กระทรวงกลาโหมรัสเซียเผยว่า กองทัพรัสเซียใช้อาวุธพิสัยไกลที่มีความแม่นยำสูงที่ยิงจากทะเลยิงใส่โรงงานผลิตอาวุธซึ่งผู้ผลิตอาวุธของรัฐบาลยูเครนบอกว่าเป็นโรงงานผลิตขีปนาวุธเนปจูนที่ยูเครนอ้างว่าใช้ยิงจมเรือลาดตระเวน Moskva ของรัสเซีย
Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, had a face-to-face meeting with Queen Elizabeth on Thursday (April 14), his spokesperson said after The Sun newspaper reported the visit.
The spokesperson said the couple stopped by the United Kingdom on their way to The Hague to attend The Invictus Games, adding that Harry had previously said he hoped to see his grandmother.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
The Sun said Harry and Meghan also saw Prince Charles during a visit to Windsor Castle, which it said was their first joint trip to Britain since they quit royal duties in March 2020.
Harry, who moved to the United States with Meghan, did not attend last month’s memorial service for his grandfather, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died in April last year.
His non-attendance followed a disagreement with the government over security protection.
The queen, who turns 96 later this month, has been suffering from mobility problems and did not attend the annual Maundy Service at Windsor Castle’s St George’s Chapel on Thursday. She will also not attend an Easter Sunday service at Windsor.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation released further information on the activities of biological laboratories in Ukraine funded by the United States at a press conference on Thursday.
At the press conference, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces Igor Kirillov revealed some details of the U.S.’ project 3007, a monitoring project on epidemiological and ecological situations of extremely dangerous waterborne diseases in Ukraine.
Ukrainian specialists involved in activities controlled by U.S. researchers consistently collected samples of water from major Ukrainian rivers, including the Dnieper, the Danube and the Dniester, as well as from the North Crimean Canal, to detect the presence of extremely dangerous pathogens, including cholera, typhoid fever and hepatitis A and E, and conclude the possibility of spreading them via waterways, according to Kirillov.
The results of these activities may be used for the creation of hostile biological conditions not only in Russia but in the entire area of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, as well as in Eastern European countries such as Belarus, Moldova and Poland, Kirillov said.
The official also revealed that from 2019 to 2021, American scientists at a laboratory in the town of Merefa (the Kharkiv Region) conducted trials of these extremely hazardous samples on patients at the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital No. 3 in the city of Kharkiv.
Individuals with mental disorders were selected for tests based on their age, ethnicity and immune status, and special forms were recording the results of the round-the-clock monitoring of the patients’ conditions. Information was not included in the hospital’s database, and the staff of the medical facility signed a non-disclosure statement.
In January of 2022, the operations of the laboratory in Merefa were suspended, and all equipment and biological products were taken to western Ukraine, according to Kirillov.
On March 9, Russian reconnaissance units found three drones furnished with 30-litre capacities and spraying equipment in the Kherson Region.
In January 2022, Ukraine purchased through intermediary companies over 50 drones that can be employed for using biological substances and toxic chemicals.
The United States has allocated over 350 million U.S. dollars in the past few years to the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine that distributed grants for research in the Pentagon’s interests, including in the field of biological weapons, Kirillov said.
For people in many countries, living in a penthouse is the dream. In North Korea? Not so much. In North Korea, the poor live in penthouses rather than the rich.
Leader Kim Jong Un keeps building outwardly glamorous high-rise apartments in Pyongyang, with the latest being an 80-storey skyscraper completed earlier this week. But defectors and other North Koreans say that unreliable elevators and electricity, poor water supply, and concerns about workmanship mean that historically few people have wanted to live near the top of such structures.
“In North Korea, the poor live in penthouses rather than the rich, because the lift often does not work properly, and they cannot pump water up due to low water pressure,” said Jung Si-woo, a 31-year-old who defected to neighbouring South Korea in 2017.
In the North, he lived on the third floor of a 13-storey building that lacked an elevator, while a friend who lived on the 28th floor of a 40-storey block had never used the elevator because it was not working, Jung said.
On Thursday (April 14) state media showed Kim inaugurating another housing cluster, this time for members of the elite, including a famous TV news presenter, Ri Chun Hi. They were low-rise buildings, each only a few floors tall.
Lee Sang-Yong, the editor-in-chief of Daily NK, a Seoul-based website that reports on North Korea, said his sources reported that the apartments for regular people were not ready to live in.
Windows had only frames and water taps, though installed, were not working, but the recently completed luxury homes come complete with furniture and utensils. To ensure the new high-rise apartments are popular, North Korea will have to further improve electricity and water supplies, and overcome worries about the quality of construction, he added.
North Korea assigns housing, with buying and selling of homes or apartments technically illegal in the socialist state. But experts say the practise has become common, dabbled in mostly by those who benefited from the spread of private markets under Kim. He has vowed to improve construction quality and build tens of thousands of new apartments.
The power supply improved significantly under Kim, spawning some new nightlife opportunities, but North Korea still grapples with shortages and sometimes shoddy infrastructure.
Ukrainians formed long queues outside Kyiv’s main post office on Thursday (April 14) to buy postage stamps of Ukrainian soldier making a crude gesture to a Russian ship, following the news that the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva, was badly damaged when ammunition on board blew up.
“An important event happened yesterday. Our Armed Forces destroyed the aggressor’s flagman ship. I think this event has to have a place in everyone’s memory.,” Ukrainian sales director Yevhen said.
The postage stamp is designed after a Ukrainian service member Roman Gribov, who was captured by Russian troops on an island after defying Russian forces with the message: “Russian warship, go f**k yourself”.
Gribov was one of a group of border guards who defied a Russian warship calling on them to surrender near tiny Snake Island in the Black Sea at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
“If you strike the right cord people will like it. So, I believe it’s the right cord for people and it shows,” Ukrainian Director-General of Ukrposhta National Post Operator, Ihor Smilianskyi, said. “I think it shows the resilience of people. It shows how Ukrainians will fight and win.”
Russia said the crew of its Black Sea fleet flagship were evacuated on Thursday and measures were being taken to tow the stricken ship back to port, after an explosion of ammunition on board that Ukraine said was caused by a missile strike.
Russia’s defence ministry said the fire on the Soviet-era missile cruiser Moskva had been contained but left the ship badly damaged. It did not acknowledge the ship, which had more than 500 sailors on board, had been attacked and said the cause of the fire was under investigation
Ukraine’s southern military command said that it hit the warship with a Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship missile and that it had started to sink.
Reuters was unable to verify either side’s statements.
New York Times รายงานว่า วิลเลียม เบิร์นส์ ผู้อำนวยการสำนักข่าวกรองกลาง (CIA) ตอบคำถามหลังกล่าวสุนทรพจน์ที่สถาบันเทคโนโลยีจอร์เจียว่า ความสิ้นหวังที่อาจเกิดขึ้นของ วลาดิมีร์ ปูติน ในการกำชัยชนะในยูเครน อาจทำให้เขาตัดสินใจใช้อาวุธนิวเคลียร์
วานนี้ได้เกิดคววามสับสนเกี่ยวกับอุบัติเหตุที่เกิดขึ้นกับเรือ Moskva ที่ลอยลำในทะเลดำ โดยฝั่งรัสเซียอ้างว่าเกิดไฟไหม้ขึ้นบนเรือ ส่งผลให้อาวุธยุทโธปกรณ์ที่อยู่บนเรือระเบิดอย่างรุนแรง ทำให้เรือเสียหายอย่างหนัก แต่ฝั่งยูเครนบอกว่า ได้ยิงขีปนาวุธต่อต้านเรือเนปจูน 2 ลูกใส่เรือ
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