Notices by Hanse Mina (hanse_mina@mastodon.social)

Take care and we keep in touch.
Always if you want. You can call.

- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1921225117276745951.html

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany #Merz #Zelensky

From 24.02.2022 to 07.05.2025 (Day 1169), estimated losses #Russia suffered in #Ukraine.

Milestones: 960,000 Personnel, 27,500 Artillery

Highlights:
+1270 Personnel
+14 Tanks
+71 Artillery
+124 UAVs
+131 Other Vehicles

Statistics: https://www.reddit.com/r/RussianLosses/comments/1kgor2e/estimated_russian_losses_from_24022022_to/

#RussianLosses

The Kremlin has released a guest list of countries and foreign leaders planning to attend the contentious May 9 Victory Day parade.

The only EU leader attending is Fico from Slovakia.

https://kyivindependent.com/moscow-releases-guest-list-for-victory-day-parade/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Fico #Slovakia

Russia has created a system of prisons and pretrial detention centers where Ukrainian prisoners are held and tortured. As of April 2025, Ukrainian human rights activists know of more than 180 places of detention where captured Ukrainian citizens are held.

https://meduza.io/feature/2025/05/06/v-rossii-sozdali-sistemu-tyurem-i-sizo-gde-derzhat-i-pytayut-plennyh-ukraintsev

#Ukraine #Russia

Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency announced on Saturday, in what it said was the world's first downing of a combat plane by a maritime drone.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-shot-down-russian-fighter-jet-sea-drone-first-time-2025-05-03/

#Ukraine #Russia #Su30 #GUR

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his government could not guarantee the safety of foreign delegations visiting Moscow to attend the Victory Day Parade next Friday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-cannot-guarantee-safety-foreign-leader-may-9-moscow-volodymyr-zelenskyy/

#Ukraine #Russia #Moscow #Zelensky

The Labor landslide came after Albanese’s government spent months trailing the opposition in polling, but gained support rapidly in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s clash with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his “Liberation Day” tariffs.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-cost-conservative-australia-election-takeaway/

#Ukraine #Russia #Australia #Zelensky #US #Trump

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has officially classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a “proven right-wing extremist organization,”

https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany #AfD

The EU is preparing a “plan B” on how to keep economic sanctions against Russia should the Trump administration abandon Ukraine peace talks and seek rapprochement with Moscow, according to the bloc’s top diplomat.

https://www.ft.com/content/1f4ba00b-9e90-4c9b-be6b-e57efaf1e9d5

#Ukraine #Russia #EU

French authorities on Tuesday accused Russia's most high-profile hacking group of orchestrating cyberattacks on President Emmanuel Macron's 2017 election campaign.

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-leaks-cyberattack-russia-gru-moscow-war/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #France #Macron

Dubai emerges as key hub for Russia Today’s campaign to continue reaching Western audiences, despite sanctions.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/28/can-t-stop-the-signal

#Ukraine #Russia #RT #Dubai #UAE #EU #US #UK

Germany has asked the European Union to activate an emergency clause that would allow it to rapidly increase defense investment without breaching the bloc's spending rules.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-jorg-kukies-eu-emergency-clause-defense-spending/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany

National security agencies across the Trump administration are ramping up investigations into alleged leaks to the news media, in some cases using polygraph tests that current and former officials say are creating a climate of fear and intimidation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/28/leak-polygraph-fbi-justice-odni-dhs/

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump

Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war/index.html

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump

A round of explosions occurred in Kyiv around 1:00 a.m where at least two people have been killed and another 54 injured, including six children, in Russia's mass attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Mayor Vitali #Klitschko said.

https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-heard-in-kyiv-amid-russian-missile-attack/

#Ukraine #Russia #Kyiv

Vice President JD Vance said the US has issued a “very explicit proposal” to Russia and Ukraine on a path forward to a peace deal, adding “it’s time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/vance-says-territory-concessions-needed-for-ukraine-russia-deal

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump #Vance

Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.

https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-removes-afghan-taliban-list-banned-terrorist-groups-2025-04-17/

#Ukraine #Russia #Taliban #Afghanistan

The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage, a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.

https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #US #Trump

Germany is willing to send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, the country’s chancellor-in-waiting has said, as he stressed the need to put Kyiv on the front foot and force concessions from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://www.ft.com/content/c8c53a95-fbad-440a-bc57-5802e85c5328

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #Germany #Merz #Taurus

A slump in oil prices is allowing Russia’s crude to be carried on tankers owned and insured by western companies, helping tighten the market for those ships around the Atlantic basin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-11/russian-oil-shipments-shift-to-western-tankers-amid-price-slump

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #UK