According to the vid [3:59], "all the raw materials are produced, grown up here for McDonalds . . . all the raw materials are Russian". I took that to mean that the beef, chicken, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, potatoes, etc. are not of the same contaminated/GMO low quality used in America. Maybe Russian beef is grass fed? Milk from cows the same? I'd be interested to know if beef tallow rather than soybean oil is used for frying as used to be the case originally in America.
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IMPORTANT About the siege of Kharkov. Two sources have told me that the area of Saltivka, in the north east of the city (10 km in a straight line from the city center), has been completely destroyed. This is the direction where a great deal of shelling and bombardment has been taking place...t.me
About civilians in Mariupol.
I just got word from a Ukrainian acquaintance.
Her parents and aunt and uncle were living in Mariupol (she was raised there but moved away for university). She tells me that her family were shot at by Ukrainian Armed Forces on multiple occasions, which prevented them from leaving the city. She did not explain the circumstances of them being fired upon, but said that it had been more than once.
However, they said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were losing, and had finally left their residential area, allowing them to flee to the Russians.
The Russians fed them, and put them on transportation to Rostov (she didn’t say what sort of transportation). They said the biggest deal was that the Russians gave them a lot of food, because they had been starving during the siege.
This is actual testimony from a person whom I’ve known for some time, so I know that it’s not propaganda or nonsense—this is as real as it gets.
I won’t editorialize here, I just want to put down the facts as I received them.
It appears as if yet another training camp has been hit. This would be the 3rd such camp, in the last week.
Link to the full reporting: MoD RussiaOn the night of March 21, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles struck the Training Centre for Foreign Mercenaries and Ukrainian Nationalist Formations at Novaya Lyubomirka combined arms training ground in Rovenskaya region. More than 80 mercenaries and nationalists were killed.
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RUSSIA ELIMINATES 80 MORE RADICALS AND MERCENARIES IN STRIKE ON UKRAINE
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Captured Ukrainian battle tank
On March 21, the Russian Armed Forces announced that they launched a strike with high-precision air-launched cruise missiles on the training center for foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian nationalist formations at the Novaya Lyubomirka combined-arms training ground in Rivne Region. More than 80 mercenaries and nationalists were reportedly eliminated.
Additionally, a strike with cruise missiles destroyed the ammunition depot and the headquarters of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forcesin the area of the village of Selets.
On top of this, a group of Ka-52 and Mi-28N helicopters destroyed 8 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles and 3 armored personnel carriers during night strikes.
Pro-Kyiv sources also reported the destruction of parts of Shopping Center ‘Retroville’ in Kyiv city. Earlier, reports appeared that this area was used as a weapon depot and troop gathering center by Kyiv’s forces.
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Active military operations continue in the region of Donbass.
According to the Russian military, during the night, units of the Russian Armed Forces advanced another 4 kilometers and completely took control of the settlement Sladkoe. Russian forces were eliminating the vestiges of the Ukrainian nationalist battalion “Donbass” in the area.
Clashes around Mariinka:
Troops of the Donetsk People’s Republic are completing the defeat of the remnants of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. DPR forces are developing the offensive in the direction of the settlement Novomikhailovka. Up to 50 Ukrainian fighters, three battle tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two field artillery guns and 4 off-road vehicles were destroyed.
Meanwhile, DPR units engaged troops of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and established control of the settlement of Verkhnetoretskoe.
The areaw of Rubezhnoe near the Lysichansk-Severodonetsk agglomeration:
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Clashes are also ongoing near Kyiv. In the settlement of Nikolaevka in the suburbs of Kyiv, Russian forces took control of a protected buried command post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 61 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered there. About half of them are senior officers.
Also, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that its airborne troops seized a large number of weapons and equipment of the retreating Ukrainian nationalist units in the suburbs of Kyiv. Kyiv’s forces left behind battle tanks, armored personnel carriers, a lot of small arms, anti-tank weapons and ammunition.
The equipment and weapons of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be transferred to the servicemen of the People’s Militia of the DPR and LPR.
According to the Russian military, during the night, Russian operational-tactical and army aviation hit 44 military facilities of Ukraine. This includes four command posts, two installations of multiple launch rocket systems in the areas of the settlements of Nalivaykovka and Zolocheva, six Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems, three Msta-B artillery guns in the Vyshgorod area, four warehouses of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition, as well as 23 places of gathering of military equipment.
Russian air defense systems shot down two more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air over the settlements of Chernobaevka and Tsirkuny.
Russia says that since the start of the military operation, its forces have destroyed 216 unmanned aerial vehicles, 180 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,506 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 152 multiple rocket launchers, 592 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 1,284 units of special military vehicles.
The Russians also addressed provocation that took place in the city of Sumy. The Russian of Defense recalled that it officially warned about it a few days ago.
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ADVANCED RUSSIAN BUK-M3 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM SPOTTED IN UKRAINE (VIDEO)
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Russia’s advanced Buk-M3 “Viking” medium-ran air-defense system has been spotted in Ukraine for the first time since the begging of the Russian special military operation in the country.
On March 20, Russian sources shared a video showing the system moving in of Ukraine. Some observers speculated that the footage were taken in the southern Kherson Oblast. However, this is yet to be verified.
The Buk-M3 is the latest production version of the Buk family of medium-range air-defense systems, which is developed by Russia’s defense giant Almaz-Antey.
The air-defense system has an effective range of 70 kilometers and a maximum engagement altitude of 35 kilometers. It can track up to 35 aerial targets. The system’s 9А317М TELAR [transporter erector launcher and radar] vehicle can be armed with up to six 9M317M missiles.
The older versions of the Buk system, the M1 and M2, has been already spotted with Russian forces in Ukraine. The M1 version has a range of 35 km kilometers and maximum engagement altitude of 22 kilometers, while the M2 version has a range of 45 kilometers and a top engagement altitude of 25 kilometers.
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The Russian military has been relying on mobile short and medium-range air-defense systems to protect its forces in Ukraine from different aerial threats.
According to the most recent briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense, at least 364 warplanes and drones have been shot down by the Russian military since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine.
Ukrainian frontline medic claims he’s ordered castration of all Russian POWs
Captured soldiers will die en masse at the hands of his doctors, he warns in an interview
Gennadiy Druzenko speaks to Ukrainian TV. ©YouTube / Телеканал 1+1
Russian soldiers captured by a Ukrainian volunteer medic unit will all be castrated, its founder and commander declared on national television on Sunday. The combat medic, whose volunteer team has been described as “medical angels” by the Western media, said “cockroaches” don’t deserve the right to procreate.
The shocking confession came from Gennadiy Druzenko, a constitutional lawyer-turned-volunteer frontline medic in Ukraine. Speaking to Ukrainian media in a live interview, he condemned the US for its reluctance to go to war with Russia on Ukraine’s behalf, before commenting on the Russian military.
“Trust me, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s military hardware burns well. The corpses of ‘putinoids’ may stink, but they become unthreatening,” he said.
Druzenko said that, during the conflict, he had diverged from the principle that requires an injured enemy combatant to be treated as a regular patient.
He further implied that, at the hands of his unit, Russian prisoners of war “will die in very large numbers” so that surviving Russians remembered Ukraine with terror “like the Germans remembered Stalingrad.”
At this point, the host cut the interview short, stating that Russian soldiers would be “held accountable.” Her co-host reminded the audience that Russia was being investigated for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
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On Monday, YouTube blocked the entire livestream segment, which included the interview, after it drew public attention.
Russia has launched a criminal investigation into the threats.
Druzenko heads the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital, a unit of civilian medics that has been providing services to Ukrainian troops since 2014, when post-coup authorities in Kiev sent the Ukrainian military to quash a rebellion in eastern Ukraine. He is an acclaimed figure at home and has received numerous awards for his work from the Defense Ministry and the National Security Council.
A darling of the Western media amid the Russian attack on his country, Druzenko is fluent in English and has been readily speaking to the likes of CNN and the New York Post about the work of what these outlets have dubbed the “medical angels.”
Before the conflict, Druzenko undertook several stints at various Western institutions, serving as regional director for a USAID-funded project in Ukraine in the early 2010s, according to his CV. He also worked as a researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in the US, from 2009 to 2010, and at the Max Planck Institute, in Germany, in 2010.
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During his interview with Ukrainian TV, Druzenko acknowledged that his unit had a “military wing” composed of ex-commandos, and that his team had been jokingly calling themselves the “First Volunteer Mobile Storm Unit” because of it.
“We treat ours and turn theirs into fertilizer. Unwelcome guests have never been loved on this soil,” he said. He claimed Americans had been telling him they were jealous of Ukraine because they were “afraid to fight against the Russians and we are not.”
He also touted his long experience fighting for the Ukrainian cause, saying that, since 2014, “the enemy has not changed and the means of war have not changed.”
Earlier in March, Amnesty International called on the Ukrainian government to protect Russian POWs from public humiliation, as obliged by the Third Geneva Convention. Its statement was released in response to numerous videos of prisoners on social media and to Kiev’s policy of bringing them to press conferences to speak about their roles in the Russian offensive and to plead with their family at home not to support it.
It seems the Russians are "taking care of their own". The whole of the Russian Federation is chipping in to help in this incursion. My observation is that this is a big contrast in regard to the NATO alliance. NATO is much more "loose", far less cohesive and a coalition of opportunity and fear (of the USA), while on the eastern side, they are much more close / cohesive, a coalition of brotherhood, supporting each other out of shared communality.A detachment of the Special Purpose Police from Dagestan is somewhere in the zone of the Special Military Operation.
I remember: Dagestan is Muslim republic in RF.
Interesting take - I was actually the opposite of pessimistic but it's not to say that is how another person would have experienced it. FYI, I spoke in 3rd person as I'm not identified with the feeling or thoughts though I am aware of their presence.
. Anyways in mine it has a distinct feeling in that it makes me want to recede and in order not to do so I have to apply an opposite force, a force that pushes my towards facing the fear. It's a bit funny actually, it's a bit like if someone is pulling you back when you are trying to run forward. You exert a lot of effort and if the effort is greater than that of the person pulling you back you move forward but whilst expending a lot of energy. However, if the person lets go all of a sudden you might find yourself jetting forward all of a sudden and faster than you were expecting and perhaps even end up falling flat on your face 
. Sometimes that's how it is with this fear thing, at least from my experience. Not sure how you experience it, perhaps you're formidable 
