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- Families ask Putin to return mobilized troops from Ukraine
- Australia sanctions Russians in response to human rights violations
- New aid pledges to Ukraine at lowest level since war began
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Friday Briefing:
- UK, US sanction Russian hackers over years-long FSB cyberespionage campaign
- Russia tricks US actors into appearing in propaganda videos
- Ukraine to make shells with US firms as it seeks to develop defence sector
- Japan pledges $4.5B more in aid for Ukraine
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🇺🇦 Kyodo News put together a visual story based on a recent interview President Zelenskyy gave them and other Asian media outlets.
english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/12...
Following Russia's invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has gradually pushed back Russian forces. But the prolonged fighting
english.kyodonews.net
🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The EU is set to give member states powers to end gas imports from Russia and Belarus nearly two years after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
www.ft.com/content/91b6...
Also in today’s newsletter, UK shadow City minister’s pro-business stance and MBS snubs Sunak for Putin
www.ft.com
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group:
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia fakes trials and life sentences against Ukrainian POWs to rewrite the facts about its war crimes and destruction of Mariupol.
khpg.org/en/1608813150
🇧🇾 The exiled leader of Belarus’ democratic opposition is warning the United States that abandoning Ukraine in its fight against Russia and Putin would threaten the security of all of Eastern Europe 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/e...
The exiled leader of Belarus’ democratic opposition is warning the US that abandoning Ukraine in its fight against Russia threatens the security of the region.
www.cnn.com
🇺🇸 The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation process to secure new aid for Ukraine and Israel in a supplemental funding bill, a source familiar with discussions said.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation process to secure new aid for Ukraine and Israel in a supplemental funding bi...
www.reuters.com
🇺🇦 Ukraine urged residents to save electricity Thursday after a power plant near the front line was hit by shelling, the first such warning this winter as temperatures plunge below freezing.
www.barrons.com/news/ukraini...
Ukraine urged residents to save electricity Thursday after a power plant near the front line was hit by shelling, the first such warning this winter as temperatures plunge below freezing.
www.barrons.com
🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Kyiv has agreed with two American firms to jointly manufacture vital 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine, a Ukrainian minister said on Thursday, although production will not start for at least two years.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Kyiv has agreed with two American firms to jointly manufacture vital 155mm artillery shells in Ukraine, a Ukrainian minister said on Thursday, although production will not start for at least two years...
www.reuters.com
🇱🇧 🇺🇦 The Lebanese government is believed to have purchased about 30,000 metric tons of milling wheat in a tender this week expected to be sourced from Ukraine, European traders said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
🇷🇸 A branch of the pro-Russian organization "Other Ukraine," founded by the exiled Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was registered in Serbia, RFE/RL's Schemes project reported on Dec. 7.
kyivindependent.com/rfe-rl-medve...
The Serbian branch of exiled Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk's organization is headed by Dragan Stanojevic, a Serbian politician and public figure known for his pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian views....
kyivindependent.com
🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Blocking aid to Ukraine would be a "Christmas present" for Putin, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron warned the US 🇬🇧
www.politico.eu/article/bloc...
Former prime minister, now back in government, urges Western unity on Ukraine.
www.politico.eu
🇪🇺 🇨🇳 European Council chief Charles Michel warned Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday to immediately deal with "a list of companies" involved in supplying Russia with dual-use goods, indicating that EU countries will soon discuss whether to sanction these entities.
www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...
The summit with Beijing also saw ‘intense’ discussion on the root causes of the growing trade imbalance, Commission chief says.
www.politico.eu
🇷🇺 The families of mobilized Russian soldiers on Thursday asked Putin to return their loved ones from the front in Ukraine, more than a year after the men were recruited.
www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/07/f...
The families of mobilized Russian soldiers on Thursday asked President Vladimir Putin to return their loved ones from the front in Ukraine, more than a year after the men were recruited. “We’re a...
www.themoscowtimes.com
🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Kyiv announced Thursday that it had signed an agreement with the United States to help move production of arms to Ukraine, as doubts hang over Western support for its conflict with Russia.
www.barrons.com/news/kyiv-us...
Kyiv announced Thursday that it had signed an agreement with the United States to help move production of arms to Ukraine, as doubts hang over Western support for its conflict with Russia.
www.barrons.com
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 The British government has summoned the Russian ambassador and sanctioned two people for what it said was a sustained but failed attempt to interfere in politics by Russian cyber spies.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...
The British government has summoned the Russian ambassador and sanctioned two people for what it said was a sustained but failed attempt to interfere in politics by Russian cyber spies.
www.reuters.com
🇺🇦 Ukraine's allies have dramatically scaled back their pledges of new aid to the country, which have fallen to their lowest level since the start of the war, the Kiel Institute's Ukraine aid tracker showed Thursday.
www.barrons.com/news/new-aid...
Ukraine's allies have dramatically scaled back their pledges of new aid to the country, which have fallen to their lowest level since the start of the war, the Kiel Institute's Ukraine aid tracker sho...
www.barrons.com
🇦🇺 🇷🇺 Australia had imposed sanctions on 13 Russian individuals in connection to the poisoning, arrest, and sentencing of the prominent Russian opposition figure, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced.
www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/pen...
🇨🇵 🇭🇺 Macron hosts Orbán for dinner on Thursday evening and will attempt to forge a compromise ahead of next week’s summit in Brussels 🇺🇦
www.politico.eu/article/fran...
Hungary’s leader is threatening to derail the EU summit. Can the French president save the day?
www.politico.eu
🤥 Internet propagandists aligned with Russia have duped at least seven Western celebrities, including Elijah Wood and Priscilla Presley, into recording short videos to support its online information war against Ukraine, according to new security research by Microsoft.
www.wsj.com/tech/actors-...
Microsoft found that celebrities were tricked into making videos used to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
www.wsj.com
🛢️📉 Plunging oil markets drove the price of Russia’s flagship Urals crude slump below a $60-a-barrel Group of Seven-imposed cap for the time since July.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Plunging oil markets drove the price of Russia’s flagship Urals crude slump below a $60-a-barrel Group of Seven-imposed cap for the time since July.
www.bloomberg.com
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A driver was killed and grain infrastructure damaged by a Russian drone attack on Ukrainian grain infrastructure near the Danube River, the governor of Odesa region said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
A driver was killed and grain infrastructure damaged by a Russian drone attack on Ukrainian grain infrastructure near the Danube River, the governor of Odesa region said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 Russian banks' profits will reach record levels around 3.3 trillion roubles ($36 billion) this year, the central bank said on Thursday, before dropping off by about 1 trillion roubles in 2024 as high interest rates cool lending growth.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Russian banks' profits will reach record levels around 3.3 trillion roubles ($36 billion) this year, the central bank said on Thursday, before dropping off by about 1 trillion roubles in 2024 as high ...
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 A 14-year-old girl shot a fellow pupil dead and wounded five other people before killing herself at a school in the Russian city of Bryansk, investigators said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
A 14-year-old girl shot a fellow pupil dead and wounded five other people before killing herself at a school in the Russian city of Bryansk, investigators said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 Russian lawmakers on Thursday set the date of the 2024 presidential "election" for March 17, moving Putin closer to a fifth term in office.
apnews.com/article/russ...
Putin hasn’t yet announced his intention to run again, but he is widely expected to do so in the coming days.
apnews.com
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- Kyiv says organised killing of pro-Russian politicians near Moscow, in Luhansk
- Russia arresting migrants attempting to enter Finland and recruiting them into army
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Thursday Briefing:
- US charges 4 Russians with war crimes in Ukraine
- G7 to phase in ban of Russian diamonds from Jan. 1
- US House to vote on Russian uranium ban
- Lithuania drafts law to strip citizenship after Abramovich report
- UK hits mil suppliers propping up Russia's war machine
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🇬🇧 Barclays Plc has stepped in to support a UK charity set up by Russia’s richest sanctioned billionaire after JPMorgan Chase & Co. severed ties with the fund last year.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Barclays Plc has stepped in to support a UK charity set up by Russia’s richest sanctioned billionaire after JPMorgan Chase & Co. severed ties with the fund last year.
www.bloomberg.com
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 As Senate Republicans blocked the advance of tens of billions of dollars in mil and economic assistance for Ukraine, Biden berated their tactics as “stunning" and dangerous. Yet he also signaled an openness to what GOP lawmakers ultimately want: border policy changes.
apnews.com/article/bide...
As Senate Republicans blocked the advance of tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance for Ukraine, President Joe Biden berated their tactics as “stunning” and dangerous.
apnews.com
🇪🇺 🇺🇦 European Union countries have placed orders for only 60,000 artillery shells under an EU scheme to help get 1 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by next spring - Reuters
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
European Union countries have placed orders for only 60,000 artillery shells under an EU scheme to help get 1 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by next spring, according to people familiar with ...
www.reuters.com
🇺🇲 🇷🇺 Legislation that would bar the import of enriched Russian uranium into the US has been teed up for a vote in the US House of Representatives.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Legislation that would bar the import of enriched Russian uranium into the US has been teed up for a vote in the US House of Representatives.
www.bloomberg.com
🇷🇺 The Group of Seven countries announced a direct ban on Russian diamonds starting Jan. 1 followed by phased-in restrictions on indirect imports of Russian gems from around March 1, a statement said on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
The Group of Seven countries announced a direct ban on Russian diamonds starting Jan. 1 followed by phased-in restrictions on indirect imports of Russian gems from around March 1, a statement said on ...
www.reuters.com
🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Biden on Wednesday reiterated his plea to Congress to pass a national security funding request that includes money for Ukraine, as the White House warns Ukraine funding will dry up by the end of the month.
www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-bid...
Republicans insist border security funding must be included in any national security funding package.
www.cbsnews.com
🇺🇲 🇺🇦 U.S. Department of Defense announced new security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs that uses the limited resources that remain available to help Ukraine.
www.defense.gov/News/Release...
The DOD announced new security assistance to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.
www.defense.gov
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The investigation:
www.occrp.org/en/daily/182...
Two children of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich used Lithuanian passports to help take control of some of his wealth, which may have safeguarded it from sanctions imposed on their father just wee...
www.occrp.org
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A Moscow-backed politician in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region has been killed in a bombing attack, Russian state media reported Wednesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/06/c...
A Moscow-backed politician in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region has been killed in a bombing attack, Russian state media reported Wednesday.
www.themoscowtimes.com
🇷🇺 'Even if the video was orchestrated as a publicity stunt, Novaya Europe’s sources all agreed that the larger point is not about Adam specifically so much as it is about the consolidation of the Kadyrov family’s political power in Chechnya.'
novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
On 25 September, Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov posted a video on his Telegram channel that quickly went viral.
novayagazeta.eu
🇷🇺 Heavily indebted Russians are being referred to military recruitment offices to end their financial woes
novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
It’s a sad reality of contemporary Russia that military service is one of the few realistic paths out of poverty for many. Earlier this year, a Novaya Europe investigation found that in many parts o...
novayagazeta.eu
🇱🇹 Lithuania is drafting legislation that will allow more people to be stripped of citizenship after it was reported that Russia's Abramovich passed on some of his wealth to his children who had passports from the Baltic nation just weeks before he was sanctioned.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Lithuania said it’s drafting legislation that will allow more people to be stripped of citizenship after it was reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich passed on some of his wealth to two...
www.bloomberg.com
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to press on with the counteroffensive against Russia as he asked Group of Seven leaders to push back against mounting uncertainty over financial support from the US.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to press on with the counteroffensive against Russia as he asked Group of Seven leaders to push back against mounting uncertainty over financial support f...
www.bloomberg.com
🇷🇺 A pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician who defected to Russia was found dead outside Moscow on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported citing local emergency services.
www.barrons.com/articles/pro...
A pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician who defected to Russia was found dead outside Moscow on Wednesday, Russian news agencies reported citing local emergency services.
www.barrons.com
🇺🇲 🇷🇺 The United States has charged four Russian soldiers with war crimes carried out against an American citizen during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, CNN reported on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
The United States has charged four Russian soldiers with war crimes carried out against an American citizen during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, CNN reported on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of banning the use of cell phones in school classrooms, a move they argue will help improve the learning process for students.
www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/06/r...
Russian lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of banning the use of cell phones in school classrooms, a move they argue will help improve the learning process for students. The speaker of Russia's...
www.themoscowtimes.com
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 Britain’s National Crime Agency today warned banks and financial institutions that Russia is trying to procure UK sanctioned goods through intermediary countries.
www.amlintelligence.com/2023/12/news...
By AML Intelligence Correspondent BRITAIN’s National Crime Agency (NCA) today warned banks and financial institutions that Russia is trying to procure UK sanctioned goods through intermediary countr...
www.amlintelligence.com
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 The UK government announces new sanctions targeting people and groups that are supplying and funding Putin's war machine.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
The UK government announces new sanctions targeting people and groups that are supplying and funding Putin's war machine.
www.gov.uk
🇺🇦 🇵🇱 Charities and NGOs supplying military aid to Ukraine's armed forces are facing delays of several weeks to critical supplies of drones, electronics and pickup trucks due to border protests by Polish truckers, three industry sources told Reuters.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Charities and NGOs supplying military aid to Ukraine's armed forces are facing delays of several weeks to critical supplies of drones, electronics and pickup trucks due to border protests by Polish tr...
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 Russian lawmakers will vote on Thursday on a proposal to hold a presidential "election" on March 17, when Putin is expected to seek and win a new six-year term.
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Russian lawmakers will vote on Thursday on a proposal to hold a presidential election on March 17, when Vladimir Putin is expected to seek and win a new six-year term.
www.reuters.com
🇷🇺 🇧🇾 British American Tobacco CEO Tadeu Marroco said on Wednesday that it had received some proceeds from the sale of its Russian and Belarusian businesses, but this was "far away" from their true value.
www.reuters.com/markets/deal...