"For them, it is pleasure to burn. We all know who we are dealing with. Russia is run by men who want to make it a norm – burning lives, destroying cities and villages, dividing people, & erasing national borders thru war"
#Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts #Ukraine’s Starlink Service
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon #Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, #Russia has suffered heavy losses in both personnel and military materiel. The high rate of losses is forcing #Moscow to send units into battle with improvised equipment, saving its limited resources until everything else has failed. It is a sign of weakness in the invading forces which can be overlooked by headlines about Russian advances on multiple fronts.
Russian President Vladimir #Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskiy had no legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term and this would raise a legal obstacle if #Russia and #Ukraine were to hold peace talks.
With Ukraine under martial law in the third year of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskiy has not faced elections despite the expiry of his five-year term this week.
#G7 finance ministers will lay the groundwork for using the profits from frozen #Russia assets to help #Ukraine, according to a draft of the communique that they’re set to sign off on Saturday.
The move comes after the #US pushed for the G-7 to leverage future revenue generated from about $280 billion in Russian central bank funds, most of which lies immobilized in Europe. The plan could unlock an aid package of as much as $50 billion for Ukraine.
Donald #Trump again claimed #Russia would not have launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine if he had won a second term in office.
Speaking during his first rally in New York in eight years on May 23, the former president also said he would have prevented #Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on #Israel and the ensuing war in #Gaza that followed.