Russian Ministry of Defense: On August 13, at about 11:00 am, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle on objects in the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted.
An unmanned aerial vehicle was found and destroyed by Russian air defense systems over the territory of the Belgorod region, there were no casualties or damage.
Comment of the Ministry of Defense on the new UAV attack attempt:
"At about 11.30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type UAV on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted."
Russian air defense systems detected and destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Kursk region.
There were no casualties or damage.
Against the backdrop of the advance of Russian troops in this direction, the head of the Kyiv-controlled Kharkiv Regional Military Administration said that more than 200 people had been evacuated from the Kupyansky district since August 9
The Russian Defense Ministry published footage of the destruction of the Starlink satellite communications kit used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Special operation, 12 August. Main:
▪️Kyiv tried to attack the Crimean bridge with two S-200 missiles converted into a strike version, they were shot down, there was no damage, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on an airfield in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Defense Ministry said;
▪️The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the warehouses of Ukrainian troops near Zaporozhye, the Russian Defense Ministry said;
▪️An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack in Crimea by 20 drones was thwarted, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;
▪️One person died, six were injured on Saturday during shelling of the DPR by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with cluster munitions, Pushilin said.
Artillerymen of the ZVO with a direct hit from a mortar of 82 mm caliber hit the BMP of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction
Russian Air Defense Destroyed Ukrainian Drone Over Belgorod Region - Defense Ministry
A Ukrainian drone has been downed over Russia’s Belgorod Region by air defense systems; there are no casualties, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
"Today, at about 4 a.m. (01:00 GMT on Sunday), an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using one aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on objects on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted. Russian air defense systems detected and destroyed the unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region," the ministry said.
The ministry specified that "as a result of the thwarted terrorist attack, there were no casualties or damage."
Russian Troops Repel Five Ukrainian Attempts to Attack
Russian forces have repelled five attempts by Ukrainian troops to attack in the Krasnolymanskaja direction, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.
"In the Krasnolymanskaja direction … units of the Russian (‘Tsentr’) Group (of Forces) repelled five attempts to attack by the assault groups of the 42nd and 67th mechanized brigades of the armed forces of Ukraine, as well as the fifth brigade of the national guard of Ukraine," the spokesperson said.
The defense ministry spokesperson added that more than 80 Ukrainian militants were killed; an infantry fighting vehicle, an armored vehicle, as well as an enemy 120-millimeter mortar were destroyed.
In addition, in the Svatovo direction, units of the Russian "Tsentr" Group of Forces repelled two Ukrainian attempts to attack, with enemy losses in manpower amounting to ten military personnel.
Bunyi dentuman misterius dari bawah tanah yang terjadi di Desa Moncek Tengah, di Kecamatan Lenteng, membuat kehebohan Warga Dusun Tengah, Desa Moncek Tengah, Kecamatan Lenteng, Kabupaten Sumenep, Jawa Timur.
Suara dentuman misterius ini membuat sebagian warga khawatir akan terjadi sesuatu yang tak diinginkan, sehingga mereka memilih untuk mengungsi.
Merespons kejadian tersebut, Bupati Sumenep, Madura, Jawa Timur, Achmad Fauzi Wongsojudo yang datang langsung ke lokasi dentuman misterius ini, meminta warga supaya tetap tenang.
Cak Fauzi, begitu biasa Achmad Fauzi dipanggil, menyatakan, telah meminta BPBD Kabupaten Sumenep untuk terus siaga memantau kondisi di Desa Moncek Tengah.
“Petugas BPBD selalu bersiaga di lokasi untuk terus memantau kondisi di lapangan. Saya juga telah mengimbau masyarakat untuk tenang, sambil kita selidiki apa yang terjadi,” ujar Cak Fauzi saat berkunjung ke lokasi dentuman misterius, hari Minggu, 13/08/2023.
Cak Fauzi menyatakan, pihaknya telah berkoordinasi dengan BMKG Jawa Timur untuk bisa membantu menelusuri apa yang terjadi di Desa Moncek Tengah.
Dentuman misterius itu terjadi berulang kali sejak pukul 09.45 WIB hingga pukul 10.30 WIB. Warga sekitar seketika geger mendengar suara dentuman itu.
Sebanyak lima rumah warga merasakan dentuman itu dengan jelas. Lima rumah itu yakni rumah milik Jakfar, Jazuli, Badrun, Ramli dan Naim yang semuanya merupakan warga Dusun Tengah, Desa Moncek Tengah, Kecamatan Lenteng, Kabupaten Sumenep.
"Saat ini suara dan ketukan dentuman sudah berhenti. Petugas juga sudah mengimbau kepada warga sekitar untuk mengungsi ke tempat yang lebih aman," tuturnya.
Seorang warga bernama Jazuli mengaku kaget saat dentuman itu terdengar. Namun menurutnya, dentuman tak menyebabkan kerusakan.
"Suaranya (dentuman) cukup keras, tapi tidak menimbulkan kerusakan apa pun. Rumah retak itu tidak ada," kata Jazuli saat dihubungi Kompas.com, Sabtu (12/8/2023).
Jazuli mengaku, suara dentuman misterius itu terjadi berulang kali sejak pukul 09.45 WIB hingga pukul 10.30 WIB. Warga yang awalnya melakukan aktivitas seketika geger saat mendengar suara itu.
Setalah ditelusuri, sumber suara itu diduga berada di bawah tanah di antara lima rumah yakni rumah Jazuli dan empat rumah lainnya yang masing-masing milik Jakfar, Badrun, Ramli dan Naim.
Semua warga itu merupakan warga asli Dusun Tengah, Desa Moncek Tengah, Kecamatan Lenteng, Kabupaten Sumenep.
"Setelah mendengar suara (dentuman), kami melapor ke petugas, terus diimbau untuk mengungsi," ujarnya.
Kini, dinya bersama keluarga memilih untuk mengungsi ke rumah kerabatnya hingga ada penjelasan lebih detail dari petugas.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has unveiled a new campaign to boost infrastructure spending and attract foreign investment, partly by making an anti-war appeal to US commander-in-chief Joe Biden.
“We are going to tell Biden …, the United States has only been thinking about war for many years and not thinking about investment in Brazil,” Lula said on Friday at an event in Rio de Janeiro to rally support for the spending program. “Spend a little money investing in our country because that is what will bring peace to our country.”
Speaking to government ministers, governors and business executives, Lula said Brazil’s leaders will need to travel the world “to sell these projects.” He aims to seek overseas financing and foreign investment – targeting the US, China, the United Arab Emirates and countries in Europe – to help fund his so-called Growth Acceleration Program, known by its Portuguese acronym PAC.
The pitch to Biden will be made in September, when he expects to meet with the US president on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Lula has maintained neutrality on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, calling repeatedly for peace talks to end the fighting. “The world is starting to get tired” of the Ukraine crisis, he said last month after a meeting of EU and Latin American leaders in Brussels.
Biden has led an international campaign to send billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry to Kiev and impose sanctions to punish Russia over the Ukraine conflict. Russian officials have claimed that Western military aid is only prolonging the bloodshed and increasing the risk of triggering a wider conflict.
The PAC initiative includes 1.7 trillion reais ($350 billion) in planned investments, ranging from renewable energy projects to housing to flood control. Around 36% of funding, or $125 billion, would come from the private sector, while more than $75 billion would come out of the federal budget. Lula plans to seek about $74 billion in loans to help fill the funding gap, while state-owned companies will be expected to invest $70 billion.
Some of the investments will involve completions of previously abandoned projects, such as a petrochemical plant that state-controlled energy company Petrobras quit when construction was about 80% finished. Brazil has thousands of unfinished projects from previous PAC programs.
Lula says will ask Xi, Biden to invest more in Brazil
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday his country is welcome to receiving investments from other nations to spur growth, as he unveiled a new "growth acceleration" plan with investments estimated at nearly $350 billion.
Lula said in a speech he would ask his Chinese and U.S. counterparts, Xi Jinping and Joe Biden, to invest more in Brazil. He added that European countries were also keen to invest in Latin America.
"We must travel the world presenting our projects, trying to sell them," Lula said, adding he would tell the likes of Xi, Biden and leaders of the Arab world "we want more investments in Brazil."
"I'll tell Biden the U.S. has been investing for too long in wars, they also need to think about investing in Brazil."
Foto: Keempat ketum partai usai menandatangani kerja sama politik dukung Prabowo Subianto. (Annisa/detikcom)
Empat partai politik, Partai Gerindra, Partai Golkar, PKB dan PAN telah resmi mengusung Menteri Pertahanan Prabowo Subianto sebagai bakal calon presiden (bacapres) 2024. Keempat ketum secara resmi menandatangani kerja sama politik itu tepat di momen deklarasi dukungan.
Momen deklarasi dukungan itu dilakukan di Museum Perumusan Naskah Proklamasi, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat, pada hari Minggu, 13/08/2023. Mulanya Ketum Golkar Airlangga Hartarto dan Ketum PAN Zulkifli Hasan atau Zulhas menyampaikan secara langsung dukungan mereka kepada Prabowo.
Empat Ketum partai, yang terdiri dari Ketum Golkar Airlangga Hartarto, Ketum PAN Zulkifli Hasan atau Zulhas, Ketum PKB Muhaimin Iskandar, dan Ketum Gerindra Prabowo Subianto menggelar konferensi pers di Museum Proklamasi, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat
Airlangga Hartato mengungkap rasa bangganya dapat bergabung : "Saya merasa bangga bahwa 4 partai menjadi satu dan dalam sikap kami kita para Ketua Umum 4 partai mudah berkomunikasi dan punya visi dan misi yang sama".
Airlangga mengakui perjalanan masih panjang dan konsolidasi masih perlu ditempuh. Meski begitu, Airlangga menganggap dekralasi hari ini menjadi momen bersejarah mendukung Prabowo Subianto sebagai Bacapres mendatang.
"Tentu perjalanan ke depan maish ada dan banyak hal yang perlu kita bicarakan. Tetapi di hari Minggu ini merupakan momen bersejarah kaena 4 partai akan mengusung bapak Prabowo Subianto sebagai Capres 2024-2029. semoga Allah SWT melindungi kita semua dan mudahkan jalan kita bersama," jelasnya.
Airlangga meyakini Prabowo merupakan sosok yang tepat melanjutkan kepemimpinan Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) serta membawa Indonesia menjadi Negara Maju.
"Proses yang diawali Presiden Joko Widodo wajib dilanjutkan. Kami merasa Pak Prabowo Subianto tokoh yang tepat melahirkan Indonesia menjadi negara maju," ucapnya.
Adapun Ketua Umum Partai PAN Zulkifli Hasan mengatakan memberi dukungan kepada Prabowo sebagai calon presiden RI 2024-2029.
"Dengan memohon ridho dan rahmat Allah SWT, melalui pertimbangan yang matang DPP PAN telah memutuskan untuk memberi dukungan capres 2024-2029 kepada Letjen Prabowo Subianto," kata Zulkifli Hasan dalam deklarasi di Gedung Naskah Proklamasi, Ahad, 13 Agustus 2023.
Zulkifli Hasan atau Zulhas mengatakan, PAN mendukung Prabowo karena sudah 10 tahun bersama dengan Ketua Umum Partai Gerindra itu.
"Kami melihat ini perjuangan 10 tahun ini akan tuntas, karena seperti yang Presiden Jokowi katakan bonus demografi 2024-2028 itu peluang emas Indonesia, kalau punya pemimpin yang tepat maka cita-cita 100 tahun kemerdekaan Indonesia bisa tercapai," ujar Zulhas.
"Pada Februari 2024, Insya Allah Prabowo jadi Presiden Indonesia," kata dia dengan senyum cerah.
PKB bersama Golkar, PAN, dan Gerindra ingin menuntaskan pekerjaan membangun Indonesia.
"Mudah-mudahan kami bersama PKB, Golkar, dan PAN bisa menuntaskan pekerjaan," kata Muhaimin.
Hadir dalam deklarasi tersebut para pengurus masing-masing partai politik, seperti Wali Kota Bogor Bima Arya Sugiarto, Sigit Sugiarto, mantan Menaker Nahif Dakhiri, Menpora Dito Ariotedjo, dan lainnya.
On Aug. 11, residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, described how they fled the deadly wildfires that decimated their town. (Video: The Washington Post)
The death toll from the Hawaii wildfires has risen to 80, Maui county officials said in an update late Friday, as firefighters continued work to contain fires on the island. Government officials are launching a review of the state’s emergency response, as residents criticized relief efforts as insufficient and records indicated that emergency sirens weren’t activated at the state or county level during the wildfires, though alerts were sent to cellphones and broadcast networks.
The cost to rebuild the historic resort town was estimated at $5.5 billion, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after the fast-moving flames consumed more than 1,000 buildings and leveled almost the entire town.
Officials vowed to examine the state's emergency notification systems after some residents questioned whether more could have been done to warn people before the fire overtook their homes. Some were forced to wade into the Pacific Ocean to escape.
Sirens stationed around the island - intended to warn of impending natural disasters - never sounded, and widespread power and cellular outages hampered other forms of alerts.
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez (D) said her department would begin a “comprehensive review of critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during, and after the wildfires.” Gov. Josh Green (D) told CNN officials would investigate why sirens reportedly failed to warn residents in Maui, adding that the telecommunications lines that those sirens relied upon were “destroyed very rapidly” by the fast-moving flames.
The scale of the damage is becoming clearer, with an assessment from the Pacific Disaster Center estimating that more than 2,207 structures were damaged, and that the vast majority of buildings exposed to the fire were residential.
Authorities on Maui say more than 1,400 people are in emergency shelters, and urged residents to text rather than call as cell service resumes in affected areas, to ensure limited resources are shared.
Local officials also advised residents to exclusively drink bottled water, saying that local water systems could contain harmful contaminants. Structures in the Upper Kula and Lahaina water systems were destroyed by the fire, which may have caused benzene — a carcinogen — to enter the water system, they said.
The Lahaina fire that has surged through Hawaii is already one of the deadliest in U.S. history, and officials warn the toll is likely to rise. It is the second-deadliest fire in the last 100 years, after the 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California that killed 85 people and consumed the town of Paradise.
The Maui wildfires damaged or destroyed thousands of structures and burned more than 2,100 acres, according to the latest assessment from the Pacific Disaster Center.
The research center’s latest update on Friday, shared by Maui County in the early hours of Saturday, said that 2,719 structures were exposed to the fire — more than double their previous estimate — of which more than 2,200 were damaged or destroyed in the flames.
Eighty-six percent of buildings exposed to the fire were residential
While the Maui fires are not the largest to have hit Hawaii, the loss of life and damage is “definitely the worst,” an expert said. “This was not unprecedented in terms of the size and the conditions, it was just tragic that Lahaina was in the direct path and resources were spread thin across multiple fires on the island,” Clay Trauernicht, a wildfire specialist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said in an email Friday.
Trauernicht and others working on the issue of wildfires in the state have argued that the decline of large-scale agriculture and ranching in recent decades has led to large swaths of unmanaged land.
“These areas then fill in with nonnative tropical grasses which now surround many, many communities in Hawaii, are highly flammable, highly sensitive to fluctuations in rainfall, wind, and humidity, and create very dangerous conditions for firefighters,” he explained. “This also limits the support that was historically available to help fire response — plantation workers and ranchers maintained roads, water access, and machinery, and knew the land.”
According to Trauernicht, there are groups working to reduce the risk of wildfires, including working with ranchers to encourage targeted grazing, planting trees and other plants to replace the nonnative grasses and restoring wetland Hawaiian agriculture to create fire breaks. “The problem is these efforts are still very small scale, often depending on volunteer and nonprofit support, and so we need to increase the resources available to do these kinds of activities across the landscape.”
A preparatory emergency management plan commissioned by the state of Hawaii last year cast the risk of wildfires to the population as “low.” The “State of Hawai’i Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan — Base Plan,” endorsed by then-Gov. David Ige (D) in February 2022 outlines the risks faced by the islands and their population of some 1.5 million from disasters and hazards, and their preparedness for them. It found the risk of wildfires to people to be “low,” though it classified the risk to property and the environment to be “medium.” Other hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, and cyber threats, were labelled as “high” risk to people.
An expert told The Post this week that, based on weather conditions and a changing climate, the wildfires should have been “predictable.” “Emergency management is a complex, multifaceted discipline that requires a high level of organization and coordination,” the report said. “The state’s relative isolation and dependence on outside imports create planning considerations unique to the state of Hawai’i,” it continued.
"The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday declared a public emergency in the state of Hawaii as it reels under the effects of the deadly wildfires. The decision came a day after President Biden issued a major disaster declaration, and “gives the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) health care providers and suppliers greater flexibility in meeting emergency health needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries,” according to an HSS statement.
“We will do all we can to assist Hawaii officials with responding to the health impacts of the wildfires,” HSS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in the statement.
The department has sent a team of 13 to Hawaii, including mortuary specialists and other public health response workers." Some 4,522 people were still without power across Hawaii early Saturday, according to monitoring website PowerOutage.us — though this was a sharp drop from Friday, when nearly 11,000 had no power. The vast majority were on the island of Maui, as authorities there grapple with the ongoing wildfires."
Police are restricting access to West Maui through Ma’alaea and Waihe’e, Maui County said on Friday evening. Vehicles are able to leave Lahaina via the Honoapi’ilani Highway, but the historical town remains barricaded, with authorities warning residents “to stay out of the area due to hazards including toxic particles from smoldering areas. Wearing a mask and gloves is advised.”
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez (D) announced a comprehensive review into the decisions and policies surrounding the fires that decimated Maui’s historical town of Lahaina and other areas.
On Aug. 11, residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, described how they fled the deadly wildfires that decimated their town. (Video: The Washington Post)
“My Department is committed to understanding the decisions that were made before and during the wildfires and to sharing with the public the results of this review,” Lopez said in a statement Friday.
“As we continue to support all aspects of the ongoing relief effort, now is the time to begin this process of understanding.” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) on Friday responded to reports that sirens failed to warn residents in affected areas, saying that telecommunications lines the sirens relied upon to warn residents in affected areas were “destroyed very rapidly” by the fast-moving flames.
“That communication was cut off by the destruction of essentially 1,000-degree heat that was coming down the mountain,” Green told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Green also described how, early on in the fires, helicopters that spray water to beat back flames were unable to launch due to high winds. “That’s not, again, to make an excuse for anyone, and we’re going to check,” Green added, “but I have to tell you, this is a very fluid situation across the islands.”
In the dark, cold water off Lahaina on Tuesday night, Annelise Cochran clutched one of her neighbors for warmth, both women shivering and struggling to breathe through the smoke and fumes. Cochran felt as though she was losing consciousness. “I don’t know if it was the smoke or the cold or the fumes,” said Cochran, 30.
“It was the closest I’ve felt to death.” Cochran and her neighbor survived the inferno in Lahaina by spending more than five hours in the water next to a rock wall at the edge of town. Another of their neighbors, an 86-year-old man, did not live through the night.
The fire that took the town was swift and brutal. Early that morning, Cochran had seen reports of a wildfire nearby, but that wasn’t unusual for Lahaina, where she has lived for seven years. In the afternoon, the wind whipped up, so strong that Cochran began taking videos of the flying leaves.
When she came out of a shower at around 4 p.m., the smoke was growing thicker, and she began to hear fire alarms in nearby buildings going off. There was no text telling her to evacuate, no emergency siren. Then, to her shock, she saw flames in a parking lot about a block away. She ran to her apartment to grab a few essentials and jumped into her car. She turned down toward the water, hoping to find a way out of town, but the road was blocked by abandoned cars. She picked up a tourist, but he later decided to leave the vehicle. She never saw him again. When the building next to her car began to burn, she headed for the water. She found two of her neighbors, a middle-aged woman named Edna and an 86-year-old man named Freeman, who has difficulty walking.
They all went over the rocky barrier toward the water to escape the flames. They spent hours in the water and on the rocks, trying to stay away from flying embers and noxious fumes, but also moving closer to the flames when they began to feel hypothermic. Cochran saw people grab debris and float off into deeper waters, which horrified her: She works on the ocean and knows the dangers of currents and hypothermia. “People still chose just to drift out,” she said. “I feared for those people’s lives.” The worst part of the ordeal came when cars began to explode, sending toxic fumes and intense heat rolling toward the water.
That’s when Cochran and Edna felt near collapse. The women held each other as they shook and tried to stay awake. They talked about their families and promised each other they’d make it. At one point Cochran called out to Freeman, who was a little farther down the rocky beach, and asked how he was. He just smiled and made a “shaka” gesture with his hand — middle fingers down, thumb and little finger out — to indicate he was all right, even though Cochran knew he was suffering.
Later she saw him slumped against the wall, unmoving. She believes he succumbed to the fumes. “I just ache for his family,” Cochran said. She and several dozen other people were rescued from the water by firefighters around midnight, and she has spent the last few nights at shelters. Her body is covered with bruises and lacerations; her feet and face are burned. “I feel blessed to be alive,” she said.
The death toll from the Hawaii wildfires has risen to 80, Maui county officials said in an update late Friday, as firefighters continued work to contain fires on the island. Government officials are launching a review of the state’s emergency response, as residents criticized relief efforts as insufficient and records indicated that emergency sirens weren’t activated at the state or county level during the wildfires, though alerts were sent to cellphones and broadcast networks. Here’s what to kno
