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https://fullchan.net/?a19dd0f506eb4721#F8zWNNySDYzuLyouXyYq4ycEkzrbYZqYF6WHcujmdtbp

>>140616

tyb

good morning

>>140489, >>140498 lb

SAM46 USAF C-32A departed JBA heading across the Atlantic (this is tail# 09-00018)and the replacement for the turned around SAM46 (tail#09-0016) from yesterdaysee linkys above

This AC had an extended stay at L-3/Harris-Majors Airport last year in Greenville, TX so it is the most 'up-to-date' and I believe this is it's first major trip (Int'l) since that return to service-it was seen many times on cert flights out and back to JBA

SAM384 USAF C-32A also departed from JBA (tail# 98-0001) as most recently used by kneepads on friday for Chicago trip

>>140372, >>140375, >>140379 pb

These links show it was not AF2 for a little over 6 minutes

Europe-Med. Activity

SPAR87 USAF G5 departed RAF Northolt after arriving on 0623 from Ramstein AFB

NATO01 E-3A Sentry AWACS on the track on ISR dooty for G-7 and came from Geilenkirchen AB

Moroccan AF FRV1325 G5 departed Athens, Greece after a ground stop of 7.5 hours-looks like it's heading back to Paris where it left from last night >>140607 lb (CONUS time)

Belgian AF BAF89 Falcon 7x switched on at Brussels Int'l

Swedish AF SVF649 G5 departed Stockholm SW

RCH3225 USAF C-17 Globemaster east from Ramstein

HKY38 USAF C-130 Super Hercules NE from Weisbaden AB

DUKE89 USAF C-560 north from Stuttgart Int'l (AFRICOM) located here.

E10E1 USAF Learjet 35 heading to Ramstein AFB from Calgliari, Sardinia after a 90 minute stop

German AF GAFMED4 A400m departed Niamey, Niger north after arriving yesterday from Wunstorf AF (Hannover)

AE67D8 US Navy P-8 Poseidon heading NE over Romania just east of Bulgaria from Sigonella AB, Sicily

Turkish AF J-001 Cessna C680 SW from Ankara

Paki AF PAAF524 G5 west from New York Stewart Airport (West Point Academy's Airport) after arriving yesterday from Luton Airport NW of London and arrived there from Istanbul depart on 0624 and Lahore, Pakiland depart on 0623

Italian AF IAM1496 G5 inbound @47k ft-that pretty much it's operational ceiling-from Rome departure

ROSTR11 USAF E-4B Nightwatch west to Lincoln Muni from Wright-Patterson AFB

SAM46 and SAM384 C-32As continue on Atlantic crossing

Forgive anon for not lurking moar and posting.

Confused with /qrb/ and /hivemind/.

Started lurking just after move from /cbts/ to /qresearch/.

Witnessed captacha wars and battle over notables.

witnessed 8bit hand off to flapjack.

Was on the original /qrb/ early.

Stopped lurking post Jan 2020.

Confused now by fake Q posts and no mention here.

Is 8bit still BO here?

Is /Hivemind/ where OSS went? Seems much of what 8bit is saying is over on /hivemind/

Again, please forgive request for help.

Would greatly appreciate a response and some help.

Uganda Claims to Discover 31 Million Tons of Gold Ore

A spokesperson from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda, Solomon Muyita, said that there was an estimated 320,158 metric tonnes of refined gold in the country after several surveys were conducted. These reports from Uganda are aimed at attracting gold miners and investors in the crypto sector.

Over the past five years, the value of one ounce of gold increased by 48% against the US dollar. However, this increase is very small compared to the growth of Bitcoin’s price and the entire cryptocurrency market. Muyita said that the discovered gold could start being mined immediately. Additionally, a Chinese company known as Wagagai Mining has already commenced plans to mine in the area.*The company obtained a gold production license in March this year and has a 21-year lease to mine gold in the country.

The Chinese company will start operations within the year. The company has invested $200M towards constructing a refining facility. Despite all the gold discovered in the country, the mining difficulty is notably high, and this impacts the amount of gold that is actually mined. Around 2500 to 3000 metric tonnes are mined every year.

Early this year, the Ugandan parliament passed a mining law that will pave the way for developing a state mining corporation. The company will have a 15% stake in every mining activity in the country, and investors will have a production-sharing agreement with the government.

https://www.business2community.com/crypto-news/uganda-claims-to-discover-31-million-tons-of-gold-ore-02508544

*So dis how the Chinese replace all the fake gold bars-picrel mebby-Grand Canyon haz more and these "finds" will start popping up, in earnest, now.

this originally released on June 13th

https://www.vladtv.com/article/284117/uganda-announces-discovery-of-huge-gold-deposits-worth-an-estimated-128

One of the main reasons for the creation of the FED was the find of all that Gold in the Grand Canyon-billions of ozs/mucho metric tons and they (system) just couldn't have that as it would have destroyed the economic system at the time. It is not the only place though-ANWAR, Chocolate Mtns in CA.'''

History of gold and which countries have the most

https://stacker.com/stories/2615/history-gold-and-which-countries-have-most

Gold Standard Act of 1900

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/gold-standard-act-1900

The History of Gold

https://bebusinessed.com/history/the-history-of-gold/

Godzilla:" We gonna have THAT talk this week on Gold and Silver??"

Mkt Fag: " Yes Mr. Godzilla we will certainly be trying to have some discussions about it-there is much dis-information out there as to why certain Acts were done and the timing of them-we will attempt to present a view of those and what they were really for but that is an interpretive view so your actual beliefs will vary-and should once we are able to try and present some viewpoints on all of that'"

Godzilla:"Dhat's fine-I don't think anyone really has "the answer"-at least at our level-but we can try and shed some light on all this so I am game for that..all we can do is try."

Mkt Fag:" yes I certainly do not have all the answers but we will try".

>>140632

they called it a turkey dinner

guess it's served all day long

idk

he's habby, blue hair n all

now, get the fuck off muh lawn bro

kek

>>140630

its a matter for you to decide however it sounds like you've already made yours up.

>Confused now by fake Q posts and no mention here.

It's not being 'beaten up' here as in QR...posts were made, they had tripcodes and you must decide on what the authenticity of that is.

imo (and that is all this is) those had little substance and reflect what the last year of posts were-in effect those were used to keep eyes on and people engaged so that is not a bad thing.

>>140633

concur

>>140634

kek!

you scoundrel!

>>140624

Swedish AF SVF649 G5 on ground at Luxembourg Airport from Stockholm Depart

There is an EU Energy Ministers meeting here and this is likely Swedens Minister for Energy Khashayar Farmanbar arriving for those meetings that begin officially tomorrow.

>>140624

Moroccan AF FRV1325 G5 landed at Paris-Le Bourget Airport from it's Athens depart.

>>140640

Swedish AF SVF649 G5 departed Luxembourg after 30 minutes on the ground-so a 'drop-off'

French AF CTM1041 A330 on ground at Faro, Spain and departed Niamey, Niger earlier where the German AF GAFMED4 >>140624 also left from

It left Marseille, France earlier today and was on the ground at Niamey for about 2 hours

>>140641

Moroccan AF FRV1417 C-560 departed Paris-De gaulle Int'l and that one has been there since 0624

Here's your "Q"

@truthhammer

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Let the record reflect that it was under BIDEN (not Trump) that a Secretary of Defense announced that the military will not recognize civilian judicial authority.

#Insurrection #FJB @realDonaldTrump @TrueGenFlynn

>>140623

SAM46 USAF C-32A landed at Munich Int'l-this the replacement for the turned around tail# 09-0016 from yesterday

SAM384 USAF C-32A landed at Madrid-Torrejon AB (just NE of Madrid proper)

SPAR23USAF C-40B just arrived at Helsinki, Finland from JBA departure as well-it came in from Scott AFB, Il yesterday

>>140627

Paki AF PAAF524 G5 on ground at Van Nuys Airport, CA--rather interdasting place for the Paki AF to go

This started as a small overflow airport (for Burbank Airport which is just east of this) in the San Fernando Valley

It's a very busy general aviation facility now.

Lockheed used to have space here closed in mid 70s-I think there was GM plant here at one point too-at least close by'''

PF used this place to get to LAX-bus service operated from here to there.

The first public showing of B-2 Stealth Bomber and the F-117A Stealth Fighter was held here-seen't in person from the Sherman Way underpass area-ft who may know the area.

Italian AF IAM1496 G5 on ground at Appleton Int'l Airport, WI

SAM449 USAF C-40BState Dept ACNE from JBA and heading across the Atlantic

US pledges $200B to G7 infrastructure project to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative

The United States is pledging $200 billion to a G7 infrastructure project intended to counter’s China’s multi trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative.

The "Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment" was relaunched by President Biden and other Group of Seven leaders on Sunday at their annual gathering being held this year at Schloss Elmau in Southern Germany. Altogether the G7 leaders pledged to raise $600 billion in private and public funds over five years to finance needed infrastructure in developing countries. The U.S.’ $200 billion portion will come from grants, federal funds, and private investment over that time period to support projects are intended to tackle climate change, improve global health, gender equity and digital infrastructure.Biden went at lengths to insist the money was not "aid or charity." "It’s an investment that will deliver returns for everyone," he said, adding that it will allow countries to "see the concrete benefits of partnering with democracies."

He suggested that additional funds – upwards of hundreds of billions – could come from multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and sovereign wealth funds.

Chinese President Xi Jinping launched China’s Belt and Road Initiative scheme in 2013. The nearly ten-year multi trillion-dollar effort involves development and infrastructure programs in more than 100 countries aimed at creating a modern version of the ancient Silk Road trade route from Asia to Europe.

Western officials have long argued that the initiative traps receiving countries in debt with investments that benefit China more than the hosts. The G-7 program responds to China's so-called Belt and Road Initiative, which Western officials have long argued traps receiving countries in debt and with investments that benefit China more than their hosts. The White House says the initiative seeks to leverage $200 billion in U.S. investment over the next five years, along with a similar amount from G-7 allies, to boost infrastructure development in lower- and middle-income nations.

It adds that most of the funding will come from the private sector, sovereign wealth and global development funds, rather that direct taxpayer dollars. The U.S. says the G-7 backed effort promotes responsible investments that aim to benefit the communities they are made in.

Among the first initiatives are a $2 billion solar farm investment in Angola in Southwest AFrica, $320 million for hospital construction in Ivory Coast, in West Africa, and $40 million to promote regional energy trade in Southeast Asia. In a jab at China, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the G-7 is offering "sustainable, quality infrastructure" and will be "listening closely to the recipient countries."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-biden-billions-g7-infrastructure-project-counter-china-belt-road-initiative

Economic Schedule for Week of June 26th

I'll add that all the Zombie banks that were given the free pass last week by the farce known as 'Stress Tests' will be upping dividends aka as bribes (many buy these as income generation vehicles so they know that and am not dissing peeps that do that since it's offered right?-use the system we have to your benefit) and expanding share buybacks plansand making sure those announcements take place before the Q end on Thursday'

The key reports this week are the third estimate of Q1 GDP, and Personal Income and Outlays for May. Other key reports include the June ISM Manufacturing survey, June Vehicle Sales, and April Case-Shiller house prices. For manufacturing, the June Richmond and Dallas Fed manufacturing surveys will be released.

- Monday, June 27th -

8:30 AM: Durable Goods Orders for May from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for a 0.1% increase in durable goods orders.

10:00 AM: Pending Home Sales Index for May. The consensus is for a 2.0% decrease in the index.

- Tuesday, June 28th -

9:00 AM:S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index for April-The consensus is for a 21.0% year-over-year increase in the Comp 20 index for April.

9:00 AM: FHFA House Price Index for April 2021. This was originally a GSE only repeat sales, however there is also an expanded index.

10:00 AM: Richmond Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for June.

- Wednesday, June 29th -

7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

8:30 AM: Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2022 (Third estimate). The consensus is that real GDP decreased 1.5% annualized in Q1, unchanged from the second estimate of a 1.5% decrease. Will KANGZZZ Bostic have 'adjusted' the Atlanta FED version of this by then?

- Thursday, June 30th -

Early: Census Bureau to Release Vintage 2021 Population Estimates

8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 230 thousand up from 229 thousand last week.

8:30 AM ET: Personal Income and Outlays, May 2022. The consensus is for a 0.5% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.4%. PCE prices are expected to be up 6.2% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.7% YoY.

9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for June.

- Friday, July 1st -

10:00 AM: ISM Manufacturing Index for June. The consensus is for the ISM to be at 55.0, down from 56.1 in May.

10:00 AM: Construction Spending for May. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in construction spending.

Late in the day: Light vehicle sales for June. The consensus is for light vehicle sales to be 13.6 million SAAR in June, up from 12.7 million in May (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate). Wards Auto is forecasting sales of 13.3 million SAAR in June

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/06/schedule-for-week-of-june-26-2022.html

Saudi Arabia Injects Over $10 Billion in Liquidity-Starved Banks

The Saudi Central Bank placed about 50 billion riyals ($13 billion) as time deposits with commercial lenders, according to people familiar with the matter, seeking to ease the worst liquidity crunch in over a decade.

The intervention started just before the US Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike this month, and consisted of money provided to banks at a discount to the three-month Saudi Interbank Offered Rate, or Saibor, used as a benchmark to price loans, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private. The central bank, also known as SAMA, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Liquidity conditions as measured by Saibor are the tightest since late 2008, when the price of crude collapsed below $40 a barrel. The extent of the funding stress among Saudi banks has little precedent outside periods when oil prices were crashing or global crises like the credit crunch of 2008-2009. This year, by contrast, Saudi Arabia is on track to run its first budget surplus in about a decade after seeing revenues soar on the back of a rally in oil prices above $100 and rising production. The funding from the central bank came in at least three separate tranches so far, with the first and second injection consisting of three-month deposits that totaled around 15 billion riyals each, the people said. It made at least one more placement in recent days that included both shorter and longer maturities, they said.

In a sign the latest injections by the central bank are already having an impact, the Saibor rate fell by about 17 basis points from Friday to 3.13% on Sunday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, its biggest drop in over a month. The action reflects growing concerns about costly liquidity for banks in Saudi Arabia and its impact on the economy as authorities look to mobilize capital to power the kingdom’s mega projects. To ease the immediate funding constraints, the central bank recently also extended the tenor on its repo facility to a maximum of 13 weeks from four. Saudi Arabia’s finance minister told Bloomberg last month that the government would hold excess oil revenues in its current account until at least early next year, as it looks to break an oil-linked boom-bust cycle that has typified the economy in the past. Bankers had been expecting high oil prices to more quickly translate into government deposits that would ease the liquidity crunch. Growth in bank deposits has lagged behind Saudi credit expansion driven largely by a boom in mortgages. That has squeezed the money market while the government withholds its oil windfall as part of a more conservative approach to fiscal spending.

Saudi Arabia is set for another year of double-digit growth in consumer lending while deposits are up less than 4% so far in 2022. In 2020, the central bank extended over 100 billion riyals to local banks in liquidity injections and to cover the costs of loan deferrals for small businesses hit by the pandemic.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/saudi-arabia-injects-over-10-billion-in-liquidity-starved-banks-1.1784130

>>140614

>>140616

#952

>>140623 SAM46 USAF C-32A departed JBA heading across the Atlantic (this is tail# 09-00018)and the replacement for the turned around SAM46 (tail#09-0016) from yesterday-SAM384 USAF C-32A also departed from JBA (tail# 98-0001) as most recently used by kneepads on friday for Chicago trip

>>140624 PF--Europe-Med activity

>>140627, >>140657 Paki AF PAAF524 G5 west from New York Stewart Airport (West Point Academy's Airport) after arriving yesterday from Luton Airport NW of London and arrived there from Istanbul depart on 0624 and Lahore, Pakiland depart on 0623 and went to Van Nuys Airport, CA-Italian AF1496 inbound from ROme -Italian AF went to Appleton, WI

>>140631 Uganda Claims to Discover 31 Million Tons of Gold Ore from June 21 (story out on June 13)

>>140641 Moroccan AF FRV1325 G5 landed at Paris-Le Bourget Airport from it's Athens depart.

>>140640, >>140644 Swedish AF SVF649 G5 on ground at Luxembourg Airport from Stockholm Depart and right back out 30 minutes later

>>140650 Let the record reflect that it was under BIDEN (not Trump) that a Secretary of Defense announced that the military will not recognize civilian judicial authority.

>>140656 SAM46 USAF C-32A landed at Munich Int'l/SAM384 USAF C-32A landed at Madrid-Torrejon AB/SPAR23USAF C-40B just arrived at Helsinki, Finland from JBA departure

>>140658 SAM449 USAF C-40B State Dept AC NE from JBA and heading across the Atlantic

>>140659 US pledges $200B to G7 infrastructure project to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative-concrete comms

>>140661 Economic Schedule for Week of June 26th

>>140662 Saudi Arabia Injects Over $10 Billion in Liquidity-Starved Banks

Home Showings Across United States Fall 24 Percent, Mortgage Rates Remain Elevated

Home showings across the United States have fallen, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), with all four regions registering a decline.

Home showings—when a potential buyer takes a private home tour with an agent—were down by 24 percent year-on-year in May, with total showings across the country at 785,005, said the NAR SentriLock Home Showings Report. SentriLock is a lockbox and real estate management solutions company. All four regions in the United States saw a decrease in showings year-on-year, with the Northwest falling by 55 percent, Midwest by 29 percent, West by 27 percent, and the South by 14 percent.

Total SentriLock cards fell 2 percent YoY to 214,868. The cards allow realtors access to Sentrilock lockboxes—which hold keys to a home and allow communal access to all real estate agents—and indicate the number of realtors who conduct the showing.

The number of showings per card, which reflects the strength of buyer interest per listed property, decreased 23 percent YoY in May nationwide. Region-wise, showings per card in the West fell by 29 percent, the South by 23 percent, and the Midwest by 22 percent. Only the Northeast registered an increase at 45 percent. Meanwhile, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) fell by two points to 67 in June, which the organization called a “troubling sign” for the housing market and broader economy. According to NAHB Chair Jerry Konter, the six consecutive monthly declines of HMI is a “clear sign of a slowing housing market in a high-inflation, slow-growth economic environment.”

This is the lowest HMI reading since June 2020. The index had hit a record high of 90 at the end of 2020 when the pandemic triggered strong demand for homes. The fall in home showings is happening as mortgage rates remain at elevated levels. A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage had an average interest rate of 5.81 percent as of June 22, according to data from Freddie Mac.

Realtor.com is expecting home prices and mortgage rates to continue climbing while home sales drop as buyers get priced out from homeownership, based on a June 13 analysis of market trends. The rise in mortgage rates is driven by the U.S. Federal Reserve hiking interest rates to control inflation, the company noted.

“Rising interest rates have shifted the foundation of the economy as well as the housing market. So many homebuyers take out mortgages so that rising rates affect how expensive homeownership is,” said the company’s Chief Economist Danielle Hale. “It’s causing buyers to make tough trade-offs and disrupting the housing market.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/home-showings-across-united-states-fall-24-percent-mortgage-rates-remain-elevated_4556028

>>140665

>>140656

SAM384 USAF C-32A departed Madrid-Torrejon AB NW after 2 hours on the ground

@ScottPresler

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In Louisiana, the last 3 abortion clinics closed down after the Supreme Court ruling.

Baton Rouge: 53% black

New Orleans: 59%

Shreveport: 57%

Why do democrats want abortion clinics in majority-black areas? Why do they fight so hard to end black lives? Margaret Sanger approves.

Jamie Dimon just creamed his pants

Russia "Defaults" on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918

Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors.

For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed.

It’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast. The nation’s eurobonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of March, the central bank’s foreign reserves remain frozen, and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system.

But given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years.

Russia has pushed back against the default designation, saying it has the funds to cover any bills and has been forced into non-payment. As it tried to twist its way out, it announced last week that it would switch to servicing its $40 billion of outstanding sovereign debt in rubles, criticizing a “force-majeure” situation it said was artificially manufactured by the West.

“It’s a very, very rare thing, where a government that otherwise has the means is forced by an external government into default,” said Hassan Malik, senior sovereign analyst at Loomis Sayles & Company LP. “It’s going to be one of the big watershed defaults in history.”

A formal declaration would usually come from ratings firms, but European sanctions led to them withdrawing ratings on Russian entities. According to the documents for the notes whose grace period expired Sunday, holders can call one themselves if owners of 25% of the outstanding bonds agree that an “Event of Default” has occurred.

With the final deadline passed, focus shifts to what investors do next.

They don’t need to act immediately, and may choose to monitor the progress of the war in the hope that sanctions are eventually softened. Time may be on their side: the claims only become void three years on from the payment date, according to the bond documents.

“Most bondholders will keep the wait-and-see approach,” Takahide Kiuchi, an economist at Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo.

Russia’s Default Tussle With Bondholders Is Only Just Starting

During Russia’s financial crisis and ruble collapse of 1998, President Boris Yeltsin’s government defaulted on $40 billion of its local debt.

The last time Russia fell into default vis-a-vis its foreign creditors was more than a century ago, when the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin repudiated the nation’s staggering Czarist-era debt load in 1918.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918-1.1784183

>>140582 pb Russia "on brink"-too funny-of default as debt deadline looms

The Embassy

U.S. Special Forces and CIA Working to Get Ukraine Weapons

Special Operations Task Force Operating To Direct Flow of Weapons in Ukraine – The United States is heading up a 20-nation task force of Special Operations Forces consisting of troops and paramilitary CIA personnel to ensure that the long-range weapons that Ukraine needs are reaching the right people. And, thus far, it seems to be working.

There are widespread reports that US-supplied HIMARS rocket systems are already hitting Russian targets in occupied areas of Ukraine, the Chief of the General Staff has said.

“Artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine skilfully hit certain targets – military targets of the enemy on our, Ukrainian, territory,” Chief of Ukraine’s General Staff, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, wrote on the Telegram channel app.

About 150 mostly US Special Operations personnel were pulled from Ukraine prior to the war starting in late February. They were there to train Ukrainian troops at a base in western Ukraine. Now they’re conducting training at bases inside Britain, France, and Germany. Some CIA personnel have remained inside of Ukraine, mostly in Kyiv, and are disseminating the intelligence that the US is sharing with Ukraine.

However, other NATO SOF troops, British, French, Canadians, and Lithuanians have remained inside of Ukraine and are conducting training as well as advising the Ukrainian military on the packages of aid that they are receiving from the West.

Earlier on Saturday, the Russians claimed to have killed 80 Polish “mercenaries” in a precision airstrike on the Megatex zinc factory in Konstantinovka located in the eastern Donetsk region.

“Up to 80 Polish mercenaries, 20 armored fighting vehicles, and eight Grad, multiple rocket launchers were destroyed in high-precision weapons strikes” in the Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a released statement.

In a piece by the New York Times, the US 10th Special Forces Group, which had been inside of Ukraine training Kyiv’s SOF personnel, moved its operations to Germany and set up a coalition planning cell to coordinate the training and equipping of Ukraine’s troops. That planning cell has grown to include participants from 20 nations.

From 2015 until early this year when they were withdrawn by the White House, American Green Berets and National Guard instructors trained more than 27,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center in western Ukraine outside of the city of Lviv.

The years of training together have vastly improved the Ukrainian SOF fighting capabilities.

“What is an untold story is the international partnership with the special operations forces of a multitude of different countries,” LTG Jonathan P. Braga, the commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, told a group of Senators a few months ago in describing the planning cell. “They have absolutely banded together in a much-outsized impact” to support Ukraine’s military and special forces.

The US Air Force and Air National Guard have set up their own task force which is code-named the “Grey Wolf Team” which is advising the Ukrainian Air Force in defending the skies above their country against Russian aggression.

Members of the team spoke with the media from Coffee or Die magazine and explained how the task force is set up and works. “We exist because there’s a bunch of motivated people who want to help out. There’s not another team like this in the Air Force that’s doing the same thing,” said an unnamed Air Force fighter pilot that is part of the task force.

“Knowing their pilots, knowing their aircraft … we decide what we can reasonably ‘onboard’ and execute in order to create effects on the battlefield,” the pilot added.

The US to Send an Additional $450 million in Defense Aid:

Washington has agreed to end another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine Pentagon officials said on Thursday. Just last week the US agreed to send another $1 billion military aid package, which will include additional HIMARS medium-range missile systems.

Kyiv has been consistently asking for more advanced weaponry with longer ranges since the war began. The HIMARS will allow Ukrainian troops to hit the Russians at ranges that they are currently being targeted and puts them on somewhat equal footing although the Russians maintain a huge numerical advantage.

The US has provided more than $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine. The Ukrainians attended 3 weeks of training on the weapons that have been delivered

Riverine Patrol Boats Included in Aid Package:

The US Navy will provide Ukraine with 18 patrol boats as part of additional aid that was announced on Thursday. These patrol boats are used to protect rivers and inland waterways.

An unnamed Defense Department official said that the US was sending two small unit riverine boats that are 35 feet long, six maritime combat boats that are 40 feet long, and 10 medium force protection patrol boats that are 34 feet long.

These have limited ocean-going ability but the Ukrainians were issued vehicle-mounted Harpoon anti-ship missiles to defend their coastline. Just last week, the Ukrainians claimed to have hit and sunk a Russian tugboat using a Harpoon missile that was resupplying Snake Island.

“During the full-scale war in the Black Sea, (anti-ship missiles) were used twice, first the (Ukrainian-made) Neptune, and today, June 17, the Harpoon. Both uses were successful. At the same time, the air defense of Russian ships proved to be entirely ineffective,” the Ukrainian military said in a statement.

Steve Balestrieri is a 1945 National Security Columnist. He has served as a US Army Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. In addition to writing for 19fortyfive.com and other military news organizations, he has covered the NFL for PatsFans.com for over 10 years. His work was regularly featured in the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Grafton News newspapers in Massachusetts.

@mattwhitaker46

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AOC: The Supreme Court can’t tell women what we can do with our bodies!

SCOTUS: That is literally what we just said.

>>140678

Chinese AF 11153 and 11155 Y-20s (c-17 copy) heading north from central China-see these every so often

@gatewaypundit

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EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Vigano's Declaration on the Decision of the Supreme Court in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization

EXCLUSIVE: Archbishop Vigano’s Declaration on the Decision of the Supreme Court in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

>>140658

SAM449 USAF C-40BState Dept ACheading for Munich from it's JBA depart

JAKE11 UASF RC-135 Rivet Joint turned on at RAF Mildenhall

relax nikka there aren't many who do-if you said what is going on right now-4 years ago I'd laughed muh ass off

We all watching and not in control-sometimes it's scary but don't lose your sense of humor-for if you do that yer gonna have a bad time.

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>>140616

>>140663

#952

>>140623 SAM46 USAF C-32A departed JBA heading across the Atlantic (this is tail# 09-00018)and the replacement for the turned around SAM46 (tail#09-0016) from yesterday-SAM384 USAF C-32A also departed from JBA (tail# 98-0001) as most recently used by kneepads on friday for Chicago trip

>>140624 PF--Europe-Med activity

>>140627, >>140657 Paki AF PAAF524 G5 west from New York Stewart Airport (West Point Academy's Airport) after arriving yesterday from Luton Airport NW of London and arrived there from Istanbul depart on 0624 and Lahore, Pakiland depart on 0623 and went to Van Nuys Airport, CA-Italian AF1496 inbound from ROme -Italian AF went to Appleton, WI

>>140631 Uganda Claims to Discover 31 Million Tons of Gold Ore from June 21 (story out on June 13)

>>140641 Moroccan AF FRV1325 G5 landed at Paris-Le Bourget Airport from it's Athens depart.

>>140640, >>140644 Swedish AF SVF649 G5 on ground at Luxembourg Airport from Stockholm Depart and right back out 30 minutes later

>>140650 Let the record reflect that it was under BIDEN (not Trump) that a Secretary of Defense announced that the military will not recognize civilian judicial authority.

>>140656 SAM46 USAF C-32A landed at Munich Int'l/SAM384 USAF C-32A landed at Madrid-Torrejon AB/SPAR23USAF C-40B just arrived at Helsinki, Finland from JBA departure

>>140658, >>140688 SAM449 USAF C-40B State Dept AC NE from JBA and heading across the Atlantic to Munich

>>140659 US pledges $200B to G7 infrastructure project to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative-concrete comms

>>140661 Economic Schedule for Week of June 26th

>>140662 Saudi Arabia Injects Over $10 Billion in Liquidity-Starved Banks

>>140664 Home Showings Across United States Fall 24 Percent, Mortgage Rates Remain Elevated

>>140669 SAM384 USAF C-32A departed Madrid-Torrejon AB NW after 2 hours on the ground

>>140670 In Louisiana, the last 3 abortion clinics closed down after the Supreme Court ruling. Why do democrats want abortion clinics in majority-black areas? Why do they fight so hard to end black lives? Margaret Sanger approves. @ScottPresler

>>140672 X22 Ep. 2809b - It Had To Be Done This Way, What Happens When You Corner An Animal, Midterms

>>140673 Russia "Defaults" on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918-Jamie Dimon just creamed his pants

>>140676 U.S. Special Forces and CIA Working to Get Ukraine Weapons

>>140677 @mattwhitaker46 AOC: The Supreme Court can’t tell women what we can do with our bodies! SCOTUS: That is literally what we just said.

>>140683 Chinese AF 11153 and 11155 Y-20s (c-17 copy) heading north from central China-see these every so often

>>140684 Archbishop Vigano's Declaration on the Decision of the Supreme Court in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization

think it's all there

feel free to add if not

nighty night