🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The #drone strikes that damaged five #Russian bombers on the airfields in the country’s Nizhny Novgorod and Kaluga regions between Saturday and Monday were the work of the #Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s intelligence department, according to reporting by the Ukrainian news outlet New Voice that cites a source in the department.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇷🇸 Intelligence Online has learned details of a secret operation between Moscow and Belgrade for the recruitment of nearly 500 Balkan fighters to be deployed to #Ukraine:
The article's behind a paywall so here are some details from Ragıp Soylu:
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1693899176378019918?t=j2q1crAvsYiI9PLPbXX6_Q&s=19
#russia #serbia #russiaukrainewar
🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence:
🇷🇺 On 19 August 2023, a Tu-22M3 BACKFIRE medium bomber of Russia’s Long Range Aviation was highly likely destroyed at Soltsky-2 Airbase in #Novgorod Oblast, 650 km away from Ukraine’s border.
This adds weight to the assessment that some UAV attacks against #Russian military targets are being launched from inside Russian territory. Copter UAVs are unlikely to have the range to reach Soltsky-2 from outside #Russia
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1693864216107643122
#ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇸 ISW:
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russian milbloggers continue to indicate that Russian forces lack equipment and suffer from low morale along the entire frontline.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-21-2023
#ukraine #russia #russianarmy #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 In Perm, the principal and ten teachers of a school specializing in German language have resigned following pressure from pro-war activists who accused them of sabotaging #propaganda lessons, and #FSB agents began attending exams.
https://en.zona.media/article/2023/08/21/schools
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a #Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the #Moscow region.
Two other drones were intercepted over the #Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border.
Flights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66576996
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 AFP: Russia's defence ministry says early Tuesday one of its Sukhoi jets "destroyed" a #Ukrainian "reconnaissance boat" in the Black Sea.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2359266/world
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia’s operation to smuggle #grain from occupied #Ukraine is evolving.
A new #investigation by Bellingcat, Scripps News and Lloyd's List has tracked ships taking grain from #Crimea direct to #Iran
Grain exports have also begun from other occupied ports.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺🤡 #Prigozhin has released a new video statement. Purportedly speaking from “one of the African countries,” he says #Wagner Group is “making #Russia greater on all continents” and “making #Africa freer” while “creating nightmares for ISIS and al-Qaeda.” 🙄
#wagnergroup #WagnerPMC
nostr:npub197ex5suuj79t32edjuupcvhuyawc28ce275fmag0fe66xa3aee9qncudvy Apparently, he thinks so)
🇬🇷 🇷🇺 The #Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, stepped up criticism of Russia’s unprovoked attack on #Ukraine on Monday, saying war crimes that have taken place in the country “must be punished under international law”.
#greece #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 The #Russian division of Austria’s #Raiffeisen Bank will start charging 50% commission on all incoming U.S. dollar transfers, the bank announced Monday in a statement, citing unspecified “market conditions.”
#russia #banking #sanctions
🇩🇪 🇷🇺 #German prosecutors said on Monday they searched the home of two pro-Kremlin activists under suspicion that they violated a law that regulates the production and transfer of war weapons.
The activists - Max Schlund and his romantic partner Elena Kolbasnikova - have organised multiple rallies protesting Germany's support of #Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion last year.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-prosecutors-raid-home-pro-kremlin-activists-2023-08-21/
#germany #russia #kremlin #propaganda #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia said on Monday a decision by Denmark and the Netherlands to donate the first F-16 fighter jets to #Ukraine would only escalate the 'conflict', while Ukraine said the jets would help end Moscow's invasion.
#f16 #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian experts are dissecting the missiles and #drones fired into their territory by #Kremlin forces, and their discoveries reveal military information and components from the West.
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 As #sanctions loomed, sales of ageing crude carriers suddenly soared, bought by operators unknown to the market
#russia #energy #oilandgas #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 #Russian assault Ka-52 #helicopters shot down in #Ukraine on Thursday morning were manufactured using foreign chips and processors, according to Andriy Yermak, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
#russia #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar
🇧🇦 🇷🇺 The top international envoy to Bosnia-Herzegovina accused the country’s #Serb leader of playing into the hands of #Putin, who he says is exploiting the #Balkan nation’s ethnic divisions to divert attention from Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine
#bosnia #russia
🇷🇺 'Tens of thousands' of Muscovites are taking part in combat operations in #Ukraine, the #Russian capital's mayor Sobyanin said on Wednesday, giving a rare estimate of the forces deployed.
https://www.barrons.com/news/around-45-000-muscovites-fight-in-ukraine-moscow-mayor-c58ec83
#russia #moscow #RussiaUkraineWar