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
Russian oil refinery partially shuts down after drone attack
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-oil-refinery-shuts-down-rostov/
Three oil refineries hit in one day.
https://kyivindependent.com/media-ukrainian-drones-attack-3-oil-refineries-in-russia-airfield-in-voronezh-oblast/
Trump could pick up where he left off if he were re-elected. President for life.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trumps-mafia-state-blueprint/54979/
It took him by surprise when Ken Buck decided to skip out early.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/speaker-mike-johnson-didnt-see-this-coming/55011/
Update to the report about the attack carried out on Leonid Volkov.
Leonid Volkov told the details of the attack “They wanted to make a chop out of me. Naturally. A man attacked me with a chop hammer right in the yard of the house. He hit me on the leg 15 times, but for some reason my leg remained intact. It hurts to walk, but they say there is no fracture. But he broke my arm. Well, nothing. It’s a profitable business. The main thing is that we will work and will not give up.”
Volkov called what happened "an obvious, typical criminal ‘hello’ from Putin, from criminal Petersburg”. A few hours before the attack, he told Meduza that Navalny’s team was reviewing security protocols.
“The key risk now is that we will all be killed. Well, that’s a pretty obvious thing.”
Lithuania blamed Moscow on Wednesday for the overnight attack by a hammer-wielding assailant.
President Gitanas Nauseda said the attack on the Navalny aide was clearly pre-planned and tied in with other provocations against Lithuania. "I can only say one thing to Putin - nobody is afraid of you here," Nauseda said.
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the incident shocking and said the perpetrators must "answer for their crime". Lithuania's police commissioner Renatas Pozela said police were devoting "huge resources" to investigate the assault.
Lithuania's State Security Department counter-intelligence agency said the attack was probably carried out to stop the Russian opposition from influencing Russia's presidential election.
The Kremlin views Navalny's team as "the most dangerous opposition force capable of exerting real influence on Russia's internal processes", the Lithuanian security agency
said.
Russian pro-war blogger Vladislav Pozdnyakov, who harasses oppositionists and civil activists, claims that his followers are behind the attack on Volkov. He showed screenshots of correspondence with a person who allegedly followed the oppositionist and his car.
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Kyiv needs approximately €120 billion a year in military aid for Ukraine to win the war, says Kusti Salm, Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Defense.
Estonia has proposed a financing plan for Ukraine. They are considering borrowing on the financial markets or from national budgets. Estonia is currently seeking more than 100 billion euros to achieve this goal.
"If the 50-plus countries that are part of the Ramstein coalition, which provides military support to Ukraine, spent 0.25% of their GDP, it would amount to more than 120 billion euros a year. With this amount by 2025, Ukraine will reach a level where it will be able to impose resistance on Russia," Salm said.
He mentioned that even if this amount of money starts coming to the budgets now, its impact will take almost a year.
"It will take about nine more months for the supplies to reach the level necessary for Ukraine to convincingly reach this level of depletion," emphasized the Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of
Defense.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far right, the second largest party in parliament, which is now in opposition to Macron.
It is significant to remind you, Le Pen is one of the most pro-Russian politicians in Europe. She has repeatedly supported the annexation of Crimea and pro-Kremlin narratives, advocated the lifting of sanctions on Russia, advocated leaving NATO and called for thinking about the “end of the European Union” (quote), and most importantly, the Kremlin, through its proxy banks, financed Le’s election campaign in 2014 Pen, allocating €11 million.
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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