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 cheated a Chinese state-owned company.
The Chinese state conglomerate Wuchan Zhongda Group lost $20 million by purchasing 2.000 tons of refined copper from a russian smelter that should have been delivered last month. It never made it to port. Instead, the metal was listed as much cheaper granite and has likely ended up in Turkey, according to the records of the shipping line that handled the consignment.
Staff from the Chinese company have visited russia to investigate what happened, although they’ve been unable to determine where the smelter is even located.
The episode, while unlikely to have global repercussions, is the latest blow to international metals trading and its reputation. The sector has repeatedly found itself tangled in scams, including tales of fake warehouse receipts and containers filled with painted rocks.
Russia is one of the world’s largest suppliers of copper, and China is its largest consumer.
Every Ukrainian prisoner released on May 31 complained of torture — UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
"As in previous findings, every interviewee during this recent exchange talked about torture, from severe beatings and prolonged exposure to stressful body positions to electric shocks to the genitals and being chased by dogs," the commission said in a press release.
No surprises there. Absolute and utter scum!!
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His memories make the blood run cold: the story of a prisoner who went through torture chambers, and now demobilized with a cat.
In captivity, he was held in occupied Luhansk in inhumane conditions.
After the hell of Russian captivity and rehabilitation, Yevhen Shibalov returned to the army. But now that the new law on mobilization allows him to be demobilized, he decided to return to civilian life. And not alone, but with Spot.
Yevhen's memories of Russian torture chambers make the blood run cold: he was abused, beaten both physically and with electric shocks. Now he is already making plans for the future, but it is impossible to forget what he went through. He spoke about life after captivity in the story of the channel "We are Ukraine" on the air of the telethon.
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Is Russia at risk of running out of tanks? - DW News
After more than two years of war in Ukraine - speculation is rife on how much military hardware Russia still has at its disposal. Open-source investigators Oryx say more than 2,500 Russian tanks have been lost since the beginning of the conflict.
Russian scum attacked two children and three adults with a drone in Kherson - Regional Military Administration (OVA).
As a result of the attack, two girls, aged 12 and 15, were hospitalized in moderate conditions.
Later, three adults who were with the children sought medical assistance at the hospital on their own.
"Due to the dropping of explosives from the drone, a 12-year-old girl received an explosive injury and shrapnel injuries to her head, torso, legs and arms. Her 15-year-old sister has explosive and craniocerebral injuries, a contusion", reported the head of Kherson OVA Oleksandr Prokudin.
❤️🩹 🥹Mother of the National Guardsman from Kryvyi Rih, released from captivity, Vitalii Senchenko, spoke about her emotions when she found out about the exchange.
"I actually dreamed about this day, I imagined it, I dreamed about it. But apart from tears, you know, joy, nothing else happened, not a single preparation worked. " Mom, I'm home, I'm in Ukraine." And then, of course - "Mommy, don't cry. All good to me"
- says Oksana Latanska.
And she added that she had dreamed of hearing these words for so long:
"Two years, one month and one week of enemy captivity after 86 hellish days of defending Mariupol...
Soon I will hug you, my son, and thank God for saving, protecting, returning you. (...) I was waiting! I waited! "
- she wrote.
https://t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/30876Ukraine has surpassed Russia in UAV production, manufacturing 3,000 FPV drones per day, according to Forbes.
Forbes technology journalist David Hambling compared the use of the most common UAVs by Russian and Ukrainian forces. He noted that Russia's primary attack UAV, the "Lancet," is more powerful than its Ukrainian counterparts and is primarily used for counter-battery combat. However, it often fails to destroy well-protected Western howitzers, such as the German PzH-2000, or ends up targeting high-quality mock-ups of weapons. Moreover, the Russian army receives only 300 Lancets per month.
In contrast, Ukrainian industry produces 3,000 strike drones per day, which has a significant impact on the battlefield.
Summarizing the comparison, Hambling writes:
"The Lancet is certainly effective, but it is overshadowed by other drones. In a war that requires both quantity and quality, Russia will lose both."
During the Ukraine-Belgium match, fans unfurled a banner featuring Nazariy “Hrinka” Hryntsevych.
The image, titled “Peace Has a Price,” compiled by artificial intelligence, includes 182 photos of fallen Ukrainian soldiers who were also supporters of Ukrainian football clubs in civilian life.
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Joyce Vance sneaking in a chicken picture
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/scotus-playing-chicken?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Two grumpy old men. Second of the day
https://open.substack.com/pub/twogrumpyoldmenonukraine/p/dual-life?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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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