rvps2001

rvps2001, 8 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 During #Russia’s occupation of Kherson, dozens of Ukrainian children were taken into Russian custody and transferred 180 miles from home. A year later, the NYT journalists found their photos on a Russian federal adoption site.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-children-russia-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk0.06CT.l5g2LY0POphf

#ukraine #RussianWarCrimes

rvps2001, 9 days ago to China

🇺🇦 🇨🇳 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused #China on Sunday of helping #Russia to disrupt an upcoming Swiss-organized peace conference on the war in #Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-singapore-shangrila-russia-defense-94ebb72539182a0215c85895725cdd48

rvps2001, 13 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇦 Reuters traveled along the front line, where Ukrainian troops say Putin must be beaten back. Otherwise, said one, "he’s not going to stop over here."

https://www.reuters.com/world/life-ukraines-front-line-worse-than-hell-russia-advances-2024-05-29/

#ukraine #russia #specialreport

rvps2001, 13 days ago to Cybersecurity

🇪🇺 Disruptive digital attacks, many of which have been traced to Russia-backed groups, have doubled in the European Union in recent months and are also targeting election-related services, according to the EU’s top #cybersecurity official.

https://apnews.com/article/europe-election-cybersecurity-russia-ukraine-5b0cca725d17a028dd458df77a60440c

#hacking

rvps2001, 14 days ago to Ukraine

🇪🇺 EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday urged countries to balance fear of escalation against #Ukraine's need to defend itself, saying Kyiv had the right to use Western arms to strike in #Russia

https://www.barrons.com/news/eu-top-diplomat-says-ukraine-has-right-to-strike-russia-65c45395

rvps2001, 14 days ago to telegram

🇷🇺 #Telegram has become a key weapon for pro-Kremlin accounts to spread disinformation aimed at undermining support for #Ukraine

More recently, Russian intelligence officers have used it to recruit petty criminals to carry out acts of sabotage across European capitals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-28/telegram-pro-russian-groups-spread-disinformation-and-eu-is-powerless

Archive: https://archive.is/XAvDa

#russia #propaganda

rvps2001, 14 days ago to Bulgaria

🇺🇦 #NATO allies should lift restrictions that prohibit #Ukraine's use of Western-supplied weapons against military targets inside #Russia, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly said in a declaration adopted on May 27.

https://kyivindependent.com/nato-parliamentary-assembly-strikes/

rvps2001, 16 days ago to Russia

How it started: 3-day "special military operation"
How it's going: We need "more effective war economy" 😁

🇷🇺 'Putin urged the heads of manufacturers of military hardware to ramp up output and make #Russia’s war economy more effective.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-25/putin-meets-military-plant-chiefs-asks-to-speed-up-war-economy

rvps2001, 16 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian assaults have hit military targets in Russian-occupied territory in #Ukraine

Pressure is now mounting on Washington to let Kyiv fire the missiles into #Russia itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/world/europe/ukraine-russia-long-range-missiles.html

Archive: https://archive.is/C5SzQ

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #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.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/24/fsb-launches-sweeping-purge-of-military-elites-with-kremlins-approval-a85213

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Friday Briefing:

• First group of Ukrainian pilots passes F-16 training in US
• G7 officials play down expectations on details of loan for Ukraine
• Von der Leyen backs Polish, Greek calls for EU air defense shield
• Scholz echoes Macron's call for deeper EU military cooperation
• Two more Russian officials arrested in widening military purge

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#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Ukraine

ISW:

🇷🇺 The Kremlin is pursuing a concerted effort to remove senior #Russian defense officials and has likely expanded this effort to senior officers commanding Russian combat operations in #Ukraine

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-23-2024

#russia #russianarmy

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian jamming has kept many of #Ukraine's relatively new long-range GLSDB bombs from hitting their intended targets, three people familiar with the challenges told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-long-range-glide-bomb-blunted-by-russian-jamming-2024-05-23/

#russia

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇲 The first batch of Ukrainian pilots have graduated from F-16 training at an Arizona military base, a crucial step toward putting modern, American-made fighter jets in #Ukraine’s skies.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/05/23/a-new-military-era-for-the-us-and-kenya-kind-of-00159744

#usa

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Europe

🇪🇺 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has backed a demand from Polish and Greek Prime ministers Donald Tusk and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to create an EU-funded air defense shield.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-president-von-der-leyen-greek-eu-air-defense-shield-donald-tusk/

#europe #poland #greece

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia will identify U.S. property, including securities, that could be used as compensation for losses sustained as a result of any seizure of frozen Russian assets in the United States, according to a decree signed by Putin on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-decree-outlines-russian-response-any-us-seizure-frozen-assets-2024-05-23/

rvps2001, 18 days ago to Russia

🇪🇺 New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for #Russia

The Insider and Re:Baltica examined 19,000 of Ždanoka's emails, revealing her extensive correspondence with FSB agents and work for the Kremlin — while being an MEP.

https://theins.press/en/politics/271808

#europe #latvia #spying

rvps2001, 19 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia is still recruiting enough men willing to fight for money, but it looks increasingly stretched. Some regions have doubled sign-up bonuses. Analysts say a new mobilisation is “just a question of when.”

https://www.ft.com/content/ade7862b-050f-43c2-857c-b76fb05c9ff6

Archive: https://archive.is/R11UE

rvps2001, 19 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 The leader of Russia's #Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said early on Thursday he had met Putin in the Kremlin and offered to send more fighters to help Moscow in its more than two-year-old conflict in #Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chechen-leader-meets-russias-putin-offers-more-troops-ukraine-2024-05-22/

#russia

rvps2001, 19 days ago to poland

🇵🇱🇺🇸 #Poland signed an agreement with the United States for the delivery of a $960 million airspace reconnaissance system to monitor its north-eastern borders, defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-buys-us-radar-systems-monitor-its-north-eastern-borders-2024-05-22/

#usa #russia

rvps2001, 20 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia is likely to keep banking on various coercion tactics to bolster its military manpower in Ukraine, experts say, a strategy that has proven effective at ensuring a continuous supply of fresh recruits to the frontlines for the past two years.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/21/how-russias-covert-mobilization-finds-manpower-for-the-war-in-ukraine-a85168

rvps2001, 21 days ago to poland

🇵🇱 #Poland has arrested nine people in connection with acts of sabotage committed in the country on the orders of Russian services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-arrests-nine-charges-russian-ordered-sabotage-2024-05-21/

#russia #spying

rvps2001, 21 days ago to Ukraine

🗣️ Western allies are taking too long to make decisions on military support for #Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/western-aid-ukraine-too-slow-risks-us-election-limited-zelenskiy-2024-05-20/

rvps2001, 21 days ago to Youtube

💻 #YouTube has blocked at least three videos that show viewers how to evade military service after it received a request from the Russian authorities, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/20/youtube-blocks-anti-war-videos-at-russias-request-agentstvo-a85175

#google #russia #censorship

rvps2001, 22 days ago to Russia

🇿🇦🇷🇺 A deal between South Africa’s state-owned oil company and a unit of #Russia’s Gazprom Group to revive its gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay on the nation’s south coast has moved into the feasibility stage, PetroSA said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/gazprom-unit-deal-to-fix-s-africa-refinery-moves-to-feasibility

#southafrica #oilandgas