The drone attack of the Kremlin, acts of sabotage at infrastructure facilities and railways are manifestations of terrorism practiced by the Ukrainian authorities, which require maximal consolidation of Russian society, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Thursday.
"The attack on the Kremlin, assassination attempts on political leaders, acts of sabotage at railways, electricity transmission lines, and infrastructure facilities, including the explosion of the Crimean Bridge, and gas pipeline blasts, are the facts of terrorist activities of the Kiev regime and its sponsors," Vladimir Vasilyev, leader of the ruling United Russia party’s faction in the State Duma, or lower house of Russia’s parliament, was quoted as saying on the faction’s Telegram channel.
The lawmaker recalled that the country has "the experience of defeating terrorism gained at a high price in the years when the country was only embarking on a path of sovereignty" and lauded President Vladimir Putin’s role in it.
"Today, terrorism has raised it head again and is targeting the very heart of Russia. Attacks targeting the president are targeting each one of us. To thwart them, maximal consolidation, vigilance, cooperation with law enforcement agencies and special services are need. And the most important thing is understanding that all of us must defend the motherland and the president," he stressed.
In the night on May 3, two drones attempted an attack on the president’s Kremlin residence. The Russian military and special services promptly put them out of order. Following the incident, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on terrorist act charges.
After drone attack on Kremlin Russia has no choice but to eliminate Zelensky — Medvedev
Kiev’s drone attack on the Kremlin has left Russia with no options other than the physical elimination of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky "and his clique," the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
In a comment on Kiev's actions Medvedev wrote: "After today's terrorist attack, there are no options left other than the physical elimination of Zelensky and his clique."
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, according to Medvedev, "is not even needed for signing an instrument of unconditional surrender."
"Hitler, as is known, did not sign it either. There will always be some substitute," Medvedev wrote.
Earlier, the Russian leader's press service said that Kiev had attempted to use drones to attack the Kremlin residence of the Russian president last night. Two drones were targeted at the Kremlin. The Russian military and special services promptly put them out of order. Putin was not harmed and kept working in accordance with his usual schedule.
The Kremlin sees this as a planned terrorist attack and an attempt on the Russian president. Russia reserves the right to retaliate at the right moment and the way it finds appropriate.
Last night, the regime in Kiev made an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin's life by carrying out a UAV strike against Kremlin, the Kremlin press service said.
According to a statement issued by Kremlin, the two UAVs that were launched at Kremlin were disabled and downed by Russian security services with the help of "electronic warfare systems", and that this drone attack failed to inflict any damage or injury.
"As a result of the [drones] fall and the scattering of [their] fragments at the territory of the Kremlin, there were no casualties or material damage," the statement said.
The Russian president's press service has confirmed that Putin himself was not present at Kremlin during the time of this attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also announced that the annual Victory Day parade held on May 9 at the Red Square in Moscow is going to proceed as planned this year.
Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Wednesday what a ban on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the city has been introduced today, with the only exception being made for UAVs "used by decisions of state authorities."
The mayor noted that the decision was made to prevent unauthorized use of UAVs, but did not make any reference to the attack on Kremlin last night.
They tried to hit the Kremlin with two drones
As a result of timely actions taken by the military and special services using radar warfare systems, the devices were put out of action, - Press Service of the President of Russia
There is footage circulating on social media, which purports to show the aftermath, with a plume of smoke rising against the night cityscape from the territory of the historic seat of Russian power.
Menteri Koordinator Bidang Pembangunan Manusia dan Kebudayaan (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy dalam konferensi pers secara daring pasca rapat tingkat menteri di Jakarta, Senin (3/4/2023). (Dok. Zoom meeting Kemenko PMK)
Menteri Koordinator bidang Pemberdayaan Manusia dan Kebudayaan (PMK) Muhadjir Effendy mengatakan, pemerintah telah menyiapkan lima jaring pengaman sosial untuk menjaga generasi sandwich* tak masuk dalam angka kemiskinan.
Jaring pengaman sosial pertama yaitu jaminan kecelakaan kerja untuk para pekerja.
"Kemudian (kedua) jaminan kematian, terutama kematian pada waktu kerja, anaknya ditanggung sampai perguruan tinggi dari BPJS Tenaga Kerja," ujar Muhadjir saat ditemui di Kantor PP Muhammadiyah, pada hari Rabu, 03/05/2023.
Muhadjir mengatakan, tanggungan beasiswa ini sudah terealisasi di beberapa daerah ketika pekerja meninggal dunia dan meninggalkan anak.
"Saya kasihkan beberapa contoh di beberapa daerah, ketika ayahnya meninggal maka anaknya langsung ditanggung oleh BPJS TK itu, akan mendapatkan beasiswa sampai tamat perguruan tinggi," imbuh dia.
Ketiga, adanya jaminan pensiun untuk pekerja; keempat, jaminan hari tua; dan terakhir adalah jaminan kehilangan pekerjaan.
"Jadi ketika orang kena PHK, asal dia berada di perusahaan di dalam BPJS TK maka yang bersangkutan bisa mendapatkan uang dan ia bisa mendapatkan fasilitas Kartu Prakerja untuk meningkatkan keterampilannya," tutur Muhadjir.
Selain itu, pekerja yang dilakukan pemutusan hubungan kerja disediakan bantuan pinjaman modal dalam bentuk Kredit Usaha Rakyat (KUR) apabila ingin beralih menjadi pengusaha.
"Dengan lima bantalan ini, kita harapkan generasi sandwich ini akan aman, tidak sampai jatuh ke tingkat kemiskinan, apalagi kemiskinan ekstrem," kata dia.
Muhadjir sebelumnya mengatakan, angkatan kerja di Indonesia saat ini didominasi oleh generasi sandwich. "Indonesia adalah angkatan kerja kita, demografi kita sangat diwarnai angkatan kerja generasi sandwich itu," ujar Muhadjir.
Muhadjir mengatakan, generasi sandwich adalah generasi pertama dalam keluarganya yang memasuki dunia kerja formal.
Sedangkan orangtua mereka belum mengenal dunia kerja formal seperti saat ini sehingga tidak memiliki jaminan hari tua.
"Maka, ketika anaknya masuk ke dunia industri, dunia perusahaan menjadi pekerja, maka dia harus menanggung, bahkan bukan hanya orangtuanya, tapi sampai (menanggung) kakek-neneknya karena masih hidup," ucap Muhadjir.
Di sisi lain, pekerja laki-laki yang sudah berkeluarga memiliki tanggung jawab utama menghidupi anak dan istrinya. Sementara itu, untuk pekerja perempuan, menanggung suami dan anaknya.
"Jadi dia seperti sandwich," tutur dia.
Generasi ini dinilai rentan masuk dalam garis kemiskinan ketika terjadi pemutusan hubungan kerja (PHK).
Jika terjadi PHK pada generasi ini, ada kemungkinan keluarga mereka, mulai dari anak, istri, orangtua, hingga kakek-nenek mereka ikut menanggung akibatnya.
"Dan ini kalau misalnya terjadi pemutusan PHK, dia kehilangan pekerjaan otomatis kehilangan penghasilan, itu dampaknya tidak hanya ditanggung yang kena PHK saja, tetapi tadi itu, kakek nenek ayah ibu dan itu kemudian akan meningkatkan kemiskinan di Indonesia," tutur dia.
*Generasi sandwich atau generasi roti lapis, yakni orang yang terimpit sebagai lapisan tengah di antara orang-orang yang membutuhkan perawatan.
Shclesinger dan Raphael dalam jurnalnya tahun 1993 pernah menjelaskan bahwa studi mengenai generasi sandwich berawal pada tahun 1981 di California.
Kala itu, terdapat batasan subjek penelitian tentang generasi sandwich dengan kategori usianya, yaitu perempuan yang berada pada kategori middle age yakni berada pada kisaran umur 45-65 tahun.
Selanjutnya, di Toronto terdapat studi terkait generasi sandwich adalah dikategorikan tanpa membatasi usia individu untuk mengklasifikasikannya ke dalam generasi sandwich.
Karena impitan tersebut, generasi sandwich memiliki beban keuangan yang berlapis. Bila orang lain memulai keuangannya dari 0 atau bahkan plus- karena subsidi dari orang tua, generasi sandwich justru memulai perjalanan keuangannya dari minus, sebab mereka harus memberi dukungan keuangan kepada orang tuanya.
Peran ganda pada generasi sandwich atau sandwich generation artinya yaitu bertanggung jawab terhadap anaknya yang masih tinggal bersama di rumah dan juga bertanggung jawab atas orang tua serta mertuanya.
Dengan demikian, orang-orang yang termasuk dalam generasi sandwich maksudnya yaitu generasi yang tidak hanya mengurus diri dan pasangan sendiri.
Lebih dari itu, mereka juga turut menanggung beban generasi sebelum dan sesudahnya. Posisi yang berada di antara dua generasi itulah yang kemudian membuat seseorang diibaratkan seperti sandwich.
Itulah penjelasan sederhana mengenai generasi sandwich itu apa. Lantas apa dampak generasi sandwich? Sebelum itu, pahami dulu pengertian generasi sandwich menurut para ahli.
Generasi sandwich, menurut para ahli perlu menerapkan batasan khusus yaitu keberadaan anak dengan usia di atas 18 tahun dan memiliki tanggung jawab untuk menjaga/ merawat orangtua dan/atau mertuanya.
WR Hernandez, Marjanen P dan Riina K pada tahun 2019 menyepakati, sandwich generation artinya individu yang berada dalam kondisi fit untuk bekerja dan terjebak antara tanggung jawab keluarga dengan tanggung jawab profesional.
Adapun T Broady di tahun 2019 menjelaskan, generasi sandwich maksudnya yakni individu yang membagi sumber daya mereka untuk anak dan orang tuanya yang telah memasuki usia lanjut.
JN Migliaccio pada 2019 juga mengulas perkembangan terkait generasi sandwich itu apa. Ia menyoroti munculnya generasi milenial yang mulai berada di masa untuk merawat orang tuanya yang menua.
Dalam kondisi ini, maka dinamika definisi generasi sandwich bertransisi meluas menjadi kelompok generasi sandwich yang terdiri dari empat generasi keluarga yang saling ketergantungan satu sama lain dalam beberapa hal.
Keberadaan status generasi sandwich tidak terlepas dari adanya kewajiban menjaga keluarga di luar keluarga intinya. Ini menyebabkan sejumlah konsekuensi.
Status generasi sandwich membuat seseorang memiliki jumlah tanggungan keluarga yang lebih banyak apabila dibandingkan dengan non-generasi sandwich. Inilah salah satu dampak generasi sandwich.
Pasalnya, jumlah tanggungan keluarga yang lebih banyak tersebut menyebabkan generasi sandwich memiliki kewajiban finansial yang cenderung lebih tinggi dan proporsi waktu luang yang lebih sedikit dibanding non-generasi sandwich.
Lebih lanjut, Solberg dan sejumlah rekannya pernah menyepakati, status sebagai generasi sandwich juga memberikan dampak negatif terhadap kondisi pernikahan, kesehatan, menimbulkan stres, kecemasan, dan kesedihan.
Another series of blasts, the third one since midnight, was reported in Ukraine’s capital Kiev and the surrounding Kiev region in the early hours of Wednesday, the Klimenko Time news portal reported.
Explosions also resumed in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk.
Later on Wednesday, similar reports came from the central Ukrainian city of Kropivnitsky, the administrative center of the Kirovograd Region, the Zerkalo Nedeli media outlet said. An air raid alert was issued for the region.
Blasts were also reported in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, the TSN news agency reported. According to preliminary reports, the explosions were caused by the work of missile defense systems.
Currently, civil defense sirens are wailing in Ukraine’s regions of Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Sumy, Chernigov, Kirovograd, Poltava and Cherkasy as well as in the capital Kiev and the surrounding Kiev Region.
Special operation, May 2. Main:
▪️Ukrainian troops lost 430 tanks and other armored vehicles, 277 drones and eight aircraft in April, the Russian Armed Forces continue to eliminate weapons supplied by the West, Shoigu said;
▪️In 2023, a sufficient amount of ammunition was delivered to the RF Armed Forces to inflict effective fire damage on Ukrainian troops, Shoigu said;
▪️In the Donetsk direction, assault squads continue to destroy the enemy in the west of Artemivsk;
▪️In the Kupyansk and Krasnolymansk directions, Kyiv lost up to 125 militants per day, in Donetsk - up to 290, in Kherson - up to 30 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
▪️A man died during the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the JCCC reported;
▪️The terms of the grain deal in part of the Russian agricultural sector have not been met, time is shrinking like shagreen leather, Peskov said;
▪️More than 460 thousand square meters of housing were commissioned and restored in the new regions of Russia in the first quarter of this year.
▪️Members of the Ukrainian intelligence group, citizens of Russia and Ukraine Viktor Podvalny, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Krivoshein, Konstantin Evmenenko, Igor Zorin and Sergei Voinarovsky were detained in the case of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, the FSB reports.
▪️Petranov, a citizen of Ukraine and Bulgaria, who was involved in the delivery of weapons to Russia, was also detained.
The detainees were found to have 5 ready-to-use bombs, electric detonators, radio-controlled mechanisms, trackers for surveillance.
In addition, a channel for the smuggling of explosives from Bulgaria, organized by the Ukrainian special services, was opened, passing through Turkey and Georgia. The bombs were "camouflaged" under electric stoves, the FSB noted.
▪️The organization of the smuggling of electric stoves with components of explosives from Bulgaria to Russia was carried out by Ukrainian citizen Marina Matushchak, the FSB reports.
After the delivery of electric stoves to the territory of Russia, further transportation to the places of preparation of terrorist attacks went through the transport companies SDEK and Vovovoz, they were sent by Russian citizens who were used "in the dark" and had commercial projects with the Bulgarian company Matushchak, the FSB noted.
Sebuah ledakan terlihat, menyusul serangan udara Israel di di Gaza (2/5/2023). ANTARA FOTO/REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/aww.
Jet Israel menyerang sasaran di seluruh Gaza pada Selasa malam, yang diklaim Israel sebagai tindakan balasan ketika kelompok bersenjata di sana menembakkan serangan roket ke Israel sebagai tanggapan atas kematian seorang mogok makan Palestina dalam tahanan Israel.
Pasukan Pertahanan Israel mengkonfirmasi pada Selasa malam, 03/05/2023, bahwa militer Israel melakukan serangan udara melintasi Jalur Gaza sebagai tanggapan atas peluncuran roket sebelumnya dari wilayah tersebut.
Rentetan serangan terbaru di wilayah Jalur Gaza dimulai setelah pejabat Israel mengungkapkan seorang tahanan Palestina yang melakukan mogok makan selama hampir 90 hari telah meninggal.
Pertempuran itu, sekitar sebulan setelah baku tembak lintas batas terakhir antara Israel dan Gaza, terjadi setelah Adnan meninggal pada Selasa pagi menyusul mogok makan selama 87 hari di sebuah penjara Israel.
Sirene peringatan merah telah dibunyikan di Israel selatan, khususnya di Sderot dan Moshav Talmi Bilu. Para pejabat Israel sebelumnya mendesak orang-orang yang tinggal di sepanjang perbatasan Gaza untuk waspada.
Serangan udara ini dilancarkan saat pejuang di Jalur Gaza, Jumat, terus menembakkan roket ke dalam kota besar Israel yang berdekatan dengan Jalur Gaza. Radio Israel melaporkan enam roket menghantam kota besar Israel dengan tak menimbulkan kerusakan atau merenggut korban jiwa.
Ratusan orang turun ke jalan di Gaza dan Tepi Barat yang diduduki untuk berunjuk rasa dan meratapi kematian Adnan, yang digambarkan oleh para pemimpin Palestina sebagai pembunuhan.
Di Gaza, kelompok payung faksi bersenjata Palestina termasuk Hamas dan Jihad Islam mengaku bertanggung jawab atas serangkaian serangan roket yang ditembakkan ke Israel pada siang hari.
Sejak 2011, Adnan melakukan setidaknya tiga aksi mogok makan untuk memprotes penahanan tanpa tuduhan oleh Israel. Taktik tersebut telah digunakan oleh tahanan Palestina lainnya, terkadang secara massal, namun tidak ada yang meninggal sejak tahun 1992.
Pengacara Adnan Jamil Al-Khatib dan seorang dokter dari kelompok hak asasi manusia yang baru-baru ini bertemu dengannya menuduh otoritas Israel menahan perawatan medis.
"Kami menuntut dia dipindahkan ke rumah sakit sipil di mana dia bisa diawasi dengan baik. Sayangnya, permintaan seperti itu dipenuhi dengan sikap keras kepala dan penolakan," kata Al-Khatib.
IDF sebelumnya merinci sekitar 21 roket telah diluncurkan dari Jalur Gaza menuju Israel setelah tersiar kabar kematian Khader Adnan, tahanan Palestina yang telah melakukan mogok makan selama hampir tiga bulan. Laporan mencatat dia ditemukan tidak sadarkan diri di selnya.
Saat itu, Mohammad Shtayyeh, yang menjabat sebagai perdana menteri Palestina, menggambarkan kematian Adnan sebagai "pembunuhan yang disengaja" karena Israel telah berulang kali menolak permintaan pembebasannya.
Segera setelah kematian Adnan, tiga roket telah diluncurkan dari Jalur Gaza. Namun, pejabat IDF merinci pada saat itu proyektil tidak menyebabkan kerusakan saat mendarat di area terbuka.
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton speaks at the Thomson Reuters Financial and Risk Summit in Toronto, December 4, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
A pioneer of artificial intelligence said he quit Google (GOOGL.O) to speak freely about the technology's dangers, after realising computers could become smarter than people far sooner than he and other experts had expected.
"I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google," Geoffrey Hinton wrote on Twitter.
In the NYT today, Cade Metz implies that I left Google so that I could criticize Google. Actually, I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google. Google has acted very responsibly.
In an interview with the New York Times, Hinton said he was worried about AI's capacity to create convincing false images and texts, creating a world where people will "not be able to know what is true anymore".
"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things," he said.
The technology could quickly displace workers, and become a greater danger as it learns new behaviours.
“The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that,” he told the New York Times. “But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that."
In his tweet, Hinton said Google itself had "acted very responsibly" and denied that he had quit so that he could criticise his former employer.
Google, part of Alphabet Inc., did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Reuters.
The Times quoted Google’s chief scientist, Jeff Dean, as saying in a statement: “We remain committed to a responsible approach to A.I. We’re continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly.”
Since Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) startup OpenAI released ChatGPT in November, the growing number of "generative AI" applications that can create text or images have provoked concern over the future regulation of the technology.
“That so many experts are speaking up about their concerns regarding the safety of AI, with some computer scientists going as far as regretting some of their work, should alarm policymakers," said Dr Carissa Veliz, an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI. "The time to regulate AI is now."
"I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have," Hinton told the New York Times, which was first to report his decision.
In a tweet Monday, Hinton said he left Google so he could speak freely about the risks of AI, rather than because of a desire to criticize Google specifically.
"I left so that I could talk about the dangers of AI without considering how this impacts Google," Hinton said in a tweet. "Google has acted very responsibly."
Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, said Hinton "has made foundational breakthroughs in AI" and expressed appreciation for Hinton's "decade of contributions at Google."
"We remain committed to a responsible approach to AI," Dean said in a statement provided to CNN. "We're continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly."
Hinton's decision to step back from the company and speak out on the technology comes as a growing number of lawmakers, advocacy groups and tech insiders have raised alarms about the potential for a new crop of AI-powered chatbots to spread misinformation and displace jobs.
The wave of attention around ChatGPT late last year helped renew an arms race among tech companies to develop and deploy similar AI tools in their products. OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are at the forefront of this trend, but IBM, Amazon, Baidu and Tencent are working on similar technologies.
In March, some prominent figures in tech signed a letter calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing "profound risks to society and humanity." The letter, published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit backed by Elon Musk,came just two weeks after OpenAI announced GPT-4, an even more powerful version of the technology that powers ChatGPT. In early tests and a company demo, GPT-4 was used to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams and build a working website from a hand-drawn sketch.
In the interview with the Times, Hinton echoed concerns about AI's potential to eliminate jobs and create a world where many will "not be able to know what is true anymore." He also pointed to the stunning pace of advancement, far beyond what he and others had anticipated.
"The idea that this stuff could actually get smarter than people — a few people believed that," Hinton said in the interview. "But most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or even longer away. Obviously, I no longer think that."
Even before stepping aside from Google, Hinton had spoken publicly about AI's potential to do harm as well as good.
"I believe that the rapid progress of AI is going to transform society in ways we do not fully understand and not all of the effects are going to be good," Hinton said in a 2021 commencement address at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai. He noted how AI will boost healthcare while also creating opportunities for lethal autonomous weapons. "I find this prospect much more immediate and much more terrifying than the prospect of robots taking over, which I think is a very long way off."
Hinton isn't the first Google employee to raise a red flag on AI. In July, the company fired an engineer who claimed an unreleased AI system had become sentient, saying he violated employment and data security policies. Many in the AI community pushed back strongly on the engineer's assertion.
