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2022-05-01 19:12:00 Denmark has decided to transfer 25 Piranha III armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. This was reported by a specialized military publication Olfi.

Piranha III is an obsolete APC model for Denmark. At this stage Danish army switches to Piranha V armored personnel carriers. In general, the developer of this equipment is Swiss company Mowag. This is one of the most popular platforms of armored vehicles in the world, and is in service in 22 countries.

In addition to the Piranha III, Denmark is sending heavy M10 mortars to Ukraine along with thousands of mortar rounds for them. Open / Comment

2022-05-01 17:34:00 European Union intends to propose that countries impose a total ban on Russian oil by the end of this year and disconnect a number of Russian banks, including Sberbank, from SWIFT, Bloomberg reported citing sources.

It would also propose restrictions on consulting services, cloud-based services and the purchase of real estate, the agency reported. Open / Comment

2022-05-01 15:11:00 Turkish President Erdogan said Turkey is ready to give maximum support to the work of the UN, Russia and Ukraine contact group on humanitarian corridors Open / Comment

2022-05-01 14:00:09 Biden mourns American killed in Ukraine

President Joe Biden expressed dismay Friday at the news that an American, Willy Joseph Cancel, was killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces.

"It is very sad. He left a little baby behind," Biden told reporters at the White House where he was hosting a meeting of federal inspectors general.

Cancel was killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. The 22-year-old was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on April 25. The company sent him to Ukraine, and he was being paid while he was fighting there.

Cancel served in the US Marine Corps from December 2017 until November 2021, according to Marine spokesperson Maj. Jim Stenger.

Cabrera said her son signed up to work for the private military contracting company on top of his full-time job as a corrections officer in Tennessee shortly before the war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 21:00:04 The border wall Trump called unclimbable is taking a grim toll

In the trauma wards of this city’s major hospitals, patients from the border have arrived every day with gruesome injuries: skull fractures, broken vertebrae and shattered limbs, their lower extremities twisted into deranged angles.

The patients have fallen from new 30-foot segments of President Donald Trump’s border wall, a structure he touted as a “Rolls Royce” that “can’t be climbed.” His administration built more formidable barriers in the San Diego area than anywhere else along the southern border, with miles of double-layer steel fencing, but that has not stopped more and more migrants from trying to scale it.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they do not tally deaths and injuries resulting from such falls. But new statistics published Friday by UC San Diego physicians in the medical journal JAMA Surgery provide one of the first attempts to measure the toll. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 19:12:00 "The US is undeniably responsible for starting the crisis in Ukraine" - Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The U.S. has broken its promise and continually pushed NATO to expand eastward. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 17:21:01 An oil depot caught fire after shelling of a district of Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Rescuers are working at the site. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 15:21:04 The Ukrainian armed forces struck the very center of Makeyevka with BM27 "Uragan" multiple rocket launchers.

There were many people in the street. 19 people were injured, 4 of whom were children. The victims were taken to hospital, where 1 adult and an 11-year-old child died of shrapnel wounds. Open / Comment

2022-04-30 14:00:13 A record 35 million-plus Americans have Affordable Care Act coverage - but the gains may not last long

More Americans than ever before have health coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act, which is helping send the nation's uninsured rate to near record lows, the Biden administration announced Friday.

Fueled by Covid-19 relief measures and renewed federal investment, enrollment in Obamacare plans, Medicaid expansion and Basic Health Plan policies has soared to an estimated 35.8 million as of early 2022, up from 27.1 million in 2020, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

This includes an estimated 13.6 million people enrolled in policies purchased on the Obamacare exchanges and more than 21 million people in Medicaid expansion coverage, including 16.8 million who were not eligible prior to the landmark health reform law. Open / Comment

2022-04-29 22:12:00 Unknown persons blew up a bridge near Melitopol, which is used by the Russian military to deliver equipment from Crimea Open / Comment