TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

The State Duma begins to think about the consequences of nationalization

The massive campaign of the Prosecutor General's Office to confiscate enterprises from the owners will kill any desire to invest in ruZZia, says deputy Valery Hartung.

“You say: the next source of attracting investment is the stock market. But after the court decision on the shares of minority shareholders in the Solikamsk plant, what investments can we talk about? Who will buy shares in organized trading? What are we talking about?” he said.

What nationalization? Putin says there is none, nothing is happening. 😁

@freerussia_report

The russian military freely buys Starlink terminals from SpaceX. Deliveries come from the USA, Europe, the UAE, Canada, Germany and Kazakhstan — Molfar.

The equipment is sold in at least 10 Russian stores and is supplied from the US, Europe, the UAE, Canada, Germany, China and Kazakhstan. An investigation of Molfar.

Information that the military is using Starlink on the territory of Ukraine appeared in February 2024. The coverage map from the official Starlink website shows that satellite Internet works in the territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions temporarily occupied by russia.

Among the sellers are Moscow-based DJI RUSSIA (the main profile is the distribution of drones from the Chinese company SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd) and FOR GUN (IP Chekulenko Pyotr Vitalievich, the main business is the sale of everything related to weapons and at the same time does not require licensing), as well as the Volgograd Top Machines (the main activity is the exchange of UAE dirhams for rubles and the supply of luxury cars to Russia or Kazakhstan). In total, experts have identified at least 10 stores in russia where Starlink is sold.

One of the stores is located in Moscow, on Khodynsky Boulevard, 20A. On the main page of the site, they frankly write why and to whom Starlink is sold. A contact person for this store told the authors of the study that Starlink has been on sale here for more than half a year.

One of the largest sellers is the online appliance store Miele, a German manufacturer of premium household appliances. In 2022, it was reported that Miele suspended sales in russia, but continued post-warranty service for equipment already sold.

At the same time, Miele equipment continues to be sold in Z-landia. Only now the assortment includes not only expensive washing machines and vacuum cleaners, but also Starlink terminals. The likely owner is 33-year-old Andrey Vasilyevich Osanov, who, judging by social networks, likes to attend Ayaz Shabutdinov's business trainings and, probably, is the nominal owner, The Insider found out. His contact is listed on several websites and social networks of Russian Miele equipment stores.

Another store, Shopozz, reports that Starlink and its components are being resold from foreign stores with delivery to Russia. They deliver from the USA, Canada, Germany, China, the website says. At the same time the terminals are not activated, subscriptions are sold aside.

There are many Starlink kits in the war zone. "The reasons for using it are convenience, mobility and security," said one. "Mimicry of the enemy with the help of his own means also helps. On the battlefield, it is difficult to distinguish who owns the account: the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the russian army. The Ukrainian military has repeatedly stated that they record almost more Starlink receivers on the Russian side than they have themselves."

Read more (The Insider - Russian) and (Molfar - Ukrainian)

English translated (The Insider) and (Molfar)

@freerussia_report

Flood situation in Russia:

About 12.700 residential buildings in 39 regions remain flooded due to floods, reports the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In some settlements people are trying to protect their houses from the flood on their own with sand walls.

Orenburg: Water continues to flood Orenburg - the level of the Urals has risen to 1183 cm. In Orsk, the water level is falling, but still remains above the critical level.

Kurgan: The governor of the Kurgan region called on residents to evacuate. More than 260 residential buildings and over 400 household plots remain flooded.

Tomsk: A state of emergency will be introduced in some areas of the Tomsk region. 66 household plots and 27 residential buildings were flooded.

@freerussia_report

Falsification of history remembers not only "1984" but was also a trusted mechanism under Stalin as well as in other brutal dictatorships as in North Korea.

Addition to previous report. Denial began in November 2023 at the initiative of the Communist Party. A working group was created for a "possible revision of assessments of the circumstances of the tragedy of Katyn". In the summer of 2022, by decision of the Ministry of Culture, the Polish flag disappeared from the memorial in Katyn “due to the hostile position” of the country, and the State Duma called to remove the entire memorial.

“We know almost everything about this crime: who exactly committed it, with what weapon,” states Alexander Cherkasov, from the liquidated Memorial Human Right Center. Those who say that this is falsification take us back to 1943, back to Stalin’s falsification. Denial of the crime in Bucha is the same. Denial of Stalin's crimes is an attempt to reinforce the denial of modern war crimes."

“We don't have any doubts, we were all able to familiarize ourselves with these documents,” points out historian Andrei Zubov, referring to the declassified documents from the WWII that have been previously published and the most important handed over to Poland. “What is happening now is an example of the degradation of power and the idea of power as the guardian of truth.”

The mass murders of Katyn committed by Stalin's executioners were never punished, nor compensated. It seems that Putin attempts to shed his responsibility for the mass murder of Bucha and all other war crimes in the same way.

@freerussia_report

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What is known: Iran attacked Israel with a number of 170 drones, over 30 cruise missiles and over 120 ballistic missiles. The vast majority of them were intercepted. The attack lasted 5 hours.

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said none of the drones entered Israeli airspace, and all were shot down over Iraq and Jordan by allied fighter jets.

US forces were also involved in defending Israel, intercepting more than 70 one-way attack drones and at least three ballistic missiles, according to two US officials familiar with the situation.

The ballistic missiles that did reach Israel fell on the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, Hagari said, adding that they caused only light structural damage.

Iran claims all military targets intended to be hit, were successfully hit.

‼️British Army veteran Sean Pinner, who since 2018 officially served in the 36th Separate Brigade of Marines named after Rear Admiral Mykhailo Bilinsky, fought on the side of Ukraine and was captured by the Russians in Mariupol in 2022, won a court case against the Russian Federation. This is reported by The Daily Mail.

The Solomyan District Court of Kyiv, to which Sean Pinner filed a lawsuit in October 2023, decided to pay material compensation for torture in Russian captivity.

➡️This case can create a precedent for thousands of Ukrainian soldiers released from Russian captivity, who suffered abuse and torture in captivity, to file their lawsuits against the aggressor country.

☝️ Sean Pinner himself understands that it is almost impossible to collect proper compensation from Russia now, but it will be possible in 5-10 years, when the power in the Kremlin changes and Russia will have to pay such compensations.

Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War

@ukrainejournal

❤️🔥 This rescue story reminds of the importance of human compassion and the willingness to help everyone, regardless of the circumstances.

Rescuers of the State Emergency Service rescued 5 puppies during the liquidation of a fire in a non-residential building in the city of Sumy. Fortunately, everything is fine with the little one, they were not injured. The furries were returned by their mothers.

Not a day without a good deed 🫶

The video was too large. The puppies were quite small. The mother carried them away to a new hiding place.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-is-just-embarrassing-for-republican-governor-kristi-noem/55472/

Ukraine plans to launch a counter-offensive in 2025 if it “holds out” in 2024 - Le Figaro

Western officials say Kyiv is now in its most vulnerable position in two years of war. There is a risk of a collapse of Ukrainian forces and a Russian breakthrough,

Russian missile attacks and bombings, as well as ammunition shortages and advances at the front, are fueling fears that the military conflict in Ukraine is nearing a turning point.

A White House spokesman said Congress needed to act to approve the military aid and there was no other way.

The French military believes that the one who mobilizes first will win, but both sides are not yet ready to take decisive steps. Ukrainian society is tired of war, and the Kremlin is avoiding unpopular decisions so as not to provoke internal opposition.

The French official notes Ukraine's interest in the SAMPT air defense system, comparable to the American Patriot. More than the system itself, it needs missiles, but the manufacturer will not be able to supply more Aster 30 missiles in the short term.

@worldnewschat

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attack-on-ambulance-injures-1-in-kharkiv-oblast/

From "The Analyst":

RUSSIANS LAUNCH MAJOR NEW OFFENSIVE

Target: Sversk at centre of a wide front they can try to reach from the front in the centre and outflank from further north and south. Capturing this town would allow them to head directly for Kramatorsk - the largest Ukrainian held city in the Donbas and its regional capital.
Having pushed the Ukrainian forces back out of Bilohorivka last year, it cleared the way for the northern outflanking attack.
They have spent some time training troops and preparing units for this offensive - which tends to indicate that they feel this could be the point of a decisive breakthrough that collapses Ukrainian defences. An unusual amount of advanced preparation has been observed.
They know the Ukrainian forces will fight but they also know they are severely stretched. The failure to impose strict mobilisation requirements, or even get the ball rolling to find the manpower is stuck - Zelensky still hasn’t signed the new law. Mobilisation isn’t popular but needs must. This dithering could cost the war. Add to that the lack of air defences and artillery, Russia smells advantage and is about to use it.
Fighting in the south started from Rosdolivka, with the Russians pushing west-north-west. From Bilhorivka they seem to be pushing due west and southwest and west from the centre.
They appear to be trying to capture the hills from Rosdolivka, this would give them domination over the main supply road for Ukraine into Sversk.
However getting into these hills and past Ukrainian forward defenders isn’t easy as small rivers and defended villages with a lot of damp ground make it difficult. And the Ukrainians won’t give up the hills easily.
There is also little room to manoeuvre. The terrain dictates how you can move and that puts Russian forces in places they have to use and the Ukrainian forces can trap them. The hills are 200m above the river and look down on almost all the areas Russia has to advance from. They then have to cross the river under fire and then fight up hill. It won’t be easy, but I suspect this will be about pinning Ukrainian forces down while the main effort comes from one of the other two directions.
The central attack is heading to Vyimka where the railroad runs through. This is in flat low land and far easier as targets go.
If they can break through here, then reaching Sversk is much easier. It has little in the way of geographical advantages and is far easier to reach from this direction. However of the Russians reach and take eastern Sversk, it’s cut in half by a river and the western half would be hard to reach and the hills west of the city allow artillery to control the eastern half of the town.
The Bilhorivka attacks have in their sites the so called ‘White Mountain’ which is another industrial age waste heap of monstrous proportions left by the soviets. However its cost them dearly so far and they still haven’t taken it after months of trying.
Rather than keep trying the impossible, they have changed tactics and attack the area south of it in the forest to attempt to cut it off and force a retreat by the Ukrainians.
This would collapse the Ukrainian positions at Bilhorivka and open up the northern route to Sversk - along the supply road from the west that travels through Sversk past the White Mountain.
Yet there is a darker element to the Russian strategy - this is almost certainly the distraction and fixing offensive to cover what is happening at Chasiv Yar - a more rigorous attempt at taking that seems imminent.
It’s vital the Ukrainian forces don’t get distracted but they have few reserves and lack the firepower they had last year.
On balance the Russians have the supply and numerical advantage and they know it. They also know that if they don’t make serious headway this summer to take control of what’s left of Donbas and Luhansk, it may never happen. If US aid arrives later and
European ammo deliveries reach the levels predicted, things will become more complicated. As will the air war the Russians have come to rely on for dropping glide bombs.

First of all, the solution of this task depends on the command of the Ground Forces, which has returned in full from the area of ​​hostilities.

The results of my work will be taken into account in the training plans of the troops and governing bodies.

Of course, he honored the best warriors with awards and valuable gifts.

In personal communication with our servicemen, they discussed the current situation, as well as ways to solve all problematic issues. We are aware of the real scale and degree of threat from the enemy and are ready to take adequate and effective actions.

We continue the work.
Glory to Ukraine!

During his presidency, Trump was sincerely convinced that Ukraine should be part of Russia , — The Guardian

His former adviser Fiona Hill said that Trump really could not understand that Ukraine is an independent state. And as president, Donald Trump "made it very clear" that, in his opinion, Ukraine "should be part of the Russian Federation.

This meant that Trump's views on Ukraine were "essentially identical" to Putin's.

Breaking: Germany to send additional Patriot system to Ukraine - DW

The system comes from Bundeswehr stocks and is to be handed over immediately, the German ministry of defence said.

The German government said Saturday it would send an additional Patriot missile system to help Ukraine's military fend off increased Russian airstrikes.

"Russian terror against Ukrainian cities and the country's infrastructure is causing immeasurable suffering," said German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, announcing the move.

"It is jeopardising people's energy supply and destroying the operational readiness of the Ukrainian armed forces."

It will be the third Patriot system that Berlin has supplied to Kyiv, with the defence ministry saying the decision was taken at the request of the Ukrainian government and in coordination with allies.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz also spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday, reaffirming his "unwavering solidarity with Ukraine in the face of massive and ongoing Russian airstrikes, particularly on civilian energy infrastructure," a German government spokesman said.

As well as discussing Germany's delivery of a new Patriot system, Scholz and Zelensky agreed that "further efforts by partners are also required" to boost Ukraine's air defence, the spokesman said.

RUSSIAN SANCTIONS NEWS
From the Analyst
...the latest delightful news about how secondary sanctions are affecting the way Russia trades with China.
The impact in the past three months has been significant.
Chinese banks have been told that if they supply payment facilities to businesses or transactions that have any dealings with sanctioned individuals, sanctions companies, any business that is part of the Russian defence industry, the defence industrial base (subcomponent manufacturing), anything of any type that has even the potential for duel use, such as microchips, faces being blocked from the international payment system.
To put this into context, we have to remember that Russia is heavily dependent on China, for probably 80% of its effective imports. However, Russia to the Chinese, represents barely 4% of Chinese trade. If a bank in China is blocked from the international payments system then it’s blocked from the 96% of the rest of Chinese trading globally. No bank can afford to be blocked. More to the point, China as a state cannot afford to see significant parts of its banking sector shut off from international trade. China’s economy is in enough trouble as it is without jeopardising it any more.
This has resulted in Kommersant, the Russian business news producer, reporting a massive increase in obstructions to imports from China. Chinese banks have to go through deep investigations into the people they trade with and what their business is. Many Russian businesses are saying that components are being held up for six months or more if they can even be acquired at all. Many payments are simply blocked with no explanation and dealing with the Chinese banks is both a technical and linguistic challenge.
On top of that the depth of payment bans and currency transactions has reached new lows with previously easy to deal with nations such as the UAE and Turkey, let alone Pakistan and India, Indonesia and Singapore. Everywhere they turn, the US Treasury Department is shutting down each and every path as fast as Russia finds a way around it.
It’s been yet another wake up call for China and Russia who both loathe the power the US has over the global currency system and payments - but with 84% of world trade denominated in US$, they just don’t have any leverage to change the situation. So China is forced to play ball. And the Russian military economy is paying the price. Longer term, this has direct results. It means unrepaired oil refineries and pipelines, fewer missiles and bombs thrown at Ukraine. And it shuts down Russian options bit by creeping bit. Wherever they go, sanctions will follow, an ever tightening noose around Putin’s war machines proverbial neck.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!
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Made in Ukraine

"Bat" E620 is a Ukrainian-made "bomber" class attack drone. A hexacopter (a six-propeller drone) can drop ammunition or mines on targets multiple times. It is capable of carrying various ammunition at an altitude of up to 1,000 meters at a speed of up to 72 kilometers per hour and at a distance of up to 12 kilometers. According to the military, you can learn to fly the "Bat" quite quickly. Such drones were purchased for units of the Defense Forces with the funds of the state budget, within the framework of the UNITED24 platform, as well as within the framework of the fees from the "Return Alive" fund and the OKKO company.

@ukrainejournal

🟤 Pro-Israelis, pro-Palestinians, let's become experts in real history of Palestine.
Otherwise one might think that you don't know what you're talking about.

This book is written in Latin. In 1695. Rilandy was describing what was then called Palestine.
The author Adriani Rilandi was a geographer, cartographer, traveler, philologist, he knew several European languages, Arabic, ancient Greek, Hebrew.
He visited almost 2,500 settlements mentioned in the Bible.
He made a population census by settlements.

Here are the main conclusions and some facts:

* The country is mainly empty, abandoned, sparsely populated, the main population is Jerusalem, Akko, Tsfat, Jaffa, Tveria and Gaza.

* Most of the population is Jews, almost everyone else is Christians, very few Muslims, mostly Bedouins.

* The only exception is Nablus (now Shchem), where approximately 120 people from the Muslim family Natsha and approximately 70 "shomronims" (Samaritans).

* In Nazareth, the capital of Galilee, lived approximately 700 people - all Christians.

* In Jerusalem there are about 5,000 people, almost all Jews and a few Christians.

* In 1695, everyone knew that the origin of the country was Jewish.

* There is not a single settlement in Palestine that has Arabic roots in its name.

* Most settlements have Jewish originals, and in some cases Greek or Roman Latin.

* About 550 people lived in Gaza, half of them Jews and half Christians. Jews were successful in agriculture, especially in vineyards, olives and wheat, Christians were engaged in trade and transportation.

The book completely refutes theories about "Palestinian traditions", "Palestinian people" and leaves almost no link between the land and the Arabs who even stole the land's Latin name (Palestine) and took it for themselves.

Book by Adrian Reland (1676-1718) about Palestine, published in Utrecht in 1714.

And now "Free Palestine" people, remind me, please, why are you trying to free Palestine from it's original indigenous people (Jews) and give it to colonizers and occupiers Arabs?

LelemSLP

🇮🇱 @israel_report

Accurate and reliable weapon: how the Ukrainian self-propelled gun "Bohdana" works - hromadske

"Compared to domestic, allied developments, "Bohdan" is a Mercedes for us," says gun commander Vyacheslav. Previously, he worked on Soviet installations and has something to compare with. Now, for the second month, his unit has been working on these Ukrainian self-propelled guns. During this time, according to him, despite some "raw" moments, "Bohdan" has proven itself as an accurate cannon - from the second time it hits within 10 meters of the target.

"Bohdana" is the first Ukrainian self-propelled artillery installation of NATO caliber - 155 mm. The gun received its baptism of fire in 2022 in the battle for Snake Island, in 2023 the Armed Forces received it as an official weapon, but the improvement of self-propelled guns continues in fact on the battlefield. The military tests it in combat conditions and shares feedback with the factory, which improves the gun with each version.

"For example, on this version, the clearance was raised so that it would not cling to stumps like a pancake. It is quite a passable car, the drivers are satisfied that there is an opportunity to work on such models," says battery commander Maxim about one of the latest improvements on the Bogdan 3.0. It also features night vision cameras and a headlight for driving at night, which allows drivers to remain invisible to enemy drones. The wheeled chassis makes the car maneuverable and secures the crew.

"She can quickly work out, move, work out again, that is, she is maneuverable. This maneuverability ensures the survival of the calculation. That is, we can sneak up, shoot and quickly knock down from there. If it's a goose, it won't work out so quickly," platoon commander Oleksandr explains the advantages of this version of "Bohdana".

About how Ukrainian gunners test Ukrainian artillery on the battlefield – see the hromadske report.

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