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
🌳 A square named after the Hero of Ukraine, scout Oleg Babii, will appear in the Lviv district of Sykhiv.
📃 The corresponding decision was adopted by the deputies of the Lviv City Council on July 4, 2024.
👤 Oleg Babii is an officer of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who made 9 successful sorties into the deep rear of the enemy. Planned and coordinated 12 successful special operations involving representatives of the resistance movement in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. More than 70 strategic military facilities of the aggressor state were discovered on the lands captured by the Muscovites.
❗️ In August 2023, Oleg Babi's group covered 600 kilometers on foot to neutralize three Tu-22M3 strategic bombers on enemy territory: one was completely destroyed, two were damaged and disabled.
⚔️ On the way back, the group of scouts encountered the enemy. 33-year-old lieutenant colonel Oleg Babii covered the departure of his subordinates and died in a battle with russian invaders.
🫡 Awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of Ukraine and the military rank of colonel (posthumously).
▫️ The graduate of the National Academy of Land Forces named after Hetman Sagaidachny in Lvivt is survived by his wife and two children.
🙏 We express our gratitude to the community and representatives of the local self-government of Lviv for honoring the memory of Oleg Babii.
🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!
- GUR
@ukrainejournal
Media: russia to return fraudulently recruited Indian citizens
russia will discharge from service all Indians who have been forcibly or fraudulently mobilized into the russian army for the war in Ukraine.
The Indian media NDTV reported on this, citing its own sources.
Putin agreed to release all Indian citizens from military service after a meeting with the country’s prime minister in Moscow on July 9.
At least two Indians are known to have died during the war against Ukraine. However, the number of Indian citizens involved in the war in Ukraine may be much higher. In March of this year, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India exposed a human trafficking network that fraudulently trafficked people to russia for forced labor.
According to the investigation, a group of people, including three russian nationals, recruited Indians on the pretext of getting admission to private universities in russia. After reaching russia, the passports of these Indians were taken away and they were forced to fight the russian side against their will.
@ukrainejournal
The UN called the shelling of a children's hospital in Kyiv "one of the most egregious attacks" of the entire full-scale invasion
"The analysis of the video footage and the assessment carried out at the scene of the incident indicate a high probability that the children's hospital suffered a direct hit and was not damaged by the air defense system," said Daniel Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, at a press briefing in Geneva.
According to Bell, there were about 670 children and about 1,000 employees at the hospital at the time of the attack.
She also said it was "one of the most egregious attacks we've seen since the full-scale invasion began" in February 2022.
Today, the UN Security Council will hold a meeting to discuss the shelling of "Okhmatdyt". Russia is a permanent member, chairing the Security Council, and can veto the resolutions of this UN body.
The Russian strike on Kyiv's hospitals was precisely calculated. The Kremlin deliberately targeted Kyiv's crucial children's hospital. This is an intentional war crime.
Its timing was calculated and it was Putin's "message" to the world.
◾️ First of all, this is a message to China (Putin communicated with Xi Jinping just the other day in Astana), to India (Narendra Modi was in Moscow at that moment) and to the rest of the "non-Western" countries. The message is along the following lines:
It is necessary to make friends with the strong. The strong is the one who can violate any rules and remain unpunished. The current world order is already dead and we need to negotiate anew, from the position of real power. Putin really believes that Russia is stronger than NATO - because NATO is afraid of Russia, not vice versa.
Putin says: I broke the existing system, a new world order will be established, let's discuss this.
◾️ Message to Ukrainians:
Capitulate, no one will protect you, there is nothing but suffering and death waiting for you outside Russia.
◾️ Message to the West:
Putin hits children with a missile while presiding over the UN Security Council. It is hard to think of a more eloquent desecration of the international security system on the eve of the NATO summit.
Putin says: your leaders are weak, they can do nothing, you can end up as bad as Ukraine. The NATO summit will not change anything. The U.S. has lost its leadership. I broke the system of international law and introduced the law of force.
Today it is very clear that there is very little time left to stop Putin. If this does not happen, there will be completely new rules in the world. The ones by which Ukraine is now surviving and dying.
Russia demonstrates these "new rules of the world order" in Ukraine - obey or die.
Nebenzya is brazenly lying at the UN about the attack on the children's hospital.
He has been blatantly lying for years.
And will he continue? Does the UN seem to be fine with that?
The CEO of "Okhmatdyt" spoke at the meeting of the UN Security Council dedicated to the Russian attack on the hospital
▪️"At the time of the attack, 600 patients and the same number of employees were in the hospital. Three complex operations were performed. The children were on drips, on dialysis, in intensive care units," Suspilne quoted Volodymyr Zhovnir as saying.
▪️a Russian missile hit the intensive care and chronic intoxication department. Part of the building is completely destroyed. 24 departments were damaged.
▪️ More than 300 people injured, including 8 children. Two adults died. More than 600 patients were evacuated, 100 of them to other hospitals.
▪️ “Our specialized services with high quality equipment will not be provided in the near future. We will have serious consequences for the treatment of children."
▪️ "This is not just a war crime. It is beyond humanity. Our doctors tried to save the children's lives until the last moment under the attacks and after everything was affected, not even heeding the sirens."
"Norway transferred the NASAMS air defense system to Ukraine, from which the missile was fired at Okhmatdyt. We are waiting for a reaction from the Norwegian authorities ,” russian permanent representative to the UN Nebenzya
- So now ruzzia is accusing Norway(!) of being complicit in murder and war crimes at a Children's hospital??? 🤯🤯
2 grumpy old men about the children's hospital bombing
https://twogrumpyoldmenonukraine.substack.com/p/grumpy-pod-furious-actually-is-it?publication_id=2397761&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=70k1h
The media are owned by the rich fucker's. They want Donald Trump to win.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/moving-the-goalposts/57001/
Of course it's ugly. TREASON is ugly.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/project-2025-just-keeps-getting-uglier-for-donald-trump/57008/
I have seen better behaved 5 year olds.
You also need to know how to lose. The Russian tennis player failed to contain himself. These things happen to the Russians, indeed.
I am sitting in my car now. Better reception than in the house. Weather says the rain should end about 1:30.
Orbán Called to Resign as Head of European Council After Visit to Putin
“The fact that Orbán is shamefully abusing the EU Council presidency and going to the Kremlin without a mandate is a scandal. It undermines the fundamental principles of EU foreign policy. Either the Hungarian government respects its current role in the EU, or it must resign as president,” said Michael Roth, chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that the Hungarian leader’s visit to Moscow had not been agreed upon with them. Orbán said he “told the Russian president about President Zelenskyy’s reaction to the ceasefire proposal,” and that the purpose of his visit was to ask Putin “the shortest path to ending the war.”
“I wanted to ask him what he thought about the existing peace initiatives, the ceasefire, and negotiations, and how he sees Europe after the war. I received answers to these questions. Our meeting is taking place during a war. I consider the struggle for peace to be Hungary’s task during the EU presidency.”
Ambassadors of 27 EU countries will discuss Orbán's trips to Moscow and Beijing at the beginning of Hungary's six-month EU presidency.
The closed-door meeting will be held at the request of Poland, which expressed reservations after Viktor Orbán traveled to Moscow on July 5 and Beijing on July 8 on what he calls a "peaceful mission," Voice of America reports.
Orbán admitted that he kept his tour, which began with a trip to Kyiv on July 2, a secret from his allies.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stated that Orbán's visit to Moscow took place "exclusively within the framework of bilateral relations between Hungary and Russia," and that Orbán did not receive any mandate from the EU Council to visit Moscow.
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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