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LAST UPDATE | 15 Sep 2022
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR Zelenskyy has said that a mass grave had been found in Izyum after the town was retaken from Russian forces.
“We want the world to know what the Russian occupation has caused,” he said, without giving details on the number of bodies found or their cause of death.
“We need to have more clear and verified information tomorrow.”
A regional police official, Sergei Botvinov, told Sky News that a burial site with around 440 graves had been discovered in Izyum.
Some of the dead were shot, others died in shelling, he added.
Zelenskyy compared Izyum to the cities of Bucha and Mariupol which have become symbols of atrocities during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia leaves death behind everywhere. And she must respond. The world must really hold Russia responsible for this war. We are going to do everything we can to do that,” he said.
It comes after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Ukraine earlier today, saying that the bloc would continue to support Kyiv for “as long as it takes”.
Her trip coincided with a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his increasingly close ally Chinese leader Xi Jinping in ex-Soviet Uzbekistan, where the men hailed their strategic ties in defiance of the West.
Von der Leyen said that the visit was her third to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February, but this one was different.
“We will never be able to match the sacrifice that the Ukrainians are making,” she told reporters during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“But what we can tell you is that you’ll have your European friends by your side as long as it takes,” she said.
Von der Leyen also said in an interview that she wants Putin to face the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Ukraine.
“That Putin must lose this war and must face up to his actions, that is important to me,” she told the TV channel of German news outlet Bild.
Upon her arrival in Ukraine, Von der Leyen said her discussions with the country’s leaders would be about “getting our economies and people closer.”
Kyiv gained EU candidacy status in June at the same time as ex-Soviet Moldova, which borders Ukraine and like its neighbour has had Russian troops stationed in an eastern breakaway region.
Zelenskyy told the same press conference that his country wants to join the European single market ahead of a decision on whether to grant Kyiv full EU membership.
‘Sanctions are here to stay’
The historic candidacy vote angered Moscow, which has tried to retain political and military influence in both countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago.
EU countries have staunchly supported Ukraine since Moscow invaded in February by hitting Russia with economic penalties.
Many members of the bloc have supplied Kyiv with advanced weapons that have helped Ukrainian forces in recent weeks recapture swathes of territory.
Germany’s defence minister pledged more weapons earlier today, saying Berlin will provide armoured vehicles and rocket launch systems but not the battle tanks sought by Ukraine.
Von der Leyen said just ahead of her trip that the successive waves of EU sanctions against Russia would remain and that Europeans must keep their resolve against Moscow.
“I want to make it very clear, the sanctions are here to stay,” she told the European Parliament.
The Kremlin maintains that Russia has weathered the economic penalties and Moscow has responded by reducing or halting entirely gas flows to European countries.
With winter fast approaching, this has forced the EU to source alternative supplies, agree plans to cut consumption and roll out financial support in the face of skyrocketing prices.
Ukrainian energy facilities, including Zaporizhzhia — Europe’s biggest atomic plant — have been hit by Russian strikes.
The UN nuclear agency asked Russia to withdraw its troops from Zaporizhzhia, diplomats said.
Putin praises Xi’s stance
Ukraine’s forces have posted slow but steady gains in the southern Kherson region near the Black Sea.
The Ukrainian presidency said today that intense fighting was ongoing around that southern front, adding that the military situation “remains extremely difficult.”
Local officials in the region around Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih reported fresh Russian strikes earlier today after attacks damaged a dam and saw dozens of homes flooded.
In the eastern Donetsk region, which has been partially controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014, fresh shelling killed two civilians and left another 13 wounded.
In the Ukrainian-held Donetsk town of Bakhmut, AFP journalists said streets were deserted and the sound of nearby artillery was audible in the town’s centre.
Flames were still licking a residential building hit by Russian strikes overnight and plumes of thick smoke were rising as firefighters battled the blaze.
At the meeting in Uzbekistan, Putin blasted attempts to create a “unipolar world” and praised China’s stance on the conflict.
“We highly appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in connection with the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin told Xi.
Beijing has not explicitly endorsed Moscow’s invasion but it has steadily built economic and strategic ties with Russia over the six months of the war.
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Trump and Musk are two awesome men
@Ross McAndrew: here he is
@Ross McAndrew: Awesome Wan#ers
@Ross McAndrew: the most aWesomest men in the country….. in the world…… probably even in the universe…
@Ross McAndrew: Awful.
@Ross McAndrew: How are the mocks going?
If I was Musk, I’d insist that Trump pays in cash. A noted nonpayer is our Donald. Several companies who’ve dealt with Trump have had to fold due to outstanding monies.
@honey badger: yes, he uses strategic bankruptcies to avoid his debts.
@Dermot Blaine: I’d buy one if I could afford it so.
@honey badger: He doesn’t even know how to drive.
@Micky The Pikey: yeah but we already know you have no class
@Micky The Pikey: a fool and his money are easily parted!!!
@Dermot Blaine: you don’t know me gombeem
@Micky The Pikey: Clearly he does!! He described you perfectly, which can be garnered from your puerile posts!!
@Micky The Pikey: I know you’re a troll with 20+ accounts on here, that’s all I need to know about you
@Dermot Blaine: Not paying your staff and creditors is the hall mark of a bad businessman and not a good one.
@honey badger: yeah wouldn’t be accepting a cheque from him. Would bounce like a basketball.
@honey badger: more like hundreds
@Micky The Pikey: fool
Tesla shares overvalued and their cars poor quality? Never!
Trump buying one won’t improve things, it’ll be another nail in the coffin for them.
@Ronan Mc: far from overvalued, come 2030 with energy storage, cybercab, robotics and much more expect easily $2000 a share. Tesla is more than a car company
@Ronan Mc: Democratic Party supporters flocked to buy Ladas. An attack on X is just more attack on free speech that the left are against and afraid of.
@Fynn: And fully autonomous driving was delivered in 2016.
@Fynn: I’m not a fan of the man or company, but it’s definitely a “ buy the dip” scenario, along with Bitcoin !!
@Fynn: If it isn’t overvalued, then why is it falling through the floor, losing over half it’s value since Christmas! Actual laugh out loud at the idea that a company with a share price that’s below where it was 4 years ago is going to multiply 10x in the next 5. Ye musk fanboys aren’t just weird, you’re hopeless.
@Ed Hughes: Based on what? Even after the dip it is trading at a fantasy land level. It has a lot further to go south
@thomas molloy: isn’t that the idea of free speech and trade. The fight to not listen to BS if you don’t want to, and buy what you want. That’s freedom right ????? Am I missing something
@Fynn: are you the Finn I know, the one with the Tesla?
The same people who boycotted and shot up six packs of Coors light because they had 1 trans spokesperson now think boycotting is illegal? Maga are the worst snowflakes of them all.
@FoxyBoiiYT: i believe that was Bud Light re “TikTok personality” Dylan Mulvaney, who identifies as a trans woman, not Coors.
@FoxyBoiiYT: Jack Daniels crowd are going nuts cos Canadians are boycotting their drink. It’s literally what red state Kentucky voted for.
@Glenda Locked – Wickla Drag Queen: Sorry your right. Bud light
@FoxyBoiiYT: A lot of similarly between the American and Irish voters…. we both ended up with what we voted for.
@Jp Cleary: As far as I know, every democratic country ends up with the government from parties that get the most votes.
But we’ll spotted, even if you think it only applies to two countries.
“Do you own a suit? Why don’t you wear a suit in the Oval office?”
@Ian McDonald: does not apply to Musk and Arabs and Indians in their pyjamas
Imagine the USA putting their faith and financial security in a man like Trump who declared bankruptcy six times .
Sure what could go wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/
So not consumer choice is illegal according to Mr T… maybe someone should explain the free market concept to him.
Swasticar need a brand ambassador like that for sure. Some image.
In that photo at the top of the article, Why ain’t Elon Musk being interrogated about where’s his suit? Like they did with Vlodmyr Zelensky?
Hahahahaha could not have happened to a nicer guy. And of course Trump will buy one then have it written off for tax purposes and never drive it.
If the IP addresses can be traced to Ucraine then that’s the place the attacks (if they exist) are NOT coming from. Shielding and cloning IP addresses is CyberAttack 101.
@Sweet Something Gacha: trump followers are not the sharpest tools. That won’t matter to them.
if Tesla was any other stock it would be a Meme stock. It’s PE ratio has been north of 100 since 2020 and recently was in the 400s. Note a PE ratio should be in the 15-25 range. Ford and toyota are < 10 for reference. So when people say Tesla is overvalued, it was about 40 times overvalued at it's peak. Ford has a market cap of 40B, Tesla at it's peak was 1.4T, now down to 700B but it has a long way to fall.
@Joshua Walsh: Tesla – The WeWork of vehicles.
@Joshua Walsh: ahh I see
That is NOT good publicity for his band.
@Jay Bow: they have a band? The Jesus, Mary, and Joseph tribute act?
@Glenda Locked – Wickla Drag Queen: Ack. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Chain. More like The Village People, actually.
Why do supervillans always cause their own downfall, you think they would’ve learned by now.
They’re definitely shagging
lol. The nail in the coffin. Komrad Jerkhoff getting one is hardly a great endorsement.
I’m really enjoying the slow disintegration of this administration.
All the sycophants that support him slowly realising how inept he really is.
It’s delicious.
And Trump will probably write-off the purchase as expenses and leave the tax-payer to foot the bill! Space Karen is having an absolute mare at the moment, you love to see it!
Probably go down & down & down no more Tesla?
Martin should point out that Ireland is the only country in Europe where Tesla sales are increasing. Sympathise on the immigration issue and ask him if he would consider selling US decommissioned military hardware so we can help him defend Europe from despots. Tell him we think the US is great and that’s why so many Irish have moved there and why we have such good trade relations. Oh and invite him to the Ryder cup. Stay away from specifics or numbers as the Orange clown will ignore them and invent his own.
@John Lyons: bring over a medal, and tell trump it’s the highest award a Taoiseach can bestow, and no one else has ever gotten one etc. Treat trump like the child he is.
Haven’t been more overjoyed since Donald put his trousers on back to front.
@James T.Kirk: There always a few slow learners at the back. They fear change and have to be dragged kicking and screaming as the world moves on regardless. It’s just a quirk of human nature I suppose.
They should rebrand it wankpanzer
I have no doubt whatsoever he has absolutely zero intention of buying a new Tesla and this can be marked up as another lie.
Electric not fitted for countryside. imagine waiting 40 minutes when and if you can charge a car to get to a destination ? batteries like all batteries get old and eventually will lose efficiency. it’s all right if you have the men’s to buy new, not on second hand !
what about cell fuels or another clean energy that would suit the infrastructure we have already in place everywhere ?
and did you see the price of the cars ? you need a mini mortgage to buy one, that’s ridiculous!
@Dominic Leleu: The range of a typical battery now is greater than the driving distance from Cork to Donegal. Charge overnight on a smartmeter.
@Dominic Leleu: You really haven’t a clue about EVs have you?
@John arse: He doesn’t have the men’s to buy one ;)
@Me Me: You assume an overnight stay in Donegal and access to a smart meter.
@Dominic Leleu: Average driving daily is like 18-20 km. Even my cheapest on the market Dacia Spring can do that for 12-14 days without recharge. You really haven’t a clue what your talking about. Oh and it cost me 21k. Not a fortune for a new car that I can charge for peanuts at home
I’m not sure Trump can even drive other than his golf cart and the economy into a recession !
Hey Trump
It is NOT illegal to not buy a particular brand of car.
Consumers can buy what ever the hell they want with their hard earned cash you massive dope
@donal O’brien: I don’t believe he ever said that ! Lol
@alan dunne: Except he did say exactly that.
@alan dunne: “But the Radical Left Lunatics, as they often do, are trying to illegally and collusively boycott Tesla, one of the World’s great automakers”. Note the use of the word “illegally”? It’s not illegal to buy a car other than Tesla (yet).
Another news outlet has reported that DOGE are investigating several NGO’s that were set up and supported by the last administration that received in the region of $2 billion. Investigations as yet cannot find/trace any more than 1/4 of it. It seems some people high up are nervous
@Andy Preneur: source
@Andy Preneur: Inept/crooked investigators look into the workings of inept/crooked politicians….
@Andy Preneur: sounds like usual Maga nonsense there Andy but do tell us names and numbers when you get them.
@Joe Beirne: Not hard to find if you want to
@paul hayes: Possibly
@Hotirish: Most news is suspect and follows a narrative.
@Andy Preneur: then should be very easy for you to provide a link then…. oh wait….
@Hotirish: do your own research, but you won’t to comfy in that little bubble were you are right and everybody else is wrong
USAID &Fema have a lot of questions to answer.
I’d say watch this space,, but you won’t
@Eoin Jackson: still no link, ‘Andy’ is lying
Like a 1950’s husband supporting the little wife’s business at home. Those cupcakes aren’t going to sell themselves! The photo of the pair of them in the Oval Office is hilarious!
@Fiona: musk is looking at him like he hates him
The circus is in town
Second hand Teslas will be very cheap. Perfect for every day local driving even with much deteriorated battery. 40kwh battery capacity with about 240 km range plenty for all local driving like Nissan Leaf. 7 cent a kWh to charge the battery at home from 2 to 5 pm. You can remove the badge!! No brainer.
@Neuville-Kepler62F: yes except everyone’s gonna think you’re a musk loving nob.
@Hotirish: no gear knob in Tesla’s ….all electric cars are automatic … ask for a test drive.
@Neuville-Kepler62F: you mean 2 to 5 am, and be prepared to pay 40 cent/ kWh for your peak time normal usage.
Definitely should go for metallic orange……
Musk should offer one to Putin
Everything Trump touches turns to sh!t. Maybe they can toast his purchase with some Trump Steaks.
@Setanta O’Toole: except the election which he won hands down that is
@alan dunne: and is rapidly turning to s h 1 t
@alan dunne: there was barely a one percent margin in his victory, and anyone who’s not wearing their maga glasses can see how much of a shitshow this ‘presidency’ has been so far.
@Setanta O’Toole: I am no trump fan tbh, but he has done exactly what he said in the election campaign
Secure the border there has been a drastic drop in illegal border crossings
Stop men participating in women’s sports
Reduce trade deficits
Take back control of govt spending, ie bring it back 2019 levels 3.5 trillion as opposed to 6.3 trillion currently , which is out of control.!
@alan dunne: What trade deficit has he reduced?
@alan dunne: he hasn’t reduced any trade deficit and tarriffs and removing thousands of jobs from the economy will only have the opposite effect. Biden and Obama deported more illegals than trump ever did and Biden actually managed to ‘make mexico pay’ too, where trump failed misersably. Men in womens sports is a non issue. He shites on about it constantly to distract people while he enriches himself and the many other billionaires in his administration. You know not all government spending is bad yeah? That people are actually supposed to get something in return for their taxes? Watch how much they save when they abolish social security and people have literally no social support despite paying into it their whole lives.
Musk not got a suit you would expect your car salesman to gave a shirt and tie good job Vance did not meet him
Hope it’s bull,,hit proof.
He’ll need the larger model, the one with the heavy duty battery, maybe self-drive
I hope mehole is shittin pebbles
@reg morrisey: Ah, the originality! ‘Mehole’! Such razor-sharp wit. This country needs people like you, with unique and different ways of looking at things. Think outside the box!
Wish he would just phuck off , I don’t know how he can look at himself in the mirror and not
This is a putin attack
Did that muppet invite the Burke mob to Washington?
Like most, he’ll buy it realise it’s not practical (assuming he actually uses it, most likely he won’t), and switch to a combustion engine car as its practical, reliable and convenient. I won’t mention cost as the powers that be would probably load charges on normal vehicles just to force people to buy crappy EVs.
Are Presidents meant to avoid supporting individual businesses in such a way?
That 1 new Tesla will sort our the billions being lost in share value (assuming he pays for it).
Could see this coming a mile away. Probably didn’t help himself saying that he was going to cut off the starlink service for Ukrainian soldiers.
Zelensky is being set up again methinks
Imagine the stench from his excrement filled diaper
How far left do you have to be to opposed attention to reduce fraud and waste in government spending?
Next time we get a 400k bikes he’d, remember.
Left wing douchebags
@Paul: about as far right as you have to be to think its fine to have an unelected billionaire firing thousands of ordinary working people on a whim and expecting them to be thankful for it.
@Paul: Trump, Musk and DOGE say they are finding all this fraud all over the government, yet to date there have been zero arrests or referrals for prosecution, and zero proof provided. Now *that* is strange. Maybe because they are lying and just full of ****?
@Jack Hayes: maybe you should read some of the findings, then comment !
‘During the press conference/Tesla
endorsement, the US president said he hopes his purchase will boost Tesla’s fortunes’. What a sentence. Truly sums up the state of politics in America.
Publicity stunt
And Trump is the one who wants oil/petrol back!! Drill baby drill was his mantra!!
Dump the chump
American Presidents don’t drive their own cars, need I say more.
This whole Tesla boycott is so stupid and it exhibits the partisan bitterness of left-wing individuals. These people protesting outside Tesla stores likely don’t even have any jobs because they’re loitering around the premises of the stores all day. We’ve reached an absurd point in history when people are actually against cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in government and ensuring that their taxpayer money is spent properly. DOGE has done some great stuff so far and has saved over $55 billion in wasteful spending in just over a month. People should be celebrating that, not angrily protesting. I admire Musk for not bending to pressure. He clearly cares passionately about the rising national debt that gone over $35 trillion and understands that drastic cuts have to happen across the board.
@William Jennings: done great stuff, probably the bestest stuff in the world! Lol! Amazing how Trump supporters don’t actually need any evidence
@Lorry R: There’s plenty of evidence. We have a record of all the contracts, programs and subsides that have been eliminated. You can go onto the DOGE website and various newspapers + online news websites where they all lay out in detail the cuts in spending that have taken place. The fact that you have offered no coherent rebuttal to the points I have made is very telling.
@William Jennings: he hasn’t saved $55 billion. The number has been inflated to a laughable degree, a quick Google search brings up countless articles about how Musk is outright lying about his so called savings.
@Lorry R: When the recession finally kicks in for real, it’ll be the greatest and bestest recession ever, Trump will definitely be spouting something like this
@William Jennings: Trump 1 raised US debt by €7.1 trillion. So much for caring about debt and waste.
@Franno: sorry, $7.1 trillion
He stick his Tesla where the monkey stuck his tuppence.
MuMp … a pair of clowns
Two paedophiles in a car together.
Jez …. I ordered one in January and might get delivery in May !!
Embarrassing for Americans
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