tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850111347247001182024-03-05T07:18:13.345+02:00PoltavabloggenOleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-6687414539717870132020-12-31T23:42:00.000+02:002020-12-31T23:42:16.490+02:00Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!<p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>My dear friends around the Globe, </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>May this holiday season brighten you up with peace, joy, and good cheer! Let no virus be able to defeat your immune system! Stay healthy!</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg319L5eHbp42yfy6j21rhvWy9UGq7CG2pXid5rafGMzcXeaBcJbqFLUOR86lcrAxYQ5-XtkqyXVHsez5yJxFzRiZ4klrNWzVdVIIFPxN__em6dSXIqlNHgV_MAuPnFSICSdFVmr5ZpEuj/s2000/cannon.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg319L5eHbp42yfy6j21rhvWy9UGq7CG2pXid5rafGMzcXeaBcJbqFLUOR86lcrAxYQ5-XtkqyXVHsez5yJxFzRiZ4klrNWzVdVIIFPxN__em6dSXIqlNHgV_MAuPnFSICSdFVmr5ZpEuj/s320/cannon.JPG" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!</b></span></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-6292076287036837642020-12-31T18:04:00.000+02:002020-12-31T18:04:03.727+02:00Russia is modernizing the Tu-160 strategic bomber<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"> December 30, 2020 (Ministry of Defence of Ukraine)</span></b> The first prototype of the significantly modernized Tu-160M strategic missile carrier will take off in the fall of 2021. Deliveries of these aircraft for the Russian Air Force will continue under the new state armament program for 2024-2033, said Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9wIu9MmnRiD0yQtll3VckwBp21xHfQH4R9fpHtth7k927_pw1naUaezlkt1fpNhy8AuSvpaUanhCRWy-MjC2ZQE6c1hjZ__CnWPBRFU4hgojvrqx3fvnk-LV-RP5TykhXt-B0sAMMqmJ/s1250/tu160blogg1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_9wIu9MmnRiD0yQtll3VckwBp21xHfQH4R9fpHtth7k927_pw1naUaezlkt1fpNhy8AuSvpaUanhCRWy-MjC2ZQE6c1hjZ__CnWPBRFU4hgojvrqx3fvnk-LV-RP5TykhXt-B0sAMMqmJ/s320/tu160blogg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tu-160 strategic bomber</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The number of Tu-160 strategic bombers in the Russian Armed Forces is planned to be increased by 50% in the next seven years. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper, published on Wednesday. The Tu-160 performed its very first flight on December 18, 1981. The aircraft came into operation in 1987. Over the years, more than three dozen of these machines have been produced, including prototypes. Today, this type of aircraft is adopted only by the Russian Air Force. Ukraine also has a few Tu-160 strategic bombers but as a museum's exhibits. One of them can be seen in Poltava in the aviation museum on the territory of the former airbase. The arrival of the Tu-160 bomber, which became a museum exhibit in Poltava, can be seen in the video below.</p>
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The main objective of the operation was the <b><span style="color: red;">destruction of fish-oil production and stores which the Germans used in the manufacture of high explosives.</span></b> Another intention was to cause the Germans to maintain and increase forces in Norway, which would reduce forces deployed on the Eastern Front, thereby giving a numerical advantage to Allied forces.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZ6XNek0b0jqhjoxjb8oPBzfI3wtTALrE0mss8EYJ-_HjC_qZpGwAzVaOW7EygnBbViNDISxUyQvgrx0Yq-tBdo_GCpG4khce6rmhLhh9LNzZkYab5isrOmSQDDk2pIpbUN33B6SGMobu/s652/blogg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZ6XNek0b0jqhjoxjb8oPBzfI3wtTALrE0mss8EYJ-_HjC_qZpGwAzVaOW7EygnBbViNDISxUyQvgrx0Yq-tBdo_GCpG4khce6rmhLhh9LNzZkYab5isrOmSQDDk2pIpbUN33B6SGMobu/s320/blogg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Raid on Vaagso, 27 December 1941. Commandos in action during the raid</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The dawn landing was preceded by a very effective naval bombardment and objectives were achieved, except in Måløy. German opposition in the town was much stiffer than expected as, unknown to the British, a Gebirgsjäger (mountain rangers) unit of experienced troops from the Eastern Front was there on leave. The defenders' experience in sniping and street fighting caused the operation to develop into a bitter house-to-house battle. The British commander, John Durnford-Slater, called on the floating reserve and troops from Vågsøy Island. Several local citizens assisted the commandos by acting as porters for ammunition, grenades and other explosives and in carrying away the wounded.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio44JyCkc0RkfrVzFkaZJ7-g_fxyABjGPUsOI4NGVrXI6vjLYvjQW8C_zD-hfy88y19kprJ-be1-cKoLKtP5hkjJLINh_9PYXvuQNaA-pkqDdmqh2u9o3xuuIax-NqExMPQTjeYkVS3k_2/s652/blogg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio44JyCkc0RkfrVzFkaZJ7-g_fxyABjGPUsOI4NGVrXI6vjLYvjQW8C_zD-hfy88y19kprJ-be1-cKoLKtP5hkjJLINh_9PYXvuQNaA-pkqDdmqh2u9o3xuuIax-NqExMPQTjeYkVS3k_2/s320/blogg2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Raid on Vaagso, 27 December 1941. Commandos with captured German troops.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At around 14:00, the commandos started their withdrawal having destroyed four factories, the fish-oil stores, ammunition and fuel stores, the telephone exchange and various military installations, leaving much of the town in flames. The naval assault force of one cruiser and four destroyers had sunk 10 vessels, some found in the act of being scuttled to prevent the capture.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOrm52NHpZ1jxl9GZFYnd0bOfvy75a2iAkXR9vy5wHZu4qxxEia1vxQu849a_PSc5m6g17FNE3w0ylOUauNL-P0Vx2WLmEW9VNnoB0vHczFUIRSCtYOKcwkoG8EM3PdEHPXKU9YqpEdK4p/s652/blogg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="652" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOrm52NHpZ1jxl9GZFYnd0bOfvy75a2iAkXR9vy5wHZu4qxxEia1vxQu849a_PSc5m6g17FNE3w0ylOUauNL-P0Vx2WLmEW9VNnoB0vHczFUIRSCtYOKcwkoG8EM3PdEHPXKU9YqpEdK4p/s320/blogg3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Raid on Vaagso, 27 December 1941. Commandos with the captured German flag.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-77022327580874014552020-12-29T22:18:00.002+02:002020-12-29T22:18:44.681+02:0081 years ago, the first flight of the legendary Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 took place<p style="text-align: justify;"> On <b>December 29, 1940</b>, the first flight of the legendary Soviet<b><span style="color: red;"> Il-2 attack aircraft </span></b>took place under the control of test pilot <b><span style="color: #800180;">Vladimir Kokkinaki.</span></b> This aircraft became the most massive aircraft of the Second World War, and, as historians believe, made a huge contribution to the victory over the Wehrmacht. For its time, the Il-2 had very solid weaponry, which made it possible to destroy almost all types of targets. For its high fighting qualities, the Germans called the brainchild of Ilyushin "<b>the black death</b>". According to experts, although the aircraft had a number of shortcomings, they were leveled out by its high reliability, as well as the high skill of the pilots.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8b9ry2_qRksLWtDLbp_rxc43MeSJaRiNccblkI6Aj2eSWqEj1MbGQxBvWbRk4vIIrIkdLNahJiyRUkE-NPsNu1lGii-fW-xngKiB2CYzKD5PCandXsdKCyBEme3bKz2qdjdTLUhHKUICt/s827/blogg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="827" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8b9ry2_qRksLWtDLbp_rxc43MeSJaRiNccblkI6Aj2eSWqEj1MbGQxBvWbRk4vIIrIkdLNahJiyRUkE-NPsNu1lGii-fW-xngKiB2CYzKD5PCandXsdKCyBEme3bKz2qdjdTLUhHKUICt/s320/blogg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Soviet Il-2 attack aircraft over Berlin, spring 1945</p><p style="text-align: justify;">80 years ago, the famous test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki first flew the famous armored Il-2 attack aircraft, which later became the most massive aircraft of the Second World War. In total, the Soviet industry produced more than 36 thousand of these aircraft.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_pBl3EzEkzKsD5s_ghzomVhZtwOSZrOZ4ELV__lGl2Tbjbc9oYx4WJ8HdF4nwVTZrm6YwjbGGrEOkXHS5CsXlJRJbgClykJiAdC6RW52j8XEahJ22sqphdcJWPvJdO1IyEr1DJ2fxTGJ/s900/blogg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_pBl3EzEkzKsD5s_ghzomVhZtwOSZrOZ4ELV__lGl2Tbjbc9oYx4WJ8HdF4nwVTZrm6YwjbGGrEOkXHS5CsXlJRJbgClykJiAdC6RW52j8XEahJ22sqphdcJWPvJdO1IyEr1DJ2fxTGJ/s320/blogg2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Aircraft designer <b>Sergei Ilyushin </b>and test pilot <b>Vladimir Kokkinaki</b> in front of the Il-2</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-63386673341382351202020-12-27T01:32:00.001+02:002020-12-27T01:32:41.709+02:00Julhälsning uttryckt på matematikens språk<p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b> Jag tog examen vid Kharkov Institute of Radio Electronics. Vi undervisade i högre matematik under sex terminer. Det är därför jag är mycket glad att presentera en så ovanlig julhälsning. </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllEWXNiB3rqgroYkg9qFL33fmFXAaz3TYk8zUJodFSmBM4qCtv5BAQviv6ZMYizuPl7Yr1gsMoHkfVrAuuM1xkGC7WTHmjIYX-3gBKTuLfFLB2XhqN_-vzqS8dAJPnxcWitQCbE00fOXz/s526/BLOGG1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllEWXNiB3rqgroYkg9qFL33fmFXAaz3TYk8zUJodFSmBM4qCtv5BAQviv6ZMYizuPl7Yr1gsMoHkfVrAuuM1xkGC7WTHmjIYX-3gBKTuLfFLB2XhqN_-vzqS8dAJPnxcWitQCbE00fOXz/s320/BLOGG1.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b>God Jul och Gott Nytt År!</b></span></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-21264813322234165182020-12-26T15:55:00.001+02:002020-12-26T15:55:45.644+02:00EXPANDING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SWEDISH BUSINESS AND THE UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT<p style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #800180;">December 22, 2020 (Sigma Software)</span></b> <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Sigma Software initiated an online meeting with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and Swedish tech companies in order to discuss how Nordic innovations could help accelerate digitalization in the country. We have continued our collaboration with the Ukrainian government in order to build the most digital country in the world with the help of innovation. On December 1st, we participated in an online meeting with Ukrainian public sector representatives and our colleagues from other businesses that have strong ties with Sweden. It goes without saying how proud we are to drive this ambitious initiative and we are extremely grateful to the Swedish Embassy in Ukraine and Minister Fedorov personally for their support.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #800180; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxy75nqd5w3ggn7wwGCA1-ZfF4kKq3eXKS68STAmVrfFApWGis6ia9NG6Rnrhwfb-PB4WYWWkz5AFqr-IEDOp7_MSrqP_y2WLNAhj1zuHHQG-KE4fcK9sdw8v-UWm2b4nAO-wdkGmY9mm8/s600/blog+Sweden-Ukraine.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxy75nqd5w3ggn7wwGCA1-ZfF4kKq3eXKS68STAmVrfFApWGis6ia9NG6Rnrhwfb-PB4WYWWkz5AFqr-IEDOp7_MSrqP_y2WLNAhj1zuHHQG-KE4fcK9sdw8v-UWm2b4nAO-wdkGmY9mm8/s320/blog+Sweden-Ukraine.png" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The meeting was kicked-off and led by the honorable <b><span style="color: red;">Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Tobias Thyberg.</span></b> He could not hide his admiration for the digitalization processes in Ukraine and noted Sweden's involvement in it: “<b><span style="color: red;">Sweden is a longstanding partner of Ukraine. We participated in the development of the Trembita system as well as other software and digital services. We want to not only be partners in the development, but also business partners,</span></b>" said the Ambassador. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The full
article is available at <a href="https://sigma.software/about/media/expanding-boundaries-between-swedish-business-and-ukrainian-government">https://sigma.software/about/media/expanding-boundaries-between-swedish-business-and-ukrainian-government</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-12258534102793080422020-12-26T13:41:00.001+02:002020-12-26T13:41:41.471+02:00Ukrainian military get repaired reconnaissance aircraft<p style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #800180;">December 26, 2020 (UKRINFORM) </span></b>Mykolaiv Aircraft Repair Plant (MARP) has transferred one more repaired Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft to the Ukrainian military, Ukroboronprom's press service has reported. "<b><span style="color: red;">The state-owned enterprise MARP, part of the state conglomerate Ukroboronprom, has transferred another repaired Su-24MR reconnaissance plane to the Ukrainian Air Force,</span></b>" the report reads. Plant specialists carried out a medium repair of the aircraft, having checked all of its nodes and components and having repaired or replaced those. After that, the Su-24MR was successfully tested and adopted by Ukrainian pilots.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ_aPAiHfm3yf6JPibRaGZLPKP1TYP2tjGko2OXU5rXjH9fQC9-KZl5EfpCbQ_686waW7iPes1E3sMTVKXfXFO0afb1-bDeFXyuN-aYpPWDDp6ZJ-_tKQ4xcRe2sl0MhQ-tk0mTh5X4di/s630/BLOGG1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJ_aPAiHfm3yf6JPibRaGZLPKP1TYP2tjGko2OXU5rXjH9fQC9-KZl5EfpCbQ_686waW7iPes1E3sMTVKXfXFO0afb1-bDeFXyuN-aYpPWDDp6ZJ-_tKQ4xcRe2sl0MhQ-tk0mTh5X4di/s320/BLOGG1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Su-24MR performed a flight to its main base and has already strengthened the defense capability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Su-24MR is a supersonic reconnaissance aircraft that can conduct deep reconnaissance up to 400 km from the front line. For this purpose, it is equipped with a side-looking airborne radar, allowing to track ground targets, including enemy fortifications and equipment, sensitive high-resolution cameras, radio detection systems, and infrared sensors to detect camouflaged objects.</p>
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Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-49935858563175381472020-12-24T17:45:00.002+02:002020-12-24T17:48:23.916+02:0080 years ago, on December 21, 1940, the legendary PPSh submachine gun was adopted by the Red Army<p style="text-align: justify;"> The <b><span style="color: #800180;">Shpagin PPSh-41 submachine gun</span></b> can be considered one of the main symbols of the Victory over Nazi Germany. Less than five months have passed since the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, as the serial production of the PPSh-41 submachine gun began. This submachine gun became the most famous Soviet submachine gun of the Second World War.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgliLmB_H3Q86krQOoOIBsvQIo78k2pUA3ImHQ1bXvuY-s9Uso4rlIsrcOKkZ_W-H37gX925NwxlNwzipVh2srr3twid0Zko3theT_3VFb00dDcMOoh6LSt-jJt9QCcpRmwcJKPdmxz5EMI/s1514/blogg1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgliLmB_H3Q86krQOoOIBsvQIo78k2pUA3ImHQ1bXvuY-s9Uso4rlIsrcOKkZ_W-H37gX925NwxlNwzipVh2srr3twid0Zko3theT_3VFb00dDcMOoh6LSt-jJt9QCcpRmwcJKPdmxz5EMI/s320/blogg1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">PPSh-41 with a drum magazine</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuWVV234wmI9anVn6BGXk1rtAE4mqrWmcuf_VH01paclTRkwDHSmhVHsE3wE99Ex2DoRslzkH5uXtuTUdSkXaGUzqEmlollYnCHSf17CSRaqhOumH0s-IVl74lKOJYrzQyjouQbKHzcy7/s1200/blogg1_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuWVV234wmI9anVn6BGXk1rtAE4mqrWmcuf_VH01paclTRkwDHSmhVHsE3wE99Ex2DoRslzkH5uXtuTUdSkXaGUzqEmlollYnCHSf17CSRaqhOumH0s-IVl74lKOJYrzQyjouQbKHzcy7/s320/blogg1_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">PPSh-41 with a box magazine</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The PPSh-41 is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is "<b>papasha</b>", meaning "<b>daddy</b>", and it was sometimes called the "<b>burp gun</b>" because of its high fire rate. The PPSh is a magazine-fed selective fire submachine gun using an open bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box or drum magazine and fires the 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol round.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eHNkTmsB3szcH7MsSmh3_6hWIzd_UxuxC1PytFhIAzgNI6QmjNLHluh8X6cwmQH-fE1nLoLOa7L9IsgBfJ8gw0FWEjjJ6P09CSINAugk8ogW9ucOUpArwKDHhdHn7-4rHqu5zca5MayM/s800/blogg2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4eHNkTmsB3szcH7MsSmh3_6hWIzd_UxuxC1PytFhIAzgNI6QmjNLHluh8X6cwmQH-fE1nLoLOa7L9IsgBfJ8gw0FWEjjJ6P09CSINAugk8ogW9ucOUpArwKDHhdHn7-4rHqu5zca5MayM/w320-h214/blogg2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wehrmacht Feldwebel Wilhelm Traub armed with a PPSH-41 scanning the view of Stalingrad in the middle of a ruined town in autumn 1942</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlkdV_uiC-Cam1esEYq2q2yBN4zW4dG_R94WMgDnH0rRZ-lNlyaibWXcE_PwZW1tSsfPOYL5ElTmU_XPXOlDaBvlCyRgHA3seicTVdrcw5o_W2EVIC87UtWscRomcoqYifcxiarZZJpsG/s940/blogg3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlkdV_uiC-Cam1esEYq2q2yBN4zW4dG_R94WMgDnH0rRZ-lNlyaibWXcE_PwZW1tSsfPOYL5ElTmU_XPXOlDaBvlCyRgHA3seicTVdrcw5o_W2EVIC87UtWscRomcoqYifcxiarZZJpsG/s320/blogg3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Soviet War Memorial in the Treptower Park in Berlin.</div><p style="text-align: justify;">The PPSh saw extensive combat use during World War II and the Korean War, and it is common for <b>monuments in Eastern Bloc countries </b>celebrating the actions of the Red Army to have a PPSh-41. It was one of the major infantry weapons of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, <b><span style="color: red;">with about six million PPSh-41s manufactured in this period. </span></b></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<iframe width="400" height="280" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QqG0Op0898Q" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-11353598730830512702020-12-20T18:23:00.001+02:002020-12-20T18:23:57.919+02:00The Music at War<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4BK5Hb9pqrFEyflwtHRP4oMVheYPbojpGMNIYI1u18lrXI5vUpPhkOh9HMOgDbh3kR8XzEWonUvhK9fLbSXaIRViTnGnhIL2Ux0UUelNjw7Uxe27NCHKvi_LrDYkEn0dobOci97lytl3/s1292/blogg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4BK5Hb9pqrFEyflwtHRP4oMVheYPbojpGMNIYI1u18lrXI5vUpPhkOh9HMOgDbh3kR8XzEWonUvhK9fLbSXaIRViTnGnhIL2Ux0UUelNjw7Uxe27NCHKvi_LrDYkEn0dobOci97lytl3/s320/blogg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />As you know we have long and bloody aggression of the Russian Federation in Eastern Ukraine. Those who protect our land are not only professional military men. Some of them are volunteers who took up arms to defend their homeland. When there is no shelling on the front lines, amazing things sometimes happen. Let's wish this gifted guy to come back home alive and give his music to peaceful people for many many years. Please,
look at his performance at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BolyestyevV/videos/2201725749970868"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.facebook.com/BolyestyevV/videos/2201725749970868</span></a><p></p><p><br /></p>
Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-31261597832151464112020-12-14T15:49:00.000+02:002020-12-14T15:49:01.312+02:00Ukraine, Sweden discuss preparations for January visit of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to Kyiv<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"> December 14, 2020 (UKRINFORM)</span></b> <b>Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar and Swedish Ambassador to Ukraine Tobias Tiberg</b> discussed preparations for a visit of the Swedish Foreign Minister as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to Ukraine in January, according to the Foreign Ministry’s press service.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rgHsgHLn3QVpkgkApgA8TxggcI2eKDZH3r7cSprxOQSowlnJE5jqcPbjb1fd4M8hq3kBmCpWK-u0fG-PAc_UwMo5_loxHDv3L9JK5znI2IDNIbRdfw_-qphneMcumxVKPETAh4e9RI9H/s630/BLOGG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rgHsgHLn3QVpkgkApgA8TxggcI2eKDZH3r7cSprxOQSowlnJE5jqcPbjb1fd4M8hq3kBmCpWK-u0fG-PAc_UwMo5_loxHDv3L9JK5znI2IDNIbRdfw_-qphneMcumxVKPETAh4e9RI9H/s320/BLOGG.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b><span style="color: red;">The parties discussed the preparations for a visit of Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde as OSCE Chairperson-in-Office to Ukraine in January 2021. The agenda of her trip will include a visit to Donbas to analyze the situation on the contact line,</span></b>" the report reads. The diplomats also discussed the prospects for cooperation between Ukraine and Sweden in the field of nuclear energy, in particular, regarding the joint production and supply of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants. The deputy minister stressed that cooperation with Sweden in the diversification of energy sources was a significant factor in the context of strengthening the energy and national security of Ukraine.</p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-64035731679010037012020-12-14T09:42:00.003+02:002020-12-14T09:42:36.770+02:00Kyiv's St. Andrew's Church resumes services after repairs<p style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #800180;">December 14, 2020 (UNIAN)</span></b> First service at St. Andrew’s Church in Kyiv after 11 years of restoration. Metropolitan Emmanuel of France along with the Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Ukraine, Bishop Michael of Komana and Bishop Chernigiv and Nizin Efstratios officiated the first service.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26u65_XV6j7Qq_emREYEPr_f9Xg7kc6cI1DpJkfa3zHwpuuwV18n0cFZPcpvFcAeoOMmkrlnXSktdVM98S4HkPJ4eEa5576t8TQ6O9JsrCp52QKbQRcSBjXfAAbJT0EZzad_njgV7MC2k/s1280/bloggg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj26u65_XV6j7Qq_emREYEPr_f9Xg7kc6cI1DpJkfa3zHwpuuwV18n0cFZPcpvFcAeoOMmkrlnXSktdVM98S4HkPJ4eEa5576t8TQ6O9JsrCp52QKbQRcSBjXfAAbJT0EZzad_njgV7MC2k/s320/bloggg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">St. Andrew's Church is a major Baroque church located in the capital of Ukraine. The church was constructed between 1747 and 1754, by the design of the Italian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The church is part of the National Sanctuary "Sophia of Kyiv" as a landmark of cultural heritage. The church has no bells, as according to legend, their noise would cause flooding of the left part of the city. St Andrew's Church overlooks the historic Podil neighborhood, situated on a steep hill to which the church gave its current name - Andriyivska Hill. As the church sits atop a hill, foundation problems have been one of the main concerns of preservationists. More recently, the foundation below the church has started to shift, causing some concerns that the church's foundation might collapse.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1hdd35zI80XwoKcLyA81T4r5SijywveNClAU85aYhbJ_Ggv0UPMk-r9EXh2iEOh_mhyphenhyphenUIQnqvxQuTBcbyHQ4yQN0xgDB_OstzsQtVyDr-sPXuYrEcqV7NXDLNyXFRvIXjCRcZmnJSqyc/s960/bloggg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ1hdd35zI80XwoKcLyA81T4r5SijywveNClAU85aYhbJ_Ggv0UPMk-r9EXh2iEOh_mhyphenhyphenUIQnqvxQuTBcbyHQ4yQN0xgDB_OstzsQtVyDr-sPXuYrEcqV7NXDLNyXFRvIXjCRcZmnJSqyc/s320/bloggg2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-37860734091093157582020-12-09T08:51:00.001+02:002020-12-09T08:51:22.653+02:00The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the installation of Norwegian anti-ship missiles NSM on missile boats of the Ukrainian Navy<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> December 9, 2020 (mil.gov.ua)</span></b> The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ruslan Khomchak confirmed that the Ukrainian Navy will receive missile boats, which will be built by Britain, with the Norwegian Naval Strike Missile (NSM) anti-ship missiles, and not with the Ukrainian anti-ship missile "Neptune". He told about this in an interview with the "Apostrof" edition. According to the general, an agreement was reached that instead of eight missile boats, Britain will build six missile boats and two minesweeping boats.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5b4dlm2HlP1hfmQhfmA0O06WMqJ6fyyMBmnpj4kGk5U2AjkdhtaGac1aVxLBVmXSSgz6sLrsiKffhtiVP7MPA5F4nE7kt0ERONBkFtzpnY0P5Yp3ilXjcbJvJHds5jpQHD6DpwMjtjqH-/s800/bloggg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5b4dlm2HlP1hfmQhfmA0O06WMqJ6fyyMBmnpj4kGk5U2AjkdhtaGac1aVxLBVmXSSgz6sLrsiKffhtiVP7MPA5F4nE7kt0ERONBkFtzpnY0P5Yp3ilXjcbJvJHds5jpQHD6DpwMjtjqH-/s320/bloggg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> In addition, according to plans, the Naval Forces of Ukraine should receive 4 corvettes in the coming years and Khomchak would prefer that they be armed with the Ukrainian anti-ship missile "Neptune", but the naval version of this missile does not yet exist.<p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-21837657059229146012020-12-05T15:20:00.001+02:002020-12-05T15:20:15.247+02:00Ukrainian Armed Forces to take part in 22 multinational exercises in 2021 – defense minister<p><b><span style="color: #800180;"> December 5, 2020 (UKRINFORM)</span></b> The Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning to take part in 22 multinational exercises in 2021, including eight in Ukraine and 14 abroad, Ukrainian Defense Minister Andriy Taran has said. He said this at a briefing entitled "<b>Defense aspects of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration: main achievements and tasks for the future</b>" for ambassadors and military attaches of NATO member states and representatives of the NATO office in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry's press service reported. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyZi5olMsnf2coF-7NooKwCGjX4ZF66JzdNgZyxnbQt4Dbx7JesudHRp1gJoCkQB7je4SD0zGH8-70l_HBElCIJ3dRQ7PE6jI9ct3AfQwKdy5X-dODz4RfHUj9kKHFG36byk2AT0jj4f3/s630/bloggg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyZi5olMsnf2coF-7NooKwCGjX4ZF66JzdNgZyxnbQt4Dbx7JesudHRp1gJoCkQB7je4SD0zGH8-70l_HBElCIJ3dRQ7PE6jI9ct3AfQwKdy5X-dODz4RfHUj9kKHFG36byk2AT0jj4f3/s320/bloggg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b>We invite all our partners to increase the level of participation in exercises in Ukraine next year. For our part, given our status as an enhanced opportunities partner, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are ready to join the relevant exercises of the Alliance related to collective defense,</b>" Taran said. He also stressed that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry is working with partners to improve the skills of Ukrainian servicemen in such military training missions as JMTG-U (Joint Multinational Training Group - Ukraine), Orbital (the UK's training mission to Ukraine), UNIFIER (the Canadian Armed Forces' training mission) and LMTG-U (the Lithuanian Armed Forces' training mission).</p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-43045967535079541772020-11-30T23:43:00.000+02:002020-11-30T23:43:45.707+02:00UN warns of threat to Carpathians over climate change, illegal deforestation<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> November 30, 2020 (UNIAN)</b> The United Nations says the Carpathian region is in real danger over climate change and illegal deforestation. "<b>The heightened cooperation will be essential as we seek to address growing threats to the Carpathians. Make no mistake: the Carpathian region is in real and immediate danger,</b>" Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Inger Andersen said on November 25, 2020. A 2017 report from UNEP, WWF and Eurac Research was unequivocal about the threats, particularly from illegal deforestation, she said. "<b>The old-growth forests of the Carpathians and their unique biodiversity are disappearing at alarming rates as timber is being illegally cut and transported across and beyond the borders of mountain range States. This has many consequences</b>," Andersen said.She reiterated Ukraine had seen several devastating floods over the last years.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiZhN0rGMGXwsq0DVNdWMhgXkdoGpEE_Tbqqhj7f75c7yrEXJu42l5G9v8teXImfxjwy1s9TPrBLrGb0hfOVUNtuWmFNDOvXqJJ4Br_-34CP8ommgpgm2N1VkHePFh2TmiimIzS0Hs6Hj/s1200/bloggg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiZhN0rGMGXwsq0DVNdWMhgXkdoGpEE_Tbqqhj7f75c7yrEXJu42l5G9v8teXImfxjwy1s9TPrBLrGb0hfOVUNtuWmFNDOvXqJJ4Br_-34CP8ommgpgm2N1VkHePFh2TmiimIzS0Hs6Hj/s320/bloggg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Villages and roads submerged. Bridges brought down. People killed. These are, in part, linked to climate change. But illegal logging – taking place under the cover of the difficulties Ukraine has suffered – has removed large chunks of forests that soak up excess water and provide a buffer against flooding</b>." Meanwhile, over the past 20 years, illegal logging has cost Romania over five billion euros. "<b>The report I mentioned, found that, in 2016 alone, around 187,000 cubic meters of timber were illegally cut in Romania… We need to step up to the first stop, then reverse, the damage being done to these essential ecosystems,</b>" the official noted.</p><div><br /></div>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-26783955992129562912020-11-29T18:51:00.003+02:002020-11-29T18:51:25.129+02:00Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Sweden Andrii Plakhotniuk submitted his Letters of Credence<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #800180;">(sweden.mfa.gov.ua) </span></b>On November 23, 2020, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Sweden <b><span style="color: red;">Andrii Plakhotniuk </span></b>submitted his Letters of Credence to<b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden </span></b>by a special arrangement, established during the COVID-19 pandemic, via the Protocol Department of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVinIgdICE7nDKRZGysy7Kqvp62PL1ACHyq26ZGsN_yADDqLAphPR5uXfd1I2dk7Wg88pgYLoyPaj4xfXCkKsmXLUd-HPf2ftxr-eNzYYMzM2-9w8uSRkRhyphenhyphenWsuu09KLo953dSeD_-CBVa/s410/BLOGG+SWEDEN+EMBASSY.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVinIgdICE7nDKRZGysy7Kqvp62PL1ACHyq26ZGsN_yADDqLAphPR5uXfd1I2dk7Wg88pgYLoyPaj4xfXCkKsmXLUd-HPf2ftxr-eNzYYMzM2-9w8uSRkRhyphenhyphenWsuu09KLo953dSeD_-CBVa/s320/BLOGG+SWEDEN+EMBASSY.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The formal audience of the Ambassador of Ukraine with His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is supposed to take place when the restrictive measures to counter the spread of COVID-19 are lifted.</p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-6326066673753197412020-11-29T17:24:00.000+02:002020-11-29T17:24:10.151+02:00Video: Russian armored repair and recovery vehicles removed damaged An-124 following crash<p> After having been left sitting in the snow at the end of Novosibirsk-Tolmachevo Airport (OBV) runway 07/25 for just over two weeks following a crash landing, the Volga-Dnepr An-124 was finally removed with the aid of a couple of tanks. Because only the nose landing gear was damaged when the aircraft overran the runway, workers could drag the monster plane back onto the runway with the aid of two BREM-1 armored repair and recovery vehicles.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzD-Wbouf-ThtCz-0Ny8lKPYrzQOIsvAKHmLmu9DmlmvScfbppSMX7ihf-mY2hdx2ePO_wXaQYTJVbsM0Ac-24CBgNZHwpZzyup5CBGHhPgboihcdW52xsYX-Rgd8sLvCswcLIMWZlTvM/s1200/blogg+Antobov-124.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzD-Wbouf-ThtCz-0Ny8lKPYrzQOIsvAKHmLmu9DmlmvScfbppSMX7ihf-mY2hdx2ePO_wXaQYTJVbsM0Ac-24CBgNZHwpZzyup5CBGHhPgboihcdW52xsYX-Rgd8sLvCswcLIMWZlTvM/s320/blogg+Antobov-124.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"> The An-124 had no brakes and reverse thrust. Photo Getty Images</span><p></p><p>The BREM-1 is a tracked Russian tank and armored personnel carrier built on a T-72 battle tank’s chassis. With no other way of getting what was once the world’s heaviest aircraft moved, the Russian army was called in to see if they could budge the giant four-engine plane. Placing the two BREM-1s in tandem, the recovery vehicles moved the plane as the aircraft's main landing gear was still functioning. By attaching a cable to the aircraft’s cargo hold, the BREM’s were able to pull the plane backward despite the damage you see in the photograph.</p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="280" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K_NI6Cg6sK0" width="400"></iframe>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-83706433793674076022020-11-24T13:50:00.003+02:002020-11-24T13:50:38.898+02:00An amateur picture of the secret soviet airbase<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">The Poltava airbase, where many TU-22M3 strategic
bombers were stationed in 1987-1988, was well known to the Americans thanks to
spy satellites. However, in the USSR this base was secret and a limited number
of people had access to it. Over time, the city authorities of Poltava decided
to build residential houses in the area, which is directly adjacent to the
territory of the military airbase. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">An amateur photo you can see below was taken by a
resident of one of these houses. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YVR7Qe-xQIT57Asa1x45iM2nPk3U8SlTvdUXSgEJHSygnJVM_WABSKuy1RmzedrwlrsUvdQVPczH-NzDDY2za6XV0RWnWAZtfaTwopNhIpDrgTRLtsYDuA8N2DY4mD9rTq3w5-YDbMkp/s1045/1987+1988+tu22m3+poltava.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1045" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_YVR7Qe-xQIT57Asa1x45iM2nPk3U8SlTvdUXSgEJHSygnJVM_WABSKuy1RmzedrwlrsUvdQVPczH-NzDDY2za6XV0RWnWAZtfaTwopNhIpDrgTRLtsYDuA8N2DY4mD9rTq3w5-YDbMkp/s320/1987+1988+tu22m3+poltava.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">The fact is that the designers did not take into
account the fact that from the upper floors of the standard Soviet nine-story
building, the base was visible as in the palm of your hand. For many decades,
the author of the photo did not dare to show it to anyone. Only recently, this
already historical photo was posted on the Internet. As about the fate of
Poltava-located TU-22M3 (NATO reporting name: Backfire), </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">43 Tu-22M3, and 423 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;" title="Kh-22"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Kh-22</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"> cruise missiles were scrapped during 2002-2006 under the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_Reduction" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;" title="Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat
Reduction</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"> agreement led by the US. O</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">nly one aircraft can
be seen now in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltava_Museum_of_Long-Range_and_Strategic_Aviation" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;" title=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration-line: none;">Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUDs4r34G_7yISdRm1M4foSt_NxV2kjQriEnVB7d6hq-GDOvFVvI1vGt1alMywyIyOTBFwAKL3sGZNWWxLO4TANlzXLLS7CeFCRKiCkUQ_x7QZLr-USPusbON_NWB4wYv3Cp_4UujYUac/s700/blogg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="700" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUDs4r34G_7yISdRm1M4foSt_NxV2kjQriEnVB7d6hq-GDOvFVvI1vGt1alMywyIyOTBFwAKL3sGZNWWxLO4TANlzXLLS7CeFCRKiCkUQ_x7QZLr-USPusbON_NWB4wYv3Cp_4UujYUac/s320/blogg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tu-22M3 in the Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation</div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-5043547822749586792020-11-20T21:38:00.001+02:002020-11-20T21:38:36.243+02:00Nuremberg trials: 75 years on from the world's first war crimes tribunal<p> <b><span style="color: #800180;">November 20, 2020 (E<span>uronews</span>)</span></b> When the Nuremberg trial opened on November 20, 1945, it was just six months since Nazi Germany had surrendered and much of the city remained a bombed-out ruin. Jointly headed by an American, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, and a Briton, Sir Hartley Shawcross, the trial saw 22 high ranking Nazi officers face trial for war crimes, including two of Hitler’s foremost generals and his second in command, Hermann Göring. “<b><span style="color: red;">That four great nations, flushed with history and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason</span></b>,” Jackson said in his opening statement. The 22 defendants at Nuremberg represented the highest echelons of Nazi power, including three of the top generals that led the war, Alfred Jodl, Karl Dönitz, and Wilhelm Keitel. The highest-ranking member of the SS was Ernst Kaltenbrunner, while foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Albert Speer, known as Hitler’s architect were among facing trial. The sentences ranged from 10 years in prison (Dönitz) to death (Keitel, Jodl, von Ribbentrop, and Göring, although he committed suicide before he was due to be hanged). Hess was jailed for life, and died in 1987, while Speer served 20 years, was released and died in 1981. There were notable exceptions to justice at Nuremberg. Hitler, of course, had committed suicide in April 1945 as the Soviets closed in on his bunker in Berlin, as did Joseph Goebbels, who committed suicide along with his wife after poisoning his six children.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5l1OWXaX4PavmA9md_vbF4DsT7wsl3YtfPOJO90kQUa2-qJcYTUiB40XU-gG9w1F7QdmyyxTAXRtkNrShikZLPc1fp1cQGpeDVmX9COs56Yho7poqOD0D7IP-7k_PLD8cM765tcBnIz2/s808/blogg+nuremberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="808" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_5l1OWXaX4PavmA9md_vbF4DsT7wsl3YtfPOJO90kQUa2-qJcYTUiB40XU-gG9w1F7QdmyyxTAXRtkNrShikZLPc1fp1cQGpeDVmX9COs56Yho7poqOD0D7IP-7k_PLD8cM765tcBnIz2/s320/blogg+nuremberg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">In this Nov. 21, 1945 file photo, Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring stands in the prisoner's dock at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial in Germany.</p><p>The full article is available at:</p><p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: RU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/20/75-years-ago-the-world-s-first-war-crimes-trial-began-in-nuremberg"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/20/75-years-ago-the-world-s-first-war-crimes-trial-began-in-nuremberg</span></a></span></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-2271004330256872622020-11-16T09:53:00.001+02:002020-11-16T09:53:13.605+02:00Russia may soon deploy nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea – NSDC secretary<p style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #800180;">November 16, 2020 (UNIAN)</span></b> Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has said Russia may soon deploy nuclear weapons in the occupied Crimea. "<b>We have no final confirmation about nuclear weapons having been deployed there. But we are clearly aware this may happen shortly. This will depend on many factors, and if the Russians see they are losing, they will definitely revise the issue</b>," he told in the interview with the Krym-Realii media project. Russian Federation has considerable capacities for storing and deploying nuclear weapons on the territory of occupied Crimea. Since Soviet times, there have been several facilities that were used to store nuclear weapons. One of the facilities is the so-called Feodosia-13 facility, now it is the village of Krasnokamyanka, where the large-scale construction of a storage base had been carried out for six years since the beginning of the 1950s. This is the former 12th Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Defense, which was in charge of nuclear weapons. The facility was in use until 1996, and the last weapon was removed from there in the middle of the 1990s.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwrFGogyP8Nj8E-M_FxK1svHjpTEaNOxf3eb5PcKyWhyYcqrol3Cn8-DUq9FcwWrzFC4yAWCanIsZ3KSGzMC9v5RsM_radH46aHfaW2ZtRCAF8aUc7aJPZKZax8VHi2K_reqlfSxESTW9/s1200/bloggg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirwrFGogyP8Nj8E-M_FxK1svHjpTEaNOxf3eb5PcKyWhyYcqrol3Cn8-DUq9FcwWrzFC4yAWCanIsZ3KSGzMC9v5RsM_radH46aHfaW2ZtRCAF8aUc7aJPZKZax8VHi2K_reqlfSxESTW9/s320/bloggg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">The so-called Feodosia-13 facility could be used to store nuclear arms / Photo from <b>defence.ru</b></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-52902375930015984762020-11-08T00:16:00.003+02:002020-11-08T00:16:48.618+02:00Ukrainian Ambassador speaks on how U.S. election outcome could influence Ukraine<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"> November 8, 2020 (UNIAN)</span></b> Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States <b>Volodymyr Yelchenko </b>has commented on the influence he believes the U.S. presidential election outcome could have on Ukraine.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMSBp09xtGLiIn2pZoM7JMZTaq8J2WWAhyphenhyphenBjmhdrVkbwc_6z9ONEVcfgKa2kCpsVGDJrgT9yi26wzXLq2wSIL-K4fJqKy7vd4yRpjtv_TTFd4dLvgtG85qFnIq8ArrEpW2aJL099qav9N/s900/blogg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvMSBp09xtGLiIn2pZoM7JMZTaq8J2WWAhyphenhyphenBjmhdrVkbwc_6z9ONEVcfgKa2kCpsVGDJrgT9yi26wzXLq2wSIL-K4fJqKy7vd4yRpjtv_TTFd4dLvgtG85qFnIq8ArrEpW2aJL099qav9N/s320/blogg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b><span style="color: red;">Any of my comments 'against' or 'for' would sound like interference in the U.S. elections. But, in principle, the real military, lethal, strategic aid came precisely under Trump. We also received two Island-class boats, three more are being prepared, we saw a whole bunch of decisions to increase the amount [of assistance] and specific hardware. It was under Trump that sanctions were introduced against those constructing the Nord Stream 2,</span></b>" the diplomat has told TSN. Also, Yelchenko adds, there are forecasts that the Democrats will increase the overall number of their representatives in both House chambers.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<b><span style="color: red;">And therefore, the position of the Democratic Party in relation to Russia, as is seen here, is sharper and tougher. Besides, in Biden's circle, in the circle of incumbent lawmakers and those who could be elected, there are much more people who at the expert level understand the essence of problems around Ukraine, and therefore I'm absolutely sure that sanctions against Russia will be strengthening and military assistance will be increasing</span></b>," the ambassador assured. In general, Yelchenko believes that Ukraine is "<b>lucky</b>" as it enjoys bipartisan support in the United States.</p><div><br /></div>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-77652196889955907072020-10-30T10:46:00.000+02:002020-10-30T10:46:07.376+02:00The history of Poltava is getting more and more expensive<p style="text-align: justify;"> While writing a book about the German occupation of Poltava in 1941 - 1943 I ran into a curious problem related to finding graphic material for the book. Some of the photographs that are reserving in the German archives are being offered by the Getty Images campaign at cosmic prices. An example is a photograph of Adolf Hitler taken during the briefing at the headquarters of Army Group South at Poltava on 1 June 1942. Pay attention to the price shown on the right side of the photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgiIRXY_jTq4r_kZWwiwzSMOFDv3TfzrGhIb0e3wk8R21UCk9mpXYFu5pyZesokEuHVVzIt-22jo2QJ29fLUT6M5CZvznWju0gGGhheMGusTKleHsv5EHs3O_9-RBAlcrILnSbTTwuLUo/s1500/blogg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdgiIRXY_jTq4r_kZWwiwzSMOFDv3TfzrGhIb0e3wk8R21UCk9mpXYFu5pyZesokEuHVVzIt-22jo2QJ29fLUT6M5CZvznWju0gGGhheMGusTKleHsv5EHs3O_9-RBAlcrILnSbTTwuLUo/s320/blogg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-87936916116656742862020-10-26T00:31:00.000+02:002020-10-26T00:31:36.514+02:00Fly of a Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers over the Poltava Battle field<p style="text-align: justify;"> The rare photo below depicts a takeoff of two Tupolev Tu-22M3 bombers (NATO reporting name: Backfire) from the military airfield in Poltava. An unknown photographer caught the moment when the bombers had just taken off from the airbase and were flying over the St. Sampsoniy Church on the field of the Battle of Poltava.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigY9y6RTka6N9C6GC10puwz_4c5hJqVFjqpbUQ4Br7rQKAUZztyCjGMoEuYCExYaAiY5MXoLNfSPyr6kqvker49KdMkpLfJmMXnEIauhjrRNAtMJzPppOu6CcACHccHNFJ9sthYYb-v75y/s1024/St+Sampsoniy+TU22-M3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigY9y6RTka6N9C6GC10puwz_4c5hJqVFjqpbUQ4Br7rQKAUZztyCjGMoEuYCExYaAiY5MXoLNfSPyr6kqvker49KdMkpLfJmMXnEIauhjrRNAtMJzPppOu6CcACHccHNFJ9sthYYb-v75y/s320/St+Sampsoniy+TU22-M3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">From 1945, the Poltava airbase was used by the 13th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division of Soviet Long-Range Aviation. From 1991 to 1992 the Soviet Air Force was superseded in Ukraine by the Ukrainian Air Force, which eventually deployed the Tu-22M3 heavy bombers and cruise missiles X-22 with the 185th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment before this unit was finally disbanded in 2006.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LwEBF8xfw9Yq1iMzJbXSvDN-aReSk_cdoW5xPo9ATD6TCvch_lzWkFLgS4a-aOH_LEMWNd_x6LZKmr8BFj1yAPB9iN0QVoUAJ6gOM_a606V5_c3hhcMz6hmaxDbNIgF38sRsZZZfPnIb/s1226/tu22m3_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LwEBF8xfw9Yq1iMzJbXSvDN-aReSk_cdoW5xPo9ATD6TCvch_lzWkFLgS4a-aOH_LEMWNd_x6LZKmr8BFj1yAPB9iN0QVoUAJ6gOM_a606V5_c3hhcMz6hmaxDbNIgF38sRsZZZfPnIb/s320/tu22m3_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">An excavator cuts through the tail of a Tupolev Tu-22M3 heavy bomber at Poltava airbase.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The photo was taken in November 2002</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ukraine has destroyed decommissioned Tu-22M heavy bombers and air-to-ground cruise missiles of the X-22 class in order to meet its obligations under the 1993 agreement with the United States on strategic nuclear disarmament. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiw9nnuY4PrF3aQg3CFAAvmOsiogloKH1aibIV7H1qXeTcSHszYWtDXNHhYr8gGrqDaBGYyXb8QSI14PtfCk8TcysVkVTTeHKi-I6u-XgA-aaunGpnUF3bmwgQxp6Mets8TRkTbxPSudE/s1597/tu22m3_2+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1086" data-original-width="1597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiw9nnuY4PrF3aQg3CFAAvmOsiogloKH1aibIV7H1qXeTcSHszYWtDXNHhYr8gGrqDaBGYyXb8QSI14PtfCk8TcysVkVTTeHKi-I6u-XgA-aaunGpnUF3bmwgQxp6Mets8TRkTbxPSudE/s320/tu22m3_2+.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"> Separation of </span><span style="text-align: center;">a Tupolev Tu-22M3 heavy bomber's nose</span></p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">According to the agreement thirty-one Tu-22M bombers and 225 cruise missiles X-22 were scrapped in Ukraine by the end of 2004 in keeping with the U.S.-financed disarmament program.</p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-86995189312529023182020-10-18T21:35:00.000+03:002020-10-18T21:35:59.574+03:00New exhibition hall "On the Scales of Time" has been presented recently in the Poltava Battle Museum<p style="text-align: justify;">An online presentation of the new exhibition hall "On the Scales of Time" has taken place in the Poltava Battle Museum on October 13, 2020. For Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine, the Battle of Poltava had diametrically opposite consequences, and thus each nation formed a different point of view and time understanding of this determining event. The design of the hall was created by the scientists of the museum during 2019-2020. Visitors to the museum will be able to get acquainted with the main stages of comprehension of this important historical event in Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine. In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, only museum staff and representatives of the Poltava City Council attended the presentation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATrNvh_F3M1Hc93KOoH1kL85ZO8R0rnvf__HK28YfJx9YBRQHSVi74Wv9p7sqQArKMMWPebCBctsY8O-38CBlfkoKGvor94GUefR-IfaL0S7CxFYfD6gUlpS7nFz-B_GmucX99MkU50Sp/s1928/blogg_museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1928" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiATrNvh_F3M1Hc93KOoH1kL85ZO8R0rnvf__HK28YfJx9YBRQHSVi74Wv9p7sqQArKMMWPebCBctsY8O-38CBlfkoKGvor94GUefR-IfaL0S7CxFYfD6gUlpS7nFz-B_GmucX99MkU50Sp/s320/blogg_museum.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-88013345994248103452020-10-09T10:58:00.002+03:002020-10-09T10:58:19.993+03:00The MiG 23 That Flew For 900km Without Pilot Then Crashed in A Farm Killing a Boy<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;"> October 9, 2020 (warhistoryonline.com)</span></b> The cold war is littered with near ‘nuclear apocalypse’ misses, technological and aviation advancement and a fair number of peculiar incidents. One such bizarre event occurred when it was least expected; right near the end of the cold war. July. 4 1989, Independence day for the Americans, was not an especially exciting day for the 32nd TFS (Tactical Fighter Squadron) also known as ‘<b>Wolfhounds</b>’ then based in Soesterberg, Netherlands.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGEFgISj4x4Wwb_DwFSGnCJkeSNk-0BE5a1o8mwmPqL_8Vds6Au9TuB8v_4POXICu4YGmYj_IwqXN0BJlCfHDZPtY4F5JUfTSTCn6Tx1UwRQ9n1vZXCoOeCyXeDYcHeiSRtUvbKAW-mtPG/s640/crash2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGEFgISj4x4Wwb_DwFSGnCJkeSNk-0BE5a1o8mwmPqL_8Vds6Au9TuB8v_4POXICu4YGmYj_IwqXN0BJlCfHDZPtY4F5JUfTSTCn6Tx1UwRQ9n1vZXCoOeCyXeDYcHeiSRtUvbKAW-mtPG/s320/crash2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A MiG 23, in flight with pilot (Wikipedia / Public Domain)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">When two very competitive pilots J.D Martin and Bill Murphy were scrambled, they were not expecting that their independence day flights would be to intercept and possibly engage a very strange Soviet MiG. On the same day, Soviet Pilot <b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Nikolai Skurigin</span></b> prepared his MiG-23M for a routine training flight. When Skurigin’s MiG took off from Kolobzreg, Poland, the pilot had no clue what was about to happen to his aircraft. Soon after taking off, Skurigin realized that MiG’s engine had a major failure and that aircraft was going to crash in few seconds, so he did what every pilot is trained to do in such situations, he abandoned the aircraft and ejected. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_eP9d1ibsoHdp-jifprqp-vR14SjAbwZkTR6PxZT_2xqGGmfX-UsPKzXhUTKpqgq9F9AGPNjLNq5wMA_9yJkkGW16fbXFvn3yQqUy1durpjouAmh7heF4000CEeakEDqwOAVmR3njHEIo/s600/crash3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_eP9d1ibsoHdp-jifprqp-vR14SjAbwZkTR6PxZT_2xqGGmfX-UsPKzXhUTKpqgq9F9AGPNjLNq5wMA_9yJkkGW16fbXFvn3yQqUy1durpjouAmh7heF4000CEeakEDqwOAVmR3njHEIo/s320/crash3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The crash site as seen from above</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">While descending in his parachute, Skurigin realized that something peculiar had taken place; his MiG was actually gaining height instead of losing it and worse, it was heading straight towards NATO airspace. On the other side, JD and Murphy after being sent to intercept a Russian plane that had invaded their air space, had problems of their own; they were having some major communication issues with Ground Control Intercept. Despite these difficulties, the two pilots got closer to the ‘<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">rogue</span></b>’ aircraft and discovered that not only the MiG was unarmed it was also unmanned. This posed another challenge to the pilots and ground control since the aircraft was now considered not an immediate threat. US Air Force pilots in their F-15s escorted the Soviet MiG until it reached the 39,000ft mark, after that aircraft started descending possibly due to low fuel levels. When the aircraft started descending, pilots with the help from the ground predicted that it would land somewhere near Lille, on the border of Belgium and France. Later on, the calculation showed that it would rather crash in an empty field inside Belgium, and was coded as ‘non-risky’. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg6E4x-55AFabNxvzRLgqf-zULN_ooW4pbzoVvs3qYdg6PplAfuevvDYwvdmh4IqFQapslxU62r1h8WzKu34nBDy1f3C6ps9sxgyqT6CiEwslcG15g63JsfzWBXYPI1KRbOhqoa53fL9K/s640/crash4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNg6E4x-55AFabNxvzRLgqf-zULN_ooW4pbzoVvs3qYdg6PplAfuevvDYwvdmh4IqFQapslxU62r1h8WzKu34nBDy1f3C6ps9sxgyqT6CiEwslcG15g63JsfzWBXYPI1KRbOhqoa53fL9K/s320/crash4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">What was left of the MIG</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But the calculations could not predict what actually happened when Soviet MiG crashed in a farm killing an 18-year-old boy. Clearly an avoidable causality on the part of both Soviets and Americans, both nations showed genuine regret on the outcome of the incident. When Colonel Skurigin discovered about the death of the Belgian boy by his MiG, he publicly showed regret for his decision to eject out of the aircraft. The Belgian government made a formal protest to the Soviet Union regarding the lack of notification as to the danger the aircraft posed to the civilian population. Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens expressed concern that “<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">from the time the MiG-23 was first picked up on NATO radar to the time it crashed more than an hour later, no word of warning came from the Soviet side,</span></b>” and that “there was also a ‘notable slowness’ on the part of the Soviets in disclosing whether the jet was carrying nuclear or toxic weapons.” The USSR paid <b><span style="color: #351c75;">$685,000</span></b> in compensation to Belgium.</p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685011134724700118.post-52862125268676471812020-10-08T22:26:00.001+03:002020-10-08T22:26:51.510+03:00 Without firing a shot: The United States made an unexpected offer to President Zelensky regarding the de-occupation of Donbas<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">October 7, 2020 (http://www.favoritnews.in.ua)</span></b> The United States offered the Ukrainian government a solution to the problem of de-occupation of territories in the east of the country. The American research center Atlantic Council came up with a proposal to completely end all economic ties with the occupied regions of Donbas. First of all, analysts from the United States insist on cutting off the supply of water, electricity, and other resources. In addition, it is recommended to establish a complete social and economic blockade of the uncontrolled territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENLUWCmcSn9twAEtowxTRHlE4mPCp0AlmvIuyWbhjkQhsYWMw1tdiths4GndEZ8gp0R9U9gr7xBcZ0Ii6EFCLzIeyC9hNA5hWlSrVlN9jO0zth_iD3_QEel7adVHZ35_GMm5Nf9SAEOHw/s1000/blogg+Atlantic+Council.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgENLUWCmcSn9twAEtowxTRHlE4mPCp0AlmvIuyWbhjkQhsYWMw1tdiths4GndEZ8gp0R9U9gr7xBcZ0Ii6EFCLzIeyC9hNA5hWlSrVlN9jO0zth_iD3_QEel7adVHZ35_GMm5Nf9SAEOHw/s320/blogg+Atlantic+Council.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The main purpose of such actions - to complicate the life of the inhabitants of the illegal republics as much as possible and bring the humanitarian situation to a critical point. The Atlantic Council experts believe that the economic blockade will allow the return of the occupied territories. The restriction and complete cessation of the flow of monetary funds will cause a negative attitude of local residents towards the leadership of the self-proclaimed republics.<p></p>Oleg Bezverkhniihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12765573609015255554noreply@blogger.com0