Contents tagged with Russia
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Russia is preparing for a new round of mobilization
The second round of mobilization for the war in Ukraine will apparently begin "under public pressure." The Russian president has already begun to receive requests. A certain group called "Soldiers' Widows" published an open letter on Telegram, in which it demanded a general mobilization and banning the men of military age from leaving the country.
"Today, all the world's evil has united against Russia, the entire Western world has turned against us. It’s either us or them. There is no other …
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Kyiv: Russia is running out of ammunition and missiles
The head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said in a recent interview that Russia did not expect that the war would last long and used very significant amounts of ammunition at once.
According to him, closer to the fall, the Russians realized that they would not be able to supply their army with shells and weapons for a long time.
"They began to limit the amount of ammunition they used daily. Now the number has fallen to 19-20 thousand shells per day, and …
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Russian airbase in Voronezh rocked by massive explosions
On January 2, at about 01:37 am the Russian city of Voronezh was rocked by at least two explosions. According to the local news outlet Blocknote, the explosions were heard in the south-west of the city in the area of the military airfield Baltimore. The news outlets notes that the explosions were so powerful that they could be heard in all parts of the city.
"A strong explosion was heard. All the car alarms went off," "I first saw that a flash in the window, I got up to see what it was. Then, …
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Hundreds of Russian conscripts killed in Ukrainian HIMARS strike on occupied Makiivka
On New Year's night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried a missile attack on the Russian base in the occupied city of Makiivka (Donetsk region). Several hundred Russian servicemen were killed and wounded, according to reports by Russian and Ukrainian media.
The news agency RBC Ukraine reports that almost exactly at midnight the building of the vocational school, which was used as a temporary base by the Russian military, came under a massive strike by Ukrainian MLRS systems. According to …
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Families of top Russian officials enjoy western life style as Kremlin promotes the image of ‘hostile West’
Russia's unprecedented confrontation with the West apparently does not apply to the children of the Russian top officials. While the Kremlin officials "surrounded by enemies" continue to promote among the Russian population the image of the hostile West, their sons and daughters live quietly abroad and hold citizenships of these "hostile countries".
Telegram channel Ateo published a list of former and current Russian politicians, ministers and MPs whose children live abroad.
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Putin reverses his earlier decree, allows Russian gas producers to accept payments in foreign currency
Russian gas suppliers will be able to accept payments in foreign currency from "unfriendly" countries, according to the decree signed by the Russian president Vladimir Putin. Payments for gas are proposed to be credited to a special foreign currency account of the Russian supplier specified in the contract.
The decree amends the March decree, according to which all payments for gas must be accepted exclusively in rubles. In March 2022, after Russian Central Bank's assets in dollars and euros …
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Former DPR Defense minister Girkin predicts Russia’s collapse in 2023
The former "Defense Minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic Igor Girkin,who is wanted by the Netherlands and Ukraine, summed up the results of 2022 and gave a forecast for the next year 2023.
Among the main "achievements" of the outgoing year, he predicted a major geopolitical defeat for Russia and the failure of Russia’s “special operation", which was planned "as an easy campaign for homespun coats" with a change of leadership in Kyiv. Girkin blamed the failures of the …
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Kyiv: Ukrainian troops have advanced 2.5 kilometers towards Kreminna over the past week
Over the past week, Ukrainian troops have advanced 2.5 km in the direction of the city of Kreminna, Luhansk region, said at a briefing the Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the Ukrainian General Staff, Brigadier General Oleksii Gromov.
"Our soldiers continue offensive actions near the city of Kreminna. Within a week, the Ukrainian defenders advanced up to 2.5 km in the direction of this city," Gromov said.
He added that along with this, according to the officers of the …
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban: War in Ukraine will end when the U.S. stops supplying weapons to Kyiv
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that Ukraine can fight as long as the United States supports it with weapons and money.
In a Christmas interview with the newspaper Magyar Nemzet, Orban noted that this year was the most dangerous in the last thirty years. According to him, Hungary faces the risk of being involved in the war in Ukraine, and rising energy prices are also pushing the country in a dangerous direction.
According to the Hungarian Prime Minister, a ceasefire is …
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Putin signs decree banning sale of Russian oil at price cap imposed by the West
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree prohibiting the supply of Russian oil and petroleum products to foreign legal entities and individuals if contracts for these supplies "directly or indirectly" enforce the price cap. "The established ban applies at all stages of deliveries to the final buyer," reads the decree published on the Kremlin’s website.
The decree will be in effect for six months, from February 1 to July 1, 2023. According to the decree, the measures are introduced "in …