Forbes:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 'If this war is to end sooner rather than later, the key is to cut off Russia’s funding and confiscate the state’s stolen wealth.

Indeed, #Russia is earning $500 million to $1 billion a day selling its oil and gas on world markets, used to bankroll its war against #Ukraine

If the world stopped buying this #oil, the war would end, preventing untold death and carnage.'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2023/08/08/cut-off-russias-oil-and-gas-revenues-now-to-end-war/

#russiaukrainewar

🇷🇺 #Putin has signed a decree suspending Russia's double #taxation agreements with what it calls "unfriendly countries" - those that have imposed #sanctions on Moscow - the state news agency RIA reported on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-approves-suspension-tax-treaties-with-unfriendly-countries-ria-2023-08-08/

#russia

🇷🇺 Russia’s largest known military equipment storage facility has been stripped of nearly half of the Soviet-era tanks and armored vehicles that were stored on its grounds before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, The Moscow Times’ #Russian service reported, analyzing satellite imagery of the storage site.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/08/russia-pulls-thousands-of-soviet-era-military-vehicles-from-major-storage-facility-a82088

#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar

🇪🇺 🇷🇺 Despite heavy #sanctions, dozens of #Russians connected to #Putin or the #Russian military are still welcome in #European Union countries, drawing criticism from politicians and antiwar activists.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/08/russians-wealthy-sanctions-ukraine-war/

#europe #russiaukrainewar

🇷🇺 A #Russian court froze shares of companies worth around $36 million owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. after Otkritie Bank claimed it refused to honor a swap contract due to #sanctions over the war in #Ukraine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/russian-court-freezes-36-million-in-goldman-sachs-s-assets

#goldmansachs #russia #russiaukrainewar

🇬🇪 🇷🇺 After the invasion of #Ukraine, thousands of #Russians fled to #Tbilisi. But the graffiti that has sprung up across the city suggests not everyone is pleased to see them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/ruzzki-not-welcome-the-russian-exiles-getting-a-hostile-reception-in-georgia

#georgia #russia #russiaukrainewar

🇵🇱 #Polish pipeline operator PERN said on Tuesday that it had restored the #Druzhba oil pipeline to full functionality as expected, after a leak had been discovered.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-says-it-fixes-leak-druzhba-oil-pipeline-2023-08-08/

#poland #russia #energy #oilandgas

🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #European gas traders have begun storing natural gas in #Ukraine to take advantage of lower prices and available capacity there, regardless of the risks from the ongoing war, three traders and company officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/defying-war-risk-european-traders-store-gas-ukraine-2023-08-08/

#europe #energy #oilandgas

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Tuesday Briefing:

❗ Russian missiles hit apartment, kill eight

- North Korean #hackers breached top #Russian missile maker

- First batch of US #Abrams tanks officially approved for shipment to #Ukraine

- #Belarus begins military drills near its border with Poland and #Lithuania

- #Poland accuses Belarus, #Russia of orchestrating new migrant influx

- Polish Border Guard asks for 1,000 more soldiers on Belarus frontier

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🇷🇺 #Russian opposition media outlet Verstka suggested that the Russian Investigative Committee and its head, Alexander Bastrykin, are directly involved in the forced deportation of #Ukrainian children to #Russia and the forced placement of Ukrainian children into Russian military training programs.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-7-2023

#ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes

🇧🇾 🇷🇺 #Belarus and #Russia are orchestrating a new influx of migrants into the #European Union through the #Polish border, Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik told AFP reporters on Aug. 7, as cited by the Guardian.

https://kyivindependent.com/afp-poland-accuses-belarus-russia-of-organizing-new-migrant-influx/

#europe #poland

🇷🇺 #Russian authorities unveil new high school history textbook that includes section on war in #Ukraine

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/07/such-unique-times-are-rare-in-history

#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #propaganda #disinformation

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine's #Pokrovsk twice on Monday night killing eight people, including five civilians, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russian-missile-strikes-apartment-buildings-kill-five-east-2023-08-07/

#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes

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🇷🇺 Navalny’s treatment is outrageous. Yet it is only the tip of an iceberg of convictions against critics of #Putin, plus detentions and harassment of thousands of people who have protested against Russia’s war in #Ukraine

A side-effect of the conflict is that the #Kremlin is stepping up efforts to intimidate its citizens, in ways that hark back to the darkest days of the last century.

https://www.ft.com/content/12c280f1-a238-43c1-84cb-3fcb59641d26

#russia #navalny #repression #censorship #humanrights

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The former head of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office is in talks to plead guilty to charges relating to work he allegedly did for a sanctioned #Russian oligarch after leaving the government, according to a court order.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/07/politics/charles-mcgonigal-new-york/index.html

#usa #russia

🇺🇦 🇺🇸 #Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday he had held a phone call with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken during which he requested #ATACMS long-range missiles.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-foreign-minister-asks-us-atacms-long-range-missiles-2023-08-07/

#ukraine #usa #russia #RussiaUkraineWar