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After 300 killed in a botched offensive on Vuhledar, Russian marines call for independent investigation
Military correspondent from the Russian state news agency VGTRK, Alexander Sladkov, reports that the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet is in a difficult situation near the village of Pavlivka in the Vuhledar direction. According to him, the marines handed over to Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of Primorsky Krai, where the brigade is stationed, a letter complaining about the command and asking him to send a commission to the site to stop a poorly planned and …
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Russian Wagner PMC to open training centers in the Kursk and Belgorod regions
The owner of the Wagner private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the creation of training centers for militiamen in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, reports the Telegram channel "Prigozhin's Cap".
According to channel, the militia should consist of residents of the region. At the same time, Prigozhin promises to finance the centers himself. "I don't need either the federal or the regional budget, I don't need anything," Prigozhin said.
"If you are the owner of a small factory …
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Despite Putin's statements, Russia continues covert mobilization
Analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War believe that, despite the statements of Vladimir Putin, hidden mobilization will continue in Russia. On the one hand, the Russian Defense Minister says that the mobilization plan has been fulfilled, and the Russian president says that 318,000 people were conscripted into the army. On the other hand, on the same day, Putin signs a decree allowing the conscription of persons who have an unexpunged or outstanding criminal record for …
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Newly mobilized Russian battalion destroyed by Ukrainian military in Luhansk region
The Ukrainian military destroyed a battalion of mobilized Russians from the Voronezh region near the village of Makiivka in the Svatove district of the Luhansk region. The death toll is several hundred people, reported the Russian news outlet Verstka, citing one of the survivors, Alexei Agafonov.
According to his estimates, the death toll may exceed 500 people.
Agafonov said that the commander of the newly mobilized, who were undergoing military training in the military unit 2079, promised …
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Iran admits supplying kamikaze drones to Russia
The Iranian authorities for the first time publicly acknowledged the supply of unmanned aerial vehicles to Russia. The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said that before Russia's war against Ukraine Teheran provided Moscow with a limited number of drones, reported the Iranian state news agency IRNA. At the same time, the Iranian Foreign Minister denies deliveries of drones after the start of the war, as well as shipping missiles to Russia. According to several media …
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Lukashenko: Belarus and Russia will create a joint satellite network
Belarus and Russia have reached an agreement to create of a joint satellite constellation, which will also be used for military purposes, said the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
"We are not only ready to launch a person into space, to send an astronaut of our own. We will send him soon. We produce spacecraft. We have agreed with Russia to create a joint grouping of spacecraft in space," Lukashenka said.
He added that it will used "not only for military purposes." …
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Kyiv: Russia continues to deploy troops to Belarus
The joint deployment of the troops of the Russian Federation and Belarus is aimed at distracting attention and causing the Ukrainian military command to pull the troops from the east and south. At the same time, there is a risk that in the future this grouping of troops will be used for direct aggression against Ukraine, said the Deputy Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Oleksiy Gromov.
He noted that the situation in the Volyn, Zhytomyr and …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Putin was forced to return to 'grain agreement', no security guarantees for Russian Black Sea Fleet were provided
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba commented on the Kremlin’s statements that in exchange for Russia’s return "grain agreement", Ukraine allegedly promised not to attack the Black Sea Fleet. The Minister recalled that Ukraine has never used the "green corridors" for military purposes and is not going to do so in the future.
"This guarantee is simply Russia's way of saving face. Russia returned to the Grain Initiative not because someone gave it any assurances, but because there was a lot …
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Putin demands that Ukraine provides security guarantees for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Russian president Vladimir Putin said that, in order for Russia to rejoin the "grain initiative", Ukraine must provide security guarantees for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
"We are not saying that we are stopping our participation in this operation (grain initiative). No, we are talking about the fact that we are suspending it," said Putin.
He stressed that as soon as such security guarantees are provided by Ukraine, Russia will return to the agreement.
Putin also demanded that the UN, which is …
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Moldova joins US sanctions against pro-Russian politicians
The Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE) of Moldova imposed sanctions on persons included in the US sanctions list, who are considered participants in "constant campaigns of malicious influence of the Kremlin" and involved in systemic corruption in the republic, reported the Moldovan news agency Realitatea.
Agreements made by individuals and legal entities included in the US sanctions list will be carefully inspected by the Moldovan authorities.
The list of persons suspected of having …