The 29th of December, cloudy and raw, not festive looking weather at all. Not holiday’s feelings either.
The Ukrainian military said Russia launched the biggest air attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Drones and missiles fired at targets across the country — from Kyiv to Lviv and Odessa to Kharkiv — killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 150 others, according to officials.
I think Putin's goal was to make Ukrainians feel miserable before the New Year celebration. He didn't reach his goal last year, he will not get it this year either.
The same I can tell about Russians themselves.
Many of them don’t care about Putin and his war. They simply don’t watch the news and recommend that I do the same.
Right now all their thoughts are about New Years parties (work and home), making salads and getting gifts (if they can afford to buy them).
But I do watch the news or read them.
Here we go, not too heavy before the holidays.
Winter is coming into its own.
In Tomsk oblast Ice crossings are being established across rivers. According to Alexander Nikulin (Deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Tomsk region) this year 17 crossings out of the planned 59 are still not working.
You can imagine the thickness of this ice, yes, ice crossings must withstand the weight of both cars and trucks.
The Tomsk region is large in the northern direction. And these ice crossings are a great help for moving between towns and villages.
But opposition leader A. Navalny is in a prison colony even further away- in the town of Kharp (in the Yamalo-Nenetsk region about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow, near Vorkuta). His family and associates found out where he was almost three weeks after they lost contact with him.
His comrade and the former head of Navalny's Tomsk headquarters Ksenia Fadeeva was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Earlier it was reported that in the summer of 2021, the court recognized the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) and Navalny's headquarters as extremist organizations. In December 2021, a criminal case was opened against Fadeeva. In August 2023, the trial of Fadeeva's case began in court. She has been in jail since November 2023.
The next article I read on “Ria Tomsk news” surprised me.
Investigators of the regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (Sledstvennoye Upravleniye Sledstvennogo Komiteta Rf) will join the search for relatives of Tomichi (Tomsk residents) who are in the war zone. Tomichi can ask for help both face–to-face and remotely - by phone and on social networks, the press service of the department reported on Monday.
Does it mean that citizens will get the truthful answers where their relatives are and in what condition?
During the entire period of operation of the hotline, investigators received 11 requests.- Only 11?
Meanwhile, Russian celebrities celebrated something…
The party, which took place on 20 December, was a dress-up ball held at a Moscow nightclub with the theme “almost naked”, and was organized by the popular Instagram influencer Anastasia Ivleeva and attended by a number of household celebrity names who have stayed in the country since Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
There is a link to the article, I am not going to retell it.
But many of the party participants, along with blogger Anastasia, apologize on their social networks almost every day for their “bad” behavior.
Honestly, no pity for them.
As for me, I am a little grumpy today. I have a sore throat for (?)10 days.
How to deal with it?
Resources:
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-12-29-23/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/25/1221511047/alexei-navalny-russia-penal-colony-located
Comments
Post a Comment