When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. #Venus and #Jupiter are shining through the twilight only 0.5 degrees apart. Marek Nikodem photographed the conjunction from Szubin, #Poland:
"The two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are passing each other tonight," says Nikodem."I set out with my girlfriend to photograph them--what a view!"
#Finland plans to fence 200 kilometres of its 1,300-kilometre border with Russia at a cost of around 380 million euros (around $400 million).
The fence will be over three metres (10 feet) tall with barbed wire at the top, with particularly sensitive areas equipped with night vision cameras, lights and loudspeakers.
At present, Finland's borders are secured primarily by light wooden fences, mainly designed to stop livestock from wandering to the wrong side.
Fearing that Moscow could use migrants to exert political pressure on Helsinki, NATO candidate Finland in July passed new amendments to its Border Guard Act to facilitate the erection of sturdier fences.
Although the Finland-Russia border has "worked well" in the past, Brigadier General Jari Tolppanen told AFP in November that the war in Ukraine had changed the security situation "fundamentally".
He said the border fence was "indispensable" to stop large-scale illegal entries from Russian territory.
Finland saw an influx of Russians in September after President Vladimir Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists to fight in Ukraine.
#Estonia, #Latvia and #Poland have also increased security on their #borders with #Russia or are planning to do so.
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President Andrzej Duda has confirmed that the Polish prime minister "went to Kyiv to bring Leopard tanks" to #Ukraine, where he offered a "clear signal of support."
There is no way Ukrainians can operate those tanks, this means Poland has now troops directly involved in this war.
#NATO #Politics #UkraineWar #Russia #WW3
https://amp.dw.com/en/poland-delivers-first-leopard-tanks-to-ukraine/a-64809432
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#music #festival #Poland #2022 #Mose #live-collaboration #Janax-Pacha #Uria-Tsur #Laboratoriumpiesni #aniakarwan6266 #TheRedLittleFlower
Polish renewable energy investor Lewandpol Group has secured a loan agreement worth PLN90 million (US$20.7 million) for a 200MW solar and wind energy project in the country.
https://www.pv-tech.org/polands-lewandpol-group-obtains-fund-to-build-large-solar-and-wind-energy-park/
#wind, #solar, #group, #pv, #lewandpol, #news, #poland
the horrors of #war
#Ukraine attacks pipeline pumping Russian oil to EU – Transneft
1 Feb, 2023 15:32
The oil transport company says the strike failed to cause significant damage and the Druzhba pipeline is operating normally
A Ukrainian rocket has reportedly struck near an oil pumping station connected to the Druzhba pipeline in Russia’s Bryansk Region, the operator Transneft claimed on Wednesday.
Speaking to the TASS news agency, Igor Demin, a spokesman for the company, said the shell landed on the territory of the Novozybkovo station in the late hours of January 31. He noted that the attempted attack ultimately failed to cause any casualties or hinder the work of the pipeline.
According to initial reporting by the Mash news agency, the strike was carried out using a Tochka-U rocket. Workers reportedly found a 20-meter crater on the territory of the station, which lost power as a result of the attack.
Demin explained that the Novozybkovo oil pumping station, which was the apparent target, is only temporarily used at peak times on the Druzhba pipeline and was last turned on in 2022 for only a few hours. He noted that Transneft workers are currently repairing the damage caused by the attack and that the pipeline continues to operate normally.
The Druzhba (Friendship) #oil #pipeline is one of the #longest in the #world and connects eastern parts of #Russia to several points in Europe, including Ukraine, #Belarus, #Poland and #Germany.
The segment that was apparently being targeted by Kiev’s forces on Tuesday is located some 39km from the Russian-Ukrainian border and leads directly into Belarus, where it branches off into two sections: one going to Germany and Poland and the other delivering oil to Ukraine, #Hungary, #Slovakia, #Austria and the #CzechRepublic. Germany, however, has not received any oil since the start of the year after Berlin and Poland both pledged to stop all imports of Russian crude.
According to Bryansk Governor Aleksander Bogomaz, Kiev’s forces also launched several artillery strikes against civilian targets across the region on Tuesday. Although no casualties have been reported, Bogomaz said the attack damaged over a dozen residential buildings, a WWII memorial, and a shop. The strikes also cut off power to several villages, he said, later adding that these issues had been promptly resolved by emergency services
#2015
high-resolution #moon #photo above was captured last week by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński. It was stacked together using 32000 separate #photos.
Wojczyński tells us that he used “advanced image acquisition and processing techniques,” mapping violet and infrared images of the moon to blue and red channels in the final shot.
It took him about 28 minutes to shoot 32000 photos weighing 73.5 gigabytes using his ZWO ASI174MM monochrome camera, a couple of filters, his Sky-Watcher HEQ5 mount, and his Celestron C9.25 #telescope (which is equivalent to a 2350mm f/10 camera lens) — equipment that cost him about $3500 total.
The #photography was done from the balcony of his apartment in Piekary Śląskie, #Poland:
#Zelensky's new decrees:
- Prohibited officials from traveling abroad for a "non-state purpose" (for example, on vacation). This also applies to security officials, prosecutors and everyone who should work for the state;
- There are personnel decisions - some today, some will be tomorrow - regarding managers of various levels in ministries and other structures of the central government and in the regions and in the law enforcement system.
Something must have happened in the meeting with NATO officials during the weekend, a lot of changes happening on government and military tops of Ukraine since then.
What happened to the #Investigation?
Who were the #Terrorists who blew it up?
#GonzaloLira has predicted #Poland is #next
This is an important opinion because he is positioned extremely well, 10 minute bitchute video https://www.bitchute.com/video/qyE56NV9WrEA/
Meanwhile in #Poland
US sides with Germany and Italy in opposing anti-Nazi resolution
#Germany, #taly, #Austria and #Japan were among the 50 members of the #UN General Assembly who voted against the Russian resolution to condemn glorification of Nazism, joining the annual opposition by the US and Ukraine.
The final vote on Thursday afternoon was 120 in favor, 50 opposed and ten abstaining. In addition to the former Axis powers, other notable “no” votes included #Canada, the #UK, #France, #Spain, #Poland, #Czechia, #Poland, #Hungary, and the three Baltic states. #Switzerland, #SouthKorea, and #Türkiye were among the notable abstentions.
Moscow proposes the resolution every year, urging the UN to combat the “glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.”
The resolution calls on UN members to take appropriate action to counter historical revisionism and the denial of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War.
The US and Ukraine have voted against the Russian-proposed resolution for years. They were the only “no” votes in 2021, while 49 others abstained, mainly Washington’s allies. On that occasion, the American envoy said the resolution was incompatible with the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and accused Moscow of “disinformation narratives” about neo-Nazism in the Baltic states and Ukraine.
Explaining its opposition after committee debate last month, the US called the resolution “not a serious effort to combat Nazism, antisemitism, racism, or xenophobia – all of which are abhorrent and unacceptable,” but rather a “shameful political ploy” to justify the conflict in Ukraine.
