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Saturday, 9 December 2023

Watch Russian Drone Take Down Ukrainian Hexacopter by Ramming It

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been used by both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine. Russian forces effectively operate UAVs, even when they have to ram enemy drones.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage of a drone ramming a Ukrainian UAV known as the "Baba Yaga."

The ministry said that while returning from an aerial reconnaissance mission, the operator of the Russian drone spotted a Ukrainian "Baba Yaga" hexacopter in the air that was returning to the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Watch Russian Su-25 Jet Hammer Ukrainian Units Around Donetsk

The Russian Su-25 is a versatile ground attack aircraft equipped with a 30mm cannon and various missiles and bombs, it is capable of engaging ground targets with precision and accuracy. Its low-altitude capabilities and ability to operate from unpaved strips make it a formidable asset in close air support missions.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video of Su-25 fighter strike Ukrainian units in Donetsk region.

"Attack aviation crews on Su-25 aircraft carried out a strike with unguided air missiles on the enemy's stronghold and personnel in the direction of Donetsk," the ministry said.

After releasing heat traps, the aircraft returned to the launch site, the ministry added.

Russian Su-34 Fighter-Bomber Annihilates Ukrainian Troops on Kupyansk Front

In a recent operation on the Kupyansk axis, the crew of the Su-34 fighter-bomber successfully eliminated a concentration of enemy ground troops.

Russian frontline aviation continues to pose a formidable threat to Ukrainian forces. Regardless of flying conditions and weather, Russian pilots persistently carry out their assigned combat missions.

On the Kupyansk front, the crew of the Su-34 strike jet decimated a concentration of enemy troops without entering the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense zone. Using fragmentation bombs equipped with a universal gliding and guidance module, the pilots effectively targeted enemy positions.

The concentration of the Ukrainian forces were successfully neutralized.

The Su-34 is a '4++'-generation strike aircraft. Its capabilities enable it to carry out the main combat tasks independently without the need for fighter cover. Its high combat qualities allow it to perform air combat maneuvers on equal terms in a dogfight with any existing enemy fighter, making it a versatile asset in modern air operations.

Ukraine Loses Over 1,560 Soldiers in Donetsk Direction in Past Week- MoD

Ukraine has lost more than 1,560 soldiers in the Donetsk direction over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Over the given period, the Russian armed forces have repelled 19 attacks by Ukrainian troops in the Kupyansk direction and 18 attacks in the Donetsk direction.

“The total losses of the Ukrainian armed forces [in the Donetsk direction] amounted to more than 1,560 military personnel, 12 armored combat vehicles, 17 vehicles and 22 field artillery guns," the ministry said in a statement.

Kiev has also lost nearly 1,500 soldiers in the Krasny Liman direction, nearly 900 soldiers in the South Donetsk direction, up to 350 soldiers in the Kherson direction and up to 260 soldiers in the Zaporozhye direction.

The Russian forces have also captured 12 Ukrainian soldiers over the past week, the statement read.

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Tucker Carlson comments on running as Trump’s Vice President

Melania Trump is pushing for her husband to pick Tucker Carlson as his 2024 running mate if he secures the Republican nomination for president, according to a report.

The former first lady is advocating for Tucker Carlson to campaign as Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential race, according to Axios. Melania allegedly believes Carlson would make for a commanding onstage extension of her husband.

Trump stated last month he would consider the political commentator for the vice presidency.

"I like Tucker a lot," the former president told "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show." "He's got great common sense."

People close to the former president believe Trump would forgo Carlson as his running mate out of fears the pundit would outshine him, according to Axios. Trump's staff also reportedly believes they wouldn't be able to control Carlson.

In November, 2023, Former President Trump says he’d consider Tucker Carlson as a potential running mate in 2024.

“I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would,” Trump said during an appearance on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” this week. “I think I’d say I would, because he’s got great common sense.”

“You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative — it’s not that we’re conservative, we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall, because walls work,” he said.

Carlson was fired by Fox News in April just days after it agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle claims of defamation out of court. The host has since launched a video series on the X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and remains under contract with Fox.

On the night of the first Republican presidential primary debate, in August, Carlson hosted a wide-ranging interview with Trump on his X program.

Last week, Carlson told Roseanne Barr he would have to think about accepting a vice presidency nod. He put the possibility "in the category of an asteroid striking the Earth," noting it's "so far outside of my control."

"I have spent my whole life looking at politicians and commenting on them and passing judgment on them and I've never run for, you know, room mother," Carlson said. "And so the idea of that is so far from anything I've ever done, it's kind of hard even to imagine."

The commentator would share Trump's Cabinet with other figures loyal to the former president, like Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Mike Davis and Kash Patel, according to Axios.

Carlson believes Bannon could be Trump's chief of staff. Bannon has supported the former president even after his ousting as chief strategist, a position that enabled him to head personnel and policy decisions, according to Axios.

What was Tucker Carlson's response?

Tucker Carlson has stopped short of ruling out becoming former US President Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate in 2024, suggesting that he would need a directive from God to take the job if it’s offered to him.

Carlson, who has attracted millions of viewers to his channel on X (formerly Twitter) since being fired by Fox in April, made his comments on Thursday night in response to a media report that he was the potential VP candidate favored by former First Lady Melania Trump. Asked about the report after he gave a speech at an event in Washington, Carlson said, “God would have to yell at me very loud” to accept such an offer.

Independent media outlet Semafor was first to report on Carlson’s response. The political commentator noted that he doesn’t really know the first lady. He has repeatedly insisted that he has no interest in running for elected office. “To go from being, like, a well-paid street corner schizophrenic to, like, a politician – it’s just kind of hard to envision,” he said on Thursday. However, Semafor reported, there were cheers from the audience when he didn’t fully rule out joining Trump’s 2024 ticket.

Axios reported on Thursday that the former first lady was advocating for her husband to pick Carlson as his running mate. “She thinks Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband,” the outlet said, citing an unidentified person close to Trump.

Trump is polling as, far and away, the leading Republican candidate to face Democrat incumbent Joe Biden in next year’s presidential election. He also faces 91 felony charges in four separate criminal cases filed by prosecutors in Washington, New York, Florida, and Georgia.

Carlson has said that he became an avid Trump supporter after the FBI raided the former president’s home in Florida last summer. He has vowed to vote for Trump and lead protests if the ex-president is convicted of a crime and jailed: “You cannot allow the regime, the president of the United States, the Justice Department, to knock the frontrunner out of the race. You can’t do that.”

Other potential Trump VP candidates include Senator J.D. Vance, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Representative Byron Donalds, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake, according to the Axios report.

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Medvedev warns of direct Russia-NATO clash

Deputy head of Russia's Security Council and chairman of the United Russia political party Dmitry Medvedev. © Sputnik/Ekaterina Shtukina

Moscow and Washington are tiptoeing on the precipice of a hot war, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said, adding that the last similar crisis in relations dates back to the height of the Cold War in the early 1960s.

Writing on Telegram on Friday, Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, weighed in on what he called US President Joe Biden’s “primitive blackmail” of Congress. He was referring to the American leader’s recent plea to lawmakers to approve a $111 billion security package, which included funding for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

To convince Republicans – who have been reluctant to support the measure due to a dispute over border security – Biden warned that Russia might not stop at Ukraine and go on to attack NATO countries, leading to a direct clash involving the US. His plea, however, failed to impress the Senate Republicans, who blocked the funding.

Medvedev said the Biden administration’s ploy “is nothing new.” According to the official, many US presidents in the past have said, “Give the money to our guy (fill in the name), or you will have to fight the Russians.”

The difference, Medvedev added, is that no American president has ever “extorted so much money for a minor country that is in the process of collapsing,” which is also connected to a corruption controversy involving both the sitting US president and his family members – in reference to allegations that both Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes from a Ukrainian gas executive.

The former Russian president went on: “Never since the Cuban Missile Crisis has the threat of a direct clash between Russia and NATO leading to World War III been so real.”

The 1962 crisis brought the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war after Moscow responded to Washington’s deployment of missiles in Türkiye by placing its own atomic assets in allied Cuba. The two superpowers narrowly managed to defuse the tensions by withdrawing their missiles from both countries.

Medvedev predicted that despite the gridlock in Congress, both the administration and its “cowering fosterling” in Kiev would get the money sooner or later, allowing all parties involved to continue profiting off the conflict.

Russia has repeatedly warned the West against sending arms to Kiev, arguing that doing so will only prolong the conflict while making it a direct participant in the hostilities.

Friday, 8 December 2023

Biolabs at Work? 'Antimicrobial Resistance' Sees Alarming Spike in Ukraine - CDC

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Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops have spent nearly two years now shedding light on the extent of US military-biological activities in Ukraine, from the deliberate infection of Ukrainian servicemen with deadly viruses to gauge response to work on deadly new pathogens designed specifically to target certain genotypes.

Resistance to antimicrobial medicines which prevent and treat infectious diseases has experienced an explosive rise in Ukraine.

That’s according to a new report by the US Centers for Disease Control released Friday, which indicated that “in Ukraine, the confluence of high prewar rates of antimicrobial resistance, an increase in the prevalence of traumatic wounds, and the war-related strain on health care facilities is leading to increased detection of multidrug-resistant organisms with spread into Europe.”

The report, made possible through collaboration between the CDC, the Center for Public Health of Ukraine (UPHC) and other local health authority and “international partners” including the World Health Organization and the US State Department, used data collected in hospitals in the western and central Ukrainian regions of Ternopol, Khmelnitskiy and Vinnitsa.

The study found that in the period between November and December 2022, some 14 percent (50 out of 353) sampled patients suffered from health care-associated infections, with 30 of the 50 infected with a carbapenem-resistant organism – a type of bacteria that can produce chemicals that destroy antibiotics.

Among 19 patients infected with kebsiella, a bacteria known to cause respiratory, urinary and wound infections, a whopping 100 percent showed resistance to antibiotic agents. Meanwhile, among 20 sampled patients with klebsiella pneumoniae (a genus of kebsiella typically associated with pneumonia among patients suffering from diabetes and alcohol abuse), 100 percent once again showed resistance to cephalosporin, a third-generation beta-lactam antimicrobial.

“These rates are substantially higher than those reported from a 2016-2017 European Union-wide point prevalence survey, which included more than 300,000 acute care hospital patients and 100,000 long-term care facility residents,” the CDC said, noting that “among these respondents, the study found a health care-associated infection rate of 5.5 percent.”

The CDC blamed “inadequacies in surveillance of health care-associated infections, implementation of infection prevention and control measures such as recommended hand hygiene, and monitoring, evaluation and feedback to the hospital staff members” for the alarming spike in antibiotic resistance in Ukraine.

“The laboratory assessments identified multiple challenges, especially inadequate quantities of automated microbiology equipment, and suboptimal laboratory quality and information management systems, biosafety practices, and staffing, as well as inconsistent availability of essential antibiotic susceptibility testing consumables,” the report said.

The CDC called for “urgent capacity building…to prevent, detect, and respond to antimicrobial resistance…to save lives within Ukraine and limit international spread,” and pointed to efforts by Ukraine’s health authorities to improve laboratory-based detection and surveillance, “upgrading [of] laboratory equipment and workflows, increasing availability and use of hand-hygiene disinfectants, and providing technical training for staff members.”

The UPHC, meanwhile, has reportedly “issued clinical guidance on indications for bacteriology testing, including to military hospitals,” while its partners have worked “to provide additional laboratory supplies to meet the increased wartime demands, to capacitate laboratories to test for bacterial susceptibility to newer-generation antibiotics, and to improve reliable hospital access to these antibiotics.”

What Did the CDC Report Leave Out?

Per the dozens of presentations by Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops chief Igor Kirillov on American military-biological activities in Ukraine, the CDC is one of a host of US government agencies including the US Department of Agriculture, the US Agency for International Development, plus Ivy League universities and Western pharmaceutical giants involved in shady, risky and potentially illegal research at biological facilities across Ukraine.

The RCBD Troops’ presentations, accompanied by hundreds of documents seized and publicized over the course of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, have revealed the presence of at least 46 biolabs in the Eastern European country engaged in research into an array of deadly pathogens.

To date, the RCBD Troops have revealed US military biological activities in Ukraine including:

Research into diseases designed to target flora, fauna and agriculture as a form of economic warfare against US adversaries.

The deliberate infection of Ukrainian servicemen with deadly pathogens to measure response and possible experimental treatments.

The deliberate infection of residents of Ukraine and the Donbass with viruses, including a multi-drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, and experiments involving Ukrainian nationals at a psychiatric hospital in Kharkov region.

The collection of blood serum samples from across Ukraine and its shipment abroad (to Germany and the US), and alleged work to create viruses which can target the Slavic genotype.

The Russian military has sounded the alarm about Ukraine’s growing antiviral resistance problem specifically on multiple occasions.

“A lack of therapeutic effect was revealed during the administration of antibacterial drugs. High concentrations of antibiotics, including sulfonamides and fluoroquinolones, were detected in the blood of Ukrainian military personnel,” RCBD Troops chief Kirillov said in a briefing in 2022.

“This fact may indicate the prophylactic use of antibiotics and the personnel’s preparation to perform tasks in conditions of biological infection,” he said. “For example, preparation for the causative agent of cholera, which indirectly confirms the Russian Defense Ministry’s information about plans to use biological agents by Ukrainian special forces.”

Now, as the problem of drug-resistant infections in Ukraine appears to be reaching critical mass and threatening America’s European allies, the CDC’s report could very well constitute an attempt to cover up its activities and blame Ukraine’s underfunded and “war-strained” health care system for a potentially explosive regional health crisis to come.

Gunung Merapi meluncurkan awan panas guguran sejauh 3,5 kilometer

Arsip Foto - Gunung Merapi di perbatasan Provinsi Jawa Tengah dan Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta meluncurkan awan panas guguran pada Jumat malam (1/12/2023). (Dokumentasi BPPTKG)

Balai Penyelidikan dan Pengembangan Teknologi Kebencanaan Geologi (BPPTKG) melaporkan bahwa Gunung Merapi di perbatasan Provinsi Jawa Tengah dan Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta pada Jumat tujuh kali meluncurkan awan panas guguran dengan jarak luncur maksimum 3,5 kilometer ke arah Kali Krasak.

Menurut laporan BPPTKG, Gunung Merapi meluncurkan awan panas guguran selama 360 detik pada pukul 14.49 WIB, lalu kembali meluncurkan awan panas masing-masing selama 120 detik pada pukul 14.56 WIB dan pukul 14.59 WIB.

Gunung berapi itu selanjutnya meluncurkan awan panas guguran masing-masing selama 137 detik pada pukul 15.06 WIB dan pukul 15.09 WIB, lalu kembali meluncurkan awan panas pada pukul 15.32 WIB selama 106 detik dan pada pukul 15.32 WIB selama 123 detik.

"Masyarakat diimbau untuk menjauhi daerah bahaya yang direkomendasikan," kata Kepala BPPTKG Agus Budi Santoso dalam laporannya.

INFO BPPTKG: Terjadi Awanpanas Guguran di Gunung #Merapi tanggal 8 Desember 2023
Pukul 14.49, durasi 360 detik, amak 73 mm
Pukul 14.56, durasi 120 detik, amak 75 mm
Pukul 14.59, durasi 120 detik, amak 78 mm
Pukul 15.06, durasi 137 detik, amak 69 mm pic.twitter.com/xd5x8d0gw4
— BPPTKG (@BPPTKG) December 8, 2023

Menurut laporan BPPTKG, Gunung Merapi selama periode pengamatan Jumat pukul 12.00 hingga 18.00 WIB juga mengalami delapan kali gempa awan panas guguran, 27 kali gempa guguran, tujuh kali gempa fase banyak, dan empat kali gempa vulkanik dangkal.

Info #WargaMerapi sore ini utk wilayah terdampak hujan abu. Wilayahmu gimana lur? pic.twitter.com/Zw95J5I4cI
— BPPTKG (@BPPTKG) December 8, 2023

Agus menyampaikan adanya potensi bahaya berupa guguran lava dan awan panas dari Gunung Merapi di sektor selatan-barat daya yang meliputi Sungai Boyong (sejauh maksimal lima kilometer) serta Sungai Bedog, Krasak, dan Bebeng (sejauh maksimal tujuh kilometer).

INFO BPPTKG : Terjadi awanpanas guguran #Merapi tanggal 8 Desember 2023 pukul 14:46 WIB. Arah angin ke utara. Masyarakat untuk tidak beraktivitas di daerah potensi bahaya serta mengantisipasi gangguan akibat abu vulkanik. #merapisiaga #aktivitasmerapi pic.twitter.com/vrwhgMXZW2
— BPPTKG (@BPPTKG) December 8, 2023

Potensi bahaya berupa guguran lava dan awan panas Gunung Merapi juga meliputi sektor tenggara yang mencakup Sungai Woro (sejauh maksimal tiga kilometer) dan Sungai Gendol (sejauh maksimal lima kilometer).

Menurut BPPTKG, apabila terjadi letusan eksplosif maka lontaran material vulkanik dari Gunung Merapi dapat menjangkau area dalam radius tiga kilometer dari puncak gunung.

BPPTKG mengimbau warga untuk mewaspadai gangguan akibat abu vulkanik Gunung Merapi serta bahaya lahar di daerah sekitar gunung api tersebut saat hujan turun.

Pentagon threatens Americans over Ukraine – Tucker Carlson

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov at the Pentagon, December 6, 2023.
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Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on Thursday said that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threatened Congressmen that he would send 'your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia' if Ukraine aid is not approved. This revelation comes days after White House official John Kirby had said that 'American blood' will be the cost of supporting Volodymyr Zelenskyy if no money is sent to Kyiv.

Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson on Thursday said that US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin threatened Congressmen that he would send ' your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia' if Ukraine aid is not approved. This revelation comes days after White House official John Kirby had said that 'American blood' will be the cost of supporting Volodymyr Zelenskyy if no money is sent to Kyiv.

"The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine. In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia.” Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids," Carlson tweeted. However, his statement cannot be verified. Neither Austin, nor the Defense Department have reacted to the statement.

“He really said this?” X owner Elon Musk asked.

“He really did. Confirmed,” Carlson replied.

The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine. In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight… pic.twitter.com/BPKMEBW8TK
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) December 7, 2023

Carlson once hosted the most popular evening talk show on cable TV when Fox News mysteriously chose to part ways with him in April. He has since speculated that its corporate owners “really didn’t like” some of his coverage that challenged official narratives. In May, he launched his own show on Musk’s platform in a format similar to his long-form interviews for Fox.

On Tuesday, his guest was Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican opposed to sending any more money to Ukraine – on account of the US being too heavily in debt.

“How could Washington possibly send tens of billions more to sleazy oligarchs in Ukraine now that the whole enterprise has been revealed as a fruitless, corrupt and incredibly destructive disaster?” Carlson wondered in the introduction to that interview.

The US Congress has approved over $120 billion worth of aid to Kiev since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022, in the form of weapons and ammunition coming from the Pentagon’s stockpiles as well as cash payments to the Ukrainian government.

That money has mostly run out at this point, and the White House has asked for $60 billion more – choosing to bundle it with aid for Israel, weapons for Taiwan and “border security.” Some Republicans in both the House and the Senate have refused to go along, however. GOP senators stormed out of their briefing on Wednesday and later voted against advancing the aid package.

Meanwhile, Republican chairs of the Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence Committees in the House of Representatives have embraced the White House talking points in a memo aiming to persuade their party members to back the Ukraine funding bill, according to Axios.

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