Posted by The cradle @TheCradleMedia 10th January 2023
Putin assured Erdogan that Russia would be able to provide grain for free on the condition that it delivered to underdeveloped in Africa.
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Governments urged to confront effects of climate crisis on migrants
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The rising sun floods the forest with its light, life awakens. I wish my beloved and much appreciated fellow inhabitants of planet Earth a peaceful good morning and a blessed day accompanied by respect and kindness towards us and nature and that all your wishes may come true.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The Kazakh community has provided traditional yurts, where the residents of Bucha can get warm and have food, as the energy grid is teetering on the verge of collapse due to constant Russian attacks.
‘Yurt Of Invincibility’: Kazakh Community In Ukraine Warms The Hearts Of Bucha Residents
These are the first steps in 6 months for Roman Hryhorian, a defender severely wounded by the Russian shelling Roman got a chance to go to the US & replace his limbs with bionic prosthetics. The soldier Mykhailo Dianov crowdfunded $52K to help him.
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Russian invasion leaves Bakhmut in ruins Russian artillery and air strikes continue obliterating the small city in Donetsk Oblast (eastern Ukraine) that Russian forces fail to conquer for more than 5 months. UNIAN
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RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA
They’re back from their New Year holidays and are just as mad as before
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Ben Hodges Retweeted
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“I don’t understand why the #Georgia‘n government has handcuffed itself to a corps, which is the #Kremlin,”
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Bakhmut. August-January #Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttaсk #Donetsk #Bakhmut #StopRussia
US State Dept. Jan 9 Press Briefing: On Russia’s war crimes in #Ukraine, spokesman said, they’re looking at “those responsible for pulling the trigger” & also to “go all the way up the ladder to see who precisely is responsible for issuing these orders.”
https://state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-index-monday-january-9-2023/
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Ukraine’s AF have destroyed a Russian cutter near the island Bilohrudyi in Dnipro’s delta. This is Russia’s 17th vessel sunken by Ukraine’s AF during the war
The price Russia is paying for its war of aggression against Ukraine
euractiv.com Fierce fighting in Ukraine’s Soledar leaves battlefield ‘strewn with Russian corpses’ Russia has stepped up a powerful assault on Soledar in eastern Ukraine, officials in Kyiv said on 9 January, forcing Ukrainian troops to
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Russians threaten to take property for refusing to switch to roubles in temporarily occupied territories
pravda.com.ua Russians threaten to take property for refusing to switch to roubles in temporarily occupied… The Russian invaders threaten to confiscate property for the residents’ refusal to pay in roubles [Russian national currency – ed.] in the temporarily occupied territories.
Russian invaders compile lists of schoolchildren for enlistment
pravda.com.ua Russian invaders compile lists of schoolchildren for enlistment Russian occupiers are compiling lists of schoolchildren in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblast who can be conscripted
Business Ukraine mag Retweeted
THE RACE IS ON With #Russia eyeing a spring offensive & mass mobilisation, #Ukraine needs #TANKS – Main Battle Tanks #MBTs – like never before. To get them to by March with some training a decision is needed in the next 10-14 days. – Thankfully … 1/3
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Warning: Very explicit video. Bakhmut, four soldiers of the Ukrainian SOF with the help of a night drone listen to the commander of the tactical group “Adam”, throw grenades and finish off at point-blank range a whole unit of Russian soldiers – 15 killed and 6 prisoners.
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English)
Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Russians opposing the war have relocated to Latin America. Russian emigrants in Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay, and Costa Rica spoke to
about their new lives there.
‘No one here tells you how to live, where to work, or what to wear’ The anti-war Russians who have…
Story by Meduza. Abridged translation by Carol Matlack.
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An independent Russian TV channel has been granted a broadcasting license in the Netherlands. The license spans five years and is limited to “television broadcasting.”
Russian independent TV Rain gets license to broadcast from the Netherlands
The Russian channel had been previously operating in exile from Latvia, until its license was revoked in December.
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Russia’s Interior Ministry has opened its first investigation into an alleged breach of a new law banning any depiction of LGBT relationships in the public sphere.
First Probe Opened Into Breach of Russia’s New ‘LGBT Propaganda’ Law
Russia’s Interior Ministry has opened its first investigation into a breach of the recently expanded law against so-called “LGBT propaganda,” State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinshteyn announced on his…
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Moscow has constructed a new housing complex for foreign diplomats and journalists, state media reported, in a move reminiscent of the Soviet practice of assigning living and working quarters for expats.
Armenia will not host Russian-led military exercises this year, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday, signaling growing frustration with Moscow.
Armenia Says Won’t Host Russia-Led Military Drills This Year
Armenia will not host Russian-led military exercises this year, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Tuesday, signaling growing frustration with Moscow.
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Russia’s aviation sector, among the industries hardest-hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine, has suffered a number of incidents, from grounded planes to opening cargo doors, in the first days of 2023.
Sanctions-Hit Russian Aviation Sector Faces Slew of Incidents in 2023
Russia’s aviation sector, among the industries hardest-hit by Western sanctions over Ukraine, has suffered a number of incidents in the first
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Prigozhin will continue to use both confirmed and fabricated Wagner Group success in Soledar and Bakhmut to promote the Wagner Group as the only Russian force in Ukraine capable of securing tangible gains –
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Yevgeny Prigozhin is a Russian oligarch and mercenary leader whose hired guns have cut a swathe of torture and murder across the world. In 2022, as his Wagner Group continues to rain death on Ukrainian cities, he is OCCRP’s Corrupt Person of the Year.
occrp.org Yevgeny Prigozhin – OCCRP Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch and mercenary leader, has become perhaps the most conspicuous avatar of everything that is
ISW: Wagner boss using gains in Soledar to boost reputation. Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is using reports of the mercenary group’s gains in Soledar, Donetsk Oblast to promote its reputation as an effective fighting force, the Institute for the Study of War said.
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