Texas National Guardsmen set up razor wire along the southern border amid the political showdown between Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration
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💬 "Moscow strongly condemns those who made the attack on the Il-76 possible. Acts of terrorism like this would not occur without support from abroad," stated the representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zakharova.
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❗️The village of Sinkovka near Kupyansk has become a "Bermuda Triangle" for Ukrainian soldiers and a source of true horror for their relatives, Sputnik has learned.
Across social networks, Ukrainians are tirelessly searching for hundreds of missing Ukrainian soldiers who have lost contact with their families since December and January. In the comments section on posts discussing the search for soldiers, relatives describe the situation as akin to "hell" and a "Bermuda Triangle" near Sinkovka, where soldiers are treated as expendable “meat”. Many soldiers have disappeared without a trace, while the bodies of those killed cannot be recovered or identified due to ongoing shelling.
Relatives express their frustration in trying to find information about these missing soldiers, since they have come up empty-handed. Commanders, military registration bureaus and enlistment offices, in addition to government officials, have remained tight-lipped on the matter. In fact, some even suggest that this silence stems from a reluctance to provide compensation to the families of the deceased soldiers.
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Across social networks, Ukrainians are tirelessly searching for hundreds of missing Ukrainian soldiers who have lost contact with their families since December and January. In the comments section on posts discussing the search for soldiers, relatives describe the situation as akin to "hell" and a "Bermuda Triangle" near Sinkovka, where soldiers are treated as expendable “meat”. Many soldiers have disappeared without a trace, while the bodies of those killed cannot be recovered or identified due to ongoing shelling.
Relatives express their frustration in trying to find information about these missing soldiers, since they have come up empty-handed. Commanders, military registration bureaus and enlistment offices, in addition to government officials, have remained tight-lipped on the matter. In fact, some even suggest that this silence stems from a reluctance to provide compensation to the families of the deceased soldiers.
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⚡️ The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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⚡️ The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take all measures to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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📹 The International Court of Justice has mandated Israel to implement all necessary actions to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip
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Scott Ritter: people of new Russian territories are ‘Russians in their hearts and souls’
“What I can say is, after having gone through these territories, met with the political leadership of these territories, the economic drivers in these territories and the people who live there, these are Russian territories,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told Sputnik after returning from his visit to Russia, which included stops in the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
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“What I can say is, after having gone through these territories, met with the political leadership of these territories, the economic drivers in these territories and the people who live there, these are Russian territories,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter told Sputnik after returning from his visit to Russia, which included stops in the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye.
“The people that live in these territories are Russians in their hearts, in their souls. And it doesn't matter what the collective West thinks. There's nothing that's going to happen, that's going to change this reality. The sooner the collective West can come to the realization that Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Lugansk in their totality are Russian territories part of the Russian Federation, the sooner this nightmare conflict that the West is brought upon itself can be resolved,” Ritter emphasized.
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What are the capabilities of the Texas National Guard?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration are staring one another down in a possible constitutional crisis over a Supreme Court ruling allowing US Border Patrol agents to take down border barriers erected by Texas National Guard troops to try to stem the inflow of millions of illegal aliens.
▪️ The Guard consists of between 19,000-23,000 troops, including battle-hardened veterans of US wars overseas. Its capabilities include elements of the 19th Special Forces Group, trained for unconventional warfare, direct action, counterterrorism and reconnaissance.
▪️ The Guard has access to some 117 armories across the state containing everything from M-16 assault rifles and M1911 pistols to mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles, Humvees, M113 armored personnel carriers and even tanks.
▪️ The Texas Air National Guard consists of 4,400 personnel and operates C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, Blackhawk helicopters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, F-16 fighter jets, and smaller Beechcraft C-12 Huron and RC-26B turboprop transport planes.
▪️ The Guard and the Air National Guard report directly to Governor Abbott, and can be deployed in response to natural disasters and other emergencies, or activated in wartime.
Abbott tapped the Guard to man the troubled US southern border with Mexico, which has seen the arrival of millions of illegal immigrants under President Biden’s tenure, amid concerns that the federal government is not only allowing but actively facilitating the migrant inflow. The Guard has been tasked with working to secure the border, stopping human, weapons and drug smuggling.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration are staring one another down in a possible constitutional crisis over a Supreme Court ruling allowing US Border Patrol agents to take down border barriers erected by Texas National Guard troops to try to stem the inflow of millions of illegal aliens.
▪️ The Guard consists of between 19,000-23,000 troops, including battle-hardened veterans of US wars overseas. Its capabilities include elements of the 19th Special Forces Group, trained for unconventional warfare, direct action, counterterrorism and reconnaissance.
▪️ The Guard has access to some 117 armories across the state containing everything from M-16 assault rifles and M1911 pistols to mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles, Humvees, M113 armored personnel carriers and even tanks.
▪️ The Texas Air National Guard consists of 4,400 personnel and operates C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, Blackhawk helicopters, MQ-9 Reaper drones, F-16 fighter jets, and smaller Beechcraft C-12 Huron and RC-26B turboprop transport planes.
▪️ The Guard and the Air National Guard report directly to Governor Abbott, and can be deployed in response to natural disasters and other emergencies, or activated in wartime.
Abbott tapped the Guard to man the troubled US southern border with Mexico, which has seen the arrival of millions of illegal immigrants under President Biden’s tenure, amid concerns that the federal government is not only allowing but actively facilitating the migrant inflow. The Guard has been tasked with working to secure the border, stopping human, weapons and drug smuggling.
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