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Zelenskyy attended the 80th anniversary memorial for D-Day. When Trudeau introduced a WWII veteran to Zelenskyy, the vet kissed Zelenskyy's hand, removed his hat, and said "you're the saviour of the people." 

Ukraine sunk another Russian ship last night. Also struck an oil refinery in Russia, apparently with massive damage (not just a single tank).

Satellite photos show that Russia has abandoned their major port of Novorossiysk (including submarines) due to repeated Ukrainian naval drone strikes:

Josh Brolin and Andrew Scott just announced, as well.

For people not following, here are the announced cast members so far. This movie is stacked:

• Josh O'Connor
• Cailee Spaeny
• Kerry Washington
• Glenn Close
• Jeremy Renner (hopefully playing himself, since his hot sauce was in Glass Onion)
• Mila Kunis
• Josh Brolin
• Andrew Scott

Rumoured:

• Tom Hardy
• Lindsay Lohan

Cool!

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French authorities have arrested a Russian-speaking man in possession of explosives in his hotel room close to the Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday, BFM television and JDD newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.

 

BFM, quoting a source familiar with the case, said the man had been trying to fabricate an explosive device. France’s DGSI intelligence service has taken over the case, it added.

Europe needs to wake up

Poland has arrested 18 people on allegations of planning hostile acts on behalf of Russia, Belarus

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Poland has arrested 18 people over the past six months on various allegations of pursuing hostile activities or planning sabotage on behalf of Russia and neighboring Belarus, and at least one...

The Russians have been using S-300 and S-400 AA missiles to strike land targets (usually cities, since they can't aim very well). However, none have been launched at Kharkiv in the last few days...likely because Ukraine has been taking out a tonne of S-300/400 emplacements in Belgorod over the last week.

Good to see Intel compete with M1 (hopefully). 

15 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

If these polls are remotely accurate, then it genuinely appears that the Scottish National Party will effectively cease to exist.

Absolutely crazy that they came within a hair's breadth of Scottish independence, to total collapse.

Just when you thought you were out...

Baldur's Gate 3 - Community Update #27 Official Modding Support - Steam News

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Hey everyone, We come bringing news of Patch 7! Finally, we hear you say - but don’t get ready to throw yourself into our next patch just yet, we’ve got a lot of work to do to bring you our first iteration of modding tools, evil endings, plus a whole bunch of fixes, quality of life improvements, and more that we’ll go into detail about in a future Community Update!

Official mod support coming on the 1-year anniversary! Can't wait for the total conversation Star Wars mods, lol.

The reasons are pretty simple:

• The US backs Israel while Israel is killing civilians (the opposite of in Ukraine) and it's currently popular in the zeitgeist (think Kony 2012)
• Antisemitism
• Americans like to pick sides and ignore nuance

There's overlap in those circles (though I'd suggest the majority is from the former).

Looks like 35+ long-range drones attacking targets in Crimea, along with Neptune missiles, Storm Shadows, and ATACMS. In the north, ATACMS and HIMARS are being used on Russian positions (only the latter on Russian territory). For reference, Neptune missiles are homemade Ukrainian cruise missiles designed for anti-surface ship operations. It was believed they didn't have any at the start of the war, but they clearly have managed to repair a bunch of them and build more. They were used to take out the Russian flagship a while back, but have since been modified to strike land targets.

Last night Russia launched a very large missile attack on Ukraine, 100+ missiles/drones. Over 80 were shot down.

Currently, Ukraine is launching a major drone attack on Crimea, appears to be in the vicinity of Kerch. Neptune missiles also launched from Ukraine.

Yesterday it appears that Ukraine launched a series of strikes at an 8km long column of Russian armour inside Russia. They had assembled in Kursk and were headed in the Kharkiv direction. Ukraine took out the front and rear of the column at the same time, somehow (believed to be HIMARS and drones), trapping the entire column. Focused fire was then brought down on the entire thing as it scattered into the countryside. From Russian reports, heavy casualties.

Russians in Kharkiv are claiming that Ukraine is launching multiple large counterattacks in the area to take back all of what has been lost the last few weeks. Lots of HIMARS strikes to go along with the Ukrainian advance.

It appears HIMARS are being used at this moment against targets in Russia, along with drone strikes.

Some indications that Ukrainian counterattacks have started in Kharkiv oblast.

Yesterday Ukraine struck the oil storage/port of Kavkaz, which is opposite the Kerch straight (in Russia itself). Three large oil storage tanks were destroyed, and all ships have left the port. Ukraine is clearly trying to disrupt Russian oil exports, and it appears to be working. 

Germany has also now given Ukraine permission to use weapons on Russian military targets.

In other insane news, UK believes is currently  suffering 1,200 casualties per day on average through May. Insane numbers. 500,000 total Russian casualties so far:

More info:

US providing permission for HIMARS and artillery strikes into Belgorod province. Fair targets are military groupings, command and control posts, ammo depots, AA sites, missile and artillery units.

Will this just result in fines?

17 minutes ago, Uaarkson said:

It blows my mind that we participate in this farce of “the rules of engagement”

Yep. If every single useful defense against Russia is crossing a line, then the US might as well cede the entire non-NATO world to Russia and China right now.

I'm almost entirely certain I've never said the n-word in my life.

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Appears limited to the Kharkiv defense (where Ukraine is holding quite well, now, but still has been unable to attack Russians massing across the border), but hopefully it expands to include airbases and other military targets that are involved in air strikes. REALLY hoping it includes ATACMS use on airfields holding strategic bombers.

Some good news:

Also Ukraine now seemingly has all versions of ATACMS, including the larger unitary warhead. Last night they performed long-range strikes on the ferry port right next to the Kerch bridge.

We need a montage of Jeff Probst getting the tape and then taking a jet ski across the ocean to deliver it to a live studio audience in NYC.

20-year NDA expired for producer of The Apprentice:

For 20 Years, I Couldn’t Say What Donald Trump Did on the Set of The Apprentice. Now I Can.

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The con we pulled on America just won’t die.

Trump called a contestant the n-word on tape, basically.