Overnight, multiple Ukrainian attack drones successfully struck Russia's AZOT chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, setting it ablaze.
The plant is/was a major producer of nitrate products used in Russian explosives.
Επειδή βλέπω κάτι "πολύ άντρες" να ασχολούνται αποκλειστικά, σχεδόν εμμονικά με το pride, θυμήθηκα αυτό που έλεγαν οι παλιές μαγκιές της Νίκαιας, στην καφετέρια "Angela" στην πλατεία Χαλκηδόνας. Ότι άμα βλέπεις τέτοια λύσσα, παίζει ντουλάπα και αναζήτηση φαντάρου μετα το σούρουπο
Μόνο αυτό μας έλειπε τώρα, μια ανεύθυνη πλειοδοσία τσαμπατζήλας από την αντιπολίτευση με δωρεάν μετακινήσεις, λιγότερες ώρες εργασίας, ρυθμίσεις για δάνεια σε ελβετικό, 1η κατοικία κλπ.
Ποιος θα υποσχεθεί περισσότερα; Μα αυτός που φυσικά θα κάνει τα λιγότερα!
Καλά θα πάει κι αυτό
Magyar’s update on the short-term prospects for titanium production in occupied Crimea.
“Crimean Titan” is no friend to russian titanium.
If they mothball it, the air in Armyansk will become easier to breathe.
The largest industrial giant in Eastern Europe, located in Armyansk and now owned by “Russian Titan” (seized, like everything else, during the occupation of Crimea), produces titanium dioxide.
It works day and night for the aggressor’s military-industrial complex, poisoning the surrounding area with the stench of sulfur.
It produces the basic raw materials used to manufacture gunpowder, rocket fuel, and explosives.
On the night of June 13, the freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird of the @1usc_army paid a courtesy visit to the aforementioned facility.
Objective control confirms successful strikes. The fire is raging. Production has been suspended.
From local channels:
▪️ “The whole plant has been smashed. There were 23 hits. Every workshop was damaged, everything is burning, people were evacuated and sent home!”
More to come. Crimea has never been yours, worms.
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13.06.26
Snyder: Right-wing populism claims to defend the nation, but often hurts it by pulling the country away from the European Union.
What looks like nationalism often becomes cooperation with far-right oligarchy across borders. 1/
Russia launched 12 KAB bombs on Vasylkivka, Dnipropetrovsk region.
One person killed, 13 more injured.
A residential building and a market severely damaged.
Russian horror on Ukrainian civilians.
Elephants run amok at the Battle of Panormus (Palermo), Sicily, June 250 BC....
The First Punic War (264-241 BC) between the Roman Republic and Carthage was largely fought for the possession of Sicily. Although the war was in many ways decided by naval campaigns, it included large land battles. During the latter, the Romans had to contend with formidable Punic war elephants. However, war elephants could also disastrously turn on their own side; as the Carthaginians discovered at Panormus.
In June 250 BC, Punic commander Hasdrubal devastated the croplands surrounding Roman held Panormus. Caecilius Metellus, the previous year’s consul, kept his two legions behind the city walls. Hasdrubal crossed over the river that ran in front of the city and set up camp, but neglected to fortify his position. The Celtic mercenaries fighting for the Carthaginians were already getting drunk when the Punic camp came under attack by Roman skirmishers. The elephant drivers mounted their elephants and easily drove off the Roman light troops. Pursuing the latter back to the walls, the elephants came under heavy fire from archers on the ramparts and from more light troops in the moat. Pin-cushioned with arrows and javelins, the elephants ran amok, flinging their drivers to the ground as they stampeded back to their lines. In their frenzy, they crushed any Punic soldiers who stood in their way. Seeing the enemy lines thrown into disorder, Caecilius’ legionaries charged from the city gate and routed the Punic army. The surviving elephants were captured and later displayed at Caecilius’ triumph in Rome.
📷 : the illustration is from a 1727 French edition of The Histories by Polybius. It shows the river crossed by Hasdrubal on the bottom left corner, the moat and the walls, the elephants driven back upon the Carthaginian lines and the Roman troops ushering out of the city gate.
#archaeohistories
We recently fought two unnecessary decades-long wars of occupation. The invasion of Iraq was sold to Americans with falsehoods and exaggerations. Thousands of American and our allies' servicemembers died for no strategic gain in Afghanistan. Many of our current problems are a result of not sufficiently valuing the lives of American servicemembers, particularly the enlisted infantrymen who bear the heaviest burden of our wars.
The Dzhankoy checkpoint, the Syvash railway bridge (near Chongar), the pontoon crossing in Chongar, and trucks parked near the crossing were hit overnight by FP-2 guided strike drones.