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☆ Russia official warns countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risk their own destruction
  + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
The speaker of Russia's parliament warned Sunday that countries supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons risked their own destruction, a message that followed new pledges of armored vehicles, air defense systems and other equipment but not the battle tanks Kyiv requested. "Supplies of offensive weapons to the Kyiv regime would lead to a global catastrophe," State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said. "If it requires our sending some Abrams tanks in order to unlock getting the Leopard tanks from Germany, from Poland, from other allies, I would support that." Since invading Ukraine, Russia also has increased both the scope and the number of its joint military drills with China. Ukraine is asking for more weapons as it anticipates Russia's forces launching a new offensive in the spring.
☆ Ukraine demands speedier weapons deliveries from West to confront Russian pressure
  + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Herbert Villarrga Tom Balmforth | Herbert Villarrga | Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
In the south, Russian mortar and artillery fire hit several towns, including the regional capital, Kherson, which Russian forces abandoned in November. Russian troops are active at night - we are in great need of night vision equipment." Western countries have produced a steady supply of weapons to Ukraine since Russian forces invaded last Feb. 24 but Zelenskiy and his government are insisting they need tanks. The OSCE is the world's largest regional security organisation, consisting of 57 states, such as the United States, all European states, including Russia and all states of the former Soviet Union. The U.S. State Department estimated last year that between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainian citizens, including 260,000 children, have been forcibly deported into Russian territory.
☆ Putin attends Orthodox Christmas service by himself in Kremlin
  + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( David Ljunggren | Thomson Reuters | Covers Canadian Political | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Jan 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday attended an Orthodox Church Christmas service by himself inside a Kremlin cathedral rather than joining other worshippers in a public celebration. Russia's RIA news agency said it was the first time in years that Putin had marked Christmas in Moscow rather than in the region around the capital. State television showed two live clips of Putin inside the gilded Cathedral of the Annunciation as Orthodox priests conducted the midnight service, known as the Divine Liturgy. The Russian Orthodox Church backs the war in Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow on Thursday called for both sides to observe a 36-hour Christmas truce that Putin had announced.
☆ Ukraine orders punitive measures on clerics with Moscow links
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Nick Starkov | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
KYIV, Dec 12(Reuters) - Ukraine's top security officials have ordered punitive measures against seven senior clerics, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, part of a crackdown on a branch of the Orthodox Church with longstanding ties to Moscow. The clerics are among Orthodox leaders known to have been sympathetic to Russia's portrayal of its 10-month-old invasion of Ukraine. The Moscow-linked church severed ties with the Russian Orthodox Church after the February invasion, but many Ukrainians remain deeply suspicious of its motives. The Russian church wholeheartedly backs the invasion. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described the authorities in Kyiv as "satanists" and "enemies of Christ and the Orthodox faith".
☆ Putin's supporters call for the liquidation of Ukraine as 'genocidal rhetoric' swells
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty ImagesProminent supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin are using increasingly "genocidal rhetoric" when discussing and demonizing Ukrainians, analysts note, with some pro-war commentators cheering the concept of the "liquidation" of the modern state of Ukraine. "To be a 'Ukrainian' one does not even have to speak the Ukrainian language (which is also still being formed). "All this can be stopped only through the liquidation of Ukrainian statehood in its current form," Medvedev said. Another popular motif being used by pro-war, pro-Putin bloggers is characterizing Ukraine and Ukrainians as "evil" or "sadists" or "Satanists." "As ISW has previously reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin has similarly employed such genocidal language in a way that is fundamentally incompatible with calls for negotiations."
☆ Ukraine's security service raids Kyiv monastery, suspects Russian sabotage
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] Ukrainian law enforcement officers check documents of a visitor of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Ukraine's SBU security service and police raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv early on Tuesday as part of operations to counter suspected "subversive activities by Russian special services", the SBU said. The sprawling Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex that was raided is a Ukrainian cultural treasure and the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church known as the Moscow Patriarchate. "These measures are being taken ... as part of the systemic work of the SBU to counter the destructive activities of Russian special services in Ukraine," the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement. A 2020 survey by the Kyiv-based Razumkov Centre found that 34% of Ukrainians identified as members of the main Orthodox Church of Ukraine, while 14% were members of Ukraine's Moscow Patriarchate Church.
☆ Ukraine says Russia's investigation into Crimea bridge blast is 'nonsense'
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
KYIV, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official dismissed as "nonsense" on Wednesday Russia's investigation into an explosion last weekend that badly damaged a bridge linking the Russian mainland to the Crimea peninsula that Moscow has annexed. Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine's security forces for the explosion and earlier on Wednesday Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia over the blast. "The whole activity of the FSB and Investigative Committee is nonsense," Ukraine's public broadcaster Suspilne cited interior minister spokesman Andriy Yusov as saying when asked about Moscow's allegations on the Crimea Bridge blast. Yusov described the FSB and Investigative Committee as "fake structures that serve the Putin regime, so we will definitely not comment on their next statements". Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting in Melbourne by Lidia Kelly and by Kyiv bureau; Editing by Gareth JonesOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Putin could announce Russia is annexing parts of occupied Ukraine on Friday, UK defense chiefs warn
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Russia is holding sham referendums on getting occupied Ukraine to become part of Russia. Putin could formally annex the regions on Friday, the UK Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. As part of of ongoing updates on the war in Ukraine, the UK Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday that Putin may use his Friday address to parliament to announce the regions are being annexed. "There is a realistic possibility that Putin will use his address to formally announce the accession of the occupied regions of Ukraine to the Russian Federation," the ministry said. Russia also used a referendum after it seized Crimea from Ukraine and annexed it in 2014.
☆ Intercepted documents show pro-Russian officials allowing teenagers as young as 13 to vote in 'sham' referendums, Ukraine's security service says
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ukraine's security service said Russian proxies want teenagers as young as 13 to vote. In eastern Ukraine's occupied Donetsk region, pro-Russian officials plan to include teenagers ages 13 through 17 in the voting process of the "sham referendum," Ukraine's security service — or SBU — shared in a Thursday statement. Citing intercepted documents, the SBU said "minors" will be accompanied by their parents, guardians, or orphanage representatives to polling stations. The SBU said doing so will allow Russian proxies to build a more widespread voter base and "strengthen control" of the referendum's turnout. Ukrainian and Western officials have widely slammed the referendums as illegal and said the outcomes of any votes will never be recognized.
☆ Zelenskiy tells U.N: We demand 'just punishment' for Russian crimes
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 16, 2022. "...This is the first item of our peace formula. Punishment," Zelenskiy, wearing his trademark khaki tee shirt, told the assembly. Zelenskiy ruled out "that the settlement can happen on a different basis than the Ukrainian peace formula. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russian forces of war crimes in different parts of the country they have occupied.
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