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What’s happening in Ukraine part 5

In response to yesterday’s ruthless shelling of residential areas of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops

In response to yesterday’s ruthless shelling of residential areas of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the Russian Armed Forces this morning calibrated Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities on the territory of Kyiv and other regions.

The T-72 battle tanks supplied by the Eastern European countries and other armored vehicles located in the buildings of the wagon-repair enterprise were the purpose of the morning strikes

13 civilians, including a child, were injured in the center of Donetsk

As a result of the Voroshilovsky district shelling from the Ukrainian side.

The Voroshilovsky district has been subjected to massive shelling for the second time in the last seven days.

On Monday, May 30, 5 people died and 16 were injured.

The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the DPR

The Investigation Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the DPR has completed the investigation of the criminal case against foreign mercenaries – British citizens Shaun Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as a citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim

The investigation established that for material reward they took part in the armed aggression of Ukraine aimed at a violent seizure of power in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

Foreigners were charged with committing crimes on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic under 4 articles: commission a crime by a group of persons, forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power, mercenarism, and also training for the purpose of commitment a terrorist activity.

The criminal case was sent to court for consideration on the merits. The first hearing will take place soon. Under martial law, an exceptional measure of punishment – the death penalty may be imposed for mercenaries.

The DPR comes under massive shelling by the AFU, Jun 4

the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive artillery strike on the center of Donetsk

Last night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive artillery strike on the center of Donetsk

40 rockets from BM-21 Grad were fired in the center of Donetsk.

Russian troops taking care of a severely injured Ukrainian soldier

Russian troops taking care of a severely injured Ukrainian soldier near Severodonetsk after his comrades had abandoned him.

This happened near Severodonetsk after his comrades had abandoned him. The Russians are playing by the book, treating the injured and taken POW. Whilst the Ukrainians and Nazis shoot the captured Russians in the groin or legs and torture them.

Spain is ready to send tanks and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine

Earlier, the Spanish authorities handed over to the Ukrainian side ammunition, personal protective equipment and light weapons – grenade launchers or machine guns. Now the government of the Kingdom is preparing to supply Leopard tanks and a battery of anti-aircraft missiles.

Spain has also offered to train Ukraine’s military in handling Western tanks. According to the publication’s sources, the initial training may take place in Latvia, where 500 Spanish soldiers are stationed, and then on the territory of the Kingdom.

On Friday, Ukrainian Ambassador to Madrid Sergey Pogoreltsev thanked the Spanish government for sending 200 tons of military aid, but considered it insufficient. According to the diplomat’s calculations, the weapons sent by Spain “will be enough for two hours of combat.”

Ukrainian militants seized the UN office in Kramatorsk

“Representatives of the international organization have also lost three official vehicles with diplomatic plates. The AFU do not allow the mission staff to their property and forbid them to take photos and videos for reporting to higher authorities,” the DPR Headquarters of the Defense Ministry reports.

The OODA loop

Our enemies are obsessed with jamming our OODA Loops. They do not want us to have even a moment to think. An OODA loop is a decision making process: observe–orient–decide–act. We take in information, and we make a decision on how to act to change things. Our enemies keep distracting us with constantly changing information, and we keep getting stuck in the OO stage, never making decisions, never acting to change things, because we are constantly trying to figure out the nature of the trap we are caught in. But that is the trap we are caught in! We end up stuck in endless puzzling debates, making no productive plans to achieve victory in even one small way.

When a fresh news story gets hyped up, and people say “oh oh they are just distracting us”, it is THINKING TIME they are distracting us from. A moment for the dust to settle, for even a minute of propaganda-free time, to be able to make a plan to counter our enemy’s plans. They cannot allow us this minute. We are allowed no firm place to stand. They have to bombard us with useless factoids and storylines 24/7, little rabbit holes and dead-ends and intrigue and drama, or else we might form together into something capable of defeating their psychological operations. Distraction and overload is their primary weapon against us. Unfortunately, we keep falling for this trick.

The OODA loop is the cycle observe–orient–decide–act, developed by military strategist and United States Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Boyd applied the concept to the combat operations process, often at the operational level during military campaigns. It is now also often applied to understand commercial operations and learning processes. The approach explains how agility can overcome raw power in dealing with human opponents. It is especially applicable to cyber security and cyberwarfare.[1]

The OODA loop has become an important concept in litigation,[2] business,[3]law enforcement,[4] and military strategy. According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe–orient–decide–act. An entity (whether an individual or an organization) that can process this cycle quickly, observing and reacting to unfolding events more rapidly than an opponent, can thereby “get inside” the opponent’s decision cycle and gain the advantage.

Why does Ukraine matter so much to the west

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It’s the biggest European country, bigger than France.
Donbass territories, occupied by Russia, are as big as Switzerland.
What is happening now is not a small local conflict, but a hazard for the whole world.»
Orig. by Olena Karpenko

For those who ask:
“Why does Ukraine matter?”

1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores;
2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world’s reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources;
7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)

Ukraine is an agricultural country:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area;
3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world’s volume);
1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil;
2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports;
3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world;
4th largest producer of potatoes in the world;
5th largest rye producer in the world;
5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons);
8th place in the world in wheat exports;
9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs;
16th place in the world in cheese exports.
Ukraine can meet the food needs of 600 million people.

Ukraine is an industrialized country:
1st in Europe in ammonia production;
2-е Europe’s and 4th largest natural gas pipeline system in the world (142.5 bln cubic meters of gas throughput capacity in the EU);
3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants;
3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km);
3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment;
3rd largest iron exporter in the world
4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world;
4th world’s largest manufacturer of rocket launchers;
4th place in the world in clay exports
4th place in the world in titanium exports
8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates;
9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products;
10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).

Source: Andriy Futey
Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Ukrainian World Congress – Свiтовий Конґрес Українців

🇺🇦 The prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are outraged that the Ukrainian authorities are only interested in Azov, and they don’t care about the rest.

Prisoners of War ignored by Ukraine

🇺🇦 The prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are outraged that the Ukrainian authorities are only interested in Azov, and they don’t care about the rest.

They appealed to Zelensky

“We are servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now we are in captivity of the Russian Federation. We’ve been here for over a month and no one cares about us. Everyone is puzzled only by the Azov regiment. For some reason, no one asks all the presidents of Europe, the Pope, Elon Musk to assist in our exchange. We also have families and children. When we were needed, we fulfilled our duty. Why don’t anybody help us now ?“

Britons warned of winter blackouts Electricity across the UK could be rationed as the energy crisis deepens, London says

As many as six million British households could be subjected to power cuts this winter if Russian gas supplies to Europe stop, The Times reported Sunday, citing a Whitehall document.

It said that imports of natural gas from Norway could halve next winter amid surging EU demand. Britain buys around half of its total supplies from the Nordic country.

Shipments of liquified natural gas from major producers such as the United States and Qatar could also halve this winter, the UK government warned, pointing to fierce global competition for supplies of the fuel.

Meanwhile, interconnectors from the Netherlands and Belgium could also be cut off in winter, as the two countries struggle meeting their own demand.

The UK, which has vowed to end the importation of Russian oil by the end of the year, is now seeking to bolster electricity supply by extending the life of its coal and aging nuclear power stations

https://www.rt.com/business/556320-uk-winter-blackouts-warning/

What is happening in Ukraine? Here’s the reality.

For clarity:

The enemy ( Ukrainian forces ) are actively using large-calibre artillery with a calibre of 152 mm. Here is such a shell weighing about 40 kg and flying at a speed of about 1000 meters per second.

In the Leninsky district,

A civilian born in 1959 died as a result of a direct hit on a residential building.

The British media go through the floor. Again

They massively write about the fact that Putin may be dead, and his place is taken by a ringer. MI6 intelligence supplied them with information of this level!

“Senior MI6 bosses say the Russian president has been seriously ill and that if he had died, his cronies would hush it up to keep power for as long as possible.”

So, the media write that Putin’s recent speeches were recorded in advance, and the body double could be used for the first time at the Victory Day Parade. Conspiracy theorists rejoice, we sympathize with all other readers.

Hit in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.

The area of the embankment of the river Kalmius. Artillery shelling.

Air defense is actively working over the center of Donetsk. Three air targets were shot down in 15 minutes.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine increased the intensity of shelling of Donetsk

The Armed Forces of Ukraine increased the intensity of shelling of Donetsk and Gorlovka, firing more than 100 shells from 122-mm MLRS BM-21 Grad, 155- and 122-mm field artillery.

As a result of Ukrainian aggression, there are casualties among the civilian population. Facts of damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure are recorded.

Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an artillery strike on Makeyevka

Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an artillery strike on Makeyevka, a civilian was wounded

As a result of shelling from the positions of Ukrainian militants in Avdeyevka, a civilian resident of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka was wounded by 122-mm caliber artillery shell.

8 dead

Three civilians and eight servicemen of the Donetsk People’s Republic were killed in a day, 34 people were injured

By The People’s Militia of the DPR

Budyonnovsky districts of Donetsk.

From the positions of Ukrainian militants in Avdeevka, 16 152-mm caliber shells were fired in the Kalininsky and Budyonnovsky districts of Donetsk.

As a result of the shelling of the Budyonnovsky district of Donetsk, Ukrainian war criminals wounded 3 civilians. For 8 years of the war, this place has never come under fire. Rear area of Donetsk.

Also in the Leninsky district a woman was killed.

Sea of calm: Russian military boats escort ships

The first ships blocked by Ukrainian nationalists left Mariupol. The commercial port has already received, loaded and sent the first dry cargo ship from Russia.

The water area and coast of the Sea of Azov are completely cleared of mines. The sappers worked for several weeks and neutralized more than 13 thousand explosive objects. A sapper robot was also involved in the work.

Now the Mariupol water area is a safe water area. All ships entering and leaving the port are accompanied by Russian military boats.

Nazi from the 36th brigade confessed to the murder of a prisoner

A former soldier of the 36th brigade spoke about how he and his fellow soldiers killed a prisoner after drinking alcohol.

“I lost my arm, got into a hospital, it was full, I returned to the bunker. I was laying there for 3 days, they brought a prisoner, he was with us, in the bunker. Painkillers did not help me, I drank alcohol, my friend persuaded me to kill the prisoner. I could not , he killed him and gave me the knife.”

It seems that Ukrainians have finally begun to suspect something is wrong ….

Several petitions have already appeared on various platforms with a request to stop the export of grain from Ukraine. Residents of the country remembered the Holodomor and asked to prevent its repetition.

The compilers of one of them referred to UN data, where the organization calls the current situation the largest food crisis in history.

“Due to the sanctions and the Ukrainian crisis,the world’s wheat reserves will last for 10 weeks,” the authors noted.

In Europe, however, they only plan to accelerate the pace of export of grain from the territory of Ukraine, and the country’s authorities contribute to this.

“The Kyiv authorities are also exporting grain along the Danube in order to pay for the supply of weapons,” the text of the petition also says.

The food boom in Ukrainian stores has already begun – salt and cereals, including buckwheat, have disappeared.

“But the authorities of Ukraine continue to sell our grain to Europe, not thinking about the Ukrainians and the coming famine,” the petitioners concluded.

They made us kneel.

Subtitles

A resident of the Primorsky district talked about humiliation at the hands of Ukrainian fighters.

Kiev has offered Berlin to abandon the Nord Stream – 1 gas.

You may support Ukraine, however, the reality is that Kyiv is tightening the supply of gas by order of the United States of America.

Germany should stop or reduce the transit of gas through this pipeline, the head of the Ukrainian GTS said.

Transit of Russian gas to Europe before the imposition of a full embargo by the EU should be directed through the Ukrainian gas transportation system, and not through Nord Stream 1. Germany can unilaterally restrict gas transportation through Nord Stream 1 without coordination with Hungary or other countries, he declared.

At the same time, Ukraine itself has significantly reduced the transit of “blue fuel” to Europe through its territory since May 10 and refuses to replenish pumping volumes.

Kadyrov:

Severodonetsk is under our full control. The Nazis have been defeated. All their positions have been destroyed. The city has been liberated.

The US attempts to resolve a nationwide baby formula shortage

The US attempts to resolve a nationwide baby formula shortage but are hampered by interruptions in the supply of a key ingredient – sunflower oil from Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Russians are good people, good soldiers…

“Russians are good people, good soldiers… They don’t mock us, as the Ukrainians say. They’re friendly, I want to say, they’re for each other. Like brother to brother. Sister with sister. Ukrainians are not like that. They’re corrupt, f****.“

A captured soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with tears in his eyes, says that he was thrown to fight “like meat.”

Yasinovataya

Yasinovataya. Dasha. She just went to visit a friend and came under fire. Show the photo to the mothers of Ukraine who are crying for their sons – this is their job. It was your sons who changed the life of this girl and her two little sons. Her children are 5 and 6 years old.

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ VERY GRAPHIC.

As a result of Ukraine hitting school № 22 in the centre of Donetsk, two people were killed and more than ten were injured.

FOOD CRISIS WORLDWIDE AS COUNTRIES PANIC!

Beef shortage too? It’s not just chicken:

“By looking at production in key beef producing regions, we can see that a range of global and local factors may limit the supply onto the world market, with obvious implications for food security.”

Global supplies of beef will remain tight for the short to medium term.

This is due to below-average production in the EU and US specifically, firm domestic demand in the US, and elevated import demand from China and the rest of Asia.

The outlook for the UK domestic beef sector is somewhat different, however. The report analyses figures which show that the beef herd in Britain could experience modest growth over the next year.

The domestic cattle sector produces fewer emissions than the global average, therefore a greater reliance on UK-produced beef may help both in terms of food security and sustainability, it says.

The report considers supply and demand factors in some of the world’s key beef and sheepmeat producing regions, including the UK, the EU, New Zealand, Australia, the US and Brazil.

Report author, Glesni Phillips from HCC, said British farmers were already feeling the effect of increasing energy and input costs.

Drastic changes in supply patterns could lead to a limited supply of red meat – particularly beef – on the global market, a new report has warned.

The challenge for the meat trade comes as food security is impacted in the wake of international crises and increasing prices.

Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) report concludes that global supplies of beef will remain tight for the short to medium term.

This is due to below average production in the EU and US specifically, firm domestic demand in the US, and elevated import demand from China and the rest of Asia.

In addition, the levy board’s report says that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is impacting trade flows and has led to fuel, grain and fertiliser prices rising significantly. 

Experts warn that additional costs could lead to further instability. While some additional supply may come in the short term if farmers reduce stocking levels, the international situation may make a recovery in production more difficult in the longer term.

Without speaking to who is responsible — this is unfortunate.

Wow: Shanghai’s backlog of ships is quite literally off the chart, even compared to the disturbances last year.

US and global supply chains are about to go from “severely strained” to “completely broken.”

Need it? Buy it now. And buckle up…

Just a bit of marine traffic backed up there in Shanghai — get ready for massive supply shock

The Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will indefinitely suspend the export of butter and cream from today.

Turkey exported 3.154 tons of butter in 2021, which rose to 3.874 tons in the first two months of 2022 — concerning Ankara about Turkey’s ongoing inflation and ability to meet increased food demand in the summer, a time of increased tourism.

Turkey’s inflation rate, which hit 61% year-on-year in March, helps inform these export restrictions. Erdogan’s government seeks to suppress rapidly rising costs of goods by increasing domestic supply stocks, particularly of food items, which are rising in price globally amid the Russia-Ukraine War.

The Ministry predicted the export ban when it temporarily banned certain agricultural exports on March 10, publishing a list of possible restrictions on specific commodities. Among the halted export goods was olive oil, 

Prices are likely to continue rising, especially for food products. Ankara is likely to restrict certain seasonal produce, such as green plums, next. The price of green plums is highly inflated, and they primarily go to Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Azure Standard – Nation’s Largest Independent Food Distributor – Headquarters Completely Destroyed in Mysterious Overnight Fire – keeps happening to our food supply chain/facilities!

“The headquarters of Azure Standard, the nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire overnight. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire is unknown and under investigation. The loss of the facility and the impact on company-wide operations is being assessed and expected to be limited and temporary. No other Azure Standard facilities were affected.