🇷🇺🤡 A fugitive #Russian lawmaker has managed to retain his position in parliament a full year after being convicted on bribery charges, the investigative news website Mozhem Obyasnit reported Friday 😁

The Moscow Times

Fugitive Russian Lawmaker Retains Position in Parliament 1 Year After Bribery Conviction – Report - The Moscow Times

A fugitive Russian lawmaker has managed to retain his position in parliament a full year after being convicted on bribery charges, the investigativ...

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Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) on X

New reporting from Seymour Hersh: "An American intelligence official I spoke with... told me, 'The war is over. Russia has won. There is no Ukrai...

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said Friday that #Russia has restarted a systemic campaign of aerial attacks on #Ukrainian energy infrastructure but that his country's air defence systems were better prepared for the onslaught than last year. https://www.barrons.com/articles/ukraine-says-russian-energy-terror-has-begun-ahead-of-winter-d33a2a2e #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Friday Briefing: - #Pentagon exempts Ukraine operations from potential govt shutdown - Yellen, Hunt signal support for windfall tax on frozen #Russian assets - 3,500 Russians in #Latvia to be told to leave - High-ranking Russian priest expelled from #Bulgaria - 5 Bulgarians living in UK charged with spying for #Russia - Kyiv says it hit #Crimea air base - Mobilized Russian troops endure quick losses in #Ukraine war 📨 More news in a daily newsletter:

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🇺🇸 ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the #Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western #Zaporizhzhia Oblast are currently penetrating, although ISW is not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through this Russian defensive layer.

Institute for the Study of War

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 21, 2023

Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western Zaporizhia Oblast ar...

#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #RussiaUkraineWar

🇱🇻 Around 3,500 #Russian citizens in #Latvia will receive letters from the migration authority this week asking them to leave the country. The government body said on September 21 that they were people who hadn't submitted documents to extend a permanent residence permit or hadn't registered for a #Latvian language test by September 1.

RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Thousands Of Russians In Latvia To Be Told To Leave

Around 3,500 Russian citizens in Latvia will receive letters from the migration authority this week asking them to leave the country.

#russia

🇺🇦 As Ukraine’s farmers labor through their second wartime harvest, they’re expecting a big one. They just don’t know how much of it will ever make it to market. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-20/ukraine-reaps-a-big-harvest-but-war-risks-trapping-it-at-home#xj4y7vzkg #ukraine

🇪🇺 🇨🇳 #European Council President Charles Michel will ask #China directly at the United Nations Security Council to do more to push #Russia towards a "just peace" in #Ukraine, according to his draft speech seen by Reuters at the #UNGA https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-ask-china-un-push-russia-towards-just-peace-ukraine-2023-09-20/ #europe #europeanunion #russiaukrainewar

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Tuesday Briefing: - #Germany plans additional $428m in military aid to Ukraine - #Ukraine filed lawsuit against EU neighbours over grain import ban - Ukraine to get advanced combat engineering vehicles from South Korea - #Russia hit by China’s drone export curbs - Top UN court considers Ukraine’s #genocide case against Russia - Ukraine says it breached #Russian lines by recapturing two eastern villages 📨 More news in a daily newsletter:

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🇨🇳 🇷🇺 The Group of Seven on Tuesday called on #China to press #Russia to stop its aggression in #Ukraine after foreign ministers of the bloc met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and released a joint statement. The statement, released by the foreign ministry of G7 chair Japan, said the members hoped China would push for the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of #Russian troops from Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-ministers-call-china-press-russia-stop-aggression-ukraine-2023-09-19/ #RussiaUkraineWar

🇭🇺 🇸🇪 Pro-government media in #Hungary last week unearthed a 2019 #Swedish educational video that described Hungary as a country where democracy was eroding. On Sunday, parliament speaker László Kövér, a close ally of prime minister Viktor Orbán, said that Hungary and #Sweden did not see eye to eye on issues of patriotism and therefore did not belong in the same alliance. https://www.ft.com/content/ebb5522a-17a6-4e14-83ac-b913ad81214d #nato #russia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said Monday its forces had broken through a #Russian line of defence near the eastern town of #Bakhmut amid fierce fighting in the area. https://www.barrons.com/news/ukraine-says-breaks-russian-defence-line-near-bakhmut-df0fdf6e #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar

🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Tokmak is preparing to become a lynchpin of Russia’s second main line of defences. Improvements to the town’s defences likely indicates Russia’s growing concern about #Ukrainian tactical penetrations of the first main defensive line to the north.

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Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) on X

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 17 September 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: ...

#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian-installed 'authorities' in #Crimea said on Saturday they planned to sell about 100 #Ukrainian properties, including one belonging to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-installed-crimea-authorities-sell-ukrainian-properties-2023-09-16/ #ukraine #russia #russianwarcrimes

🇰🇵 🇷🇺 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected #Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers and #hypersonic 'Kinzhal' missiles on Saturday, accompanied by Putin's defence minister. https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-shows-north-koreas-kim-hypersonic-missiles-strategic-bombers-2023-09-16/ #northkorea #russia #nuclear

🇰🇵 🇷🇺 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed admiration for Russia's aviation technology undergoing rapid development, outpacing the outside potential threats, during his visit on Friday to a #Russian fighter jet factory, KCNA reported on Saturday. https://www.reuters.com/world/north-koreas-kim-praises-russian-warplanes-outpacing-potential-threats-2023-09-15/ #russia #northkorea

🇺🇦 #Ukraine has confirmed that British and French cruise missiles - fired from either wing of a #Ukrainian bomber - were used in a major attack against Russia's navy in occupied #Crimea and worked "perfectly".

Sky News

Ukraine says bomber deployed British and French cruise missiles

The head of Ukraine's air force has revealed specific details of the strikes, which devastated one of four Russian cruise-missile-capable subm...

#russia #russiaukrainewar #counteroffensive

🇱🇻 The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday issued an urgent call for authorities to investigate allegations that #journalists working in #Latvia were targeted by state-sponsored #hackers

Committee to Protect Journalists

Apple warns Latvia-based journalists about possible hacker attacks - Committee to Protect Journalists

New York, September 15, 2023—The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday issued an urgent call for authorities to investigate allegations that...

#russia #hacking #surveillance #privacy #cybersecurity

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will pay his second wartime visit to Washington next week, the White House announced Friday, in a bid to solidify the support of his country's crucial backer which has shipped billions of dollars in aid to fight #Russian invaders. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230915-zelensky-to-make-second-wartime-white-house-visit-to-rally-support #usa #ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar

🇩🇪 Protesters have targeted Berlin's State Opera for refusing to cancel #Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko's first performance there since the 2022 war. Chanting "shame", they accused the soprano of failing to condemn Putin for Russia's invasion of #Ukraine

Berlin protesters condemn Russian soprano Netrebko's opera performance

Anna Netrebko has been accused of failing to denounce Vladimir Putin for Russia's war in Ukraine.

#germany #berlin #russia #RussiaUkraineWar