🇺🇲 🇺🇦 According to U.S. officials, Washington will likely send long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems, or #ATACMS, to Ukraine in an upcoming security assistance package, ABC News reported on Sept. 8.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-send-long-range-atacms-missiles-ukraine-time/story?id=103031722
#usa #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar
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Agreed, absolutely abominable 🤬
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Since refusing to renew the deal allowing #Ukraine to export grain across the Black Sea, #Russia has repeatedly targeted alternative export routes along the #Danube River.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66328810
#RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes
🇺🇦 Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies on Friday froze more than $80 million in assets belonging to tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky for 48 hours as part of an embezzlement investigation, #Ukrainian media outlets reported.
#ukraine
🇷🇺 Ship-to-ship transfers of Russia's Urals crude #oil grade in August were about 85% lower than their peak in the first quarter of this year, according to analytics firm Vortexa, amid warmer weather and Moscow's decision to cap exports.
#russia #oilandgas
🇷🇺 🇦🇲 #Russia on Friday summoned the #Armenian ambassador for a "harsh" protest about a list of what it termed "unfriendly steps", the latest sign of strain between Moscow and Yerevan.
In a statement, the #Russian Foreign Ministry listed these as #Armenia decisions to sign up to the ICC and to host a military exercise with the United States, as well as a visit to #Ukraine by the Armenian prime minister's wife to deliver humanitarian aid.
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO) Task Force has identified some $5 billion in #Russian central bank assets in the U.S. #banking system, a small fraction of the estimated $280 billion in global assets, according to REPO officials.
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/07/repo-russian-elites-proxies-oligarchs-assets-us
#usa #russia #sanctions #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 Putin has ordered his government to fund research into artificial intelligence as competition with the West to develop such technology heats up, according to a #Kremlin document published Thursday.
https://www.barrons.com/news/putin-orders-state-support-for-ai-as-race-heats-up-5a0c6268
#russia #artificialintelligence #technology
🇺🇦 Kernel, Ukraine's largest sunflower oil exporter, has already suffered three #Russian attacks this month on its #Danube River port facilities, the company said.
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar #russianwarcrimes #foodsecurity
🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Most EU countries are against extending an import ban on #Ukrainian grain beyond mid-September, four EU diplomats told POLITICO, pushing back against calls by five eastern member countries to keep the restrictions in place.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oppose-poland-call-ukraine-grain-curb-elections/
#europe #ukraine
🇵🇱 #Poland awarded a 16 billion-krone ($1.5 billion) contract to Norway’s Kongsberg Gruppen ASA for a coastal missile system as it bolsters its defenses after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine
#russia #belarus
🇩🇪 🇷🇺 #SAP said on Tuesday that it will allow maintenance contracts with customers in #Russia to expire at the end of the year, the next step in the #German software group’s delayed exit from the country after its invasion of #Ukraine in early 2022.
Maintenance contracts with customers in Russia will not be renewed, an SAP spokesperson told Reuters. “Therefore, all maintenance contracts will expire at the end of 2023.”
#germany #RussiaUkraineWar
🇪🇺 The #European Commission has proposed making the EU's scheme for joint #gas purchases permanent, after demand exceeded expectations in the policy's first tenders to seek non-Russian fuel, a document showed and officials told Reuters.
#europe #russia #energy #oilandgas #sanctions
🇷🇺 🇰🇵 After years of backing UN #sanctions targeting North Korea’s #nuclear weapons programme, #Russia is now reaching out to its neighbour for help.
The war in #Ukraine has forced the #Kremlin to reassess its relationship with Pyongyang as it seeks to secure weapons to replace its own depleted stocks.
#northkorea #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇸 ISW:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian light infantry has advanced to positions beyond anti-tank ditches and dragon’s teeth anti-tank obstacles that comprise the current #Russian defensive layer ahead of the Ukrainian advance in western #Zaporizhzhia Oblast, and Ukrainian forces likely intend to hold those positions.
ISW is not prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have breached this Russian defensive layer in the absence of observed Ukrainian heavy equipment in these areas.
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-4-2023
🇨🇺 #Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced its citizens to fight for #Russia in the war in #Ukraine, its foreign ministry said on Monday, adding that Cuban authorities were working to "neutralize and dismantle" the network.
#RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern front and were advancing south in their #counteroffensive against #Russian forces while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited two front-line areas.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-reports-advances-eastern-southern-fronts-2023-09-04/
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia shot down at least three Ukraine-launched drones early Tuesday that were targeting the country's capital, the #Russian defence ministry said.
#ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 A Russian court on Monday fined Match Group, which operates #Tinder, 10 million roubles ($104,000) and streaming service #Twitch 13 million roubles ($135,000) for repeated failure to localise data in accordance with #Russian law.
#russia #privacy #personaldata #technology
nostr:npub1z693wg89c3jlglll6xc0y8vuf2kdyxvntn56cgumvuv70gnykufs8ye5vv 'Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir Putin has held up as an example to justify the invasion of Ukraine.'