May 2022

Flooding in Brazil/CNN

The Brazilian state of Pernambuco is suffering from the effects of bad weather. At least 84 people died due to rainstorms and landslides, thousands of people were left homeless.

On Wednesday, May 25, heavy rains began in the region, so fourteen municipalities declared a state of emergency. Also, 56 people are missing, and almost 4,000 people have their homes destroyed.

Consequences of the floods in Brazil

in high-risk areas around the city of Recife, seek shelter elsewhere after rain triggered heavy landslides and shelters for displaced families opened in the city's schools.

Brazil's northeast is suffering from massive rainfall, officials say. In some areas during the 24-hour period, rainfall was recorded more than the average for the entire month.

Rain will continue

In some parts of the state on Monday, May 30, rain subsided somewhat as the showers moved towards the coast. But weather forecasts are disappointing: in the state of Pernambuco, another 30-60 mm of precipitation will fall in the next two days, while in some areas this amount will reach 100 mm.

Overall, the region could receive most of the expected monthly rainfall in just four days. Strong gusts of wind that can lead to power outages and destruction can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour.

This downpour is the fourth major flooding in the last five months in Brazil. The number of destructions highlights the lack of urban planning in low-income areas across much of the country. Favelas – wilds or slums – are often built on hillsides prone to landslides, which increases the danger for their inhabitants.

The reaction of the authorities

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that the military will provide assistance to the victims and that he will visit Recife on Monday to assess the situation.

State Governor Paulo Cámara said his office has provided BRL 100 million ($21 million) to help rain-stricken areas. Seven other Brazilian states offered help and sent rescuers to Pernambuco.

Russians plan to use college graduates in occupied Crimea (illustrative photo)/Getty Images

in the war against Ukraine, college graduates from the temporarily occupied Crimea. However, they will only be “cannon fodder”.

This was reported by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova. Russia and the occupied Crimea have already announced spring conscription into the ranks of the Russian army, which will last from April 1 to July 15.

How the occupiers operate

According to Denisova, at the Sevastopol Shipbuilding College, at the “request” of the military commissar, the deadline for passing final exams was postponed to early June.

This was necessary in order to have time to call up graduates into the ranks of the Russian army. It should be noted that earlier, according to the schedule, the last day of exams was June 28.

A similar situation occurs in other educational institutions. In particular, in the Sevastopol Maritime College, the Sevastopol Professional Art College and the Sevastopol Industrial and Technological College named after Marshal of the Engineering Troops Gelovani.

These educational institutions also change the date of the last exam, – Denisova said.

The Commissioner has already applied to the UN Commission of Inquiry into human rights violations during the war in Ukraine with a request to take into account these war crimes.

Help. Forced mobilization in the territories temporarily occupied by Russia is a violation of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. It strictly forbids an occupying state from forcing protected persons to serve in its military or auxiliaries. li> The invaders continue to forcibly deport the civilian population of Ukrainian cities to Russia. People are sent to depressed regions.

The United States will not provide Ukraine with missiles to attack Russia, – Biden/Getty Images

The United States is actively helping Ukraine fight the Russian occupiers. They have become a very powerful partner, with the assistance of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine received a lot of modern weapons.

The help the United States provides for Ukraine is simply invaluable. Our partner is not limited to sanctions and provides a lot of weapons that help our brave defenders and defenders to liquidate the Russian occupiers.

There will be no long-range missiles

There have been reports in the US media that the US will provide Ukraine with long-range MLRS jet systems to fight Russian invaders. President Joe Biden said these rumors are not true.

We are not going to send missile systems to Ukraine that can reach Russia,” the US President said.

However, which missile systems Biden had in mind has not yet been reported. Earlier it became known that the United States is considering the possibility of providing Ukraine with the HIMARS artillery system, its transfer may be agreed in the next package.

US assistance to Ukraine: latest news

• Ukrainian intelligence officers have reported that the Russians are using American chips for their ammunition and combat systems. In particular, they were found in X-101 cruise missiles, Alligator helicopters and Pantsir air defense systems.
• According to the former commander of the US Army in Europe, Ben Hodges, our heroes will be able to drive out the enemy by the end of summer to the positions he held on 23 February. This should be facilitated by the disruption of the logistics processes of the Russians and the assistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from many Western partners.
• The Pentagon reported that the process of providing Ukraine with weapons was adjusted to the smallest detail. Sometimes it takes only 48 hours from the moment of approval to the receipt of weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In addition, the parties are in constant contact – the United States is trying to provide Ukraine with the weapons that they most need at a certain moment.
• According to the Pentagon, Russian infidels do not plan to stop the offensive, so any hopes for diplomatic negotiations in vain. However, the Russians may return to the process in order to create the illusion of being able to conduct civilized negotiations.

In the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region as a result hostilities damaged the tightness of the branch of the ammonia pipeline “Tolyatti – Odessa”.

Kuleba spoke about the 6th package of sanctions/collage of Channel 24

The countries of the European Union and Hungary disagree on the adoption of the 6th package of sanctions against Russia. Budapest is blocking sanctions due to the oil embargo, but Ukraine hopes that all differences will be overcome.

France helps overcome differences between the EU and Hungary.

This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during a briefing with the French Foreign Ministry Catherine Colonna, Channel 24 reports.

The Ukrainian minister said that on May 30, a meeting of the EU committee of representatives is being held, at which sanctions against Russia are being discussed. He also recalled that the EU summit will be held, where the agenda will also include sanctions against the Russian occupiers.

Kuleba said that France, at the level of EU ambassadors and leaders, takes a principled and leadership position on sanctions against Russia. According to him, France helps to overcome differences between Hungary and other EU states.

We hope that these differences will be overcome today and an effective solution will be found that will turn the 6th sanctions package from thought to reality. – said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

What is known about the 6th package of sanctions against Russia

• Russian energy resources help the Kremlin to wage war against Ukraine, since their sales fill the economy of the aggressor country with money. Therefore, in the 5th package of sanctions, the EU imposed an embargo on Russian coal.
• After that, the countries of the European Union are trying to reduce their dependence on Russian gas and are ready to impose an embargo on oil from Russia. In early May, the European Commission presented the 6th package of sanctions, which provides for a ban on Russian oil.
• However, the EU member states have not yet agreed on sanctions. The key issue is the embargo, which Hungary opposes. The government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is blocking the introduction of the 6th package of sanctions.
• Budapest is ready to agree to an embargo in exchange for 15-18 billion euros from the EU. Subsequently, information appeared that the embargo could be introduced without Hungary. That is, Budapest will continue to import Russian oil.
• On May 30, the next meeting of EU ambassadors took place and the 6th package of sanctions against Russia was not agreed upon. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said a new package of sanctions is unlikely to be approved at the EU summit.

In Crimea, they threw a Molotov cocktail at the local military enlistment office/Collage of Channel 24

In Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories, men are trying by all means to avoid mobilization. This time, an unknown person tried to burn down the military enlistment office in Simferopol.

This was reported by the Russian media and a number of propaganda telegram channels, Channel 24 reports. It is noted that the incident took place on the night of May 29.

An unknown person threw a Molotov cocktail at the military enlistment office in Simferopol

An unknown man climbed over the fence at night and entered the territory of the military registration and enlistment office in the temporarily occupied Crimea. After that, the man threw a Molotov cocktail through the window on the basement floor of the building. It is clarified that this happened on Selvinsky Street in Simferopol.

The Molotov cocktail crashed against the bars on the window of the military enlistment office, however, the fire as a result of this, unfortunately, did not break out. The man fled the scene after the incident. The Simferopol so-called “police” was called by the security guard of the facility, but the “criminal” was not caught by the occupying “law enforcement” authorities.

By the way, the man escaped detention, however, in fact committed in the local police station by the so-called “police” opened a case under the article on hooliganism.

Other similar incidents

During the full-scale invasion of the aggressor country in our state, they try to set fire or damage it not for the first time.

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Patriots removed the Russian flag in Hola Pristan/Channel 24 Collage

Ukrainian patriots work in the temporarily occupied territories. In Naked Pristan, Kherson region, they removed the Russian flag from the flagpole.

Ukrainian citizens do not at all support the Russian invaders who brazenly broke into foreign territories. In Hola Prystan, Russian assassins hung their flag on a flagpole. But he did not last long.

Unknown patriots have already taken away the tricolor of infidels. And the cable used to raise the flag was cut.

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The flag of infidels was removed from the flagpole in Golaya Pristan/Photo from Andrei Tsaplienko's telegram

In the temporarily occupied territories, Ukrainians resist the invaders as best they can. Recently, in Melitopol, in the Zaporozhye region, citizens went to a peaceful patriotic rally, where they sang the anthem. The day before, they hung leaflets around the city, where they called on all those who were not indifferent to come and demonstrate to the invaders that Melitopol is Ukraine. And someone is a partisan and hunts the local Gauleiter.

Russians treat people in the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson terribly

Russian infidels have blocked all the ways to leave the temporarily occupied lands of the Kherson region. Local residents are not allowed to enter the territories controlled by Ukraine. All cars in which people want to leave are carefully examined and turned back.

The invaders continue to spread their propaganda in Kherson. There they put up a series of meaningless billboards, on which they frankly lie that the city “has traditionally been the territory of Russia.” It is not known officially who financed this advertisement. But on it you can find the inscription “United Russia” – a pro-government Russian party.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, infidels create defense lines in the Kherson region and pull up reserves there. They even brought in old T-62 tanks and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles. In total, about 120 pieces of equipment have been “thrown” there in recent days.

Kafirs hope to stay in the Kherson region forever. But they won't succeed. In some segments in Kherson and Zaporozhye, the Ukrainian military has already advanced 8-10 kilometers as a result of a successful counterattack.

The Foreign Ministry reacted to the death of a French journalist/Channel 24 Collage

Russians killed a French journalist near Severodonetsk. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already reacted, emphasizing that the number of crimes of infidels is only growing.

We strongly condemn this murder, said Oleg Nikolenko, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Related Russians fired on a car that was supposed to evacuate people from the Lugansk region: a French journalist died >

Execution of a recovery car

On May 30, the Russian army fired on a car that was supposed to evacuate 10 civilians from the combat zone near Severodonetsk. A French journalist was mortally wounded by shrapnel in the neck. He was working on material about the evacuation. The head of the Luhansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, specified that Frederic Leclerc Imhoff, a French journalist, cameraman and photographer, had died. He worked for the BFMTV channel.

A policeman was still in the car, but his helmet saved him. Amid the tragic events, the evacuation from the Luhansk region was officially stopped.

The death of other journalists

• During the fighting with the Russians in the Donetsk region on May 28, journalist Vitaliy Derekh was killed in an airstrike. He was 34 years old. He worked as a reporter for the 20 Minutes newspaper.
• Another Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Makhov was killed on May 4 near Izyum in the Kharkiv region. He was a journalist, worked on the TV channels “Dom”, “Ukraine” and “Ukraine 24”. He also hosted the Voenkor podcast.
• On April 29, journalist and military man Maxim Medinsky died in battles in the Kharkiv region. He also worked as a communicator in the Reform Office of the Ministry of Energy. The hero has a 3-year-old daughter Alice.

What is the situation in the Luhansk region

Heavy battles with the invaders are going on in the Luhansk region. The enemy wants to cordon off the Ukrainian military in the area of ​​Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. The highway Bakhmut – Lisichanskaya is under the control of the Ukrainian military, but it is constantly fired upon.

Fighting is already underway on the streets of Severodonetsk. A shot ambulance was found in the city. Three doctors are missing. Also, as a result of enemy shelling, 2 civilians were killed, 5 more were injured.

Natalka Zaritska about communications with the power of the defender of Mariupol/Collage 24 channel

Ukrainian government constantly communicates with the homelands of their defenders in Mariupol. At one time, Chervoniy Khrest, which without a doubt has the right to see our soldiers near the Russian army, does not spy on the relatives of the military. for the homelands of Zahisniks in Mariupol.