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South Africa provided weapons to russia to fight Ukraine – US ambassador
11.05.2023
South Africa provided weapons and ammunition to putin’s army through a cargo ship that docked at a naval base near the city of Cape Town in December 2022, US Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety was cited as saying by washingtonpost.com.The arming of the russians is “extremely serious,” he said. Brigety also questioned South Africa’s neutral stance.According to the report, the AP confirmed the cargo ship docked at the Simon’s Town naval base during the time frame Brigety cited.Almost 1.5 thousand sites of cultural infrastructure damaged by russians in Ukraine
11.05.2023
The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy .However, in the last month, the total number of damaged sites of cultural infrastructure has increased by 91 sites, with the majority of them located in Kherson region [47 sites or ...25 companies added to international sponsors of war list – NACP
11.05.2023
Twenty five of the world’s leading companies were added to the list of international war sponsors since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of the russian terrorist state in Ukraine, the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP) said in a statement.“Those companies pay taxes in russia and finance the murders of Ukrainians. In addition, russian subsidiaries of foreign companies are managed by russians who, for the most part, publicly support the war against Ukraine.russia’s strategy to turn international ...Bakhmut is on fire. russians bomb city with phosphorus [video]
06.05.2023
On the evening of May 5, footage of the massive bombardment of Bakhmut neighborhoods with russian phosphorus bombs was published by the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO).“We are standing! SSO soldiers together with their comrades continue to defend Bakhmut!” the Special Operations Forces said in a statement.Wagnerites are running out of fighters, not shells – Ukrainian military spokesman
05.05.2023
The Wagner mercenary group is not running out of ammunition, but fighters, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces Serhiy Cherevaty was cited as saying by bbc.com.“During this day, 137 occupiers were eliminated, 202 were wounded, they are suffering heavy losses,” Cherevaty said. But despite these statements, the “Wagnerites” continue to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut, and heavy fighting continues there. Cherevaty reported that during the day there were 43 clashes and 520 shellings ...NACP adds OTP Bank to international sponsors of war list
04.05.2023
The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP) added OTP Bank to the list of international sponsors of war due to the position of the bank’s management to continue operations in russia and the recognition of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”.OTP Bank forms the basis of the international financial group OTP (OTP Group), which is one of the leaders of the financial services market in Central and Eastern Europe according to the data of the Budapest Stock ...Deportation of Ukrainian children by russians amount to war crime – OSCE mission report
04.05.2023
The mission concluded that the practice of the forcible transfer or deportation of Ukrainian children may amount to a crime against humanity, according to the report.The mission found that practices of non-consensual evacuations, transfers and prolonged displacement of Ukrainian children constitute violations of IHL, and in certain cases amount to grave breaches of the Geneva Convention IV (GCIV) and war crimes, the report said.The mission also found that non-justified prolonged stay or unfounded logistical hurdles violate the duty to facilitate ...russian occupiers set up a new torture chamber in Chaplynka, Kherson region
03.05.2023
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported about new torture chambers in the occupied Kherson region.“In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, there are still cases of violent abduction of pro-Ukrainian civilians, as well as the setting up of new torture chambers for their detention. In particular, russian terrorists set up one such torture chamber in the police department of the temporarily captured Chaplynka of the Kherson region.Up to ten civilians, including minors, are being illegally detained ...I am living proof of the terrible things they do to people – US veteran about russian captivity
03.05.2023
A veteran of the US army, a native of the state of Alabama, Alex Drueke went to war in Ukraine as a volunteer at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, because, as he says, he considered it his duty, voanews.com reported.As an experienced military man, Alex, in particular, took part in the training of Ukrainian defenders, and in June he went on a combat mission in the Kharkiv region, where he was taken prisoner by the russians. The soldier was ...Ukraine’s parliament recognized ruscism as state ideology of russian Federation
02.05.2023
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially recognized ruscism as the state ideology of russia, Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said in a statement.“The Verkhovna Rada officially recognized ruscism as the state ideology of russia and called on the UN, the EU, and the governments of democratic countries to support the condemnation of the policy of ruscism,” Goncharenko said281 MPs supported the relevant statement, he added.Rotten compromise cannot ensure stable peace for any of us – Melnyk
30.04.2023
Ukraine will not make any compromises with russia – compromises will not ensure reliable peace, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Melnyk said this in an interview with morgenpost.de.“The vast majority of the Ukrainian population does not want to give up any country for peace. A rotten compromise cannot ensure a stable peace for all of us, at most a fragile ceasefire. Any discussion about negotiations is also complete nonsense, because the russians don’t want to negotiate at all,” Melnyk ...russia had special vessel near Nord Stream before explosion – Denmark
30.04.2023
The Danish Defence Command confirmed that the russian vessel SS-750, which has a mini-submarine on board, was photographed near the place where the Nord Stream pipes were sabotaged, just four days before the explosions on 26 September 2022, information.dk reported..“It’s incredibly interesting. The SS-750 is a special vessel that is designed precisely for underwater operations,’ the Swedish researcher, expert on russia and intelligence expert Joakim von Braun was cited as saying.Jacob Kaarsbo, who is a senior analyst at the think tank Europe ...
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