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China says territorial integrity of Ukraine must be respected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqtaHY4ASfc
Protest and jailing to force them into service on the front lines will not go well for Putin as the war is not war grinds on with the retreat of Russian soldiers in full flight.
Maybe a Collapse or
Will media Russian people one day asking for freedom need to to a far off planet, join a Private Immigration Spaceflight and move to the Moon or Mars to broadcast free radio? Roskomnadzor ordered media organizations to delete stories that describe the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as an "assault", "invasion", or a "declaration of war". People have been critical of actions of Biden or Trump or censorship in Europe but Speech and Media in Russia might now rank as the worst in the world, Russia now ranks with some of the absolute worst out of 180 countries on Planet Earth. Roskomnadzor blocked access to several foreign media outlets, including BBC News Russian, Voice of America, RFE/RL, Deutsche Welle and Meduza, as well as Facebook and Twitter, website Dailymotion was blocked, a number of Bitcoin related websites were blocked (including bitcoin.org) because "it contributes to shadow economy".
Russian Media Warns Anyone Who Protests Will Be Drafted Into the Military
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-warns-p … ry-1744983
Russian 2022 Laws Establishing War Censorship and Prohibiting Anti-War Statements and Calls for Sanctions is a group of federal laws promulgated by the Russian government during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The adoption of these laws caused the mass exodus of foreign media from Russia and the termination of the activity of independent Russian media. Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said that " These new laws are part of Russia’s ruthless effort to suppress all dissent and make sure the [Russian] population does not have access to any information that contradicts the Kremlin’s narrative about the invasion of Ukraine."
Marina Vladimirovna Ovsyannikova interrupted a broadcast of Vremya to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which made international news headlines. She was arrested, held without access to her lawyer, fined 30,000 rubles (150 dollars at the time), and later released
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ … t-ukraine/
Vladimir Danchev grabbed by men in white coats and sent off to the mental hospital?
According to Noam Chomsky and other commentators, Danchev's principal transgression was to embarrass the Soviet government by describing the presence of Soviet forces in Afghanistan as an "invasion". According to official ideology, the USSR had not invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. It was defending the Afghan people against "terrorists funded by foreign sources": this was how the USSR referred to the Mujahedin and their backers in the CIA and Saudi Arabia.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/198912--.htm
Danchev was praised at the time in the U.S. media as a hero of free speech and free thought and in 1991 the International Federation of Human Rights inaugurated an award for journalists in his name.
Liz Wahl was a correspondent for the Russian government-sponsored RT television network from 2011 to 2014 but left the network following a harshly critical on-air resignation that went viral.
'How the Kremlin Weaponizes Western Academics'
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i … 0562495637
Arkady Dvorkovich, who served as Russia's Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2018, also condemned the invasion
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 … raine-war/
Putin's longtime advisor and Russian climate envoy Anatoly Chubais resigned from his position and left Russia due to his opposition to the war
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/krem … -72vnlj58f
Russian pop legend Alla Pugacheva spoke out against the invasion, writing that Russians were dying in Ukraine for "illusory goals", and that the invasion was "turning our country into a pariah and worsening the lives of our citizens."
https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/09/20/ru … ssian-army
Russian authorities began investigating Pugacheva for "discrediting" the military
Alexei Gorinov, a member of the Krasnoselsky district council in Moscow, was sentenced to seven years in prison after making anti-war comments at a council meeting in March, including stating that "our country has aggressively attacked a neighbouring country" and "kids in Ukraine are dying each day". Lawyer Pavel Chikov said that this was the first jail term under the new Russian 2022 war censorship laws.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62092196
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Is it possible to “Totally” Write in a Sarcastic Voice? How “Definitely” can you tell if someone is being sarcasm in writing?
'Chechens Release Very Real and Very Dangerous Combat Footage'
https://funker530.com/video/chechens-re … t-footage/
Chechen fighters with the first TikTok Brigade release stunning combat footage showing fearless Chechen Soldiers engaging in close combat with what is definitely a house occupied by dozens of Ukrainian Soldiers.
Well, it looks like the boys are back on TikTok. I can't even with this one. Imagine coming back to your house after the war is over, and everything is destroyed because these guys wanted to make a cool video for TikTok.
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Russian Draftees Issued Rusted Junk AK Rifles
https://funker530.com/video/russian-dra … ak-rifles/
'Russia’s allies China and India call for negotiations to end Ukraine war'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … kraine-war
'After a week of pressure at the United Nations general assembly, Russia’s foreign minister took the general assembly rostrum to deliver a fiery rebuke to western nations for what he termed a “grotesque” campaign against Russians.'
Moscow isolated at United Nations assembly, with no major country siding with it
and Brics?
The Russian people collapsing internally, mass mobilization, the economic downturn.
Their state of "non-alignment" but they are definitely more aligned with Russia, nations continue to trade with Russia?
Some other vids going viral of protests, making claims on social media of shutting down of protests
https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/statu … 5392115714
'A young female amputee has her protest placard ripped away by police at an anti-mobilisation protest in St Petersburg today
"Do you want to be like me?" it reads'
Russian Draftees Fight Police Forcing Them Onto Buses
https://funker530.com/video/russian-dra … nto-buses/
Footage shows a fight breaking out between Russian men, now forced into military service, and police attempting to round them up and place them on a bus. Some of the draftees challenged the police to get on the bus with them and go fight in Ukraine.
Russia's recent mobilization order is expected to inflate their fighting force by activating as many as 1.2 million men, some of who are older than 60. Witness footage has even shown enlistment officers handing out draft orders to random people on the street. The chaotic mobilization has caused an attempted mass exodus of military-aged men trying to leave Russia.
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The is quite the drone attack hardware Missile-launching quadcopter could be headed to Ukraine
The US equipment has gotten some real-life testing for sure.
A giant quadcopter drone able to carry 300kg (661 lbs) while maintaining a range of 30km (18 miles). …
The new system combines the T-650 drone developed by British arms manufacturer BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics with the UK's Brimstone II precision missiles, which carry a 6.3kg payload and have a range of up to 60 km (37 miles).
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Kazakhstan struggles to accommodate Russians fleeing war
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci … 022-09-27/
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Russian Flings Molotov Cocktails At Draft Registration Office
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Swedish and Danish seismic stations have documented two major underwater explosions in the area of the gas leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, SVT TV channel reports.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2022/0 … leaks-news
The reporters claim that they are located in the same area where the gas leaks were previously detected.
On 26 September, gas leaks were reported on two strings of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the exclusive economic zone of Denmark to the northeast of the island of Bornholm.
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Russian Tank Goes Up In Puff Of Smoke After Direct Hit
https://funker530.com/video/russian-tan … irect-hit/
Pope appeals to Putin to end 'spiral of violence' in Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai … 2c0626fca1
Latvia says it won’t recognize Russia’s sham referendums in Ukraine
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/10/02/ … n-ukraine/
Chief Putin Critic Wins Elections in Latvia, Exit Poll Shows
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles … poll-shows
I normally don't share any 'music' type war videos I normally think it disrespectful to add music to a war video or I often think it has an element of propaganda but I thought this vid was worth a share, ' Battle of Mariupol' the brutality of the war is worth remembering and part of record. Siege of Mariupol was a siege in Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when forces from Russia and the separatist Donetsk People's Republic engaged Ukrainian forces in the city of Mariupol. The siege, which was part of the Russian eastern Ukraine offensive and southern Ukraine offensive, the Red Cross described the situation as "apocalyptic".
(NSFW) Freshly Released Footage From the Battle of Mariupol
https://funker530.com/video/nsfw-freshl … -mariupol/
Footage released by Mykola "Frostovik" Kushch, a member of the Azov Battalion who was sentenced to death by Russian forces, has released a batch of Mariupol combat footage after his release from captivity.
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Russian claims that they can invade NATO countries that rest against their borders is crap.
Just a day after liberating Lyman, a key supply hub for Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are on the move in the south
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US promises ‘severe costs’ for anyone who supports Russia’s annexations in Ukraine
https://thehill.com/policy/internationa … in-ukraine
Helmet Cam: Ukrainian Humvee Takes Massive Direct Hit
https://funker530.com/video/helmet-cam- … irect-hit/
Russians Surrender to Ukrainian National Guard Near Izyum
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'Unreal Audio as Ukrainian Troops Clear Russian Occupied Trenches'
https://funker530.com/video/unreal-audi … -trenches/
Japan to expel Russia consul as ties worsen over Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrai … 6bf6fdcaee
Russian predictions and state TV says it only tells the truth on Tuesdays and says Russia is at least two months away from attempting to advance in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM5Rq9Q2nYM
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Russians Bomb Kyiv, Kharkiv in Overnight Airstrikes: Ukraine Officials
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Seems not all is cheery in the Kremlin as hot on the heels of embarrassing reports of Russian recruits fighting each other and Moscow loyalists calling for Kremlin ministers to kill themselves, it seems the rage against Vladimir Putin’s handling of his invasion of Ukraine. In a series of crushing military setbacks in Ukraine, which has seen Moscow’s forces kicked out of key areas in territory that Putin is claiming to formally control after signing treaties to annex huge swathes of Ukraine into the Russian Federation. Images of war deserting Russian are showing up along its many borders after its most recent call up.
'They Are in a Panic': Ukraine's Troops Size Up the Enemy
What they have been doing is liberating areas that Russia earlier in the week had made claim to annexing.
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Additional Footage Of Crimean Bridge Destruction
https://funker530.com/video/additional- … struction/
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Explosions rock Kyiv in apparent missile strikes
https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/10/10/ex … e-strikes/
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How does a Ukrainian get onto a Russian controlled road to set off a BOMB on a bridge?
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So one thing that struck me despite all the murder, the buildings of people destroyed, mass death and civilian causalities. There is this element of old duels and rules, at times there is a duel situation where both Ukrainian and Russian sometimes engage in old rules of war. They wear Uniform for example they don't blend in as terrorist and hide within groups of old women, old men in kids, they wear a uniform and take part in battles, personally watching web feed it is not all crime and grim, maybe there are rules to a war and I see news feed search footage once per week and sometimes I will find a classic dog fight of sorts helicopter vs helicopter, a group of soldiers out in a field or forest away from civilians fight another group of soldiers, I seen recent footage of brave Ukrainian Tanks and they took on another bunch of Russian tanks. There was a rule to the fight, Participate in Battle in a recently occupied region Near Bakhmut but old school fighting like you might see in old black and white photos about fighting Tank vs Tank or grainy old film reels on the Eastern Front during ww2. I guess it is refreshing from all those mass bombings in places like Syria and Afghanistan mass human casualties, IEDs and humans used as meat, I know Putin has been wrong, Russia has done terrible things and criminal but maybe I am understanding some soldiers know how to behave like soldiers, engage in rules of combat and not just terrorists. On the battle field despite lack of numbers and equipment I think Ukraine looks far more modern, quick, mobile and updated compared to Russia's old battle tactics.
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Germany to deliver air defence system to Ukraine within days -defence ministry
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ge … 022-10-10/
Poland advises its citizens to leave Belarus
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/po … 022-10-10/
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War Crimes as Policy
by Peter Zeihan on October 10, 2022
I’m going to be discussing some disturbing aspects of the Ukraine War today. Consider this your parental advisory.
In the aftermath of the Russia’s failed Kyiv offensive, the world became aware of the omnipresent nature of Russian war crimes. The Russian retreat exposed a raft of abuse, kidnappings, rapes, tortures and murders for the world to see. This awareness has expanded and deepened with every Ukrainian counteroffensive: Kharkiv, Izyum, Lyman, Kherson. European radio intercepts from throughout the occupied territories suggest a universal pattern.
Part of these war crimes fall under the category of military operating procedure. When the Russian leadership realized the Ukrainians were not going to simply roll over, Ukraine’s civilian population shifted in the Kremlin mind from a non-issue to an urgent problem. The solution was to target civilian infrastructure to make the land broadly uninhabitable. The goal was to convince as much of the population as possible to flee. Refugees leave and don’t fight. War crimes in a military-strategic sense.
At the local level, war crimes perpetrated against those who remained behind have been far more…personal. There is now ample proof from many of the liberated towns of not simply Russian soldiers robbing and killing civilians, but of unit commanders setting up rape clinics and torture chambers for use by the men under their command. War crimes in a tactical sense.
But the common thread in all this is that the war crimes have been…casual. Even incidental. While the Kremlin clearly hasn’t had a problem with any of it, it is not clear the Kremlin actually ordered the mal-behavior. Most of those torture centers were not set up in occupation headquarters, but in seemingly randomly-selected homes or schools or gardens. There is little evidence the occupiers were attempting to extract information. They just wanted to make people scream. The very existence of rape clinics speaks for itself.
As you would expect from casual crimes, there was zero effort to conceal such criminal activity. Maybe the Russians thought as I did during the war’s early months: that Russia could not help but win the war, and so there was no risk of discovery by authorities who might call them to account. The alternative, that the Russians just didn’t see anything wrong with what they were doing, is difficult to wrap the mind around. I don’t know and I’m not sure I want to understand this sort of behavior. It isn’t so much callous and immoral as pervasive and amoral. Bodies were dumped into mass graves purely as a disposal strategy. The Russians didn’t attempt to hide anything. There was no burning to destroy evidence, or even efforts to rehabilitate the soil above the mass graves to obscure them. Murder victims from the rape and torture clinics were simply dumped nearby. Typically right outside. Sometimes in the next room.
With the bulk of Europe’s war crimes investigators now operating in Ukraine, fresh atrocities are being discovered almost daily. The challenge isn’t to find evidence. It is everywhere. No, the challenge is to fully document the tsunami of carnage before a stray artillery round damages the evidence, or before the Ukrainians liberate another town with its own encyclopedia of horrors, forcing the investigators to move on.
One more item is unique about this war. Even at the height of the Holocaust, the Nazi government didn’t discuss what they were doing publicly, and what (little) discussion there was across German society strongly denied what was occurring. That is not contemporary Russia. Russian propaganda is screaming for the deliberate and thorough targeting of the Ukrainian population.
Which brings us to today.
On October 10 the Russians unleashed their biggest missile barrage of the war, sending over 100 large-scale munitions across Ukraine. To my knowledge, at the time of this writing roughly eight hours after the first missiles fell, only one target of “military” significance was hit: the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Instead, nearly all missiles were aimed at densely populated regions, with the bulk of the assault occurring during rush hour when Ukrainians were out and about.
The targets and timing tell us one of two things: either that the Russians are running out of precision munitions and were doing little more than flinging ordinance in the general direction of population clusters, or that the express goal was to kill the maximum number of civilians. Both could be true. Both are very clearly war crimes. But this time, the war crimes are in the full light of day for the world to see. Russian state media is abuzz with excitement at the damage inflicted. And that is new.
The shift in approach is the hallmark of Russian General Sergei Surovikin, the new commander of the Russian war effort. He was appointed but two days before today’s missile swarm. Surovikin is greatly respected by the genocide wing of Russian society, with none other than Yevegeny Progozhin calling him “Russia’s best general”. Progozhin is the founder of the Wagner Group, the paramilitary organization the Russian government uses to provide a fig leaf of legal separation between its war-crime-riddled operations around the world and the Kremlin. Specifically, Surovikin was the commander responsible for the siege-starve-surrender policy that destroyed Aleppo in the Syrian Civil War.
Russian cruelty in the Ukraine War to this point has had the feel of standard operating procedure, rather than any conscious state effort to inflict human suffering. That now appears to be changing. Surovikin’s elevation to theater commander means Putin has decided war crimes are to no longer to be casual, but deliberate. No longer incidental, but celebrated. The new approach combines the statist aspects of Nazi-style genocide with lynching. Russia is becoming a maskless KKK in state form.
As the reality of the new tenors and goals of Russian operations sinks through layers of disbelief and incomprehension, views will shift.
In the United States, I have to believe that the public nature of today’s attacks combined with the loudly-publicized atrocities to come will finally break the hold Russian state propaganda has on the Republican Party. It’s funny. Rationalizing Russian actions, siding with the Russians on nuclear policy, asserting that Russia’s aggression is somehow America’s fault, calling Russia’s victims fascists – these aren’t only old pieces of Soviet propaganda which date back to the 1970s, they are the same lies which once fooled the idiot wing of the American Left until just a few years ago. Having egg on one’s face is never fun, but with the evidence no longer simply mounting but soon to be showcased on Russian television, scales will fall from eyes and positions will change. Elon Musk, fresh off asking the Ukrainians to surrender territory, must feel particularly…the correct word is probably “stupid”. We might – might – even see Fox’s Tucker Carlson edge somewhat closer to reality in the weeks ahead.
Of far greater importance than American domestic realizations will be the sucker-punch to the European gut, that history is well and truly back. That there is no returning to the cozy pre-Trump era when the Americans paid for everything but asked for little, and the Russians were happy to limit their abuses to their own population while dumping a half a continent of raw materials into Europe’s waiting arms.
Nowhere will the shift in mindset be more laden with implications and haunted by history than in Germany. That their consulate in Kyiv was destroyed in today’s attack underlines the point for Berlin. Germans have a visceral understanding of precisely where Russia’s new path leads, and they fear – probably rightly – that the Russians are on a sharper angle down than 1930s and 1940s Germany. Expect the Germans, within their limited capacity, to up their actions to support Ukraine while intensifying efforts to sequester all things Russian from the European system. It is a position which will hurt the German economy badly, but with most Russian energy already cut out of German supplies, much of the economic damage has already been done and is irreparable.
The emotional damage, however, is yet to come.
"Plan and prepare for every possibility, and you will never act. It is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear than to analyse every possible obstacle and begin nothing. Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers."
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Russian troops pour into Belarus ‘by the trainload’
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Putin says Nord Stream sabotage is 'act of international terrorism'
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pu … 022-10-12/
Huge Russian Assault Fails as Ukraine Repels Seven Attacks in One Day: Kyiv
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine … es-1751017
'Ukrainians in Unarmored Truck Take Contact While Moving to the Front Lines'
https://funker530.com/video/ukrainians- … ont-lines/
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It would seem that Russia captured 8 arrested in Crimean bridge bombing Five Russians are among eight suspects detained in connection with the explosion that has gnarled rail and vehicle traffic
The damage and where it is not from bombs since the train car is on fire, but the blast took out the lower section.
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The continual request to the US for more is being met with support from some of the allies France ramps up war support for Ukraine, rebuilds armories
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Buildings blown up, bridges destroyed, innocent people suffering and loss of innocent life, Russia invades again, more soldiers dying on both sides, Precipitation, Wind, Shorter Day Light and Colder times in a Ukraine Warzone, starting to freeze at night in some places, Rain and Snow Coming. Some didn't like the raid on a former President, AP Reports Over 1 Million Democrats Switched to the GOP.
https://www.tampafp.com/ap-reports-over … past-year/
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/07/ … t-rid-fbi/One radical side Antifa BLM wants a Police destroyed or defunded the other side no longer trusts Federal Law Enforcement and says its gone too political.
In times of unrest, shootings, rape, terrorism, riots, drug crim why would anyone think defund the police was a good idea?An alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer developed put the FBI was mostly dressing up in Cosplay FBI mostly arresting other FBI? kidnapping hoax was an FBI entrapment sting operation?
https://reason.com/2022/01/26/gretchen- … fbi-trial/and they shout about a 'Ray Epps' conspiracy? agent provocateurs, FBI Agent Richard Trask, organizer of the 2020 Whitmer kidnap plot.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ … 013618002/From all parts of the world they turn up on the Mexico border, Asia, South America, Sri Lanka, the The Caribbean and Africa, an Invasion of Southern Border looking for a better life but crossing illegally, gangs traffic and smuggle narcotic product.
Elon Musk Says He's 'failing’ To De-escalate War In Ukraine; 'Guess I'm Just Damned'
https://www.republicworld.com/world-new … eshow.htmlMusk Says SpaceX Will Keep Funding Starlink for Ukraine
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272 … or-ukraine
Elon Musk said his rocket company SpaceX would continue to fund its Starlink internet service
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SpaceNut I posted that in the poverty thread but you moved it here. Maybe it is relevant as I also believe a military machine needs a sound foundation to keep the gasoline, money, food, electronic machine parts and other items moving.
It looks like a race to the bottom at times but the Russians are using their people like Soviet era meat-grinders and the Russian economic machine will collapse first.
'Ukrainian Trench Looks Like WWI Hellscape'
https://funker530.com/video/ukrainian-t … hellscape/
'Russian Soldier Surrenders in the Middle of a Firefight'
https://funker530.com/video/russian-sol … firefight/
President Emmanuel Macron welcomes 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers to be trained on French soil and commits further aid
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/p … aae74f2bb6
Russian Death Toll in Ukraine Overtakes American Losses in Vietnam: Kyiv
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-death- … am-1752220
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