🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Survivors say #Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of #Ukraine. Men are often the victims
“They seemed to have a fetish for genitalia. Sometimes the door would open, and they would say: ‘We’re going to take out our batons and we’re going to rape everyone here,’” the 39-year-old farm manager told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/europe/russia-sexual-violence-occupied-ukraine-intl-cmd
#russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇪🇺 European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from #Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the floating devices.
https://apnews.com/article/estonia-russia-buoys-border-10b99970ed538ce1684bf88c6384a1ec
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A nighttime Russian attack destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in #Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area that is being pummeled by the Kremlin’s forces in a powerful new offensive.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kharkiv-railways-evacuation-02dc12a156a2034088991f5884d4aa28
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 🇨🇿 An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal has prohibited Russia's Gazprom from continuing with Russian legal proceedings against CEZ, the Czech energy company said.
In a statement late on Thursday, CEZ said the ICC Tribunal granted a request confirming that disputes between the companies should be resolved in ICC arbitration, not in Russian courts.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cez-icc-tribunal-bans-gazprom-placing-gas-dispute-russian-court-2024-05-24/
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia is increasingly using "glide bombs" - cheap but highly destructive ordnance - to advance its offensive in #Ukraine
More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near Kharkiv.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz5drkr8l1ko
#russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺🇨🇺 #Russia has likely been recruiting Cuban nationals to fight in its army in #Ukraine, research by the BBC has shown.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68949298
#cuba #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Russian forces accidentally shot down their own Su-27 fighter jet over occupied #Crimea due to "heightened combat readiness," Ukraine's Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk said on air on March 29.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-navy-jet/
#russia #russianarmy
🇷🇺 Riddle looks at how Russia’s banning of Youtube, Twitter and Meta since the war in Ukraine have helped push Telegram into social media dominance
https://ridl.io/explaining-the-rise-of-telegram/
#socialmedia
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia and Ukraine said they downed dozens of drones overnight, as both launched overnight attacks on each other's targets behind the stretched frontlines.
Ukraine's air force said Russia fired 37 Iranian-style "Shahed" kamikaze drones and three missiles at its territory overnight.
https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-ukraine-down-dozens-of-drones-overnight-00a02ba1
#russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A party official in the Russian-held town of Nova Kakhovka in Ukraine's #Kherson province was killed by a car bomb on Saturday, the provincial governor said.
Vladimir Malov, executive secretary of the town branch of Russia's governing United #Russia party, died in hospital, Vladimir Saldo said in a post on his Telegram channel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/car-bomb-kills-official-russian-held-ukrainian-town-governor-2023-10-07/
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 The Insider conducted interviews with psychologists, parents, and the children themselves to shed light on the profound psychological impact the war has wrought upon them.
https://theins.press/en/society/265658
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇨🇾 A #Russian journalist detained in #Cyprus for allegedly being a threat to national security has left the island, #Cypriot media said on Saturday.
The journalist's detention on Thursday in Nicosia sparked a rare crisis in relations between #Russia and Cyprus, with the Cypriot ambassador summoned to the foreign ministry in Moscow for an explanation.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-journalist-detained-cyprus-has-left-island-state-media-2023-10-07/
🇪🇺 EUvsDisinfo:
🇷🇺 'In memoriam, Anna Politkovskaya.
17 years since her assassination, #repression against journalists in #Russia has only worsened.
Stifling of free speech in Russia isn't just a domestic issue – it ultimately paved the way for Russia's illegal and unjustified war against Ukraine.'
#censorship #humanrights #RussiaUkraineWar
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🇺🇦 When Ukraine's #Kakhovka dam was blown up in June, it led to devastating floods that destroyed homes and farmland, and left hundreds of thousands without drinking water.
Four months on, #Ukrainians are still facing water shortages but say they are determined to overcome the destruction.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67009090
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 ISW previously assessed that #Russian forces were likely struggling to conduct tactical to operational level rotations along the entire frontline, but is revising this assessment considering the apparent rotation of substantial elements of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division and two VDV divisions to and from the frontline south of #Orikhiv
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-6-2023
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #russianarmy
🇵🇱 The #European Union’s fifth-most populous nation will vote in a pivotal election on Sunday October 15, the results of which will reverberate westwards through the EU, eastwards into war-torn #Ukraine, and across the Atlantic, where the White House will be watching closely.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/07/europe/poland-election-explainer-cmd-intl/index.html
#poland #europe
🇪🇪 Volunteers from #Estonian aid organizations suffered minor injuries after a #Russian missile landed close to their convoy in eastern Ukraine, a representative said on Friday.
🇺🇦 The group was delivering aid in #Ukraine and was organized by NGOs "Vaba Ukraina" (Free Ukraine) and "Ukraina Abi" (Ukraine Aid).
https://news.err.ee/1609124981/estonian-aid-convoy-hit-by-russian-missile-in-ukraine
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇺🇲 🇨🇳 The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 #Chinese companies to a government export control list over support for Moscow's military and defense industrial base, including supplying the #Russian sector U.S.-origin integrated circuits 🇷🇺
Another seven entities from Finland, Germany, India, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom were also added to the trade export control list.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-adds-42-chinese-entities-trade-black-list-over-russia-military-support-2023-10-06/
#usa #china #russia #sanctions
🇷🇺 Margarita Simonyan is no stranger to public outrage. But the veteran propagandist and editor-in-chief of #Russian broadcaster RT managed to leave pretty much everyone at a loss for words on Monday when she claimed that if #Russia detonated a controlled thermonuclear explosion over Siberia, it would knock out communications systems around the world without causing any real damage.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/10/06/weapon-of-mass-delusion-en
🇺🇦 🇷🇴 #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit #Romania next week for the first time since #Russia began its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine
The Ukrainian president will meet with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis as well as other senior officials in the country, according to Romanian media outlet Digi24.
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-visit-romania-russia-border-attack/
#russiaukrainewar
💻 On Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross issued the first list of rules for civilian #hackers ever created.
Dubbed a "Geneva Code of cyber-war", it was initially criticised as unworkable.
But now #Ukrainian and #Russian hackers say they will comply with the rules 🤔
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67029296
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #hacking #cyberwar #cyberattacks
🇲🇩 In an interview with the Financial Times, Maia Sandu said Wagner’s late leader #Prigozhin had planned the coup earlier this year and warned that Moscow is using various methods, including cash mules and bank cards issued in Dubai, to smuggle money into #Moldova to bribe voters ahead of a string of elections.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e317be3-1837-45da-beef-be0347937fd9
#russia #wagner
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A Ukrainian court has frozen the #Ukrainian assets of three #Russian businessmen over their alleged support for Russia's war in #Ukraine, prosecutors and the security service said on Friday.
The Ukrainian Security Service said assets owned by Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven and Andrey Kosogov had been frozen. They were considered part of President Vladimir Putin's close circle and contributed to "large-scale financing of the Russian Federation's armed aggression".
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-freezes-assets-three-russian-tycoons-worth-464-mln-prosecutors-2023-10-06/
🇸🇪 🇺🇦 #Sweden will send #Ukraine a new military support package, worth 2.2 billion crowns ($199 million) and consisting mainly of artillery ammunition, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Friday.
He also reiterated that Sweden would for domestic security reasons need to become member of #NATO before it would be able to potentially spare any fighter jets.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-give-ukraine-new-200-million-military-aid-package-2023-10-06/
#russiaukrainewar
🇺🇲 🇺🇦 The #Biden administration is considering using a State Department grant program to send additional military aid to #Ukraine as Congress continues to battle over weapons funding, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the discussions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/biden-state-department-fund-ukraine-00120199
#usa #russiaukrainewar
🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #German Chancellor Olaf #Scholz pledged to further bolster Ukraine’s air defenses to help protect the country against #Russian missile attacks this winter.
#Germany will supply a second Patriot air-defense system to help shield key infrastructure, Scholz told reporters Thursday after talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the sidelines of a summit of European leaders in Granada, Spain.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-05/germany-to-bolster-ukraine-s-air-defense-with-additional-patriot#xj4y7vzkg
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A #Russian missile slammed into a cafe and grocery store in a village in northeastern #Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 51 people as they held a memorial service, #Ukrainian officials said.
The cafe and shop were struck and reduced to rubble early in the afternoon in Hroza village in the #Kupiansk district of the #Kharkiv region, regional governor said, adding that many civilians had been there at the time.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-attack-kills-49-northeast-ukraine-ukrainian-officials-say-2023-10-05/
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 As Putin's army is taking a beating in Ukraine, #Russians are bracing themselves for a new wave of #mobilization
A century ago, #Russia went through a similar phase during the WWI mobilization, when soldiers were reluctant to join the fighting due to a sense of aimlessness, food and equipment shortages, and incompetent commanders. Back then, the discontent ended in mass desertion and a #revolution
https://theins.press/en/history/265611
#history #russiaukrainewar
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