Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇺🇲 🇷🇺 The U.S. government is weighing new, harsher #sanctions against #Russia's lucrative oil trade, seeking to tighten the squeeze on the Kremlin's war machine just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-weighs-new-russia-oil-sanctions-weaken-putin-ahead-trump-bloomberg-news-2024-12-11/ #oilandgas #usa

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🗣️ “People are afraid to go out to protest. They are afraid to show their faces, afraid to speak out publicly. Both the Russian and the Kadyrov regimes exploit this,” said Chechen-born activist Fatima Suleymanova.

The Moscow Times

Battling Fear and Indifference, Exiled Chechen Women Protest Kadyrov - The Moscow Times

“People are afraid to go out to protest.

#russia #chechnya

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇸🇪🇺🇦 #Sweden will soon contribute substantial funds to make #Ukraine able to mass produce Ukrainian long-range missiles and long range drones - Pål Jonson

Kyiv Post

Sweden to Fund Production of Long-Range Weapons for Ukraine

The Swedish Defense Minister said that Ukraine is free to use Swedish weapons as it sees fit, including on Russian territory.

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The ballistic missile launched by #Russia on Nov. 21 against the city of #Dnipro was likely part of the "Kedr" missile complex tested in recent years, #Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) said. https://kyivindependent.com/russia-likely-used-ballistic-missile-from-kedr-complex-to-strike-against-dnipro-on-nov-21-intelligence-says/

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia's ground forces participating in combat against #Ukraine amount to almost 580,000 soldiers, Vadym Skibitskyi, the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), told Interfax Ukraine on Nov. 21. https://kyivindependent.com/nearly-580-000-russian-troops-engaged-in-combat-against-ukraine-military-intelligence-says/

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war during a single incident in eastern #Ukraine last month, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russian-forces-executing-five-pows-2024-11-22/ #russia #russianwarcrimes

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces may have targeted routes in Dagestan used by #Iran to supply weapons to #Russia, the War Zone media outlet said on Nov. 6. https://kyivindependent.com/dagestan-supply-routes/ #ukraine

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

☢️ “The fact that its #nuclear warheads are so close to #Ukraine could, in fact, tempt #Russia to conduct a false-flag operation on its own storage sites in order to justify a nuclear attack.”

Foreign Affairs

How the War in Ukraine Could Go Nuclear—by Accident

Russian atomic weapons are dangerously close to the frontlines.

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian military command likely aims to rapidly push Ukrainian forces out of #Kursk Oblast in order to free up combat power for its priority offensive operations in Donetsk Oblast and to ease the theater-wide operational pressures that the Ukrainian incursion has generated.

Institute for the Study of War

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 11, 2024

Russian forces intensified their ongoing effort to dislodge Ukrainian forces from Kursk Oblast around the evening of October 10 and have recently a...

#russia #ukraine

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇨🇭🇺🇦 #Switzerland is planning to allocate 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) for reconstruction projects in #Ukraine over the next four years, Swiss Ambassador to Ukraine and Moldova Felix Baumann said. https://kyivindependent.com/switzerland-to-pledge-1-7-billion-for-reconstruction-projects-in-ukraine/

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇱🇹 🇷🇺 Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy in #Lithuania to express its strong protest over the Kremlin’s recently intensified shelling of civilian targets in #Ukraine

lrt.lt

Lithuania voices protest over Russia’s attacks on Ukraine

Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy in Lithuania to express its s...

#russia

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇺🇲 Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.

the Guardian

Elon Musk accused of spreading lies over doctored Kamala Harris video

Doctored campaign video featuring US vice-president reposted by Tesla chief executive watched 128m times

#usa #socialmedia #twitter #elonmusk #disinformation

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German arms company Rheinmetall and the Ukrainian government agreed on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin to begin production of the modern Lynx armored vehicles in #Ukraine this year. https://kyivindependent.com/rheinmetall-kyiv-agree-to-produce-lynx-armored-vehicles-in-ukraine-in-2024/ #germany

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 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

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇴 🇷🇺 Romanian prosecutors announced Friday that they had ordered the arrest of a man suspected of #spying for Moscow, while the government declared a Russian diplomat persona non grata.

The Moscow Times

Romania Detains Man Suspected of Spying for Russia - The Moscow Times

Romanian prosecutors announced Friday that they had ordered the arrest of a man suspected of spying for Moscow, while the government declared a Rus...

#romania #russia

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇪🇺 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.

AP News

European Union criticizes Russia for removing Estonian buoys, demand an explanation from Moscow

The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country f...

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said Friday it had halted a Russian ground offensive in Kharkiv and was now attacking Moscow's forces. https://www.barrons.com/articles/russia-stopped-in-kharkiv-ukraine-counterattacking-kyiv-b98465f4 #russia

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 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.

AP News

Russia smashes train tracks in a battered Ukrainian border region where children are being evacuated

Officials say a nighttime Russian attack has destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.

#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 Expanded sanctions on #Russia and enhanced pressure on countries that Moscow considers friendly are hurting Russian firms' export revenues and creating oil payment issues, the Bank of Russia said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russia-says-secondary-sanctions-are-hurting-export-revenues-oil-payments-2024-05-24/

Russia-Ukraine Daily News 1 year ago

🇷🇺 #Russia: The purge of top officers is the result of infighting between the FSB and the military over the failure to capture Kyiv and competition for defense funds.

The Moscow Times

FSB Launches Sweeping Purge of Military Elites With Kremlin’s Approval - The Moscow Times

The recent arrests of five top Russian military officers are likely just the first of dozens of military figures who will be jailed in a sweeping p...