🇨🇳 #China hopes relevant parties can see its 2023 edition of a standard national map in an "objective and rational" way, the foreign ministry said on Thursday 🤔
#philippines #india #malaysia #russia
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Thursday Briefing:
- #Ukraine war caused ‘one of the most disruptive periods’ for global food security
- #Russia and North Korea ‘actively advancing’ in arms deal negotiations
- Ukraine gets ‘Vampire’ rockets from US to combat Russian drones
- Studies criticise big tech firms over Russian disinformation
- US working with Romania, others to increase grain exports via Danube
- Ukraine says gains on southern front pave way to #Crimea
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🇳🇴 🇷🇺 42 reindeer from #Norway have crossed into #Russia this year in search of better pastures.
Now Russia wants over $4.4 million in compensation for the reindeer grazing in a national park.
🇵🇱 #Polish refiner Orlen has in recent months chartered at least 10 tankers that previously shipped #Russian oil to Asia to deliver #Arab crude to its refineries in Lithuania and #Poland on their return journey, according to two traders and LSEG data.
#russia #sanctions #energy #oilandgas
🇺🇸 ISW:
🇷🇺 #Russian propagandists and milbloggers criticized Russian forces for their inability to defend Russian territory and military facilities, while simultaneously criticizing recent Russian MoD #censorship efforts.
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-30-2023
#russia #russianarmy #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine caused deep disruptions in the global food supply, raising prices and increasing the risk of food insecurity in poorer nations in the Middle East and North Africa, America’s top spy agency said in an unclassified report released by Congress on Wednesday.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/politics/food-security-ukraine-russia-war
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes #foodsecurity
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy decried on Wednesday what he described as systematic #corruption in medical exemptions to people avoiding military service, saying the system was subject to bribes and mass departures abroad.
#ukraine
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching #Moscow, the city's mayor said on Thursday.
https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-downs-drone-heading-for-moscow-mayor-9f512fa1
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 #Russia and North Korea are “actively advancing” their negotiations over a potential arms deal that would provide significant ammunition for different types of weapons systems, including artillery, in the latest indication that the #Kremlin is desperate to obtain further materiel for its faltering invasion of #Ukraine, according to newly released US intelligence.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/30/europe/russia-north-korea-advancing-arms-deal-intl/index.html
#northkorea #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇸 The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said countries located in sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Yemen are particularly susceptible to political instability as a result of food insecurity.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The unclassified 8-page report also said #Russian forces stole approximately 6 million tons of #Ukrainian wheat, likely for export.
#usa #ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 A military court in Moscow has sentenced a citizen of #Ukraine to 12 years imprisonment for allegedly planning to detonate an explosive device in Russia's #Bryansk Oblast, the court's press service announced on Aug. 30.
#Russian officials claim that Oleksandr Bobrovitskyi was a member of a 'saboteur group organized by the Security Service of Ukraine.'
#russia
🇷🇺 🇲🇱 #Russia is pushing the United Nations Security Council to immediately end independent monitoring of targeted U.N. sanctions on #Mali and completely abolish its #sanctions regime on the West #African country in August 2024.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-seeks-end-uns-mali-sanctions-monitoring-2023-08-30/
#unitednations #unsc
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🇺🇦 Six #Ukrainian pilots were killed during a combat mission near #Bakhmut, Yevhen Rakita, spokesperson for the Igor Sikorsky 18th Separate Army Aviation Brigade, told national broadcaster Suspilne on Wednesday.
#ukraine #ukrainianarmy #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 Tech titans, including #TikTok and #Twitter, failed to effectively tackle #Russian disinformation online during the first year of the war in #Ukraine, according to a study published Wednesday by the EU.
A separate study points at the ways TikTok has been profiting from pro-Russian related narratives.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar #socialmedia #propaganda #disinformation
🇷🇺 🇪🇬 In June 2022, Russia's state-owned #nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, said it won approval from an #Egyptian regulator to start building the country's first nuclear plant, which consists of four units with a capacity of 1200 MW each.
#russia #egypt
🇺🇸 🇷🇴 🇲🇩 The U.S. is working with #Romania and #Moldova to increase Ukraine's grain exports via the #Danube river as it explores alternative routes the exports after #Russia pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
#usa #ukraine
🇷🇺 🇹🇷 #Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and #Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan will discuss a proposal by Moscow for an alternative to the Black Sea grain deal when they meet this week.
Under the plan, #Russia would send a million tons of grain to #Turkey at a discounted price, with financial support from #Qatar, to be processed in Turkey and sent to countries most in need, the Foreign Ministry said 🙄
#russianwarcrimes
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 The White House on Wednesday said that it has new intelligence that shows #Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have swapped letters as #Russia looks to North Korea for munitions for the #Ukraine war.
#northkorea #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 Why is the #Russian public at large so oblivious about the war in #Ukraine?
This attitude is a direct result of Putin’s policy over the years, Irina Busygina, visiting scholar at the Davis Center, Harvard University, argues.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/08/30/putins-master-plan-en
#russia #russiaukrainewar