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Russia's large landing ship arrived in Sevastopol.
"ATESH" records the arrival of a large Russian amphibious assault ship in occupied Sevastopol.

Alarge Russian landing ship has arrived in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol. This was reported on 24 January by the military movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars "ATESH".

Our agents, after much time of reconnaissance and expectation, were able to record the redeployment of a large landing ship of the project 775 to the Grafskaya pier of the city of Sevastopol, - stated in the message.

It is reported that after arriving in the harbour, the ship was turned around and covered with camouflage. Most likely, it will soon perform combat duty.

All operational information guerrillas passed to the Defence forces of Ukraine.

We will remind, 26 December 2023 in the occupied Crimea AFU struck a large landing ship "Novocherkassk" of the Russian Federation.

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ISW: Kremlin may allow some anti-war opposition to frame Russian presidential election as referendum on war
The Kremlin may allow for some anti-war opposition from Russian presidential candidates, aiming to frame the controlled outcome of Russian President Vladimir Putin's re-election as a "positive referendum" on the war in Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote in its assessment on Jan. 23.

The ISW notes that the Kremlin may allow for the nomination of anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin to funnel opposition votes and portray a "semblance of choice while ultimately ensuring the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin" in the March presidential election.

Nadezhdin, a former Russian parliamentarian, has collected more than 100,000 signatures as part of the nomination process, but has yet to reach the signature threshold established by the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) to become a candidate.

During an interview with independent Russian media outlet Verstka, Nadezhdin said that he believes the CEC will have to register him as a candidate due to his claimed broad support among the Russian electorate.

Nadezhdin campaign website explicitly lists his positions as "peace" instead of "militarism," "civil society" instead of "Putin's (power) vertical," and "cooperation with European countries" rather than "Russia's isolation," among other views that contradict Putin's policies.

Nadezhdin was a close associate to Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition figure assassinated in 2015. He then moved to closer align with the Kremlin's current presidential administration, before publicly denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Nadezhdin has previously said that he supports Russia's constitution and considers himself a "Russian patriot." He also said that the citizens of Crimea wanted to join Russia. When asked if he would return the Ukrainian territories illegally occupied by Russia, he declined to answer directly.

Putin is seeking a fifth term as president in an election scheduled for March 2024 that he is widely expected to win handily.

In 2020, Russia held a rigged vote to approve constitutional amendments allowing Putin to run for two more presidential terms after his current one expires in 2024. The vote effectively made Putin, who has been in power since 1999, a dictator for life.

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 20:29 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Maar het stelt toch allemaal niet zo veel meer voor de steun.

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 20:38 schreef sturmpie het volgende:

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dat dacht ik ook

dus we maken ons verder geen zorgen

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 20:48 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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Welke beslissingen gaat hij veto'en?

De meesten zijn op voordracht van de Amerikanen zelf ... dan ziet een veto er behoorlijk stom uit

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 20:52 schreef sturmpie het volgende:

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wat houdt dat artikel in ?
kan 't via google niet vinden

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Artikel 5
De partijen komen overeen dat een gewapende aanval tegen een of meer van hen in Europa of Noord-Amerika als een aanval tegen hen allen zal worden beschouwd; zij komen bijgevolg overeen dat, indien zulk een gewapende aanval plaatsvindt, ieder van hen de aldus aangevallen partij of partijen zal bijstaan, in de uitoefening van het recht tot individuele of collectieve zelfverdediging erkend in Artikel 51 van het Handvest van de Verenigde Naties, door terstond, individueel en in samenwerking met de andere partijen, op te treden op de wijze die zij nodig oordeelt met inbegrip van het gebruik van gewapend geweld om de veiligheid van het Noord-Atlantisch gebied te herstellen en te handhaven.

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 21:02 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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[ twitter ]

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 21:09 schreef Discombobulate het volgende:

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Maar dat gaat dus waarschijnlijk echt niet gebeuren.

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​russia Strikes Ukraine With Defective Kh-47 Kinzhal Missiles, They Do Not Explode (Photo)

In addition to the fact that the russian Kinzhal missiles were helpless against the Patriot surface-to-air (SAM) system due to the low culture of production, their warheads do not explode.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine once again showed the process of disposing of warheads of the russian "hypersonic" Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles.

This demonstrates that these missiles, which were presented in russia as the most modern and which "have no analogues in the whole world", do not work at all as expected in the Kremlin. More precisely – they do not work at all.

Update: later findings indicate that non-triggering of Kh-47 Kinzhal missiles is not a defect but a feature due to a conscious design choice on the part of russian engineers. The text below is left without changes as originally published.

It should be noted, that, firstly, they were able to be shot down by Ukrainian air defense (it is said that with the help of the American Patriot SAM system. Secondly, despite the fact that the warheads of these missiles fall to the ground, a large part of them does not explode. And two such warheads were destroyed the other day in Kirovohrad Region.

The fact is that the warhead of the Kinzhal missile should at least have a delayed-action contact detonator. It should be noted that a warhead of the Kh-47 Kinzhal missile itself must penetrate an obstacle and then explode. But, despite hitting the ground, the detonator does not always go off, as can be seen in the photos presented by theThe Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Earlier, on January 5, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine showed the process of disposing of another Kh-47 Kinzhal warhead, which was shot down in the Kyiv region. At the same time, it is known that in January of this year the enemy used a total of 20 of these missiles. January 2 - 10 (all missiles were shot down), January 8 - 4 (all missiles were not shot down), January 13 - 6 (all missiles were not shot down).

Defense Express learned from its own sources that the above-mentioned cases of failure of the Kinzhal’s warheads are far from all such cases. But even three cases are 15% of defective warheads that did not explode.

This may indicate a rather interesting trend that the russian federation has existing problems with the reliability of both the missile and its warhead. It should also be noted that 15% of head unit failures is a very high level of unreliability. Considering the fact that the X-47 Kinzhal is essentially a small-scale, if not an artificial product, this situation is quite telling.

According to a preliminary expert assessment, this may indicate that the quality of russian missiles is declining against the background of russian neglect of quality control for the sake of increasing the number of missiles produced. As a result, the number of defective missiles in the final products of the russians significantly increases.

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Op woensdag 24 januari 2024 21:22 schreef sp3c het volgende:

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Maar de NATO steunt Oekraïne helemaal niet dat doen de lidstaten, er wordt niet over gestemd en het valt niet te veto'en
Nieuwe lidstaten veto'en kan, proberen ze het over vier jaar nog een keer

Oefeningen blokkeren kan niet, je kan zeggen wij doen niet mee of het mag niet meer op ons grondgebied maar dan loop je het risico dat dat twee kanten op werkt en alle amerikaanse troepen naar huis moeten

Trump kan he-le-maal niets

Behalve twitteren

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Translation:
-Why the fuck did you come here?
-I came here for bread.
-For bread?
-Is this the fucking time for bread?

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In the end they say "You'll eat some fucking bread in a moment".

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Apple has paid a $13 million fine that will go directly into Russia's state budget as Putin ramps up war spending, report says
• Apple has paid a $13 million Russian fine over alleged illegal app store practices, per the FT.
• The funds have gone straight into Russia's state budget.
• Russia also fined Google over $400 million last year for not deleting "fake news" about Ukraine.

Apple has reportedly paid a $13 million Russian fine as President Vladimir Putin escalates his crackdown on foreign tech firms.

The US tech giant paid the 1.18 billion roubles ($13.3 million) fine on January 19, Russia's FAS antitrust agency announced, per Reuters — with those funds immediately going into the country's federal budget as Russia ramps up spending on its destructive invasion of Ukraine.

The fine was levied after the regulator ruled that Apple had used its dominant market position to stop developers from informing customers they could pay for in-app purchases outside of Apple's app store, according to the Financial Times.

Like many other Western companies, Apple has largely abandoned Russia since Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, though it still operates its app store in the country.

The Silicon Valley heavyweight paused all iPhone sales shortly after Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, and has also limited its ApplePay service in the country.

Apple and its Big Tech rivals have faced repeated fines and legal action by Russian regulators.

Apple previously paid a $12 million fine over similar allegations of anticompetitive behavior in February, and Google has received over $400 million worth of fines for failing to remove what Russia describes as "fake" information about the war in Ukraine.

Russia's finances are straining under the pressure of the ongoing war in Ukraine and crippling sanctions, with the Kremlin reportedly burning through nearly half of its national wealth fund since the invasion began.

Putin has attempted to top up stretched defense budgets by cracking down on foreign companies and selling off their stranded Russian assets, with the Russian government hoping to raise 114.5 billion roubles ($1.3 billion) from such sales in 2023.

However, the war has left the Russian economy struggling with spiraling food prices and a shortage of workers.

It has also devastated Russia's once-thriving tech sector, with tech workers fleeing the country to escape conscription and social media giant Yandex NV, once known as "Russia's Google," reportedly planning to sell off most of its Russian business.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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Russia's foreign minister accuses Ukraine of targeting plane with missile
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Ukraine of targeting the plane that went down in the Belgorod region with a missile while addressing reporters at the United Nations on Wednesday.

“The Ukrainian side launched an air defense missile from the Kharkiv region," Lavrov stated, adding that the "fatal strike" targeted the plane.
CNN is not able to independently verify Russia’s claims.

Lavrov said he has also requested an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting at 3 p.m. ET today following the downing of the plane.

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Gallery fire destroys more than 4,000 artworks in Georgia’s separatist region Abkhazia

A fire broke out at the National Art Gallery of Abkhazia — a pro-Russian separatist republic that is officially part of Georgia — in the early hours of Sunday morning, destroying at least 4,000 works of art, local state media has reported.

“Everything burned down,” Acting Minister of Culture Dinara Smyr said, according to the region’s Apsnypress news agency. “This is an irreparable loss for the national culture of Abkhazia. I am choking with tears. It is difficult for me to speak.”

Apsnypress reported that the gallery’s collection included around 300 works by Alexander Chachba-Shervashidze, an exiled painter whom the breakaway republic considers to be the “first professional Abkhazian artist.” None of his pieces are thought to have survived, said Smyr.

The National Art Gallery is in Sukhumi, the separatist republic’s capital city. Abkhazia has declared its own government and is propped up by Russia, but is not officially recognized as a state by most countries or by the United Nations. According to Abkhazia’s State Committee for Statistics, the region’s population was around 244,000 in 2021.

The National Art Gallery’s Central Exhibition Hall caught fire overnight, and emergency services were called to the scene early Sunday morning, according to state media. By 7 a.m. local time the flames were contained, and by 11 a.m. the blaze was extinguished, Apsnypress said, adding that 11 fire brigades were called to the site from surrounding areas.

“The death of the works of art that made up the fund of the National Art Gallery is an irreparable loss for the cultural heritage of our state,” Abkhazia’s Parliament said in a statement posted on state media.

Around 150 paintings by Abkhaz artists survived the fire, Apsnypress reported, citing Smyr. The news agency also said that Abkhazia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has opened an investigation into the cause of the blaze.

In a social media post, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili called the fire a “tragedy for us all.” She also criticized the region’s leadership, saying, “I deplore what is a direct consequence of the neglect of cultural identity both by the de-facto leadership and the Russian occupants.”