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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
16:12
7 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A RUSSIAN ENEMY
According to several NGOs, the seven-year prison sentence of the Russian opponent of the Russian attack on Ukraine, Mikhail Kriger, was confirmed in the appeal process, while voices critical of the Kremlin were suppressed. According to the NGO Memorial, shortly before the verdict was announced, Mr Kriger announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the “No. 1 terrorist in the world” and shouted “Slava Ukraïni!” or “Glory to Ukraine” in the room.
The defendant, arrested in November 2022, was sentenced in May to seven years in prison for “excusing terrorism” and “public incitement to extremism,” particularly for expressing a desire to see Mr. Putin hanged in messages posted on Facebook before the offensive February 2022. According to the indictment, these messages also justified an attack on the Federal Security Service (FSB) branch in Arkhangelsk (northwest) in 2018 and another in 2019 against the FSB headquarters in Moscow.
3:36 p.m
ZELENSKY SAYS RUSSIAN FLEET IS GRADUALLY WITHDRAWING FROM CRIMEA
In a series of messages published on social networks, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky reiterated that “the Russian Navy can no longer operate in the western Black Sea and is gradually withdrawing from Crimea,” a region annexed by Moscow since 2014.
1:20 p.m
SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL WILL NOT WEAKEN AID FOR UKRAINE, OLAF SCHOLZ ASSURES
Support for Israel will not affect aid to Ukraine, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz assured this Tuesday. “We support Ukraine economically, financially, with humanitarian aid, but also with weapons,” said the leader from Berlin. This support is in no way diminished by the fact that we have been reaching out to Ukraine, Israel and the Middle East with the utmost compassion and concern since the terrible hours of October 7th.”
10:38
Russian drones shot down by Ukrainian Air Force
The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down six Shahed explosive drones on the night of Monday to Tuesday that were fired from Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
10:36
Eight injured in bomb attacks in Kherson and Kharkiv
Four people, including a 12-year-old child, were injured in a bomb attack with “incendiary munitions” in the village of Biloserka, east of the city of Kherson, Ukraine’s defense minister said on Telegram. “Interior, Igor Klymenko.” “Twenty houses, a gas network and several cars and commercial buildings were damaged,” the official added.
According to the minister, in the Kharkiv region, four people were also injured and hospitalized during a strike in the village of Borova.
09:22
RUSSIAN OPPONENT ALEXEI NAVALNY ABSENT AT A COURT HEARING
On Monday, Vladimir Putin’s opponent Alexei Navalny did not appear at a court hearing in Russia. According to the Associated Press agency, questioned? The confiscation of all his writing materials in his prison while he was forced to undergo several unspecified “investigations.”
The previous week, Alexei Navalny had already denounced the “scandalous and illegal arrest” of several of his lawyers in a case of “extremism”. Others of his advisers had also fled the country for fear of prosecution.
07:56
Drones shot down by Russia in the Black Sea?
Russia said on Tuesday it had neutralized three Ukrainian naval drones in the Black Sea that appeared to have attacked Sevastopol Bay in annexed Crimea. An attack using diversionary missile systems was carried out “against the detection zone” of these three devices, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Following the incident, diversion and mine detection operations were underway in the Bay of Sevastopol, the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, he added.
07:25
A DAMAGED TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLE BETWEEN SWEDEN AND ESTONIA
After the Nordstream gas pipeline, another damaged cable in the Baltic Sea? At least that is what the Swedish government said in a press release on Monday, pointing out that a communication cable between the country and Estonia had been damaged by “an external force” or “manipulation”.
A few days earlier, another gas pipeline, this time a Finnish one, was also damaged. This new Swedish-Estonian incident would have occurred “in the same time frame” as during the deterioration of this Finnish equipment.
07:15
MORE THAN 400,000 RUSSIAN SILITARIES ON UKRAINIAN SOIL
“More than 400,000 Russian soldiers” on Ukrainian territory: This is the new assessment of the Ukrainian secret service on Monday about the state of Moscow’s troops in the country. While the latter are currently concentrating their advance efforts on the east of the country, “there are enough forces to carry out separate operations in certain areas of the front,” emphasized an intelligence spokesman.
07:10
The Russian attack on Avdivka continues
Russia is trying to advance east of Ukraine, in the city of Avdiivka. As the scene of numerous clashes, Ukrainian positions in this sector are “protected,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. In addition, the Russian army has so far only recaptured 3 to 4 square kilometers of land.
07:05
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