“The NATO alliance lists seven baseline requirements for national resilience: energy, communications, transport, food, water, government continuity, and population movement.” Jonas Hard, founder of nonprofit 1 for Ukraine, advocates for adding Healthcare Resilience as an 8th pillar. He describes hospital conditions 40km from the front, in Kharkiv, as well as an underground hospital under construction structure there.
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Picture: Overlooking monsoonal forest-savannah boundary zone in Sierra Leone. The local population has used fire to manage this landscape, for subsistence agriculture, for thousands of years.
Movement of shaheds (red), cruise missiles (blue) and ballistic missiles (yellow) during last night’s attack on Ukraine.
🇺🇦 “On the night of 29.11.25, according to the Air Force report, the Defense Forces destroyed from the launched strike means:
⚠️ 558/596 strike, imitation, and reconnaissance UAVs were shot down or suppressed by electronic warfare.
The enemy used:
(350×) UAVs of the "Geran-2" / "Shahed-136" type;
(246×) UAVs of the "Gerbera" / "Parody" / "Molniya" types.
🚀 1/5 aeroballistic hypersonic Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal" missiles;
☄ 4/4 ballistic missiles 9M723 OTRK "Iskander-M" / KN-23;
❗️ 12/23 cruise missiles Kh-101 / 9M727/729 "Iskander-K";
❗️ 2/4 guided aviation missiles Kh-59/69;
A total of 558/596 UAVs (94%) were neutralized.
A total of 19/36 missile weapons, 52% of those launched, were neutralized.”
-Ukraine MOD”
Saboteurs appear to have targeted a section of rail in Poland, which is used to transfer wartime supplies to Ukraine.
Guardian article:
A recent news story about a mysterious Neo-Nazi Rally, which popped up, just as schools were letting out, outside Lincoln Heights, OH. The small town, which bills itself as the oldest self-governing Black Community north of the Mason-Dixon Line, was targeted with racist pamphlets and swastikas hung from highway overpasses. This dispicable stunt (whether genuine or engineered to incite political agitation), has justifiably led to an armed neighborhood watch in Lincoln Heights.
I don't have any particular background on this incident, beyond reading a few headlines. But it does bring to mind the sort of engineered circuisry that accompanied Putin's rise to power. During the late 1990's, Putin quite masterfully arranged acts of political violence, paying saboteurs on both sides. The result was a distrustful, agitated society, which had lost sight of the truth, and was prepared to back a strongman leader, against a fabricated enemy. See the link below for a Radio Free Europe article about deadly apartment bombings, allegedly orchestrated by Putin and the FSB.
- Fact-checking President Trump's claims on US financial support to Ukraine
"About
The CAlcium and VAsopressin following Injury Early Resuscitation (CAVALIER) Trial is a proposed 4 year, double-blind, mutli-center, prehospital and early in hospital phase randomized trial designed to determine the efficacy and safety of prehospital calcium and early in hospital vasopressin in patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock.
Full description
Resuscitation strategies for the acutely injured patient in hemorrhagic shock have evolved. Patients benefit from receiving less crystalloid in favor of blood transfusions with balanced ratios of plasma and platelets or whole blood resuscitation. These resuscitation practices are termed Damage Control Resuscitation and have been incorporated into resuscitation protocols in Level I trauma centers across the country. Damage Control Resuscitation represents standard practice for military and civilian trauma. Despite these changes, deaths from traumatic hemorrhage continue to occur in the first hours following trauma center arrival, underscoring the importance of early, novel interventions.
Hypocalcemia following traumatic injury is exceedingly common following severe traumatic injury in patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock. During hemorrhagic shock resuscitation, pathways reliant upon calcium such as platelet function, intrinsic and extrinsic hemostasis, and cardiac contractility are disrupted. Citrate containing transfusion products are known to further reduce calcium levels through chelation during trauma resuscitation. Hypocalcemia has consistently been shown to be independently associated with the risk of large volume blood transfusion and mortality. Current management practices include calcium replacement during the in hospital phase of care in patients receiving blood products. Early calcium replacement in patients at risk of hemorrhage and hypocalcemia may mitigate coagulopathy, maintain hemostasis, improve hemodynamics and outcomes, and may reduce complications attributable to hemorrhagic shock.
Arginine vasopressin is a physiologic hormone released by the posterior pituitary in response to hypotension and is commonly used as a vasopressor for critically ill patients for the treatment of hypotension due to multiple causes including sepsis. Prolonged hemorrhagic shock has the potential to alter systemic vasomotor tone which can progress to refractory/recalcitrant hypotension. Patients receiving resuscitation for hemorrhage are at risk of vasopressin deficiency. Vasopressin may improve hemostasis by enhancing platelet function and augmenting clot formation. Vasopressin infusion soon after injury in patients in hemorrhagic shock has been demonstrated to be safe and result in a reduction in blood transfusion requirements and a lower incidence of deep venous thrombosis.
Whole blood, red cells, and blood components are a precious and limited resource. Trauma resuscitation adjuncts such as early calcium and vasopressin may provide benefit when transfusion products are limited and may provide additional benefit even when transfusion capabilities remain robust. Due to their action on coagulation and hemodynamic cascades in the injured patient, these resuscitation adjuncts have the potential to interact and provide additive benefit to the injured patient. However, safety and efficacy of prehospital calcium and early in hospital vasopressin remain inadequately characterized. Enrolled patients may participate in the prehospital phase (calcium), in-hospital phase (vasopressin), or both. The aims of the CAlcium and VAsopressin following Injury Early Resuscitation (CAVALIER) trial are to determine the efficacy and safety of prehospital calcium supplementation and early in hospital vasopressin infusion as compared to standard care resuscitation in patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock and to appropriately characterize any additive effect of both resuscitation adjunct interventions."
- text quoted from full CAVALIER study website, click to link to website
Today Russia struck and damaged the enclosure that covers the radioactive 4th power unit with a shahed.
Today, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence.
She was voted in 52-48. As DNI, she will oversee 18 intelligence agencies with a budget of approximately $100 billion, and serve as Donald Trump’s top intelligence advisor.
Gabbard has consistently opposed U.S. support for Ukraine and has repeated Russian propaganda narratives, including claims about alleged biolabs in Ukraine. She has criticized President Joe Biden’s policies, accusing Democrats of prolonging the conflict and opposing U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine.
In 2022, Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation stated that Gabbard was working for foreign audiences with Russian funding.
However, during her confirmation hearing on January 30, she called Russia a “strategic competitor” and stated that “Putin started the war against Ukraine.”
Sir Ed Davey, Liberal Democrat leader, speaks in UK Parliament:
The program offers 18- to 24-year-olds the ability to join the military under a one-year contract, and the option to either reenlist after one year or return to civilian life.
The Ukrainian MoD will pay volunteers 200,000 UAH ($4,700) upon signing a one-year contract and an additional 800,000 UAH ($19,120) during their service in addition to a monthly salary of 120,000 UAH ($2,870). Volunteers will receive three months of training before deploying to the frontline.
The Ukrainian government will subsidize future mortgages, education, and medical care for volunteers and will permit volunteers to travel abroad after their one year of service.
The program also exempts volunteers from mobilization for 12 months after their one-year contract ends.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov stated that the "Contract 18-24" program is part of Ukraine's ongoing efforts to create a professional military.
Eye injury occurs in roughly 1/4 of blast injury victims. Most eye injuries are easily preventable, by using simple polycarbonate eye protection.
Here, the blast wave from a FAB-500 aerial bomb shatters nearby windows on 9 Feb 2025, in Kramatorsk.
This video shows modern FPV combat drone tactics
Elon Musk has retweeted the fabricated piece of Russian propaganda below, on his X feed. The fake news story appears to have been designed by Russian disinformation network Matryoshka.
The fact that Musk retweeted it to his 216 million followers is a major coup for Matryoshka.
The fake video is designed appear to have been published on E! news. It falsely alleges that USAID sent US celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, to Ukraine to support the Ukrainian cause.
However, E! spokeman confirmed the video "is not authentic and did not originate from E! News". Ben Stiller, one of the actors named in the video, denied that his trip to Ukraine was funded by USAID, writing on X: "These are lies coming from Russian media. I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no payment of any kind. 100 percent false." Darren Linvill, co-director of Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub, posted that the video has "every indication of being a Russian fabricated video planted and spread using familiar methods."
Elon Musk appears to have since deleted the post.
“The United States determined Russia used the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and riot control agents (RCA) as a method of warfare in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).” -US Dept of State, Global Engagement Center, June 7 2024
“The Ukrainian General Staff reported on January 18 that Russian forces used ammunition equipped with chemical agents banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) 434 times in Ukraine in December 2024, contributing to a total of 5,389 documented cases since February 2023. Ukraine's radiation, chemical, and biological intelligence units are monitoring Russia's use of banned chemical agents, which include using regulated K-51 and RG-VO grenade launchers to launch munitions containing chemical agents and ammunition containing unspecified hazardous chemicals that are banned in warfare under the 1925 Geneva Protocol and CWC. Ukrainian officials have previously reported on increasingly common instances of Russian forces using chemical substances in combat that are banned by the CWC, to which Russia is a signatory, and the Ukrainian General Staff noted that such violations have been systematic in the Russian military since February 2023.” -ISW
RF is using Chloropicrin (PS) against Ukrainian targets. PS- an industrial pesticide- is a clear, oily substance, with an extremely sharp, sweet, irritating odor. Inhalation of concentrated vapors and skin/eye contact are hazardous.
As a powerful irritant, chloropicrin can cause immediate, severe inflammation of the eyes, nose and throat, as well as significant upper and lower respiratory tract injuries, following acute exposure. Symptoms include burning of the nose and throat, coughing, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea or vomiting, headache and extreme eye irritation. Following low level exposures, symptoms usually subside within 15 minutes, after removal from exposure. Ocular symptoms may persist longer if the eyes are rubbed. Skin contact with chloropicrin vapor or liquid results in immediate burning or stinging pain followed by redness. Chloropicrin exposures may also cause nausea and vomiting.
Human exposure data for other types of choking agents suggest that acute lung damage from chloropicrin exposure could result in the development of chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema, particularly if respiratory tract infections complicate recovery.
Chloropicrin was used by both sides in WWI, and is now listed as a banned choking agent by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Treatment: Remove and bag contaminated patient gear+ clothing. If accidental, acute skin contamination occurs during transport, wipe clean and flush skin with at least 1L fluid. Use vent fan and/or windows during transport if needed. Be prepared to manage airway & breathing complications & irrigate eyes if needed.
