Notices by Russia-Ukraine Daily News (rvps2001@mastodon.social), page 3

🇷🇺 🇩🇪 #Russia is flooding #Germany with more #disinformation than ever, officials warn. Analysts say this tactic is helping pro-Kremlin narratives increasingly seep into the country's politics.

https://www.dw.com/en/russian-disinformation-is-growing-in-germany/a-70506294

🇺🇦 Four-fifths of Ukrainians said they supported a new law banning Russia-affiliated religious groups in a survey released on Tuesday, as Kyiv seeks to root out a branch of the Orthodox Church accused of cooperating with Moscow.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/four-fifths-ukrainians-support-ban-russia-linked-church-poll-2024-10-15/

#ukraine #russia

ISW:

🇷🇺 The Kremlin appears to be reorganizing Russia's decentralized, regional volunteer recruitment campaigns into a federal effort, indicating that #Russia is struggling to meet the manpower demands of its war in #Ukraine

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-21-2024

#russianarmy #RussiaUkrainewar

🇫🇷 🇷🇺 #France and several other European Union member states are set to call for stricter tracking of Russian liquefied natural gas imports to help phase out reliance on Moscow’s supplies of the fuel.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-14/france-to-push-for-stronger-tracking-of-russian-lng-supplies

Archive: https://archive.is/2024.10.14-170635/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-14/france-to-push-for-stronger-tracking-of-russian-lng-supplies

#russia #oilandgas

🇺🇦 In Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city on the Sea of Azov that has been captured by the Russian invasion army, the enemy is increasingly exploiting port infrastructure to expand the volume or transportation, including of military cargo.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-crime/3915610-in-occupied-mariupol-russia-increasingly-using-seaport-to-expand-cargo-transportation.html

#russia #ukraine

🇷🇺 A Russian court has ordered the seizure of funds in JPMorgan Chase bank accounts in #Russia totalling $155.8 million, court filings showed, as state-owned Russian bank VTB seeks damages over funds blocked abroad.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/russian-court-orders-seizure-1558-mln-jpmorgan-chase-funds-vtb-lawsuit-2024-10-11/

🇷🇺🌾 #Russia's agriculture ministry asked exporters at a closed-door meeting on Friday not to sell wheat by tender to international buyers below a minimum price, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-sets-price-floor-wheat-international-tenders-sources-say-2024-10-11/

🇷🇺🛢 Moscow’s use of the tankers sanctioned for their involvement in the #Russian oil trade is accelerating, with close to one-third of the blacklisted vessels back at work.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-10/russian-tanker-sanctions-fail-to-stop-ships-hauling-moscow-s-oil

Archive: https://archive.is/WhYmJ

#russia #oilandgas #sanctions

☢️ #NATO will hold a long-planned major #nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief said Thursday, a few weeks after #Putin announced changes to #Russia’s nuclear doctrine to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on his country.

https://apnews.com/article/nato-nuclear-exercise-russia-drill-steadfast-noon-0b69f1b23fa76f1a2f432a3c91a171bb

🇺🇲🇷🇺 Republican presidential nominee #Trump has spoken to #Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021, journalist Bob Woodward reports in a forthcoming book obtained by CNN.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/woodward-book-trump-putin-calls-00182840

#usa #russia

🇷🇺 🇮🇪 #Ireland is a “playground” for Russian intelligence, a former deputy chief of an Irish army unit has said following claims that a member of parliament was recruited by the Kremlin to undermine Anglo-Irish relations during Brexit talks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/ireland-is-a-playground-for-russian-intelligence-says-former-army-chief

#russia #spying #britain

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🇷🇺 The Russian Government plans to allocate 90 billion rubles ($948 million) to one-time payments for concluding a military contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense between 2025 and 2027, indicating that the Kremlin plans to continue relying on ongoing crypto-mobilization efforts to meet the manpower requirements of its war in Ukraine for as long as the crypto-mobilization system works.

https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-5-2024

#russia #russianarmy #RussiaUkrainewar

🇭🇺 Thousands of Hungarians gathered outside the headquarters of the country's state television on Saturday, protesting against what they described as the government's "propaganda machine" and calling for an independent public service media.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-protest-hungary-demanding-end-state-media-propaganda-2024-10-05/

#hungary #propaganda

🇱🇻 #Russia’s elites, oligarchs, and military contractors are quietly dodging sanctions in #Latvia

A new investigation by The Insider details the Latvian property holdings and business dealings of Russia's pro-Putin elite.

https://theins.press/en/politics/275067

🇰🇵🇷🇺 Half of all the artillery shells used by #Russia in #Ukraine are supplied by North Korea, The Times reported on Oct. 4, citing Western intelligence sources.

https://kyivindependent.com/half-of-russias-shells-used-in-ukraine-supplied-by-north-korea-the-times-reports/

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's Defense Ministry on Oct. 4 released a video of what it said was a "dragon drone" destroying a #Russian tank.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-dragon-drones-are-now-reportedly-destroying-russian-tanks/

#russia

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇷🇺 Precision equipment for electronic warfare continues flowing to #Russia from the West despite #sanctions

A new investigation has found that the coalition supporting #Ukraine may literally be helping Russia jam its own equipment.

https://theins.press/en/politics/275080

#usa #europe

🇨🇭🇺🇦 #Switzerland is organizing a new shipment of equipment for #Ukraine, which will include 30 rubble-clearing machines and 30 fire pumps.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/diplomats/1018415.html

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 More than 20 servicemen, including six officers from the DPRK, were killed in a missile strike in the temporarily occupied territory near Donetsk, sources in military intelligence told Interfax-Ukraine.

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/1018437.html

#ukraine #russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Putin has all but abandoned the idea of peace talks with Kyiv following #Ukraine’s Kursk region incursion, which dealt a “humiliating” blow to the Russian leader, the independent Poyasnitelnaya Zapiska (Explanatory Note) news outlet reported, citing sources close to the Kremlin.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/04/putin-abandons-peace-talks-seeks-to-destroy-ukrainian-state-after-kursk-incursion-report-a86561

#russia