"Trump seems to be saying pretty clearly that he has an understanding with Putin that Gershkovich will under no circumstances be released until after he is elected and if he’s not elected, well, sucks to be him. Could this have anything to do w Manafort again working with Trump’s campaign?" #trump#russia
Russia admits Islamic State behind Crocus Hall terrorist attack, still tries to blame Ukraine.
Russia has for the first time said Islamic State (IS) was behind the deadly terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall, but still claims Ukraine played a role in assisting the attackers, Russian media reported on May 24. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia
Russian troops stopped in Kharkiv sector, Ukraine conducts counterattacks.
Ukrainian forces halted Russian troops in the Kharkiv sector and are conducting counterattacks, Ihor Prokhorenko, a representative of the Main Operational Directorate of Ukraine's General Staff, said at a briefing in Kyiv on May 24. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Kharkiv
But Mr #Putin has already ruled out that he will attend the upcoming #Ukraine#Peace Summit, which is being held in Burgenstock, #Switzerland, from 15-16 June - which Ukraine is keen for Russia's allies to attend.
Declared as yesterday's attack with 5 ATACMS missiles on air defense positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the Mospino airfield in the Donetsk region
Preliminary losses :
▪️2 S-300/400 air defense missile launchers were destroyed.
▪️1 S-300/400 air defense missile launcher was damaged.
▪️Radar “96L6E” was destroyed.
▪️The control point of the S-300/400 air defense system was destroyed. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin#EU#NATO
Citing four Russian sources: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to stop the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire recognizing the current battle lines.
Is this anything new? Putin gets rewarded for his land grab, rebuilds, then tries again in a few years?
In the legal reality of #Russia, “Donetsk People’s Republic” is a subject of Russian Federation, just like neighbouring Rostov Oblast’ or Moscow Oblast’. Nonetheless, the “DPR” enacted a new law establishing a 5 km restricted border zone with Rostov Oblast’, and another 100 m border zone where any presence requires FSB permit. In addition to that, crossing between Rostov Oblast’ and the “DPR” is only allowed on a limited number of checkpoints.
Dangerous liaisons: New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for Russia
Tatjana Ždanoka, an MEP from Latvia, was one of the delegates sent to Kyiv. But she did not report her findings to other legislators from the European Parliament. Instead, she sent a confidential report to her FSB handler Sergey Beltyukov, stating her view that anti-Yanukovych demonstrators, already two months in, were unlikely to disband in the near future. Three days before the trip to Kyiv, Ždanoka traveled to St. Petersburg and met Beltyukov, who had waited for her at the airport.
Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening?
AP says the arrests raise "questions about whether Putin was reasserting control over the Defense Ministry amid the war in Ukraine, whether a turf battle had broken out between the military and the security services, or whether some other scenario was playing out behind the Kremlin’s walls."
🇷🇺 #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.
Russians advance towards Kharkiv | Terrorists stealing washing machines | Ukraine Update: Day 821
by #OperatorStarsky
05:14
Russia pushed about 5 miles in the #Kharkiv region, while looting residential areas.
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Operator Starsky is an officer of the National Guard of #Ukraine, who joined during the war in #Donbass in 2014.
He partecipated in the successful defense of the #Hostomel Airport of #Kyiv in February 2022.
As news agencies are hyping the news that “Putin wants negotiations on the current front line”, please note this not any news. Really - if you search the phrase “признать реалии на земле” (recognize the realities on the ground), you will see it goes well back into 2023 in Kremlin statements and repeated nearly every month since. This is the phrase that #Russia uses when they refer to negotiations where #Ukraine is expected to recognize Russia’s territorial conquests.
Please, do not blindly follow the media induced amnesia where any old news can be recycled into a “exclusive news” clickbait…