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Post by Admin on Aug 13, 2024 12:53:57 GMT
Russian military claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 420 servicemen in the Kursk direction in one day
"Over the course of 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 420 servicemen, 55 armored vehicles, including three tanks, eight armored personnel carriers, an infantry fighting vehicle, 43 armored combat vehicles, 31 cars, a multiple launch rocket system launcher, and an artillery piece," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, as quoted by Interfax.
The agency claims that during the entire period of military operations in this direction (that is, since August 6), the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 2,030 servicemen.
It is impossible to verify this data; Ukrainian military reports of losses in the Kursk region, where the Ukrainian offensive is developing, have not been commented on.
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Post by Admin on Aug 13, 2024 22:21:05 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 14, 2024 11:58:56 GMT
German media reports arrest warrant for Ukrainian diver in Nord Stream explosion case
Germany has issued a European arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor who was allegedly part of the team that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, according to a joint investigation by German publications Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit and the ARD television channel, citing unnamed sources.
According to a journalistic investigation, German investigators believe that a man living in Poland was one of the divers who planted explosive devices on pipelines from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea in September 2022.
Germany's attorney general declined to comment on the report. In June, Germany asked Poland to arrest the man, the report said. The Polish national prosecutor's office did not comment on the matter.
On Wednesday, Spiegel magazine reported that the suspect was believed to have left Poland, citing security sources.
Another man and woman, also Ukrainian diving instructors, have been identified in Germany's investigation into the alleged sabotage, but no arrest warrants have been issued for them so far, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit and ARD report.
It remains a mystery who was behind the explosions that destroyed three of Gazprom's four pipelines, Reuters reports. Russia and the West have accused each other of involvement in the blasts. Each side denies involvement, and neither has claimed responsibility.
A Swedish investigation found traces of explosives on several items recovered from the blast site, confirming that the explosions were deliberate.
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2024 12:39:06 GMT
FT: Ukraine and Russia begin talks on prisoner exchange in Kursk region
The Ukrainian authorities have begun negotiations with Russia on the exchange of prisoners captured by both sides during the fighting in the Kursk region, the Financial Times writes .
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets said on the national telethon the day before that Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova had contacted him to begin discussing the details of the exchange. Moskalkova herself did not comment on this.
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, which is responsible for the negotiations on the Ukrainian side, confirmed to the FT that it was working on a swap.
Russian officials have previously hinted that Moscow might suspend the prisoner swap. But Lubinets said his conversation with Moskalkova gave him hope that the two sides could move forward soon.
According to him, Moscow and Kyiv are exchanging information about prisoners. Lubinets also said that he informed the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross that "the rights of Russian prisoners of war are protected, and at any time Ukraine is ready to continue the exchange processes based on the Geneva Convention."
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Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2024 12:45:18 GMT
Russia has transferred several thousand soldiers to the Kursk region, but is not withdrawing serious forces from the front - CNN sources
Russia has deployed several brigades of about a thousand men each to repel the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region, but has not yet withdrawn any serious forces from the front lines in Ukraine. This is what the American television company CNN tells its audience , relying on intelligence data and information already published in other sources.
"Russia is believed to have hundreds of thousands of troops on the front lines in Ukraine, so officials say the transfer of a few thousand may not have a major impact in the short term," CNN writes.
"We haven't seen any significant movement yet, and we can't say whether it's because they're just starting to move troops or because they just don't have anything to move," CNN quotes one of its anonymous sources as saying.
Another anonymous source, a senior official, told CNN that, according to US intelligence, Russia, in addition to units from Ukraine, sent personnel from the Leningrad Military District and from Kaliningrad to the Kursk region.
CNN authors, following many other observers, note that, in the opinion of many Western politicians and officials, Ukraine is unlikely to be able to hold territory in the Kursk region for long, and therefore it is too early to judge how this operation will affect the overall course of the war.
CNN also claims that, according to many of its American interlocutors, the US does not allow Ukraine to use ATACMS tactical missiles with a range of up to 300 km in the Kursk region not because they are afraid of escalation, but because the US does not have many of these missiles, and, in the opinion of the American military, it is wiser to use them only at targets in Crimea for the sake of economy.
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