House Republicans announce an investigation into Joe Biden

Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, stands with other House Republicans during a news conference to discuss their investigation into Biden family business dealings at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 17, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Republicans are claiming that President Joe Biden was involved in his son Hunter's controversial foreign business deals, which allegedly spans 50 different countries, lawmakers said in a press conference on Thursday.

It comes one day after the GOP clinched 218 seats in the House of Representatives, cementing their majority - and investigative powers - in the next Congress.

The president has long denied involvement in and knowledge of his son's foreign dealings - some of which are being investigated by federal authorities.

But Rep. James Comer accused Biden of being 'chairman of the board' of his family's business dealings and even claimed the White House spent more than $250,000 to deflect negative stories about Hunter.

'This is an investigation of Joe Biden,' he said. 'I think we've laid out the evidence as to why we feel it's important, and we're going to move forward with that.'

He said later, 'We're trying to stay focused on - was Joe Biden directly involved with Hunter Biden's business deals, and is he compromised?'

Comer said he'd even like members of the Biden family to testify before the House when asked, but said the main focus of their probe right now was to access bank records.

'As part of our investigation, we have evidence that the finances, credit cards, and bank accounts of Hunter and Joe Biden were commingled, if not shared,' the Republican lawmaker said.

'One of Hunter's closest associates, Eric Schwerin, was accessing Joe Biden's money and writing checks to reimburse Hunter.'

He said some accounts linked to the Biden family raised 'red flags' about 'suspicious or illegal activity.'

At least one of those red flags, known as 'SARs,' allegedly 'connects Hunter Biden and his business associates to international human trafficking, among other illegal activities,' Comer said.

'We have repeatedly called on the Biden Treasury Department to release additional financial documents to committee Republicans, but thus far Treasury has refused,' the lawmaker said. 'We want to know what the Biden administration has tried to hide from the American people and why they are not being transparent.'

Hunter ally Schwerin was reportedly head of the president's son's company and handed the majority of his finances - and appointed to a position within the Obama administration, when Joe Biden was vice president.

'After an apparent falling out with Schwerin, Hunter began coordinating business himself - and increasingly the deals brought in Joe Biden as a direct equity holder,' Comer said.

He claimed Hunter went a step further and tried to get these bank alerts quashed - allegedly with the help of a Clinton administration official.

Comer also took a swipe at more holistic coverage of the president's son that puts Hunter's questionable ethics into context with his battle against drug addiction.

'Hunter Biden isn’t this guy who just got a bad rap because he’s got a drug problem,' Comer said.

The lawmakers said a report detailing their investigation and evidence thus far - which appears to largely be made up of whistleblower testimony - would be forthcoming.

The troubling scope of Hunter's business dealings in Ukraine and China came to light when the New York Post, and subsequently DailyMail.com, authenticated the contents of a laptop hard drive purportedly belonging to the president's only surviving son.

He received a lucrative salary while on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, despite having no experience in the industry, while his father was vice president and leading a coalition to crack down on corruption there.

Emails recovered from the laptop also show Hunter discussing with associates the beginnings of a business deal in China - where one message discussing equity stakes carves out 10 percent 'for the big guy.'

Republicans on Thursday alleged that 'the big guy' is the US president.

'At a time when Americans are suffering from high energy prices, because of this administration's terrible energy policy, we find evidence that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden were involved in a scheme to try to get China to buy liquefied natural gas, and from a whistleblower, to try to get their foot in the door with China starting to purchase an interest in natural gas drillers,' Comer said.

He presented as evidence a print-out of what he claimed was a slide show regarding the business deal that was found on Hunter's laptop.

When pressed, however, Comer said the slide was likely from around 2017.

The Kentucky Republican would not say concretely how that is linked to today's energy crisis when asked, but said: 'I mean, Joe Biden says he's gonna stand up to China.'

'Joe Biden says he's going to rewrite our whole energy policy...And he was a 10 percent equity owner in a company whose sole mission was to to purchase liquefied natural gas from the United States and try to take over the energy the natural gas industry in America through natural gas wholesalers and natural gas drillers,' Comer said.

'I mean, I don't think Joe Biden has been honest American people about that.'

It's worth noting that it's not clear that the deal was ever finalized.

Penipu Ratusan Mahasiswa IPB Sudah Ditangkap Polisi

Kapolres Bogor AKBP Iman Imanuddin (Suara.com/Polres Bogor)

Polres Bogor akhirnya menangkap penipu ratusan Mahasiswa IPB hingga terjerat pinjaman online (Pinjol), pada hari Kamis, 17/11/2022.

Terduga pelaku penipuan tersebut merupakan seorang perempuan berinisial SAN.

"Masih kami periksa (SAN). Sudah mengarah pada satu nama (tersangka)," kata Kapolres Bogor AKBP Iman Imanuddin, mengutip dari Antara.

Ia menyebutkan, penangkapan SAN dilakukan setelah kepolisian melakukan pemeriksaan beberapa saksi yang merasa terjebak pinjaman online bermodus investasi di sebuah toko online.

Iman mengaku masih mendalami perkara tersebut dan belum membeberkan secara rinci mengenai kronologi penangkapan SAN beserta perannya dalam kegiatan yang disebut-sebut menyebabkan kerugian miliaran rupiah.

"Kami sedang mendalami apakah orang-orang yang membantu terselenggaranya kegiatan tersebut berperan secara aktif dan mengetahui dari awal tentang keadaan palsu yang ditawarkan tersebut. Kalau seandainya itu bisa terpenuhi, maka kepada mereka juga bisa dikenakan pasal penyertaan," kata Iman.

Polres Bogor menerima laporan beberapa mahasiswa IPB yang mengaku terjerat pinjaman online pada Rabu, 16/11/2022, setelah beberapa mahasiswa IPB lainnya juga melaporkan kejadian serupa ke Polresta Bogor Kota pada hari Selasa, 15/11/2022.

Modus pinjaman online yang menimpa ratusan mahasiswa IPB ini, yaitu berkedok toko online. Para korban awalnya ditawari investasi dengan iming-iming keuntungan 10 persen di sebuah toko online.

Para korban mengaku diminta oleh pengelola toko online untuk mengajukan pinjaman online, kemudian uangnya diinvestasikan di toko online tersebut.

Aksi SAN membuat kerugian mencapai Rp 1,6 miliar.

Penipuan berkedok Toko Online

Kejadian ini berawal kabar yang ramai di media sosial yang mengabarkan ratusan mahasiswa Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) terjerat kasus pinjaman online (pinjol).

Adapun, kasus mahasiswa IPB terjerat pinjol ini dilakukan oleh seorang oknum yang telah teridentifikasi identitasnya.

Awalnya para mahasiswa tertarik bergabung ikut dalam model investasi lewat jual penjualan online yang dipromosikan oleh kakak kelas di kampusnya. Mereka diminta investasi ke usaha tersebut dengan iming keuntungan 10 persen per bulan serta alternatif meminjam modal ke pinjol.

Rektor IPB University Arif Satria mengatakan bahwa pihaknya juga sudah berkoordinasi dengan pihak kepolisian dan akan terus mendampingi mahasiswa dalam penyelesaian masalah. Termasuk dalam hal pendampingan hukum.

“Bervariasi (besaran pinjamannya), ada yang Rp 2 juta dan ada juga yang Rp 16 juta,” kata Arif.

Kepala Departemen Penyidikan Sektor Jasa Keuangan OJK Tongam Lumban Tobing menduga kasus itu adalah penipuan berkedok toko online.

“Kejadian yang menjerat mahasiswa IPB dan masyarakat sekitar kampus ini merupakan dugaan penipuan yang dilakukan dengan kedok menawarkan kerja sama usaha penjualan online di toko online milik pelaku. Dan menawarkan komisi 10 persen per transaksi,” ujar Tongam saat dihubungi pada hari Kamis, 17/11/2022.

Tongam menjelaskan, awalnya pelaku kejahatan meminta para mahasiswa membeli barang di toko online-nya. Apabila mahasiswa tidak mempunyai uang, maka pelaku meminta mahasiswa meminjam ke fintech yang menyediakan pinjaman.

Uang hasil pinjaman itu masuk ke rekening pelaku, tapi barang yang dibeli tidak diserahkan ke pembeli. Artinya ada pembelian secara fiktif dari toko online pelaku.

“Pelaku berjanji akan membayar cicilan utang dari pemberi pinjaman tersebut dengan iming-iming komisi. Sehingga mahasiswa tertarik untuk ikut berinvestasi,” kata dia.

Seoul crowd crush victims died amid delayed rescue in Itaewon alley

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Video filmed at 6:28 p.m. on Oct. 29 shows the narrow alley in Itaewon was already dangerously crowded, according to expert review. (Video: @hyerinpark5 via TikTok)

The Post, which also scrutinized emergency call logs and interviewed dozens of witnesses, determined that the alley became dangerously crowded as early as 6:28 p.m. The first of at least 13 emergency calls came in minutes later to warn of escalating chaos, with people wedged in so tightly that there were already injuries.

At 10:08 p.m., those dynamics triggered the crush.

A few police officers and other individuals at the edge of the mayhem had been trying futilely to redirect the crowd, according to videos. At least 16 more emergency calls came in between 10:08 p.m. and 10:22 p.m., when video shows five officers struggling to pull out unconscious victims.

South Korea admits police crowd control was ‘inadequate’ before crush

Yet it wasn’t until 10:39 p.m. that emergency personnel closed both ends of the alley — a lag of roughly half an hour that allowed foot traffic to continue into the area, hampered rescue efforts and undoubtedly increased the fatalities, according to the experts’ review of the materials. Another 11 minutes elapsed before police mounted a broad response, according to department records.

The number of lives ultimately lost exceeded those in recent crowd-surge disasters at an outdoor concert in Houston and a soccer stadium in Indonesia. Almost 200 people were hurt; as of Thursday in Seoul, seven were still hospitalized.

How police action in Indonesia led to a deadly crush in the soccer stadium

“This was the easiest scenario in terms of effectively overseeing crowd control and preventing accidents,” said Young Ook Kim, an expert on crowd movement and spatial layout and behavior at Sejong University in Seoul. “If you just go assess the site and discuss potential countermeasures, anyone who has the instincts and experience would have been able to foresee the situation.”

The genesis of the deadly crush

A popular nightlife district in Seoul, typically draws tens of thousands of young people. Most of the raucous celebrations take place along World Food Street — a block of restaurants and bars — and the side alleys that connect it to one of Itaewon’s main thoroughfares.

With coronavirus restrictions lifted, local businesses were anticipating bigger crowds this year. “We plan to throw an epic Halloween party since it’s the first Halloween after coronavirus. Let’s party until the sun comes up,” one bar advertised.

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The festivities were in full swing by 10 p.m. that Saturday, videos show, with throngs of costumed men and women making their way up and down World Food Street and into the narrow passageway just west of the Hamilton Hotel. A DJ party was scheduled to gear up at the 108 Hip Hop Lounge, which is in the alley.

Around 10:08 p.m., something shifted in the packed crowd by the club, video reviewed by The Post shows. People began screaming.

“This situation is extremely serious already,” noted Mark Breen, director of Safe Events, a company that specializes in safety planning for large-scale gatherings, who looked at videos provided by The Post. During the next 10 minutes, he saw evidence of crowd crush, a phenomenon that occurs when a crowd’s density crosses a critical threshold and its movement becomes almost fluid.

Kim, who also reviewed the alley videos, saw initial markers of the crush by 10:08 p.m., with some people squeezed so severely that they would have had trouble breathing.

Survivors Zara Lily, an English teacher, and Jinhyeong Yun, an ocean engineer, described what the scene felt like. “People were pushed onto each other, and there were many times where there was a wave of pushing which made people fall forwards and then back, just like ocean waves,” Lily wrote in a message from the couple’s joint Instagram account.

By 10:17 p.m., the experts agreed, the crush had taken over. Additional pressures at both ends of the alley only made it worse.

From World Food Street on the northern end, people continued turning in, unaware of what was happening. Video shows that the street itself was so congested at one point that a man tried to climb a sign on the back side of the Hamilton Hotel to escape. Meanwhile, on the alley’s southern end, partygoers on the main thoroughfare, as well as those just arriving from the Itaewon subway station, were pushing in, too.

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Videos filmed between 10:17 and 10:21 p.m. show crowds converging from both ends of a narrow alley in Seoul's Itaewon district, leading to a crowd crush. (Video: @limesarah1 via TikTok, @iwanderlista via TikTok)

Just steps from the Hip Hop club entrance, videos show people pressed in hard and wincing in pain. Many were visibly gasping for air. G. Keith Still, a visiting professor of crowd science at the University of Suffolk in England, told The Post that in those panicked moments, people “could be dying on their feet.”

Two other witnesses said they watched as some in the crowd fell out of sight amid all the pushing, with others then falling on top of them — a human domino effect that experts label crowd collapse.

According to the Korean newspaper Dong-A Ilbo, area businesses had asked the city days earlier to require subway trains to bypass Itaewon station over the weekend because of concerns about the volume of people who often exit there. The Seoul Transportation Corp. told The Post that it did not receive an official request. Experts said shutting down the closest exit to the alley would have alleviated some of the congestion on Oct. 29.

Failings in the emergency response

The most efficient way to alleviate a crowd crush or crowd collapse is to relieve the intense pressure by removing people from the periphery as fast as possible, experts say. In Itaewon, that meant immediately evacuating people out both ends of the alley.

But The Post analysis of available video determined that it took between 26 and 31 minutes after the crush began for emergency personnel to start doing so.

By 10:22 p.m., people were already massed on top of each other at the most jammed point of the alley. The five officers on the scene had trouble reaching individuals and pulling them out given the weight of the crowd, available videos show. Meanwhile, a photo from a bird’s-eye perspective shows that foot traffic continued in from World Food Street, exacerbating the bottleneck.

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A handful of police officers attempt to pull crushed revelers from the crowd around 10:23 p.m. on Oct. 29 in the Itaewon neighborhood of Seoul. (Video: @lorna.talion1122 via TikTok and Reddit)

Itaewon police Sgt. Kim Baek-gyeom realized something was wrong when he and two junior officers heard screams coming from the area as they responded to an unrelated call. He radioed for backup, then he and another officer ran to World Food Street to try to keep more people from entering the alley.

“There were so many people being pushed down from the [street], pressure continued to apply to the scene, making it even more difficult to evacuate people from the pile,” he told South Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper.

Kim said he momentarily considered whether to race to his precinct for a megaphone, then decided the situation was too dire. His desperation as he begged everyone to turn around was captured in a video mash-up that has since gone viral.

“People are dying. Move back. Please cooperate,” he implored.

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A small contingent of emergency workers was first able to clear the southern end of alley. Additional support and ambulances struggled to reach the site because of traffic along Itaewon-Ro, the main street, according to walkie-talkie transcripts.

“It’s too difficult to enter via vehicle. All responders travel via foot,” the response commander ordered at 10:29 p.m.

By 10:34 p.m., no emergency personnel had yet reached the northernmost section of the crush, videos show.

At 10:39 p.m., more than half an hour after the crush started, five firefighters and four police officers are finally visible in a video of the location. Subsequent video reveals how slowly the rescue progressed.

Kena PHK Lebih dari 79.316 Orang dari 111 Perusahaan

ILUSTRASI: Pekerja menyelesaikan pesanan jahitan pakaian muslim di Cibiru, Bandung, Jawa Ba`rat, hari Senin, 30/10/2022.

Data Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia menyebutkan jumlah pekerja sektor industri tekstil, khususnya garmen, yang mengalami pemutusan hubungan kerja sampai awal November 2022 mencapai 79.316 orang dari 111 perusahaan.

Sedangkan angka PHK hanya dalam periode Oktober-November 2022 sebanyak 15.316 orang.

“Bahkan, sebanyak 16 perusahaan telah menutup operasi produksinya. Total pengurangan karyawan sebanyak 79.316 orang,” kata Ketua Umum Apindo Hariyadi Sukamdani dalam laporan Solopos, hari ini.

Gelombang PHK mayoritas terjadi pada industri tekstil di Jawa Barat.

Hariyadi menambahkan order garmen mengalami penurunan selama periode akhir 2022 hingga kuartal kedua tahun depan, dengan kisaran 30%-50% dibandingkan dengan periode yang sama pada tahun sebelumnya.

Mengutip data Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia (Apindo), total tenaga kerja pabrik garmen yang yang kehilangan pekerjaan sampai dengan awal November 2022 mencapai 79.316 orang dari 111 perusahaan.

Kondisi tersebut, kata dia, memaksa perusahaan anggota Apindo di sektor terkait untuk melakukan pengurangan produksi secara signifikan dan berimplikasi kepada pengurangan jam kerja hingga PHK.

Lebih dari 79.316 orang

Ketua Umum Asosiasi Pertekstilan Indonesia Jemmy Kartiwa menambahkan angka sebenarnya dari pengurangan tenaga kerja di industri garmen lebih dari 79.316 orang.

“Angka yang disampaikan soal jumlah tenaga kerja yang dikurangi tersebut hanya berdasarkan informasi dari perusahaan yang melaporkan. Namun, banyak juga PHK yang terjadi tapi perusahaan tidak melaporkan ke asosiasi,” kata dia.

Pengurangan tenaga kerja tidak hanya terjadi pada industri garmen. Di sektor alas kaki, berdasarkan laporan dari 37 pabrik sepatu yang memiliki pekerja 337.192 orang, asosiasi mencatat terdapat 25.700 pekerja yang terkena PHK.

PHK terjadi seiring penurunan permintaan sebesar 45% sejak Juli 2022 hingga Oktober 2022 sehingga produksi November-Desember 2022 mengalami penurunan hingga 51%.

Sekadar informasi, pengurangan tenaga kerja tidak hanya terjadi pada industri garmen. Di sektor alas kaki, berdasarkan laporan dari 37 pabrik sepatu yang memiliki pekerja 337.192 orang, asosiasi mencatat terdapat 25.700 pekerja yang terkena PHK.

PHK terjadi seiring penurunan permintaan sebesar 45 persen sejak Juli 2022 hingga Oktober 2022 sehingga produksi November - Desember 2022 mengalami penurunan hingga 51 persen.

Tercapai Islah Kasus Pesantren Denda Santri 37 Juta

Akhir tercapai kesepakatan damai kasus Pondok Pesantren di Bandung yang mendenda santri asal Kabupaten Tasikmalaya sebesar Rp 37 juta, pada hari Senin, 14/11/2022.

Kasus yang sempat menjadi perbincangan publik itu akhirnya tercapai kesepakatan damai yang menyejukkan, setelah kedua pihak yakni, pemilik Pondok Pesantren dan orang tua santri di Kantor KPAID Tasikmalaya, pada Senin kemarin, 14/11/2022.

Proses mediasi dilakukan dengan mediator KPAID Kabupaten Tasikmalaya disaksikan perwakilan Kantor Kementrian Agama Kabupaten Bandung dan Kementrian Agama Kabupaten Tasikmalaya.

Dua poin penting yang disepakati oleh kedua belah pihak :

1. Pertama, kedua belah bersepakat untuk saling memaafkan atas kesalahpahaman dan mengakhiri permasalahan yang terjadi tanpa pungutan/denda/biaya apapun.



2. Kedua, kedua belah pihak bersepakat untuk menjaga hak anak agar melanjutkan pendidikan ke jenjang selanjutnya.

Pemilik sekaligus pengasuh Pondok Pesantren Ruuhul Qur'an Mumtaz (RQM) Abu Haikal membenarkan hal tersebut.

"Saya sampaikan hari ini masalah yang kemarin selesai. Hanya salah paham itu," kata Pimpinan Yayasan Ruhul Qur'an Mumtaz Bandung Abu Haikal di Kantor KPAID Kabupaten Tasikmalaya, pada hari Senin, 14/11/2022.

Orangtua santri, lanjut dia, telah meminta maaf atas apa yang terjadi. Pun dengan pihaknya yang telah membebaskan santrinya dari denda tersebut.

"Kita sepakat saja, sebab dari awal saya sudah bilang bukan soal dendanya, tapi soal niatan baiknya," ujar dia.

Saat mediasi berlangsung, sambung dia, orang tua santri mengklarifikasi soal dirinya yang tidak mengetahui perjanjian awal ketika santri di masukan ke Ponpes RQM.

Islah ini disambut haru dan bahagi orang tua santri. Ibunda santri, Eizki Siti Nuraisyah berterima kasih kepada yayasan yang menempuh jalur islah.

"Saya terima kasih sama Abu (Pimpinan Yayasan) yang sudah mau menyelesaikan kasus ini secara kekeluargaan," ungkap Rizki.

KPAID Kabupaten Tasikmalaya memastikan kasus denda santri ini hanya salah paham. Pihak Yayasan Ruhul Qur'an Mumtaz tidak berorientasi pada finansial melainkan bentuk edukasi.

"Salah satu alasan KPAID melayani itu karena orangtua santri berkata seperti itu, tapi beda ketika surat perjanjian itu ada," tambahnya

"Esensinya bukan pada finansial atau komersil pihak Yayasan ini, tapi bentuk edukasi saja agar semua pihak belajar tanggung jawab. Alhamdulillah ini berakhir damai karena salah paham aja. Santri akan sekolah di Tasikmalaya," tutur Ketua KPAID Kabupaten Tasikmalaya Ato Rinanto.

KPAID akan mendampingi santri untuk pemulihan psikologisnya pascakejadian ini. Santri ini akan kembali menempuh sekolah umum di sekolah dasar.

Sebelumnya, Rizki siti nuraisyah (31) dan anaknya mendatangi Kantor Komisi Perlindungan Anak Indonesia Kabupaten Tasikmalaya. Warga Kecamatan Rajapolah ini berniat mengadukan masalah yang dialami anak dan keluarganya.

Dia mengaku mendapat kiriman surat dari yayasan pendidikan agama di bandung, tempat anaknya menuntut ilmu. Sang anak dianggap melanggar tata tertib yayasan hingga disanksi disiplin dengan hraus membayar uang Rp 37.250.000.

Denda disiplin ini dihitung dari nominal denda Rp 50 ribu per hari dikalikan 745 hari selama anaknya belajar agama. Denda disiplin keluar setelah anaknya kabur dari pondok yang ketiga kalinya. Anaknya mengaku sudah tidak kerasan belajar hingga akan memilih keluar pondok.

Puting Beliung Menerjang Permukiman Warga Blitar, Belasan Rumah Rusak

Rumah warga Blitar ambruk diterjang puting beliung (Foto: Beritajatim)

Cuaca ekstrem sudah diperingatkan oleh Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) kemarin. Hujan deras disertai petir dan angin kencang bakal melanda Jatim selama sepekan ke depan.

Benar saja, kemarin puting beliung menerjang permukiman warga di Kabupaten Blitar. Persisnya di Kelurahan Jengglong Kecamatan Sutojayan. Akibatnya, sebanyak 14 rumah rusak dan satu dikabarkan roboh, hari Rabu, 16/11/2022.

Data ini disampaikan Kepala BPBD Kabupaten Blitar Ivong Bettryanto, pada hari Rabu, 16/11/2022. Ia menjelaskan kalau puting beliung itu dibarengi dengan hujan deras. Durasinya juga cukup lama sampai merusak rumah warga tersebut.

"Benar terjadi putinge beliung di desa Jongglong Sutojayan yang menyebabkan belasan rumah warga rusak," katanya dikutip dari beritajatim.com jejaring media suara.com, hari Kamis, 17/11/2022.

Dari laporan BPBD Kabupetan Blitar total ada 1 rumah warga yang roboh. Rumah tersebut milik Edi Suseno, 45 tahun warga RT 05 RW 05 kelurahan Jengglong Kecamatan Sutojayan Kabupaten Blitar. Kondisi rumah Pria tahun itu tidak lagi bisa ditempati karena roboh rata dengan tanah.

Bangunan rumah sendiri memang terbuat dari kayu dan bambu sehingga tidak kuat menahan terjangan angin kencang dan hujan deras.

"Rumah milik Edi Suseno (umur 45 th) RT 05 RW 05 Kondisi rumah tidak ditempati rusak rumah roboh terbuat dari kayu dan dinding anyaman bambu ukuran rumah 9×5m, perkiraan kerugian 15 juta," ujarnya.

Selain membuat sebuah rumah roboh 14 rumah warga lainnya juga mengalami rusak ringan setelah diterjang puting beliung. menurut Kepala BPBD Kabupaten Blitar, kerusakan rumah mayoritas terjadi pada atap bangunan yang roboh akibat diterjang angin kencang.

Total kerugian akibat puting belung itu sendiri diperkirakan mencapai puluhan juta rupiah. Hingga kini BPBD Kabupetan Blitar masih terus melakukan pendataan mengenai total kerusakan.

"14 rumah warga rusak ringan setelah diterjangan angin kencang dan hujan deras mayoritas rusak di bagian atap," kata Ivong.

Selain rumah warga, ada pula kandang ternak warga juga ikut rusak akibat diterjang puting beliung. kini petugas BPBD bersama warga tengah melakukan pembersihan puing puing runtuhan rumah.

Proses perbaikan rumah warga yang rusak juga tengah dikerjakan oleh petugas gabungan BPBD Kabupetan Blitar, Polisi serta TNI.

"Saat ini tim masih di lapangan untuk melakukan pembersihan dan perbaikan rumah warga yang rusak akibat angin kencang dan hujan deras," katanya memungkasi.

Moscow Urges Warsaw Not to Engage in 'Dirty Provocations' Staged by Kiev Regime

The Russian Foreign Ministry explained to the Polish charge d'affaires that hyping up the anti-Russia hysteria over the "missile incident" was unacceptable.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov lambasted an allegation that Moscow is 'indirectly responsible' for the incident in Poland, stressing that Russia had nothing to do with it.

Polish Ambassador to Moscow Krzysztof Krajewski has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Moscow also called on Warsaw not to engage in "dirty provocations" staged by the Kiev regime and not to initiate its own.

The Russian Foreign Ministry firmly denied allegations of any links regarding the missile which fell in Poland, noting that an impartial probe would reveal it is nothing but a provocation. Moscow noted in an official statement that Kiev is desperately trying to use any pretext to blame Moscow, searching for additional support from the West. The ministry also described the reaction of some NATO countries to the incident as "appalling'".

"The photographs of the wreckage found in the village of Przewodow published in Poland on the evening of November 15 were unambiguously identified by Russian specialists of the military-industrial sphere as elements of an surface-to-air guided missile of the S-300 air defense complex of the Ukrainian military," the ministry said in a statement.

Trump Jr. Says US Should Stop Sending Billions to Kiev After Ukrainian Missile Hits Poland

Donald Trump Jr., the son of former US president Donald Trump, said on Wednesday the United States should stop sending billions of dollars in security and economic assistance to Kiev after a Ukrainian missile hit Poland on Tuesday.

"Since it was Ukraine's missile that hit our NATO ally Poland, can we at least stop spending billions to arm them now?" Trump Jr. said via Twitter.

Berlin: Germany and NATO Not Considering Introduction of No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine

"The introduction of a no-fly zone is dangerous, as it will lead to a direct conflict between NATO and Russia. Together with all our partners in the alliance, we are unanimous in the opinion that we want to avoid a further escalation of the war in Ukraine," German Federal Government Deputy Spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said at a briefing.

Russia Includes 52 Representatives of Ireland's Leadership and Political Figures in Sanctions List

"In response to the anti-Russian course of the Irish government, which unconditionally supports the unilateral restrictive measures introduced by the European Union against Russian citizens aimed at attempts to isolate our country internationally, a decision was made to include 52 key representatives of the leadership and politicians of Ireland in the Russian ‘stop list’ (travel ban list)," the foreign ministry said in a statement

Russia's MoD Latest Briefing on Special Military Operation in Ukraine

• Russian forces eliminated more than 80 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed six Ukrainian tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, two armored carriers and three Ukrainian self-propelled artillery systems in the LPR;



• Russian forces eliminated and wounded more than 100 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian tanks and four armored combat vehicles near Krasny Liman;



• Russian forces eliminated more than 65 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two infantry combat vehicles, five armored vehicles and three other vehicles in the DPR;



• Russian forces hit 94 Ukrainian artillery units at their firing positions;



• Russian forces destroyed a US-made AN/TPQ-50 radar station in the LPR;



• Russian forces destroyed a Ukrainian ammunition depot in the Zaporozhye region;



• Russian forces destroyed two US-made M777 artillery systems in the Kharkov region;



• Russian forces destroyed the Ukrainian Akatsiya artillery station in the Kherson region, as well as a Ukrainian Grad multiple-launch rocket system in the LPR;



• The Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Zaporozhye region;



• Russian air defense destroyed three Ukrainian UAVs and intercepted eleven HIMARS and Uragan rockets.

Latest on Strikes

• As Russia launches new high-precision strikes on Ukraine, here's everything you need to know:



• Russian forces conducted multiple high-precision strikes on military and energy facilities in Ukraine on November 15, according to Ukrainian media



• Zelensky's office claimed that about 15 energy facilities in different regions were damaged.



• A number of cities, including Kiev, Zhitomir, parts of Lvov, Odessa and Kharkov, have been left without power, while rolling blackouts have been reported in the Kiev



• Ukrainian mobile operators have limited services in order to save electricity, the Lvov mayor said



• The Ukrainian railway announced a delay in the movement of trains after strikes in several directions; Ukraine is seeing significant internet outages after strikes, cyber watchdog NetBlocks reported