Month: September 2023

У КМДА показали, як з обеліска «Місто-герой Київ» прибирають радянські елементи (фото)

У КМДА вирішили прибрати зірки на бічних сторонах обеліска, анотаційну дошку російською мовою, а також змінили напис «1941» на «1939» – рік, коли почалася Друга світова війна …

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Britain, France and Germany to Keep Nuclear, Missile Sanctions on Iran

Britain, France and Germany announced Thursday they will keep their sanctions on Iran related to the Mideast country’s atomic program and development of ballistic missiles. The measures were to expire in October under a timetable spelled out in the now defunct nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers. In a joint statement, the three European allies known as E3 and which had helped negotiate the nuclear deal, said they would retain their sanctions in a “direct response to Iran’s consistent and severe non-compliance” with the accord, also known by its official name as Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA. …

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«Катастрофічні пошкодження» – розвідка Британії про удар по кораблях РФ у Севастополі

«Незважаючи на те, що Міністерство оборони Росії применшило пошкодження кораблів, дані з відкритих джерел свідчать про те, що «Мінськ» майже напевно був функціонально зруйнований, тоді як «Ростов», ймовірно, зазнав катастрофічних пошкоджень» …

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Вночі ЗСУ знищили 17 «шахедів», які рухалися у напрямку Хмельниччини – Повітряні сили

У Повітряних силах Збройних сил України повідомили, що російські війська вночі запустили по Україні з південно-східного напрямку (Приморсько-Ахтарськ) 17 ударних дронів типу Shahed-136/131. «Усього зафіксовано пуски 17 ударних БПЛА, які по різних маршрутах рухались у напрямку Хмельниччини. Усі 17 «шахедів» знищено протиповітряною обороною по маршруту слідування. Залучалась винищувальна авіація, зенітні ракетні підрозділи, мобільні вогневі групи Повітряних сил та інших складових Сил оборони», – прозвітували у Повітряних силах. Хмельницька ОВА підтвердила у Telegram, що в регіоні було чутно звук вибуху, втім деталей щодо атаки наразі немає. На Хмельниччині поблизу Старокостянтинова розташований аеродром, які російські війська атакували вже кілька разів. Російські військові регулярно обстрілюють українські міста, …

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A Wary China Eyes Ties With Russia, North Korea

China, watching this week’s historic Russia-North Korea summit from the sidelines, is likely to welcome a boost for President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine but worry that its longtime client state in Pyongyang could be slipping from its grasp, experts say. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s green bulletproof train headed to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a city in Russia’s far Khabarovsk region, on Thursday after his rare summit with Putin a day earlier, according to Yonhap News in Seoul. In Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Kim is expected to meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and visit a manufacturing facility that produces Sukhoi fighter jets. …

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The Other Side of Putin-Kim Summit: Looking Beyond Arms Deal

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to be using this week’s much-heralded summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to tighten his control over a country struggling with international sanctions and a pandemic-stricken economy, analysts said. Putin and Kim met on Wednesday at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a rocket launch facility in the Russian Far East, for their first summit in more than four years. North Kores’s official Korean Central News Agency said Putin and Kim vowed to strengthen “strategic and tactical cooperation” without providing details. Concern over arms deal Washington suspects Pyongyang may supply Moscow with munitions for its war …

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Italy Mulls Quitting China’s ‘Belt and Road’ but Fears Offending Beijing

Italy is considering whether to leave the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s multibillion-dollar global trade and infrastructure program, by the end of the year. The dilemma comes amid geopolitical pressures from Western allies and domestic disappointment that the program has not delivered the economic benefits that the country hoped for. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke to reporters after meeting the Chinese delegation at last week’s G20 summit in New Delhi. “There are European nations which in recent years haven’t been part of the Belt and Road but have been able to forge more favorable relations [with China] than we …

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Russia Expels 2 US Diplomats for ‘Illegal Activity’

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has expelled two U.S. Embassy employees from the country, accusing them of working with a Russian national that Moscow had previously accused of spying. In a statement, the foreign ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy and informed her that the two diplomats — Jeff Sillin and David Bernstein — conducted “illegal activities by liaising with a Russian citizen, Robert Shonov,” and they must leave the territory of Russia within seven days. Shonov had worked as a local employee at the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Vladivostok for more than …

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Stranded Luxury Cruise Ship Pulled Free at High Tide in Greenland

The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was “successfully” pulled free in Greenland on Thursday, three days after running aground with 206 people on board, authorities and the ship’s owner said. The ship was freed by a fisheries research vessel at high tide, said the cruise ship’s owner, Copenhagen-based SunStone Ships and the Arctic Command, which had been coordinating the operation. It was done “based on a pull from the vessel (owned by the Greenland government) and vessel’s own power. There have not been any injuries to anybody onboard, no pollution of the environment and no breach of the hull.” …

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