#news of ukraine

[head-post]

Ukrainian children went to camp in England

A scout leader from Ukraine has said children will be able to spend a week “far from danger” during the Essex International Rally, BBC reports.

Twenty-one teenagers from the war-torn country are among more than 4,500 children and youngsters travelling to the event at Roxwell, near Chelmsford, which runs until Saturday.

Antonina Prudko said they had to collect their visas in Warsaw, Poland, and then travelled by bus, train and plane to Essex. She told the BBC:

We are here and really happy to be here. We managed to collect children from different Ukrainian cities and get here, far from danger. They feel safer here and have a great time meeting new friends and doing different activities.

The first Essex County Gathering was held at Prairie Park in Southend-on-Sea in 1927 and was attended by Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement. The event has been held every four years since then and in 1949 it was opened to international scouts for the first time.

Nine-year-old Eva was part of a group that travelled from Ukraine to attend this year’s convention. She said:

I think this is really cool, it’s the best idea.

This year’s event attracted participants from over 40 countries and was organised by 1,500 adult volunteers.

Rally leader Paul Walker said there was a “fantastically magical atmosphere” at the event. He also added:

They’re getting stuck in to being themselves for a week in a field and away from mums and dads – and having a great time. They’re going to have memories for life here.

Read more HERE

[mysharona1987]

You just know the NYT has a “style guide” for this sort of thing.

Maybe someone there should get fed up and leak it.

[greencarnation]

"ukraine invasion" vs "israel-hamas war" hm. something something wording and western media bias and propaganda

[bloodfreakcastiel]

[reasonsforhope]

"Businesses like to talk about the concept of a closed loop or circular economy, but often they’re trying to close small loops. Releaf Paper takes dead leaves from city trees and turns them into paper for bags, office supplies, and more—which is to say they are striving to close one heck of a big loop.

How big? Six billion trees are cut down every year for paper products according to the WWF, producing everything from toilet paper to Amazon boxes to the latest best-selling novels. Meanwhile, the average city produces 8,000 metric tons of leaves every year which clog gutters and sewers, and have to be collected, composted, burned, or dumped in landfills.

In other words, huge supply and huge demand, but Releaf Paper is making cracking progress. They already produce 3 million paper carrier bags per year from 5,000 metric tons of leaves from their headquarters in Paris.

Joining forces with landscapers in sites across Europe, thousands of tonnes of leaves arrive at their facility where a low-water, zero-sulfur/chlorine production process sees the company create paper with much smaller water and carbon footprints...

“In a city, it’s a green waste that should be collected. Really, it’s a good solution because we are keeping the balance—we get fiber for making paper and return lignin as a semi-fertilizer for the cities to fertilize the gardens or the trees. So it’s like a win-win model,” [Valentyn] Frechka, co-founder and CTO of Releaf Paper, told Euronews.

Releaf is already selling products to LVMH, BNP Paribas, Logitech, Samsung, and various other big companies. In the coming years, Frechka and Sobolenka also plan to further increase their production capacity by opening more plants in other countries. If the process is cost-efficient, there’s no reason there shouldn’t be a paper mill of this kind in every city.

“We want to expand this idea all around the world. At the end, our vision is that the technology of making paper from fallen leaves should be accessible on all continents,” Sobolenka notes, according to ZME Science."

-via Good News Network, August 15, 2024

[eelo]

[folklorespring]

Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine after russian missile attack.

[reality-detective]

Tucker Carlson speaks more about Ukraine 🤔

[chameleons-dish]

i can’t say this simpler.

get out, vote for kamala, and then get out and protest for palestine like your life depends on it.

but if trump gets in, your life WILL depend on it. with kamala at least you are safe to continue trying to save others. with trump that isn’t an option.

alt version for the very silly people

[toshtoshtosh]

They don’t want him dead because he’s a threat to us, they want him dead because he’s a threat to them.

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Need more money, more vehicles, more attention: Zelensky’s Ramstein speech amid Donbas pressure

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Germany to take part in a meeting at Ramstein Air Base. Zelensky is expected to push for more long-range missiles and increased air defence.

The authorities would not be able to pay servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) money for participation in combat operations until 20 September, the head of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) budget committee, Roksolana Pidlasa, stated.

On Friday, 6 September, Zelensky called on allies to help with air defences and to lift restrictions prohibiting Kyiv from using donated weapons for long-range strikes against Russia.

Let’s make sure that this autumn becomes the time when the conflict ends.

The president also said that Ukraine had already started using the transferred F-16 fighter jets, but they were still insufficient. Ukrainian media recently confirmed the crash of one fighter jet, after which Zelensky fired Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk.

Additional aid

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin announced at the start of talks at a Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting on Friday that the US would provide $250 million in aid to Kyiv.

I’m pleased to say that President Biden will announce today an additional $250 million security assistance package for Ukraine. It will surge more capabilities to meet Ukraine’s evolving requirements and will deliver them at the speed of war. (…) Time is of the essence, especially with winter on its way, and we must all step up our support and quickly.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said that Germany, together with Denmark and the Netherlands, would transfer 77 Leopard 1A5 tanks to Kyiv as military aid. He stressed that Berlin had already delivered 58 tanks of such type as part of a joint project with Denmark.

Germany announced that it would deliver twelve more Panzerhaubitze self-propelled artillery units at a cost of 150 million euros. Pistorius specified that six artillery pieces would be delivered this year to Ramstein Air Base, with the other six to be sent next year.

Frontline situation

Occasional military operations continued in the Kursk region since the AFU launched its incursion on 6 August. According to Ukrainian media, the command is deploying armoured vehicles less often and sending assault units more frequently.

Russian media report that Ukrainian forces have managed to take a minor fortification point in the Kharkiv section. However, in the Donetsk region, Russian forces have taken control of Kalinina west of Bakhmut. This worsens the situation for the AFU in the Chasiv Yar area, military experts say.

Sources note an operational pause near Pokrovsk, giving both parties to the conflict an opportunity to pull up reserves, consolidate, and plan further steps. Russian troops have also seized the Selydove Machine-Building Plant, but have not yet entered the town of Selydove itself.

Previously, global media called the Kursk incursion by the AFU a risky gamble.

Read more HERE

[mysharona1987]

BBC not even trying to hide its bias anymore.

[swissfries]

＊ winter ukraine

[anastasiareyreed]

Ukrainian cities. once these streets were bustling, filled with joyful voices and sounds of car horns, people were preparing for the holidays, decorating their homes and Christmas trees, giving each other gifts and wishing for dreams to come true. gathering with entire families to celebrate.

today these cities look as if nothing ever existed here, only solid ruins and ghosts of a past life. russia destroyed everything. dismantled the memory of entire generations brick by brick with daily shelling. took away a happy future from many families.

📷libkos