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Op maandag 25 september 2023 21:26 schreef ExTec het volgende:
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Op maandag 25 september 2023 14:14 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:

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Op maandag 25 september 2023 20:12 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Raakt die rotzooi van drones en raketten van de Russen nooit op?
Wie levert dat? Kan men de aanvoer niet torpederen. Sic.

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Russians launch several Shahed drone groups from Crimea, one more from north
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that the Russians had launched several groups of Shahed UAVs from Crimea.

Source: Ukraine’s Air Force

Quote: "The launch of several groups of enemy attack UAVs of a Shahed type from Chauda, Crimea, was recorded.

The approximate time of entry into the controlled airspace of Ukraine is around 22:00."

Details: Later, the Air Force reported about a group of Russian UAVs in Sumy Oblast. "They are moving in the south-western direction (they might change course)," the message reads.

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Belarus bans storage and use of drones
Alexander Lukashenko, self-proclaimed President of Belarus, has signed a decree prohibiting Belarusian citizens from importing, storing, selling, manufacturing and using drones.

Source: Decree on the State Registration and Operation of Civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, posted on Lukashenko’s website

Details: The decree states that any use of civilian drones is only permitted for organisations and legal entities for their "business and professional activities". To do so, they need to obtain a permit from the Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus.

The decree also envisages the creation of an automated state register of civilian UAVs.

Residents of Belarus have six months to sell their drones to organisations or transfer them to an "authorised organisation designated by the government" for storage.

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A letter was sent from the White House with the reforms that Ukraine must make in order to receive aid
Deputy White House National Security Adviser on International Economics, Mike Pyle, sent a letter to the Donor Coordination Platform with a list of reforms that Ukraine should make in order to continue providing it with military aid.

Source: "Ukrainian Pravda"

Details: According to the UP, this letter was also sent to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and to the address of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

The document prescribes changes according to the priority of their implementation: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, one year, 18 months.

In particular, they concern the functioning of the Supervisory Boards of State Enterprises, anti-corruption bodies (SAP, NABU, NAZK), the High Council of Justice, and the judicial branch of government in general.

Changes in the work of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and all law enforcement agencies were also prioritized during the year.
Updated at 10:58 pm .: Note that the letter is a preliminary working draft and is subject to review.

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Russia seeks to rejoin UN's human rights council
Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations human rights council in an election that will be seen as a key test of its international standing.

It was expelled from the UN's pre-eminent human rights body last April after its forces invaded Ukraine.

But now Russian diplomats are seeking to get their country re-elected to the council for a fresh three-year term.

The BBC has obtained a copy of the position paper Russia is circulating to UN members asking for their support.

The vote will take place next month.

In the document seen by the BBC, Russia promises to find "adequate solutions for human rights issues" and seeks to stop the council becoming an "instrument which serves political wills of one group of countries", understood to be a reference to the West.

Diplomats said Russia was hoping to regain some international credibility after being accused of human rights abuses in Ukraine and within its own borders.

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The UN human rights council is based in Geneva and has 47 members, each elected for a three-year term.

In the next elections, due on 10 October, Russia will compete with Albania and Bulgaria for the two seats on the council reserved for central and eastern European countries.

The vote will involve all 193 members of the UN general assembly in New York. Diplomats there said Russia was campaigning aggressively, offering small countries grain and arms in return for their votes.

As such, they said it was entirely possible Russia could get back onto the council.

The Russian position paper - circulated at the UN - says it wants to "promote principles of cooperation and strengthening of constructive mutually respectful dialogue in the council in order to find adequate solutions for human rights issues".

Its core pitch is that Russia would use its membership "to prevent the increasing trend of turning the HRC into an instrument which serves the political will of one group of countries". It said it does not want that group "punishing non-loyal governments for their independent and external policy".

Russia was suspended from the Human Rights Council in April 2022 with 93 members of the UN general assembly voting in favour, 24 against and 58 abstaining. In its position paper, Russia blames "the United States and its allies" for it losing membership.

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A Foreign Office spokesperson said: "Widespread evidence of Russia's human rights abuses and violations in Ukraine and against its own citizens, including those highlighted by the UN's special rapporteur on Russia just last week, demonstrates Russia's complete contempt for the work of the council."

The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, said Russia had committed atrocities in Ukraine, its leader had been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court and had shown utter contempt for the UN Charter.

"The idea that Russia could return to the Human Rights Council is an affront to the very concept of human rights and a dangerous backwards step that would damage its credibility," he said. "The government should work intensively with countries who have abstained in the past to make the case that the essential values of the UN must be upheld."

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Op maandag 25 september 2023 22:03 schreef JopieKlaassen het volgende:

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Ik heb het idee dat ze al een stuk minder afschieten dan pak m beet een jaar geleden. Heeft iemand een grafiekje of zo waarin dit is uitgetekend?
Kan natuurlijk ook zijn dat ze sparen om over een paar maanden weer full nazi te gaan op de elektriciteitsvoorzieningen.

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Op dinsdag 26 september 2023 07:20 schreef BlaZ het volgende:

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Qua rakketten is het echt stukken minder als voorheen, aanvallen van groepen drones komen echter wel veel voor. Die drones zijn veel goedkoper en massaler te produceren.