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‘Where did they disappear to?’: Russian MP says 1.5 mln military uniforms are missing
Russia’s MP for Zabaykalsky region lieutenant general Andrey Gurulev has said that 1.5 million sets of military uniform had gone missing, reports local outlet Tayga.info.
According to Gurulev, personnel reception points need to be «equipped now for the future», so they can «easily» accept people.
In the text of the decree, the mobilisation is called «partial», however, no specifications are established. «According to this text, anyone could be drafted, except for employees of defence enterprises that get an exemption for the period of their work,» political scientist Ekaterina Shulman noted at the time.
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The US is willing to support Ukraine's finances with $1.5 billion a month in aid throughout the war against Russia and is pushing its European allies to commit to similar amounts, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Biden administration, which signed off last week on $4.5 billion in grants to cover the rest of the year, has held conversations with European Union officials --- including in recent days -- and has pressed Europe to do more, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private.
With the EU haggling internally over the delivery of previous pledges, allies have been discussing a more regular mechanism to help keep Ukraine's economy afloat as the war drags on, one of the people said. Officials have been warned that there would be growing demands in Congress, whose approval is required for longer-term support, for more burden sharing among allies, another person said.
The International Monetary Fund has previously said Ukraine needs about $5 billion every month to cover essential services and keep its economy going. The country received about $2 billion in aid last month, down from $4.7 billion in August, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said.
Bloomberg reported in July that a number of allies had privately criticized the bloc for not delivering on its commitments of nearly 9 billion euros ($8.8 billion) and called on it at the time to do so urgently.
EU Summit
EU leaders are expected to discuss Kyiv's financial requirements, which the draft budget for 2023 has placed at $38 billion, at a summit in the Czech Republic this week.
Diplomats preparing the leaders' meeting were told last week that expected funding levels from European nations would be on a similar scale to the monthly $1.5 billion the US was willing to provide, one of the people said. The funding was critical to covering essentials such as basic public expenditure, schools, hospitals and Ukraine's electrical network, the person said.
A number of senior EU officials have been extremely frustrated by the slow pace of the bloc's decision-making over financial support for Kyiv, as well as lack of urgency among some national governments toward the debate, especially as winter approaches.
Amid disagreement among member nations over the details of the 9 billion euro-package, the bloc paid out 1 billion euros last summer, while another 5 billion euros have been approved but not yet delivered to Kyiv. The outstanding 3 billion euros remain stuck over issues including whether the aid should be in the form of grants or loans, and how to structure guarantees.
The EU has also supported Ukraine with 1.2 billion euros in loans in the first half of the year, as well as billions more to pay for weapons deliveries and longer-term reforms. The block is also aiming to shepherd conversations around Ukraine's post-war reconstruction but officials admonish that Kyiv's immediate needs are far more pressing, two of the people said.
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Putin Has Left the World No Other Option But Regime Change
Vladimir Putin must go. His demented Kremlin speech Friday, during a ceremony in which he feebly asserted Russia was annexing portions of Ukraine, made the strongest case for the necessity of regime change in Moscow that any world leader has yet to make. But it has been clear the Russian dictator must be removed from office for a long time now. It has been clear because Putin’s actions and rhetoric demonstrate day in and day out that Ukraine can never be secure as long as he remains in office.
It has been clear because none of Russia’s neighbors can be secure with a megalomaniacal lunatic next door who speaks of Russian empire and constantly threatens to rewrite the borders of sovereign states. It has been clear because the world can’t be stable as long as the man who controls the planet’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is one whose power is unchecked at home, who shows such contempt for both international law and human decency, and whose ambitions are so untethered to reality. Justice also requires that Putin leave office. He is a serial war criminal, one of the worst the world has seen in the modern era.
No one could listen to Putin’s rambling Friday rant and draw any conclusion other than the fact that the longer Putin remains in office, the greater the damage that he will do. Russian President Vladimir Putin with Ukrainian regional separatist leaders attends the annexation ceremony of four Ukrainian regions at the Grand Kremlin Palace, September 30, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. If the absurd spectacle of a “signing ceremony” asserting Russian control of Ukrainian territory featuring Kremlin stooges and nationalistic chants did not chill observers to the bone, then Putin’s belligerent language condemning “the enemy” in the West and his intimations that he might be within his rights to use nuclear weapons certainly should. He mocked international law.
” He called on Ukraine to negotiate but said that the fate of “Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson” was not on the table, that they would be parts of Russia “forever. When President Joe Biden said of Putin in May, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” it was followed by a swift “clarification” from the White House that the president “was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change. They instead are expressions of common sense, acknowledgements of reality that diplomats may wish were unspoken, that cannot be the “official” policy of the U. Indeed with every respectful, restrained response to Putin’s aggression or abuses, we have only seen an escalation of his offenses. The “measured” responses to his aggression of the Bush or the Obama years did not work.
Nor did the slavering obsequiousness of former President Donald Trump. Indeed, the ostpolitik of Angela Merkel and the vacillations of French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders have actually aided and empowered Putin. Because that was the response to Biden’s moment of public honesty and realism on this issue. Many others, including some well-respected foreign policy experts, suggested we should not “corner” Putin with a public stance demanding his removal.
They argue that there are no good alternatives to Putin, and so getting rid of him might produce an even worse outcome, whether that is the chaos associated with a leadership void or a more dangerous leader. But go back and listen to his Friday speech. “...tiptoeing around the threat posed by Putin, hoping that accommodating him would lead to moderation in his behavior certainly has not worked. Next, acknowledging that Putin must go is not the same as making regime change a matter of public policy.
That said, certain sanctions imposed on Russia should remain in place until Russia changes key policies and positions that are indelibly associated with Putin, which in effect will mean until Putin is gone. Certain defensive postures of the west should remain in place until the threat from Russia has abated. We can do more than we currently are to help covertly support Russia’s opposition, especially those whose values align with ours. Perhaps most importantly, we can ensure that any sort of lasting Russian victory in Ukraine is not an option and that Putin’s terms will never be met, his aggression never rewarded.
With such policies, we can actively encourage the people of Russia to recognize that their country will not have a future as long as Putin remains in power. Putin is assisting on this front. Protests in Russia are already growing bolder. Celebrities and business leaders are speaking out more clearly.
Accepting the reality that Putin must go is just common sense at this point. Recognizing that reality, we should embrace policies that encourage the conditions that will make it come to pass. Putin, with speeches like Friday’s and self-inflicted catastrophes like Ukraine, is already doing that far more persuasively than we could hope to do.
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US would know if Russia preparing nuclear strike on Ukraine, experts say | The Times of Israel
Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons if Russia's “territorial integrity” or existence is threatened. Moscow's declaration Friday that it was annexing four partly-occupied regions of Ukraine potentially meant Russia could consider responding to attacks on the claimed territory with a nuclear strike. Should such an escalation materialize, it would probably be in the form of a smaller tactical nuclear weapon, likely launched on a short-range Iskander ballistic missile, according to experts.
Where are the bombs?
They can even be watched closely by commercial satellites, as shown by the widespread, regularly updated imagery of activities at North Korean nuclear facilities. Podvig says Russia has deployed its strategic or long-range nuclear warheads in the field, on missiles, bombers and submarines. But its non-strategic or tactical nuclear weapons, which number as many as 2,000, are stored and not installed on delivery vehicles like the Iskander, according to Podvig. “There are no Iskanders roaming around with nuclear-armed warheads.
These weapons are in storage,” he said.
How would we know?
“I'm confident the United States would see any Russian preparations for using nuclear weapons,” said Mark Cancian, a former official in the US defense and energy departments who worked on nuclear weapons issues. “The weapons need to come out of storage, the units involved need to be alerted, and the Russians might also alert their strategic nuclear forces,” Cancian, now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told AFP. He said evidence would also come from likely visible preparations for Russia's ground forces, issuing them protective equipment and instructions on how to act in a nuclear environment. Podvig said Moscow, like Washington, has for decades embraced the need for disciplined management of its nuclear warheads, and that system is fairly strong and visible.
“Nuclear weapons need a certain structure, people who are trained, and the maintenance.
Warning the world
Such alarm could go global if people expected an escalation to transcontinental nuclear war. In this photo taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Jan. 25, 2022, the Russian army's Iskander missile launchers and support vehicles prepare to deploy for drills in Russia. The United States would almost certainly warn allies and other powers, including crucially China and India, hoping they would pressure Moscow to pull back or face international isolation.
But Washington would likely see issuing public warnings as useful in adding to pressure on Russia, according to Podvig.
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Ukraine Forces Retake Lyman, a Strategic City, as Russians Retreat - The New York Times
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Russia’s withdrawal from the city comes one day after Moscow illegally annexed the surrounding region. Russian troops withdrew from Lyman, a city in eastern Ukraine, one day after President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed four regions in the country. The Russian retreat quickly spawned withering criticism among powerful allies of Mr. Putin, who blamed Russia’s military leaders for the recent losses, calling them incompetent. It was a striking display of internal dissent after Mr. Putin made a show of force in Moscow on Friday, delivering a menacing speech in which he announced the annexation of the swaths of Ukrainian territory, and positioned the war as an existential battle between Russia and Western elites.
Lyman sits on the banks of the meandering Siversky Donets River, which has served as a natural division between Russian and Ukrainian front lines since Russian forces captured the city in May. Retaking it offers Ukrainian forces a strategic foothold for further advances into the Donbas region that has long been the focus of Mr. Putin’s aims. Lyman’s capture also puts additional pressure on the Kremlin, which has been facing blowback at home over the conscription of hundreds of thousands of men to fight in Ukraine. The Russian government said on Saturday that its troops were withdrawing from the city after a Ukrainian offensive.
The army “will always have the decisive vote in today’s and any future ‘referendums,’” Ukraine’s Defense Ministry wrote in a tweet, in a pointed reference to Russia’s sham vote for annexation in the Ukrainian territory. Hours later, Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced it was withdrawing its troops from the city.
The State of the War
ImageCrossing a destroyed bridge in Kupiansk, a city recently reclaimed by Ukrainian forces, on Friday. Ukrainian officials have consistently said they will disregard Russia’s territorial claims and press ahead with counteroffensives in eastern Ukraine and around the southern port city of Kherson. The Pentagon’s top official on Saturday praised the Ukrainian military’s breakthrough in Lyman as a major success. “Absolutely, it’s significant,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III.
Lyman sits astride the supply lines of the Russians, and they’ve used those routes to push men and materiel down to the south and to the west. The fury over the retreat from powerful allies of Mr. Putin added to the chorus of pro-war Russian bloggers criticizing the government’s military leadership.
Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War
Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, wrote on the Telegram messaging app that Russia’s top military brass had “covered for” an “incompetent” general who should now be “sent to the front to wash his shame off with blood. Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian General Staff, that the forces on the Lyman front had been left without sufficient communications and ammunition supplies. “Send all these pieces of garbage barefoot with machine guns straight to the front,” Mr. Prigozhin said, in an apparent reference to Russia’s military leaders. ImageMedical staff treating a Ukrainian soldier and a civilian injured by artillery fire at a military field hospital in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Saturday.
Yet, even as Russian forces were losing a battle on the ground, they were unleashing a salvo of rocket, drone and missile strikes from the air. The most lethal strike landed on Friday in Zaporizhzhia, one of four Ukrainian areas that the Kremlin claimed in its trumped-up annexation. The attack sprayed shrapnel into a line of about 200 civilian cars and minivans packed with luggage and passengers, waiting at a checkpoint and bus stop to cross into Russian-occupied territory to visit relatives or ferry medicine and other humanitarian supplies across the frontline. ImageThe crater left by a Russian missile strike on a civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Friday.
“There was just peaceful population, there are absolutely no military bases or soldiers. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine condemned the strike also, as did Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Also on Friday, rockets and Iranian-made kamikaze drones that Russia’s military recently acquired hit residential neighborhoods in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, killing at least three people and wounding 19, the regional governor said.
A missile strike on a bus parking lot in the city of Dnipro also killed one person and ignited a fire that burned 52 buses. On Saturday, Ukrainian officials revealed that another Russian massacre of Ukrainian civilians had taken place the previous week, when Russian soldiers fired at close range at a convoy heading toward the recently liberated city of Kupiansk in Kharkiv Province. At least 24 people were killed, including 13 children and a pregnant woman, said Vasyl Maliuk, the acting head of the security service of Ukraine. Ukraine’s recapture of Lyman put the battle for the Donbas region into a new phase, leaving Russia’s control of the area uncertain as the Ukrainians are now positioned to claw back territory before winter sets in.
ImageDistributing aid to civilians in the recently liberated city of Izium, in the eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Saturday. In recent days and weeks, Ukrainian forces also closed in from the south and west. The next target, if the Ukrainian military continues its advance, would likely be Svatove, a city northeast of Lyman where Russians have retrenched after their defeat in the northeast, according to analysts. Ukraine’s slow-moving offensive in the south, toward the port city of Kherson, has largely been overshadowed by events in the east.
But fighting there remains fierce, as better-trained Russian forces have put up staunch resistance against advancing Ukrainian troops. ImageUkrainian soldiers in Bakhmut on Saturday. Matthew Mpoke Bigg contributed reporting from London, Valerie Hopkins from Berlin and Michael Schwirtz from Kyiv, Ukraine.
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National Archives says it is still missing some Trump administration records | The Hill
National Archives says it is still missing some Trump administration records
The National Archives and Records Administration said on Friday that it is still missing some records from the Trump administration. The National Archives does not have some messages that members of the Trump administration sent and received in unofficial accounts while conducting official business for the president, Wall said. While the Archives has been able to recover these types of records from some former Trump officials, Wall said they are still missing messages from others who have not yet handed them over.
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Wall did not provide an update in Friday’s letter about the records held by former President Trump himself, instead referring the committee to the Justice Department’s investigation. The National Archives, with the help of the Justice Department and FBI, has recovered hundreds of presidential records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence over the last year, including dozens of classified documents.
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Dramatic election, dramatic results. Whoever wins, rdrama wins!
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Watch: Alex Jones declares that he is Adolf Hitler and a child murderer in unhinged interview
Alex Jones, the host of the conspiracy theory show InfoWars declared that he himself is Hitler and that he shot kids to death in an interview on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. When Callaghan asked Jones if he felt responsible for what happened to the Sandy Hook parents, meaning the harassment and death threats they faced after Jones told his millions of viewers that they were “crisis actors” who helped fake a 2012 school shooting in order to help the government confiscate people’s guns. Jones responded, “I went to that school. Jones was not the shooter.
“We should bow five times a day to New Haven, Connecticut for the kids that died,” Jones said, before saying that people have been hypnotized into believing that they should give their guns to George Soros, a Jewish billionaire that anti-Semites think controls left-wing politics. It wasn’t actually Hitler,” Jones said. Later in the interview, Jones said, “I was being sarcastic earlier. Jones himself said the shooting was fake, and he has said in court that he believed it was, though he now believes otherwise.
“Nobody thinks you killed the kids,” Callaghan told Jones during their interview. Jones responded, “Everyone’s like yeah, ‘We’re gonna get him immediately. Alex Jones Interview youtu.
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So according to Putin this would be Russian troops abandoning Russian territory to a foreign power. https://t.co/nkhKCAVT3d
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) October 1, 2022
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Trump Says Mitch McConnell Has a ‘Death Wish’ During Racist Meltdown
Time to kick back, watch a little TV, and casually threaten the Senate Minority Leader on your website. ""He has a DEATH WISH,” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social of Republican Sen. “Is McConnell approving all of these trillions of dollars worth of Democrat-sponsored bills, without even the slightest bit of negotiation, because he hates Donald J. .
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The screed came after President Joe Biden signed into law a bill to fund the US government until Dec.
He Has a 7-Point Plan for a Christian Takeover -- and Wants Doug Mastriano to Lead the Charge
In 2017 Trump lambasted McConnell after the senate failed to secure passage of a bill that would partially repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the relationship between the two giants of the Republican Party has remained tenuous. "In recent weeks, Trump has vented to some confidants that if Republicans fail to take back both the House and Senate in the 2022 midterms, the ex-president expects "all these fricking RINOs” to blame him for any GOP high-profile losses, according to a person with direct knowledge of this grievance. ""Blame Mitch,” Trump has recently said, if Republicans fail to retake the Senate this cycle, this source relayed.
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In its heaviest barrage in weeks, Russia’s military on Friday pounded Ukrainian cities with missiles, rockets and suicide drones, with one strike in the Zaporizhzhia region’s capital killing 30 people and wounding 88.In a daily briefing Saturday, the British Defense Ministry said the Russians “almost certainly” struck a humanitarian convoy there with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. Russia withdraws its troops from key city as Ukrainian forces close inRussia said Saturday it has withdrawn its troops from the once-occupied city of Lyman, as Ukraine’s eastern counteroffensive recaptures more territory.
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Nicaraguan President Ortega said his government does not want relations with an "interventionist government" Nicaragua severed all diplomatic ties with the Netherlands on Friday, according to a statement released by the government. The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the country faced "repeated meddling" and the "interventionist and neocolonialist" position of the Netherlands and decided to "immediately discontinue diplomatic relations. He also said he would support "all economic and diplomatic cowtools to bring about a change in direction in Nicaragua" including excluding the country from the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement. "The tensions between the countries escalated after the Dutch ambassador for Central America, Christine Pirenne, informed the government that the European nation would not be funding a hospital promised long ago. The government said it withdrew its approval of the new ambassador after he made "disrespectful" comments in a hearing before the Senate. Ortega had accused the church of backing the 2018 protests which started against planned welfare cuts by his government but spiraled into a wider protest against him.
Tensions escalated after the Netherlands informed Nicaragua that it would not be funding a hospital promised long ago. Hugo had called Nicaragua a "pariah state," labeling Ortega's government a "dictatorship." On Wednesday, the Central American country declared the European Union ambassador, Bettina Muscheidt, "persona non grata" without specifying a reason. This development came hours after the Central American country refused entry to the new US ambassador. President Daniel Ortega lashed out at this news and said, "The ambassador came to speak to Nicaraguans as if Nicaragua is a Dutch colony. " It said the European country "offended and keeps offending Nicaraguan families. Earlier on Friday, Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, Ortega's wife, said that US envoy Hugo Rodriguez would not be allowed to enter the country.
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Other Russia friendly countries that rejected the annexation: Serbia, Hungary, Kazakhstan
Redditors discuss
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Redditors don't mention Drumpf in unreleated posts for 5 seconds challenge https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xsp09s/turkey_rejects_russias_annexation_of_ukrainian/iqm39gj
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The heck happened here? It's like a war zone lmao.
What is up with these comments?
Dear Kim, I wrote but you still ain't callin' I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
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Ever notice how happy trump looks wkth authoritarians like Putin, KJU and Xi Jinping and how uncomfortable he looks in the presence of our long-standing democratic Allie’s
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Redditors actually decide to support this and be very reasonable. Very rare from redditors and dramaphobic
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Officials said they now have more information regarding a UVM student who was robbed at gunpoint in the early morning hours of Sept. 17.
Police said that three men wearing masks, including some using t-shirts as masks, approached the victim, with one of them using a firearm to threaten him.
Officials said the men then forced the victim to disrobe and stole his clothing and personal property before fleeing.
Further investigation helped police to identify the suspects involved and arrest them on charges of assault and robbery.
Two of the suspects, 22-year-old Zafer Suliman and 23-year-old Latavious Elam, both of Williston, are active Air Force members. Police determined that Elam was the suspect who threatened the victim with a firearm during the incident. He is being held without bail.
The other two suspects, including 24-year-old Michael Chea of Winooski, have been released following their arraignments on Thursday.