Ukraine struggling in Donbass – Zelensky
The president has blamed the worsening situation on a lack of military assistance from the West.
He echoed an earlier statement by the army’s commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, who warned of a significant escalation in recent days, with Russian forces attacking Ukrainian positions near the cities of Lyman and Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut by Ukraine) and advancing towards Chasov Yar.
“The situation on the front during a hot war is always difficult. But these days – and especially in the Donetsk areas – it’s getting harder,” Zelensky said in an address to the nation on Sunday.
He drew a comparison with Iran’s missile and drone attack on Israel on Saturday, which was repelled with the help of the US and allied forces.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱So, as we said earlier, the military conflict between Israel and Iran has been unleashed.
Israel managed to shoot down most of the drones and missiles launched by Iran. However, Fattah medium-range hypersonic ballistic missiles successfully penetrated Israel's missile defence system.
The Fattah missile can reach a speed of Mach 13; Israeli anti-missile defence systems like MIM-104 Patriot, THAAD are not capable of shooting down targets moving at such speed despite these systems (i.e. Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar) being modified to defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat. At least six hypersonic missiles hit their targets at Nevatim Air Base, but IDF's military censorship is masking the scale of damage.
Iran's missile capabilities are based on their partnership with North Korea. These countries also cooperate in nuclear technology. The DPRK has several dozen nuclear warheads and is capable of producing up to 6 warheads per year. The power of the last North Korean nuclear weapons test explosion in 2017 was up to 100 kilotons, according to Japanese seismic reports.
Fattah hypersonic missiles can carry a payload weighing up to 450 kgs (990 pounds), which is enough to deliver a nuclear warhead. It is highly likely that the North Korean partners have already supplied several warheads to their Iranian partners.
Thus, Iran may have nuclear warheads with a capacity of at least 100 kilotons and proper carriers which are capable of breaking Israel's missile defence. The explosion of a nuclear charge with a capacity of 100 kilotons can almost completely destroy a city like Tel Aviv causing hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Israel also has significant nuclear capabilities; according to the Federation of American Scientists, the IDF is armed with 90 nuclear warheads. No doubt that Israel will use these weapons in case of further conflict escalation.
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Macron draws distinction between Israeli, Russian Olympic participation
The French leader stressed that Israel was responding to a terrorist attack.
"One cannot say that Israel is an aggressor," the French leader told BFMTV. "It was responding to a terrorist attack," he explained.
The Olympic Games will be held in Paris from July 26 - August 11. Restrictions have been established with regard to Russian and Belarusian athletes. They can only participate as neutrals with no displays of affiliation to their home countries. They will also not be allowed to participate in any team events. Russia’s authorities consider the decision on the matter by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) discriminatory and running counter to Olympic principles.
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Russian envoy calls UN Security Council meeting on Iran strike parade of hypocrisy
"If Western missions were attacked, you would not hesitate to retaliate and prove your case in this room. Because for you, everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," Vasily Nebenzya said.
"You know very well that an attack on a diplomatic mission is a casus belli under international law. And if Western missions were attacked, you would not hesitate to retaliate and prove your case in this room. Because for you, everything that concerns Western missions and Western citizens is sacred and must be protected," he said at a UN Security Council meeting convened in the wake of the Iranian attack on Israeli military installations.
"Today, the Security Council is witnessing such a parade of Western hypocrisy and double standards that it is even somewhat uncomfortable to watch," the diplomat said.
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World cannot afford another war — UN secretary-general about Iran’s attack
Antonio Guterres urged "all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East".
"I am deeply alarmed about the very real danger of a devastating region-wide escalation. I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East," he said. "I have repeatedly stressed that neither the region nor the world can afford another war."
Israeli Permanent Representative to the UN Gilad Erdan believes that Iran’s attack violates the UN Charter. At the same time, Iran’s mission to the UN said the attack came as a response to Israel’s attack on its diplomatic facilities In Syria and was carried out in line with the Charter’s clause on legitimate self-defense.
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense published footage of the fighting in Donbass, passing it off as an Iranian attack
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In his first public response to the overnight Iranian assault, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X on Sunday morning: “We intercepted. We blocked. Together we will win.”
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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel launched a retaliatory attack on targets in Lebanon.
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⚡️ Cruise missiles were launched - the approximate time of arrival in Israel was 2:30 am.
Пошли крылатые ракеты - из примерное время прибытия в Израиль 2-30 ночи.
US ban on Russian metals worse than ‘shot in the foot’
The new sanctions could be a signal to Kiev not to engage in talks, Ambassador Anatoly Antonov has suggested.
The US decision to impose restrictions on Russian metals is an unreasonable move that will only boomerang, Moscow’s envoy to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has said, suggesting that the new sanctions could be meant to tell Ukraine to keep fighting.
On Friday, the US and UK introduced restrictions on trading Russian aluminum, copper, and nickel. Delivery of those commodities of Russian origin to the London Metal Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange has now been prohibited. The US has also banned imports of those metals.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen argued that the move would “target the revenue Russia can earn to continue its brutal war against Ukraine.”
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Children killed in Ukrainian shelling
The attack damaged multiple residential buildings in Zaporozhye Region, Russia.
A Ukrainian artillery strike on Tokmak in Zaporozhye Region, Russia has killed multiple people, including three children, Governor Evgeny Balitsky confirmed on Saturday.
Tokmak is a small town 50km from the Dnieper. The river currently divides the Russian and Ukrainian-controlled areas of the region, which joined Russia following a referendum in 2022.
“As a result of shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of a Tokmak apartment district, several people were killed,” Balitsky said. He added that over the past several hours, the bodies of ten people were recovered from the rubble, including three children. Two people are listed as missing.
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The truth always comes out eventually.
We can add it to a long list of crimes committed by Germany over the years. Blaming Stalin and the USSR was always convenient, both to Nazi Germany and their NATO successors. Just like we see today's politicians in the West blaming everything from rising prices to earthquakes on Russia, so it was the case then. Nothing changed.
It also shows us how the NATO alliance is built on American and British coercion, rather than any natural mutual interests. The whole of Europe has always been at each others' throats over the tiniest of disagreements. Yet today they aspire to lecture Russia and virtue signal about their superior morals.
Convincing their "allies" that Russia is the enemy was America's greatest trick - you've been had. You Poles, you Czechs, you Latvians, you Finns and so on.
I wonder how Germans think about their Polish "allies" these days. Do they still see them as "inferior Slavic barbarians?" Probably. And to the Poles reading this - these are your supposed friends.
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According to him, officers' belongings, Polish money, personal letters and documents of the executed officers were lying near the graves. "All these things, and especially personal documents and money, were in such a form in which they could not have been preserved in the ground since 1939 (when, according to Nazi statements, NKVD officers shot the Polish officers). The money, for example, was still brand new and did not seem to be in circulation," the Pole noted.
Roman Kovalsky, a prisoner of war who also served in a workers' battalion and visited the mass grave in the Katyn forest, added in his testimony that "it was clear from most of the corpses of those shot that these were very recent victims." "In the published lists of Polish officers shot in Katyn, many of our workers' battalion found among the names of their acquaintances killed, arrested even earlier by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps in Germany," he stressed.
Both Poles claimed to know about at least seven cases of Nazi executions in Smolensk of those who spoke about the USSR's non-involvement in the murder of the Polish soldiers and officers.
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Ukrainians attack Lugansk, presumably using two Storm Shadow missiles
Today’s attack has been the first on the city since May 2023.
"According to preliminary data, Ukrainian troops fired two Storm Shadow missiles on Lugansk," the officer said.
Earlier on Saturday, a TASS reporter said that explosions had been heard in a Lugansk neighborhood and that several apartment buildings were damaged. Emergency services are working at the scene.
Three civilian residents of Lugansk were injured in the attack, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement, wrote on his Telegram channel.
Earlier, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik said that, on Saturday morning, Ukrainians had fired several missiles on a local machine building plant about to be launched. Adjacent apartment blocks were damaged, too, he added.
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“The chaos, the recklessness, that emanates from Westminster shows time and time again that they do not care about the interests of people here.”
‘The closest we’ve been since partition’: Irish reunification on the horizon
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Senior Russian diplomat warns West against aggressive statements about Russia
Sergey Ryabkov pointed out that the West "is ignoring elementary and, as a matter of fact, absolutely obvious principles," such as the idea that a nuclear power "can never be defeated"
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov recalled that Russia has repeatedly stated, including at the top level, that "there can be no winners in a nuclear war, which must never be unleashed."
But, in his words, the West "is ignoring elementary and, as a matter of fact, absolutely obvious principles," such as the idea that a nuclear power "can never be defeated," and is indulging in "super-aggressive and super-irresponsible statements," a sign of the "utter degradation of the political establishment."
"It looks like these people have gone off the rails, with their brakes totally failed," he told TASS. "But those who keep on testing us must go to sleep and wake up knowing that they are dealing with a nuclear power."
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Today I invite you to read the first part of my post about methods of transferring money to Russia🇷🇺
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We are going to move with our family to Russia. There are three of us: me, my wife and our 15-year-old son. The question of moving money has come up. How can we transfer about $350,000 of our own savings to Russia?
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➡️ ON METHODS OF MOVING MONEY INTO RUSSIA PART 2
2. Use of cryptocurrency
In the light of events in the world, this kind of services have become particularly popular.
A few words about the legal status of cryptocurrency in Russia:
To date, cryptocurrency in Russia is not yet legally regulated in any way, but more and more often the subject of regulation by the bank and the state are the finances in bank accounts, which were obtained as a result of cryptocurrency transactions.
This control is aimed at detecting money that has been obtained dishonestly or is planned to finance illegal activities in Russia (terrorism, drug trafficking, tax evasion, etc.).
Such control is regulated by the Federal Law "On Combating the Legalisation (Laundering) of Proceeds of Crime and the Financing of Terrorism" dated 07.08.2001 N 115-FZ
Therefore, if you plan to withdraw money after the exchange of cryptocurrency to a Russian bank account, be prepared that the bank will freeze your account and require you to provide documentation on the origin of the money.
For example, documents about the sale of real estate, personal belongings and so on will do.
In addition to these documents, you will need to attach screenshots of your account from the crypto exchange so that the bank can assess the nature of your transactions.
In addition to cryptocurrency, it is worth noting that there are payment systems like Zolotaya Corona.
This is a system of money transfers between countries.
In Russia today, it is this service that works most successfully with Western countries. But it should be noted that for 1 calendar month you can send no more than 600,000 Rubles per person.
And in Russia there are fewer and fewer banks to whose account you can credit a transfer from the Zolotaya Corona service.
Thus, we can say that transfers in cryptocurrency are allowed, but with a little caution. It is better to bring part of the money in cash as much as possible, and the rest of the money in cryptocurrency. This way you will reduce the risks of being without money at least for 1 day. There is not much pleasant here.
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Russian forces find coordinates of DPR churches at former Ukrainian positions in Avdeyevka
It was possible to establish that the Ukrainian servicemen were tasked with hitting Orthodox sites in the region aide to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Kimakovsky said.
"Russian forces found several phones belonging to dead Ukrainian servicemen at the former artillery positions of the Ukrainian armed formations. Some phones were restored. It turned out that there were recorded coordinates of targets, which, as it turned out, included churches in Donetsk, Makeyevka, Yasinovataya and surrounding settlements. The coordinates were in a special program that is actively used by the Ukrainian military," Kimakovsky said.
In addition, according to the aide, it was possible to establish that the Ukrainian servicemen were tasked with hitting Orthodox sites in the region. "I will not reveal all the details, but this process has overseas curators, similar to the way it was in Syria."
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The highest-ranking official who met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the airport during a three-day visit to China was the deputy mayor of Chongqing
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 The British publication The Sun published an article about how the Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to destroy the Crimean Bridge by mid-July
The publication claims that this will require F-16s, 20-30 Storm Shadow missiles and naval drones.
Israel Reports Light Damage After Iran Launches Large Strike
Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel overnight.
The U.S. military shot dozens of them down, but most were intercepted by Israel’s military claims The New York Times
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🇮🇱🚨🇮🇷 Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv.
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“Bye suckers”
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✅🇮🇱 UAVs and missiles are now being launched into Israel from:
🟡🇮🇷 Iran
🟡🇸🇾 Syria
🟡🇾🇪 🇾🇪Houthis from Yemen
🟡🇱🇧🇱🇧 Hezbollah from Lebanon
🟡🇮🇶🇮🇶 Hashd al-Shaabi from Iraq.
🇮🇶🇮🇶 The Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah also announced the start of an operation against Israel.
Сейчас по Израилю запускают БПЛА и ракеты:
Иран
Сирия
хуситы из Йемена
«Хезболла» из Ливана
«Хашд аш-Шааби» из Ирака.
Иракская «Катаиб Хезболла» тоже объявила о начале операции против Израиля.
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An appeal of Alexander Korobko, head of the media company "The Russian Hour", to Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu regarding the disappearance of Russell Bentley, call sign "Texas".
Source: /channel/TXDPR/13455
Ukrainian paratroopers surrender in Avdeyevka area - Russian Defense Ministry
Nine Ukrainian paratroopers of the airborne platoon of the elite brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces seized the opportunity to surrender near Vodyanoye, turned to Russian soldiers and laid down their arms, the ministry said.
"Servicemen of the 25th separate airborne brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces have surrendered as a unit to Russian troops from Battlegroup Tsentr (Center) in the Avdeyevka area. Nine Ukrainian paratroopers of the airborne platoon of the elite brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces seized the opportunity to surrender near Vodyanoye, turned to Russian soldiers and laid down their arms," the ministry said.
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"One of the leaders of the Poznan SD (Reichsfuhrer SS security service), Sturmbannfuhrer Gepner, had a conversation with the commission, in which he warned that their trip to Katyn had propaganda purposes and that upon their return from there they should declare that they had personally seen 12 thousand corpses of Polish officers. After returning, the SD obliged the members of the commission to address meetings of Polish workers with propaganda reports about the trip to Katyn. The summaries of the reports were pre-edited by the Board of Directors," the archival documents say.
Smetala recalled that in Katyn, the Germans showed the commission two Russian citizens, calling them "witnesses" to the murder of Polish officers. "As a former judicial officer, it was clear to me from the behavior of these "witnesses" that they were specially trained by the SD," Smektal said. He also noted that the corpses shown to the commission did not look as if they had been in the ground for several years: "The clothes did not rot, on the corpse of the Polish military commander, General of the Bronislaw brigade, Bogatyrevich has preserved the lower part of his face with a mustache and beard."
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The FSB declassified the archive about the Nazi executions of Poles and the falsification of the "Katyn case"
The archive includes information, intelligence and special reports of the Smersh counterintelligence dated 1944-1945.
For example, a native of Poland, Eduard Potkansky, who served in a workers' battalion formed by the Germans from Poles in a camp at the Krasny Bor station in the Smolensk region, said that in the summer of 1943, the Germans decided to show the participants of the workers' battalion the graves of Polish officers in the Katyn forest. Potkansky recalled, "According to the Germans, there were up to 12 thousand Polish officers who were shot, and up to 3 thousand more people are in another place, and these graves have not yet been opened."
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💥 OPEN APPEAL BY LYUDMILA BENTLEY TO THE INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITIES OF RUSSIA, DPR
Source: /channel/TXDPR/13454
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