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18th March 1945. First flight of the Douglas AD/A-1 Skyraider attack aircraft. Rugged, long ranged and able to carry up to 8,000lbs of ordnance, it arrived too late for the Second World War. Skyraiders saw extensive use in Korea, and despite being gradually replaced by jets, continued into service in Vietnam.

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1) Prototype XBT2D-1. The aircraft was optimised from the outset for ground attack, with a long loiter time, armour protection and the largest possible payload.

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2) An AD-4 Skyraider of (VA) 65 launches from the carrier Philippine Sea for a combat mission over Korea in 1951. It was during the Korean War that the Skyraider solidified its reputation as one of the finest attack and close air support aircraft ever built, though over 100 were lost in combat.

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3) A number of Skyraider variants were developed, including an Airborne Early Warning (AEW) platform. These were used by the Royal Navy before the arrival of the Fairey Gannet in 1960. The same AN/APS-20 radars from the Skyraiders were first used by their replacements, then on the Shackleton AEW.2 until 1991! In this photo, the first aircraft are being delivered in Glasgow, November 1951.

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4) Although US Navy Skyraiders flew their last mission over Vietnam in early 1968, the ‘Spad’ continued in operation with the USAF until 1972, covering Search and Rescue missions. This aircraft, pictured in June 1970, is carrying a typical mixed load of gunpods, rockets and bombs in addition to the 4x20mm wing guns. Incredibly, Skyraiders shot down two MiG 17s, but 266 were lost, almost all to ground fire.

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Daily Wrap Up February 27-March 1, 2023

Under the cut:

Ukrainians have reported attacks in the Bilohorivka and Kreminna areas in the eastern Luhansk region of Ukraine."There is constant shelling of our de-occupied settlements along the front line, despite the fact that there are many civilians in some settlements," Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said. "The enemy is well aware of this and still it shells with heavy caliber weapons." For the past two months, the front lines close to the border of Luhansk and Kharkiv regions have seen heavy exchanges of fire as well as fighting in the forests west of Kreminna, which is held by the Russians.

Russia has lost at least 130 tanks and armoured personnel carriers in a three-week battle in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian officials said the “epic” fight on a plain near Vuhledar produced the biggest tank battle of the war so far and a stinging setback for the Russians, the New York Times reports.

Finland has begun construction of a 200km fence on the Russian border, the country’s border guard has announced. Terrain work would begin today “with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March”, the Finnish border guard said in a statement.

Ukrainian forces hung onto their positions in the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut early on Thursday under constant attack from Russian troops amid signs time might be running out. Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully controlling the rest of the strategic Donbas industrial region bordering Russia, one of the main objectives of its invasion a year ago on Feb. 24.

Ukrainian air defense is shooting down 80% of Russian missiles, according to Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, commander of the Ukrainian Joint Forces.

“Ukrainians have reported attacks in the Bilohorivka and Kreminna areas in the eastern Luhansk region of Ukraine.

"There is constant shelling of our de-occupied settlements along the front line, despite the fact that there are many civilians in some settlements," Serhiy Hayday, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, said. "The enemy is well aware of this and still it shells with heavy caliber weapons." For the past two months, the front lines close to the border of Luhansk and Kharkiv regions have seen heavy exchanges of fire as well as fighting in the forests west of Kreminna, which is held by the Russians.

"They also have a lot of Lancet kamikaze drones, and they are trying to use them to search for positions and equipment and to inflict fire," Hayday said.

There has also been heavy fighting east of the town of Kupyansk, which is in the same zone.

The Ukrainian State Border Guard Service released video of aerial reconnaissance in the area, saying that over the past few days 117 drone reconnaissance flights had helped fix artillery fire.

The General Staff said that in the northern region of Kharkiv, several civilians had been wounded in Russian rocket attacks. It reported heavy shelling along the frontline that runs north-south on the Luhansk-Kharkiv border.

Southwest of Donetsk city, "the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions," according to the General Staff.

CNN has geolocated video published by one Ukrainian brigade showing several Russian tanks and fighting vehicles being struck near the town of Avdiivka.

"In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the enemy is defending," the General Staff said, but "in some areas, it is trying to create conditions for an offensive."

The General Staff said Russian artillery had fired at more than 40 settlements in the long front line that runs from Donetsk through Zaporizhzhia and into Kherson.”-via CNN

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“Russia has lost at least 130 tanks and armoured personnel carriers in a three-week battle in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials.

Ukrainian officials said the “epic” fight on a plain near Vuhledar produced the biggest tank battle of the war so far and a stinging setback for the Russians, the New York Times reports.

Both sides sent tanks into the fray, “with the Russians thrusting forward in columns and the Ukrainians manoeuvring defensively, firing from a distance or from hiding places as Russian columns came into their sights”, the paper writes.

When it was over, not only had Russia failed to capture Vuhledar, but it also had made the same mistake that cost Moscow hundreds of tanks earlier in the war: advancing columns into ambushes.

The remains of the Russian tanks, blown up on mines, hit with artillery or destroyed by anti-tank missiles, now litter farm fields all about the coal mining town, according to Ukrainian military drone footage.

Russian troops also suffered a lack of experienced tank commanders in Vuhledar, and many of the fighters consisted of newly conscripted soldiers who had not been trained in Ukraine’s tactics for ambushing columns, the paper says. Ambushes have been Ukraine’s signature tactic against Russian armoured columns since the early days of the war.

By last week, Russia had lost so many machines to sustained armoured assaults that they had changed tactics and resorted only to infantry attacks, Ukrainian commanders said.”-via The Guardian

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“Finland has begun construction of a 200km fence on the Russian border, the country’s border guard has announced.

Terrain work would begin today “with forest clearance and will proceed in such a way that road construction and fence installation can be started in March”, the Finnish border guard said in a statement.

The 3km pilot project at the border crossing near Imatra is expected to be completed by the end of June, it added. Construction of a further 70km, mainly in southeastern Finland, will take place between 2023 and 2025.

The fence will be more than 3 metres tall with barbed wire at the top, and particularly sensitive areas will be equipped with night vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers.

Currently, Finland’s borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock.

Although the Finland-Russia border has “worked well” in the past, Brig Gen Jari Tolppanen told AFP in November that the war in Ukraine had changed the security situation “fundamentally” and that a border fence was “indispensable” to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory.”-via The Guardian

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“Ukrainian forces hung onto their positions in the ruined eastern city of Bakhmut early on Thursday under constant attack from Russian troops amid signs time might be running out.

Russia says seizing Bakhmut would open the way to fully controlling the rest of the strategic Donbas industrial region bordering Russia, one of the main objectives of its invasion a year ago on Feb. 24.

Ukraine says Bakhmut has limited strategic value but has nevertheless put up fierce resistance. Not everyone in Ukraine is convinced that defending Bakhmut can go on indefinitely.

"I would not go as far as to say the situation is critical, but it is threatening," Ukrainian member of parliament Serhiy Rakhmanin said on Ukrainian NV radio on Wednesday night.

"From my standpoint, it is not logical to defend Bakhmut at any cost," Rakhmanin said. "But for the moment, Bakhmut will be defended with several aims - firstly, to inflict as many Russian losses as possible and make Russia use its ammunition and resources."

No lines of defence should be allowed to collapse, Rakhmanin said, and "there are two ways to approach this - an organised retreat or simple flight. And we cannot allow flight to take place under any circumstances."”-via Reuters

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“Ukrainian air defense is shooting down 80% of Russian missiles, according to Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, commander of the Ukrainian Joint Forces.

"At the moment, the percentage of missile interceptions has changed significantly and is at 80% or even higher in some cases. Our air defense specialists have become more professional and competent," Naiev said on March 1.

Naiev added that Russia is changing its methods and tactics when it comes to air attacks.

"Therefore, we conduct analysis after each strike," said Naiev. "This analysis is necessary, and the commanders make decisions accordingly to ensure the resilience of the air defense is at the highest level."”-via Kyiv Independent

#Daily Update #Ukraine #Russia #War in Ukraine #Bakhmut #Finland #Luhansk

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On 8 March, two weeks into the war in Ukraine, Yanina Chmunevich stood in her grassy garden in Bobryk, 35 miles north-east of Kyiv, smoking a cigarette. As it burned to the filter, she counted 87 Russian heavy armoured vehicles going by, including earth-moving equipment, trucks, armoured personnel carriers and cars with long-barrelled guns attached. The next day, she watched the Russians bring in rocket launchers.

Three months later, Chmunevich, 39, who had worked at a petrol station before the war, was steadily recounting the details of the occupation of Bobryk as she sat on a sun porch in a plaid shirt and pink socks. A Ukrainian human rights investigator, Maryna Slobodianiuk, listened intently as she spoke. Slobodianiuk, 40, is a slight woman with a pouf of rust-coloured hair and a voice so quiet that you have to lean in close to hear her properly. But her mild manner is deceptive: as the head of investigations at Ukrainian nonprofit Truth Hounds, researching war crimes and crimes against humanity, she has been to the frontlines in Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, enduring constant bombardment, to record the stories of traumatised survivors.

Chmunevich described a visit from Russian soldiers in March. The men – who Chmunevich identified by their accents as Chechens or Armenians – lined her and four of her relatives up along a wall, confiscated their phones and asked for water. The family had already deleted their social media accounts in case there was anything pro-Ukrainian the Russians could find.

Throughout her recounting, Chmunevich slouched in a wooden chair and spoke in flat tones, her recitation almost mechanical. Like many Ukrainians I met during my three weeks in the country, after repeated questioning by journalists and investigators, she described terrifying events in a way that made them sound as bland as a discussion of the weather.

Her husband asked the Russians why they had come to Ukraine.

“To kill Zelenskiy and the Nazis,” one of them replied.

The Russians were in Bobryk for three weeks. While they were there, a group of Russian soldiers had taken over a neighbour’s property. Chmunevich had been able to watch them through narrow gaps in her boarded-up windows. She described hearing explosions from the direction of a nearby lake. She had heard from neighbours that the town’s mayor and a shop owner had been kidnapped, led away with plastic bags over their heads. Both men had endured beatings. The shop owner was later shot in the arm. He was told his crime was to have had a security camera at his store. It did not seem to matter that the camera wasn’t working.

Since the start of the invasion in February, three Truth Hounds investigators have been crisscrossing the country, recording first-hand accounts and documenting evidence of atrocities in line with the standards of the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague, with which they remain in constant touch. They began their work in 2014 when the Russians invaded Crimea, but the very fact that Slobodianiuk was able to gather information in areas so recently occupied, and in such detail, is a unique aspect of this war. The international media, too, has had unprecedented access. As I observed the interview on Chmunevich’s porch, on the outer ring of watchers was a documentary team from a Turkish news channel.

“This is the most-covered war probably in history – by journalists, but also by these missions of investigators coming from every country in Europe and the ICC,” said Tetiana Pechonchyk, the head of the board of Zmina, a Kyiv-based media and human rights advocacy organisation. Zmina is part of a consortium of more than a dozen Ukrainian NGOs called the 5am Coalition. The Russians invaded at 5am on 24 February, and Ukrainians I met referred to it constantly.

Pechonchyk, an authority on war crimes, wore a red suit and matching lipstick when we met at a fish restaurant in Kyiv in July. She acknowledged this war has received “unprecedented attention”, and yet, “given the scale of atrocities”, she said, “it’s not enough. The war is ongoing, and every day the prosecutor’s office registers 100 or 200 more cases, and that doesn’t even include information from occupied areas.” As of 22 September, the prosecutor’s office had 34,000 cases filed, every one of which must be investigated, according to Ukrainian law. However, matching and corroborating information from even meticulous investigations is a process that will take years.

There may never have been a war so thoroughly scrutinised as it unfolds. Investigators move in as soon as the Russians leave, within 24 to 48 hours. The country has a more-or-less functioning judiciary, unlike, for instance, Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, where any semblance of a previously existing court system was obliterated during the three months of violence. The question remains: will all this evidence-gathering in Ukraine actually lead to convictions in a tolerable time frame, and will any of it be enough to implicate the people at the top of the command structure?

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The United States invaded Iraq 20 years ago. The rationale for the war was a lie, and the consequences remain to this day.

The killing continues, two decades on. In February alone, at least 52 civilians died in Iraq in shootings, bombings, or other attacks. The violence is an echo of the war in Iraq, which the United States launched in the overnight hours of March 19-20, 2003.

Iraq could do little against a "shock and awe" campaign carried out by a US-led "coalition of the willing" that included the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland.

Within three weeks, Saddam Hussein and his brutal dictatorship were gone. Three weeks thereafter, on May 1, a triumphant President George W. Bush announced "mission accomplished" from the deck of the aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln.

To that point, the US and its allies had dropped 29,166 bombs and rockets, according to the Pentagon. Large parts of Iraq's infrastructure lay in ruins. More than 7,000 civilians were killed, according to Iraq Body Count, a British NGO.

It was the end of major combat operations, but the beginning of a long and deadly slog. In all, at least 200,000 people — and perhaps as many as one million, depending on the estimate — have died. In 2006, the Lancet, a medical journal, came to a number of 650,000 "additional deaths."

The military adventurism was "one of the last sorts of hubristic expressions of Western belief that they could reshape a country and a regional order to suit their preferences," Dan Smith, the director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), told DW.

#iraq war #iraq #american imperialism #saddam hussein

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The Shenzhou-14 Crewed Spaceship and a Long March-2F Carrier Rocket are transferred to the Launch Area Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, Jiuquan, China image credit: VCG

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China's Relay Satellite is in Lunar Orbit

On March 20th, China’s Queqiao-2 (“Magpie Bridge-2”) satellite launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site LC-2 on the island of Hainan (in southern China) atop a Long March-8 Y3 carrier rocket. This mission is the second in a series of communications relay and radio astronomy satellites designed to support the fourth phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (Chang’e). On March 24th, after…

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Taiwan reported sightings of 36 Chinese aircraft close to island

Taiwan’s defence ministry announced it had detected at least 36 Chinese aircraft on Friday, March 22.

This is the highest number of Chinese aircraft detected in the island country this year. 13 of the 36 detected planes entered the air defence identification zone (ADIZ).

The ministry added that besides the planes, six Chinese warships were also operating near the island, with Taiwan’s armed forces “monitoring the situation and employing appropriate forces to respond.”

The report also stated that China’s Long March 2D carrier rocket, which launched a group of multi-purpose satellites into orbit on Thursday, flew over the ADIZ. The rocket was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.

Taiwan insisted on its independence since 1949, but China considered the self-governing island as its territory.

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#world news #world politics #news #taiwan #taiwan news #china #china news #china politics #chinese politics #aircraft

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The first launch of "The Human Memories Project" initiated by GIGATREE of Singapore was successful

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 5 December 2023 – The first launch of “The Human Memories Project” initiated by GIGATREE of Singapore was successful. The launch, which carried two satellites (Elliptical Space-Time Star Pool 1, Group II, Stars A/B), was launched at 12:10 p.m. on December 4, 2023, by the Long March 2C Y75 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. At present,…

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[recentlyheardcom]

A United States warship strike team is heading to the Persian Gulf as stress with Iran get to boiling factor. Army authorities informed the Wall surface Road Journal that the USS John C Stennis and also assistance ships will certainly get here off the coastline of Iran by the end of the week. The news comes simply days after Iran revealed its very first stealth destroyer. On Saturday the battleship was released right into procedure in the Persian Gulf. The United States additionally condemned Iran after they examine terminated a medium-range nuclear qualified ballistic rocket on Sunday. The United States State Division’s unique agent for Iran Brian Hook has actually currently advised that America is maintaining its “army choice on the table” claiming: “We have actually been extremely clear with the Iranian routine that we will certainly not think twice to make use of army pressure when our passions are intimidated” Press TELEVISION records: The marine release is a straight feedback to Iran’s impact in the area, the authorities kept in mind. United States Head of state Donald Trump took out of the 2015 Iran nuclear handle Might, claiming he would certainly subject Tehran to a collection of challenging financial permissions unless the Islamic Republic consents to quit sustaining anti-terror teams in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and also Yemen. He has actually additionally contacted Iran to ditch its growth and also screening of ballistic rockets. On Monday, the Trump management asked Europe to enforce brand-new permissions on Iran after United States Assistant of State Mike Pompeo declared Iran had actually test-fired a medium-range ballistic rocket. In order to encourage his European peers, Pompeo stated the rocket was thought about with the ability of bring nuclear warheads and also can get to components of the Europe. Iran, nonetheless, stated its rocket program was “protective” in nature and also Tehran had every right to establish and also examine its rockets under the UN Protection Council Resolution 2231, which support the nuclear bargain. USS Stennis would certainly additionally supply assistance to the continuous United States army treatments in Iraq, Syria and also Afghanistan. The strike team is set up to invest a lot of its two-month release in the Persian Gulf, a visibility that unrevealed authorities stated “definitely supplies a prevention” versus Tehran. The arrival of the battleship “supplies a great deal of excellent adaptability,” one more protection authorities stated. United States carrier have actually long been patrolling the Persian Gulf, bring countless workers and also loads of boxer jets, rockets and also various other tools. However the releases dropped in March after the USS Theodore Roosevelt left for the Pacific, as component of the Trump management’s change of technique to concentrate extra on China and also Russia. As an outcome of the brand-new method, Washington additionally drew a variety of Patriot rocket systems out of Persian Gulf nations Jordan, Kuwait and also Bahrain. Authorities emphasized that, regardless of intensifying stress, the provider release had actually been formerly set up. Iran has actually consistently advised international army pressures in the Persian Gulf that any kind of act of disobedience right into Iran’s territorial waters would certainly be met a prompt and also proper feedback.

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According to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the Long March-7 Y7 carrier rocket has effectively placed the Tianzhou-6 cargo spacecraft into orbit. The launch was conducted at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site located in Hainan, China's southern island province, on May 10 at 9:21 p.m. local time (13:22 GMT). In a statement, the CASC confirmed that the spacecraft was successfully placed in the intended orbit by the carrier rocket. The Tianzhou-6 spacecraft is expected to dock with the Tiangong space station later on, carrying fuel, spare parts, spacesuits, and cargo to support the work and living conditions of taikonauts who will arrive on the Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft. The launch of Shenzhou 16 is slated for later this month. China has been actively developing its space program since 2022, and the main construction of its orbital station, Tiangong, has been completed. The T-shaped station comprises the Tianhe core module and two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, which are docked to it. The station can accommodate up to six people simultaneously during crew rotation changes, and its operational lifespan is set at 15 years, concluding in 2038. In December, Chinese taikonauts accomplished the country's first successful in-orbit crew rotation at the Tiangong space station.

[ukrainenews]

Daily Wrap Up July 20, 2022

Under the cut:

Russian missile strikes kill three in Kharkiv, including a 13-year-old boy

The EU accuses Russia of blackmail over gas supplies

Russia may seek to occupy more territory in Ukraine, says foreign minister Lavrov

The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine

Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress in person in Washington, D.C.

“Russian missile strikes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv killed a 13-year-old boy as he waited at a bus stop on Wednesday, according to local officials.

Reuters photojournalists captured the boy’s father kneeling next to his covered body while holding his hand.

Rescue workers carried away another body on a stretcher and a nearby mosque was badly destroyed.

According to Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the Kharkiv region, three people were killed in Kharkiv on Wednesday – the teenager plus a man and a woman.

It was unclear if all three died at the bus stop together.

He said the dead teenager’s 15-year-old sister had also been wounded but did not give their names.”-via The Guardian

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“The European Union has set out emergency plans to reduce its gas use amid fears Russia could cut off its supply in winter.

It has proposed a voluntary target for countries to restrict its usage by 15% from August until March, accusing the Kremlin of weaponising gas exports.

“Russia is blackmailing us. Russia is using energy as a weapon,” the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said in a news conference.

“And therefore, in any event, whether it’s a partial, major cut-off of Russian gas or a total cut-off of Russian gas, Europe needs to be ready.”

She warned that almost half of member states were already affected by the reduced gas flow from Russia, which has fallen below 30% of the 2016-2021 average.

Under the plans, the EU would be able to make the cutback mandatory if there seemed a substantial risk of severe gas shortages.

The proposal needs to be approved by a majority of EU countries, with its diplomats set to discuss it on Friday.”-via The Guardian

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“Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has said that Moscow wants to permanently occupy broad swaths of southern Ukraine in the clearest signal yet that the Kremlin is preparing to launch a new round of annexations.

In televised remarks, Lavrov also said Russia may seek more territory along the frontlines in Ukraine, calling it a buffer against the Himars long-range rocket artillery provided by the US.

While Lavrov claimed Russia’s new territorial ambitions were driven by the course of the war, the initial invasion sought to occupy much of Ukraine’s south and capture the capital, Kyiv.

Despite that evidence, the Kremlin has maintained that it launched its attack to protect its proxy governments in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

“Now the geography is different,” Lavrov said, in a change of rhetoric from the Russian government. “It’s not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and a number of other territories. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent.”

His remarkswere also an admission that the invasion was designed as a war of conquest, despite early denials from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, that Russia planned to occupy any new Ukrainian territory at all.

The Russian government has sought to integrate Donetsk and Luhansk by introducing the Russian rouble, Russian telecommunications networks and other infrastructure, and by crushing protests and local dissent.

John Kirby, spokesperson for the US national security council, said Russia was planning to annex more Ukrainian territory, possibly in September to coincide with regional elections.

“Russia is beginning to roll out a version of what you could call an annexation playbook, very similar to the one we saw in 2014,” he said, referring to when Russia annexed Crimea.

“The Russian government is reviewing detailed plans to purportedly annex a number of regions in Ukraine, including Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, all of Donetsk and Luhansk,” Kirby said on Tuesday, a day before Lavrov’s interview went public.

It was not clear what other territories Lavrov was referring to in his remarks.

In remarks to the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, Lavrov also said Russia would seek more territory due to the western military aid to Ukraine, in particular the delivery of Himars missile systems that have destroyed a number of Russian military command posts.

“The west … in a desire to maximally exacerbate the situation have pumped Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons,” he said, citing a Ukrainian defence minister’s remarks that Ukraine was negotiating for munitions that could strike targets 300 km away. “That means our goal will be to move them back from the current line even further.

“Because we can’t allow that in that part of Ukraine which will be controlled by [Volodymyr] Zelenskiy or whoever replaces him, there were weapons that could present a direct threat to our territory.”

Russia has launched cruise missiles into Ukrainian cities far behind the frontlines. A recent attack on the western Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia left 25 dead, including several children.”-via The Guardian

There’s more information in this article from Reuters.

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“The US will provide four more precision rocket systems to Ukraine to assist it in its fight against Russian forces, US defense secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, his Ukrainian counterpart requested Washington to send more M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), saying Kyiv’s forces have used them to destroy some 30 Russian command stations and ammunition depots so far.”-via The Guardian

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“The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense is going to hand over additional M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, as well as ammunition, to Ukraine.

"European Truth" writes about this in a statement from the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.

"In the near future, Lithuania will provide Ukraine with additional military support - M113 and M577 armored personnel carriers, which are very much needed by Ukraine, as well as ammunition necessary for the preparation of the reserve," said Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anushauskas at a meeting of the NATO Coordination Group for Ukraine Support.

He emphasized that thanks to the given or promised number of M113s, this armored vehicle is becoming a significant part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Lithuania contributes to this to a large extent.”-via Euro Integration (Ukrainian language source)

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“Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asked the United States to send air defense systems to her country in an address to lawmakers in the US Congress on Wednesday in Washington, DC.

“Unfortunately the war is not over, the terror continues and I appeal to all of you, on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs, on behalf of those who are still alive and well, and those who wait for their families to come back from the front. I’m asking for something I would never want to ask, I am asking for weapons,” she told lawmakers. “Weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else’s land but to protect one’s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. I’m asking for air defense systems in order for rockets not to kill children in their strollers,” Zelenska continued.

The Ukrainian first lady went on to say that she, like many Ukrainian mothers, craves a sense of normality and wishes they could give their children hope in the future.

“Will my son be able to return to his school in the fall, I don’t know, like millions of mothers in Ukraine. Will my daughter be able to go to university at the beginning of the academic year and experience normal student life? I cannot answer,” she said.

“We would have answers if we had air defense systems,” Zelenska added. Zelenska also thanked the United States for all the aid the country had already sent to Ukraine.

“The American people and American families, Congress and President Biden have already done a lot to help us to stand up to the enemy and protect millions of Ukrainians. We are grateful – really grateful – that the United States stands with us in this fight for our shared values of human life and independence,” she said.

“While Russia kills, America saves and you should know about it, we thank you for that,” Zelenska added.”-via CNN

#daily wrap up #ukraine #russia #war in ukraine #kharkiv #EU #US #lithuania

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China Launches New Experiment Satellite

JIUQUAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News �� 16th Mar, 2023 ) :A Long March-11 carrier rocket carrying the Shiyan-19 satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, March 15, 2023. China on Wednesday evening successfully sent a new experiment satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The Shiyan-19 satellite was launched at…

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China Launches New Remote Sensing Satellite

Sumaira FH Published February 24, 2023 | 11:50 AM JIUQUAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 24th Feb, 2023 ) :China successfully sent a new remote-sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday. The remote sensing satellite was launched at 12:01 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2C carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit…

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China Launches New Remote Sensing Satellite

Sumaira FH Published February 24, 2023 | 11:50 AM JIUQUAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 24th Feb, 2023 ) :China successfully sent a new remote-sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday. The remote sensing satellite was launched at 12:01 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2C carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit…

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China Launches New Remote Sensing Satellite

Sumaira FH Published February 24, 2023 | 11:50 AM JIUQUAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 24th Feb, 2023 ) :China successfully sent a new remote-sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Friday. The remote sensing satellite was launched at 12:01 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2C carrier rocket and entered its planned orbit…

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