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For example, 16-year-old skipped school so that he would not be taken to the city by force and registered for military service, as was the case with his classmates. The family of 14-year-old was held hostage – he was not given the documents without which it is impossible to leave the temporarily occupied territory. However, when occupiers abducted his mother, it became clear that he had to leave by any means necessary.

Combat cooks and cook "almost restaurant" meals for Defenders who are performing combat missions in the Southern area.

The former restaurateurs often surprise the Warriors with their delicious and healthy dishes. They are especially diligent in their work before the border guards leave for combat positions and after their successful return.

📹: State Border Guard Service of

@kardinal691

Russia is co-opting far-right politicians in Europe with cash

For nearly a year, Czech authorities secretly recorded hours of meetings between several far-right politicians from across Europe and #Artem #Marchevsky,
💥who was running the propaganda website, "Voice of Europe", 💥
-- including at its offices on a quiet side street in the center of Prague.

E.U. and Czech authorities, which have shut down the site, have labeled Voice of Europe a #Russian #propaganda operation.

The Czech probe rapidly expanded into Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and France,
European security and intelligence officials said,
as investigators concluded that
👉Voice of Europe represented far more than its official veneer as a pro-Russian website interviewing favored European politicians about ending aid to Ukraine.

The organization was being used to funnel hundreds of thousands of euros
— up to 1 million a month
— to dozens of far-right politicians in more than five countries to
🔥plant Kremlin propaganda in Western media 🔥
that would sow division in Europe and bolster the position of pro-Russian candidates in this week’s European Parliament elections.

Most of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing and sensitive investigation.

Michal Koudelka,
head of the Czech domestic security service,
said that the Voice of Europe operation was also an attempt to
get more pro-Russian members into the European Parliament
and that after the vote that starts this Thursday,
“there was a plan for the people in the European Parliament to conduct classic espionage”
on behalf of Russia.

“It was an operation that aimed to shape Europe,” Koudelka said in an interview.


Far-right parties could end up with 25 percent of the seats in the 720-member European Parliament, according to some opinion polls.

And for Russia, increasing influence among those parties could provide a mechanism for threatening aid to Ukraine,
as well as fertile ground for espionage, according to Vera Jourova,
the European Commission’s vice president.

Pro-Russian politicians “could really make the financing [of Ukraine] difficult,” Jourova told The Post.

washingtonpost.com/world/2024/

The Washington Post · Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials sayBy Catherine Belton

I just released a v3.0.0 of #artem, a #CLI tool for converting images to #ascii art. This version includes the ability to save the ascii art as an svg file. There are also some improvements for library users of artem.

Visit github.com/FineFindus/artem, or install it directly with `cargo install artem`.

Convert images from multiple formats (jpg, png, webp, etc…) to ASCII art, written in Rust - FineFindus/artem
GitHubGitHub - FineFindus/artem: Convert images from multiple formats (jpg, png, webp, etc…) to ASCII art, written in RustConvert images from multiple formats (jpg, png, webp, etc…) to ASCII art, written in Rust - FineFindus/artem

Every time pilots flew on a combat mission, the girl ran out of the house and joyfully greeted them

In the direction, the helicopter pilots of the Armed Forces thanked the child for his touching attention. The defenders dropped her sweets, said , helicopter commander of the separate army aviation brigade.

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@kardinal691

Se avessi provato a seguirti lungo le tue "geografie del coraggio" non credo che avrei resistito più di 2-3 giorni, conoscendo la differenza tra i tuoi ritmi ed i miei. Tuttavia mi onoro di seguirti, con altri strumenti, da quasi vent'anni. Culmine di tale sodalizio fu "Creatività rivoluzionaria: #RosariaIazzetta" (#artem, 2020), solo che causa pandemia dovemmo accontentarci di una presentazione a distanza. Martedì 2 maggio, invece, alla #ABANA riprendiamo la corsa con tutti i crismi! 🙂