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Ex-Wagner Fighter Signs Military Contract After Second Murder Conviction
A convicted murderer in Russia has signed his second contract to fight in Moscow’s war on Ukraine just months after receiving a new prison sentence for another murder, the Travmpunkt legal rights group said Monday.

Ivan Rossomakhin had been serving a 14-year sentence for murder when he was first recruited by the Wagner mercenary group in 2022 to fight in Ukraine.

In April, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for stabbing and raping his elderly neighbor upon returning to his hometown in the Kirov region. An appeals court later extended Rossomakhin’s sentence to 23 years.

According to Travmpunkt, which advocates for victims of violent crime, the head of the prison where Rossomakhin was incarcerated informed the victim’s family that he had been released under a law permitting convicted criminals to join the military. Despite his new sentence, the former Wagner fighter reportedly served less than six months before being sent back to the front lines.

The Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Novosti, which first broke the story of Rossomakhin’s latest military contract, said his case likely marks the first time “a recruited prisoner has evaded punishment by being deployed to a war zone for the second time.”

The practice of recruiting prisoners for the war in Ukraine was spearheaded by Wagner in 2022. However, Russia’s Defense Ministry took over prison recruitment early last year.

Under a law signed by President Vladimir Putin in March, convicted recruits have their remaining sentences suspended for the duration of their military service. They could even have their criminal records expunged if they receive state awards.

In 2023, Russian courts convicted a record number of soldiers for murder amid growing reports of violence committed by servicemen after returning from Ukraine.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 21:34 schreef Idisrom het volgende:

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Ik denk dat de Oekraïense inval in Koersk de Russen nu het zetje gegeven hebben om straks tot een iets van mobilisatie over te gaan. Anders was Poetin aan het wikken en wegen gebleven.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 21:34 schreef Idisrom het volgende:

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Ik heb even opmerkingen over twee van je genoemde punten.
"Tenzij zij een algehele mobilisatie gaan beginnen." en " Grote morele opkikker van troepen aan andere delen van het front voor Oekraine."

Ik denk dat de Oekraïense inval in Koersk de Russen nu het zetje gegeven hebben om straks tot een iets van mobilisatie over te gaan. Anders was Poetin aan het wikken en wegen gebleven. Dan komt de inval in de oblast Koersk als een boemerang terug.

En aan de grote morele opkikker van de troepen aan het Donbassfront heb ik wel mijn twijfels. Je zegt zelf al, dat het een soort vakantie is voor troepen die nu in Koersk vechten. Ik denk dat de troepen die al jaren- en maandenlang in de loopgraven van het Donbassfront zitten te verdedigen, het gevoel hebben dat de Oekraïense Jannen-met-de-pet-op zich maar wat anoniem moeten doorvechten of doodvechten, terwijl wat elitetroepen in het publiek nu de goede sier maken.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 22:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Dat zal Iran leuk vinden. Die zijn daar heel gevoelig voor als het ze uitkomt.

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A Russian Elon Musk with 100 biological children: Meet Pavel Durov
Pavel Durov is a lot of things to a lot of people. Programming prodigy. Billionaire entrepreneur. Kremlin stooge. Free-speech fighter. Biological father to at least 100 kids.

Durov, the elusive founder of Telegram who was detained in France over the weekend, cuts the figure of a mysterious, globe-trotting tech bro with Mark Zuckerberg’s prodigiousness, Jack Dorsey’s bizarre lifestyle habits and Elon Musk’s libertarian streak – plus a similar obsession with pronatalism and fathering children. Durov said in July that he had fathered more than 100 children thanks to sperm donations he had made over the past 15 years.

Worth an estimated $9.15 billion according to Bloomberg and armed with an array of passports and residences, Durov has for a decade lived a life without borders, a man on an often-shirtless journey to secure the freedom of communication from the prying eyes of governments, democratically elected or otherwise.

Now, Durov’s legal trouble is drudging up an old debate, pitting Telegram’s end-to-end encryption, which keeps communications between users secure even from the company’s employees, against the security concerns of various governments and the European Union’s campaign to rein in big tech.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 22:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Dat zal Iran leuk vinden. Die zijn daar heel gevoelig voor als het ze uitkomt.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 22:34 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)file-intl/index.html
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Wat achtergrond informatie over Durov.

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 22:58 schreef oheng het volgende:

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Ik zie niks op het Rusich Telegram kanaal? Ook niet op andere, zoals Vorposte, Dark, Leader Z, etc

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Op maandag 26 augustus 2024 23:19 schreef Evenveel het volgende:

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Ik lees je posts altijd met veel interesse, maar helaas gaat vaak in je 2e gedeelte van het bericht wat fout waardoor er tekst mist

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Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2024 00:38 schreef Delenlill het volgende:

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Kan je iets specifieker zijn? Want voor zover ik kan zien heb ik gewoon het gehele nieuwsbericht geplaatst.

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“We decided to refuse, and that didn’t go too well with the Russian government,” Durov

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Op dinsdag 27 augustus 2024 01:23 schreef Evenveel het volgende:

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Zeker! In dit specifieke voorbeeld breekt ie hier af:
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maar het bericht gaat daarna nog een beetje verder

ik denk dat het te maken heeft met een scroll iets in de quote ofzo

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The Russians hit a hotel in Kryvyi Rih with ballistics, there are dead and wounded

In Kryvyi Rih, the Russians fired ballistic missiles at the hotel, there are dead and injured.

Source: Dnipro operative , First city. Kryvyi Rih, head of the City Defense Council Oleksandr Vilkul in Telegram, head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak

Verbatim Dnipro operative: "Kryvyi Rih. The Russians hit the hotel with ballistics."

Vilkul's direct speech: "The news is bad, specifics after the break.

Everyone is already in place. Rescue and medical services save people."

Details: According to preliminary data, the occupiers attacked the Aurora hotel.

Local media published a photo of the arrival at the Kryvyi Rih hotel.

Updated: Lysak later reported that a civilian object in Kryvyi Rih was mutilated as a result of the Russian attack.

Lysak's direct speech: "A civilian facility was mutilated due to the attack. Previously, one person died and four were injured. There may be people under the rubble."

Updated: Head of the Kryvyi Rih District, Yevhen Sytnychenko, announced after 2 a.m. that the number of victims as a result of the Russian attack on the Kryvyi Rih hotel had increased to two.

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Morning attack on Ukraine cost Russia almost US$1.3 billion
The 26 August attack on Ukraine has cost Russia about US$1.26 billion.

Source: estimates of Ekonmichna Pravda

Details: The Ukrainian Air Force reports that as of the beginning of the day on 26 August the Russians have launched on Ukraine:

• 109 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs;
• 77 Kh-101 cruise missiles;
• 3 Kh-22 cruise missiles;
• 28 Kalibr submarine-launched cruise missiles;
• 6 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
• 3 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
• 10 Kh-59/Kh-69 guided missiles.

The Shahed-136/131 UAV can cost from US$49,000 if produced in Russia and up to US$290,000 if imported from Iran. The price planned for import from Iran, US$193,000, was taken as a basis here.

Therefore, 109 attack UAVs Shahed cost Russia about US$21.3 million.

The price of a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile is US$10 million, the total cost of the missiles launched is US$30 million.

The cost of a Kh-22 missile is estimated to be US$1 million per piece, with a total amount of US$3 million.

A Kh-101 missile costs US$13 million per piece, while the total cost of the missiles of this type launched by Russia is US$1 billion.

According to Defence Express, the cost of one Kalibr missile is US$6.5 million, so a total amount spent on the missiles used in the attack is US$182 million.

The Kh-59/Kh-69 missiles cost US$0.5 million per piece so the total cost of the missiles is US$5 million.

The Iskander-M ballistic missile can cost US$3 million, the total cost of all the missiles of this type launched by Russia is US$18 million.

Therefore, the total amount spent by Russia on the morning of the 26 August attack on Ukraine is US$1.26 billion.

Background:
• The Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant has not suffered critical damage in the Russian morning attack.
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, stated that the morning attack resulted in many damaged power facilities, but the repairs are underway.

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Ukraine to present Biden admin with targets it could hit in Russia, given the chance
US officials are still adamant that lifting the restrictions will not have a significant impact on the ground.

Ukrainian officials are preparing to present a list of long-range targets in Russia to top U.S. national security officials that they think Kyiv’s military can hit if Washington were to lift its restrictions on U.S. weapons.

Ukraine is using the list as a last-ditch effort to convince Washington to lift the restrictions on U.S. weapons being used inside Russia. While Ukraine has previously provided the U.S. some of its potential targets in Russia, this list is supposed to be more tailored.

Ukraine’s defense minister, Rustem Umerov, and Andriy Yermak, senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will be in D.C. this week and plan to present the list to the administration during their discussions, according to three people familiar with Ukraine’s efforts.

The U.S. has said for months that lifting the restrictions won’t make a strategic difference in the war as Russia has moved its most important targets, including aircraft, back from the border and out of reach.

But Kyiv has identified several high-value targets that it can reach with U.S.-provided missiles, the people said. It hopes the list will bolster its campaign to convince President Joe Biden to change his mind.

“There should be no restrictions on the range of weapons for Ukraine, while terrorists have no such restrictions,” Zelenskyy said in a statement Monday. “Defenders of life should face no restrictions on weapons.”

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‘Russians do everything via Telegram.’ Pavel Durov’s arrest upends Kremlin military comms
Although Durov publicly distances himself from Moscow, his platform has become vital for Russian army coordination in Ukraine.

French authorities detained Pavel Durov on allegations that his Telegram social media platform was being used for child pornography, drug trafficking and organized crime — but the immediate freakout came from Russia.

That's because Telegram is widely used by the Russian military for battlefield communications thanks to problems with rolling out its own secure comms system. It's also the primary vehicle for pro-war military bloggers and media — as well as millions of ordinary Russians.

“They practically detained the head of communication of the Russian army,” Russian military blogger channel Povernutie na Z Voine said in a Telegram statement.

The blog site Dva Mayora said that Russian specialists are working on an alternative to Telegram, but that the Russian army's Main Communications Directorate has "not shown any real interest" in getting such a system to Russian troops. The site said Durov's arrest may actually speed up the development of an independent comms system.

Alarmed Russian policymakers are calling for Durov's release.

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results of Google lens translation:
Volunteers and military volunteers who came to the Kursk region ask the traffic police not to fine them for speeding when they are moving away from drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Several people who are located near the combat zone told Mash about this.

The Cameras still record violations in the border area, and when people try to flee from drones, they receive chain letters. One of the famous military activists was counted 9k in just one day. He accelerated on the highway, which almost every hour