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Before we start, just a brief housekeeping note/request: There’s a lot of stuff I see but don’t include in the updates. I try to avoid posting things from anonymous/pseudonymous accounts where I cannot either validate that the account is legit or that the information is. That’s not to mean that either accounts using their own names and validated anonymous/pseudonymous don’t occasionally make mistakes. For instance, someone I consider to be generally reliable posted still imagery in the past 48 hours from OCT 2022 of traffic jams on the surviving portions of the route between Crimea and Russia and asserted it was from the day after the strike on the fuel depot in Sevastopol. I have no problem with you all bringing attention to stuff I haven’t included in the comments, including linking to it. But if a Tweet or Facebook post or what have you starts with “Unconfirmed,” that’s probably a good sign to not post it. Thanks!
Overnight Russia resumed its bombardment of Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure. Olga Honcharenko was monitoring it live:
Russian strategic aviation 5620 and 8029 CW
Morse frequencies been comms checked with V tuning. Also for now 3 Tu-95Ms Bear-H took off from Olenya airbase. Possibly another combat mission with cruise missiles launching tonight.— Olga Honcharenko (@olga_pp98) April 30, 2023
All civil aircrafts being bypassing Astrakhan area, this is the first warning of the incoming cruise missiles launch https://t.co/8iLgZLpoUS pic.twitter.com/MVVZVh36vH
— Olga Honcharenko (@olga_pp98) April 30, 2023
From Olenya 10. Other airfields and possible take offs from there I don't know so no info about it from me
— Olga Honcharenko (@olga_pp98) April 30, 2023
Cruise missiles launching started:
978 123 230
971 440 230
975 123 230
A/C to SHPORA ground control op https://t.co/IhdItczkBX— Olga Honcharenko (@olga_pp98) April 30, 2023
New aircraft passed a radiogram YQ3G aircraft and W4H1 ground control op. to be clear. All radiograms are encoded and only sender and receiver knows the meaning but it's report of cruise missiles launch:
YQ3G DE W4H1 QRV K
W4H1 BT 981 844 230 K— Olga Honcharenko (@olga_pp98) May 1, 2023
We’ll get to the butcher’s bill after the jump.
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump:
I especially appreciated the final sentences for their truth as well as their optimism.
It can be easy to feel down as a result of the puke funnel of horrible news, but look what’s happening in TN and Montana and with multiple exposes highlighting the corruption in the Supreme Court and elsewhere. All the horribleness s a catalyst for good people to stand up and be counted.
Our President is definitely taking the fight to them.
How can each of us can stand up and help turn the tide? How do we support people like Sen. Whitehouse and others, who are fighting the good fight?