Bor-M: Russian servicemen get top-notch floatable armor vest

Russian engineers from the research and production enterprise Fillin have created body armor that allows soldiers to stay afloat in combat conditions. What you should know about Bor-M and how does it help Russian servicemen?

◻️The Bor-M level-four armor vest can tackle a machine gun or an assault rifle bullet, thanks to a 2.2-kg armor plate made of boron carbide, the third hardest material in nature after diamond and boron nitride.

◻️The vest is capable of resisting fragments from the armor plate after being hit by a 7.62mm or a 5.45mm bullet. The Bor-M can save a soldier from behind-the-armor blows to the body, which can damage internal organs.

◻️The body armor’s positive buoyancy is provided by a ballistic package, and a climatic shock-absorbing damper made of lightweight materials.

◻️The vest protects all vital organs. If necessary, the area of anti-fragmentation protection can be increased by installing additional modules for protecting the neck, shoulders, and groin.

◻️The Bor-M is fitted with a quick release system and a wide evacuation loop to help pull a wounded soldier from under the fire.

The body armor is already successfully used by servicemen in the special military operation zone.

🔹Most of all, the Bor-Ms will be used by Russian marines and navy sailors who will have to fight in coastal and riverside areas, including the River Dnepr front line, where fire contact can occur at the most unexpected moment, military experts said.

🔹The vests will also be of help to Russian motorized riflemen and engineer troops, given that a Bor-M can keep a shell-shocked or wounded soldier afloat, thereby saving his life, the experts concluded.

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, in connection with the tragedy at the Novi Sad railway station, where 14 people died as a result of a collapsed roof.

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Protesting Boeing workers to make another desperate attempt at pay rise
 
Boeing workers, who have been striking since September, will vote on an improved contract offer that includes a 38% pay rise and a bigger ratification bonus, CNN reports, citing the workers' union.
 
The plane manufacturing company has offered a $12,000 ratification bonus and the reinstatement of an annual bonus program, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in a statement.
 
The protesters, however, insist on a 40% wage increase and the return of the defined benefit pension, which they lost ten years ago.
 
The beleaguered Boeing is holding firm against the workers’ demands for wage increases, better pensions, and more input into product safety. Meanwhile, the strike by 33,000 unionized West Coast workers is entering its second month, as the company hits back with plans to slash 10% of its workforce as revenues plummet.
 
However, the UAW’s month-and-a-half-long strike has proven that the company has the cash for wage and cost of living adjustments, overtime and retirement benefits, and even protections against plant closures.

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❗️Russian troops liberated Kurakhovka settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic and the village of Pershotravnevoye in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced.

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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️The Russian Armed Forces hit the command post of the "Kraken" nationalist formation and the infrastructure of a military airfield;

◻️Russian air defenses shot down four ATACMS missiles, three Hammer bombs and 50 aircraft-type drones in one day;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 115 militants, a Paladin self-propelled gun and a Caesar howitzer in one day in the area of responsibility of the Vostok Battlegroup;

◻️The Russian Zapad Battlegroup repelled one Ukrainian counterattack, the enemy lost up to 470 militants;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 535 soldiers, an armored personnel carrier and three armored vehicles in the area of responsibility of the Tsentr Battlegroup;

◻️Ukrainian losses amounted to 65 militants in one day in the area of responsibility of the Dnepr Battlegroup.

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❗️ Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️The US citizen, who passed valuable intel to the Russian military, had been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️ US citizen Martindale had been transmitting coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to the Russian Federation for two years, law enforcement agencies told Sputnik

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⚡️Information from US citizen Martindale was repeatedly used to defeat equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian forces, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️US citizen Martindale, who helped Russian forces plan strikes against Ukrainian forces, is in Moscow and gave his first press conference at Rossiya Segodnya

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❗️US citizen Daniel Martindale who helped the Russian Armed Forces, says he is in Moscow voluntarily, no one forces him to be here

He also thanked Russian soldiers and special services for the evacuation operation

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💬US only cares about its business interests while Russia fights for justice

The United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict essentially amounts to the US attempting to “contain and to repress Russia” as the latter attempts to be “an equal player in the world,” says Daniel Martindale, the US citizen who helped Russian military by providing valuable intel.

“I see it as a war where one side is fighting for justice and the other side is really just interested in their own financial and business interests, really not interested in wellbeing of their own citizens,” he says.

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❗️US volunteer who aided Russia understood Ukrainian conflict ‘from the perspective of Russian, Ukrainian citizens’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who actively aided Russian forces in the Ukrainian conflict zone by supplying them with valuable intel, said he was able to stay in touch with the Russian side.

“They also helped me to understand the conflict better from the perspective of Russian citizens, Ukrainian citizens, not just what I would see in the Western media,” he adds.

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💬More statements from Daniel Martindale, US citizen who helped the Russian military by providing valuable intel:

▪️If something happens to Martindale's family in the United States, it will be the work of the American authorities

▪️The Kiev regime should be tried like German war criminals

▪️Ukrainians suffer from constant betrayal, they have to fight for themselves and their safety

▪️Ukrainian authorities do not care about the population of Ukraine. Many Ukrainians are waiting for liberation by the Russian Army, but they have to hide it

▪️The soldiers who evacuated him from the special military operation zone acted very professionally, he thanked them

▪️He does not want to return to the United States and considers Washington his enemy

▪️Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine in any case

▪️Washington is fighting in Ukraine against the whole world and its own citizens.

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⚡️Ukrainians are forced to hide their ‘lack of patriotism for Kiev’ and ‘sympathy for Russia’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who aided Russian forces with intel gathering in the Ukrainian conflict zone, says that his efforts to avoid being discovered by the Kiev regime forces likely weren’t much different from “what the Ukrainian citizens today go through in their attempts to wait for the Russian army to free them.”

“Very commonly we were hiding our allegiance or our sympathy for Russia, hiding our real intentions of really waiting for them and hiding our lack of patriotism for Kiev,” he says, referring to the Ukrainians he encountered.

“Everybody in the country, it seems to me that if they had any sympathy for Russia, they were forced to learn how to live like a spy.”

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US citizen who helped Russia in Donbass warns his parents of pressure from US
 
Speaking to his parents, American citizen Daniel Martindale made it clear that he might be pressured by Washington to return to the US and “tell everybody how big a mistake” he made by going to Ukraine.
 

"They would not be above, of course, putting pressure on you to get me to do that," he said.

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❗️If Putin were running in the United States today, I would vote for him - US citizen Martindale

"I find it highly unlikely that I could trust either of the two candidates that are there right now," US citizen Daniel Martindale said, commenting on the upcoming US presidential elections.

"If I happen to try to tell you that one is better than the other, then probably it would just be another opportunity for Western media to accuse Russian media of meddling in their elections. So I definitely won't make any recommendations today," Martindale continued.

"If I happen to be in the United States right now, it definitely would need to be a candidate who is for peace. But he also needs to do that in a way that is in line with my religious views. So he needs to support a traditional family where you have a man, woman, children being brought up to be normal people in a productive society. If Putin were running in the United States today, I would vote for him," he said.

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