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A lot of ancient cars had the little fans you see on the right side door frame of this picture. But the fans I saw years ago were mounted on the dash before car a/c.
[Fox News] Air Force refuses to release airman's name unless he or she is charged
The U.S. Air Force has arrested a service member in connection with an investigation into an April bombing at a small American base in Syria.
The April attack injured four U.S. service members, and authorities have since been investigating the source of the insider attack. However, the arrested airman has yet to be charged with setting off the explosives.
"As part of an ongoing investigation, on June 16, an Airman was taken into custody stateside in conjunction with the attack in Green Village, Syria," Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said in a statement.
"After reviewing the information in the investigation, the Airman's commander made the decision to place him in pretrial confinement," she added.
The military is refusing to release the airman's name unless he or she is charged.
Authorities say the explosive device used was relatively small, little more than a hand grenade, according to CNN.
News of the arrest comes roughly a week after the Air Force cleared crew members for the deaths of Afghan citizens who attempted to cling to aircraft evacuating from the Kabul airport in Afghanistan last year.
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[FoxNews] Several record-high temperatures are in jeopardy of falling as excessive heat continues in the southeastern US
Some much-needed relief from the oppressive heat is on the way for the Plains and Midwest, but the focus now is on the southeastern U.S., where temperatures will continue to soar into the upper 90s and lower 100s on Wednesday.
NOAA's Weather Prediction Center says a cold front sweeping eastward through the Ohio Valley will result in a cooling trend, with temperatures in the lower 90s on Wednesday dropping to the 80s on Thursday.
But the hot weather will continue across the Southern Plains and the Southeast, where several record-high temperatures are in jeopardy of falling Wednesday afternoon.
As a result, heat alerts are in effect for millions of Americans, warning them to take precautions to prevent heat-related illnesses such as heatstroke.
Some major cities across the region are included in Heat Advisories, which will remain in effect until at least Thursday.
Those cities include Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the National Weather Service says it could feel like 106 degrees by the afternoon.
Most of Mississippi is included in those advisories, as well as the Birmingham, Alabama, area. The NWS is also saying the heat and humidity could make it feel like 105 degrees by Thursday afternoon.
Portions of Middle Georgia, including the Macon area, are under Excessive Heat Watches. The NWS says temperatures will soar above 100 degrees during the day, and the humidity will make it feel around 105 degrees as well.
Temperatures are generally forecast to be in the upper 90s across the Southeast, but several locations will be hotter than that.
Dallas/Fort Worth, Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans are expected to be about 98 degrees on Wednesday, with areas to the north, like Little Rock, Arkansas, getting very close to 100 degrees.
Tallahassee, Florida, and Columbia, South Carolina, will be above the century mark, with a high temperature in both cities around 102 degrees.
Those temperatures are excessively hot, but the humidity will make it feel even hotter.
Macon and Augusta, Georgia, could see their old records fall Wednesday as temperatures get above 100 degrees.
Interior South Carolina will also be baking, and Columbia, the capital city, could see its old record fall if the city reaches 102 degrees.
[Weather] The Southwest is suffering through a severe drought, so the forecast early start for the annual monsoon season means good news, but too much rain over a short period of time could also bring flash flooding This is a weather channel report. Nice graphics in video. The various NWS offices are reporting precipitate moisture values double the norm and are pretty happy about it. Parts of NM had over 2" of rain in past few days.
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[Fox News] Although the majority of new monkeypox cases have been seen in gay or bisexual men, experts caution that anyone is at potential risk. Ahhh yes, the old "AIDS isn't just a ghey thing" scare tactic
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — a move meant to ease financial pressures at the pump that also reveals the political toxicity of high gas prices in an election year.
The Democratic president will also call on states to suspend their own gas taxes or provide similar relief, according to administration officials who previewed his proposals on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
At issue is the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on gas and the 24.4 cents-a-gallon federal tax on diesel fuel. If the gas savings were fully passed along to consumers, people would save roughly 3.6% at the pump when prices are averaging about $5 a gallon nationwide.
But many economists and lawmakers from both parties view the idea of a gas tax holiday with skepticism.
Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, called the idea a "gimmick" that allowed politicians to "say that they did something." He also warned that oil companies could offset the tax relief by increasing their prices. Run that ad this summer
High gas prices pose a fundamental threat to Biden’s electoral and policy ambitions. They’ve caused confidence in the economy to slump to lows that bode poorly for defending Democratic control of the House and the Senate in November.
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"Ignore your economic pain caused by our incompetence and leftist policies! Republicans wanna push Covid into Grandma's nursing home...errr...abolish Medicare!"
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18.4¢ off a $6 gallon of gasoline is laughable. Driving 25 miles to work and back might save you less than $2 per week ($2.70 for the F-150).
And 24.4¢ off a $7 gallon of diesel doesn't do jack squat for the supply chain.
And knowing the feds, they'll have to make up that loss of tax funds from somewhere.
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"Based on 25 miles each way".
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06/22/2022 9:27
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WTI is down $7/barrel at this time and down about $20/bar from June 9 price.
That's the equivalent of about 10-15 cents off a gallon
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And cutting the appropriate amount of spending right?
If this is tax revenue supposedly going towards highway maintenance etc., will this revenue cut be offset by an account transfer from some other infrastructure program such as the Pakistani Women's Poetry Slam funding?
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#4 18.4¢ off a $6 gallon of gasoline is laughable. Driving 25 miles to work and back might save you less than $2 per week ($2.70 for the F-150).
And 24.4¢ off a $7 gallon of diesel doesn't do jack squat for the supply chain.
And knowing the feds, they'll have to make up that loss of tax funds from somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-06-22 09:26
...The way I understood it - and I will cheerfully admit to error - is that it would be at least the Federal tax, and the states are being 'encouraged' to suspend theirs as well.
The funny part here is that as usual, the brains in the EOB have no idea what they're doing. See, this would, if approved, suspend the tax for 90 days. Which means if it goes through right after Congress returns from the July 4 recess, it'll come back just in time to hit everybody with an 18 cent a gallon tax increase just before the elections.
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July, August & September.
The upcoming Fall and Winter months should be expensive for the Northerners this year.
We filled up today at SAMS $4.19 for 87 octane 90/10 blend. Our total wait-in-line time <5 mins. $50.00 after bumping to round the number up. Price/PG down a dime.
How Russia is Making More in Oil Sales Now Than Begore the Invasion
With China and India buying the Russian oil shunned by the West, Moscow is earning more now than it did before the war.
When the United States and European Union moved to curtail purchases of Russian fossil fuels this year, they hoped it would help make the Russian invasion of Ukraine so economically painful for Moscow that President Vladimir V. Putin would be forced to abandon it. That prospect now seems remote at best.
China and India, the world’s most populous countries, have swooped in to buy roughly the same volume of Russian oil that would have gone to the West.
Oil prices are so high that Russia is making even more money now from sales than it did before the war began four months ago. And its currency has surged in value against the dollar.
Russian officials are smirking over a spectacular failure to cow Mr. Putin.
And the economic pain the oil boycott was meant to inflict is reverberating not in Moscow but in the West, especially the United States, where skyrocketing oil prices pose a potent threat to President Biden less than halfway into his term.
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Indian imports of Russian oil are up 800 percent annualized. Russia is now the prime energy supplier and trade partner for India and China.
"India, an oil-hungry country of 1.4 billion people, has guzzled nearly 60 million barrels of Russian oil in 2022 so far, compared with 12 million barrels in all of 2021, according to commodity data firm Kpler. Shipments to other Asian countries such as China have also increased in recent months"
It's glorious. An enormous discount for India, which then can make profits by refining and basically re-exporting Russian oil to the United States.
India wins big time
Russia wins big time
China wins
Europe and the US lose big time
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^ But Vlad has lost the ability to threaten to shut off oil to the West for extortion and bullying
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All the non-western nations are getting in on the fun. Here comes Turkey, next South Africa... Boatloads of profits for INDIA!
"It seems a distinct trend is becoming ingrained now,” said Matt Smith, lead analyst at Kpler tracking Russian oil flows. As shipments of Urals oil to much of Europe are cut, crude is instead flowing to Asia, where India has become the top buyer, followed by China. Ship-tracking reports show Turkey is another key destination.
“People are realizing that India is such a refining hub, taking it at such a cheap price, refining it and sending it out as clean products because they can make such strong margins on that play" Smith said.
"In May, some 30 Russian tankers loaded with crude made their way to Indian shores, unloading about 430,000 barrels per day. An average of just 60,000 barrels per day arrived in January through March...
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Seeing this develop is a bad process for the west to endure. India is growing more powerful as they develop closer ties with Russia.This will be at the the expense of the West. This is long term. Israel transitioning to Netanyahu will In my opinion force Netanyahu to work a deal to enhance their mutual interests.Doing this will provide a pressure point hopefully for Israels security far better than NATO or Biden.
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#17 - Tell us again how much oil the US imports from India?
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The more money India has, the better they can finance fighting off both China and Pakistan. Also, once established as the refiner of choice for growing Third World markets, it will be easy enough for them to change the source of their petroleum feedstock, right? This will make it harder for either Russia or the Muslim oil producers to try to hold the world hostage, as Russia is trying now and as OPEC did after losing the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The most important thing we can do as a species is increase resilience to both expected and unexpected shocks, even if there is an increased short term cost to our side to do so. Short term that means being glad India is milking the Russia situation while it lasts; longer term that means bridling the Democrats in Washington, DC and getting American oil pumping again.
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Y'all aren't thinking straight if you believe this is a good situation for America. "Spats" is right. This is the biggest US policy fuckup we've ever seen. Unfuckingbelievable.
We are literally overpaying for oil by at least 25-30%. Stupidest damn administration ever
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For Matt: According to EIA.gov, U.S. imports from India vs All Suppliers by month, crude oil and products — Oct. 2021-March 2022 inclusive as 000 bbl:
All Countries
251,790 254,162 265,228 252,916 236,641 262,282
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Thanks, tw. I fully agree with the argument (like P2k's #28) that Slow Joe has screwed up US energy policy beyond words, but, respectfully, Mr. Spats doesn't get to make up facts to support that argument.
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The oil price we pay is determined by worldwide forces, at the margin and by the global swing producers. Has nothing to do with how much we import from country X or Y.
It's Russia that's created discontinuities in the global market to punish the West and benefit India and China. We should reverse our sanctions policies that are just reaming our own consumers. So fucking stupid
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Anyone have a bad feeling a major bridge is about to collapse, thus proving the need not only for gasoline taxes, but more gasoline taxes?
Till you find out that the state, in which the collapse happens, has been moving their cut of the road tax to cover pension obligations rather than working on the roads it was intended for.
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Great to be back on the "ridicule anyone who notices out loud the price of gasoline' ride.
"Everyone who hates high gasoline prices is a Putin loving Republican who would love to see Europe under an Iron Fist for money to buy $9 coffee", great tack, moar please.
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One can't guess the where or the how,
But when shooters get boring... kerpow!
And out of the smoke,
Hair on fire, run the woke,
Screaming, "Common sense gas control now!"
[Red State] Joe Biden seems to be saying the quiet part out loud a lot lately, raising a lot of questions.
He made a telling comment the other day about who is making up his mind when he was asked about China tariffs. He replied, "We are in the process of making up my mind." He implied he was waiting for the go-ahead from someone else, saying he was "prepared to sign it and I’m ready to go." That of course raised questions about who is controlling him and who’s making the decision there. Then when he was pressed on gas prices his response was this was good because "we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles, and not just luxury vehicles, but across the board." So if you suffer, just remember it’s for the common good of Our Dear Leader’s climate goals.
I don’t know what he’s on lately but he let more out of the bag today—and the way that he said it added to the creepiness of it all. When he was asked about the vaccines for children under age 5, he said he would be asking Congress for more money for that. But he said they also needed more money for something else.
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When he was asked about the vaccines for children under age 5, he said he would be asking Congress for more money for that. But he said they also needed more money for something else.
"Little Debbie" scratch & sniff kits for Joe's private delight?
[Bus Insider] Billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a recession is "inevitable" and would likely take place sooner than later.
The Tesla CEO gave his comments at the Qatar Economic Forum, where he was quizzed on his "super bad feeling" about the economy and what he thought of the claims made by Biden administration officials that a US recession is "not inevitable."
"Well, I think a recession is inevitable at some point," Musk replied. "As to whether there is a recession in the near term, I think that it's more likely than not."
"Certainly it's not a certainty," he added.
Musk's assessment comes as Wall Street has forecast higher odds of an incoming recession, with Goldman Sachs saying on Tuesday that the US faces a 30% chance of hitting such a slump over the next year, up from its previous forecast of 15%.
The company highlighted a cumulative 48% probability that a US recession would happen over the next two years.
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I submit all predictions are just guesses, and the one person who can end the war is the one who started it -- Putin.
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Col. Doug MacGregor's interview on 16 June with Germany's Die Weltwoche - this English translation was posted to FreeRepublic yesterday:
«This war has been lost a long time ago»
Before critics denounced him as “the voice of Vladimir Putin,” US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor was known for his daring military exploits. During the first Gulf War, his squadron famously demolished nearly seventy Iraqi Republican Guard vehicles in 23 minutes. Now, the West Point graduate is battling the diplomatic establishment over Russia and its war against Ukraine.
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Retired United States Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor does not suffer fools. In the West’s efforts to assist the Ukrainians in repelling Russia’s invasion, he sees a motley crew. Once regarded a war hero, the Gulf War veteran is now denounced as a “Putin apologist” for hisuncompromising criticism of what he regards as the West’s duplicity toward the old Cold War foe.
The 69-year-old strategist tells Die Weltwoche, “At this point, the notion that the Russians would negotiate with anybody about events in Ukraine is simply unrealistic.” More ominously for the Ukrainians, Macgregor believes their fight for territorial integrity is already lost. He dismisses glowing reports of Ukrainian tactical victories as a politically concocted “fiction.”
This is not the first time the battle hardened warrior has crossed swords with the foreign policy and military establishment. As an active duty officer, he took the extraordinary step of publishing a radical critique of the U.S. Army’s military readiness with his book, “Breaking the Phalanx.” Praised by the then-head of the Army, General Dennis Reiner, and later by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Macgregor’s public criticism was, nevertheless, viewed by many top brass as a shot across the bow. U.S. News and World Report observed, “The Army is showing it prefers generals who are good at bureaucratic gamesmanship to ones who can think innovatively on the battlefield.”
Years after serving as one of the top planners for NATO’s successful 1999 aerial bombing campaign of Kosovo to expel Yugoslavian forces, Macgregor found himself, once again, crosswise with official Washington. Appearing on Russian state television RT in 2014, the American colonel advocated for a plebiscite in Ukraine to allow Russians in Eastern Ukraine to decide whether their future was in Ukraine or Russia....
Everything Col. MacGregor said then and more recently has been justified and reasonable. It is disgusting to hear him being smeared with lies ("Putin apologist") by people who do not have one-tenth as much courage, brainpower and integrity as Col. MacGregor.
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Weltwoche: Colonel Macgregor, could the American missile systems that President Joe Biden wants to deliver become a game changer in the war?
Doug Macgregor: No. These weapons are not going to have any significant impact whatsoever. First of all, this “High Mobility Artillery Rocket System” is a good system, but we are sending only four launchers. This is about as significant as sending four tanks. You don't have a significant impact with so few launchers. Keep something else in mind. It takes, on average, at least five weeks to train crew members on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. Unless we are sending American soldiers to operate these systems, it seems very unlikely to me that these systems are going to be placed into operation quickly and have any real utility at all.
Secondly, the 50-mile range is the outer limit of the system. I doubt that they would get any rockets close to the Russian border.
Then, finally, when the High Mobility Rocket System fires, it is visible from low Earth-orbiting satellites. That means, as soon as you fire a salvo of these rockets, the first thing that you absolutely must do is rapidly move to a new location. If you don't, you're going to be identified and destroyed by counter-battery fire.
If we've learned one thing from this current war, the Russians have excellent counter-battery fire capability. They have the radars, they have the links to the intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance assets in space, as well as overhead in the terrestrial environment.
The bottom line is these four launchers are going to make absolutely no difference at all. It looks like a face-saving venture by the U.S. government to create the illusion that we've done something important for Ukrainians when, in fact, we haven't.
Weltwoche: In reaction to the announced deployment of US rocket systems, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, said that "if, God forbid, these weapons are used against Russian territory, then our armed forces will have no other choice but to strike decision-making centers.” If the four launchers are going to make absolutely no difference on the battlefield, as you point out, then the Russians can easily relax, can’t they?
Macgregor: The Russians are simply reinforcing something that they actually made clear from the very beginning of this operation. If we begin to operate from neighboring NATO states and directly attacking Russian forces in Ukraine, they will view those neighboring states as co-belligerents. Right now, the state that is the assembly area for the distribution and projection of new equipment and assistance into Ukraine is Poland. It is not unreasonable for the Russians to say, “If these things come in from Poland and they actually hit Russia, we will strike Poland.”
Now, my point is that I think the people in Washington are acutely sensitive to this, more so than people think in Europe As a result, it may have started out as a much larger infusion of rocket systems. I think that they suddenly scaled back..
Also, kudos to Lonzo for finding the transcript of Col. Doug MacGregor's interview with Die Weltwoche.
There's not yet a transcript of yesterday's Fox News interview with MacGregor but here are some choice bits:
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"The question is an easy one to answer: Ukraine has lost this war. I would argue, Ukraine lost it some time ago. It's now becoming apparent -- even to Ukraine's most ardent supporters in London, Berlin, Paris and Washington can't really stand up and say anything else.
I suppose some of them will try [to deny that Ukraine has lost] the truth is, the war is over. It was over a long time ago. The Ukrainians are losing, on a daily basis, 500 to 1000 dead and wounded... their army is being annihilated.
"The Ukrainian Army is reduced to relying on reservists -- what we would call the National Guard -- and throwing them into the buzzsaw. And the Russians are calmly, methodically annihilating whatever shows up. The Russians are consolidating control over 25 to 30 percent of Ukraine, where the Ukrainians were previously [in control]..."
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I do agree backing Ukraine is a failed policy. It's worth noting that politicians, and not just the ones in Washington, have only one response to a failed policy: Double down.
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MacGregor says the war is over but I don't believe it. People are still dying, Zelensky remains defiant and the longer that continues the more Biden and his handlers are liable to do something really stupid. Putin needs to wrap it up.
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Lysychansk is surrounded now. The Russians are taking their time, ensuring that the choice those few thousand poor Ukrainian civilians-in-uniforms face is surrender or death.
The New York Times and the other US / UK propaganda sheets have stopped pretending that Ukraine is not on the brink of losing the entire Donbas.
Time to face reality....as Doug MacGregor says, The Russians are in total control of the tempo and are "calmly, methodically annihilating whoever comes up".
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as Doug MacGregor says, The Russians are in total control of the tempo and are "calmly, methodically annihilating whoever comes up"
Dragging out the poor Ukrainians' slaughter like this is obscene. For what realistic goal? They're not going to "win" anything. They've lost almost a third of the country and nearly all their GDP...
Ukraine's a failed state now. There's nothing left to fight for. It's just a meat grinder.... What are they fighting for at this point - Blinken and Sullivan's vision of LGBTQWERTY+ rights?
For the greater glory of the Biden Crime Family?
Biden Rice Blinken and Sullivan are sick fucks. I'm with MacGregor: we need to get these maniacs out of the White House asap
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Russia Breaks Through Front Line; Ukrainian Troops Brace For Onslaught
I've always thought fighting for every foot of land a mistake. Let them advance a little and get strung out, the way they did around Kiev and Kharkov. Then cut off the pocket and roll them up. It would be amusing if the Ukrainians managed to replicate the Polish Miracle on the Vistula.
Insider - A former US general compared Russia's war in Ukraine to a 'heavyweight boxing match' and said a 'knockout blow' is coming
Hertling is a Democrat party animal. Whatever a Democrat administration is doing, he will say only the good things that come to mind about its policies.
[AP] Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is set to testify Tuesday at the House Jan. 6 committee about the extraordinary pressure he faced from former President Donald Trump to "find 11,780" votes that could flip the state to prevent Joe Biden’s election victory
Raffensperger, along with his deputy Gabe Sterling and Arizona’s state House Speaker Rusty Bowers, are scheduled to be the key witnesses when the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection resumes on Tuesday.
The focus will be on how the former president and his allies vigorously pressured officials in key battleground states with schemes to reject ballots or entire state tallies to upend the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Additionally, the panel will underscore how Trump knew his unrelenting pressure campaign could potentially cause violence against state and local officials and their families but pursued it anyway, according to a select committee aide.
"We will show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn’t go along with this plan to either call legislatures back into session or decertify the results for Joe Biden," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., one of the Democratic members of the committee, told CNN on Sunday.
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Bee: Democrats Announce 'January 6 Hearings On Ice' WASHINGTON, D.C.—As ratings continue to fizzle for the January 6th hearings, Democrats are trying a new format to bring the committee's scandalous findings to a wider audience.
"We are proud, so proud, to announce January 6th On Ice," said Pelosi while attempting to squeeze into a silver leotard. "We invite parents and children of all ages to come witness this delightful spectacle as my colleagues and I dance to delightful musical numbers and spin our narrative as we spin on the ice!"
The show will take place on a rink of frozen tears supplied by AOC herself, and will feature the talents of Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and Adam Schiff, as he comically attempts to stay upright under the weight of his large watermelon-shaped head.
Democrats hope the new show will give more Americans a chilling picture of just how evil Trump and his supporters are.
At publishing time, the show had to be put on hold after every member of the committee slipped and broke their hips within the first 5 minutes of the first performance.
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More hearings?
Like watching the Star Trek re-boots.
Adam Schiff.....the guy who let terrorists into The Capital?
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He won his primary handily, so maybe it's (some) Georgia GOP voters who are the problem
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I saw a news report of librals thrilled with themselves for voting in the republican primary to screwing things up. Don't know how common that is but still it's a factor.
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The committee will release more evidence about Donald Trump's alleged effort to defraud supporters by fundraising off false claims. WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence and are waiting to hear from Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Her crime? Talking to John Eastman.
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Gavin Newsom will be the next illegitimate President of the US after Biden is gone.
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Of course Raffensperger had to testify against Trump otherwise they wouldn't have invited him.
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[Rudaw] The number of migrants colonists seeking to cross the Channel from La Belle France to England rose 68 percent in the first half of 2022, the French interior ministry said Monday.
From January 1 to June 13, there were 777 attempted crossings involving 20,132 people, up 68 percent on the same period last year, the ministry told AFP.
It emphasised that the French security forces had prevented most of the crossings, with 61.39 percent of the attempts thwarted in the first half, up 4.2 percent on last year.
The figures for all of 2021 had already been a record but the latest statistics show this could be beaten if current trends continue, with the better summer weather settling in that encourages more crossings.
Some 52,000 people tried to cross in 2021, with 28,000 of the migrants colonists succeeding, according to the French authorities.
The numbers come as the UK seeks to toughen its policy against arrivals.
Britannia has repeatedly accused the French authorities of not doing enough to stop the crossings, a charge denied by Gay Paree in a spat that has further strained relations after Brexit.
In a hugely controversial policy, the UK is planning to deport illegal migrants colonists, including those who arrive across the Channel, to Rwanda under an agreement with the African nation.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the first flight last week was cancelled after a last-minute intervention by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which enraged London.
[Rudaw] A batch of 150 Iraqi families will be repatriated to Nineveh from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) notorious al-Hol camp in early July, an official from the northern province told Rudaw on Monday.
"From July 1 until July 5, as per an agreement between the Iraqi government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, 150 families which account for around 600 people are set to be brought to Jada-1 camp near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Nineveh province from al-Hol camp," Deputy Governor of Nineveh Rafaat Smo told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban.
He added that at the beginning of this month, 178 other families were repatriated from Syria and placed in al-Jada camp which is often seen as a rehabilitation center before the families return to their areas of origin.
"On June 21, 2022, the decision was made for 89 families from al-Jada to be returned to their areas in Iraq after receiving mental care," Smo said.
Al-Jada, in Nineveh province, is one of just two camps still open in areas under federal Iraqi control. The camp mainly houses families with suspected links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS), and has recently received ISIS-affiliated families from al-Hol camp in Syria.
In 2020, the Iraqi government began a push to close 17 camps around the country, three years after the defeat of ISIS, including in the Kurdistan Region. The government has been criticized for this policy.
Six Belgian women and 16 children affiliated with ISIS in Rojava were handed over to Belgium's foreign ministry on Monday.
Around 450 families were transferred to al-Jada camp from al-Hol in April, where they will then be returned on the basis of bails from relatives and tribal leaders.
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[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish gendarmerie forces on Monday raided a Kurdish neighbourhood in the southeastern province of Van, clashing with locals when attempting to arrest a suspect. The force has come under fire for extensively firing in the air.
Footage shared by a number of politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) shows a group of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's gendarmerie members attempting to arrest a man and firing in the air to disperse a crowd. An old man is seen confronting the force while many women cry.
Huseyin Kacmaz, an outspoken HDP politician, was among those who shared the video. He said in a tweet on Monday that the soldiers were trying to arrest a person in Baskale district’s Esenyanac (Xashkan) neighbourhood but "fired for minutes and beat women who intervened."
Many Twitter users shared the video, slamming the Ottoman Turkish force.
Fatma Kurtulan, another HDP MP who is a member of the human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... investigation committee at parliament, said in a tweet that she has requested an investigation by her committee.
"This brutality cannot be covered up with baseless statements. There can be no justification for firing automatic weapons on civilians, including women and kiddies, for minutes," she said.
Van governor’s office released a statement regarding the incident on Tuesday, defending the force's act. It said that the gendarmerie force wanted to arrest a man who was wanted for alleged murder and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) membership.
"After M.E.A was arrested, his relatives began throwing stones at gendarmerie vehicles. Therefore, the gendarmerie forces dispersed the crowd by firing in the air," read the statement.
It added that the suspect was taken to a cop shoppe to be tried later.
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[ZERO] Within less than two years of FDR’s death on 12 April 1945, such a permanent-war U.S. Government became officially created. FDR’s plan for a U.N. that would internationally outlaw all empires became replaced by Truman’s plan for an America that would itself become what Hitler, himself, had only aspired to create: the world’s very first all-encompassing global empire. Truman’s dream is today’s American dream, in today’s Washington DC; and here was how the Nobel Peace-Prize-winning U.S. President, Barack Obama (the other of history’s slickest liars), stated it to graduating West Point cadets, on 28 May 2014:
The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. ... Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. ... It will be your generation’s task to respond to this new world.
It’s endlessly onward and upward, for the U.S. All other nations are "dispensable." And that objective is backed-up now, by half of the world’s military expenditures.
This is how it happened. It happened by deceit, at every step of the way.
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People - go back and read Eisenhower speech. Everyone forgets what follows the MIC comment.
"Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite".
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He spent 10% of the economy on defense every year he was in office. We are at around 4%. He emphasized the need to never be caught off guard ever again as happened at Pearl Harbor, to have a military industrial complex ready to meet any challenge immediately.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Oddly enough, the cuts in defense spending from 10% of the economy in Eisenhower’s time to about 4% in ours are reflected in Pentagon dollars vs corporate profits. Just the Fortune 500 makes more money than the Pentagon spends today - $1.8T in profits vs $800b for the Pentagon. If the US spent as much on defense today as a % of the economy as it did in Eisenhower’s time, that dollar number would be $2.2T.
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The military-industrial complex, while a bogeyman to conservatives looking for tax cuts, liberals looking for new welfare programs and foreign adversaries looking to expand their territory, is probably the only interest group that has seen its share of the economy shrink 60% since Eisenhower's time. No other part of government has gotten a smaller share - not education, not the welfare state, et al.
Blade Runner posited off-planet colonies and flying cars by 2019. Surely the huge increase in the % of the economy devoted to education should have provided the impetus on the discoveries necessary for intergalactic travel, terraforming and other gleaming glimpses of the future providing by science fiction novels. And yet, here we remain, earth-bound.
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Anyway, welfare state liberals, tax cut-happy conservatives and foreign adversaries, as usual, scrubbed the most important part of Eisenhower's speech, the need to remain ready for war through significant expenditures and the fact that 10% of the economy was devoted to defense during Eisenhower's reign. Instead, they contended that defense expenditures even well short of that 10% number were excessive. They scrubbed the main thrust and highlighted the footnote.
[Sunny's Journal] Russian Military catches Ukraine faking war footage for western propaganda.
"It has been confirmed that Ukrainian security forces shot videos that purportedly showed damage caused by Russian armed forces to private households, as well as homeless civilians. The video production used more than 40 actors who were paid USD 25 each," Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said.
Yet another example as to why we cannot believe a single piece of western media coverage about the ongoings in Ukraine. Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, Maternity Ward, fake guns, green screens, media using recycled photos from other war zones in the past, using recycled footage from video games. ALL OF THEM WERE FAKE. If Russia is so evil, and committing endless war crimes, why do they have to keep faking all this stuff?
With this many lies from the Western media, how can we trust any of what they have said? HOW MUCH of what they reported was fake?
[IFA] When the Covid crisis began, supply chain problems popped up around the globe, leading to outbreaks of fear-based irrational behavior. Who can forget the Great Toilet Paper Crisis where desperate people were seen wrestling each other over a pack of Charmin two-ply?
The supply chain issues have intensified since the war in Ukraine. Your own eyes tell the tale when you walk into a supermarket, only to find your favorite cereal is missing. You also start to notice that the loaf of bread, or bag of chips you bought in 2021 is now costing you almost a dollar more. Many of us notice 30% (or more) increases in our favorite food items, well above the published inflation rates of 8 or even 9%.
While the supply chain issues are multi-faceted, there are some specific reasons for the problems at hand. The fact that Ukraine and Russia are both major exporters of wheat, corn, and sunflower products is just the tip of the harvest sickle.
Back in mid-May, economist James Rickards posted an article where he laid out the reasons for why we could see more food supply issues in the near future. He wrote, "[I]n the Northern Hemisphere, the planting season for 2022 is well underway. Crops were planted (or not) in March and April. Based on that, you can already form estimates of output for next September and October during the harvest season...plantings have been far below normal in 2022, either due to lack of fertilizer, or to much higher costs for fertilizer where farmers simply chose to plant less. This predictable shortage is in addition to the much greater shortages due to the fact that Russian output is sanctioned, and Ukrainian output is nonexistent because it’s at war."
Rickards explains that Russia and Ukraine account for 29% of the global wheat exports (19% of corn). But he stresses that this doesn’t mean they grow 29% of the wheat in the world—they grow 29% of the exports.
There are some countries, such as Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, and other African and Middle Eastern nations, that receive a large percentage of their grain supply from Ukraine, Russia or both. Rickards says the situation could become dire because many of the Ukrainian exports have shut down. To make matters worse, the planting season is almost over. Rickards concludes, "And you’re not going to get any grain in October if you didn’t plant it in April or May."
Just because there are:
Empty food shelves in Wally World,
Food costs are up,
Package sizes are smaller to hide increases,
7 Poultry plants go in flames,
10,000 cattle mysteriously die,
Food Fertilizers sky rockets,
Farm Fuels in short supply,
Animal feed in short supply, because we increased the amount of corn being used for the gas tanks, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Why would anyone get the idea Food supplies are being manipulated and used as a weapon.
OR
It could be as simple as;
We have a bunch of mentally Ill dumbasses who stole an election, can't define what a man or Woman is, can't balance a checkbook, but know how to use a Credit Card.
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The STB (Surface Transportation Board) just ordered Union Pacific to prioritize trains and crews to service Foster chicken feed operations. Foster was complaining grain was not being shipped and their processing plants were suffering. They had data to back it up. Also UP was to ensure this expedited handling was not at the expense of other customers. Recently UP and others told owners of private cars to park them as they didn’t have enough staff to run trains.
And on the labor side, the NMB sided with unions and terminated mediation talks and that started a 90 day clock that may (probably will) result in a nation wide freight rail strike. Just before mid terms. But Congress and President can comprl them back to work, and also order RR mgmt to raise pay.
Stay tuned
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Always has been?
Someone I know who watches trains says transport is about fuggged. S'okay though, buttgig is wanting erected silos in Ukraine.
I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.
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I do have a question about the McDonald's/Russia deal - is that an entirely different business entity which just does the same as McD's, or is this McD's with slightly different names and designs? From the articles I read I couldn't make out that distinction.
Changed: ownership, capital structure, logo
Exact same:
- menu*
- employees & managent team, structure
- store/restaurant experience & layout
- brand image: reliably consistent quality, speed, freshness at a price ordinary families can easily afford
- suppliers (100% local before & currently, has been since the recession & shift to import substitution in 1999)
*except for disappearance of Big Mac: no "secret sauce" aka dash of paprika + loads of MSG + HFCS
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To comment about transport being fuggdd: yep: the top 4 Class 1 RRs got called on the carpet by the STB and have to submit bi-weekly reports concerning service improvements as customers are screaming, especially those smaller single car customers
If no improvement, look for process called Reciprocal Switching to be mandated. Just reading it or watching a youtube tells you it will be a goatphuque of the highest degree.
Probably Putins fault. Or Trumps.
In 2016, the rulemaking still pending, the STB proposed a case-by-case approach, with shippers still required to demonstrate railroad anticompetitive conduct. In a dissent, STB member and later Chairperson Ann D. Begeman asked, “How can the Board provide fair and consistent switching judgments on a case-by-case basis without creating complexity and cost impacts on the one hand, and not introducing more unpredictability to the rail network on the other?”
No further progress on changing the Reciprocal Switching remedy standards was made until July 2021 when President Joe Biden issued Executive Order No. 14036 encouraging the STB to complete this open rulemaking. It was one of 72 recommended pro-competitive actions affecting more than a dozen industries.
[FOX] The Minnesota Supreme Court delivered a win Monday for a group of Minneapolis residents who have been suing over an influx of crime into their neighborhood following the defund police movement, ruling the city is not hiring the approximately 731 police officers required under its charter.
The nine-page order, issued Monday by Chief Justice Lorie S. Gildea, stems from a lawsuit brought by a group of eight North Side residents who sued Mayor Jacob Frey and the Minneapolis City Council for not fulfilling their obligation to fund and employ 0.0017 sworn police officers per Minneapolis resident.
Based on the 2020 census, at least 731 officers should be on the force based on the city’s population.
The ruling says the City Council has followed through by allocating funding in the 2021 budget for 770 sworn officers — dozens more than required by the city charter.
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The lawsuit came form residents of the North Side? You'd probably think that they would be asking for the police cuts. The fact is that support for the abolishment of the MPD came from white voters...in fact, a majority of African Americans actually came out against the cuts, seeing as they were taking the brunt of the consequences of the force cuts.
[KhaamaPress] A huge explosion in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, the east of Afghanistan, killed two people and maimed at least 28 others present at the earth-shattering kaboom site, according to the local sources. "Natural causes" in Afghanistan
The explosion, as per the sources, took place in the Ghani Khail district of Nangrahar province around 9:30 today, June 20th.
A Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bigwig for the Ghani Khail district, Mawlawi SediqUllah confirmed the earth-shattering kaboom and stated that the maimed were taken to a nearby hospital.
The explosion targeted the Head of the Ghani Khail hospital, but no group has yet claimed the responsibility for the earth-shattering kaboom which killed and maimed at least 30 people in eastern Afghanistan.
The explosion comes at a time when the Sikh temple in Kabul was targeted and attacked by the ISKP also known as the ISIS-Khorasan, killing at least two people.
In addition to that, Kabul has lost 4 people to two separate explosions which are reported to have injured at least 10 other people.
Despite the Taliban’s assertions that security has been maintained since their control of Afghanistan, explosions have occurred in certain places, including Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
The recent explosions have targeted mosques, training centers, and passenger vehicles, government officials and even the Taliban forces, resulting in multiple casualties.
[ToloNews] Afghan travelers along the Spin Boldak and Chaman crossings along the Durand Line said they face many challenges while crossing. According to people interviewed by TOLOnews, residents who live near the Durand Line, particularly people living in nearby Qila Abdullah and Chaman, can cross with either with Kandahar-issued or Pak ID cards, while other Afghans with legal documents must wait several days.
Bismillah, who is a resident of Ghazni, said that he has tried twice to cross into Pakistain but has not been allowed.
"We were not allowed, we were told that we should have a passport or a sick visa in order to pass at the crossing," said Bismillah, a resident of Ghazni.
"Yesterday I went three times to the crossing, they sent us back, there were women also with us, they mistreated us and also the women. They threw away our IDs," Abdul Rahman Shah, a resident of Uruzgan, told TOLOnews.
According to residents of Kandahar, sometimes even those residents of Kandahar who have ID cards and legal documents cannot cross.
Citizens asked the Islamic Emirate to solve the problem permanently.
"This is the third time that we have gone, they send us back and do not accept our Kandahar ID cards and they are not allowing us through," said Khan Wali, a resident of Kandahar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... local officials in Kandahar said that they are trying to solve this problem through dialogue with Pak officials.
"We have talked to the Pak officials about this problem so that all the people of Afghanistan can move freely so that there is no gap between them and their relatives," said Hafiz Esmatullah, an official.
[ToloNews] The residents living along the Durand Line in Naari district in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... said that the fencing erected by the Pak military has separated the relatives living on either side of the line. According to the residents, the people living on both sides have family, cultural and linguistic ties but they were separated since the fence was erected.
"One brother is on this side and another brother is on the other side. We call to resolve this problem so the families living on the two sides can mix," said Fazal Nabi, a resident of Naari district.
Before the construction of the fencing, the two sides were commuting for daily activities to both sides of the Durand Line.
"Many of our relatives are living on the other side of the line. It has been months since we have not visited each other. We call on both sides to address these problems of fencing," said Sarwar Khan, a resident.
The residents said that they cannot participate in traditional ceremonies, including wedding parties of their relatives, as they areblocked by the fencing.
The district governor of Naari, Abdul Zahir said that they have shared the concern with the central government.
"This is the main point because the residents of the two sides are sharing their happy and sad ceremonies" said Abdul Zahir, district governor of Naari. "We have called several times on the responsible organizations to resolve the problem. We shared this issue with the Ministry of Defense as well."
There are a total of six districts located along the Durand Line in the province of Kunar. The people living on the two sides of the Durand Line have been engaged in long historic, family and cultural engagement.
The tribal elders on the other side of the Durand Line in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa called on local officials to pave the way for travel between the two sides.
[KhaamaPress] Due to non-payment of salary and remuneration, the staff at the Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province have resigned.
According to the local sources, the number of the employees resigning from their jobs in the Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport in Kandahar province, for not receiving their salaries reaches up to 35.
The employees said that they were in dire financial straits and that the caretaker Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... government had failed to pay them for the previous eight months service they had provided for the airport.
The caretaker government’s Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation, however, reported the number of resignations at 15, claiming that the resigned employees were housekeepers, maids and janitors, while not specifying whether the workers were paid.
[ToloNews] The US may let Tajikistan hold on to the Afghan military aircraft which were flown to the neighboring country during the collapse of the former government, Rooters reported, citing a US military commander.
The aircraft were originally donated to the Afghan military by the US, according to Rooters.
The US Central Command commander Gen. Michael Kurilla visited Tajikistan last weekend.
"We are grateful to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan for continuing to secure the aircraft that the Afghan Air Force flew into the country last August," he said in comments relayed by the US embassy.
"The United States is working with the Tajik government to determine the best way to effectively use and maintain the aircraft," Kurilla said.
"Our hope is to be able to hand over some or all of the aircraft to the Tajik government. I do not have a timeline on when this will occur, but we are working hard to make this happen," Kurilla added.
The Islamic Emirate said that it is in negotiations with these countries over the fate of the Afghan military aircraft flown abroad.
"The officials of the Islamic Emirate are in contact with the countries. We will share the details after the information is complete," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate.
During the collapse of the former government, dozens of military aircraft were flown to the Central Asian neighbors of Afghanistan. More than 50 aircraft are said to be in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
"A part of the blames goes to the former government because it didn’t own the aircraft but received them as a trustee. A part of this also goes to the current government because... they had to engage in talks with the owner of the aircraft--the US," said Asadullah Nadeem, a military analyst.
Earlier, officials of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan said they will not hand over the military aircraft to Afghanistan.
[KhaamaPress] According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) records, the bulk of Afghan humanitarian parole applications to the US are still pending, with over 90% of the fewer than 5,000 fully evaluated requests being denied.
According to the USCIS statistics shared with the CBS News, of almost less than 5,000 evaluated applications of Afghan nationals to enter the US on humanitarian grounds, 90% of them has been rejected due to strict narrow eligibility rules.
Consistent with the USCIS numbers, as of June 2, only 297 Afghan parole applications had been approved, while 4,246 had been refused, implying that the vast majority of the tens of thousands of pending cases will be dismissed under the US government’s narrow standards.
A rejection letter read that parole is offered to those who the USCIS finds to be under a "severe targeted or individualized harm."
The USCIS is said to have received more than 46,000 applications from Afghans seeking to enter the United States under the parole program following the collapse of the previous government to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Following the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan last august, the US evacuated 124,000 Americans, third-country nationals, and Afghans, while resettling over 70,000 Afghans who aided them in Afghanistan.
[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has grabbed credit for Monday's attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria that killed 13 people and maimed three.
The holy warrior group said in a statement late Monday that its button men attacked the bus with automatic rifles. It also posted photos of the attack. The Syrian army said 11 of those killed were soldiers. Three soldiers were also maimed, the military said.
The bus was attacked while on the road in the northern province of Raqqa, heading to the central city of Homs.
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[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s border guards in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia province, have been targeted by an unmanned aerial vehicle, according to the local sources.
An unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle, yesterday, 20th June, targeted the 203rd Mansoori Taliban Corps in Paktia province, located at the east of Afghanistan.
According to the sources, the attack made the Taliban border guards to believe it was carried out by Pak Border forces, resulting in verbal confrontation between the group’s border forces and Pak border police.
The details of the incident is not revealed to the media and no casualty is reported, however, sources confirm that the Taliban’s forces opened aerial fires at the unidentified aerial vehicle.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the Taliban’s official in the province, Khaliqyar Ahmadzai, the head of Taliban’s Information and Culture has denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! of the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by the unmanned aerial vehicle.
This aerial attack on the soil of Afghanistan comes as a helicopter belonging to the Taliban forces was shot down by the National Resistance® Front (NRF) last week.
Two Talibs were reported to have been killed in the operation by NRF whereas four other bandidosforces of Evil were captured by the NRF forces.
The Taliban forces are reported to have had festivities including verbal and armed confrontations with the neighboring countries’ border forces.
The 203 Mansoori Corps is one of the eight corps of the Islamic Emirate Army established in October 2021 and headquartered in Gardez. The current Chief of Staff is Maulvi Hezbollah Afghan.[1] In December 2021, 450 soldiers after completing military training graduated from the 203 Mansoori Corps headquarters in Paktia province. The corps includes of the 2nd and 3rd Border Brigade each consists of hundreds of security personnel.[2]
[Garowe] Former al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... deputy leader and front manMukhtar Robow was photographed in a rare picture following his detention without trial by the former government led by Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who lost elections last month.
Robow, who surrendered to the Somali government in August 2017 declared interest to run for the presidency in the Southwest state in 2018, contrary to the desires of Farmajo, who had an interest in the seat through a proxy.
On Sunday, Robow was pictured with the Former leader of Southwest State Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, further eliciting debates on various social media platforms with some reports suggesting that efforts to release the tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! leader are underway in Mogadishu by politicians against Lafta-Garen.
While it's not clear why Aden visited Mukhtar Robow in detention, the trip, however, comes days after Somalia ushered in new leadership under Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has been a staunch supporter of freedoms of speech and equal political rights in the federal republic of Somalia.
It's not clear if Mohamud will order the release of political prisoners such as Robow, but there are high chances given that he strongly called for reconciliation during his inauguration. The president asked all stakeholders to work closely for the sake of liberating Somalia.
During the 2018 skirmishes in December 2017, Robow was arrested by the Æthiopian Forces, leading to chaos that left 11 people dead in Baidoa, the interim regional administrative capital of Southwest during a protest against the leader's capture.
Farmajo was accused of plotting the arrest to pave way for the smooth victory of Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen, the current president of the Southwest state. Since then, thousands of people have been calling for the unconditional release of Robow.
In a previous interview with the Voice of America, Robow decried harsh conditions in detention and asked the country to stand with him. Authorities in Mogadishu denied claims that Robow was subjected to humiliation in detention at that time, adding that he was given access to his family.
[Garowe] Somalia-based al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters have reportedly seized a hospital in Central Somalia, where they are said to have admitted dozens of fighters who were critically injured when the Death Eaters were ambushed by locals in Bahdo town in Galmadug.
The bad boys, state media reported, stormed El-Bur District Hospital in Galmadug, discharging all patients who were undergoing treatment in the facility as shocked locals watched the incident unfold on Sunday evening, with authorities left with little options.
State media further reported that those affected included malnourished children and pregnant women, who were undergoing treatment in the facility. The al-Shabaab targets public facilities whenever the team is overwhelmed with casualties according to reports.
After the eviction of the patients, reports further show, that the Death Eaters hospitalized 80 murderous Moslems who had been maimed in Friday’s Bahdo fighting. The Death Eaters suffered heavy casualties when residents of Bahdo ganged up against them, leading to a historic battle in the state.
"Al-Shabaab forcibly takes control of a Hospital in Elbur, central Somalia to treat dozens of fighters injured in Bahdo battle on Friday. The locals said the group brought the bodies of 37 Death Eaters killed in the foiled attack that dealt a heavy blow to al-Shabaab, " state media noted.
During Friday's attack, locals reported killing over 100 Death Eaters after the ambush as a number of them escaped to nearby thickets for survival. The locals said no military teams were available when the incident took place, although they would join the fight later on.
The al-Shabaab said it had only lost nine fighters, adding that it managed to kill 27 civilians, a claim which was disputed by the locals. This is the fight time the Death Eaters were making serious admission about losing fighters in a war, as Somalia struggles to stabilize.
Al-Shabaab still controls huge swathes of rural central and southern Somalia and has been struggling to take over the country. The new government under Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has pledged to down the Death Eaters in partnership with allied troops across the country.
[BenarNews] When one of Malaysia’s powerful sultans recently slapped the religious affairs minister with a rare rebuke for saying Moslems shouldn’t participate in a Japanese cultural festival because it had un-Islamic elements, the incident cast a spotlight on growing intolerance here.
"Hands off," the Sultan of Selangor indicated. "[U]nderstand the difference between religion and culture," he said via Facebook in publicly scolding Minister Idris Ahmad, of the Islamic Party PAS, which is a partner in the country’s ruling coalition. A potential diplomatic to-do was averted, but the incident has left observers worrying about a climate of fundamentalism in this religiously and racially mixed Islamic-majority nation. The mood in Malaysia is filled with a pandemic-driven economic malaise as the country faces the prospect of a general election months away or next year.
There is cause for concern, says Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, deputy managing director at market advisory firm Bower Group Asia.
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Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates confirms that Turkish presence on Syrian soil is but an aggression and occupation that mounts to war crime. #Syria#Turkeyhttps://t.co/fV6Fhlkxi5
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[AlAhram] La Belle France's top administrative court ruled Tuesday against allowing body-covering ``burkini'' swimwear in public pools for religious reasons, arguing that it violates the principle of government neutrality toward religion.
While worn by only a small number of primarily Moslem women in La Belle France, the burkini draws intense political debate in the country.
The city of Grenoble, led by a mayor from the Greens party, voted to allow women to wear burkinis in public pools after campaigning by local activist muppets. At the same time, the city also voted to allow women to swim topless as part of a broader relaxation of swimwear rules.
The prefect, or top government official, for the Grenoble region blocked the burkini decision, arguing it ran counter to La Belle France's secular principles.
The Council of State upheld that decision, saying in a statement that the Grenoble vote was made ``to satisfy a religious demand'' and ``harms the neutrality of public services.''
Clothing rules in public pools in La Belle France are strict, for what authorities say are reasons of hygiene: caps are required, and baggy swim trunks or other voluminous clothing generally banned.
A few other cities and towns allow burkinis in public pools. The city of Rennes is among them, but its decision was aimed at loosening swimwear rules generally and not based on religious reasons.
Grenoble's decision about swimming topless has not been threatened in the courts.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Head of the puppet government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, Maeen Abdul-Malik, has on Tuesday ratified an agreement to hand over the fuel sector in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... to Soddy 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. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , as part of a Saudi plan to acquire vital sectors in the south and east of the country.
During his meeting with the ministers of Finance and Oil and Minerals, the puppet Prime Minister demanded to quickly sign the agreement that grants the so-called "Saudi Reconstruction Program" the right to govern the Oil Derivatives Purchase Support Fund, according to southern media.
The agreement grants the Saudi program the right to import and sell fuel to the local market in Yemen.
Although the agreement was put forward years ago and was not decided upon by Maeen Abdul-Malik, his approval nevertheless coincided with news on Saudi Arabia’s approval to remove him from power.
Observers see that is as an attempt by Maeen Abdul-Malik to turn the tables on his opponents in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and the businessman Ahmed al-Essa, who has been leading opposition against the Saudi-led puppet government.
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I'm going to say this now, this crazy **s US strategy of "don't fire until fired upon" rule of engagement is going to get a big hole in one of their ships and many servicemen killed. Who ever ordered those US vessels to allow those Iranian speed boats to get that close need to be suspended! Maybe the US is waiting for Israel to "pull the trigger" on their upcoming major offensive???
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A "Clear and Present Danger" appears to be prerequisite for successful geopolitics today. Destroy just enough of the enemy and his capability to produce the appearance of battlefield success. A global 'catch and release' program appears to have been given birth. A twenty year engagement in Afghanistan might provide an accurate example.
Iran should have been bitc* slapped into the 6th Century BC decades ago.
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If I were captain on a fighting ship named Sirocco, the flare launch would have been preceded by fire hoses using a mixture of petrol. Give that speed boat a booty bump wake check to set the stage.
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The Cyclone Class is small and lightly armed. It is a head scratcher why they would be in the straits. Maybe they had back-up that I am not aware of. I think it was a mistake to not replace the Perry Class comparably. The littoral stuff never made sense to me. Getting surface help from SOHEPA for a Cyclone in an ambush is not going to work.
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Maybe for patrolling The Western Interior Seaway.
USNI:
The Navy next week will host an open-source table-top wargame to experiment with how climate change could affect a future conflict, a service official said today.
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You'll be glad to know the next New Thing is to get a climate change awareness chicken diaper face mask in the specially designated virtue signal design - basically it looks like a bar code which has been colorized blue/white/then red.
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"Stand to, all youse ladies and germs,"
Sings Joe to his handfuls of woims,
"And I won't give two farks
You was eaten by sharks
If me shipmatesk squirms into two terms!"
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The senior Estonian civil servant said there had been "multiple border violations by helicopters" from Russia over the past week https://t.co/GVFR6O2IGR via @haynesdeborah
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[RIA Novosti] Special forces of the British Special Air Service (SAS) are participating in the battles in Ukraine on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said an American mercenary who is also fighting in the former Soviet republic. Correspondence with him was published on Twitter by journalist Seth Harp.
Speaking about the numerous problems of the Ukrainian troops arising from poor management and coordination, the militant mentions an episode with a British soldier.
"(APU. - Ed.) They are constantly shooting at their own people. We just lost a sniper from the British SAS special forces - the fighter advanced to the position, but the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier turned him into dust, since no one warned the crew," the mercenary said.
Earlier, an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti that two dozen specialists from the British Special Air Service (SAS) had been thrown into the Lviv region . They are considered among the most highly skilled in the world in organizing mass protest rallies, contract killings of politicians and in preparing terrorist attacks. The head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has already instructed to analyze this information.
ZAKHAROVA TOLD HOW WESTERN INSTRUCTORS "SHEPHERD" UKRAINIAN MILITANTS
On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."
According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army has completed the main tasks of the first stage - significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass.
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tw, the SAS has a history of 'not so clean' operations. Operation Flavius(1988) in Gibraltar against the IRA during the height of 'The Troubles' was rather public.
A British man sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court for fighting in Ukraine has been told the execution will be carried out, his family say.
Mr Aslin told his family his captors said there had been no attempt by UK officials to negotiate on his behalf.
The foreign secretary discussed his case with Ukraine earlier in June.
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Just because the prisoner was told nobody spoke up for him does not mean that’s so. After all, it was reported not long ago that the Russians were providing regular Ukrainian prisoners with fake newspapers to demoralize them.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] At least 260 non-combatants were killed due to an attack launched by gunnies in Oromia region of western Æthiopia.
According to eyewitnesses, the victims of the attack, which occurred Saturday, were from Amhara ethnic group, a minority in the region.
One resident put the number of dead at 260 and another said it was 320, making the attack one of the deadliest on civilians in Æthiopia for years, noting that the attackers belonged to an ethnic Oromo rebel group called the Oromo Liberation Army.
...until 2018 the fighting wing of the Oromo Liberation Front, the political party advocating for the self-determination of the Oromo people until the OLF negotiated what turned out to be a temporary peace with the Ethiopian government. The OLA took up arms again during the Tigrayan excitement...
There is at present no indication that the attack is directly linked to the conflict in the northern Tigray region that began in November 2020, which has killed thousands and displaced millions of Æthiopians.
Æthiopia has seen a resurgence of ethnic conflict started by a series of ethnicity-based rebel groups opposing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who assumed office in 2018. Ahmed has been trying to end the system of "ethnic federalism" and ethnicity-based politics that have been in place since the 1990s, which has been met with opposition from certain heavily ethnicity-based political groups and politicians. Some analysts suspect the US plays a role in supporting the rebel groups, a suspicion further bolstered by recent US attempts to place sanctions on countries supporting the Addis Ababa government.
America, Egypt, Saudi Arabia — a variety of parties are interested in the outcome of the current nonsense over there.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:32 Punishers hit the peaceful quarters of Makiivka with cluster warheads. As a result of the shelling of the Chervonogvardeisky district of the city from the Uragan MLRS, many residential buildings in the private sector were damaged, several people were injured, one, unfortunately, died.
21:49 As a result of shelling of the VFU in Makeevka, on the territory of school No. 56, the number of injured children increased to 3: a boy born in 2009, a girl born in 2009. and a girl born in 2016 21:14 Air defense systems intercepted a Ukrainian missile, the wreckage collapsed on the territory of Torez. The building of the motor transport enterprise was damaged, according to the headquarters of the defense of the DPR.
20:15 Representation of the DPR: AFU fired 15 rockets from the "Grad" at Makiivka.
19:36 VFU shelled Krasny Liman
There was a fire in the garages of the gas service, which are located on the street. Freedom.
Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
19:18 Ukrainian nationalists destroyed a monument in the village of Nizhne in the LPR and desecrated the burial place of Soviet soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War.
19:16 In Mariupol, during an inspection of the territory of one of the industrial enterprises, two power engineers were blown up on an explosive object. All have been taken to the hospital, where they receive the necessary assistance.
18:53 The foreign ship Azov Concord left the port of Mariupol along the corridor organized by the Russian military. This is the first ship to leave the harbor after the liberation of the city.
18:09 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novomikhailovka - n.p. Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): two missiles were fired from the BM-27 Uragan.
17:06 Again under massive artillery shelling Donetsk. They hit in the center. Donetsk City area and Donbass Arena stadium.
17:05 Shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the following directions:
n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region):eight shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
n.p. Avdievka - Donetsk (Kyiv region): 13 shells of 155mm caliber were fired.
17:03 Under the fire of Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk.
15:41 The Headquarters of the TerO DPR reports:
According to preliminary data, as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the street. Tsvetkov in the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka, one person was killed and two more were injured. Posted on social media. Burning coke plant on the 28th line in Makeevka.
15:11 Kyiv district of Donetsk. At the moment, under massive artillery shelling from the Nazis.
13:50 There are reports of powerful arrivals in the Kyiv district of Donetsk.
They report powerful arrivals in the Kyiv district of Donetsk
13:32 AFU fire at the Kyiv district of Donetsk. As a result of the shelling, an apartment building on the street was damaged. Buslaev. Details are being specified. Take care of yourself and your family, try not to leave the house unnecessarily. During the shelling, do not leave the shelter.
13:26 Today's officers and soldiers are selflessly fighting for our Motherland, for our people, defending Donbass from neo-Nazis. The troops began to receive unparalleled S-500 complexes - Putin.
13:05 A pair of Su-25 Russian Aerospace Forces over Donetsk. They are working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka, from where they are shelling the peaceful quarters of the city.
11:56 Yasinovataya is under attack from VFU artillery. According to the city administration, the shelling of Yasinovataya continues. Two men, born in 1988 and 1965, and a woman, born in 1964, were injured.
11:03 Petrovsky district is again under fire. According to the JCCC, shelling was recorded from the side of the VFU in the direction of the village of the Trudovskaya mine. Fired 15 mines with a caliber of 120mm and 29 AGS grenades. Small arms were also used.
10:47 As a result of another shelling of the VFU in the city of Yasinovataya, a man born in 1988 was injured.
09:32 GKO DPR allowed foreigners to enter the service under the contract in the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Resolution No. 114 of 06/06/2022.
09:16 Daily official summary of the DPR JCCC from 03:00 June 20 to 03:00 June 21:
Over the past day, the Representation reported 44 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy used - MLRS "Hurricane", "Grad", artillery 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, mortar 82mm.
On Gorlovsky - artillery 152mm and 122mm, mortar 60mm. By releasing 320 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of nine settlements of the Republic: the capital city of Donetsk (Kyiv, Kirov, Petrovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Gorlovka (village of the Gagarin school), Golmovsky, Panteleymonovka, Krasny Partizan, Elenovka, Mineralnoye, Trinity.
Over the past day, information was received about the injury of 11 civilians, incl. boy born in 2011, in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and Makeevka.
A total of 22 houses were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk and Makeevka, as well as 11 civil infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 41 shellings were recorded from the side of the VFU.
08:23 Over the past day, from 08:00 on June 20 to 08:00 on June 21, as a result of shelling of the VFU on the territory of the DPR, one person was killed and another 16 civilians were injured, the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.
07:53 Fire was detected from the side of the VFU in the direction of the settlement. Novgorodskoye - n.p. Panteleimonovka: five shells of 152mm caliber were fired.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
An attempt to strike the island was made on the morning of June 20
The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed more than 15 attack and reconnaissance drones, including two Bayraktar TB-2, attempts were made to strike the island with Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles, Uragan multiple launch rocket systems and 155mm M-777 howitzers .
None of the Ukrainian shells hit the target, 13 Ukrainian drones, four Tochka-U missiles and 21 Uragan MLRS shells were shot down.
In response, Onyx cruise missiles fired at the Shkolny military airfield near Odessa destroyed hangars with Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 UAVs identified by Russian reconnaissance equipment.
On Kubansky Island near Odessa, two artillery platoons of 155mm M777 howitzers were found in positions, then highlighted by drones and sent to scrap.
Russian aviation also destroyed two launchers of the S-300 air defense system in the Ochakov and Tuzla regions of the Odessa region.
Ru.M.O.D statement on #SnakeIsland attack: Ukrainians planned to land troops after bombardments. At least 15 UAV's were used and also M777 , Uragan and Tochka-U ballistic missiles. According to russians, an Global Hawk RQ-4 was detected. Ru Pantsir and Tor SAM eliminated threats. pic.twitter.com/eNmLTtrEy9
This continues the saga of Ukrainian medic Yulia Paevskaya formerly of the Azov Regiment and Adam Gritsenko. You can read about it here.
And as a further update, the exchange definitely wasn't sanctioned by Moscow. By now they (Moscow) probably are aware of it.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
I’ll note right away that there are no official comments regarding the strangest story of the exchange of Yulia Paevskaya from the Azov unit from the Russian Defense Ministry and, most likely, there will not be any more.
The main conclusion is that in order to avoid similar situations in the future, it is necessary to draw conclusions and work on the mistakes from this story. Let what happened act as an extra incentive to mobilize society. My emphasis
Well, now it's interesting. First Anatoly Shariy. He tells, he claims, the nuances of the exchange that have become known to him.
"The agreement was simple: the Russians let the Taira go to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian security forces don't touch Adam. The decision not to go to Russia was made by Saidov's son, and it's basically impossible to 'deport' a citizen of Ukraine anywhere," surfaced in the domestic press.
That is, he did not go to the Russian Federation and she was simply released. My God, well, sometimes it's unpleasant to be right.
Opinion of military correspondent Anna Dolgareva
Many people ask to speak out on the story of Taira.
First. I know the story of how the "Azovites" shot their parents to leave the city under the cover of their children. Whether it was about Taira, I don’t know, since this information appeared much later.
Second. I have great respect for Nadana Friedrichson, she is beautiful, I visited her a couple of years ago on Open Air. But her unpleasant, completely womanish attack on Kuksenkova, who made public information about the exchange of Tyra for Adam Gritsenko, made me very disappointed. By publishing such information, Kuksenkova risked not only her career, and it is unlikely that she did it for the sake of hype. Nadana Friedrichson is a television host on Russian TV channel Zvezda. Kuksenovka refers to the Russian military field correspondent Irina Kuksenovka, who first broke the story of Yulia Paevskaya's release in Russian language press.
Third. The silence of the lambs that the officials have arranged for the Taira is very bad. Gentlemen, you may not have noticed, but for eight years a civil society has grown in Russia, which is interested not only in "Bush's legs" (God, how old I am), but also in the fate of the country. And this enigmatic silence is a spit in the face of this civil society. I beg you to hear me.
From yesterday, a comment by Ukrainian GRU officer Igor Bezler, from his wife's VK page:
I looked at the reaction of various kinds of propagandists from the Russian Federation to the exchange of a Nazi woman from Azov. The reaction from "don't rock the boat - our rats are rocking" to "I don't know anything, I'm not in the know"
But in reality, the exchange of a creature from Azov for a major, the son of Murad Saidov, is the height of cynicism and spitting in the face of our prisoners. Officially, this Marad Saidov (criminal chaser Sutu) is presented either as a deputy representative of the head of the Chechen Republic in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Sevastopol, or as a representative of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation. For Murad Saidov, Melitopol was actually his hometown. Until 2012, he lived in it and was considered a prominent representative of the criminal world of Zaporozhye, looking. In 2012, after a series of showdowns, Saidov was detained by local security forces and deported from Ukraine. Bezler says Saidov is involved with Ukrainian organized crime. If anyone would know about this, it would be Bezler. In 2014, he trafficked in Ukrainian weapons sold to the separatists by Ukrainian government officials, including former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. That hints that this whole exchange was about Ukrainian and Russian organized crime, and that the return of the Azov medic was simple window dressing.
It also should be noted that most of the smuggling routes for excise goods (stolen bonded products subjected to Ukrainian excise tax (which I understand is sky high), as well as drugs and humans in and out of Ukraine and, thus the breakaway republics, go through the mountains of Galicia.
This exchange really showed that the son of a major, a criminal authority that rubs near Isa Khachukaev, who has not fought a single day, is more important than any Russian pilot, artilleryman, tanker or motorized rifleman who is in captivity ... Judging by the pale sluggish bleating of all military men from TG, (TG=Telegram, the instant messaging service)
that they squeal as if stung for any reason, everyone understands that the sacred children of the mountains are much more important than a simple Vanka from the Urals. "sacred children of the mountains" is a reference to the Chechens He was saying the quiet part aloud, just like Bezler.
Slovakia has presented its plan of transferring its 12 MiG-29 fighter jets to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Business Insider reports that the planes will be delivered after Poland and Czechia agree to protect Slovak air space until the country receives its F-16s from USA. pic.twitter.com/HVMfo74VRr
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— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 21, 2022
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) handed over, on Monday, six Belgian women and 16 children of ISIS families to the Belgian government.
This came after a visit by a delegation of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs headed by Hubert Cooreman, ambassador of Belgium in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... Belgium’s judicial authorities said on Tuesday they have repatriated six women with 16 children of Belgian citizenship who were held in Syria.
"On June 20, the AANES handed over 6 Belgian women and 16 children of ISIS families to a delegation from the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs," said Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of the AANES Department of Foreign Relations, in a tweet.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) defeated ISIS militarily.
The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said this was the second repatriation operation after the one that took place in July 2021, when Belgian authorities took back six mothers and 10 children.
The AANES handed over the Belgian citizens "after signing the official handover document between both sides," Omar added.
In 2021, the AANES repatriated 324 children and women of ISIS families to their countries.
Spokesman Eric Van Duyse told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that all the women on the latest flight have been given sentences in Belgium of up to five years in jail.
All the children are under 12 years old. They were taken with the women from the Kurdish-controlled al-Hol camp to cross the Iraqi border by road before boarding the plane, a judicial source told AFP. They were handed over to the jurisdiction of the Belgian court services on arrival in the country overnight.
The children were to undergo medical examinations before being handed over to youth protection services.
Belgian authorities say returning children must be done for "humanitarian reasons," and that repatriation operations are also as a matter of national security since it’s easier to monitor people who have spent time in Syria when they are on home soil.
From 2012 onwards, more than 400 Belgians headed to Syria to fight for the IS group, making it one of the European countries that saw the largest number of people go.
Must be a way to show party policy loyalty without cutting off the nuts or tits of a six month old. Hard to get a bloody gauge clean when we aren't even walking yet.
I was filling out forms for kids to make a trip. One of the questions was "Have you been exposed to any communicable disease in the last six months?"
Pretty obvious ask around about being exposed to the covid but my response was something like, "Yes. My children attend school and social settings when, inevitably, they will be exposed to some sort of communicable disease. Even got sick a couple times, but never more than just a couple of days and no significant fever or conditions. The rest of the time we were not aware of them being exposed to anything, as they didn't get sick."
[Breitbart] The Kellogg Company, one of the original perpetrators of Woke Capitalism, said Tuesday that it is breaking itself up into three independent companies.
The company will split into three publicly-traded companies whose names will be determined later, Kellogg said. The break-up, which is expected to be a tax-free transaction, has been approved by its board of directors.
"Kellogg has been on a successful journey of transformation to enhance performance and increase long-term shareholder value," said Steve Cahilane, the company’s chief executive and board chairman.
Breitbart News reported in 2017:
Every time an American family picks up a box of Kellogg’s cereal at the grocery store, it is contributing to the wealthy radical leftwing foundation that agitates for open borders, supports George Soros’s Open Society Insitute, and pushes a host of leftwing causes.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the largest shareholder of the Kellogg Company. According to its 2016 tax filing, the Kellogg Foundation’s trust owns approximately $5.2 billion of stock in the company, about 20 percent of the company’s equity. The other large holders are mostly passive investors such as mutual funds and their ownership is a fraction of the foundation’s. That means that the foundation effectively controls the famous cereal company.
Back in 2016, the Kellogg Company called for a blacklist of Breitbart, saying that the news organization did not reflect its values. This prompted a #dumpkellogg’s boycott in response that AdWeek described as inflicting huge damage to the company’s reputation.
Kellogg shares have been volatile over the past five years but have failed to gain value. Five years ago, the stock traded at around $70 a share. On Monday, shares were around $67.50. Year-to-date, however, the stock has gained around four percent, outperforming the major indexes which recently entered into bear market territory. Shares were trading around $73 at the time Kellogg announced its blacklisting of Breitbart. The all-time high was around $81 a share in the spring of 2016.
The new businesses will be divided into a global snacking company, a North American cereal company, and a plant-based food company.
Haven't used a Kellogg Branded box, since around 2020. When I finally got the wife to go generic label. Note: usually $2 to $3 cheaper.
BTW: Was wondering went Wheaties was going to use a that Mentally Ill Trans-Gender swimmer for a box cover, given that staged petition drive? After all, they used Mentally Ill Tranny Bruce Jenner.
[FoxNews] The Chicago Police Department (CPD) on Tuesday announced a new foot-pursuit policy that bars officers from chasing people under certain circumstances.
Chicago officers will no longer be able to chase people because run away during a confrontation or people who give chase over minor incidents, among other circumstances, according to the new policy.
CPD Superintendent David Brown emphasized his hope that the new policy will improve officer safety and accountability, as well as trust between officers and communities, during a Tuesday press conference.
"It's new to the Chicago Police Department. It's not new to law enforcement. … It's made officers safer," he told reporters.
So far in 2022, 25 CPD officers have been shot or shot at, Brown told reporters Tuesday.
Meanwhile, shootings have decreased 22% year-over-year since last June, and homicides are down 21% year-over-year. Additionally, CPD has recovered 2,600 illegal firearms in 2021.
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Copying the SFPD drone patrol policy. Take reports and avoid food spills in the patrol car. Officer safety is paramount, so avoiding encounters with dangerous people makes good sense.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] The Gorsko-Zolotnoye caudron is almost ready.
Our troops have taken Mirnaya Dolina. The information has already been confirmed by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Between the troops advancing from Vrubovka and Mirnaya Dolina, only Pai-Aleksandrovka remained, through which the last road leading to Gorskoye passes. But this road is already under full fire control of the RF Armed Forces.
Accordingly, the operational environment of the Gorsko-Zoloto group (up to 2,500 soldiers and officers) is rapidly turning into a cauldron.
The enemy also admitted that the RF Armed Forces had already entrenched themselves in Ustinovka and achieved success at Belaya Gora, advancing towards Lisichansk.
1. From Ustinovka, our troops advanced 2 kilometers to Belaya Gora.
2. Also, our troops entrenched in the Mirnaya Dolina.
3. In addition, the troops advanced near the railway and entered Podlesnoye.
4. Enemy resistance was minimal. Part of the enemy forces retreated to Lisichansk, part to Artemovsk, where they are preparing for defense.
5. The advanced positions of PMC "Wagner" on the evening of June 21 were already five km from Artemovsk.
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets. The British diplomats decide to show off
"As for these two young people who are mercenaries who fought against Donetsk as part of the Ukrainian army, I can say that there was an appeal from the British to us, they sent a note, but composed exclusively in arrogant and instructive terms. It is not causes a desire to cooperate on these issues," said Russian Ambassador to London Andrey Kelin
This only proves our recently finally voiced S.V. Lavrov (Russian foreign minister)
the thesis about the extremely low professional level of diplomatic workers in Western countries. The note has no right to be emotionally loaded, neither a shade nor a hint of emotions, only a briefly expressed curtsy of respect in the introductory and final parts is allowed.
Let's go further. Turned to Russia? And why is she here? The mercenaries were detained in the DPR, not in Russia. The UK does not recognize the DPR and LPR, but considers them part of Ukraine. So let them make claims against Ukraine and write letters to Zelensky.
If the British are trying to ask Russia to influence the republics... When they want to return their citizen, they usually ask politely. And when they are drawn, they ask in an ultimatum form, So they do not need their citizen.
Diplomatic immunity is no protection against feral idiots running driving amok.
[NYPOST] A Philippine government attorney was fatally shot while riding in an Uber with his mother on their way to the airport in Philadelphia, police said.
Prosecutor John Albert Laylo, 35, and his mom, Leah Bustamante Laylo, were heading to Philadelphia International Airport to catch a flight home from a vacation in the US when gunfire broke out around 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Police said someone in a black car fired several rounds into the victims’ Uber at a red light near the University of Pennsylvania, striking Laylo in the back of the head.
The gunman then moved to the driver’s side and fired additional shots before fleeing.
The Philippine official was rushed to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:33 a.m. Sunday. His mother was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds from shattered glass, according to Philippine Consul General Elmer Cato and Bustamante Laylo.
"Never did I imagine or dream that ... the end of our vacation will be like this!" the mother wrote in a post accompanied by photos of her and her son happily posing up at landmarks in New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia. "We travelled together and we are supposed to go home together! I will bring him home soon in a box!"
Cato said the mother and son were going to catch a flight to Chicago and then were to fly to California en route to Manila.The shooting happened about five minutes after Laylo and his mother left the apartment of his cousin, who they had been visiting, Cato said.
As of Monday, no arrests have been made in Philadelphia, which has been experiencing a wave of gun violence. Investigators did not reveal a suspected motive, or say whether Laylo, his mother or the Uber driver were intentionally targeted.
The consulate general of the Philippines confirmed the victim was a government attorney, KYW-TV reported.Cato said he assured Laylo’s mother the Philippine government will help in bringing his remains back home.
"We are also in touch with police authorities and have underscored the importance of our request for them to bring the perpetrator of this incident to justice," Cato said in a statement.
Laylo had worked in Manila as a legislative staffer for opposition Sen. Leila de Lima from 2016 to 2018 then left to take up graduate studies at Central European University, where he graduated in June 2019 with a degree in international business law."He was so young and still full of dreams," de Lima said Monday in Manila and expressed hope the suspect would immediately be held to account "for the brutal and senseless act."
Laylo’s mother wrote on Facebook Sunday of the heartbreak of losing her "good, smart, generous, loving, caring son," whom she referred to by his family nickname, Jal, in such a violent manner.
"I’m lost of words!" Bustamante Laylo wrote. "My son has a lot of dreams a lot of plans, hopes and everything! He’s gone now. I can’t explain the pain the heaviness I have in my heart. It took me hours to post this because still I can’t believe this happened!"
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Certainly looks like a political assassination rather than random Philadelphia violence unless the Uber driver was killed. I have lived around Filipino communities in and off for many years. I have not heard of this type of hit before. Sounds like a relatively low level guy for an international operation.
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[NPASYRIA] The Syrian Democratic Forces, with support of the US-led Global Coalition, arrested on Tuesday a leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS) in the countryside of the city of Tabqa west of Raqqa, north Syria.
The SDF Special Forces supported by the Global Coalition launched a security operation in the village of al-Jarniyah in Tabqa, the SDF Media Center said.
"The operation targeted an ISIS leader who was formerly involved in fighting alongside the ISIS against our forces in addition, he was responsible for manufacturing VBIEDs that used to target our forces at the frontlines during the Operations against ISIS in 2019," the statement added.
The ISIS leader was hiding in a house in the village, and "based on precise intelligence information, our forces raided the house of the terrorist, arrested him, and confiscated equipment and documents," it added.
Day 118: #Russia threatens #Ukraine with retaliatory strikes “on decision-making centers”, and #Lithuania after the ban on the transit of goods to the Kaliningrad region. Odesa and Kharkiv under fire. The battle in Donbas for Sieverodonetsk continues.https://t.co/m7WrVcHlj3
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“The attack on the towers of Chernomorneftegaz has untied the hands of the Russian Federation..."
No shit, Sherlock.
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The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... 's parliament on Tuesday extended for another 18 months a mandate that allows the deployment of Ottoman Turkish troops to Libya.
The mandate was renewed with the votes of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important... 's ruling party and its nationalist allies which hold a majority in parliament.
An opposition party also voted in favor of the extension.
The mandate first came into force in January 2020 following a security and military agreement that Turkey reached with Libya's UN-backed administration in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , western Libya. It was then extended by 18 months in December 2020.
Erdogan requested the latest extension citing the ongoing ``political uncertainty'' in Libya and ``risks and threats'' that could threaten Turkey's interests in the Mediterranean and North Africa.
The request said Ottoman Turkish troops were continuing to provide military training and consultancy in the country.
Turkey's support for the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) helped turn the tide of war in Libya. Ottoman Turkish military assistance _ including advisors, equipment and intelligence _ helped block a year-long military attempt to capture Tripoli by the Libyan National Army (LNA) forces lead by Khalifa Hafter, a Libyan commander who ruled the eastern half of the country.
The GNA was superseded by the Government of National Unity in 2021, so it would be interesting to know with whom Turkey is currently agreeing their agreement.
Ankara has been accused of sending thousands of Syrian mercenaries to Libya.
Turkey at the time also signed a controversial maritime agreement with the Tripoli government, giving it access to a contested economic zone across the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The deal added to tensions in Turkey's dispute with Greece, Cyprus and Egypt over oil and gas drilling rights.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] al-Qaeda gunnies have on Tuesday carried out a large deployment in Dhalea province, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... According to local sources, dozens of al-Qaeda elements spread widely this morning, in a number of areas of al-Hussein district, Hajar area and in the center of the city of Dhalea.
The sources said that al-Qaeda gunnies set up checkpoints in the Hajar area, indicating that the deployment operations would target the militias of the Southern Transitional Council (STC).
This deployment coincided with the escalation of festivities between UAE-backed Security Belt gunnies and al-Qaeda gunnies in the province.
[Gladstone] The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have jointly visited Ukraine in an attempt to present a unified European front regarding the Russia-Ukraine war. The one-day visit was long on rhetoric but short on substance: European unity remains elusive.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the European Union responded the following day with a package of unprecedented economic sanctions aimed at isolating Russia.
The EU, which was praised for displaying "determination, unity and speed" in its response to Putin, was said to be facing a "transformative moment" that would allow the bloc to become a "geostrategic actor" on the global stage. An observer claimed that the EU had become "a top geopolitical protagonist" and that Europe "discovered that it's a superpower."
On March 21, less than a month after Russia invaded Ukraine, European officials announced an ambitious plan for the EU to achieve "strategic autonomy" aimed at placing the 27-member bloc on equal footing with China and the United States. The implicit objective was to enable a "sovereign" EU to act independently of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in matters of defense and security. That plan is now in shambles.
As the war has dragged on, European unity has collapsed and efforts to transform the European Union into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — have been exposed for what they are: delusions of grandeur.
The EU's largest member states — France and Germany — have sought to appease Putin at the expense of Ukrainian sovereignty. French President Emmanuel Macron, the strongest backer of European strategic autonomy, insists that Putin should not be "humiliated" and has even called on Ukraine to make territorial concessions to help the Russian dictator save face.
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European Union "Superpower" ... Sure, now pull the other one.
I have a theory that what we currently have is the Neo-Carolingian Empire (France /Belgium /Germany) and it's 'satellites' (the rest) -- without the strong central army to enforce policy on the satellite states.
TL/DR: It isn't a Superpower and we can see how far Soft Power™ gets you...
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[Vesti] Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the President's Office, called the worst scenario for the development of hostilities in eastern Ukraine. He expressed his opinion on Tuesday, June 21, in an interview with journalist Dmitry Gordon.
He noted that the Russian army is unlikely to be able to achieve any success in the Donetsk region, so the worst-case scenario is the possible capture of the Luhansk region.
"The Russians will call it their biggest victory and the fulfillment of the intermediate goal of the special operation," Arestovich is convinced.
According to him, for the fulfillment of such a "goal" the enemy will have to sacrifice many lives of Russian soldiers and military equipment.
"And even the Russian Federation cannot afford to fight at such a pace. No wonder they already have in many units the number of reservists under 60 percent and the number of old models of the T-62 type is already under 30-50 percent. They are slowly exhausted in this regard, so that they didn’t say anything ,” the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office noted.
Aleksey Arestovich pointed out that the Donetsk region is a large agglomeration.
"One node Slavyansk - Kramatorsk is worth something. The defense is prepared there, there are enough of our troops there. Let's see how they will take it. I very much doubt at least some success in that direction. But the fact that they will physically run out, I have complete confidence in myself," he said.
As Vesti.ua previously reported, Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP, said that the Ukrainian army had lost about 10,000 people killed and about 30,000 wounded since the outbreak of hostilities on February 24.
[Vesti] Residents of temporarily uncontrolled Donetsk and Makiivka report explosions. Shots of shells hit on social networks.
According to preliminary data, artillery strikes were recorded in the Putilovka area. It is also reported that the explosions occurred in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
There is no information about victims and injured. Residents of Donetsk are asked not to leave their shelters during the shelling.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Everglades training anyone?
Florida researchers captured a female Burmese python that weighed 215lbs and measured 17.7ft long
The python was caught at the Picayune Strand State Forest just outside of Naples. The discovery was documented in a newly released piece for National Geographic
Researchers found 122 proto eggs inside, which is the largest amount to be discovered in a female
The team also determined the python had an entire white-tailed deer as for its last meal
The discoveries help scientists learn about the reproduction and feeding behaviors
Florida authorities are estimate there are at least 30,000 to 300,000 pythons living in Florida
This shows the success of using scout snakes, male pythons with GPS transmitters. The males are released and the snakes lead them to large reproductive females
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Keth Laumer's Bolo series was great fiction, but...
It's that problem with AI Pattern Recognition that keeps stumping them. How do you 'teach' and AI to know what is or isn't a valid target -- and what keeps the enemy from subverting the process?
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One method, developed during the Reagan Starwars programs was used to identify missile types by a spectral analysis of their launch exhaust. Laze(r) the plume and assess the fuel composition and combustion cycle revealing friend or foe patterns.
As we have seen from innumerable videos, armor and heavy diesels blow a lot of soot when operating. I have also read about paint composition patterns resonating at the molecule level when fanned by a high frequency strobe.
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IIRC there was a program to develop an anti-vehicle round for the 120mm mortar back in the 1970s. It would pop a parachute so it had some loiter time and then fire a explosively formed slug downwards at its targets. The idea was that the Warsaw Pact used a common paint so they 'refined' the IR sensor for the chemical compounds in that paint. Supposedly the Soviets said they were going to put additives in the paint and change its spectra (The Enemy always gets a vote!).
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If a foolproof mechanism for discriminating between friendly and enemy vehicles were developed, some fool at the Pentagon would rush out to announce it to the media.
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[Korrespondent] 23:38 Russian troops destroyed housing, business and infrastructure worth $100 billion in Ukraine, the National Bank said: "In addition to lowering current production, the war significantly reduces the potential of the economy. According to the NBU, the loss of physical capital from the destruction of enterprises, housing and infrastructure at the beginning of May reached $100 billion - the equivalent of 50% of GDP in 2021."
23:25 British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said that on Wednesday, June 22, she is going to Turkey in order to discuss ways to help the Ukrainian side in the export of grain from Odessa. She announced this in her speech in the British Parliament, Voice of America reports. According to Truss, only a few weeks remained to find a solution to the problem.
23:17 Numerous war crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine will be investigated and will not go unanswered, our Western partners assure. Help in the US investigation. US Attorney General Alex Garland arrived in Kyiv, he announced the creation of a special group to investigate Russian war crimes. For more details, see Find Everyone: An Investigation into Russia's Crimes .
23:04 US State Department spokesman Ned Price announced Washington's full support for Lithuania in its conflict with Russia over the ban on transit to Kaliningrad: "We support our NATO allies, we support Lithuania. Our commitment to Article 5 of NATO - the postulate that that an attack on one would mean an attack on all, is unbreakable."
22:58 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today was a day of "very active foreign policy work - almost a telephone marathon": "We are increasing the circle of those who are in favor of the candidacy for Ukraine, and adding confidence that the decision of the European Council on Friday will be positive. In all negotiations, I invariably emphasize: the seventh package of sanctions of the European Union is needed as soon as possible. Russia must feel the constant increase in pressure for the war."
22:34 The US Department of Justice is creating a group to investigate the war crimes of Russians in Ukraine, which will be led by the famous "Nazi hunter" Eli Rosenbaum, the head of department Merrick Garland said during his visit to Kiev. The group will also include experts in human rights and war crimes investigations.
Rosenbaum served 36 years in the US Department of Justice, formerly serving as Director of Strategy and Policy for Human Rights Enforcement. It was thanks to his efforts that more than 100 people accused of Nazism were identified and deprived of citizenship or deported. Also, the US Department of Justice will send three prosecutors to advise Ukraine.
22:28 After almost a month of "arrest", the Russians released the head of the fire department of the occupied Energodar, Vitaly Troyan, from captivity, Mayor Dmitry Orlov said.
21:53 Ukraine's courage and resilience inspired Europe, President of the European Parliament Roberta Mezola said during a rally in support of Ukraine in Amsterdam: "Your fight for common values is our fight. It's time for Ukraine to join the EU. And on behalf of the European Parliament, I wanted to convey such a message ".
21:35 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. During the talks, they discussed the possible outcome of the NATO summit in Madrid: "Thanked for the approval of the decision of the European Commission on the status of a candidate for Ukraine. We discussed the possible outcome of the NATO summit in Madrid."
21:27 In Melitopol, the invaders want to introduce public death penalty. As the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov, said, the abductions of local residents have continued in recent days. So, during the service on the central square, one of the pastors was kidnapped, his fate is now unknown. Several activists were also taken away in an unknown direction.
The occupiers think that such actions will force the townspeople to stop resisting the aggressive aggression of Russia. And local Gauleiters on the air of Russian propaganda channels are already publicly declaring their desire to introduce the death penalty.
20:56 Johnson told the British Parliament that any concessions to Putin would be a disaster: "We must not allow anyone to believe that concessions to Putin will lead to anything but disaster." According to him, this can be "taken as a reward for unjustified aggression" and "encourage not only Russia, but also its allies." Johnson also stressed that it is important to prevent the Russians from freezing the conflict and consolidating their gains before a new attack.
20:51 Washington categorically disagrees that, as Russia claims, American citizens captured in Ukraine are not protected by the Geneva Convention. According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, Washington has brought its position to the attention of the Russian authorities.
20:49 In the Kharkiv region today, 15 people were killed, 16 were injured , the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. According to him, five of the 15 dead were in Kharkiv, six were in Chuguev, three were in the Zolochiv community, and an eight-year-old child also died in the Kharkiv region.
20:46 Mobile justice teams will start working in Ukraine - they will travel around the country and work with regional prosecutors, US Ambassador for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaak said in an interview with Suspіlny: "These will be small interdisciplinary teams of experts, Ukrainian and international, who will be able to travel around the country and work with its regional prosecutors in dealing with cases in their areas of activity." He specified that some teams would be specialized - focusing on, for example, sexual violence, the use of hunger as a weapon of war, or attacks on cultural property.
20:37 From July, a railway connection between Melitopol and Crimea will be launched in test mode, Russian media report, citing the "general director" of the Melitopol Railways.
20:32 Slovakia will transfer 12 MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine immediately after Poland and the Czech Republic agree to protect its airspace until the country receives its F-16s from the United States, writes Business Insider.
20:29 As a result of today's shelling of Chuguev, Kharkiv region, six civilians were killed, three were injured , Mayor Galina Minaeva said.
20:26 The Ukrainian military launched a concentrated attack on the occupier's garrison on Zmeiny Island, the enemy suffered significant losses. More details - in the material Cleansing the Black Sea .
20:24 The unemployed in Ukraine will be involved in public works, Shmyhal said. According to him, today the state does not have the money to pay those who are unemployed, but refuses the offers of the employment center: “In wartime conditions, the state does not have the resources for this. for the front."
20:19 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Serhiy Gaidai, confirmed the capture of Toshkovka by Russian troops. According to him, for this, the enemy threw one and a half BTGs there. Also, according to Gaidai, attempts are underway to cut the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway, but so far without success.
20:15 In the Lugansk region near Lisichansk, the invaders gained control over the settlements of Podlesnoye and Mirnaya Dolina, and also have partial success in the Gorsky area and in the direction of Belaya Gora. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the assault in the direction of Vysokoe, the General Staff said. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired at the areas of Berestovoye and Kamyshevakhi, led an offensive in the direction of Alexandropolye - Kamyshevakhi, but had no success, retreated.
20:01 The German authorities have not yet officially announced the supply of Panzerhaubitze 2000, but for the first time published a register of military support for Ukraine, in which they appear. There are also anti-aircraft and rocket systems, but there are no tanks that Berlin cannot agree on with Slovakia. More details - in the material, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received the PzH 2000 self-propelled guns .
19:43 As a result of today's shelling of Nikolaev one person was lost, three more are wounded, the mayor Alexander Senkevich reported.
19:29 During the demining of Azov, Russian sappers and the military in the area of blast furnace shops today killed two invaders, said adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko. "The explosion heard half the city," he wrote.
19:11 Zelensky signed the law on the ratification of the Istanbul Convention.
18:43 At today's meeting, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the attraction of a grant for budget support from Germany in the amount of 1 billion euros. In addition, the draft Agreement was approved in accordance with the instrument created by the IMF for the administrative account for Ukraine for this grant, Shmyhal said. The funds will be used to cover budgetary needs in order to stabilize the Ukrainian economy.
18:31 Luxembourg allocated 15% of the funds from its defense budget to support the Ukrainian army, Zelensky said: "Luxembourg has constantly helped us. If we talk about help regarding the power of our army, then 15% of the entire defense budget, although the Prime Minister does not like it say, Luxembourg singled out our defenders and defenders."
18:19 Ukraine is connecting the UN, the ICRC and several states that have this or that influence on Russia to the process of exchanging prisoners of war, Zelensky said at a briefing with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg in Kiev. At the same time, the president admitted that he currently does not have information regarding the conditions of detention of Ukrainian prisoners and the assistance provided to them.
"I really want the exchange to take place. So that certain partners who have undertaken to help with the exchange really keep their word. We not only believe in this. We work. The work takes place at the GUR site. They manage this process," - said Zelensky.
18:00 As a result of today's shelling of Kharkiv, five people have already died, 11 were injured , said the head of the Investigative Department of the Regional Police Sergey Bolvinov.
17:57 Great Britain turned to Russia on the issue of the British "sentenced" in the "DPR" to death, Russian Ambassador Andrey Kelin said. "I sent an arrogant note," the ambassador said.
17:55 Germany will continue to support Ukraine with weapons as much as necessary, Scholz said, speaking at the annual meeting of the Federation of German Industry. He stressed that "Europe and Western democracies do not accept a violent attack on Ukraine."
The chancellor also acknowledged that anti-Russian sanctions do not pass without a trace for Germany, but they are necessary: “These sanctions really work. Yes, these sanctions harm us ourselves. They harm our companies, but they are right ... Freedom has its price. Democracy has its price. Solidarity with friends and partners has its price. And we are ready to pay this price."
Scholz also said that his trip to Irpen last week made him realize that Ukraine belongs to the European family: "I will never forget the horror pictures I saw there." The head of the German government stressed that he would seek a positive decision on granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for joining the EU.
17:46 The EU is discussing the possibility of including gold in the seventh package of anti-Russian sanctions, Reuters writes, citing sources in the EU. Brussels is not yet developing the next package of sanctions, but work is already underway to identify sectors that are most tangible for the Russian economy.
17:35 Podolyak said that the shelling of residential areas of Kharkov from the point of view of military art does not make any sense: "Russia clearly does not have the strength to take Kharkov. But Moscow does not have such a goal. Their goal is to inflict maximum damage on the city and take revenge on it To show Kharkov the real charms of the "Russian world" and "friendship of peoples" - Grads, Hurricanes, Tornadoes".
17:23 Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau believes that the current security crisis has shown that Europe is not able to defend itself without the help of the United States: "Poland sees the involvement of the United States in European security as a fundamental condition for peace in Europe." The head of the Foreign Ministry stressed that it was precisely the leadership positions of the United States in NATO that became key in "quick and effective adaptation to the Russian threat in 2016."
"The current crisis clearly shows that Europe cannot defend itself without the United States," Rau stressed and added that Washington should not take full responsibility for protecting peace in Europe, which also "lies on the shoulders" of European allies.
17:20 Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has developed a mechanism for the confiscation of sanctioned Russian assets for their subsequent transfer to Ukraine: “As for sanctions against Russia, we hope that in the coming days my bill will be approved. For the first time for Canada, it contains measures that will allow the confiscation , as well as freezing sanctioned assets.<...> We believe that it is really important to expand our legal powers, because the search for funds for the restoration of Ukraine will become extremely urgent, and here it is not worth thinking about a more appropriate source of this funding than the confiscated Russian assets".
17:18 A Turkish delegation intends to visit Russia within a week to discuss the "grain issue," Turkish television reported, citing sources. A meeting of Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and the UN on the "grain problem" will be held in Istanbul next week, the channel said.
17:14 The US Attorney General arrived on an unannounced visit to Ukraine, ABC reported. Garland, in particular, intends to discuss with Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova "US efforts to assist in the prosecution of war crimes."
16:57 Ukraine may need up to 1 trillion euros of outside assistance to repair the damage caused by the Russian invasion, Werner Hoyer told the European Investment Bank (EIB).
16:54 A citizen of Spain died in Ukraine. The Spaniard was 22 years old and was originally from the town of Manacor, located on the island of Mallorca, according to Europa Press. Sources of the publication in the Spanish Foreign Ministry confirmed that the young man died on Saturday, June 18. The embassy is already in the process of transporting the body. It is known that the deceased traveled to Ukraine to participate in the war, but it is not known whether he died in battle or for another reason.
16:40 As a result of today's shelling of Kharkov, four people were killed, ten were injured , said Natalya Popova, adviser to the head of the regional council.
16:38 The French Foreign Ministry announced that the EU countries have reached a full consensus on granting Ukraine the status of a candidate for the European Union.
16:20 Drilling platforms, on which Ukraine launched a missile strike, functioned as fortification points for complete control by the Russian occupiers of a part of the Black Sea, said the speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk: "On those towers in question, Russia organized such small garrisons, attracted air defense assets there, including for radar warfare, reconnaissance, that is, these platforms have turned into such fortification points that have helped and are helping the Russians to orient themselves towards complete control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
15:57 Reznikov said that the German PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer guns of 155 mm caliber have replenished the arsenal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
15:52 Since the beginning of the war, daily gas production in Ukraine has fallen by 6.1%, said the head of Naftogaz, Yuriy Vitrenko.
15:43 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa and thanked him for his support in granting Ukraine the status of an EU candidate. "We agreed to draw on the experience of Portugal in our rapprochement with the EU," the president added.
15:39 The Ukrainian military attacked the Snake Island, the OK Pivden reported: "A concentrated attack was carried out on the Snake Island using various forces and methods of destruction, during which the enemy suffered significant losses."
15:37 Ukrainian military intelligence reports that personnel changes have taken place in the Federal Service of the Russian Guard. So, Lieutenant General Sergei Vlasenko was removed from the post of chief of staff - first deputy commander of the North Caucasian district of the Russian Guard troops. And Lieutenant General Anatoly Malikov was appointed to a leading position in the North Caucasian district of the Russian Guard troops. Prior to that, Malikov served as head of the main department of state control and licensing and permit work of the Federal Service of the Russian Guard Troops.
Personnel rotations are associated with a low level of organization of tasks during the war against Ukraine, which led to significant losses of personnel and military equipment.
15:22 The Russians captured Toshkovka in the Lugansk region, said the head of the Severodonetsk regional state administration Roman Vlasenko on the air of the telethon. According to him, there was also an attempt to break through the defenses between Dolina and Gorsky.
15:20 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council warned that provocations by Russians are possible tomorrow: "On June 22, dozens of events are traditionally held in different regions of Ukraine to commemorate the memory of the sons and daughters of the Ukrainian people who fell during World War II. In this regard, there is high probability of provocations by the occupying forces of Russia with possible rocket attacks."
15:17 Zelensky said that he had a "fruitful conversation" with Orban: "Thanked for supporting the sovereignty of Ukraine and shelter for Ukrainians during the war. We agreed to develop cooperation in the field of energy. Thank you for supporting the candidate's status. I invited him to visit Ukraine."
15:13 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are advancing in the Kherson region, which is why the occupiers are mercilessly hitting the southern regions of the country, said the head of the press center of the security and defense forces of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk on the air of Channel 24: "When we gain a foothold on these lines, we will definitely However, while the military operation is going on, I urge everyone to remain calm and wait for official announcements, since only the military knows where they are, where they are going and what successes they have."
15:06 Slovenia handed over to Ukraine 35 armored amphibious infantry vehicles, which should arrive in Ukraine today, June 21, reports 24UR. In exchange for the donation, Slovenia will receive a voucher from the United States to purchase weapons worth more than the donation.
15:01 Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced his country's desire to join NATO: "We are not naive, we understand that Georgia has territorial problems, which we must first solve, and then join NATO. This is the opinion of our European friends and friends in NATO.
14:52 The position declared by President Tokayev on Ukraine and sanctions can be costly for the Kazakh economy. But cooperation with the sanctioned Kremlin is even more expensive. More about this - in the material, Putin was offended by Kazakhstan and started a trade war .
14:47 Zelensky said that he had held telephone conversations with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda: "Noted the status of a partner - a participant in Trimorye for Ukraine and the initiative of the first ladies - a center for internally displaced persons in Lithuania. We coordinated steps on the eve of the vote of the European Council."
14:40 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that yesterday at about 5:00 the Armed Forces of Ukraine made an attempt to seize the Zmeiny Island, inflicting massive air and artillery strikes, but Russian air defense destroyed all weapons fired at the island. After that, the BK-1 and Krym-1 gas production platforms were attacked. In response, the Russian Armed Forces allegedly destroyed hangars with Bayraktars-TB2 with Oniks cruise missiles at the Shkolny military airfield near Odessa, and two artillery platoons of 155-mm M-777 howitzers, as well as two S-300 launchers near Ochakov and Tuzla in Kubansky Island. Odessa region.
14:35 The Russians are shelling Kharkiv, in the Industrial District it is already known about seven victims, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
14:16 In the Kiev region, 1333 bodies of dead Ukrainians have been found to date. According to Andrey Nebitov, the head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the region, the bodies of the dead citizens are still being found. At the same time, 213 bodies remain unidentified, another 300 people are listed as missing.
13:59 In the Zaporozhye region, another operation was carried out to transfer the bodies of dead servicemen - Ukraine returned the bodies of 35 of its defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
13:41 The German government announced that to provide assistance to Ukraine, Germany increased the budget by 2 billion euros. Berlin will provide Kyiv with 30 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, an IRIS-T air defense system, Mars MLRS and a number of other weapons.
13:38 One of the Russian missiles, which was fired at Kharkiv on June 20, hit the parking lot of subway trains, one person was injured. There are damaged trains, Volodymyr Timoshko, head of the Main Police Department of the Kharkiv region, told Suspilny.
13:34 Putin said that at the end of the year the first "latest ballistic missile" Sarmat will be on combat duty. He also said that the Russian troops "began to receive unparalleled S-500 systems."
13:32 The Estonian military said that a Russian helicopter violated the country's airspace. The Estonian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador and gave him a note of protest. According to the Estonian military, there were five such cases last year and two this year.
13:30 Peskov said that the death penalty for American prisoners cannot be ruled out, "but this is a court decision."
13:28 Moscow will "soon respond" to the decision of Vilnius to declare a "transport blockade" of the Kaliningrad region, "this will seriously affect the inhabitants of Lithuania," said Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.
13:25 49 Russian conscripts from the cruiser Moscow are again sent to war with Ukraine, the Russian edition Novaya Gazeta writes, citing the appeals of military relatives. The newspaper notes that the sailors have not yet been transferred to land, now they are on the Ladny ship, which was commissioned in 1981 - they plan to involve it in the war with Ukraine.
13:23 The leader of the "DPR" Pushilin signed a "decree" allowing to accept foreign citizens into the ranks of Russian militants.
13:22 Slovakia was unable to transfer Soviet T-72 tanks to Ukraine in exchange for more modern German Leopards, as Berlin offered an insufficient number of them, writes Business Insider. According to an agreement reached in April between Slovakia and Germany, Ukraine was to receive 30 Soviet-made T-72 tanks in exchange for German Leopard 2A4s. But Berlin offered Bratislava only 15 tanks, which is not enough to cover the Slovak defense needs.
13:19 There are up to seven Belarusian battalions on the border of Belarus with Ukraine - this is about 3.5-4 thousand personnel, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanyk. "But you have to understand that there are Russian troops there too. I won't say their number, but there are a number of settlements where they are stationed," he added.
13:04 Zelensky addressed the participants of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity: "It is the attention of the world that determines when and how the war will end. For this, Ukraine needs allies. We need people who are the best in the world at attracting and paying attention. Your campaigns and your work will make a legend out of our struggle for freedom. We are fighting for freedom not only for ourselves - we are fighting for the freedom of the entire democratic world, everyone who cannot even imagine living in the tyranny and censorship that flourishes in Russia."
12:40 Canada and the Netherlands will help restore Ukraine after the victory over the Russian Federation. This was stated by the Prime Ministers of the countries Justin Trudeau and Mark Rutte after a telephone conversation, Yermak said.
12:36 All 27 member states have agreed on the status of a candidate for Kiev, writes Bloomberg. According to the publication, at a meeting of EU ambassadors, which took place the day before, no one objected to such a decision. EU leaders will meet in Brussels to discuss the issue on June 23-24.
12:20 The head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Sinegubov, said that another 993 people, including 254 children, were evacuated from the occupied territories of the region. More than 30 buses to Chuguev and Kharkiv were involved in the evacuation.
12:16 Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen speaks online in the Verkhovna Rada, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said.
12:00 Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bethel arrived in Kiev and immediately went to Borodyanka. "As long as there is a war with Russia, Luxembourg will be on the side of Ukraine," Bethel wrote on Twitter.
11:34 For the maintenance of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine, 51 sites have been organized, which are located in almost every region of the country, and one camp in the west of the state. The Ministry of Justice reported that proper living conditions have been created in the prisoner of war camp, and medical support has been organized. The prisoners of war themselves work at the same time - they are engaged in woodworking. The camp is guarded, prisoners of war can freely move around its territory.
In the areas organized in penitentiary institutions and pre-trial detention centers, prisoners of war are kept in separate rooms, isolated from other convicts.
11:25 The Russians completed the construction of the crossing in the Kharkiv region. According to Radio Liberty, the route was laid across the Oskol River near the village of Kupyansk-Uzlovaya. The occupiers built the crossing near the destroyed railway bridge. Now they can transfer both manpower and equipment across the Oskol.
11:22 Erdogan discussed with UN Secretary General António Guterres options for unblocking the export of Ukrainian grain. According to the office of the President of Turkey, Erdogan announced the continuation of joint efforts to export Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea. Erdogan also told Guterres that he continues to offer Ukraine and the Russian Federation the resumption of peace negotiations and the end of the war through diplomacy.
11:15 Rada returned duties and VAT for imported goods, as well as customs clearance of cars. The changes will come into effect on July 1. The deputies supported the corresponding government bill No. 7418 in two readings at once, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
10:49 The invaders are evacuating the Russian equipment knocked out by Ukrainian defenders to the territory of the Russian Federation for repairs, but on the way they remove spare parts, batteries and weapons control units from it and try to sell them or exchange them for alcohol. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, given the scale of the theft and the critical level of equipment of the Russian units, the commander of the troops of the Southern Military District ordered to conduct urgent investigations into cases of theft and double the security of the trains that deliver the destroyed equipment to the repair units.
10:28 Finland has not yet made progress on disputed issues with Turkey and probably will not be able to join NATO until September, said Finnish President Sauli Niiniste.
10:21 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the EU will be able to replace all supplies via Nord Stream by changing the temperature of heating or air conditioning on average in Europe by two degrees.
10:19 In Crimea, a train with Russian boats has been formed at the Dzhankoy railway station. According to the speaker of the Odesa OVA Sergey Bratchuk, two boats BMK-15, two BMK-130 and one BMK-T were seen on the railway platforms. Also, a railway echelon with 50 tanks of fuel and lubricants arrived in Dzhankoy. "Obviously, the boats will be sent to mainland Ukraine for use in forcing water interference," Bratchuk wrote.
10:11 SBU exposed Russian agents, which included officials from the Cabinet of Ministers and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine. The agent network of the FSB conducted reconnaissance and subversive activities in the authorities. As a result of a multi-stage special operation of the counterintelligence service of the Security Service in Kyiv, the head of the department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers and the head of one of the directorates of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry was detained.
09:50 Stefanchuk submitted to the Rada the candidacy of People's Deputy Dmitry Lubinets for the position of Commissioner for Human Rights.
09:48 In the Kiev region of Kharkov, the enemy bombed an educational institution, it was destroyed by 40%, the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov said. In just a day in the region three dead and seven wounded. After the shelling, a transport enterprise in the Saltovsky district was on fire, and in the Izyum region, a fire that arose after the shelling at a gas processing plant is being eliminated.
09:46 In Crimea, the fire is still being extinguished on the towers of Chernomorneftegaz, which were hit by Ukraine the day before. The fire spread to the well, Russian Senator Olga Kovitidi said. Also, seven people who worked on drilling rigs have not yet been found.
09:34 Borrell called the Kremlin's accusations of Lithuania in blocking railway transit to the Kaliningrad region pure propaganda. He stressed that Lithuania did not accept any unilateral national restrictions - Vilnius is consulting with the European Commission about its actions.
09:10 In Odessa, due to a massive missile strike on June 20, one person died - a guard at a food warehouse, OK Pivden reported.
09:08 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of June 21. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions.
personnel - about 34,100 (+300) people liquidated,
tanks - 1496 (+19),
armored fighting vehicles - 3606 (+18),
artillery systems - 752 (+3),
MLRS - 239 (+1),
air defense systems - 98 (+0),
aircraft - 216 (+0),
helicopters - 181 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 611 (+10),
cruise missiles - 137 (+7),
ships/boats - 14 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 2537 (+10),
special equipment - 59 (+4).
09:03 British intelligence notes that the destruction of the Russian ship Vasily Bekh on June 17 during a resupply mission demonstrates the difficulties that the Russian Federation is facing in trying to maintain its forces on Zmein. The Ukrainian coastal defense largely neutralized Russia's ability to establish control over the sea and deploy naval forces in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. This undermined Russia's original plan of action for the invasion, which envisaged creating a risk to the Odessa region from the sea, analysts say.
08:50 The provisions of the Geneva Conventions do not apply to captured US citizens, Peskov said. According to him, these Americans are not related to the Ukrainian army.
08:46 52-year-old American volunteer Steven Zabelsky died in Ukraine, writes The Washington Post. According to an obituary published by his family and confirmed by the State Department, he was killed in action near Dorozhnyanka, Zaporozhye region, on May 15. This is the second confirmed death of a US military in Ukraine. The first was PMC employee Willy Kansel, whose death became known at the end of April.
08:43 Russians fired at school No. 6 in Avdeevka at night. According to the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko, the building was fired from Gradov with incendiary rockets. There is no information about the victims.
08:41 About 200 invaders are hiding in the forests of the Kharkiv region. According to the Borovsky village council, in recent days a lot of enemy equipment and troops have been moving through the territory of the community. The invaders deserted near the village of Gorohavatka, refusing to engage in battle with the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Izyum. As a result, they were wounded, hungry, angry and fled into the forest with damaged equipment, now their commanders are looking for Russians.
08:27 In the Lugansk region, the Russians were advancing from different directions - in the areas of Kamyshevakhi, Zolote, Gorsky, at the same time the enemy was massively shelling Lisichansk - the head of the military administration of the city came under fire, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, about half of the wounded invaders do not survive in the future.
Doctors are still working in one of the hospitals in Severodonetsk. 568 people remain on Azot, among them 38 children - mostly employees of the enterprise and their families, they refused to evacuate, Gaidai specified.
08:15 The government of Taiwan will allocate 500 thousand dollars for the restoration of Buchi. "We are aware of the suffering, killings, destruction from the war that the aggressors left in Bucha. The atrocities in Bucha are war crimes that need to be condemned and those responsible punished," Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said during an online meeting with Mayor of Bucha Anatoly Fedoruk. Financial and material assistance will also be directed to the restoration of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odessa, Sumy and Zaporozhye.
08:01 In the Nikolaev region, an enemy mine was washed up to the shore. According to OK Pivden, Russian ammunition drifted in Koblevo at a distance of about 50 meters from the coast, and subsequently detonated uncontrollably. Due to the absence of people on the beach and in coastal waters, no one was hurt.
07:48 The Armed Forces of Ukraine held their positions after the attack of the invaders near Severodonetsk, and also repelled the assault of the Russians near Slavyansk, the General Staff reports in the morning report . Also, the Ukrainian military stopped the attempts of enemy assault operations in the Maryinka area. In the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, five carriers of high-precision weapons are kept in readiness for launching missile strikes on targets on the territory of Ukraine.
06:56 According to the UN, more than 7.7 million people left Ukraine during the war, more than 5.1 million of them went to Europe.
04:44 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the mass activity of partisans in the occupied territories does not allow the Russian authorities to publicly support the "accession" of these territories to the Russian Federation.
04:22 Editor-in-chief of the Russian Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov sold his 2021 Nobel Peace Prize medal for a record $103.5 million - he will use the funds to help Ukrainian refugee children.
03:13 "Referendum" on the entry of the Kherson region into Russia is planned to be held this fall, said Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the "military-civil administration" of the region.
02:04 Peskov said that the crisis in Ukraine will be protracted, and "the West will never be able to regain Moscow's trust."
00:36 Ukraine has ratified the Istanbul Convention according to the Croatian scenario, that is, with reservations, Tatyana Pechonchik, head of the board of the ZMINA Human Rights Center, said on the air of the telethon. Thus, according to her, the ratification of the convention does not oblige Ukraine to amend the laws, the Family Code, the Constitution or change the definition of marriage. On the other hand, the ratification of the convention will open the way for Ukraine to the EU, since some EU members, in particular the Netherlands and Sweden, have emphasized its importance. And as a negative example, Pechonchik cited the decriminalization of domestic violence in the Russian Federation.
00:18 In Ukraine, they began to separate passenger and cargo flows at the border, spokesman for the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko said on the air of the telethon. According to him, today the Krakovets checkpoint has been launched, where these flows go separately. Another checkpoint - Yagodin - will soon start working only for cargo flows, passenger traffic will be redirected to other points.
Even before the introduction of such a distinction, trucks with fuel were allowed into Ukraine without a queue, Demchenko recalled and stressed that with the separation of flows, the pace of fuel supply to the country would also accelerate.
In turn, Zelensky said in an evening video message that within the framework of the Open Border project, the capacity of the Krakovets-Korcheva checkpoint has been increased by 50%, which will significantly increase the export-import flow across the border.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:12 A large-scale humanitarian convoy from the Republic of Dagestan arrived in Energodar. Volunteers from the volunteer corps "Volunteers of Energodar" took an active part in the extradition.
22:31 A total of 253.5 tons of essential items and food were transferred to the population of the Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and Kherson regions.
21:48 Attacks were made on targets in the city of Chuguev, Kharkiv region - strong explosions and fire at the place of arrival
18:31 Relations between Moscow and London have nowhere to fall, then only a gap - the ambassador.
17:37 Today, a Su-25 of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down in the sky over the village of Pervomaiskoye, Mykolaiv region. Since the beginning of the month, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already lost the fifth military aircraft in the Kherson direction.
15:21 Patrushev: Russia will soon respond to the restriction of transit through Lithuania to the Kaliningrad region. The consequences of the Russian retaliatory measures "will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania."
15:05 What is the difference between the shelling of Donetsk, for example, and Kharkov? In Donetsk, the victims of shelling have names and surnames, relatives, heartbroken.
In most cases, there is immediately a photo / video evidence of the crimes of Ukrainians. Because there are always people nearby, everyone sees everything. They just have words. Exactly the same as hundreds of raped and murdered babies who had neither names, nor surnames, nor relatives. Fucking fake shots.
13:12 In Kherson, young anti-fascist people are getting rid of traces of the shameful Bandera occupation of the Russian region.
The movement is gaining momentum.
12:27 In New Kakhovka near Kherson, a point for receiving documents for Russian citizenship has opened.
12:50 In the village of Vesyoloye, Zaporozhye region, the issuance of financial assistance to pensioners in the amount of 10,000 rubles continues. Local residents thank the staff of the local Administration and the Russian Federation for their assistance and support.
12:27 In New Kakhovka near Kherson, a point for receiving documents for Russian citizenship has opened.
11:15 A 52-year-old American volunteer, Steven Zabelski died in Ukraine - The Washington Post. He was killed in a battle near Dorozhnyanka, Zaporozhye region, on May 15th.
According to some reports, he was blown up by a mine. Earlier, the State Department stated that three Americans were missing on the territory of Ukraine.
08:05 A Su-34 fighter-bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroys a Ukrainian army facility with high-precision weapons.
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Sheikh al-Otaibi vowed to revolt against those who arrested him, through verses of poem attached to photographs of his arrival in Sana’a.
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