The man in the maroon shirt was drunk and fell out of his wheelchair. Getting him back in took about 15 minutes. It was a loud and painful process that I filmed from a balcony on the 5th floor.
This beauty just went up in Dnipro. Support independent artists!
Courtesy of the 79th Air Assault Brigade on the Marinka axis.
The chairman of parliament’s ad hoc investigation commission looking into alleged fraud involving the construction of of fall-back defensive positions is himself suspected of demanding kickbacks. He is member of parliament Mykola Zadorozhny, now an ex-member of the president’s Servant of the People faction, who previously ran Kvartal 95 Studio, a holiday organizing company.
In related news, Team USA forked over about $4 billion to Ukraine’s government to help pay salaries and pensions.
Former Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway has announced that she will be paid $50,000 a month by Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk to seek support for Ukraine1. According to her FARA filing, Ukraine’s government will be the principal benificiary of Kellyanne’s activities. Maybe she can start by whitewashing the slew of corruption scandals involving greasy clowns associated with Ukraine’s president and his office.
The last couple of Pinchuk security conferences have resembled extravagant, over-choreographed pep rallies.
The beavers have returned to the right bank of the Dnipro.
Z mentions in passing Team USA’s $4 billion present during his daily monologue. He said commander-in-chief Syrsky is working with brigade commanders to prevent Russia from capturing more areas in Donetsk region and also informs us that Botswana has signed on to Ukraine’s Peace Formula2. Wonderful!
Finally, practicing philosopher Volodymyr Pastukhov is selling a compilation of his posts, titled Telegram Style War. 500 Days of Catastrophe.
I helped create and direct MSD’s scientific network in Russia and Central Asia during the 1990s after the USSR fell part. Volodymyr advised Merck Sharp and Dohme on legal issues. I left Moscow and the company in 1994 and moved to Minsk. MSD, for all intents and purposes, exited the Russian market after the invasion in February 2022.
Former Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway Lobbies for Ukrainian Interests. The former campaign aide indicated in a Justice Department filing that she will be paid $50,000 a month by an oligarch to seek support for Ukraine (The New York Times, August 6, 2024)