A fabulous read in today's NY Times:



By Mark Bulik
April 13, 2022
Updated 9:02 a.m. ET
It was a few minutes to 8 o’clock on the evening of April 13, 1922. When Patrick Joseph O’Connor came down the steps of his apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen were lying in wait.

Two of them — Danny Healy and Martin Donovan — stood near the corner of 83rd and Columbus Avenue, staking out the apartment at 483 Columbus. Patrick A. Murray, an I.R.A. commander who went by “Pa,” was a block north.

Their target, known as Cruxy O’Connor, was a former comrade who switched sides repeatedly in Ireland’s fight for independence from Britain. His last change of allegiance got six I.R.A. men killed when he told the police the location of their safe house outside Cork. After the raid, O’Connor fled Ireland by boat, first to London, then to America, pursued the whole way by the I.R.A.

He knew the gunmen were out there somewhere in the mild New York night, just itching to avenge the dead. He had to quit his job as an accountant at B. Altman after he’d spotted them stalking the vast department store. That was weeks ago. Now he needed a walk and a smoke, and the spring evening beckoned.

https://nyti.ms/37KqQZn

https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1514303669260402700

https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1514291242888220674

He's back from his break!

https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1514235419386429452

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1514000767316901888

Just breaking.

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1513962803509477378

Enlarge the pic.

I don't normally put stuff like this up because I don't really know much about military tactics and such. But I was depressed about the news from Mariupol and I happen to know if Ukraine can retake Kherson there is nothing behind it from there to Crimea:

https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPR/status/1513985558657134593

https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1513911265764249600

https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1513660595685498901

https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1513821127000395779

Which means at least a significant portion of the naval marine forces have surrendered.
The Azov brigade in the steel plant however appear to remain a viable force. I don't know if there is a plan but they are unlikely to be taken alive.