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
How Vladimir Putin isolated Russia.
During Putin's initial presidential tenure, the Russian economy grew on average by seven percent per year, driven by economic reforms and a fivefold increase in the price of oil and gas. Additionally, Putin led Russia in a conflict against Chechen separatists, re establishing federal control over the region.
While serving as prime minister under Medvedev, he oversaw a military conflict with Georgia and enacted military and police reforms.
In his third presidential term, Russia annexed Crimea and supported a war in eastern Ukraine through several military incursions, resulting in international sanctions and a financial crisis in Russia.
He also ordered a military intervention in Syria to support his ally Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian civil war, ultimately securing permanent naval bases in the Eastern Mediterranean.
In February 2022, during his fourth presidential term, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which prompted international condemnation and led to expanded sanctions.
In September 2022, he announced a partial mobilization and forcibly annexed four Ukrainian oblasts, together roughly the size of Portugal, into Russia.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes related to his alleged criminal responsibility for illegal child abductions during the war.
In April 2021, after a referendum, he signed into law constitutional amendments that included one allowing him to run for reelection twice more, potentially extending his presidency to 2036.
In March 2024, he was re elected to another term.
What is next depends on how much Russian people will allow, and how much financing he gets for his war schemes.
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Addition to previous report
The second farm with slaves was found in a month.
In the village of Slava Truda, Rostov region, a farm was discovered, the owner of which kept 18 people in slavery. People were lured there by deception, offering to make money on harvesting. They never saw the money. Instead, they were sent to the barracks, having previously taken away their passports. Slaves lived in unsanitary conditions, forced to obey orders and beaten for disobedience. People were rescued thanks to volunteers from the Alternativa center and the police.
A group of recruiters acted in the interests of the owner of the farm. One of the victims said that he was drinking on a bench in Rostov-on-Don when strangers sat down with him, and then woke up on the ground without a phone, documents and money. At that moment, a farm recruiter was nearby with an offer to "earn extra money in warehouses" for a thousand rubles a day. Thus, the man fell into slavery. Later, he managed to get hold of the phone and contact the family. They called the police.
According to state controlled media, the farm was run by a 44-year-old native of Azov, Raja Limansky, a "gypsy" nicknamed Batya, previously convicted of fraud and kidnapping.
The farm with slaves in the Aksai district could not be the only one. One of the victims said that they had no choice but to remain subordinate to Limansky: "There is a gypsy highway here, it is impossible to escape. If you run away from here, you get into another company."
This is the second slave farm discovered in Russia in the last month. At the end of September, 10 people were released in the Tula region.
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25 billion rubles spent on cosmetics for the BRICS summit in Kazan
And this isn't the full amount, Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan Shamil Gafarov, told RBC.
The money was allocated from the federal and republican budgets. In particular, 25 bn was to be spent on building a children's park on the embankment of the Kazanka River and repairing lighting networks along the summit routes. Repairs and reconstruction of bus stops, building facades, roads, pedestrian crossings, and installing fences.
Construction, repair and cosmetic work had been carried out in 22 hotels in Kazan for the summit. In particular, 14 hotels had been equipped with luxury and presidential rooms.
Due to the preparations, it was proposed to increase the expenditure side of the Tatarstan budget by 39.2 billion rubles. The expenses are mainly related to bringing the social and engineering infrastructure, as well as the roads of Kazan, into a standard condition.
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Russia warned Iran of impending Israeli strike
Hours before the start of Israel's air operation, Russia warned Iran by sharing intelligence about potential targets and possible actions by the IDF, a source told Sky News Arabia. According to the channel's interlocutor, the information was provided "within the framework of cooperation" with the Islamic Republic to "reduce the escalation in the region."
Thanks to the information received from Russia, Iran was able to prepare and reduce the scale of damage from Israeli strikes, the source claims. Earlier, the authorities of the republic reported the "partial" destruction of military centers in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan, Ilam and the death of two servicemen as a result of an IDF air operation, noting that air defense managed to "repel most" of the attacks.
On the morning of October 26, the Israel Defense Forces announced the successful completion of the air operation in Iran, which was a response to the "months-long attacks" against the Jewish state. As a result, air defense systems and missile production facilities were hit, but the IDF avoided strikes on nuclear and oil facilities, focusing exclusively on military targets.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the operation began with preliminary strikes on radars in Syria to "blind" Iran's air defenses. This was followed by shelling of Tehran and Karaj. The target was "key military facilities of the Iranian defense industry," including missile factories, enterprises for the development and production of drones, as well as ballistic missile launch bases.
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"These bastards hit a residential building in Dnipro with a ballistic missile. A child's arm was torn off."
The mayor of the city of Dnipro, Filatov, gave an official statement regarding Russia's ballistic missile attack on a group of residential buildings.
There are currently 3 dead, 19 injured, 16 residential buildings and a hospital were hit.
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In what is appearing as part of a full takeover of the Georgian government, a mob of thugs from the Russian-backed ruling regime are violently invading the headquarters of opposition party United National Movement.
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🇬🇪In Tbilisi, a large brawl broke out near a polling station between activists from the pro-Russian “Georgian Dream” party and election observers.
The clash involved several dozen people.
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⚡⚡Athlete Yaroslava Mahuchikh has officially become the world record holder in the high jump, as World Athletics has ratified her record
Mahuchikh set the record in July at the Diamond League stage in Paris, clearing a height of 2.10 meters — one centimeter higher than the world record set by Stefka Kostadinova at the 1987 World Championships.
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Daniel Klass, a 23-year-old Ukrainian judoka from Dnipro, died defending Ukraine.
Daniel was a candidate for master of sports, bronze medalist of the 2017 Ukrainian U17 Championship, bronze medalist of the 2018 Ukrainian U18 Cadet Championship, and medalist of numerous national tournaments.
After the start of the full-scale invasion, Daniel joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Eternal memory and eternal glory to Ukrainian Hero.
Zelensky refused UN General Secretary Guterres' visit to Ukraine after the UN chief's participation in the BRICS summit in russia — AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refused to host United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Kyiv following his visit to Russia, where he was pictured shaking hands, smiling and bowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, an official close to Zelensky said.
Guterres went to the city of Kazan, Russia, to attend the BRICS summit, where on the sidelines he met Putin — who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. After his visit to Russia, Guterres had planned to travel to Kyiv.
Zelensky criticized Guterres in an evening speech on Thursday that marked United Nations Day, in which he said it is “crucial” the world remembers the goals and principles of the U.N. Charter.
“Even if some officials prefer the allure of Kazan over the substance of the U.N. Charter, our world is structured so that the rights of nations and international legal norms matter, and will continue to matter", Zelensky said in his address.
“The UN Secretary General declined Ukraine’s invitation to the first global peace summit in Switzerland. He did, however, accept the invitation to Kazan from war criminal Putin,” Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry stated on Monday. “This is a wrong choice that does not advance the cause of peace. It only damages the UN’s reputation,” the post continued.
Not only Ukraine criticized Guterres over his visit.
Guterres’ move garnered various reactions, including from Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, who indirectly challenged the U.N. head to step down.
russia provided intelligence to the Yemeni Houthis, who attacked Western ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones earlier this year, The Washington Post reports.
The Houthis, who began launching these attacks late last year during the Gaza war, are now using russian satellite data to expand their strikes, with the information passed through Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Experts say russia aims to create instability from the Middle East to Asia to challenge the United States. The conflict escalation in the Middle East, sparked by an attack on Israel on October 7 last year, has drawn resources and attention away from U.S. focus on threats from russia and China.
"For russia, any escalation is beneficial because it shifts the world's focus away from Ukraine and forces the U.S. to allocate resources elsewhere,"
said Oleksandr Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Eurasian Center.
Since November 2023, Yemeni militants backed by Iran and russia have attacked over 100 ships, sinking two and seizing another. These incidents disrupted global trade, as some shippers temporarily rerouted ships south around the Cape of Good Hope, a longer, costlier path. About 10% of the world's daily oil shipments pass through the Bab al-Mandab strait, linking the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Tanker traffic on this route dropped by 77% in August 2024 compared to October 2023, according to Windward, a maritime intelligence company.
Interestingly, russian "shadow fleet" tankers, including those linked to Kremlin-backed Rosneft, were also targeted by Houthi attacks.
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It's not over yet.
The friend of the dictators and part-time UN Secretary General first bowed to putin, then hugged Lukashenka passionately and thanked him for the "gifts".
If this scum still has his job as Secretary General tomorrow - who will still believe in the UN?
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Operational information of the General Staff as of 08.00 on 10/26/2024 regarding the Russian invasion
Glory to Ukraine!
The nine hundred and seventy-sixth day of large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.
In total, 192 combat clashes were recorded during the past day.
According to detailed information, yesterday the enemy launched four missile strikes using eight missiles, as well as 91 airstrikes, and dropped 139 anti-aircraft missiles on the positions of Ukrainian units and populated areas. In addition, he carried out more than 4,300 attacks, of which 142 were from rocket salvo systems.
The aggressor carried out airstrikes, in particular in the areas of the settlements of Bobylivka, Visoka Yaruga, Hoptivka, Kozacha Lopan, Kudiivka, Siversk, Zvanivka, Rai-Olexandrivka, Chasiv Yar, Toretsk, Druzhba, Shcherbinivka, Donetske, Katerynivka, Sukha Balka, Kurakhove, Antonivka and Kozachi Camps.
Yesterday, the aviation and missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces made 13 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and anti-aircraft defenses of the enemy, one strike on artillery systems.
In the Kharkiv direction, there were four enemy attacks in the area of the settlement of Vovchansk.
In the Kupian direction, 17 assaults by the enemy took place on our positions near Golubivka, Stepova Novoselivka, and Vyshnevo.
The enemy attacked 24 times in the Lyman direction. Tried to advance near six different settlements. The main efforts were made in the districts of Grekivka, Terniv, Torsky, and Serebryansk Forest.
In the Siversk direction, the occupiers tried six times to advance in the areas of Ivano-Daryivka and Vyimka settlements, by this time all attacks were repulsed, the enemy had no success.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the occupiers attacked once in the area of Chasovoy Yar.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy, with the support of aviation, carried out three attacks in the area of the settlement of Toretsk.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 46 assault and offensive actions near the settlements of Lysivka, Selidovoy, and Myrolyubivka.
In the Kurakhiv direction, the Defense Forces repelled 41 attacks near Gostroy, Katerynivka, and Novodmytrivka.
In the Vremivsk direction, according to detailed information, the enemy carried out 22 assaults on our positions in the Bogoyavlenka and Novoukrainka districts.
The occupiers did not carry out assaults in the Orihiv direction, they are shelling populated areas with the use of all available types of weapons, and are carrying out airstrikes.
In the Dnieper direction, invaders attacked our positions three times. They were repulsed and suffered losses.
No signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn and Poliske directions.
On the border with the Sumy and Chernihiv regions, the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation actively uses guided aerial bombs and strike UAVs in the areas of Ukrainian settlements, carries out artillery fire.
Also, Russian anti-aircraft missiles explode on the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, where the operation of our troops continues. According to available information, the enemy carried out 35 air strikes during the day, using 47 guided air bombs.
Ukrainian soldiers are actively inflicting significant losses on the occupiers in terms of manpower and equipment. They exhaust the combat potential of the enemy along the entire front line and in the rear.
Join the Defense Forces!
Together we will win!
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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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