Reports: russia attacked with manover on baltic states

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reports: russia attacked with manover on baltic states

According to western military experts, russia did not carry out a counter-terrorism operation but an attack on nato members in the controversial sapad (west) attack in september.

"At sapad, training has clearly been done for a gross interstate conflict," a nato spokeswoman in brussel said in response to a question from the german press agency.

The "bild" newspaper, citing unnamed western intelligence officials, reported that the russian-belarusian manover was about an attack on the baltic states. According to this information, flights of long-range bombers over the north and baltic seas were potentially used to simulate attacks on germany, poland, the netherlands and the scandinavian countries.

Nato spokeswoman oana lungescu did not endorse this portrayal. Intelligence reports have not been commented on, she said, but added: "the scope and extent of the 2017 sapad manover were much more crude than russia had previously announced."Nato had criticized this in the nato-russia council in october.

Moscow was the destination of the manover from 14. Up to 20. September declares counter-terrorism in a fictitious small state in western belarus. According to russian figures, 12,700 soldiers were deployed. According to western figures, there were actually 60,000 to 80,000 of them, most of them in the russian back room.

"This shows that the threat from russia has not diminished with the aggression in eastern ukraine, the annexation of crimea and the purges of its political leadership," commented a spokesman for the lithuanian defense ministry in vilnius.

The small baltic nato states had warned especially about the manover. Many fears did not come true – there was neither a russian attack on the baltic, nor on the near ukraine. Also, russia withdrew all its troops from belarus again. The manover rather showed contrasts between the allies moscow and minsk. Presidents vladimir putin and alexander lukashenko visited their soldiers separately. The leadership in minsk also sought transparency for observers of auben.

Military planners in russia as elsewhere have had to devise scenarios for defense as well as attack, expert nabi abdullayev of consulting firm control risk had said in september. "But it is not on the agenda of the russian leadership to invade neighboring eu countries that are also nato members."

Supporting the fire brigade and maintaining cultural life

Christian samann is now at the helm of the iffigheim firefighters’ association. After twelve years in office, thomas drebel did not retire completely, however, but continues to work as an assessor. 101 members pay the association.

The association was founded on 3. June 1984 with the aim to promote and support the fire department. Here the new chairman of the association christian samann suggested an amendment of the articles of association. It should be considered whether a second goal, namely the preservation of cultural life in the town, should not be anchored. Finally, it is the fire department association that organizes all the festivities. He will also take care of the future village community center.

The fire station was occupied 120 times last year, twice more than the year before. This was reported by thomas drebel in his last report as chairman of the council. Ten times the tent had been lent. Here the meeting of the members agreed to the purchase of new tent tarpaulins.

The purchase of a display cabinet is being considered

A new high quality protocol book will also be purchased. A display cabinet for special objects is also being considered. The reason for this was the accidental discovery of a fire department jug, on the tin lid of which a dedication to the voluntary fire department with the date 5 june 1984 had been engraved.7.51 stands. This jug was given to the fire department by thomas drebel. When the new village hall is built, there could also be a place for a showcase, according to the assembly.

The proceeds of the winter barbecue of 230 euros has been donated to the monchberg clinic. This need is to be maintained, as the fire department association is doing well financially and others are in need of support. Also the donations from the "red can in the guest room should be given in the future to social institutions.

New board of directors elected

Drebel mentioned the maypole celebration, the sausage feast, the village festival at the fountain in june, the solstice bonfire, the helper celebration, the church fair in november and the winter barbecue as events for this year. The european championship match between germany and portugal will be watched together in the firehouse. There was also discussion about an additional beat evening.

Honorary chairman norbert dazian then had an easy task with the election management. The members unanimously elected christian samann as the new chairman. Deputy remains thomas hering. Treasurer siegfried subner, who has held the office since 1996, will continue for another six years. Andreas braun is the new font leader. The assessors are simone dorsch, dieter dorsch (assessor since 1996 and tent master since 2000) and thomas drebel. Roland mennel and robert ehemann act as treasurers. By virtue of his office, fire department commander matthias geuder is a member of the board of directors.

Kitzinger argues: when the electric car is ruled out

Gunter zankl is very fond of technical progress. On the roof of his garage there is a small photovoltaic system, which generates enough electricity to open and close the garage door electrically. Last spring, the pensioner wanted to take a definitive step into the future and buy an electric car. Only: there is a tangible problem, which initially nips the idea in the bud.

The problem is within sight of his home in kitzingen's alemannenstrabe: dozens of garages built by the city are located there, all of which have one rather decisive disadvantage: they are not connected to the power supply. So the man from kitzingen thought: i'll set up a charging station on my own property and drive up by car to load it up.

So far, so bad. Because the pensioner is only allowed to park in front of his property for a short time, a maximum of 15 minutes, for loading and unloading – and even that only with a special permit. It is not even possible to think of several hours needed for charging the car. Reason: the area in question is signposted as a pedestrian way, therefore parking is expressly forbidden. This was done deliberately, the planning concept was only to have sidewalks instead of streets to keep traffic out of the area.

Traffic-calmed area?

But the former teacher came up with an idea: if the streets were designated as traffic-calmed areas instead of sidewalks, this would also allow cars to be parked for longer periods of time. "In times of climate crisis and energy transition, it must be possible to find a solution", the pensioner thought to himself and turned to the city administration with his request. For the not few residents of the frankenweg and parts of the alemannenstrabe a solution could be found.But did not find. The city of kitzingen made it clear in its letter of reply: in order to park his possible electric car for several hours in front of the house in alemannenstrabe 84, it needs "a special use, which requires the permission of the municipality". Then comes the decisive sentence: "unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with such a permit." Not least because it "sets a precedent" which the city wants to avoid at all costs.

Press spokeswoman claudia biebl emphasizes in response to a question from this newspaper that the city must be careful "to create solutions that can be applied throughout the city and not create individual solutions for each street".

Charging stations not an option

The no from the town hall was also clear for reasons of content: "preferential treatment within the framework of road and street law does not result from the environmental friendliness of an electric car"." Then comes the reference to the publicly accessible charging stations in the city, for example at the old hospital, in the schwalbenhof, in the old burgstrabe and in front of the landratsamt (see graphic). Only: for gunter zankl, that's exactly out of the question: what should he do somewhere in the city, watching hour after hour as the car batteries slowly charge up?? And walking home in the meantime is not an option, especially for older people.

Even the suggestion to make the sidewalks a traffic-calmed area was wiped out by the city: this would not be possible "because of the narrowness of the streets and would not change the purpose as a street, which in turn contradicts the parking for the loading process".

After the city's rejection, gunter zankl went to a lawyer for advice – but they couldn't give him much hope either. But at least there was a hint that the electromobility law (emog) does grant advantages to electric vehicles in terms of parking on public roads and allowing exceptions.

Head shaking and lack of understanding

Gunter zankl had almost buried the dream of an electric car – shaking his head. Due to the – from his point of view – rigid attitude of the city, "most of the residents of alemannenstrabe and frankenweg are excluded from electric mobility". He still cannot understand this. But he didn't want to give up either: the 77-year-old brought the greens on board. He found a supporter in county councilwoman christa buttner, whose opinion was that "it would be very possible to extend the permitted loading and unloading time of about 15 minutes to two hours for loading electric cars".

But the people of kitzingen did not want to wait any longer either. A few weeks ago, he traded in his gasoline-powered car for a hybrid in order to finally "drive electrically in a climate-friendly way". The electric car is charged sometimes at his daughter's and sometimes in the city at public columns – so it is exactly the situation he wanted to avoid. The pensioner still can't come to terms with this: "this can't be a final solution!"

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