rvps2001

rvps2001, 3 months ago to Ukraine

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 When Ukrainian miner Vasyl Yavorsky donated his own wages to striking Welsh miners in 1984, he never thought that help would one day be returned.

However, a group of Welsh miners have now loaded up on medicine and supplies and driven from south Wales to Kyiv to repay the old favour.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68369946

#ukraine

rvps2001, 1 month ago to Czech

🇩🇪 A German politician was filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, #Czech intelligence has claimed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/21/german-politician-allegedly-took-russian-money/

#germany #russia

rvps2001, 6 months ago to Russia

🇷🇺 The rate of HIV infection has reached epidemic proportions in 19 Russian regions, independent Russian think-tank To Be Precise announced on Friday, which is also World AIDS Day.

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/12/01/hiv-infection-rates-reach-epidemic-levels-in-19-russian-regions-en-news

#russia

rvps2001, 7 months ago to Russia

🇷🇺 🇮🇱 Local residents in Makhachkala in the Russian Republic of Dagestan stormed an airport in the city in an attempt to attack any Jews who arrived on a flight from Tel Aviv on Sunday, according to reports from Russian media.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-770738

#russia #israel #palestine #hamas

rvps2001, 6 months ago to RussiaUkraineWar

🇺🇦 Ukraine has completely abandoned the supply of spare parts for nuclear reactors from Russia and was able to replace them with its own production or production in partner countries, said President of Energoatom Petro Kotin.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/952790.html

#RussiaUkraineWar

rvps2001, 5 months ago to RussiaUkraineWar

🇳🇱 🇺🇦 The Netherlands will deliver 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help its battle against Russia's invasion, the Dutch government said on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/netherlands-deliver-18-f-16-fighter-jets-ukraine-2023-12-22/

#russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 1 month ago to Slovakia

🇸🇰🇺🇦 A crowdfunding campaign in #Slovakia to buy artillery shells for #Ukraine has exceeded its target of €1m, less than 48 hours after it was launched.

The campaign is a response to the Slovak cabinet's refusal to join an initiative by the Czech government to buy up hundreds of thousands of shells for the Ukrainian armed forces.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68843542

rvps2001, 7 months ago to Ukraine

🇺🇦 The number of rail wagons heading to the ports of Ukraine's Odesa region continued to rise over the past week thanks to the successful operation of the alternative Black Sea exports corridor, a senior railways official said late on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukraine-raises-grain-deliveries-black-sea-ports-railways-2023-11-10/

#ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar

rvps2001, 6 months ago to Europe

🇷🇺 A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state - FT

https://www.ft.com/content/e70467d7-9df2-4a8c-9d0f-ddc61062b745

#europe #russia #sanctions

rvps2001, 6 months ago to twitter

🇪🇺 The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over “widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation,” according to an internal note obtained by POLITICO's Brussels Playbook.

https://www.politico.eu/article/no-more-ads-elon-musk-x-twitter-european-commission-tell-staff/

#twitter #socialmedia #elonmusk

rvps2001, 6 months ago to internet

🇨🇵 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she would leave X, formerly Twitter, because the social media platform has become an "impressive tool for destroying our democracies" in recent years.

"This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts," Hidalgo said in a statement posted on X, adding it had become a "gigantic global sewer."

https://twitter.com/Anne_Hidalgo/status/1729079532240384196?t=DA33xIgswROtARDLJ78jsQ&s=19

#elonmusk #socialmedia

rvps2001, 5 months ago to random

🇩🇪 German authorities have charged 27 people with crimes including terrorism, treason and attempted murder for their alleged involvement in last year’s plot to overthrow the government, revealing new details of their links to Russia.

The charges contain accusations of several meetings between plotters and Russian government officials in 2022 and their intent to involve Moscow in establishing Germany’s new rule.

https://www.ft.com/content/0cef4e4f-de57-408f-972e-96c0b1b3c714

rvps2001, 25 days ago to France

🇨🇵🇷🇺 #France’s decision to invite #Russia to attend the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings has stoked tensions with allied nations as leaders prepare to gather on the Normandy beaches on June 6.

https://www.politico.eu/article/d-day-allies-vexed-over-france-macron-invitation-to-russia-80-anniversary/

rvps2001, 3 months ago to random

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe is set to end the heating season with so much gas that the idea of storing more fuel in Ukraine to avoid a price crash is becoming attractive, despite the security risks of such a move.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-01/europe-awash-with-gas-is-set-to-rely-more-on-ukraine-for-storage

rvps2001, 1 month 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, 11 months ago to nuclear

🇺🇦☢️ #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant: experts say the cold shutdown of the plant's six reactors has largely curbed much of the risk that could come from an explosion at the #nuclear power plant.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/happen-russia-blows-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant/story?id=100846888

#ukraine #russia

rvps2001, 3 months ago to Russia

🇩🇪 German authorities uncovered a major Russian-Eurasian money laundering network, which facilitated an illegal cash flow of tens of millions of euros, the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office announced.

Searches were carried out in Germany, Malta, and Latvia with the assistance of local authorities and Eurojust.

https://kyivindependent.com/germany-uncovers-russian-eurasian-money-laundering-scheme/

#russia #moneylaundering

rvps2001, 6 months ago to Ukraine

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 At a munitions factory in northeast England run by BAE Systems, production is running at full speed thanks to the war in Ukraine and an increasingly dark outlook for geopolitics.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231113-at-bae-factory-ukraine-war-fuels-munitions-output

#britain #ukraine #russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 29 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 Kremlin-owned energy kingpin Gazprom, once #Russia's most profitable company, could face a long period of poor performance as it struggles to fill the gap of lost European gas sales with its domestic market and Chinese exports.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazprom-loss-shows-struggle-fill-eu-gas-sales-gap-with-china-2024-05-13/

#europe #china #oilandgas

rvps2001, 24 days ago to Russia

Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian #propaganda ads target Euro elections

Researcher uncovers vast Facebook campaign and accuses Meta of ‘lack of willingness’ to counter it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/disappearing-ink-fake-polls-and-voter-eu-fears-as-russian-propaganda-ads-target-euro-elections

#russia #europe #disinformation

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, 21 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