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3rd August 2023
Why is Putin so afraid of Russian patriots like
and
? Maybe because they speak the truth about Russian autocracy, corruption, and the disastrous criminal war in Ukraine.
I spoke to Sky’s #Interpol Podcast on the reforms needed to protect Brits from malicious red notices used for transnational repression by authoritarian states. Foremost is my call for the HO to tell Brits when there’s a malign red notice out on them.
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·3rd August 2023
Kyiv Mayor & former world boxing champion
urges UN’s
to help save the life of Iran’s boxing champion Mohammad Javad Vafai, facing imminent execution for taking part in the #IranProtests CC:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1687105469050200064
Like Stalin in 1937, Putin is purging the upper ranks of the Russian military. In the past couple of months over a dozen high-ranking officers have been fired, and the commander of the Aerospace Forces has been “on vacation” since the Wagner mutiny
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UKinRussia
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Aug 2
Более, чем когда-либо, заметно ухудшение отношений внутри Вооруженных сил РФ. Несколько российских генералов и высших офицеров были уволены, отстранены от должностей или пропали из публичного пространства. @DefenceHQ @FCDOGovUK
4th August 2023
THE KREMLIN IS AFRAID social media has deleted all accounts related to Wagner. But there is more to it than that: Prigozhin’s pages were more popular than the Kremlin’s – Especially among Putin’s core supporters. With
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kyivpost.com Wagner Groups Deleted from Russian Social Media In a potentially worrying sign for the Kremlin, many of the groups had more fans than similar pages for President Putin and the Russian
4th August 2023
Look at all the replies – almost 100% against fascist Russia. With the shutting down of Prigozhin’s Internet troll factory, it looks like the Kremlin is no longer able to manufacture fake online support.
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MFA Russia
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Aug 2
#Zakharova: The neo-Nazi regime in Kiev is building up the scale of its terrorist activities. The Western countries are not only encouraging the Kiev regime’s terrorist methods but are also directly involved in organising terrorist attacks by supplying it with weapons.
Over a year into the war, Russian officials like to boast of historically low unemployment, which is one way of spinning what is in fact a severe labour shortage A new study says “personnel famine” in industrial companies is at its worst level since 1996
4h August 2023
The evil dictatorship of Iran – the Kremlin’s close ally in global terrorism – wants the West to stop arming Ukraine. This is the same that is arming with drones to attack !! After the downfall of Putin, I hope to see the Ayatollah’s demise.
Iran Calls On The West To End Arms Supplies To Ukraine
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“Friends, everything will be OK.” Vladimir Kara-Murza’s reaction after a Moscow court upheld his 25-year prison sentence. Our report for
from inside the courtroom. Camera/edit
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4th August 2023
The American colonel’s account of the terrible casualties in Ukraine The former advisor of the US Defense Ministry during Trump’s presidency has said that the casualties of the Ukrainian armed forces are between 300,000 and 350,000. Col. Douglas McGregor, a former advisor to the… Show more
4th August 2023
The footage includes the very bushes and small trees that, according to British intelligence , interfere with the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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4th August 2023
At the age of 35, Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso, is already: HERO and LEGEND
4th August 2023
Robert Kennedy Junior says that the function of the CIA is to provide the military industrial complex with a pipeline of continual new wars and the money being sent to Ukraine is going to military contractors and not staying in the country.
A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief rebellion against Vladimir Putin, the mercenary leader pitched his paramilitary Wagner Group as the solution to the West African nation’s security crisis.
reports on the Wagner Group’s growing reach
3rd August 2023
The
Security Council is charged with maintaining international peace and security, and we cannot do that without strengthening food security. Each of us has a responsibility to act so no one goes hungry.
4th August 2023
Another day of show trials for Russia…
bravely faces a court that only has one purpose: to shut down any dissent or criticism of Putin’s regime. His hope is ours: only a democratic Russia will ever leave other countries at peace…
Alexei Navalny braces for new verdict as Kremlin clamps down
Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny could see decades added to his time behind bars.
4th August 2023
The Kremlin’s strategy seems to be to aggravate global hunger by attacking Ukraine’s grain exports and then to try to buy off allies by offering Russia’s own token shipments of grain as a meager replacement, says the European Union’s top diplomat.
4th August 2023
Niger President Mohamed Bazoum’s urgent plea: I write this as a hostage. Niger is under attack from a military junta that is trying to overthrow our democracy, and I am just one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned.”
Opinion | President of Niger: I’ve been taken hostage by a military coup
The world must help us stop the military seizure of power in the African nation.
4th August 2023
Video shared on social media showed what appeared to be a partly sunken Russian Navy ship being towed in the waters around Novorossiysk.
4th August 2023
Moscow has nearly doubled its defense budget plan after spending more in the first half of 2023 than originally targeted for the entire year.
themoscowtimes.com Russia Revises Defense Budget Plan Amid Soaring Military Expenditures – Reuters Russia has nearly doubled its defense budget plan after spending more in the first half of 2023 than originally targeted for the entire year,
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4th August 2023
Video shared online showed what appeared to be a partly sunken Russian Navy vessel being towed in the waters around Novorossiysk.
themoscowtimes.com Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Black Sea Naval Base, Annexed Crimea Russia claimed Friday it had thwarted Ukrainian sea and air drone attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.
4th August 2023
Another video of the Russian landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyk damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack this morning. It looks to be in a really poor shape. Will it sink?
4th August 2023
It’s not a Goya painting, it’s reality. : Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency More news here https://english.nv.ua
4th August 2023
Russia says it has closed the port of Novorossiysk in its southern Krasnodarsky Krai region after an alleged attack on a Russian naval base there, by what the authorities say were Ukrainian sea attack drones.
Russia claims Novorossiysk attacked by sea drones, port temporarily closed to shipping traffic
3rd August 2023
The Latvian Army is testing its combat readiness right next to the border with Belarus. If the Wagner Group tries anything stupid… Poland, Lithuania and Latvia will stand together.
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4th August 2023
The IAEA experts have observed no mines or explosives on rooftops of Unit 3 & 4 reactor buildings and turbine halls at Zaporizhzhya NPP.
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IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency
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4th August 2023
IAEA experts have observed no mines or explosives on rooftops of Unit 3 & 4 reactor buildings and turbine halls at #ZNPP, after having been given access yesterday. Team continues to request to visit the roofs of the other 4 units, @rafaelmgrossi said.
4th August 2023
Putin signed a law expanding the age of conscription for compulsory service The lower limit will remain the same (18 years), while the upper limit will be raised by three years (from 27 to 30). There will be no transition period, the law will come into force on January 1,… Show more
4th August 2023
The publication Sota found in southern Russia 44 new and previously unmentioned graves of Russian occupiers killed in the war with Ukraine.
4th August 2023
Humanitarian #aid for Ukrainians in numbers by OCHA
Business Ukraine mag Retweeted
4th August 2023
If you’ve been to Russia outside of Moscow/Petersburg, you’ve seen absolute, crippling poverty. People living in shacks without proper heating or plumbing. Crumbling infrastructure. Yet the government can spend $100bn a year on war.
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Iuliia Mendel
@IuliiaMendel
4th August 2023
Russia has doubled its 2023 defence spending target to more than $100 billion – a third of all public expenditure – a government document reviewed by Reuters showed, as the costs of the war in Ukraine spiral and place growing strain on Moscow’s finances. The figures shed light on… Show more
KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine
Senior Lieutenant, volunteer Ханнанов Руслан (Khannanov Ruslan) from Tatarstan, commander of the grenade launcher platoon of the “Alga” battalion, was killed near Bakhmut on 10 June ’23. https://vk.com/wall157472987_23659
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