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🦋 | 15 | 3.71% | |
🦇 | 115 | 28.47% | |
🪰 | 12 | 2.97% | |
🐦 | 67 | 16.58% | |
dragonfly | 94 | 23.27% | |
🦟 | 14 | 3.47% | |
🐝 | 87 | 21.53% | |
Total: | 404 votes |
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fizziester posted:Source: Radio Free Europe Sad day seeing Radio Free Europe spreading Russian disinformation...
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 17:53 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 17:03 |
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i love how the two units to which they specifically talk are both explicitly fascist far-right outfits
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 19:18 |
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V. Illych L. posted:i love how the two units to which they specifically talk are both explicitly fascist far-right outfits
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 19:24 |
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supersnowman posted:The other units aren't allowed to talk to the media. I could imagine at this point what they would be saying.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 19:29 |
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Bussyfication
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 20:31 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:gently caress this tiny clown man Putin and me will not relent until Zelenskyy becomes tiny
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 22:25 |
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Navalny’s new memoirs are now available for preorder.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:09 |
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Gripweed posted:Navalny’s new memoirs are now available for preorder. дневники токаря
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:16 |
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all of the Ukraine flags have been taken down where I live, I don’t know if that’s because people have checked out or if they don’t want to advertise a potential draftee living there. things are going well
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:23 |
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dk2m posted:all of the Ukraine flags have been taken down where I live, I don’t know if that’s because people have checked out or if they don’t want to advertise a potential draftee living there. things are going well I knew the war was lost for Ukraine when Imgur suddenly and quietly took down the ukranian flag color scheme they applied to their logo
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:29 |
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dk2m posted:all of the Ukraine flags have been taken down where I live, I don’t know if that’s because people have checked out or if they don’t want to advertise a potential draftee living there. things are going well I still see a few here and there but nobody ever wants to talk about the war anymore.. I do run into alot of Ukrainians when I'm out and about and I hope that they can live here in peace and their awful government doesn't manage to figure out some way to coerce them back to Ukraine.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:35 |
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Gripweed posted:Navalny’s new memoirs are now available for preorder. Gonna be great seeing his next memoirs and the ones after just magically showing up from beyond the grave
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:37 |
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I need to take a picture of the house flying a giant ROC flag on one corner and Ukraine’s on the other.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:40 |
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the only Ukraine flag I've seen lately was on someone's doghouse, not sure what that signifies
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:41 |
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Lord of Pie posted:the only Ukraine flag I've seen lately was on someone's doghouse, not sure what that signifies
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:51 |
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someone spray painted the yellow and blue flag on a big rock in the river here a while ago and it's still visible but slowly degrading over time, an incredibly apt visual metaphor
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:56 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I need to take a picture of the house flying a giant ROC flag on one corner and Ukraine’s on the other. Don't post that picture here, poor opsec is how people get Kalibred.
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# ? Apr 14, 2024 23:57 |
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Lord of Pie posted:Canada should stick to their strengths and just build another memorial for Nazis without any added subtext Didn't the memorial to nazis look an awful lot like a broken fascis?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 00:52 |
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went to a comic book store today and learned there's a graphic novel version of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and oh boy was that a fun one to explain to my partner why I was laughing and cursing under my breath
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 01:03 |
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Torpor posted:Didn't the memorial to nazis look an awful lot like a broken fascis? Which one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorials_in_Canada_to_Nazis_and_Nazi_collaborators
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 01:12 |
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Lord of Pie posted:the only Ukraine flag I've seen lately was on someone's doghouse, not sure what that signifies trying to bait regarde aduck into posting something bannable. user loses posting privileges for 12 hours.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 01:18 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I need to take a picture of the house flying a giant ROC flag on one corner and Ukraine’s on the other. a participation table for losers?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 01:25 |
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lol e: wait, this isn't a poo poo posting thread. What's the actual likelihood that Ukraine do manage to conscript back in people in other countries? I can see a half-hearted attempt somewhere like Poland, but find it hard to believe the US or Aus would even give it lip service. Pidgin Englishman has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Apr 15, 2024 |
# ? Apr 15, 2024 01:26 |
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Pidgin Englishman posted:lol I have a very hard time imagining that governments will be onboard with forcefully rounding up Ukrainian men off the streets, that would be horrible optically. If they proceed to that kind of initiative it will likely take the form of cutting off all financial supports and trying to induce Ukrainian men to travel back to Ukraine "of their own free will"
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 02:49 |
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Pidgin Englishman posted:lol I don't think most countries in the EU will even try it. You'll see the Baltic states and Poland, maybe. And even those countries with the desire probably don't have the actual capacity to deport in sufficient numbers to make a difference to Ukraine's war effort. It's frankly a psychotic idea, and to the best of my knowledge basically without precedent in modern history. That Ukraine is even floating it speaks to how desperate their manpower situation is becoming. VoicesCanBe has issued a correction as of 03:27 on Apr 15, 2024 |
# ? Apr 15, 2024 03:24 |
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VoicesCanBe posted:I don't think most countries in the EU will even try it. You'll see the Baltic states and Poland, maybe. And even those countries with the desire probably don't have the actual capacity to deport in sufficient numbers to make a difference to Ukraine's war effort. Unless they do it by surprise, it would not work as any Ukrainian would just flee the country to another one in the EU.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 03:42 |
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https://t.me/Slavyangrad/94420quote:
Beside the need to provide a new set of guns to shoot this new set of ammo, how much of a loss in operational efficiency would we be talking by going to 105mm?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 04:48 |
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supersnowman posted:https://t.me/Slavyangrad/94420 back of the envelope math about 50mm
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 04:51 |
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If, from Feb 2022, the Ukrainian state had decided to start building an armaments industry from scratch, couldn't they have had something going by now?
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 04:59 |
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lobster shirt posted:trying to bait regarde aduck into posting something bannable. user loses posting privileges for 12 hours. been thinking about latvia recently
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 04:59 |
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supersnowman posted:https://t.me/Slavyangrad/94420 None, 105mm is a better field gun calibre. The reduction and effectiveness that prompted the change was solely due to DPICM. 105 is QF which is a tremendous advantage.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 05:20 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:None, 105mm is a better field gun calibre. sounds like putler's days are numbered imo
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 06:48 |
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Source: Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/unequipped-and-outgunned-ukrainian-military-often-cant-evacuate-its-wounded/ Intense fighting, lack of resources leave wounded soldiers on their own by Asami Terajima April 12, 2024 9:26 PM 14 min read DONETSK OBLAST – Mykhailo arrived at a dugout less than an hour after it was hit by Russian drones. The 40-year-old Ukrainian soldier immediately started going through the bodies, looking for signs of life. He knew that four soldiers had been taking shelter there. Yet he saw two bodies – and no one else. "When I got there, those two were already cold," he said. It was mid-February. The men’s limbs were torn off.... Later, he learned what happened at the dugout. Four soldiers were on their way back to the rear from the front-line positions for a shift change and took cover in the dugout. When Russian drones hit it, two soldiers were killed, one was wounded, and one is still considered missing. What happened next is typical for the parts of the front line that suffer from the lack of combat medics and front-line evacuation. The wounded soldier got out of the dugout and walked to the nearest evacuation point, located a few hundred meters away, on his own. No one arrived to check on the others until Mykhailo, a fellow soldier, looked into the dugout. At positions as heavily shelled and close to Russian troops as this one, soldiers say that medical evacuation doesn't exist. For Mykhailo, a soldier in Ukraine's elite 80th Air Assault Brigade fighting near the liberated village of Klishchiivka, it means that every time he goes to the positions, he doesn’t count on surviving... ... "(Evacuation) is impossible." The main reason for the absence of medical evacuation is simple and gruesome: The fighting is just too intense. It can take a day or even two for soldiers to get in and out of the fiercest fighting spots – killing any hopes of medics coming to save the wounded. Left alone at the positions, the soldiers often have to pull out their comrades on their own under heavy shelling, sometimes walking five to seven kilometers to the nearest evacuation points, where vehicles take them to makeshift hospitals. When soldiers carry their wounded out, the group is easy to spot – and it immediately becomes easy prey to Russian first-person view (FPV) drones and artillery. Evacuation vehicles can’t come to the positions to get the wounded out fast: They are even easier to spot, and Ukraine can’t afford to lose the sparse equipment. The front-line units say they face a severe shortage of basic equipment such as the U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carriers and even Soviet-era BMP infantry vehicles. Dozens of servicemen from three battalions who spoke to the Kyiv Independent stressed that the deficit is so critical that in their units, which number 300 to 600 infantrymen, they only have one M113 and BMP each – jeopardizing evacuation. The vehicles often break down due to Russian attacks or complicated terrain, adding to the shortage. The army's Medical Forces agreed that the armored vehicles used for evacuation require "constant replenishment and are not sufficient," and said the only way to solve the issue is to get more from allies.... ... Afraid to lose armored vehicles, commanders sometimes have to prioritize the equipment over the wounded, ordering soldiers not to drive up closer to reduce the risk of a direct hit, the interviewees say. But time is crucial to saving a life or a limb... ... Ukraine's army is "extremely equipment-poor and medical-poor" for its size, and the problem can be traced back to 2014, according to Glen Grant, a retired U.K. Lieutenant Colonel who until recently was a defense expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, a local think-tank that analyzes the country's policies. "This goes even further back because this is a Soviet legacy where the Soviet Union didn't really expect to bring anybody back… They either keep going or they die," he said, naming Russia's approach to evacuation as an example. "Unfortunately, that attitude hasn't been sucked out of the Ukrainian system properly." But unlike Russia, Ukraine is already facing a critical manpower shortage, especially in the infantry, as it struggles to find recruits to refill the heavy losses. Every soldier lost to poor evacuation is another that has to be replaced. Mykhailo from the 80th brigade said that his unit had been decimated over the eight months of fighting south of Bakhmut, estimating that only 10 percent of his fellow assault soldiers remain in action – with the rest killed, wounded, or missing. Knowing he has little chance of being evacuated if wounded, Mykhailo thinks his chances to survive are small... 'Calling artillery on yourself' Junior Sergeant Iryna, a 26-year-old who goes by her call sign Wild, wears a GoPro camera when heading to dangerous front-line missions. The former company commander of Ukraine's 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade does it because she is concerned that she could be sued for making what could be perceived as a wrong decision on evacuation. The choice between risking their own soldiers' lives to evacuate the wounded and halting the mission to avoid further casualties is a tough call for commanders that almost always comes with guilt afterward.... ... Another time, she recalls, when evacuation was impossible, the soldiers had the final request: to hit their positions with artillery. Around the same time, in autumn 2023, Iryna recalled, seven soldiers were stuck under the rubble of a dugout after Russian shelling. When they finally received an order to withdraw, it was too late. The outnumbered Ukrainian soldiers were buried inside the position that had just collapsed, and the fighting was too intense for anyone to come and dig them out. Russian troops soon reached the dugout. "(One of the guys stuck in the dugout) was saying, 'There are (Russian soldiers) above me, I won't make it out – call the artillery on me,' and I am the commander, so you need to make the decision," Iryna said, recalling that moment... ... Iryna ordered smaller shells to be fired at the position to "destroy a maximum number (of Russians) above but not harm our guys, who were buried underneath." But it was still impossible to get anywhere close to them. The next thing she heard on the radio was Russian soldiers trying to mimic her comrades. To this day, she doesn’t know what happened to the seven soldiers. Officially, they are missing in action.... Evacuation orders Multiple company and platoon commanders across the front line said they have also suffered heavy losses due to the higher command's decisions to send men to defend the positions for "as long as they can," in places where withdrawal and evacuation weren't possible. Soldiers often perceive such commands as mistakes, and say they cause avoidable casualties and reduce morale. The defense and fall of Avdiivka is a recent example. The situation gradually worsened in the small industrial city just outside of occupied Donetsk, forcing Ukraine to withdraw in mid-February. Western experts and many Ukrainian soldiers interviewed by the Kyiv Independent said the evacuation would not have been as chaotic if the decision had been made a few weeks earlier. The price of the last-minute evacuation was heavy. The soldiers had to withdraw through a poorly prepared thin path with mines lying around and under heavy shelling west of the city. Some soldiers were given the order to withdraw at any cost, leaving the wounded and fallen comrades behind.... Shortage of ammunition, equipment undermines evacuation Ukraine’s critical lack of ammunition also undermines the effectiveness of front-line evacuation. Jakub Janovsky, a Prague-based analyst at the Oryx OSINT project, underscored that ammunition plays a crucial role in evacuation. If there was enough, it may have been possible to temporarily suppress the enemy with artillery and then risk a rescue mission, he explained... ... The issue with the lack of armored vehicles like M113s for evacuation "lies somewhere between the right equipment not being requested, and the right equipment not being provided in sufficient numbers," according to military analyst Kofman. "Part of the issue is the continued focus on high-end capabilities instead of basic systems and platforms that are needed in large numbers to sustain Ukraine's war effort and exist in Western stocks because we are talking about primarily Cold War period equipment that's decades old," he said... ... With equipment lacking, Ukraine's military heavily relies on regular cars and pickup trucks to conduct evacuations. Cars can beat bulky armored vehicles by speed and quietness, but they can’t maneuver through thick mud and break down more often – especially when driving through thin roads heavily struck by drones and artillery... ... Lack of experienced medics However unpleasant it may be, the harrowing scream of the wounded is a reassuring factor, the medics say. Worse is if they are silent and slowly losing consciousness. The so-called "golden hour" window, the first 60 minutes to provide medical care for the best chance of survival, is rarely achieved on the front line. It could take hours – or worse, days – for the wounded to get to the medics. If the wounded are lucky enough to make it to the evacuation point and get medical help, they face other issues, such as strained and sometimes inexperienced medics. Vitalii, 46, who goes by the call sign King, served as a medic in the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade when it was deployed on the northeastern Kreminna axis front in June 2023. The unit was inexperienced and the casualties were catastrophic, he said. It put enormous pressure on the medics, most of whom had some training but no real experience in medicine. Ukraine's Medical Forces confirmed that "there is a need for qualified medical personnel" in the military. Vitalii admitted that he and his fellow medics may have been too slow since everything was new to them. They had to take care of up to 300 wounded soldiers on the toughest days. He wasn’t prepared for it – neither in terms of skills, nor mentally. "I thought I was stronger,” Vitalii said. "I wanted to see a psychologist or just get wasted (after the shifts)."... ______________________________________________________ Note from the author: Hi, this is Asami Terajima, the author of this article. Thank you for reading our story. I had an idea to write about the brutal reality of front-line evacuation after losing a friend, who lived about 30 minutes after a fatal injury, in November 2023. There were no combat medics around, and the roads were too terrible to even attempt an evacuation. I hate to think if anything could have changed the reality if the situation was different – but I know there are plenty of such stories across the front line.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 07:19 |
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Probably should surrender
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 07:36 |
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fizziester posted:
That's quite a demotion. Surprised they let her talk to the press
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 07:49 |
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Anyway, it seems like things around Chasiv Yar are getting more dicey for the Ukrainians, the 67th mechanized brigaded, a political brigade, left their positions and trapped remaining AFU units in one of the outer lying districts. There are claims the 67th actually disbanded, but it didn't seem to get wiped out. Also, supposedly there was a surrender of a portion of the 25th Airmobile Brigade west of Avdiivka, and it may be largely combat ineffective as well. Otherwise, just kind of more of the same, including claims of a big Russian offensive, but it really doesn't make sense unless Ukrainian lines elsewhere were ready to collapse.
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 10:48 |
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I’m miles behind but I feel like I understand why ACOUP guy is like that now I know he has terminal lotr brain. reading 10,000 words about the cohesion of artisanally vat grown orcs was a light bulb moment
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 12:28 |
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Get ready for two decades of dune brain from people who somehow identify the West as the fremen
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 12:46 |
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Long live the multirole fighters
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 13:05 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 17:03 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Probably should surrender
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# ? Apr 15, 2024 13:18 |