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
A book about President Zelensky was confiscated from a parcel at Sheremetyevo.
The 38-year-old man ordered a book about Zelensky, "Showman," by American journalist Simon Schuster, from Poland. When the parcel arrived at Sheremetyevo, the printed edition was found and confiscated by customs officers:
"The examination confirmed that the book falls into the list of goods prohibited from being moved across the customs border of the EAEU. The information contained in it may harm the state security, political or economic interests of the country and the morality of its citizens," the russian Federal Tariff Service stated.
The man who ordered the book explained that he collects historical literature and purchased the copy for personal use. An administrative case was opened against him for failure to comply with prohibitions and restrictions.
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Operational information as of 08.00 on 10.08.2024 regarding the Russian invasion
Glory to Ukraine!
The eight hundred and ninety-ninth day of large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.
Over the past 24 hours, 90 combat clashes have been recorded. The enemy advanced most actively in the Pokrovsky direction.
According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched two missile strikes against the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas, using two missiles, as well as 71 airstrikes, dropping 91 anti-aircraft missiles. In addition, he carried out more than 4,800 attacks, 170 of them from rocket salvo systems.
The aggressor carried out airstrikes in the areas of populated areas, in particular, Zarutske, Bilovody, Yunakivka, Khrapivshchyna, Vasylivka, Glukhiv, Polozhy, Bereza, Kucherivka, Stari Virky, Pysarivka, Petrushivka, Mogrytsia of the Sumy region; Serhiyivka, Toretsk, Kostyantynivka, Grodivka, Timofiivka, Oleksandropil, Novodonetske, Vodyane, Vugledar, Novoukrainka of the Donetsk region; Gulyaipole, Novoandriivka, Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region; Zmiivka, Kherson region.
Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out four strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy, and also hit four control points, three air defense systems, seven artillery systems, an ammunition depot and three other important objects.
Four battles were fought in the Kharkiv direction . The defense forces repelled enemy assaults near Vovchansk.
Two skirmishes took place in the Kupyansk direction , in particular, near Kolisnikivka and Tabaivka.
In the Lyman direction, the enemy attacked 15 times near Makiivka, Nevsky and Serebryan forests.
There were 11 combat clashes in the Siverskyi direction . Ukrainian defenders repelled the assaults of the Russian invaders near Bilogorivka, Verkhnyokamyanskyi, Ivano-Daryivka, Vyimka and Spirnyi.
In the Kramatorsk direction, nine battles were fought in Stupochky, Chasovoy Yar and Ivanivsky districts.
In the direction of Toretsk, the Russians attacked 14 times near Bila Hora, Dilyivka, Toretsk and New York.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders repelled 28 enemy assaults in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Zelene Pole, Grodivka, Zhelanne, Kalinove, Oleksandrivka, and Yasnobrodivka. The greatest concentration of attacks was near Grodivka and Zhelany.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled five enemy attacks near Paraskoviivka, Oleksandrivka, and Kostyantynivka.
In the Vremivsk direction , the enemy's offensive in the direction of Vodyanyi was not successful.
In the Orihiv direction, Russian troops stormed the positions of Ukrainian units near Malaya Tokmachka.
In the Gulyaipil and Prydniprovsky directions, the situation has not changed much.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions .
On the border with the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the enemy maintains a military presence, carries out mortar and artillery attacks on populated areas from the territory of the Russian Federation .
At the same time, our soldiers continue to actively inflict significant losses in manpower and equipment on the occupying forces, exhausting the enemy along the entire line of battle.
In general, the total losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 1,160 people last day. Also, our soldiers destroyed seven tanks, nine armored combat vehicles, 69 artillery systems, one anti-aircraft missile system, two air defense systems, 47 operational-tactical-level unmanned aerial vehicles, a cruise missile, 82 vehicles and 20 units of special equipment.
Join the ranks of the Armed Forces!
Our strength is unity! Glory to Ukraine!
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The FSB began to detain residents of the Kursk region for filming the defeat of Russian troops.
The Z-regime is launching a machine of repression on the territory of the Kursk region, where fighting with the invading troops of Ukraine continues for the fourth day.
According to state propaganda media, the FSB detained a 48-year-old resident of the village of Oktyabrskoye, who recorded the consequences of Ukrainian strikes.
According to the special services, the video filmed by a local resident was published in one of the Ukrainian telegram channels. During interrogation, the detainee allegedly said that he "acted on an assignment", and for its implementation he was promised money and "citizenship of one of the NATO countries."
According to pro-Kremlin run channels, the issue of initiating a criminal case under the article "espionage", which involves punishment up to life imprisonment, is being decided.
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🇺🇦 Ukraine at the Olympics - some results:
🤼♀️ Ukrainian wrestler Oksana Livach lost the "bronze" final at the 2024 Olympics and finished the Olympics with a fourth place. The third place was won by her Japanese rival Yui Susaki.
🏅🥊 Ukrainian Oleksandr Khizhnyak won gold in boxing at the 2024 Olympics.
He won against Kazakh Nurbek Oralbai.
🚣🏼 The Ukrainian kayak four took fourth place in the final of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The team consisted of Oleg Kukharik, Dmytro Danylenko, Igor Trunov and Ivan Semikin. First place went to Germany, second to Australia, and third to Spain.
🥈🤼♀️ Ukrainian wrestler Parviz Nasibov won silver at the 2024 Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling (weight up to 67 kg).
Nasibov lost to Iranian Said Esmaeli in the final with a score of 5:6. This is Ukraine's third silver at these Games.
🥉🤼♀️ Ukrainian wrestler and People's Deputy Zhan Beleniuk won bronze at the 2024 Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling (weight up to 87 kg).
Beleniuk defeated Pole Arkadiusz Kulynych with a score of 3:1. This is Ukraine's fourth bronze at these Games. It was Belenyuk's last match — he decided to end his sports career.
🥈🛶 Lyudmila Luzan and Anastasia Rybachok won the silver of the 2024 Olympics in the women's double canoe at a distance of 500 meters. At the same time, the gold belongs to the Chinese national team.
This is the 11th award for Ukraine at this year's Olympic Games in Paris.
🤼♀️ Ukrainian wrestler Iryna Kolyadenko reached the final of the 2024 Olympics in freestyle wrestling. She will compete for gold.
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russian attack on a supermarket in Kostyantynvika Donetsk region as of now 11 killed 37 wounded. @ukrainejournal
"There is a Ukrainian flag on the administration building. A Ukrainian soldier told me to learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum. I am in shock. Honestly I don't care what flag we are under, as long as its peaceful. If our own can't protect us, maybe Ukrainians can." A Russian man from Kursk. @ukrainejournal
Were, not are.
The latest Su-57 fighter jets were stationed at the Russian Aerospace Forces airbase in Lipetsk, where long-range drones launched a successful nighttime attack, according to Defence Express.
The airbase, located 280 km from Ukraine's border, was targeted by a large-scale raid involving several dozen UAVs. The drones managed to penetrate Russian air defenses, delivering a significant blow to an aviation ammunition warehouse.
Local authorities announced the evacuation of several villages due to the detonation of explosive materials. The scale of the explosions was so large that NASA's satellite monitoring of fires captured it.
Interestingly, the Lipetsk airbase also serves as a training center for pilots on the new "fifth generation" Su-57 aircraft. However, it's unclear whether these aircraft were present during the attack or if they sustained any damage. If they were hit, this would mark the second such incident, following an earlier attack on the Akhtubinsk airfield.
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The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic upheld the sentence of a sniper who fought against Ukraine
On August 2, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic confirmed the sentence of 21 years in prison to Alois Polak, who fought in the Donbas in the ranks of pro-Russian separatists. The 52-year-old citizen of the Czech Republic was convicted in absentia and is wanted. The investigation found that from 2016 to 2020, he killed at least four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The investigation found that from 2016 to 2020, he killed at least four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Supreme Court made the decision without a public hearing.
In December 2016, Alois Polak left the Czech Republic for the part of Donbas not controlled by Ukraine and took an active part in the battles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the ranks of the so-called "Republican Guard". At first, he served as a sniper and later became a platoon commander.
If Alois Polák returns to the Czech Republic in the future, he will have the opportunity to request a new trial of his case. In this case, the sentence will automatically be revoked, and a trial will be appointed, the sentence for which cannot be harsher than the previous one.
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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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Publication of a Russian-linked fake news site led to anti-migrant pogroms in the UK.
The wave of misinformation that led to anti-migrant riots in several UK cities was launched by the fake news site Channel3 Now. According to anti-disinformation experts interviewed by The Telegraph, the site is “clearly connected to Russia.”
Following the Southport dance studio attack in which three girls aged between 6 and 9 were killed, Channel3 Now published a “news story” reporting that the attacker was "17-year-old Muslim refugee Ali Al-Shaqati." But Al-Shakati has never existed.
Channel3 Now, a website that masquerades as a legitimate US news outlet but acts as an “aggregator” for real news stories as well as fake viral claims, published the claim on the back of speculation which appeared to have started on X, just two minutes after blogger Bernie Spofforth’s post who constantly spreads conspiracy theories .
Channel3 Now's tweet, which has 3.000 subscribers, collected 27 million views. This was possible because “many Channel3 Now subscribers are bots that share viral messages,” explained Stephen Hutchings, professor of Russian studies at the University of Manchester and principal investigator of the anti-disinformation project (Mis)Translating Deceit.
What had begun as a trickle then became a flood, sending the conspiracy theory pouring out through social media anew, where the name was boosted by thousands of other Russia-linked accounts before being repeated by authentic Russian state media, which cited Channel3 Now in its reporting.
The claim was meanwhile picked up by far-Right figures such as Tommy Robinson – founder of the anti-immigrant English Defence League, which played a major role in instigating the riots in Southport and elsewhere this week – and notorious influencer Andrew Tate, whose posts about Al-Shakati garnered millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.
And as news of the attacker’s supposed identity spread, anger grew, sparking the riots that rocked the Merseyside town that evening before spreading out across the country.
After a mourning ceremony for the dead children, pogroms began in Southport. Hundreds of people gathered outside the mosque and began throwing bricks, bottles and other objects at the mosque and the police. At least 39 police officers were injured . Anti-migrant pogroms later took place in Hartpool and Sunderland in the North-East of Great Britain.
However, the real suspect named in court was Axel Rudakubana, born 2006 in Cardiff to Rwandan parents.
Channel3 Now is part of a complex web of disinformation, Hutchings said. In 2019, the channel was renamed and began publishing English-language videos about Pakistan, suggesting it had been “hijacked and repurposed” rather than being part of a disinformation network in the first place.
▪️The channel has been operating under its current name for two years. In 2023, it registered a domain in Lithuania. The site's IP address belongs to two Pakistani citizens.
▪️The site has one author named James Lawley, whose LinkedIn account says he owns a gardening company in Canada. A search of Lawley's LinkedIn photo yielded no results. Also, there are no other mentions of his company online. Probably this 'James Lawley' does not really exist.
▪️When the name of the real suspect became known, the Channel3 Now YouTube channel disappeared, and a statement apologizing for the “misleading information” appeared on the publication’s website.
This rebuttal is an “authentication technique,” says Hutchings. “They need to create the impression that they made an innocent mistake.”
In recent years, Russia has created several disinformation networks aimed at foreign audiences. There are many like it, who post hundreds of stories a day with a pro-Russian or anti-western slant intended to sow confusion and destabilise society in Britain and elsewhere.
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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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