Joint Statement by the Estonian 🇪🇪, Latvian 🇱🇻, Lithuanian 🇱🇹 and Polish 🇵🇱 Foreign Ministers on the 3rd anniversary of illegitimate presidential elections in #Belarus 🇧🇾
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#UPDATE
🇺🇦 Ukraine's interior minister revises death toll in #Zaporizhzhia strike to two, says "fortunately, one person was reanimated." - AFP
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🇺🇸 🇧🇾 Today, the United States is sanctioning eight individuals and five entities for enabling Lukashenka’s domestic repression and facilitating Russia’s war against #Ukraine
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1682
#usa #belarus #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #sanctions
🇨🇦 🇧🇾 #Canada also imposes additional #sanctions on third anniversary of Belarus’s fraudulent presidential elections
#belarus
🇷🇺 🇹🇷 #Russia has decided to open a consular office in Northern #Cyprus, the self-proclaimed republic that is recognised only by #Turkey, its leader said Wednesday.
https://www.barrons.com/news/northern-cyprus-says-russia-to-open-consulate-ed3aff9b
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 After failing to conquer #Ukraine by conventional means, #Russia tried an energy war, trying to hobble the power grid and freeze the nation into submission. Now it has launched a food war.
#RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Three people were killed in a #Russian attack on the #Ukrainian city of #Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on his Telegram channel.
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
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🇷🇺 Russia’s absence from the Saudi-hosted summit to find a peace framework for the war in #Ukraine exposed the Kremlin’s vulnerabilities despite the fact that no final joint statement or document was signed, four current and former #Russian officials familiar with Russia’s diplomacy admitted to The Moscow Times.
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🇩🇪 🇷🇺 #German prosecutors have arrested an official of the military procurement agency whom they suspect of passing secret information to #Russian intelligence, the federal prosecutor's office said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/suspected-spy-russia-arrested-germany-prosecutors-2023-08-09/
#germany #russia #spying #espionage
🇺🇸 🇧🇾 Today, the United States is sanctioning eight individuals and five entities for enabling Lukashenka’s domestic repression and facilitating Russia’s war against #Ukraine
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1682
#usa #belarus #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #sanctions
🇷🇺 One person was killed and more than 50 were injured in a blast on Wednesday at the site of an optics and optical electronics factory in the town of Sergiev Posad, 50 km (30 miles) northeast of #Moscow, local authorities said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sixteen-injured-blast-factory-northeast-moscow-tass-2023-08-09/
#russia
🇷🇺 #Russia effectively abandoned its #budget rule on Wednesday as the central bank said it would stop conducting finance ministry foreign #currency purchases from Aug. 10 until the end of the year to try and prevent the #rouble from plumbing new depths.
🇷🇺 A #Kremlin official involved in what international prosecutors call the illegal deportation of #Ukrainian children to #Russia was associated online as a teenager with white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, Reuters has found.
#russia #nazism #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 Prison guards in the city of Dimitrovgrad, in Russia’s Ulyanovsk region, have been accused by five inmates of forcibly shaving convicts’s beards off, insulting them on #religious and ethnic grounds, beating them, and interrupting their prayers, according to The Civic Assistance Committee, a #Russian human rights NGO.
#russia #religion #humanrights
🇷🇺 More than 800 people have enrolled in Russia’s top universities under quotas for "veterans" of the war in #Ukraine and their children, according to the independent outlet iStories.
The majority of these students scored lower than the minimum score for enrollment on the country’s college aptitude test, the EGE, or didn’t take the exam at all.
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 An "elite" #Chechen military unit has been deployed as a police force in the occupied #Ukrainian nuclear city of #Enerhodar, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday, citing interviews with engineers who fled the town and its remaining residents.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/9/russia-chechen-unit-ukraine
#ukraine #russia #chechnya #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 #Russian movie theaters have begun showing pirated versions of the Warner Bros. blockbuster “Barbie,” media reported Wednesday, amid ongoing efforts to circumvent major Hollywood studios’ screening bans in #Russia 🤦😂
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/08/09/russian-cinemas-screen-pirated-copies-of-barbie-a82102
#sanctions #movies #barbiemovie
🇵🇱 🇧🇾 The #Polish government announced Wednesday that it is planning to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with #Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard agency had requested, as fears of illegal migration rise.
https://apnews.com/article/poland-belarus-border-soldiers-a823c19c9cda0071ca4983b6e3f82af2
#poland #nato #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Kyiv claimed on Wednesday that it struck a #Russian command post in the city of Nova Kakhovka, as the #Ukrainian military ramps up activity in the southern #Kherson region amid a sweeping #counteroffensive
#ukraine #NovaKakhovka #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Authorities in #Moscow have unveiled a new schoolbook which aims to justify the war on #Ukraine and accuses the West of trying to destroy #Russia 🤦
According to excerpts published by #Russian media, schoolchildren will now be taught that human civilisation could have come to an end had #Putin not started his "special military operation" against Ukraine 😂
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66450520
#russiaukrainewar #propaganda #disinformation #brainwashing