TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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
Military Anatoly Sachanyuk died on January 8, 2024 in Kharkiv region. The soldier was 40 years old.
Anatoly was from Volyn. He had a flair for music and a beautiful voice. He played the guitar and made drawings.
After the 9th grade, he went with his father to earn money for construction. Later, he completed military service. After the army, he worked in the village of Zabolottya, then moved to Lutsk, where he found himself in various jobs: he was a tiler, insulated facades, and worked at a brick factory.
Anatoliy liked to fish, swim, rest with his children, travel, ride a bicycle, communicate with friends.
He participated in ATO. On February 24, the man stood in line at the military commissariat without waiting for a summons. Joined the 14th OMBr.
"Brothers said that Anatoliy saved other soldiers, constantly helped out. He was very skillful, far-sighted, got out of various difficult situations," said his wife Maria.
At home, a large loving family and many friends were waiting for the defender.
State Property Fund Offers for Sale Packaging Plant Seized from Russian Oligarch
The Ukrainian State Property Fund has announced an auction for the sale of PentoPak PrJSC, which used to be owned by a Russian oligarch.
“The Ukrainian State Property Fund has approved the starting price of PentoPak Plant at UAH 203.7 million. The privatization lot will be listed in the Prozorro.Sale system as soon as today. The auction has been scheduled for May 31, 2024,” the report states.
The above asset was seized from the family of Ivan Savvidi, a Russian oligarch of Greek origin, who has close ties to the leadership of the Russian Federation and shows support for the occupation authorities within the temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine.
PentoPak provides a full cycle of packaging production for products in the meat processing industry, using the advanced technologies, such as high-quality printing with UV, water, alcohol-based inks. PentoPak’s customers include the famous Ukrainian brands, namely Rud, Globino, Meat Guild [Miasna Hildiia], as well as ordering parties from more than 30 countries.
- Ukrinform
⚡️Ukraine uses naval drones with anti-aircraft missiles
A video which shows a Ukrainian naval drone performing maneuvers to avoid a fire from a russian Ka-29 helicopter flying to intercept it was released by the Russian media.
An important feature in this event is the appearance of a superstructure on board the drone that resembles the Soviet R-73 air-to-air missile.
The R-73 is a short-range missile and can indeed be launched from ground-based systems. The missile does not require radar or other systems for guidance, as it is equipped with their own infrared seeker.
This missile on board the drone can be distinguished from a similar but earlier R-60 by the specific shape of its tail fin.
Good morning Resisters. We had one hell of a storm last night. But no down trees
It's going to get a lot of them arrested.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-maga-voter-intimidation-game/55910/
He fistbumped the guy testifying against him
The SBU detained an FSB agent group that was preparing massive airstrikes in Ukraine on the eve of Easter
The Security Service detained an FSB agent group that was preparing coordinates for massive airstrikes in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad regions on the eve of Easter.
Among the enemy's priority targets were energy-generating enterprises and logistics warehouses for the storage of fuel and lubricants.
In addition, the occupiers hoped to receive "confirmation" from their agency regarding the current geolocations of military airfields, as well as special forces guarding the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
To carry out these tasks, the Russian special service involved two of its agents from Uman and Luben. For the conspiracy, those involved acted separately, but remotely "locked" on one curator from the FSB.
The Security Service found out about all this at the initial stage of the intelligence activity of Russian agents, which it promptly exposed and documented step by step.
Thanks to this, they were able to be caught red-handed near Kyiv, where they were conducting reconnaissance near potential targets, and thereby thwart the aggressor's plans to prepare airstrikes.
As the investigation established, both persons involved, 28-year-old unemployed, were recruited remotely in March of this year by a staff member of the "Crimean Administration" of the FSB. His identity has already been established by the Security Service.
He promised his agents a monetary reward for cooperation with the occupiers. Anonymous chat in a popular messenger was used for communication.
So far, the investigators of the Security Service have informed the detainees about the suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law).
The perpetrators are in custody. They face life imprisonment.
The special operation was carried out by SBU employees in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv regional prosecutor's office.
🤡 Medvedev promised a nuclear strike on European capitals if troops were sent to Ukraine
Russia will respond to the sending of Western troops to Ukraine with a nuclear strike on Washington, Paris and London, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
“Sending your troops to the territory of Ukraine will entail the direct entry of their countries into the war, to which we will have to respond. And, alas, not in the territory of Ukraine. <...> A global catastrophe will come,” Medvedev wrote in his telegram channel.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense Murder announced the start of exercises “in the near future”, within the framework of which the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons will be practiced.
Missile formations of the Southern Military District, aviation and naval forces will take part in them.
The Kremlin said that the planned exercises are related to statements by officials in the West about sending armed contingents to Ukraine.
Electronic Warefare in Ukraine has Lessons for US Weapons, Navigation
The U.S. is gaining valuable insights about the performance of its technologies amid electronic interference as Ukrainian troops use them on the front lines, according to one official.
Washington and other governments have committed billions of dollars of security aid to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, armored vehicles and secure communication devices.
The jamming and spoofing that blankets fighting in Eastern Europe offers a trial against Russian tools rarely seen in action.
Michael Monteleone, the director of the Army’s Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space Cross-Functional Team, on May 5 told reporters the conflict is a “huge learning experience for us.”
“The global community has shared a lot of our technology, our weapons systems, our command-and-control systems and others, with the Ukrainians,” he said on the sidelines of the GEOINT conference in Florida.
“You’re seeing that being used in real time, and it is a source of feedback.”
Monteleone’s cross-functional team, expected to shift its focus to so-called all-domain sensing in the coming months, is tasked with improving soldier access to critical sources of situational awareness, including where they are, where they are headed and when they will arrive.
“Even early in the war, we learned what happened when GPS just didn’t exist, and how the Ukrainian soldiers dealt with that, and how the Russian soldiers dealt with that,” Monteleone said.
The lessons gleaned from Ukraine’s fight are making “everybody think about the problem space,” Monteleoene said, “including where our investments truly need to be.”
- Defense News
The SBU detained an FSB agent group that was preparing massive airstrikes in Ukraine on the eve of Easter
The Security Service detained an FSB agent group that was preparing coordinates for massive airstrikes in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad regions on the eve of Easter.
Among the enemy's priority targets were energy-generating enterprises and logistics warehouses for the storage of fuel and lubricants.
In addition, the occupiers hoped to receive "confirmation" from their agency regarding the current geolocations of military airfields, as well as special forces guarding the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
To carry out these tasks, the Russian special service involved two of its agents from Uman and Luben. For the conspiracy, those involved acted separately, but remotely "locked" on one curator from the FSB.
The Security Service found out about all this at the initial stage of the intelligence activity of Russian agents, which it promptly exposed and documented step by step.
Thanks to this, they were able to be caught red-handed near Kyiv, where they were conducting reconnaissance near potential targets, and thereby thwart the aggressor's plans to prepare airstrikes.
As the investigation established, both persons involved, 28-year-old unemployed, were recruited remotely in March of this year by a staff member of the "Crimean Administration" of the FSB. His identity has already been established by the Security Service.
He promised his agents a monetary reward for cooperation with the occupiers. Anonymous chat in a popular messenger was used for communication.
So far, the investigators of the Security Service have informed the detainees about the suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law).
The perpetrators are in custody. They face life imprisonment.
The special operation was carried out by SBU employees in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv regional prosecutor's office.
The SBU detained an FSB agent group that was preparing massive airstrikes in Ukraine on the eve of Easter
The Security Service detained an FSB agent group that was preparing coordinates for massive airstrikes in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Kirovohrad regions on the eve of Easter.
Among the enemy's priority targets were energy-generating enterprises and logistics warehouses for the storage of fuel and lubricants.
In addition, the occupiers hoped to receive "confirmation" from their agency regarding the current geolocations of military airfields, as well as special forces guarding the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
To carry out these tasks, the Russian special service involved two of its agents from Uman and Luben. For the conspiracy, those involved acted separately, but remotely "locked" on one curator from the FSB.
The Security Service found out about all this at the initial stage of the intelligence activity of Russian agents, which it promptly exposed and documented step by step.
Thanks to this, they were able to be caught red-handed near Kyiv, where they were conducting reconnaissance near potential targets, and thereby thwart the aggressor's plans to prepare airstrikes.
As the investigation established, both persons involved, 28-year-old unemployed, were recruited remotely in March of this year by a staff member of the "Crimean Administration" of the FSB. His identity has already been established by the Security Service.
He promised his agents a monetary reward for cooperation with the occupiers. Anonymous chat in a popular messenger was used for communication.
So far, the investigators of the Security Service have informed the detainees about the suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason committed under martial law).
The perpetrators are in custody. They face life imprisonment.
The special operation was carried out by SBU employees in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region under the procedural guidance of the Kyiv regional prosecutor's office.
🟣 Hamas is reportedly contemplating using powerful explosives to destroy sections of the Egypt-Gaza border fence, aiming to provoke a large-scale exodus of Palestinians into Egyptian territory.
This move is speculated to be a strategy to incite chaos and a high civilian death toll, in the hopes of garnering intense global pressure on Israel to halt its operation in Rafah, as per two Palestinian sources familiar with Hamas' plans, cited by
kann news
🇮🇱 @israel_report
Europeans should know that Russian troops will be on Poland's borders if Putin succeeds in Ukraine. Putin's Russia is an existential threat to all of us, — said the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, during a speech at Oxford University on the world security situation.
"The prospect of a puppet government being formed in Kyiv, as happened in Belarus, when Russian troops are on the borders of Poland and Russia controls 44 percent of the world grain market, is something Europeans should be aware of," Borrell said. .
The Europeans tried to create a circle of friends around themselves, but instead they got a circle of fire that stretches from the Sahel to the Middle East, from the Caucasus to the current battlefield in Ukraine.
"First of all, we have to make a clear assessment of the danger from Russia, which is seen as the greatest existential threat to Europe. Perhaps not everyone in the European Council agrees with this, but the majority supports this idea. Russia is an existential threat to us, and we need to have open eyes in assessing this risk," the EU High Representative stressed.
He noted that Europe has developed a model of relations based on cooperation and economic interdependence. Within the EU, it was a great success and allowed to ensure 70 years of peace among European countries. Europeans were convinced that such interdependence could also lead to political changes in Russia and even in China. But such a belief was wrong, and such changes did not occur. In the face of Russian authoritarianism, interdependence did not bring peace. On the contrary, it turned into dependence, especially on fossil fuels, and this dependence was turned into a weapon.
Military: Russia Trying to Regain Control of Nestryha Island in Kherson Oblast
Russian forces have launched repeated assaults in an attempt to retake the recently liberated Nestryha Island in Kherson Oblast, a military official said on May 6.
Speaking on national television, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces, said Moscow's troops had tried unsuccessfully to storm Ukrainian positions three times, losing four tanks in the process.
Located in the Dnipro River delta in Kherson Oblast, Pletenchuk previously said Nestryha Island is "tactically important" as Russian forces had been using it to launch attacks on Ukrainian positions.
- The Kyiv Independent
Ukraine’s battle crucial for dismantling global “axis of evil,” defense expert claims
Beyond the fighting on Ukraine’s frontlines, a global undeclared war is unraveling. China has built a vast network of proxy forces that stoke conflicts worldwide to undermine its primary adversary, the United States.
The growing Russia-China-North Korea-Iran alliance exchanges money, expertise, and military technologies, and plants deadly technology in the hands of rogue states.
The US continues eyeing China as its main adversary, employing a “fire-fighting approach” to erupting conflicts, hesitating to provide aid to Ukraine, and pressuring it to limit its response to Russia’s invasion.
However, exactly Ukraine is key to dismantling the growing “axis of evil,” says seasoned Ukrainian defense expert Mykhailo Samus, and if it falls, the undeclared war will spiral out of control.
- Euromaiden Press
Read more here: https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/05/06/ukraines-battle-crucial-for-dismantling-global-axis-of-evil-defense-expert-claims/
I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 72 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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