rvps2001

rvps2001, 9 hours ago to Ukraine

🗣 Boris Johnson’s former top adviser Dominic Cummings launched a sweary attack on Western support for #Ukraine Thursday.

https://www.politico.eu/article/dominic-cummings-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-corruption/

#Britain

rvps2001, 1 day ago to poland

🇵🇱 #Poland's prime minister wants to revive a Polish commission investigating Russian influence, he said on Wednesday, amid heightened fears about espionage after a Polish judge who had access to military secrets asked for asylum in #Belarus

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polands-tusk-seeks-revive-commission-investigate-russian-influence-2024-05-08/

#russia

rvps2001, 1 day ago to Russia

🇷🇺 “Shreds of bodies hung from the branches.” Confessions of “meat grinder” assault veterans

The Russian capture of Avdiivka and its military’s slow subsequent advance this spring has come at the cost of thousands of deaths of its own servicemen.

https://theins.press/en/confession/271412

#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar #ukraine

rvps2001, 1 day ago to Russia

🇷🇺 🇫🇷 #Russia warned #France on Wednesday that if President Emmanuel Macron sent troops to #Ukraine then they would be seen as legitimate targets by the Russian military.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-target-french-troops-if-they-are-sent-ukraine-2024-05-08/

#russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 1 day ago to Russia

🗣 Timothy Snyder:

🇷🇺 #Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake.

The notion of an invincible Red Army is propaganda. The Red Army was formidable, but it was also beatable. Of its three most consequential foreign wars, the Red Army lost two.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/opinions/victory-day-russia-war-ukraine-snyder/index.html

#ukraine #russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 1 day ago to italy

🇮🇹 #Italy’s president told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that #Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when #Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored.

https://apnews.com/article/italy-russia-ukraine-war-peace-aggression-sovereignty-1f225a6622c237eea92418af9c37f216

#russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 2 days ago to poland

🇵🇱 Polish special services have found and dismantled bugging devices in a room where the council of ministers was due to meet on Tuesday, the special services coordinator's spokesman said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-says-it-finds-bugging-devices-room-where-government-was-due-meet-2024-05-07/

#poland #spying

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Russia

🇨🇿 🇷🇺 The Czech government summoned #Russia’s ambassador to protest cyber attacks against the country’s institutions and critical infrastructure, for which Prague and its #NATO allies blame the Kremlin’s intelligence services.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/czech-republic-summons-russian-envoy-to-protest-cyber-attacks

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Germany

🇩🇪 🇷🇺 #Germany has recalled its ambassador to #Russia after Berlin accused Moscow of launching cyberattacks on its defence and aerospace firms and ruling party, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry said on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-ministers-hold-special-meeting-after-spate-attacks-politicians-2024-05-06/

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia’s oil and gas industry has been crucial for bankrolling the invasion of Ukraine, giving the Kremlin the funds to keep fighting even as the conflict drags on through its third year.

But the industry is facing a shortage of manpower as the full mobilization of Russia’s economy for war exacerbates a longstanding demographic crunch.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/russia-s-war-mobilization-starves-its-crucial-oil-and-gas-industry-of-manpower

Archive: https://archive.is/fGfq1

rvps2001, 6 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 Kremlin calls Cameron statement on UK arms for Ukraine a 'direct escalation' 🤡

❗ Once again for peskov, vatniks, and anyone who rants about an 'escalation' 👇

It happened a long time ago. The large-scale invasion launched by putin on February 24, 2022 was a major escalation of the war initiated by Moscow 10 years ago.

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

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rvps2001, 7 days ago to Ukraine

🗣 An interview with Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of #Ukraine’s military intelligence

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/02/ukraine-is-on-the-brink-says-a-senior-general

Archive: https://archive.is/rWiDB

rvps2001, 7 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces appear to have executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers as they attempted to surrender, and possibly six more who were surrendering or who had surrendered, since early December 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. These incidents should be investigated as war crimes.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/02/ukraine-russian-forces-executed-surrendering-ukraine-soldiers

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

rvps2001, 7 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 As many as a million Russians fled abroad in the first year of the Kremlin’s invasion of #Ukraine

Now thousands are returning home, delivering a propaganda victory to Putin and a boost to his war economy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/russians-who-fled-war-return-in-boost-for-putin-s-war-economy

#russia

rvps2001, 7 days ago to Russia

🇺🇲 A senior U.S. official on Thursday urged China and #Russia to match declarations by the United States and others that only humans, and never artificial intelligence, would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-official-urges-china-russia-declare-only-humans-not-ai-control-nuclear-2024-05-02/

#usa

rvps2001, 8 days ago to Canada

🇨🇦 Canadian legislators were scheduled on Wednesday to decide whether to set up a probe into how major aerospace companies were granted exemptions from the country's sanctions on Russian titanium 🇷🇺

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/canada-mps-set-discuss-possible-probe-into-titanium-sanction-waivers-2024-05-01/

#canada #russia

rvps2001, 8 days ago to Russia

🇺🇸 The United States on Wednesday issued hundreds of fresh sanctions targeting #Russia over the war in Ukraine in action that took aim at Moscow's circumvention of Western measures, including through #China 🇷🇺🇨🇳

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-issues-hundreds-sanctions-targeting-russia-takes-aim-chinese-companies-2024-05-01/

#usa

rvps2001, 10 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed four people and injured 28, local officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missile-hits-educational-institution-kills-two-ukraines-odesa-2024-04-29/

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

rvps2001, 10 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has deported more than 19,000 Ukrainian children over the past two years, says Olena Kondratiuk, vice speaker of #Ukraine’s parliament, Verkhovna Rada, citing official Ukrainian data.

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2261893/russia-has-deported-over-19-000-children-from-ukraine-rada-official-in-vilnius

#russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

rvps2001, 10 days ago to Finland

🇫🇮🛬🇪🇪 Finnair is pausing flights to Tartu in eastern #Estonia for one month due to GPS disturbances in the area, the Finnish airline said on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finnair-pauses-flights-tartu-estonia-amid-gps-interference-2024-04-29/

#finland #russia

rvps2001, 10 days ago to Czechia

🇷🇺 🇨🇿 Russian military intelligence operatives were responsible for deadly ammunition depot explosions in #Czechia in 2014, the Czech police said on April 29 following a three-year-long investigation.

https://kyivindependent.com/czech-police-says-russian-agents-behind-deadly-2014-bombing/

#russia

rvps2001, 10 days ago to italy

🇷🇺 🇮🇹 Russia's embassy to #Italy said Monday the decision to put a subsidiary of heating firm Ariston under "temporary management" of Gazprom was a response to "hostile actions" by Western countries.

https://www.barrons.com/news/takeover-of-italy-s-ariston-a-response-to-hostile-actions-russia-ec439f98

#russia

rvps2001, 10 days ago to Russia

🇲🇩 For the first time, #Moldova can cut an energy link to its breakaway territory. Yet doing so risks Moscow’s threats and a possible humanitarian crisis.

https://www.politico.eu/article/moldova-eye-energy-lever-topple-kremlin-puppet-regime-transnistria/

#russia #oilandgas

rvps2001, 12 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 A Russian journalist has been detained on "extremism" accusations for helping to create YouTube videos for the team of late opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny, Moscow courts said on Saturday.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russian-journalist-held-over-videos-produced-for-navalny-s-team-bb6c7bec

#russia

rvps2001, 12 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia on Saturday said it would require major exporters to carry on converting the bulk of their foreign currency earnings into rubles for another year to help support the national currency.

https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-extends-mandatory-fx-convertion-for-major-exporters-ebdf5b53