The Daily Populous

Saturday January 6th, 2024 day edition

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Russia is lobbing North Korean-made ballistic missiles at Ukraine from positions just north of the Russia-Ukraine border.

At least one open-source analyst believes Russia’s new North Korean missiles struck a pair of Ukrainian army logistics bases in recent days, destroying as many as 10 valuable tanker trucks.

Russia’s acquisition of KN-23s—7,500-pound, solid-fuel rockets with 1,100-pound warheads—represents a major escalation of Russia’s 23-month wider war on Ukraine.

International sanctions bar North Korea from exporting its homegrown rockets.

Moscow’s aim obviously is to launch more missiles than Ukraine, with its limited supply of air-defense batteries and missile-reloads, can intercept.

Ukraine makes its own long-range attack drones, and also has modified its old S-200 surface-to-air missiles into 300-mile-range surface-strike weapons.

Until the Republicans decide to support Ukraine over Russia, Russia can continue lobbing four-ton North Korean rockets at an increasingly defenseless Ukraine. »

Joe Biden Just Delivered the Speech Democrats Have Been Desperate for Him to Give

Authored by themessenger.com

Democrats have been desperate for Joe Biden to hold nothing back in defining former President Donald Trump as an anti-democratic threat.

President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at Montgomery County Community College January 5, 2024 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

“There's no shortage of Democrats who often wet their bed wondering if President Biden is the right choice for them to get behind,” said Parkhomenko. »

Radio reporter fired over comedy act reinstated after an arbitrator finds his jokes ‘funny’

Authored by apnews.com

A reporter who was fired for his standup comedy has been reinstated to his job at a Philadelphia-based public radio station through an arbitrator, who agreed that his jokes were, in some part, funny.

He was frustrated that, when he was first fired, people thought it was an obvious conclusion for telling jokes while having a day job.

You’re off hours, you’re having fun with, like, creative expression, of course you should get fired for that,’ ” he said. »

A Hard-Won Victory That Ukraine Stands to Lose

Authored by theatlantic.com

But the cost and difficulty of the battle also illustrated just how monumental a task Ukraine set itself with its counteroffensive.

But the factors that made this victory so hard-won will make it as hard or harder to repeat.

We visited Position X with Ukrainian troops in November 2023 and spoke with commanders about their victory there and the battlefield beyond. »