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☆ Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to Russian prisons. Ukraine says they’re being held as bargaining chips
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

The Ukrainian government says there are thousands of people like Dima, civilians arrested by Russia who have been held in arbitrary detention for years. In the early weeks of the war, Russian troops took over their home, parking their tank in the garden and stealing anything of value. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia opened a second pre-trial detention facility in Simferopol, SIZO No. Detained civilians, however, are stuck in limbo. Mariana Checheliuk's photos were among those displayed by relatives of detained civilians at a recent protest in Kyiv.

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☆ Audacious Ukrainian drone attacks keep doing massive damage to Russia's oil industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The strikes are doing serious damage to Russia's oil and gas sector. Bloomberg reported that Russia's oil refining is at an 11 month low. AdvertisementBloomberg earlier this week reported that Russia's oil refining is at an 11-month low because of flooding and Ukraine's drone campaign. Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil depots are one of the few bright spots in its war in recent months. "Future Ukrainian drone strikes may disable and disrupt more of Russia's refining capacity and inflict critical constraints on Russian refining that begin to substantially impact Russia's production of distillate products," the analysts said.

Persons: —, Joe Biden's Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, AFP, Metallurgical, The Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Russia's Smolensk, Lipetsk, Russia's, Ukraine's, US

☆ Satellite images capture how Russia is shielding its warships in port from threats like Ukraine's exploding drone boats
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-03 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Satellite images show Russia has placed barriers at its ports to defend the Black Sea Fleet. AdvertisementNewly captured satellite imagery shows Russia has put up barriers at a major port to defend its Black Sea Fleet warships from Ukraine's unrelenting exploding drone boat attacks. An overview of the Novorossiysk port in Russia on March 30. A closer view of barriers at the entrance of the Novorossiysk port in Russia on March 30. Advertisement"Forcing the enemy to flee from the Black Sea was the goal we sought and it was achieved," Brig.

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☆ Opinion: Watch carefully what Putin does next
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Opinion Frida Ghitis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Literally and figuratively, Putin was telling Russians — who would soon vote in a presidential election — that he was the man to protect them. Once in office, attack after attack gave him the pretext to dismantle democracy brick by brick. Once in office, attack after attack gave him the pretext to dismantle democracy brick by brick. Patrushev, incidentally, now heads the national security council, and as I recently wrote, is a possible successor to Putin. The terrorist attack was a glaring failure by the president and his regime.

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☆ In First Remarks on Attack, Putin Tries to Link Assailants to Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Anton Troianovski | More About Anton Troianovski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia laid the groundwork on Saturday for blaming Ukraine for the Moscow concert hall attack. And in making his first remarks on the assault more than 19 hours after it began, he pledged to punish the perpetrators, “whoever they may be, whoever may have sent them.”Mr. Putin, in a five-minute televised address, claimed that someone in Ukraine had tried to help the attackers escape across the border from Russia before they were apprehended by Russian security services. He did not definitively pin the attack on Ukraine; nor did he refer to the assessment by American officials that a branch of the Islamic State was behind it. “They were trying to hide and were moving toward Ukraine,” Mr. Putin said, referring to the four men who carried out the attack and who the Kremlin said had been captured in western Russia. “Based on preliminary information, a window for crossing the border was prepared for them by the Ukrainian side.”

Persons: Vladimir V, Putin, Mr, “, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Ukraine, Islamic Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Islamic State, Ukrainian

☆ Russia election is set to tighten Putin's grip on power despite noon protest
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a screen during a meeting with his confidants for the 2024 election at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, Russia January 31, 2024. President Vladimir Putin is poised to tighten his grip on power on Sunday in a Russian election that is certain to deliver him a landslide victory, though some opponents staged a symbolic noon protest at polling stations against his rule. The election comes just over two years since Putin triggered the deadliest European conflict since World War Two by ordering the invasion of Ukraine. War has hung over the three-day election: Ukraine has repeatedly attacked oil refineries in Russia, shelled Russian regions and sought to pierce Russian borders with proxy forces — a move Putin said would not be left unpunished. Russia is not Putin."

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, Josef Stalin, —, Putin's, Alexei Navalny, Alexei, Yulia Organizations: Gostiny Dvor, KGB Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Budapest

☆ Finland follows France and raises possibility of deploying troops to Ukraine, says report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Finland's Foreign Minister says the West shouldn't rule out deploying troops against Russia. AdvertisementFinland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said the West can't rule out the possibility of deploying troops against Russia, Politico reports. "We are not right now sending any troops and not willing to discuss that," she said. He again said that sending Western troops into Ukraine shouldn't be ruled out, though he said the current situation doesn't require it, AP reported. Despite the Biden administration's firm stance against sending US troops to Ukraine, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby stressed on Friday that the decision ultimately lies with individual nations.

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☆ Going after Russian warships feels like 'hunting prey,' says a Ukrainian general overseeing exploding naval drone operations
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Ukraine has relied heavily on its arsenal of naval drones to cause headaches for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. AdvertisementFor at least one Ukrainian general, going after Russian warships with exploding drone boats is more than just hitting the enemy. To compensate for this deficiency, the country sought to develop what it calls "the world's first fleet of naval drones." These deadly systems were first introduced in 2022 as Kyiv looked to weaken Moscow's grip on the Black Sea. "We analyzed how best to get to the Russian fleet; what means and methods would be appropriate.

Persons: —, Ivan Lukashevych, Lukashevych, we'd, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Organizations: Service, Security Service, Ukraine's Ministry of Digital, Defense Intelligence, Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, AP, Black Locations: Ukraine, Brig, Kyiv, Moscow, Sevastopol, Crimean, Novorossiysk, Russia

☆ How Russia Depicts Wounded Soldiers: As Heroes, or Not at All
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Neil Macfarquhar | Milana Mazaeva | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. How Russia Depicts Wounded Soldiers: As Heroes, or Not at AllTroops with amputated limbs or serious injuries return home to find a patchwork system of treatment and, often, efforts to keep them out of the public eye. Share full articleA concert for wounded soldiers at a military hospital in Rostov-on-Don, southwestern Russia, in March 2022. Credit... Sergey Pivovarov/ReutersNeil MacFarquhar and

Persons: Sergey Pivovarov, Neil MacFarquhar Organizations: All Troops Locations: Russia, Rostov

☆ Wolves in the Chernobyl radiation zone developing resistance to cancer, says study
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Chernobyl wolves are growing resistant to cancer despite their high radiation exposure. The wolves are exposed to six times the legal safety limit of radiation for humans. Decades after the nuclear disaster, wolves are showing genetic dispositions to cancer resistance. AdvertisementWolves in Ukraine's Chernobyl area are developing resilience to cancer, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology reports. A nuclear disaster followed the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in April l986 in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Society for Integrative, Business Locations: Ukraine, Soviet Union, Belarus, Western Russia

☆ Russians are freezing as Soviet-era infrastructure in the country crumbles —and Moscow keeps spending on war
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Heating systems are breaking down in Russia's harsh winter, leaving many people freezing. Much of Russia's Soviet-era infrastructure needs modernizing. AdvertisementHeating systems are breaking down in Russia's harsh winter, leaving many people freezing as Moscow continues to spend on its war in Ukraine. The brutal conditions are made worse because Russia's infrastructure is poorly maintained, with many of its facilitates dating from the Soviet era, according to media reports. About 40% of the communal heating grid in the country needs to be replaced urgently, she added.

Persons: —, Svetlana Razvorotneva, Vladimir Putin, Denis Volkov, ” Organizations: Service, Financial Times, Reuters, “, Levada Center Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, Siberia, Soviet, St . Petersburg, The, Russian, Nizhny Novgorod

☆ BRICS: South Africa says countries are clamoring to join the China and Russia-backed group
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Simone Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —Nearly three dozen countries are seeking entry into the China and Russia-backed BRICS economic group, member state South Africa said Wednesday, weeks after the body expanded its membership for the first time in more than a decade. Thirty-four countries have submitted an expression of interest in joining the bloc of major emerging economies, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told reporters, without naming the nations. BRICS, which since 2011 had been made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, roughly positions itself as the Global South’s answer to the Group of Seven (G7) major developed economies. The group took shape as a summit-level gathering between Brazil, Russia, India and China in 2009 and expanded to include South Africa two years later. Six new BRICS countries were invited during the 2023 summit last August.

Persons: Naledi Pandor, Xi Jinping, Putin, Pandor Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, African Foreign, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Security Council, Finance Locations: China, Hong Kong, Russia, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Ethiopia, Egypt, United States, Washington, Brazil, India, Beijing, Ukraine, Johannesburg, Russian, Kazan, Argentina

☆ Russia is using electronic-warfare devices to stop Ukraine's drones — but it's messing up its internet access
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Russia is deploying electronic-warfare systems to counter drone attacks. The report, citing Russian telecommunications sources, said that LTE wireless broadband and electronic-warfare units both operate on the same frequencies. AdvertisementIt said that Russia may have turned off internet services while it tested electronic-warfare systems, or redeployed its air defenses. Electronic-warfare units work by scrambling the systems used to navigate drones to their targets. AdvertisementAccording to reports, GPS data in Poland and the Baltic region was recently disabled as a result of possible Russian electronic-warfare exercises.

Persons: it's, —, Russia's Organizations: Service, Kommersant, NATO Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov, US, St Petersburg, Poland, Baltic

☆ Putin has a secret palatial home near Finland with yachts, 2 helipads, and a private waterfall: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewA secret palatial home belonging to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been discovered in northern Russia, according to investigative outlet The Dossier Center. The Dossier Center posted a video on YouTube of what it claimed was drone footage of Putin's secret getaway. AdvertisementThe Center said the property is located on the shore of Lake Lagoda, part of a national park, and includes a picturesque waterfall. The report cited locals saying Putin visits the property once a year after making a trip to the nearby Valaam Monastery.

Persons: —, Vladimir Putin, oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Putin, Yury Kovalchuk Organizations: Service, Business, YouTube, Center Locations: Russia, Marialakhti Bay, Karelia, Finland, Lake Lagoda, Valaam, Russian

☆ Plane Crash in Western Russia - What We Know and Don't Know
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

(Reuters) - Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of shooting down a military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange. The crash took place just northeast of Belgorod in western Russia, close to the border with Ukraine. The aircraft was an Ilyushin Il-76, a large military transport plane designed to carry troops, cargo or weapons. He said a second Il-76 transport plane carrying around 80 more Ukrainian soldiers to the exchange had managed to turn around. Ukraine's defence ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Persons: Here's, Andrei Kartapolov, Kartapolov, Ukraine's, Andriy Yusov, Margarita Simonyan, Mykhailo Podolyak, Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn, Alexandra Hudson Organizations: Reuters, Ukraine, WHO, U.S . Patriots, IRIS, Radio Svoboda Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Belgorod, Russian, Ukraine's Kharkiv, Chkalovsky, Moscow, UKRAINE, Ukrainian

A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew and three people accompanying them crashed on Wednesday morning in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. The authorities were investigating the cause of the crash, and a special military commission was on the way to the crash site, the Defense Ministry said. The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses shot down four Ukrainian drones over the Oryol region of western Russia early Wednesday. The German defense ministry announced Wednesday that it plans to send six SEA KING Mk41 multi-role helicopters from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war military deliveries from Germany have amounted to around 6 billion euros ($6.52 billion), including substantial anti-aircraft and air defense systems, the government said.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ” Zelenskyy, Oleh Syniehubov, Yuri Parakhin, Vyacheslav Gladkov Organizations: Russia’s Defense Ministry, Defense Ministry, Twitter, Russian Defense Ministry, Oryol, Gov, SEA Locations: Russia’s Belgorod, Ukraine, Russian, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Russia, U.S, Washington, Moscow, Iran, North Korea, Oryol, Ukrainian, Belgorod, United States, Germany, russia, ukraine

☆ Russia Is Acting to Thwart Ukrainian Attacks on Civilians, Infrastructure -Kremlin
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

They are striking people, civilians," he said, branding Sunday's attack on the city of Donetsk a "heinous act of terrorism". Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed or injured by Russian air strikes and shelling since President Vladimir Putin sent tens of thousands of soldiers into Ukraine nearly two years ago. Moscow said Sunday's incident was the second serious Ukrainian attack on civilians in less than a month. In December, Russia said 25 people, including five children, were killed during a Ukrainian missile and drone attack on the western Russian city of Belgorod. Ukraine and the West accuse Russia of waging an unprovoked war of aggression aimed at seizing land.

Persons: Kyiv's, Novatek, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, Andrew Osborn, Gareth Jones Organizations: Kremlin, Sunday, Ministry of Defence, Reuters Locations: MOSCOW, Russia, Moscow, Russian, Ukraine, Baltic, Donetsk, Ukrainian, Belgorod, Kyiv

☆ Opinion: The real story behind Russia’s new ‘Stalin Centers’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Opinion Jade Mcglynn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Last month, a new ‘Stalin Center’ was opened in Barnaul, Siberia. According to the independent Levada Center, Stalin has taken first place in their ‘who is the greatest figure of all times and all people’ survey since 2012. Students of a military-sponsored school attend the opening of a series of busts of Russian leaders, including Josef Stalin (center), in Moscow, on September 22, 2017. What the West gets wrong about Stalin and PutinMoreover, these comparisons divert attention from important differences between the Stalin and Putin regimes. That is abundantly not the case in Putin’s Russia, where the government instead encourages a ritualistic patriotism and political apathy.

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A Ukrainian drone struck an oil storage depot in western Russia on Friday, causing a massive blaze, officials said, as Kyiv’s forces apparently extended their attacks on Russian soil ahead of the war’s two-year anniversary. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed to hit more targets inside Russian border regions this year. The Russian city of Belgorod, also near the Ukrainian border, canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of Ukrainian drone strikes. The Mash news outlet had earlier reported that a Ukrainian drone fell on the plant’s premises Thursday but caused no damage. The same depot was struck by a Ukrainian drone in May last year, but the damage apparently was less significant.

Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Maxim Yegorov, Alexander Bogomaz Organizations: Ukrainian, Ukraine’s Intelligence Service, RBC, Gov Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Belgorod, Tambov, Moscow, Bryansk, russia, ukraine

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Russia says Kyiv attacked Moscow, St Petersburg regions, claiming Baltic oil terminal was the target
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Russia claimed that Ukraine attacked several Russian regions with drones overnight, including the northwest Leningrad region for the first time. The defense ministry said Thursday that air defense systems shot down drones over the regions of Moscow and St. Petersburg, with one official claiming Ukraine targeted a Russian oil terminal in Leningrad, the northwestern Russian region where St. Petersburg is located. The port infrastructure was not damaged and no one was injured, the official said. If accurate, however, it would mark the first time that the northern region of Leningrad, where St. Petersburg is, has been targeted by Ukraine. "The geography of UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to expand," one Russian official noted.

Organizations: Ukraine, Ukrainian Armed Forces Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Leningrad, Moscow, St, Petersburg, Russian

☆ It will take more than just drones to defeat Russia's Black Sea Fleet, says Ukrainian naval commander
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewA Ukrainian naval commander said it will take more than just drones to defeat Russia's Black Sea Fleet. "Simply changing the fleet to drones and winning will not work," he said, according to a translation provided by the outlet. Related storiesUkraine conducted a series of successful drone attacks on Russia's Black Sea Fleet in 2023, with its explosive sea drones sinking two Russian landing ships on November 10, "Sea Baby" drones damaging a Russian patrol ship near Sevastopol on October 11, and high-tech naval drones paralyzing the fleet on August 24. However, Neizhpapa said that the technology behind Russia's drones is getting better. AdvertisementAs a result, Neizhpapa said, the type of attacks Ukraine launched at sea in 2022 and 2023 won't be as effective in 2024.

Persons: —, Russia's, Oleksii Neizhpapa, Neizhpapa, Ukrainska Organizations: Service, Business, Navy, Armed Forces of, Ukrainska Pravda, Fleet, Institute for, UK Defence Locations: Ukrainian, Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukraine, Sevastopol, Russia, Novorossiysk

How the Russian Government Silences Wartime DissentJust days after invading Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia signed a censorship law that made it illegal to “discredit” the army. The indignities of the crackdown, and the long arm of the Russia law, is being lost in the numbers. Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesIn dry legalese, the court documents recount the Russian state’s case against these statements and protests. People’s “negative assessment” of the Russian military could adversely affect its performance, the court said, presenting a national security risk. And I very much don’t want this.”Sergei Platonov at district court in Moscow listening to his guilty verdict in November.

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☆ Ukraine Says One Killed as Russia Launched 25 Drones Overnight
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Dec. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched 25 drone attacks on Ukraine overnight, killing one person and damaging a warehouse and farm equipment, the Ukrainian military said on Friday, adding that it had downed 18 of the drones, all but two of them in southern Ukraine. One civilian was killed and another injured in attacks on the southern Kherson region, where a culture centre was damaged, Ukraine's Southern Military Command said on the Telegram messenger app. In the neighbouring region of Mykolaiv, a warehouse, a hangar and agricultural machinery were damaged, it said. The Ukrainian Air Force said the drones had been launched from southwestern Russia and Russian-occupied Crimea, as well as two missiles from the occupied part of Kherson region. (Reporting by Dan Peleschuk, Yuliia Dysa; Editing by Tom Hogue and Gareth Jones)

Persons: Dan Peleschuk, Yuliia, Tom Hogue, Gareth Jones Organizations: Southern Military Command, Ukrainian Air Force Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Russian, Crimea

☆ Russia says it downed dozens of Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow, following a mass strike on Kyiv
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 25, 2023. Moscow's Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports also briefly shut down because of the drone attack, according to Russia's state-run news agency Tass. The attack was "the most massive air attack by drones on Kyiv" in the war so far, Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration, said on Saturday. Ukrainian air force spokesman, Yurii Ihnat, confirmed later that same day that air defenses shot down 66 air targets over the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region throughout the morning. The Ukrainian air force early on Sunday said it had brought down eight of nine Iranian-made Shahed drones fired overnight by Russian forces.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Andrei Vorobyev, Moscow's, Vitali Klitschko, Serhii Popko, Yurii Ihnat, Denis Pushilin Organizations: Sunday, Russia, Russian Defense Ministry, Russian Telegram, Military, Russian, Kyiv, Ukrainian General Staff, Ukrainian, Staff Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Kyiv, Moscow, Tula, Ukrainian, Russia, Soviet Ukraine, Azov, Crimea, Kyiv ., Donetsk, Mariupol, Avdiivka, Washington

Russian authorities on Sunday claimed that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones overnight, just a day after Russia launched its most intense drone attack on Kyiv since the beginning of its full-scale war in 2022, according to Ukrainian officials. Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strikes damaged three unspecified buildings there, adding that no one was hurt. The wounded included an 11-year-old child, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The attack was “the most massive air attack by drones on Kyiv" in the war so far, Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration, said on Saturday. Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat confirmed later that same day that air defenses shot down 66 air targets over the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region throughout the morning.

Persons: Sergei Sobyanin, Andrei Vorobyev, Moscow’s, Vitali Klitschko, Serhii Popko, Yurii Ihnat Organizations: Sunday, Russia, Russian Defense Ministry, Russian Telegram Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, Kyiv, Russian, Tula, Russia, Soviet Ukraine

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