🇷🇺 #Putin said on Thursday that the state-owned VTB bank would be given control of the state's 100% stake in United Shipbuilding Corporation, the largest shipbuilding company in #Russia
🇺🇦 Ukraine's navy said a new temporary Black Sea "humanitarian corridor" had started working on Thursday and that the first ships were expected to use it within days.
#ukraine #blacksea #foodsecurity
🇷🇺 Eyewitnesses have told human rights crisis group NC SOS, which helps LGBTQ+ people leave regions where they face persecution, about the torture methods used by #Chechen police.
https://theins.press/en/news/264143
#russia #chechnya #lgbt #humanrights
🇷🇺 Animal rights activists and volunteers warn that the law will allow for the mass euthanization and inhumane killings of animals without solving Russia's stray animal problem.
#russia
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia is intensifying its attacks in Ukraine’s northeastern #Kharkiv region as it aims to retake territory which it lost during Ukraine’s stunning #counteroffensive last fall.
With #Ukraine now pushing on the southern front, where Kyiv has liberated settlements and destroyed #Russian logistics, the Kremlin’s invading forces are heavily targeting #Kupiansk, an important logistics hub in the Kharkiv region.
#russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Two civilians were injured overnight following #Russian shelling in a village north of #Kupyansk, a #Ukrainian military official said Thursday, as Moscow's forces intensify attacks in the area.
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇵🇱 🇧🇾 #Poland is planning to move up to 10,000 additional troops to the border with #Belarus to support the Border Guard, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Thursday.
"About 10,000 soldiers will be on the border, of which 4,000 will directly support the Border Guard and 6,000 will be in the reserve," the minister said in an interview for public radio.
🇮🇹 🇷🇺 Italy's biggest bank #Intesa Sanpaolo is getting closer to securing approval from Moscow to transfer its #Russian business to local management, a source close to the matter told Reuters.
#italy #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #sanctions
🇿🇦 Hobbled by the impact of #sanctions against founding shareholder #Russia, the New Development Bank set up by the #BRICS countries needs to increase its local currency fundraising and lending, South Africa's finance minister told Reuters.
#southafrica
🇷🇺 The #Russian Prosecutor General's Office has declared the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an independent investigative organization gathering open-source intelligence on the war in #Ukraine, an “undesirable organization”, according to the agency's press service.
https://theins.press/en/news/264137
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #censorship
🇷🇺 #Russia last year experienced a record number of explosions, leading to dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries, the independent news website Vyortska reported, citing a report by the Emergency Situations Ministry.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Thursday Briefing:
- Enerhoatom warns #ZNPP at risk of catastrophic blackout
- #Kremlin aide who brings Ukrainian children to #Russia associated with neo-Nazism
- 2 dead after #Russian attack on #Zaporizhzhia
- 1 dead, 8 missing in blast at factory northeast of #Moscow
- #German official accused of #spying for Russia
- US and Canada expand #sanctions on Belarus
- #Poland to double troops number at border with #Belarus
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🇷🇺 🇧🇾 Speculations about the #Wagner Group’s withdrawal from #Belarus suggest that aspects of the deal between #Putin and Wagner Group financier #Prigozhin following Wagner’s armed rebellion on June 24 have collapsed.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-9-2023
#russia #wagnergroup
🇺🇦 Ukraine's #nuclear authority, Enerhoatom, has warned that the Russian-occupied nuclear power plant at #Zaporizhzhia is on the verge of a blackout because power was cut off from the main high-voltage line to the facility.
#ukraine #znpp #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 Blocking Ukraine’s ability to export wheat, barley, corn and other grains opens up an opportunity for Moscow to seize greater share of the global #grain market, analysts said.
The war has pushed up prices, apparently for the long term, allowing the #Kremlin to make up for some of the lost revenue due to western economic #sanctions
https://www.ft.com/content/86aa6c1d-908b-45b0-96aa-3960e89fa20d
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes #foodsecurity
🇩🇪 🇷🇺 A government official has been arrested in #Germany, accused of passing secret information to #Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66458090
#spying #espionage
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s resilience with the help of mainly NATO weaponry has come to define the war — but its cottage industry of #military gadgets is also starting to bear fruit.
#ukraine #technology
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia's defence ministry said early on Thursday it had downed 11 #Ukrainian drones near #Crimea overnight, as well as two #drones flying toward the capital #Moscow
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 The U.S. and its #European allies are importing vast amounts of #nuclear fuel and compounds from #Russia, providing Moscow with hundreds of millions of dollars in badly needed revenue as it wages war on #Ukraine
#usa #europe
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine has a main role to play in determining its own future, and President #Zelensky must personally make decisions about any potential negotiations with #Putin
🇺🇲 🇦🇪 This is how State Department spokesman Matthew Miller commented on the #UAE proposal to organize a meeting of the Ukraine and #Russia leaders at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, Ukrinform's own correspondent reports.