🇺🇲 🇷🇺 The U.S. government is weighing new, harsher #sanctions against #Russia's lucrative oil trade, seeking to tighten the squeeze on the Kremlin's war machine just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
#oilandgas #usa
🗣️ “People are afraid to go out to protest. They are afraid to show their faces, afraid to speak out publicly. Both the Russian and the Kadyrov regimes exploit this,” said Chechen-born activist Fatima Suleymanova.
#russia #chechnya
🇸🇪🇺🇦 #Sweden will soon contribute substantial funds to make #Ukraine able to mass produce Ukrainian long-range missiles and long range drones - Pål Jonson
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The ballistic missile launched by #Russia on Nov. 21 against the city of #Dnipro was likely part of the "Kedr" missile complex tested in recent years, #Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR) said.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia's ground forces participating in combat against #Ukraine amount to almost 580,000 soldiers, Vadym Skibitskyi, the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), told Interfax Ukraine on Nov. 21.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war during a single incident in eastern #Ukraine last month, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russian-forces-executing-five-pows-2024-11-22/
#russia #russianwarcrimes
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces may have targeted routes in Dagestan used by #Iran to supply weapons to #Russia, the War Zone media outlet said on Nov. 6.
https://kyivindependent.com/dagestan-supply-routes/
#ukraine
☢️ “The fact that its #nuclear warheads are so close to #Ukraine could, in fact, tempt #Russia to conduct a false-flag operation on its own storage sites in order to justify a nuclear attack.”
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/how-war-ukraine-could-go-nuclear-accident
ISW:
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian military command likely aims to rapidly push Ukrainian forces out of #Kursk Oblast in order to free up combat power for its priority offensive operations in Donetsk Oblast and to ease the theater-wide operational pressures that the Ukrainian incursion has generated.
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-11-2024
#russia #ukraine
🇨🇭🇺🇦 #Switzerland is planning to allocate 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) for reconstruction projects in #Ukraine over the next four years, Swiss Ambassador to Ukraine and Moldova Felix Baumann said.
🇱🇹 🇷🇺 Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned a representative of the Russian Embassy in #Lithuania to express its strong protest over the Kremlin’s recently intensified shelling of civilian targets in #Ukraine
#russia
🇺🇲 Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.
#usa #socialmedia #twitter #elonmusk #disinformation
🇩🇪🇺🇦 The German arms company Rheinmetall and the Ukrainian government agreed on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin to begin production of the modern Lynx armored vehicles in #Ukraine this year.
#germany
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Survivors say #Russia is waging a war of sexual violence in occupied areas of #Ukraine. Men are often the victims
“They seemed to have a fetish for genitalia. Sometimes the door would open, and they would say: ‘We’re going to take out our batons and we’re going to rape everyone here,’” the 39-year-old farm manager told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/europe/russia-sexual-violence-occupied-ukraine-intl-cmd
#russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇴 🇷🇺 Romanian prosecutors announced Friday that they had ordered the arrest of a man suspected of #spying for Moscow, while the government declared a Russian diplomat persona non grata.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/05/24/romania-detains-man-suspected-of-spying-for-russia-a85217
#romania #russia
🇪🇺 European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from #Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the floating devices.
https://apnews.com/article/estonia-russia-buoys-border-10b99970ed538ce1684bf88c6384a1ec
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said Friday it had halted a Russian ground offensive in Kharkiv and was now attacking Moscow's forces.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/russia-stopped-in-kharkiv-ukraine-counterattacking-kyiv-b98465f4
#russia
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A nighttime Russian attack destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in #Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said Friday, and authorities organized the evacuation of children from the area that is being pummeled by the Kremlin’s forces in a powerful new offensive.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 Expanded sanctions on #Russia and enhanced pressure on countries that Moscow considers friendly are hurting Russian firms' export revenues and creating oil payment issues, the Bank of Russia said on Friday.
🇷🇺 #Russia: The purge of top officers is the result of infighting between the FSB and the military over the failure to capture Kyiv and competition for defense funds.