🇷🇺 #Russian retailer Magnit on Thursday said it had completed a deal to buy back blocked shares from Western investors, the first deal of its kind since #Russia invaded #Ukraine in February 2022.
#russiaukrainewar #sanctions
🇷🇺 Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) said on August 10 that more than 26,000 people sentenced to so-called "penal labor" instead of being sent to prisons had been used in various industry fields such as construction, engineering, agriculture, housing, and communal services since January 1. Last year that number was 9,300.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-penal-labor-rise/32542690.html#0_8_10089_8766_2710_249296968
#russia #humanrights
🇷🇺 #Russian law establishes norms for “maximum allowable concentration of hazardous substances”: the levels at which a pollutant can be in the environment with no negative consequences for the human body, even with prolonged exposure.
But a regulatory change made in early 2021 — and only discovered by activists in July 2023 — lifts these limits for substances such as ammonia, hydrogen fluoride, nitrogen dioxide, vinyl chloride and PM2.5 for no apparent reason.
#russia
Novaya-Europe:
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian sea drones: what are they and how can they change the course of the war?
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/08/10/drones-of-high-seas-en
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇮🇱 🇷🇺 According to #Israeli outlet Calcalist, #Yandex is in negotiations to sell it’s taxi service Yango #Israel
The move is likely a result of an order from the #Russian government that will apparently allow the FSB to gain round-the-clock access to user data collected by Yango, beginning on September 1, 2023.
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/08/10/yandex-negotiating-sale-of-yango-israel-taxi-service
#russia
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Four people described as accomplices to the pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk have been found guilty of conspiracy to stage a coup in #Ukraine
A #Ukrainian court sentenced all four defendants to prison terms ranging from five to 10 years.
#russia #russiaukrainewar
WSJ Exclusive:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine has fallen back on small-unit tactics to gain ground against #Russia
#counteroffensive #ukrainecounteroffensive #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 #Russian forces have lost 16 tanks and 13 armored personnel vehicles in 24 hours, according to Ukraine's military, as Kyiv pushes on with its #counteroffensive in southern and eastern #Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-tank-losses-armored-personnel-vehicles-ukraine-1818869
#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 There is a reason why #Ukrainians insist the world refers to Russia’s assault against #Ukraine in 2022 as a “full-scale” invasion.
🇷🇺 Russia’s war against Ukraine did not begin on Feb. 24, 2022, but in 2014, with both the annexation of #Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine’s eastern #Donbas region.
https://kyivindependent.com/the-origins-of-the-2014-war-in-donbas/
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian special forces broke through #Russian defensive lines, captured or killing dozens of enemy soldiers in a daring raid across the #Dnipro river, reports say.
#ukraine #ukrainecounteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 #Ukraine urged civilians near the northeastern front line to evacuate on Thursday as #Russia ramped up an assault to capture the territory already once seized during the conflict.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230810-ukraine-urges-evacuations-as-russia-claims-gains
#russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
nostr:npub1h7glxqawc3yka8uk42u94ayvvelf8t95jukvrel5ra80sja4928qlfncfd Those who don't support the price cap, I guess 🤔
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 One person was killed and two were wounded in #Ukrainian shelling of the #Russian village of Chausy in the #Bryansk region, which borders #Ukraine, the region's governor said on Thursday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-killed-shelling-russias-bryansk-region-governor-2023-08-10/
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Most #Russian fuel exports from the Baltic and Black Sea regions are now pricing above a price cap set in February by a G7-led coalition designed to limit Moscow's revenues in the aftermath of its invasion of #Ukraine, data from price reporting agency Argus Media showed.
#russia #energy #oilandgas #oilprice #sanctions #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Elon Musk ended #Twitter, now X's, policy of labeling and de-amplifying state-affiliated accounts.
A #NATO analysis says the #Kremlin has since seen a "dramatic rise" in its visibility as a result.
The #Russian Embassy in the US, which often posts #propaganda, has since seen a 150% surge in views, NATO said.
#russia #elonmusk #disinformation #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Arkady Volozh, one of the founders of #Yandex — Russia’s version of Google — is “categorically against” the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the entrepreneur said Thursday in a rare public admission from a leading #Russian business figure.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #technology
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Ukrainian officials say that substantial #Russian reinforcements have turned the northern front in the eastern #Kharkiv region into the "epicenter" of hostilities, but that Ukrainian defenses are holding.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
The Guardian: How Bakhmut became a pivot in the #Ukraine war
🇺🇦 Since the beginning of 2023, a prolonged and bloody battle has been waged for control of a mid-sized #Ukrainian city.
Why is #Bakhmut an inflection point, and who stands to gain from its capture?
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s increasingly audacious attacks on #Russian interests in the Black Sea have so far avoided targeting Moscow’s oil exports. That may change if the #Kremlin keeps bombing Kyiv’s grain terminals.
#ukraine #blacksea #russia #russiaukrainewar