rvps2001

rvps2001, 4 hours ago to Russia

🇪🇺 New details of Latvian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka’s espionage for #Russia

The Insider and Re:Baltica examined 19,000 of Ždanoka's emails, revealing her extensive correspondence with FSB agents and work for the Kremlin — while being an MEP.

https://theins.press/en/politics/271808

#europe #latvia #spying

rvps2001, 7 hours ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia is still recruiting enough men willing to fight for money, but it looks increasingly stretched. Some regions have doubled sign-up bonuses. Analysts say a new mobilisation is “just a question of when.”

https://www.ft.com/content/ade7862b-050f-43c2-857c-b76fb05c9ff6

Archive: https://archive.is/R11UE

rvps2001, 9 hours ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 The leader of Russia's #Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said early on Thursday he had met Putin in the Kremlin and offered to send more fighters to help Moscow in its more than two-year-old conflict in #Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chechen-leader-meets-russias-putin-offers-more-troops-ukraine-2024-05-22/

#russia

rvps2001, 22 hours ago to poland

🇵🇱🇺🇸 #Poland signed an agreement with the United States for the delivery of a $960 million airspace reconnaissance system to monitor its north-eastern borders, defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-buys-us-radar-systems-monitor-its-north-eastern-borders-2024-05-22/

#usa #russia

rvps2001, 2 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 #Russia is likely to keep banking on various coercion tactics to bolster its military manpower in Ukraine, experts say, a strategy that has proven effective at ensuring a continuous supply of fresh recruits to the frontlines for the past two years.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/21/how-russias-covert-mobilization-finds-manpower-for-the-war-in-ukraine-a85168

rvps2001, 2 days ago to poland

🇵🇱 #Poland has arrested nine people in connection with acts of sabotage committed in the country on the orders of Russian services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-arrests-nine-charges-russian-ordered-sabotage-2024-05-21/

#russia #spying

rvps2001, 2 days ago to Ukraine

🗣️ Western allies are taking too long to make decisions on military support for #Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an exclusive interview in Kyiv on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/western-aid-ukraine-too-slow-risks-us-election-limited-zelenskiy-2024-05-20/

rvps2001, 2 days ago to Youtube

💻 #YouTube has blocked at least three videos that show viewers how to evade military service after it received a request from the Russian authorities, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/20/youtube-blocks-anti-war-videos-at-russias-request-agentstvo-a85175

#google #russia #censorship

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Russia

🇿🇦🇷🇺 A deal between South Africa’s state-owned oil company and a unit of #Russia’s Gazprom Group to revive its gas-to-liquids refinery in Mossel Bay on the nation’s south coast has moved into the feasibility stage, PetroSA said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/gazprom-unit-deal-to-fix-s-africa-refinery-moves-to-feasibility

#southafrica #oilandgas

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇲🇺🇦 Washington’s G7 allies are warming to a US plan to rush tens of billions of dollars in funding to #Ukraine before Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.

https://www.ft.com/content/077356ec-43ce-48d2-bb76-7d87bfe3f51d

#usa

rvps2001, 3 days ago to Ukraine

🇬🇧🇺🇦 'The UK has rushed 1 million rounds of ammunition, air defence missiles & drones to #Ukraine’s frontline to help hold Putin’s army back' - Grant Shapps

#britain

rvps2001, 4 days ago to Russia

🇬🇧 The UK government said the growing alliance between #Russia and #China is a threat to Western nations, as it urged European countries to boost lethal aid to Ukraine.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-19/uk-sees-direct-threat-from-russia-china-alliance-shapps-says

Archive: https://archive.is/6c774

#britain

rvps2001, 4 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine’s Navy said on May 19 that it had “destroyed” Russian sea minesweeper Kovrovets overnight, refuting Moscow’s earlier claims of having repelled strikes on occupied #Crimea

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-navy-says-it-destroyed-russian-sea-minesweeper-kovrovets-overnight/

#russia

rvps2001, 5 days ago to random

⚡🇬🇪 Georgia’s president on Saturday vetoed the so-called “Russian law” targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-media-law-0b626b2cfe22761c03e6cce1b2a59d1a

rvps2001, 5 days ago to Ukraine

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces struck a residential area in the city of Kharkiv on the afternoon of May 18, injuring at least five people, including two children.
https://kyivindependent.com/authorities-russian-attack-on-kharkiv-injures-5-including-2-children/

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Two people were killed and two more were injured when a car with civilians trying to evacuate from Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast came under Russian fire.
https://kyivindependent.com/prosecutors-office-2-killed-2-injured-in-russian-attack-on-kharkiv-oblast/

#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes

rvps2001, 5 days ago to Russia

Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian #propaganda ads target Euro elections

Researcher uncovers vast Facebook campaign and accuses Meta of ‘lack of willingness’ to counter it

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/disappearing-ink-fake-polls-and-voter-eu-fears-as-russian-propaganda-ads-target-euro-elections

#russia #europe #disinformation

rvps2001, 5 days ago to Ukraine

🇺🇸 U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will push fellow G7 finance officials next week to agree to a plan to bring forward the interest earnings on frozen Russian assets to provide more money to #Ukraine quickly, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/yellen-push-g7-bring-forward-interest-russian-assets-aid-ukraine-2024-05-17/

#usa #russia

rvps2001, 5 days ago to France

🇨🇵🇷🇺 #France’s decision to invite #Russia to attend the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings has stoked tensions with allied nations as leaders prepare to gather on the Normandy beaches on June 6.

https://www.politico.eu/article/d-day-allies-vexed-over-france-macron-invitation-to-russia-80-anniversary/

rvps2001, 6 days ago to Ukraine

🇱🇹🇺🇦 Vilnius has sent #Ukraine a new batch of military and humanitarian aid, including ammunition and reconnaissance drones.

#Lithuania

rvps2001, 6 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺🇨🇳 #Russia and #China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister said.

https://apnews.com/article/joseph-wu-taiwan-interview-russia-china-492fbd5e896ae3231de5f3fbf3c93012

rvps2001, 6 days ago to Russia

🗣 #Russia’s ongoing offensive in #Ukraine doesn’t have the legs for a breakthrough, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe said Thursday.

“They don't have the skill and the capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage," said the U.S. general, but added: "They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/top-nato-commander-christopher-cavoli-russian-offensive-war-in-ukraine/

#russiaukrainewar

rvps2001, 6 days ago to random

🇲🇩 Parliament in #Moldova voted on Thursday to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu's policies, alongside a presidential election.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/moldovan-parliament-votes-hold-referendum-eu-membership-oct-20-2024-05-16/

rvps2001, 6 days ago to Russia

CTP:

🇷🇺🇱🇾🇨🇫 #Russia has reinforced its military presence in Libya and expanded military cooperation with former Portuguese colonies in West Africa as it continues to expand its influence in #Africa

https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/africa-file-may-16-2024-russian-outreach-across-africa-irans-uranium-aims-is-mozambique-continues-march

rvps2001, 7 days ago to Russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has stepped up its disinformation efforts to discredit #Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and raise questions about his legitimacy in recent months, US intelligence agencies have observed.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/15/politics/us-intelligence-russia-disinformation-zelensky/index.html