Man shot and killed during home invasion attempt while disguised as nurse

HOUSTON — A man disguised in scrubs died after being shot during an attempted home invasion, according to the Houston Police Department.

The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 12500 block of Cooperstown Drive in southeast Houston.

Police said an older woman reported hearing a knock at her door when she saw the man dressed to look like a nurse or home health care worker on her porch.

Police said he tried to use that look to get in the home, instead of forcing entry.

When the disguise didn’t work on a woman inside the home, she called her son for help, according to police.

The son told officers he rushed home and found by that time he arrived, the man had broken in the door.

HPD said the son shot and killed the intruder as he was trying to breaking into their house.

“It doesn’t look like there’s any relation at all, it was just a random thing,” HPD Lt. J.P. Horelica said. “The home health care that dropped on the original radio was part a ruse to try to gain entry in the home. When that didn’t work, he tried to force entry in there.”

How can this happen with all the gun control laws NYC has?

Manhunt Underway for Brooklyn Subway Shooter

Authorities in New York City are searching for a suspect and more information following Tuesday morning’s rush hour attack at a Brooklyn subway station that left as many as thirteen commuters injured, including five who were reportedly shot by a gunman that remains at large.

Videos apparently from the aftermath of the attack show air that’s thick with what appears to be smoke, and the Wall Street Journal reported that the FDNY found “several undetonated devices” when they arrived on the scene. The latest update tweeted by NYPD stated that “there are NO active explosive devices at this time.”

According to breaking reports from The New York Post, the “bloody incident broke out around 8:30 a.m. at the 36th Street station in Sunset Park.” Accounts from Twitter suggest that the suspect set off some sort of device and then opened fire, leaving the station platform bloody and victims lying on the ground being attended to by their fellow commuters. Photos published by The New York Post show (content warning) the aftermath of the attack.

According to witness accounts published by The Post, the perpetrator “was described as a 5-foot-5 black man, around 170 pounds wearing an orange vest and gas mask” who dropped “some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top.” The witness said she “thought he was an MTA worker at first because I was like, I didn’t like pay too much attention.”

The manhunt for the suspect remains underway and the New York FOX affiliate reports “he may have fled into the subway system.”

Nebraska concealed carry handgun bill comes short of votes

LINCOLN — In a surprise, state lawmakers failed to muster enough votes Monday to advance a concealed carry handgun bill, called “constitutional carry” by some.

The vote to invoke cloture was 31-9, two short of what’s needed to stop a filibuster and advance a bill. It was also four fewer senators than the number who supported advancement of the bill from first-round debate.

“To say that I’m disappointed is an understatement,” said State Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, who has made passing the bill a priority during his six years in office.

25 other states

At least 25 other states have passed such laws. In Nebraska, it would have allowed people to carry a concealed weapon without obtaining a $100 state permit, undergoing a criminal background check and passing a gun safety class.

Brewer had worked for several weeks to negotiate a compromise to Legislative Bill 773 with the Omaha police union and police department, which had expressed concern about the bill watering down existing gun control ordinances in the state’s largest city and complicating their job of reducing gun violence.

The compromise amendment would have left in place an Omaha ordinance that requires registration of handguns. It also would have allowed for the continued prosecution of the crime of “carrying a concealed handgun” if a concealed gun was used in a long list of “covered offenses,” from robbery and kidnapping, to cockfighting and disorderly conduct.

NRA urged ‘no’ vote

But the powerful National Rifle Association urged a “no” vote against the amendment, calling it “a discriminatory attempt to place Omaha’s extreme firearm registration requirement into state law.”

Senators failed to pass the compromise amendment on a 13-29 vote — 12 fewer “yes” votes than needed.

The defeat pushed the Omaha Police Officers Association from neutral on the bill to oppose and sparked a debate over whether voting for LB 773 was a vote against law enforcement.

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I think they shouldn’t be regulated as a firearm at all, but getting them off the NFA is a compromise I can live with, for the time being. It would mean that a person would be able to make their own, because, even with this new ‘ghost gun’ regulatory crap, there’s nothing, except state laws, that would stop that.

Hyde-Smith cosponsors bill to reclassify suppressors with regular firearms

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), of Brookhaven, announced Monday she has cosponsored legislation to reform the regulation of suppressors and make them more available to help preserve the hearing of sportsmen and their hunting dogs.

The Hearing Protection Act (S.2050) would reclassify suppressors to regulate them like a regular firearm.  U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) authored the measure.

“Eliminating a lot of the red tape that restricts access to suppressors could help hunters and sport shooters in Mississippi avoid permanent hearing damage,” Hyde-Smith said.  “The Hearing Protection Act would make commonsense improvements to make it easier for responsible, law-abiding Americans to enjoy their Second Amendment rights and protect their hearing.”

Regulated under the National Firearms Act (NFA), suppressors are subject to additional burdens that often exceed those imposed by more liberal European nations that actually require their use to reduce hearing-related injuries.

S.2050 would:

  • Reclassify suppressors to regulate them like traditional firearms;
  • Remove NFA jurisdiction over suppressors;
  • Replace the overly-burdensome federal transfer process with an instantaneous National Instant Criminal Background Check System background check, making the purchasing and transfer process for suppressors equal to the process for a rifle or shotgun;
  • Tax suppressors under the Pittman-Robertson Act instead of the costly NFA, putting more funding into state wildlife conservation agencies.

The Hearing Protection Act would not change any laws in states that already prevent suppressors, nor does it get rid of the requirement of a background check.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, American Suppressor Association, Gun Owners of America, and National Rifle Association support this legislation.

It’s not about deer hunting and they all know it, all too well.

It’s part what’s in the article, and part this:
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party [which is the Chinese goobermint] commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. —Mao Tse Tung 1938
They want the ability to ‘command’ restricted as much as possible.

 

They want to protect the criminals from you

We must ban the guns says the leader of the party that unleashed violent, murderous mobs on American citizens to win an election and let convinced criminals out of prison because of a cough.

The fastest growing demographics of gun owners are women and minorities in urban areas who have come under siege from criminals due to COVID and Social Justice bail reform policies that let criminals go free.

Gun control will not reduce crime.

It will hinder these new demographics of fire time gun owners from buying effective tools of self defense.

Leftist, as part of their dimmer switch of violence, understand how crime and criminals can be used as effective tools of political coercion and enforcement.

Armed citizens cannot be allowed to defend themselves from criminals or the political use of criminals is voided, so the obvious solution is to disarm the law abiding citizens, not re-arrest the criminals.

Again, this is about inflicting pain on the people for trying to lives lives of self reliance.

Burglar shot at Mobile apartment complex

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — More details were released about a shooting that happened Friday morning, April 8 at an apartment complex at Brill Road.

Mobile Police confirmed that one man was shot in his leg at Sunset on the Bayou Apartments. The man was shot by a woman after he broke into her apartment. The man knew the victim before he tried to burglarize her apartment, according to a news release from the Mobile Police Department.

The man was later taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release.

Mobile Police will continue to investigate the shooting.

Kingsessing Restaurant Owner Shoots Armed Robbery Suspect

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia police say a store owner shot an armed robbery suspect in Kingsessing. It happened around 5:30 p.m. Monday in the 5400 block of Chester Avenue.

Investigators say a man attempted to rob a Chinese takeout restaurant. They say the owner shot the 25-year-old suspect in the elbow.

The suspect was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

BLUF:
Of these 20 cases, 15 involve a single, known, pistol caliber. Here are the current numbers of cases for those calibers:

  • 9mm – seven documented cases, all successful
  • .38 Special –  four documented cases, three successful, one failure
  • .357 magnum – nine documented cases, eight successful, one failure
  • .40 S&W  – five documented cases, all successful
  • 10mm – six documented cases, all successful
  • .44 magnum – 37 documented cases, all successful
  • .45 Long Colt – 2 cases, successful, this includes the .45 Colt/.410 revolver.

Caliber seems far less important than the willingness to use the firearm and kill the bear.

Update of Pistol Defenses Against Bears 123 Cases, 98% Effective

I have been researching the effectiveness of pistols when they are fired as a defense against bears for several years.  The research started as an attempt to find cases where pistols were ineffective.  

In October of 2016, a poster on freerepublic.com claimed (post 28 at the link) that there were numerous failures when people attempted to use pistols as a defensive tool against bears. The author knew there were several cases where the use of a pistol resulted in an effective defense. 

Because access to handguns, bear spray, knives, rifles, and shotguns all involve similar problems, only cases where a handgun was actually fired are considered. None of these systems do any good if they cannot be accessed in time to be used to stop an attack.

Months, then years of searching the Internet, books, and official sources for documented cases of failure found three documented failures and over a hundred documented cases of success (there were 10 cases where combinations of pistols and other potentially lethal items were used).

In June of 2021, the count of documented cases where pistols or handguns alone were fired in defense against bears stood at 104. One of those was discovered to be a duplicate and corrected. Since then, another 20 cases have been found. Those cases raise the number to 123. Of the 123 cases, three documented cases exist where the firing of the handgun did not stop the attack by driving off or killing the bear or bears involved.

When the number of cases reached 100, publishing the whole on the Internet at AmmoLand became time-consuming and unwieldy.  With this update, additional cases will be published as time permits. The statistics will be updated. The last update will be available, but not incorporated into a single article.

Readers will be able to access the previous articles to read the accounts of each incident and reach their own conclusions. The author remains committed to including all documented instances where pistols were fired in defense against bears.

Here is the link to the previous 103 documented cases for handguns, including statistics and combinations.

Here is the link to the latest eleven additional documented combination cases.

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BLUF:
In sum, we are watching a rare laboratory experiment in which the traditional American fringe is now in control of the government. In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it. The result is an unmitigated disaster that not only has tarred the Democratic Party, corrupted once-revered agencies, and alienated half the country from our cultural institutions, but now endangers the very health and security of the United States.

The Nihilism of the Left.
In pursuit of its utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it.

The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive hands. And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric of the country.

For understandable reasons, socialists and leftists are usually kept out of the inner circles of the Democratic Party, and especially kept away from control of the country. A now resuscitated Bernie Sanders for most of his political career was an inert outlier. The brief flirtations with old-style hardcore liberals such as George McGovern in 1972 and Mike Dukakis in 1988 imploded the Democratic Party. Their crash-and-burn campaigns were followed by corrective nominees who actually won the presidency: Southern governors Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

Such was the nation’s innate distrust of the Left, and in particular the East Coast elite liberal. For nearly half a century between the elections of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, it was assumed that no Democratic presidential candidate could win the popular vote unless he had a reassuring Southern accent.

How did the extreme Left manage its rare takeover of the country between 2018 and 2020? Certainly, Obama’s election helped accelerate the woke movement and energized identity politics. One could also argue over the political opportunities in 2020 following the devastation of COVID-19.

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Sacramento sheriff: Downtown shooting that killed six is result of ‘treating criminals like victims’

Smiley Martin, 27, was released from prison in February after serving less than half of a 10-year sentence for punching and whipping his girlfriend with a belt while she was hiding in her closet, despite pleas from the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office that he “should not be released as he poses a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community.”

Just weeks later, he and his brother, 26-year-old Dandrae Martin, were allegedly involved in a gang shootout in downtown Sacramento in the early morning hours of April 3 that left six people dead and another dozen people injured.

The tragedy is just the latest example of what happens when society fails to punish repeat violent offenders, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told Fox News Digital.

“The best predictor of future behavior is past conduct, and violent people, they’re going to be violent when they get out, and that’s what we’ve seen here,” Jones said.

“Every crime has a victim and these victims are racking up, sometimes minorly and sometimes catastrophically, like we saw in Sacramento. This is the latest, but it unfortunately won’t be the last. Because if we don’t change the way California and the rest of this nation treats criminals… then this is only going to be a continuing trend.”

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Ukraine Learns the Israel Lesson
Zelensky said his country will emerge from the rubble a ‘big Israel.’ What did he mean?

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that, when the war is finally over, Ukraine would emerge from the rubble a “big Israel.”

He meant that the war would never really be over, that Ukraine would be on a permanent war footing, just as the Jewish state is. He meant that it would view its neighbors the way Israel has long viewed its own: As enemies waiting to pounce. Most importantly, he meant that Ukraine would never again rely on anyone else for its security: not the West, not the international community, not the so-called liberal order. It would be, like Israel, a nation apart, answering to no one but its people, in control of its own destiny.

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Bill would allow Ohio school staff to carry guns with 20 hours of training

(WJW) – There’s a new push for Ohio lawmakers to approve a bill that would allow educators to carry guns in school.

It’s called House Bill 99 and it would give Ohio schools the authority to put guns in the hands of school staff with only 20 hours of training.

“We have some serious concerns about HB 99 which would essentially gut training requirements for any school employees who are authorized to carry weapons on school property,” said Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association.

DiMauro said right now, an Ohio teacher must undergo basic peace officer training at 700 hours in order to carry a gun in school.

“What the bill would do is put a maximum of 20 hours training in that state standard, completely tying the hands of the experts who are tasked with the training regimen,” said DiMauro.

The Buckeye Firearms Association supports the legislation.

“The current requirement has shut down security programs all over the state and there are a lot of schools right now that are wide open and defenseless,” said Dean Rieck, Executive Director.

In addition to teachers, the bill would allow janitors, cafeteria workers and support staff to carry a gun with 20 hours of training.

Rieck said he believes the legislation will give complete control to districts about security in their schools.

“A lot of schools that have security programs with armed personnel are in rural areas where they are far from law enforcement. It could take 15-20 minutes for them to show up,” said Rieck.

Under the proposed legislation, it would still be up to each individual district to decide what they would require.

“There is no state that allows for teachers to be authorized to carry weapons that have a training standard as low as what is being proposed in House Bill 99,” said DiMauro.

The bill has passed in the House. It’s currently in Senate committee but has not been voted on.

Homeowner, suspected thief fire shots in Walnut Grove after confrontation

WALNUT GROVE, Mo. (KY3) – A homeowner and a suspected thief exchanged shots after a confrontation Sunday afternoon in Walnut Grove.

Deputies say it happened around 1:30 p.m. outside a home in the 10000 block of North Farm Road 51.

The homeowner told Greene County deputies they noticed someone who didn’t belong around the home and suspected that person was trying to steal from their home.

After a confrontation, investigators say the suspect fired a few shots at the homeowner. The homeowner returned fire and shot at the suspect. No one was struck or hurt after several shots were fired.

Investigators say the suspect got away. The Greene County Sheriff’s Office made extensive location efforts to try and find the suspect Sunday, but deputies couldn’t find anyone in the search.

The homeowner has had some theft issues in the past, according to the sheriff’s office. They noticed someone who didn’t live at the home and suspected they were stealing. It’s unknown if the suspect and homeowner knew each other.

An investigation is ongoing. We will update as more information becomes available.

Richard Fernandez

There’s no place in the modern godless world to admit error because we have abolished both contrition and redemption. Nothing left but to double down on Zero Covid, windmill power and the proposition that Romney’s one shining moment never happened.

“According to [moderns] it is morbid to confess your sins. I should say that the morbid thing is not to confess them. The morbid thing is to conceal your sins and let them eat your heart out, which is the happy state of most people in highly civilized communities”– GK Chesterton
None of our ‘leaders’ can stop locking down Chinese cities, continuing failed invasions or printing money. There is nothing but to brazen it out. No one can say ‘mea culpa, mea maxima culpa’ because there is no ‘ego te absolvo’ in our pitiless atheist word. 
One of the sources of modern political mischief is the fear of being caught contradicting something you said or did in the past, to the point where public figures scour their grade school yearbooks for embarrassments. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: how could it be otherwise. 
So the fact checkers will prove Obama always thought Russia was a threat. If you thought he told Romney otherwise, you misheard. Did you expect Obama to say he was wrong? Nobody says that any more.

Comment O’ The Day

“A kakistocracy ( government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state ) calling its subjects worthless. That’s rich.”

WEF (World Economic Forum) Advisor Yuval Harari On How Technology is Creating a Class of ‘Meaningless, Worthless’ People

900 Boowets! 900!

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It’s soooo scawey.

It’s Noo Yawk; Fuhgeddaboudit.

I’d be extremely embarrassed to be either of those cops.

NYPD

Do you think they’d stroke out at the Shootist Holiday?

A scary stash of assault rifles and ammo are found in Dongan Hills, cops say. Man, 54, is arrested

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Assault rifles and over 900 bullets were confiscated from inside a home in Dongan Hills, police allege.

On Sunday at 8:02 a.m., officers responded to a 911 call of an alleged violent, emotionally-disturbed person at the apartment of Richard Thorpe, 54, on Jerome Road, according to a statement from the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

Thorpe was arrested that day and removed to Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze.

Inside Thorpe’s apartment, police recovered a Colt Match Target, described as a semi-automatic assault rifle, with a downward-pistol grip behind the trigger and a tube capable of launching grenades attached to the barrel, the criminal complaint alleges.

Officers allege they found about 179 rounds of ammunition that could be fired from the Colt using detachable magazines each holding more than 10 bullets.

Another semi-automatic assault rifle, a KBI SA 85M, had a thumbhole stock behind the trigger and accepted detachable magazines, the complaint alleges.

The defendant allegedly possessed about 205 rounds of ammunition that could be fired from that rifle. Officers also seized some detachable magazines, including clips with capacity of 30 or 40 rounds, according to the complaint.

A 12-gauge shotgun, a Remington 870 Express Magnum, was seized along with 145 rounds of 12-gauge ammunition.

Officers confiscated 222 rounds of .22-caliber bullets, 167 rounds of .45-caliber bullets, and another 17 bullets of various calibers, according to the complaint.

The criminal complaint alleges that the suspect “has no permit to possess said firearms and shotgun, and the defendant is not a dealer in rifles or shotguns in New York City.”

Thorpe has been charged with criminal possession of an assault weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon and multiple violations.

Thorpe has been released under supervision and is due to appear in Criminal Court on April 29.

An attorney for the defendant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Patrol Officers Viera and Deljudice along with Field Intelligence officers (FIO) are credited with the effort that was prompted by a “call of threats,” according to a post on the 122nd Precinct Twitter feed.

“No job is routine,” the post said.

Replicating Billy Dixon’s Long Shot and Other Nostalgia, 1995-2020

This collection of short stories centers on shooting and hunting experiences of the author, his family, and his friends. The theme of this book revolves around the famous long shot made by Medal of Honor recipient, Billy Dixon, at The Battle of Adobe Walls, in 1874.

In 1995, the author and a friend began discussing how to go about proving just how likely it was that Billy Dixon had some hope of making a shot at 7/8 mile. In 2020, the author and another friend made six hits out of eleven shots on the Official Friends of Billy Dixon Target. For that, they used a borrowed 1874 Sharps rifle, which is reminiscent of Dixon using a borrowed 1874 Sharps rifle to make his famous shot.

Between these stories, McPherson chronicles interesting shooting experiences he’s been involved with, while working to learn the accuracy limits of both antique and modern guns and ammunition. And, he shares some poignant family history, interspersed with the accounts of interesting hunts. Serious shooters, handloaders, gun tinkers, and hunters will likely agree that these stories offer more to ponder than the typical, me and Joe went hunting, accounts do.

Georgia shooting range robbery leaves 3 family members dead; 40 weapons stolen, police say

Police are searching for at least one armed suspect in connection with the killing of the owner of a gun range in Georgia and his wife and grandson, authorities said Saturday.

The Grantville Police Department said via Facebook that the robbery occurred Friday evening. When officers arrived at the scene around 8 p.m., they discovered the bodies of the owner of Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting Range, along with his wife and grandson.

According to WSB-TV, Grantville Police identified the victims as the gun range owner, Thomas Hawk, 75; his wife, Evelyn, 75; and their grandson, Luke, 17.

Police Chief Steve Whitlock said the Hawk family was well-known and well-respected in their small, tight-knit community. The Hawks had operated Lock Stock & Barrel for nearly 30 years. Their grandson was on spring break, helping his grandparents at the shop.

“This is just a shock to everybody in the community,” Whitlock told The Associated Press. “We’re trying to do the best that we can to figure this out.”

Whitlock said investigators believe the robbery and shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. Friday, which is when the range normally closes. He said Hawk’s son, Richard, came by the business and was the person who found the victims.

There are no suspects as of early Saturday, and no arrests have been made, he said. Investigators said that as many as 40 guns and the range’s surveillance camera were also stolen.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating, but when contacted Saturday referred all inquiries to Grantville Police. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was also called in due to the amount of weapons taken. Whitlock said he’s grateful for the help from other law enforcement agencies in the investigation.

“We’re just a small town, 12 officers. I’ve been here eight years and have never had to investigate anything like this. It’s been kind of hard on us. The crime rate is really, really low,” he said.

A reward of $15,000 has been posted for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers in the case, according to the ATF Atlanta office’s Twitter feed.

“ATF and our law enforcement partners will work tirelessly to bring the killer(s) to justice,” ATF Atlanta Field Division Special Agent in Charge Benjamin P. Gibbons said in a statement. “The brutality of these senseless murders along with the fact that these killer(s) have acquired additional firearms makes solving this case our top priority.”

A message left with the ATF office in Atlanta was not immediately returned.

Police are asking any witnesses to come forward. Whitlock said they don’t have any video evidence to work with right now.

“Anyone having driven by the shooting range during the time frame of 530pm to 630 pm that may have seen vehicles other than a white Ford dually truck and a black Ford expedition are asked to contact the police department,” Grantville police said in their Facebook statement.

The shooting range is in rural Coweta County, about 50 miles (about 80 kilometers) southwest of Atlanta.

Coweta County Sheriff Lenn Wood said in a statement on Facebook that the entire community was forever broken by the “senseless and tragic” killings of the Hawk family members.

“I am also fervently praying that God will use our law enforcement community and the Coweta Community,” he said, “to bring justice swiftly.”

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, APRIL 8

Immediate items to watch

  • Russian forces will continue reinforcing the Izyum-Slovyansk axis and attempting to advance to and through Slovyansk to encircle Ukrainian forces.
  • Russia is likely cohering forces in Donbas to attempt a major offensive in the coming days or weeks.
  • The Battle of Mariupol continues, and it is unclear how much longer the Ukrainian defenders can hold out.
  • Russian forces have fully vacated the Sumy axis and are regrouping in Belgorod for likely deployment to the Izyum-Slovyansk axis.
  • Some Russian forces are likely to return to home stations in Russia while others will re-enter the fighting in the east.

Ukrainian forces retain control of defensive positions in eastern and southwestern Mariupol, despite Russian claims to have captured most of the city. ISW was able to confirm the specific locations of ongoing Russian assaults on April 8 for the first time in several days. Russian forces continue to attempt to regroup and redeploy units withdrawn from northeastern Ukraine to support an offensive in eastern Ukraine, but these units are unlikely to enable a Russian breakthrough and face poor morale. Russian forces along the Izyum-Slovyansk axis did not make any territorial gains in the last 24 hours. Ukrainian counterattacks toward Kherson continue to threaten Russian positions around the city.

Key Takeaways

  • Ukrainian forces continued to hold out against Russian assaults in areas of southwestern and eastern Mariupol, notably in the port and the Azovstal Metallurgy plant, respectively.
  • Ukrainian forces continued to repel daily Russian assaults in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts.
  • A Russian Tochka-U missile struck a civilian evacuation point at the Kramatorsk rail station in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 50 and wounding around a hundred evacuees.
  • Russian forces continued attacks south of Izyum toward Slovyansk and Barvinkove but did not take any new territory.
  • Ukrainian counterattacks have likely taken further territory west of Kherson, threatening Russian control of the city.

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