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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 09:38 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:31 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:46 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Ik trek dit slecht

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Russian Orthodox Church forming paramilitary units to bolster forces in Ukraine – SBU
The leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church is creating its own "Orthodox PMCs" in Russia to recruit and train mercenaries to fight against Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine found.

The SBU claims that a "private military company" called St. Andrew's Cross operates in the Kronstadt Maritime Cathedral (Kronstadt is located on an island in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg), and that right in the cathedral there is recruitment into Russian occupation groupings.

Recruiters prefer those who have already completed military service and have combat "experience", the SBU notes. Then the "church" mercenaries undergo training under the guidance of instructors from the Russian special services.

Such PMCs are financed by "representatives of the financial and industrial groups of the aggressor state, close to the head of the Kremlin", and the funds go to the accounts of the Russian Orthodox Church in the form of alleged charitable contributions and donations for the construction of churches.

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:31 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:53 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://news.liga.net/en/(...)-voyny-v-ukraine-sbu
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Het artikel gaat nog verder. Maar als dit waar is is het wel erg kwalijk natuurlijk. Al wisten we al dat de Russische orthodoxe kerk aan de zijde van Putin staat, tot in het extreme toe.

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:53 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://news.liga.net/en/(...)-voyny-v-ukraine-sbu
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Het artikel gaat nog verder. Maar als dit waar is is het wel erg kwalijk natuurlijk. Al wisten we al dat de Russische orthodoxe kerk aan de zijde van Putin staat, tot in het extreme toe.

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Five Russian Attack Jets in Ten Days: Something Is Knocking Down Kremlin Jets, a Lot
Ukraine in recent months jumped in with two feet on developing “FrankenSAM” missile systems to fill its air defense gaps. The Russian Air Force recently has felt some serious pain.

On Friday, the Russian Air Force reportedly lost its fifth attack jet in ten days, in a combat aircraft loss spike not seen in Moscow’s combat air operations over Ukraine since the first days of the war.

Russian aviators aboard Su-25 Grach aircraft (NATO: Frogfoot), an armored Soviet-era jet designed to resist small arms fire and even some missile strikes, were knocked down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft weapons fired in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and southern Zaporizhzhia regions, Ukrainian official military sources said.

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Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesperson for Ukraine’s joint forces south, told the UNIAN news agency that intensifying Russian operation of sub-sonic Su-25s close to front lines in support of Kremlin ground troop assaults has increasingly brought the single-seat aircraft into the range of shorter-ranged Ukrainian ground-based air defense systems that are able to shoot them down.

“They (Su-25s) can’t attack from a substantial distance. Therefore, the enemy has to fly closer, and as a result, we’ve shot down five planes over the past ten days,” Shtupun said.

All the shootdowns took place in sectors of heavy ground combat. In recent weeks, the Russian Air Force intensified ground strikes against Ukrainian defenses using new supplies of long-range glider bombs.

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 17:10 schreef Nebelwerfer het volgende:

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Zo bekeken boeit 1 zo’n kat geen ene klote.

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 09:38 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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In times like these, it's so important to remain human

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Leaked documents show connections between PVV and Russia
Leaked documents posted online by Ukrainian hackers show that the Kremlin has very successfully been trying to develop ties with the PVV since 2013. The documents also show that PVV leader Geert Wilders has been trying to hide his far-right populist party’s connections with Russia, Follow the Money reports.

PVV members have participated in Russian propaganda events, and their visits were organized by the far-right Duma member Leonid Slutsky. According to FTM, Slutsky is a central figure in the Kremlin’s efforts to recruit Western politicians to its cause so that they can fight sanctions against Russia and the idea of a sovereign Ukraine in their own countries.

For example, Slutsky organized PVV MEP Andre Elissen’s visit to Moscow in 2017 to “observe” the Russian elections. In 2018, Geert Wilders himself visited the Russian capital, a trip also organized by Slutsky. At the time, Wilders claimed that his visit was to “keep the dialogue open” after Russia annexed Crimea and the downing of flight MH17. Wilders did not comment publicly about the visit afterward.

The documents also show that the PVV has tried to conceal its political ties with the Kremlin. In an email from 2016, for example, Wilders explicitly demanded that the general public not see the Russian guests present at a meeting of European sister parties.

According to FTM, the leaked documents show that the PVV is one of several political parties that Slutsky and his Russian Peace Foundation have been influencing, bribing, and inviting to Russia on an all-expenses paid basis for at least ten years.

According to Jakub Kelnsky, a researcher at the expertise center on hybrid security threats in Helsinki, the relationship between the PVV and Russia exposed in these documents is a textbook example of the Kremlin’s strategy to influence Western politicians. “You invite them to election observation missions, to events about traditional values, anti-Brussels, anti-EU, or anti-NATO. Then you’ll probably give them some stage time because some will be flattered. And you try to get them to visit Moscow.”

Five years after Wilders’ trip to Moscow, the PVV’s position on Russia has remained the same, according to FTM’s analysis of the party’s voting behavior. The party condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but it maintains its opposition to sanctions on Moscow and arms supplies to Kyiv. It is also firmly against Ukraine becoming a member of NATO. Early last year, just after the invasion, the PVV was the only party to vote against an investigation into the financing of political parties from abroad.

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AFU soldiers captured the commander of the Black Mamba
On the Limanskoye direction, the Steel Cordon fighters captured a squad commander of the Black Mamba unit.

On the Limanskoye direction, the Steel Cordon fighters captured a squad commander of the Black Mamba unit.
A photo of the captured Russian commander of theBlack Mamba unit has been published by the State Security Service of Ukraine.

It is reported that the 38-year-old Russian serviceman was captured during assault operations in the Limanskiy direction.

Thecaptured occupant turned out to be an ex-convict. He said that the moral and psychological state in their unit was low and that the motivation to fight in Ukraine was only money and the removal of criminal records.

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Finnish police point out "interesting" Russian ship - traveled over destroyed Swedish cable
Three cables on the bottom of the Baltic Sea were destroyed within a few hours.

Finnish and Estonian police have singled out the Russian ship Sevmorput as one of several interesting in the investigation.

SVT Nyheter can now show that the ship was nearby in connection with all three instances of damage.

The news about the damaged fiber cable between Sweden and Estonia became known at a press conference with the government yesterday.

SVT Nyheter can now show several new details about the damaged cable in the Baltic Sea. The cable is called EE-S1 and is owned by the Swedish company Arelion, which was previously owned by Telia but which is now owned by the Swedish AP funds.

- We can confirm that it is our cable that has been damaged. It happened in the afternoon on Saturday 7 October, says Mattias Fridström, manager at Arelion.

Unusual event
He states that the current fiber cable is protected by a steel cable that is wrapped around the cable and that four out of six fiber pairs in the line are now destroyed. Internet traffic has now been moved to the remaining fiber pair in the line.

- It is very unusual for a cable to be partially destroyed in this way. It happens that fishermen are careless with their anchors or trawlers, but then the cable usually breaks completely.

The Estonian public prosecutor's office tells SVT Nyheter that the incidents are being investigated jointly by the security police KAPO and the Finnish Central Criminal Police.

Temporal coupling
According to open satellite data, the Russian nuclear-powered freighter Sevmorput traveled over all the now-destroyed lines. There was also a Chinese cargo ship in close proximity which is also being investigated. There is a temporal connection between the ships' journey and the time of the occurrence of the damage.

On the afternoon of October 7, the Swedish fiber cable was damaged. During the same afternoon, the two ships passed the area where the Swedish cable was damaged.
A few hours later, the breakdown occurred on the Finnish-Estonian gas pipeline Balticconnector and a communication cable. Here, too, the two ships traveled close to the damage sites close together in time.
In a written comment to SVT Nyheter, the Russian company Rosatom says that it rejects all accusations that the ship Sevmorput is involved and calls the accusations baseless.

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Russia's Black Sea Fleet weapons warehouses attacked in Crimea - Russian media
In Crimea on Wednesday, October 18, Russian weapons depots were attacked. Presumably, a missile hit the territory of the storage facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, according to ASTRA.

The Russian publication, citing sources, states that on the evening of October 18, one of the missiles hit the territory of military unit 63876 in the area of the settlement of Saharna Ğolovka near Sevastopol.

This is where the storage facilities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are located.

"The territory of the military unit is damaged, and one serviceman is injured," the statement said.

During the missile attack, more than 350 police officers were evacuated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs buildings in Sevastopol.

What is known about the explosions in Sevastopol
Yesterday evening, an air raid was announced in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol after explosions occurred. They sounded in the area of the settlement of Saharna Ğolovka.

Later, it was revealed that at least four depots with Russian weapons were located near the settlement. Among other things, missile armaments are stored there.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia claimed to have allegedly shot down two S-200 missiles.

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Russia arrests another journalist with American citizenship
Russian authorities have arrested Alsu Kurmasheva, a dual-Russian/American citizen and journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Tatar-Bashkir service, the news outlet reported on Oct. 19.

Kurmasheva was arrested in Kazan for failing to register as a foreign agent, which can carry a sentence of up to five years in prison.

According to RFE/RL, Kurmasheva lives in Prague with her family, and traveled to Russia in May for a family emergency. When she tried to leave Russia the following month, authorities confiscated both her Russian and American passports, supposedly on the premise that she had not registered her U.S. passport.

Kurmasheva has been unable to leave Russia since then. RFE/RL confirmed that she had been charged with the foreign agent violation on Oct. 19, while waiting for her passports to be returned.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement on Oct. 18, condemning Kurmasheva's arrest and describing the allegation against her as meritless.

"CPJ is deeply concerned by the detention of U.S.-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva on spurious criminal charges and calls on Russian authorities to release her immediately and drop all charges against her,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator.

“Journalism is not a crime and Kurmasheva’s detention is yet more proof that Russia is determined to stifle independent reporting.”

Kurmasheva is the second journalist with American citizenship to be detained in Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter from the U.S., was arrested in Russia in March 2023 on espionage charges. He has been held in pre-trial detention since then.

Both the U.S. government and the WSJ strongly deny the charges against him.

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2023 16:53 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Het artikel gaat nog verder. Maar als dit waar is is het wel erg kwalijk natuurlijk. Al wisten we al dat de Russische orthodoxe kerk aan de zijde van Putin staat, tot in het extreme toe.