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hanse_mina, 12 hours ago to Russia

In the #Rostov Oblast in #Russia, a fuel tank derailed and caught fire today at the #Kuberle train station.

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/145311

#Ukraine

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hanse_mina, 12 hours ago to Ukraine

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 11 May 2024.

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #IntelligenceUpdate

hanse_mina, 14 hours ago to Ukraine

Russian air defense in #Belgorod vs a missile 👀

https://t.me/mysiagin/28514?single

#Ukraine #Russia

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hanse_mina, 14 hours ago to Ukraine

Russian workers are quitting their jobs at oil refineries en masse over safety fears amid a spate of Ukrainian drone attacks targeting President Vladimir #Putin's energy infrastructure, according to a report.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-oil-refinery-hub-drone-attacks-ukraine-1899132

#Ukraine #Russia

hanse_mina, 15 hours ago to Slovakia

In #Slovakia, Robert #Fico’s government has shunned the independent press and wants to remake the public broadcaster into a state-run TV channel that could soon be run by a flat-earther.

The government’s goal? Bring the media to heel.

https://www.politico.eu/article/slovak-robert-fico-government-shuns-independent-press-wants-turn-public-broadcaster-into-state-run-tv/

#EU #Ukraine #Russia

hanse_mina, 16 hours ago to Ukraine

#Kyiv expects to receive its first F-16 fighter jets from its Western allies in June-July, a high-ranking Ukrainian military source said on Friday.

Illya #Yevlash, spokesperson for the air force, said this week that some Ukrainian pilots were completing their training to fly the warplanes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-get-its-first-f-16-jets-june-july-says-kyiv-military-source-2024-05-10/

#Ukraine #Russia #Netherlands #Norway #Belgium #Denmark #EU #NATO #F16

hanse_mina, 1 day ago to Ukraine

Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack on #Ukraine's northeastern #Kharkiv region early on Friday, advancing 1 km (0.6 mile) near the border town of #Vovchansk in an effort to create a buffer zone, a senior Ukrainian military source said.

The assault opens a new front in the war more than two years since #Russia's full-scale invasion. Fighting in the border areas of the Kharkiv region continued and Kyiv has sent more forces to the area as reinforcements.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-sends-reinforcements-after-russian-forces-attack-kharkiv-region-2024-05-10/

hanse_mina, 1 day ago to Ukraine

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 10 May 2024.

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #IntelligenceUpdate

hanse_mina, 1 day ago to Ukraine

Ukrainian recruiting ad: Russian Moskvich car, with "To Kyiv", Russian flag and a fascist Russian "V" symbol, meets a Ukrainian Leopard tank. Message at end reads "Become a tank driver."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1788644616922656881.html

#Ukraine #Russia

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hanse_mina, 1 day ago to Ukraine

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

“This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we’re all going to get fked as a consequence,” he argued. “We are getting fked now right?”

He argued that war would only strengthen the relationship between #Russia and #China, saying Western nations “pushed [Russia] into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power”

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

#UK

hanse_mina, 1 day ago to Ukraine

#Ukraine will receive three #HIMARS mobile rocket systems from #US stocks with #Germany footing the bill, German Defense Minister Boris #Pistorius said Thursday.

“Time was of the essence,” Pistorius told reporters. “So we offered to take over, pay for and deliver three systems from US army stocks.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/ukraine-to-receive-us-made-mobile-rocket-systems-paid-by-germany

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Ukraine

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 09 May 2024.

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #IntelligenceUpdate

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Russia

On Thursday #Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of #Nazi #Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid #Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under #Putin has continued the tradition.

Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant to think that Russia cannot lose.

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

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

#Ukraine

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Ukraine

#Chechen leader #Kadyrov trying to push an SUV to prove he isn't ill. 😂

https://t.me/insiderUKR/74407

#Ukraine #Russia

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hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Ukraine

10 years ago, in early May 2014, after several months of widespread political unrest in #Odesa, #Ukraine, street clashes between pro-#Russia and pro-Ukraine factions resulted in a deadly fire in the city’s Trade Unions building. It’s still unclear who exactly is to blame for the deaths. Nonetheless, the Russian state-run media machine started churning out propaganda about the fire the very next day, characterizing the events as a merciless attack by “Ukrainian neo-Nazis”

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/05/08/the-making-of-a-myth

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Russia

#Putin’s a ‘Nazi,’ #Zelenskyy says as #Russia intensifies attacks on energy grid ahead of Victory Day

“On Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II Day, Nazi Putin launched a massive missile attack on #Ukraine," the country's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement Wednesday morning. "The entire world must understand who is who. The world must not give a chance to new Nazism."

https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-is-nazi-zelenskyy-says-as-russia-massively-barrage-ukraine-with-missiles-wwii-victory-day/

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Russia

The mafia supposedly asked cui bono (who benefits?) when trying to figure out who was behind a hit. There is no evidence that #Russia’s Vladimir #Putin had anything to do with #Hamas’s horrific slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians last year. But Russia has been a leading beneficiary. To reach that conclusion, you have only to ask, cui malo (who loses?).

https://www.ft.com/content/368207df-f52d-43d1-a9cf-a13121a55574

#Ukraine #US #Biden #Gaza #Palestine

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Ukraine

#Ukraine is to start recruiting prisoners to fight against #Russia under a new law designed to bolster its frontline forces, including with men convicted of murder or fraud.

Using a tactic #Moscow has relied on to fill ranks since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, #Kyiv would begin to offer certain convicts a path to freedom if they are willing to join a combat unit.

https://www.ft.com/content/b5e43498-1cd2-422a-9db6-ca726c689bac

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Ukraine

Gilat SkyEdge satellite systems manufactured in #Ukraine are being imported to #Russia in large quantities and likely being used by the Russian military in the war against Ukraine, investigative journalists from the outlet Slidstvo.Info reported May 8.

About 22,000 Gilat SkyEdge internet communications systems, were imported to Russia in 2023. The #Uzhhorod plant is run by a #US outsourcing company, Jabil Circuit, for the Israeli corporation Gilat Satellite Networks.

https://kyivindependent.com/media-investigation-shows-russian-forces-may-use-satellite-systems-made-in-ukraine/

hanse_mina, 2 days ago to Russia

#Kosovo’s foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that #Russia must lose the war in #Ukraine for conflict not to spread further in Europe. She said her young nation’s support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo’s independence.

https://apnews.com/article/poland-kosovo-russia-ukraine-c2cceafe602dd55f5d07135e72c286e8

hanse_mina, 3 days ago to Czech

The #Czech Republic's President #Pavel says in an German #ARD interview that #Ukraine will be getting 180,000 artillery shells in June.

"I, along with our Prime Minister Petr #Fiala, assume that the first 180,000 pieces of ammunition will be delivered in June, and there are already contracts for a further five to six-digit number of grenades."

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/interview-petr-pavel-100.html

#Russia

hanse_mina, 3 days ago to Ukraine

#Ukraine said on Wednesday it was producing the same number of deep strike drones as #Russia, claiming to have reached parity on a key type of weapon that #Moscow has used for long-range attacks for much of its invasion.

"In 2024, Ukraine caught up with Russia in terms of the production number of kamikaze drones similar to the #Shahed-131 and Shahed-136," said Herman #Smetanin, head of Ukraine's state arms manufacturer.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-reaches-parity-with-russia-production-deep-strike-drones-says-arms-maker-2024-05-08/

hanse_mina, 3 days ago to TeslaMotors

#Musk has made no secret of his interest in the far-right Alternative for #Germany (#AfD).

The party’s co-leader Alice #Weidel invited Musk to her office after the #Tesla co-founder criticized an extremist Muslim group that held a demonstration in #Hamburg. “Surely demanding overthrow of the government in Germany is illegal,” Musk had written on the platform #X, which he owns.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/musk-is-engaging-with-europe-s-far-right-but-voters-aren-t-so-sure

#Ukraine #Russia #US #EU

hanse_mina, 3 days ago to hungary

#Hungary will not participate in #NATO's long-term plan to aid #Ukraine, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling the plan a "crazy mission".

NATO allies agreed in April to initiate planning on long-term military support for Ukraine against #Russia's invasion, through setting up a fund worth 100 billion euros ($107 billion).

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-will-stay-out-natos-crazy-mission-aid-ukraine-foreign-minister-says-2024-05-08/

#EU