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ukrainenews · 11 months

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Update June 7, 2023

(There are a lot of accusations flying around as to why the Kakhovka Dam ruptured. Ukraine says one thing, Russia says another. Propaganda is everywhere. I personally do not believe that Ukraine blew up their own dam, endangering the lives of thousands of people, ruining acres of farmland, killing countless animals, and disrupting electricity to thousands more. However, I can just report what the news is saying and do my best not to post something I can prove is fake news. Links here and here for charities in Ukraine.)

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Ukraine warned of the danger of floating mines unearthed by flooding and the spread of disease and hazardous chemicals on Wednesday as senior officials inspected damage caused by the collapse of the vast Kakhovka hydro-electric dam.

Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 1,100 metres near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past 24 hours, Kyiv said on Wednesday, the first gains it has reported since Russia said Ukraine had started a counter-offensive.

Engineering and munitions experts point to a deliberate explosion as the most logical reason behind the Kakhovka dam explosion, the New York Times reported on June 7. A mass humanitarian and ecological disaster unfolded after the Kakhovka dam collapsed around 2:50 a.m. on June 6. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the dam was blown up by Russian forces to prevent a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Britain has said it will increase funding to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, by £750,000 to support nuclear safety work in Ukraine. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant gets its cooling water from the reservoir of the Kakhovka dam, which collapsed on Tuesday.

Fighting around Bakhmut “remains the epicenter of hostilities,” Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Wednesday.

Visiting the city of Kherson on the Dnipro river that bisects the country, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said that over 80 settlements had been affected in a disaster which Ukraine and Russia blame on each other.

Blaming the dam's collapse on Russia, Kubrakov said: "They did it in order to free up troops in this direction by flooding this bit of the front line."

Russia, whose troops seized the dam soon after they invaded in February last year, has said Ukraine sabotaged the dam to distract attention from a counteroffensive it said was "faltering".

"I can't even speak now, I can't collect myself," said Lyubov Buryi, 67, who was evacuated from Kherson to a hospital on Tuesday with her 40-year-old son Roman.

"I'm of course awfully angry at (the Russians), I can't even describe it … I don't know what awaits us, our house seems to be destroyed," she said.

Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said the water had reached a depth of 5.34 metres (17.5 ft) in some places of Kherson, though he said the rise had slowed and could peak by the end of Wednesday.

In Kherson, a large city about 60 km (37 miles) downstream from the destroyed dam, residents have set up makeshift embarkation points for dinghies that police, rescue workers and volunteers are now using to get around.

Kherson faces the Russian-controlled eastern bank of the Dnipro, and some residents have come under fire from Russian artillery as they go about their rescue and recovery work. The thud of artillery is heard almost constantly in the distance.

"Water is disturbing mines that were laid earlier, causing them to explode," Kubrakov, dressed casually in a grey T-shirt, told reporters. As a result of the flooding, chemicals and infectious bacteria were getting into the water, he said.

He said Ukraine had allocated 120 million hryvnias ($3.25 million) allocated to secure the water supply in Mykolaiv, another southern city, and 1.5 billion hryvnias had been set aside to rebuild water mains systems ruined by the flood.

EVACUATION The chief doctor of a Kherson hospital, who asked not to be named because he did not want the hospital to risk retribution, said 136 people had been admitted for treatment because of the flooding. Many were elderly.

"These people had difficulties with their psychological state. These are usually older people. (Some of) these people have chronic illnesses which could get worse," the doctor said.

Ukrainian authorities have evacuated people from 24 flooded settlements and at least 20 settlements are flooded on territory occupied by Russian forces, Kubrakov said.

"We see that the occupation authorities are not evacuating people," he said, calling for the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to help evacuate flood victims in Russian-occupied regions.

Kherson, a city of 279,000 before Russia's full-scale invasion in February last year, was occupied by Russian forces for over eight months until November.

Kubrakov said the water level in the city had risen by 12-16 cm an hour on Tuesday but was now rising at one-two cm an hour.

"It's one of the most terrifying terrorist acts of this war," he said.

($1 = 36.9290 hryvnias)

-via Reuters

Moscow said this week Kyiv had launched a series of assaults in its partially occupied region of Donetsk, which it said it thwarted, and described them as the start of the planned Ukrainian counter-offensive.

Ukrainian officials have said little directly in response to the Russian assertions although a senior security official on Wednesday denied the broad counter-offensive had begun.

"We have made advances of from 200 to 1,100 metres (220-1,200 yards) on various sections (of the front line) in the Bakhmut direction over the past day," Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Telegram messenger, without providing further details.

Ukrainian troops, she said, had been on the offensive in the area for several days and Russian troops were on a defensive footing, aiming to hold on to their positions.

"Our troops have switched from the defensive to the offensive in the direction of Bakhmut," Maliar said.

Russia said last month its forces had captured Bakhmut, site of the longest and bloodiest battle since its February 2022 invasion, though Kyiv said it retained a small presence in the ruined city and was advancing on the flanks.

The Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday Ukraine had mounted attacks near Bakhmut, but that they had been unsuccessful.

Reuters was unable to independently verify the situation on the battlefield.

Maliar said in separate, televised comments that Russia lacked forces in Bakhmut and was bringing in troops from other positions.

Kyiv hopes its counter-offensive will be a turning point in the war but has portrayed assaults under way as localised.

"When we start the counter-offensive, everyone will know about it, they will see it," Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, told Reuters.

-via Reuters

Engineering and munitions experts point to a deliberate explosion as the most logical reason behind the Kakhovka dam explosion, the New York Times reported on June 7.

A mass humanitarian and ecological disaster unfolded after the Kakhovka dam collapsed around 2:50 a.m. on June 6. According to the Ukrainian authorities, the dam was blown up by Russian forces to prevent a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

According to experts cited by the New York Times, hard evidence of a deliberate explosion was "very limited" given that the dam was located in an active warzone, but "an internal explosion was the likeliest explanation for the destruction of the dam, a massive structure of steel-reinforced concrete that was completed in 1956."

The breach would have required "hundreds of pounds of explosives" to cause the kind of destruction that occurred and "an external detonation by bomb or missile would exert only a fraction of its force against the dam," the experts added.

The dam had previously sustained damage during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion last year, but the plant was "built to withstand an atomic bomb," Ihor Syrota, the head of Ukraine's state-owned energy company Ukrhydroenergo, said.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba criticized international media on June 6 that entertained Russian narratives that Ukraine might somehow be responsible for the Kakhovka dam's destruction, saying that it "puts facts and propaganda on equal footing."

Over 1,300 people have been rescued or preemptively evacuated from flood zones in the past 24 hours, according to the Interior Ministry, and relief efforts are ongoing.

Meanwhile, the President's Office reported that at least 150 tons of oil had spilled into the Dnipro River following the destruction of the dam, with the risk of 300 additional tons leaking.

The Agriculture Ministry also predicted on June 7 that the disruption caused to the biodiversity in the region by flooding would have unprecedenced economic and environmental consequences for years to come.

-Kyiv Independent

Britain has said it will increase funding to the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, by £750,000 to support nuclear safety work in Ukraine.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant gets its cooling water from the reservoir of the Kakhovka dam, which collapsed on Tuesday.

Ukrainian and UN experts have said the dam’s destruction and the draining of the reservoir behind it does not pose an immediate safety threat to the plant further upstream, but warned that it will have long-term implications for its future.

IAEA head Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement on Tuesday that “our current assessment is that there is no immediate risk to the safety of the plant.” But there are long-term concerns, both over safety and the possibility of the plant becoming operational again in the coming years.

Reuters reports the UK’s permanent representative to the IAEA, Corinne Kitsell, as saying:

Russia’s barbaric attacks on Ukraine’s civil infrastructure and its illegal control of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant runs contrary to all international nuclear safety and security norms.

She added:

I commend the work of the IAEA’s staff in Ukraine and I am pleased that the UK’s additional funding will help to facilitate its vital work, particularly given the additional risk posed by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

-The Guardian

Fighting around Bakhmut “remains the epicenter of hostilities,” Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Wednesday.

Speaking on Telegram, Hanna Maliar said Ukrainian forces have made gains ranging from 200 meters (656 feet) in some areas to 1,100 meters (3,609 feet) in others, but did not say where exactly.

Maliar also noted that Wagner fighters had largely withdrawn, noting they “remain in some places in the rear” and the large majority of the fighting is now being conducted by regular units of the Russian Federation, including airborne units.

The head of the Wagner military group in Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused Russia of sabotaging his withdrawal from Bakhmut last week, claiming exit routes were mined.

Some context: Bakhmut sits toward the northeast of the Donetsk region, about 13 miles from the Luhansk region, and had long been a target for Russian forces. Since last summer the city has been a stone’s throw from the front lines.

Last month, Russian forces said they had finally captured the embattled eastern city. It followed a months-long slog where Russian soldiers had to grind for every inch of territory.

-CNN

#daily update #ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #kakhovka dam #bakhmut #i don't usually let my emotions through on this blog #but the flooding pictures have me in tears

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ohsalome · 1 year

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“My relatives left Lyptsi and told briefly about what was happening there according to their perspective:

- When we woke up on February 24 from the explosions, we were already under occupation, the russians were already here at night while we were sleeping. At five in the morning, they were no longer allowed to go to Kharkiv. Those who tried to leave through the forest were shot.

That same morning, the mayor sided with the russians and urged everyone to leave for russia, saying that they were saving us from the Nazis. The russians turned off all communications, saying that Ukraine was doing it. At first, prices in the shops were both in hryvnias and in rubles, although the exchange rate was 1:1.

Then they began to run out of food, and what was imported from russia began to be sold only in rubles. Several of our neighbors left in advance, for others it was a house for the summer (I don’t understand this part, do you mean that they left to go to a summer house? Or that the houses they were staying in were a summer house?) Therefore, we managed to find some products in their houses, mostly cereals, flour, etc., and hide them in different places.

We were relatively lucky in that we live far away from the highway and it was relatively calm until the beginning of April, and then the russians came to our house. They took away all the devices, telephones, and searched for food. We said there was no food, but they found one of our grain caches.

And they shot the dog... now they came all the time and ransacked the house. We were only happy because ten years ago, when making repairs, we left the old stove in the house and now we could at least warm up and cook food, although there was almost nothing to eat. And then the rain started and we had water.

In May, the front line shifted away from our village and there were more russians, many more. And it became noisy, half of the russian shells were returned. They lived in our neighbors’ house, we were afraid even at night to dig some leftover food in the garden, so we ate everything we found: some herbs, berries

The russians got fucked up at the front and were taking it out on us. They tortured me with electric shocks for several days in a row, asking for some information about what was happening in Ukraine, about Mr. Zelenskyy.

Having achieved nothing, they beat me and threw me in the basement for about week. Then I returned to my wife, who no longer expected to see me.

And it became constant in the summer.

In August, Ukrainian communication began to appear on the hill, some neighbors found an old phone, we had an old SIM card. Now we could call our relatives. Sometimes. Just to tell them we were alive, for now. We were scared that the russians would see.

It was possible to call for only a minute. After that the russians intercepted the call.

Once they intercepted a 2 minute call, came immediately and took all the people out of the building (16 apartments) at night. Some people were shot on the spot. Some returned after torture. Some did not return.

Among my acquaintances and friends, there were many people who were also taken "to the basement" and did not return. One day, my wife and I were walking to the other side of the village to get milk. russians who told us to “fuck off back home” and started shooting at us. Miraculously we survived.

When it became clear that they would soon be kicked out, Kamaz vehicles began to come every day from Belgorod (the border with the orks 14 km away) and loot as much as possible. Moreover, some of them were also civilians. They were looting absolutely everything, even the concrete was looted in pieces, sand was collected on the streets, tiles were knocked down in the houses.. Just absolutely fucking everything.

At the beginning of September, they (ЗСУ) began to liberate Kharkiv Oblast. We never stopped believing that we would live, that we would live in Ukraine. That's what happened, but before that, the russians actively deported people, burned corpses that had been lying in the streets for months. Those were also terrible days. And then it went quiet.

This silence was scary only until the arrival of the Armed Forces, then we already knew that we were relatively safe there. We’re home, for real now. We are listening to what has been happening for the past six months and it is not at all what the russians were telling us. Fortunately, they did not break us and we survived all of this only because of our will.”

#ukraine #war in ukraine #russia #russian invasion in ukraine #war crimes #russian war crimes

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theophan-o · 9 months

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Bohun's Coins

(Part 2)

The copper coin (1 hryvnia) emitted by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2004, with a colourful portrait of Ivan Bohun (Іван Богун) on its one side.

Beautiful artefact to commemorate the Beloved Cossack Hero!

The image has been copied from a famous painting by a contemporary Ukrainian artist, Artur O. Orlenov:

#ivan bohun #cossack art #ukrainian art #ukrainian history #jurko bohun #ogniem i mieczem #trylogia #bohunart #trylogiaverse #trylogia sensem życia

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merrymorningofmay · 1 year

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slides a 20 hryvnias across the table mrs. weather please Please be dry and not cold on easter day so i can wear the dress i've been wanting to wear on easter day for like. 2 years

#my mom is making me a huge gorgeous namysto to go with it PLEASE let me wear it okay!!!#mari rambles

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scopostims · 1 year

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frank fontaine stimboard for 🗺️ anon :•]

[ID: A 3x3 stimboard.

GIF 1: Someone quickly flicking through various Ukrainian hryvnia.

GIF 2: Someone holding a white, full-faced mask up and showing off the front and back.

GIF 3: A goldfish swimming in circles around someone's hand.

GIF 4: A small hand made out of salt crystals filling up with red ink.

Image: Frank Fontaine from Bioshock.

GIF 5: A calligraphy pen being held in water, red ink flooding out of it.

GIF 6: A koi fish swimming past the camera.

GIF 7: Someone holding a mask made out of paper with only eye holes in front of their face, and they stare at the camera blinking.

GIF 8: Someone fanning out a stack of fake $100 bills.

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#scopostims original boards #tw scopophobia #cw hands #stim #stimboard #stimblr #stimmy #frank fontaine #bioshock #ink #ink in water #fish #koi #goldfish #mask #money #the masks are symbolic. You get it #🗺️ anon

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patric-jonas · 8 months

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Lubomyr - art postal pour Jonas #01 - billet de banque de 1 Hryvnia et timbre d'Ukraine "en temps de guerre"

1 et 2 - Billet de banque de 1 Hryvnia - R° Volodymyr le grand - grand duc de Kyiv - 980-1015 - 6cm x12 cm / V° château de Kyiv - portrait d'Ukraine - 6x12 -

3 - timbre d'Ukraine (2022) - tracteur Ukrainien remorquant un char Russe - Ce timbre figure sur l'enveloppe d'art postal comme affranchissement.

réalisation Lubomyr / Ukraine - 08-2023

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#Lubomyr #Ukraine #art postal #mail art #guerre #char russe #tracteur ukrainien #timbre #couleurs de l'Ukraine #billet de banque #1 Hryvnia #Volodymyr le grand #chateau de Kyiv #Kyiv #Kiev

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dasykharkiv · 9 months

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📢Over 60 million UAH of deficiencies and losses were discovered during the audit of the Tercomad in Kharkiv Oblast‼️ State auditors conducted an audit of the budget of the Vysochan settlement territorial community, as well as audits of communal enterprises of this community for 2020-2022 and found the following deficiencies: ✅ Inactivity of officials, which can lead to losses of the community budget in the amount of 27 million hryvnias; ✅ Facts of poor nutrition of children studying in educational institutions of the community. According to the calculations of the state auditors, the officials responsible for this direction managed to "save" 2.5 million hryvnias in this way; ✅ In KP "Heat Water Supply of the Vysochan Settlement Council", it was discovered that a modular boiler house was purchased, which no one actually received. The local budget was damaged in the amount of almost 2 million hryvnias; ✅ The audit of the utility company, which is engaged in landscaping, revealed spending of funds not for the intended purpose, namely: UAH 155,000, which were allocated for the purchase of a solid fuel boiler. The KP official decided to use this money at his own discretion and paid himself a bonus; ✅ In the village council itself, facts of overestimation of the cost of completed construction works, shortage of material assets and inflated bonuses of officials in the amount of 332 thousand hryvnias were discovered. More details on the website of the Office: 👇 https://lnkd.in/dewTsumm

📢Понад 60 млн грн недоліків та збитків виявлено під час аудиту тергромади на Харківщині‼️ Держаудитори провели аудит бюджету Височанської селищної територіальної громади, а також ревізії комунальних підприємств цієї громади за 2020-2022 роки та виявили такі недоліки: ✅ Бездіяльність посадовців, що може призвести до втрат бюджету громади у розмірі 27 млн гривень; ✅ Факти неповноцінного харчування дітей, які навчаються у освітніх закладах громади. За підрахунками держаудиторів, відповідальним за це напрямок посадовцями вдалось так «зекономити» 2,5 млн гривень; ✅ В КП «Тепловодопостачання Височанської селищної ради», виявлено закупівлю модульної котельні, яку фактично ніхто не отримав. Місцевому бюджету нанесли збитків на суму майже 2 млн гривень; ✅ Ревізією комунального підприємства, яке займається благоустроєм, виявлено витрачання коштів не за цільовим призначенням, а саме: 155 тис грн, які виділялися на придбання твердопаливного котла. Посадовець КП вирішив використати ці гроші на власний розсуд та виплатив собі премію; ✅ У самій селищній раді виявлені факти завищення вартості виконаних будівельних робіт, нестачі матеріальних цінностей та завищені премії посадовців на суму 332 тис. гривень. Детальніше на сайті Офісу:👇 https://lnkd.in/dewTsumm

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aif0s-w · 1 year

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Yay the lights are back

#i lost the bet tho #goodbye 2 hryvnias #im gonna miss you #but not as much as i missed electricity

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its-meee-okey · 2 years

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Salute! In the last post i asked for help in my country. And now i want to tell how exactly you can help.

Fist of all you can share information about real situation in Ukraine. Also you can share information on various fundraisers for the army.

Of course, you can donate money for the ukrainian army. Here are some organizations where you can do this:

1. Special fundraising account in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, opened by the National Bank of Ukraine: UA8430000100000047330992708 (you can pay in US dollars, euros, British pounds and hryvnias)

2. For those who live abroad: wayforpay.com

3. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also accepts direct donations: mil.gov.ua

4. Details to help the Ukrainian army in cryptocurrencies Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tether:

BTC — 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P

ETH — 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14

USDT (trc20) — TEFccmfQ38cZS1DTZVhsxKVDckA8Y6VfCy

5. Other ways you can donate to help Ukraine win the war: war.ukraine.ua

I hope i helped you find a convenient way to help Ukraine. I hope you help me.

Please, share this post with your friends, repost it to you pages and disseminate information in any way.

Все буде Україна!🇺🇦

#pray for ukraine #stay with ukraine #help ukraine #donate

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dontletthewrongonein · 1 year

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Meeting with Oleksy Arestovych, alias "Valerian", the president's man who calms Ukrainians

This informal adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky has one foot in military intelligence, another in psychology, and his eyes riveted to those of the Ukrainians. His mission since the beginning of the invasion: to reassure the population.

On his YouTube channel, which is followed by 1.6 million people, on television and on the networks, Oleksy Arestovych explains the policies of Voldymyr Zelensky's government in Russian on a daily basis. LP/Olivier Corsan

By Christel Brigaudeau

December 5, 2022 at 06:31

On the stalls of souvenir shops in Kiev, you can find, between the indispensable yellow and blue flags, fake identity cards to slip into your wallet, in the name of the stars of the past and the stars of today. You can choose between Master Yoda, Bruce Lee and Volodymyr Zelensky. And next to them, the calm face of a forty-year-old with dark eyes, unknown to Europeans: Oleksy Arestovych.

This informal adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, a military intelligence specialist, has been one of the faces of the war since 24 February. He is the embodiment of the Ukrainians' stainless optimism, which continues to surprise the world after ten months of conflict.

On his YouTube channel, followed by 1.6 million people, on television and on the networks, Oleksy Arestovych explains the government's policy every day in Russian. He comments on the movements of the frontline and anticipates what will happen next.

His deep, calm voice, similar to that of a doctor faced with a delicate case, has become his trademark. As for the purpose of his speeches, it can be summed up in two words: Ukraine will win.

He is nicknamed "Valerian", a plant with anxiolytic properties

While a majority of his listeners are Ukrainian, "about 40% live in Russia," says Arestovych. I try to get them out of the bubble of disinformation they are in.

"Oh, how he annoys me! I can't stand hearing him say that everything is going to be fine... But he calms my grandmother: she tells me that his voice lulls her, no matter what he says. It helps her to overcome the stress", says this young woman I met on Maïdan, the large square in the centre of the capital.

In Kiev, the charmer has earned a nickname: "Valerian", after this plant with anxiolytic properties, which is used to make herbal teas.

Other memes mock his tendency to be approximate in his prophecies. Caustics have published a 2-3 hryvnia (Ukrainian currency) note in his likeness to mock his predictions that better days will come "in two, three weeks", or "two, three months".

“Convincing people to behave rationally”

He does not want to rub it in the face of the population. "I tell it like it is, even when it is unpleasant. For example, I believe that Mariupol cannot be reconquered by military means. Many people know this but keep it to themselves. I say it," he insists, sitting down to a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.

His phone is flashing. He receives messages after each of his videos, but even more so when he does not post any. "If I don't communicate for six hours, people start to worry," says Arestovych, who, as in his videos, speaks without batting an eyelid, his gaze fixed on the camera below his circumflex eyebrows.

His deep, calm voice has become the trademark of his videos. DR / ApeironSchool

The man in the brown jumper (a variation of the khaki shirt) continues: "It's the same with President Zelensky. Even if people have got used to the war and know what to do, they need to hear it. They only stay calm if they understand exactly where we are going and how. It is a daily struggle to convince people to behave rationally. Victory will come to those who don't get carried away by emotion.

Discreet about his activities for the army, of which he is still an intelligence officer, the man is more forthcoming about his ambition to play a leading role, after peace, in political life.

A mandate would add a line to a tortuous CV: apprentice comedian, science graduate, military, blogger, psychologist and founder of a school of psychology and communication, briefly member of a far-right nationalist party... Which of these successive hats suits him best? He answers: "I am a complex man. And not particularly modest, he insists on his ability to "always be ten steps ahead".

He wanted Zelensky to leave Kiev

Arestovych won ears with two rigorously accurate predictions: Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, and then Moscow's plan for a full-scale invasion. The adviser concedes mistakes. "I was one of those who suggested to the president on 24 February that he should leave. I thought we couldn't keep Kiev. He told me the first time: no, and the second time: never say that again.

On 24 February, following the president, Arestovych took the floor, charged with drawing up the military situation. The aim of his speeches did not change afterwards: "To keep the psychological course of victory. I don't even want people to imagine what the world would look like in case of defeat, or an unsatisfactory 50-50. No. " It's like a warrior's dream, in short.

In agreement with other observers, Oleksy Arestovych predicts that the country will have a difficult winter months, with several rounds of massive strikes on the country's infrastructure. "It will be hard but not insurmountable."

What's next? Victory, of course, after "five new victorious counter-offensives, including two this winter". The adviser expects a return to calm in mid-summer 2023, "within two or three months". Obviously.

The rest of the road will be much steeper, he thinks, convinced that the real trouble will start when the guns fall silent. It will be necessary to put back on its feet a democracy and an exsanguinated economy, and to treat an entire population of post-traumatic shock. "It will take 200,000 shrinks to help the country," predicts Arestovych.

#oleksiy arestovych

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gungieblog · 2 years

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Russia’s war in Ukraine

By Tara Subramaniam and Sana Noor Haq, CNN

Updated 10:24 AM EDT, Mon October 17, 2022

16 min ago

Russian drone had "for Belgorod" written on it

A police expert holds a fragment of a drone with a handwritten inscription reading "For Belgorod. For Luch" after a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17.(Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

A drone used by Russia to attack the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday had the phrase “for Belgorod” written on one of its vertical stabilizers.

The phrase appears to be a reference to explosions in recent weeks in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine near the city of Kharkiv. Ukraine has not commented on those incidents.

The drone is the Iranian-manufactured Shahid-136, which is rebranded under the Russian name “Geran 2.”

The stabilizer was photographed this morning by an AFP photographer. It also appeared in a video posted on Telegram by Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs.

The drone also included the phrase “for Luch” that appears to be a reference to a reported power plant fire last week in the Belgorod region.

32 min ago

Russian and Belarusian troops "acting in stages" to protect Belarus, defense minister says

From CNN's Katharina Krebs and Uliana Pavlova

Russian and Belarusian troops have “begun to deploy and carry out tasks for the armed defense” of Belarus, according to Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin, Belarusian state media BELTA reported on Monday.

“Today, based on the current situation, we are acting in stages, implementing individual measures aimed at proactive readiness of the regional grouping to respond to emerging challenges and threats,” Khrenin said at a meeting with the staff of one of Belarus factories, as quoted by BELTA.

“The regional grouping of troops and forces itself is a complex organism of many components. It includes command and control bodies at various levels, and troops, and forces, as well as various support systems, both Belarusian and Russian,” he added.

According to Alexander Volfovich, state secretary of the Security Council of Belarus, the regional grouping of troops on the territory of the republic is deployed in an incomplete composition.

“In the future, life will show whether to deploy it on a full scale or not,” said Volfovich, as quoted by BELTA.

On Monday, Valery Revenko, head of the international military cooperation department of Belarus Defense Ministry, said in a tweet that Russia plans to send about 170 tanks, up to 200 armored combat vehicles and up to 100 guns and mortars with a caliber of more than 100 mm to Belarus as part of the deployed Belarusian-Russian group of troops.

“Belarus to receive 9,000 personnel, about 170 tanks, up to 200 AFVs and up to 100 guns and mortars with a caliber of more than 100 mm,” Revenko said on Twitter.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced on Oct. 10 that Belarus agreed to deploy a joint regional grouping citing “the aggravation of the situation on the western borders of the Union State.”

40 min ago

Germany will end conversion of Ukrainian hryvnia to euros by Oct. 30

From CNN's Inke Kappeler in Berlin

Germany announced it will end its program that offered Ukrainian refugees the ability to exchange Ukrainian hryvnia banknotes to euros without exchange rates.

The program will end by Oct. 30, a joint statement from the German finance ministry and central bank said on Monday.

The provision was initially introduced to help Ukrainian refugees who fled the country after Russia’s invasion, but that the demand has “dwindled,” the statement said, adding that few transactions have recently taken place.

The statement added that the last day to exchange between currencies is Oct. 28, due to banks being closed over the weekend.

56 min ago

Kyiv death toll rises to 4, says mayor

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko speaks to the press next to a destroyed building after a drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17.(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

The number of people killed after Russian strikes in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has now reached four, the city’s mayor said Monday.

“We’ve got already 4 people dead under the ruins of the building in the Shevchenkivsky district which was hit by the Russian terrorist drone,” Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. “The rescuers found another body of a man there. The rescue operation is ongoing. There could be some other people under the rubble.”

Three people have been taken to the hospital, he said, two of whom are emergency responders.

CNN’s Olly Racz contributed to this report.

1 hr 33 min ago

Ukraine looks anxiously toward its northern border as Russian troops flow into Belarus

Russian-Belarusian exercises, dubbed Allied Resolve 2022, in Belarus on February 19. (Henadz Zhinkov/Xinhua/Getty Images)

The announcement last week that Belarus and Russia would form a joint regional force and carry out exercises set off alarm bells in Kyiv.

The last time Belarusian and Russian forces held joint exercises, in February, many of those Russian forces went on to cross the Ukrainian border in their ill-fated drive toward the capital.

It’s not that Belarus has a mighty army – it doesn’t. But the prospect of Ukraine’s long northern border becoming a passageway for Russian forces for the second time this year would be a nightmare for Ukraine’s already stretched forces. Ukraine and Belarus share a 1,000-kilometer frontier, much of it sparsely populated and thickly forested.

At the moment, the Ukrainian army is conducting offensives in the east and south while holding off Russian forces in parts of Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia. After seven months of war, the Ukrainian military has suffered attrition just like its enemy: moving forces to defend its northern flank would stretch forces already fighting on multiple fronts.

Predictably enough, Belarus says the joint force is purely defensive. The country’s Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said that “all activities carried out at the moment are aimed at providing a sufficient response to activities near our borders.”

Those activities, according to Belarus, are aimed at deterring Ukrainian preparations to attack the country. Lukashenko said last week that his government had been “warned about strikes against Belarus from the territory of Ukraine.”

Ukraine has vehemently denied the claims. The Foreign Ministry said it “categorically rejects these latest insinuations by the Belarusian regime. We cannot rule out that this diplomatic note may be part of a provocation on the part of the Russian Federation.”

Read the full analysis here.

8 min ago

Here's what we know about "kamikaze" drones

A fragment of a kamikaze drone after the Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17.(Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Ukraine has repeatedly asked its allies to supply it with more air defense systems and ammunition after Russia stepped up its use of “kamikaze drones” in its brutal assault against the country.

Kyiv says Moscow has used Iranian-supplied kamikaze drones in strikes against Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities across Ukraine in recent weeks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge.

Drones have played a significant role in the conflict since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, but their use has increased since Moscow acquired the new drones from Iran over the summer.

What are kamikaze drones? Kamikaze drones, or suicide drones, are a type of aerial weapon system. They are known as a loitering munition because they are capable of circling for some time in an area identified as a potential target and only striking once an enemy asset is identified.

They are small, portable and can be easily launched, but their main advantage is that they are hard to detect and can be fired from a distance.

Why are they called “Kamikaze”? The name “kamikaze” refers to the fact that the drones are disposable. Unlike more traditional, larger and faster military drones that return to base after dropping missiles, Kamikaze drones are designed to crash into a target and explode, detonating their warhead and destroying the drones in process.

Which drones is Russia using in Ukraine? The Ukrainian military and US intelligence say Russia is using Iranian-made attack drones. US officials told CNN in July that Iran had begun showcasing Shahed series drones to Russia at Kashan Airfield south of Tehran the previous month. The drones are capable of carrying precision-guided missiles and have a payload of approximately 50 kilograms (110 pounds).

In August, US officials said Russia had bought these drones and was training its forces how to use them. According to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia has ordered 2,400 Shahed-136 drones from Iran.

Iran has denied supplying weapons to Russia: But evidence points to the contrary. Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one of these drones for the first time last month near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv. There have been more reported attacks since then. Kyiv’s military said Wednesday it had downed 17 Shahed-136 drones that day alone. According to photos released by Ukrainian authorities, Russia has rebranded the Shaheds and is using them under the name of “Geran.”

US officials say there has been “some evidence already” that the Iranian drones “have already experienced numerous failures” on the battlefield.

Read more here.

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ขณะที่พบกันในรายการบอลฟุตบอลสำคัญในยุโรปอย่าง UEFA Champions League และ UEFA Europa League, โอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครน (Odds League Ukraine) ก็เป็นลีกชั้นนำที่เต็มไปด้วยความสนุกสนานและความแข็งข้นที่ไม่เหมือนใครในโลก. โอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครนเป็นสถานีที่นักเดิมพันรวมตัวมาร่วมสนุกกับการเล่นเกมกีฬาที่เต็มไปด้วยความตื่นตาตื่นใจกัน. ไม่ว่าคุณจะกำลังค้นหาการเดิมพันที่น่าตื่นเต้นหรือแค่อยากทดลองดูโอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครนตัวใหม่ ๆ ทำให้คุณหลงใหลในการเดิมพันกีฬา

โอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครนมีการแข่งขันอย่างดุเดือดระหว่างทีมต่าง ๆ ที่มีความรุนแรงและสามารถสร้างความตื่นเต้นได้อย่างมาก นอกจากนี้, นักเดิมพันยังสามารถเลือกใช้สกุลเงินยูโคร (Ukrainian Hryvnia) เป็นสกุลเงินหลักในการเดิมพัน, ทำให้การทำธุรกรรมเป็นไปอย่างตรงไปตรงมา

ความสนุกสนานและความตื่นเต็นในโอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครนจะทำให้คุณไม่อาจจะหยุดพูดถึงมัน เท่านี้ก็พอที่จะเข้าใจว่าทำไมโอดเดอร์ลีกอูเครนถึงเป็นหนึ่งในลีกบอลที่น่าสนใจและน่าติดตามอย่างแน่นอนใช่ไหมล่ะ ผู้คนจะต้องพบกับความท้าทายและความสนุกสนานที่ไม่สิ้นสุดเพื่อให้ได้สัมผัสถึงความน่ารักในกีฬาบอลในโลกใบนี้.

พรีเมียร์ลีกเป็นพรีเมียร์ลีกชั้นนำในฟุตบอลอังกฤษ โดยมีการแข่งขันระดับสูงที่สุดรวม 20 ทีม โดยมีการประชันการแข่งขันที่มีความรุนแรง และมีคุณภาพ เป็นลีกที่มีเกมที่น่าตื่นเต้นแสนน่าติดตาม การเปิด��ดูกาล เกมแรกของฤดูกาล ในแต่ละทีมมักจะต้องแข่งขันอย่างสุดพลังซึ่งมาให้ผู้ชมได้พบกับการแข่งขันระดับสูงกันอย่างคมชัดที่สุด

ทีมที่เข้มแข็งและชื่นชมในพรีเมียร์ลีกเช่น ลิเวอร์พูล, เชลซี, แมนเชสเตอร์ ยูไนเต็ด, และอาร์เซนอล ทีมเหล่านี้มีประสบการณ์และกำลังใจในการแข่งขันและมักจะมีผลสำคัญในตารางการแข่งขัน เหล่านั้นมักเก็งของเครื่องมากในสนามเสมอ และมักมีผู้ชมที่จำนวนมหาศาลมากที่สุดในแต่ละเกม

นอกจากนั้น พรีเมียร์ลีกยังเป็นเหล่าทีมที่ยอดเยี่ยมในการสร้างนักเตะรุ่นใหม่ที่มีคุณภาพ มีนักเตะที่มีเสมอฝันที่จะเข้าไปเล่นทีมใหญ่ที่สุดของโลก ลีกที่สร้างตำนานและเรื่องราวชายทะเลได้จากการแข่งขันที่รุนแรง

ในสรุป พรีเมียร์ลีกอังกฤษเป็นที่สนใจและน่าติดตามอย่างแน่นอนสำหรับผู้ชมที่รักในฟุตบอลและการแข่งขันที่มีคุณภาพและทุก ๆ วันชื่นใจที่จะเป็นรอยยิ้มมากที่สุดของทุกคนที่รักในฟุตบอล.

"3. ลา ลีก" เป็นหนึ่งในการแข่งขันฟุตบอลที่มีชื่อเสียงในโลก โดยมีทีมเอกอังกฤษเป็นที่รู้จักมากที่สุด นอกจากนี้ยังมีทีมจากประเทศอื่น ๆ ที่มีคุณภาพสูงในการแข่งขัน 3 ลา ลีกมีความน่าสนใจมากไม่ว่าจะเป็นการบูรณะทีม การแข่งขันระดับสูงและบรรยากาศที่น่าตื่นเต้นในสนาม บรรดาแฟนๆ ก็สามารถติดตามการแข่งขันได้ตลอดทั้งฤดูกาลผ่านช่องทางต่าง ๆ เช่นทีวี อินเทอร์เน็ต หรือการซื้อบัตรเข้าชมสดในสนาม ไม่พ้นจากการแข่งขันที่น่าตื่นเต้น 3 ลา ลีกยังเป็นที่น่าสนใจสำหรับนักเดิมพันที่ชอบเสี่ยงโชค เพราะมีราคาต่ำ-สูงที่น่าตื่นเต้นและมีโอกาสในการทำกำไรได้มากมาย ดังนั้น สำหรับคนที่ชื่นชอบกีฬาฟุตบอลไม่ควรพลาดการติดตามการแข่งขันของ 3. ลา ลีกให้มากที่สุด"

บุนเดสลีกาเยอรมัน หรือ Bundesliga เป็นลีกฟุตบอลยอดเยี่ยมที่เป็นการแข่งขันในประเทศเยอรมนี และเป็นหนึ่งในลีกที่มีความน่าสนใจมากที่สุดทั่วโลก ลีกนี้มีประวัติศาสตร์ยาวนานที่ก่อตั้งขึ้นเมื่อปี ค.ศ. 1963 และให้โอกาสแก่ทีมบอลชั้นนำจากทั่วประเทศเยอรมนีที่มาแข่งขันกันในระดับสูงสุดของเกมส์ทีมนี้

บุนเดสลีกาเยอรมันมีทีมบอลชั้นนำอย่างบายเยิร์น มิวนิค และโดรท์มุนด์ ทีมโดดเด่นจากเยอรมนีที่เคยได้รับเกียรติมากมายในการแข่งขัน league ที่สูงที่สุดของเยอรมนี เราได้เห็นการป้องกันและการโจมตีที่น่าทึ่งจากทั้ง 2 ทีมนี้และการแข่งขันระดับสูงจะนำความสนุกสนานและตื่ระมานสำรวจแบบไม่เบื่อถึงผู้ชมทุกคน

นอกจากนี้ ลีกนี้ยังเป็นที่เห็นระดับมืออาชีพที่สูงที่สุดของกีฬาฟุตบอล และมีบรรยากาศถึงการสร้างสรรค์บรรยากาศสนุกสนานให้ผู้ชมได้รับความสนุกสนาน อีกทั้งยังมีการแข่งขันเพื่อการเลื่อนขั้นลีก เพื่อให้ทีมที่มีความสามารถสูงสุดได้เห็นบรรลุความสำเร็จในลีกใหญ่ของยุโรปและทั่วโลก

ด้วยความสนุกสนานและการแข่งขันระดับสูง บุนเดสลีกาเยอรมันได้รับความนิยมและการติดตามจากทั่วโลกอย่างแน่นหนา ทำให้กลายเป็นหนึ่งในลีกที่น่าสนใจมากที่สุดบนดินแดนยุโรปและทั่วโลก

เอเชียนคัพ เป็นการแข่งขันฟุตบอลที่มีชื่อเสียงในทวีปเอเชียที่จัดขึ้นทุก 4 ปี ซึ่งมีทีมชาติจากทั่วทุกมุมโลกที่มารวมตัวกันเพื่อแข่งขันในครั้งนั้น การแข่งขันนี้เป็นโอกาสที่ทีมชาติจะแข่งขันกันในระดับสูงสุดแห่งทวีปเอเชีย

เอเชียนคัพจัดขึ้นเป็นครั้งแรกในปี ค.ศ. 1956 โดยมีประเทศฟิลิปปินส์เป็นเจ้าบ้านในระหว่างนั้น การแข่งขันนี้ได้รับความนิยมและกลายเป็นที่รู้จักอย่างแพร่หลายในทวีปเอเชีย

ทีมชาติที่ชนะเอเชียนคัพจะได้รับเกียรติพิเศษและเป็นเกียรติตามลำดับ การชนะในการแข่งขันนี้ย่อมเสริมสร้างเกียรติและเกียรติให้กับประเทศของพวกเขา

ทีมชาติยอดเยี่ยมของ ญี่ปุ่น เป็นทีมที่ชนะเอเชียนคัพมากที่สุดสามครั้ง ในขณะที่ ไอราน และ อิหร่าน ยังเคยชนะอย่างล้นในครั้งของตนเอง

ด้วยประวัติศาสตร์ที่ยับยั้งและการแข่งขันที่ดุเดือด การชนะเอเชียนคัพเป็นความภาคภูมิใจและเกียรติที่ทุกทีมชาติใฝ่ช้าในทวีปอเชีย

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