Notices tagged with russia, page 5

At night, drones attacked the Ryazan oil refinery.

Local residents reported that explosions were heard in the area of the facility, and a fire broke out.

#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #War #Russia

"So that’s really what Kushner and Witkoff were tasked with, to try to figure out what Putin wants, and let’s figure out how we can give it to him. Because a lot of very wealthy people, oligarchs here in the U.S. also, are going to make an awful lot of money if and when the war concludes in some way, and we can open up business in Russia again."

~ Greg Olear

#Putin #Trump #JaredKushner #Witkoff #Russia #Ukraine #EconomicElites #oil
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-war-and-peace-and-appeasement

"And the fact that we meet with this man, Vladimir Putin, and treat him with any form of respect, like he’s some sort of distinguished diplomat, like he’s Otto von Bismarck or something, is preposterous. He is basically a mafia boss and a cartel leader and some sort of warlord, all mixed together. And he’s a criminal. He’s a wanted criminal by the International Criminal Court, for war crimes. That’s what he is."

#Putin #Trump #JaredKushner #Witkoff #Russia #Ukraine #EconomicElites
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"There’s a lot of money there, there’s a lot of natural resources. Exxon Mobil’s gonna make a lot of money as soon as that happens. There’s a lot of very rich and powerful forces that want the war to end and don’t give a crap about all the people dying in Ukraine."

#Putin #Trump #JaredKushner #Witkoff #Russia #Ukraine #EconomicElites #oil #ExxonMobil
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"Since coming to office this time it is as if Trump is working from a checklist provided to him by Putin to weaken America and dismantle the post WWII global system that has been the driver of our prosperity and guarantor of our security."

~ Simon Rosenberg

Rosenberg then offers a checklist he thinks Putin has given to Trump to accomplish the destruction of America.

#Putin #Trump #JaredKushner #Witkoff #Russia #Ukraine #EconomicElites
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/both-sane-and-insane-coming-to-a

🇭🇺 #Hungary's state-owned MVM group will be able to supply the country with enough gas even if imports from #Russia are halted, although prices will likely rise, its chief executive told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungarian-energy-group-mvm-prepares-phase-out-russian-gas-if-needed-2025-12-05/

🇺🇲🇷🇺 U.S. company NCH Capital said on Friday that it has no plans to sell major Russian agricultural producer AgroTerra, after the head of #Russia's second-largest bank said it was in talks to buy the firm.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-owner-major-russian-agriculture-firm-says-no-plans-sell-up-2025-12-05/

#usa

📃 Reporters Without Borders has joined the Media Freedom Rapid Response and several Ukrainian and international media organisations in opposing amnesty for crimes committed against journalists as part of a deal to end #Russia’s war in #Ukraine

https://rsf.org/en/no-peace-without-justice-rsf-joins-call-against-amnesty-crimes-against-journalists-ukraine

#RussianWarCrimes

"J.D. Vance's🚨intervention in Germany's election, on behalf of AfD, was not a one-off. It is now ingrained in the U.S. National Security Strategy. "Cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory."🚨Europe is be treated as enemy terrain to be destabilized by America's enabling of far-right parties. And NATO expansion is bad. As Kirill Dmitriev might put it: "🕊️"
-M Weiss
#Nazis #Fascism #Trump #Vance #TrumpRegime #Republicans #Traitors #Treason #Betrayal #Putin #Russia #NATO #Protest #USPol

In 2022 Finland spoke against the EU proposal. In 2024 the Finnish ministry of transport and communication started an evaluation of gauge switch. In 2025 it was announced that they plan to switch.

I wonder whether Russian invasion of Ukraine has anything to do with the switch from opposition to "let's do it".
#Finland #Russia #Ukraine

I read the serious discussions about ‘who eavesdropped on Ushakov and Dmitriev’ and can’t help but chuckle to myself.

All these deliberations about whether it was the NSA or GCHQ are based on the assumption that Ushakov had to use a secure means of communication. Had to… because why exactly?

Because politicians are renowned for their unwavering commitment to adhering to rules, including #OPSEC? But they are not.

Let us recall the US and European leaders who, in #Ukraine Kyiv in 2013, happily chatted on the phone and were recorded (‘Nuland–Pyatt call’).

Shortly afterwards, Sergei Glazyev from the #Russia presidential administration did the same and was recorded… by the new SBU (‘Glazyev tapes’, much less well-known but much more devastating).

In summary, if one can generalise the concept of high-level politics in #infosec matters, it is that those in power do not apply the rules to themselves and do not learn from their mistakes precisely because they are in power.

In short, Hanlon’s razor applies.

"The UK and #Norway have signed a defence pact that will see them operate a combined fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic. The deal is designed to protect undersea cables - which British officials say are increasingly under threat from Moscow, with a 30% rise in Russian vessels spotted in UK waters over the past two years."

#UKPol #Russia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v152ep9l0o

SEEKING FRIENDSHIP...

Russian President Putin arrives in India for talks with Prime Minister Modi.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

🇵🇱 Polish Telegram chats affiliated with the Bomba Poland Media network are posting “job ads” on a daily basis. In reality, the objective of these ads is to recruit saboteurs, who are tasked with perpetrating acts of arson and infrastructure attacks, mostly in #Ukraine

https://theins.press/en/news/287432

#poland #russia

🇺🇲 The #Trump administration extended a waiver for Lukoil PJSC’s gas stations outside of #Russia, allowing them to continue operations until late April 2026.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-allows-transactions-with-lukoil-gas-stations-outside-russia-through-late-2025-12-04/

#usa

Putin sends abducted Ukrainian children to North Korea https://www.byteseu.com/1598977/ #Children #Conflicts #DonaldTrump #JaredKushner #KaterynaRashevska #NorthKorea #Russia #SenateHearing #SteveWitkoff #Ukraine #UkrainianPresident #USSenate #VladimirPutin

A grim reminder that #Russia GRU actually killed an entirely unrelated and innocent civilian in their sloppy and reckless chemical weapons attack in 2018:

The GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, is now sanctioned in its entirety by the UK. GRU agents carry out Putin’s bidding, seeking to destabilise Ukraine and attempting to sow chaos and disorder across Europe. The action comes as the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry publishes its final report into the tragic circumstances surrounding Dawn Sturgess’s death in Salisbury in 2018.

Today’s sanctions also zero in on 8 cyber military intelligence officers for working for the GRU, the organisation which was responsible for cyber operations targeting Yulia Skripal with X-agent malware and, 5 years later, the attempted murder of Yulia and her father on UK soil.

The report concludes that the GRU is responsible for the death of a British national on UK soil after President Putin himself authorised the operation to poison the Skripal’s with deadly nerve agent Novichok. This Novichok was developed and held by Russia in contravention of the Chemical Weapons Convention. This subsequently resulted in the tragic death of Ms Sturgess.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cracks-down-on-russian-intelligence-agency-authorised-by-putin-to-target-skripals

Many US media outlets are now publishing details of the ‘US-Russia peace talks’, including the fact that #Russia’s ‘red line’ is now the remaining 20% of the #Donetsk region controlled by #Ukraine, which seems to be the main point of disagreement. The crown jewel is the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, which Russia has failed to capture by military means in some areas (e.g. Horlivka-Toretsk), despite how surprising that may sound. The front line has moved by merely ~10 km since 2014!

There is one material argument behind this demand: Slovyansk controls the system of waterways that provide Donbas with water, which would otherwise be very scarce due to extensive mining. However, given that it took Russia over three years to reach and almost capture Pokrovsk, the military capture of the remaining key agglomeration could potentially take another two to three years, cost the lives of hundreds of thousands more Russian soldiers, and delay the ‘victory’ that Putin needs in order to appear to be ‘keeping his word’ and remain a ‘respectable leader’. This is the most important part of his current social contract in Russia.

I once wrote that Putin could only sell a ceasefire to the Russians if Ukraine were clearly and visibly humiliated. Territory and all other issues are of secondary importance because Putin does not need the ruins of the Donbas region.

However, he desperately needs to humiliate Ukraine because only against this backdrop can the pathetic achievements of the “special military operation” (SVO) over the past four years be sold as a “victory”. The perception of victory is something that Putin needs in order to ‘save face’.

This is probably why the issue of the ZSU leaving Donbas is so important; the withdrawal of Ukrainian units from the Slavic agglomeration would be celebrated by the Russian media for years as a victory for Russian souls offended by the defeat in the war.

Surprisingly, under the current circumstances, there is no question of leaving the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, even though, legally speaking, they are just as ‘Russian’ as Donbas. This shows that Putin knows he overplayed his hand in 2023 and is ready to give up anything to save his face.

As long as he can humiliate Ukraine symbolically and sell it as ‘achieving the goals of the SWO’, those Russians who care about it can at least pretend to believe it.

The second part of this equation is Ukraine - whether it can hold the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration for another 2-3 years, I have no idea. There’s a military, social and economic dimension to it. Over the next few months we will probably see the answer.

"And about time!"🫡🫡🫡

From https://t.me/United24media

The #EU has added #Russia to its blacklist of countries with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, #Politico reports.

This designation triggers much stricter oversight of any financial transactions involving #Russian individuals or entities. Banks and other institutions must now apply enhanced due diligence to all such operations, including deeper checks on sources of funds and the purpose of each transaction.

The Guardian view on US-Russia talks on Ukraine: a warning to Europe to move faster on security cooperation | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/03/the-guardian-view-on-us-russia-talks-on-ukraine-a-warning-to-europe-to-move-faster-on-security-cooperation #Trumpadministration #VolodymyrZelenskyy #USforeignpolicy #VladimirPutin #Foreignpolicy #DonaldTrump #Ukraine #Russia #Nato