The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @NavalInstitute: #OTD in 1969, a North Korean MiG-21 fighter shot down a U.S. Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. All 31 men on board were killed, making the incident the largest single loss of U.S. aircrew during the Cold War era.

Belarusian Hajun project (Twitter)

Former Belarusian political prisoner and head of the Union of Poles in Belarus Andzelika Borys said that she met with political prisoner Andrzej Poczobut, who is held in Navapolatsk penal colony, Belarus.
Borys told about it during a meeting with @AndrzejDuda. It wasn’t specified when exactly she visited Poczobut.

Andrzej Poczobut is a journalist and a member of the Union of Poles in Belarus. He was detained in March 2021. In February 2023, Poczobut was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment.

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

#Луганск (https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZTWCYYKifSHmiKYe9), ул. Ленина, 16/04/24, зелёные в своём репертуаре https://maps.app.goo.gl/2GTW8BWdmhvwn4Jc9 #всрф #роа #дтп

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Интересно, успел товарищ перед смертью хлебнуть водички или так и помер жаждой томимый?
t.me/ssternenko/27495 #RussianUkrainianWar

Ukraine Battle Map (Twitter)

This is what they say is the Ukraine Aid Bill that Johnson plans to put up

USAI means orders of military equipment for Ukraine; the amount is about the same as the Senate Bill $13.8 billion

The economic aid of $7.85 billion is similar to the Senate Bill

$19.85 billion is to replenish equipment, but that does not mean the US can send $19.85 billion of military equipment to Ukraine. The Senate Bill had around $8 billion in Presidential Drawdown Authority, meaning the President could directly take $8 billion worth of weapons from US stockpiles and send it to Ukraine immediately, then use the replenishment funding to replace that equipment for the US.

Currently, the President has $4 billion in drawdown authority available and nothing for replenishment. If the Senate bill were passed, it would’ve given the President $8 billion more in drawdown authority and +$19 billion in replenishment, meaning the President could send $12 billion ($4B existing an...

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