[W:855]interesting images

[Rogue Valley]

Leonila Guz of Kherson was selected Miss Ukraine 2018 after it was discovered that the original winner, Veronica Didusenko, was a mother. The selection of Ms. Guz was met with mixed results
in Ukraine. Miss Ukraine 2019 will be selected in a competition on September 12.

 

[Rogue Valley]

The first middle-sized reconnaissance ship (SRZK) for the needs of the Naval Forces, constructed by the "Kuznya on Rybalsky" shipbuilding plant at the commission of the
Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has been floated out from its dock near Kyiv today, The craft will next be painted and fitted with radio, radar, and optoelectronic equipment.
The vessel will primarily operate in the Black and Azov Seas and has a mission range of 7,000 nautical miles.

 

[Rogue Valley]

The Kamius River in eastern Ukraine. Pretty darn good fishing.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Ukraine Air Force Su-24 and its various armaments.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Standing in the center of Kyiv on Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) is the Independence Monument (2001), a mix of Ukrainian Baroque and Empire style. The 20 ton
Bronze and Italian white marble column is topped with a statue of Berehynia (a Slavic deity) with a guilder-rose branch in her arms. As a model for Berehynia, the statue artist
Anatoliy Kushch chose his daughter, American artist Christina Katrakis.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Metro station of the Borschagovsky high-speed tram line in Kyiv.

 

[Rogue Valley]

This is the new class that will spend the next 11 months taking the Joint Command and General Staff Course 2019/2020 at the Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia. 60 students from 12 countries - Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United States. Good luck to all.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Lightning discharge in the Volodymyrivka Gorodnya district of Chernihiv.

 

[Rogue Valley]

At this location in the Zhytomyr region, amber is extracted illegally. Amber extraction destroys the local ecology and the laws of Ukraine will have to be amended to outlaw such
destruction of the land. This growing problem is on President Zelenskyy's bucket list of important things to do.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Tank teams from the four commands - north, south, east, and west - are competing in Chernihiv for the Championship of the Ukrainian Armed Forces armored corps.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Former three-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and the Mayor of Kyiv since 2014, Vitali Klitschko. Vitali was also a Kickboxing World Champion six times.
His father Vladimir Rodionovic Klitschko was a Soviet Air Force General who commanded part of the Chornobyl cleanup and died of cancer in 2011. Vitali's brother
Vladimir Vladimirovitsch held the World Heavyweight Championship twice.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Workers inside a new Antonov aircraft fuselage at the Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv.

 

[Rogue Valley]

National Police in the Khmelnytskyi region received 18 new squad cars courtesy of Renault.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Ukrainian singer Olga Polyakova of Vinnytsia has landed her first movie role. For the past six months she has also been busy forming a
new political party which will be named in November, and would become the first women's political force.

 

[Rogue Valley]

A train of T-64 tanks that have been updated leaves the Kharkiv Tank Factory for the troops. The plant will now concentrate on updating Ukraine's T-80UD tanks and producing the new T-84 Oplot battle tanks.
T-64 tanks will now be repaired and updated at the Lviv Tank Factory.

 

[Rogue Valley]

 

[Rogue Valley]

The ESJF Cemeteries Project is using aerial photos, maps, and 3D models to help restore long-forgotten Jewish cemeteries across Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe.
https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/

 

[Rogue Valley]

The current office of the American broadcaster Radio Liberty in Kyiv. The US government should increase funding for RFE/RL.

 

[Rogue Valley]

In an estuary is southern Ukraine you can see female Heron's laying their eggs amid the tall grasses with a water source nearby.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Congratulations to Officer Artem Baranenko, the first Ukrainian cadet to receive the International Sword of Honour as the best of the intake at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Great Britain. Well done cadet.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Ukraine will celebrate Independence on August 24. Many festivities are planned throughout the nation.

 

[Rogue Valley]

An electric tram amid traffic in Vinnitsya.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Peru has agreed to order an unspecified number of Antonov An-178 military transport aircraft for the Interior Ministry of Peru. The new aircraft would replace older An-32B transporters
also produced by the Antonov company for the Latin American nation. This is good news as Antonov needs new orders to maintain its Kyiv workforce.

 

[Rogue Valley]

As part of an advanced STEM curriculum, these young ladies in Mariupol took part in the intrusion of a computer network as part of a digital skills course.
They hacked into a hardened Latvian government system with the advance permission of Latvia. This also helps Latvia identify vulnerabilities.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (standing -- a/k/a Zakhar Prilepin/Yevgeny Lavlinsky) is a Russian novelist and a member of the Bolshevik Party. In 2017 Prilepin joined a volunteer battalion in
the occupied DNR. He is wanted in Ukraine for war crimes (executing POWs).