Based on a survey, In conditions of personnel shortage, employers in #Russia began to more often employ employees with an outstanding criminal record.
Now there is no objection to hiring a former prisoner 15% companies surveyed. According to the results of a similar study conducted in 2008 and 2011, this figure was 8% for each year.
#Russia is increasingly using "glide bombs" - cheap but highly destructive ordnance - to advance its offensive in #Ukraine.
More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of #Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near #Kharkiv.
President Volodymyr #Zelensky said 3,000 such bombs were dropped on the country in March alone.
#Washington’s #G7 allies are warming to a #US plan to rush tens of billions of dollars in funding to #Ukraine before Donald #Trump’s potential return to the White House.
Under the plan, set to be discussed at a June summit, #Kyiv would receive money upfront from a G7 loan. The loan would be backed by future profits generated from around $350bn of Russian assets which have been immobilised in the west in response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russian army murdered 6 Ukrainians, including a woman who was seven months pregnant at the recreation playground. At least 16 people were injured. These are the consequences of a Russian attack on a recreation area in the #Kharkiv region. This is why Russia is a terrorist state.
🇺🇲🇺🇦 Washington’s G7 allies are warming to a US plan to rush tens of billions of dollars in funding to #Ukraine before Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.
🇬🇧🇺🇦 'The UK has rushed 1 million rounds of ammunition, air defence missiles & drones to #Ukraine’s frontline to help hold Putin’s army back' - Grant Shapps
■ Combat engagements & casualties stay below 7-day average
■ Massive equipment losses continue; less armor but more artillery & vehicles
■ Heavy 🇷🇺 strikes; >400 drone attacks had already taken place so I assume 4 was missing from the reported 58 figure
■ A. Perpetua's losses for yesterday above 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 ratio but 30-day ratio stays unchanged
#Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja #Kallas was asked what was preventing the free world from doing more to help #Ukraine:
"Fear keeps us from supporting Ukraine. Countries have different fears, be it nuclear fear, fear of escalation, fear of migration. We must not fall into the trap of fear because that is what #Putin wants. He wants us to be afraid and not support Ukraine out of fear."
"Let's be decisive and not let our adversaries dictate our future,"
A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim #Raisi was involved in a hard landing while visiting a northern region and his condition is currently unknown, #Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
The aircraft came down in East #Azerbaijan Province and emergency crews have so far been unable to reach it due to foggy conditions, Tasnim said. It is unclear what the exact status is of Raisi’s helicopter.
$1,140,000 Channel Fundraiser SUCCESS!!
by #JakeBroe
11:53
The fundraiser of the #69thSniffingBrigade for Jake Broe's birthday reached more than one million dollars in a week.
The funds will be used to provide about 30 trucks and 400 drones for Ukrainian units on the frontine (and 3000 patches with Broe's face for the donors).
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Jake Broe is a US Air Force veteran covering #Russia 's war in #Ukraine several times a week since February 2022.
Thanks to your donations we managed to support one of the anarchist fighters in #Ukraine with a drone jamming system preventing russian drone strikes on the positions of the fighters.
Jahara 'FRANKY' Matisek - Why our Approach to Containing Russia is Wrong & Risks Failure in Ukraine
by #SiliconCurtain
58:28
🇺🇸 Interview with Lt Col Jahara "FRANKY" Matisek, teacher in the US Dept. of NSA as a Military Professor at the U.S. Naval War College.
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Silicon Curtain makes interviews about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption in connection with the Russian war against the West.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine’s Navy said on May 19 that it had “destroyed” Russian sea minesweeper Kovrovets overnight, refuting Moscow’s earlier claims of having repelled strikes on occupied #Crimea
"Russia monitors its internet and can identify protesters there. But women banging pots and pans to make noise to protest the war are another matter. The women arrange these, noise against the war, sessions by word of mouth or via encrypted email services like WhatsApp and Telegram. The anti-war noise protests are spreading and more Russian towns and city neighborhoods hear the noise on Saturday afternoons."