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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 11:52 schreef Solstice1 het volgende:

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Wat hebben ze bijna gewonnen? Participatie-trofee?

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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 16:24 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 16:21 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 16:40 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 17:15 schreef Gehrman het volgende:
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Op woensdag 20 december 2023 16:35 schreef 3rr0r het volgende:
Het moeilijk hebben hoort erbij, is goed. Zegt de rijkste man op aarde.

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How pro-Russian 'yacht' propaganda influenced US debate over Ukraine aid
A website founded by a former US Marine who now lives in Russia has fuelled a rumour that Volodymyr Zelensky purchased two luxury yachts with American aid money.

Despite the false claim, the disinformation plot was successful. It took off online and was echoed by members of the US Congress making crucial decisions about military spending.

It was an incredible assertion - using two advisers as proxies, Mr Zelensky paid $75m (£59m) for two yachts.

But not only has the Ukrainian government flatly denied the story, the two ships in question have not even been sold.

Despite being false, the story reached members of the US Congress, where leaders say any decision on further aid to Ukraine will be delayed until next year.

Some are vehemently opposed to further support.

On X, formerly Twitter, Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said: "Anyone who votes to fund Ukraine is funding the most corrupt money scheme of any foreign war in our country's history."

She linked to a story containing the yacht rumour.

Tom Tillis, a Republican Senator and a supporter of military aid to Ukraine, spoke to CNN shortly after senators held a closed-door meeting with Mr Zelensky last week.

"I think the notion of corruption came up because some have said we can't do it, because people will buy yachts with the money," Mr Tillis said. "[Mr Zelensky] disabused people of those notions."

Mr Tillis has butted heads with another Republican Senator, J D Vance, who has also mentioned Mr Zelensky and ships in the same breath.

While discussing budget priorities on a podcast hosted by former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Mr Vance said: "There are people who would cut Social Security, throw our grandparents into poverty, why? So that one of Zelensky's ministers can buy a bigger yacht?"

Although the yacht rumour is false, the BBC has discovered the story was given a major boost by a Russia-linked website that pretends to be located in Washington.

It is, researchers say, a "likely purpose-built tool for narrative laundering with links to the Russian government".

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Russian Deep Space Network Center in Crimea Hit by Storm Shadows: Reports
Ukraine has struck a Russian deep space network hub in annexed Crimea—allegedly used by the Russian Aerospace Forces—with British-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles, according to local reports.

Two attacks on the Black Sea peninsula were carried out on Wednesday morning. An employee of the FSB Border Service was injured and equipment and a satellite antenna were damaged, Russian independent news channel ASTRA reported.

Ukraine has been ramping up its attacks on Crimea, which was annexed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2014. Kyiv has vowed to recapture the peninsula.

In October, satellite images showed Russia's Black Sea Fleet is fleeing from the port of Sevastopol in Crimea to Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia and the Russian naval port in Feodosia on the annexed peninsula, amid these increased strikes.

According to telegram channel Crimean Wind, the first attack took place at around 4 a.m. in Alushta, a city on Crimea's southern coast.

The Telegram channel said a second explosion was heard at around 5 a.m., and that Ukraine struck Russia's Center for Long-Range Space Communications in the village of Vitino in the Saky region using Storm Shadow missiles.

Storm Shadow missiles have a range of more than 150 miles, and can be launched by Ukraine from its combat aircraft.

"Full name of the center: 40th separate command and measuring complex as part of the Main Test Space Center named after G. S. Titov of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation," ASTRA said.

The center is one of three complexes that make up Russia's Yevpatoria Center for Deep Space Communications, which supports manned and robotic space missions.

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Russian authorities haven't commented on the reported strikes, and Kyiv hasn't claimed responsibility. Newsweek has reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry and Ukraine's Foreign Ministry for comment via email.

Ukraine is reported to have used Storm Shadow missiles in an attack in September on a Russian naval shipyard in Sevastopol. The missile strikes damaged Moscow's Rostov-on-Don submarine and the Minsk landing ship at the Ordzhonikidze shipyard, Ukraine's military intelligence agency told Ukrainska Pravda. That attack reportedly killed a number of leading officers.

Experts close to Ukraine's Defense Ministry previously told Newsweek that Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to "demilitarize" the Black Sea Fleet as part of steps toward eventually liberating Crimea.

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Non-alcoholic beer was handed over to Ukraine as humanitarian aid.
The volunteer organisation received humanitarian aid in the form of 9 tonnes of non-alcoholic beer.
Beer producer Carlsberg has handed over humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the form of 24,000 cans of non-alcoholic beer. The volunteers reported about it on Facebook.

According to the volunteers, their organisation received humanitarian aid from a new partner of Carlsberg, the largest beer producer.

Fans of beer should be saddened, we received non-alcoholic beer Garage in the amount of 24 000 cans, which is almost 9 tonnes of drink, - said the volunteers.

It is emphasised that this is a "wonderful help to the guys of the AFU and the civilian population". The cost of delivery was almost 49 thousand UA