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☆ Ukrainian intelligence announces seizure of propaganda in Russian Orthodox church, blurs face of cat 'agent'
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Ukrainian intelligence said Thursday its agents had seized propaganda found inside Russian Orthodox churches. In a statement, Ukraine's SBU also said it found Russian passports and looted icons. It also released a photo of those agents that included a cat whose face was blurred. The SBU also claimed to have found documents indicating that Russian Orthodox priests were collaborating with the Russian government and its occupation authorities in Kherson. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused the Russian Orthodox Church of seeking to "weaken Ukraine from within" amid calls from some to ban the organization.
☆ Russia's Ukraine onslaught shows zero signs of a winter lull as conflict rages
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
As the Russia-Ukraine war heads into winter, there has been some expectation that freezing temperatures on the battlefield could bring a lull in the conflict. Last weekend, a top U.S. intelligence official even said they expected to see a "reduced tempo" in the fighting and that this was likely to continue over the "coming months" with both the Ukrainian and Russian militaries expected to regroup and resupply, and to prepare for counter-offensives in the spring. There appears to be no signs in a let-up, however — with extremely intense fighting in eastern Ukraine, with the devastation in parts of the region reminiscent of World War I — and both Russia and Ukraine sending out smoke signals that there is no time, and no desire, for a cessation of hostilities. Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signaled that he was in it for the long-haul, saying the conflict could be a "lengthy process," continuing attempts by the Kremlin to suggest to the Russian public that the war will not be over soon and that there will be no pause over winter. Ukraine has also showed no signs of letting-up, particularly as it tries to build on momentum that has allowed it to liberate chunks of Kharkiv in the northeast, and Kherson in the south, and now concentrates its efforts on defending its position in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.
☆ Ukrainians brave return to former frontline village after Russian retreat
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Anna Voitenko | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The ones that still have something to save, they save it," said 31-year-old returnee Liudmyla Hupalo. "The ones that have nothing to save and have no place to live, they don't come back," she told Reuters. There is some roof left above my house, but it is still scary to look at." "It was a nice and beautiful village," he later recalled, standing beside the charred remains of his tractor, blown up during the occupation. For his wife Oksana, the stove means progress of a sort, though a return to normality remains a distant prospect.
☆ Zelenskyy and the Spirit of Ukraine win Time’s 2022 Person of the Year
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the spirit of Ukraine have been named Time’s 2022 Person of the Year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But the answer as to why he did it was simple: “It’s the people.”“My security was 100% against it,” Zelenskyy told Time during the trip to Kherson. “Zelenskyy gives me confidence,” a 35-year-old woman identified as Natasha in Ukraine told TODAY. In addition to Zelenskyy, Felsenthal revealed the women of Iran as 2022’s Heroes of the Year.
☆ Putin says the war in Ukraine could be a 'long process' as the Russian military's list of failures grows months into the invasion
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Putin warned Wednesday that the war in Ukraine could be a "long process." "As for the duration of the special military operation, well, of course, this can be a long process," Putin explained during a meeting with the presidential Human Rights Council, per Reuters. From the onset of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Putin has consistently refused to refer to the ongoing fighting as a war — instead calling it a "special operation." Throughout the so-called "special military operation," Putin has largely avoided touching on how long the war might last. Months later, Russian troops have been pushed into retreat in regions of Ukraine that Putin illegally annexed in September.
☆ Putin acknowledges Russia's war in Ukraine could be a long one
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Mark Trevelyan Tom Balmforth | Mark Trevelyan | Tom Balmforth | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Russia launched what it calls its "special military operation" in February, saying Ukraine's deepening ties with the West posed a security threat. MOBILISATIONAround 150,000 of the 300,000 reservists called up in September and October were deployed in Ukraine, 77,000 in combat units, he said. [1/3] Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link in Moscow, Russia December 6, 2022. President Alexander Lukashenko, who relied on Russian troops to put down a popular revolt two years ago, has so far kept his own army from joining the war in Ukraine. Thousands of Russian troops have deployed in Belarus since October, Ukraine says, and Belarus authorities have increasingly spoken of a threat of "terrorism" from partisans operating from across the border.
☆ Putin warns nuclear risk is increasing and war in Ukraine is going to 'take a while'
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Jessie Yeung Katharina Krebs | Jessie Yeung | Katharina Krebs | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —Nearly 10 months after his invasion of Ukraine began, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged that the conflict is “going to take a while,” as he also warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war. And without categorically ruling out the first use of nuclear weapons, Putin said he viewed the Russian nuclear arsenal as a deterrent rather than a provocation. “Nevertheless, we have a strategy… namely, as a defense, we consider weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons – it is all based around the so-called retaliatory strike,” he said. We are aware of what nuclear weapons are. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant been rocked by explosions in recent months amid fighting nearby, with Kyiv and Moscow blaming each other for the attacks.
☆ Ukraine withstood the Russians in 2022. Can it drive them out in 2023?
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Peter Graff | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Dec 6 (Reuters) - When Russia invaded Ukraine, Vadym Khlupianets, a 26-year-old ballet dancer at Kyiv's National Operetta Theatre, joined the army. Ukrainians astonished the world - and themselves - in 2022, withstanding an all-out military assault by a superpower meant to crush them within days. [1/6] A civilian trains to throw Molotov cocktails to defend the city, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. As 2022 winds down, Russia has been hurling missiles at Ukraine's energy infrastructure, plunging millions of Ukrainians into darkness and cold. Moscow claims a military justification; Ukraine says this serves no purpose but to harm civilians.
☆ Deadly Russian Shelling of Kherson Neighborhoods Mars Joy Over Ukraine’s Return
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Yaroslav Trofimov | Photographs Manu Brabo For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
KHERSON, Ukraine—Like many of her neighbors, Yanina Deychenko was thrilled when Ukrainian forces returned to Kherson on Nov. 11, ending a nine-month Russian occupation. But the Russians didn’t go very far. Operating from positions just across the wide Dnipro River, they have started to shell Kherson’s residential neighborhoods, inflicting in recent days the worst damage that the southern city has suffered since the war began.
☆ Russia, mired in war, faces economic pain and attempts to isolate it
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Andrew Osborn | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The war has so far not gone well for Putin. [1/5] Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Security Council via a video link from the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia December 2, 2022. And Russia, one of the world's biggest energy and commodity producers, has been hit with the harshest Western sanctions in its modern history. For Russia, 2023 is likely to be a year when it tries to stave off more Western attempts to isolate it. As Putin pays up to keep the war in Ukraine grinding on, managing its fallout at home and abroad is likely to get harder.
☆ Indonesia's Mount Semeru volcano erupts
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Anuja Jaiman | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as heavy fighting continues nine months into the invasion.
☆ Putin is increasingly aware of how poorly his military is doing in Ukraine, US intel chief says
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Putin had initially been kept in the dark about Russia's failures in Ukraine, earlier reports said. Avril Haines said Putin is "surprised" but not deterred by Russia's military performance. Speaking at the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, Haines said Putin was "surprised" at his military's disappointing performance in Ukraine following its invasion in February. Haines' comments come after reports that Putin's military advisors had been shielding him from what is happening on the ground in Ukraine. Haines said on Saturday that Putin's political objectives to capture Ukraine have not changed despite him becoming more aware of Russia's military failures.
☆ Putin drove across a newly fixed bridge to Crimea that was blown up. It is the closest he's come to his war in Ukraine.
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin drove across a newly repaired bridge in Crimea on Monday. The Kerch Bridge was rocked by an explosion on October 8, causing significant damage. Putin's visit is the closest he's been to the front lines of the devastating war he started. On Monday, Putin drove across a newly repaired bridge to the occupied Crimean peninsula that was blown apart a couple months ago. As for its involvement during the ongoing war, the bridge was used by Russian troops to move military equipment.
☆ A Russian pilot was detained by civilians in occupied Kherson. A Ukrainian city councilman released him — and now faces charges of treason.
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A Kherson city councilman has been accused of treason for releasing a Russian pilot. The case highlights an issue facing Ukraine as it investigates accused Russian collaborators. Kherson, a southern port, was the first major Ukrainian city taken by Russian forces after the invasion in February. "They couldn't hand him over to Ukrainian forces — there were no Ukrainian forces in the city at that time. The case highlights a challenge facing Ukrainian authorities after Russian forces retreat.
☆ Zelenskiy urges residents to be strong as Ukraine races to restore power
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Nick Starkov | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Russia has been pounding Ukraine's power infrastructure since early October, causing blackouts and leaving millions without heating as temperatures plummet. RESTORING POWERIn Ukraine, officials have been resorting to scheduled blackouts as they race to restore power. In Kherson, left largely without power when Russian forces abandoned the southern city last month, the regional governor said 85% of customers now had electricity. On the battlefront, Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were holding positions along the front line, including near Bakhmut, viewed as Russia's next target in their advance through Donetsk. Russian forces trained tank and artillery fire on both cities and about eight other centres.
☆ Stunning images from the eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as heavy fighting continues nine months into the invasion.
☆ Russians Systematically Loot Art, Ancient Relics From Ukraine’s Cultural Sites
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Ian Lovett | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
KHERSON, Ukraine—The glass at the Kherson Regional Museum that once protected ancient pottery from the area now lies broken on the floor. The fifth-century jewelry is gone. Shelves that used to house artifacts from the Cossacks, who lived in the area before it was conquered by the Russian Empire, are now empty. Russians packed it all onto trucks before fleeing the city last month.
☆ Putin's war in Ukraine looks more and more like a failure. Past Russian leaders haven't survived similar mistakes.
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Joy Neumeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Instead, Russia's failing war effort has raised doubts about Putin's hold on power. For now, Putin looks secure, but past Russian leaders have suffered at home for blunders abroad. By the following summer, the Germans had taken huge swathes of Russian-controlled territory and a million Russian soldiers were dead. Captured Russian soldiers after the defeat at Tannenberg, in present-day Poland, on August 30, 1914. After an ineffectual troop surge, Gorbachev gave up on trying to improve the situation, and the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989.
☆ Ukrainians in Kherson wait for loved ones to cross frontline river
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Anthony Deutsch Anna Voitenko | Anthony Deutsch | Anna Voitenko | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Under the three-day amnesty which began on Saturday, Ukrainians living in villages across the river can traverse the Dnipro during daylight hours and to a designated point. Anastasiia, who also only gave her first name, said she was at the port because she hoped to cross the river the other way, into Russian-held territory where her relatives are. Russian forces have intensified artillery attacks on the Kherson region since withdrawing from the western bank of the Dnipro. Dozens have died in attacks in the region, Ukrainian officials say. Mykola, 73, said his daughter happened to be on the east bank of the river when Kherson was liberated and got stuck alone in Russian-held territory.
☆ 'Bloody parcels' containing animal eyes mailed to Ukrainian embassies
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Leila Sackur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Bloody parcels containing the eyes of animals and explosives have been sent to several Ukrainian embassies and consuls across Europe, officials said late Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement on Facebook that embassies in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Italy had received packages containing the disembodied eyes of animals. Consulates in Naples, Italy, Krakow, Poland, and the Czech city of Brno had also been targeted, he said. Letter bombs were mailed to six addresses in Spain earlier this week, including the Ukrainian Embassy and the U.S. Embassy, as well as to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, causing security to be tightened. Farther south, the Ukrainian consul in Naples, Maksym Kovalenko, told the AP that his office received two letters containing fish eyes at around 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
☆ The death of an American soldier fighting in Ukraine exposes chaos and dysfunction in the foreign legion
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
The widow, alongside other soldiers, told Insider about mismanagement and dysfunction in the legion. A Foreign Legion fighter looks on at wreckage in Ukraine following a Russian attack. "When we were told to go out again, in my mind I knew someone was going to die," AJ told Insider. "How everything was handled, especially after his death, was scandalous," Lipka told Insider. Mavericks told Insider he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and still mourns the deaths of his comrades.
☆ Kherson officials ease river crossings from Russian-held territory
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
KYIV, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Officials in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson announced on Saturday they would help citizens evacuate from parts of Russian-occupied territory on the east bank of the Dnipro River amid fears of intensified fighting. Yaroslav Yanushevych, the regional governor, said officials were temporarily lifting a ban on crossings to allow Ukrainians living in villages across the river to traverse the Dnipro during daylight hours and to a designated point. "Evacuation is necessary due to the possible intensification of hostilities in this area," he wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have continued shelling Kherson and surrounding areas from there, killing civilians. Yanushevych said the ban on river crossings would be lifted through Monday.
☆ Ukrainians tear down Russian propaganda billboards in Kherson
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +1 min
KHERSON, Ukraine — In the liberated city of Kherson, Ukrainians have been tearing down a glaring symbol of occupation -- billboards spreading Russian propaganda. Throughout the southern city that was under Russian occupation for nearly nine months, the Russians had put up billboards declaring the city part of Russia or promoting important figures from their past. This is part of a propaganda war that has been waged over Ukraine in tandem with the one being fought on the battlefield. Amid the hardship and destruction, the Russian propaganda billboards have fueled anger and resentment. Not even renewed Russian shelling stopped community workers from removing the much-despised pro-Russian messages.
☆ 27 photos of sad World Cup fans
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as heavy fighting continues nine months into the invasion.
☆ Japan fans win praise for tidying up at World Cup
  + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Jeremy Schultz | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
Russian forces tried to advance in eastern Ukraine and trained tank, mortar and artillery fire on Kherson in the south, the Ukrainian military said, as heavy fighting continues nine months into the invasion.
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