🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A large explosion was heard in #Kyiv on the evening of July 17, with preliminary reports suggesting a Russian Shahed drone targeted the capital.
https://kyivindependent.com/explosion-heard-in-kyiv-reports/
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A large explosion was heard in #Kyiv on the evening of July 17, with preliminary reports suggesting a Russian Shahed drone targeted the capital.
https://kyivindependent.com/explosion-heard-in-kyiv-reports/
🇷🇺 Microloans and mega-fraud: notorious #Russian swindler’s family living in the West binds thousands of Russians in debt
Putin's ex-wife, who owns property in Spain, is also implicated in the microcredit business.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces are still fighting in Krynky, a key village in the heavily-contested Dnipro bridgehead in Russian-occupied #Kherson, but their positions are "completely destroyed," the Defense Forces of Southern #Ukraine said on July 17.
The statement comes after unconfirmed reports on July 16 that Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from the village.
🇷🇺🇨🇳 Several major Russian commodity exporters say trade with #China has become a gamble as direct payments made in yuan are increasingly being frozen or delayed after the US in June broadened the criteria for imposing #sanctions
Archive: https://archive.is/85Fe0
🇨🇭 #Switzerland has opened investigations into more than 50 cases of possible sanctions violations and has found breaches in 15 of them so far, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/switzerland-opens-dozens-russian-sanctions-cases-2024-07-17/
🇨🇿 Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš accused the current #Czech government of "dreaming about war with Russia" in a controversial interview with pro-Kremlin outlet Parlamentní listy.
🇳🇱 Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof vowed Wednesday to bring to justice those behind the downing Malaysia Airlines flight #MH17, as relatives of those killed gathered to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Kremlin on Wednesday denied a major ground offensive on #Ukraine's northeastern #Kharkiv region had failed, after Russian officials said they would seal off border villages to protect civilians from Ukrainian shelling.
https://www.barrons.com/news/kremlin-denies-offensive-on-ukraine-s-northeast-failed-be26a5f3
🇪🇺🇭🇺 The European Parliament strongly criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday for meeting Putin in Moscow, in the latest reprimand of Budapest's self-styled Ukraine "peace mission".
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia and #Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two sides, Moscow announced Wednesday.
https://www.barrons.com/news/russia-and-ukraine-each-free-95-pows-moscow-c21a24a3
🇬🇷 The Greek navy this week extended an advisory effectively banning ship traffic off the coast of the southeastern Peloponnese and further, in a bid to deter ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil off #Greece, three sources said.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 The newly elected MEPs today reaffirm the European Parliament’s continued support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of #Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders.
https://www.eppgroup.eu/newsroom/new-parliament-unchanged-support-for-ukraine
🇷🇺 Russian companies have exponentially increased their recruiting in #Africa, the Russian state-controlled media outlet RBC reported on July 17, citing industry data.
🇭🇺🇷🇺 #Hungary and #Russia are working to resume oil flows after they were halted due to alleged 'legal problems' in #Ukraine, according to Hungary’s top diplomat.
Archive: https://archive.is/Fx8pl
🇺🇸 The United States received intelligence from a human source in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to try to assassinate former President Donald Trump, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on the matter.
CNN reported that there was no indication that the 20-year-old suspect in the shooting of Trump on Saturday was connected to the plot.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/16/politics/iran-plot-assassinate-trump-secret-service/index.html
🇱🇹🇺🇦 Lithuanian companies will provide #Ukraine with energy assistance worth more than 50 million euros, Ukraine's Energy Ministry announced on July 16.
🇺🇦 In the first half of 2024, #Ukraine's largest gas producer, Ukrgasvydobuvannya, pumped 8.8% more gas than in the same period last year, the company announced on July 16.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-sets-new-record-for-gas-production-in-6-months/
🇬🇧🇪🇺 The UK and other European states are planning to expose new examples of Russian #disinformation as they pursue a more assertive response to alleged interference by the Kremlin in Western elections at a meeting of the European Political Community this week.
Archive: https://archive.is/JWkKs
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said his nation had received the first 50,000 rounds of heavy ammunition as part of a Czech-led initiative.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's military intelligence claimed on July 16 that it had hacked nearly 100 Russian websites that support the Kremlin's war effort, taking them offline and replacing their homepages with a picture of a bloody pig's head.
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