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29th June 2023
Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi and Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, will meet in Moscow on Thursday. #Russia | #RussianOrthodox | #Moscow
29th June 2023
Speaking in Kyiv yesterday, Polish President Andrzej Duda stated that NATO will have to respond to Russia deploying both nuclear weapons and the Wagner Group to Belarus. Duda said it’s a threat to Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. He will call for more NATO presence in the region
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29th June 2023
Good meeting with the Speaker of the
of Lithuania
Ahead of Vilnius
Summit, we spoke about ensuring our collective security and defence. Grateful for Lithuania’s leading role in helping Ukraine with concrete support
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29th June 2023
Interrogation of #Surovikin. Next Coup in #Russia #Putin received reports and held several online meetings while at Valdai yesterday. The president was briefed on the handling of several military traitor generals who, according to the security bloc leadership, had helped… 1/6
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If the resignation of Defence Minister Sergei #Shoigu and the nomination of Alexei Dyumin in his place is announced soon, it will mean that #Putin has been removed from decision-making and a coup attempt is taking place.
29th June 2023
Genius idea. New US legislative proposal to pay bounties to individuals who help the US government freeze and seize assets of sanctions evaders. Since oligarchs have invested so much in hiding their money, we need to create a profit motive in finding it
foreign.senate.gov Risch, Whitehouse, Wilson, and Phillips Lead Introduction of Bill to Improve Sanctions Enforcement… WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations…
29th June 2023
Replying to
This is where the idea came from
Incentivizing Whistleblowers to Combat Sanctions Evasion – War on the Rocks
Earlier this year, a small drone flew over a Belarusian airfield, perched atop a Russian warplane, and blew up. The attack put out of action one
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The best book I ever read was called Red Notice by
He wrote a book of his experience working in , the corruption he experienced, so he went higher, only to discover that Putin was in on the corruption. Unbelievable story. Putin murdered his solicitor too.
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Don’t wonder what will happen if Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It’s not a state, it’s a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power.
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29th June 2023
1/ The bitter feud between Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov appears to have originated in Syria, as an interesting personal account by Prigozhin of the February 2018 Battle of Khasham illustrates.
29th June 2023
Ambassador Andrei #Kelin: For the past year, #Ukraine had been constantly shelling the #KakhovkaDam, dealing very serious damage to it. Moreover, Ukraine itself admitted to having plans of destroying it. Full interview: https://youtu.be/T52r38nLpsI
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29th June 2023
‘Ukraine is fighting the war that NATO was created for.’
at
#CHLondon Conference
29th June 2023
#Ethiopia has applied for membership to the BRICS alliance. This comes after #Egypt, which recently became part of the group’s Development Bank, submitted its own application for BRICS membership on June 15. The BRICS group, comprised of #Brazil, #Russia, #India, #China, and… Show more
29th June 2023
In Zaporizhzhia today filming Ukrainian emergency workers doing drills practicing how to respond if Russia blew up the nuclear power plant here. Video shows workers practicing decontaminating someone for radiation.
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29th June 2023
Satellite imagery procured by Bellingcat suggests Russia intentionally flooded occupied Ukrainian city of Tokmak. The move occurred ahead of Ukraine’s counteroffensive and is seen as part of a broader trend to create water obstacles in Zaporizhzhia oblast.
Tonight on the news in Russia: An almost completely blind 84 year old woman hands over her life savings to the war effort Like many Russian pensioners, she reportedly spends most of her time cheering on the “special military operation” from her living room
(Propaganda)
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29th June 2023
Russian state TV is pulling out all the stops to promote Putin as a leader beloved by the entire nation following the failed mutiny Presenter Olga Skabeyeva says that “even rock stars have nothing on him” after the welcome he was given by crowds in Derbent last night
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29th June 2023
The innocent-sounding Internet Research Agency, the media troll farm run by the Wagner Group leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin, has been shut down since his mutiny. Now it’s for sale. Putin’s rumoured girlfriend Alina Kabaeva chairs the front-runner to buy it: National Media Group.
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For the last six years,
has tracked Prigozhin’s various activities – including security efforts, like Wagner Group, and propaganda efforts, like the Internet Research Agency – across four continents. Here is a compilation of our investigations:
DFRLab – @dfrlab.bsky.social and 6 others
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29th June 2023
Colombia’s president said “Russia has attacked three defenseless Colombian civilians. In so doing, it violated the protocols of war.”
themoscowtimes.com Diplomatic Protest After Russian Strike Injures Colombians in Ukraine Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that his country would send a note of diplomatic protest to Russia after thre
29th June 2023
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi began his visit to Russia earlier this week, the first such trip since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
29th June 2023
The military prosecutor’s office has been interrogating Surovikin for several days Representatives of the military prosecutor’s office have been questioning General Sergei Surovikin about his ties to the leader of the PMC “Wagner”, Yevgeny Prigozhin, for the past few days,… Show more
29th June 2023
Former US Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. This was reported by the NBC News TV channel. According to the channel, he has already held a meeting with Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian authorities did not officially comment on the information.
29th June 2023
In the wake of Gen. Sergey Surovikin’s disappearance from public view, the Kremlin spokesman Peskov advised the press to take any questions about him straight to the Defense Ministry. But the latter still refrains from comment on Surovikin’s fate.
29th June 2023
They took 10 months and expended tens of thousands of troops to have the ruins of Bakhmut for a month. The russian war against Ukraine summed up right there.
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дська екоактивістка Грета Тунберг приїхала до України Вона взяла участь у Міжнародній робочій групі щодо екологічних наслідків війни Андрій Єрмак
Greta Thunberg meets with President Zelenskyy. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson stands beside President Zelenskyy.
29th June 2023
Ukrainian citizens whose identity documents have been taken from them by Russian invaders can still freely enter Ukrainian controlled territory.
english.nv.ua Citizens ‘can still enter Ukrainian controlled territory if documents taken by Russians’ Ukrainian citizens whose identity documents have been taken from them by Russian invaders can still freely enter Ukrainian controlled
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The New Voice of Ukraine
29th June 2023
Russians invasion forces have built a dam on the outskirts of occupied Tokmak in Zaporizhzhya Oblast, presumably to use flooding tactics against Ukraine’s counter-offensive https://nv.ua/en/50335377.ht
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The New European – Think Without Borders
The West must help Ukraine to defeat Putin, but a total Russian collapse could spell disaster, writes
Can Russia avoid the slide into civil war?
The West must help Ukraine to defeat Putin, but a total Russian collapse could spell disaster
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