https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1939986546523783557
Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
I see The Kyiv Independent has still not caught it’s type math mistake. The July 1 figure should be 1,121,230, and the July 2 figure should be 1,022,200 if they correctly correct the mistake by going back to June 29th or 28th to find the last correct million figure. Baybe it’s just the weekend staff.
I see my Chromebook is still correcting my copy with incorrect words, which I failed to catch with good proofreading. AI not working well. The first line should read “...TYPO math mistake”. I had to correct TYPO again, as it still incorrectly changed typo to TYPE. Last month my Chromebook was asking if I wanted to dictate my comment. I did not, as you can imagine what fun it would have with names like AdmSmith, PIF, FtrPilot, or Blitz128.
They have another interesting link
Operational information as of 08:00 01.07.2025 regarding the Russian invasion:
The 1224th day of the Russian Federation's large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine has begun. Ukrainian defenders are steadfastly holding back the onslaught of the occupiers, inflicting significant losses on the enemy. In total, 146 clashes were recorded over the past day.
I have to update as well; yesterday was Day 1,223 of the Muscovian invasion, not 1,222.
I looked at your first link, and found that on June 28th, the figures were the same there, and at the Kyiv Independent. However looking forward the figures did not change the same as adding the new casualty figures for that day, as new information must be coming in each day. Thus unless the Independent corrects it’s figures to read a million something, it will be impossible to go by their figures. Hope the weekday crew catches this systematic error.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1939986546523783557
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1939936782998516025
https://x.com/front_ukrainian/status/1939997237779542282
Reports say it hit the headquarters of Russiaâs 8th Combined Arms Army. Weâre waiting for more information.
https://x.com/wartranslated/status/1939776615937945895
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1940022322582147264
Anton Gerashchenko@Gerashchenko_en
The story of Vladyslav Rudenko, one of the Ukrainian teenagers abducted by Russia.
Russian troops occupied the city of Kherson a week after the full-scale invasion in February 2022. They detained hundreds and tortured dozens of people in the city. Then the Russian authorities began targeting children.
In October 2022, three armed Russian soldiers stormed the home of 16-year-old Vladyslav. They forced him to pack his belongings and board one of 17 buses filled with Ukrainian children. He wasnât allowed to leave a note for his mother. No phone calls to relatives were permitted.
The buses took him to the camp “Druzhba” (”Friendship”) in Russian-occupied Crimea. Upon arrival, Russian officers ordered the children to throw away anything symbolizing Ukrainian identity. Vladyslav recalled one teenage girl who disobeyed and wore a T-shirt that read “Glory to Ukraine.” A Russian officer cut the shirt off her.
According to Vladyslav, the children were shown Russian propaganda videos, and given lessons about Moscowâs supposed global importance, how Ukraine would soon become part of Russia, and how their Ukrainian identity was being upgraded” to a Russian one.
This daily dose of propaganda convinced some Ukrainian children that their families no longer wanted them, Vladyslav said. Some even claimed they didnât want to return home.
Vladyslav refused to accept a Russian identity. One evening at dusk, he sneaked outside, carefully avoiding camp guards, and pulled down the Russian flag.
“For everything Russia did to my mother, to my family, and to me - I just took it down and left my underwear up there instead.”
Russian soldiers punished him by placing him in solitary confinement for seven days - a tiny room with a small window. They gave him pills they claimed would “calm him down.” Vladyslav flushed them down the toilet.
In the spring, Russian authorities transferred Vladyslav to a military academy. There, along with 800 other Ukrainian boys, he was trained to handle weapons, operate drones, and drive tanks. The officers tried to turn them into Russian soldiers.
Before Vladyslav could be sent to the battlefield, his mother began working with the Save Ukraine organization. They developed a rescue plan that involved gathering numerous documents required by Russian authorities to prove parental rights and traveling thousands of miles - from Ukraineâs eastern border to Poland, then north to Belarus, through Russia, and southwest to Lazurne in occupied part of Ukraine.
When Vladyslavâs mother arrived at the military camp, Russian officials interrogated her for three days, threatening her with 25 years in prison.
Russian officers demanded that mother and son record an interview in which they expressed support for the Russian occupation and claimed they were afraid to return to Ukraine - a fabricated lie used as a condition for their release.
Vladyslav and his mother returned home to Kherson in May 2023, seven months after the teenagerâs abduction, and six months after Ukrainian forces liberated the city from Russian control.
There is no way to know exactly how many children Russians have abducted from Ukraine. The Ukrainian government estimates about 20,000 have been taken. Russia places the number much higher - claiming 700,000, insisting these arenât abductions, though, but humanitarian efforts, offering children a reprieve from war. Some were supposedly going to summer camps but then didnât return to their parents.
Russian families have illegally adopted some of the children.
The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab has identified more than 8,400 children living in at least 57 locations scattered across occupied Ukrainian territory, Russia, and Belarus. Some are in Russian military training centers - or worse, fighting.
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1939572503359152270
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1940036709556605024
Donated $100 to John Cornyn today.
But he is the underdog to Paxton.
Paxton is sleazy. Took bribes from Nate Paul. Paul paid to renovate Paxton’s house in Austin. Paul hired a woman Paxton was having an affair with.
Its ridiculous he is leading Cornyn in the polls for the R primary.
Allred announced he will run again for the Ds.
Paxton vs Allred. Probably vote Lib again.
Its a crazy world.
Huey Long would be proud of the sleaze.
“He wasnât allowed to leave a note for his mother. No phone calls to relatives were permitted.”
Sounds a little like what has happened to some people in our country recently. No notes or calls to spouses or children, or other relatives. Even if you believe all illegals should be ejected no matter if they are here working and paying taxes, it is unAmerican to treat people this way. Snatch them up and ship them out with no legal recourse is not our heritage or our promise. That treatment is plain cruelty for cruelty’s sake, kind of like in Russia.
If Cornyn is smart he'll use your C-note for some BBQ and a double six pack of Lone Star. He has as much chance of being re-elected as does the man in the moon. We got a RINO hunt. A full-fledged RINO hunt.
More leftist hogwash from Granny Glee.
Strongly disagree!! Get rid of them they are illegals - its the Eisenhower way, gone now. Let them figure it out later because they were incapable of figuring it out before they invaded our country.
There is no comparison between what the Russians did - US illegals are not send into combat zones to be fodder for meat waves.
JUST IN - Pentagon halts weapons shipments to Ukraine due to worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles have "fallen too low." â Politico
â Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 1, 2025
Russia has failed Strategically to destroy Ukraine’s electrical grid. Ukraine is exporting electricity, like it did before the war.
Kyiv Independent (1 July 2025):
“Ukraine boosted electricity exports by 150% in June 2025 compared to the previous month, reaching over 237,000 megawatt-hours (MWh), according to consulting firm ExPro Electricity.
Current export volumes have returned to autumn 2022 levels, before Russia launched systematic attacks against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure that caused massive blackouts across the country.
This marks Ukraine’s return to exporting more electricity than it imports for the first time since October 2023, ExPro analysis reports...
...Hungary imported the majority of Ukrainian exports, with shipments jumping from 34,000 to 122,000 MWh in a single month.
The recovery represents a dramatic turnaround from June 2024, when Ukraine had no exports at all and imported 858,000 MWh, four times more than in June 2025.
The Russian military command ismodernizing Russian training grounds to include motorcycle tracks and reportedly intends to purchase up to 200,000 Chinese-made motorcycles for the Russian military. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) published footage on June 27 and 28 showing Russian officials visiting the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School and a new military training ground in Krasnodar Krai and highlighted that Russia is creating motorcycle training programs at these facilities.[8] Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and Russian Ground Forces Commander Colonel General Andrei Mordvichev discussed improving Russia's ability to train forces and generate new officers at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, and Belousov ordered Mordvichev to equip the school with motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to help train cadets in modern tactics. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov stated that the Krasnodar Krai training ground has a modern driving range for motorcycles, ATVs, and quad bikes and noted that Russia has modernized over 200 training centers to account for the new tactics that Russian forces are using in Ukraine. The Russian military command has been working to formalize motorcycle tactics and training throughout the Russian military in recent months.[9]
Russian sources continue to speculate on the Russian MoDâs ability to formalize and further improve Russian motorcycle usage, however. A Russian Telegram channel claimed on June 13 that Mordvichev pioneered the use of motorcycles and ATVs in late 2024 in order to facilitate further Russian advances toward Pokrovsk.[10] The Telegram channel stated that the Russian force grouping in the Pokrovsk direction developed formal norms for using motorcycles by June 2025 and that the Russian military command is attempting to replicate these norms in other frontline areas. The Telegram channel reiterated that Russian servicemembers receive most of their motorcycles from volunteer organizations or purchase motorcycles independently, but noted that Mordvichev intends for the Russian MoD to centrally provide motorcycles for troops and establish a motorcycle stockpile. The Telegram channel, citing unspecified sources in the Russian military, stated that Russia purchased over 40,000 Chinese-made motorcycles in 2024 and that Russian forces have received 20,000 of these motorcycles. One Russian military source told the channel that the Russian MoD intends to purchase 120,000 motorcycles, 30,000 ATVs, and 12,000 buggies by the end of 2025. Another source in the Russian MoD stated that the MoD intends to purchase up to 200,000 motorcycles and 60,000 other types of light vehicles â likely in 2025. The Telegram channel stated that Mordvichev also intends to hire a group of instructors to teach troops how to best operate motorcycles and that some of these instructors may be former Wagner Group members.
A Russian milblogger and former Storm Z instructor complained on June 30 that Russian motorcycles and ATVs are vulnerable to Ukrainian first-person view (FPV) drone strikes and that Russian motorcycle assaults result in higher killed-in-action (KIA) to wounded-in-action (WIA) ratios, however.[11] The milblogger noted that motorcycle assaults could be more successful should Russian forces use motorcycles in tandem with significant air, drone, and electronic warfare (EW) support. Motorcycle usage has allowed Russian forces to marginally improve their ability to dodge Ukrainian drones in contested âgray zonesâ along the frontline, but Russia's rate of advance has yet to increase beyond a foot pace despite efforts to integrate faster-moving vehicles into assault tactics.
Russian-Azerbaijani relations continue to deteriorate over a number of smaller-scale incidents in recent days, inflaming unresolved disputes over the December 2024 Russian shoot down of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) protested on July 1 against Azerbaijan's âunfriendly actionsâ that the Russian MFA claimed are âdeliberateâ steps to dismantle bilateral relations.[18] The Russian MFA claimed that the recent detention of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg was lawful and that Baku's accusations against Russian law enforcement agencies are an interference in Russia's internal affairs. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov accused Baku of taking actions that are ânot in lineâ with the âspirit and characterâ of Russian-Azerbaijani relations.[19] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev spoke on the phone on July 1 and discussed the detentions in Yekaterinburg.[20] Russian milbloggers largely criticized Azerbaijan for deliberately trying to undermine its relationship with Russia and claimed that Azerbaijani authorities and media are trying to play up the detention of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Russia to galvanize Azerbaijani society against Russia.[21] Azerbaijani-Russian relations deteriorated in late 2024 when Russia refused to take full responsibility for the December 25, 2024, downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane, likely shot in mid-air by Russian air defense before crashing in Kazakhstan.[22]
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-1-2025
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