Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 3 days ago • 97%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29098510 > Ukraine said on Monday it had asked the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to join humanitarian efforts in Russia's Kursk region following a cross-border incursion by Ukrainian forces. > > Ukraine's army remains in the Kursk region more than a month after launching the assault, in which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Kyiv has taken control of about 100 settlements. Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday its forces had regained control of two more villages. > > "Ukraine is ready to facilitate their work and prove its adherence to international humanitarian law," (Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii) Sybiha said on X after visiting the Sumy region, from where Ukrainian forces launched the cross-borer attack.

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We've spent a lot of time in the past talking about systems that have been called 'game changers' or arguably overperformed in Ukraine, relative to either expectations, costs, or both. Today, we look at some of the opposite - systems that may not be having the expected impact, and which might prompt some thinking in planners observing the Ukrainian experience.

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www.politico.eu

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19812904 > ***Ukrainian president says Brasília-Beijing initiative shows “lack of respect” toward Kyiv’s position.*** > > Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Brazil of being pro-Russia in the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and lambasted a joint peace proposal drawn up by Brasília and Beijing. > > “The Chinese-Brazilian proposal is also destructive, it’s just a political statement,” Zelenskyy said during an interview with Brazilian news site Metrópoles on Wednesday evening. > > Brazil and China signed a joint statement in May calling for peace talks involving both Russia and Ukraine. **However, according to the Ukrainian president, the two countries consulted Moscow but not Kyiv.** > > “We are not stupid,” Zelenskyy said during the interview. “How can you offer ‘here is our initiative’ without asking anything from us?” He added, “This is a lack of respect toward Ukraine.”

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 5 days ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16461348 > Gift Link

Work Reform Cephalotrocity • 1 week ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2688916 > Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death. SpaceX employees say they’re paying the price for the billionaire’s push to colonize space at breakneck speed. > > >Through interviews and government records, Reuters documented at least 600 injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014. Many were serious or disabling. The records included reports of more than 100 workers suffering cuts or lacerations, 29 with broken bones or dislocations, 17 whose hands or fingers were “crushed,” and nine with head injuries, including one skull fracture, four concussions and one traumatic brain injury. The cases also included five burns, five electrocutions, eight accidents that led to amputations, 12 injuries involving multiple unspecified body parts, and seven workers with eye injuries. > > >SpaceX, founded by Musk more than two decades ago, takes the stance that workers are responsible for protecting themselves, according to more than a dozen current and former employees, including a former senior executive. > > >Musk himself at times appeared cavalier about safety on visits to SpaceX sites: Four employees said he sometimes played with a novelty flamethrower and discouraged workers from wearing safety yellow because he dislikes bright colors.

Fuck Cars Cephalotrocity • 1 week ago • 94%

Despite living just 1 mile from my elementary school, I never walked or biked once - let me show you why.

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 97%

[Invidious link](https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=8tHkwLSS-DE) Since 2022, there have been wildly divergent predictions made about the way the Russian economy would hold up under pressure. Now, deep into Q3 2024 I want to have a closer look at the Russian economy, sanctions, and the risks it faces. And for a change in perspective, we will do it primarily using Russian data.

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www.theguardian.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28496413 > Western leaders should not be intimidated by Kremlin threats of nuclear escalation, the head of the CIA said on Saturday, and be willing to consider allowing Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles to be used inside Russia. > > Bill Burns, on a visit to London alongside the head of MI6, said the US had brushed off a previous Russian nuclear scare in autumn 2022, demonstrating that threats from Moscow should not always be taken literally. > > “Putin’s a bully. He’s going to continue to sabre rattle from time to time,” Burns said. “We cannot afford to be intimidated by that sabre rattling … we got to be mindful of it. The US has provided enormous support for Ukraine, and I’m sure the president will consider other ways in which we can support them.” > > [MBFC](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/) > [Archive](https://archive.is/0talt)

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 94%

www.dw.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19499744 > The populist BSW and far-right AfD parties, both of which did well in recent state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, are opposed to arms deliveries to Ukraine. This stance is having an impact on federal politics.

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 95%

Sept 6 (Reuters) - Kremlin has been seizing assets of some Western companies in Russia through decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin and court orders related to lawsuits over halted projects or blocked funds amid Western sanctions. Below is a list of the companies affected so far...

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239 > Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits. > > The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million. > > The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market. > > "We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. > The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. > Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies. > > Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

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kyivindependent.com

Mongolia's energy dependence complicates the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant, a Mongolian government spokesperson told Politico in a statement on Sept. 3.

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 96%

... Facing an economy crippled by the cost and destruction of the war, by August 2022 Ukraine agreed with creditors to pause payments on its bonds. With no end to the conflict in sight, last week the nation sealed one of the fastest - and largest - debt restructurings in history. Eclipsed in scale only by Argentina and Greece, the restructuring of more than $20 billion of debt will save Kyiv $11.4 billion over the next three years - crucial for both its ongoing war effort and its International Monetary Fund programme...

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 98%

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2497007 > Russia's trade with India is booming and bilateral payments are proceeding smoothly without the glitches that have been hampering trade with other countries, Anatoly Popov, deputy CEO of Russia's largest lender, Sberbank, says.

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kyivindependent.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28177156 > The situation in the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast is "difficult," but Russian troops have not advanced over the past two days, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 2, citing Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. > > The eastern front near Pokrovsk has been the scene of fierce fighting for several months and a focal point of Russia's offensive in Donetsk Oblast. The city is an important logistical hub for Ukrainian forces. > > Asked whether it was appropriate to launch the Kursk incursion, Zelensky said that Russia had redeployed a "sufficiently large number" of troops from Zaporizhzhia and Kherson sectors to Kursk Oblast. > > [MBFC](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-independent-bias/) > [Archive](https://archive.is/dSW67)

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 99%

meduza.io

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2464567 > [Archived link](https://web.archive.org/web/20240902063523/https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/23/parents-of-russian-conscripts-who-disappeared-amid-ukraine-s-cross-border-assault-say-pro-war-activists-are-pressuring-them-to-keep-silent) > > Investigators have identified dozens of Russian soldiers who where captured during Ukraine's incursion in Russia. The soldiers’ parents said they haven’t received any information from the Russian Defense Ministry about their children’s possible whereabouts. > > However, the parents have gotten messages from pro-war activists and bloggers — referring to themselves as “volunteer helpers” — who told the parents not to speak out publicly about the deaths, capture, or disappearances of their loved ones to avoid “playing into” Ukraine’s hands and provoking conflict with the Russian authorities. > > One of these “helpers” is an activist named Svetlana Zarutskaya, who runs a chat group for a military unit. She has advised parents “not to talk with Ukes” and to contact the Federal Security Service (FSB) if anybody tries to help them find their sons. > > In a conversation recorded by the mother of a missing conscript, Zarutskaya said the following: > > >There were conscripts stationed on our border in 1941, and our conscripts fought in Afghanistan and Chechnya! When they took their oath, they pledged allegiance to the Motherland. […] The Ukes are pushing the narrative that we’re at fault for posting the conscripts [on the border]. There’s been a major propaganda campaign aimed at turning Russian citizens against their government and against their state. But it’s important to understand: it was the Ukes who crossed our border and took the conscripts captive, and even killed some of them. And we, the Russian army, didn’t cross their borders. We haven’t crossed the new Ukrainian border anywhere. > > **Some of the missing conscripts’ relatives said they’ve reached out to Russian propagandists for help publicizing their situation but that everyone they contacted was afraid to help** [...] Among these figures were > > - Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Alexander Kots; > - blogger Semyon Pegov, who runs the popular WarGonzo Telegram channel; > - state media “war correspondent” Yevgeny Poddubny; > - Izvestia correspondent Emil Timashev; > - blogger Yury Podolyak; and reporters for the Yekaterinburg-based state news site Ura.ru. > > The Ura.ru employees cited Russia’s law against spreading “disinformation” about the military. Propagandist Anastasia Kashevarova, meanwhile, promised the missing conscripts’ parents that she would help State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliyev compile a prisoner exchange list, but she then went on to blame the conscripts themselves for allowing Ukrainian troops to cross the border: > > >Serving at the border in a country at war, they were completely relaxed — wearing civilian clothes and with no weapons. Look at the photos and videos of soldiers captured in the SVO (special military operation) zone: those guys are shell-shocked, dirty, and wounded, and it’s clear that they fought to the end. Compare them with the images of those captured in the Kursk region: some of them are wearing slippers, some are in civilian clothing, all of them look clean. [...] Surrendering without a fight, out of negligence, while drunk — it’s [tantamount to] working for the enemy.

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 2 weeks ago • 96%

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28141395 > Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday. > > The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state. > > Some hawks among Russia's military analysts have urged Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to "sober up" Russia's enemies in the West. > > [MBFC](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/) > [Archive](https://archive.is/lfn8x)

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balticsentinel.eu

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2464361 > **At the recent GLOBSEC 2024 Forum in Prague, political leaders from the Baltic Sea states unleashed a barrage of criticism against the U.S. government's handling of its Ukraine war strategy. The most revealing statement came from the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.** > > “I am sorry that the deliveries of F-16s took so long. Personally, I was ready to hand them over to Ukraine from the very beginning of the war. However, there was a long debate about the correctness of this decision,” Frederiksen revealed. > > "If we allow Russia to take 20% of Ukraine, [do you believe] Russia will say thank you? My guess is that they will say thank you and move on in Ukraine or other countries, including NATO countries. There is no alternative to Ukraine winning this war,” Frederiksen said. She also added, that “as Europeans, no matter what happens in the US, we should be able to do more on our own” and that “A Europe that is not willing to defend itself is not a Europe.” > > This aligns with Estonia's Hanno Pevkur, who framed the issue as one of strategic clarity. 'The question for us is straightforward: Do we want Ukraine to fight, or do we want Ukraine to win? We want Ukraine to win, not just to fight,' Pevkur stated. > > These sentiments capture a growing divide between the U.S. and some of its European allies, who feel that Washington’s reluctance to escalate its involvement is prolonging the war and risking Ukrainian lives. > > [...] > > The frustration expressed by Baltic and Danish leaders is amplified by recent revelations [...] that the Biden administration had rejected a proposal to send American contractors to Ukraine to maintain Western military equipment, including the crucial F-16s. [as] the U.S. National Security Council had considered the deployment of specialists but ultimately declined, deeming it too risky. > > [...] > > Previously, critics in the U.S., such as retired general and former commanding officer of the U.S. Army Europe Ben Hodges have criticized the U.S. procrastination with training Ukrainian pilots for the F16-s. "It is absurd how long it is taking us to get Ukrainian pilots trained in the F-16s. That is embarrassing to me, how long it has taken," Hodges lamented in a recent interview to The Baltic Sentinel.

Videos Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 57%

[Invidious link](https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=_Bb04MsmzcI) The day after Bernie Sanders’ speech at the DNC, Hasan has some follow up questions for the Senator, like “What exactly did you mean by a ceasefire in Gaza?” and “What do I tell my friends who have given up on politics?”

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kyivindependent.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27989088 > Belgium will allocate 150 million euros ($165 million) to restore civilian and energy infrastructure in Kyiv and Chernihiv oblasts, the Ukrainian government announced on August 30. > > As part of its reconstruction efforts in Ukraine, Brussels has taken on the responsibility for rebuilding two regions, including the cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv, which have endured numerous Russian attacks since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. > > . . . > > The agreements outline plans for the reconstruction, renovation, and construction of education, healthcare, and energy infrastructure. Additionally, the two countries aim to build shelters in Ukraine and implement backup power and heating systems. > > [MBFC](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-independent-bias/) > [Archive](https://archive.is/DjVwV)

World News Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 90%

cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/2226119 > Summary > > - Israel says Wassem Hazem was the head of Hamas in Jenin > - Hamas confirms the death of three fighters > - Israeli forces keep up large-scale operation in West Bank > - Fighting between Israel and Hamas still rages in Gaza Strip

World News Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 71%

Summary - Israel says Wassem Hazem was the head of Hamas in Jenin - Hamas confirms the death of three fighters - Israeli forces keep up large-scale operation in West Bank - Fighting between Israel and Hamas still rages in Gaza Strip

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 93%

MOSCOW, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Russian imports will fall in 2024, hit by problems with cross-border payments and logistical difficulties linked to Western sanctions, the central bank said in a draft of its monetary policy guidelines for the next three years released on Thursday.

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 86%

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/24378447 > > [r*ddit](https://libreddit.northboot.xyz/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/1f2pmsn/ukrainian_hatsune_miku/)

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> MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of religion. ^ Which is a load of BS. Ukrainians are still free to worship at the IOC. Fuck russian spies hiding behind religion for credibility.

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KYIV, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine's top commander said on Tuesday that Kyiv's forces were still advancing in Russia's Kursk region, but warned that Moscow was building up its forces on the eastern Pokrovsk front, where Russian troops have been advancing.

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kyivindependent.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27805943 > Ukraine's Air Force used F-16 jets as part of its defense against Russia's mass missile and drone attack on Aug. 26, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed during a press conference on Aug. 27. > > Russia targeted 15 of Ukraine's 24 oblasts on Aug. 26, launching over 200 missiles and drones as part of the largest-ever aerial attack against Ukraine. > > . . . > > F-16s gave "a very good result," Zelensky told reporters. "As part of this huge attack, we shot down some missiles and drones with the help of F-16s." > > [MBFC](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-independent-bias/) > [Archive](https://archive.is/5pJwO)

Ukraine Cephalotrocity • 3 weeks ago • 96%

The chief of Ukraine’s army said Tuesday that the country’s troops have gained control of nearly 1,300 square kilometers (500 square miles) of Russia’s Kursk region since their surprise incursion three weeks ago.