🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian military officials said on Friday that Kyiv was persistently working to retake land near the shattered eastern city of #Bakhmut while #Russian forces were pouring in additional troops in a bid to stop Kyiv's advances.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Explosions were heard near the bridge linking Russian-occupied #Crimea to the Russian mainland early on Saturday, Russian-appointed officials reported, saying the blasts were linked to a #Ukrainian drone attack on a #Russian tanker.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 The first group of #Ukrainian pilots that will take part in F-16 training have been identified, moving Kyiv one step closer to fielding an advanced warplane that could ward off further #Russian invasions.
#usa #europe #f16 #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 "In some places" on the southern front line, the #Ukrainian military has broken through the #Russian first line of defense, moving to the "intermediate one," Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar reported on Aug. 4.
https://kyivindependent.com/official-ukrainian-forces-break-russian-first-line-of-defense-in-south/
#ukraine #UkrainianArmy #russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A second strike by #Ukraine last month on the strategically vital #Kerch Strait Bridge damaged its crucial railway, contrary to #Russian claims that the attack affected only the roadway on spans of the structure, satellite photos obtained by Newsweek reveal.
#crimea #crimeabridge #KerchBridge #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 China’s embassy in #Moscow blasted what it called a “brutal” handling by #Russian authorities of a denial of entry to the country by several #Chinese citizens.
#china #russia
🇷🇺 Jailed #Kremlin critic Alexei #Navalny on Friday urged #Russians to keep resisting the Kremlin after a #Russian court sentenced him to 19 years in prison in a new trial.
https://www.barrons.com/news/navalny-urges-russians-to-keep-resisting-kremlin-after-verdict-c66339e
#russia #repression #humanrights
🇮🇷-🇷🇺 🇸🇾 Iran, #Russia, and the Assad regime are coordinating a coercive campaign to expel the United States from #Syria
This poses a serious risk to US forces in Syria and US interests in the Mideast.
Read the major report from ISW and CTP:
#iran #usa
🇷🇺 🇩🇪 Leaked communications between Vladimir Sergienko, a naturalized #German citizen, and “Alexei,” a suspected #FSB operative, show the extent of Russia’s infiltration of the Alternative for #Germany party. Their “active measures” included a plan to stop or slow delivery of German main battle tanks to #Ukraine using frivolous litigation against the German government. It would only cost $93,000.
https://theins.press/en/politics/264014
#russia #afd #afdparty #investigation
🇷🇺 #Putin on Friday signed a law allowing #Russian banks and other financial institutions to block the assets of sanctioned foreign organizations and individuals.
The law allows Moscow to freeze the funds and property of legal entities controlled by foreign citizens and organizations against whom #Russia has imposed what it calls “special economic measures.”
🇷🇺 🚗 The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said that lawmakers will ditch their foreign-made cars for domestic car brands, Interfax reported Friday.
Yeah, right 😁
#russia #corruption
🇷🇺 Fatima Khazueva is present in a family photo that #Kadyrov posted on Instagram in honor of his mother Aimani Kadyrova's birthday. The photo shows Kadyrov's sons and daughters, his mother, his wife Medni, and a woman holding the hand of Kadyrov's eldest son Akhmat. In her, Important Stories identified Fatima Khazueva. Proekt Media first time reported about her in 2021.
https://istories.media/en/stories/2023/08/04/kadyrov-wife/
#russia #chechnya
🇷🇺 #Russia expects to get a huge inflow of #energy revenue by the end of this year despite an #oil price cap imposed by #G7 nations.
#sanctions #oilandgas #oilprice #pricecap
🇷🇺 The already jailed #Russian opposition leader Alexey #Navalny has been given 19 years in prison after being found guilty on extremism charges in a new case, Russian media report, a fresh blow to a fierce critic of #Putin that comes amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/04/europe/navalny-extremism-trial-verdict-russia-intl/index.html
#russia #repression #censorship
🇨🇳 🇸🇦 #Chinese Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui will visit Jeddah for international talks on the peaceful settlement of the #Ukraine 'crisis', China's foreign ministry said on Friday.
#china #saudiarabia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇧🇾 The Security Service of #Ukraine accused #Russia on Friday of preparing to stage a "false flag" attack at the Mozyr oil refinery in #Belarus in order to blame #Ukrainian saboteurs as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war in Ukraine.
#RussiaUkraineWar
🇵🇱 🇧🇾-🇷🇺 #Poland has detained another suspected member of a #Russian spy network, bringing the total number of people detained as part of an investigation to 16, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Friday.
#belarus #russia #spying #espionage #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The attack on #Russian naval vessels in the port of #Novorossiysk Friday was carried out in a joint operation of the Security Service of #Ukraine with the Ukrainian Navy, a #Ukrainian source told CNN.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 The White House on Thursday said U.S. intelligence officials have determined that #Russian Defense Minister Sergei #Shoigu spoke last week to North Korean officials during a visit to Pyongyang about increasing the sale of munitions to Moscow for its war in #Ukraine
#russia #northkorea #RussiaUkraineWar
🇬🇪 🇷🇺-🇧🇾 Citing Western sanctions, #Georgia is banning the re-export and transit of cars imported from the United States and the European Union to #Russia and #Belarus.
The booming re-export business has been drawing growing scrutiny amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
https://eurasianet.org/georgia-bans-re-export-of-western-imported-cars-to-russia-belarus
#europe #usa #sanctions