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
Police just doesn't do anything
The complete “destruction of the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs” is greatly deplored by Z-blogger Anastasia Kashevarova. But of course she doesn't asks who destroyed it, this great system. Probably again the machinations of the damned West.
“The work of all law enforcement agencies needs to be brought into an enhanced mode of operation, that is, to prevent and prevent crimes, and not to deal with them after the fact.
...There is a feeling that law enforcement agencies do not understand that while fighters are defending the country in the Northern Military District zone, the police must go into an enhanced mode of work here, in the rear.
And the mental state of people is difficult, and Ukraine is treating everyone here that it can reach. ...
The Ministry of Internal Affairs system is completely destroyed. On the one hand, there are low salaries, therefore there is a shortage of personnel and hence low requirements for selection for service in the police. A huge amount of paperwork - it’s easier for employees to do nothing than to justify each step with a thousand reports. Everyone also knows how long and difficult the proceedings are for each case of using a service weapon.
On the other hand, a completely damaged reputation due to widespread bribery and indifference. Now if they raise their salaries, people will jump up: for what? They don't do anything! They don't protect!
Along with the purge in the Ministry of Defense, which at least began with the arrival of the new minister, it is necessary to carry out a purge, or even a full-fledged reform, in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And not just rename it here and there, as they recently did with the traffic police, but dig much deeper.
...When I wrote at the beginning of the SMO that a boom in crime was expected, they even accused me of extremism. I came to the police department, wrote an explanation and was amazed that the guys were not overwhelmed with real work, but with anonymous denunciations. Most of these denunciations are written by Ukrainians, because we have a fucking law that all requests, even emails from an unidentified person, must be checked. And I can write hundreds of these a day and fill the Ministry of Internal Affairs with useless work.”
Well, the last lament full of anger and frustration apparently hints at that some Ukrainians are having fun with ruZZian cops.
Funny also that she allegedly predicted a crime boom at the start of the war, still without pointing out the cause - that is, said war, with prisoners set free, violence approved, lawlessness promoted, etc. etc.
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🇺🇦 Total of 20 Ukrainian F-16 pilots are expected to graduate by the end of this year — half of the 40 needed to operate a full squadron of 20 jets, — Politico citing the former DOD official
The Biden administration has told Kyiv it lacks the school seats in its Arizona-based program to accept more than 12 pilot trainees at a time. Denmark will train 8 pilots by the end of the year. Eight new pilots are scheduled to begin training in Romania
To fully train the pilots of all 80+ F-16s that will be transferred to Ukraine, another year and a half is needed
@worldnewschat
Ukrainian drones hit a 5th generation Su-57 fighter at the airfield in Akhtubinsk. This is the newest and one of the most expensive military aircraft of russia.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported that the Su-57 was hit. Satellite images have been published - before and after the impact (see photo),showing traces of burning near the plane.
The damage to the plane was acknowledged by the Z-channel Fighterbomber, which is close to military aviation which reported that 3 drones flew to the airfield, and it is checked now whether the Su-57 can be restored.
The Su-57 is the first Russian 5th-generation fighter wihch costs about 2,2 bn rubles. 60 bn were spent on the development and it was planned to buy 76 fighters. There were production problems and it's unknown how many aircraft were delivered.
State media reported the use of the Su-57 for attacks on Ukraine, although no official reports from the Ministry of Defeat.
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Vasya, a dog who served with Ukrainian military, has died. He chewed off his paw to get out of a trap
The dog of the cane-corso breed died due to a serious illness. He had been serving with the Ukrainian military in Donbas since 2016.
During the service, Vasya got tangled in the wire near the militants' positions. The scouts planned to evacuate the dog, however, he soon returned to his own. As it turned out, the dog chewed his paw to get out.
The dog Vasya was given a prosthesis in Poland. After rehabilitation, he returned to Ukraine to his owners.
ATACMS turned out to be russian S-300
OSINT analyst: the wreckage near a residential building in Luhansk, where six were killed and dozens wounded, corresponds to parts of a russian S-300 missile
Independent researchers drew attention to the fact that in the footage of the russian sate controlled media, illustrating reports on the shelling of Lugansk on June 7, parts of S-300 / S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, which are in service with the russian Army, are presented as fragments of ATACMS missiles. This has been noted, in particular, by OSINT analyst Oliver Alexander, Twitter user Special Kherson Cat and the TG channel "Colonel of the General Staff".
The day before, the Ministry of Attack reported on the strike on Luhansk with ATACMS missiles. As a result of the shelling, the entrance of a five-story residential building collapsed. Mourning has been declared in the region. The death toll in the shelling, according to official data, is six people, 60 were injured.
Earlier, the legitimate head of the regional administration of Luhansk, Artem Lysogor, pointed out that the strikes on the city fell on the Ostraya Mohyla area, near the barracks of the former Luhansk Higher Military School of Navigators, where "the russian invaders have settled down comfortably."
In the same place there is an airport, an aircraft repair plant and a highway to the russian border, along which the russian army transports cargo, weapons and personnel, which is stationed in the same barracks of the flight school, writes Lysogor.
"The weapons provided to us by the Western allies are extremely accurate. Unfortunately, the russians always hide behind civilians, and if air defense did not work over residential areas, then there would be no reports of casualties among civilians, and even more so among children. Only russia is responsible for the casualties among citizens.The struggle of Ukraine and its allies will continue until the victory over the enemy and the liberation of the Luhansk region!" writes Lysogor.
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Bottom line: the results of ruZZian incompetence and substandard are used to promote the disinformation that civilians are targeted by Ukraine with Western weapons. Again a scheme to strangle support of the allies to Ukraine.
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Viktor Orban, the Putins agent acting as Hungarian PM announced plans to create a pro-ruZZian “peace coalition” in the future European Parliament, the purpose of which would be to stop confrontation with ruZZia.
Orban notes that in these pan-European elections two opposing political camps will compete with each other - those who are ready to fight against the aggressor, and those who are interested in peace with it. He and his associates represent the second camp.
Orban also emphasized that after the victory of the pro-ruZZian forces in Brussels, a “peace coalition” will be created there, which Donald Trump will allegedly be ready to support when he is elected to the presidency of the United States.
The Hungarian government has blocked almost half of the EU's decisions on Ukraine and is now blocking the allocation of more than 6.5 billion euros ($7.1 billion) to the country. This behavior is increasingly irritating other EU countries, and they are looking for ways to protect the funds intended for Kyiv from the Hungarian veto.
According to European diplomats, EU leaders are tired of Orban's interference and are ready to do what they have never done before in the history of the EU - to deprive the country of the right to participate in joint decision-making in accordance with Article 7 of the Treaty on EU.
If that's not the ultimate reason to go vote for any of the parties that are fully supporting Ukraine, you are braindead.
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No, 97% of people on Spain’s minimum basic income are not migrants
Ahead of the EU and UK elections, commentators and social media users are making factually incorrect claims about immigration in Europe.
Migration is typically a hot topic in any election campaign and is often fuel for inflammatory debates and false claims.
Whether they’re about benefits or immigration rates, the allegations are usually provocative and simply wrong.
Take this example from Spain:
This post on Facebook says that almost 97% of people on Spain’s minimum basic income are immigrants.
The minimum basic income is a social security benefit that provides a basic wage to the economically vulnerable. It can range from about €600 to €1,400 a month, depending on the beneficiary’s living conditions.
But the Facebook post is wrong for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, it says that it’s the Ministry of Labour that pays out the minimum basic income when it’s actually the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
But more importantly, it’s wrong because according to the inclusion ministry’s official data for April, 82.4% of beneficiaries held Spanish nationality, while only 17.6% were foreigners.
The post also incorrectly estimates the number of people receiving the minimum basic income: in reality, the benefit was paid to some 600.000 homes, in which almost 1.8 million people live.
Elsewhere on the continent, a clip by Dutch far-right activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek alleges that most of the populations of Amsterdam, Brussels and London are immigrants.
She also says that the (completely baseless) “great replacement theory” is a reality rather than a far-right conjecture meant to imply that Europe’s white population is being supplanted by immigrants from elsewhere.
All of this is incorrect.
Official numbers from the Dutch statistics office reveal that only 37% of Amsterdam’s population was born outside the Netherlands.
Figures from Belgium’s statistics agency put the number of Brussels residents born outside the country at 48%.
And in London, a 2021 census revealed that 41% of the capital’s population wasn’t born in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.
And this - of course - includes immigrants from the EU.
Furthermore, simply being born elsewhere is no indicator of background, and it can’t be used to demonstrate an otherwise unprovable hypothesis.
While it’s true that immigration is an important issue and it’s valid to have concerns about how it’s handled, it’s crucial to make sure any claims about it are based in fact.
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German lawmaker attacked by far-right anti-vaxxer council candidate amid spate of political violence
Roderich Kiesewetter, a conservative parliamentarian, was assaulted at a campaign event in southwest Germany. The attacker is thought to be a member of a far-right party with ties to the anti-vaxxer movement.
Roderich Kiesewetter, a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) member of the German Bundestag, became the latest politician in the country to be physically assaulted in the run-up to the European Union elections next Sunday.
Kiesewetter, a former soldier, was campaigning in Aalen in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg on Saturday morning when he was verbally and physically assaulted by a 55-year-old man who police say is known to them.
The man approached the CDU campaign stand where he verbally assaulted Kiesewetter who asked the man to stop.
At that point, he began to tear down the campaign stand. When Kiesewetter attempted to take a photo of the attacker, the man punched the lawmaker before shoving him to the ground and fleeing the scene.
Local media outlets reported that the attacker is a candidate for the Aalen city council and a member of a far-right party with ties to the anti-vaxxer "Querdenker" movement.
Numerous politicians from the Social Democratic Party, Greens and Free Democrats released statements of solidarity with their CDU colleague who offered to forego pressing charges if the perpetrator apologized.
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The court arrested a native of Poland in the case of the attack on the Prime Minister of Denmark
A court in Denmark has placed under arrest for 12 days a Polish citizen who attacked the country's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on June 7, according to the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
The accused is 39 years old, the authorities do not name him. He does not speak or understand Danish. At the time of the attack, he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs. According to the protocols, the man "looked disoriented" and "muttered to himself."
The man refused to admit his guilt. According to the prosecutor's office, the accused has been living in Denmark since 2019 and could not explain why he attacked the prime minister.
On the evening of June 7, a man attacked Frederiksen and punched her in the shoulder on Kultorvet Square in Copenhagen. The head of the Cabinet of Ministers feels fine, just "shocked by what happened," her office added. Frederiksen herself did not comment, but canceled all events scheduled for June 8.
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What not to do with an unexploded FPV drone: hit it, hard, with a stick...
Except if you are a Russian soldier. This video is an excellent training video for Russian soldiers.
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🟣 This is the "Journalist" who held Noa Argamani in his home. He, his wife and his father were among the "civilians" that were killed.
I am not an expert on int'l law but IMHO anyone who holds hostages kidnapped in a terrorist raid is a valid target
Eyal Ofer
Somewhere In Eastern Ukraine, A Russian BTR-82 Vehicle Played A Deadly Game Of Chicken With A Ukrainian M-2. The BTR Lost, Badly.
A deadly game of vehicular chicken on the front line in eastern Ukraine ended in death and destruction on or just before Saturday—but only for the losing side.
When a Russian army BTR-82 wheeled armored personnel carrier carrying a squad of infantry on its roof managed to cross the no-man’s-land between Russian and Ukrainian lines and speed into a Ukrainian-held settlement, west or southwest of the ruins of Avdiivka, an M-2 Bradley tracked infantry fighting vehicle from the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade raced out to meet it.
As a Ukrainian drone observed from overhead, the two vehicles sped toward each other along the same paved road, the BTR-82 firing its 30-millimeter autocannon and the M-2 firing its own 25-millimeter autocannon.
At the last second, the BTR swerved right to avoid a collision. The two vehicles passed within feet of each other, each blazing away with its gun. “Not something you ever thought you’d see in real life,” the Estonian analyst with the handle “War Translated” commented.
*There were clear winners and losers in this deadly game: the M-2 and its three-person crew seemingly escaped unharmed. The BTR-82 rolled away damaged and smoking, dead and injured infantry spilling from its hull.*
Republicans were upset Biden attacked his political opponent. Biden made no mention of Trump but did attack Putin. Say, remember when all those Republican politicians spent 4th of July in Moscow?
Opinion: NATO states should send non-combat troops to Ukraine
“As French President Emmanuel Macron said in a May 2024 speech in Dresden, ‘Russia will be here tomorrow, (or) the day after tomorrow.’ The implication was that it is easier to fight Russian forces on Ukrainian soil, with Ukraine’s army bearing the brunt of the fighting, than it would be to confront Putin’s military on NATO territory,” write former International Rescue Committee policy advisor Anna Husarska and humanitarian activist Mykola Viknianskiy in their latest op-ed.
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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