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CNN goes behind the scenes of NATO training exercises in Black Sea
The most elite NATO military units are performing training exercises in the Black Sea. CNN's Fred Pleitgen joins soldiers on the deck of a ship to see how they train to raid an enemy ship as the war in Ukraine continues nearby.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/conga-line-of-c-17s-spotted-heading-south-over-europe-from-norway
Conga Line Of C-17s Spotted Heading South Over Europe From Norway
The sudden appearance of eight C-17s over Norway comes ahead of a major US-led airborne exercise in Europe.
With the United States and the rest of NATO still in the midst of the worst security crisis in Europe in decades surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine, any unusual air activity on the part of the alliance's members is bound to draw attention. Such was the case today when flight trackers using online tracking software suddenly showed at least eight U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III airlifters departing a base in northern Norway in quick succession and then flying southward.
Multiple Air Force C-17As criss-cross Europe every day on various missions, but it is unusual to see a mass formation southbound from Norway. As it turns out, these sorties – which used the callsigns Reach 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 746, 747, and 748 – are tied to an annual U.S. military-led exercise called Swift Response. This year's iteration includes a huge airborne operations component that will see near-simultaneous paratrooper drops in four different countries on or about May 13. A total of 9,000 personnel from 17 countries, including 2,700 troops from the United States, will take part in Swift Response 2022.
The Norwegian Armed Forces, or Forsvaret, released pictures today showing eight U.S. Air Force C-17As at Bardufoss Air Station in far-northern Norway. The aircraft brought in elements of the U.S. Army's Alaska-based 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division (4/25th Infantry), with them for Swift Response. The airlifters flew direct from Alaska to Norway over the North Pole.
>Where is the outrage in the British corporate media?
https://thehill.com/policy/international/3482835-un-receiving-credible-information-about-ukrainian-troops-torturing-russian-prisoners-official-says/
UN receiving ‘credible’ information about Ukrainian troops torturing Russian prisoners, official says
Matilda Bogner, the head of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said there is “credible” information regarding the mistreatment of Russian prisoners by Ukrainian troops during the war.
“We have received credible information of torture, ill-treatment and incommunicado detention by Ukrainian Armed Forces of prisoners of war belonging to the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups,” Bogner said on Tuesday.
The “inhumane treatment” is occurring among captured Ukrainian and Russian soldiers as they are “being coerced to make statements, apologies and confessions, and other forms of humiliation.”
“This violates fundamental rules of international humanitarian law. Ukraine and Russia must promptly and effectively investigate all allegations of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war,” Bogner said. “They must also effectively control and instruct their forces to stop any further violations from occurring.”
Ukraine and Russia have conducted multiple prisoner swaps throughout the war, with dozens of Ukrainians and Russians returned to their forces as a result.
The comments came at a press conference that was focused on the “plight of civilians in Ukraine.”
Ukrainian coffee
>passenger en route to see his pregnant wife lands aircraft on Florida runway
>perfect landing
yeah but where's the barrel roll
https://twitter.com/wpbf_ari/status/1524221187009781766
today at PBIA
His pilot had passed out, and the passenger with zero flight experience was forced to land the plane.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/hunter-biden-played-role-in-funding-us-bio-labs-contractor-in-ukraine-e-mails/
Hunter Biden helped secure funds for US biolab contractor in Ukraine: e-mails
Russia’s assertion that President Biden’s son Hunter was “financing . . . biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post.
A trove of e-mails on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — the existence of which was exclusively reported by The Post in October 2020 — found that he played a role in helping a California defense contractor analyze killer diseases and bioweapons in Ukraine.
Moscow has claimed that secret American biological-warfare labs in Ukraine were a justification for its unprovoked invasion of the neighboring country last month. It doubled down on the accusations Thursday, claiming the labs produced biochemical weapons at the Biden family’s behest.
“US President Joe Biden himself is involved in the creation of biolaboratories in Ukraine,” Russia’s State Duma speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin said, according to state media.
“An investment fund run by his sun [sic] Hunter Biden funded research and the implementation of the United States’ military biological program. It is obvious that Joe Biden, as his father and the head of state, was aware of that activity,” Volodin continued, demanding a US Congressional investigation and a White House explanation.
US intelligence officials had earlier dismissed Russia’s messaging as war propaganda, explaining that Ukraine’s network of biological labs dedicated to pathogen research were not secret, and had publicly received funding from Washington.
However, Russia’s new claim that the first son’s investment fund was involved in raising money for biolab projects in Ukraine was accurate, according to e-mails involving Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine, first obtained by The Post and initially reported on by The Daily Mail Friday.
Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners invested $500,000 in the San Francisco pathogen research company Metabiota and raised millions more through firms that included Goldman Sachs, according to the e-mails found on the computer, which was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 as Joe Biden ran for president.
Hunter introduced Metabiota to officials at Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he was a board member, for a “science project” involving biolabs in Ukraine, the e-mails show.
A memo from a Metabiota official to the then-vice president’s son in 2014 said the company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia.”
Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri also wrote to Hunter about geopolitical issues involving the company’s research in the former Soviet republic in April 2014, two months after Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea region.
“As promised, I’ve prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society,” her memo read.
Days later, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi wrote to Biden about a “as you called ‘Science Ukraine’ project.”
“As I understand the Metabiota was a subcontract to principal contactor of the DoD B&V [engineering firm Black & Veatch],” his e-mail read. “What kind of partnership Metabiota is looking for in Ukraine?”
The US awarded $23.9 million to Metabiota later in 2014, with $307,091 allocated for a “Ukrainian research projects,” government spending records showed.
The younger Biden bragged to investors that his company organized funding for Metabiota and helped it “get new customers” including “government agencies,” according to e-mails.
B&V had been commissioned in 2010 by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency to build a lab in Odessa, to “enhance the government’s existing surveillance systems to detect, report and respond to bioterrorism attacks, epidemics and potential pandemics,” the company’s website said.
Hunter Biden’s ventures raised the eyebrows of a former CIA officer.
“His father was the vice president of the United States and in charge of relations with Ukraine. So why was Hunter not only on the board of a suspect Ukrainian gas firm, but also hooked them up with a company working on bioweapons research?,” Sam Faddis told the Mail.
‘It’s an obvious Russian propaganda attempt to take advantage of this. But it doesn’t change the fact that there does seem to be something that needs to be explored here.
“Why is Hunter Biden in the middle of all this? Why is the disgraced son of the vice president at the heart of this – the guy with no discernible skills and a cocaine habit?”
Hunter Biden, 52, remains under federal investigation for possible tax fraud. The probe broadened in 2018 to look into how his international business dealings as a lobbyist and investor dovetailed with his father’s political career. He has denied allegations of impropriety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
The Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security service) in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet Union against Poles (labeled by the Soviets as "agents") during the period of the Great Purge. It was ordered by the Politburo of the Communist Party against the so-called "Polish spies" and customarily interpreted by the NKVD officials as relating to 'absolutely all Poles'. It resulted in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles living in or near the Soviet Union. The operation was implemented according to NKVD Order No. 00485 signed by Nikolai Yezhov. The majority of the shooting victims were ethnically Polish, but not all, with some belonging to various minority groups from the Kresy macro-region, for instance, Ruthenians; these groups in the Soviet worldview had some element of Polish culture or heritage, and were therefore also "Polish". The remainder were 'suspected' of being Polish, without further inquiry, or classified as possibly having pro-Polish sympathies. In order to speed up the process, the NKVD personnel reviewed local telephone books and arrested persons with Polish-sounding names.
The Polish Operation was the largest ethnic shooting and deportation action during the Great Purge campaign of political murders in the Soviet Union.
>NKVD Order No. 00485
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NKVD_Order_No._00485
The Soviet NKVD Order № 00485 was an anti-Polish ethnic cleansing campaign issued on August 11, 1937 which laid the foundation for the systematic elimination of the Polish minority in the Soviet Union between 1937 and 1938. The order was called "On the liquidation of Polish sabotage and espionage groups and units of the Polish Military Organization". It is dated August 9, 1937, was issued by the Central Committee Politburo, and signed by Nikolai Yezhov, the People's Commissar for Internal Affairs. The operation was at the center of the national operations of the NKVD, and the largest ethnically-motivated shooting action of the Great Terror.
>The operation was at the center of the national operations of the NKVD, and the largest ethnically-motivated shooting action of the Great Terror.
The order was supplemented by a secret letter from Yezhov, specifying the various accusations to be used against the Polish minority, which were fabricated by the Moscow NKVD executive. The order aimed at the arrest of "absolutely all Poles" and confirmed that "the Poles should be completely destroyed".
>B&V had been commissioned in 2010 by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency to build a lab in Odessa