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20th April 2023
The courage of
and
is breathtaking. Do we have the courage to back it up with Magnitsky sanctions? Again, partners like are way ahead… so act NOW… or lose the trust in EU leadership !
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20th April 2023
And rightly so. Germany’s president has drawn parallels between the brutal Nazi crackdown of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and Putin’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. Putin “has broken international law, challenged borders, committed land grabs.”
bbc.co.uk Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: German president draws Putin-Nazi parallels Frank-Walter Steinmeier regrets Nazi crimes in the Warsaw Ghetto, and condemns Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Putin’s Wagner butchers admit their atrocities in #Ukraine. Savichev said, he & other Wagner fighters killed “several dozen” injured POWs by “tossing grenades” into the ditch where they were held. “We’d torture soldiers too, there weren’t any rules.”
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The enemy shells Kherson daily, destroying buildings, hospitals, and shops. The worst thing is that it kills people. Despite danger, paramedics are always on call to save them. See the challenges emergency medical workers in Kherson face and support them:
http://u24.gov.ua/donate/humanit
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20th April 2023
#Switzerland to add Putin’s terrorist Wagner group to its list of Russian sanctioned entities, Reuters reports the Swiss department of economic affairs, education & research said Thursday. Amazing that all democratic countries haven’t done this months ago

20th April 2023
Sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words. This is the Russian prosecutor, Boris Loktionov, who asked for 25 years for Vladimir Kara-Murza. He was the one who described Vladimir as an “enemy of the state”

80 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising… A badly needed reminder of where fascism, racism and anti-semitism lead us… and to keep resisting !
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19th April 2023
This new recruitment video from the Russian Defence Ministry is something else…
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While people wait for a new mobilisation wave in Russia, the Kremlin is in fact doubling down on efforts to recruit volunteers Russian state TV is now broadcasting regular reports like this urging men to sign up
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20th April 2023
Recruitment advertisements have appeared on a wide range of public pages on VKontakte, from those of regional governors, job centers and local media channels, to hospitals, libraries and even kindergartens.
Russian Social Media Flooded With Army Recruitment Ads – Report
At least 53,000 army recruitment advertisements have appeared on the Russian social media outlet VKontakte since the beginning of
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RUSSIALINK: “Russia’s Local Activists Find Room for Protest – Just Don’t Mention the War” – Moscow Times

Journalists were given access to a prison for Russian POWs in Western Ukraine. POWs can choose from making furniture and making small bags. They’re paid around one dollar per day for their work.

20th April 2023
Forbes’ annual billionaires list for 2023 includes 110 Russian citizens — 22 more than in 2023. It could have included even more, but five people who made the list last year have since renounced their Russian citizenship.
Forbes’ 2023 billionaires list includes 22 more Russian citizens than last year — Meduza

20th April 2023
BREAKING: Netherlands and Denmark announce that they will buy 14 Leopard 2 tanks, refurbish them and then send them to Ukraine. The tanks will arrive in Ukraine by early 2024. The International Tank Coalition set up by Poland is growing!

20th April 2023
The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video of China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu visiting Moscow and telling the Russians: “The mighty Chinese and Russian Armies are a source of peace and development for the whole world”
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20th April 2023
Wedding in Ukraine, April 2023.

20th April 2023
Cypriot President calls on banks to strictly comply with sanctions against Russians The Cypriot government has called on local banks to comply with the sanctions against Russia. The authorities will not tolerate violations of the restrictions imposed by the EU, said government…
19th April 2023
Full support to request for an 11th sanctions package against #RussiaTerroristState ban on all energy & raw materials; individual sanctions against the whole backbone of the regime (Navalny list); boycott of Russia in all sport events including the Olympics. Better…
20th April 2023
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka has won the World Press Photo
AP Image Of Mariupol Hospital Attack Wins World Press Photo Award
Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka has won the World Press Photo of the year for his harrowing image of emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered ground
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The Times and The Sunday Times
Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin knows there are better returns in Africa than Ukraine | Roger Boyes

Blood and Gold How the Sudanese are Dying for Putin’s War in Ukraine Brian Latham reveals the role of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin in the violence in Sudan
bylinetimes.com Blood and Gold: How the Sudanese are Dying for Putin’s War in Ukraine – Byline Times Brian Latham reveals the role of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin in the violence in Sudan
20th April 2023
Engaged in a conflict with #Sudan‘s army chief Burhan, Hemeti is seeking material support from the #Russian paramilitary group Wagner. His search may have fallen on sympathetic ears – those of Yevgeny Prigozhin, who replied to us.

Superpower. Today’s cartoon by
. More cartoons: https://cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc
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Speaking of head choppers, the beheading of an Ukrainian soldier by Russian Wagner terrorists didn’t go unnoticed in the Middle East. That Cartoon drawn by
summarizes it quite well. #ISIS #IslamicState #Russia #Ukraine