#alexander kamyshin

[somebluenovember]

One day, after Ukraine has won and they are again ready to welcome tourists, I will take my entire family along and go and travel across the country *just by train*, and it will be to a great deal because of inspiration from this guy and his team.

To keep the trains of Ukraine going (and for the major part, on time! and open entire new lines! even international ones; whilst also organising safe train rides for heads of other countries visiting Kyiv, and evacuation trains from the areas under bombing, etc) while the country is under attack, defending itself in an actual war, is a feat of breathtaking organisational skills, drive and a sense of purpose.  One day. 

(I’m also easy pickings for this, I absolutely adore trains)

[realiv0]

[tomorrowusa]

Ukraine’s railroad network is not just a vital lifeline but a national treasure.

The trains and the people working for the rail system keep the country running and unified at a time when it’s too dangerous for non-military air travel.

Even in wartime the stations are kept clean with amenities for visitors – whether or not they are traveling.

Here are the stats for 26 February 2023 for Ukrainian Railways (Укрзалізниця or УЗ for short).

Such service is roughly on a par with that of Japan and Switzerland – neither of whom is under attack by a genocidal Russian dictator.

Since that CBC report was aired, Alexander Kamyshin has resigned as CEO to become head of the European Integration Office of УЗ. Yes, Ukraine continues to strengthen its ties with the rest of Europe.

[darkmaga-retard]

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigned Wednesday ahead of an anticipated cabinet reshuffle. Kuleba, who had served in the post since 2020, is a strong supporter of Ukrainian entrance into NATO and the European Union.

It currently seems likely that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will initiate a cabinet reshuffle in the coming days. David Arakhamia, the parliamentary leader of Zelensky’s party, seemed to confirm the rumors of a shakeup in a post on Telegram. “As promised, a major government reshuffle is expected this week,” Arakhamia wrote. “More than 50% of the Cabinet of Ministers’ staff will be changed.”

“Tomorrow we will have a day of dismissals, and the day after tomorrow–a day of appointments,” Arakhamia added.

Earlier in the week, four other Ukrainian cabinet ministers resigned, including Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Olha Stefanishyna and Minister of Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Russia has continued to gain ground in the Donbas, while Ukraine has struggled in its offensive in Kursk.

[warningsine]

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba submitted his letter of resignation, speaker of Ukraine's parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk reported on Sept. 4.

Stefanchuk said that Kuleba's potential resignation will be "considered at one of the upcoming plenary meetings" but did not provide a date.

"It is a big reshuffle. It was expected rather long ago," lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko told the Kyiv Independent.

"Ahead of us difficult times, difficult autumn and winter. Perhaps this reshuffle is somehow related to the new period of challenges for Ukraine."

Serving as foreign minister since 2020, Kuleba has been at the forefront of Ukraine's efforts to engage its international allies and secure new partnerships since the beginning of the full-scale war.

Following earlier rumors of his dismissal in August 2023, Kuleba said on national television that he was not concerned about the possibility.

"I work, no job is permanent, and I’m totally calm about everything," he said at the time. "I said at the very beginning that I would leave under two circumstances: the first is if the president asks me to do it. The second is if I get into some fundamental contradiction with foreign policy and don’t consider it possible to work with it," Kuleba added.

Ukrainska Pravda reported on Sept. 3, citing unnamed sources, that Kuleba would be dismissed, and that his replacement was still being considered. The most likely candidate to take the position would be Deputy Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, the sources said.

The news follows a number of other high-profile ministers submitting their letters of resignation the previous day — Strategic Industries Minister Alexander Kamyshin, Justice Minister Denys Maliuska, Ecology Minister Ruslan Strilets, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna, and Deputy Prime Minister and Reintegration Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

Vitalii Koval, head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU), also submitted his resignation nine months after being in office.

The reasons for the resignations were not specified. The news came after months of reports about the possible replacement of several Ukrainian ministers.

David Arakhamia, the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People's party in parliament, said on Sept. 3 that the reshuffle would affect more than half of the government's staff.

"Tomorrow is the day of dismissals, and the day after that is the day of appointments," he added.

Zelensky said in March that Ukrainians can expect more government reshuffles in the future, following a shake-up of his inner circle.

Infrastructure Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksandr Kubrakov and Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi were then dismissed in May.

[jeintalu]

RESIGNED

Resigned :

Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba;

Minister of Justice Denis Maliuska;

Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin;

Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets;

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna;

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk;

Deputy head of Zelensky's office Rostislav Shurma.

Interesting.

The people of Ukraine have not resigned.

The outdated president Zelensky has not resigned.

[mariacallous]

Two days after Russian troops retreated from Kherson on November 11, Ukraine Railways CEO Alexander Kamyshin arrived in the city accompanied by Ukrainian special forces and a small team of railway workers. They reached the central train station even before the regular army arrived to secure the city, and got to work. Six days later, the first train from Kyiv rolled into liberated Kherson.

“It was a magic day,” Kamyshin says. “We saw the faces of the people seeing the train, crying, waving their hands. Trust me, it was unforgettable. That’s one of the days to remember forever.” 

Since Russia began an intense assault on Ukraine a year ago today, Kamyshin and his colleagues have worked ceaselessly to keep Ukraine’s trains running. They’ve moved 4 million refugees and more than 330,000 metric tons of humanitarian aid, sending trains right up to—and sometimes beyond—the front lines of the conflict. With air travel all but impossible, Ukraine Railways has brought at least 300 foreign delegations into Kyiv in a program it calls “iron diplomacy.” Earlier this week, a train dubbed “Rail Force One” secretly carried US president Joe Biden to the Ukrainian capital for a symbolic visit.

All that work has taken place under near constant attack. “[The Russians shell] tracks, stations, bridges, power stations, cranes, they shell everything,” Kamyshin says. “Two hundred and fifty people died, 800 people injured. That’s only railwaymen and women. That’s the price we paid in this war.”

Speaking over Zoom from Kyiv, Kamyshin is taciturn, with a ready supply of one-liners. (Asked how it was possible to get trains into Mariupol, a city being flattened by Russian bombardments, he said simply: “very fast.”) He says Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, wasn’t entirely unexpected, and the government had contingencies in place in case of war. “Institutions like Ukrainian Railways always have a plan. The problem was, that plan was on paper. It was totally irrelevant.”

Kamyshin and Ukraine’s rail workers have had to make countless small, but enormously consequential decisions that weren’t part of the pre-invasion script. They abandoned ticketing so anyone who needed to travel could do so immediately. They slowed down the trains to limit casualties in the event of derailment or sabotage. They changed the rules on pets so that evacuees could bring them as they fled—Ukraine Railways estimates 120,000 animals have traveled over the past 12 months.

During the first three weeks of the war last year, as Russian troops pushed into central and southern Ukraine, the railway’s main focus was on evacuations and on moving humanitarian aid into towns and cities being bombed and shelled. Passenger trains went west toward the Polish border carrying refugees, then returned to the front filled with supplies. 

In Mariupol, a port city on the Black Sea close to the Russian border that was bombarded relentlessly until resistance finally collapsed in May 2022, rail workers managed to get trains in and out several times before the tracks were destroyed. The stranded crews were able to evacuate by road, but two trains are still stuck there.

Since the momentum of the war tilted last fall and Ukrainian forces began to retake huge areas of the country, Kamyshin’s focus has changed to reconnecting liberated towns and cities. “It’s important because it gives freedom to travel for people who have been captured for a long time. We bring humanitarian aid [at] scale … And it’s bringing the economy back to life,” he says.

As Russian forces have retreated, they’ve changed tactics, focusing their attacks on civilian infrastructure. Kamyshin says the past year has seen 12,000 strikes on the railway that needed to be fixed. He says maintenance crews have had to innovate to get ahold of parts and make repairs under fire but declined to give details. “Sharing creative solutions means giving ideas to Russians. Not the best idea at this moment,” he said.

As Russian strikes on power stations have become more common, Ukraine Railways has pressed old diesel locomotives into service. When an electric train gets stranded, a diesel engine goes out and rescues it. In blackouts, stations fire up backup generators, and when that fails, the railway can turn to a stock of 15,000 cubic meters of firewood. “We’re pretty well backed up,” Kamyshin says.

With nonmilitary flights over Ukraine all but impossible, Kamyshin and his colleagues have had to manage the flow of foreign leaders and diplomats heading to Kyiv to meet with the government. The journey from the Polish border to the Ukrainian capital takes 10 hours, and few leaders stay long before turning around. “President Biden spent 20 hours on the train and only four hours in Kyiv,” Kamyshin says. “We were interacting with him more than anyone else. So his opinion about my country was formed on the railways as strongly as it was formed in the city.”

Biden’s first words when he stepped off the train were “It’s good to be back in Kyiv.” His visit a few days before the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was an important piece of political theater that took weeks of planning. The president and his entourage boarded a train at Przemyśl Główny in Poland just after 9 pm, traveling overnight to arrive in Kyiv at 8 the next morning. 

Proud as he is of the iron diplomacy program, Kamyshin admits to a little frustration. Rail Force One, as it has become known, caused delays of up to 90 minutes to other services on the line. “That was painful for me and my team,” he says. “I apologized to my customers because that’s not the proper level of service we should provide.”

[jcmarchi]

New Player On The Field - Ukraine Used FrankenSAM For The First Time - Technology Org

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New Player On The Field - Ukraine Used FrankenSAM For The First Time - Technology Org

Everyday Ukraine is being attacked by Russian drones and cruise missiles. These kinds of weapons are relatively easy to take down, but only if good air defence systems are present. The issue is that Ukraine is a very large country and it is difficult to provide it with enough air defence capabilities. Some things just need to be cobbled together and that is what FrankenSAM project is, which is now doing its intended work.

A multi-storey residential building in Odessa, damaged by Russian missiles at the end of 2023. Image credit: National Police of Ukraine via Wikimedia (CC BY 4.0)

On the night of January 17, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the FrankenSAM air defence system for the first time in combat conditions. It shot down a Shahed drone from a distance of 9 kilometers. The minister of strategic industry, Alexander Kamyshin announced this, marking a fruitful result of the efforts to combine Western ammunition with soviet air defence systems. The message is simple – the first operational FrankenSAM systems have already been deployed on the battlefield.

The FrankenSAM project is a strange “hybrid” air defence system, developed by specialists in the US and Ukraine. The goal of the FrankenSAM project is to combine Western-made missiles with soviet systems and radars.

One part of this project is to arm a Soviet air defence system Buk with American RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles – we can guess that this is what took down that Shahed kamikaze drone. Other parts of the FrankenSAM project include pairing the AIM-9M air-to-air missiles with Soviet radars and integrating the Patriot missiles in some other old Ukrainian air defence systems.

A Sea Sparrow launching from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Image credit: Jordon R. Beesley, U.S. Army, Public Domain

The issue that the FrankenSAM is aiming to solve is that Ukraine’s Western partners do not have that many air defence systems to spare. No one wants to have their own sky unprotected. However, there is some ammo to go around.

Normally, air defence systems are highly integrated – missiles need to interface with the system that they’ve been built for. However, there are ways to go around it. For example, the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow was developed for ships and is quite an independent missile in terms of guidance. This made its integration into other systems a bit easier.

Also, being in service since 1976 it is relatively common. Despite not being new, the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is quite a capable missile, designed to defend against other missiles – it can engage fast-moving targets.

Previously it was announced that the FrankenSAM system was successfully tested in October 2023. Apparently, some of the testing was done in the US. Ukraine is likely to need many more air defence systems. Hopefully, the FrankenSAM project can provide new innovative solutions.

Written by Povilas M.

Source: TSN.ua

[projectourworld]

Alexander Kamyshin, the head of Ukraine’s railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, doesn’t get much sleep at the best of times. On Sunday night, as Joe Biden was being ferried into Ukraine in a 10-hour night journey from Poland – in a carriage now known as “Rail Force One”, he got almost none. #railways #ukraine Guardian Newspaper

[wafact]

How Ukraine’s Trains Kept Running Despite Bombs, Blackouts, and Biden

Two days after Russian troops retreated from Kherson on November 11, Ukraine Railways CEO Alexander Kamyshin arrived in the city accompanied by Ukrainian special forces and a small team of railway workers. They reached the central train station even before the regular army arrived to secure the city, and got to work. Six days later, the first train from Kyiv rolled into liberated Kherson. “It was…

[crime--europe]

Alexander Spesivtsev was born prematurely in 1970 in Kemerovo, Russia, to a woman named Lyudmila. As a child, he was a loner and was only close to his mother. They had an unusual but close relationship and he shared a bed with her up until he was aged 12. When she was fired, she managed to get a job as an assistant lawyer in court. Lyudmila brought home photographs of corpses from work, and she and Alexander examined them. Later, Lyudmila had a daughter. According to investigators involved in the case, the mother, her son and daughter, all three, were isolated from the world and had common features: all three of them stole and always kept away from people, remaining in isolation. 

Growing up, Alexander showed many sadistic tendencies and in 1988, at age 18, he met his first girlfriend, 17-year-old Eugenia. Although the relationship appeared to be blossoming, the fairytale didn’t last and Alexander’s mask was slowly slipping away. An argument led to Eugenia breaking up with him, however, he did not accept it. Alexander kidnapped her, tortured her for a month in his apartment until she succumbed to her injuries, dying of sepsis. For the murder of Eugenia, Alexander was sent to a psychiatric hospital in Oryol where he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. During his time in the hospital, he asked another patient to help insert a metal ball into his urethra to make him more manly, however, this bizarre incident had the opposite effect, causing him erectile dysfunction and pain. Three years later, in 1991, he was discharged. This mistake by doctors would prove to be sinister. Once out, Alexander developed a hatred of street children that he viewed as the consequence of Russia’s emerging democracy. He and his mother, Lyudmila, began to lure children into their apartment. The victims would be chosen at random and were unaccompanied children, attending discos and playing in constructions sites. Once there, the victims were subjected to harsh beatings, rape and were then murdered and dismembered. The bodies of the victims would be cannibalized and the rest of the unwanted remains would be thrown into the Aba River late at night by Lyudmila. Alexander also fed some of the meat and bones to dogs.

When the severed heads, torsos and limbs of children began to wash up on the banks of the River Aba, the police started to investigate their deaths. An examination of the body parts was carried out, as a result of which it was established that there were a total of 70 body parts all belonging to children between the ages of 3 and 14. It was first thought that the remains were that of the victims of organ smugglers as several gangs were active at that time although no strong links could be made. One morning, plumbers arrived at Alexander’s apartment for a routine inspection and to relieve a clog. However, Alexander would not let them enter. The plumber left and later returned with a local police officer and they broke into the apartment by force, where they were greeted by a putrid odour that can only be compared to rotting meat. What followed was the discovery of human remains in all of the rooms of the apartment, including the refrigerator: faces, heads and bones. Children’s clothing and shoes were found throughout the apartment. A 15-year-old girl named Olya was also found still alive, bleeding from a severe stab wound to the chest. Alexander had escaped at the last second via the roof opening. Lyudmila was arrested and a week later, Alexander was located and arrested. It was also said that the sister of Alexander herself sometimes witnessed the brutal killings. The 15-year-old girl, Olya, who was found alive managed to testify against Alexander and his mother, Lydumila, before she later died in hospital. Olya told how Alexander killed her two friends, and she herself was forced to dismember their corpses. According to her, Lyudmila was the one who cooked the meat of the victims and afterwards, both Lyudmila and Alexander ate it, sometimes fed it to dogs and that Lyudmila also made her eat the meat from the other girls. 

Despite the best efforts of investigators, the overall investigation was ultimately able to prove Alexander’s participation in only four crimes although he confessed to 19+ murders that he was accused of by police, and based on evidence is believed to have committed over 80 killings as early as 1991. In 1997, for the murder of three girls, the court sentenced Alexander Spesivtsev to 10 years imprisonment. As for his mother, Lyudmila, she admitted that she herself lured to the victims for Alexander and also admitted to disposing of their remains. However, she did not consider herself guilty. The prosecution insisted on 15 years in prison. The court found her guilty of complicity in the three murders and she was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment with detention in a general regime colony. However, in 1998, the court began to consider the case, but this time with four victims. A psychiatric examination of Alexander concluded that he was as insane, although a year ago, according to doctors, he was considered to have been completely sane at that time. As a result, the court was forced to sentence him to detention in the Oryol psychiatric special clinic. In 2008, Lyudmila was released from prison. Alexander’s sister, despite the fact that she was a vital witness to the brutal crimes, did not suffer any form of punishment. His mother, Lyudmila, and sister have been forced to move from the apartment where the murders occurred. Today, Alexander resides at the Kamyshin Regional Hospital. He is referred to as “The Novokuznetsk Monster” and “The Siberian Ripper”.

[geoestrategia1]

— ¡Según los informes, 5 misiles aterrizaron en Lviv, Ucrania occidental, cerca de la frontera entre Polonia y Ucrania! — ¡Informes de una ola masiva de ataques con misiles en casi todos los territorios de Ucrania! ¡Los informes de los canales de medios ucranianos dicen que casi todas las capitales provinciales importantes en el centro y oeste de Ucrania están siendo atacadas por misiles de crucero y balísticos en este momento! El ejército ruso golpeó la infraestructura ferroviaria, debido a la destrucción de las subestaciones ferroviarias, los trenes se detuvieron en la entrada a Lviv. Autoridades reportan 2 subestaciones dañadas Misiles de crucero de las Fuerzas Armadas de la Federación Rusa están trabajando en las posiciones del régimen de Kiev en Nikolaev — se escuchan fuertes sonidos de desmilitarización. Dos misiles disparados desde el Caspio, las fuerzas rusas impactaron en la infraestructura ferroviaria de la región de Kirovograd. Así lo informó el Comando Operativo de Ucrania "Sur". Según la información, hay muertos y heridos. Alexander Kamyshin anunció 6 paros en estaciones de tren del centro y oeste del país. 14 trenes están retrasados. El daño a la infraestructura es severo, informa Kamyshin. t.me/geoestrategia1 https://ift.tt/gjkVG30

[radiosat24web]

#radiosat24web #easternmediterraneanarea #middleeast #gulfcountries #gulfcooperationcouncil #easternmediterraneaneurope #mediterraneanregion #states #communities #localgovernment #economydevelopingcountries #socialopportunities #sportsandfreetime #dailypressreview #friday #afternoonpressreview #lebanoneconomy #natousarussiaukraineeuropeanunioninternationalrelations A massacre at a train station .. Ukraine accuses Russia and the latter denies any attack NICOSIA (Radiosat24web) - Britain: Russia's forces have completely withdrawn from northern Ukraine... And Russian Defense: We bombed a mercenary training center in Odessa with "Bastion" missiles. Ukrainian authorities and relief teams said on Friday that a missile strike killed more than 39 people and wounded more than 100 at a train station that was being used to evacuate civilians in eastern Ukraine. The Russian bombing, stressing that the missile used to bomb the train station was used only by Ukraine. The Russian Defense also confirmed that its forces did not bomb any targets today in Kramatorsk. For his part, the head of Ukrainian Railways, Alexander Kamyshin, said on the “Telegram” application that the strike took place today in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region, with missile strikes, while the governor of the region, Pavlo Kirilenko, said that thousands of people were at the train station at the time of the strike. They are preparing to evacuate to safer areas, as Russia is concentrating its forces in eastern Ukraine. Before that, British military intelligence said that Russian forces had now completely withdrawn from northern Ukraine to Belarus and Russia. This #article continues https://www.instagram.com/p/CcF2FRttEcd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[darkmaga-retard]

Simplicius Sep 05, 2024

It’s been an eventful past day, as major Russian attacks galvanized panic-headlines and seemed to catalyze a sudden Ukrainian government purge or mass exodus:

All the people who resigned in Ukraine in recent days:

➡️Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba;

➡️ Minister of Justice Denis Maliuska;

➡️ Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin;

➡️ Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets;

➡️ Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanishyna;

➡️Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk;

➡️ Deputy head of Zelensky's office Rostislav Shurma.

[alexandersablin]

Alexander Sablin "Morning on waterfront" acrylic on canvas, 30 x 45 cm, 2019 #painting #art #artist #acrylic #realistic #realismart #landscape #искусство #живопись #художник #fineart #artwork #landscapepainting #artoftheday #painter #originalartwork #originalart #artistoninstagram #paint #realism #realistic #painting🎨 #acrylicpainting (at Kamyshin Museum of History and Local Lore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JEaC1nKSF/?igshid=kbkz9qu5vggt