Author: Michael

In what appears to be a desperate move by Moscow, satellite imagery reveals that vital military installations in Russia’s far northern Arctic regions have been stripped of their air defense batteries. These anti-air assets are being moved to the interior of Russia, as the Kremlin seeks to find some response to an increasingly successful Ukrainian 40-day  drone campaign.

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The campaign of drone warfare being carried out by Ukraine against Russian oil tankers, merchant ships, and naval vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea has entered a new, decisive phase. If the effectiveness and level of success achieved so far are maintained, it will have ripple effects that reach all the way back to Moscow.

For that reason, the campaign has been nicknamed МоЛоЧКа (MoLoChKa), an acronym for the Russian phrase meaning “Moscow Will Fall Through Crimea.

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A Washington inmate used jail phones to call VA medical centers and convince staff members to hand over personal information of seriously ill veterans receiving care at the hospitals.
With a second call, the inmate then tried to scam their close relatives out of money.
Repeating the same scam over 60 times, Darryl Lamont Young, 41, took family members of sick veterans for $8,900 between late 2021 and early 2023, a federal jury in Seattle found Monday. The jury convicted Young of 14 counts of aggravated identity theft and wire fraud in the scam after a four-day trial.

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