In the final moments of the battle in Andriivka, Ukrainians send an UAV, which had an attached loudspeaker, into the surrounded village, ordering the remnants of the Russian unit to surrender.
1/ Systemic discrimination against people from Russia's regions – affecting not just ethnic minorities, but ethnic Russians as well – is to blame for the disproportionate numbers of war casualties among the country's minority groups, according to the author of a study. ⬇️
#Russia thought they would be able to topple #Ukraine over the course of a long weekend. That was back in February of 2022. They've since lost 30,000 soldiers, 10,000 tanks, and thousands of aircraft and ships. In terms of progress, they're no closer to "victory" today than the day they invaded. So, when a #Russian#military leader claims "Ukraine is only the beginning", it's really hard to respond in any way other than uproarious laughter.
1/ A study shows that there are large differences in pay and mortality rates for Russian soldiers from different parts of the country. Men from Moscow and St Petersburg are paid far more and have a lower chance of dying than those from poor regions like Chuvashia or Buryatia. ⬇️
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the Hungarian government plans to switch the Paks Nuclear Power Plant from Russian to French nuclear fuel in the future.
Thoughtfully provocative (or maybe it’s provocatively thoughtful) comments from Stanovaya on the stakes of a truce in the Ukraine war. It’s more analysis than advocacy, which I always appreciate.
The first batch of ammunition for the Gepard has been delivered from Germany to Ukraine. It took Rheinmetall only 7 month from the being contracted to establishing the new assembly line and to finally deliver the first batch (a 5-digit number).
Rheinmetall was contracted to produce 150,000 APDS-T (Amour-Piercing-Discarding-Sabot - Tracer) and 150,000 HEI-T (High-Explosive-Incendiary – Tracer).
Belgium will not send their F-16's to Ukraine, Lieutenant Frédéric Goetynck said.
"These planes have already flown for so many hours that their structure was worn out. You can't send fighter jets to Ukraine, which you wouldn't use yourself," he added.
Pope Francis admitted that his recent comments about Russia, which were seen as glorifying imperialism, were poorly worded and stressed that his intention was to remind young Russians of a great cultural heritage, not a political one.
"Currently, we do not have sufficient available evidence that would meet the legal qualifications provided for by the Convention on Genocide," the head of the independent international commission of the UN to investigate violations in Ukraine Erik Møse said.
From their report: "Russian authorities have committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law and violations of international human rights law, in addition to a wide range of war crimes, including the war crime of excessive incidental death, injury, or damage, wilful killings, torture, inhuman treatment, unlawful confinement, rape, as well as unlawful transfers and deportations."
Zelensky tells @lindseygrahamsc that he supports holding Ukraine's next presidential elections (due in March 2024) but only if Kyiv's Western partners pay the $5-billion cost, send monitors to the front lines, and create voting infrastructure for refugees in the EU. https://t.me/stranaua/120355
he's making a sarcastic comment about the impossibility of holding elections while the country is at war, under partial russian occupation and russian terror bombing.
what's the point to twist President #Zelenskyy's remarks?
as if the problem is the money and not the russian war, the russian occupation, the russian deportations and the russian bombings.
luckily, on the other hand, next year the russians will be able to vote in their unfree and unfair elections to give another 6 years of illegitimate power to their so much loved dictator.
so I write about war, occupation, deportations and bombings and your attention goes to the ironic juxtaposition between "unfree elections" and "much loved dictator"
"Putin has ordered the removal of restrictions on the work of minors in order to cope with a shortage of workers in an economy estimated by authorities to be in the hundreds of thousands.
The government and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives should consider "promoting employment and stimulating employment" of citizens aged 14 and over, according to a list of Putin's instructions published on the Kremlin's website."
@eva_chaos@AndersGottlieb there are also a lot of foreign immigrants from Central Asia (from the "-Stans") who fled #russia .
many of which were factory workers.
#xi wants the Land as much as #putin : it may be not the best thing for #china, but the conquest of land, expecially if wrongfully colonized by a distant and barbaric foreign power, will make his name glorius in the next thousand years.
if there are not many Han is not important, it can be colonized like Tibet or Uyguria.
as far as #russia can't strike back, of course: the only thing stopping xi.
The putschists do not have the authority to make this request, the ambassador's approval coming solely from the legitimate elected Nigerien authorities.
The flight of the Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) aircraft was carried out based on a permit for airspace use, issued per the established procedure #AureFreePress
