🇬🇷-🇪🇺 🇺🇦 The #Greek arms manufacturing company Hellenic Defence Systems is in talks with international ammunition manufacturers to participate in a programme to produce 155mm shells to support #Ukraine and replenish EU stockpiles.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/14/7415444/
#greece #europe #europeanunion #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 A quest for new colonies: The ins and outs of Putin's African agenda
#African studies expert Maxim Matusevich puts the recent developments in the larger context of political ideological, and economic interests of Putin's #Russia, which sows chaos to reap transactional benefits.
https://theins.press/en/politics/264238
#africa
🇺🇦 This summer is seeing some #Ukrainian refugees visiting home for the first time since fleeing the country.
Many are feeling helpless and homesick, and are now spending short amounts of time at home, despite the risk.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-66465918
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 #Kremlin economic aide Maxim Oreshkin blamed the central bank for contributing to declines in the #ruble, an unusual rebuke made public just moments before the #Russian currency broke through 100 to the dollar for the first time since March last year.
#russia #currency #finance #economy
🇩🇰 🇷🇺 The #Danish air force has intercepted two #Russian bombers that were identified over #Denmark and flying towards the area that the #Netherlands monitors for the #NATO military alliance, the Dutch Royal Airforce said on Monday.
#russia
🇹🇷 🇷🇺 Turkey’s efforts to expand its influence in #Africa often align with those of #Russia, with both Ankara and Moscow holding back from condemning military coups and seeking to capitalize on post-colonial resentments.
#turkey
🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Monday his country stood "shoulder to shoulder" with #Ukraine, as he arrived in Kyiv for his first visit since the start of the war.
Lindner said he would hold "very concrete" talks with #Ukrainian officials on how the German finance ministry can support Ukraine now and in the future.
#germany #RussiaUkraineWar
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 #Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is visiting #Russia and #Belarus in a show of support for those nations which the West has sought to isolate over Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine
https://apnews.com/article/russia-china-ukraine-defense-minister-49b036d4159dfe2543ce153b9f2ed94d
#china #RussiaUkraineWar
🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #German defence group #Rheinmetall said on Monday that it has received an order worth a low double-digit million-euro amount to supply its Luna drone system to #Ukraine this year.
#germany #drones #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine on Monday condemned what it called "provocative" #Russian actions and called for decisive countermeasures by the international community, a day after Moscow said one of its warships had fired warning shots at a cargo vessel in the Black Sea.
#blacksea #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇵🇱 🇷🇺 #Poland has detained two #Russian citizens who were "distributing #propaganda materials of the #Wagner Group" in Warsaw and Krakow, the two biggest #Polish cities, the interior minister said Monday.
https://www.barrons.com/news/poland-detained-two-russians-distributing-wagner-propaganda-3525bc32
#russia #wagnergroup
🇷🇺 The #rouble slid past 100 per U.S. dollar on Monday just as Putin's economic advisor said #Russia was interested in a strong rouble and that loose monetary policy was the main reason behind the #Russian currency's weakening.
#economy #finance #currency
🇷🇺 🇹🇷 A “shadow fleet” of hundreds of aging tankers hauls embargoed #Russian energy exports across the Bosphorus Strait, giving the #Kremlin much-needed revenues to pay its troops and purchase weaponry.
Meet the man tracking and exposing them.
#russia #energy #oilandgas #sanctions #turkey #istanbul
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Monday Briefing:
- Ukraine says 3 wounded in Russian attack on #Odesa
- #Russian shelling kills 7, incl. a baby, in Ukraine's #Kherson region
- Ukraine accuses #Russia of "piracy" in latest flare-up on the Black Sea
- Ukraine border guards remind Russia Snake Island is again theirs
- #Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country on Earth
- #Rheinmetall to deliver Luna drone system to Ukraine by year end
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🇷🇺 An ally of #Russian opposition leader Alexei #Navalny went on trial in Siberia on Monday on charges of creating an "extremist organisation", a court spokeswoman told AFP, as authorities press ahead with a crackdown on dissent amid Russia's assault on #Ukraine
https://www.barrons.com/news/russian-trial-opens-for-navalny-ally-facing-extremism-charge-4cbe2bc6
#russia #repression #censorship
🇷🇺 Global investors are losing confidence in securities linked to shares of companies in the world's geopolitical hot spots, investors and analysts said, after Moscow moved to de-list #Russian depositary receipts from foreign exchanges in retaliation for Western #sanctions over the war in #Ukraine
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 At least three people were wounded in two-waves of #Russian drone and missile attacks overnight on the port city of #Odesa, an official and the military in the #Ukrainian region on the Black Sea said early on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-three-wounded-russian-attack-odesa-2023-08-14/
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Over the last week, there has been an uptick in small-scale combat along the banks of the lower reaches of the #Dnipro River.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1690963735228076032
#ukraine #ukrainecounteroffensive #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 Floods in Russia's Far East had forced the evacuation of more than 2,500 people by Monday, the ministry of emergency situations said, after #Russia joined the list of countries battered by rainstorms in the wake of Typhoon #Khanun