TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z 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 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
Sochi in russia is flooded
"and the flood shall boil out paddocks, that shall go up, and enter into thine house, and into the closet of thy bed, and on thy bed, and into the houses of thy servants, and into thy people, and into thine ovens, and into the remnants of thy meats", Exodus 8:3-13
From the Analyst, Military & Strategic
‘WE NEED THE MONEY’ AND OTHER NEWS
In an interview on DeutchWelle today Ukraine’s Alexander Kamyshin, Minister of Strategic Indistries, made some interesting comments.
Firstly, that the industrial capacity to produce missiles for attacking Russia is three times higher than the money available to fund their production. He indicated that the new Danish program to direct money into Ukrainian weapons industries was extremely welcome and a vital move to ramping up production.
Another interesting aspect was the discussion on Palantisiya requiring Starlink to reach targets. Kamyshin refused to comment.
In the same article - talking about Kursk, the ex-military British Analyst DW have used since the war began, was asked what he thought about the situation there.
He was very diplomatic of course, but it amounted to, the Ukrainians had their reasons. It hasn’t worked, Putin has decided to take the loss and the political embarrassment, and declined to stop the advances in the central front regions which are now getting very worrying in their scale.
Rather than say he thinks they were wrong and it’s a mistake, he said that it was almost certain the forces that were withdrawn from the central front to conduct the Kursk campaign were now needed there and the pressure on Ukrainian units was very great, that those facing the onslaught almost certainly wish they were there to aid them.
He also made it plain that he did think in the end, Putin has called Ukraine’s bluff, not that he used those exact words - TV people never say it that directly.
Further frontline news is depressing. The main road from
Vuhledar to Kramatorsk has been cut and the Russians have control over it. They are also on the high ground heading south west to Vuhledar now, which makes it far harder to defend.
The Russians have made sizeable gains in the north Oskil
River region.
Toretsk is in the middle of severe fighting. New York has been completely lost.
Pokrovsk is in dire danger and is just 8km away from Russian lines. Evacuations are urgent for remaining civilians though most have no idea where to go.
This morning an 8 hour long missile and drone raid involving some 200 missiles, most targeted electrical infrastructure, causing widespread blackouts and damage across 15 of Ukraine’s oblasts. It’s believed to be the largest raid ever.
Details on what was shot down and what was hit will be available in time.
It merely adds to the desperate need for Ukraine to be able to strike deeper and deeper into Russia - to hit air bases and factories, oil and gas industries and any other target that hinders Russian war efforts.
America needs to take the limits off long range weapons use now, those airfields and support sites need to be destroyed.
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🤡Putin: the main condition for Russia's economic development is the "successful" ending of the "special military operation"
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Death of crops. Bashkiria has introduced a emergency regime due to waterlogging of the soil, from of which crops died on an area of about 200,000 hectares. On Monday, August 19, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic, Ilshat Fazrakhmanova reported that a third of the winter crops were harvested, another third died, and the rest of the crop "is planned to be harvested if available opportunities." By August 23, 11% of grain and leguminous crops were harvested in Bashkiria.
You make a big mistake! Another billionaire whines that oligarchs are powerless to influence Putin, and therefore the West has made a "colossal mistake" by imposing sanctions against russian businessmen for political reasons. It's just unfair. After all, they have built multinational companies, actively invested abroad, and now they have to work only within the country. Usmanov, the oligarch with a fortune of $ 13.8 billion, was included in the sanctions lists of the European Union, Great Britain, Switzerland and the US.
Earnings of russia's mining and metallurgical giant Norilsk Nickel fell by 22% in the first half of 2024 year-on-year against the backdrop of lower prices for basic metals, logistical difficulties, problems with cross-border payments and export duties. Norilsk Nickel was not directly affected by Western sanctions, but faced with the problem of importing equipment, "voluntary sanctions" of partners and other global restrictions.
Russian companies will be forced to pay a fee to the state for the use of foreign software. Minister of Digital Gulag Development Maksut Shadayev said that the bill will be introduced to the State Duma in September to "equalize" the conditions for the implementation of foreign software with russian. He also stressed that the Ministry of fancy Financials is working on the issue and that the new fee will not affect small and medium-sized businesses, and budgetary organizations.
India surpasses China to become Russia's top oil buyer in July. Russian oil accounted for 44% of India's total imports last month, reaching a record 2.07 million barrels per day, up 12% from a year ago. Indian refiners have been gorging on Russian oil sold at discounts after Western nations imposed sanctions against Moscow, and their demand will continue to grow until sanctions are further tightened.
Russia's richest and most mysterious oil company has become unprofitable and has classified almost all financial indicators. The fourth largest oil company in terms of production and the first in terms of cash in its accounts, Surgutneftegaz, decided to classify the vast majority of financial indicators. In particular, Surgutneftegaz does not disclose revenue, cost of sales, selling and management expenses, as well as income from subsidiaries. The company's long-term and short-term loans, the volume of assets, cash reserves and even the authorized capital were classified.
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A businessman with interests in Germany, bypassing sanctions, exported American lithographs to Russia for the manufacture of microcircuits.
Ties with the West do not prevent foreign firms from selling semiconductor dry etching installations for the production of chips to Russia in circumvention of sanctions. As The Insider found out, among the leaders in violating US bans on the supply of American high-tech products to Russia was the Hong Kong company of an entrepreneur with Singaporean citizenship and business in Germany.
This year, the Russian Engineering Group LLC imported from China and Taiwan lithography machines for the manufacture of microcircuits, as well as parts and spare parts for them manufactured by the American Applied Materials in the amount of more than $ 4 million. According to the Hong Kong registry, the company is owned by a Chinese citizen named Chan Po Wah (陳寶華) and a Singaporean citizen named Gallal Sabry Sera. The equipment imported by the company is dry etching units, which has a number of technological advantages compared to wet etching.
In Russia, a person with the same name (recorded as Serag Gallal Sabry) at different times was a co-owner of five different companies. One of them, Kvant LLC, still continues to work in Zelenograd, having a revenue of several billion rubles a year and a staff of about 1000 people. Another Singaporean company (over which Serag still retains control) is engaged in the supply of ordinary household appliances from China.
Gallal Sabra Serag may well be described as a Western European industrialist and businessman with serious interests in the European Union. A person with the same name is listed as the director of the German company Ledsikon (formerly RandLight GmbH), which produces LED devices.
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Krasnodar Governor Awarded Volunteer With Swastika Tattoo. Photo of the award ceremony was later removed from the administration website
Veniamin Kondratyev took a photo with volunteers and participants of "humanitarian missions" who go to war in Ukraine. In one of the photos, a man with tattoos in the form of a swastika stylized as "Slavic runes" stands next to him.
Later, the photo disappeared from the administration's website.
The man with the swastika tattoo turned out to be Alexander Kuliev, the head of the Anapa Boxing Federation. In December 2022, it was reported that he, as part of a "volunteer detachment of the Russian Union of Martial Arts", went "for training" in order to later go to fight in Ukraine.
In 2024, he was awarded the Order of Courage, Ekho found out.
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Even Zetards are tired of Kremlin newspeak. A Z-channel has compiled a dictionary.
Some may find this surprising, but few things cause such acute rejection and fierce irritation among Z-writers as Russian bureaucratic "newspeak". In the reluctance to call an "ass" "ass", Z-channels see a criminal attempt by the authorities to lull a society that they are trying with all their might to "mobilize" without success.
"A fire from a downed drone caused the detonation of explosive objects in the Voronezh region (c) Governor Gusev
The debris from the successfully shot down drone carrying explosive objects fell on a warehouse of explosive objects and caused numerous explosions.
[sighs] I have already written earlier about how such newspeak is destructive:
Such a soothing lie aggravates the situation. After all, if they shot everything down, then there is no need for mobile air defense groups, a global monitoring system, or protection of objects. Everything is shot down anyway. And while lies circulate in the media and reports, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are systematically working on oil refineries and oil depots,” complains ZERGULIO indignant.
"We would like to draw the attention of the acting governor of the Kursk region to the wording. The Russian Ministry of Defense uses the wording "armed invasion." The governor writes : "A terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
A sortie is when ten militants in slippers came down from the mountains with three machine guns for Snickers. And formulations like "clap, sortie " and so on do not contribute to an objective assessment of the situation, the correct information of citizens and do not increase the level of trust in regional authorities. And it was not the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who got into the Kursk region. But, damn it, an almost full-fledged army corps on NATO equipment.
Call a spade a spade and work, don't pretend. And people will be drawn to you. Scared? Well, look where you're scared from. And work," - scolds "Two Majors."
Excerpt from TRIPLEX convenient dictionary of mocking Kremlin newspeak:
"fire from a downed drone" = a fire caused by a UAV strike on an object
"detonation of explosive objects" = the explosion of ammunition as a result of a fire caused by a successful hit of a UAV on an object.
"technological disruptions in neighboring regions" = the enemy's disabling of energy facilities
“technological disturbances following external impact on a power facility” = an expanded version of the previous formulation.
"stopped" = enemy UAV hit the object
"attempt" = the enemy successfully launched a drone and struck
"clap" = explosion
"UFO over Pskov" = UAV over Pskov
"damaged aircraft" = an aircraft destroyed by an enemy strike
"deliberate evil act" = terrorist attack
"drone crash on uninhabited object" = enemy UAV strike on oil depot
"Emergency" = the fall/hit of an enemy drone on a residential building in St. Petersburg.
Further also: "cotton", "smoke", "negative growth", "hard landing", "interference of outsiders in the operation of railway transport", etc.
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A ninth-grader with tuberculosis was sentenced to 4.5 years for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a fence
On August 16, the 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced Valery Zaitsev to 4.5 years of imprisonment in a correctional colony. The 16-year-old teenager was found guilty of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and undergoing training in preparation for a terrorist attack. The prosecution requested nine years.
The case against Zaitsev is based on the schoolboy’s correspondence with a secret witness and a video filmed by the same witness, where the teenager throws a Molotov cocktail at the wall of an abandoned building, Mediazona found out.
14-year-old Valera Zaitsev was detained in the children's department of the tuberculosis dispensary in Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Valery's grandmother Irina Zaitseva suggests that the secret witness is either an FSB officer or someone who "works for them."
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Operational information of the General Staff of Ukraine as of 10:00 p.m. 08/26/2024 regarding the Russian invasion
The situation at the front remains difficult. The enemy, using their advantage in manpower and equipment, is relentlessly attacking our positions. Ukrainian defenders steadfastly restrained the onslaught of the invaders, inflicting significant losses on the enemy.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 148 combat clashes, the enemy launched one missile strike, using 127 missiles, 59 air strikes using 81 anti-aircraft missiles, 649 kamikaze drone strikes, and carried out almost 3,200 attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas using various types of weapons.
In the Kharkiv direction, during the day, the occupiers launched an attack near Vovchansk. Units of the Defense Forces successfully repelled enemy assaults.
According to preliminary information, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers lost 62 dead and wounded, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, two artillery systems and three units of nuclear-powered equipment were destroyed. In addition, a tank, four artillery systems and eight enemy vehicles were damaged.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled 14 enemy attacks in the area of the settlements of Novoosynove, Glushkivka, Stelmakhivka, and Andriivka.
18 times the enemy attacked in the Lymansky direction, tried to advance in the direction of the settlements of Makiivka, Grekivka, Druzhelyubivka, Nevsky, Novosadovo and Torsky, all enemy attacks were repulsed.
On the Siverskyi direction, during the day, our defenders repelled seven enemy assaults in the areas of Spirny, Verkhnyokamyansky, and Vyimka. Our units courageously hold their positions and lines, resolutely repulse the offensive attempts of the occupiers, and the battle continues near Vyimka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, four attempts by the invaders to advance near Chasovoy Yar failed.
The situation is tense in the Toretsk direction, today the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried 11 times to penetrate our defenses. The attack in the New York area continues.
The situation is difficult in the Pokrovsky district, where since the beginning of the day in the areas of the settlements of Kalinove, Vozdvizhenka, Novooleksandrivka, Panteleimonivka, Zelene Pole, Myrolyubivka, Grodivka, Novogrodivka, Memryk, Mykhailivka, Karlivka, Ukrainian units repelled 56 offensive and assault actions of the enemy. Six clashes are still ongoing. Our troops are taking measures to maintain the designated borders, causing losses to the enemy.
According to preliminary estimates, today the occupiers lost almost two hundred soldiers killed and wounded, and Ukrainian servicemen also destroyed two artillery systems, two mortars and three units of automobile equipment. In addition, one artillery system and four vehicles were damaged.
At this time of the day, there are 14 combat clashes in the Kurakhiv direction. The invaders remain active, trying to advance in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Gostre, Georgiivka and Kostyantynivka settlements. Units of the Defense Forces repelled 12 enemy attacks, four skirmishes continue near Karlivka and Nevelskyi.
It is also hot today in the Vremivsk direction , where 20 skirmishes took place in the direction of Vodyanyi and Ugledar. Four attacks near Prechistivka are still ongoing.
In the Dnieper direction, units of our troops repelled three enemy attempts to attack our positions in the island zone, the enemy was unsuccessful.
Enemy units did not conduct offensive operations in other directions.
Today we celebrate the soldiers of the 46th separate airmobile brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who confidently hold the lines and inflict irreparable losses on the enemy.
Glory to the Ukrainian soldiers!
Glory to Ukraine!
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Over 80% of Ukrainians see their future in Ukraine.
Eighty-six percent of Ukrainians want to build their future lives in Ukraine, according to a poll published by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation on Aug. 22. The foundation has asked Ukrainians whether they would like to build their future lives in Ukraine. Fifty-nine percent said they were "definitely determined" to stay in the country, and another 27% said they were more likely to do so.
The survey showed that 74% of young people are determined to stay in Ukraine, and this figure increases with the respondents' age.
Eighty-eight percent of Ukrainians are proud of their citizenship, the survey showed. This figure has remained high for the third year in a row: 90.5% of the respondents were proud of their citizenship in 2022, and 88.5% in 2023.
When asked whether events in Ukraine are developing in the right or wrong direction, 40% of Ukrainians chose the first option. In 2023, the number was higher — 49%.
Among respondents' feelings about Ukraine's future, hope prevails at 61%, followed by anxiety at 40% and optimism at 33.5%.
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z 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 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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