As a Russian column stalled on a nearby highway Locals fought gun battles to keep the Russians off it And Mr Travetsky milked his cows twice a day in body armour This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Staying power” Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents Why what you’ve read about the trade deficit hurting growth is wrong A martini doesn’t just steady the nerves after a rollercoaster week Fund managers smell an opportunity to get even bigger A truce is still possible, but no one wants to be first to pick up the phone This was announced by the National Police of Ukraine the attack resulted in significant damage to an administrative building on the territory of the agricultural company as well as substantial damage to a hangar containing agricultural machinery and a facility storing more than 2,000 tonnes of grain No injuries were reported among the company's employees The incident was formally documented in the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations under Article 438 “War Crimes” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine Russian troops launched attack drones from several directions and the air alert was declared in several regions While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 Thank you for downloading this report! You can view it at the link below:View PDFIf you can not access the report, please contact ariana.lynn@thefastmode.com Get updates and alertsdelivered to your inbox BAT Ukraine has resumed manufacturing operations at the Pryluky tobacco factory in Ukraine as of April 25, reports InterFax Ukraine The company has reportedly decided to resume manufacturing at the factory in phases after making a thorough risk and threat analysis The operations at the Pryluky factory comply with all applicable security and safety requirements curfew and other restrictions proper to martial law BAT Ukraine is monitoring the security and safety situation in Pryluky and the Chernihiv region and plans to adapt activities as the situation changes ©2025 Nicotine Resource Consortium Amid Ukraine's operation in Russia's Kursk region the army of the aggressor country loses territory and its military personnel surrender en masse Russian propaganda tries to "hide" Russian failures on the battlefield Ukrinform has recently published a fact check debunking yet another fake of Russian propagandists regarding Ukraine's "huge losses" in the Kursk region It seems that this is the main topic in Russia's disinformation campaign regarding the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region The text states that the hospital administration is looking for refrigerated trucks allegedly due to "high losses" in the Ukrainian Armed Forces The contact phone number listed in these ads allegedly belongs to a man named Dmytro we found out that this is the phone number of a girl named Daria She told an Ukrinform correspondent that she did not post such ads The girl said that she lives in Kyiv and has never been to Sumy In addition, the photo of the refrigerator, which Russian propagandists used to create a fake ad, was published earlier on the website of a Russian online store Another fake, which Russian Telegram channels began to spread, was produced in Ukraine. In a video on TikTok, a blogger nicknamed oleksandr_inform tells in Ukrainian, sitting in his car, that the Ukrainian army allegedly suffered "heavy losses" in the Kursk region and that morgues in the Sumy region seem to be overcrowded This is a fake. This TikTok blogger lives in Pryluky and regularly records fake and manipulated videos about the economic situation including the one about "losses in the Kursk region," he does not provide any evidence but simply expresses his personal unsupported opinion Russian propaganda earlier spread a fake about a priest of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine praying for Trump's repose Ukrinform reported earlier that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had taken control of more than 1,000 square kilometers of territory and dozens of settlements in the Kursk region Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Ukrainian troops had advanced by 1 to 3 kilometers in some sectors in the Kursk region You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed The relevant statement was made by Suspilne Chernihiv on Telegram the Armed Forces of Ukraine were working in Pryluky District and expelled the enemy from the village of Kolisnyky which had been staying there for some time Now we are settling our positions in this direction,” Pryluky Military Administration Acting Head Volodymyr Chernov told All territorial communities in Pryluky District are Ukrainian controlled No movement of enemy forces has been reported Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine The Russian military are shelling and destroying the key infrastructure facilities launching missile strikes on residential districts in Ukrainian cities and villages it is customary for Ukraine to "recall" that in 1999 Ukraine gave russia its Tu-160 strategic bombers and almost half a thousand Kh-55 missiles we have almost no tools and for retaliatory strikes against russian military facilities Let’s pay attention to another point: during the last few strikes the russians did not use the Tu-160 at all to "shoot" the cruise missile it would be more logical: comparing the two strategic bombers the Tu-160 can take up to 12 cruise missiles on board and Tu-95MS up to 6-8 (depending on the type of the cruise missile and modification of the bomber) A possible answer can be found in the magazine called "Aviatsiya y vremya" ("Aviation and time") The historical retrospective is the following which later passed into the hands of the Ukrainian Air Force were concentrated in the 184th Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment which was then based at the airfield in Pryluky The first problem with the maintenance of these planes arose "from the start": only 25% of the flight personnel and 60% of the technical personnel swore allegiance to Ukraine aiming to get these bombers into its hands the Tupolev Design Bureau "suddenly" refused its obligations to maintain the Tu-160 of the Ukrainian Air Force And the lack of "domestic" aircraft technicians only exacerbated this problem The subjective inertia demonstrated by the military-political leadership of Ukraine at that time also played its role it was believed that Ukraine doesn’t have training grounds for Tu-160 crews and that Ukraine does not have such tasks that require these bombers All of that ultimately led to the episode of 1999 with the transfer of aircraft and missiles to russia in exchange for natural gas which Ukrainians all still deeply regret about As for the maintenance problems of the Tu-160 Defense Express will make the following correction "transferring" the realities of 1995 to the realities of 2022 may not be entirely correct But here we are talking about a country that which in fact was made entirely of blanks from the late 1980s The first nuance that should be paid attention to is "dimensional" Ukraine) was the first where the Tu-160 was operated the length of the runway was extended up to 3,000 meters as this type of strategic bomber showed very high inertia during landing (simply put there could be a risk of rolling off the runway due to pilot error) Another detail: practice has shown that it is better not to "fold" the wings on the Tu-160 to a sweep angle of 60 degrees in order to "save" space in the parking lot because then the bomber immediately collapsed on its tail That’s why russians park their Tu-160s only with the wings "spread" to a sweep angle of 20 degrees Which in turn takes up a lot of space at the airport there will be the huge need for appropriate equipment at the airfields when dispersing Tu-160 fighters in russia It takes 64 man-hours of preparatory work to prepare one Tu-160 for takeoff And 15-20 special vehicles for various purposes including cars with mobile air conditioners at least three TZ-60 fuel fillers and fuel nitriding installations optionally a minibus with a ventilation system for the crew's high-altitude suits The noise during the preparation of the aircraft for flight could reach 130 decibels and the noise from the start of the auxiliary power plant seemed to exceed the pain threshold by 45 decibels It is difficult to say whether the russian Air Force currently uses such a "caravan of vehicles" to prepare the Tu-160s for flights we can see that much less equipment is used to prepare the Tu-95MS for takeoff What can be determined by the fact that russians use this kind of strategic bombers more often Another technical aspect of the Tu-160 worth noting is their NK-32 engines the problem was that sometimes these engines were very difficult to start during the development of the Tu-160 in Pryluky the "change" of the crews was carried out with the power plant turned on Another nuance: at least in the first years of Tu-160 service there were frequent failures of the Baikal on-board defense complex which included means of radio-electronic warfare russians temporarily stopped using these bombers in order to "save" the resource this opens up a new question: since they need to do that there might be some technical issues that prevent russia from applying more modern strategic bombers This website is using a 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