The life of Volodymyr Maslov was taken by a Russian attack on the city of Toretsk in Donetsk region. On June 26, 2024, the enemy shelled a residential multi-story building on Lisniy Street. His wife Valentina died nearby.
Volodymyr was 67 years old. He was born in the city of Dzhankoy in the Crimea. In childhood, the family moved to Donetsk region. Volodymyr got married here. He worked in the separate unit "Southern mine".
He loved to read books about the development of the soul, in his spare time he did various types of gymnastics, and also meditated. Together with his wife Valentina, he lived in marriage for 44 years.
"My father had golden hands and a very kind soul. He is our home psychologist, caring and loving. He always helped people with advice and deed, knew how to listen and support," said daughter Inna Kravchenko.
Volodymyr Maslov is survived by his daughter Inna, son Serhiy, granddaughters Yana and Veronika, brother Anatoliy.
✈️ 2 F-16s are likely to be used as decoys
If you look closely at the photos of the planes that were on the ground during the awarding of Air Force soldiers by Zelensky, you can see that they are F-16 ADF planes. This version can be distinguished by the characteristic IFF "own-foreign" antennas, namely the protruding part. In photo 3: the top picture is an F-16 ADF near Zelenskyi, the bottom picture is an F-16AM in which the pilot is sitting.
▫️F-16 fighters were modernized by the ADF at the end of the Cold War as air defense aircraft, but after the collapse of the USSR they were mothballed, and some were sold to Jordan and Thailand.
It is likely that these 2 planes were recently loaded into a Ukrainian An-124-100M in the USA. It is unlikely that the planes were restored after so many years of storage under the open sky, and judging by the fact that there are no inscriptions on them near the cockpit, and they were also covered with camouflage nets - we are likely talking about defunct planes that will be used as decoys for missiles.
Senator detained for organizing murder
It took 12 minutes to arrest the representative of the Tula region, Dmitry Savelyev, remove his immunity and charge him. Savelyev sat in the State Duma for 16 years, since 2016 in the Federation Council. In the 1990s, he worked in Lukoil and was the president of Transneft.
The crime story: Savelyev decided to deal with one of his business partners for embezzlement of funds. Last summer, he hired a killer for $100,000, but instead of executing the order, the guy went to the FSB. The murder of Ionov was staged, convincing Savelyev of his partner’s death.
Savelyev considers the case fabricated. It is already the second senator after Rauf Arashukov who has been detained in this way.
The questions: What did the FSB the whole year after they knew about the assassination attempt? Is this really the first time Savelyev used a contract killer? And most importantly, what did he really do wrong in the eyes of the Kremlin and who will fall into disgrace next?
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Poland prepares for a war with Russia
"We will no become a Russian colony."
Poland already spends more than four per cent of its GDP on defence, but plans to increase the amount. Billions in purchases also attract criticism.
"We want to show that we are not ready to give up a single square centimetre of our land," Piotrowski, spokesman for the 1st Armoured Brigade in Warsaw said.
The country has become one of Europe's most important military powers in a short period of time. Staggeringly large arms purchases worth billions of euros have been reported frequently in Poland. It is the only NATO country to spend more than four per cent of its GDP on defence this year and will conclude more than 150 contracts for various weapons systems worth more than 23 billion euros.
But can Poland afford this? As recently as last year, Radosław Sikorski, representing the opposition, doubted the ability of the Polish economy to make such massive purchases.
"I don't think it's self-evident that Poland will be able to pay for all this," he said. Now Sikorski is the country's foreign minister, and suspicions of bills have turned into increasingly ambitious declarations. "Next year we will spend five percent of GDP on defense," Sikorski declared in July.
Poland's armament has been made possible by the country's strong economic growth as a member of the European Union. In May, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that Poles would be wealthier than the British in five years' time. Procurement also enjoys broad popular support.
And now Poland has declared its goal to build the best and largest ground forces in Europe. "This is necessary because we have suddenly woken up to the fact that we are on the front line of both Russia and Belarus," Świerczyński said.
Poland's intentions do not seem to be just words. A couple of weeks ago, NATO published fresh figures on the troops of its member countries. Poland has become the third largest army in the alliance with 216,000 troops, surpassing France and Germany.
Moreover Poland has set itself the goal of an army of 300,000 soldiers.
Russia has been irritated by Poland's rearmament. For example, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called Poland a "dangerous enemy" and said the country should not exist. Drunk Dima also said that Poland's military build-up and the presence of Polish soldiers in Ukraine could cause a direct conflict between Russia, Belarus and Poland.
For his part, Prime Minister Tusk has said that Europe is living in a pre-war era.
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