I just posted a lot of info on the Natural Health thread with info about herbs that help with Parkinson’s and similar issues involving muscles and nerves, pretty wide ranging uses.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3735908/posts?page=1685#1685
Ukraine/Russia war news, and some about the Wagner PC situation.
became known about another failure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the summer campaign.
On the Ugledar line, the Ukrainian army launched a very large offensive yesterday, while all attention was focused on the performance of the Wagner PMC, the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to break through from Ugledar to the southeast to Volnovakha.
Although the Ukrainian commanders thought that resistance would be weak, the strike group was scattered by heavy artillery fire and MLRS.
Hundreds of people and a large amount of equipment were lost in this attack, and the Ukrainian forces had to quickly retreat.
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Video:
Another powerful video of the battle in Makarovka: our tank broke into a village occupied by the enemy and destroyed NATO armored vehicles
The work of the armored group BTGr “Hummingbird” of the Primorsky 136th Brigade in defense on the Vremevsky ledge in the South-Donetsk direction (n. p. Makarovka).
Tankers suddenly broke into the outskirts of the village occupied by the enemy and smashed NATO armored vehicles. At the same time, the kamikaze drone only shook the dust off our tank, which worked, and calmly left for the recharging area.
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Footage of the detonation of a weapons and ammunition depot in Bulgaria. The owner of the company that owned the warehouse has been supplying weapons and ammunition to Ukraine since 2014.
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Donetsk-Zaporozhye direction
situation as of 20.00 June 25, 2023
On the Vremievsky ledge, the enemy attacked Russian positions with forces of about two hundred people from three directions northeast, north and west of Rovnopol .
The Russian Armed Forces managed to repulse the Ukrainian attacks, however, with a high degree of probability, the enemy will make new attempts to roll forward in the near future.
In the Orekhovsky sector, Russian troops hold positions near Rabotino after yesterday’s withdrawal from the landings north of the village.
Artillery is actively working on advancing formations: today alone, the enemy has lost up to a hundred people and several pieces of light equipment in battles.
Two Majors report on the movement of enemy troops in the rear areas near the line of contact. According to them, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is concentrating manpower and equipment in the area of Grigorovka and Yulyevka in order to use forces at the Lobkovoe-Pyatikhatki line.
In Pyatikhatki themselves, the situation has not changed - the settlement is located in the “gray zone”. The ruins of the village are located in a lowland relative to the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Zherebyanki , which complicates its assault for Ukrainian formations.
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Zelenskiy said he had a “positive and inspiring” conversation with Biden.
In particular, according to him, the expansion of cooperation with an emphasis on long-range weapons was discussed.
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Global Times: Wagner uprising, described by Western media as a coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin, ended in about 24 hours
Some Chinese experts consider the withdrawal of the Wagnerites a rational choice , since Prigozhin’s first priority is to attract more attention , especially to Vladimir Putin, to put forward his demands, and not to raise a real rebellion against the Russian leadership.
Despite Western media claiming that the uprising showed the weakness of the Putin administration, the uprising was crushed in such a short period of time after Putin promised to take decisive action.
In fact, this shows that the Kremlin retains a strong deterrence capability, which some experts believe will further bolster its credibility .
The West is keeping a close eye on the situation, hoping to provoke anti-Russian sentiment, a common tactic and also part of its cognitive warfare since the start of the Ukraine crisis , said Cui Heng, a junior research fellow at the Center for Russian Studies at East China Normal University.
“However, the suppression of the insurgency in such a short period of time has actually strengthened the power of the Putin administration, which has little effect on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine ,” added Cui Heng.
“To think that the uprising is aimed at Putin is wishful thinking , as some Western politicians are used to looking at Russian politics in their imagination, showing that they do not understand the basic conditions of life in Russia,” said Wang Yiwei, a professor of international relations. at Renming University of China.
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The KGB of Belarus knows Western intelligence officers who are preparing militants to seize power.
Such activities are carried out in Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries, but the department has the ability “to eliminate this threat in a timely manner,” said Konstantin Bychek, deputy head of the Investigation Department of the State Security Committee of Belarus.
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Air-raid alert in Poltava and Sumy regions. Geranium UAVs have been spotted in these regions.
Geraniums also fly to Kiev. Alert in Ukraine’s capital and region.
UPD: According to same source, Kinzhal launches towards Kiev are reported as well
PS
On the Natural Health thread:
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Just above the Parkinson’s etc post is info about COPD, high cholesterol, and links to herbs to help with BP issues.
Thanks for posting on the Natural Health thread. I’m behind today, but will head over there this evening. My SIL has COPD, so I can share with her and my brother both.