TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Chinese and russian companies are developing an attack drone similar to an Iranian model deployed in Ukraine - Bloomberg
The companies held talks in 2023 about collaborating to replicate Iran’s Shahed drone, and started developing and testing a version this year in preparation for shipment to Russia, said the officials. The Chinese drones have not been used in Ukraine so far, they said.
Chinese defense websites and several media outlets have reported China is developing a kamikaze attack drone called the Sunflower 200, which is described as similar in appearance to the Iranian Shahed 136 drone.
Sunflower 200 was publicly presented at the russian Army-2023 exhibition last year. It is indeed a copy of the Shahed, but exclusively Chinese. At the exhibition, a representative of an unnamed Chinese manufacturer said at the time that russia could get the development, but this has not happened, at least as of today.
Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The choice of name disgusts me!
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Such fine people Russia has in its army. Murderers, rapists, and thieves.
In Russia, an Airborne Forces colonel was detained, whose regiment is accused of killing residents of Bucha.
In Ryazan, FSB military counterintelligence detained Artem Gorodilov, commander of the 83rd Separate Guards Air Assault Order of Suvorov Brigade. Naturally, the case is not connected with the murders in Bucha . The colonel is suspected of particularly large-scale fraud, RosSMI reports.
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Good morning from Ukraine
✈️ A Ukrainian "Shark" reconnaissance UAV found in the Stavropol Territory, about 460 km from the fontlines
🟢 There is also information that this morning, a Russian GRU military unit in the Stavropol region was attacked by Ukrainian drones
And this is already good news that the drone flew so deep into the rear, if at the same time data and pictures were transmitted.
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SERHIY, will serve on the PATRIOT air defense system. Here's what he says:
- My hometown is "temporarily occupied" on the left bank of the Kherson region. Now russian anti-aircraft missile systems are stationed there, artillery is operating from there, and the russian military is establishing its procedures. My parents have been living under russian occupation for two and a half years. Just imagine how it is? Going to bed knowing that a few meters away are armed people who hate everything Ukrainian, want to kill you and destroy everything dear to you?
It is clear that I have a strong motivation to serve. In fact, it was the thought that I would become an officer and work on the new, powerful Patriot air defense system that gave me confidence all these months.
We were one of the first to go to study abroad. They worked out dozens of scenarios, trained intensively, adjusting the parameters of the "targets" to our combat conditions... However, real combat work, and especially at the time of massive missile and drone attacks, is something else. Later, during an internship in the unit, I witnessed a powerful anti-aircraft battle. Everyone is in their place, everyone knows what they are doing. This is impressive!
Of course, I was ready to defend the Ukrainian skies at old Soviet complexes as well. But, I will be frank, serving on the Patriot is much cooler: the possibility of ballistics work, a longer range of damage, and many other options unavailable to the Soviet air defense system.
I understand that many years of hard work lie ahead. But we are ready! To have enough rockets!
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Russian companies began to send employees on business trips to Europe more often and Asia less often.
In 2024, Russian companies began to send their employees on business trips to Europe more often and reduced the number of business trips to Asia.
According to the data published by Kommersant, the share of Asian countries in the structure of foreign business flights in January-June decreased year-on-year from 86% to 80%. At the same time, the share of Europe increased from 13% to 17%. The number of business trips to Africa also increased - from 1% to 2.1%, and the remaining 0.9% accounted for America.
According to Aeroclub, most often in the first half of 2024, employees of companies in the mining and manufacturing industries, energy, IT and telecom market participants, as well as employees of FMCG companies were sent on business trips abroad.
The increase in the share of business trips to Europe may be associated with trips to countries popular with Russian relocators such as Serbia, as well as an increase in the number of cases when the personal participation of business representatives is required, says Mikhail Burmistrov, CEO of Infoline-Analytics. "With the tightening of sanctions, more and more bureaucratic issues that could previously be resolved remotely require personal presence."
The growth in the number of business trips to Europe can be considered a slight recovery, but there will be no return to the pre-crisis structure of demand, since European markets are largely lost to russian companies.
Source
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Cheating your own
In ruZZia they will start selling Belarusian wines under the guise of European brands after price increases.
Russian importers of alcohol began to supply products of the Minsk Grape Wine Factory to the country under names similar to Western brands. This follows from the data of the register of RusAccreditation, to which Kommersant drew the attention.
In particular, the alcohol distributor Wintrend Retail Group (VRG) received the right to import to Putinistan the products of the Minsk plant under the names "Grüner Veltliner", "Riesling" and "Glera Spumante Extra Dry", whose name is identical to Glera Spumante Extra Dry from the Italian winery Villa degli Olmi.
Another importer of alcohol, Alco Trade Logistic, received the right to import wines from the Minsk Airen "Tres Amigos" plant. The original Tres Amigos is produced in Spain by Garcia Carrion and DCOOP.
Imports of brands of the same name as European brands may grow, including due to the growth of restrictions on the supply of wine from abroad.
The Minsk plant copies European brands and takes advantage of the fact that consumers rarely pay attention to the label, says Pavel Shapkin, head of the Center for the Development of National Alcohol Policy.
At the same time, Belarus has never been famous for its winemaking. Brands bottled by the Minsk plant can be produced according to the practice of secondary winemaking, when wine material from a winery in a certain country is poured into tanks for transportation over long distances, and wine made this way is much cheaper.
Earlier, the government decided to increase the duty on the import of wine from "unfriendly" countries from the current already raised 20% to 25% from August 1, therefore alcohol importers are currently looking for cheap suppliers.
Source
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Russia has dropped out of the top ten largest economies in the world.
The fall of the ruble has led to the fact that Russia has dropped out of the top ten largest economies in the world – if you count in absolute dollars.
In 2023, the russian economy grew by 3.6%, which is more than the global economy, but due to the weakening of the ruble in dollars, its size decreased by 10.8% - from $2.27 to $2.02 trillion, the World Bank (WB) estimates. As a result, in its ranking of the size of economies, russia dropped from eighth place to 11th, behind Italy, Brazil and Canada, although their economy grew more slowly last year: 0.9%, 2.9% and 1.1%, respectively.
A similar situation happened with Japan: due to the fall in the yen exchange rate, it dropped to fourth place, letting Germany with $4.46 trillion go to third. The United States is leading by a huge margin: the American economy is a third larger than the Chinese one – $27.4 trillion and $17.8 trillion, respectively.
On a per capita basis, russia looks much paler: GDP in 2023 was $13,817 compared to $15,445 a year earlier – according to this indicator, russia dropped to 86th place (between Mexico and Argentina).
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The ugliness of russian life....
“You are framers! You set up a child so that I could run him over!”
In the Novosibirsk region, a driver hit a child and then accused his parents of setting up the accident.
A few days ago, Valery with his 12-year-old son Lesha and his teenage friends rode an inflatable boat along the Ob River. Upon returning from the lake, the father went to open the gate to the common garden, and the children remained waiting at the gate. Then he heard a car and the screams of children.
One of the passing cars did not see the children and hit Lyosha. The impact threw the kid into the inflatable boat, which saved his life, causing displacement of the cervical vertebrae and multiple abrasions and bruises.
Eyewitnesses said that the driver tried to escape from the scene of the accident, but was hindered by relatives. Later Ravshan who according to the parents was driving drunk and without license claimed that someone threw the child on the hood and he did not hit him.
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A woman was punished for being beaten by her husband. Because the aggressor did it in front of their children.
He broke her ribs, bit her finger and tried to strangle her: a woman who was systematically beaten and persecuted by her husband was convicted in Moscow. The woman filed for divorce, but the aggressor continued to harass her as the first convictions and ongoing investigation under two criminal articles for "battery" and "threats to kill" doesn't stop him at all.
In May a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up against the husband and an administrative fine of 10.000 rubles was imposed. In court, the man openly admitted that this was not the first time he had used physical force against his wife, but tried to shift the blame to her, saying that "she herself beats and provokes him."
It didn't stop him. Alexandra filed for divorce, still he came back, next time in June 2023 he beat her again up, took her phone, keys to the apartment, locked her in the apartment and left. She got to the hospital the next morning with broken ribs. In October the next episode, he beat and strangled her. During the trial the court established the "presence of mitigating circumstances" in the form of the presence of minor children, an elderly dependent mother, remorse for the deed.
At the latest episode in January 2024, the man came to Alexandra's rented one-room apartment where she was with two children, at first he began to demand to dress and give him his daughter, and when the woman asked him to leave, he began to beat and strangle her, he himself called the police and said that it was "his wife who threw herself at him."
The Commission on Minor Affairs in Moscow decided that the woman, by "allowing herself to be beaten in the presence of children", was "poorly fulfilling her parental responsibilities". Therefore it found her guilty and imposed an administrative penalty. Now the victim is trying to challenge this decision in the Moscow City court as the district court already upheld the decision.
Survived after bullets and grenades. Azov soldier "Woody" and his hardest assault - Azov
"The sun is shining, and I'm bleeding and hearing: Woody is 200".
During the assault, "Woody" found himself in a situation where his comrades already thought he was dead.
The fighter received two bullet wounds. Then 5 enemy grenades flew at him. Despite the critical state of affairs, "Woody" did not lose his cool and literally crawled out of the battlefield.
In a new video, "Woody", a squad leader of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov, recalls the events of that extremely difficult assault and shares his emotions on what he had to endure.
The video is too big to post. 267 MB
Orban's handshake with a war criminal
The second fire
🔥Fuel tanks burn in the village of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Territory of ruzzia after a UAV attack
Biden's answer for the ninnies asking him to quit.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/no/56956/
🔥The orcs are struggling to extinguish the fire at the oil depot in the village of Pavlovskaya, Krasnodar Territory of russia after the overnight UAV attack, as reported earlier.
This fire is now LARGE
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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