@kravietz daily bombings of Kharkiv clearly show they want to destroy the city and get the people to leave it. It’s heating infrastructure is completely destroyed so winter there will be unbearable. We can observe one of the largest city destructions ever. And it’s a beautiful city too.
Second photo shows one of the oldest concrete buildings in the world, built in 1920s.
My new #Meshtastic record — 49 km 😲 From hills around Wells to Cardiff. In general, this area is very busy with Meshtastic nodes so great opportunity to have a casual chat with radio geeks!
Now I can’t confirm traceroute as the remote node went offline but at that time there was no information it went through any hops, so I’d assume it was direct
In the legal reality of #Russia, “Donetsk People’s Republic” is a subject of Russian Federation, just like neighbouring Rostov Oblast’ or Moscow Oblast’. Nonetheless, the “DPR” enacted a new law establishing a 5 km restricted border zone with Rostov Oblast’, and another 100 m border zone where any presence requires FSB permit. In addition to that, crossing between Rostov Oblast’ and the “DPR” is only allowed on a limited number of checkpoints.
Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia
Tatjana Ždanoka, an MEP from Latvia, was one of the delegates sent to Kyiv. But she did not report her findings to other legislators from the European Parliament. Instead, she sent a confidential report to her FSB handler Sergey Beltyukov, stating her view that anti-Yanukovych demonstrators, already two months in, were unlikely to disband in the near future. Three days before the trip to Kyiv, Ždanoka traveled to St. Petersburg and met Beltyukov, who had waited for her at the airport.
Szanowni polscy emigranci, pamiętajcie, że jest możliwość rejestracji na wybory do Parlamentu Europejskiego za granicą - ja się właśnie zarejestrowałem w UK
As news agencies are hyping the news that “Putin wants negotiations on the current front line”, please note this not any news. Really - if you search the phrase “признать реалии на земле” (recognize the realities on the ground), you will see it goes well back into 2023 in Kremlin statements and repeated nearly every month since. This is the phrase that #Russia uses when they refer to negotiations where #Ukraine is expected to recognize Russia’s territorial conquests.
Please, do not blindly follow the media induced amnesia where any old news can be recycled into a “exclusive news” clickbait…
On @ufd today we reported rocket attacks on #Russia military bases in #Alushta in occupied #Crimea but partial reports paint a much richer picture - Dzhankoi, Sevastopol, Bakhchisarai, Yalta, Gvaridyske, Evpatoria were reportedly all hit by rockets.
Since the start of the war #Russia has been targeting #Ukraine culture especially fiercely - it has ruined dozens of museums, now it moved to targeting book warehouses and printing works. In today’s attack in #Kharkiv Russian rockets have killed 7 book warehouse workers (5 women and 2 men).
#Russia embassy in Poland boasts of ‘rebuilding Mariupol’. Only it omits a minor detail - the Russians are not rebuilding #Mariupol in the sense of renovating or rebuilding existing buildings for their existing residents.
What they do is demolishing existing buildings and raising new multi-family houses in their place, offered on the open market, which are unaffordable for existing residents…. because no one will give a mortgage to a person whose flat has been demolished! Residents rendered homeless by the Russian army are thus left in the lurch, as can be seen from the many desperate appeals they publish on Telegram.
The Mariupol authorities also officially run a housing restitution programme but, in typical Russian government fashion, they use many tricks to make it a sham - for example, the new buildings have a slightly different address and plot number and the allocation is no longer ‘due’! Or it turns out that the person in question still has a (also ruined) allotment garden, so as a ‘holder of two properties’ the return of the flat is also ‘not due’!
Such ‘reconstruction of Mariupol’ thus has the character of a exploitative colonisation of the city by the new owners rather than a real reconstruction of the city, and on top of that it only concerns attractive plots of land near the sea and in the centre. Hundreds of blocks of flats in popular bedroom neighbourhoods have remained without water, electricity, without windows and with holes in the roofs for two years.
P.S. I can provide numerous appeals from Mariupol residents on request
@kravietz spent enough time looking around groznyj on yandex maps to know, that the second worst thing after russia bombing your city is russia rebuilding your city
Rosyjska ambasada w Polsce chwali się ”odbudową Mariupola”. Tylko pomija drobny szczegół - Rosjanie nie odbudowują Mariupola w sensie remontu lub odbudowy istniejących budynków dla ich dotychczasowych mieszkańców.
Rosjanie prowadzą rozbiórkę istniejących budynków i na ich miejscu budują nowe domy wielorodzinne, oferowane na wolnym rynku, które dla dotychczasowych mieszkańców są niedostępne… bo nikt nie da kredytu hipotecznego osobie, której mieszkanie zburzono. Mieszkańcy pozbawieni domów przez rosyjską armię zostają więc na lodzie, o czym można się dowiedzieć z wielu rozpaczliwych apeli, które publikują na Telegramie
Władze Mariupola oficjalnie prowadzą też program zwrotu mieszkań ale w typowy dla władz rosyjskich sposób stosują wiele sztuczek, które powodują, że jest on fikcją - na przykład, nowe budynki mają nieco inny adres i numer działki i przydział już się “nie należy”! Albo okazuje się, że dana osoba ma jeszcze (też zrujnowany) ogródek działkowy, więc jako “posiadaczowi dwóch nieruchomości” zwrot mieszkania też się “nie należy”!
Taka “odbudowa Mariupola” ma więc charakter rabunkowej kolonizacji miasta przez nowych właścicieli a nie faktycznej jego odbudowy, a do tego dotyczy tylko atrakcyjnych działek przy morzu i w centrum. Setki bloków w popularnych dzielnicach-sypialniach od dwóch lat pozostają bez wody, prądu, bez okien i z dziurami w dachach.
How #Russia understands Western #deescalation? Margarita Simonyan’s husband Tigran Keosayan explains to his colleagues:
Everything we wanted to know about NATO is now quite clear: we can start a war with any NATO country, almost any, and US will not intervene. As long as US doesn’t intervene, they are just a bunch of paper tigers.
🤷🏻♀️ I don't think a source is necessary in this case, because what that man is saying is clear and very close to the truth
It could be any Russian telling this, because unfortunately that is the situation in Europe nowadays 🙈 It is only surprising that Western Europe and the US still do not understand how the Russians think and act
#Russia war correspondent Romanov doesn’t hide the fact he’s personally engaging in fighting, quite the opposite - he proudly publishes videos of himself firing a mortar. What ICRC says about journalists protection at war time?
Journalists and their equipment enjoy immunity, the former as civilians, the latter as a result of the general protection that international humanitarian law grants to civilian objects. However, this immunity is not absolute. Journalists are protected only as long as they do not take a direct part in the hostilities. News media, even when used for propaganda purposes, enjoy immunity from attacks, except when they are used for military purposes or to incite war crimes, genocide or acts of violence.
Some #Iran media apparently reported that the Iranian presidential helicopter that crashed had one #Russia passenger onboard, by name of Kruchev. Neither Russian nor mainstream Iranian media mentioned that, but it is also reported that Kruchev might have been involved in Iran’s covert nuclear program.