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Speaking to an interviewer from Russian state media channel Россия 1, Col. Gen. Mordvichev says the quiet part out loud regarding the broader goals of Russian policy: namely that the ambition of conquering Ukraine is only a stepping stone to attacking the rest of Eastern Europe, a course of action which he presents as a necessity ("we will have to attack").

I would opine that statements like these, brazenly uttered to domestic mass media by a senior military figure, are indicative of the realities of Russian ambitions: to revive Russian imperial domination of Eastern Europe by force of arms.

So apparently there's a combat unit of the Ukrainian Army who posts their videos as "Khorne Group", @ImmateriumUKRKhorne, and dabs His sigil on hardware like 122mm shells.

Pictured here providing skulls for the skull throne with a guided missile.

That's a crossover I didn't see coming!

"This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap

A cat was paid a penny each week, to keep down the rats and mice in the north tower, and a cat flap was cut into the door below the astronomical clock to allow the cat to carry out its duties.

Records of payments were entered in the Cathedral archives from 1305 to 1467, the penny a week being enough to buy food to supplement a heavy diet of rodents."

“Total haul from the Superior Street bike lane today, 43 screws and nails found lying in the middle of the bike path, and only on the bike path".

Busiest I've seen downtown since pre-pandemic — it was good to see so many people enjoying themselves! Hope everyone here had a good day.

“We’ve never seen this before,” said Dave Campbell, the head of the forecast centre, in an interview with CHEK News Monday.

“We are really going to need to see wet weather and persistent wet weather for the next several weeks if we were to avoid significant drought for places like Vancouver Island for later this summer.”

Environment Canada tells CHEK News that wet and persistent weather is not coming in the near future.

Officials are asking people to conserve water now as we head into what could be a history-making drought season.

Not looking forward to this, but I guess it's the new normal for BC's climate going forwards... Likely to also increase the incidence of forest fires, I'd imagine.

Dmitri of @wartranslated has proven a reliable translator, and Prigozhin — for all that he's a war criminal who we may hope will one day decorate The Hague — has often proven to be more reliably in touch with tactical realities than his counterparts in the VSRF command structure or Russian media.

A necessary caveat here is that underlying Prigozhin's communications is his own political game, IE discrediting the VSRF & Shoigu et al to gain more influence himself, but that doesn't mean he's incorrect in his assessment here.

Via Dmitri (@wartranslated):

• Prigozhin says again that Rusian lines in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are falling, and it is only a matter of time until moves similar to Kherson and Kharkiv regroupings take place. Local Russian commanders are forced to provide false reports on their positions so as to not antagonise the high command.

The latter part in particular seems to be a systemic problem with the RU command structure — false reports are passed up the chain, leaving general staff out of touch with realities on the ground and unable to give orders that will have the desired result.

Or, as Prigozhin so eloquently puts it, "the General Staff head, after a glass of vodka, screams like a woman, like a pig, demanding to return the positions!"

Seems like it's still a far cry from the options available on the Tsawwassen side, but any change has got to be an improvement. Anyone been there since it reopened and seen what they have on offer now?