TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
💔 Today is a year since the racists blew up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.
Lost lives, destroyed homes... It is impossible to remember the tragedy without tears. It was also a blow to agriculture in the Kherson region and had a devastating impact on Ukraine's environment.
The Russians are bastards, and they will pay for everything.
"Your advert may be here": Ukrainian drone pilots are gods of creativity.
You can't buy that kind of sin
Capture of two Russian assault company commanders and 4 more occupants during a counterattack by the marines of the 36th Separate Mechanised Brigade on enemy positions.
Two Russian assault companies were almost completely destroyed, and their commanders surrendered wounded.
In Zaporizhzhia, the Dnipro HPP dam, which was attacked by Russian terrorists a few days ago, has resumed traffic, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
“For four days since the enemy shelling, the people involved in restoring traffic achieved an incredible feat. Everyone worked around the clock so that the residents of Zaporizhzhia could move between the two banks as quickly, safely, and without traffic jams as possible,” Fedorov said.
Major London hospitals have been targeted by ransomware attacks by Russian hackers. The criminals hacked into the IT systems responsible for reporting on patient tests, the Independent reports.
Highly ranked sources in the hospitals describe the situation as a “catastrophe”. Staff are forced to write down patient test results on paper and manually transmit the results to emergency services.
Hospitals canceled or postponed non-urgent surgeries and procedures, and general practitioners were ordered to cancel all non-emergency blood tests.
Several senior National Health Service sources warned that it could take months to fully recover from the attack.
🦫 🔥 At night, UAVs attacked the Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery, 150 km from the combat line
It is also reported that the Stary Oskol oil depot in the Belgorod region was attacked
This is what a field exchange looks like at the front, when brigade chiefs or battalion commanders on the spot negotiate an exchange of prisoners without handing them over to the authorities. Such exchanges are not public or official. In the video, the Ukrainian Armed Forces convoy is already returning from the exchange.
And those who were exchanged are kept secret; relatives are prohibited from publishing information about their release from captivity
Important read for women who don't wish to be baby factories.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/going-retrograde?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
😳 Deadly head-on collision: in the Czech Republic, a passenger train on the way to Ukraine collided with a freight train.
The tragedy happened in the evening near Pardubice station. Four people have already died and more than 20 have been injured, including children. Helicopters were involved in the rescue operation.
⚡️ 2 Ukrainian women died as a result of a train collision in the Czech Republic, — Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The citizenship of the other 2 victims is being clarified.
Russian Military Motorcycles ‘Mad Max’ Are a Bad Idea, — Forbes
In an attempt to make up for the loss of about 15,000 armored vehicles during the large-scale war in Ukraine, Russia began equipping new assault groups with inexpensive civilian vehicles. At first, these were Chinese-made all-terrain vehicles, such as golf carts. Then, motorcycles from China and Belarus, the publication writes.
“Naturally, in their original configurations, these light vehicles are extremely vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery, missiles, and drones. When Russian motorized assault groups first deployed this spring, they were ‘knocked in the teeth,’ according to the Ukrainian 79th Airborne Assault Brigade,” the article says.
That’s why the Russians reinforced the armor of the motorcycles. Observers compare these motorcycles to those in the post-apocalyptic film series “Mad Max.”
“The problem, of course, is that motorcycles cannot cope with a large amount of armor without losing mobility,” analysts note.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalled over Beijing's price demands.
The Financial Times writes that Russia's attempts to conclude an agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline with China have reached a dead end due to unreasonable demands from Beijing regarding the price and volume of supplies.
Sources told the FT that China had insisted on paying a price close to Russia's heavily subsidized domestic prices and would commit to buying only a small fraction of the pipeline's planned annual capacity of 50 billion cubic metres.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2993. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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