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It is a mistake to think that Russian war crimes are just a result of bad discipline or ruthlessness. In this video I discuss the strategic purpose with war crimes, and why they don't mind having cases at the International Criminal Court. In reality, the war crimes are a tool that Russia uses to challenge the idea of a rules-based world order.
#Ukraine #Russia
https://youtu.be/3AMdPMoGJus
Humiliation for Putin as Over 100 Troops Raise White Flag on Russian Soil
#EU strips #Hungary of key foreign, defense ministerial meeting over #Russia ties - UPI.com https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/07/23/EU-meeting-taken-away-from-Hungary/5431721723113/
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Kyiv troops have full control of the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in their incursion into Russian territory.
The town, the largest that Ukraine has reportedly seized so far, had a prewar population of around 5,000 people. Natural gas flows from West Siberian gas fields through pipes that pass through Sudzha and cross the Ukrainian border into Ukraine’s system” #Russia
https://apnews.com/article/b7fb57c21a43f0f06bf79a4477eb62e9
#Ukraine pierces #Russia border triggering
major battles
Ukraine strikes border area w/ #drones & #rockets.
Russia said on Wednesday that it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces which had penetrated Russia's #Kursk region in one of the largest incursions into Russia since the Ukraine #war began in Feb 2022.
#geopolitics #StandWithUkraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-keeps-up-air-attacks-russias-kursk-regional-governor-says-2024-08-07/
Ukrainian reconnaissance drones struck a TU-22M3 long-range strategic bomber, a missile carrier, at the #Olenya airfield in #Russia on Saturday, 27 July.
The distance from the border of Ukraine to the airport is 1,800 kilometres.
❗️ JUST IN: “Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US marine Paul Whelan and a number of Americans are expected to be released as part of a large-scale prisoner swap between the US and #Russia that is under way, according to a senior administration official.”
https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/prisoner-swap-russia-us/index.html?cid=ios_app
In #Ukraine’s largest incursion into #Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine >2yrs ago, fighting continued on Thurs in the #Kursk region where Ukrainian troops were reportedly occupying several border villages & part of the town of #Sudzha. The bold cross-border op, now in its 3rd day, stunned #Moscow & raised questions about whether Kyiv’s troops had violated Western restrictions on the use of donated weapons & fighting vehicles.
#StandWithUkraine #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/08/ukraine-kursk-russia-occupied-war/
"How Kamala Harris Helped Secure the U.S.-Russia Prisoner Exchange"
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/01/kamala-harris-role-us-russia-prisoner-swap-exchange/
"The vice president’s meetings with German and Slovenian leaders helped move the deal along, U.S. officials say."
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris welcome home Russian hostages at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:58pm.
#USPol #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #Russia #Hostages #DemocratsDeliver
#JDVance Desperately Tries to Give #Trump Credit for Prisoner Swap
Trump’s team is pathetically trying to make the #Russia #PrisonerExchange all about him.
After #POTUS Joe #Biden on Thurs announced a deal to free American #hostages in Russia, #Vance somehow tried to give Trump the credit.
#Desperate #pathetic #deranged #weird #criminal #losers #USpol
#Harris2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/184486/jd-vance-trump-credit-russia-prisoner-swap
Add #AlsuKurmasheva to the list of American #journalists jailed in #Russia
The #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty editor was detained in 2023. Her husband & daughters came to Washington to raise awareness & ask for help.
#InternationalLaw #law #Putin #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #HumanRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/29/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-russia-detained/
Russia struggles to repel deep incursion by Ukraine.
"Reports suggest that Ukrainian troops are operating more than 10km (six miles) inside Russia - the deepest cross-border advance by Kyiv since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022," according to BBC News.
For ongoing coverage, follow @ukraine-thenewsdesk
BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨
Ukraine has sunk the Russian attack submarine B-237 Rostov-na-Donu in an attack against the port of Sevastopol in Crimea.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #BreakingNews #Breaking
"This is Putin’s war against Russia. And if he doesn’t like it, if it’s making him a little uncomfortable, then there’s an easy solution: He can just get the hell out of Ukraine and call it a day."
- White House national security spokesperson John Kirby
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin
An aspect of the Imane Khelif brouhaha that deserves careful attention is the role that the Russian International Boxing Association played in setting up the conditions for the transphobic outrage that we've witnessed.
it's well-documented that Khelif was raised female, considered female in the very conservative, anti-LGBTQ culture of Algeria, and has always competed as a female boxer.
#ImaneKhelif #trans #transphobia #gender #Russia
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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-boxer-imane-khelif-anti-trans-rcna164721
Here's what we are reading today:
Last night, #Russia launched the largest drone attack on Kyiv of 2024 and the most significant attack on #Kyiv since the start of the #RussianFullScaleWar, said military authorities.
All 89 drones that were launched by #Russia were downed by air defense.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-downs-all-89-russian-drones/
#DonaldTrump sat down with billionaire #ElonMusk on Monday for a rambling and vitriolic interview that revisited many of the former president’s most divisive talking points.
The ex-president attacked #migrants, denounced #KamalaHarris and praised #Russia in discussion delayed by technical glitch
#Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with #Musk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-interview
"...#Putin propaganda here, and he’s been clinging to it since the beginning of the war: that he had to go into #Ukraine, #NATO is surrounding him, and that NATO support and #USA support for Ukraine just proves it’s the #West versus #Russia; it’s NATO versus Russia; it’s the US versus Russia. And it’s all a bunch of horse-hockey. There’s nothing to it. This is Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, pure and simple..."
yup
anyone who differs is a troll or an idiot
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