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APR 10, 2023
The scar across the countryside - which can be seen from space - is some 45 miles in length so far, as Russia fears a repeat of last year when Ukraine won back swathes of territory.
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The construction includes dugouts and anti-tank emplacements.
Digging of the trench began from two directions in September last year - using hired labourers from Kyrgyzstan, according to reports.
Some complained they had not been properly paid.
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APR 9, 2023
The scale of the operation is seen on both satellite images and ground level pictures.
Putin's 45-mile-long 'mega trench'
[...]The scar across the countryside - which can be seen from space - is some 45 miles in length so far, as Russia fears a repeat of last year when Ukraine won back swathes of territory.
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The construction includes dugouts and anti-tank emplacements.
Digging of the trench began from two directions in September last year - using hired labourers from Kyrgyzstan, according to reports.
Some complained they had not been properly paid.
[...]
APR 9, 2023
Crimea's beaches are covered with trenches and tank traps
Putin has accepted he must decimate the region's huge tourism industry this summer to hold it against a possible Ukrainian advance as part of an expected Kyiv counteroffensive.The scale of the operation is seen on both satellite images and ground level pictures.
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APR 11, 2023
Located somewhere north of the destroyed salt-mining town of Soledar, these positions are, in theory, some of the most vulnerable of the Ukrainian lines in Donbas, containing one flank of the bulge in the map where Russian forces have made their greatest gains since summer last year.
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Against all odds, the infantry positioned here have held firm: the front line in their sector hasn’t moved since the end of winter.
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School childrens’ drawings share the insulated walls of their home with military jackets, one of which has been torn up by shrapnel from a recent mortar hit.
“The situation is tense,” said 30-year-old OR to the Kyiv Independent, “they shell us constantly, over 100 times a day, and they crawl forward 24/7.”
“First they creep through in groups of 3-4 people. Then they send more people and try to surround us on the flanks, to look for our weak points and come at us from the rear.”
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“They attack in three lines: if the first line retreats, they'll be shot by the second, if the second (retreats), they'll be shot by the third, and so on.”
Facing off against the assaults at close range, many infantrymen claim that the Wagner assault squads are given drugs, perhaps amphetamines, to enhance their performance on the battlefield.
“I don’t know what it is, but they are definitely given something,” said Lysyi.
“I’ve seen soldiers take heavy shrapnel wounds to the leg, even 30 rifle rounds to the body, and still refuse to go down.”
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‘They crawl forward 24/7:’ On the zero line with Ukrainian infantry north of Bakhmut
[...]Located somewhere north of the destroyed salt-mining town of Soledar, these positions are, in theory, some of the most vulnerable of the Ukrainian lines in Donbas, containing one flank of the bulge in the map where Russian forces have made their greatest gains since summer last year.
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Against all odds, the infantry positioned here have held firm: the front line in their sector hasn’t moved since the end of winter.
[...]
School childrens’ drawings share the insulated walls of their home with military jackets, one of which has been torn up by shrapnel from a recent mortar hit.
“The situation is tense,” said 30-year-old OR to the Kyiv Independent, “they shell us constantly, over 100 times a day, and they crawl forward 24/7.”
“First they creep through in groups of 3-4 people. Then they send more people and try to surround us on the flanks, to look for our weak points and come at us from the rear.”
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“They attack in three lines: if the first line retreats, they'll be shot by the second, if the second (retreats), they'll be shot by the third, and so on.”
Facing off against the assaults at close range, many infantrymen claim that the Wagner assault squads are given drugs, perhaps amphetamines, to enhance their performance on the battlefield.
“I don’t know what it is, but they are definitely given something,” said Lysyi.
“I’ve seen soldiers take heavy shrapnel wounds to the leg, even 30 rifle rounds to the body, and still refuse to go down.”
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rbbm. April 12 2023
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''MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning and is back in a punishment cell after a few days in regular confinement, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Anna Veduta, a Washington, DC-based vice president of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, told The Associated Press the 46-year-old Navalny fell ill last Friday when he was let out of the punishment cell and put in a conventional cell. He had lost about 18 pounds over the past 15 days. On Monday, Navalny wrote on Twitter, he was put back in a punishment cell for another 15-day term.
An ambulance was called early Saturday because of acute stomach pains but Navalny received no diagnosis, one of his lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, wrote on Twitter after visiting him in prison.
“We believe he is slowly being administered low doses of poison” in pills he is given without identification, Veduta said.''
''A video documentary about Navalny won an Oscar last month. The documentary portrays Navalny’s career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he blames on the Kremlin, his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was taken into custody. He was later sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and last year was convicted of other charges and given another nine-year term.''
Alexei Navalny, imprisoned Russian opposition leader, ill due to suspected poisoning
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 46, is in failing health because of a new suspected poisoning and is back in a punishment cell after a few days in regular confinement, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Anna Veduta, a Washington, DC-based vice president of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, told The Associated Press the 46-year-old Navalny fell ill last Friday when he was let out of the punishment cell and put in a conventional cell. He had lost about 18 pounds over the past 15 days. On Monday, Navalny wrote on Twitter, he was put back in a punishment cell for another 15-day term.
An ambulance was called early Saturday because of acute stomach pains but Navalny received no diagnosis, one of his lawyers, Vadim Kobzev, wrote on Twitter after visiting him in prison.
“We believe he is slowly being administered low doses of poison” in pills he is given without identification, Veduta said.''
''A video documentary about Navalny won an Oscar last month. The documentary portrays Navalny’s career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he blames on the Kremlin, his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was taken into custody. He was later sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and last year was convicted of other charges and given another nine-year term.''
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I'm gifting this New York Times article...
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The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named
Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.
When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”
The documents, they said, only started to get wider attention when one of the teenage members of the group took a few dozen of them and posted them to a public online forum. From there they were picked up by Russian-language Telegram channels and then The New York Times, which first reported on them.
The person who leaked, they said, was no whistleblower, and the secret documents were never meant to leave their small corner of the internet.
Regardless of the guy's intent, he's in some real serious trouble.
Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman
Federal investigators are searching for the person who shared classified documents that revealed government secrets about the Ukraine war.
The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named
Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now. The Feds will be around soon, I’m sure.”
The documents, they said, only started to get wider attention when one of the teenage members of the group took a few dozen of them and posted them to a public online forum. From there they were picked up by Russian-language Telegram channels and then The New York Times, which first reported on them.
The person who leaked, they said, was no whistleblower, and the secret documents were never meant to leave their small corner of the internet.
Regardless of the guy's intent, he's in some real serious trouble.
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