🇱🇹 Interviewed by POLITICO in his home on the outskirts of Vilnius, Landsbergis, now 91, worries that the West still fails to recognize the full scope of the threat posed by Putin — and is not doing enough to help #Ukraine defeat Russian forces.
🇷🇺 Knife-wielding prisoners identifying themselves as Islamic State militants staged a bloody attack on guards in a #Russian penal colony on Friday and seized hostages, according to state media and news outlets with ties to the security services.
🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy toured the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy on Thursday in his first visit to the border area since his forces entered Russian territory more than two weeks ago.
🇨🇿 Any peace deal reached between #Ukraine and #Russia likely won't be fair, #Czech President Petr Pavel said Wednesday — but justice should be the objective nonetheless.
🇰🇬 🇷🇺 Major banks in #Kyrgyzstan have suspended money transfers to #Russia via their mobile apps following U.S. sanctions, local media reported Wednesday.
🇷🇺 🇺🇲 'Putin exploited Donald Trump’s “ego and insecurities” to exert an almost mesmeric hold over the former US president, who refused to entertain any negative evaluation of the autocratic Russian leader from his own staff.'
🇨🇿 The Nord Stream pipelines were a legitimate target, even if #Ukraine was behind the 2022 blasts, Czech President Petr Pavel said on Aug. 21 in the Czech news outlet Novinky's podcast PoliTalk.
Pavel added that he had no verified information on whether Kyiv was involved in the operation to blow up the gas pipelines.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia is planning to respond to Ukraine's operation in Kursk Oblast, Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of #Ukraine's military intelligence agency, said during an event in Kyiv on Aug. 21, Lb.ua media outlet reported.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces continued attacking throughout the Ukrainian salient in #Kursk Oblast on August 20 and recently made additional advances.
Russian authorities have reportedly re-deployed Russian units from the Chasiv Yar direction to Kursk Oblast amid efforts to address the ongoing Ukrainian incursion.
🇷🇺 Executions, drugs, and arms trafficking: A Russian deserter's account of the war in #Ukraine
"Sergey" details the routine extrajudicial killings of soldiers, rampant drug abuse in the ranks, guns smuggled to #Russia in body bags — and a grisly surgery.
🇭🇺 A European Commission deadline for #Hungary to respond to questions about the easing of entry requirements for Russian and Belarusian nationals expired on Monday (19 August).
🇺🇲 US Sen. Mark Kelly said Monday that #Ukraine would get what it needs if Harris is president. He added that the U.S.’s role as a leader in sending military aid to Ukraine, and of being the lead nation in the NATO alliance, wouldn't change.
🤡 #Putin on Monday signed a decree allowing foreign citizens and stateless individuals to apply for temporary residency in the country if they share “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values,” even in cases when a person does not speak Russian.
🇸🇪🇺🇦 The Pansarbandvagn 302 (PbV 302) infantry fighting vehicle, produced by Swedish Hägglund & Söner, has been approved for delivery to Ukraine's Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry said on Aug. 19.
The "entire Swedish stock" of PbV 302 vehicles was a part of Stockholm's largest tranche of military aid for #Ukraine worth $1.3 billion, announced in late May.
🇺🇦 The Security Service of #Ukraine has uncovered a Russian intelligence network that included serving and former law enforcement officers from Ukraine, the agency reported on Aug. 19.
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