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
He is fading fast. No impulse control.
The latest hearing was a disaster for the GOP
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-is-a-disaster-for-house-republicans/54999/
The charges that were set aside can be refined with more precise language.
Leonid Volkov is back home and seems reasonably okay. He broke his right arm but his legs withstood 15 blows from a hammer. He says he's confident that his assailant was a St. Petersburg thug sent by Putin
Leonid Volkov, the longtime chief of staff of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was attacked with a hammer and tear gas outside his home Tuesday.
Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said. Volkov has lived in Lithuania in self-imposed exile from Russia for at least four years.
The reported attack comes less than a month after the death of Navalny in a Russian prison colony.
“Someone broke a car window and sprayed tear gas in his eyes, after which the attacker started hitting Leonid with a hammer,” Yarmysh wrote late Tuesday on X. “Leonid is now at home, police and ambulance are on their way to him.”
Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, of which Volkov once served as chairman, posted photos on X of Volkov with a bloodied leg and swollen face. The organization also posted a photo of a car’s smashed window. His associate Ivan Zhdanov posted photos of Volkov being brought into an ambulance on a gurney.
For many young Russians, dreams of democracy died with Alexei Navalny
Volkov was Navalny’s longtime top political adviser and helped run Navalny’s campaigns. He fled Russia under threat of persecution and has faced various charges brought against him in Russia. In 2021, a Moscow court ordered his arrest for encouraging minors to participate in unauthorized rallies — in what Lithuanian Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite condemned as “politically motivated prosecution,” according to VOA
Volkov has also served as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Navalny founded in 2011 to investigate alleged corruption by high-ranking Russian officials, increasingly including those within the Kremlin elite. The foundation was outlawed by Russia. Navalny was jailed in 2021 and, in August, a Russian court handed him a 19-year sentence on extremism charges. He died suddenly on Feb. 16 while in an Arctic penal colony.
For Russian political prisoners, Navalny’s death is reminder of peril
Russia’s crackdown on dissent has been expanding for years, and political cases have snowballed since the country invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has criminalized antiwar protest and has suppressed war critics, political dissenters and independent journalism.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that relevant authorities are working on Volkov’s case. “News about Leonid’s assault are shocking,” Landsbergis wrote on X. “Perpetrators will have to answer for their crime.”
⚡️⚡️Today, the SBU attacked three oil refineries in Ruzzia with drones at the same time - not only in Ryazan, as reported earlier, but also in Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) and Kirisha (Leningrad Oblast).
Sources in the SBU confirm that these attacks are a continuation of a series of special operations against enemy oil refineries, which were previously launched by the Security Service.
"We are systematically implementing a carefully calculated strategy to reduce the economic potential of the Russian Federation. Our task is to deprive the enemy of resources and reduce the flow of oil money and fuel, which the Russian Federation directs directly to the war, to the murders of our citizens."
- adds the source.
Also, the SBU, together with other representatives of the defense forces, attacked, with drones, the air base of the Russian Air Force in Buturlinivka and the military airfield in Voronezh.
A traitor who tried to poison the command of the Armed Forces was detained in the Zaporizhzhia region
The attacker, an active serviceman of the Ukrainian army, planned to add a poisonous substance to the water of the bath and laundry complex, which was used by the command staff of the Armed Forces.
The attacker also scouted for the FSB the locations and movements of the Armed Forces units on the front line.
According to the investigation, the person involved was recruited through his parents, who live in the TOT of Luhansk Oblast - the invaders kidnapped the man's relatives and then imprisoned them in a local Russian torture chamber so that they could persuade their son to work for the aggressor country.
Now he faces life imprisonment, - SBU.
A joint statement from the Freedom of Russia Legion, Russian Volunteer Corps, and Siberian Battalion appeals to residents of Bilhorod, urging them to evacuate due to alleged attacks by Putin's forces from the city. The statement accuses Russian forces of targeting peaceful Ukrainian cities from Bilhorod, resulting in civilian casualties. The groups claim to be forced to retaliate against military positions in Bilhorod and also Kursk. They emphasize the need for civilians to leave immediately and call on local authorities to initiate evacuations in Bilhorod and Kursk to prevent further harm to the civilian population.
The discharge petition to bring the bill that already passed Senate, which provides for aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, to the floor for a vote, has now collected 177 signatures.
+8 (all Democrats) compared to yesterday. A total of 218 are needed.
https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2024031209?CongressNum=118
More pictures from the results of the DragonFire tests. You can see how it fired a 120-mm mortar shell, cut the metal plating and burned the camera of the copter.
DragonFire was successfully tested in January this year. The laser strikes with a direct beam and can hit visible targets at the speed of light. The system's accuracy is described as pinpoint - the weapon can hit a £1 coin from a kilometer away. A ten-second shot is equivalent in cost to using a conventional heater for an hour. The cost of laser operation does not exceed £10 (492 hryvnias).
Photo: Dstl
@ukrainejournal
The Russian rebels
The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States is prepared to offer Ukraine ATACMS missiles with an extended range.
According to U.S. officials, Ukraine has persistently requested that the Pentagon supply ATACMS missiles, which boast a range exceeding 180 miles (about 290 km), thus bolstering Ukraine's capability to target Russian forces in Crimea.
"In the past, Pentagon officials have maintained that the U.S. military should reserve all its long-range ATACMS missiles for its own use. However, the Pentagon is now receptive to providing longer-range MANPADS, owing to advancements in acquiring the latest Precision Strike systems. This marks significant progress toward furnishing long-range missiles, although officials refrained from confirming whether President Biden would authorize their deployment," stated the article.
Russian daily losses
https://t.me/warinukraineua/3485
Refinery in Ryazan attacked
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/uavs-attacked-a-rosneft-owned-oil-refinery-in-ryazan/
The largest oil refinery in Southern Russia is shut down
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-largest-oil-refinery-in-southern-russia-is-shut-down-due-to-a-drone-attack/
Poignant words of the famous Ukrainian poetess Lina Kostenko on the body armor of a Ukrainian soldier.
Love! Because time is not waiting for you.
It takes your days and nights.
Love while the body is thirsty and young.
Because only the eyes love in old age.
❤️
@ukrainejournal
The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States is prepared to offer Ukraine ATACMS missiles with an extended range.
According to U.S. officials, Ukraine has persistently requested that the Pentagon supply ATACMS missiles, which boast a range exceeding 180 miles (about 290 km), thus bolstering Ukraine's capability to target Russian forces in Crimea.
"In the past, Pentagon officials have maintained that the U.S. military should reserve all its long-range ATACMS missiles for its own use. However, the Pentagon is now receptive to providing longer-range MANPADS, owing to advancements in acquiring the latest Precision Strike systems. This marks significant progress toward furnishing long-range missiles, although officials refrained from confirming whether President Biden would authorize their deployment," stated the article.
TOP NEWS TODAY
🦅 Ukrainian UAVs attack Moscow, Tula, Belgorod, Kursk, Orel, Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod regions at night.
⚡ "Freedom of Russia" Legion, the RVC and the "Siberian Battalion" has started a spring liberation campaign.
🇺🇸 The US has allocated a new $300 million aid package to Ukraine. It contains artillery shells and GMLRS to HIMARS missiles.
☠️ 16 people died in the Il-76 aircraft crash in the Ivanovo, Russia.
🇩🇰 Denmark will provide another package of military aid to Ukraine worth $330 million.
❗️Russia's offensive has been stopped, and its army is suffering heavy losses, — Zelensky
👀 Ukraine would welcome "trainers" and "technical personnel" from NATO member countries, - Zelensky
🇵🇱 Poland joined the Czech initiative to purchase shells for Kyiv, - Radoslaw Sikorski
🇵🇱 300.000 NATO soldiers are in a high degree of readiness for redeployment to Poland, - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army
🇨🇿 In addition to the binding confirmed purchase of 300,000 pieces of artillery ammo for Ukraine, Czech initiative seeking ammunition has been non-bindingly promised another 200,000!
🇪🇺 EU plans to send Ukraine the first profit from frozen Russian assets in July. €2-3 billion could be transferred to Kyiv, - FT
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
TheOldGuy's choices:
