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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian occupying authorities have reported receiving over RUB 4.8 billion (US$48.5 million) from the sale of "nationalised" property belonging to Ukrainians in occupied #Crimea

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/29/7495878/

#ukraine #russia #RussianWarCrimes

Fakebook: What’s wrong with Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end the platform’s fact-checking program

'Provereno' (lit. 'Checked') founder Ilya Ber warns its removal will further flood the internet's largest platform with deepfakes, made-up quotes, and conspiracy theories.

https://theins.press/en/opinion/ilya-ber/278281

#socialmedia #facebook #disinformation

🇪🇺🇷🇺 #Europe is buying Russian gas at an unprecedented rate in 2025, spending billions of dollars the Kremlin can use to fund its war in Ukraine just weeks after the end of a major transit agreement raised hopes the continent may break its dependency on Moscow.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-devouring-russian-gas-at-record-speed-despite-cut-off-sanctions-war-ukraine/

#russia #oilandgas

🇷🇺💻 #Microsoft researchers have uncovered Russian intelligence agencies using spear-phishing tactics to target victims with QR codes and WhatsApp group chats.

https://www.securityweek.com/russian-cyberspies-caught-spear-phishing-with-qr-codes-whatsapp-groups/

#russia #hacking #cybersecurity

🇵🇱 Two Norwegian F-35s stationed in #Poland were deployed on Wednesday in response to a "massive number of airborne Russian aircraft" entering Polish air space, #NATO's air command said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nato-norwegian-f-35s-deployed-after-russian-aircraft-entered-polish-airspace-2025-01-16/

#norway #russia

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Morning Briefing:

- EU to propose ban on Russian aluminium imports
- US sanctions disrupt Russia's Arctic oil logistics
- Czechia's need for Russian oil ended by pipeline upgrade
- Slovak opposition piles pressure on Fico over Putin ties
- Ukrainian attack hit munitions depot at Russian airbase
- Drone strike targets Russian chemical plant in Tatarstan
- NATO to deploy ships, aircraft in Baltic Sea

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#ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar

🇪🇺🇷🇺 The Kremlin earned some €3 billion in 2023 in tax from European Union companies that were, and sometimes still are, active in #Russia, according to a report published Monday from B4Ukraine and Squeezing Putin, two NGOs, and the Kyiv School of Economics Institute.

https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-russia-earned-e3-billion-from-eu-company-tax/

#europe

The first symptoms of #disinformation are emerging on the social media network #Bluesky, with echoes of the pro-Russian "Matryoshka" campaign that flooded Elon Musk's X -- but with a few twists.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250110-pro-russian-disinformation-makes-its-bluesky-debut

#russia #socialmedia #twitter

🇷🇺 #Russia has recruited up to 180,000 prisoners to participate in the war since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They receive lower payments than other Russian soldiers, according to the Foreign Intelligence Service.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-enlists-up-to-180-000-prisoners-for-1735835467.html

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🛬 #NATO on Thursday called for a full investigation into the cause of an #Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that killed 38 people.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nato-calls-full-investigation-azerbaijan-airlines-crash-2024-12-26/

#russia #kazakhstan

🇷🇺 🇦🇿 An #Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in #Kazakhstan on Wednesday killing 38 people was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/azerbaijan-airlines-flight-was-downed-by-russian-air-defence-system-four-sources-2024-12-26/

#russia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops hit the command post of the 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade in the town of Lgov in #Russia's Kursk Oblast overnight on Dec. 25, #Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications reported.

The Russian command post was located in an abandoned civilian building, the military claimed.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-hits-command-post-of-810th-separate-marine-brigade-in-kursk-region/

🇷🇺🛢 Domestic prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in #Russia halved in December from the previous month due to an influx of the fuel, exports of which have been curbed by European sanctions, Reuters calculations showed.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-domestic-lpg-prices-halve-following-eu-embargo-2024-12-25/

#oilandgas

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 #Ukraine has received 1 billion dollars from the United States, backed by profits from frozen Russian assets - PM Denys Shmyhal

#usa #russia

🇯🇵🇬🇧 #Ukraine has received $1bn from #Japan and the U.K. through the World Bank’s Growth Foundations Development Policy Loan program, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Dec. 24.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-receives-1bn-from-japan-uk-through-world-bank-dpl-program/

#britain

🇷🇺 A "devastating" fire broke out at a Shahed drone warehouse at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in #Russia's Tatarstan, destroying drone parts worth $16 million, Ukraine's military intelligence said on Dec. 23.

https://kyivindependent.com/fire-engulfs-russian-shahed-warehouse-ukrainian-intel-says/

🇷🇺 🇫🇷 #France on Wednesday accused #Russia of seeking to manipulate French and other European social media influencers, saying Moscow was employing varied and fast-evolving digital interference tactics.

https://www.barrons.com/news/france-says-russia-seeking-to-manipulate-influencers-in-europe-f0c56cf2

🇺🇲🇺🇦 The Biden administration announced another package of weapons aid for #Ukraine on Thursday, without revealing the amount or contents of the package.

White House spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. would continue to provide additional packages for Ukraine "right up to the end of this administration."

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-announces-new-arms-aid-package-ukraine-2024-12-12/

#usa

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Mikhail Shatsky, a Russian expert involved in modernizing missiles launched against #Ukraine, was shot dead near Moscow, a Defense Forces source told the Kyiv Independent on Dec. 12.

His death was likely orchestrated by Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR), the source claimed.

https://kyivindependent.com/shatsky/

#russia