🇷🇺 #Putin is moving swiftly to take control of #Wagner mercenary chief Prigozhin’s sprawling operations in #Africa and the Middle East, days after his renegade ex-protege died in a mysterious plane crash.
#russia #middleeast
🇺🇦 'Authorities' in separatist and Russian-occupied regions of #Ukraine on Thursday announced the start of early voting in local 'elections'
#russia #russiaukrainewar #RussianWarCrimes
🇺🇦 #Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 km away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western #Russia
Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel the weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but gave no other details.
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russiaukrainewar
🇬🇧 🇺🇦 A #British volunteer has been killed fighting alongside #Ukrainian forces, his family have said.
Samuel Newey, 22, had been in the country for over a year, his brother Daniel said.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66673733
#britain #ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Alexei Miller, the chief executive of #Russian gas giant #Gazprom, said on Thursday that the company accounts for more than half the increase in China's gas imports this year, without providing figures.
#russia #china #energy #oilandgas
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 'The trip will present an opportunity for #Putin to play the statesman on the world stage, and flaunt his defiance of the #ICC arrest warrant issued for war crimes in #Ukraine
Yet it also exposes the stark new limitations of Putin's global power, and his new dependence on China's autocratic leader, Xi Jinping.'
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-china-trip-exposes-russia-dependence-on-xi-jinping-2023-8
#china #russia
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 Royal Navy warships and RAF patrol aircraft tracked a series of #Russian vessels in the waters close to the UK in a concerted monitoring operation.
#britain #russia
🇮🇹 With pro-Russia commentators regularly appearing on TV, #Italians are less likely to back #Ukraine than people in most other EU states
#europe #italy #russia #propaganda #disinformation
🇷🇺 The 'Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project presents an overview of the situation with regard to political prisoners and political repression in #Russia in 2022.
The report says why and how the #Russian authorities have prosecuted public dissent, both within Russia and in the occupied territories, detailing the most high-profile politically motivated prosecutions and analysing how the practices of #repression in Russia have changed over the past year.
🇷🇺 More than 40 flights were delayed on Thursday morning at Moscow's Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports, the Kommersant daily reported, citing a flight tracking website, with no reason given for the delays.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dozens-flights-delayed-moscow-airports-report-2023-08-31/
#russia #moscow
🇷🇺 #Russia, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has faced shortages of fuel crucial for gathering the harvest in some parts of its southern breadbasket and the situation may get worse in coming months, market sources told Reuters.
Traders said that the fuel market has been hit by a combination of different factors including maintenance at oil refineries, infrastructure bottlenecks on railways and the weaker rouble which incentivises fuel exports.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Despite gloomy talk from some allies about the slow pace of the military #counteroffensive, Ukraine is steadily making progress on the battlefield and raising the cost of the war for #Russia
After weeks of punching against fortified #Russian frontlines in the occupied east and south, #Ukrainian forces may have made significant breakthroughs that open up the prospect of a more rapid advance.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar
🇩🇪 🇷🇺 A #Russian man based in #Germany was found guilty on Thursday of plotting to kill a #Chechen dissident on the orders of Chechen 'leader' Ramzan #Kadyrov
#russia #chechnya
🤡 Igor Strelkov, who is currently in jail while under criminal investigation in #Russia for “calls for extremist activities”, has announced he plans to run for president in next year’s #Russian elections 😁
🇷🇺 The #Russian Volunteer Corps, an armed formation fighting on the side of #Ukraine, claimed that it worked together with #Ukrainian counterintelligence to carry out the recent attack on a military airfield in Russia’s #Kursk region.
#russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The devices being used by both #Ukraine and #Russia are similar in form and function, but differing strategies give Kyiv the upper hand - The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/31/ukraine-drone-attacks-more-effective-than-russia/
#russiaukrainewar #counteroffensive
🇷🇺 A Wagner-affiliated channel on the Telegram messaging app on Thursday published a previously unseen video of #Prigozhin, who was buried two days earlier after perishing in a plane crash in northwestern #Russia
#wagner
🇺🇦 Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, is likely to soon be dismissed from his role, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing government sources.
His potential replacement is Rustem Umerov, the head of the State Property Fund of #Ukraine, sources told the outlet.
🇨🇿 🇺🇦 #Ukraine can join #NATO when the fighting against #Russia ends, its borders are stable and it can contribute to the alliance’s security, the #Czech Republic’s envoy to the alliance said.
#czechia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇮🇳 🇷🇺 India’s appetite for cheap #Russian oil took a breather in August as monsoon rains dampened demand and refiners scheduled routine maintenance works.
The world’s third largest #oil consumer reduced imports from Moscow for the third consecutive month in August to 1.57 million barrels a day, down 24% on the month and bringing them to their lowest since January, according to data intelligence firm Kpler.
#india #russia #energy #oilandgas