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  1. He must really unsightly:
  2. Russian governor blown up by landmine becomes highest-ranking casualty of Ukraine war James Kilner Sun, February 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM MST 3 min read It is thought Sergey Efremov was promoted to deputy governor as a reward for signing up to fight in Ukraine - X The deputy governor of a Russian region has been killed fighting in Ukraine, becoming the highest-ranking Russian official to die in the war. Sergey Efremov, the deputy governor of Russia’s eastern region of Primorsky Krai, was killed returning to Russian lines from a battle with Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. Oleg Kozhemyako, the area’s governor, said in an emotional video that his deputy had died a hero, adding: “I know that his friends and comrades will do everything to avenge him.” The Kremlin has encouraged officials to lead by example and sign up to fight – but most deploy to VIP drone units that stay well behind the front line. It appears that Efremov, who trained as a soldier and graduated from the prestigious airborne officers’ college in Ryazan, took a different approach. He set up a volunteer unit called the Tigers in June 2022, when Russia was on the back foot across Ukraine. He fought with the unit until 2023 when he returned to Primorsky Krai. Apparently motivated by the Ukrainian invasion of Russia’s Kursk region in August 2024, Efremov then rejoined the Tigers. “He honoured and courageously fulfilled combat missions there, glorifying the marine infantry, glorifying the Tigers and Primorsky Krai,” said Mr Kozhemyako. Photographs on the Telegram social messaging app showed 51-year-old Efremov to be a thick-set, jowly man. He was reportedly travelling in a car blown up by a landmine. Another Russian army officer was also killed. Denis Pushilin – head of the occupied Donetsk, which Putin annexed in 2022 – knew Efremov and called his death an “irreparable loss”. “He always showed a keen interest in the topic of the socio-economic development of the Donetsk People’s Republic and strengthening the ties of our region with Primorsk,” he said. Sergei Markov, a former Kremlin speechwriter and now a high-profile pro-war activist, also described Efremov as a hero who showed the world that Russian officials were willing to risk their lives for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. “They say that the Russian elite are almost entirely secret traitors and are just waiting to surrender to the West? This is not true. There are more and more patriots in the Russian elite,” he said. Efremov, who reportedly had four children, had been the deputy mayor of the town of Ussuriysk, which has a population of around 150,000 and lies 60 miles north of Vladivostok, when he set up the Tigers. Mr Kozhemyako made him his deputy governor of the wider region in February 2024, possibly in reward for volunteering to fight. Efremov was also made a Hero of Primorsk, a Hero of the Donetsk People’s Republic and a Knight of the Order of Courage. This is in line with orders from the Kremlin, which has told its regions to promote “war heroes” returning from Ukraine into high political office. The Kremlin has made a major show of encouraging officials to sign up to fight in Ukraine as part of a wider recruitment drive, needed to plug major gaps in its army which is losing as many as 2,000 men a day from front-line duty. Before Efremov’s death, the highest-ranked Russians to die in Ukraine were several regional MPs.
  3. ohare-airport-collision-plane-aircraft-tug/car kind of sound like a Lyle Lovett song in the making
  4. Or the new Thin Lizzy.
  5. injured and killed in a month - sounds about right for Russia.
  6. Just watched Den of Thieves. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7870063/ We could use a few like him on this team.
  7. Just don't type "best young running back coach" into Google.
  8. I think having some H-Back dudes such as Emaree WInston, a mobile and less injury prone QB, a healthy Baxter, and a stronger interior O-Line (remains to be seen) will make a big difference.
  9. And skip the sour cream.
  10. True, there was a pretty useless invention that I saw at the Medical College of Wisconsin, but it was a numbered belt, because waist size change has the best correlation between cardiovascular health and disease.
  11. Nah, it's not him - This guy is a 1000 times smaller.
  12. Interesting - It kind of gave me some Jenna Jameson vibes, by how fast it went down.
  13. What would that guy know about electrical fires?
  14. Good idea to clean 'em before you shoot 'em.
  15. Based on my understanding of the situation, I'm thinking that the cause of the crash was catastrophic duck tape failure encasing the right engine compressor.
  16. Ha, scared me for a minute - there was a guy who was a year or two older who was an engineer who had M&K speakers - and helped do the electrical for PatOs - and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he went to law school - and he would have known Jeff. It is interesting that we know the same people.
  17. I assume you were an engineer, right? How did y'all cross paths? PM me if it is private. I know Jeff and Jerry although I haven't kept up with them.
  18. That's a lot of fentanyl going up in smoke.
  19. 31 Jan 2025 Here is the situation on Friday, January 31: Fighting Nine people were reportedly killed and 13 others injured including a child when a Russian drone hit a multistorey apartment building in northeastern Ukraine’s Sumy city, the region’s Governor Volodymyr Artyukh said. An oil refinery in Russia’s southern Volgograd region caught fire after an overnight Ukrainian drone attack, but the blaze has now been put out, according to regional governor Andrei Bocharov. One injured refinery worker was hospitalised, he said. Kyiv’s military said Moscow launched 81 drones towards Ukraine in an overnight attack with the air force reportedly shooting down 37 drones and 39 failing to reach their targets. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said air deference units downed 17 Ukrainian drones in four regions over the course of two hours. Eleven of the drones were reportedly destroyed over the Kursk region, while the remaining six were taken down over Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as Russian-occupied Crimea. Russia has accused a former British soldier, who was taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine, of terrorism and mercenary charges. James Anderson could potentially face decades in prison if convicted. United Kingdom Ministry of Foreign Affairs David Lammy said he was aware of the case and the government would do all it could to assist Anderson. Russian oil and gas Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio that halting Russian gas flows via Ukraine and the resulting rise in costs as users seek alternative supply was unacceptable. The Reuters news agency reports that Germany is expanding its natural gas import options to replace Russian supplies after Kyiv suspended transit of Russia’s gas through Ukraine. Politics & diplomacy Slovakia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Myroslav Kastran to convey a “strong protest” over statements made by Ukrainian officials, including claims that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was a “mouthpiece” for Russia. In response, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said it summoned Slovakia’s ambassador to reject accusations of interference in Slovakia’s internal affairs. The ministry, in a statement, also called on Slovakia to return to constructive dialogue. Sweden’s Defence Minister Pal Jonson announced that the country is planning a $1.2bn aid package for Ukraine. Jonson said that Stockholm was negotiating with Swedish and European sources to supply prioritised artillery and drone equipment.
  20. These tariffs are going to be short lived so you can throw the textbooks out. They are for negotiating purposes.
  21. If we can't score from the 1 with that guy, it is all on Sark.
  22. Should have been titled the guacamole war. The tariffs will lead to retaliatory tariffs which will lead to negotiations.
  23. Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — North Korean troops have not been seen on the frontlines in Russia’s Kursk region for several weeks, a Ukrainian military official said Friday, amid reports of mass casualties among Pyongyang’s forces. “The presence of DPRK troops has not been observed for about three weeks, and they were probably forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses,” a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Special Operations Forces, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, told CNN. It follows reports that some North Korean units have been pulled back from the frontlines after significant losses, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak. About 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Ukrainian officials and Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 those troops have been killed or injured. North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk since at least November to repel Ukraine’s incursion in the southern Russian border region. “We are still in the Kursk region… the Russian forces were not enough to push us out,” Ukrainian President Zelensky said last week at a speech in Davos, Switzerland. Zelensky noted that there were 60,000 Russian troops in Kursk and 12,000 North Koreans. Zelensky also said that one-third of those North Korean troops had been killed. CNN has previously reported on the brutal and near-suicidal tactics of North Korean soldiers, who in some cases have detonated grenades rather than be captured by Ukrainian forces and have written pledges of allegiance on the battlefield to North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. A commander with the 6th Special Operations Forces regiment, who did not want to give his name for security reasons, told CNN that while the North Korean soldiers are “all young, trained, hardy fighters,” they would have not previously faced drones in combat. “They are prepared for the realities of war in 1980 at best,” he said. Another battalion serviceman told CNN the North Koreans had shown good marksmanship when shooting down drones from about a 100-meter distance, suggesting a high level of training in North Korea. However, Russia appears to be using the troops as foot soldiers, using them to carry out mass ground assaults despite major losses in Kursk. Ukraine has recently made advancements in Kursk, according to a battlefield update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think-tank, on January 26. Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said earlier this week that Russian forces recaptured the Kursk region village of Nikolayevo-Daryino, which lies on the Russia-Ukraine border. Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang have officially acknowledged the presence of North Korean troops in Russia. Last year, months before the deployment of North Koreans to Russia, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark defense pact and pledged to use all available means to provide immediate military assistance in the event the other is attacked. The pact is the most significant agreement signed by Russia and North Korea in decades and has been viewed as something of a revival of their 1961 Cold War-era mutual defense pledge.
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