[kellyhound]

It was a month into Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian forces had withdrawn from around Kyiv and in their wake Bel Trew and her team stumbled on a body by an abandoned Russian camp.

His hands were tied. He had been burned and shot in the back. Soldiers said he was a teenager.

As Bel tried to find out who he was and what had happened, she uncovered a nightmare world: a nation struggling to find thousands of its missing and to identify its dead.

[WonderMomma]

"Hotspot - 29 April"

[WonderMomma]

"Large-scale naval exercises of the United States, Taiwan, France and Australia, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines are taking place in the Pacific Ocean.

Dozens of ships are involved, including nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, landing ships and attack submarines."




"The USA is installing sensors on the territory of Ukraine capable of recording radiation activity and determining the location, force, and consequences of a possible nuclear explosion, including a "dirty" bomb. The New York Times writes about this with reference to a group of experts from the National Nuclear Security Administration under the US Department of Energy.

According to the publication, "the goal is to ensure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on the territory of Ukraine, its responsibility for this will be proven.""




"The soldiers of the DUK rifle battalion are training to destroy the occupiers' equipments " (Song: "MUDRA" by RAJA. Not to be confused by the song "Raja" by Mudra, which is also pretty good. )

[WonderMomma]

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Uman, Ukraine
""They are all gone" - a survivor of Russian rocket attack talks about his neighbors who were killed.

23 people were killed by that rocket strike. Five of them - children (1.5, 8, 11, 14 and 16 years old) - Internal Affairs Minister."

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"Prigozhin gave Shoigu an ultimatum - if Wagner PMC doesn't receive ammunition, it will leave Bakhmut. He gave Shoigu 24 hours to make that happen. And they ran out yesterday.

Waiting for the new episode in this show."

[WonderMomma]

"Warsaw City Hall evicts employees of the school at the Russian Embassy

Local authorities intend to return the building of the school at the Russian embassy to city ownership. Representatives of the aggressor country were given until 19:00 to evict.

According to the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Lukasz Jasin, officials and law enforcement agencies are carrying out legal procedures near the school building at the Russian Embassy.

School employees, reluctantly, but still vacate the building: first of all, of course, they take out the "symbol of Putin's invasion of Ukraine" - a washing machine. Behind her is a man with a button accordion - all in the "best" Russian traditions."

[WonderMomma]

"President @ ZelenskyyUa has become one of the symbols of Ukrainian resistance. But he also is a human being, a husband, a son. How do his parents feel about it all? Do they worry? What do they say to him? Zelenskyy talks about it in this interview."

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Previous video of these events have been posted, much thanks.

Analysis of drone attack on Crimea's oil facility supporting Russian war efforts in the south, Ukr drones were likely launched south west of Odessa across the black sea.

Large fire broke out at the Perm factory in Russia, which might be the only Russian factory which manufactures ordinance for Russian rocket artillery (MLRS systems such as Grad, Uragan, Smerch etc). Increased Ukr HIMARS strikes. Spokesperson for the southern group of Ukraine's Armed Forces confirm increased offensive activity is ongoing in the south.

From my perspective there is a heavy amount of "shaping" operations taking place - ones that are done to enable more significant Ukrainian ground operations. To bleed the Russians logistically ahead of an offensive. When we will see that main phase of a land offensive, could be soon.

Or this could be an elaborate plan to get Russians to focus their efforts in one area so they shuffle and move their forces, which might be exactly what happened with Kherson and Kharkiv offensives of 2022.

[WonderMomma]

1. Ukrainian Militant compilation on a lot of equipment being taken to Ukraine through various modes of transportation.

2. Ukrainian marines "mud bath" training.

[WonderMomma]

"The legendary Ukrainian boxer came to the front line and spoke in excellent Ukrainian.
And Usyk is no longer bothered by the question "Whose Crimea?""

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Usyk
"Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Олекса́ндрович У́сик; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the unified WBA (Super), IBF, and WBO heavyweight titles since 2021, and the Ring magazine heavyweight title since 2022. Previously he held the undisputed cruiserweight championship from 2018 to 2019, being the first boxer in that division to hold all four major world titles.

Usyk is widely regarded as one of the greatest Ukrainian boxers of all time. With his victory over Anthony Joshua in 2021, Usyk became one of only three boxers to have unified the cruiserweight world titles and become a world heavyweight champion, joining Evander Holyfield and David Haye.

As an amateur, Usyk won heavyweight gold medals at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics. He turned professional in 2013 and won the undisputed cruiserweight championship in his 15th professional fight in 2018. Three of his titles were won during the inaugural World Boxing Super Series, in which he won the Muhammad Ali Trophy, as well as the Ring and lineal cruiserweight titles. For his achievements, Usyk was named the 2018 Fighter of the Year by Sports Illustrated, ESPN, The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA).

In 2018 Usyk became the fourth male boxer in history to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles, after Jermain Taylor, Bernard Hopkins and Terence Crawford. He was the first Ukrainian undisputed champion. He is particularly notable for the speed of his accomplishments, winning his first world title in his tenth fight, and becoming the undisputed champion of his weight class by his fifteenth fight. Usyk vacated his cruiserweight titles in 2019 to move up to heavyweight. By that point, in sixteen fights he had defeated five current or former world champions.

In September 2021, Usyk defeated unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua by unanimous decision to become the new heavyweight champion of the world. He defended his WBA, WBO and IBF championship belts in August 2022, by defeating Joshua in the rematch in Jeddah.

As of August 2022, Usyk is ranked as the world's best active boxer, pound for pound, by The Ring, second by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB), third by BWAA,[9] fifth by BoxRec and sixth by ESPN. He is also ranked as the best heavyweight by TBRB, BoxRec and ESPN.[14]"