🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian forces launched a drone attack on port infrastructure on the #Danube River in Ukraine's southern #Odesa region overnight, damaging warehouses and granaries, a #Ukrainian official said Wednesday.
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 Moscow has turned to riskier methods of #espionage after expulsion of spies it had placed under diplomatic cover in #Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/russia-turning-to-sleeper-cells-and-unofficial-agents
#russia #spying
🇷🇺 #Russia launched the test phase of a digital #ruble on Tuesday, in a bid to limit the impact of international #sanctions imposed following its offensive in Ukraine.
https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-launches-test-phase-for-digital-ruble-86a28704
#currency #rouble
🇷🇺 Vyacheslav Samoylov, a resident of Russia’s Arkhangelsk region who was sentenced to 9 years and 7 months in prison for murder❗, has been pardoned after 3 months of fighting with the #Russian military in #Ukraine, his mother Olga Samoylova told local news outlet 29.RU.
#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar
The Guardian on 🇷🇺 Russia's #economy:
Further tough decisions will be needed while the #Kremlin continues to spend large sums on its #Ukraine invasion.
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the southeastern region of #Zaporizhzhia and met troops involved in the counter-offensive in the south, the president's office said on Tuesday.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Two explosions at an oilfield in western #Siberia that killed two people did not lead to an oil spill, the head of Russia's environment watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said on Tuesday, adding that tests would show if the environment was harmed.
#russia
🇷🇺 #Russia is preparing to stage a provocation at its #Kursk Nuclear Power Plant involving the evacuation of some of the local population, Ukraine's National Resistance Center reported on Aug. 15.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Western pressure on Ukraine’s #counteroffensive to achieve a “Hollywood”-style breakthrough against Russia’s forces is “unrealistic” and Kyiv’s allies must be prepared for the war to “drag on far longer” than they imagined, experts have said.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-losses-ukraine-bombers-putin-b2392966.html
#ukraine #ukrainecounteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 Three suspected spies for #Russia in the UK have been arrested and charged in a major national security investigation, the BBC can reveal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66504350
#britain #unitedkingdom #spying #espionage
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian forces unleashed a barrage of missiles on regions across #Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday morning, killing civilians and damaging civilian infrastructure.
The barrage came just hours before top Russian military officials and their counterparts from Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered outside Moscow for a security conference, where the fighting in Ukraine is likely to dominate the agenda. Moscow’s war in Ukraine is nearing the 18-month mark.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-lviv-missile-attack-76106ea15cb7acd543e506039f64baf9
🇷🇺 #Russia on Tuesday fined social media site #Reddit for the first time for not deleting "banned content" that it said contained "fake" information about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, RIA reported on Tuesday, citing a Moscow court.
#socialmedia #censorship
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and #Putin exchanged letters on Tuesday pledging to develop their ties into what Kim called a "long-standing strategic relationship," Pyongyang's state media KCNA said.
#russia #northkorea
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian schoolchildren will enroll in mandatory landmine safety courses this year.
🇷🇺 Meanwhile, #Russian students learn how to operate drones and clean guns.
The moves show the contrasting sides of the war — and a heartbreaking reality for children.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 It was all but inevitable that the #Russian garrison in occupied Urozhaine would fall.
Advancing in a pulse of rapid assaults since early June, a powerful division-size #Ukrainian force—including all four Ukrainian marine corps brigades—had flanked #Urozhaine, a tiny settlement with a few hundred structures arrayed along three parallel north-south roads in southern Ukraine’s #Donetsk Oblast.
#ukraine #ukrainecounteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 At least five people were killed and 10 injured in an explosion at a gas station in the city of #Makhachkala in the southern #Russian region of #Dagestan on Monday evening, TASS news agency reported, citing Disaster Medicine Centre.
#russia
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🇷🇴 Romania's navy said it deployed a ship and a helicopter on Monday to scout for stray mines on the country's Black Sea coast, after a pier in the seaside resort of Costinesti was lighly damaged in an explosion.
#romania #blacksea
🇷🇺 Sanctions-hit Alrosa kept #diamond sales in the first half of 2023 at the year-ago levels, the #Russian company said on Monday as it reported financial results for the first time since Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
#russia #sanctions
🇺🇲 🇷🇺 The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked four #Russian military aircraft operating in the #Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) late Sunday and early Monday morning.
The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter #American or Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD said in a press release Monday.
#usa #russia