Yesterday was not a good day.
I fell asleep in the recliner and woke up when Joan needed me. I got up, slightly dazed, took a step to turn and fell over. My right knee hit the floor first and my body followed. When I stood up, my knee hurt and my left foot as well. As the day wore on, my left foot became increasingly more painful. By 5 PM, it was difficult to even walk. I had to hold on to Joan's wheelchair just to push myself the few steps into the kitchen to prepare dinner.
I applied some BenGay to more foot, elevated it and spent the rest of the evening in the recliner.
I'm happy to say, this morning the left foot is better, but the right knee still hurts.
Meanwhile>Ukraine
Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots and ground crews on Thursday, Aug. 21, launched a new round of nighttime drone strikes against Kremlin assets hundreds of kilometers behind the fighting front, in one attack scoring multiple hits on a base belonging to Russia’s army intelligence agency – the GRU.
The air raid, by a reported 10-15 unmanned aircraft, per local news reports, attacked a GRU compound adjacent to a military airport in the port city of Sevastopol, in the Russian-occupied Crimea region.
Russia’s mainland region Rostov, a Black Sea shore territory, was the target of a second Ukrainian drone swarm on Thursday, with both official and social media sources reporting aircraft targeting a major oil refinery near the town of Novoshakhtinsk.
Some Ukrainian milbloggers claimed rare jet-propelled drones had made the attack, hitting some 170-180 kilometers (106-111 miles) east of the fighting front, but there was no local confirmation. Ukraine’s General Staff, in a Thursday statement, credited the elite 14th Unmanned Aircraft Regiment for flying the Thursday strike.
A third covey of Ukrainian long-range drones hit and damaged railroad power transmission infrastructure in Russia’s western Voronezh region. The overnight strikes hitting in and around a transformer station near the village of Zhuravka. The facility’s main function is delivering electricity to the regional rail network. Local news platforms reported damage to a transformer station and delays to 19 trains transiting the Voronezh region rail network.
