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Saturday 6 May 2023

09:38

VE DAY CELEBRATIONS CANCELLED

In Russia, Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany is celebrated on May 9 with a grand celebration of patriotic uprising. According to the British Ministry of Defense Daily Report, six Russian regions, occupied Crimea and about 20 cities have canceled their parade planned for that day for security reasons. A parade is planned in Moscow, but on a smaller scale than usual.

09:07

UPDATE ON THE SITUATION

On this 437th day of the war, a look back at key information about the conflict over the past 24 hours.

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Posted today at 8:29 am

09:06

A ROCKET SHOT OVER THE Kyiv REGION

The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force Mykola Oleshuk said that thanks to the Patriot air defense system, a hypersonic Kinjal missile was shot down over the Kiev region. The Ukrainian Air Force initially refuted the statements made by the Kiev military administration before confirming this information.

08:12

GOOD MORNING

Hello and welcome to this direct message dedicated to news about the war in Ukraine. Here you will find all the information about the invasion that Russia has been waging in Ukraine for more than 400 days.

• Prigozhin, announces Wagner’s withdrawal from Bakhmut on May 10th. Kadyrov: «The Chechens are ready to replace them».
• Moscow evacuates parts of the Zaporizhia region. Kiev to the citizens of the region: “Stay at home for the weekend”.
• Ukrainians say they destroyed Wagner’s ammunition depots in Bakhmut.
• Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Mikhail Mizintsev has joined Wagner as Deputy Commander.

11:32 am – Kiev, three wounded in a Russian attack on Nikopol

Russian forces bombarded Nikopol with Grad rockets and artillery. This was announced by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration Serhii Lysak, adding that three people were injured. According to reports, four dozen shells were fired at the city, hitting an industrial plant. “Three workers were injured. They are 48-, 50- and 58-year-old males,” writes Lysak.

11:06 – Kyiv: Russian missile shot down thanks to Patriot defense system

Ukrainian air defense units shot down a Russian Kinzhal missile thanks to a Patriot air defense system. This was announced by the Ukrainian Air Force via Telegram message. “We launched an ‘unprecedented’ Kinzhal missile! It happened during the night attack on May 4 in the skies over the Kyiv region. The Kh-47 missile was fired from a Mig-31K,” said General Mykola Oleshchuk, Air Force Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

10:44am – UK: Fears of attacks following cancellation of May 9 parades

Concerns among Russian leaders about their vulnerability to attack and possible public outcry over the war in Ukraine contributed to the decision to cancel many May 9 Victory Day parades, citing security concerns. That’s what the British Ministry of Defense claims in its latest intelligence update. The ministry said six Russian regions, occupied Crimea and 21 cities had canceled their parades commemorating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. “The timing of the drone attack on the Kremlin just days before Victory Day demonstrates Russia’s growing vulnerability to such attacks and has almost certainly heightened the Russian leadership’s perception of the threat compared to what happened on Victory Day. The possibility of protests over the war in Ukraine may also have influenced the calculations of the Russian leadership,” the ministry wrote on Twitter, adding that the Moscow Victory Day celebrations are expected to take place, but on a smaller scale.

10:23 am – Explosions in Crimea. Pro-Russian: Anti-aircraft defenses activated

There were several explosions this morning in occupied Crimea. This was reported by Ukrainian media, citing local Telegram channels, which published videos allegedly taken by residents of the peninsula showing smoke. The blasts were reportedly heard by residents of the Krasnogvardiysky district of the occupied peninsula. Subsequently, Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to Crimea’s pro-Russian governor, reported that “air defenses were activated in the north” and “there were no casualties or damage”.

09:58 – Kiev has concerns and confirmed: shot down hypersonic missile

After initial denials, the Commander of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Mykola Oleshuk confirmed that on the night of May 4 a hypersonic Kinzhal missile was shot down by the US Patriot missile defense system over the sky of the capital Kiev. «Congratulations to the people of Ukraine on a historic event! Yes, we shot down the Kinzhal” with the “Patriots”, he wrote on Telegram. “The Kh-47 missile was fired from the territory of Russia by a MiG-31K,” he added. Yesterday, the Defense Express portal reported the launch of the missile, but the Ukrainian Air Force spokesman later denied it.

07:58 – Kiev, 4 kamikaze drones were shot down over Dnipropetrovsk in the night

During the night, Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses shot down four Iranian-made kamikaze drones “Shahed” in the Dnepropetrovsk region, which borders Donetsk and Zaporizhia to the east, writes the website of the Ukrinform agency, citing the Telegram account of the governor of the region Serhyi Lysak.

06:41 – Russia’s priority is no longer Bachmut, but the Kiev counter-offensive

The Russian Ministry of Defense shifted its battlefield priority, shifting the operational focus from capturing Bakhmut to preparing for a Ukrainian counteroffensive. This is confirmed by the May 5th report by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). According to analysts, this change put the mercenaries of «Wagner» in a difficult position, and the videos with threats from the leader Prigozhin «show his desperation and deep anger». Wagner’s persistence in Bakhmut is at odds with a general slowdown in Russian offensive operations elsewhere in Ukraine, as Russia’s regular military appears to be shifting focus largely to preparing for a long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive. It is currently unknown whether Prigozhin really intends to pull out of Bakhmut on May 10, or whether he made this statement in a last-ditch attempt to gain Defense Ministry support.

04:25 – The First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska at Buckingham Palace

Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska met the Princess of Wales Kate Middleton and US First Lady Jill Biden at Buckingham Palace last night. The three women were among the guests at a reception hosted by King Charles II ahead of today’s coronation. “It was an honor for me to attend the official coronation reception of His Majesty Charles III. to talk to the Princess of Wales and the First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden,” Zelenska wrote on her Twitter profile – Dear ladies and great friends of Ukraine”.

– The First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, with Kate Middleton and Jill Biden, wife of the US President

04:17 – More than $397 million is the estimated cost of demining in Ukraine

The resources needed for demining the territories of Ukraine by 2023 will amount to more than $397 million. First Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Pavliuk told Ukrinform. The estimated cost of the full range of humanitarian demining activities is $37 billion. According to the World Bank, the need for the current year alone is more than 397 million dollars. These costs are not final, the amount may decrease or increase significantly,” Pavliuk said. Demining spending is the focus of next year’s budget study, starting with the budget needed to create and equip new units that will strengthen the Department of Defense’s demining capabilities.

04:14 – Russia uses phosphorus bombs and incendiary ammunition on Bakhmut

Russian occupying forces used phosphorus bombs and incendiary ammunition in the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast in the evening. This was written by Ukraine’s Pravda, which shows a video and quotes the press service of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO). «The enemy – says the SSO – used phosphorus and incendiary ammunition in Bakhmut and tried to wipe the city off the face of the earth. However, soldiers of the SSO and other units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to valiantly defend the city. And under these conditions we continue to crush the enemy.” Petro Andriushchenko, Advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol, released the video and commented on social media: “Bakhmut. Phosphorus ammunition. Wretched bastards. The same situation was in Mariupol. If If they can’t do anything, phosphorus ammunition will be fired.”

Days after repealing Title 42, a health policy implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, Joe Biden’s administration pledged that migrants entering the country illegally would be deported.

This was confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at a press conference in Brownsville, Texas.

“The border is not open. It was not open and will not be open after May 11th. And smugglers who exploit vulnerable migrants spread misinformation. They spread lies to lure vulnerable people to the southern border and those people are only being pushed back,” he was quoted as saying by Fox News.

The government has been intensifying its preparations for the end of the current regulation for days, including the deployment of 1,500 soldiers on the southern border and the establishment of immigration centers throughout Latin America.

He stressed that starting this coming week, Title 8 will apply, a policy that allows “persons to be removed very quickly” and includes a re-entry ban and criminal prosecution.

Under this rule, migrants would theoretically be barred from applying if they cross the border illegally and fail to apply for asylum in a country they have already traveled through.

With this norm, the consequences will be tougher, Mayorkas noted.

A Department of Homeland Security official also told the press that the number of deportation flights had increased in recent months and that they would continue under Title 8.

Earlier news reports said the military’s deployment to the border is at the request of the Department of Homeland Security and the troops will remain there for 90 days.

President Biden defended that decision Friday, saying the troops were sent to help border officials, not to enforce the law.

“I’ve asked this Congress for help with what they need at the border,” Biden said in an interview with MSNBC, reporting that in addition to the troops, asylum judges are being dispatched to deliver sentences at the border.

Critics slammed the president’s decision to phase out Title 42 policy without a set plan.

Former Vice President Mike Pence (2017-2021) has criticized the government, saying that the “rush” of migrants at the border is a “direct result” of its immigration policies.

“There’s a storm coming and 1,500 troops going to the southern border to do paperwork isn’t going to make a difference,” Pence said.

Troy Miller, the top official at US Customs and Border Protection, recently told Congress that his agency expects up to 10,000 migrants to arrive daily after Title 42 ends, nearly doubling the daily average in March.

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He is the man of the great sacred moments: after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II May the Archbishop of Canterbury, justin wellbynow also with a special role in the coronation of King Charles III to play. Church of England chief minister to lead service at Westminster Abbey with Charles and his wife Camila anoint and crown.

The 67-year-old, who worked in the oil industry before his theological career, has been in the post from 2013 to 2018. Prince Harry It is Duchess Meghan married. in the baptisms of George, Charlotte and Louis – the children of Prince William It is Princess Kate – he was also in action.

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sense of responsibility

According to the Times, Welby’s preparations for the exceptional event have been underway since taking office. Each new Archbishop of Canterbury – the incumbent is responsible for coronations – receives drafts from his predecessor, a former aide told the paper. “As archbishop, you are the authority on this – not the crown, not Westminster Abbey.” However, the ceremony is closely coordinated with the palace.

A special wish of King Charles is to include other religions in the coronation celebrations. “We have been extremely careful to ensure that clergy of other faiths and Christians are represented in their respective faiths without creating a compromising mix,” Welby said a few weeks ago, according to Sky News.

The Archbishop is aware of the great task that falls on his shoulders with the coronation. He once dreamed of appearing at the coronation without a crown, he revealed in an interview with Channel 4 last year.

Welby’s personal aim for the coronation is simple but still lofty: he hopes the king will leave Westminster Abbey “with joy”, he said recently.

Space engineering has a number of flaws when it comes to landing small planes on the moon. In late April, the Japanese HakutoR probe attempted to land on the lunar surface, but the module lost contact with Earth and crashed into the ground during the failed attempt.

Physics and astronomy professor Flavio Alarsa explains that the moon’s high speed and lack of an atmosphere make missions difficult.

“Ships always travel at around 2,000 kilometers per hour, that is 8 km per second. It’s like driving from the city of São Paulo to the coast in 9 seconds. On the moon you have to land at a speed of 1 meter per second, secondly, it shatters the probe,” explains the professor.

In order to land on celestial bodies with an atmosphere like Mars, spacecraft rely on three different braking systems. Are you:

To “park” on the moon, you can only rely on the retro rockets. Understand how each of these elements works below.

1 of 4 Why do small spacecraft so often fail trying to land on the moon? — Photo: Arte g1/Juan Silva Why do small spaceships so often fail when trying to land on the moon? — Photo: Arte g1/Juan Silva

1 heat shield

As the name suggests, the shield serves to protect against the high temperatures generated by friction with the atmosphere, turning the ship into a giant fireball. The shield houses the ship’s sensors, which measure altitude and collect other data. Outside the temperature can reach 2,000 °C and inside only 10 °C.

According to Alarsa, the friction caused by the shield can reduce speed by about 5 to 10 thousand kilometers. After that, he will be expelled from the ship and the other sensors will start to work.

2 parachute

In this second moment, a parachute is deployed to further dampen the speed of the fall. However, like the heat shield, it only works when there is an atmosphere (a layer of gases surrounding planets like Earth and Mars).

3 retro rockets

During the final phase, the sensors measure range and other variables to eventually fire the retrorockets and provide the final deceleration that leads to landing.

This is the most critical moment. Especially since these are retro rockets only type of braking possible to land on the moon, which requires huge amounts of fuel that is not easy to transport. If a mistake is made at this step, the ship will collide and break apart.

“This creates technical instability. Assuming there are four rockets at the base of the probe, used throughout the descent, they burn a lot of fuel. And if one of them stops working, the spacecraft becomes unstable,” says Alarsa.

vertical descent

The professor also explains that the modules on the moon must descend vertically, unlike, for example, airplanes, which descend tangentially and parallel to the runways.

“But it enters tangentially and has to make a turn to turn down, something very tricky. On the Apollo mission, this curve was called the ‘death curve’.

“And it could all work out and in the end the ship could hit a rock and ruin everything,” Alarsa points out.

Japanese probe takes picture of moon’s surface

Foot on the brake and right angle

Cassio Barbosa, an astronomer at the FEI University Center, explains that this happens because spaceflight landings are always delicate moments.

“Deceleration is the most critical phase because it comes very quickly and it’s not just about putting your foot on the brake, but at the right angle to brake enough for the moon’s gravitational orbit to catch it,” he says.

He goes on to say that this is not an exclusive feature of moon landings. “It’s like an airplane, the worst moments are takeoff and landing,” he says.

Before that, in 2019, two other missions were also unsuccessful. They are:

• BeresheetIn Israel, which fell to the moon after engine failures. It was the first private space mission to land on the moon organized under the supervision of the North American Space Agency (NASA).

2 of 4 The Beresheet spacecraft’s selfie was taken about 13 kilometers from the lunar surface. The Israeli flag reads “Small Country, Big Dreams”. — Photo: Disclosure / SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries The selfie of the Beresheet spacecraft was taken about 13 kilometers from the lunar surface. The Israeli flag reads “Small Country, Big Dreams”. — Photo: Disclosure / SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries

• Chandrayaan2of the India, lost contact with Earth shortly before landing. The aim of the mission was to get more information about the moon’s mineral composition and the possible presence of water there (confirmed in 2023 thanks to a Chinese mission that collected lunar glass spheres in 2020).

3 of 4 India sent a mission to the moon on July 22, 2019. — Photo: Indian Space Research Organization/Portal India sent a mission to the Moon on July 22, 2019. — Photo: Indian Space Research Organization/Portal

Cassio Barbosa also attributes the failed attempts to the fact that these private company initiatives were probably not based on a consistent spatial plan.

These are private initiatives that had no realistic landing tests and therefore failed.

— Cassio Barbosa, astronomer at FEI University Center

He also says that if the snow loses communications, the mission can only be kept on course with an autonomous navigation system. But when the problem involves engine failure, there is nothing that can be done.

China: successful mission

4 of 4 Yutu2 robot, part of the mission that arrived on the far side of the moon in January 2019, carried by the Chang’e 4 spacecraft. — Photo: Our Space/Disclosure Yutu2 robot, the Part is the mission that arrived on the far side of the moon in January 2019, captured by the Chang’e 4 spacecraft. — Photo: Our Space/Disclosure

In late 2018, China launched an exploration module to bring a robot to the “dark side” of the moon. You can only see one side of the moon because it revolves at the same speed as it revolves around the earth.

“China made the first landing, even on the other side of the moon,” emphasizes Cassio.

Also see:

• Unprecedented image of a black hole spewing out a powerful jet of matter released by scientists
• The innovations of the space suits used in the return to the moon