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
Democrats in both houses of the US Congress are open to the idea of providing aid to Ukraine on a credit basis, as reported by The Hill.
While the concept of offering aid as a loan is not the preferred approach for Democrats, they are still committed to ensuring that Ukraine receives the necessary support. Many Democrats are pushing for the adoption of a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine.
However, some Democrats are willing to consider the strategy proposed by Speaker Johnson to Republican senators, especially if it helps break the impasse on providing assistance to Ukraine.
"Democrats support aid to Ukraine. Call it a loan or whatever, but give them resources. You have to give them aid. If it will be a loan, then it will be help; if it's an aid package with no requirements, it's still aid," stated Homeland Security Committee member Benny Thompson.
Although few members of Congress believe that Ukraine, facing post-war reconstruction, will be able to repay these loans, some see this approach as a way for Republicans to demonstrate to their constituents that they are trying to alleviate the financial burden on American taxpayers.
⛴️ Who lives under the sea?
During an exercise, a Russian ship was sunk after being hit by a missile.
The incident took place on March 19 during a Baltic Fleet exercise, as reported by Dozhd TV channel. The trawler "Captain Lobanov" was hit by a missile, resulting in the deaths of three crew members and injuries to four others.
Authorities in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation initially reported a "fire" on board the trawler, which resulted in several injuries.
Nice friendly fire. Need more.
Leticia has started the paperwork to seize a property.
The Netherlands allocates more than €150 million for the purchase of ammunition for Ukrainian F-16s - Ministry of Defense
The funds will be used to purchase air-to-ground ammunition for Ukraine for Ukrainian F-16 aircraft and to purchase drones.
According to the Dutch Ministry of Defense, ammunition will be purchased directly from industry. Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren announced this after yesterday's meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense Issues.
In addition, the Netherlands is again sending (from previously promised) F-16 fighters to Romania. The aircraft will be used in a training center for Ukrainian and Romanian pilots. We are talking not only about the aircraft themselves, but also about all the associated spare parts and ammunition.
The Netherlands leads the Ramstein air force coalition along with Denmark and the United States.
The Netherlands allocates more than €150 million for the purchase of ammunition for Ukrainian F-16s - Ministry of Defense
The funds will be used to purchase air-to-ground ammunition for Ukraine for Ukrainian F-16 aircraft and to purchase drones.
According to the Dutch Ministry of Defense, ammunition will be purchased directly from industry. Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren announced this after yesterday's meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense Issues.
In addition, the Netherlands is again sending (from previously promised) F-16 fighters to Romania. The aircraft will be used in a training center for Ukrainian and Romanian pilots. We are talking not only about the aircraft themselves, but also about all the associated spare parts and ammunition.
The Netherlands leads the Ramstein air force coalition along with Denmark and the United States.
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🇨🇿 Czech FM said it had so far secured 300,000 shells to Ukraine, first deliveries before June.
🇪🇸 Ukraine will receive another 20 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Spain, - InfoDefensa.
🚀 Last month, Ukraine began production of missiles with a range of more than 640 km.
💪 "There will be new defense packages, in particular scarce artillery", - Zelensky
🇫🇮 Finland handed over several combat boats to Ukraine, personnel train in Romania.
🇽🇰 Kosovo will send two packages of military aid to Ukraine: mortar rounds, armored vehicles.
🔥 Ukraine has sunk or damaged about 20 ships of the Russian fleet, - Lloyd Austin
✈️ Engels airfield, where the Russian strategic aviation is based, was attacked by UAVs!
🇨🇦 Canada wants to buy Ukrainian-made drones, - Bill Blair
🇪🇺 EC paid out €4.5 billion to Ukraine — first tranche of macro-financial assistance.
😏 An air defense system similar to NASAMS is being developed in Ukraine.
TOP NEWS TODAY
🇨🇿 Czech FM said it had so far secured 300,000 shells to Ukraine, first deliveries before June.
🇪🇸 Ukraine will receive another 20 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Spain, - InfoDefensa.
🚀 Last month, Ukraine began production of missiles with a range of more than 640 km.
💪 "There will be new defense packages, in particular scarce artillery", - Zelensky
🇫🇮 Finland handed over several combat boats to Ukraine, personnel train in Romania.
🇽🇰 Kosovo will send two packages of military aid to Ukraine: mortar rounds, armored vehicles.
🔥 Ukraine has sunk or damaged about 20 ships of the Russian fleet, - Lloyd Austin
✈️ Engels airfield, where the Russian strategic aviation is based, was attacked by UAVs!
🇨🇦 Canada wants to buy Ukrainian-made drones, - Bill Blair
🇪🇺 EC paid out €4.5 billion to Ukraine — first tranche of macro-financial assistance.
😏 An air defense system similar to NASAMS is being developed in Ukraine.
👀 Jake Sullivan arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit:
Joe Biden's national security adviser promises that aid to Ukraine will be unblocked in Congress. But he does not say when it will happen.
“We will get this help for Ukraine. Just last week we allocated a new package of military aid for $300 million, which included ammunition, air defense systems and other weapons that are important for the front,” Biden’s adviser said during an unannounced visit to Kyiv.
According to him, the United States will also work with the rest of the world - a coalition of more than 50 countries - to send even more weapons to Ukraine.
A few more statements from Sullivan:
▪️USA believes in Ukraine, and Ukraine should believe in the USA;
▪️Biden fights for money for Ukraine every day;
▪️Russia has already been defeated;
▪️US Presidential Administration is not yet ready to announce the supply of ATACMS.
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Defense of Avdiivka. Stories about the actions of the soldiers of the Third Assault Division during heavy battles against the occupiers in the city.
Fighter Lux. 3rd company of the 1st assault battalion of the brigade. Awarded the Order for Courage.
Brave Lux took command of the detachment. He personally managed the defense of a certain sector and his unit successfully repelled numerous attacks by the invaders.
In the offensive phase, Lux was the first to lead the unit into battle. Thanks to the tactics determined by him, the assault group was able to capture ten enemy positions, destroy the enemy platoon and occupy the defense in the recaptured area.
Showed intelligence and developed plans to undermine the manpower of the occupiers, planting explosives close to the placement of the enemy. He successfully implemented this plan with his unit and eliminated dozens of invaders at once.
All combat tasks assigned to his unit were completed without casualties.
🔥 DIU International Legion combat medics save lives at the front
Danny came from Sweden in 2023 and joined the team of combat medics of the International Legion of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. He is a driver mechanic.
"In my job, it is important to be able to fix and drive vehicles. For example, large ambulances, ATVs or boats, as we perform some tasks on the water," he described the specifics of his work.
Voron is a combat medic from Belarus. He has been saving the lives of soldiers at the front in the Legion since August 2022.
"Why did I go to war? It's a matter of my conscience. It's hard to sit and watch people being killed in a neighbouring country," she said.
Horikh is a combat medic from Lviv.
"I went to war because I believe that defending the state is the duty of everyone who considers themselves Ukrainian. I am grateful to the foreigners who are standing shoulder to shoulder with me. I am ashamed of the Ukrainians who have forgotten that we are at war in our country," said Horikh.
🔗 To learn more about the peculiarities of the work of the DIU International Legion medical evacuation crew, their most difficult days in the war and their motivation, watch the video.
Russian losses after strikes on refineries minus 10-15% of daily oil refining – Bloomberg.
Gunvor Group Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Torbjörn Törnqvist estimates about 600,000 barrels of Russia’s daily oil-refining capacity has been knocked out by Ukrainian drone strikes.
"It is significant because obviously this is gonna hit the distillate exports straight away," Törnqvist said during an interview at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston on Monday. "So that will probably take down exports by a couple of hundred thousand barrels, so to me it’s a distillate problem."
@ukrainejournal
TOP NEWS TODAY
🇨🇿 Czech FM said it had so far secured 300,000 shells to Ukraine, first deliveries before June.
🇪🇸 Ukraine will receive another 20 Leopard 2A4 tanks from Spain, - InfoDefensa.
🚀 Last month, Ukraine began production of missiles with a range of more than 640 km.
💪 "There will be new defense packages, in particular scarce artillery", - Zelensky
🇫🇮 Finland handed over several combat boats to Ukraine, personnel train in Romania.
🇽🇰 Kosovo will send two packages of military aid to Ukraine: mortar rounds, armored vehicles.
🔥 Ukraine has sunk or damaged about 20 ships of the Russian fleet, - Lloyd Austin
✈️ Engels airfield, where the Russian strategic aviation is based, was attacked by UAVs!
🇨🇦 Canada wants to buy Ukrainian-made drones, - Bill Blair
🇪🇺 EC paid out €4.5 billion to Ukraine — first tranche of macro-financial assistance.
😏 An air defence system similar to NASAMS is being developed in Ukraine.
@ukrainejournal
Americans and British fear that the German state has been infiltrated by Russia and avoid cooperation
The United States and the United Kingdom are working closely together to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Information is also shared with Poland and the Baltic states, but not with Germany. This is what Olga Husieva, a researcher at the Institute for Security Politics (ISPK) at the University of Kiel, told the authoritative Spanish newspaper El País : "This expert warns that Germany has been excluded from this cooperation for fear of infiltration by Russian spies into the German intelligence services."
Husieva considers it "very possible" that the cooperating countries will also operate jointly militarily in Ukraine in the future. The article deals with the latter option, in particular the question to what extent soldiers from NATO countries are already active. All experts agree that this is already the case and that Dutch soldiers are also active in Ukraine. “That's no secret,” Husieva said. This concerns advisors who provide training and investigate the effectiveness of the weapons supplied by allies. This is also necessary to prepare for a further escalation of the war to other European and/or NATO countries. The experts believe that it is a matter of time before that presence is expanded now that Ukraine is receiving more advanced weapons, such as the Dutch F-16s.
No NATO soldiers are fighting with the Ukrainian army. However, the Western armed forces are in close contact with Western volunteers, i.e. former soldiers, who have served in the Ukrainian army.
The direct reason for the article is French President Macron's warning that his country is prepared to send troops to Ukraine if necessary to prevent the country from being taken over by Russian imperialists. Last week, Macron repeated that warning . The experts say that the warning words are mainly intended to present the Russian aggressor Putin with a new dilemma and increase the risk of his military operations for him.
@ukrainejournal
⚡️ 31 MISSILES DESTROYED: 2 – BALLISTIC, 29 – cruise missiles
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On the night of March 21, 2024, the enemy attacked with two ballistic/aeroballistic missiles "Iskander-M" (KN-23) / Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal", as well as 29 cruise missiles Kh-101/Kh-555 from 11 strategic bombers Tu-95MS (launch areas - Volgodonsk, Engels - Russian Federation).
The rockets came from the north, the main direction of the attack – Kyiv!
💥 Anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the air attack.
As a result of successful combat work, all enemy missiles were shot down in the Kyiv region!
🤝 I thank everyone for the result and the saved lives of citizens.
Together to victory!
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🇺🇦 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk
@ukrainejournal
11 bombers were out on the tarmac when the raid started. Might be why Russia hit Kyiv with everything last night
❗️ Ukrainian drones “hit targets” at an airfield in the Russian city of Engels, a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate told Radio Liberty .
At the same time, it is not disclosed which targets were hit and their number. The results are still being clarified, say the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate.
During the night, the city of Engels, in the Saratov region of ruzzia, was attacked by drones, which was confirmed by the regional governor - who true to ruzzian tradition said there were no casualties or damage. Local telegram channels published videos in which the sounds of explosions could be heard.
📌 It is known that the air base of the Russian strategic aviation is located in Engels. Tu-160 and Tu-95 MS bombers that are used to attack Ukraine are based there.
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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