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
And now.......explosions heard in Crimea 💥
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Rest in Peace Maksym
Soldier Maksym Tkachenko, call sign Sniper, died on January 15, 2024 in Donetsk region. He was 18 years old.
Maksym was originally from the Kyiv region. He was interested in sports, practiced to become a coach. His hobby was motorcycles, he loved to repair them. He loved to cook, especially meat, and he also liked various tattoos. I dreamed of having many children.
After completing his studies, Maxim immediately went to fight.
"My brother was a very sincere and friendly person. For me, it is support, although he is younger, but he replaced my father," said Tetyana Tkachenko.
Maksym is survived by his mother and sister.
It has been an amazingly stupid week
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/this-week-in-stupid-june-22-edition
⚡️Two police officers charged with firing first shots at protesters during Feb. 20, 2014 mass murder.
The State Investigation Bureau said on June 19 that it had charged two police officers in absentia with murdering protesters on Feb. 20, 2014 during the EuroMaidan Revolution.
The suspects were the first to fire shots at EuroMaidan protesters on Feb. 20, 2014, according to the investigation. As a result of the Feb. 20 murders, 48 protesters were killed, and 90 others were injured.
'Rather desperate' – 5 key takeaways from Putin's North Korea visit
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un were all smiles as Putin made his first visit to Pyongyang in 24 years, but behind the jovial atmosphere, brass bands and apparently adoring crowds is a Russian president who, according to one expert, is simply "rather desperate."
Photo: Gavriil Grigorov/AFP
⚡️In France, a new Ukrainian kamikaze drone named "Bulava" has been unveiled, which uses artificial intelligence to identify weaknesses in Russian military equipment, Bild reported, citing expert Julian Röpke.
The Ukrainian defense portal Defense Express compares it to the Russian "Lancet". It can achieve speeds up to 100 km/h and stay airborne for over 50 minutes.
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This is Maxim Kolesnikov, a Ukrainian defender who spent 11 months in Russian captivity. There, Maxim lost about 32 kilograms. On February 4, he returned home and saw fresh fruit for the first time in a long while. At that time, photos of the emaciated Ukrainian prisoners spread around the world.
Today, Maxim works as the Digital Director for the Ukrainian postal service “Ukrposhta,” which is known worldwide, including for its famous stamps. Maxim has changed beyond recognition, but fortunately in a good way.
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It is important to note that, according to Russian law, the list of such places should have been approved long ago, but the information is being requested to be clarified because of a new "letter from the Russian Ministry of Culture."
Museum administrations have been given until 1 July this year to respond.
Another point in the letter states that at least some of the cultural and historical monuments will be taken outside the peninsula.
The letter was not published by the National Resistance Center, even though they have it, due to "sensitive information."
The Russians are trying to speed up the process of typification and evaluation of museum artefacts in Crimea. Museum workers are creating electronic registers of works of art and historical monuments and transferring information to the Russian electronic museum fund.
The letter was signed by Andrei Rostenko, the so-called deputy minister of culture of Crimea. He is the former head of the occupation administration of the city of Yalta in Crimea. Earlier, there was information about the start of the evacuation of military families from Crimea.
Recently, Ukrainian military said it has destroyed three Russian surface-to-air missile systems in Russian-occupied Crimea. Analysts believe it's only a matter of time before Kyiv might attack another vital target in Crimea: the bridge linking the occupied peninsula to the Russian mainland.
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Russia accelerates withdrawal from Crimea. (1/2)
The department of the occupation administration of Crimea, responsible for historical artefacts and cultural sites on the peninsula, has ordered its subordinate institutions to prepare museum property for "evacuation". Ukraine’s National Resistance Center reported this.
This is evidenced by a letter from the so-called ministry of culture of temporarily occupied Crimea to the heads of museum institutions.
The Russians did not indicate the reasons and places for the alleged transportation of valuables.
The National Resistance Center stressed that there had been a risk that the most valuable items would be transported from Crimea to Russia's internationally recognised territory.
In particular, the document, which was handed over to the National Resistance Center, directly refers to the need to clarify the list of "places of evacuation of valuables" in the event of disasters or combat actions.
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Russia Forced to Sharply Raise Taxes to Continue War Financing, — British Intelligence
It is reported that the Russian Federation expects tax changes to provide additional budget revenues of about $29 billion in 2025. To achieve this, the corporate income tax rate will increase from 20% to 25%, and the top income tax rate will rise from 15% to 22%.
❗️The identity of the Ukrainian military man, whose brutal murder in Donetsk region became known yesterday, has been established
"At the moment, we cannot name him, because the procedures for the final confirmation of his data are ongoing", - clarified the Prosecutor General.
Andriy Kostin also noted that Russian commanders potentially responsible for the beheading of the Ukrainian defender have been identified. A set of measures is being taken to verify this information.
❗️GUR identified the killers of four Ukrainian prisoners of war who were shot by Russian soldiers near Robotyne
They turned out to be the occupiers who were part of the assault group of the 70th motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Federation, namely, lieutenant colonel Yury Abaev and 4 of his henchmen, who may be involved in the murder of several more Ukrainian prisoners of war in May 2024.
In Russia, the oil depot in Azov cannot be extinguished for the second day
Depressurization of the second tank occurred at an oil depot in the port of Azov, Rostov region, where a fire broke out on Tuesday after an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the governor of the Rostov region reported in his Telegram channel. “We still cannot extinguish the fire. At 16:40, the second tank depressurized,” the report said, as quoted by Reuters.
The fire broke out at the Azovproduct terminal, which has six tanks with a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters each. In May and the first half of June, about 32,000 tons of gasoil and more than 19,000 tons of low-sulfur diesel fuel were delivered to the Azovproduct terminal by rail from TANECO and the Rosneft refinery.
From "The Analyst":
PUTIN’S IMPERIAL SUCCESSION & HOLES….
As if nepotism wasn’t bad enough, corruption and incompetence now rule supreme at the defence ministry in Moscow.
Putin has appointed his niece, billionaire and chairman of the Kolmar Coal Mine conglomerate, Anna Tsivileva as a Deputy Defence Minister. She is the wife of the Minister of Energy. Pavel Fradkov, who happens to be the son of the Prime Minister, has now been appointed as another Deputy Defence Minister.
Neither of these two has any knowledge or understanding of defence or military issues.
It’s all about control, retaining the ruling cadres power and influence no matter what it looks like or really amounts to in benefitting the state - as long as it benefits the leadership.
Meanwhile the Russian squadron of 1 Frigate and 1 Yasen Class SSN parading around Cuba, showed yet more Russian weakness as observers (me being one of the nerds that spotted it), noticed that a huge chunk of the anechoic tiling had dropped off near the waterline at the bow of the submarine.
We’re talking a chunk of tiling that measures roughly 1.2m long, 1.8m deep at one end and 0.6m the other - and it’s easily 10-15cm into the hull.
Submarines are supposed to be quiet, and I can tell you that the noise this will generate underwater is, in acoustic detection terms, like a rock band playing out loud. That sub is going to be detected wherever it goes until it’s fixed. So much for the mighty Russian navy.
There’s another piece of a similar size missing in the zone just in front of the conning tower. .
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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