#Russia missile, drone strike destroys Kyiv's largest power plant, damages two others - #Ukraine https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/04/11/Ukraine-Russia-strikes-hit-energy-targets/6221712832960/
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#Russia may run out of Soviet military equipment by mid-2025. New production will not be able to compensate for the losses at the front.
Russia produces 500 new tanks and 1000 new military vehicles per year. The losses at the front exceed 1000 tanks and 2000 armored vehicles annually.
A Polish citizen has been arrested under suspicion of spying for the Russian government in a potential conspiracy to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The suspect, Pawel K., was charged with readiness to act for foreign intelligence against the Republic of Poland by providing Russia with security information about the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport in southeastern Poland. The charge carries a potential 8 years in prison, the country’s prosecutors say. ABC News has more.
"In today's #vatniksoup REBREW, I'll introduce an American propagandist and social media personality, Max Blumenthal (@maxblumenthal). He's best-known for his great admiration towards authoritarian regimes, and for launching the fake news blog @TheGrayZoneNews."
🧵 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1780200020857250285.html
Now that #American support for #Ukraine has been rekindled, let's talk about the degradation and defeat of #Russia, since it is back on the menu.
Remember this woman, she is the canary in the coal mine for Russia's fall. Her name is Elvira Nabiullina, Head of the Central Bank.
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"Russia's one path to victory in Ukraine leads through minds and mouths in Washington, DC. Russian and Chinese propaganda therefore celebrates the inability of Congress to pass aid for Ukraine, and praises those who hinder the passage of such a bill. But the specific propaganda memes that China spreads (and some American leaders repeat) about the war are of Russian origin."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Russia #Ukraine #China #disinformation
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/political-warfare-and-congress
“#Russia vetoed UN resolution sponsored by US & Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous #nuclear arms race in outer space.
The vote 15-member Security Council: 13 in favor, Russia opposed, China abstaining.
The resolution calls on all countries not to develop or deploy nuclear arms or other weapons of mass destruction in space, as banned under a 1967 international treaty that included the U.S. and Russia, and to agree to the need to verify compliance”
https://apnews.com/article/175d45ddb658729eff060bd8a83b8a55
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161 #Ukrainian children that were abducted to #Russia and #Belarus were found in #Germany with the help of German law enforcement agencies, says Ivan Vyhivskyi, the Chief of the National Police of #ukraine
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/17/7451586/index.amp
Marjorie Taylor Greene gets destroyed by Professor Timothy #Snyder regarding her lies about #Ukraine and #Russia.
"Russia Just Helped Swing a European Election"
"Slovakia’s new Russia-friendly president won office with the help of a barrage of pro-Kremlin disinformation."
We’ve all lived in relative safety, but those times are ending. Trump gave the autocratic world a taste of what a “sphere of influence” world would look like, and they’ve decided they aren’t going back.
Ready yourself for war to preserve the free world and hope it never comes. Be willing to sacrifice the comfort you’ve enjoyed to secure it for future generations throughout the West.
We have to protect each other above all else.
Alex Finley looks at the revelation that the Russians have been paying a wide network of European politicians to spout pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine rhetoric and asks if this can be happening in the US, too. He concludes:
"It is naïve to think the same pattern does not exist in the United States, given the ample evidence of coordinated pro-Russian talking points from several Republican politicians."
#Russia #Putin #Republicans #MarjorieTaylorGreene #MikeJohnson
https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america
🇩🇪 A German politician was filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, #Czech intelligence has claimed.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/21/german-politician-allegedly-took-russian-money/
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#Russia is planning to assassinate me again, says Budanov, Chief of Ukrainian military intelligence.
Last year Budanov's wife was poisoned: "Their logic is clear: my wife is very important to me...And they correctly assessed her influence."
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Russian air power remains largely uncontested in the east of the country.
Glide bombs cause the most destruction amongst Ukrainian defenders and #Russia can launch 150 into a sector in a single day.
Over 9000 have been used so far this year.
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In 2023, the largest #Western #banks still operating in #Russia paid taxes that were four times the amount they paid before the full-scale invasion. This is due partly to international #sanctions on Russian banks.
https://www.ft.com/content/cd6c28e2-d327-4c2a-a023-098ca43eacfb
#Russia has launched "Ruviki," a state-backed encyclopedia mirroring the original Russian Wikipedia. This new platform includes all previous Russian-language Wikipedia content but has been edited to omit information potentially unfavorable to the Russian government.
Interestingly, the Ruviki article about George Orwell’s 1984 entirely omits the Ministry of Truth.
https://www.404media.co/russia-clones-wikipedia-censors-it-bans-original/
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The deputy head of #Ukraines military intelligence told the #Economist that the order has gone out for #Russia to “take something” before #VictoryDay on May 9th, or a week later.
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At 5 a.m. #Russian forces tried to break through #Ukraine defensive line in #Kharkiv region using armored vehicles, the first attempt to invade this area in 2 years.
#Ukrainian troops surged into the area, halting #russia attempted advance, #Zelenskyy said.
Good morning to readers, Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
#Drones have leveled the playing field between a Goliath #Russia and a David-like #Ukraine.
But drone development is evolving so quickly that Ukrainian engineers must innovate — or people die.
There’s no place in the world where #drone innovation is happening faster than in Ukraine.
With fewer funds and fewer soldiers, Ukraine has needed to out-think and out-innovate the Russian military.
European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that #Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.
Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.
https://www.ft.com/content/c88509f9-c9bd-46f4-8a5c-9b2bdd3c3dd3