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☆ Video: CNN speaks to convicts on Ukrainian front lines fighting for freedom
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Ally Hill | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The plot to topple Putin
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Paul Starobin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +32 min

But it was only when Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine , in 2022, that Ammosov began to plot the overthrow of his homeland. As I found in months of wide-ranging interviews, everyone aspiring to a new Russian revolution grasps the seemingly impossible odds of their bid to topple Putin. Ponomarev — who was profiled last year in The Washington Post under the headline "Could this man bring down Putin?" Most applicants live in Russia, Sokolov tells me, but submissions have come from as far away as Uruguay. "I know a lot of good officers" in the CIA, Ponomarev told me, who "sympathize" with the anti-Putin insurgency.

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☆ Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide bombs after Ukrainian long-range strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russia used the Marinovka airfield to facilitate front-line strikes and kept glide bombs stored there. AdvertisementNewly released satellite imagery shows the extensive damage at a Russian airbase after it was hit by Ukrainian drones last month. Ukraine used long-range drones in an August 22 attack on the Marinovka airfield in Russia's Volgograd region, which was used to facilitate strikes on the front lines. A source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Business Insider at the time that the attack destroyed warehouses that stored fuel, ammunition, and highly destructive glide bombs. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-08 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | Kostya Gak | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Standing outside that office, chain smoking and drinking sweet coffee, he told CNN he just couldn’t handle watching his men die anymore. They see a lot of enemy drones, artillery and mortars,” one unit commander currently fighting in Pokrovsk told CNN. A group of Ukrainian soldiers rests after completing a long mission in Russia's Kursk region. Several commanders told CNN that many officers would not report desertion and unauthorized absences, hoping instead to convince troops to return voluntarily, without facing punishment. During recent leave in Kyiv, Horetskyi told CNN that while his role has existed for a while, it consisted mostly of paperwork.

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☆ The death of an F-16 pilot running missile defense shows how dangerous even the lower-risk missions are in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Ukrainian F-16s are seen in the air in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. AdvertisementDays later, Ukraine acknowledged one of its F-16s crashed, killing its pilot, while battling Russian missiles during the attack. Related storiesHundreds attend a farewell ceremony for Ukrainian F-16 pilot Oleksiy Mest in Shepetivka on August 29, 2024. These include both Western and Soviet-era ground-based air-defense systems and fighter aircraft like the F-16. A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 flies in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, which waited years for the American-made fighter jets.

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☆ Ukraine's wild fire-breathing drones have started popping up all around the front lines, videos show
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementEastern Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone drops molten thermite on a Russian-held treeline, setting it ablaze. Seen here, a Ukrainian drone from the 60th Mechanized Brigade drops a stream of molten thermite on a Russian-held treeline. Ukrainian thermite drones have hit the frontline in force, now in operation with several units. Seen here, a Ukrainian drone from the Khorne Group drops molten thermite on Russian positions in a forest, setting the area ablaze. pic.twitter.com/RPFo7gHW7f — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) September 4, 2024Business Insider was unable to immediately verify the footage.

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☆ Ukraine's surprise invasion of Russia hasn't taken the pressure off the most dire front-line battles
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated last week that an objective of the Kursk invasion was to redirect Russian forces away from the Pokrovsk direction. But the Kursk invasion has limited the number of troops available for reinforcement. KIRILL CHUBOTIN/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesGeorge Barros, the geospatial-intelligence team lead and a Russia analyst at ISW, said that the Kursk invasion underscores how Moscow left a major portion of its international border undefended. Even though the Kursk invasion may not be forcing Russia to redirect front-line forces from Pokrovsk, that campaign will eventually culminate. These efforts have intensified since the start of the Kursk invasion.

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☆ A Russian murder convict joined Wagner, went home, killed again, then got out a 2nd time by joining the army: rights group
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-28 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Court records show Rossomakhin committed this first murder in Kirov in October 2019, when he was drunk and killed a woman with whom he quarreled. AdvertisementDuring his first prison sentence, Rossomakhin was recruited by the Wagner mercenary group, which was accepting convicts into its ranks, in September 2022, per Travmpunkt. The legal rights group said that after spending time on the front, Rossomakhin returned home to Kirov. AdvertisementThe group added that Rossomakhin had served less than six months of his 23-year sentence before being shipped off again to Ukraine. AdvertisementRussia initially recruited thousands of prisoners to fight in Ukraine through the Wagner Group, but the practice soon slowed because convicts feared they would be treated poorly on the frontline.

Persons: —, Ivan Rossomakhin, Rossomakhin, Wagner, Travmpunkt, Anna Pekareva, Yulia Byuskikh, Pekareva Organizations: Service, Business, Russian Defense Ministry, BBC, Press, Kremlin, Russian Ministry of Defense, Wagner Locations: Ukraine, Kirov, Russia, Moscow

A somber atmosphere pervades Ukraine’s 33rd Independence Day Saturday, as the nation’s war against Russia’s aggression reaches a 30-month milestone. No fireworks, parades or concerts are planned and instead Ukrainians will mark the day with commemorations for civilians and soldiers killed in the war. “Independence is the silence we experience when we lose our people,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said to the nation. “913 days ago, Russia launched its war against us, partly through Sumy region,” Zelenskyy said. Ukraine quickly seized considerable Russian territory, including scores of small towns, and captured hundreds of Russian soldiers, moves that may influence the war’s trajectory.

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☆ The battle of Kursk has unchained Ukraine from a failing war strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At the start of August, Ukraine seemed doomed to remain on the defensive, slowly but relentlessly being ground into retreat by Russian onslaughts. But its successful new Kursk offensive has done more than seize 480 square miles of Russian territory and humiliate Putin. After nearly a year of a grim defensive battle, the Kursk operation has also allowed Ukraine to seize the initiative and force Moscow to dance to Kyiv's tune. The Russians no longer hold the initiative across the entirety of the theater, like they have for most of last year." Which means Ukraine has to find some economical way of keeping up the pressure on Russia, without losing more territory of its own.

Persons: Putin, George Barros, Barros, Vladimir Putin, " Barros, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Kursk, Moscow, Donetsk, Russia, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Polohy, Zaporizhia, Zabrama, Bryansk, Belgorod, Forbes

☆ On Ukraine’s Independence Day, Zelensky Celebrates Push Into Russia
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Andrew E. Kramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

President Volodymyr Zelensky, always adept at messaging, used his latest Independence Day speech on Saturday to drive home the idea that Ukraine is taking the fight to Russia, even as his troops struggle along the front line at home. He said the video of the speech was filmed near the site where his troops began a cross-border offensive into Russian territory nearly three weeks ago that caught Moscow by surprise. It was prerecorded from what he described as a location along the Psel River, an area frequently targeted by Russian artillery. “Whoever wished misery upon our land shall find it in their own home,” Mr. Zelensky said of the incursion, which has pushed into the Kursk region of southwestern Russia. He called his military’s operation — which has come after two and a half years of Russia’s all-out, and brutal, invasion of Ukraine — a “boomerang for evil.”

Persons: Volodymyr Zelensky, Moscow, ” Mr, Zelensky, ” Organizations: Russian Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Kursk

Comparisons were drawn to the 1968 Chicago convention, when national unrest during the civil rights movement and over the Vietnam War sowed an atmosphere of violence and chaos. Chicago Police Department officers were trained to deploy a disciplined and patient approach that focused on protecting free speech and allowing people to lawfully protest, a department official said. “The department trained more than a year for this,” a Chicago Police Department official who was not authorized to speak publicly told NBC News. “We are trying to get away from the old image of the Chicago Police Department,” the official said. Protesters in Chicago on the last night of the DNC on Thursday.

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☆ Russia is putting up a stiffer fight in Kursk and is sending well-equipped soldiers, says Ukrainian commander
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA Ukrainian drone battalion commander says Russia is putting up a stronger fight in Kursk and is sending well-equipped soldiers to the region. AdvertisementThey are now dug down in cellars north of the town of Sudzha, deploying reconnaissance and strike drones to assist Ukrainian forces in their advance, it said. Ukraine's army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces were 22 miles into Russia. US officials told CNN last week that Russia appeared to be diverting thousands of troops from Ukraine into Kursk. It remains unclear exactly how many soldiers Russia is redeploying to Kursk from the main 600-mile front line in eastern Ukraine.

Persons: —, Oleksandr Syrskyi Organizations: Service, Regiment, Wall Street, Business, Institute for, CNN, Russian Presidential Administration Locations: Russia, Kursk, Ukraine's, Sudzha, Russia's Kursk, Ukraine, Russian, redeploying

☆ Watch Friday's full episode of the Halftime Report — August 23, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch Friday's full episode of the Halftime Report — August 23, 2024"Fast Money Halftime Report" is on the front lines of CNBC's market coverage. Host CNBC's Scott Wapner and the Street's top investors get to the heart of the action as it's happening and help set the agenda for the rest of the day. Watch today's full episode on CNBC PRO.

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☆ Ukraine says it destroyed glide bombs at a Russian air base that aircraft fly out of to bomb the front lines
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-22 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewUkrainian forces used long-range drones to attack a key Russian airbase overnight, destroying warehouses that stored fuel, ammunition, and highly destructive glide bombs. It appeared to mark Ukraine's latest long-range strike on an important military installation inside Russia. To work around these restrictions, Kyiv has relied heavily on locally produced, long-range attack drones to wage a monthslong campaign targeting Moscow's military and energy facilities. AdvertisementGlide bombs are dumb bombs that are equipped with special kits to turn them into precision-guided munitions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia used more than 750 glide bombs in a single week earlier this month.

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A week into Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Moscow does not have the situation under control. The incursion — the first time foreign troops entered Russian territory since World War II — is a major embarrassment for the Kremlin. Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to “kick the enemy out” of Russia, but his troops are yet to stop the Ukrainian advance. The first reports of Ukrainian troops crossing into Russia’s Kursk region, just north of the Ukrainian border, started to emerge late last Tuesday. Read more about what this could mean for Russia, Ukraine and the war as a whole.

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Greek organizations tend to be the domain of colleges, with students pledging and developing life-long connections in fraternities and sororities. But Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign is thrusting Black Greek organizations into the political sphere. She is the first presidential nominee to come from a Divine Nine Greek organization, so would be the first president from the Black Greek system if elected. That means Harris has ready access to the Divine Nine’s more than 2 million members — including activists, community leaders, philanthropists and more — and what could be a potentially powerful voting and mobilization bloc. Last week, Kiahna W. Davis, a regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc., formed an AKA political action committee to support Harris.

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☆ One of Ukraine's main goals in invading Russia appears to be working
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Ukraine's invasion of the province of Kursk last week took Russia by surprise. Analysts told Business Insider that one of Ukraine's core aims in the operation is to divert Russian troops from the front line in Ukraine. Related storiesIt said that Russia could be diverting troops from units in Donetsk intended to relieve or reinforce front-line units. BI has been unable to confirm reports of the redeployments, and it is unknown exactly how many Russian troops may have been diverted to fight Ukraine's Kursk incursion. AdvertisementFor months, Ukraine's forces have been losing ground to Russia in a grinding war of attrition.

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☆ Russia Moves Some Troops From Ukraine to Fight Incursion, Kyiv and U.S. Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Moscow has begun withdrawing some troops from Ukraine in an effort to repel Kyiv’s offensive into western Russia, according to United States and Ukrainian officials, but it remains unclear what impact, if any, these troop movements might have on the overall battlefield. That included the Kursk region of western Russia, where the incursion has taken place, he said. A United States official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters, said that Russia had pulled out small numbers of troops from Ukraine, but he did not specify their location or the number of soldiers involved. Analysts say that one of the goals of the Ukrainian offensive is to draw Russian forces away from the front lines in Ukraine to relieve Ukrainian troops struggling to push back relentless Russian attacks. But it is too early to say whether the latest Russian troop movements will allow that to happen, they say.

Persons: Dmytro Lykhovii Organizations: Ukrainian Army, United States Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kursk

☆ Ukraine's surprise incursion leaves Putin scrambling to save face — and his territory
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Yuliya-Talmazan-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Yuliya Talmazan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Things seemed to be going so well for Vladimir Putin — at home and on the battlefield. Now Russia is the battlefield, after Ukraine’s stunning assault across the border turned the tables on Putin’s war and left his army scrambling to retake its own land. Putin convened a meeting with governors from the border regions as well as top defense and security officials on Monday. “One of the justifications that he routinely uses for the invasion of Ukraine is the security of the Russian state. The fact that Ukraine has launched this incursion into Russian territory, I think, is absolutely humiliating for him,” Fraser told NBC News.

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Ukraine pressed ahead with its assault inside Russian territory on Tuesday, a week into the biggest foreign incursion into the country since World War II. While Russian officials on Tuesday insisted that the situation was under control, Col. Roman Kostenko, a member of Ukraine’s Parliament serving in the country’s military, told a local news outlet that the “advance is ongoing.”The cross-border attack caught Russia by surprise and signified a shift in tactics for Kyiv, more than two years after Moscow’s troops poured across Ukraine’s border in a full-scale invasion. The rapid advance by Ukrainian forces has been an embarrassment for the Kremlin and aims to alter the narrative of the war at a time when Kyiv’s forces are stretched thin on the front lines of their own country.

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☆ Ukraine is extending its record of flipping the script on Russia through innovation and audacity
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewFor months, Ukraine had been on the back foot in its war against Russia, with the Kremlin's forces slowly winning control of new territory. But last week, Ukraine turned the dynamic of the war on its head, launching an audacious incursion into Russia's Kursk province. However, the training provided by Ukraine's Western allies gave Ukraine the capacity to surprise and outmaneuver Russia. It's unclear exactly how Ukraine managed to take Russia by surprise with its Kursk attack. Military experts said that Ukraine had also exploited the sluggishness and rigidity of Russian military commanders, who scrambled to devise an effective response to the attack.

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☆ Why Ukraine attacked Russia and other questions about Kyiv’s incursion
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —A week into Ukraine’s surprise cross-border incursion into Russia, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Moscow does not have the situation under control. The incursion – the first time foreign troops entered Russian territory since World War II – is a major embarrassment for the Kremlin. The first reports of Ukrainian troops crossing into Russia’s Kurs region, just north of the Ukrainian border, started to emerge late last Tuesday. By Monday, Kyiv claimed to have control over some 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russian territory. Analysts are not expecting Ukraine to attempt to advance much further into Russian territory.

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☆ Watch Tuesday's full episode of the Halftime Report — August 13, 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch Tuesday's full episode of the Halftime Report — August 13, 2024"Fast Money Halftime Report" is on the front lines of CNBC's market coverage. Host CNBC's Scott Wapner and the Street's top investors get to the heart of the action as it's happening and help set the agenda for the rest of the day. Watch today's full episode on CNBC PRO.

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☆ Now is the perfect time for Ukraine to be experimenting with ways to catch Russia by surprise, war analysts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

While it waits to amass the ammunition, manpower, and resources to launch a large-scale, well-timed counteroffensive, Ukraine should experiment with ways to take the initiative and gain momentum, war analysts say. "Ukrainian forces," they argued, "are very unlikely to be able to initiate significant counteroffensive operations in 2024 and into 2025." Such a strategy isn't necessarily new for Ukraine, which has repeatedly found ways to deal unexpected blows to Russian forces despite a grueling ground fight. "It will also protract the war and dramatically increase its costs to Ukraine and to Ukraine's supporters," they said. "Ukraine should thus seek every possible way of restoring maneuver to this war as soon as possible, daunting though that task appears."

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