#Russia has caused many of the crises in the world. Rs continue to align with #Putin:
It's likely that the Russian services had something to do with the Marywilska fire -further bolstered when a fmr RU soldier was arrested north of Paris this week after explosives detonated in his hotel room. Warnings from European intel. agencies that RU is plotting acts of sabotage-in its escalation of the stand-off with the NATO MIL alliance. RU is turning to criminal gangs-. #Ukrainehttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1nLAyR
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has submitted an Article 15 Communication to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against 6 key #Russia media figures – Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Solovyov, Margarita Simonyan, Dmitry Kiselyov, Sergey Mardan, and Alexey Gromov – for hate speech as the crime against humanity under Articles 7(1)(h), (2)(g) of the Rome Statute.
‘#Putin Will Do That For Me’: #Trump Drops Campaign Clip Claiming #Russia Will Release @WSJ Reporter Only If He’s Reelected
Trump released a campaign clip on Tues in which he doubled down on the wild claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin will release jailed WSJ reporter #EvanGershkovich if he’s reelected president.
“#EvanGershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is being held by #Russia, will be released almost immediately after the election,” #Trump said in the clip, adding:
“But definitely before I assume office, he will be home. He will be safe. Vladimir #Putin, president of Russia, will do that for me. And I don’t believe he’ll do it for anyone else. And we will be paying nothing. Biden likes to pay massive numbers. We will be paying nothing. Thank you very much.”
putin said to many news outlets that "Russia did not attack Ukraine, but defended itself" (TASS) I guess by invading Ukraine which somehow is not an attack. It's not even a good lie.
He also said "Former US President Donald Trump is being persecuted for political reasons, and this fact destroys Washington’s imaginary leadership in the sphere of democracy" (TASS). Mr. putin, is the imaginary leadership in the room with us?
#Russia Margarita Simonyan: “We create thousands of media sources not associated with us, and while they try to associate them with us, we create thousands more”.
As nations come together this week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Russia, the country that prides itself on playing the key role in the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany, will be absent. No Russian official representing Vladimir Putin's government has been invited due to the war against Ukraine, now in its third year. FRANCE24's Shirli Sitbon looks at how commemorations have evolved through the years. #WWII#Russia#Ukraine#France
Igor Gorgan #Moldova general was just outed as #Russia#GRU agent by Russian opposition The Insider project, including Telegram photos, messages and voice calls with Russian handlers.
Gazprom is unlikely to recover gas sales lost as a result of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for at least a decade, according to a report commissioned for the Russian energy group’s leaders. The company’s exports to Europe will average 50bn-75bn cubic metres a year by 2035, barely a third of prewar levels, the research predicted.
Russian gas exports to Europe should be next to zero ASAP and remain so not only for security reasons, but also due to the greenhouse gas emissions and the climate catastrophe.
An investigation into #Russia's attempts to recruit about a thousand women serving sentences in prisons to the front in #Ukraine has been published by Radio Liberty.
Many of these women were addicted to alcohol and drugs. They did not prove effective as soldiers, so the program was curtailed.
Ukrainian intelligence, together with Syrian rebels, are killing Russian mercenaries in #Syria, the #Kyiv Post reports.
Since the beginning of the year, rebels backed by Ukrainian fighters have launched numerous attacks on Russian military facilities under the control of Russian forces in Syria.
#Russia is waging a disinformation campaign aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the #IOC and stoking fears of violence at this summer's #Paris Games, according to a new report from Microsoft's Threat Analysis Center. The influence operations use a mix of fake videos, fictitious news stories, and AI-generated impersonations, including the faked voice of Hollywood star Tom Cruise. FRANCE24's Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more. #France#Ukraine
Confirming shift of position, #Germany Chancellor Scholz says #Ukraine's use of German and other Western-supplied weapons to strike targets in #Russia "will not contribute to escalation"
"I think it is clear to everyone that [Ukraine self-defense] must be possible"
There are multiple copies of #Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four; the story in which Big Brother is always watching and the state has established near-total control over body and mind.
“The situation now in #Russia is similar to Nineteen Eighty-Four,” librarian Alexandra Karaseva tells me. “Total control by the government, the state and the security structures.”
Since the start of #Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, #YouTube has removed tens of thousands of Russian propaganda and pro-war videos. Still, the platform hasn’t entirely rid itself of this type of content. Channels with videos that praise the Russian government and the war in Ukraine are still accessible and boast hundreds of thousands of subscribers — and millions of views. Moreover, YouTube’s algorithm continues to recommend these videos to users.
#US-Made M270 and #HIMARS Hammer Targets Inside #Russia, First Cross-Border Strikes Since #Biden Green Light
Ukrainian forces waited less than 24 hours after getting the green light from #Washington, #London, #Paris and #Berlin to hammer targets inside Russia with precision-guided munitions fired by top-end made-in-the-USA artillery, according to reports, firing dozens of long-range rocket salvoes across the border.
#Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash to promote anti-#Ukraine agenda, officials say
A front org masquerading as a news website was used to funnel 100s of 1000s of euros to far-right politicians in more than 5 countries to plant Kremlin propaganda in Western media & bolster the position of pro-Russian candidates in this week’s European Parliament elections, according to interviews with a dozen European intelligence officials from five countries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/06/03/russia-europe-far-right-espionage/
For nearly a yr, Czech auths. secretly recorded hours of meetings b/w several far-R pols from across Europe & the assc., A Marchevsky *running the propaganda website, Voice of Europe +its offices in Prague. EU & Czech auths. shut down the site. Org: funneled 100s of 1000s of euros -up to $1M/mo -to dozens of far-R pols in >5 C-.
We can count on Russia that even while it can't "win" the war in Ukraine , it can always execute the "Grozny scenario" , destroy as much as possible, increase the suffering for civilians where possible. If the west let them execute this strategy, Ukraine could still "lose". #Russia#Ukraine#geopolitics@geopolitics
