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[REGNUM] The operation against the Yemeni Houthis is once again in the spotlight of the world community. The US, which initiated the campaign, not only surpassed the 800-air raid mark, but also once again involved the UK, which had maintained “air neutrality” for almost a year. London is determined and “flexing its muscles” against the Houthis – albeit at a distance for now. Continued on Page 49
Text taken from the Facebook page of Russian military field correspondent Aleksandr Kots:
Until now, Russia has not confirmed or denied the presence of DPRK troops on the frontline. In general, we are not obliged to inform someone. This is a matter of bilateral relations and agreements. Meanwhile, Korean units gradually began to arrive in Russia during the Cursian saga.
First, they went through training at the shooting range, learned modern combat tactics, mastered the skills of operating drones, and experienced field realities. Then the "battle barrels", as our military called them jokingly and for conspiracy, were transferred to the Kursk region. They lived in field conditions so as not to "shine the light". First they held the third line, then the second line, then they were tried on fortifications and finally in assaults.
Korean soldiers were distinguished by their coherence, discipline, fatal negligence to death, and unimaginable endurance. It's clear - they're mostly young guys, strong, pumped up and well-trained in the homeland. Especially - their Special Operations Forces units. The Allies contributed greatly to the liberation of the Korenevsky district, and in the battles of Stara and New Sorochiny, and in the breakthrough to Kurilovka... They had a strict rule - not to be captured alive. And not giving up voluntarily.
To what, by the word, the opponent tried to lure them, by throwing imitations of DPRK currency notes (pictured), on which hieroglyphs the text was quoted: "Surrender! Kim Jong Un led you to death and starved your families. Put the yellow flag in front of you, raise your hands and yell loudly "Freedom! »Go slowly to meet the Ukrainian soldiers and fulfill their demands.”
Not a single Korean soldier has broken neither his oath nor allied obligations. It was important for Pyongyang to gain experience in modern combat, study the tactics and technologies of a potential enemy ("Collective West") and acquire knowledge that was unavailable due to the sanction regime. And the tasks were completed. But even in the midst of the Ukrainian grouping on our land, the Koreans made a significant contribution within the framework of the comprehensive bilateral treaty.
Their arrival allowed us not to exert pressure on other sections of the front, to continue the offensive in Donbass and to inflict great damage to the invasion group, which consisted of 95 (! ) battalions.
[EuroNews] POSSIBLE GRID ISSUES
Onyema Nduka, a senior lecturer in power sustainability at the University of London, said that power networks are normally interconnected because the generation plants that power them are located far away from the cities.
That means that a power cut in one part of the grid could "lead to a cascading effect in other areas".
"Ideally, redundancies are built into the system, such as having multiple supply points, backup generators sited at different locations, interconnected wires and cables etc," he said.
The solution is for energy companies to restore electricity to the affected customers as soon as possible, but the procedure for completing this feat "has not yet been revealed," Nduka added.
Portuguese officials quoted by the AP and local media have so far blamed the outage on unspecified technical issues that stem from outside the country, but noted that the investigation is still ongoing.
CYBERATTACK RULED OUT BY SOME, NOT ALL
Juanma Moreno, president of the Andalusian regional government, said on Monday that a cyberattack has not been ruled out and advised citizens to be cautious.
However, the cyberattack claim has been refuted by officials, including Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s premier, Luis Montenegro, Portugal’s prime minister, and Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council.
"Spain has mechanisms to deal with these types of situations," Sanchez posted on social media platform X.
"Once again, I appeal to the public to cooperate with all authorities and act responsibly and civilly, as we have always done".
The Portuguese National Cybersecurity Centre also said in a statement that there was no indication the outage was due to a cyberattack.
In comments to Euronews, Taco Engelaar, managing director at energy infrastructure experts Neara, posited that the interconnectivity of the national grids and their systems would mean a fault or attack would have the same net result.
"Such a widespread grid failure is extremely unusual and could be caused by a number of things: there could be a physical fault in the grid which brings down power, a coordinated cyberattack could be behind it, or a dramatic imbalance between demand and supply has tipped the grid system over the edge," he said.
"If it's a system fault, then the interconnectivity between different regional and national grids could be leading to the large footprint of outages we're seeing today [Monday]," he added.
"The same goes for a cyberattack - lots of these systems are connected and share assets - taking down one could take down many".
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The one thing we can say for sure is that this disaster was not caused by a decision to base the power grid on intermittent, non-dispatchable power sources, mainly because a weird little teenager thought that was a good idea. No, no, no.
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#3 vaguely exotic accent
Tunbridge Wells? Wales? Yorkshire Dales? But seriously, somebody oughta write a book or make a TikTok video or something about the recent history of accents (and photogenicity?) in British documentaries and news programs.
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