I have been a civiliansupporter of the Vancouver Artillery Association for some time now. I joined when one of my good friend's sons was wounded in Afghanistan .
His folks formed the Equitas Society to try to get the Canandian COurts to rule in favour of better treatmenat and support for our wounded soldiers, easpecially those in the Reserves.
My great Uncle Ibri Alkenbrack was killed On September 2, 1918. Today, as they have done for decades, two of my second cousins will place a wreath in his memory at the Cenotaph in Napanee, Ontario. I have been to his grave, A bunch of the family plane to be at his gave on the 110th anniversary of his death. He was a school teacher, enlisted with his best friend , who was with him the day he was killed. His best friend lived to survive the war.
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Gérard Le Duff, the president of Kernic Solidarités and the grandson of a Breton fisher, added: “The Ukrainian ambassador came to Brittany and he thanked us for what we are doing. “We don’t have a lack of fishing nets in this region. It’s a problem to know what to do with them as a couple of the companies that recycle them have closed. If they need them to create anti-drone walls and save lives in Ukraine, they can have them.” Kernic Solidarités was set up after Le Duff and Abaziou were approached by local Ukrainians asking for help with clothing, food and medical supplies for communities back home. The charity’s 20 volunteers have driven two lorry consignments of aid 2,300km to Ukraine’s border with Poland. “When we learned that Ukraine needed nets, the fishing community reacted rapidly,” Le Duff said. Russia is using first-person view drones, similar to those on the commercial market, that can be piloted by remote radio control that are then packed with explosives. Russian pilots with real-time video feeds direct them to their targets. In some areas, Ukrainian forces say nothing can move without attracting the attention of swarms of “killer” kamikaze drones. The fishing nets are stretched between poles to create netting tunnels or used to cover trenches and vehicles. Ukrainian drones are also equipped with pieces of netting to drop on enemy drones. By July this year Ukraine was dealing with more than 500 drones a day. Hundreds of tonnes of old nets have also been donated by fishers in Sweden and Denmark. Jean-Jacques Tanguy, a former president of the Finistère fisheries committee said local fishers are more than happy to help the war effort. “They are proud to know their used material is going to help save lives,” he told AFP. Abaziou has said the association no longer has the funds to send more supplies this year and discussions were underway for Ukraine to send lorries to pick up the nets. “We will help get the nets and load them, but we don’t have the budget to continue running convoys ourselves,” he said. Iryna Rybakova, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade told Radio Free Europe anti-drone net tunnels were being installed across the Donetsk region, about 75% of which is now reported to be occupied and controlled by Russian forces. She added that enemy drone pilots were increasingly finding ways to breach the netting. “Nets are not a panacea. They are just one element of protection against drones,” she said. Abaziou, a retired market garden trader, said the Ukrainians he had met were moved by the support of Brittany’s coastal communities: “The fact that those in the fishing industry the other side of Europe are sending nets to help them defend themselves has brought a few tears to their eyes.”
His folks formed the Equitas Society to try to get the Canandian COurts to rule in favour of better treatmenat and support for our wounded soldiers, easpecially those in the Reserves.
My great Uncle Ibri Alkenbrack was killed On September 2, 1918. Today, as they have done for decades, two of my second cousins will place a wreath in his memory at the Cenotaph in Napanee, Ontario. I have been to his grave, A bunch of the family plane to be at his gave on the 110th anniversary of his death. He was a school teacher, enlisted with his best friend , who was with him the day he was killed. His best friend lived to survive the war.
Fishing Link
Gérard Le Duff, the president of Kernic Solidarités and the grandson of a Breton fisher, added: “The Ukrainian ambassador came to Brittany and he thanked us for what we are doing. “We don’t have a lack of fishing nets in this region. It’s a problem to know what to do with them as a couple of the companies that recycle them have closed. If they need them to create anti-drone walls and save lives in Ukraine, they can have them.” Kernic Solidarités was set up after Le Duff and Abaziou were approached by local Ukrainians asking for help with clothing, food and medical supplies for communities back home. The charity’s 20 volunteers have driven two lorry consignments of aid 2,300km to Ukraine’s border with Poland. “When we learned that Ukraine needed nets, the fishing community reacted rapidly,” Le Duff said. Russia is using first-person view drones, similar to those on the commercial market, that can be piloted by remote radio control that are then packed with explosives. Russian pilots with real-time video feeds direct them to their targets. In some areas, Ukrainian forces say nothing can move without attracting the attention of swarms of “killer” kamikaze drones. The fishing nets are stretched between poles to create netting tunnels or used to cover trenches and vehicles. Ukrainian drones are also equipped with pieces of netting to drop on enemy drones. By July this year Ukraine was dealing with more than 500 drones a day. Hundreds of tonnes of old nets have also been donated by fishers in Sweden and Denmark. Jean-Jacques Tanguy, a former president of the Finistère fisheries committee said local fishers are more than happy to help the war effort. “They are proud to know their used material is going to help save lives,” he told AFP. Abaziou has said the association no longer has the funds to send more supplies this year and discussions were underway for Ukraine to send lorries to pick up the nets. “We will help get the nets and load them, but we don’t have the budget to continue running convoys ourselves,” he said. Iryna Rybakova, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanised Brigade told Radio Free Europe anti-drone net tunnels were being installed across the Donetsk region, about 75% of which is now reported to be occupied and controlled by Russian forces. She added that enemy drone pilots were increasingly finding ways to breach the netting. “Nets are not a panacea. They are just one element of protection against drones,” she said. Abaziou, a retired market garden trader, said the Ukrainians he had met were moved by the support of Brittany’s coastal communities: “The fact that those in the fishing industry the other side of Europe are sending nets to help them defend themselves has brought a few tears to their eyes.”
