🇷🇺 Russia’s government expects steady growth in the export price of its crude #oil during the next three years despite energy #sanctions imposed by Western nations and their allies, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-08/russia-sees-export-price-for-its-oil-increasing-through-2026#xj4y7vzkg

#russia #oilandgas #oilprice


🇺🇦 Zelenskiy said on Friday that his country's allies had eased #sanctions on #Russia and called for a renewed drive to impose further punitive measures on Moscow.

"At this time, we see too long a pause by our partners in terms of sanctions," he said. "And very active #Russian attempts to evade sanctions."

Zelenskiy said keeping the pressure on Moscow should focus on Russia's energy sector, its access to microelectronics and its financial sector.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-our-partners-have-eased-up-sanctions-russia-2023-09-08/

#ukraine


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Agreed, absolutely abominable 🤬


🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Former U.S. President George W. Bush reckons #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is so tough, he could be from Texas 🤠

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-zelenskyy-tough-dude-real-texan-says-us-george-w-bush/

#usa #ukraine


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Since refusing to renew the deal allowing #Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea, #Russia has repeatedly targeted alternative export routes along the #Danube River.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66328810

#RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The Council of the EU on Friday announced additional #sanctions on six people for serious human rights violations in connection with their action towards members of ethnic groups in #Crimea

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/09/08/human-rights-violations-in-crimea-eu-sanctions-six-individuals-under-its-global-sanctions-regime/

#europe #ukraine #russia #humanrights


🇺🇦 Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies on Friday froze more than $80 million in assets belonging to tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky for 48 hours as part of an embezzlement investigation, #Ukrainian media outlets reported.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-freezes-80-million-tycoon-kolomoiskys-assets-media-reports-2023-09-08/

#ukraine


🇷🇺 Ship-to-ship transfers of Russia's Urals crude #oil grade in August were about 85% lower than their peak in the first quarter of this year, according to analytics firm Vortexa, amid warmer weather and Moscow's decision to cap exports.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-urals-sts-shipments-slump-85-their-q1-peak-vortexa-2023-09-08/

#russia #oilandgas


🇷🇺 🇦🇲 #Russia on Friday summoned the #Armenian ambassador for a "harsh" protest about a list of what it termed "unfriendly steps", the latest sign of strain between Moscow and Yerevan.

In a statement, the #Russian Foreign Ministry listed these as #Armenia decisions to sign up to the ICC and to host a military exercise with the United States, as well as a visit to #Ukraine by the Armenian prime minister's wife to deliver humanitarian aid.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-issues-harsh-protest-armenia-over-range-unfriendly-actions-2023-09-08/


🇸🇪 🇷🇺 #Swedish truck maker #Volvo AB's Russian assets have been transferred to an undisclosed #Russian investor, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/russias-volvo-assets-transferred-russian-investor-interfax-2023-09-08/

#sweden #russia


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia is accumulating its forces near the #Luhansk Oblast village of Novoiehorivka in the #Lyman direction, which is one of the epicenters of fighting on the eastern front, Eastern Force Grouping spokesperson Illia Yevlash said on Sept. 8.

https://kyivindependent.com/military-russia-accumulates-forces-at-novoyehorivka-in-lyman-direction/

#ukraine #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar


🇩🇪 Two #German men been charged with high treason for gathering state secrets from Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency and passing them to #Russia, prosecutors said on Friday.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/two-germans-charged-with-treason-in-russia-spying-case-6eeccf4d

#germany #spying #espionage


🇪🇪 #Estonia plans to be the first #European Union nation to legalize the seizure of sanctioned Kremlin-linked assets to fund #Ukrainian reconstruction this year, a move that the Baltic nation’s top envoy said would “really hit” #Russia 👏

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/white-collar-and-criminal-law/estonia-to-lead-way-in-eu-on-russian-asset-seizures-envoy-says

#europe #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #sanctions


🇨🇳 🇺🇦 The #Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused a group of #Chinese bloggers of violating its state borders and entering the country illegally, after opera singer Wang Fan was filmed singing the Soviet war song “Katyusha” inside the #Mariupol Drama Theater where hundreds were killed.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-09-08-23/h_b95e41e50c326fd86f51b9b19b8d5586

#ukraine #china #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes


🇩🇰 The first 10 #Leopard 1 tanks donated by #Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands have arrived in #Ukraine and more are on their way, Denmark's armed forces said on Friday.

https://www.barrons.com/news/first-leopard-1-tanks-arrive-in-ukraine-denmark-d9aca33b

#counteroffensive #tanks #russia #russiaukrainewar


🇺🇲 🇷🇺 #FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that the number of #Russian spies operating inside the United States is “still way too big,” despite efforts to kick them out.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/08/politics/fbi-director-christopher-wray-warning-russian-spies/index.html

#usa #russia #spying #espionage


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Four people were killed and scores wounded on Friday in #Russian air strikes on #Ukraine, including a deadly attack in which a missile slammed into a police building in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-air-force-shoots-down-16-drones-over-odesa-region-officials-2023-09-08/

#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The United Nations is "actively engaged" in trying to improve Russia's grain and fertilizer exports in a bid to convince Moscow to again allow the safe Black Sea export of #Ukraine grain, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday 🙄

"We believe that it's necessary to create a system of mutual guarantee," Guterres told reporters on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations summit in Jakarta.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/un-working-guarantees-russia-restore-grain-deal-moscow-skeptical-2023-09-07/

#russia #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 #Russia plans to reduce #diesel exports from its key western ports by a quarter this month amid seasonal refinery maintenance and government efforts to keep more fuel at home to ease growth in domestic prices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-08/russia-plans-to-cut-sea-diesel-exports-by-a-quarter-in-september

#oilandgas


🇷🇺 #Russian airlines have suffered thousands in additional costs due to regular airport closures prompted by #drone strikes inside #Russia, the RBC news website reported Friday, citing aviation industry experts.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/08/russian-airlines-bear-costs-of-flights-rerouted-by-drone-strikes-rbc-a82398

#ukraine #russiaukrainewar


🇺🇦 🇷🇺 CNN's visual guide to Ukraine’s #counteroffensive

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/09/world/ukraine-war-counteroffensive-maps-guide-dg/

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s former defence minister has warned his western counterparts that negotiations with Moscow will not bring peace, and that #Putin remains determined to destroy #Ukraine entirely and to “assimilate” its citizens into #Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/goal-destruction-ukraine-ex-defence-minister-warns-west-putin-aim

#RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇷🇴 🇷🇺 The discovery of drone debris on #Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring #Ukraine could spread into their country, as #Russian forces bombard #Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member #Romania

https://apnews.com/article/romania-ukraine-russia-attacks-danube-ports-4b1b0e2b9aab3893063352e8f3a85bf8

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇴 🇺🇦 Romania's government will approve on Friday a plan to upgrade road infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Constanta, part of wider investments in the port which could help more #Ukrainian grain to transit.

Constanta is Ukraine's largest alternative export route, with grains arriving by road, rail or barge on the #Danube

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romania-upgrades-black-sea-port-infrastructure-bring-more-ukrainian-grain-2023-09-08/

#romania #ukraine


🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which is trying to recruit more #Russians as spies, has released a video targeting Moscow officials with an appeal to tell the truth about a system it said is riddled with lying sycophants.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/cia-seeks-recruit-russian-officials-with-silky-video-about-truth-2023-09-08/

#usa #cia #russia #spying


🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The #European Union has no short-term plan to ban #Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) despite soaring imports to the bloc, Spain's #energy minister said, citing fears of another price spike.

Russia's energy revenue has fallen since western powers imposed sweeping economic #sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, but #LNG still brings in billions of dollars.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-has-no-immediate-plans-ban-russian-lng-says-spains-ribera-2023-09-08/

#europe #russia #oilandgas


🇬🇧 #HSBC Group will halt remittance services to and from #Russia and #Belarus for its corporate clients next month as financial institutions respond to Western #sanctions over the #Ukraine war, Nikkei Asia has learned.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Finance/HSBC-to-halt-corporate-remittances-to-and-from-Russia

#britain #RussiaUkraineWar #banking


🇪🇺 Russia's blockade of #Ukrainian seaports after pulling out of a United Nations and Turkey-mediated deal to ensure grain shipments must be stopped, the president of the #European Council Charles Michel said Friday.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russian-blockade-of-ukraine-ports-scandalous-eu-s-michel-d8b389cf

#europe #ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇨🇺 #Cuban authorities said they had arrested 17 people on charges related to a ring of human traffickers that allegedly lured young Cuban men to serve in the #Russian military amid the #Ukraine war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/cuba-arrests-17-trafficking-young-men-fight-russia-ukraine-2023-09-08/

#cuba #russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇺🇸 ISW:

🇺🇦 #Ukrainian forces continued offensive operations near #Bakhmut and in western #Zaporizhzhia Oblast on September 7 and made further gains on both sectors of the front.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-7-2023

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian authorities are holding local 'elections' this weekend in occupied parts of #Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully control.

The voting for Russian-installed legislatures in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions begins Friday and concludes Sunday. It has already been denounced by Kyiv and the West.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-local-elections-dcdce1c6fa131ddf331f70b352e62a81

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇬🇧 🇺🇦 UK will host international food security summit later this year and increase support for vulnerable people worst hit by rising food prices.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-support-to-alleviate-global-impact-of-putins-weaponisation-of-ukrainian-grain

#britain #ukraine #foodsecurity #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes


🇺🇲 🇷🇴 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and #Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu on Thursday discussed Romania's investigation into drone debris found in #Romania close to its border with #Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/blinken-romanian-minister-discuss-drone-debris-found-romania-near-ukraine-border-2023-09-07/

#usa #russia #russiaukrainewar


🇺🇲 🇰🇵 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday it would be a "huge mistake" for North Korea to exchange military support with #Russia for use in #Ukraine, while a top former U.S. intelligence official said there would likely be limits to what Pyongyang would get in return.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-vice-president-harris-calls-nkorea-russia-military-support-huge-mistake-2023-09-07/

#usa #northkorea #russiaukrainewar


🇺🇲 🇺🇦 The #Pentagon announced a new $600 million package of long-term aid to #Ukraine on Thursday, providing funding for an array of weapons and other equipment just a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the country and pledged $1 billion in new military and humanitarian aid.

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-military-aid-war-008f39152f6a0cf16ec8375f8ee1d508

#usa #russiaukrainewar


🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A powerful explosion rocked Kremniy El plant in #Bryansk (western Russia), #Russian media reported.

The governor of the Bryansk region, Aleksander Bogomaz, confirmed a drone attack on “an industrial facility in Bryansk.”

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/09/07/kamikaze-drones-attack-microelectronics-plant-in-russias-bryansk-video/

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 The all-out domestic fiasco of the #Russian patriotic feature film Svitedel (“The Eyewitness”) frustrated the pro-war community but hardly surprised industry professionals. The Insider delves into the mystery of Svidetel's downfall that extends beyond the movie's horrendous quality.

https://theins.press/en/society/264916

#russia #propaganda #cinema


🇷🇺 Hundreds of migrant workers hailing predominantly from Central #Asia have been rounded up in a wave of police raids that has swept several #Russian cities in recent weeks.

The round-ups appear to primarily target male migrants who recently received Russian citizenship but failed to complete their compulsory military registration. Some are handed military summons on the spot, while others are forcibly taken to military enlistment offices.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/russia-pressures-migrant-workers-with-raids-military-summons-a82303

#russia #russianarmy


🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Task Force has identified some $5 billion in #Russian central bank assets in the U.S. #banking system, a small fraction of the estimated $280 billion in global assets, according to REPO officials.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/repo-russian-elites-proxies-oligarchs-assets-us

#usa #russia #sanctions #RussiaUkraineWar


🇦🇹 🇪🇺 Austria’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned Martin Selmayr, the head of the #European Commission’s office in #Austria after he critiqued the country’s import of #Russian gas, calling it “blood money.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/selmayr-summoned-to-austrian-foreign-ministry-over-russian-blood-money-critique/

#europe #energy #oilandgas #RussiaUkraineWar


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🇬🇧 🇺🇦 UK #insurance firm Lloyd's of London is in discussion with the United Nations to provide coverage to #Ukrainian grain shipment if a new Black Sea grain corridor agreement can be reached, CEO John Neal told Reuters in an exclusive interview Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lloyds-talks-with-un-over-new-black-sea-grain-insurance-cover-ceo-2023-09-07/

#britain #ukraine #foodsecurity


🇺🇲 The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked the country’s top three oilfield services companies to explain why they continued doing business in #Russia after its invasion of #Ukraine, and demanded that they commit to “cease all investments” in Russia’s fossil fuel infrastructure 👏

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-oil-slb-baker-hughes-senate-690c7cba962dca306afd0a825f3e587a

#usa #russiaukrainewar


🇨🇦 #Canada on Thursday tasked a Quebec judge with leading an independent public inquiry into allegations of attempted foreign interference in #Canadian affairs by China, #Russia and others.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-launches-public-inquiry-into-alleged-foreign-meddling-by-china-russia-2023-09-07/


🇷🇺 🇧🇩 #Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on Thursday assured #Bangladesh that Moscow was committed to complete a #nuclear power project on time, despite obstacles resulting from Western #sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/world/bangladesh-tackle-nuclear-power-plant-issue-lavrov-visit-officials-2023-09-07/

#russia


🇺🇦 🇷🇺 There is a "realistic possibility" that #Ukrainian forces can break through the remaining #Russian defensive lines on the southern front by the end of 2023, Trent Maul, the director of analysis of the U.S.' Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview with The Economist on Sept. 6.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-intelligence-realistic-possibility-that-ukraine-can-break-through-remaining-russian-lines-in-2023/

#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 In the first six months of 2023, Russia’s federal censor ordered the blocking of more than 885,000 websites that contained information banned under #Russian law.

That’s 85 percent more than in the first half of 2022, according to an agency representative.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/09/07/russian-authorities-reportedly-blocked-more-than-885-000-websites-in-first-half-of-2023

#russia #censorship


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2. Well, from a legal viewpoint - no, I assume.


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He's the greatest disappointment of the decade(


More on #elonmusk 🙃

“It is profoundly disturbing that Elon Musk spent the weekend engaging with a highly toxic, antisemitic campaign on his platform,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the non-profit’s chief executive, noting the effort has been promoted by “individuals such as white supremacist Nick Fuentes, Christian nationalist Andrew Torba, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others”.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/elon-musks-hypocrisy-about-free-speech-hits-a-new-low


🇺🇲 🇷🇺 A #Russian businessman with ties to the #Kremlin was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in a U.S. prison after being convicted of participating in a $93 million insider-trading scheme involving hacked secret earnings information about multiple companies.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-businessman-gets-9-years-us-prison-hack-and-trade-scheme-2023-09-07/

#usa #russia #hacking #insidertrading


🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Russian air defense systems in the southern #Volgograd region downed a drone Thursday afternoon, local authorities and media said, the first such reported incident in the region since the start of the war in #Ukraine

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/russian-air-defense-downs-drone-in-southern-volgograd-region-a82392

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇺 A group of #Russian teachers has quit their jobs after refusing to allow #Ukraine war 'veterans' to teach required lessons that they believe promote war to children.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/advocating-for-war-is-wrong-russian-teachers-resign-over-refusal-to-allow-ukraine-veterans-in-class-a82388

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #propaganda


🇷🇺 Putin has ordered his government to fund research into artificial intelligence as competition with the West to develop such technology heats up, according to a #Kremlin document published Thursday.

https://www.barrons.com/news/putin-orders-state-support-for-ai-as-race-heats-up-5a0c6268

#russia #artificialintelligence #technology


🇰🇵 🇷🇺 North Korean #hackers targeted #Russian diplomats and successfully breached a Russian aerospace research institute earlier this year, Microsoft Corp said in a blog post published Thursday.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/digital-threats-cyberattacks-east-asia-china-north-korea/

#northkorea #russia #hacking #cybersecurity


🇺🇦 Ukraine's anti-corruption agency is treating tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky as a suspect in a criminal investigation into embezzlement at lender PrivatBank, a lawmaker said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-tycoon-kolomoisky-is-suspect-second-criminal-case-lawmaker-2023-09-07/

#ukraine


🇺🇸 🇬🇧 The United States and #Britain have sanctioned additional members of a #Russian hacking gang known as #Trickbot and U.S. officials have indicted nine people with ties to the group's malicious software and the Conti ransomware schemes, the U.S. Treasury Department and the British Foreign Office said on Thursday.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1714

#usa #russia #hacking #cybersecurity #sanctions


🇮🇳 #India has proposed that a #G20 statement condemning the war in #Ukraine also accommodate the views of #Russia and China to avoid an impasse for the divided bloc, Indian officials said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india-seeks-g20-consensus-by-noting-russias-views-ukraine-2023-09-07/

#RussiaUkraineWar


🇺🇦 Ukraine's human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of #Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to #Russia during the war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-wants-help-pressure-russia-return-illegally-transferred-children-2023-09-07/

#ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇷🇺 #Russians finish voting on Sunday in tightly-controlled regional and local 'elections', the first since Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine, that are likely to be interpreted by authorities as a vote of confidence in #Putin

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russians-vote-tightly-controlled-regional-elections-first-since-war-began-2023-09-07/

#russia


🇺🇦 Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s #Starlink satellite communications network near the #Crimean coast last year to disrupt a #Ukrainian sneak attack on the #Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the billionaire.

As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

#elonmusk #ukraine #crimea


🇰🇵 🇷🇺 For the first time in nearly four years new staff have been allowed at the #Russian embassy in the North Korean capital of #Pyongyang, the delegation said on Thursday, after anti-pandemic measures blocked most travel and lead many embassies to close.

#Russia would be only the second embassy known to be allowed new staff, after China's new ambassador entered in March.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-embassy-north-korea-allowed-new-staff-first-time-since-pandemic-2023-09-07/

#northkorea


🇺🇦 🇭🇷 #Ukraine has started exporting grain via #Croatian seaports, aiming to broaden its export routes while its Black Sea ports are blocked, a senior #Ukrainian official said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-its-shipping-grain-via-croatian-ports-2023-09-07/

#croatia


🇧🇦 🇷🇺 CSKA Moscow, one of the biggest #basketball clubs in #Russia, is taking part in a tournament in the city of Banja Luka along with other major international teams despite being banned by the sport's global governing body from sanctioned competitions over the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.rferl.org/a/cska-moscow-tournament-basketball-banja-luka-fiba-ban/32582370.html

#sports #sanctions #bosnia #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇴 #NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday there was no sign #Russia had launched a deliberate attack on #Romania after possible drone debris was found near its border with #Ukraine

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/09/07/nato-chief-says-no-sign-debris-in-romania-indicates-deliberate-attack-by-moscow-a82385

#russiaukrainewar


🇵🇱🇭🇺🇸🇰 Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are continuing to push for extending a ban on #grain imports from #Ukraine until the end of the year, warning of disruptions to their domestic markets, according to people familiar with the issue.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-07/poland-hungary-slovakia-push-for-ukraine-grain-ban-extension

#europe


🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 US Vice President Kamala Harris, #Chinese premier Li Qiang and #Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov attended an East Asia summit in Indonesia on Thursday, offering an opportunity for direct, high-level diplomacy between the rivals.

https://news.yahoo.com/top-us-china-russia-officials-020752049.html

#usa #china #russia


🇺🇦 Kernel, Ukraine's largest sunflower oil exporter, has already suffered three #Russian attacks this month on its #Danube River port facilities, the company said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-kernel-says-its-danube-facilities-attacked-three-times-so-far-this-2023-09-07/

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes #foodsecurity


🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian drones were downed near #Moscow, the southern #Rostov region and the southwest #Bryansk region in the early hours of Thursday.

Three buildings were damaged in the city of Rostov-on-Don and one person was injured when one of the drones crashed in the downtown area.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-drones-downed-near-moscow-rostov-bryansk-ria-2023-09-07/

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Thursday Briefing

- #Russian missile strike on Ukrainian market kills 17 as Blinken announces $1B aid

- Most EU countries oppose Polish-led calls to keep #Ukraine grain curbs
- #Nato should respond more aggressively to Russia, says Polish general
- Armenia to exercise with US troops next week in sign of frustration with #Russia
- US delegation to discuss Putin's war crimes warrant in The Hague

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🇬🇧 🇷🇺 #British American Tobacco said on Thursday it entered into a deal to sell its #Russian and Belarusian businesses to a consortium led by members of BAT Russia's management team.

https://www.bat.com/group/sites/UK__CRHJSY.nsf/vwPagesWebLive/DOCVEFRJ

#britain #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #sanctions


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian drone strikes have damaged port infrastructure, a grain silo and administrative buildings in the #Izmail district of Ukraine's #Odesa region, its governor, Oleh Kiper, said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/port-grain-silo-damaged-by-drone-strikes-ukraines-izmail-governor-2023-09-07/

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇷🇺 Reuters:

- #Russia has cracked down on criticism of #Ukraine war

- Some war critics held multiple times for minor offences

- Lawyers say such 'carousel arrests' used to curb dissent

- Practice can buy time for police to build cases, they say

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/arrest-detain-repeat-russian-war-critics-caught-jail-carousel-2023-09-07/

#RussiaUkraineWar #repression #censorship


🇺🇸 ISW:

🇷🇺 #Ukrainian and Russian sources report the #Russian defense industrial base faces growing challenges in replacing basic supplies in addition to known challenges in rebuilding its stocks of precision weapons.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-6-2023

#russia #russianarmy #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian occupation authorities in #Crimea regularly parade “traitors” on camera, aiming to cow pro-Kyiv residents into submission. But many Crimeans still openly yearn for a return to #Ukrainian rule.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/in-crimea-pro-ukraine-feelings-prompt-a-russian-crackdown-123494b0

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar


🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A #Russian missile tore through an outdoor market in eastern #Ukraine on Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding dozens, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the country with more than $1 billion in new American funding for Ukraine, including military and humanitarian aid.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-blinken-counteroffensive-92b9ff2b9328f40516a4e47864d446e9

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes


🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Most EU countries are against extending an import ban on #Ukrainian grain beyond mid-September, four EU diplomats told POLITICO, pushing back against calls by five eastern member countries to keep the restrictions in place.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oppose-poland-call-ukraine-grain-curb-elections/

#europe #ukraine


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🇷🇺 As #sanctions loomed, sales of ageing crude carriers suddenly soared, bought by operators unknown to the market

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/19/the-dark-fleet-of-tankers-shipping-russian-oil-in-the-shadows

#russia #energy #oilandgas #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 #Russian assault Ka-52 #helicopters shot down in #Ukraine on Thursday morning were manufactured using foreign chips and processors, according to Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-08-17-23/h_a75a50312022d9f2ed3e88e183ef6c37

#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar


🇷🇺 #Russia launched the test phase of a digital #ruble on Tuesday, in a bid to limit the impact of international #sanctions imposed following its offensive in Ukraine.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-launches-test-phase-for-digital-ruble-86a28704

#currency #rouble