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
We work every day without a single break to increase our potential in the world – in our relations with partners. We work to get more real help. To achieve true equality in the defense against terror, when the same, truly equal rules apply to us here in Ukraine, in Europe, and in other parts of the world, when we face the same manifestations of terror, the same missile and drone attacks.
In the last two days we have heard all kinds of things. About different conflicts – here in Europe and in the Middle East – different levels of threats, different airspace. Although the "Shahed" drones and ballistics are the same… Different threats of escalation. But are human lives different, are people's values different? No, they are not. We value every life equally. We must do so. We must protect them from terror on the same level. Ukraine will request a meeting of the Ukraine – NATO Council to discuss the protection of the skies, the supply of anti-aircraft warfare, relevant systems and missiles.
I thank everyone who helps! I thank each and every one of you who defends our country, our people and the common justice that is equal for all nations! And may the memory of all Ukrainians who gave their lives for Ukraine be eternal and bright!
Glory to Ukraine!
💔 12-year-old Ukrainian Yana Stepanenko ran a 5-kilometer distance as part of the Boston Marathon using prosthetics
Two years ago, Yana lost both legs during a missile attack on the station in Kramatorsk.
By participating in the race, the Ukrainian decided to raise funds for a sports prosthesis for the soldier Alexander Ryasny , who lost his leg during the defense of Zaporozhye.
Yana trained intensively for the Boston Marathon for two months, training four times a week.
🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱 Liz
China predicted ruZZia's defeat in the war, and calls ruZZia an enormous threat for Europe and ex-Soviet republics. - Feng Yujun, professor at Peking University, director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Fudan University.
According to the expert, a former member of the Kremlin's Valdai International Discussion Club, four factors will determine the fiasco of the Ukrainian invasion for Putin.
1.) the high level of resistance and national unity shown by Ukrainians.
2.) international support for Ukraine, which, despite the recent decline, remains substantial.
3.) the nature of modern warfare, which depends on a combination of industrial power and command, control, communications, and intelligence systems. RuZZia is experiencing difficulties in the war, and this may be due to the fact that the country has not yet recovered from the deindustrialization experienced after the collapse of the USSR.
4.) Putin has fallen into an information cocoon because of his long dictatorship. The Kremlin lacks reliable intelligence, and the system in which the leadership operates lacks an effective mechanism for correcting mistakes.
Feng Yujun stresses that ruZZia's defeat due to these four factors is inevitable and overtime Moscow will have to withdraw its troops from all occupied Ukrainian territories, including Crimea. Even its nuclear potential does not guarantee their victory.
The Ukrainian war has become a turning point for ruZZia: it has put Putin's regime in broad international isolation and created fertile ground for "all kinds of black swans," that is, for various unpredictable catastrophes that the authorities have already faced and will continue to face. As examples, he cites the Wagner uprising, ethnic tensions, and the recent terrorist attack in Moscow.
Growing awareness of ruZZia imperial ambitions convinces former Soviet that it is a threat to their independence and territorial integrity. "These states are moving away from Moscow in various ways: from forming an economic policy that is less dependent on ruZZia to pursuing a more balanced foreign policy. As a result, the prospects for Eurasian integration, which ruZZia is talking about, have faded."
And it has made Europe aware of the enormous threat that ruZZia poses to the security of the continent and the international order. Many European countries have "abandoned their illusions" about ruZZia and Putin. The war forced NATO to increase military spending and deploy more military equipment in eastern Europe. The accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO showed Putin's inability to use the war to prevent the expansion of NATO.
The Chinese professor claims also that "no one should doubt China's desire to end this brutal war through negotiations" and "this desire shows that China and Russia are completely different countries. Russia seeks to undermine the existing international and regional order through war, while China seeks to resolve disputes peacefully."
Feng Yujun warns also that if the conflict in Ukraine is frozen without "fundamental changes in the political system and ideology of ruZZia," then the Kremlin will have an opportunity to regain strength and unleash new wars.
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New tunes from China? 🤔
@freerussia_report
No, he can't take time off for campaign activity.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-judge-is-taking-no-crap-from-donald-trump/55555/
🔥 At night in Yevpatoria, Tropic Park, located in an old amusement park on the street, burned down.
“Tropic Park” is a five-story zoo in Yevpatoria, Crimea, where a huge number of different exotic animals lived.
Unfortunately, the animals could not be saved. The zoo burned to the ground, leaving only the metal frame.
As far as we know, this area has long been eyed for commercial development. The zoo was self-sufficient.
UPD
They saved a woman (apparently a watchman) and two bears.
According to a zoo representative, the preliminary cause of the fire was a short circuit in the refrigerator wiring.
The zoo housed more than 200 species of primates, reptiles, amphibians, birds and other animals. There was also a shelter for stray dogs there. More than a hundred animals were burned alive.
😡🤬🤬
@ukrainejournal
🦆 Every life is important
Around noon, the Rescue Service received a message that there were little ducklings in a sewer well on one of the streets of the city of Kalush in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
As passers-by said, the mother duck was carrying the ducklings and some of them got into a trap.
🙏The rescuers pulled the little chicks out of the well and gave them to the mother, who meanwhile was waiting for her children nearby.
Photo: DSNS Ukraine
@ukrainejournal
A 25 year old police Lieutenant died. She was home sick when her apartment was hit.
Wild speculation
Last count is 15 dead.
Yelyzaveta, callsign "Mala" ("Baby"), who recently turned 22, serves in Odesa border guard detachment at the front, Mykolaiv region.
Two years ago, "Baby" came to serve as a cynologist. Now she is a shooter in a mobile firing team that hunts down Shahed drones to prevent them from reaching civilians, according to Liza.
Most of the time, the group works at night, they often return in the morning. Yelyzaveta shoots down drones with an assault rifle, which she calls her "combat sister."
"The most difficult duty was when 23 Shahed drones passed over us, they came every two minutes. We didn't even have time to reload, it's very hard when you sit until the morning, until dawn. It is physically hard," she says.
After the victory, Yelyzaveta wants to work as a cynologist or serve in the army.
📹: Suspilne
Reflecting on History: Ukraine now Utilizes an Ancient Method to Disrupt Russian Logistics
The Russians are facing a new threat behind the front line: tire-popping metal obstacles called caltrops dropped by drones.
It is an ingenious new use of a very old weapon, which is causing problems for Russia’s already overstretched last-mile supply chain by halting vehicles so they can be hit by bomber drones.
Ukrainian drones are strewing the roads with four-pointed metal weapons designed so that whichever way they fall, one point is always upwards.
The name caltrop comes from the Latin for ‘heel trapper;’ the Romans also called them murex ferreus or ‘jagged iron,’ but they go back even further. Caltrops can be dated at least to 313 BC when Alexander the Great’s army used them against Persian cavalry.
In the 20th century the caltrop made a comeback for attacking rubber tires. During WWII American O.S.S. mass produced caltrops and distributed them to European resistance fighters.
Simpler and more reliable than explosives, they could be scattered on roads to stop German vehicles, either as harassment or as a prelude to an ambush.
Drones which can deliver payloads with precision are an obvious match for caltrops. A Chinese company showing off a new caltrop-dropping drone at a military expo in 2019.
While the Ukrainians went through a flurry of caltrop-making in 2022, these were larger versions which were mainly emplaced by hand. They have not been seen much until recently pictures emerged on social media.
One Russian blogger complained: “The enemy keeps coming up with new nasty things. Not only do they drop mines from the drones, but they literally cover dangerous sections of frontline roads with spikes. "
“For safety reasons we have to literally ‘fly through’ these areas and our vehicles.… drive at the maximum possible speed. And imagine what happens to a car when two (or more) wheels are immediately punctured by its spikes.”
💥 Huge explosions at the military airfield "Dzhankoy" in occupied Crimea
A fire started after a series of explosions. The ruzzian 39th helicopter regiment, air defense forces of the Southern Military District, 3 aviation squadrons and helicopters of the FSB border service are based there.
A section of the road from Dzhankoy to the village Victory, which passes near the airfield, is closed.
Local authorities report that the reason for the closure is probably the detonation of ammunition, which is still ongoing at the airfield.
Another dam gave way. In Tomsk.
https://t.me/warinukraineua/4194?single
Seems like he is trying to get locked up.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-just-made-a-huge-mistake/55553/
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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