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Russia terror bombs Ukraine for over a year Moscow gets hit by a handful of small drones causing limited damage and no reported casualties. OMFG don't they know the allied terror bombings were a failure!!!

Drones hit buildings in Moscow, several downed on approach to capital - officials (yahoo.com) (Reuters) -Drones hit several buildings in Moscow causing "minor" damage and no serious injuries, with air defence systems also destroying several drones on their approach to the Russian capital, Russian officials said early on Tuesday, "All emergency services of the city are at the scene of incidents," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram messaging channel. Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, said on the Telegram channel that several drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow. It was not immediately clear who launched the drones. Several of Russia's Telegram messaging channels reported that four to 10 drones were shot on the outskirts of Moscow and in its immediate region. Sobyanin said that some residents were being evacuated. Russia's RIA state news agency reported that some residents of a building on Moscow's Profsoyuznaya Street in the city's south were being evacuated.

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good luck! Both our teams (sixers and warriors) got dumped early.

considering the expenditure on attacking Kiev, not sure this is a great source. Also unclear how they would even be able to assess this.

Belarus's Lukashenko says there can be 'nuclear weapons for everyone' (yahoo.com) and you get a nuke and you get a nuke! I can see them lining up to join - N Korea, Iran . .

Drone attack damages Russian oil pipeline facility hundreds of miles from Ukraine (yahoo.com) Ukrainian drones attacked and damaged oil pipeline infrastructure hundreds of miles inside Russia on Saturday, Russian officials said. One of the pipelines reportedly attacked was the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline in the Tver province of northwest Russia, 300 miles from the border with Ukraine. “There were no casualties. Emergency services are currently working at the scene,” the Tver government said in a statement.

Mayor explained the unusual vibrations in Kyiv this night: Weapons are going to the front (yahoo.com) Mayor of Kyiv, Vitalii Klitschko, explained the unusual vibrations felt by the residents of the capital on Sunday night as the movement of powerful weapons to the front. Source: Klitschko on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast Details: The mayor was asked if he knew what caused the vibrations that residents of the city of Kyiv and its oblast confused with an earthquake. Quote from Klitschko: "That is weapons going to the front, new and powerful ones. The vibration may be caused by that." Background: On the night of 28 May, an air-raid warning, local residents felt unusual vibrations reminiscent of an earthquake in the city of Kyiv and its oblast. However, as reported by UP.Zhyttia, no earthquakes were recorded by the Main Center of Special Control in Kyiv Oblast that night. The international services that monitor the activity of seismic phenomena on Earth also did not report earthquakes in Ukraine in recent hours.

Russian state media calling for unpaid 6th day of work to fund Ukraine invasion, Western intel says (yahoo.com) Russian state media and some Kremlin-linked businesses are proposing a six-day work week in order to fund Russia's war in Ukraine — without additional pay. According to an intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence, the state-backed media and business groups "have petitioned the Economic Ministry to authorize a six-day week for workers in the face of the economic demands of the war, apparently without additional pay."

80 occupiers deserted in Lysychansk, 30 Wagner mercenaries near Bakhmut – General Staff (yahoo.com) According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, about 80 Russian soldiers deserted in the occupied Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast, and about 30 Wagner mercenaries fled in the Bakhmut area. Source: report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Quote: "About 80 people from the Shtorm-Z unit of the Russian occupation forces deserted in Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast. They voluntarily left their combat positions. Also, about 30 people from the Wagner Group deserted in the Bakhmut area, they voluntarily left their combat positions too, stealing military equipment." Details: The General Staff also informs that forced passportization of Ukrainian citizens is underway in the temporarily occupied Nyzhni Sirohozy district of Kherson Oblast. In particular, the Russian occupiers constantly put pressure on the locals, threaten deportation and confiscation of property.

gawd you have no idea how much "fun" that was listening to my drunk uncles and aunts singing every year.

Mercenary Prigozhin says Kremlin blanking him on state media will provoke backlash (yahoo.com) MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's most powerful mercenary said on Sunday he was convinced that senior Kremlin officials had banned reporting about him on state media, cautioning that such a misleading approach would lead to a backlash from the Russian people within months. Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner mercenary group, is the most striking member of President Vladimir Putin's circle to gain widespread notoriety in the 15-month war in Ukraine. Prigozhin, a restaurateur who quipped last week that his nickname should be "Putin's butcher" rather than "Putin's chef", took the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut earlier this month but his role in the victory was played down on state television. The 61-year-old has made a name for himself by imposing brutal discipline on his mercenaries and by using obscene language and prison slang to insult Putin's top military brass including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. In a sign of just how far Prigozhin is perceived to have breached the taboos of Putin's Russia, state television ignored the fall of Bakhmut for 20 hours, and did not air Prigozhin's victory speech. Asked about what appeared to be a ban on coverage of him on state media, Prigozhin used a series of Russian proverbs to poke fun at those responsible: "What is forbidden is always sweeter." "Wagner is not a piece of slippery soap which the bureaucrats have got used to shoving all over the place; Wagner is an awl, a stiletto that you cannot hide," Prigozhin said. "I am absolutely convinced they have forbidden (coverage)." "That high-level bureaucrats, those very towers of the Kremlin, are trying to shut the mouths of everyone so that they don't speak about Wagner will only give another shove to the people." Such an approach, he said, would provoke a backlash from the Russian people. "In the long term - long term is two or three months - they will receive a finger-slap from the people for trying to shut everyone's mouths and ears," Prigozhin said. The Kremlin and the defence ministry have ignored Prigozhin's outbursts, which appear to break the rules of the tightly controlled political system crafted by Putin since he won the top job in the Kremlin on the last day of 1999. The Kremlin, which did not respond to a request for comment, says all the aims of the "special military operation" in Ukraine will be achieved despite what it says is a proxy-war being waged by the West against it. After Prigozhin claimed victory on Bakhmut, it took the Kremlin 10 hours to release a 36-word statement congratulating Wagner and armed forces units for "liberating" Artyomovsk, the Soviet-era name for Bakhmut used by Russia. It did not name Prigozhin. Prigozhin said in his Sunday audio message that 72,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the "meat grinder" of Bakhmut and around 100,000 to 140,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been injured.

well if it wasn't that article certainly pushed it into the "too stupid to read column".

Hackers Force Putin’s Holy Man to ‘Bless’ Ukraine’s Counteroffensive (yahoo.com) Ukraine definitely wins the world trolling competition.

you win Biden and McCarthy agree to raise the US debt ceiling (yahoo.com)

the decline and fall of western civilization...

Russian gunmaker Kalashnikov modifies AK-12 assault rifle based on Ukraine combat experience (yahoo.com) I was expecting maybe it would come with a white flag or maybe a warning tag that you are bound to be shot if you leave this behind, but nope.

omfg a parking garage grog... I should have expected that on this forum.

“Amateurs talk economics, professionals talk parking garages.” I go to a mall, and it is just a basic drive-in structure that usually works part time as a urinal. Then I see these. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-5791007/Chinese-city-unveils-glitzy-automated-parking-lot-TWENTY-SIX-storeys-tall.html https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/mumbai-gets-underground-parking-in-reliance-jio-garden-51029.html We are doomed! Doomed I tell you!

better not, it is my freakin birthday!

Head of Russian private army Wagner says his forces are handing control of Bakhmut to Moscow (yahoo.com) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner claimed Thursday that his forces have started pulling out of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military, days after he said Wagner troops had captured the ruined city. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a convicted criminal and Wagner’s millionaire owner with longtime links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said in a video published on Telegram that the handover would be completed by June 1. Russia's Defense Ministry didn't confirm this and it wasn't possible independently to verify whether Wagner’s pullout from the bombed-out city has begun after a nine-month battle that killed tens of thousands of people. Prigozhin said his troops would now rest in camps, repair equipment and await further orders. Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, Hanna Maliar, said Thursday that regular Russian troops had replaced Wagner units in the suburbs but that Wagner fighters remained inside the city. Ukrainian forces maintain a foothold in the southwestern outskirts, she said.

seems like Putin's other allies aren't thrilled with what is going on with Belarus. Even nuclear weapons are now one for two − Kazakhstan's President Tokayev says Putin and Lukashenko have created a problem (yahoo.com) Source: Russian propaganda publication RIA Novosti, referring to Tokayev's statement at the plenary session of the second Eurasian Economic Forum on 24 May; Vy slushali maiak (You have been listening to Radio Mayak) Telegram channel Quote from Tokayev: "We have a union state in the EAEU. In other words, a unique precedent or phenomenon has been created in world political history... the creation of a state based on the formula ‘two countries − one state’ with a single political, legal, military, economic, currency, cultural and humanitarian space, with a single union government, with a single union parliament... And even nuclear weapons are now one for two. Then there is another level of integration represented by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia. And we need to take this reality into account. How we are going to work in these circumstances is a conceptual question. I think we need to discuss this problem at this economic forum as well." Details: At the words about nuclear weapons, Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, and Russian President Vladimir Putin began to smile and exchange glances. Then Putin said something to Lukashenko, who smiled, and the two politicians shook hands. Background: In his address to the nation on 31 March, Alexander Lukashenko spoke about the possibility of deploying Russian strategic nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. In early April, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed that Belarus already has assault aircraft and Iskander-M missile systems capable of delivering nuclear strikes at its disposal. In mid-April, Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin said that Belarus is already preparing sites for Russian strategic nuclear weapons.

Russian ships that enter drydock seem to have difficulty getting out of them. Russia’s Disaster-Plagued Aircraft Carrier Finally Left Its Drydock (thedrive.com)

there was a guy offering money to anyone who could disrupt the may day festivities in Moscow with a drone landing. Remember this guy? Ukraine Fintech Founder Offers $500k for First to Land Drone in Moscow (insider.com) Comparing that drone attack to the Nord Stream attack in the same article is kind of funky. One was a truly intense operation and the other looked to be an amateur hour thing. Then you have a possible hit on someone in Moscow. I don't know, considering the crime family that is the Russian gov't, i don't think confusion in the Kremlin necessarily eliminates Russians. And this "US officials" doesn't necessarily mean anything. kind of like the Zelensky quote discussed earlier. Seems that may not have actually occurred. Not saying that Ukraine isn't behind any of this, I just don't see anything compelling yet.

I did 7 1/2 months without ever having committed nor been charged with a crime. Then again I was on the left. They don't seem to use those detention powers on the right. Our rights are in the constitution, that does not however mean the state can't and hasn't denied folks that right... repeatedly. Your point however is correct. One of my favorite political movie lines by Michael Douglas said in The American President