Notices by Russia-Ukraine Daily News (rvps2001@mastodon.social)

🇷🇺 In 15 years, #Russia has registered only 53 criminal cases of slave labor (Article 127.2 of Russia's Criminal Code), but the scale of such exploitation appears to be 17 times as high, according to a new study.

https://theins.press/en/news/280678

🇩🇰🇺🇦 Copenhagen plans to send soldiers to #Ukraine this summer to learn how to use drones on the battlefield straight from the country's forces, Danish media TV2 reports.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/denmark-eyes-drone-training-in-ukraine-in-a-european-first/

#Denmark

🇺🇦 #Ukraine’s determination to defend its territorial integrity will never flag, Foreign Ministry spokesman told a press briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, brushing aside a claim by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that a permanent peace deal with #Russia hangs on Kyiv’s relinquishing five regions currently under Moscow’s control.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-moscow-kyiv-witkoff-country-will-remain-international-border-change/

#usa

🇷🇺📉 #Russia’s attempts to boost its flagging birth rate — through policies promoting “traditional values,” tighter abortion restrictions and officials’ encouragement of larger families — appear to be falling short, as the number of births has fallen to its lowest level in centuries.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/russias-birth-rate-plunges-to-200-year-low-a88709

🤡 Kremlin clown Peskov told reporters it was clear from his comments that Merz would advocate a "tougher position" which "will inevitably lead only to a further escalation of the situation around Ukraine".

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-tough-line-merz-ukraine-risks-escalating-war-2025-04-14/

Remember, kids. Some comments and a "tougher position" lead to an escalation. But bombing civilians does not.

#russia #RussianWarCrimes

🇺🇦 Before #Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Yukhno earned his living as a barista in a coffee shop. But he says the war turned him into a full-time volunteer in one of the many DIY weapons factories arming the fighters on #Ukraine's front lines.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/12/g-s1-59428/ukraine-drones-russia-war

🇬🇧 A Russian politician appointed by Putin as governor of Russia-annexed Crimea's largest city was on Wednesday found guilty of breaching British sanctions, after the first prosecution of its kind.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/former-putin-appointed-governor-crimea-found-guilty-breaching-uk-sanctions-2025-04-09/

#Britain #Russia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A Ukrainian drone destroyed a landed Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bomber a "few days ago," Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drone-destroyed-russias-tu-22m3-long-range-bomber-syrskyi-claims/

#ukraine #russia

🇺🇲 🇨🇳 #Trump is set to impose an additional 84% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday. That will mean all goods from the country are subject to a tariff of at least 104%.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-china-tariff

#usa #china

🇩🇪 German security officials say they are carefully examining possible indications of foreign finance or influence in a series of attacks in German cities in the past year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dg48g79jvo

#germany #russia

🇬🇧🇪🇺 The UK has circulated plans for European countries to establish a “supranational institution” that jointly purchases military equipment, stockpiles weapons and helps to finance large-scale rearmament across the continent.

The informal paper, written by UK officials, presents the case for a multilateral fund for a “coalition of the willing” that would borrow on markets at favourable rates and support defence spending.
https://www.ft.com/content/93d7168b-75a3-41e3-ba5a-4f378b93a709

Archive: https://archive.is/kwgRo

#Europe #Britain

🇳🇴 The insurance issued to dozens of ageing oil tankers used by #Russia to skirt international sanctions was bogus, according to Norwegian authorities now investigating the small firm behind the forged documents.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/firm-issued-fake-insurance-russian-oil-tankers-norways-fsa-says-2025-04-02/

#norway

ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces may leverage their bridgehead northeast of Lyman to seize the remaining 1% of Luhansk Oblast under Ukrainian control and complete #Russia's long-standing goal of seizing the entirety of Luhansk Oblast.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-1-2025

#ukraine

🇺🇦 #Ukraine will hold in-depth talks on Friday with a small group of foreign countries about contributing forces to a contingent that would act as a security guarantee for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-discuss-foreign-troop-contingent-multilateral-talks-friday-2025-04-01/

🤡 The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Putin was open to the idea of restoring relations between #Finland and #Russia, which it accused❗Helsinki of reducing to "nearly zero" after it joined NATO 🤦

Yeah, Finland, why would you do that?! 😁

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-is-open-normalising-ties-with-finland-if-helsinki-wants-rebuild-ties-2025-04-01/

🇬🇧 A UK space firm has replaced a Russian corporation in a European project to search for signs of life on Mars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1egpwqw4vjo

#europe #britain #russia

🇳🇱🇺🇦 The #Netherlands will allocate 2 billion euros to support #Ukraine in 2025, said Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans and State Secretary Gijs Tuinman on March 31.

https://kyivindependent.com/netherlands-pledges-2-billion-for-ukraine/

🇸🇪🇺🇦 #Sweden will provide #Ukraine with a military aid package worth almost $1.6 billion, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson announced on March 31.

https://kyivindependent.com/sweden-unveils-its-largest-military-aid-package-for-ukraine-worth-nearly-1-6-billion/

🇷🇺 Russian courts have confiscated assets worth close to €25.6 billion from over 400 privately owned companies since the start of the war in Ukraine, research by Novaya Gazeta Europe has revealed.

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/03/28/russian-state-seizes-assets-worth-over-eur25bn-from-privately-owned-companies-since-start-of-war-en

#russia

🇺🇸 The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top #Trump national security officials was highly classified at the time he wrote it, especially because the operation had not even started yet, CNN reports.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/politics/the-atlantic-publishes-signal-messages-yemen-strike/index.html

#usa