🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian troops are creating conditions to advance forward step-by-step and have the initiative on the battlefield, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said on Monday.
#ukraine #ukrainecounteroffensive #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 #Russia has reallocated healthcare spending from dozens of its regions to build and repair hospitals in the occupied territories of eastern #Ukraine, the Vedomosti business daily reported Monday, citing a government decree.
#russiaukrainewar #budget
🇷🇺 The amount of cash in circulation in #Russia has been steadily growing since Moscow unleashed its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine
In June, this number broke an all-time high by reaching 17.8 trillion rubles (€168.4 billion).
Novaya-Europe interviewed experts to find out why people are withdrawing their money from banks, where these trillions are flowing, and what this will ultimately mean for Russia’s economy.
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🇵🇱 🇧🇾 Poland's Border Guard has asked the defence ministry to send another 1,000 troops to the border with #Belarus, the deputy interior minister said on Monday, amid an increase in attempts to illegally cross the frontier.
#poland #russiaukrainewar
🇧🇾 🇮🇸-🇭🇺 #Iceland has used its lobbying power vis-à-vis the EU to shelter Alexander Moshensky, a #Belarusian oligarch close to Alexander Lukashenko, from #sanctions, with #Hungary also using its veto in his favour, fresh analysis from a consortium of investigative websites has revealed.
#belarus #corruption
🇩🇪 🇷🇺 The #German far-right AfD, whose party congress this weekend asserted that the EU has “failed”, is “founded on hatred” and looks to “destroy what already exists”, #French EU minister 🇫🇷 Laurence Boone said on Monday.
#europe #germany #france #russia
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his #Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a phone conversation on Monday that #China would uphold an independent and impartial position on #Ukraine as it strives to find a political settlement to the issue.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇪🇺 EU: We condemn Russia’s continued military presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in violation of international law and commitments undertaken by #Russia under the 12 August 2008 agreement, mediated by the European Union 🇷🇺 🇬🇪
#europe #europeanunion #georgia
🇷🇴 🇺🇦 #Romania is working to find more ways to help transport #Ukrainian grain, the country’s foreign minister said Monday, describing the security situation in the Black Sea region as “quite serious.”
#ukraine #blacksea #graindeal #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 #Russia is on track to open more criminal cases for #treason in 2023 than over the past 20 years combined, Russia’s independent news website Kholod reported Monday.
#repression #censorship #humanrights #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Pro-Ukrainian #hackers posted a message on the website of the Moscow municipal register of deeds, claiming that all the data on the real estate owned by “the inhabitants of the capital of the damned aggressor country” had been forwarded to Kyiv.
#ukraine #hacking #cyberattack #cybersecurity #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇰🇵 🇷🇺 An elite group of North Korean #hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major #Russian missile developer for at least five months last year, according to technical evidence reviewed by Reuters and analysis by security researchers.
#northkorea #russia #hacking #cyberattack #cybersecurity
🇷🇺 FT Exclusive: Europe’s biggest companies have suffered at least €100bn in direct losses from their operations in #Russia since Putin’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine last year, according to an FT analysis.
https://www.ft.com/content/c4ea72b4-4b02-4ee9-b34c-0fac4a4033f5
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🇨🇳 🇷🇺 China's state-controlled Shaanxi Yanchang Petroleum Group is expected to double its purchases of #Russian ESPO blend this year to about one million metric tons, according to two sources familiar with the plant's operations.
#china #russia
🇰🇵 🇷🇺 An unusual sighting of a #Russian jet in North Korea is stoking concern Kim Jong Un is selling Putin weapons as ties strengthen between the sanctioned states.
#russia #northkorea #sanctions #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A woman was killed early on Monday when #Russian forces shelled the southern #Ukrainian city of #Kherson, regional officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-woman-killed-russian-shelling-kherson-2023-08-07/
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
UPDATE: A woman was killed early on Monday when #Russian forces shelled the southern #Ukrainian city of #Kherson, while two other people were killed in Russian shelling of border areas of the #Kharkiv region in northeast #Ukraine, officials said.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Monday Briefing:
- Russia, Ukraine confirm Kyiv hits Chonhar bridge to #Crimea
- #Ukraine says U.S and German air defence systems 'highly effective'
- Kyiv says Jeddah participants back Ukraine territorial integrity in any peace deal
- #Russia unleashes missile and drone strikes against Ukraine, retaliating for an attack on a tanker
- Russia spreading false claims about Qur’an burnings to harm #Nato bid, says Sweden
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A woman was killed early on Monday when #Russian forces shelled the southern #Ukrainian city of #Kherson, regional officials said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-woman-killed-russian-shelling-kherson-2023-08-07/
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence:
🇷🇺 The #Russian Air Force continues to consistently deploy considerable resources in support of land operations in #Ukraine, but without decisive operational effect.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1688428055428059136
#russia #russianarmy #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian strikes against road bridges linking Russian-occupied #Crimea to Russian-occupied #Kherson Oblast "pose significant disruptions to logistics," the Institute for the Study of War wrote in its Aug. 6 analysis.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-6-2023
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar