore, and at least twice as many shot but survive, similar numbers in a dozen cities. For practical purposes, law does not exists in these ungovernable enclaves. Sexual curiosities, once called perversions, flourish with American embassies hoisting flags in support of transsexualism. Mobs topple historical statues. Many tens of thousands live on sidewalks and a hundred thousand a year die of opioid overdoses. The country drops math requirements and English grammar in schools, AP courses, and SATs as racist. The economy declines, jobs have left for other climes, medical care is beyond most people’s means, government is corrupt and incompetent, and wars are unending. There is actual hatred between racial, political, and regional groups. Ominously, gun sales are up.
How is this going to end well? How did we get here?
America has never been a nation in the correct sense of the word, a people sharing values, language, a culture. Rather it has been, and is, a collection of peoples having little and common and, often disliking each other. West Virginia has nothing in common with Massachusetts which has nothing in common with the Deep South which has nothing in common with coastal California which has nothing in common with Cavalier Virginia which has nothing in common with Latinos who have nothing in common with blacks.
Until perhaps the early Sixties, the regions got along with each other reasonably well because there was little communication between them. Roads were poor, the internet was not even on the horizon. Radio stations and newspapers were local, reflecting the surrounding culture and taste. The central government was remote and had little influence locally. Each region lived as it wished.
Providing a degree of commonalty was that the country was overwhelmingly white, European, Anglophone and, at least nominally, Christian. It was socially conservative, largely consisting of small towns.
The resulting culture was unsophisticated but civilized. In the suburbs of Washington (I was there) you really could leave your bike anywhere and it would be there when you came back. In summer children really could play great sprawling multiblock games of hide-and-seek after dark and no one worried. In high school in rural Virginia (I was there too) the boys had guns for hunting deer and shooting varmints in the bean fields and you could leave your .410 in the back seat of your jalopy in the school’s parking lot. Nobody thought of shooting anyone. It wasn’t in the culture. If a thing isn’t in the culture, it doesn’t happen. You don’t need policemen. The boys didn’t use bad language around the girls or vice versal and nobody even thought of disrespect to teachers. There were class clowns (I may know somewhat of this), but no real misbehavior. It wasn’t in white, technically Christian, semi-rural culture.
Then many things happened. In no particular order:
[IsraelTimes] A 17-year-old Paleostinian died after Israeli troops shot up him near the security fence in the central West Bank, according to the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry.
The Israeli army says it is looking into the reports.
Paleostinian health officials say the teenager, who has yet to be publicly identified, was shot near al-Medya. The small town lies north of the central Israeli city of Modiin.
[IsraelTimes] Attack also defaces websites with graphics criticizing the ’anti-human Khomeini,’ ahead of events marking anniversary of Islamic Theocratic Republic founder’s death
Government-run surveillance cameras around Iran’s capital reportedly were "disrupted" Thursday, while an exile group claimed it hacked into over 5,000 cameras around Tehran ahead of commemoration events honoring the founder of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The Young Journalists Club, an affiliate of Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, acknowledged the disruption on Twitter after the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq claimed it penetrated the cameras, including around the mausoleum of the late Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The website for Tehran’s municipality also went down, as well as "communication systems" used by the city, the report said.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency later quoted Tehran’s municipality as acknowledging the hack.
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq released a video clip it claimed showed the municipality website and others defaced with a graphic that criticized the "anti-human Khomeini." It also included an image of Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... with a red "X" over his face, as well as images of MEK leaders Massoud Rajavi and his wife, Maryam Rajavi, while calling for an "uprising until overthrow."
"Down with Khamenei, Raisi, curses on Khomeini," the graphic read.
Massoud Rajavi hasn’t been seen publicly in nearly two decades and is presumed to have died. Maryam Rajavi now runs the MEK. Khomeini, who led Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, died June 3, 1989.
The hack comes after another cyber assault in January that included a graphic calling for the death of the country’s supreme leader, which played on multiple state TV channels.
In October, an assault on Iran’s fuel distribution system paralyzed gas stations nationwide, leading to long lines of angry motorists unable to get subsidized fuel for days. A cyberattack on Iran’s railway system caused chaos and train delays. Another hack leaked footage of abuses at its notorious Evin prison.
Iran, long sanctioned by the West, faces difficulties in getting up-to-date hardware and software, often relying on Chinese-manufactured electronics or older systems. Pirated versions of Windows and other software are common across Iran. That makes it easier for potential hackers to target the country.
The MEK began as a Marxist group opposing the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It claimed and was suspected in a series of attacks against US officials in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites.... in the 1970s, something the group now denies.
It supported the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but soon had a falling out with Khomeini and turned against the holy man. It carried out a series of liquidations and bombings targeting the young Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The MEK later fled to Iraq and backed dictator Saddam Hussein during his bloody eight-year war against Iran in the 1980s. That saw many oppose the group in Iran. Although largely based in Albania, to this day the group claims to operate a network inside Iran.
Thursday’s cyber attack comes less than a day after the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... said it thwarted a planned cyberattack on a children’s hospital in Boston that would have been carried out by hackers sponsored by the Iranian government.
[IsraelTimes] Army says suspects threw Molotov cocktail at troops; witness claims 17-year-old was shot without cause; is third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours
Israeli troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Paleostinian near the security barrier in the central West Bank on Thursday afternoon, the Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry said.
In a statement, the Israeli army said "three Paleostinians hurled a Molotov cocktail at Israel Defense Force soldiers." The soldiers responded by shooting at them.
"A hit was identified. There were no injuries to our soldiers," the Israeli military said in a statement.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to whether Sadaqa had been the one to throw the Molotov cocktail.
Paleostinian media identified the dead teenager as Odeh Mohammad Sadaqa. Paleostinian health officials said Sadaqa had been shot in the chest before being rushed to Ramallah at death's door.
"Doctors sought to save his life, but he passed away," the PA Health Ministry said in a statement.
Last November, the Israeli military changed the open-fire regulations so as to allow troops to shoot at suspects who hurl Molotov cocktails or rocks, even after the deadly object is no longer in their hands.
Before the change in policy, soldiers had been ordered to refrain from using deadly force once the suspects no longer possessed the threatening object — in other words, when they no longer posed an imminent threat.
A Paleostinian witness disputed the army’s account, claiming that Israeli snipers fired at the group of Paleostinians out of nowhere.
"[Sadaqa] hadn’t reached the area of the wall, or the dangerous area... He was standing by our house when a sniper shot at his heart," the teenager told a cluster of Paleostinian news hounds.
Sadaqa is the third Paleostinian killed in confrontations with the Israeli military over the past 24 hours. Two Paleostinians were killed during West Bank festivities last night — one in Ya’abad, near Jenin, and the other in the Deheishe Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
Clashes broke out in Ya’abad in the northern West Bank as troops demolished the home of terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed five people in Bnei Brak in March.
The military said in a statement that "hundreds of rioters threw stones, set fire to tires and threw Molotov cocktails and explosives at the forces."
A fourth Paleostinian, Ghafran Wasarneh, was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning as she sought to commit a stabbing attack near the al-Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, according to the army.
In addition to the operation in Ya’abad overnight, there were festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli troops in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Soldiers entered the refugee camp to arrest a man suspected of throwing an bomb at troops during an operation on Sunday, lightly injuring an undercover Border Police officer.
Clashes broke out during the arrest raid and one Paleostinian was killed. He was identified as Ayman Muhaisen, 29.
"During the operation, suspects hurled explosives and threw stones at the forces, who responded with gunfire. Hits were identified," the Israeli army said.
[ZERO] The US military has issued a stunning but perhaps not entirely unexpected admission that it has been conducting offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine. It marks the first ever such acknowledgement, and suggests - as many observers have long suspected - a deeper Pentagon and US intelligence role in Ukraine against the Russian military than previously thought.
National Security Agency (NSA) and US Cyber Command Director Gen. Paul Nakasone told the UK's Sky News on Wednesday, "We’ve conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum: offensive, defensive, [and] information operations." This includes "offensive hacking operations" he said.
Without offering specific details, he continued, "My job is to provide a series of options to the secretary of Defense and the president, and so that’s what I do." Importantly, Gen. Nakasone gave the interview from allied Baltic country Estonia, from which other supporting operations including weapons transfers for Ukraine have come.
He spoke of major attempts of the Russians to launch infrastructurally devastating cyberattacks on Ukraine, saying, "And we've seen this with regards to the attack on their satellite systems, wiper attacks that have been ongoing, disruptive attacks against their government processes."
"This is kind of the piece that I think sometimes is missed by the public. It isn't like they haven't been very busy, they have been incredibly busy. And I think, you know, their resilience is perhaps the story that is most intriguing to all of us," he said, describing the Ukrainian response.
As for support the US has given Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion, the NSA director referenced the following:
Nakasone previously said his agency deployed a “hunt forward” team in December to help Ukraine shore up its cyber defenses and networks against active threats. But his latest remarks appear to be the first time that a U.S. official said publicly that the U.S. has been involved in offensive cyber operations in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
And like any powerful deep state insider of the intelligence community, he referenced alleged Kremlin attempts to influence US elections. "We had an opportunity to start talking about what particularly the Russians were trying to do in our midterm elections. We saw it again in 2020, as we talked about what the Russians and Iranians were going to do, but this was on a smaller scale."
"The ability for us to share that information, being able to ensure it's accurate and it's timely and it's actionable on a broader scale has been very, very powerful in this crisis," he added in the interview.
[IsraelTimes] Col. Ali Esmailzadeh apparently fell from his roof; opposition website claims he was thrown off, over suspicions he leaked information tied to liquidation of colleague
Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... reported the death of another colonel of the elite Quds Force of its Revolutionary Guards on Friday, the second in two weeks from the unit which oversees Iran’s military operations abroad.
Quoting an unknown official, the early morning report by the official IRNA news agency said Col. Ali Esmailzadeh died during an "incident in his residence" days ago in city of Karaj, some 35 kilometers (19 miles) northwest of the capital Tehran.
It did not elaborate but denied reports that the colonel was assassinated. "He jumped. Involuntarily"
“...Twice.”
The Iran International opposition website, quoting unnamed sources, alleged that the Revolutionary Guards had killed Esmailzadeh for suspected espionage,
Other news channels close to the Guard said Esmailzadeh fell from his rooftop or balcony.
In May two unidentified button men on a cycle of violence shot Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei five times in a car in front of his residence in Tehran. Iran blamed his slaying on Israel. Iran often blames Israel for such assassinations, including those on nuclear scientists over the past years.
Iran International claimed that Esmailzadeh was killed over suspicions he provided information to Iran’s enemies that was used in Khodaei’s liquidation.
The report said he was close to Khodaei, who was shot full of holes in Tehran on May 22. Both he and Esmailzadeh were members of the IRGC’s so-called Unit 840, a shadowy division within the IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force that carries out kidnappings and liquidations outside of Iran.
The report said that after Khodaei’s killing, the IRGC began hunting for security leaks and became suspicious of Esmailzadeh. He was then thrown from his roof, but the IRGC told his family he died by suicide because he was distraught over his separation from his wife, Iran International said, citing "sources in Iran."
The Persian-language outlet is identified with Iran’s political opposition. It was launched in 2017, is based in London and reaches millions of Iranians in Iran and around the world. It is reportedly funded by Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... , Iran’s regional foe.
Khodaei was shot five times in his car by two unidentified button men on motorbikes in the middle of Tehran. He reportedly was involved in killings and abductions outside of Iran, including attempts to target Israelis.
[Summit] An Australian primary school predicted "microchips in student’s brains" within 10 years before subsequently deleting the newsletter that contained the creepy prophecy.
The bizarre entry was featured in the May 26 edition of the Preston West Primary school’s newsletter, which listed a number of prosaic things the school envisages will be helpful to educating children in a decade.
They include "more mental health awareness," "more buildings and development," as well as "technological advances for teachers and students."
However, also included on this list is "microchips in student’s brains to promote intelligence and memory."
[FOX] Former University of Arizona cornerback and Idaho State University assistant coach DaVonte’ Neal was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after being connected to a murder case from Nov. 17, 2017, in Maricopa County.
On May 25, police located Neal at his apartment in the 100 block of South Union Pacific Avenue in Pocatello, Indiana. They pulled over the assistant coach after he departed the complex, as reported by the Idaho State Journal.
Neal is also under investigation for his alleged role in a drive-by incident and using a firearm to shoot at a building.
[OneIndia] Officials tell OneIndia that Shah will direct the civil administration to take more steps to secure the minority community..
There has been a sustained effort by Pakistain's ISI to keep the Valley on the boil.
The number of assassinations especially of minorities has gone up in the past couple of days.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level meeting today to discuss the situation in Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... and also take steps to restore normality. Officials tell OneIndia that Shah will direct the civil administration to take more steps to secure the minority community.
The police on the other hand would involve the Station House Officers (SHO) of the local cop shoppes.
This would mean that the SHO would play a bigger role in the security of the civilians in Jammu and Kashmir. This was a strategy that was used in the late 80s and 90s in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and it helped the administration wipe out the Khalistan movement from the state.
The involvement of the SHOs of the local cop shoppes in counter terror operations would be of great help in solving the problem. The SHOs have their ears closer to the ground and this would help a great deal in gathering intelligence, the official cited above said.
Involving the local police at the lowest levels has also helped in eradicating several top gunnies in the Valley. The huge success rate at which the gunnies have been shot full of holes is thanks to the cooperation from the J&K police and the actionable intelligence they provided.
Further the civil administration in J&K would also be more discreet so as to ensure that the innocent civilians are not identified. This would help to ensure that these individuals are not singled out and targeted.
The meetings will be headed by Union Home Minister, Amit Shah and will be attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, J&K Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha, the Intelligence chiefs and the chief secretary and Director General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir.
The prime focus of the meeting tomorrow would be on the assassinations and also on how to secure the minority community. There have been 8 assassinations since May, including one of a bank manager which took place today.
An official tells OneIndia that these assassinations orchestrated by the ISI backed Lashkar-e-Tayiba is clearly aimed at driving fear and ensure that the minorities are driven out of the Union Territory.
Sudden Jihad Syndrome? That’s what we’d assume if it happened in Europe...
[OneIndia] At least 8 persons were maimed after a Nigerian man attacked pedestrians with a knife near Churchgate on Wednesday.
Additional Commissioner of Police, South Mumbai, Dilip Sawant said that the incident took place at the Tata Garden near Parsi Well. The 50 year old Nigerian man identified as John was sitting with a woman.
He suddenly got up and started stabbing people with a knife.
Nearly 8 persons were maimed in the incident and one person is reportedly critical. The police reached the spot and arrested the man and also seized the knife. The reason behind the attack is unknown and investigation is underway.
[Washington Examiner] Multiples victims were reported in a Wisconsin cemetery shooting Thursday afternoon, according to police.
The violence took place at the funeral of Da’Shontay L. King, a man shot and killed by police last month, a family member told the Racine County Eye. At least five people were injured, the family told TMJ4.
At 3:50 p.m. local time, police in Racine, which is roughly 25 miles south of Milwaukee, asked citizens to avoid the area of Graceland Cemetery due to a "critical incident."
The Arabic word for ceasefire is hudna, which is not at all the same honourable thing we have in the West. Let us wish Pakistan’s generals much joy as they make their way through the maze they themselves designed for their targets.
[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) formally announced an "indefinite ceasefire" with the government late on Thursday night, following two days of intense talks with a grand tribal jirga in Kabul.
A statement issued by the TTP front man, Muhammad Khurasani, said that substantive progress had been made in talks with the grand jirga of "Pashtun nation, particularly tribal elders and Learned Elders of Islam".
The 57-member government-sponsored jirga left for the Afghan capital on Wednesday to continue negotiations with the TTP, mediated by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and supervised by Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , the acting Afghan interior minister.
A member of the jirga told Dawn there had been heated discussions between the two sides, and the sticking point was the TTP’s demand for the reversal of Fata’s merger with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
"Overall, talks have been goods which continued till late into the night. We are hopeful", the jirga member said from Kabul.
But sources said there was a deadlock over the merger issue and there was no breakthrough yet.
Earlier, it was reported that both sides had agreed to a request by acting Afghan Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund to announce indefinite ceasefire and continue the peace talks to end over two decades of bloody conflict.
Neither side had confirmed or endorsed the ceasefire, which officially ended on May 30.
Terrorists rubbed out a bank employee from Rajasthan inside the bank premises in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Kulgam district on Thursday, the eighth assassination in the Valley since May 1 and the third of a non-Moslem government employee.
Vijay Kumar, a manager with the Ellaqui Dehati Bank at Areh Mohanpora branch in the south Kashmir district, received grievous gunshot injuries and died on his way to hospital, officials said. The latest killing led to a chorus of condemnation from political parties across the spectrum, including the National Conference and the BJP.
Kumar, a resident of Hanumangarh in Rajasthan, had joined the Kulgam branch only a week ago. He had earlier been working in the Kokernag branch of the bank, co-owned by the Central government, the Jammu and Kashmir administration and the State Bank of India.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and a hunt has been launched to nab the attackers, the officials said.
A labourer was killed and another injured after they were fired upon by bandidosholy warriors in the Chadoora area of central Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ’s Budgam district on Thursday, police said.
"Terrorists fired upon 02 outside #labourers working in a Brick Kiln in Chadoora area of #Budgam. The duo was shifted to hospital for treatment where one among them #succumbed," said a police front man.
Reports said the duo was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... one among the injured, identified as Dilkhush - a labourer from Bihar - succumbed.
Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital Dr. Kanwaljeet Singh confirmed to GNS that one among the non-locals succumbed. The slain was working as a labourer at a brick kiln, it said.
Soon after the attack whole area was cordoned off to nab the attackers.
The attack came hours after the killing of a bank employee from Rajasthan in south Kashmir's Kulgam district.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Definitely a creative response. It will be interesting when the primarily male, military age migrants from the “global south” — some of whom speak Spanish — come face to face with the primarily male, military age migrants from the Middle East and points far beyond.
President Biden is preparing to close a deal at the Summit of the Americas next week with Spain and Canada to accept migrants from the western hemisphere
The deal is meant to help the U.S. as it faces hundreds of thousands of migrants illegally entering over the southern border from Mexico
It is also aimed at assisting with labor shortages in Spain
Canada is planning to announce new 'recruitment and promotion' efforts to give jobs to Haitian migrants who tried to cross into the U.S.
The Summit of the Americas is being held in Los Angeles, California next week
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My guess is that the Spanish authorities will take the pick of the litter of whatever has any productive value, and the US will get the leftovers to bleed the Treasury and local social support network. More proof of the utter hate people in Washington have for the country they claim to "serve" .
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Having been placed under arrest, the TAXPAYER'S will foot her medical bill.
"...shot five times...in stable condition..."
Cold as it sounds, the Deputy should be required to re-certify for firearm use. Because it places others at risk when he is unable to take down a attacking target.
Colinford Mattis: African-American, Princeton grad, NYU Law, former corporate law associate at some fancy New York City law firm, who along with his sister is the primary caregiver for his dead mother’s three foster children — the things ya gotta do in Brooklyn to keep the family’s rent controlled apartment!
Urooj Rahman: the pouty, connected Pakistani-American who trained with Hamas before studying human rights law at Fordham. Her self-proclaimed best friend, successful Washington, DC lawyer Salmah Rizvi, previously worked for President Obama as an intelligence analyst.
plead guilty to conspiracy charges punishable by no more than five years imprisonment on Thursday They could have gotten ten years for terrorism, but as connected persons-of-colour they’re getting the kid glove treatment.
Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 18 to 24 months in return for today's plea
The pair was arrested amid clashes between protesters and police on May 30, 2020, after they torched an NYPD van with a Molotov cocktail
Surely they will be disbarred, until Jan. 19th, 2025. Then Biden's handlers shove a pile paperwork in front of him to sign. Which will also likely include to pardons for the leaders of other various radical groups.
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Joe’s freedom fest will be sooner than 2025. It will be glorious but ineffective unless they charge all the guilty people beforehand so that he can pardon them.
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We need to start thinning down these gene pools!
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I'm expecting any day now that the CDC and Fauxist will ban public meetings and that stores etc. be closed and make it mandatory that masks must me worn over the groin areas.
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[ColonelCassad] 1. Most of the city is under the control of Russian troops.
A significant part of Severodonetsk was liberated from the Ukrainian invaders without much resistance. The enemy, having suffered losses on the outskirts of Severodonetsk, quickly began to retreat to the bridges to Lisichansk and to the industrial zone of the Azot plant.
2. A full-fledged supply of the remnants of the Severodonetsk garrison has long been difficult, and the Azot plant itself is not as convenient for defense as Azovstal. It is closer to the plant named after Ilyich, where the remnants of the 36th Marine Brigade capitulated. Nevertheless, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are showing in every possible way that they intend to hold on to the Azot plant for some time in order to slow down the preparation of the Russian Armed Forces for an attack on Lisichansk.
3. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was held hostage by its own propaganda, which for more than a month was broadcasting about the impregnable fortress of Severodonetsk, while after the start of the assault on the city, most of the “impregnable fortress” was handed over in a few days.
4. In order to somehow explain the discrepancy between the previous statements and reality, a propaganda smoke screen is being staged about the "cunning plan," "trap" and "counterattacks" in Severodonetsk. In fact, they are trying to pass off local street battles in city blocks near the industrial zone and artillery shelling of the city from Lisichansk as a "cunning strategy."
There can be no rapid counterattacks in the conditions of modern urban combat, but at least some activity must be shown so that the public is less likely to wonder why most of the city has been surrendered.
5. The Gauleiter of the occupied territories of the LPR announced the loss of more than 80 percent of the city, which was followed by shouts from the Zelensky gang that in fact things are much better. Again, reports from the field did not coincide with propaganda reality.
6. Regarding the prospects for fighting in Severodonetsk, it seems that now they will gradually put pressure on the Azot industrial zone, waiting for the troops to break through the enemy defenses in the Ustinovka and Privolye region, so that they can reach the outskirts of Lisichansk and cover it from three sides.
7. Of key importance for the battles for Lisichansk will be the ongoing battles in the area of the Artemovsk-Lysichansk highway, where the enemy has thrown part of the reserves accumulated in the Artemovsk area.
Also important will be the potential development of the offensive of the RF Armed Forces in the direction of Seversk. Now these operations require the solution of tactical tasks related to the crossing of the Seversky Donets (the same problem also occurs during the attack on Slavyansk)
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/51889 - zinc
And the good news came from Kamyshakha in the evening.
There is confirmation from the field. The village is under our control.
Only the northernmost outskirts of Kamyshevakhi, which are under heavy artillery fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine and heavily destroyed, have not been cleared. The enemy retreated from Kamyshevakhi.
The enemy grouping in Zolote is now covered from three sides.
Ahead are the battles for Vrubovka.
Well, it can also be noted that the enemy rolled back to the southern bank of the Seversky Donets from Krasny Liman.
Svyatogorsk has not yet been taken - the battles are going on the outskirts.
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Ah, the New York Times shifts its story line to catch up to the shift that occurred at least a month ago in Europe. Today the British Ministry of Defence and their faithful scribes at the New York Times admit what their German, Austrian and French counterparts have been saying: "Russia is achieving tactical success in the Donbas region in Ukraine’s east and is likely to take full control of Luhansk Province in the next two weeks, according to the British Defense Ministry."
But why describe it as tactical instead of as strategic? President Biden announced this week that his strategic goal for the US and its client is not victory but merely "a better negotiating position." The opposite is happening. This is an enormous strategic loss for the US and its client.
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Yes, it's official: the story line now in the Americans' official newspaper is that Ukraine is losing, theyre untrained troops are terrified and getting slaughtered, they're in "disarray," the war for them is "a living hell" and Donbas will fall "within two weeks."
First we saw Pres. Biden move the goalposts in his New York Times opinion piece from "victory" to salvaging whatever they can at the negotiating table. Today the New York Times' top correspondent on the war, Andrew E. Kramer, sends a long dispatch from Kramatorsk which prepares his readers for the upcoming capitulation of Ukraine.
The story line is almost the exact opposite of what the American and British press have been telling their readers for three months: the Ukrainians are retreating. They are demoralized and terrified and running out of ammunition. The Ukrainians lied to the untrained volunteers who were told they'd defend their hometowns and are instead sending them into the charnel house to be slaughtered in the Donbas -- creating "a stream of Ukrainian dead and wounded from the battlefields."
"KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — It all starts with a whistle, said Vladislav Goncharenko, a Ukrainian army sergeant, describing the relentless Russian shelling.
“You lie in a trench,” he said, waiting in an ambulance packed with other wounded soldiers. “There are very loud explosions. You want to get deeper into the ground. And you have shrapnel whistling above you, like flies.” Soldiers, he said, “just want it to stop.”
Ukraine is struggling. Ukraine’s army has suffered heavy losses, shown signs of disarray and, step by step, fallen back from some long-held areas in Donbas, the eastern region that is now the war’s epicenter.
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More from Andrew Kramer -- he dares to hint, for the first time, at what has been known for weeks: at least a dozen Ukrainian units are mutinying, protesting the slaughter and demanding to be released from combat.
Kramer even dares to quote a Ukraine's top national security adviser who criticizes the absurd false narrative that his own president, along with the New York Times and the entire American and British press, has been pushing since April!
"To fill gaps in the frontline, Ukraine has resorted to deploying minimally trained volunteers of the Territorial Defense Force, which mobilized quickly as the war started. Hints of morale lapses have surfaced. One unit recorded a video protesting dire conditions. In interviews, soldiers said their artillery guns sometimes go quiet for lack of ammunition.
“ 'Those people who said that the war would end very soon, that we have already won, that we will celebrate in April, said a dangerous thing,' Ukraine’s national security adviser, Oleksiy Danilov, told Ukrainian media this week.
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Time is running out for Russia. It's been running out, well, forever, according to the comical press:
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Russia running out of ‘easy’ oil
Nov 28 2021 - RT
Why Putin is acting like a man who has run out of time
Dec 23 2021 - Guardian
Italy could run out of gas due to Russia crisis – analysts
Feb 23 2022 - Montel
Rubio warns Putin's 'time is running out on this earth'
Mar 2 2022 - Washington Examiner
Putin is running out of options
Mar 3 2022 - New Statesman
Russian labs running out of equipment as sanctions begin to bite
Mar 7 2022 - Science Business
Putin’s depleted army is running out of time
Mar 23 2022 - Spectator
Russia running out of precision munitions in Ukraine war- Pentagon official
Mar 25 2022 - Reuters
Pentagon claim: Russia is running out of ammunition.
Mar 25 2022 - Sach Khabrain
Is the Russian Military running out of Soldiers?
Mar 28 2022 - Russia Matters
Russia May Be running out of Missiles
Mar 29 2022 - Newsmax
Russia running out Of Kh-55 Cruise Missiles Which Iran, China Have
Apr 3 2022 - IranIntl
Putin running out of missiles, jets and tanks because they're made in Ukraine
Apr 4 2022 - Mirror
Russian billionaires are running out of havens to stash their fortunes
Apr 8 2022 - Sydney Morning Herald
The Russian army is running out of options
Apr 9 2022 - Spectator
Is Russia Running Out of Money?
Apr 26 2022 - Trustnodes
SCORCHED EARTH Now humiliated Putin is running out of MISSILES in desperate bid to defeat Ukraine, UK armed forces chief tells TalkTV
May 5 2022 - Sun
‘Struggling’ Vladimir Putin is running out of missiles, UK says
May 6 2022 - News.au
Putin under intense pressure and could be running out of missiles, says UK army chief
May 6 2022 - Mirror
EMBARRASSING: Russia Now Running out of Missiles to Make War With
May 6 2022 - USSANews
Putin could be running out of missiles and is waging a 'logistics war' to keep his forces supplied
May 6 2022 - Daily Mail
Russia running out of weapons, can be defeated by Ukraine – UK Secretary
May 9 2022 - Daily Trust
Putin 'running out of bombs' and resorting to 'indiscriminate' civilian attacks, says UK
May 9 2022 - Daily Star
Russia is running out of precision-guided munitions and may struggle to replenish their stocks, says UK Defense Ministry
May 9 2022 - New Voice Of Ukraine
Putin is running out of Ideas on What to do Next
May 10 2022 - Bloomberg
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is running out of steam, again
May 16 2022 - Economist
Is Russia running out of missiles? US, Russia send mixed messages
May 16 2022 - Jerusalem Post
'Russia is running out of manpower' and Putin may have to shrink his war aims more: national security analyst
May 16 2022 - Raw Story
Explainer: Is Russia Running Low on Missiles?
May 17 2022 - Moscow Times
Vladimir Putin is running out of options to avoid defeat in Ukraine
May 17 2022 - Atlantic Council
Putin is running out of soldiers and resorts to an “army of grandfathers” who retired 10 years ago
May 17 2022 - CvvNews
Crippled Russia running out of weapons as embarrassing war ending looms 'Shockingly inept'
May 21 2022 - Express
Vladimir Putin's 'time is running out' and his behaviour has changed, claims expert
May 21 2022 - Mirror
VLADIMIR PUTIN IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS TO AVOID DEFEAT IN UKRAINE
May 22 2022 - Lucorg
Russia ‘running out of ideas’ in 3-month-old war. Can Ukraine win?
May 24 2022 - Global News
The Russian Army Is Running Out Of Tanks For The War In Ukraine. These 60-Year-Old T-62s Are Proof.
May 25 2022 - Forbes
Vladimir Putin’s forces are running out of tanks
May 27 2022 - Telegraph
Exact date Putin's forces will run out of ammunition in Ukraine, according to expert
May 31 2022 - Mirror
Time is running out for Russia, German economy minister says
Jun 2 2022 - Reuters
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"Running out of time munitions ammunition soldiers missiles one on this earth bombs men missiles time missiles tanks munitions time munitions ammunition soldiers missiles one on this earth bombs men missiles time missiles tanks munitions time munitions ammunition soldiers missiles one on this earth bombs men missiles time missiles tanks munitions time CTRL-P"
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Back on topic...
Andrew Kramer's New York Times dispatch today makes it very clear that the "victory" and "glory" narratives have died. Now the American public are being prepared to accept desperation and defeat.
Kramer ends his story this way:
Sergeant Mykola Pokotila, who was wounded in a battle north of the town of Sloviansk, Ukrainian soldiers in the East are beleaguered, said of enduring punishing Russian artillery barrages, “I’ve never seen such hell.”
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Andrew Kramer's New York Times dispatch today makes it very clear that the "victory" and "glory" narratives have died. Now the American public are being prepared to accept desperation and defeat.
He must mean ooing and ahhing over the intellectual gymnastics it took to convince the Times' writers the "American people" believed the bullsh*t they committed to ink.
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Kramer / NY Times are not pulling any punches. Interesting that he was allowed to report this -- someone in the Biden Administration clearly has ordered a Narrative Shift in order that the American public be spared reports of a shock collapse like the one last summer in Afghanistan:
"Meanwhile, the strain on military families is showing.
In Lviv, a city in the West that has avoided serious shelling, wives and mothers of men in the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade have protested, terrified about their husbands’ and sons’ deployment into combat in the East. To assuage concerns, a commander, Vitaliy Kupriy, met with about 200 women in a concert hall but the conversation devolved into screaming and crying, local media reported."
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Russian civilians would be shocked at the cost the military has taken in order to capture Severodonetsk.
Hundreds and hundreds of soldiers, (maybe over a thousand) and thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, etc.
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On the front lines in the Donbas now are the hastily-assembled former teachers, laborers etc in Ukraine's "Territorial Defence Forces". These Ukrainian units are now experiencing casualty rates as high as 65%. This is because, as has been widely reported in the sympathetic US-UK press, they are "outmanned and outgunned" and have next to no training and are now rebelling and demanding to be sent home, to defend their families, as they were promised when they enlisted.
The cruel lies they've been told have provoked literally dozens of units to plead to be released from the front. Their wives' anguished pleas are now being reported, finally, in the New York Times and other western outlets.
Nonetheless, in the Donbas they number in the many thousands and enjoy the most advanced support, such as heavy weaponry, drones, artillery and real time actionable intelligence from NATO. In contrast to what the US and U.K. forces faced in late 2004 in Fallujah, the Russians are up against the firepower and all the tactical weaponry and advantages of not just a real army but of NATO itself.
The Russians' results are actually comparable to what our 13,000 troops achieved in Fallujah -- only much more rapidly and in the teeth of an enemy that possesses orders of magnitude more firepower and much more numerous and better supplied than the 3,000 or so ragtag Iraqi "insurgents".
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Ukraine's foreign legion joined the fight against the orcs for Severodonetsk yesterday and in the 24 hours since have cut the orcs supply line running through Metolkine.
Russians have fallen back to the edge of Severodonetsk city limits because of this unexpected development.
"In a speech today [June 3] about the May jobs report from Rehoboth, Del., President Biden said that it “appears” a “settlement” would be needed between Ukraine and Russia to end the war"
[IsraelTimes] Meeting of national security advisers at White House comes a day after massive Israeli air force drill to simulate striking Iranian nuclear facilities; US denies taking part.
The SCG has met several times since the start of the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the adults in charge of the series of calamities characteristic of the administration of a mentally challenged geriatric case... to coordinate efforts aimed at curbing the various threats posed by Iran. The meeting was attended by foreign policy, defense, and intelligence officials from both governments, the White House said in a statement.
[AlAhram] Militants attacked a civilian bus in eastern Syria on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 21, Syrian state TV reported.
The TV said the bus was attacked near a village in a desert area of the province of Deir el-Zour, which borders Iraq. It did not say whether the bus was attacked with machinegun fire, a missile or a roadside kaboom.
The report gave no further details and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Large parts of Deir el-Zour were once controlled by the krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which in 2014 proclaimed a so-called ``caliphate`` in a third of both Iraq and Syria.
In the past, Syrian authorities have blamed such attacks on IS and its sleeper cells, which have been active in eastern and central Syria, despite IS holy warriors losing areas they once controlled in 2019.
[AnNahar] Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes, after passing a new law strengthening his grip on the judiciary.
Saied, who has steadily extended his powers since he sacked the government and suspended parliament last July, issued a decree late on Wednesday allowing himself to unilaterally sack judges for "actions ... that could compromise the judiciary's reputation, independence or functioning".
In the early hours of Thursday, the official gazette published a list of judges who had been dismissed, and who may face prosecution.
The gazette did not list the reasons for their sacking.
But Saied had at an earlier cabinet meeting accused unnamed judges of corruption, stalling "terrorism" cases, sexual harassment, collusion with political parties and obstruction of justice.
In February, he already scrapped an independent judicial watchdog and replaced it with a body under his own control, a move critics decried as his latest blow to democracy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
Saied had long accused the previous judicial watchdog, whose members were partly elected by parliament, of blocking politically sensitive investigations and being influenced by his nemesis, the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party.
A former head of the dissolved body is among those who lost their jobs on Thursday, along with a former anti-terror court front man and a former customs chief.
Also on the list are judges involved in a long-running inquiry into the 2013 liquidations of two left-wing politicians, Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi.
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Wednesday's ruling, applicable immediately, goes further than Saied's February decree, which had given him powers to dismiss "any judge failing to perform his professional duties" and had banned judges from going on strike.
Saied now has powers to sack judges "by decree and without any process", the International Commission of Jurists' regional director Said Benarbia warned on Thursday.
He called the move "an affront to the separation of powers and judicial independence".
"Through it, the collapse of the rule of law & the constitutional order is now complete," he tweeted.
Saied has insisted he has no intention of interfering with the judiciary, but rights groups have accused him of placing it under the direct control of the executive.
Saied's power grab on July 25 last year was welcomed by many Tunisians tired of a parliament seen as corrupt and self-serving but political parties and civil society groups have warned that the country is drifting back towards authoritarianism a decade after the fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Saied has laid out a roadmap to a referendum next month on a new constitution, which has yet to be published, and elections in December.
Tunisians are meanwhile struggling with high unemployment, inflation and food shortages, aggravated by the war in Ukraine.
[BenarNews] China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has intensified activities around Taiwan and in the South China Sea in an apparent response to the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, as well as its support for Taipei.
The PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command recently conducted a multi-force patrol "in the waters and airspace around the Taiwan Island," said an army front man.
This is the third large-scale military exercise around Taiwan in the past 30 days.
Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the PLA Eastern Theater Command, said the joint combat-readiness security patrol involved "multiple services and arms," but did not specify the date.
"These actions are a necessary response to the collusion activities between the U.S. and the ’Taiwan independence’ forces," Shi said.
He added that the U.S. "has been making frequent moves on the Taiwan question recently," and warned that by emboldening and supporting Taiwan, Washington "will put Taiwan in a dangerous situation and bring serious consequences to itself."
Last weekend two U.S. aircraft carriers — the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Ronald Reagan — reportedly conducted dual-carrier exercises in waters to the southeast of Okinawa, according to the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a Beijing-based think tank.
Chinese analysts say the area could be a main maritime battlefield if the U.S. militarily intervened in a possible conflict across the Taiwan Strait.
A U.S. delegation led by Senator Tammy Duckworth has just completed a three-day visit to Taipei to "talk about our support for Taiwan security."
The U.S will also make sure Taiwan "does not have to struggle alone," Duckworth told Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who said that a cooperation plan between the U.S. National Guard and Taiwan’s armed forces was in the works.
On the day of her arrival, 30 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), making it the second-highest number of daily incursions since the beginning of the year.
The senator’s visit has infuriated Beijing. A Chinese Foreign Ministry front man said China "deplores and rejects this and has lodged solemn representations with the U.S. side."
SOUTH CHINA SEA DRILLS
On Wednesday morning the PLA conducted a military exercise in waters south of Hainan island in the South China Sea, according to a navigation warning issued by the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration.
A navigation warning is a public advisory notice to mariners about changes to navigational aids and current marine activities or hazards including fishing zones and military exercises.
The warning did not specify what kind of military exercise took place but the coordinates provided indicate the location was just south of Hainan, not far from the Gulf of Tonkin that China shares with Vietnam.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) condemned the harassment by the Chinese Coast Guard of a joint Filipino-Taiwanese research vessel in the South China Sea in April, calling it "a breach of a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... convention."
A day earlier, the Philippines summoned a senior Chinese diplomat to protest over the incident.
From late March to early April, the China Coast Guard (CCG) tailed the Legend, a Taiwanese research vessel with Filipino scientists, as it mapped undersea fault lines in the waters northwest of Luzon Island in the South China Sea.
[FoxNews] A bill in Ohio that would allow teachers and other school staff to carry guns on school grounds with less training time passed the state legislature and is expected to be signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
"I think it gets down to this: Do we want our kids to have a fighting chance in the event that the worst happens, right," said one of the bill's supporters, legislative affairs director for the Buckeye Firearms Association Rob Sexton, according to reporting from KAMR. "And for us, we’d just like a school to be able to have that option. Allows local school districts to make their own decisions,"
The bill will allow any adult that is licensed to carry a concealed firearm in both public and private schools with a reduced training requirement, doing away with the 737 hours of peace officer training that is currently required in favor of mandating only 24 hours of training. Individual schools and districts have the option to set their own policies, including requiring additional hours of training.
The bill, which passed by a 23-9 vote in the State Senate and a 56-34 vote in the State House, mandates at least 18 hours of general training, two hours of handgun training, two hours of "additional" general training, and two hours of "additional" handgun training.
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A week-long course (24 hours) is more than enough time to learn when and where to, load, point and shoot.
Many years ago, I taught my wife and later teenage kids using 2 boxes of 22 LR. All were hitting 7-10 at 50 ft. after a few hours.
NOTE: A wall of shame listing the names of the OHIO politicians voting against it should be made. "9 vote in the State Senate and a 34 vote in the State House,"
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Grade school used to be the school you went to to get ready for high school. These days, there probably needs to be a remedial step in between.
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HS - High School
At one time in America (generally) there was an age/advancement hierarchy of the educational system.
A facility, the school, hosted one or more levels of achievement with correspondingly more complex training materiel and social engagement skill setting.
The hierarchy followed a progressive student age pattern of Elementary or Grade School(G1-6), Junior High School(G7-8) and High School(G9-12).
The High School school facility also may have offered advanced placement preparation classes for the exceptional college or university bound student and technical skills classes for the workforce bound.
Beyond, there were also Tech Schools, Prep Schools, Junior Colleges, etc. offering remedial and or specialized life skill training.
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As badly as the failed at basic subject matter, I'm hoping they fail twice as hard at the indoctrination gobbledy-gook.
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As a Buckeye, I will continue to call for armed lunch ladies. I don’t think most teachers will have it in them to squeeze the trigger, except several math teachers I had, but they are long dead.
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[FoxNews] Major cities and other areas across the country have implemented changes preventing police officers from pulling people over for minor offenses, sparking condemnation from police unions and experts warning such changes will promote cultures of lawlessness.
"Not only are these good opportunities for officers to interact with the public, these are also very important law enforcement and investigative tools. And what starts as what may be a minor offense, often leads to the discovery of much more serious crimes and the enforcement of laws dealing with much more serious crimes," Heritage Foundation legal fellow Zack Smith told Fox News Digital of such law changes to who police officers pull over.
Philadelphia was the first major city in the United States that banned police officers from pulling drivers over for minor traffic violations in March. Low-level traffic offenses are ones such as an expired vehicle registration for 60 days or less, a single brake or headlight that is broken, minor bumper damage, or using a car without an official certificate of inspection.
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[IsraelTimes] After more than a year without immigration flights from Addis Ababa, the first of what is promised to be 3,000 new olim greeted with festive ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport
Just over 180 Æthiopian immigrants colonists landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday afternoon, some after waiting decades to arrive in Israel and reunite with family members.
The flight kicked off the resumption of immigration from the civil war-torn nation after more than a year following a series of delays. A second flight on Thursday from Addis Ababa is slated to bring a further 160 new immigrants colonists, with more flights expected throughout the summer and fall.
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[IsraelTimes] With Iranians’ anger at the ayatollahs again erupting into protests, the international community has a chance to atone for its failure 13 years ago — and every interest in doing so.
The international community will take note, and having noted will move on. America’s Democratic presidency desperately wants to be friends with the Ayatollahs, which for some reason they see as the future.
In June of 2009, millions of Iranians joined protests nationwide in the wake of the "reelection" of Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad as president, in a vote widely recognized as rigged.
The regime resorted to heavy violence to put down the demonstrations, attacking and arresting protesters and killing dozens of them — most resonantly Neda Agha-Solton, a philosophy student whose shooting by a gunman from the Basij paramilitary group was captured on film and broadcast worldwide.
[AnNahar] The U.S. envoy to the UN said Thursday the sole border crossing to deliver aid into Syria must remain open, amid Russian threats to veto a resolution to protect it.
Syria-ally Russia could block the UN Security Council resolution, which expires on July 10, and observers say it is using it as a bargaining chip in the face of punishing sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The Bab al-Hawa crossing near The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's Cilvegozu border post in the south has been the only point of entry for UN aid into Syria for the past two years.
The US ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Thursday it was imperative the opening stay open.
"We have to extend this border crossing, we have to continue to provide this assistance," said Thomas-Greenfield from a UN logistics center in Reyhanli, near the Turkey-Syria border.
Nearly 10,000 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid passed through the crossing last year bound for the Idlib region, the last rebel bastion in Syria and home to around three million people live.
"We know that the situation is already dire there, that people are suffering now," Thomas-Greenfield said.
"It's going to increase the sufferings, it's going to increase the number of people who will displace and possibly even the number of people who may try to cross the border into Turkey."
She was in Reyhanli to meet with NGO and U.N. agencies' representatives who are working to provide assistance to Syrians.
Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy ambassador to the U.N., said on May 20 that Moscow saw no reason to keep the crossing open, saying it violates Syria's illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity.
[FoxNews] The Biden administration says it will cancel federal student loans for some 560,000 borrowers who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain.
Under the new action, hundreds of thousands of students who attended the now-defunct chain will receive $5.8 billion in full loan discharges – the largest of its kind in the Department of Education's history.
Trying to buy votes for November.
"As of today, every student deceived, defrauded and driven into debt by Corinthian Colleges can rest assured that the Biden-Harris Administration has their back and will discharge their federal student loans," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. "For far too long, Corinthian engaged in the wholesale financial exploitation of students, misleading them into taking on more and more debt to pay for promises they would never keep."
Thousands of former Corinthian students were already eligible for debt cancellation, but they had to file paperwork and navigate an application process that advocates say is confusing and not widely known.
Those who have a remaining balance on their debt will also get refunds on payments they have already made, Education Department officials said. Students who have paid off their school loans will not be eligible.
At its peak, Corinthian was one of the nation's largest for-profit college companies, with more than 110,000 at 100 campuses across the country.
The company shut down in 2015 amid widespread findings of fraud. The Obama administration found that scores of campuses were falsifying data on the success of their graduates. In some cases, the schools reported that students had found jobs in their fields of study even though they were working at grocery stores or fast-food chains.
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Thousands of former Corinthian students were already eligible for debt cancellation, but they had to file paperwork and navigate an application process that advocates say is confusing and not widely known.
Not being able to read or write oftentimes poses a challenge.
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THE scam is the one in which academia has decided to enrich itself by making the secondary schools into a feeder system for colleges and universities. They turned themselves into paper mills to line their pockets with the aiding and abetting of the pols at the trough of the public treasury.
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Where did all that money go? If the students used the loans to pay tuition, where did the tuition money go?
Besides, it's the government and Sallie Mae that deceives and defrauds students every day by encouraging them to take loans that they can never repay.
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The money went to teachers, administrators and financial functionaries who could not get jobs at real universities.
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$5.8 billion in federal student loan debt for 560,000 students who attended Corinthian (Wikipedia)
Or, just over $10k per student, on average. A different way to "Build Back Better". A boost to the economy!
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Brother-in-law got a degree from a similar program some years ago and has mostly paid off the loan. No regrets. Parlayed his degree into a great fiber optic job at a national research lab.
[IsraelTimes] David Albright, who worked for the IAEA in the 1990s, says he believes breakout time is zero but it’s still unclear how long it would take for Tehran to build a nuclear weapon
David Albright, who worked as an inspector for the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in the 1990s, made the comments in an interview published Wednesday with London-based 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... International, an Iranian opposition news outlet.
In a report published Monday, the IAEA estimated that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had grown to more than 18 times the limit agreed on in the troubled 2015 JCPOA.
It "estimated that, as of May 15, 2022, Iran’s total enriched stockpile was 3,809.3 kilograms."
The limit in the JCPOA 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 was 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.
We can't see those documents because both the Russian MoD and our betters on this side of the pond have seen fit to block it. Fuckers.
Yandex has the files for download, but you gotta register.
[REGNUM] A new historical section dedicated to the liberation of the cities of Soviet Ukraine from the Nazi invaders has opened on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense: “Those who have stepped into immortality: the heroic Nikolaevsky landing”. This was reported on June 3 by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Among the materials of the multimedia section are registration cards of military graves and memorials of the city of Nikolaev; premium materials of Soviet soldiers buried in them; combat logs of units and formations of the Red Army, operational maps, as well as documentary evidence of the lives of residents who found themselves under Nazi occupation. Particular attention is paid to the actions of the heroic and legendary Nikolaev landing.
“During the liberation of Nikolaev, the Soviet command carried out a unique operation - a detachment of paratroopers of senior lieutenant Konstantin Olshansky landed behind enemy lines, which was able to cut the enemy’s communications and, holding back a tenfold superior enemy for several days, was able to divert fascist forces from the front.”
The landing force included 55 volunteers from the 384th Separate Marine Battalion, ten sappers, two signalmen and a guide from among local fishermen. The website of the Ministry of Defense published a detailed report on the actions of the paratroopers, who were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for their feat, "most of them posthumously . "
A significant part of the materials published for the first time testifies to the crimes of the Nazis, who, before their flight, tried to hide the traces of their own atrocities.
As REGNUM reported , the Russian Defense Ministry published a new series of archival materials about the crimes of Ukrainian Nazis during the Great Patriotic War.
[FoxNews] Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. more likely: they will destroy all untaxed and unapproved crops.
On a recent day in Washir district in southern Helmand province, armed Taliban fighters stood guard as a tractor tore up a field of poppies. The field’s owner stood nearby, watching.
The Taliban, who took power in Afghanistan more than nine months ago, issued an edict in early April banning poppy cultivation throughout the country.
Those violating the ban "will be arrested and tried according to Sharia laws in relevant courts," the Taliban deputy interior minister for counter narcotics, Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund, told The Associated Press in Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.
The CIA is gonna be fucking pissed!!! They kept those poppies growing no matter what, even put US Army guards on them! How are we going to get our opioids to hollow out our country now!!
[BenarNews] Government troops killed an alleged pro-Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eater and captured another after a shootout in the southern Philippines, while hunting for suspects linked to a bus bombing last week, military officials said Thursday.
The military identified the suspects as Monir Lintukan and Randy Saro, and said they were members of Daulah Islamiyah, the local name for the Islamic State (IS) group. Lintukan was killed and Saro captured following the 30-minute shootout near M’lang, a town in Cotabato province.
"Due to our intensified intelligence gathering, we immediately tracked down the suspects, resulting in a firefight that killed one of them," army Col. Jovencio Gonzales told BenarNews.
Officials blamed the pair for having roles in the bombing of a bus that injured two people in Koronadal city, in South Cotabato province, on May 26 as well as a second kaboom that occurred at a vacant lot near a bus station in another town minutes later. No one was injured in the second explosion.
Gonzales said troops also recovered weapons and ammunition left behind by other Death Eaters.
The troops were conducting "focused military operations" when they encountered the Death Eaters, he said. The two suspects belonged to a Daulah Islmiyah, a faction within the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF) Death Eater group that professes loyalty to IS.
Many BIFF members are wanted for a string of crimes, including kidnapping for ransom and extortion, according to the military.
Military officials had previously blamed murderous Moslems linked to BIFF for two roadside kaboomings that killed three and injured dozens of people in January 2021.
And this past January, a 5-year-old boy was killed and six others, including his two younger siblings, were maimed in a bus kaboom in Aleosan town. Since then, at least six people were maimed in April when a homemade bomb went kaboom! aboard a passenger bus in Parang town.
"Your army along with other government forces will continue to pursue those suspects responsible for the bombings here in our area," said Brig. Gen. Eduardo Gubat, acting commander of the 6th Infantry Division and the military’s Joint Task Force Central.
The JTF Central and the infantry division "will sustain the military operations until the remnants of the terrorist group operating in South and Southcentral Mindanao will be neutralized and the area will be free from any terror group," he said.
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[KavkazUzel] One of the possible targets of a group of Chechen-born Khamzat Dokuev, who was detained in Turkey in March 2021, was former Russian Defense Ministry officials arrested in absentia in the case of illegal timber sales, the Turkish Sabah reported. The Kremlin knows nothing about this, said a Russian presidential spokesman.
Apparently it was some sort of blood feud between various Chechen parties in and out of government that expanded across the Turkish border. Nothing to do with jihadis at all. Really it’s President Erdogan’s fault for indiscriminately importing ethnic Turks from various Stans without checking their connections. See the Related article link below.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in Turkey, eight people are accused of plotting to assassinate Chechen political emigrants. Six of them were detained and arrested in October 2021. Two more - Khamzat Dokuev and Badrudin Kimaev - were arrested in March of the same year on suspicion of transferring "state confidential information for the purpose of political or military espionage."
According to the DHA agency, the accused Bislan Rasaev received instructions from Adam Delimkhanov, an adviser to the head of Chechnya, with whom he was in touch, and from Kazbek Dukuzov, who is wanted by Interpol for the murder of journalist Paul Khlebnikov.
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[AnNahar] Lebanese forces leader Samir Geagea ...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005... has said that his party will refuse any Prime minister and any President who are allied with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... He added, in a press interview, that the divisions in Parliament will lead to a big confrontation between Hizbullah and its allies and the LF.
Geagea said that a cooperation with the Oct. 17 MPs is needed. "We all need each other in order to make a change," he affirmed.
LF sources have meanwhile told Kuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa that people have voted for real change not for "theatrical movements" in the streets, slamming the reformist MPs for not focusing on "the essence of change but rather on the forms."
Observers have warned of protracted deadlocks during consultations to name a new prime minister and in the run-up to an election later this year to replace President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... .
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) was behind last month’s drone attack in Sulaimani province’s northwestern subdistrict of Aghjalar, Ottoman Turkish state media reported on Thursday, claiming that a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) commander was killed in the attack.
Two drones targeted a Toyota Hilux vehicle in Aghjalar on May 21, killing five passengers, including at least two members of the PKK, mayor Hemin Bahjat told Rudaw at the time. The attack was condemned by Sulaimani province’s ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said on Thursday that the attack was carried out by MIT, claiming that Mehmet Dogan, code-named Dilkhwaz Gabar, commander of PKK forces in Kirkuk and Makhmour, was killed. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the PKK has not confirmed his death.
On the same day of the Aghjalar attack, a Ottoman Turkish drone targeted a vehicle in the PKK-held Makhmour camp and killed Mehmet Erdogan, commander of PKK, reported Anadolu Agency two days later.
Aghjalar is part of Chamchamal district and borders Kirkuk province.
Gabar told PKK media on May 23, 2020 that the Ottoman Turkish government was not working towards making peace with the Kurdish group, but rather sought war "to stay in power."
Turkey often targets PKK positions at home and in the Kurdistan Region. It launched a new phase of its Claw operations against the PKK in Duhok province in mid-April.
The PKK is an armed Kurdish group fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization and a threat to its national security.
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[FoxNews] Crime happens year-round, but experts say there is no other season that correlates to the steady increase in crime more than the hot summer months.
A 2014 U.S. Department of Justice report found significant seasonal pattern trends over nearly two decades that experts say lead to more people becoming violent crime victims during June, July and August.
The DOJ found sexual assaults, intimate partner violence and other violent crimes typically happened at higher frequencies than during other seasons.
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Johnson and the great society gave us food stamps and air conditioning. That had the greatest impact on riots in the cities. Then the poor were forced out by opportunists to purchase cheap housing in the cities. Purchase a row house for $20,000 in Alexandria and turn around a few years later sell it for 200-600 thousand. Now with city decay. Homeless get these houses as squatters for free. Wealthy leave being forced out by street violence. Family left after 8 shots into their home overnight with two bullets in the bed they were sleeping in. Benning heights area near PG line in DC. Both had good jobs in Maryland but they moved on out. Black youth told me they were afraid to go home in PG county by being shot. Being poor in these cities means if someone has something you are supposed to share it(skin color or race is meaningless). Same idea liberals have attacking wealthy(those they think are wealthy).
[OneIndia] Another reason why the Khalistan forces may not be able to thrive as they would have wished to have is because Pakistain is not in any condition to offer them open support.
The violence in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... have brought back traumatic memories of the 80s about the Khalistan movement. The number of killings, acts of terror and violence in Punjab appear to be on the rise and the current dispensation in the state appears to have no solution for the same.
While officials tell OneIndia that the movement has not been able to thrive as the ISI would have hoped for, there are however very disturbing signs that we have witnessed. Killings, hoisting of Khalistan flags, social media posts by fanatics such as the Sikhs for Justice have been on the rise of late.
Groups such as the Sikhs for Justice (SJF) have managed to gain a lot of traction. For instance on November 21 the SJF during his annual referendum asked Sikhs to vote for creating a separate nation.
Recently Khalistan flags were tied on the main gate of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly.
Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ) officer, Amar Bhushan tells OneIndia that the current political, diplomatic and security scenario in India do not favour a repeat of what the scenario was in the 80s. The BJP practises zero tolerance for secessionist movements.
However India cannot take lightly these incidents and the government will have to maintain a constant vigil on all secessionist groups and then act promptly, Bhushan further adds.
Another reason why the Khalistan forces may not be able to thrive as they would have wished to have is because Pakistain is not in any condition to offer them open support. The Pakistain Army is busy in Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... while the economy is in doldrums. Further the country witnessed plenty of political instability recently and this is another reason why the dispensation in Islamabad is busy elsewhere.
An official however adds that what the security apparatus in India needs to watch out for is the use of local gangsters to spread violence in the state of Punjab. The probe conducted into the Rocket Propelled Grenade Attack on the Punjab Police's Intelligence Headquarters learnt that it was the handiwork of local gangsters who were assigned by the Khalistan elements.
Take the case of the Ludhiana Court blast. It was found during the probe that the local gangsters involved in smuggling were behind the attack. They would smuggle drugs and IEDs at the behest of the ISI and then strike in Punjab, the probe found.
This modus operandi has been going on for long and the Khalistan groups have been outsourcing terror strikes to gangsters in a bid to avoid the heat. The fact that they use a gangster to carry out the attack gives the agencies the impression that the same is done by a small-time Mister Big group and not the ISI backed Khalistan forces.
[Rudaw] Adnan Abdelrahman shows off the drums he learned to play at age 12. He belongs to Iraq's centuries-old black minority, guardians of musical traditions but relegated to the margins of society. Here comes the Reparations Train!
Centred in the city of Zubair, near Basra in the far south of Iraq, the community has its origins in East Africa.
Like other remote parts of Iraq, Zubair is a place of poverty and decaying public services, where dusty roads are lined with simple cement houses.
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Are we allowed to send them some type of pandering reparations to assuage our collective guilt over people we knew nothing about, or do we only owe that to the transgender ones?
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Yes, I doubt we would be reading about it unless it involved some sort of monetary commitment.
BTW. I spent a little time over there. Don't remember seeing any of those people or hearing about them either.
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[Sevastopol] Bloomberg reports that US politicians are divided into two camps on the issue of further anti-Russian sanctions.
“There is no unity in the Biden administration about how much more sanctions against the Russian Federation can be increased without provoking economic instability and without violating transatlantic unity,” the agency’s sources say.
According to Interfax , one group, which includes many State Department and White House officials, advocates even stronger secondary sanctions; another group of officials are concerned about further strain on a global economy already plagued by disrupted supply chains and inflation, volatile oil prices and a potential food crisis.
Such messages will come more and more often in the future, which is not surprising: sanctions aggression is primarily destructive for the aggressors themselves. But there is no need to flatter yourself: the “dear partners” still have a lot of tools to blackmail our country. Not to a small extent due to the fact that the Russian Federation itself provided them in the previous period. One of these is the American blackmailing of Russia by "technically defaulting."
The US Treasury recently issued an official announcement that a US government agency will not renew a special license for Russia, making it unable to repay its external debt obligations on approximately $19 billion of non-resident bond issues. Roughly speaking, the Russian Federation is deprived of the opportunity to operate a number of American financial instruments.
And this decision of the US Treasury means, in fact, the so-called "technical default" of Russia. In other words, depriving her of the opportunity to pay her debts despite the fact that she has money. This will entail the refusal to provide dollar loans to the Russian Federation by a number of countries from the US zone of influence, as well as the inevitable fall in virtual credit ratings compiled by US-biased agencies, and the creation of a formal pretext for the confiscation of up to $ 350 billion worth of Russian gold reserves actually stolen.
Well, this will also create a formal reason for blocking other financial ties. Again, in fact, the above measures are already acting against Russia, and formally provoking a technical default by America will not give anything new. The set of economic punitive measures against Russia has already been exhausted. And this is not a great price to pay for the exercise of the sovereign right to an independent foreign policy that is in line with the state's interests.
Question: was it necessary to use these financial instruments at all? Indeed, according to US laws, its residents must pay 5-15 percent tax on income from foreign securities. And now the Russian Federation, redeeming foreign currency bonds and paying coupon income on them, replenishes the US budget, indirectly financing the purchase of weapons and economic assistance to the Kyiv regime. This was known even before the special operation and, moreover, it is known now.
And, to put it mildly, the arguments of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation about the need to fulfill payment obligations by any means, even without linking to the unblocking and return of gold reserves, look strange. But they turned out to be stolen, including through the fault of the leadership of the Ministry of Finance. But, at least, they need to clarify the reasons why the Ministry of Finance has been increasing external borrowings all these years under the pretext of “financing the budget deficit”, while foreign exchange earnings have increased, and the federal budget has been in surplus. And at the same time, 12-14 trillion rubles were mortified in the FNB without movement.
This is what gave rise to America's current opportunity to blackmail Russia with a "technical default." Serious damage against the background of what the United States has already done to Russia will not be caused by this. But their “default blackmail” is, first of all, an excuse to sort out what has been going on in the financial sector of the Russian Federation all these years. Yes, and it continues to happen now. So what are we going to do: whine or understand?
Pavel Kukhmirov is a former Donetsk militiaman and a current resident of Rostov, Russia. His call sign is "Shakespeare."
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It's called a "technical" default because in reality, in the eyes of market participants, Russia is nowhere near default status. Russia has the ability and willingness to pay its debts--it's only the stupidity and criminality of idiots like Janet Yellen that allows such an obviously illegal and foolish stunt to go forward.
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Bloomberg describes how unbelievably stupid Yellen and Biden's sanctions are:
Even with some countries halting or phasing out energy purchases, Russia's oil-and-gas revenue will be about $285 billion this year, according to estimates from Bloomberg Economics based on Economy Ministry projections. That would exceed the 2021 figure by more than one-fifth. Throw in other commodities, and it more than makes up for the $300 billion in foreign reserves frozen as part of the sanctions.
The US has already banned Russian oil, but Europe is only slowly weaning itself off this dependency. That’s giving Moscow time to find other markets — such as commodity guzzling behemoths China and India — to limit any damage to export revenue, and its financial war chest.
That means the money is gushing into Russia’s accounts, and the financial figures are a constant reminder to the West that dramatic change is needed. Oil-export revenue alone is up 50% from a year earlier, according to the International Energy Agency. Russia’s top oil producers made their highest combined profit in almost a decade in the first quarter, Moscow-based SberCIB Investment Research estimates. And wheat exports continue — at higher prices — as sanctions on Russian agriculture aren't even being discussed because the world needs its grain. . .here
Seriously, that Biden cares more about hurting the US than Russia is _by design_. His decisions more or less gifted Russia with 300 billion or so dollars before the war even started. And the evidence everyone ignores is that Burisma, which paid his son millions, was a cutout for Putin.
And the trolling is meant to distract away from all of this.
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It is obvious that the American sanctions are causing extreme harm to Americans, Europeans and people around the world. They are actually funding Russia's war.
The questions remain:Why is America slicing off its legs? For what purpose? How much longer? Who benefits?
The perverse effects of sanctions means rising fuel and food costs for the rest of the world – and fears are growing of a humanitarian catastrophe. Sooner or later, a deal must be made.
It is now three months since the west launched its economic war against Russia, and it is not going according to plan. On the contrary, things are going very badly indeed.
There is no immediate sign of Russia pulling out of Ukraine and that’s hardly surprising, because the sanctions have had the perverse effect of driving up the cost of Russia’s oil and gas exports, massively boosting its trade balance and financing its war effort. In the first four months of 2022, Putin could boast a current account surplus of $96bn (£76bn) – more than treble the figure for the same period of 2021.
When the EU announced its partial ban on Russian oil exports earlier this week, the cost of crude oil on the global markets rose, providing the Kremlin with another financial windfall. Russia is finding no difficulty finding alternative markets for its energy, with exports of oil and gas to China in April up more than 50% year on year.
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Russia can always pull its troops put of the Ukraine. Their situation is their own making.
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Citing the Guardian? May as well cite Stalin.
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You all want to pretend to discuss the energy market, which is Russia's main income source, without discussing Joe Biden's war on energy production in the United States.
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They want to believe everything is Putin's genius at work.
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You all want to pretend to discuss the energy market, which is Russia's main income source, without discussing Joe Biden's war on energy production in the United States.
Everything is deeply inter-twingled. Stupid things aside, one reason the Brandon Administration is having such a hard time is that they cannot see the connections between things. This is connected to that, and that rubs up against this other thing.
I find it a bit ironic that having built a globalized interconnected world, certain parties are now trying to break it apart.
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They want to believe everything is Putin's genius at work.
Or Brandon's wickedness at trying to Resist Putin. Lord knows what they'd do if they ran up against a Reagan and he started _drilling_ instead of stopping it.
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"There is no unity in the Biden administration about how much more sanctions against the Russian Federation can be increased without provoking economic instability and without violating transatlantic unity"
The sanctions are a total failure that has caused more harm to the US, Britain, Germany, France and the rest of the allies than to Russia. It would be hard to find a more perfect example of blowback, or unintended consequences. Maybe stepping on a rake covered in your own shit.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Alexander Kravchenko
[LB] Today, June 2, the occupiers fired on about 30 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
This was reported by the press service of the Allied Forces.
"Along the entire line of defense, the enemy uses combat aircraft, multiple rocket launchers, large-caliber artillery, tanks, mortars of various systems, launches missile and bomb strikes on civilian infrastructure, peaceful housing estates," the statement said.
Today, the Russian occupiers in Donetsk and Luhansk regions destroyed and damaged 52 civilian objects - 42 houses, two factories, administrative premises and vehicles of several state fire and rescue units, a hangar.
As a result of these shellings, 5 civilians were killed and 7 others were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, the Allied Forces destroyed:
In addition, air defense units shot down 3 enemy Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicles in the skies of the Ukrainian Donbass.
We will remind, the Ukrainian defenders in the area of responsibility of operational and tactical group "Vostok" (East) destroyed thanks to artillery a command and observation post of the Russian invaders.
[LB] In the Kryvyi Rih direction, the Russians blew up bridges in the Davydov Brid and Velyka Oleksandrivka districts.
Russia's main goal now remains the same - to establish full control over Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In the Kharkiv direction, the enemy focused on maintaining the occupied borders, restraining the advance of our troops towards the state border.
The Russians are firing from artillery and multiple rocket launchers to reduce our offensive potential. The shelling is concentrated mainly in the areas of Tsyrkuniv, Pitomnyk, Prudyanka, Peremohy, Rusky and Cherkasy Tyshko and Staryi Saltiv, said Oleksiy Gromov, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Russians once again stormed the town of Ternov, but without success.
In the Slavic direction, the enemy focused on shelling our troops and creating conditions for the offensive.
In the Donetsk region, the occupiers fired along the entire line of contact . They seek to inflict losses on defenders, deplete them and destroy fortifications. The main efforts are focused on the Lyman, Severodonetsk and Bakhmut (Artemovsk) areas.
In the Lyman direction, the Russians fired in the areas of Svyatogorsk, Shchurovo, Staryi Karavan, and Raigorodok. There was an assault in two directions: from Oleksandrivka and in the direction of Novoselivka - Yarova.
"They are preparing for the offensive in the direction of Svyatogorsk," Gromov said.
In the Severodonetsk direction, the Russians use all possible weapons and air strikes. The main fighting is taking place near Lysychansk and Severodonetsk.
"Fierce street fighting continues in Severodonetsk. The enemy is storming Oskolonivka-Borivske," Gromov said.
In the Bakhmut direction, the occupiers are using the full range of weapons to displace our positions and create conditions for the offensive. Missile strikes are carried out near Komyshuvakha, Zoloty, Belogorivka, Volodymyrivka, Pokrovsky and Soledar.
The Russians are trying to completely capture Komyshuvakha. The fighting continues. Also they storm again in areas of Nikolaevka and Vrubovka. To take control of the section of the road Soledar - Lysychansk, the Russians are storming in the directions of Vasylivka - Berestove, Nagirne - Belogorovka. The fighting continues.
In the Avdievka, Novopavlivska and Zaporizhzhya areas , the enemy is not conducting active hostilities, but mortar and artillery fire on the positions of our troops does not stop.
There were no active hostilities from occupiers and in the Nikolaev direction. They are taking steps to maintain control of the occupied territories and are shelling our troops.
In the Kryvyi Rih direction, in order to prevent the advance of defenders, the Russians blew up bridges in the Davydov Brid and Velyka Oleksandrivka districts. We moved to the defense on the unprepared border Davydiv Brid - Davydiv - Andriyivka. Electronic means of electronic warfare are used.
In the Volyn and Polissya operational districts, no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were found. The main efforts of the Belarusian troops focused on reconnaissance and training. Mining of forest roads, bypass roads, bridges in the border areas of Brest region with Ukraine is also carried out - it is from the state border of Ukraine with Poland in the direction of Novohrad-Volynskyi.
The threat of missiles and air strikes from Belarus remains.
The enemy did not have active hostilities in the Seversky district. There are no signs of the creation of strike groups. He keeps his units in the border areas of Bryansk and Kursk regions to bind our troops. Border areas of Chernihiv and Sumy regions are shelled from the territory of Russia. In the future, it is possible that the shelling of military and civilian facilities will intensify in order to prohibit the establishment of control over the state border by the Ukrainian defense forces and the retention of part of our troops.
In the Bessarabian area signs of formation of offensive groups are not revealed. The probability of attack here is considered low.
The Black Sea Operational Zone holds two missile carriers with a total volley of up to 16 Caliber missiles.
As of May 26, 59 missile strikes and 36 air strikes had been carried out by the enemy's armed forces since the morning of May 26. The main targets were railway transport infrastructure. "Of these, 1,211 aircraft from Belarus and 61 launches of Iskander cruise missiles," Gromov said.
We will remind, in the Luhansk direction as of morning the Russian invaders tried to break through defense of ZSU at once from several directions: from Zoloty, Popasna, Komyshuvakha, Belogorivka.
Russia launched a missile attack on the traction substations of the railway near the Beskydy railway tunnel, which runs through the Carpathians in the Lviv region. Train traffic has been stopped.
The blow can be considered zeroing, since methodical work is needed to disable this communication, similar to a series of strikes on the bridge in Zatoka or the use of BPM (high-powered ammunition).
The Beskydy Tunnel is the largest tunnel in the Carpathian Mountains, its length is 2 kilometers. It is of strategic importance for Ukraine, since up to 60 percent of cargo transit to Western and Central Europe passes through it. The capacity of the tunnel is 100 pairs of trains per day.
[Garowe] In what seems to be a change of strategy, al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... bandidosholy warriors are now targeting peasant farmers in Somalia, forcing hundreds of them to IDP camps, where they are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid.
While visiting Baidoa, the regional administrative capital of Southwest, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the strategy has left thousands of people homeless, further stressing the country on matters of food distribution.
Farmers who are not giving taxes to the bad boys, the president said, are forced to abandon their fields, seeking refuge in various IDP camps in the country. The Lower Jubba and Lower Shabelle regions are the worst affected.
So the peasants have been driven off the land to suffer, but in the meantime nobody is paying taxes to Al Shabaab, and the land lies fallow. How is this a win for the jihadis?
Accompanying the president was Southwest leader Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen, who was closely working with the former administration of Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who was accused of mismanaging the country including the al-Shabaab crisis.
Hassan Sheikh was filmed entering an IDP camp, where he held children affected by the crisis. Women and children are the most affected in the conflict, authorities said during the maiden visit.
"People with dignity, honor, free and proud of their environment, have been forced to rely on humanitarian aid for fear of endangering themselves and their children," he said during his tour inside the camps in Baidoa, the interim capital of Southwest regional state.
For Somalia to enjoy peace and stability, Hassan Sheikh noted, the country must rise and jointly fight the bad boys. The bandidosholy warriors control large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia, but efforts to degrade them seem to be on the top gear.
Humanitarian teams from the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... were also part of the presidential visit, in what seemed to be a move to evaluate the effects of the drought, which has also significantly affected farmers in the Horn of Africa nation.
Abdelmoula spoke at the 'ADC' camp for internally displaced people in the Baidoa district of Somalia's South West State. He was accompanying Somalia's Special Envoy for Drought Response, Abdirahman Abdishakur, who was appointed by the Somali president in late May, on his visit to an IDP camp.
"The situation is extremely dire and grim: 7.1 million people will be affected by this drought situation before the end of this year," said the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Adam Abdelmoula.
"Unfortunately, about 1.4 million children are facing acute malnutrition this year, and 330,000 are likely to become severely malnourished," he added.
Al-Shabaab bandidosholy warriors wage small to large-scale sporadic attacks, mainly targeting security forces, innocent civilians, and top government officials. Farmers are major targets in paying taxes to the bad boys, which help the group sustain its operations.
The US has approved the deployment of close to 500 soldiers who will help the country completely defeat al-Shabaab bad boys. The soldiers are expected to report to the country in the coming weeks according to Pentagon officials.
Elsewhere, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud rebuffed claims that Villa Somalia is plotting to kick out Southwest President Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen. This comes after reports that politicians barred from the race for Lower House seats by Lafta Garen were organizing motions against him.
Lafta-Gareen is a close ally of former President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who was defeated by Hassan Sheikh Mohamud a fortnight ago. Farmajo is blamed for the current tribulations the country is going through.
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[RIA Novosti] The EU embargo on Russian oil supplies will have serious consequences for both sides and will greatly change the global market, Jean-Pierre Favennec, an energy expert , said in an interview with Le Figaro.
The specialist emphasized that the ban on the supply of fuel from Russia to Europe by sea will not improve the current state of affairs, when resource prices are breaking records.
"I'm inclined to believe that with the embargo, Russia will sell less oil to Europe, but it could try to sell it to China and especially to India," he said.
Favennec noted that India has already significantly increased the volume of oil purchases from Russia, as a result, the latter is in second place among suppliers in the local market.
"You can count on a game of“ musical chairs" (a game in which one participant drops out in each round. - Approx. Ed.): Russia will send its oil to China, India and other recipient countries <…>, but they will no longer take oil in the Middle East , and the EU will be able to have significant volumes of oil from this region," the power engineer explained.
At the same time, such a reorganization has a significant disadvantage: the delivery of fuel to Europe from the Middle East is more expensive than from Russia.
Russia will not sell oil at a price below the market, said the Kremlin
Western countries faced severe economic problems - rising energy prices and a surge in inflation - due to the imposition of sanctions against Russia after the start of a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . The measures mainly affected the financial sector and the supply of high-tech products, but calls in Europe to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources have become louder.
On Tuesday night, EU leaders reached a political agreement on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which includes, among other things, the gradual imposition of an embargo on oil imports from Russia. The ban will affect only deliveries by sea, and the oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline is not limited. But, according to the head of the European Commission , Ursula von der Leyen , by the end of the year, the EU expects to abandon almost 90 percent of Russian oil imports.
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How the World Is Paying for Putin's War in Ukraine
Bloomberg News
Tue, May 31, 2022
Russia is being propelled by a flood of cash that could average $800 million a day this year — and that's just what the commodity superpower is raking in from oil and gas.
For years, Russia has acted as a vast commodity supermarket selling what an insatiable world has needed: Not just energy, but wheat, nickel, aluminum and palladium too. Putin's coffers are overflowing with the revenue from commodities, which have become more lucrative than ever thanks to the surge in global prices driven in part by the war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine signs deal with Westinghouse to supply Ukraine's nuclear power plants with fuel to replace Russia as the supplier. Westinghouse also will help Ukraine build more nuclear power plants to supply itself and Europe replacing Russia as a major energy supplier.
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The joke of the EU's oil sanctions policy has created the absurd situation whereby the countries buying up the Russian crude oil -- such as Hungary in the EU and India outside the EU -- are now refining that Russian oil and re-exporting it to the EU countries that supposedly banned it.
Russia is reaping extraordinary, unprecedented oil revenues; Hungary and India and many other middlemen are getting all the oil they need and pocketing very generous profit margins as middlemen; and the EU nations are receiving Russian oil in disguise.
[IsraelTimes] 1 dead, 2 critically hurt near Jenin as forces demolish residence of Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed 5 in attack; second Paleostinian killed in festivities in Dheisheh refugee camp
Two Paleostinians were killed in separate festivities with Israeli forces operating in the West Bank in the early hours of Thursday.
Clashes broke out in Ya’abad in the northern West Bank as troops demolished the home of terrorist Diaa Hamarsheh, who killed five people in Bnei Brak in March.
Three Paleostinians were critically injured in firefights with the military. One of the three was later pronounced dead and was identified as Bilal Kabha, 24.
The military said in a statement that "hundreds of rioters threw stones, set fire to tires and threw Molotov cocktails and explosives at the forces."
The IDF said troops responded with crowd dispersal methods and that when button men fired at troops, officers responded with gunfire. The military said "a hit was detected" by Israeli forces.
Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, later claimed Kabha as a member.
There were no injuries to Israeli troops.
The military said that Hamarsheh’s father was arrested during the operation and was taken for questioning by security services.
In addition to the operation in Ya’abad, there were festivities between Paleostinians and IDF troops in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
The soldiers entered the refugee camp to arrest a man suspected of throwing an bomb at troops during an operation on Sunday, lightly injuring an undercover Border Police officer.
Clashes broke out during the arrest raid and one Paleostinian was killed. He was identified as Ayman Muhaisen, 29.
"During the operation, suspects hurled explosives and threw stones at the forces, who responded with gunfire. Hits were identified," the IDF said.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, troops detained seven Paleostinians over suspected involvement in terror activities, totaling nine arrests overnight. In Azzun, during the arrest of a suspect, troops opened fire toward a Paleostinian who hurled a Molotov cocktail toward them, the IDF said.
Israeli troops and military bulldozers entered Ya’bad on Wednesday evening to raze terrorist Hamarsheh’s home.
Hamarsheh, 27, killed four civilians in the central ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on March 29 — Avishai Yehezkel, 29, who was protecting his baby from gunfire; Ya’akov Shalom, 36; and Ukrainian nationals Victor Sorokopot, 38, and Dimitri Mitrik, 23.
Hamarsheh was then killed in a shootout with coppers, one of whom — Amir Khoury, 32 — was his fifth victim.
The military initiated the process of razing Hamarsheh’s home the day after the attack and issued the demolition order last month.
The shooting came at the start of a wave of terror attacks in Israeli cities that claimed the lives of 19 people. The military has stepped up its West Bank activities in an attempt to crack down on the spiraling violence.
The ensuing raids sparked festivities that left at least 30 Paleostinians dead since mid-March.
Many were button men involved in firefights with Israeli soldiers or who took part in violent mostly peacefulfestivities. Others were apparently uninvolved bystanders, such as Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The veteran correspondent was killed last month under disputed circumstances in Jenin during a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Paleostinian button men..
The raids have concentrated on the increasingly unstable Jenin area, from where several of the attackers hailed.
[SpinStrangenessCharm] Last Sunday’s Jerusalem Day, Israel was widely expected to get HamAss or P*sslamic Jewhate rockets like last year, when this triggered an 11-day war. Bomb shelter rooms at work were prepared. Not wanting to sound "I told you so" but I was a bit skeptical from the beginning, and in the end nothing was fired. Why? The JPost’s longtime Arab affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh, one of the newspaper’s few trump cards, considers several factors.
the organizations haven’t recovered from the thrashing they received in last year’s war
severe diplomatic pressure was applied, especially by Egypt, possibly by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... too
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... economy is in the toilet, and the 12,000 daily commuters into Israel are a source of revenue that cannot be spared
Related: The full Jerusalem Post article can be read here.
[DailyWire] A new U.S. classified intelligence report states that Russian President Vladimir Putin underwent treatment in April for advanced cancer.
The report also stated that an assassination attempt was made on Putin in March, after Putin had launched an invasion of Ukraine in late February.
“Putin’s grip is strong but no longer absolute,” one of three intelligence officers from three different intelligence agencies who read the report told Newsweek. “The jockeying inside the Kremlin has never been more intense during his rule, everyone sensing that the end is near.”
One official came from the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), one served as a senior officer for the Air Force, and one came from the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“What we know is that there is an iceberg out there, albeit one covered in fog,” the DNI officer stated.
The DIA officer added, “One source of our best intelligence, which is contact with outsiders, largely dried up as a result of the Ukraine war. Putin has had few meetings with foreign leaders. … Putin’s isolation has thus increased levels of speculation.”
Photos of Putin consistently sitting at the end of an extremely long table with the others at the meeting at the other end of the table have led to speculation regarding Putin’s health.
“Putin is definitely sick … whether he’s going to die soon is mere speculation,” the DIA official concluded. “Still, we shouldn’t rest assured. We shouldn’t answer our own mail, if you will, believing only the intelligence that affirms our own desired outcome. He’s still dangerous, and chaos does lie ahead if he does die. We need to focus on that. Be ready.”
Vladimir Putin's health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the intelligence community produced its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May. The classified U.S. report says Putin seems to have re-emerged after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports tell Newsweek.
"We need to be mindful of the influence of wishful thinking," cautions the retired Air Force leader. "We learned—or didn't learn—that lesson the hard way with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."
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Now have the same intelligence group do a report on Biden’s physical, emotional and mental health… and we will see how accurate these reports really are.
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Putin's days are numbered - just as Assad's were!
Western homosexuals journalists (53% of media workers are homosexuals) are telling the truth. Putin’s days are indeed numbered.
Putin was born on October 7, 1952. That’s day number 1. The next day, October 8, 1952, is numbered 2, and so on. According to my calculations, today’s Putin’s day is numbered 25442.
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Same people who missed the fall of the Iron Curtain and gave us the "slam dunk."
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"Same people".....who along with their tech oligarchs actually run the country.
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Putin was born on October 7, 1952. That’s day number 1. The next day, October 8, 1952, is numbered 2, and so on. According to my calculations, today’s Putin’s day is numbered 25442.
:-D The absolute truth, Aca Joe, though I didn’t check your work.
(53% of media workers are homosexuals)
I find this difficult to believe — can you provide a reference?
Has Putin Lost His Sex Appeal?
NY Times, Mar 2012
Putin is losing the Sochi Olympic game
Washington Post, Feb 2014
Putin's Press Conference Proved Merkel Right: He's Lost His Mind
New Republic, Mar 2014
Vladimir Putin is losing the battle for Ukraine
Spectator, Mar 2014
Putin Is Losing In Ukraine And That's Our Biggest Problem Right Now
Forbes, Mar 2014
How Putin is losing in Crimea: A reality check
Yahoo News, Apr 2014
Putin is Losing Eastern European Energy Gamble
Oil Price , Apr 2014
Putin losing his geostrategic footing
Gulfnews, Nov 2014
Putin Is Losing the Battle to Restrain Online Media
Newsweek, Jan 2015
The War Putin Lost
OpEdNews, Mar 2015
Putin Is Losing a Nasty Food Fight
StopFake, Aug 2015
Why Putin Is Losing
RFERL, Aug 2015
How Putin is badly losing in Syria
Washingtonian Post, Oct 2015
How Vladimir Putin lost Ukraine
New Statesman, Jan 2016
How Putin is losing his grip on pipeline politics
Reuters, Nov 2016
Russia’s Putin may be starting to lose his grip on power
Marketwach, Mar 2017
Putin Lost France, but He’s Still Got a Chance in Germany
Daily Beast, May 2017
Putin Losing Public Support On Key Issues
Statista, Jun 2017
For Russia, Putin Power Is Losing Some of Its Shine
Stratfor, Jun 2017
Is Vladimir Putin Losing His Grip?
Project Syndicate, Oct 2017
Is Putin Losing Control of Russia's Conservative Nationalists?
Foreign Affairs, Oct 2017
Putin Is Losing the Long Game on Foreign Policy
Bloomberg, Nov 2017
Putin Is Losing Eastern European Energy Gamble
Yahoo, Jan 2018
Has Vladimir Putin Lost Control of Russia's Assassins?
Newsweek, Mar 2018
Why Putin Is Losing Popular Support
Carnegie, Aug 2018
Putin lost his supposedly ‘invulnerable’ nuclear-powered missile at sea
Business Insider, Aug 2018
Is Putin Losing His Balance?
Gordan Hahn, Sep 2018
Putin Is Losing Russia’s Far East
Bloomberg, Sep 2018
Is Vladimir Putin losing steam?
The Hill, Oct 2018
Putin losing grip on power: Popularity plummets as pension reforms spark Russia protests
Express, Oct 2018
Is Vladimir Putin losing his grip on Siberia?
BBC Newsnight, Dec 2018
Trump is winning and Putin is losing in global arms sales
Japan Times, Mar 2019
How Putin and the Kremlin lost Russian youths
Washington Post, Jun 2019
Is Putin Losing the Trust of Russians?
Politico, Jun 2019
Putin risks losing Moscow
MSN, Aug 2019
Vladimir Putin: Russian President losing his grip on energy
Gossipela, Aug 2019
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Affording to GLADD its more than 40% TW.
I think that was television shows with a gay/queer character, Xyz, not in the news media. The only gays in the news that I can think of are Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and Don Lemon and that white-haired gent on CNN. It seems a reasonable assumption that if I can remember names of people I don’t pay attention to, that particular characteristic is rare enough to be noticed and commented on.
#16
Zelensky announced yesterday that Ukraine has lost 20% of its territory to Russia, which amounts to about 120,000 square km. Prior to the war, Russia controlled about 43,000 square km, or 7%. That's the "status quo ante" Kissinger referred to.
So Zelensky and Biden's rejection of Minsk II and insane announcement that they'd seize Crimea have caused Ukraine to lose -- so far, as of June 3 -- an additional 13% of Ukraine's territory.
Each month that passes will cost Ukraine another 3-4% of its territory -- and that's just to Russia. In the West, Poland has designs on Lviv and the adjacent lands.
If Z or to be precise, Biden, keeps resisting the inevitable capitulation through the summer, it's likely that Ukraine will lose 35-40% of its territory and more than 2/3ds of its valuable resources by September.
[FoxNews] The worsening staffing crisis at the Seattle Police Department has forced the defunded force to no longer take on new adult sexual assault cases this year, according to a newly revealed internal memo.
The Seattle Times first reported Tuesday about the four-page memo, which the sergeant in charge of the Sexual Assault/Child Abuse Unit sent internally to interim police Chief Adrian Diaz on April 11.
In the memo, titled "Staffing Issues," Sgt. Pamela St. John said she currently is not able to assign new adult sexual assault cases "because of other statutory requirements."
Just three years ago, the unit had 12 skilled detectives, but at the time the memo was written, there are only four remaining. "May as well lay back and enjoy it" time?
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Already one case in which the rapist gloated to his victim about how he was going to get away with what he was currently doing to her. The message has been received.
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Funny how the feminist movement tied itself to the Woke culture. Now they are the Woke's rubes. Men are competing in women's sports, likely heading to the Olympics, defunded cops not perusing crimes against women, men Pedos faking as women heading into girls bathrooms. And on and on and on. Actually it not funny, its sad.
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It is a skill set that is specialized and will be hard to recruit as officers will not likely choose to move to places where the politicians played the Defund card for votes. A couple of cities will probably end up with Sharia patrols. Other cities might try some Google-like perks. Overall women and minorities will suffer for a lunatic white liberal idea that was intended to shove us down the path towards the slavery of the Great Reset.
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And now it id unlawful for police in Washington state to engage in high speed chases.
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NB: The author is a senior research fellow with a Chinese name at an Australian university. She has received grants from a variety of CCP organizations. It seems reasonable to assume that she is working from official Communist Chinese statistics, which it seems reasonable to assume are between somewhat and a great deal improved over reality. The great famine was the massive starvation caused by Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward (1959-1961) which resulted in the intentional deaths of between 15 million and 55 million Chinese.
[TheConversation] The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink.
China accounts for more than one sixth of the world’s population.
Yet after four extraordinary decades in which China’s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959-1961.
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China is the fastest aging population in world history. They just admitted they over counted their population by nearly 100 million. They don't have enough young people to make babies and by 2070 (2050 if things are bad and war and famine happen) there will be half as many Chinese as there are today.
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The soldier age population should also be starting to decrease, though historical male bias fighting age men will take longer to decline. Of course the shortage of women for them might make them more motivated fighters. Assuming their mamas, with their genes all in one basket, may resist Beijing sending junior off to war. Interesting times.
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The Chinese are raising a generation of "not a farmer" in the coastal super cities. Can they make the transition to mechanized agriculture or are they going to have to secure Other Peoples' Rice whether the other person wants to or not...?
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Government will step in to require increased birth rates. I see India and Bangladesh having no reductions in population. India is ignored with their population rivaling China now.
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It appears there are enough Chinese females of fertile age to fill thousands of 'Massage' store fronts in America. Not that I have checked their 'best used by date'. Heck, I'm in the outback and there are a least one to two in the small towns along the highways. Mars China need women. If it wasn't for Han racism, they might go visit the Philippines which has a excess of the gender.
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Ethnically the Koreans are related to the Han Dynasty, so they are "kinda sorta" Chinese. Well, they are still 'Hu' and not 'Chin' Chinese but they are acceptable...
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To emphasize: Why should we believe any cited #'s for China?
It’s human nature to present the best possible image of themselves, especially in a Face culture and even more so in a totalitarian one. If they’re presenting numbers that show their population reached the predicted tipping point — earlier than calculated — the odds are good their numbers show they actually reached that point some time ago. And, given that in totalitarian countries everybody does this all the way down, the odds are very good that those at the top have no idea when that tipping point was actually reached, nor how off the numbers really are. As DarthVader said, they admit to over-counting by 100 million; it will be very interesting to see the the size of subsequent corrections.
All those empty cities built on spec. certainly suggest how far off their planning was in recent years.
On Thursday, the Iraqi army arrested an ISIS leader on the outskirts of Baghdad. An official security source told Shafaq News Agency.
The 11th Division of the Army apprehended the so-called Emir Abu Qatar al-Iraqi while trying to reach the Iraqi capital.
The terrorist was handed over to the relevant authorities. The source said.
Earlier this week, 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 – Wilayat Al-Jazira. His brother and son had worked with the terrorist organization, but the first was killed, and his son was arrested earlier.
On Saturday, the Iraqi forces apprehended four "terrorists" in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, Maysan, and Nineveh.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:17 The Russian Federation handed over 366 tons of essentials and food products to the population of the DPR, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. 21:50 Ukrainian militants are holding civilians in Zelenodolsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), preventing them from returning to villages controlled by the Russian Armed Forces in the Kherson region, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.
20:15 Russian liberators inflicted missile attack on the railway bridge near Nikolaev. Four rockets destroyed the railway bridge near the village of Trikhaty.
19:52 Ukrainians offer to take a queue at the gas station for money - media.
18:48 The Ukrainian media, citing the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "wang" the loss of the entire Black Sea coast and the formation of a corridor from Rostov-on-Don to Tiraspol. In this regard, they predict the intensification of air and missile strikes and the further destruction of the military infrastructure of Ukraine.
18:33 Good news from the head of the National Police of Ukraine Igor Klymenko: all employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who have not yet left for the territory controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are considered dismissed.
Welcome to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR, LPR and RF!
18:26 How NATO supplies militants through Ukraine. Announcements about the sale of the American Javelin anti-tank systems by the Ukrainian military appeared on the darknet.
Then these weapons will go to the Middle East, Africa and so on. Because NATO does not think to whom they give weapons, and in the desire to harm Russia, they pump the entire criminal market with weapons, by the hands of cunning Ukrainian captors.
18:03 The authorities of the liberated Zaporozhye region announced the nationalization of Ukrainian property located in the region on February 24, 2022. This applies to various enterprises, land, natural resources, real estate, etc.
18:00 Personnel combat work of artillery units of the Airborne Troops during a special military operation. Paratroopers from artillery pieces D-30 destroyed military equipment, fire weapons, as well as camouflaged defensive structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
17:40 The first branch of the Russian bank in the Kherson region will open in the coming days - the head of the region.
17:30 The Russian Armed Forces are mobile, modern and able to solve the tasks assigned to them in any conditions, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation said. He added that in the development of new weapons, Russia is often ahead of many advanced armies in the world.
17:20 Since March 2, Russia has delivered over 11,000 tons of humanitarian cargo to Ukraine, carried out 810 humanitarian actions - the Russian Defense Ministry.
17:06 A batch of M109 self-propelled artillery mounts, which until 2015 belonged to the Belgian army, could get to Ukraine through private companies, Belgian media reported.
17:02 Vacancies in city enough, wages will exceed those that were at Ukrainian enterprises - the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo.
16:52 Personnel recent "calibration" of the railway bridge across the Dniester Estuary in Zatoka.
15:45 Residents of Kharkiv report an arrival and an explosion within the city.
15:35 The Russian army has stepped up military operations in the Kharkiv direction. The RF Armed Forces are building up their grouping. According to "Come and See", shelling of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has resumed in the north of the Kharkiv region.
“The grouping of the RF Armed Forces in Volchansk is being strengthened,” a channel source said.
According to another source, there are fights in the area of Fedorovka and Kutuzovka.
“It looks like an attempt to bag the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Saltov direction,” the source said.
Kharkov itself does not bypass the aggravation of hostilities. Two strikes were made on the city at night. (17th gymnasium and warehouses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slobozhansky district).
15:04 Negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine are possible only if Russian conditions are observed and they remain unchanged - Matvienko.
14:30 The explosion that occurred today in the port of the city of Berdyansk at 13.00 was the result of demining the port area from explosive devices left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the flight and discovered during the survey of the territory by employees of the military-civilian administration. Demining work continues.
14:24 An explosion is reported in the port of Berdyansk. According to some reports, there were two explosions - Сolonelcassad.
13:45 “This is a prison! No civilization around." In Bulgaria, Ukrainian refugees began relocate from hotels to containers. Disgruntled Ukrainians who fled Ukraine complain about the conditions of "containment" in fraternal Bulgaria.
13:10 Attempts by Ukraine to use foreign weapons on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation will significantly change the situation in an unfavorable direction - Peskov.
13:02 The influx of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has actually dried up since the beginning of May - the Russian Defense Ministry. Most of the mercenaries who fought for Kyiv were destroyed due to the low level of training and lack of combat experience.
11:55 Morning briefing by the Russian Defense Ministry. The main thing:
- Air-launched missiles hit 21 targets, incl. control points of the national battalions "Kraken" and "Azov" near Kharkov;
- Airstrikes were carried out on 15 objects;
- Three BM-21 Grad installations and one Osa-AKM air defense system were destroyed;
— In the area of N. p. Lubomirovka shot down Ukrainian Su-25;
- Air defense systems destroyed seven Ukrainian UAVs;
- Rocket troops and artillery hit 856 targets.
11:35 Free television has started working in Kherson, 64 analog channels and 170 digital channels are available to residents - Sergey Moroz, press secretary of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region.
10:18 By the morning of June 2, about 250 people applied for a Russian passport in the Kherson region. The deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremousov said.
09:36 Russian Aerospace Forces launched a missile attack on the Beskydy railway tunnel, which passes through the Carpathians in the Lviv region, - Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.
08:26 The Ukrainian authorities are now freezing negotiations with Russia, Dmitry Peskov said. The Kremlin representative also recalled that the Russian Federation had clearly voiced its demands on Ukraine, and they are well known to Kyiv. The negotiations, according to Peskov, are not moving forward, probably under pressure from the curators
08:18 Russia has clearly voiced its demands on Ukraine, they are well known to Kyiv, but the Ukrainian authorities are now freezing the negotiations, probably under pressure from the curators, preferring another option to the negotiation process, Peskov told RIA Novosti.
[IsraelTimes] ’Israel carries out diverse operations, most of which are covert, to prevent Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... from attaining nuclear capabilities,’ Gadi Eisenkot says
Iran would have obtained nuclear weapons years ago if not for undercover Israeli operations against the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear program, the former head of the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.
"Israel carries out diverse operations, most of which are covert, to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear capabilities," Gadi Eisenkot declared during a security conference held at Netanya Academic College.
"Without these actions I believe Iran would have already become a nuclear state some 7-10 years ago." He meant "a glowing plain of glass"
The former military chief also said Israel may need more than military might to address future security challenges, citing the situation in Ukraine as an example.
"When I examine the strategic balance, I see a cup half full and a cup half empty," he said, explaining that on the one hand, Israel has built "an impressive and massive security force" that provides Israel with a good reason to be confident.
"But if you look at the events unfolding between Russia and Ukraine, you see a country with very impressive military capabilities facing a very weak army, and you can see what international perception and support can do to a country’s prowess," Eisenkot noted.
The remarks came after the Israeli Air Force simulated a widescale strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities Tuesday night.
The simulated attack was part of the broader exercise that involves nearly all branches of the IDF and is focused on training for fighting on Israel’s northern borders, including against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... In light of Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities and continued uncertainty whether the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will be restored amid long-stalled negotiations, the IDF has ramped up its efforts to prepare a credible military threat against Tehran’s nuclear facilities over the past year.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ... Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday published documents he said showed that Iran had spied on UN’s atomic agency in order to plan a cover-up of its nuclear activities.
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We have lots of suicide wildlife also -- deer, elk, moose, antelope, tourists . . . Hard to miss them all. Hitting elk or moose is a sure way to commit suicide.
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You killed the Harley and ripped out some farmers fence!
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Antelope, like Moose, are high-centered. Tend to clear the hood and take out the passengers
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Try hitting a 1,100+ lbs ELK in the Nantahala National Forest Park area (WNC) .
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 2, 2022
The first woman to be brought home from Syria to stand trial in the Netherlands received a three-and-a-half-year prison term on Wednesday for joining the Islamic State group.
The 28-year-old, identified only as Ilham B. was repatriated last year from the Al-Roj detention camp in northeast Syria after she joined the IS and Jabhat al Nusra jihadist groups with her husband in 2013.
Rotterdam District Court said Ilham B. “is sentenced to 42 months in jail of which 12 suspended, for taking part in terrorist organisations and preparing various crimes.”
“The court is satisfied she participated in Syria in the Islamic State and Jabhat al Nusra terrorist organisations,” it said in a statement.
Prosecutors, who demanded an eight year sentence, said Ilham B. also sent out jihadist propaganda on social media and carried guns during her time in Syria.
Ilham B, from the western Dutch city of Gouda, left the Netherlands in September 2013 to travel to Syria via Turkey, court papers said.
Captured by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in 2017, she was eventually found in the sprawling Roj camp where she had a second child.
In June 2021 she was brought back to the Netherlands by Dutch officials through Iraq, and arrested upon arrival at Schiphol airport.
The return of jihadist fighters to stand trial in the Netherlands is a politically sensitive subject and the Dutch NCTV anti-terror agency has warned that returning women may give an “impulse to connecting and supporting jihadist activities”.
In February the government fetched five women from Roj camp to put them on trial in the Netherlands. The move came after a Rotterdam court last year warned it may have to drop charges against the women if they were not brought back within a matter of months.
Some 300 Dutch jihadists travelled to join fighters of the now defunct Islamic Caliphate during the height of the Syrian civil war, according to Dutch government figures. About 120 still remained, many in camps and detention centres in northern Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
The Hawl Camp,
...also called Al-Hol camp...
around 40 kilometers east of Hasakah, is a house for 56.775 individuals, most of them are Iraqis. The number of the wives and children of foreign ISIS fighters and detainees is estimated at thousands, and they live in a special sectors in the camp.
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[Korrespondent] 23:32 Zelensky in an evening video message: "The United States has confirmed at various levels that modern HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems are being sent to our state. These weapons will really help save the lives of our people and protect our land. <...> We are also waiting for good news about arms supplies from other partners. For example, today there is a new defense assistance package from Sweden. We are working to bring the volume of deliveries of modern combat systems to a higher level."
23:27 Russia's blockade of Ukrainian ports could lead to destabilization and mass protests in Africa and Europe. Read more in the material War around grain .
22:56 As a result of the shelling of the Zelenodolsk community of the Dnipropetrovsk region from the artillery of Maryansky, two children and their mother were injured, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, two houses were completely destroyed, several more were damaged.
22:53 According to the European border agency Frontex, based in Warsaw, the number of refugees from Ukraine to the EU has exceeded 7 million people - this includes 5.3 million citizens of Ukraine, as well as those who are not Ukrainian citizens.
22:50 Speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk said that the leadership of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation began to apply the Russian "tactics" known since 2014, but now also at sea. War criminals bring ships of the merchant fleet to the roadstead of Sevastopol with the AIS identification systems turned off to make it impossible to recognize them as civilian ships. Hiding their warships behind them, the occupiers continue to fire Kalibr-type cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities.
22:44 Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky believes that all citizens of Ukraine should have firearms to protect themselves and their homes. In his opinion, the Ukrainians "passed the exam" and with the beginning of the Russian invasion changed their attitude towards weapons.
22:21 Hungary is abusing the principle of unanimity in the European Union, using it as a means of blackmail, and should be deprived of a vote for this, says Vice President of the European Parliament Katarina Barli. She clarified that the procedure for depriving a country of a voice exists and can be applied in violation of the rule of law.
It was Hungary that prevented the EU from agreeing on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, demanding for itself not only a delay in the introduction of the oil embargo, but also large monetary compensation. Now the country has not allowed the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, to be included in the sanctions list.
22:17 After consultations with Ukraine, 45 OSCE participating States again activated the "Moscow mechanism", which provides for the documenting by a mission of experts of violations of human rights, international humanitarian law, as well as possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Ukraine by Russian troops with the support of Belarus .
During the meeting, the head of the French mission to the OSCE, Christine Fage, made a statement on behalf of 45 OSCE participating States on the new activation of the "Moscow Mechanism" in response to Russia's war against Ukraine.
21:55 Energoatom called all reports about possible scenarios for shutting down the Zaporizhzhya NPP from the energy system of Ukraine without any grounds: “Energoatom officially declares that today there is only one scenario - this is the stable and reliable operation of the ZNPP in the energy system of Ukraine. , neither from an economic, nor from a political, nor from a security point of view."
Earlier today, Advisor to the Prime Minister, former acting. Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko said that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is located in the occupied territory, may have to be stopped.
20:42 Severodonetsk is holding out and has every chance of an early release, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Ukrainian defenders are successfully carrying out local operations, taking prisoners, and have everything they need to push the Russians out of the regional center.
20:17 The Russians launched a massive missile attack using strategic aviation on the Nikolaev region. With four cruise missiles, the enemy hit the previously destroyed railway bridge near the village of Trikhaty, the Black Sea coast of the Nikolaev region and the rear areas of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also attacked, OK Pivden reported. In addition, Ochakov was attacked by Hurricane at night, and the regional center was once again fired from artillery.
20:01 During the war in Ukraine, the military of the Russian Federation completely destroyed Mariupol, Volnovakha, Rubizhne, Popasnaya, Liman and Severodonetsk. According to the deputy head of the OP Kirill Tymoshenko, the occupiers destroyed more than 350,000 objects.
19:40 Representatives of Russian companies were banned from entering the building of the European Parliament, said the head of the EP Roberta Mezola: "The ban on entry to the premises of the European Parliament for representatives of Russian companies comes into force immediately. We must not allow them to spread their propaganda and false toxic narratives about the invasion of Ukraine. We remain united and strong against autocrats."
19:32 Turkey has prepared a roadmap for ensuring the export of Ukrainian grain, the details of which will soon be discussed by representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the UN, writes Anadolu. It is also planned to create a command center in Istanbul. During the four-party meeting, which is scheduled for the coming days, the export route, insurance and safety of ships, and the clearance of the sea from mines will be discussed. In total, it is planned to supply 20 million tons of grain to the world market.
19:08 All police officers who did not appear on time from the occupied territories to other places of deployment in controlled territories were fired from the National Police, Head of the National Police Igor Klymenko said in an interview with Ukrainian News.
19:05 Salt has disappeared from the shelves in Ukraine. It is also difficult to find buckwheat in stores, the prices of which have increased significantly. Experts say other products will soon disappear. More details in the material What else will disappear from stores .
19:03 Belarus is mining its forest, bypass roads and bridges in the areas bordering Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
19:01 "Head" of the Zaporozhye region, collaborator Evgeny Balitsky signed a "decree" on the "nationalization" of property belonging to Ukraine. The "decree" was signed "in order to ensure state needs and preserve the national heritage for the inhabitants of the Zaporozhye region." Land plots, natural resources, objects of strategic sectors of the economy and other Ukrainian property are going to be transferred to the "ownership" of the region.
18:58 Zelensky spoke at the International Security Forum, which is taking place in Bratislava: "Right now, on the battlefield in Ukraine, there is a situation that can provide a turning point in the confrontation. When Russia loses the war against Ukraine, the freedom of Europeans will win for decades. As for sanctions, then the main point of the sanctions packages of the European Union is not just to harm Russia, but to make Europe independent of Russia, cut off all critical ties between Russia and European countries, which Moscow uses as a weapon, including energy. It takes so much time to discuss the sanctions package, in particular the sixth one."
18:49 Zelensky said that now the newly appointed ambassadors of foreign states will present their credentials in St. Sophia Cathedral: "This is a step by which Ukraine emphasizes its attitude towards each ambassador and relations with each state. I hope that now the famous mosaic image of Oranta, which is also called An indestructible wall that will protect not only Kiev and the Ukrainian state, but also all true friends of Ukraine who are nearby in difficult times."
18:35 The Ukrainian military will be able to determine the range of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems that Kiev will soon receive, new US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink said at a briefing: "As President Biden announced yesterday, a $700 million security package has been signed. It includes HIMARS systems, which are long-range artillery systems. This will help the Ukrainian forces deliver more accurate strikes at a greater distance. At what distance, the Ukrainian forces themselves will determine. "
Initially, four HIMARS systems will be provided, it will take about three weeks for the Ukrainian military to train.
18:21 German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said she supports granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for EU membership: "This is a historic moment. We cannot close the doors to Ukraine." At the same time, the Foreign Minister added that the European Commission will make a final decision on the status of Ukraine's candidate in June, "but we, the Germans, have a special responsibility at the moment."
However, she made it clear that Ukraine would not receive any special treatment in the further EU accession process.
18:13 The Russians stole 698 computers, 344 cars, 1,500 dosimeters, irreplaceable software and almost all fire extinguishing equipment from the nuclear laboratories of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, writes The Washington Post. The total damage exceeds $135 million. Some software was developed specifically for the station.
Making friends and influencing people in the inimitable Russian way.
17:44 The United States imposes sanctions against the Russian industrial corporation Severstal. Also, the US Treasury included in the list of sanctions Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Minister of Construction Fayzullin, Deputy Prime Minister Grigorenko, oligarch Mordashov and his sons, cellist Roldugin close to Putin.
17:07 A new package of EU sanctions provides for the disconnection of Sberbank, two more Russian and one Belarusian banks from SWIFT, the French presidency has announced. Also, representatives of law enforcement agencies from the Russian Federation, businessmen, and media representatives will be included in the new lists of EU personal sanctions.
The sanctions will include a ban on the import of Russian oil shipped by sea. As for the ban on oil imports via the pipeline, it will be introduced "as soon as it becomes possible."
17:03 There is no need for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Severodonetsk, said Alexei Gromov, Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, he acknowledged that there was a danger of capturing the city: "If Severodonetsk is captured, we will be forced to defend along the river bank and will also fight in urban areas."
17:00 Russia in the near future may apply the "Syrian experience" in Ukraine, said Alexei Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He explained that, judging by the development of the situation and the nature of the enemy’s activities, in the near future, his priority tasks will be to increase the intensity of the use of aviation and launch missile strikes throughout Ukraine, as well as to continue the total destruction of civilian infrastructure and civilians, primarily for through air and missile strikes. According to him, this is the so-called "Syrian experience."
Gromov believes that the further goal of Russia is to encircle and destroy the grouping of the Joint Forces, create a stable land corridor from the Rostov region to the Crimea and later to Transnistria and, as a result, deprive Ukraine of access to the Black and Azov Seas.
16:51 Journalist Rikard Jozwiak writes that the EU approved the sixth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation, while Patriarch Kirill was not included in the list - he was expelled at the request of Hungary.
16:49 The national police reported that last night in the Obukhov district of the Kiev region, Ukrainian air defense shot down a Russian missile. There were no casualties and no damage, only for some time in several settlements the power went out.
16:47 Vereshchuk urged parents not to send their children to educational institutions in the uncontrolled territory, and teachers not to work for Russia: "Let's be honest: there will be no normal life in the temporarily occupied territories until they are reunited with Ukraine. In addition to a bunch of legal problems, there are one more - Ukraine will fight for its lands: therefore, the temporarily occupied territories can be a war zone. Here we must be honest with each other."
The minister also called on teachers not to risk their careers and not work in Russian-led schools: “As for teachers, especially young ones, a wrong decision now can forever destroy professional life. Therefore, I appeal to teachers of educational institutions of all levels in the temporarily occupied territories: do not work in invaders. Just move to the territory controlled by the government of Ukraine. You will find work here."
16:43 OPEC + may agree to increase production by 648 thousand barrels per day in July-August. Yermak said that during his conversation with the ministers of foreign affairs of the member countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, he called "for his own benefit" to help the West overcome its energy dependence on Russia.
16:41 About 800 people are hiding under the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said in a commentary to CNN. According to him, there are local residents in shelters who were asked to evacuate, but they refused. There are children among them. Gaidai stressed that from a military point of view, the plant does not matter, so "Nitrogen is definitely not Azovstal."
16:39 Law enforcement officers have identified ten Russian servicemen who plundered the property of residents of Bucha, Kiev region. The occupiers were informed of suspicion, they were put on the international wanted list, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
16:17 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the police have received 9,030 missing persons reports, 6,793 people are still wanted, the Interior Ministry said. Most of the missing people are in Donetsk (1660 people), Kyiv (584), Kharkov (581), Poltava (579) and Dnepropetrovsk (566) regions.
In addition, the department recorded 1115 unidentified bodies. Most of them are in Kyiv (239), as well as in Kyiv (234), Ternopil (152), Luhansk (123) and Chernihiv (85) regions.
15:56 Since the beginning of hostilities, Russia has made 5722 sorties of tactical aviation and 551 launches of cruise missiles of the Iskander and Kalibr type, said Alexei Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff. According to him, 1,211 air raids, more than 20% of the total, and 61 launches of Iskander-type cruise missiles were carried out from the territory of Belarus alone in order to destroy Ukraine's critical infrastructure.
15:54 Yermak addressed the foreign ministers of the countries - members of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: "Ukraine wants to become more open and understandable for the Arab world. Therefore, we are ready to assist in the opening of bureaus of Arab state television companies in our country. We will provide them with an appropriate level security."
Address of the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the member countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.
15:48 Germany responded to accusations of slow arms supplies to Ukraine. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht told Deutschlandfunk Kultur in an interview that the country has now organized a "circular exchange": if EU countries supply Ukraine, for example, with Soviet-made equipment, Germany will later restore their stocks.
As for the direct supply of Western-style tanks, according to Lambrecht, such decisions are always agreed with the allies. At the end of June, Ukraine will already receive PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers, and for the supply of Cheetahs, their modernization and military training are needed, the minister added.
15:20 Sweden is sending new military aid to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said. According to her, the new package will include anti-ship missiles, anti-tank weapons and 12.7-mm rifles, as well as ammunition. "This fourth support package also includes a financial contribution to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The total amount is more than 95 million euros. Russia's war against Ukraine must stop!" - wrote the minister.
15:03 Ukraine and Poland signed a memorandum on the establishment of a joint commission to establish cooperation between enterprises of the two countries. According to Shmygal, the document will prepare recommendations on the format for creating a Ukrainian-Polish joint venture for the production of weapons and military equipment.
14:58 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the EU should support Ukraine's entry into the bloc, while maintaining the implementation of all standards and requirements. She believes that the European Union is obliged to support Ukraine on its way to the EU, since this is its "historical responsibility."
14:51 Turkey will give Lithuania Bayraktar, for which the Lithuanians collected money, in order to later transfer it to Ukraine. Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said that now Lithuania will be able to buy the necessary ammunition for Bayraktar with the money raised, the rest of the funds will also go to support Ukraine.
14:44 Yermak said that today, together with Zaluzhny, he had a telephone conversation with US National Security Adviser Jacob Sullivan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley: "We discussed a new US military assistance package for Ukraine, including HIMARS MLRS and ammunition, helicopters Mi-17, Javelin missiles, tactical vehicles, radars and other ammunition. It is important that this is not the last US assistance. We voiced the needs of our army to defeat Russia. I can say that we also discussed future surprises that the enemy will definitely not like" .
14:28 Belgium will sell 155-mm self-propelled guns M109 to Ukraine. According to the Minister of Defense of the country Ludivine Dedonder, howitzers have already been sent to the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Belgian warehouses.
13:57 The National Bank raised the discount rate by 1,500 basis points - up to 25% per annum from the current 10%. This is the maximum since 2015, according to the NBU website.
13:29 An interim "tribunal" over the Ukrainian military will be held in Mariupol, the "DPR parliament" said.
13:26 Ireland has recognized Russia's invasion of Ukraine as genocide , said the speaker of the upper house of the Irish Parliament, Mark Daly.
13:24 Belarus is moving armored vehicles to the border with the Volyn region. Belaruski Gayun reports that yesterday in the Grodno region, at the railway stations of Korobchitsy and Svisloch, equipment was loaded, including: 37 units of infantry fighting vehicles, five 9K33M3 Osa air defense systems, two Urals, BRDM-2, BTS-4, two units of bases for the Osa air defense system under awning. All equipment belongs to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus, on many of the machines you can see an identification mark - a red square.
Today, around 08:00, this echelon left Grodno, and at 10:00 it was already seen in Baranovichi, as well as in ag. Forest. After 40 minutes in the area of ag. Domanovo (Ivatsevichi district) and at 11:00 in Ivatsevichi in the direction of Brest.
13:10 Peskov said that the continued supply of weapons to Kiev "will bring more suffering to Ukraine itself, which is an instrument of the supplying countries." The goals of the Russian "operation", he said, will be achieved, the use of foreign weapons "will only aggravate the situation."
13:09 Peskov said that holding a referendum on the entry of Donbass into the Russian Federation in the current conditions is "hardly possible", first you need to ensure the security of the "republics".
13:07 Member of the Finnish Parliament and Chairman of the Kurdish Friendship Group Johan Kvarnström said that Finland would not extradite Kurds from the Kurdistan Workers' Party and members of the FETO organization to Turkey, whom Ankara recognizes as terrorists and demands to be extradited.
13:05 The head of the commission of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation for the protection of state sovereignty, Andrei Klimov, said that the supply of long-range weapons to the United States "threatens the territory of the Russian Federation" and requires "the demilitarization of Ukraine to a depth much greater than the Donbass."
12:54 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Russian army destroyed most of the "mercenaries" who fought for Kiev due to "a low level of training and lack of combat experience." In particular, hundreds of "foreign mercenaries" in Ukraine were allegedly killed by "precision weapons shortly after their arrival in the training camps." Also, Moscow said that the influx of "foreign mercenaries" into Ukraine since the beginning of May "virtually dried up."
12:51 In Mariupol, residents record the beginning of a pestilence of fish, in particular dolphins. This may indicate the presence of the disease in the sea water, according to the adviser to the mayor of the city, Petr Andryushchenko. According to him, the sea of fish is inherent in the Sea of Azov during the period of abnormal heat in July. But given the temperature and the season, the onset of a fish kill at this time could indicate the presence of disease in the water.
"The epidemic is no longer just a threat, but a reality... The sea today is one of the few places of hygiene for Mariupol residents, so the threat has ceased to be just a warning," Andryushchenko said.
12:50 Zelensky addressed the politicians and people of Luxembourg: "I thank the authorities and people of Luxembourg for the historic decision to provide weapons to Ukraine. Unlike other states, Luxembourg does not have large military depots or large defense production facilities. But you showed solidarity on the scale of a great nation and provided defense assistance on time and without unnecessary bureaucracy, as befits people with a big soul."
12:47 Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto noted that he was counting on a faster procedure for admission to NATO: "Some member countries, starting with Turkey, expressed certain doubts. We are trying to convince Finland and Sweden of the advantages of admission. I thought that we could would like to become members of the alliance in a shorter time, but now it is difficult to make predictions. I hope that we will be invited to the NATO summit in Madrid."
12:38 Poland from July 1 will stop paying benefits to Ukrainian refugees. Prior to that, they received 40 zloty (about 280 hryvnia) per day for food and accommodation. Payments will continue only for families with many children, pregnant women and the disabled. Warsaw motivates its decision with the desire to encourage refugees to start earning and provide for their needs on their own, writes Rzeczpospolita.
12:33 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko commented on Lavrov's demand to clear Ukrainian ports of mines to start the exit of ships with grain: "Russia must immediately unblock Ukrainian seaports, stop shelling Odessa and other coastal cities, withdraw its navy to a distance that will prevent attacks on merchant ships, and not create obstacles to international navigation."
According to Nikolenko, Ukraine, together with partners, is discussing the possibility of creating an international mission to unblock Ukrainian maritime exports. He also stated that Russia laid siege to Ukrainian seaports, and the Russian fleet mined part of the sea area.
12:24 In Kiev, it was allowed to sell alcohol in stores from 11:00 to 19:00, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
12:20 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that the Russian army is trying to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in several directions - from Zolote, Popasnaya, Kamyshevakhi, and Belogorovka. Over the past day, the enemy has not had any successes in Severodonetsk; they managed to push him back from several streets.
12:14 Prosecutors recorded the death of 17 more children in Mariupol - thus the number of confirmed deaths of Ukrainian children at the hands of the Russian military has increased to 261, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
12:06 In the Mariupol region, the invaders are arresting and shooting Ukrainian volunteers and officials who refused to cooperate with collaborators and the occupation authorities.
As the mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko said, the "DPR court" sentenced the head of one of the Azov settlements to a ten-year prison term. At least one civil servant executed by firing squad. Also, the prison in Olenovka contains several dozen volunteers who, in March-April, helped in the evacuation of Mariupol residents and tried to deliver food with water to the blocked city. A Ukrainian judge, who has considered several high-profile cases on separatism, is also awaiting the "republic's" verdict. There are reports of torture being used against her.
11:53 The Taiwanese government has banned local manufacturers from selling chips with a clock frequency above 25 MHz and a performance of more than 5 gigaflops to Russia and Belarus. Thus, Taiwan joins the European, British and American technological sanctions, since it is impossible to produce more or less complex devices with chips that are allowed to be supplied. In addition, Russia and Belarus will not be able to buy Taiwanese equipment for the production of chips, such as scanning electron microscopes, as well as all types of semiconductor instruments.
11:19 In the Kherson region, the Russian military is suffering from a lack of logistical support, so they come to the locals and try to get hired to pick strawberries, the Pivnich Operational Command reports. The Russians are ready to lay down their arms and pick strawberries in groups, offering their services for 50 hryvnia per hour.
11:00 Podolyak said that Ukraine has the moral right to ask the West for weapons: "Some politicians today say:" Nobody owes Ukraine anything. Fight with what you have and stop demanding weapons." Of course, Ukraine is very grateful for any help. But there is a nuance that requires a historical digression. Many years ago, Ukraine not only abandoned nuclear weapons, but also destroyed its missile potential in exchange for guarantees security. Today we have neither weapons nor security. Considering this, we have the moral right to ask for help. And we are grateful that our partners lend us a shoulder."
10:58 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 2. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut direction.
personnel - about 30,850 (+150) people liquidated,
tanks - 1363 (+2),
armored combat vehicles - 3354 (+11),
artillery systems - 661 (+2),
MLRS - 207 (+0),
air defense systems - 95 (+1),
aircraft - 210 (+2),
helicopters - 175 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 521 (+2),
cruise missiles - 120 (+0),
ships/boats - 13 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2325 (+35),
special equipment - 51 (+2).
10:47 Biden said that the US and the EU are discussing the possibility of buying Russian oil at a price below the market price instead of refusing to import it against the backdrop of a sharp increase in fuel prices, writes CNN.
10:33 Ukraine and Slovakia have signed a contract for the supply of eight Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers to Kiev, Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy said.
10:15 Saudi Arabia is ready to increase oil production if production in Russia falls significantly as a result of sanctions imposed on it, writes FT. Earlier, Saudi Arabia resisted calls to accelerate the increase in production, despite record price increases. Saudi Arabia believes it should keep idle production capacity in reserve. But concerns about an outright shortage of supplies have intensified after the EU passed another package of sanctions against Moscow, including an oil embargo.
10:12 In the Kharkiv region, there are places where the Ukrainian army has reached the border with the Russian Federation, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "Near the Ukrainian border with Russia, the enemy is trying to dig in, supposedly there is a threat of our offensive actions across the Ukrainian-Russian border. This is Russian tactics to tie down our troops and prevent one unit from being transferred to where we need to strengthen."
10:05 Reconstruction of residential buildings affected by Russian shelling has begun in Kiev, the Kyiv City State Administration reported. The work is scheduled to be completed closer to mid-autumn so that the townspeople return to their homes by the beginning of the heating season. The city allocated almost UAH 600 million from the capital budget for the reconstruction, and the government also allocated UAH 200 million from the state budget. In total, almost 390 buildings are in need of restoration, of which more than 220 are residential buildings, the rest are social infrastructure facilities.
09:56 The American Institute for the Study of War notes that the Russians are trying to secure communication and supply lines in the Kherson region after a series of successful counter-offensives by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces are close enough to supply lines to potentially undermine the ability of the Russians to counter Ukrainian counter-offensives from the north of the region.
09:45 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, told the details of the evening missile attack, which was delivered from 22:45 to 22:55. As a result of rocket attacks, the railway infrastructure in the Stryi and Sambir regions was damaged. In total, four cruise missiles were launched, they were launched from the Black Sea.
Railroad facilities are significantly damaged, many trains are delayed. Specialists of the Lviv Railway are working to restore communication. Five people were injured - three in the Stryi region and two in the Sambir region. Four people are in a state of moderate severity, they are in hospitals in the region. Another victim received minor injuries, she was not hospitalized. There are no dead.
09:29 Troops of the Russian Federation this morning once again fired at Slavyansk of Donetsk region. According to the mayor of the city, Vadim Lyakh, as a result of the strike on the private sector, there were no casualties or injuries, but there is no electricity in the city due to a broken high-voltage line. The water supply, which yesterday began to be debugged by the Water of Donbass enterprise, was also stopped. The mayor of the city urges his countrymen to evacuate.
09:24 The HIMARS MLRS transferred to Ukraine are already in Europe, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said. According to him, before the transfer of equipment, the United States will train Ukrainian fighters, which will take about three weeks.
09:22 The "DNR" stated that there are about 8,000 prisoners of war on the territory of the two pseudo-republics.
09:20 British intelligence reports that the Russians have taken control of most of Severodonetsk. At the same time, the main road leading to the Severodonetsk pocket probably remains under the control of Ukraine, but Russia continues to build up local successes thanks to a strong concentration of artillery, although it has suffered losses.
Analysts say crossing the Seversky Donets is vital for Russian forces as they seize the Luhansk region and prepare to turn their attention to Donetsk. Potential crossing points are between Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, and also not far from the recently captured Liman. In both places, the line of the river is likely still controlled by Ukrainian forces, which have destroyed existing bridges.
It is likely that Russia will need a short tactical pause to reboot before forcing the rivers and subsequent attacks deep into the Donetsk region, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces have prepared defensive positions. However, this could lead to the loss of some of the momentum gained over the past week, experts add.
09:08 At night, the Russians launched three missile attacks on the Sumy region, said the head of the OVA Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, the strikes were delivered from an aircraft on the territory of the Krasnopol community. As a result of a direct hit by a rocket, one house was destroyed, and several more were damaged. According to preliminary data, at least three local residents were injured.
08:59 The Turkish newspaper Sabah writes about consultations on the grain deblockade of Ukraine. According to the publication, Moscow has two conditions - the demining of the Ukrainian water area and the lifting of sanctions against Russian merchant ships, which are prohibited from insuring. Ukraine, on the other hand, says that it agrees to clear mines in the water area in two weeks if NATO countries protect the ports from Russia.
08:47 Angela Merkel expressed solidarity with Ukraine in what she called a "barbaric war" with Russia after her months-long silence drew criticism of her policy towards Moscow, writes Reuters. In particular, she stated that she supports the government's efforts to "find an end to this barbaric war." "My solidarity with Ukraine," Merkel added.
08:32 Peskov said that Russia has clearly voiced its demands on Ukraine, they are well known to Kiev, but "the Ukrainian authorities are now freezing the negotiations, probably under pressure from the curators, preferring another option to the negotiation process."
08:26 The Russians are preparing to fire at educational institutions in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said. The occupiers began to massively disseminate information that "firing positions of the national battalions" were located there. The General Staff in today's summary also reported that the occupiers continue to spread information about the alleged location of military units in schools, hospitals and kindergartens in order to justify the destruction of civilian facilities.
08:24 In Severodonetsk Azot, the Russians damaged a warehouse with methanol, in Lisichansk they were hospitalized, said the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
08:07 In Kharkiv, Russians fired at a school at night, which is located in the Kievsky district of the city, the library was on fire. After the fire, a woman's body was found, four more people were injured, according to the State Emergency Service.
07:54 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy continues to fire at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along the entire line of contact, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report . In the Slavyansk direction, the enemy is focused on holding occupied positions. The invaders fired at the settlements of Dolgenkoye, Kurulka, Vernopolye and Dolina.
On the Liman direction, the enemy fought in the direction of the settlement of Raygorodok, but withdrew with losses. In the Severodonetsk direction, the enemy is conducting assault operations in the city of Severodonetsk, unsuccessfully conducting an assault in the direction of the settlements of Bobrovo and Ustinovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy is conducting assault operations in the village of Kamyshevakh with the aim of taking control of the city, with partial success, the fighting continues. The troops of the Russian Federation unsuccessfully conducted an assault in the directions of the settlements of Nagornoe and Belogorovka.
In the Seversk direction, from the territory of the Russian Federation, the enemy fired mortars at the settlements of Seredina-Buda, Progress, Sumy region and Leonovka, Chernihiv region. In the Kharkiv direction, the positions of the Defense Forces were fired at in the areas of the settlements of Mikhailovka, Prudyanka and Verkhny Saltov.
06:55 Residents of Denmark voted in a referendum on June 1 to join the EU defense policy. Denmark has become the last EU country to sign a common policy. The decision was made due to Russian military aggression in Ukraine.
06:27 AFU destroyed two high-speed landing boats of the Russian Federation, ready to practice sabotage in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, OK Pivden reported.
05:06 Germany will hand over to Greece the Marder armored personnel carrier, which the German arms company Rheinmetall and Ukraine agreed on in a declaration of intent back in March. According to Bild, citing a source in the German government, Scholz wanted to "finally put an end to the tedious disputes about armored personnel carriers," therefore functioning Marder are being taken out of Germany so that they are no longer available to Ukraine. At the same time, about 100 Soviet infantry fighting vehicles of the BMP-1A1 Vostok type are to leave Athens for Ukraine.
05:01 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian troops are trying to advance towards Lisichansk from the south and west, avoiding the crossing of the Seversky Donets from Severodonetsk. Also, Russian troops are fighting for control of Belogorovka (where the Russians failed the attempt to force the Seversky Donets) and Vrubovka, which will allow attacking Lisichansk from the west.
04:23 Ukraine launched a counteroffensive in the Kherson region: the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already liberated more than 20 settlements from Russian invaders. According to the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Gennady Laguta, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving further south. About what this means for the course of the war in Ukraine - in the material What's next?
04:17 In the Black Sea, the number of enemy ships threatening missile strikes has increased from two to three, OK Pivden reported. At the same time, landing ships are not observed. The Russians dragged their two wrecked Raptors from Zmeinoye to their base in Sevastopol with "remains of hope" to revive them.
04:13 Information about the attack on the Beskydy tunnel is not true, said Alexander Kamyshin, head of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia. At the same time, he confirmed that as a result of the missile attack, the railway infrastructure on the Lviv railway was damaged. According to Kamyshin, there were no injured among the railway workers. Three passenger trains are delayed, there is no threat to passengers.
03:04 The UK will send M270 multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine, said Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. The move was "closely coordinated" with the US decision to provide Kyiv with the HIMARS system, he said. The Ukrainian military will be taught how to handle launchers in the UK.
"As Russia's tactics change, so should our support for Ukraine. These highly effective multiple launch rocket systems will enable our Ukrainian friends to better insulate themselves from Russia's brutal use of long-range artillery, which Putin's forces have indiscriminately used to destroy cities," he said. Wallace.
In turn, Politico writes that the UK has asked the US to approve the shipment of advanced M270 medium-range missile systems to Ukraine. On Thursday, June 2, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken are to discuss this issue.
The UK will be the first country to send American-made MLRS to Ukraine. But the US must formally approve the move under export regulations.
00:57 The Biden administration plans to sell four MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs to Ukraine, which can be armed with Hellfire missiles, but their sale may be blocked by Congress, writes Reuters. The Gray Eagle is a technological leap because it is capable of flying for over 30 hours depending on its mission and collecting vast amounts of intelligence data.
00:42 The head of the Lviv OVA, Maxim Kozitsky, said that five people were injured as a result of rocket fire in the Stryi district, their condition is assessed by doctors as mild or moderate.
00:30 Zelensky, in an evening video message, cited statistics on children affected by the war: "During the 98 days of a full-scale invasion, 689 children suffered as a result of attacks by the invaders. And this is only what we know. We do not yet have all the information from the occupied territory. But from what is known today - 446 children were injured, 243 children died. Another 139 are missing. <...> Russia is also pursuing a consistent policy of deporting our people. It takes both adults and children by force. In total, more than 200 thousand Ukrainian children. These are orphans from orphanages. And children with their parents. And children separated from their families. The purpose of this criminal policy is not just to kidnap people, but to make the deportees forget about Ukraine and cannot return."
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:19 Ukrainian militants launched a missile attack on Yenakiyevo. The air defense forces of the DPR managed to shoot down a Smerch MLRS missile. Unfortunately, residential buildings in the private sector were damaged. Two civilians were hospitalized. 21:05 Fightsfor the Bakhmut-Lysichansk highway. Control over this section of the road will make it possible to cut off a large grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which now holds the city of Lisichansk, from logistics and military support.
20:45 Ukrainian militant sfired upon Flint from heavy weapons.
19:06 Basurin said that the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to counterattack in the Avdieivka area cost three tanks destroyed and 70 killed.
Apparently, another company came under artillery fire when reaching the line of attack - Colonelcassad (Boris Rozhin).
18:56 After Azovstal, one more underground inmates appeared. Now Azot. There are about 800 people in bomb shelters under the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. Kyiv data. That is, there is a boiler, and there is no way to take them out. They will be taken prisoner again.
18:18 The forces of the DPR and Russia will close the boiler in the area of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk in a few days - Basurin.
17:50 Exclusive personnel from the colony in Yelenovka - how the prisoners of Azov who laid down their arms in Mariupol are being held. Ukrainian servicemen who surrendered from Azovstal in Mariupol were taken to a colony in Yelenovka.
We present a special report by Readovka about the new living conditions of those who laid down their arms in Mariupol. Three meals a day are organized for them in the colony, and medical care is provided to all the wounded.
17:35 A medical train from the Leningrad region has arrived in Enakievo. Medics will work on the territory of Yenakiyevo for about a month. This will help determine what kind of medical assistance to residents will be provided in the future.
17:15 American MLRS HIMARS, which Ukraine will receive, pose a real threat to the republics of Donbass - LPR Foreign Minister.
17:10 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received about the damage to the Yasinovsky coke plant as a result of the shelling of the VFU of the Kirovsky district of the settlement. Makeevka at st. 50 years of the formation of the USSR.
17:00 Shelling from the side of the VFU was recorded in the following directions:
n.p. Noises - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): four LNG grenades were fired, small arms were also used;
n.p. Maryinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 10 shots were fired from a tank, 10 mines were fired with a caliber of 12 mm;
n.p. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): five LNG grenades were fired, small arms were also used.
16:50 Mayor of Mariupol: about 2,000 buildings in the city are in need of reconstruction. It is necessary to build prefabricated houses for 50,000 people.
15:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Maryinka - Donetsk (Petrovsky district): 12 shots were fired from a tank.
15:07 The DPR forces suppressed the attempts of the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian troops in the area of Avdeevka, south-west of Donetsk and Novomikhailovka - Basurin.
15:06 Rewarding soldiers and officers of the DPR OBTF for the liberation of Mariupol on the territory of Azovstal.
15:04 The first stage of the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals will be held in Mariupol. It will be called the Mariupol Tribunal.
In addition to the Ukrainian Nazis who committed crimes in Mariupol, foreign mercenaries and NATO instructors will also be tried there.
15:00 Russian servicemen to the city of Pervomaisk LPR brought humanitarian aid. More than thirty tons of food products were delivered to residents, including baby food, hygiene products, medicines, as well as basic necessities.
14:37 The first stage of the Tribunal over Ukrainian war criminals will be held in Mariupol. It will be called the Mariupol Tribunal.
In addition to the Ukrainian Nazis who committed crimes in Mariupol, foreign mercenaries and NATO instructors will also be tried there.
14:28 Makiivka was subjected to massive shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine
13:50 The Chervonogvardeisky district was under attack, on which 10 shells of 155mm caliber were fired. At the same time, a volley of 10 shells of 155mm caliber also hit the Kirovsky district.
13:44 In the morning, they report the capture of Kamyshevakhi (near Zolote) and the complete cleansing of Shchurovo (Slavic direction).
13:23 Petrovsky district is again under fire from Ukrainian militants. At 12:00 as a result of the shelling, damage to the glazing and households was recorded. buildings of houses of the private sector on the street. Velyaminova, 38, 40, 41a, 42.
13:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Petrovskyi district): fired five shells with a caliber of 122mm.
12:36 Central city district of Horlivka under fire from VFU artillery. Ukrainian militants continue shelling the city's civilian infrastructure from positions in Novgorodsky. Artillery of 155mm NATO standard caliber is used against the civilian population.
12:05 Air defense systems intercepted Ukrainian missiles, the wreckage collapsed in Yenakiyevo. A number of housing constructions along the street were damaged. Krasnodar. Two civilians, a man and a woman, were injured.
11:53 Over the past day, the AFU fired at the territory of the DPR 68 times, firing almost 500 large-caliber shells at peaceful cities and towns. As a result of the shelling, one civilian was killed and 17 more were injured of varying severity, including a child born in 2012.
11:21 APU is shelling the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. The supply of long-range weapons by the United States threatens the territory of the Russian Federation and requires the demilitarization of Ukraine to a "depth" much greater than the Donbass - the head of the Federation Council commission for the protection of state sovereignty.
11:15 VFU continues strike at the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka with 155mm artillery from positions in Avdievka.
10:12 According to the operational line of the JCCC DPR, information was received that as a result of the shelling of the VFU, 14 transformer substations, the settlements of Zemlyanka and Yasinovka, the Yasinovka Coke and Chemical Plant were de-energized. Without power supply 2,084 subscribers.
09:32 About 8,000 prisoners of war are on the territory of the DPR and LPR, how many of them will receive the status of defendants, it will become clear closer to the tribunal, Elena Shishkina, head of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, told RIA Novosti.
09:01 AFU attacked Makiivka with NATO caliber artillery. Ukrainian militants from positions in Avdiivka again attacked the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeevka, using 155mm artillery.
08:16 Artillerymen of the NM DPR inflictblowson the positions of Ukrainian nationalists. Howitzer self-propelled artillery battalion of the 9th Regiment of the NM of the DPR fires at the detected accumulation of manpower and equipment of Ukrainian nationalists in the Avdievsky direction using Giacint-B guns
08:10 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction: n.p. Avdiivka - n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): seven shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
08:00 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novoluganskoye - n.p. Golmovsky: fired eight mines in 120mm caliber.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities in Bavaria say they are releasing all previously unpublished files on the attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics following criticism from relatives of the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches who were killed there.
Joachim Herrmann, the top security official in the southern German state, said Thursday that Bavaria will no longer keep any files under wraps, but conceded that federal authorities might still hold confidential files.
The Paleostinian group Black September
...a Fatah sock puppet launched in 1971 to get retribution from the kingdom of Jordan for violently expelling the PLO after the PLO tried to overthrow the government. Naturally this meant they had to hold hostage and kill Israeli Olympic athletes in Germany, among other unrelated attacks. The group was formally dissolved in 1974, which did not stop Mossad from hunting down the big turbans, while the minions were reassigned elsewhere in the Fatah organization ...
took numerous members of the Israeli team hostage on September 5, 1972, with the goal of forcing the release of prisoners held by Israel
...which also had nothing to do with punishing Jordan...
and two left-wing turbans in West German jails. Eleven Israelis and a West German police officer died during a botched rescue attempt.
Complaints about persistent secrecy surrounding the files had threatened to overshadow a planned memorial event for the 50th anniversary of the attack. Some relatives of those killed have also demanded compensation from Germany, something the government has rejected.
What a load of B.S. The Bavarian state police had no idea what they were doing and just shot it out with the terrorists. To botch means you had some kind of plan that didn't work. There wasn't any plan. Just "shoot and miss".
#3
The Olympic Massacre happened back when international terrorism was the New Thing and we were progressing from "Take this plane to Cuba" theater where no one got hurt to a form where dead people on TV was the goal. Due to the newness of it all, I'd cut the Bavarians a little slack. Besides, that thing about no plan survives first contact with the enemy...
At Uvalde, on the other hand, they should have been able to flip open a binder and run the play. The school has plans for fires and tornadoes. Not having one for crazy people is negligent.
#4
/\ What SteveS said. This is 2020 and there are FPS games with scenario editors -- they could have a 3D mockup already to plan things. Of course the "real thing" probably will be modified by humans and "tree gnomes" (the mythical creatures that add imaginary trees to you GPS plotted map route -or- make real terrain features disappear in VR).
[Dawn] Iranian authorities handed over 107 illegal Pak immigrants colonists to Levies Force on Tuesday via Rahdari Gate in Taftan, a border town in Chagai district.
According to official sources, these people had been arrested in different parts of Iran ...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979... for illegally crossing into that country and not having valid travel documents.
Most of the illegal immigrants colonists were aiming to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and European countries via Iran in search of jobs, sources said.
A Levies official told Dawn all the detained people, including nine women and 12 children, were handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency for investigation and prosecution.
He said the illegal immigrants colonists included 74 people from Punjab, 24 from Sindh, four from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , four from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and one from Azad Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... .j
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Last week, Enochian Biosciences’ co-founder, “scientific founder”, “inventor”, and largest shareholder, Serhat Gumrukcu, was arrested by Federal authorities over allegations that he conspired in a plot to murder a Vermont father of six.
The victim, Gregory Davis, was murdered on January 6th, 2018, just 19 days before Gumrukcu was scheduled to appear in court to defend himself against felony fraud allegations related to a 2016 deal with Davis. Federal prosecutors argued that the prospective merger deal that eventually resulted in Enochian going public served as a key motive for the murder.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration declared that June will be called "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month" in a proclamation released on Tuesday. Last year, "intersex" was not included in the proclamation.
[Task and Purpose] Fans of the free-to-play military video game "War Thunder" are so passionate about the game that they’ve taken to sharing actual classified schematics for real-life military vehicles in an effort to win arguments with complete strangers online. 
[Summit] An expert on artificial intelligence says that within 50 years, parents will opt to have "digital offspring" that only exist in the metaverse due to concerns over the environment and overpopulation.
[IsraelTimes] Ankara seeks to rebrand country by dissociating name from game bird, negative connotations.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
[IsraelTimes] Army says suspects threw Molotov cocktail at troops; witness claims 17-year-old was shot without cause; is third Paleostinian killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Arabic for 
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.....jpg "Kashmir")
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...the gang of subgeniuses trying to pass themselves off as the 
...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 
[IsraelTimes] After more than a year without immigration flights from Addis Ababa, the first of what is promised to be 3,000 new olim greeted with festive ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...The nation is noted for 
[FoxNews] Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country’s massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty.
...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 
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...
Hezbollah
