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Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the Gulagu. net organization, told RFE/RL that two resources told him that about three hundred inmates from the No. 1 penal colony in the city of Tlyustenkhabl had been recruited through the Vagner personal army company, which has ties to the Kremlin.
A day earlier, Gulagu. net posted a video allegedly taken at Adygea Penitentiary.
The prison’s foot soldiers will bolster the ranks of the invading forces with the promise of some £2,800 and the annulment of their sentences if they serve.
Originally open to convicts who had done their military service, the new regime now appears to be open to all prisoners, with the exception of those serving 20 or more for heinous crimes.
The prisoner-soldier program would run through the FSB, the Russian state security services.
A circle of relatives of a convict said prisoners were being asked to attack “Nazis” in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s false claim about the war in Ukraine.
They said: “They spoke to the convicts and asked them to ‘defend the fatherland’. . . My relative said: ‘It is very difficult to locate the Nazis, they are very well prepared. You will be in the vanguard, it helps to locate the Nazis, that’s why not everyone will come back. “
“Who are promised a praise of 200,000 rubles [£2,800] and an amnesty. And if he dies, they promise to pay the circle of relatives five million rubles [£70,000]. But those are just words, possibly it wouldn’t be recorded anywhere. On paper. “
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Russia has introduced an “apocalyptic” risk to Kyiv if Ukrainian troops try to retake Crimea, according to a report.
A former Russian president has given the impression of warning that Ukraine could face another attack if it tries to retake the disputed region.
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012, made the remarks at an assembly with an organization of World War II veterans.
The deputy director of the Russian Security Council said: “Trying to back down, and some exalted ** clowns who periodically appear there with statements, threaten us, I mean an attack on Crimea, etc. “
He added: “The consequences are obvious: if something like this were to happen, there would be an ‘apocalypse’ for everyone who is there, very temporarily and hard. “
Crimea annexed through the Kremlin in 2014.
Nations around the world have condemned Vladimir Putin for the annexation.
Vladimir Putin “has already lost the war in Ukraine,” to the head of the British armed forces, when the invasion of Ukraine enters the 145th day.
While Britain’s defense leader criticized Putin’s progress in the Eastern European nation, he dismissed the hypothesis that the Russian president is “not doing well” and that it is “an illusion” that he could be assassinated.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin asked today whether President Putin can simply be “overthrown” or if he can simply face “regime change”.
He spoke in an interview on BBC One’s Sunday Morning about the war in Ukraine.
The admiral is the head of the British armed forces and the minister’s chief army adviser.
He told the BBC: “I think some of the comments that he’s not doing it right or that someone is actually going to murder him or take him out, I think are illusions. “
“As pro-military personnel, we see a solid regime in Russia.
“President Putin has been to undermine any opposition, we see a hierarchy that is inverted in President Putin, so no one in the most sensible has the motivation to challenge President Putin, and it’s dark. “
President Zelensky faces further unrest as his security leader and prosecutor have been fired on suspicion of treason.
Attorney General Iryna Venediktova was fired as many of her workers ran “against our state. “
The head of Ukraine’s security service, Ivan Bakanov, is also believed to be a longtime friend of President Zelensky, Sky News reported.
The president said: “Such a diversity of crimes opposed to the foundations of the state’s national security and the recorded links between the Ukrainian security forces and the Russian special raise very serious questions about their respective leaders.
“Each of those questions will get an adequate answer. “
Ms. Venediktova played a key role in prosecuting Russian war crimes, however, the dismissals were announced in decrees on the president’s website.
Zelensky alleged on his Telegram account that many members of the firm had “collaborated” with the Putin regime, to Reuters.
A Ukrainian airliner’s cargo plane, carrying 12 tons of “hazardous materials,” crashed in Greece.
Residents said they saw a fireball and heard explosions for two hours after the Antonov plane crashed into farmland near the town of Kavala.
The Soviet-era AN-12 aircraft was heading from Serbia to Jordan, according to Greek civil aviation authorities.
According to local reports, 8 other people were on board the plane when it crashed.
He was reportedly carrying 12 tons of “hazardous materials,” basically explosives.
The state channelERT reported that army experts and explosives were on their way to the scene.
Officials said, however, they had no express information about the shipment and provided a variable number of other people on board.
A Ukrainian teenager desperate to flee the war-torn country to live with friends in Britain has given up her fight for a visa after the bureaucracy thwarted her.
Viktoria Koval, a 17-year-old law student, had been seeking a safe haven with family friends in the UK since March, just after the war began.
Now, despite a fatal missile strike 30 metres from his home last week, he believes he would rather threaten the dangers of war than deal with British “layer after layer of bureaucracy”.
As a minor who is not accompanied by a parent or a member of the circle of relatives, she was not allowed to obtain a visa to live in the UK. Ukraine.
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An ITV News team reporting from the front line in Ukraine was forced to “pass” in front of the camera when Russian bombing landed a few hundred meters from them.
An ITV News team was forced to flee a report filmed on the front lines of the war in Ukraine, when terrifying footage of the encounter emerged.
Footage filmed via ITV News captured the moment they were forced to flee the front line as Russian bombardments landed just six hundred meters away. The press team was attached to a Ukrainian army unit near Kharkiv as it tested new NATO weapons.
The report showed that the Ukrainians were deploying the Howitzer M777 long-range weapon.
The British-designed weapon is the best in its class.
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Vladimir Putin will “absolutely” seek to take advantage of the political turmoil in British politics to give a special touch to Russia’s advance through Ukraine, an army strategy expert told Express. co. uk.
When Boris Johnson announced his resignation as prime minister last week, he was quick to claim that his resignation would not represent the UK’s unwavering aid to Kyiv.
However, Dr Marina Miron, from the Centre for Military Ethics at King’s College London, told Express. co. uk that the Russian leader will “absolutely” seek to exploit the chaos of a new minister entering No. 10 to move Ukraine forward.
She said: “This is a wonderful opportunity for Russia, especially on the battlefield.
“And even before the total scenario in Ukraine, Russia knows how to exploit political instability in any country, be it France or the United States. “
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Vladimir Putin was humiliated this week when his invasion plan failed and his troops were forced to withdraw from a key village following a Ukrainian response.
This week a Ukrainian retaliation was filmed that forced a Russian withdrawal.
Footage from the Ukrainian Armed Forces showed the moment when two Russian BMP infantry fighting cars “were hit by Ukrainian artillery fire” in Verkhnokamianka, Luhansk.
At least one of the tanks destroyed, according to Ukrainian infantrymen who introduced the ambush.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN’s forces suffered devastating setbacks following Ukrainian artillery attacks, and Ukrainian officials said Russia took “a bachelor meter” of floor last week.
Ukraine is employing the now-known HIMARS and M270 multiple rocket systems provided across the West to strike russian front lines well.
The strategy of attacking Russian command posts and ammunition depots gave the impression of bearing fruit after the Kremlin’s offensive stalled last week.
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A BRITISH MAN captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine filmed singing the Russian national anthem weeks after being sentenced to death. ]
Aiden Aslin, 28, convicted last month of “mercenary activities” because he captured while fighting as a foreigner (he is a British citizen) for the Ukrainian army. His British compatriot Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun were sentenced to the same penalty alongside him. .
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RUSSIA is at the next level of its offensive in Ukraine, according to reports.
New intelligence reports claim that Vladimir Putin’s forces are strengthening their defensive positions and regrouping sets to advance. Journalist Mark Galeotti notes in his latest podcast that “there’s a kind of calm” in the “army special operation” right now, with “both sides. . . through an operational grouping”.
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Russian state television covered the missile attack in Vinnytsia that killed 23 people, adding a seven-year-old boy, an eight-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl.
They claimed that any accusation of a civilian attack is just propaganda from the “Ukrainian regime. “
Putin is sending troops to the front in Ukraine from “hellish” prisons to a human rights group.
Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the Gulagu. net organization, told RFE/RL that two resources told him that about three hundred inmates from the No. 1 penal colony in the city of Tlyustenkhabl had been recruited through the Vagner personal army company, which has ties to the Kremlin.
A day earlier, Gulagu. net posted a video allegedly taken at Adygea Penitentiary.
The prison’s foot soldiers will bolster the ranks of the invading forces with the promise of some £2,800 and the annulment of their sentences if they serve.
Originally open to convicts who had done their military service, the new regime now appears to be open to all prisoners, with the exception of those serving 20 or more for heinous crimes.
The prisoner-soldier program would run through the FSB, the Russian state security services.
A circle of relatives of a convict said prisoners were being asked to attack “Nazis” in Ukraine, the Kremlin’s false claim about the war in Ukraine.
They said: “They spoke to the convicts and asked them to ‘defend the fatherland’. . . My relative said: ‘It is very difficult to locate the Nazis, they are very well prepared. You will be in the vanguard, it helps to locate the Nazis, that’s why not everyone will come back. “
“Who are promised a praise of 200,000 rubles [£2,800] and an amnesty. And if he dies, they promise to pay the circle of relatives five million rubles [£70,000]. But those are just words, possibly it wouldn’t be recorded anywhere. On paper. “
Russia suffered additional casualties in the army when Ukrainian forces destroyed an enemy tank in a precision counteroffensive, photographs showed.
In photographs posted on social media, a Russian tank can be seen blowing itself up in Dovhenke, Kharkiv Oblast.
The reservoir is hidden right next to the corner of a road surrounded by bushes.
A Ukrainian drone discovers the army vehicle and then captures the moment it is effectively hit and destroyed.
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Ukrainians are evacuating animals to the EU for adoption as it wreaks havoc on the country’s pets.
Many animals have been abandoned or orphaned as a result of the fighting, but Ukrainian volunteers are doing their best to bring them to safety.
Liliya Tymoshenko, a volunteer and co-founder of the open database of fighting photographs Dattalion, explained to Express. co. uk how volunteers are saving the situation.
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Ukraine’s atomic force company accused Russia of having Europe’s largest nuclear force plant to stockpile weapons and bomb the surrounding regions of Nikopol and Dnipro, which were attacked on Saturday.
Petro Kotin, president of Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear agency, called the scenario at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant “extremely tense,” with up to 500 Russians controlling it, Agence France-Presse reports.
The plant in southeastern Ukraine has been under Russian control since the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion, but is still operated by Ukrainian personnel.
Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Nikopol on Saturday and killed two people, Dnipro regional governor Valentin Reznichenko said.
Ukraine reportedly destroyed Russian tanks, ammunition depots and missile systems.
Kyiv Indepedent reported on Sunday that Ukrainian forces allegedly destroyed two Russian T-72 tanks, two ammunition depots and two man-portable air defenses (MANPADS).
They destroyed a howitzer, a “Tor” formula short-range surface-to-air missile, and armored and army vehicles.
The “Southern” Operational Command reported in July that Ukrainian forces had killed 36 Russian soldiers.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday: “No Russian missile or artillery can break our unity. “
He added in a speech on the occasion of the anniversary of Ukraine’s Declaration of State Sovereignty: “It is equally evident that it cannot be harmed by lies or intimidation, falsifications or conspiracy theories. “
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