🇷🇺 🇮🇷 An #Aeroflot plane that was sent to #Iran for maintenance in early April has not returned yet — and its return date was recently pushed to March 2024.
According to experts, the servicing shouldn't have taken more than three months.
#russia #aviation
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said Wednesday that its recapture of #Robotyne village this week was a strategic victory paving the way for its forces to push deeper into #Russian positions in the south towards #Crimea
#counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 A court in the #Russian city of St. Petersburg sentenced anti-war activist Olga Smirnova to six years❗in prison on August 30 on a charge of 'spreading fake news about the armed forces' (i.e. telling the truth).
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-anti-war-activist-smirnova-prison-internet-posts/32571374.html
#russia #humanrights #repression #censorship
🇱🇹 🇻🇦 Majority-Catholic EU member #Lithuania has summoned the Vatican's top diplomat in the country after Pope Francis told #Russian youths to remember they are the heirs of "the great Russian empire".
#vatican #popefrancis #russia
🇷🇺 The #Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying mercenary chief Yevgeny #Prigozhin was downed on purpose, the first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.
#russia #wagner #putin
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian counterintelligence launched a drone attack on a military airfield in Russia’s #Kursk region, a source in Ukraine’s special services told the publication RBC #Ukraine
The source says that overnight on August 27, suicide drones “worked on four Su-30 airplanes and one MiG-29,” as well as the radar systems of an S-300 missile system and two Pantsir anti-aircraft missile systems.
#counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine's forces are making more progress in the country's southern #Zaporizhzhia region, while #Russian troops have intensified attacks in areas surrounding the embattled city of #Kupiansk on the eastern front line, the #Ukrainian military said Sunday.
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇸 A Russian SU-30 military plane escorted a U.S. reconnaissance Reaper drone on Sunday over the Black Sea, RIA news agency reported, citing the #Russian defence ministry.
TASS news agency said the drone had not breached Russia's state border.
#usa #russia #blacksea
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The latest #Russian attacks across #Ukraine killed at least two people and wounded another 10, #Ukrainian authorities said.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has concentrated over 100,000 troops in the Kupiansk-Lyman direction of the front in #Kharkiv Oblast and #Luhansk Oblast, Eastern Force Grouping press officer Illia Yevlash said on Aug. 27.
These troops have significantly intensified their rate of shelling and aistrikes against #Ukrainian positions, according to Yevlash.
#ukraine #russianarmy #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 #Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny #Prigozhin, chief of the #Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last Wednesday.
#russia
🇷🇺 AP: The last weeks of Prigozhin’s life were overshadowed by questions about what the #Kremlin really had in store for him. Had he already dodged a bullet? Or was his comeuppance just further down the road?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-prigozhin-plane-crash-rebellion-0f8a68561e7dbaa4e97ae6d1192559e2
#russia #wagner #putin
🇺🇲 ISW:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian forces now appear within striking distance of the next series of prepared #Russian defensive positions, which may be weaker than the previous set of Russian defenses but still pose a significant challenge.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-26-2023
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 #Crimea has experienced a spate of attacks in recent weeks, including a seaborne raid by #Ukrainian special forces on Thursday and a series of drone attacks on Friday.
The bridges that connect Crimea to #Russia and to southern Ukrainian areas under #Russian control have been struck repeatedly in recent months.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/27/europe/crimea-russian-tourists-intl/index.html
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 A 40-second clip of an old interview in which #Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny #Prigozhin said he would rather be killed than lie to his country, and talked about a plane disintegrating in the sky, unleashed a flood of online theorizing on Sunday about his presumed death.
#russia #wagner
🇷🇺 🇨🇳 A detachment of Russia's navy warships returned from more than three weeks of joint-patrolling of the Pacific Ocean with #Chinese navy ships, the #Russian Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
#russia #china
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Aug. 23 strike on a #Russian anti-aircraft system in #Crimea used a "new, completely modern" #Ukrainian missile, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said on Aug. 26.
https://kyivindependent.com/danilov-new-ukrainian-made-missile-used-to-strike-crimea/
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar