🇺🇲 🇷🇺 The United States on Friday released a U.S. intelligence assessment sent to more than 100 countries that found Moscow is using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide.
#usa #russia #propaganda #disinformation
🇷🇺 #Russia this year has seen a huge uptick in the number of its soldiers facing trial for murders committed outside the war zone in Ukraine, the independent news outlet Vyorstka reported Thursday, citing military court records.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine's air defences downed 24 of 29 #Russian drones launched in attacks on its territory overnight, the #Ukrainian general staff said on Thursday.
Ukraine's Air Force said the drones were destroyed over southern Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, as well as central Kirohovrad region.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-downs-24-drones-launched-by-russia-military-2023-10-05/
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇸 ISW:
🇷🇺 The #Russian military recently transferred several Black Sea Fleet vessels from the port in occupied #Sevastopol, Crimea to the port in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, likely in an effort to protect them from continued #Ukrainian strikes on Russian assets in occupied #Crimea
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-4-2023
#ukraine #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Western militaries are running out of ammunition to give to Ukraine, #NATO and #British officials warned Tuesday, as they urged the bloc’s nations to ramp up production to “keep #Ukraine in the fight against #Russian invaders.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/04/europe/uk-nato-ukraine-war-ammunition-intl-hnk-ml/index.html
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Wednesday Briefing:
- EU set to announce #Ukraine accession talks by December
- #Russia summons Moldova's envoy, blocks entry to several citizens
- EU adopts multi-year support for Ukraine worth $52B
- Ukraine troops advance on southern front
- A deal to expedite grain exports reached b/w Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania
- Carlsberg ends licence agreements in Russia
- If Putin goes to Armenia he’d be arrested, as lawmakers back ICC
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🇵🇱 🇺🇦 Warsaw and Kyiv announced Tuesday they had agreed to speed up the transit of #Ukrainian cereal exports through #Poland to third countries, a first step in resolving their "grain war".
https://www.barrons.com/news/warsaw-kyiv-make-breakthrough-on-transit-of-ukrainian-grain-9e79a6a4
#ukraine
🇯🇵 Tokyo on Tuesday condemned a surprise visit to Moscow by a #Japanese lawmaker who met with Russia's deputy foreign minister.
Muneo Suzuki's trip, the first known visit by a Japanese lawmaker since #Russia invaded Ukraine last year, comes after #Japan joined Western allies in sanctioning Moscow over the war.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/10/03/japan-slams-mps-surprise-visit-to-russia-a82637
#RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇦 Western-made armor is failing in #Ukraine because it was not designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal.
#russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇺🇲 ISW:
🇷🇺 The #Russian information space heavily focused its attention on the #Ukrainian strike on #Sevastopol on September 22.
#ukraine #crimea #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 In a statement on Telegram, the SOF (Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces) said a special op dubbed “Crab Trap” was timed to strike while senior members of Russia’s Navy were meeting, and that the attack left dozens of dead and wounded “including the senior leadership of the fleet.”
#ukraine #sevastopol #crimea #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇺🇸 ISW:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukrainian armored vehicles are operating beyond the final line of the #Russian defensive layer that Ukrainian forces in western #Zaporizhzhia Oblast are currently penetrating, although ISW is not yet prepared to assess that Ukrainian forces have broken fully through this Russian defensive layer.
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #RussiaUkraineWar
🇱🇻 Around 3,500 #Russian citizens in #Latvia will receive letters from the migration authority this week asking them to leave the country.
The government body said on September 21 that they were people who hadn't submitted documents to extend a permanent residence permit or hadn't registered for a #Latvian language test by September 1.
https://www.rferl.org/a/russians-leave-latvia-residence/32603686.html
#russia
🇺🇦 As Ukraine’s farmers labor through their second wartime harvest, they’re expecting a big one. They just don’t know how much of it will ever make it to market.
#ukraine
🇪🇺 🇨🇳 #European Council President Charles Michel will ask #China directly at the United Nations Security Council to do more to push #Russia towards a "just peace" in #Ukraine, according to his draft speech seen by Reuters at the #UNGA
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-ask-china-un-push-russia-towards-just-peace-ukraine-2023-09-20/
#europe #europeanunion #russiaukrainewar
🇨🇳 🇷🇺 The Group of Seven on Tuesday called on #China to press #Russia to stop its aggression in #Ukraine after foreign ministers of the bloc met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly and released a joint statement.
The statement, released by the foreign ministry of G7 chair Japan, said the members hoped China would push for the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of #Russian troops from Ukraine.
#RussiaUkraineWar
🇭🇺 🇸🇪 Pro-government media in #Hungary last week unearthed a 2019 #Swedish educational video that described Hungary as a country where democracy was eroding.
On Sunday, parliament speaker László Kövér, a close ally of prime minister Viktor Orbán, said that Hungary and #Sweden did not see eye to eye on issues of patriotism and therefore did not belong in the same alliance.
https://www.ft.com/content/ebb5522a-17a6-4e14-83ac-b913ad81214d
#nato #russia
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine said Monday its forces had broken through a #Russian line of defence near the eastern town of #Bakhmut amid fierce fighting in the area.
https://www.barrons.com/news/ukraine-says-breaks-russian-defence-line-near-bakhmut-df0fdf6e
#counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇬🇧 UK Ministry of Defence:
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Tokmak is preparing to become a lynchpin of Russia’s second main line of defences. Improvements to the town’s defences likely indicates Russia’s growing concern about #Ukrainian tactical penetrations of the first main defensive line to the north.
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1703290559824011424?t=_xKcgXxRdambtWFG7QobHA&s=19
#ukraine #counteroffensive #russia #russiaukrainewar
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian-installed 'authorities' in #Crimea said on Saturday they planned to sell about 100 #Ukrainian properties, including one belonging to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
#ukraine #russia #russianwarcrimes