Oorlog in Oekraïne #983: Ruble Trouble

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Op vrijdag 14 juni 2024 23:41 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Het is idd zo dat er steen en been geklaagd wordt door russen die geen uitkering krijgen, omdat simpelweg ontkent wordt dat ze dood of oorlogsinvalide zijn.

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EU-toetredingsoverleg Oekraïne kan van start na draai Hongarije

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AfD parliamentary group vice-chairman celebrates in Russian embassy

^{Stefan Keuter, deputy head of the AfD parliamentary group; in the background a picture of Russia's embassy in Berlin}

Last year, AfD leader Tino Chrupalla sparked outrage when he celebrated the "Victory Day" over Germany in the Russian embassy. Recently, parliamentary group vice-chairman Stefan Keuter was a guest there to celebrate the Russian national holiday - together with other party colleagues.

DThe closeness of relevant parts of the AfD to Russia is always a source of criticism. Now, according to information from WELT AM SONNTAG, an AfD member of the Bundestag has once again visited the Russian embassy. Bundestag parliamentary group vice-chairman Stefan Keuter took part in a festive reception at the embassy on Wednesday evening to mark the Russian national holiday.

A photo published on Facebook shows Keuter next to the businessman Alexander von Bismarck, the former AfD member of the Bundestag Ulrich Oehme and a high-ranking employee of the embassy. Oehme is a founding member of a pro-Russian association and is running for the Saxon state parliament in September.

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46th Airmobile Brigade Thwarts Significant Enemy Attack in Marinka

The paratroopers of the 46th Airmobile Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces repelled the largest enemy assault during the entire period of their presence in the Mariinka sector.

The video was released by the brigade’s press service.

It is reported that the Russians conducted the assault on June 13, 2024, involving 28 units of equipment.

The brigade’s aerial reconnaissance detected the enemy’s movements in time, and its vanguard forces began to incur losses due to minefields on the outskirts of Ukrainian positions.

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Op vrijdag 14 juni 2024 23:17 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Hahahaha en dan te bedenken dat je haar over 5 jaar kunt kopen voor 5 dollar.

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Op zaterdag 15 juni 2024 00:38 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Volgens mij hebben we weer een nieuwe rode lijn gemist.

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How can CENTAC recreate the real conditions that await our men on the battlefields of the 21st century?
A thread 1/5

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For several years, the battalion has implemented, under the leadership of Captain Antony, a set of equipment unique in France. Decoys, detectors, explosives and sound cannons that immerse soldiers in the reality of combat, but not only that. 2/5

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CENTAC has already acquired a decoy representing a Pantsir SA22 anti-aircraft system which serves a triple purpose. It serves as a target for the troops, but also for the @Armee_de_lair planes, the ALAT helicopters and their ground coordinators, the JTACs. 3/5

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Finally, it was deployed for the benefit of the military intelligence department to allow it to train in counter-deception, that is to say, here, to differentiate real vehicles and decoys by satellite. 4/5

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Because CENTAC is more than a training center: the use of decoys, tested in the field, allows armies to instill doubt in the adversary, to influence their maneuver and to discover themselves by opening fire on these dummy targets. 5/5

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Russian Special Services Recruit Ukrainian Minors for Sabotage in Ukraine, Offering Cash for Arson
In order to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, the special services of the Russian Federation encouraged minors to burn the cars of the Armed Forces of Ukraine servicemen for money.

Young men who were involved in criminal activity have been detained. These crimes are punishable by up to 15 years in prison or life imprisonment.

The police established that since the beginning of 2024, the special services of Russia became active in social networks, and involved people aged 13 and over in underground subversive activities.

The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police, Vadym Dziubynskyi, said that in Odesa, the police uncovered two boys, 13 and 16 years old, who set fire to two cars belonging to military personnel.

The teenagers were detained together with two friends aged 16 and 18 while trying to set fire to another car.

Employees of the special services of the Russian Federation promised generous compensation to minors for arson.

Also, similar attacks were recorded in Kyiv and Dnipro. Urgent investigative actions are being carried out on these facts, and a pre-trial investigation is ongoing.

“We call on parents to pay more attention to their children, as well as to warn them about the insidiousness of the enemy and the legal responsibility for committing sabotage: up to 15 years of imprisonment or life imprisonment,” Vadym Dziubynskyi addressed the parents.

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Putin Says Freezing of Russian Assets in West Is ‘Theft’
Putin also warned the standoff between Moscow and the West was coming “unacceptably close to the point of no return” and boasted that Moscow “possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday branded as “theft” the freezing of Russian assets abroad and warned it would “not go unpunished.”

G7 leaders agreed Thursday on a new $50 billion loan for Ukraine using profits from frozen Russian assets, a move US President Joe Biden said showed Moscow “we're not backing down.”

The G7 and the EU froze around ¤300 billion ($325 billion) of Russian central bank reserves, days after Moscow ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

On Friday, Putin said Western countries were trying to come up with “some kind of legal basis” to justify these “but despite all the trickery, theft is still theft and will not go unpunished.”

The Russian leader also warned the standoff between Moscow and the West was coming “unacceptably close to the point of no return” and boasted that Moscow “possesses the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.”

Putin has repeatedly invoked nuclear rhetoric throughout the conflict with Ukraine, which he casts as just one front in a wider "hybrid war" between Russia and the NATO military alliance.

He also blasted a Ukraine peace forum taking place in Switzerland this weekend as a “trick to distract everybody.”

Moscow, which does not recognize Ukraine’s right to exist, was not invited to the conference, which will be attended by the heads of state and senior officials from around 90 countries and international organizations.

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Op zaterdag 15 juni 2024 00:38 schreef ExTec het volgende:
Volgens mij hebben we weer een nieuwe rode lijn gemist.

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The ambassadors of the European Union agreed on the framework for negotiations on the accession of Ukraine and Moldova to the EU
It is expected that the first intergovernmental conference will be held on June 25, which will give an official start to the negotiations on the accession of Ukraine and Moldova to the EU.

This was reported by the Belgian Presidency of the EU on the X social network, informs Censor.NET .

It is reported that on the evening of June 14, the permanent representatives of the member states of the European Union agreed on the negotiating framework for negotiations on the accession of Ukraine and Moldova to the EU .

The first intergovernmental conference will be held on June 25 under the chairmanship of Belgium, which is known to last until the end of June. On July 1, Hungary will take over the presidency of the EU Council.

We will remind that earlier the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Aja Lyabib , stated that Belgium intends to hold an intergovernmental conference with Kyiv by the end of June regarding the start of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU.

Brussels officials insisted on starting official negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU on June 25.

Read also: Ukraine has fulfilled all requirements. The EU should start accession negotiations by the end of June - von der Leyen.

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92 countries will participate in the Global Peace Summit. Of them, 57 will be presented at the highest level
The Swiss government announced the final list of participants of the Global Peace Summit, which will be held on June 15-16. More than half of the participants will be represented at the highest level.

This is stated on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Censor.NET reports .

According to the published list of event participants, 92 countries will participate in the Global Peace Summit . 57 of them will be represented at the highest level, that is, presidents or prime ministers will go from them.

Other states will be represented at the ministerial level, or will send ambassadors.

There is no China in the list of delegations at the peace summit. At the same time, the list of participants indicates that a representative of Saudi Arabia will attend the conference, despite the fact that the country had not previously planned this. As you know, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently visited Saudi Arabia , where, among other things, he discussed preparations for the Global Peace Summit with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman al Saud. It is possible that, after that, Saudi Arabia changed its decision to participate in the summit.

The Council of Europe, OSCE, Organization of American States and all key EU institutions (European Council, European Commission, European Parliament) will be represented in Switzerland.

In addition, Brazil, the Holy See, the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the United Nations will attend the summit as observers.

We will remind that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi has already arrived in Switzerland on Thursday, June 14, where the Global Peace Summit will begin tomorrow.

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The International Criminal Court is investigating cyberattacks on Ukraine as war crimes, - Reuters
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating cyber attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes.

As reported by Censor.NET , this was reported by Reuters with reference to sources.

Thus, sources familiar with the case reported that prosecutors of the International Criminal Court are investigating alleged Russian cyber attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes.

Cyberattacks on infrastructure that put lives at risk by disrupting power and water supplies, disrupting connections to emergency response services or knocking out mobile data services that relay air raid warnings are being reviewed, one of the sources said.

It also said it was the first confirmation that the cyber attacks were being investigated by international prosecutors and could lead to arrest warrants if enough evidence is gathered.

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Ukraine's Military Claims Hits On Concentrated Russian Troops; Moscow Says 5 Dead In Belgorod
Ukraine fired missiles and artillery at 15 areas where Russia troops were concentrated on June 14 as Russia tried to use its advantage in manpower, equipment, and air support to seize territory in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv's General Staff said.

"Despite the intense enemy onslaught, the Ukrainian soldiers fought back hard and effectively," the General Staff said in its late summary of the day's fighting.

The Ukrainian military said there were 81 combat clashes during the day, while the Russian military said its troops seized about a dozen settlements, and the governor of the Belgorod region said five people were killed in attacks on the region.

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Canine sappers trained under EC program to be handed over to Ukraine

A third, and the largest group yet, of bomb-sniffing dogs trained in Belgium, Poland, Italy, Malta, Luxembourg, and Finland under a European Commission project will soon begin their service in Ukraine.

The dogs completed a 14-day adaptation period in Poland, including sessions at the Carpathian Border Guard unit, allowing Ukrainian handlers to familiarize themselves with their new partners.

On June 14, a ceremonial handover will take place at the airport in Łososina Dolna near Nowy Sącz, southern Poland, where 12 dogs, trained by the Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), will be handed over to Ukrainian handlers. These dogs will join the demining battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces.

This initiative is part of a European Commission project aiming to train a total of 50 dogs to assist Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion. These dogs will play a crucial role in locating and neutralizing explosives, missiles, and radioactive materials, thus enhancing the safety of civilians and critical infrastructure.

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