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hanse_mina, 7 days ago to China

Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskiy accused #Beijing of working with #Moscow to undermine a summit to discuss his country’s peace blueprint, in a sign of growing frustration with #China’s deepening ties with #Russia.

Russia is doing “everything” to disrupt the summit set for mid-June by using Chinese influence and its diplomats, Zelenskiy told reporters.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-02/zelenskiy-asks-asia-leaders-to-join-summit-to-end-russia-s-war

#Ukraine

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Ukraine

American historian Timothy Snyder compares the current situation in #Ukraine with the year 1938 in #Czechoslovakia. "If the #Czechs had resisted Nazi #Germany then, there would have been no World War II. When Ukraine surrenders, we move to 1939. Ukraine helps us extend 1938,"

https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/mrazive-varovani-uznavaneho-historika-kdyz-ukrajina-padne-bu/r~01473b1c168b11ef80bfac1f6b220ee8/

#Russia

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Zelensky

President of Ukraine Volodymyr #Zelensky will take part in the G7 in #Puglia (#Apulia) #Italy held on June 13-15, 2024.

This was confirmed by Prime Minister Giorgia #Meloni, speaking to journalists at reception at the Quirinale Gardens for the Feast of Republic.

https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2024/06/01/meloni-conferma-zelensky-sara-al-g7_e9241686-30a9-41f6-be70-44eb384c7404.html#

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Ukraine

The military presence of Western missions on the ground in #Ukraine is getting closer. #France is finalizing a plan to send instructors to the country invaded by #Russia, in coalition with several #NATO allies, according to several diplomatic sources.

#Lithuania has already declared that it is ready to participate and #Estonia is open to doing so, while the #UK is “receptive” to the French idea.

The French plan could be announced next week.

https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-06-01/francia-ultima-el-envio-de-instructores-militares-a-ucrania-en-coalicion-con-otros-paises-europeos.html

#EU

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Russia

#Russia on Friday labeled a women's organization campaigning for the return of mobilized men from #Ukraine and a former pro-peace presidential candidate "foreign agents."

#Moscow uses the label, heavy in Soviet-era connotations, on Kremlin critics to silence dissent.

The Justice Ministry said it had worked to create a "negative image" of Russia and the Russian army and called for illegal protests.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/01/russia-labels-wives-of-mobilized-soldiers-group-foreign-agent-a85290

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Ukraine

Supporters and soldiers lay flowers at a new bronze statue of Yevgeny #Prigozhin at his grave in St Petersburg.

Prigozhin was the leader of the notorious paramilitary #Wagner group, which fought alongside Russian forces in #Ukraine, but last summer rebelled against power in #Russia.

Two months later, Prigozhin died in a plane crash. Western intelligence claims that Vladimir Putin made the decision that Prigozhin should be killed.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/direktrapport-forsamrat-sakerhetslage?inlagg=043bda2c61ece6a7a5389a808e7da972

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Ukraine

#Ukraine is now allowed to use Western weapons to hit targets inside #Russia. What will this decision change and how will it affect the front line in Ukraine?

The ban on using Western weapons to hit targets beyond Ukraine enabled Russian troops to prepare for that operation in a safe environment.

Now, Ukraine can “strike places where the enemy concentrated its troops, equipment and supply storage facilities that are used to attack Ukraine,”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjll1r1el5wo

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Russia

The White House this week said it moved at “lightning speed” to allow #Kyiv to use #US weaponry to strike limited targets inside #Russia, just 17 days after #Ukraine came begging for the capability.

From just over the border, Russia launched nonstop glide bombs and artillery attacks against the Ukrainians. The losses they endured, he said, would have been avoidable if Ukraine had been able to strike into Russia with U.S. equipment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/01/us-ukraine-weapons-kharkiv-biden/

hanse_mina, 7 days ago to Ukraine

#Zaporizhzhia's #Dnipro Hydroelectric Station, #Ukraine's largest hydroelectric power plant, is in critical condition after Russian forces struck it overnight on June 1, Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governor Ivan #Fedorov said.

“Currently, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station is in a critical condition. We are not even talking about electricity generation,” Fedorov said.

https://kyivindependent.com/governor-ukraines-largest-hydroelectric-power-plant-in-critical-state-following-russian-strike/

#Russia

hanse_mina, 8 days ago to Russia

Yesterday a freight train derailed in the #Amur region of #Russia

29 wagons of a freight train loaded with coal derailed on the #Seletkan-#Ledyanaya section in the Amur Region. The carriages knocked down two power transmission towers and tore down the wires. After an accident on a railway section, a forest caught fire.

https://t.me/rusnews/55144

#Ukraine

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hanse_mina, 9 days ago to berlin

According to government spokesman Steffen #Hebestreit, #Berlin is now allowing #Ukraine to use German provide weapons against targets in #Russia.

The spokesman does not say which weapons from #Germany could be used for this purpose.

https://rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/bundesregierung-erlaubt-einsatz-deutscher-waffen-gegen-ziele-in-russland_aid-113705701

#EU

hanse_mina, 9 days ago to Ukraine

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 31 May 2024.

#Ukraine #Russia #UK #IntelligenceUpdate

hanse_mina, 9 days ago to random

I want one.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1796403829409542195.html

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hanse_mina, 9 days ago to China

#China has confirmed it will not attend a #Ukraine peace conference to be hosted by #Switzerland next month, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.

#Beijing declined the invitation because the conditions for them to participate were not met, including the participation of both #Russia and Ukraine, three of the sources said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-will-not-join-swiss-peace-conference-ukraine-sources-say-2024-05-31/

hanse_mina, 9 days ago to Ukraine

One of the buildings of the residence of Russian President Vladimir #Putin almost completely burned down in the #Ongudai district in the #Altai Territory.

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/05/30/naaltae-sgorela-dacha-putina-a132457

#Ukraine #Russia

hanse_mina, 9 days ago to Russia

A poll released on May 30 by the Levada Center, a Russian independent polling organization, found that 71% of respondents believed #Russia is "going in the right direction," and another 87% said they supported Russian President Vladimir #Putin.

The findings had a relatively consistent majority across age and other demographic groups, including those who said they "barely have enough food."

https://kyivindependent.com/poll-71-of-russians-think-country-is-on-right-path-87-approve-of-putin/

#Ukraine

hanse_mina, 9 days ago to Bulgaria

#NATO chief Jens #Stoltenberg will ask allies to pledge a minimum of 40 billion euros ($43.37 billion) annually to fund military aid for #Ukraine.

With uncertainty over future #US support for Ukraine lingering due to the possible return of Donald #Trump to the White House, foreign ministers will on Friday discuss ways to put military aid for Ukraine on a more solid long-term footing.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-boss-seeks-40-bln-euros-per-year-ukraine-military-aid-source-says-2024-05-30/

#Russia

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to Bulgaria

The #EU Council sets higher tariffs on Russian and Belarusian grain products

The new tariffs set today aim to stop the imports of grain from #Russia and #Belarus into the EU in practice. These measures will therefore prevent the destabilisation of the EU’s grain market, halt Russian exports of illegally appropriated grain produced in the territories of #Ukraine and prevent Russia from using revenues from exports to the EU to fund its war of aggression against Ukraine.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/council-sets-higher-tariffs-on-russian-and-belarusian-grain-products/

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to Russia

#Russia is beating western capitals in securing artillery supplies on international markets, the #Czech government has said, warning that delayed payments to arms companies could lead to millions of ammunition rounds being sent to #Moscow instead of #Kyiv.

The Czechoslovak Group, warned that rising prices and poor quality meant that half the shells it had received could not be sent to #Ukraine’s battlefields as quickly as planned.

https://www.ft.com/content/028c4115-4f7e-4663-949a-7cd7ffa7fa56

#EU

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to TeslaMotors

Donald #Trump is considering tapping billionaire #Elon #Musk as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November's election, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The WSJ also said Musk informed Trump about his ongoing influence campaign aimed at convincing powerful #US business leaders not to support Democratic President Joe #Biden, who beat Trump in the 2020 election and is seeking a second term.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-could-become-policy-adviser-if-trump-wins-election-wsj-reports-2024-05-29/

#Ukraine #Russia

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to Ukraine

At 12 years old, Lera is learning to walk again. Last summer a Russian missile attack shattered one of her legs, and left the other badly burned.

Close to 2,000 children have been injured or killed in #Ukraine since Vladimir #Putin launched his full-scale invasion. But the war doesn’t always leave visible scars like those that run up Lera’s leg.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn0jdejw8o

#Russia

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to Russia

Sanctions on #Russia are having no impact outside the west and attempts to halt the flow of business merely redirect it elsewhere, the chair of #Dubai’s main trading hub has said.

Dubai is seen as a beneficiary of #US and European attempts to isolate Russia’s economy, as oil traders relocated from Geneva to the #UAE after #Switzerland joined the sanctions imposed on #Moscow.

https://www.ft.com/content/5183dd85-87f0-4f6f-a655-1abc78f084ad

#EU #G7

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to Bulgaria

Europe has only a fraction of the air defence capabilities needed to protect its eastern flank, according to #Nato’s own internal calculations, laying bare the scale of the continent’s vulnerabilities.

#Russia’s heavy use of missiles, drones and highly destructive Soviet-era “glide bombs” in #Ukraine has added urgency to Nato members’ efforts to ramp up defence spending after decades of military budget cuts.

https://www.ft.com/content/5953405f-d91a-4598-8b6b-6345452ca328

hanse_mina, 10 days ago to hungary

#Hungary’s top diplomat visited #Belarus on Wednesday for talks on expanding ties despite the #EUs sanctions against the country.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter #Szijjártó declared that “our position is clear: the fewer sanctions, the more cooperation!”

While saying that “sanctions don’t work,” Szijjártó noted, however, that Hungary was “increasing economic cooperation with Belarus in areas not affected by sanctions.”

https://apnews.com/article/belarus-hungary-foreign-minister-peter-szijjarto-eu-fb299cb255074bf4f711059fb66c5d3a