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Hey before I begin the podcast, I just want to thank all of you who joined the patreon, you guys are simply awesome. Please take the time to vote and comment on the patreon polls so I can best tackle the specific subjects you want to hear more about and hell it does not have to be about the Pacific War, I like ancient Rome, WW1, WW2, just toss some ideas and I will try to make it happen.   This Podcast is going to be a very remarkable story about a Korean man who fought for the IJA, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany during the second world war.  He is also a man whom most than likely never existed.   Did that catch you off guard haha?   If you have a chance you can pull up wikipedia and search Yang Kyoungjong. The first thing you will notice is a disclaimer that states numerous historians who claim Yang Kyoungjong does not exist. Yet this man exists in some history books, there is a iconic photo of him, there is a documentary looking into him, countless Korean stories are writing loosely about him, there is a pretty decent war film and multiple youtubers have covered his so-called story. So how does this guy not exist if his story is so popular?   His story is claimed to be real by military historian Stephen Ambrose who wrote about him in his book in 1994 titled “D-day, june 6th, 1944: the Climactic battle of World War II. There is also references to him in Antony Beevor's book “the second world war” and that of defense consultant and author Steven Zaloga's book“the devil's garden: Rommel's desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day”. In 2005 a Korean SBS documentary investigated his existence and concluded there was no convincing evidence of his existence. For those of you who have ever heard of this man, I guarantee it's because of the 2011 south korean film “My Way”. That's where I found out about it by the way. Many of you probably saw the iconic photo of him, again if you pull up the wikipedia page on Yang Kyoungjong its front and center. The photo shows a asiatic man wearing a wehrmacht uniform and he has just been captured by american forces on the d-day landings.   Now I don't want to jump into the is he real or not busy just yet. So this is how the podcast will go down, very reminiscent of “Our fake History's Podcast” might I add, I am a huge fan of that guys work. I am going to tell you the story of Yang Kyoungjong, then afterwords disclose my little investigation into whether he is real or not.   So without further adieu this is the story of a man who fought for three nations during WW2.   The Story   It was June 1944, the allies had just unleashed Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings at Normandy. Lt Robert Brewer of the 506th parachute infantry regiment, 101st airborne division was overlooking the capture of Axis forces and reported to his regiment finding four Asians in Wehrmacht uniform around the Utah beach landings. Brewer nor any of his colleagues spoke the language the Asian men spoke, they assumed them to be Japanese.  The four asians were processed as POW's, listed as young Japanese and sent to a British POW camp, before he would be sent to another POW camp in the US. At some point between his capture and the POW camps, he gave his name as Yang Kyoungjong, stated he was Korean and gave an extremely incredible story. To who did he say these things, no one knows.   Yang Kyoungjong was born in 1920, in Shin Eu Joo, part of modern day North Korea. At the age of 18, Yang was forcibly conscripted into the Imperial Japanese army. Korea was one of the bread baskets of Asia and the Empire of Japan had annexed her in 1910. Japan held sovereignty over Korea, making Koreans subjects.    In 1939 the Empire of Japan faced major labor shortages and as a result began conscription of Japanese men for the military, while importing vast amounts of Korean laborers to work in mainland Japan. For the Imperial Japanese Army, Koreans were not drafted until 1944 when things were dire for Japan. Until 1944, the IJA allowed Koreans to volunteer in the army. In 1938 there was a 14% acceptance rate, by 1943 this dropped dramatically to 2%, but the number of applicants increased exponentially from 3000 per annum in 1939 to 300,000 by the end of the war. On paper it looked like Koreans were registering en masse on their on violation, but this is quite the contrary, the Japanese policy was to use force. Japanese officials began press gang efforts against Korean peasants, forcing them to sign applications, it is believed over half of the applications were done in such a manner. Other applicants registered for a variety of reasons, typically because of economic turmoil. Korea would produce 7 generals and many field grade officers. One of the most well known was Lt General Crown Prince Yi Un who would command Japanese forces in the China War.   Thus Yang Kyoungjong was forced into the IJA and would find himself stationed with the Kwantung Army. Quite unfortunately for him, he was enlisted into their service at a time where two major border skirmishes occurred with the Soviet Union. The USSR was seen as Japan's number one rival going all the way back to the Triple Intervention of 1895 when the Russians thwarted Japan's seizure of the Liaodong peninsula after they had won the first sino japanese war. This led to the Russo-Japanese war, where Japan shocked the world being victorious over the Russian Empire. When the Russian Empire fell and the Russian civil war kicked off, Japan sent the lionshare of men to fight the Red Army during the Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922.    Communism was seen as the greatest if not one of the greatest threats to the Kokutai and thus Japan as a whole. As such Japan placed the Kwantung Army along the Manchurian borderlands to thwart any possible soviet invasion. There had numerous border skirmishes, but in 1938 and 1939 two large battles occurred. In 1938 the Kwantung army intercepted a Soviet message indicating the Far East forces would be securing some unoccupied heights west of Lake Khasan that overlooked the Korean port city of Rajin. Soviet border troops did indeed move into the area and began fortifying it. The Kwantung army sent forces to dislodge them and this soon led to a full on battle. The battle was quite shocking for both sides, the Soviets lost nearly 800 men dead with 3279 wounded, the Japanese claimed they had 526 dead with 913 wounded. The Soviet lost significant armor and despite both sides agreeing to a ceasefire, the Kwantung army considered it a significant victory and proof the Soviets were not capable of thwarting them.   In theory Yang Kyoungjong would be in training and would eventually reach the Manchuria borders by 1939. Another man sent over would be Georgy Zhukov who was given the task of taking command of the 57th special corps and to eliminate Japanese provocations. What was expected of Zhukov was if the Japanese pressed again for battle, to deliver them a crushing and decisive blow. On May 11th, 1939 some Mongolian cavalry units were grazing their horses in a disputed area. On that very same day, Manchu cavalry attacked the Mongols to drive them past the river of Khalkhin Gol. Two days later the Mongols returned in greater numbers and this time the Manchu were unable to dislodge them.    What was rather funny to say, a conflict of some horses grazing on disputed land, led to a fully mechanized battle. On May 14th, Lt Colonel Yaozo Azuma led some regiments to dislodge the Mongols, but they were being supported by the Red Army. Azuma force suffered 63% casualties, devastating. June saw the battle expand enormously, Japan was tossing 30,000 men in the region, the Soviets tossed Zhukov at them alongside motorized and armored forces. The IJA lacking good armored units, tossed air forces to smash the nearby Soviet airbase at Tamsakbulak. In July the IJA engaged the Red Army with nearly 100 tanks and tankettes, too which Zhukov unleashed 450 tanks and armored cars. The Japanese had more infantry support, but the Soviet armor encircled and crushed them. The two armies spared with another for weeks, the Japanese assumed the Soviets would suffer logistical problems but Zhukoev assembled a fleet of 2600 trucks to supply his forces, simply incredible. Both sides were suffering tremendous casualties, then in August global politics shifted. It was apparent a war in Europe was going to break out, Zhukov was ordered to be decisive, the Soviets could not deal with a two front war. So Zhukov now using a fleet of 4000 trucks began transported supplies from Chita to the front next to a armada of tanks and mechanized brigades. The Soviets tossed 3 rifle divisions, two tank divisions and 2 tank brigades, nearly 500 tanks in all, with two motorized infantry divisions and 550 fighters and bombers.    The stalemate was shattered when Zhukov unleashed is armada, some 50,000 Soviets and Mongols hit the east bank of Khalkhin Gol. The Japanese were immediately pinned down, while the Soviets were employing a double envelopment. The Japanese tried to counter attack and it failed horribly. The Japanese then scrambled to break out of the encirclement and failed. The surrounded Japanese forces refused to surrender as the Soviets smashed them with artillery and aerial bombardment. By the end of August the Japanese forces on the Mongolian side of the border were annihilated. On September 15th the USSR and Japan signed a ceasefire.    The battle of Khalkhin Gol was devastating for both sides. The Japanese claim they had 8440 deaths, 8766 wounded, lost 162 aircraft and 42 tanks. Its estimated 500-600 Japanese forces were taken prisoner. Because of IJA doctrine these men were considered killed in action. Some sources will claim the real numbers for Japanese casualties could have been as high as 30,000. The Soviets claim 9703 deaths, 15,251 wounded, the destruction of 253 tanks, 250 aircraft, 96 artillery pieces and 133 armored cars. Of those tank losses, its estimated 75-80% were destroyed by anti-tank guns, 15-20% field artillery, 5-10% infantry thrown incendiary bombs, 3% mines and another 3% for aircraft bombing.   Back to Yang Kyoungjong, he alongside the other Japanese, Manchu and Korean POW's were sent to Gulags in Siberia. As the war on the Eastern Front kicked off between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, facing annihilation the Soviets did anything possible to survive. One of these actions was to create the Shtrafbats, “Penal battalions”. Stalins order No 227 created the first penal battalions, who were supposed to be around 800 men strong. The first Shtrafbat battalion was deployed to the Stalingrad Front on August 22nd of 1942.   On order was issued on November 26, 1942 “status of Penal units of the army”, it was issued by Georgy Zhukov, now deputy commander in chief who was the man who formally standardized soviet penal units. The Shtrafbats were around 360 men per battalion commanded by mid range Red Army officers and politruks. The men forced into these were permanents or temporaries. Permanents were officers, commanders, the higher ranks guys. Temporary known as shtrafniki “punishees” were the grunts, typically prisoners and those convicted of crimes. From september 1942 to May of 1945 422,700 men would be forced into penal battalions.    Typically those forced into penal military units were one of two things: 1) those convicted of dissertation or cowardice, 2) Soviet Gulag labor camp inmates. It seems Yang Kyoungjong found himself in a very awkward situation as he would be forced into one of these penal battalions and sent to fight on the eastern front. As pertaining to Order No. 227, each Army was to have 3–5 barrier squads of up to 200 persons each, these units would be made up of penal units.    So back toYang Kyoungjong, he would find himself deployed at the third battle of Kharkov. This battle was part of a series of battles fought on the eastern front. As the German 6th army was encircling Stalingrad, the Soviets launched a series of wide counter attacks, as pertaining to “operation star”. Operation star saw massive offensives against Kharkov, Belgorod, Kursk, Voroshilovgrad and Izium. The Soviets earned great victories, but they also overextended themselves. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein seeing the opening, performed a counter-strike against Kharkov on February 19th of 1943, using fresh troops of the 2nd SS Panzer Corps alongside two other panzer armies. Manstein also had massive air support from field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofens Luftflotte 4, 1214 aircraft tossed 1000 sorties per day from February 20th to march 15th. The Red army had approximately 210,000 troops who fought in the Voronezh-Kharkov offensive, the Germans would have roughly 160,000 men, but their tanks outnumbered the Soviets 7-1, they had roughly 350 of them.   The Germans quickly outflanked the Soviets, managing to encircle and annihilate many units. Whenever soviets units made attempts to escape encirclements, the German air forces placed pressure upon them. The German air forces had the dual job of airlifting supplies to the front lines giving the Soviets no breathing space. Gradually the fight focused around the city of Kharkov seeing the Soviets dislodged. The Germans caused severe casualties, perhaps 45,000 dead or missing with another 41,000 wounded. The Germans suffered 4500 deaths, 7000 wounded. The Germans took a large number of prisoners, and Yang Kyoungjong was one of them.   Yet again a prisoner Yang Kyoungjong was coerced into serving another nation, this time for Die Ost-Bataillone. The Eastern Front had absolutely crippled Germany and as a result Germany began to enlist units from just about any nation possible and this included former Soviet citizens. There were countless different units, like the Russian liberation Army, die Hilfswillige, Ukrainian collaborationists, and there were also non-Russians from the USSR who formed the Ost-Bataillone. These eastern battalions would comprise a rough total of 175,000 men. Many of the Ost-Bataillone were conscripted or coerced into serving, though plenty also volunteered. Countless were recruited from POW camps, choosing to serve instead of labor in camps. The Osttruppen were to typically deployed for coastal defense, rear area activities, security stuff, all the less important roles to free up the German units to perform front line service.   There were two different groups, the Ost-Legionen “eastern legions” and Ost-Bataillone “eastern battalions”. The Ostlegionen were large foreign legion type units raised amongst members of specific ethnic or racial groups. The Ost-Bataillone were composed of numerous nationalities, usually plucked from POW camps in eastern europe. They were tossed together into battalion sized units and integrated individually into German combat formations. Obviously the Germans did not get their hands on large numbers of Koreans, so Yang Kyoungjong found himself in a Ost-Bataillone.    In 1944, due to massive losses in the Eastern Front, and in preparation for the allies about to open a second front, the Germans began deploying a lot of Ost-Bataillone along the coastal defense line at Cherbourg. Yang Kyoungjong was enlisted in the 709th static infantry division, a coastal defense unit assigned to defend the eastern and northern coasts of the Cotentin Peninsula. This would include the Utah beach landing site and numerous US airborne landing zones. The sector was roughly 250 km running northeast of Carentan, via Barfleur-Cherbourg-Cap de la Hague to the western point of Barneville. This also included the 65 km of land just in font of Cherbourg harbor. A significant portion of the 709th were Ost-bataillon, countless were from eastern europe, many were former Soviet POW'S. There were also two battalions of the 739th Grenadier regiment whom were Georgian battalions. A significant amount of the 709th had no combat experience, but had trained extensively in the area.   The 709th would be heavily engaged on D-day meeting US airborne units and the 4th infantry division who landed at Utah beach. In the early hours of June 6th, the US 82nd and 101st airborne divisions landed at the base of the Cotentin peninsula and managed to secure a general area for the US 4th infantry division to land at Utah beach, with very few casualties compared to other beach landings. After the landings the forces tried to link up with other forces further east. By June 9th they had crossed the Douve river valley and captured Carentan. House to house fighting was seen in the battle for Carentan, the Germans tossed a few counterattacks, but the Americans held on with the help of armor units of the 13th.    The Americans then advanced to cut off the Cotentin Peninsula, now supported by 3 other infantry divisions. The Germans had few armored or mobilized infantry in the area. By June 16th the German command was tossed into chaos as Erwin Rommel wanted them to pull out and man the Atlantic Wall at Cherbourg, but Hitler demanded they hold their present lines of defense. By the 17th Hitler agreed to the withdrawal, under some provisions the men still took up limited defenses spanning the entire peninsula. On the 18th the US 9th infantry division reached the west coast of the peninsula thus isolating the Cherbourg garrison. A battle was unleashed for 24 hours with the 4th, 9th and 79th US infantry divisions driving north on a broad front. They faced little opposition on the western side and the eastern, the center held much stronger resistance. The Americans would find several caches of V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rocket installations at Brix. After two days the Americans were in striking distance of Cherbourg. The garrison commander Lt General Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben had 21,000 men, but many were naval personnel and labor units. Schliebens 709th had performed a fighting withdrawal to Cherbourg and were completely exhausted. The trapped forces were low in provisions, fuel and ammunition. The luftwaffe tried dropping supplies on their positions but it was inadequate.    A general assault began on the 22nd and the German forces put up stiff resistance within their concrete pillboxes. Allied warships bombarded the city on the 25th of june and on the 26th a British elite force, No. 30 Commando launched an assault against Octeville, a suburb of southwestern Cherbourg. The commandos quickly captured 20 officers and 500 men of the Kriegmarine naval intelligence HQ at Villa Meurice. As the Germans were ground down, Schlieben was captured and with that a surrender was made on the 29th.   The Americans suffered nearly 3000 deaths with 13,500 wounded during the operation. The Germans suffered 8000 deaths with 30,000 captured. For the 709th who took a lionshare of the fighting they reported sustaining 4000 casualties.    Amongst the captured was Yang Kyoungjong. As I said in the beginning Lt Robert Brewer of the 506th parachute infantry regiment, 101st airborne division was overlooking the capture of Axis forces and reported to his regiment finding four Asians in Wehrmacht uniform around the Utah beach landings. Brewer nor any of his colleagues spoke the language the Asian men spoke, they assumed them to be Japanese.  The four asians were processed as POW's, listed as young Japanese and sent to a British POW camp, before he would be sent to another POW camp in the US. At some point between his capture and the POW camps, he gave his name as Yang Kyoungjong, stated he was Korean and gave the story. Apparently Yang Kyoungjob was granted US citizenship and would spend the rest of his life in Illinois until his death in 1992.   So that is the story of Yang Kyoungjong.    The truth Did Yang Kyoungjong exist? Where does his story originate? For those of you who have not guessed it yet, the story I told you was full of details, I simply added based on historical events, with zero evidence at all any man named Yang Kyoungjong was involved in them. I did this specifically to highlight, thats exactly what others have done over the course of many years, creating a sort of mythos. If you know the game broken telephone, thats what I would theorize makes up most of this mans story. But lets go through some actual evidence why don't we?   From the digging I have done, the story seemed to originate with historian Stephen Ambrose book in 1994 titled “D-day, june 6th, 1944: the Climactic battle of World War II”. While writing this book, Ambrose interviewed Robert Burnham Brewer, who served E Company, 2nd battalion, 506th parachute infantry regiment of the 101st airborne division. This same man was portrayed in Band of Brothers by the way. Brewer gave one rather ambiguous account where he spoke about capturing 4 asian men in Wehrmacht uniforms.    Here is patient zero as told to us by Ambrose's book (Page 34, no footnote on the page)   The so-called Ost battalions became increasingly unreliable after the German defeat at Kursk; they were, therefore, sent to france in exchange for German troops. At the beach called Utah on the day on the invasion, Lt Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute infantry regiment, 101st airborne division, US Army, captured four asians in Wehrmacht uniforms. No one could speak their language; eventually it was learned that they were Koreans. How on earth did Koreans end up fighting for Hitler to defend france against Americans? It seems they had been conscripted into the Japanese army in 1938-Korea was then a Japanese colony-captured by the Red Army in the border battles with Japan in 1939, forced into the Red Army, captured by the Wehrmacht in December 1941 outside Moscow, forced into the German army, and sent to France”. What happened to them, Lt Brewer never found out, but presumably they were sent back to Korea. If so, they would almost certainly have been conscripted again, either into the south or north korean army. It is possible than in 1950 they ended up fighting once again, either against the US army or with it, depending on what part of Korea they came from. Such are the vagaries of politics in the 20th century. By June 1944, one in six German rifleman in France was from an Ost battalion.   Now digging further since there are no footnotes, it seems Ambrose took an oral account from Lt Brewer, but did not directly quote him and instead abstractly expanded upon his story. Ambrose was guilty of doing this often. As multiple historians have pointed out, Brewer was living in the 1940s and was by no means an ethnographer, he was not a person who could have accurately known the nationality of the four asian men he captured. It is plausible he or other US units around him, just came up with Korean for the four asians who could have been from nearly anywhere in central to east asia. For all we know the men found could have been from Turkestan. What was “asian” to westerners of the 1940's is extremely broad.    If you look up the Ost-Bataillone or Ostlegionen you will see they consisted of captured former soviet soldiers. During the d-day landings, 1/6th of the German forces defending the atlantic coast were made up of the Ost-battailones. They came from numerous places, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, India, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkestan, Mongolia and numerous parts of the USSR. Needless to say, there were a ton of people whom would be considered asian and could be mistaken to be from Korea, Japan, Burma, etc.    It seems Brewer's vague account was transformed by Amrose, but this only covers one part of all of this, the story, what about the photo?    The iconic photograph is another matter entirely. The photograph has nothing to do with Brewer's account, it is simply a random photograph taken at Utah beach of a captured asian soldier wearing a Wehrmacht uniform. The official description of the photo states “Capture Jap in Nazi uniform. France, fearful of his future, this young Jap wearing a nazi uniform, is checked off in a roundup of German prisoners on the beaches of france. An american army captain takes the Jap's name and serial number” Author Martin Morgan believes the man in the photograph is not Yang Kyoungjong, but instead an ethnic Georgian from the 795th Georgian Battalion, which was composed of Georgian Osttruppen troops or someone who was Turkistani. In 2002 word of the story became more popularized online and in 2004 the iconic photo also began to circulate heavily on the internet. The Korean media became aware of the story in 2002 and when they saw the picture the Korean news site DKBNews investigated the matter. Apparently a reader of the DKBNews submitted biographical details about the soldier in the photo, including his name, date of birth, the general story we now know, his release, life in Illinois and death. The DKBNews journalist requested sources and none were provided, typical.   So some random unknown reader of the DKBNews gave a name, place and time of birth and even where he ended up and died.  In 2005 the Seoul broadcasting system aired a documentary specifically investigating the existence of the asian soldiers who fought for Germany on d-day.   In the SBS special “The Korean in Normandy,” produced and broadcast in 2005 based on rumors of Yang kyoungjog,  they searched for records of Korean prisoners of war during the Battle of khalkhin gol and records of Korean people who participated in the German-Japanese War, and records related to the German Army's eastern unit, but could not find traces of such a person. In addition, the soldiers who served in the Soviet army, who were captured, and then transferred to the German army's eastern units were considered by the Soviet Union to be serious traitors. Accordingly, under a secret agreement between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, they were forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union after the war and held in Gulags.. The SBS production team stated that the rumors that a 'Korean from Normandy' had gone to the United States and that he died in seclusion near Northwestern University under the name of 'Yang Kyoungjong', which they were unaware of, were false. The investigative team looked for any traces of a Yang Kyoungjong and found none, so they concluded although there were accounts of asian soldiers in the German army during WW2, there was zero evidence of the existence of Yang Kyoungjong or any Koreans fighting on D-day for that matter.    The 2005 SBS Special documentary sprang forth a bunch of stories by Korean authors, expanding the mythos of Yang Kyoungjong.   In 2007 author Jo Jeong-rae published a novel titled “human mask” which told the story of SHin Gilman, The story ends with Shin Gil-man, who was conscripted into the Japanese army at the age of 20, as a prisoner of war in Normandy, then transported back to the Soviet Union and eventually executed by firing squad. Another novel called “D-day” by author Kim Byeong-in was release in 2011, just prior to the film My War, the plot is extremely similar to the movie. The main characters are Han Dae-sik and Yoichi, who met as children as the sons of a Japanese landowner and the house's housekeeper, harboring animosity toward each other, and grew up to become marathon runners representing Joseon and Japan. As they experience the war together, they feel a strange sense of kinship and develop reconciliation and friendship.   And of course the most famous story would find its way to the big screen. In 2011 the film My Way came out, back then the most expensive south korean film ever made at around 23$ million.   Then in 2012 a unknown person created a wikipedia page piecing together the Ambrose story, the photo and the unknown DBK readers information. With all of this information becoming more viral suddenly in 2013, two history books hit the scene and would you know it, both have “Yang Kyoungjong” in them.    These are Antony Beevor's book “the second world war” and that of defense consultant and author Steven Zaloga in his book “the devil's garden: Rommel's desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day”. Both authors took the story, name and iconic photo and expanded on the mythos by adding further details as to how the Korean man would have gone from Korea to Cherbourg france.   So Ambrose's story spreads across the internet alongside this photo. Both spark interest in Korea and an investigation receives some random guys testimony, which quite honestly was groundless. Despite the korean documentary stating there was no evidence of a Yang Kyoungjong, it sparks further interest, more stories and a famous film in 2011. 2012 sees a wikipage, it becomes more viral and now seeps into other historians work.   And I would be remiss not to mention the bizarre controversy that broke out in my nation of Canada. A nation so full of controversies today, dear god. Debbie Hanlon a city councilor in St John Newfoundland was absolutely wrecked online in 2018 for an advertisement promoting her real estate business stating “Korean Yang kyoungjong fought with Japan against the USSR. He then fought with the USSR against Germany. Then with Germany against the US! Want an agent who fights for you, call me!” Really weird ad by the way. So it seems her ad was to point out how far she was willing to go for her real estate clients. It was considered extremely offensive, and not the first time she pulled this off, her husband Oral Mews had recently come under fire for another ad he made using a photo of the Puerto Rican cab driver Victor Perez Cardona, where the vehicle turned into a casket. That ad said “He can't give you a lift because he's dead. He's propped up in his cab at his wake! Need a lift to great service, call me!” Hanlon was surprised at the amount of backlash she received since the ads had been running for over 4 years online. She claimed to be the victim of cyberbullying and trolls. So yeah, that happened.    Did Yang Kyoungjong exist, more than likely not, was it possible some Koreans found themselves in a position his story pertains to, you know what it's quite possible. During War a lot of weird things happen. I hope you liked this episode, please let me know in the comments on the Patreon what you think, how I can improve things and of course what you want to hear about next!

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In der Nacht zum 30. September hat die Ukraine mit dem Beschuss eines Kraftwerks für einen Stromausfall in Belgorod gesorgt. Anders als Moskau wollte Kiew damit jedoch nicht der russischen Zivilgesellschaft schaden. Das Kalkül ist ein anderes. Kellermann, Florian www.deutschlandfunk.de, Informationen am Morgen

O regresso às aulas está a ser preparado com várias medidas de segurança na região russa de Belgorod. Putin foi recebido na China com pompa e circunstância. E há novidades nas operações no terreno.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textStrap in and put your outrage pants on, because this Ones Ready Daily Drop is pure Pentagon chaos. Jared drops a firestorm of updates faster than a drone swarm over Belgorod. NATO wants 5% GDP? Greenland's back on the menu? Pete Hegseth skips Ukraine for brunch in Brussels? And oh yeah — $38 MILLION for a child development center that could've bought an entire gated suburb in Vegas.We hit drone warfare's brutal reality check, the baffling state of U.S. air defenses, and why letting China buy farmland next to our missile silos is somehow still legal. Spoiler: It shouldn't be. This episode is fast, furious, and fired up. If you're not yelling at the sky by the end, check your pulse.

Donald Trump passou das palavras aos actos e anunciou taxas alfandegárias “recíprocas” para todo o mundo. Aliados, adversários, analistas, economistas e bolsas vão sucumbindo, uns mais atónitos que outros, sob o peso da inconsistência das traves-mestras do alegado “Dia da Libertação” dos Estados Unidos. Mas o Carlos Gaspar vê “coerência” na “estratégia de destruição da ordem internacional americana” liderada a partir de Washington. “Há aqui um padrão, desde o princípio, não é só um método de crise: o Presidente dos EUA está constantemente a criar situações de crise e tem a iniciativa estratégica para, passo a passo, ir destruindo a ordem internacional e o modelo de globalização que os EUA criaram a seguir à II Guerra Mundial”, diz o investigador do IPRI-NOVA no episódio desta semana do podcast Diplomatas. “O fim da globalização é agora oficial, com o decreto das tarifas, e é mais um pilar da ordem americana que é deitado abaixo”, insiste. “Não é apenas no domínio da Defesa e da Segurança. Agora é também o modelo americano da globalização que é posto em causa e, eventualmente, a própria posição do dólar como moeda de referência internacional.” Sobre a retaliação célere da China, o Carlos Gaspar resume de forma simples: “A resposta é inteiramente previsível. O secretário-geral do Partido Comunista da China não pode não responder taco-a-taco ao Presidente dos Estados Unidos. É uma questão de sobrevivência política.” Lembrando alguém que descrevia a guerra tarifária de Trump como um “Inverno nuclear económico autoinfligido”, a Teresa de Sousa lamenta que o tema tarde em entrar na campanha eleitoral em Portugal. A jornalista explica o fenómeno com a “terrível tendência que nos ficou incrustada nos genes desde o ‘orgulhosamente sós’ de Salazar”, que é “esta incapacidade da nossa classe política dirigente de olhar para nós como uma pequena economia aberta, democrática, aberta ao mundo”, que joga à escala europeia e mundial, e que tem na Europa “uma parte fundamental para a defesa dos nossos interesses, do nosso modo de vida e do nosso bem-estar social”. “Quando a União Europeia enfrenta uma dupla mudança radical da sua vida, a mudança geopolítica com a ruptura entre os dois lados do Atlântico (com a ameaça russa) e agora uma ruptura geoeconómica, como é que aqui em Portugal nenhum dos dois partidos que nos devem governar alternadamente [PSD e PS] consegue ter um raciocínio lógico e realista sobre o que se está a passar?”, questiona. Sobre o encontro agendado para o próximo sábado entre representantes dos EUA e do Irão, mediado por Omã, para se discutir o programa nuclear iraniano, o Carlos Gaspar nota comparações com o método de negociações norte-americanas sobre a guerra na Ucrânia. “O Presidente dos EUA quer pôr fim à guerra na Europa e pôr fim à guerra no Médio Oriente; e que está disposto a pagar um preço alto aos seus adversários para garantir esse resultado”, defende. Ainda sobre a Ucrânia, e, concretamente, sobre a incursão das suas Forças Armadas na província russa de Belgorod, a Teresa de Sousa realça que as Forças Armadas ucranianas “estão muito, muito, muito, muito longe de estar numa situação aflitiva” e acredita que os desenvolvimentos dos últimos meses fizeram com que as chefias militares e políticas do país invadido pela Rússia sejam agora mais “proactivas” e menos dependentes “das orientações americanas, como no tempo de Biden”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's episode, we discuss the global fallout unleashed by US President Donald Trump's tariffs, Ukraine confirms the presence of Ukrainian troops in Russia's Belgorod region, and Trump announces that the US will hold nuclear talks with Iran.Watch TLDR's latest videos here:https://youtu.be/lLdTz3QnA78 https://youtu.be/dRhNGQO9tTE TLDR's Daily Briefing is a roundup of the day's most important news stories from around the world. But we don't just tell you what's happening, we explain it: making complex topics simple to understand. Listen to the Daily Briefing for your global news bulletin every weekday.Pre-order the next edition of Too Long, TLDR's print magazine, here: https://toolong.news/dailyProduced and edited by Scarlett WatchornHosted byWritten by Nadja Lovadionv Music by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator//////////////////////////////Sources:✍️ China Vows to Fight Back on Trump's Tariffshttps://www.ft.com/content/f91a45e4-5daf-4891-95d8-9771ee3e035d https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg51yw700lo ✍️ Stock Markets Reboundhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates?embedded-checkout=true https://www.ft.com/content/50a3e1f6-5c10-4fe9-b2b8-4659f6f26aee ✍️ Ukrainian Troops in Belgorodhttps://www.euronews.com/2025/04/08/ukrainian-troops-advance-into-russias-belgorod-zelenskyy-confirms ✍️ US-Iran Nuclear Talkshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-iran-nuclear-program See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

President Zelensky heeft in een videoboodschap bevestigd dat het Oekraïense leger actief is in de Russische regio Belgorod, naast het Russische Koersk. Volgens de Oekraïense leider zijn de operaties aan de landsgrenzen gerechtvaardigd: "De oorlog moet terugkeren naar waar die vandaan kwam." Aan correspondent Michiel Driebergen vragen we waarom Kyiv nu deze aanval inzet. (09:54) Hoe Europa zijn industrie wil redden In onze geopolitieke serie ‘De Oplossing van het Westen' gaat het vandaag over de Europese industrie. De Amerikaanse importheffingen zijn slechts de nieuwste klap in een lange reeks tegenslagen. Door de torenhoge energieprijzen wordt het voor Europese fabrieken steeds lastiger om te overleven. Maar juist nu zijn die fabrieken onmisbaar, stelt de Europese Commissie. Hoe houdt Europa zijn industrie overeind? Daarover spreken we met econoom Rens van Tilburg van het Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken (VU) en Sander Tordoir, hoofdeconoom bij de Europese denktank CER. Presentatie: Sophie Derkzen

Zelensky bevestigt dat Oekraïne actief is in de Russische regio Belgorod, in de week waarin Rusland zijn geboortestad bombardeerde. Ondertussen is het nog altijd wachten op Rusland, dat tot dusver geen aanstalten maakt om serieus over vrede te praten.Netanyahu reisde met een omweg naar zijn vriend Trump in de Verenigde Staten, terwijl hulporganisaties in Nederland meer actie van het Nederlandse kabinet eisen tegen Israël. Vorige maand nam Israël een konvooi hulpverleners in ambulances onder vuur en begroef de lichamen in het zand - nu blijkt dat Israël loog over de aanleiding daartoe.Dat en meer bespreekt Jos de Groot met generaals buiten dienst Peter van Uhm en Mart de Kruif.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#UKRAINE: HANGING ON KURSK AND BELGOROD OBLASTS. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO, FDD 2920 KURSK

In this insightful episode of STRAT, we dissect critical global conflicts and strategic developments that shape the geopolitical landscape. Our focus shifts to Ukraine's strategic offensive in the Russian Belgorod Oblast, a maneuver reshaping the dynamics of frontline operations. Analyzing Russia's economic struggles, we explore the ramifications of its reliance on oil exports to nations like China and India, and the potential collapse of its war-strained economy. President Trump's unpredictable approach to international tariffs adds complexity to these scenarios. Furthermore, we examine the intricacies of revised mineral deals between Ukraine and the US, assessing Europe's defense readiness amid fluctuating US support. The situation in the Middle East is also explored, highlighting potential resolutions in Gaza and shifts in regional diplomacy. Join us as we unravel these key issues and their implications on global stability and future security scenarios.Takeaways:• Ukraine's offensive in Belgorod exploits Russian military redeployments.• Ukraine continues leveraging classic maneuver warfare to regain lost ground.• Russia's economic reliance on oil exports faces increased international pressure.• Trump's proposed tariffs threaten Russia's economic stability further.• Europe struggles with defense spending amid unstable US-Ukraine relations.• Middle East diplomacy sees creative ceasefire proposals in Gaza.• Israel reasserts military and diplomatic presence in the Gaza Strip.• Strategic developments in Lebanon and Syria impact regional stability.#STRATPodcast #HalKempfer #MutualBroadcastingSystem #StrategicRiskAnalysis #GlobalConflicts #UkraineCrisis #RussiaEconomy #TrumpAdministration #MiddleEastDiplomacy #GazaConflict #BelgorodOffensive #ManeuverWarfare #PetrostatePolitics #EuropeanDefense #InternationalRelations #GeopoliticalStrategy #LebanonAndSyria #MilitaryAnalysis #DiplomaticDialogue #SecurityTrends

Day 1,129.Today, amid reports of precision strikes on Russia's Belgorod region – the site of Ukraine's latest incursion – we discuss news from the Paris defence summit, Trump's new minerals deal proposal, and hear the latest acts of resistance in the occupied territories. Later, we discuss the lessons from the Napoleonic era for ceasefires and peace treaties.Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.Dr. Jade McGlynn (War Studies Department of King's College). @DrJadeMcGlynn on X.With thanks to Thomas Clausen (Historian). @DrThomasClausen on X.Content Referenced:Revealed: Trump's plan to force Ukraine to restore Putin's gas empire (The Telegraph):https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/27/revealed-trump-plan-force-ukraine-restore-putin-gas-empire/Ukrainian forces destroy strategic bridges in Russian Belgorod Oblast (Euromaiden Press):https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/28/ukrainian-forces-destroy-strategic-bridges-in-russian-belgorod-oblast/ Trump reverses termination of program tracking mass child abductions in Ukraine (Washington Post):https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/27/trump-ukraine-russia-child-abductions/ He Fought for Ukraine. Now Morocco is Punishing Him (Kyiv Post):https://www.kyivpost.com/post/49104Ukrainian lions - now in Kent!https://x.com/ZaluzhnyiUA/status/1904867664826167686 NOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them, or click the links below.Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatestLearn more about the tech: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/24/ukraine-the-latest-podcast-russian-ukrainian-ai-translation/Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

World news in 7 minutes. Friday 28th March 2025.Today: Turkiye journalists arrested. France Ukraine support group. Ukraine Belgorod incursion. UK OnlyFans fine.Gaza Hamas protests. Indonesia law change. Korea fires. Australia election. US car tariffs. Argentina IMF. Egypt submarine. South Sudan war? And lions from UA to UK.SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.Our supporters get access to the transcripts and vocabulary list written by us every day.Our supporters get access to an English worksheet made by us once per week.Our supporters get access to our weekly news quiz made by us once per week.We give 10% of our profit to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.org/supportContact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7Please leave a rating on Apple podcasts or Spotify.We don't use AI! Every word is written and recorded by us!Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Ben Mallett and Juliet Martin every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.Get your daily news and improve your English listening in the time it takes to make a coffee.For more information visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

On this edition of the Cajun Knight Live, we discuss some of the contraversy Putin is currently facing as his oligarchs slowly turn on him, while simultaneously one of his PMC leaders calls for a coup against him, and an alleged forward offensive into Belgorod. We also discuss the Signal chat contraversy, the parties involved, as well as the reporter who brought it all to light. In other news DOGE recently uncovered over $300 million in small business loans to children under the age of 11. We also spend a little time talking about the $1.5 billion heist in crypto the North Korea just pulled off! If you would like to join in on the conversation next Wednesday night, then come join us atpatreon.com/CajunKnightBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cult-of-conspiracy--5700337/support.

#UKRAINE.  BELGOROD GAMBIT. JOHN HARDIE, FDD. BILL ROGGIO FDD. 1921 REVOLUTION

**** VIDEO EN NUESTRO CANAL DE YOUTUBE **** https://youtube.com/live/B0O9lzshWIM +++++ Hazte con nuestras camisetas en https://www.bhmshop.app +++++ #Actualidad #Geopolítica #GuerraEnUcrania Análisis semanal de la Guerra de Ucrania – 19/3/2025 En #FrenteDeBatalla , José María Rodríguez y Francisco García Campa analizarán los acontecimientos clave de la guerra en Ucrania. Esta semana, el debate girará en torno a la negociación telefónica entre Trump y Putin, el rearme europeo en respuesta a la guerra y la situación en el frente, con especial atención a la infiltración ucraniana en Belgorod. Mientras la diplomacia se mueve entre bastidores y la guerra sigue en evolución, estos son los temas principales: Llamada Trump-Putin – ¿Paso hacia la paz o simple juego de intereses? Rearme europeo – ¿Está la UE lista para un conflicto prolongado? Situación en el frente – Avances y retrocesos en la línea de batalla. Infiltración en Belgorod – Golpe táctico ucraniano, ¿consecuencias estratégicas? Con negociaciones en curso, una Europa en alerta y un frente de batalla en constante cambio, ¿se acerca un punto de inflexión en la guerra o estamos ante una nueva escalada? Únete al directo y participa en el debate. SUSCRÍBETE a ‪@BELLUMARTISACTUALIDADMILITAR‬ y sigue nuestras redes para no perderte ningún análisis: YouTube: @BELLUMARTISACTUALIDADMILITAR Blog: bellumartishistoriamilitar.blogspot.com Twitter/X: @Bellumartis #Actualidad #Geopolítica #GuerraEnUcrania #FrenteDeBatalla #Putin #Trump #Belgorod #RearmeEuropeo #Ucrania #Rusia #Conflicto #AltoElFuego #EstrategiaMilitar #Análisis #Bellumartis COMPRA EN AMAZON CON EL ENLACE DE BHM Y AYUDANOS ************** https://amzn.to/3ZXUGQl ************* Si queréis apoyar a Bellumartis Historia Militar e invitarnos a un café o u una cerveza virtual por nuestro trabajo, podéis visitar nuestro PATREON https://www.patreon.com/bellumartis o en PAYPALhttps://www.paypal.me/bellumartis o en BIZUM 656/778/825

Day 1,120.Today, we discuss the Russian bombardments on Ukraine that began within hours of the "immediate ceasefire” on energy and infrastructure allegedly agreed between Trump and Putin, the European reaction to the call between the two presidents, and the latest military battlefield updates, including in Kursk and a new incursion launched into Belgorod.Contributors:Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.With thanks to Svitlana Morenets. @SvMorenets on X.Content Referenced:Follow our sister podcast Battle Lines, which covers wider global affairs:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/battle-lines/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battle-lines/id1712903296 https://open.spotify.com/show/7gPBO0qnZI1YBi25zaVT1cNOW AVAILABLE IN NEW LANGUAGES:The Telegraph has launched translated versions of Ukraine: The Latest in Ukrainian and Russian, making its reporting accessible to audiences on both sides of the battle lines and across the wider region, including Central Asia and the Caucasus. Just search Україна: Останні Новини (Ukr) and Украина: Последние Новости (Ru) on your on your preferred podcast app to find them, or click the links below.Listen here: https://linktr.ee/ukrainethelatestLearn more about the tech: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/24/ukraine-the-latest-podcast-russian-ukrainian-ai-translation/Subscribe: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

**** VIDEO EN NUESTRO CANAL DE YOUTUBE **** https://youtube.com/live/tAj5g9wZI-k +++++ Hazte con nuestras camisetas en https://www.bhmshop.app +++++ En este programa especial de BellumArtis Actualidad, analizamos la conversación entre Putin y Trump, los acuerdos alcanzados y su impacto en la guerra en Ucrania. Mientras tanto, Ucrania intensifica su ofensiva en Bélgorod, desafiando las defensas rusas. ¡Tu opinión cuenta! Únete al debate en directo con Francisco García Campa y comparte tu análisis sobre estos acontecimientos clave. ¿Trump puede influir en el conflicto? ¿Es el inicio de una negociación real o solo estrategia? ¿Cómo afectará el ataque en Bélgorod a la guerra? Participa y analiza la actualidad militar y geopolítica con nosotros. ¡No te lo pierdas! COMPRA EN AMAZON CON EL ENLACE DE BHM Y AYUDANOS ************** https://amzn.to/3ZXUGQl ************* Si queréis apoyar a Bellumartis Historia Militar e invitarnos a un café o u una cerveza virtual por nuestro trabajo, podéis visitar nuestro PATREON https://www.patreon.com/bellumartis o en PAYPALhttps://www.paypal.me/bellumartis o en BIZUM 656/778/825

Bestselling duo Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson return to BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss DEFENSE PROTOCOL, the newest release in the #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy! The stakes are sky-high when a power-mad Chinese president threatens Taiwan - we cover all aspects of this emotional, intellectual and sometimes physically painful trip into modern warfare! We talked about the next generation of the Ryan family, Katie, and how she does not necessarily feel prepared or equipped for the high-pressure situations in which she finds herself. How does anyone move forward with any confidence? Katie's interactions with her father, President Ryan, were fascinating to us! We also loved discussing the Qiu Lei, Autumn Thunder, aka the Spider. She was a “support asset” aiding the CIA's human intelligence in China for over 15 years. Given her Kung Fu training and extensive educational background in math, science, history, and rhetoric, we think she might just be an example of a perfect military. You will not believe our discussion about how the Chinese government uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to perform facial recognition, movement tracking, and pattern recognition. Is information the new currency? Although this approach seems contrary to our values, are we unwittingly feeding into it by offering so much information on social media? As always, this writing team is here to talk about the deep subjects and we're loving it!You can find more of your favorite bestselling authors at BOOKSTORM Podcast! We're also on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube!

Recherche des disparus, maintien des liens familiaux… Ces missions traditionnelles du Comité international de la Croix Rouge (CICR), le cœur de son mandat issu des Conventions de Genève, ont depuis le lancement de ses opérations en mars 2022 sur le conflit en Ukraine une ampleur inédite pour l'organisation. Le CICR a ouvert pour la première fois les portes de son siège moscovite à un média.  De notre correspondante à Moscou, À proximité de trois gares, le siège du CICR à Moscou voit désormais arriver des familles entières ayant passé la nuit dans un train. Parfois dès 7 heures, elles attendent l'ouverture des locaux de l'organisation. Ces familles se rendent dans la capitale russe à la recherche d'informations sur leurs proches disparus. L'essentiel du travail des salariés du CICR se passe pourtant entre des murs où règne un silence épais, concentré, à peine troublé, régulièrement, par les appels.  Au bout de la ligne, casque sur la tête derrière leur ordinateur, deux opératrices sont dédiées au travail en première instance, dont Marina, 24 ans, (son prénom, comme celui des autres salariées répondant aux appels, a été changé à sa demande). Elle explique :« Tous les premiers appels passent par moi et ma collègue. Nous recevons quotidiennement entre 50 et parfois jusqu'à 130 appels chacune. La durée dépend du type de question que se pose une personne. Parfois, vous pouvez résoudre une question en une minute, et parfois, vous devez y passer 15 minutes. Nous recevons toutes sortes d'appels. La plupart du temps, ce sont des personnes très polies et respectueuses dans leur communication. Bien sûr, elles sont très souvent dans un état psychologique très difficile car elles sont déjà allées dans de nombreux endroits, parce qu'elles n'ont pas pu obtenir de réponses à leurs questions depuis très longtemps, et parce qu'elles ne savent toujours pas où se trouve leur proche. »Parfois, les familles ont un doute sur qui a pu prendre contact avec elles, explique aussi Marina : « Il y a des familles qui reçoivent des appels d'arnaqueurs et elles sont très inquiètes parce qu'on leur dit, par exemple, que leur proche est en captivité et en danger, et on demande à la famille d'envoyer urgemment de l'argent à quelqu'un. » Quelle que soit la situation évoquée, ces appels charrient leurs lots d'émotions. « Principalement de la frustration, parce que les gens ne savent rien, détaille Marina. Ils sont donc très fatigués, extrêmement traumatisés. Il y a des moments où ils se mettent très en colère, et c'est normal. Nous comprenons pourquoi cela se produit. »   Au CICR, le personnel soutient de multiples façons les familles de disparus Avec l'accord des familles et la garantie d'une confidentialité totale, Marina et sa collègue établissent ensuite tous les premiers éléments concrets pour établir une demande de recherche : photos, tatouages… Ce sont d'autres collègues, ensuite, qui prennent le relais, et gardent le lien. « Il y a plusieurs possibilités, détaille Elena. La première est lorsque nous recevons des informations dans notre système selon lesquelles une personne est confirmée comme prisonnier de guerre par les autorités ukrainiennes : dans ce cas, nous appelons le numéro de téléphone de contact que le demandeur nous a laissé, et l'informons que son proche est prisonnier de guerre. La deuxième option est lorsque nous recevons de courts messages verbaux ou des messages Croix-Rouge d'un prisonnier de guerre pour ses proches : dans ce cas, le prisonnier de guerre laisse les coordonnées des proches à qui il souhaite transmettre un court message. Bien sûr, les réactions varient, des larmes aux cris de joie au téléphone. » Annoncer une bonne nouvelle, par exemple qu'on a retrouvé la trace d'un soldat capturé, reste rare, mais dans ces cas-là, le sentiment d'être utile est particulièrement fort. Il y a aussi les paroles des familles. Maria se souvient, avec une émotion discrète : « Une fois, on m'a envoyé une capture d'écran d'un groupe qui s'appelle ''Parents de personnes disparues pendant le conflit'', qui s'échange des informations sur les réseaux sociaux. Quelqu'un a conseillé de contacter la Croix-Rouge internationale en disant qu'on y expliquait bien les choses. Dans des moments comme ça, on se sent fier de ce qu'on fait dans l'organisation. » Reste que bien souvent, avec l'installation du conflit, dit Maria, les problèmes s'accumulent. « Certains vivent dans la région de Belgorod, à la frontière, ils sont donc aussi dans une zone de conflit. Donc, en plus du fait qu'ils ont perdu trace de leurs proches, ce qui est déjà une tragédie, ils ont beaucoup d'autres problèmes et ils se sentent souvent seuls, abandonnés. Quand nous n'avons pas appelé depuis un moment, des familles nous contactent en utilisant notre e-mail ou notre numéro d'assistance téléphonique gratuit pour savoir s'il y a des nouvelles ou non, car elles sont inquiètes, explique Maria. Dans un tel cas, bien sûr, nous répondons rapidement, et clarifions toutes les informations nécessaires. Malheureusement, en raison du grand nombre de dossiers que nous avons, il n'est pas toujours possible d'être en contact avec chacun. Mais nous comprenons que notre tâche principale est de fournir toutes sortes de soutien, y compris un soutien psychologique. Parfois, il est important pour une personne de juste pouvoir parler. » En plein affrontement, la tâche du CICR est titanesque, d'autant que la longueur de la ligne de front et la violence des combats sont aussi des obstacles majeurs pour récupérer les blessés, ramener les morts et mener les identifications. 36 000 dossiers de recherche sont encore ouverts Les derniers chiffres de l'organisation, au bout de plus de deux ans et demi de conflit, donnent, eux, le vertige. Pour des raisons évidentes de confidentialité et de neutralité – c'est d'ailleurs dans son mandat –, l'organisation donne des chiffres globaux d'actions menées, et non pas pays par pays. Fin septembre 2024, le CICR avait décompté environ 230 000 appels, courriels ou visites de familles à la recherche de disparus. 10 000 familles sont informées du sort ou de la localisation de leur proche. On compte 36 000 dossiers de recherche de disparus ouverts. « Le cas typique, ce sont les familles de soldats et de civils qui ont perdu le contact avec leur proche, dit Pamela Ongoma, responsable de la protection des liens familiaux à la délégation régionale du CICR à Moscou. Parfois, nous avons aussi des cas de familles qui savent par d'autres soldats que leur proche a été fait prisonnier. Ils prennent contact avec nous pour l'ouverture d'une demande de recherche, pour que nous puissions l'inclure dans nos bases, parce qu'ils savent que nos activités sont disséminées, et que cela peut leur permettre de recevoir des nouvelles. » C'est une disposition du droit international humanitaire : les parents de disparus ont le « droit de savoir ». Pour mener à bien cette tâche, le dispositif du CICR est le plus massif depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale : 50 sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge sont mises à contribution, ainsi que 27 délégations du comité international. Les demandes peuvent en effet être déposées par des familles qui se sont réfugiées loin du conflit. Au cœur de cette machine, une structure a été créée spécialement : le « bureau de l'Agence centrale de recherches pour le conflit armé international entre la Fédération de Russie et l'Ukraine ». Il est installé à Genève, avec des antennes à Kiev et à Moscou. L'ampleur et la durée du conflit exigent de plus en plus d'effectifs, explique Pamela Ongoma : « En 2022, l'équipe qui s'occupait du suivi des familles était encore d'une taille réduite. Elle a graduellement augmenté. Nous avons fait beaucoup de recrutements et désormais multiplié les effectifs par quatre par rapport au début ; nous sommes aujourd'hui 38 dédiés à la protection des liens familiaux. Et nous avons aussi d'autres départements, qui sont, par exemple, en charge de délivrer les messages des familles. Je pense qu'au vu de la charge de travail, nous allons continuer à recruter. » Selon les Conventions de Genève, les échanges de prisonniers, eux, ne sont pas une obligation des parties. Dans ce conflit, ils sont négociés sans le CICR, directement entre Kiev et Moscou. À l'abri des regards. 

2024-09-19 | Z-patriots are having a meltdown, because, once more things are going boom in Russia. And this time, it's big. It's huge in fact. Not only do we find out what it looks like to ignite roughly 30,000 tons of munitions, we get to see so-called Russian patriots lose their minds over how their government fails to protect strategically significant military sites over and over. ---------- The ecosystem of patriotic channels, that nonetheless must exist within the restrictions defined by the Russian regime, have been howling all morning and saying that Russia's defeat is almost inevitable. This is real hysteria, born of rage, frustration and fear. What really rubs salt into the wounds, is that it is clearly Ukrainians achieving this with their own weapons. Propagandists can try to pin it on NATO, but this really does not wash any more, given that it's plain for all to see how timid, cautious and slow Western support really is. Everyone knows that for now, there is a ‘soft appeasement' in place, meaning that western weapons cannot be used against airbases and launch sites that continue to rain death upon Ukrainian people. The 107th Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of Russian armed forces was hit by drones. This may be the biggest blow to a Russian ammunition depot during the entire course of the war and resulted in an explosion that was visible from space. The fire engulfed the entire territory of the arsenal. The warehouses could store up to 30,000 tons of various ammunition – which does not mean that it was stocked to capacity when hit. We just don't know how much stuff was onsite at the time. But munitions it could have contained, include 122 mm rocket munitions for Grad and 82 mm mortar shells. Missiles for S-300 and S-400, and for Iskanders could have been stored at the arsenal. A stock of North Korean KN 23 may also have been stored at this site. Shells from the 107th arsenal were directly delivered by rail to Kursk and Belgorod, and apparently, the Northern group of troops will feel the consequences of this strike, and the job of soldiers fighting against Ukraine's incursions into Kursk may find their task is massively complicated by the loss of these ammunition reserves. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08IiEi3-uVI&t=588s ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Ils sont quelques centaines de civils russes à combattre parmi des milliers d'Ukrainiens sur la ligne de front, parfois depuis des années, parfois depuis quelques mois, ayant décidé de se battre auprès des Ukrainiens contre Moscou. Au sein du bataillon sibérien (Sibir), crée en 2023, on retrouve des anti-impérialistes de tous horizons, des Russes slaves et issus des groupes ethniques de l'est du pays. Peu soutenus, voire ignorés par l'opposition russe en Occident, ils sont pourtant les seuls à se ranger clairement du côté de Kyiv dans ce qui est pour eux une guerre contre tout un système d'oppression dont ils sont issus et qu'ils entendent combattre. De notre correspondante en Ukraine,Certains reviennent de Belgorod, où ils ont participé aux premières incursions en territoire russe au mois de mars dernier, d'autres de la péninsule de Kinburn dans le sud de l'Ukraine, où avec d'autres soldats, ils ont participé à des offensives cet été… Mais ces soldats, qui se battent du côté ukrainien, ont la particularité d'être des citoyens de la Fédération de Russie, contre laquelle ils guerroient. Ils font partie du bataillon sibérien (Sibir) et bien que leurs horizons soient divers, ils partagent la conviction qu'il leur fallait prendre les armes contre leur propre pays.« Nous ne sommes encore que quelques-uns, mais nous avons fait notre choix, clame haut et fort Walther, une cinquantaine d'années, qui a rejoint le bataillon à l'automne 2023. Le bataillon sibérien et d'autres unités militaires composées de citoyens de la Fédération de Russie ont choisi leurs armes. Et j'exhorte tous ceux qui détestent le régime de Poutine à apporter leur aide et à y participer. »Blessé lors de la bataille d'Avdiivka, Walther déplore la trop grande complaisance de l'occident envers Moscou dès l'invasion de la Géorgie : « Si, en 2008, tous les politiques européens avaient agi de manière uni et avaient introduit au moins un dixième des sanctions contre la Russie introduites après le 24 février, je pense que ni 2014 ni 2022 n'auraient eu lieu. Le rat aurait été arrêté au tout début de son voyage. Malheureusement, l'histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale hitlérienne s'est répétée », se désole-t-il.Maloy, une vingtaine d'années, fait partie des jeunes recrues du bataillon. Il est originaire de la République de Bachkirie et a déjà participé à plusieurs opérations, dont les incursions de Belgorod aux côtés de deux autres formations de soldats russes en Ukraine. C'était en mars dernier, bien avant l'opération de Kursk. « L'opération s'est avérée beaucoup plus compliquée que prévu initialement, mais elle a réussi : car les pertes russes ont été assez importantes : la brigade adverse qui se trouvait dans notre direction a perdu environ la moitié de ses officiers. »Ce soutien de quelques Russes à la défense ukrainienne est loin d'être anodin : pour bien des recrues du bataillon sibérien, il appuie leurs propres aspirations d'indépendance, celles des minorités de la Fédération de Russie, comme les Bachkirs, mais les Bouriates ou encore les Yakoutes.« Le seul pays qui peut nous aider à libérer notre république est l'Ukraine »Aux côtés de Walther et Maloy, on retrouve Kypchak, lui aussi Bashkir. Âgé d'une quarantaine d'années, il a quitté la Russie et sa profession libérale au moment de l'invasion à grande échelle – pour lui, soutenir le combat des Ukrainiens signifie aussi appuyer la libération de son propre peuple. « L'une de mes motivations pour venir ici et aider l'Ukraine à résister à l'agression russe est précisément la compréhension que nous ne pouvons combattre le régime qu'en soutenant d'autres peuples, affirme-t-il. Autrement dit, l'exemple de la Tchétchénie montre qu'une seule république n'est pas capable de combattre Moscou. Aujourd'hui, la situation est telle que, peut-être, le seul pays qui peut nous aider à libérer notre république est l'Ukraine. Finalement, notre objectif est assez égoïste : en aidant l'Ukraine, nous espérons qu'à l'avenir, avec le soutien de pays pour ainsi dire civilisés, nous pourrons libérer nos républiques. »Tous les mois, de nouvelles recrues arrivent en Ukraine – une vingtaine environ – après un long processus de recrutement, les Russes jugés aptes et dignes de confiance embarquent pour une formation aux techniques de combat. « On voit les jeunes communiquer avec leurs frères d'armes plus âgés, ceux-ci leur disent ce qu'est la guerre, que c'est moche, que ça fait peur, que la mort fait peur, confie Batya, un vétéran ukrainien parmi leurs formateurs. Mais leur motivation ne baisse pas, ils veulent se battre, s'entraîner de manière tout à fait consciente, se préparer. La génération précédente leur dit à quoi faire attention, et nous, nous leur donnons des compétences tactiques ».Chaque mois, le bataillon sibérien s'étoffe – pour Walther c'est aussi une question d'honneur pour ceux des Russes qui se disent opposés au régime du Kremlin : « Il existe une expression : "le collier d'un esclave est toujours plus léger que l'armure d'un guerrier". Mais même si je meurs, je saurai que je n'ai pas vécu cette vie en vain. Je mourrai pour une juste cause. Vous avez une chance de devenir humain et de vous regarder dans le miroir sans honte. Pensez à la façon dont vos enfants grandiront et à ce qu'ils vous diront : Papa, maman, où étiez-vous à ce moment ? »À écouter aussiOffensive ukrainienne en Russie : quel objectif stratégique ?

Ukrainian strikes killed five people and injured 46 more in Belgorod, a city in south-western Russia, according to Russian authorities.

2024-09-01 | We are enabling a lottery of death to take place in Ukraine, daily, and it's both stupid and immoral. Our timidity must stop, otherwise Russian aggression will only escalate. ---------- Ukraine has conducted the largest drone assault on Russian infrastructure of the war so far. Fires are reported at two power plants and oil refinery in Moscow region, with 158 Ukrainian drones targeting multiple regions, including Moscow, Tver, Voronezh, Tula, Kaluga, Bryansk, Belgorod, Lipetsk, and Kursk, according to officials and residents. The attacks follow Russia's concerted attempts to degrade and destroy energy infrastructure in Ukraine, to make cities unliveable and create misery for its citizens. The scale of the strike suggests a significant advancement in Ukraine's drone capabilities. 158 was the number of drones reported by the Russian Ministry of Defence, so the true number of drones may be even higher. It is an enduring frustration when multiple media outlets begin their stories with quotes from Russian officials, who invariably lie. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-dozens-of-ukrainian-drones-targeted-moscow-other-regions/ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-wiping-off-kursk-oblasts-sudzha-ukrainian-commander-says/ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/01/russian-energy-sites-targeted-in-mass-overnight-drone-attack-a86217 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/38278 https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/01/kyiv-targets-15-regions-in-massive-overnight-drone-strikes-on-russian-energy-infrastructure-en-news https://kyivindependent.com/russia-attacks-kharkiv-injuring-at-least-28-including-medic/ ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

In our news wrap Saturday, aid workers began the first phase of their campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio, Russia is blaming Ukraine for the deaths of five people in Belgorod, a heavy storm prompted flood warnings in Japan, seven people died in a Mississippi bus crash, Trump launched a new wave of attacks on Harris, and Team USA added to its medal count at the Paris Paralympics. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

2024-08-30 | Ukraine's offensive in the Kursk region seems to have triggered a meltdown among Russia's propagandists and the talking heads on state TV. Despite the usual exhortations to violence, and denigrations of Ukraine, their ire this week seems to have turned on their own leaders, in the wake of Ukraine's success in grabbing and holding Russian territory in Kursk Oblast and now Belgorod and Bryansk. ---------- Phrases which are only usually heard by the most ‘extreme' liberal opposition commentators such as Michael Naki, are being screamed at viewers of the main Russian state TV networks. And some of the stuff they are saying is wild. The kind of stuff that usually causes bankers to fall out of windows in Moscow, or their private jets to experience mechanical trouble, as Prigozhin discovered. They are saying that the SVO (Special Military Operation) has run out of strength, that Russian victory is not guaranteed at all and most shocking of all, that Russia's military and civil leaders have lost control of everything, and the territories lost by Russia to Ukraine may not be returning to the motherland anytime soon. Some have even expressed grudging praise for Ukraine's military prowess. Now, before we dive into the detail, I must emphasize what a seismic shock this has been for the propagandists, and we must assume, by extension, the Russian leadership. It's a mark of how seriously Putin takes the incursions, that he has tried to avoid all mention of them. At the same time, he has taken the militarily catastrophic decision to appoint the FSB to lead the counter operation. In this episode, I'll share some speeches by the panicking propagandists, which are indicative of the chaos, and their extraordinary statements. We must note of course that they are not critical of the idea of the war and would rapidly embrace any minor victory. No, they are critical of the leaders precisely because the war is not being prosecuted in a brutal enough manner or showing success. ---------- Sources and recommended reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrI3tcxswpo https://www.youtube.com/@UCoAw0n5OyITkmejSCMfmnWg ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Day 918.Today, Ukrainian troops cross the border in Belgorod region as fighting continues in Kursk and Russian troops advance on Pokrovsk. We also bring you the latest from Ukraine, diplomatic and political updates from across the world and we speak with Velina Tchakarova, a security analyst based in Vienna. Contributors:David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.Roland Oliphant (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @RolandOliphant on X.Matthew Savill (Director of Military Sciences at Rusi). @MTSavillFree Telegraph Subscription for Students. Enjoy free access to The Telegraph with your university student email address: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/studentsubSubscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:    It appears Kyiv is attempting to press their advantage along their border with Russia, as reports emerge that Ukrainian troops tried to break through Moscow's defensive lines into the Belgorod region on Tuesday. An update on the arrest of Russian-born Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France as senior officials and French President Emmanuel Macron weigh in on the criminal probe. The case has brought Paris's already strained relations with Moscow to a new low. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President's Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin.  Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com.  Patriot Gold: https://www.patriotgoldgroup.com Say Mike Baker sent you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Day 917.Today, Ukrainian troops cross the border in Belgorod region as fighting continues in Kursk and Russian troops advance on Pokrovsk. We also bring you the latest from Ukraine, diplomatic and political updates from across the world and we speak with Velina Tchakarova, a security analyst based in Vienna. Contributors:David Knowles (Journalist). @djknowles22 on X.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.With thanks to Velina Tchakarova (Geopolitical Strategist, FACE). @vtchakarova on X.Content Referenced:Battle Lines: how close is the world to nuclear war?https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-close-is-the-world-to-nuclear-war/id1712903296?i=1000661783149Free Telegraph Subscription for Students. Enjoy free access to The Telegraph with your university student email address: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/studentsubSubscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As Ukraine pushes into Russian territory, Russia has answered with a large-scale attack targeting key infrastructure across Ukraine. With intense fighting in Belgorod and rapid advances in Donetsk, both sides are raising the stakes. What implications will the surprise offensive ultimately have on the future of the conflict? In this episode: Alex Gatopoulos (@alexgatopoulos), Defense Editor, Al Jazeera English Episode credits: This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and Tamara Khandaker, with Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Shraddha Joshi and our host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Alexandra Locke is The Take's executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

Ukraine has made a significant push into Russian territory, capturing roughly 1,000 square kilometers within the Kursk province. The Ukrainians also destroyed a handful of bridges that will hinder Russia's logistical support for Belgorod and complicate Russian reinforcement efforts. Full Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/zeihan/ukraine-pushes-into-russia-yet-nukes-didnt-fly

Today's Headlines: Ukraine's offensive against Russia is gaining momentum, with fighting now spreading beyond the Kursk region into Belgorod. This unexpected push has forced Russia to pull back some troops from inside Ukraine, and Ukrainian intelligence reports they've detained over 100 Russian soldiers. Meanwhile, in the US, Trump's legal team is trying to delay his sentencing for 34 felonies until after the November election, claiming the current September date is politically motivated. On the policy front, the White House secured deals with major pharmaceutical companies to significantly lower the prices of 10 of Medicare's most expensive drugs by 2026, which could save Americans billions. They also announced ambitious plans to build over 2 million new homes to tackle housing costs, with Kamala Harris adding her own proposals to support first-time homeowners and crack down on corporate price-gouging in the food industry. And as election season heats up, both campaigns have agreed to a vice presidential debate on October 1st, just in time for spooky season.  Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: WA Post: Ukraine offensive in Russia expands beyond Kursk region, soldiers say Axios: Trump casts upcoming sentencing date in N.Y. case as election interference AP News: White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors White House: FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Lower Housing Costs by Cutting Red Tape to Build More Housing Axios: Kamala Harris promises food merger crackdown CBS News: VP debate hosted by CBS News set for Oct. 1 between Vance and Walz Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Bridget Schwartz and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Amy King and Neil Saavedra join Bill for Handel on the News. Blinken greenlights $20BIL Israel arms deal. Biden awards $150MIL in research grants as part of cancer ‘Moonshot.' Seismologist warns of increasing earthquake activity in Southern California. UCLA can't allow protestors to block Jewish students from campus, judge rules. Russia's Belgorod border region declares emergency after Ukrainian incursion. Mexico threatening treason charges related to Sinaloa cartel drug lord Ismael ‘El Mayo' Zambada's US arrest.

In alcune aree delle regioni di Kursk e Belgorod sono state sfollate migliaia di persone, a causa della manovra delle forze armate ucraine. Il punto di Giuseppe D'Amato.

Russia is evacuating a growing number of people from another border region as Ukraine's surprise attack continues. Some 11,000 people in the Belgorod region have been moved, Russian state media reported, because of "enemy action" near the borderAlso in the programme, the US has ordered the rapid deployment of a submarine and aircraft carrier to the Middle East as fears grow of a wider regional conflict; and Bhutan's one and only Olympic competitor talks about the joys of coming last. (Photo: Russian service members drive a tank in the area bordering Ukraine in Kursk region. Credit: Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS).

De momento Rusia no ha sido capaz de frenar la incursión de Ucrania en Kursk, y de hecho las autoridades han comenzado a evacuar a miles de personas de otra región, Belgorod, ante la presencia de fuerzas ucranianas. Conocemos los detalles de la incursión con Gonzalo Manuel Vallejo, licenciado en Historia, Máster en Pensamiento Estratégico y Seguridad Global y miembro de la revista Ejércitos.Escuchar audio

2024-08-10 | The Battle of Kursk hastens the downfall of Putin's murderous regime. In a historical irony the name 'Kursk' bookends failure at the start of his time in office, and may signal it's end in catastrophic failure. Is Kursk Putin's avenging nemesis? ---------- Kursk - a gamble for victory “A surprise attack, conceived with cunning, prepared with duplicity and executed with ruthlessness, provides international history with its most melodramatic moments.” So explains Sir Lawrence Freedman in his superlative books ‘Command' and ‘Strategy'. And Ukraine has demonstrated its command of surprise and the potential battlefield impact through its lightning advance through Russia's Kursk oblast. The power of shock in warfare is to overwhelm an adversary when they are at their weakest or when they least expect it. The irony here, is that Russian hubris, and its culture of systemic lying throughout the military and political hierarchy mean they are less likely to imagine the unexpected and prepare for it. Add to this the fact Russia does not see Ukraine as sovereign, and constantly denies its agency, which means they underestimate the Ukrainian capacity for innovation and surprise time and again, to their detriment. This time assumptive and arrogant thinking may lead to total defeat. ‘Between countries at war, there is no border, there is only the front,' states the Ukrainian military researcher Mykola Bielieskov. Russians have forgotten that, but the Ukrainians did not. The incursions into Kursk and now Belgorod, have achieved stunning initial success and are looking more and more like a full offensive. This shows what Ukrainians can achieve if they have both the tools and lack of restrictions in how they fight Russia. ---------- Source accounts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarintheFuture https://twitter.com/War_Mapper https://twitter.com/NOELreports https://twitter.com/DefenceU https://twitter.com/defencehq https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko https://twitter.com/MBielieskov https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org NGO “Herojam Slava” https://heroiamslava.org/ kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyśl https://kharpp.com/ NOR DOG Animal Rescue https://www.nor-dog.org/home/ ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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Prepare to be captivated as Michael Jaco, renowned host of Unleashing Intuition Secrets, brings you an unparalleled and epic podcast episode. Joining him are Scott Bennett, an expert military psychological warfare officer, and Johnny, an Australian independent journalist reporting directly from the heart of Belgorod, Russia. This gripping discussion delves into the stark realities of Russia's incursions into Ukraine near Kharkiv, a city west of Kyiv, enduring relentless shelling and missile attacks. Scott Bennett and Johnny share their raw and unfiltered experiences from the conflict zone, offering a rare and authentic perspective. Johnny, committed to the truth in reporting, emphasizes his eyewitness approach and provides direct contact details for his updates, ensuring listeners receive the most accurate and firsthand accounts. In this riveting episode, the conversation extends beyond the frontlines. They discuss the St. Petersburg economic conference, highlighting international support against Western dominance. The speaker recounts a journey through Russia, praising its traditional values and conservative nature, while detailing the horrifying attacks on civilian areas in Belgorod, including schools and apartment complexes, by American, NATO, British, and French forces. These accounts of destruction and accusations of war crimes underscore the critical importance of documenting the conflict in Ukraine. Listeners will be engrossed by discussions about the origins of the war, the lack of Western media coverage, and the complex interplay between leftists and patriots in the US. The dialogue covers the protests in Euromaidan, the Russian perception of Ukrainians, the autonomy vote in Donbass, and alleged attacks using American and Western weapons. The speaker draws stark contrasts between fair soldier-to-soldier combat and attacks on non-combatants, labeling the latter as terrorism. The episode delves into Russia's historical resilience, its current conflict with Ukraine, and the broader geopolitical strategies at play. Predictions of Russia's eventual victory, its strategic alliances, and potential actions to gain Ukrainian support are discussed, alongside a critical view of the Western globalists' agenda to provoke war against Russia. Listeners will be intrigued by forecasts of political changes in the West, including potential assassinations, and the interconnectedness of Russian and Ukrainian populations. As the speaker expresses outrage at alleged atrocities committed by Ukrainians and criticizes US involvement, the discussion praises Russian military capabilities and warns of potential collapses in Europe. They advocate for Russia to enhance its diplomatic and information efforts and caution about the consequences if similar conflicts arise in the US. In a candid critique, the speaker addresses Trump's problematic associates and the escalation of tensions with Russia, highlighting Russia's measured responses. Despite frustrations with Russian bureaucracy, the speaker acknowledges the country's appeal to those with traditional values and touches on migration to Russia, urging bureaucratic reforms. Listeners will feel the speaker's strong fear of government actions and influence, advocating for standing against perceived injustices and predicting the collapse of the current system. The episode concludes with a mention of Indian Black Salve as a potential cancer treatment and Johnny's urgent call to action, encouraging listeners to visit destroy-cancer.com before transactions are halted by platforms like Stripe and PayPal. Join Michael Jaco, Scott Bennett, and Johnny in this powerful and eye-opening episode of Unleashing Intuition Secrets. Prepare to have your perceptions challenged and your understanding deepened as they unravel the complex layers of conflict, resilience, and truth from the frontlines of Belgorod, Russia. Join host Michael Jaco, Ex-Navy Seal, who teaches you how to tap into your Intuition and Unleash the Power within, so you can become the Master of your Reality. Connect with Michael Jaco at his website - michaelkjaco.com

In our news wrap Sunday, Israeli forces are again fighting Hamas in an area of northern Gaza that the military had previously cleared, Russia says a 10-story apartment building in the border city of Belgorod partially collapsed under Ukrainian shelling, the first person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died, and filmmaker Roger Corman has died at age 98. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Final results of Putin's farcical pseudo-voting event are in: absoulutely no surprises there. Also, Belgorod is still under assault, but still we have nothing reliable. Except that there are battles there.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Video footage shows the aircraft going down in Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border. Also, Donald Trump wins the New Hampshire primary and, Thailand's Constitutional Court has cleared the reformist opposition party leader of charges of breaking electoral law.

#Ukraine:   Putin threatens NATO with tactical nuclear weapons. Putin threatens Kyiv over Belgorod. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/09/ukraine-russia-war-live-west-surrender-defence-corruption/ 1953 Atomic Cannon

TONIGHT: The show begns in Italy 2024 where the Defense Minister calls for talks in the Ukraine crisis. To the Gulf where Iran arms the Houthis to make economic war. To the Gulf of Oman, to the Red Sea, to Belgorod and Kyiv and Moscow.  To Italy 1943-44 and the savage slugging contest between the Allies and the first-rate German Divisions commanded by Albert Kesselring. To Beijing, to DC andfinally to the DC Court of Appeals.  Enjoy. The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by  James Holland  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Storm-Battle-Italy-1943/dp/080216160X 1944 Italy and the Arsenal; of Democracy on display with the UK Fifth Army

The president accuses him of using language reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, in his first election campaign speech of 2024. Also: Residents of the Russian border city of Belgorod are being moved to safety because of the persistent threat of Ukrainian attacks, and the Nigerian film that's winning big audiences and breaking a box office record.

It's one of the biggest waves of air strikes since Russia started the war, with the main target being Belgorod in the southwest. Also: Protests in the capital of South Darfur following a deadly bombing blamed on the Sudanese Armed Forces, and could a British Army officer have become the world's fastest woman to complete a solo South Pole ski expedition?