🇱🇧 “The #Russian national confessed to working for #Israeli intelligence; he was tasked to arrive in #Lebanon
He was provided maps of Hezbollah-owned facilities; his mission was to visit those locations and take photos of them,” the newspaper says.
#russia #israel #spying #espionage
🇵🇱 "We know that for some months there have been attempts to destabilise the #Polish state. Such attempts have been undertaken by the #Russian Federation in conjunction with #Belarus," added Zaryn, stating authorities were taking the incident seriously.
https://www.barrons.com/news/poland-investigates-railway-hacking-d9563151
#poland #russia #hacking #cyberattack #cybersecurity
🇺🇦 #Ukraine said Saturday that three of its air force pilots including a renowned fighter jet pilot with the call-sign "Juice" were killed in a mid-air collision on Friday.
#UkrainianArmy #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 Crimea’s tourist season is nearing its end. This year, the Russian-annexed peninsula has spent the summer amid drone attacks and explosions. A Novaya-Europe journalist spoke to locals residing across the region to see how the war affects Crimeans now.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/08/26/insular-peninsula-en
#ukraine #crimea #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine and #Russia are reportedly intensifying operations around the war-ravaged city of #Bakhmut as President Zelenskyy's forces increase their use of drones.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/26/ukraine-and-russia-both-set-to-increase-efforts-around-bakhmut
#counteroffensive #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 Valery Kolosha says he punched a wall when he heard #Russia had pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal.
#Ukrainian farmers like him face lower income because of the agreement's collapse.
#ukraine #blacksea #graindeal #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇫🇮 🇺🇦 #Finland is sending additional defense equipment aid to #Ukraine, with the value of the latest aid package set at approximately 94 million euros, the government said in a press release on Friday.
#russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 A Moscow court has extended the pre-trial detention of the suspect in a St. Petersburg cafe bombing that killed a prominent pro-war blogger earlier this year, #Russian media reported Friday.
Daria Trepova was detained in April after a bomb planted inside a gilded bust she presented to blogger Vladlen #Tatarsky exploded during an event at a St. Petersburg cafe. The blast killed Tatarsky and injured 40 others, sparking calls for revenge among #Russia ’s pro-war figures.
🇷🇺 Russia’s refined fuel #exports are on course to slump to a 15-month low, amid strong domestic demand for road fuels and as some products exceeded Group of Seven price caps.
#russia #energy #oilandgas #export #sanctions
🇺🇲 U.S. Department of State's new bulletin: The Kremlin’s War Against Ukraine’s Children
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Read the new exposure report about the Kremlin’s false claims surrounding its abduction of #Ukrainian children.
https://www.state.gov/the-kremlins-war-against-ukraines-children/
#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇮🇱 🇺🇦 The #Israeli government said Thursday it has been unable to renew health insurance and social assistance benefits for #Ukrainian refugees due to a lack of funding, in response to a High Court petition on the matter.
#israel #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 In 2019, Yevgeny #Prigozhin was briefly reported to have died after an An-72 transport plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The embassy said two #Russians had been onboard the plane, which was also carrying members of the DRC’s presidential staff.
The #Wagner chief reappeared three days later, however, reports of his death having been greatly exaggerated.
#russia #wagnergroup #WagnerPMC
🇷🇺 The unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that #Putin uses body doubles resurfaced on Tuesday after a video appeared to show the #Russian president forgetting on which wrist he wears his watch 😁🤡
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-wrist-watch-video-body-double-conspiracy-claims-1821840
#russia
🇷🇺 Yulia Trukhmanova, a member of the Marx city council in the southern #Saratov region, was recorded on audio ridiculing #Putin as a “nobody” and “dirty schmuck” before he came to power in 1999 😂👍
#russia
🇷🇺 Insurance companies have notified charterers of ships operating in Russia's Black Sea ports of an increase in additional payments known as "war risk premiums", four traders said.
#russia #blacksea #insurance #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 #Russian defenses downed #Ukrainian drones in #Moscow and the region around the capital early Wednesday, the defense ministry and the mayor said.
One drone fell into a building under construction in Moscow City, a prestigious business complex hit by drones twice before.
No casualties were reported.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-moscow-drones-111bca81fcbb71a8aa82279d9a41a150
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇵🇱 🇧🇾 Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that #Russia already is in the process of shifting some short-range nuclear weapons to neighboring #Belarus, a move that Duda said will shift the security architecture of the region and the entire #NATO military alliance.
#poland #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The World Court will hear Russia's objections to its jurisdiction in a #genocide case brought by #Ukraine in hearings starting on Sept. 18, the International Court of Justice said on Tuesday.
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Chechen fighters under the command of Putin crony #Kadyrov claim #Ukraine has been abducting wounded #Russian troops from the battlefield using giant drones equipped with... pincers 😂
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chechen-fighters-ukrainian-drones-with-claws-abducting-russian-troops
#russia #russiaukrainewar