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PUTIN DESTROYING RUSSIAN CITY OF SUDZHA!
Russian forces 'wiping out' Kursk Oblast's Sudzha with bombs, Ukrainian general says.
Russian troops are “wiping" the Ukrainian-captured town of Sudzha in Russia's Kursk Oblast "off the face of the earth", Oleksandr Pavliuk, commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces, said on Aug. 31.
Russia is regularly shelling Sudzha and attacking it with guided aerial bombs and kamikaze drones, according to Pavliuk.
#AureFreePress #News #press #Ukraine #Russia
RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES ⚡
"I hate those bastards," says a resident of Kharkiv after the city was attacked with Russian KAB bombs.
So far, we know of seven people killed, and at least 47 wounded, 20 of whom are in serious condition in hospital.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #Kharkiv
Showing Russia's Cruelty
"They filled their pockets and left us all behind,” residents of Sudzha, Kursk region of Russia, told about the local authorities and the so-called "evacuation" from the town.
The settlement is now under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population. This is very different from what Russia does to Ukrainian cities.
Locals complain officials simply fled, leaving people to fend for themselves.
#AureFreePress #Russia
PUTIN LIVING IN FEAR
A video of Putin's motorcade passing in the North Caucasus.
Huge number of security vehicles.
They're saying Putin goes into crowds of people to communicate?
This man lives in perpetual fear. And most of all, he fears the people of RUSSIA!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky
RUSSIA / CHINA FRICTIONS
Russian companies are facing increasing delays and rising costs on payments with trading partners in China. Because of this, transactions worth tens of billions of yuan are in limbo.
Russian officials say this comes after Chinese banks stepped up enforcement after Western threats to impose secondary sanctions for cooperating with Russia.
Chinese state banks are massively halting transactions with the Russian Federation
#AureFreePress #News #press #Russia #China
London, #England
Dancers at a dress rehearsal for the State Ballet of Georgia production of Swan Lake at London Coliseum.
Photograph: Katja Ogrin/Redferns
When will it be 24/7 on all Russian channels?
#Telegram CEO Pavel #Durov visited #Russia over 60 times since leaving the country in 2014, #Kremlingram, a Ukrainian group that campaigns against the use of Telegram in #Ukraine, reported.
The information contradicts Durov's claims of being a pariah and being effectively exiled from Russia, Kremlingram said.
https://kyivindependent.com/kremlingram-investigation-durov/
Telegram CEO visited Russia over 60 times since 'exile' in 2014, investigation suggests
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov visited Russia over 60 times since leaving the country in 2014, Kremlingram, a Ukrainian group that campaigns against the use of Telegram in Ukraine, reported on Aug. 27.Elsa Court (The Kyiv Independent)
Crucial shift in focus...
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Three nations are in a global competition for power and influence. Ruma Aktar/iStock / Getty Images Plus
How US military planning has shifted away from fighting terrorism to readying for tensions and conflict with China and Russia"
#Harris #GOP #Democrats #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Europe #UkraineWar #Ukraine #Russia #Nato #Europe #War #Terrorism #security
How US military planning has shifted away from fighting terrorism to readying for tensions and conflict with China and Russia
The Pentagon is preparing for what it calls ‘great power competition’ among the US, Russia and China.The Conversation
"Among Telegram's investors were Russians David Yakobashvili and Roman Abramovich. The former is under Ukrainian sanctions, while Abramovich is on the sanctions lists of the European Union, the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Ukraine and other countries. They are both believed to have close ties to the Kremlin."
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/10/1/7422200/
Who is funding Telegram? How a decade of unprofitability hasn't stopped the messenger app from growing
Why Telegram’s staggering growth remains a failure from a business perspective, and who the investors are that funded the app despite it only recently showing signs of generating revenue.Ukrainska Pravda
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨
The Pentagon said the United States allowed Ukraine to use its weapons during the attack in the Kursk REGION of Russia.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #BreakingNews #Breaking
#Nato: From #ColdWar to #Ukraine, a #History of the World’s Most Powerful #Alliance
source: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/tom-stevenson/ill-suited-to-reality
In 1998, John Lewis Gaddis bemoaned that the decision to admit #Poland, #Hungary and the #Czech Republic was taken with almost no public debate and that ‘with remarkably few exceptions’ historians saw it as ‘ill-conceived, ill-timed and above all ill-suited to the realities of the post-Cold War world’. Enlargement violated the principle of magnanimity in victory, and risked driving #Russia to forge an anti-hegemonic alliance with #China.
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#Military spending by European states has increased by more than 60 per cent since 2014. Yet G7 meetings are still surpassingly easy for US diplomats to run. Nato is both stronger than ever and just as unsuited to averting the next world #crisis.
#politics #diplomacy #finance #arms #future #USA #security #defense #Europe
Tom Stevenson · Ill-Suited to Reality: Nato’s Delusions
The descriptions of Nato by US leaders have often had little to do with the defence of Europe and a lot to do with Nato...Tom Stevenson (London Review of Books)
#Biden Approved Secret Strategy Refocusing on #Nuclear Threat
In a #classified document approved in March, the president ordered #US forces to prepare for possible coordinated #nuclear confrontations w/ #Russia, #China & #NorthKorea.
#geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/biden-nuclear-china-russia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Here’s what we are reading today:
A Russian general disbanded the council responsible for overseeing security in the #Kursk region earlier this spring, WSJ reports.
It weakened the defense on the border and resulted in Kyiv’s #occupation of 93 settlements in #Russia.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/how-a-generals-blunder-left-russias-border-vulnerable-9a624abd
#HIMARS giving Russian pontoon crossings in #Kursk a bad day.
https://t.me/defender_skadovsk/41208
▵ СКАДОВСЬКИЙ ЗАХИСНИК
HIMARS накриває понтонні переправи ВСРФ разом з інженерною технікою та о.с. в Курській області. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥Telegram
In Russia, starting from the new school year, Russian schoolchildren will be taught patriotism “through vocabulary work” in Russian language lessons
For the purposes of education, it is worth forming the concepts of “devotion”, “fidelity”, “duty”, “service” and “feat”.
The manuals recommend that teachers encourage students to “awaken and develop civic feelings” – love for the fatherland, respect for the defenders of the homeland, a sense of duty, honor and dignity.
#AureFreePress #Russia
Hungary has not yet provided an explanation to the European Union regarding its decision to ease entry requirements for citizens of Russia and Belarus, according to Anita Gipper, spokeswoman for the European Commission.
The European Commission had set a deadline for Hungary to respond, but Gipper confirmed that no answer has been received so far, though Hungary is reportedly preparing one.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Hungary #NATO
"A Major U.S. Defense Investor Has Links To Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs"
by @davidjeans2 for @Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/08/20/8vc-russian-oligarchs/
A Major U.S. Defense Investor Has Links To Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs
Led by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, 8VC employs two children of alleged Kremlin allies on its investment team.David Jeans (Forbes)
The bad news is #Russia has not one but two pontoon bridges across Seym river after all three permanent bridges were demilitarised.
One is near Zvannoe, another near Glushkovo.
The good news is that the latter is where the red dots are shown on FIRMS today 😉
P.S. FIRMS is Fire Information for Resource Management System based on NASA satellite data detecting large fires.
A HERO OF THE WORLD ❤️
Yana Zalevska is a drone operator. She is from Kherson.
After surviving Russian occupation, Yana joined the Ukrainian Army.
She was injured in early August and is now recovering.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #war #Kherson
"The fighting spirit is not lost"
- Yana Zalevska
Ukraine has gotten a lot of attention for its army’s shocking incursion into Russian territory, a risky and potentially game-changing move. But Ukraine is fighting its war with Russia over 600 miles of front lines and in three different directions. NPR has a breakdown of how the war is going on each front.
- A resident of the Kursk region after meeting with Ukrainian soldiers who brought her food.
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#Amsterdam municipality bans #Telegram on work phones over criminal use, #espionage #threat
Telegram is a “safe haven for hackers, cybercriminals, and drug dealers,” a spokesperson for Amsterdam’s IT alderman Alexander Scholtes told the broadcaster. The city is also concerned about possible espionage through the app, even though it no longer has official ties to #Russia. Telegram was set up in Russia, but the head office has since moved to #Dubai, and the #company is officially located in the Virgin Islands.
#news #software #messenger #crime #cybercrime #cybersecurity #security #problem #Netherlands #hack #hacker
Amsterdam municipality bans Telegram on work phones over criminal use, espionage threat
The municipality of Amsterdam has banned its civil servants from using the chat app Telegram on their work phones over the criminal activities on the app and the risk of espionage, a spokesperson confirmed to BNR.NL Times
Here's what we are reading today:
The #RussianForeignMinister denied that #Russia participated in indirect talks with Ukraine to cease attacks on energy facilities in both countries.
The talks were reported in the WaPo and were supposedly botched by the #Kursk offensive.
Russia denies reported indirect negotiations with Ukraine to halt energy strikes
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova denied on Aug. 18 a report that the country was entering indirect talks with Ukraine in Qatar on mutually halting strikes on energy infrastructure.Dmytro Basmat (The Kyiv Independent)
Ukrainian MAGURA V5 unmanned drones have hit 18 Russian vessels in a year and a half, 9 of which were destroyed.
"In fact, the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea has capitulated. Russia has already withdrawn everything modern and necessary from Sevastopol.
The Ukrainian-made MAGURA V5 maritime drone is capable of covering a distance of over 800 kilometers. Its speed is 80 km/hour and the warhead weighs 250 kilograms.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia
Slava Ukraini.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/17/putin-russia-ukraine-incursion-kursk
Ukraine’s invasion has exposed Putin’s messianic vision of Russia as a mirage
The president hoped for a speedy victory; instead, there are foreign tanks on Russian soil for the first time since the NazisLuke Harding (The Guardian)
I suspect we’ll be hearing more on this:
FBI raids US home of Russian-born analyst who advised Trump in 2016
Dimitri Simes, whose name appeared prominently in Mueller report, ‘puzzled and concerned’ by raid in Virginia
#UsPolitics #russia
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/fbi-raid-dmitri-simes-trump
Here's what we are reading:
Secret planned peace talks between #Russia and #Ukraine, scheduled in #Doha later this month, have been derailed due to the #Kursk Incursion.
The talks were about preventing further strikes on energy and power infrastructure for both sides.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/17/kursk-ukraine-russia-energy-ceasefire/
Ukraine’s offensive derails secret efforts for partial cease-fire with Russia, officials say
The warring countries were set to hold indirect talks in Qatar on an agreement to halt strikes on energy and power infrastructure, according to officials.Isabelle Khurshudyan (The Washington Post)
