Apr 27: E-Stories
Day 428: A&P Saturnax Oxley ISWChina
Catching up…
EA Worldview’s Ukraine Up-date- hop over to Scott’s amazing hourly Ukraine up-date page. I’ll fill in with some bits and bobs.
Stories we’re following…
ISW: Ukrainian forces made 'marginal gains' south of Kreminna. Ukraine's Armed Forces have made "marginal gains" south of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast as of April 24, continuing to target Russian logistics nodes in rear areas of the region, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
Sweden is expelling five Russian diplomats, the foreign minister told public broadcaster SVT on Tuesday. Tobias Billstrom said:
Sweden has called up Russia’s ambassador … and informed him that five people who are employed at the embassy have been asked to leave the country as a result of activities that are incompatible with the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.
A Ukrainian community in southern Brazil has decided to turn its local football team into FC Mariupol, a top-flight club disbanded after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a show of solidarity with the war-torn country. AA Batel, a team from the Prudentópolis region in Paraná, said on Monday they will take on Mariupol’s kit, crest and logo a year after the club’s facilities and stadium were destroyed in the invasion which Moscow calls a special military operation.
Russia Continues Expanding & Strengthening Its Presence In Antarctic.
Published by Saturnax, April 24, 2023
- Three out of five planned modules of a new wintering complex were built at the NPC* Vostok Research Station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Completion of the construction works is scheduled for the next season.
- Construction material & workforce was supplied from the Progress Station at the Larsemann Hills on the shore of Prydz Bay, Antarctica, from November 2022 to February 2023. The new Zenit airfield at the Progress improved the logistic flow, making it the main support base for the Vostok Station.
- "We expect to fully commission the NPC Vostok in 2025," - Alexander Makarov, Director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).
- "The new wintering complex Vostok will include five modules with a total area of about 2000 square meters. The length of the station under construction will be 140 meters, the maximum height will be 17.5 meters. The modules are mounted on 36 three-meter supports, which will allow the station to remain uncovered by snow for many years. The poles were installed during the last season." - AARI Press Release.
*NPC - Nauchno-Proizvodstvennyy Tsentr (Research & Production Centre)
Photos by AARI & ZAPSIBGAZPROM.
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