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
⚡⚡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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🌐 History of Ukraine🔱
🗺🇺🇦⚔️On October 25, 1921, the Second Winter Campaign of the UNR army units began, the idea of which was to unite the peasant protest movement and raise a general anti-Bolshevik uprising in order to restore statehood.
The insurgent army was divided into three groups: Volyn, led by General-Coroner Yuriy Tyutiunnyk, consisting of 879 people, Podolsk, led by Lieutenant Colonel Mykhailo Palyi (later Colonel Serhiy Chornyi) consisting of 374 people, and Bessarabian, led by General-Coroner Andriy Huly-Hulenko, numbering about 300 people. The latter, having the Tiraspol-Odessa area of operations, had to perform a distracting function. The Podolsk group, drawing some of the enemy's attention to itself, was later to join the main Volyn group, which would head to Kyiv through Volyn.
The Bessarabian group was late in its advance and, immediately after crossing the border, was met by Red Army units and was forced to turn back and did not fulfill the functions assigned to it. The first of the Podolsk group to cross the Polish-Soviet border on the night of October 25 was a reconnaissance detachment under the command of Pavlo Sumorkiv near the village of Golenishcheve (now Chemerovets district of Khmelnytskyi region). The main forces of Mykhailo Palii entered the territory of the Ukrainian SSR near the village of Bondarivka at about 2 a.m. on October 26. After several successful battles, the group, however, was unable to connect with the Volyn group and returned to Poland with battles.
The Volyn shock group crossed the border on November 4 near the villages of Borove and Netreby. After the short-term capture of Korosten, the group began to be pursued by the 9th Cavalry Division of Grigory Kotovsky. On November 17, in the battle near Maly Mynki, the group was defeated, and on November 22-23, 360 captured fighters of the Volyn group were shot near the village of Bazar.
The leader of the campaign, Yuriy Tyutyunnyk, together with a small detachment, managed to break away from the pursuit and cross the Polish border. He continued to cherish hopes for the liberation of Ukraine and hatched plans to resume the insurgent struggle. In June 1923, as a result of an operation by the State Political Directorate, Tyutyunnyk, who had been lured to the territory of the Ukrainian SSR to lead the uprising, was arrested. After repentance, he was released, using his confession to discredit the Ukrainian national movement, and in February 1929 he was arrested and executed in October 1930 on charges of "counter-revolutionary activities". .
The Second Winter Campaign of the UNR Army units was the last heroic attempt of the Ukrainian national-state forces to gain the independence of Ukraine by open military means during the national liberation struggle of 1917-1921. Ten years after these events, in the Ukrainian territories occupied by the russian-Bolshevik regime, Moscow organized the genocide of Ukrainians with the Holodomor🙏
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Georgian elections: More reports of thugs stuffing ballot boxes for the russian backed regime.
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🫡 🪖 In Chechnya, some unknown good people ambushed and shot at a truck with Russian soldiers. Three Russian soldiers were killed, the attackers fled the scene.
🐵 Putin inflates Ukrainian Armed Forces losses in Kursk region to justify failure to recapture it, – ISW
Russia is supplying Houthis with satellite data for attacks
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-provided-yemens-houthis-with-satellite-data-to-attack-vessels-in-red-sea-wsj-reports/
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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