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May 20 2023
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Control of Bakhmut in question as Ukraine disputes Russian victory claims
Ukraine is disputing Russia's assertion that its forces have taken full control of Bakhmut, alleging that its military is still holding onto a small area of the once-booming eastern Ukrainian city. Hanna Maliar, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister, acknowledged that the situation inside the destroyed city was "critical." Still, she rejected the Wagner Group's victory claims as premature,
Washington Examiner
May 26 2023
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Russian attack on Ukrainian clinic kills two and wounds 30, Kyiv says
A Russian missile hit a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30 in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a crime against humanity.
Video footage showed a devastated building with smoke pouring out of it and rescue workers looking on. Much of the upper floor of what appeared to be a three-storey building had been badly
Reuters
May 23 2023
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Russian court extends Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's detention by 3 months
A Russian court on Tuesday extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by three months, according to a Russian state news agency. Gershkovich was arrested in March in Yekaterinburg, Russia on espionage charges, which both the Journal and the State Department have denied. The State Department designated Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained” by Russia in April.
Politico
May 19 2023
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Protests Greet First Russian Plane To Land In Georgia In Years
Dozens of Georgians protested Friday outside an airport in the capital Tbilisi as a Russian passenger plane landed in the Caucasus country for the first time since 2019. An AFP journalist at Tbilisi Airport reported the flight operated by Azimuth Airline had touched down at 13:17 local time (0917 GMT). A Georgian airline is expected to begin flying to Moscow on Saturday. Holding Georgian and
International Business Times
May 21 2023
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Zelensky disputes Russian claim it has captured Bakhmut: 'There's nothing'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has disputed Russia's claim it has captured Bakhmut amid an eight-month battle for the city in eastern Ukraine, the longest and likely bloodiest of the conflict.
Zelensky was asked whether Bakhmut was "still in Ukraine’s hands" after Russia claimed the Russian paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group, had captured the city before his meeting
Washington Examiner
Jan 10 2020
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‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020
The National Security Agency and its British counterpart issued an unusual warning in October: The Russians were back and growing stealthier.
Groups linked to Russia’s intelligence agencies, they noted, had recently been uncovered boring into the network of an elite Iranian hacking unit and attacking governments and private companies in the Middle East and Britain — hoping Tehran would
New York Times (News)
Jul 05 2021
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Russian hackers seemingly behind latest ransomware attack, demand $70M
A Russian-linked group that is counted among the cybercriminal world’s most prolific extortionists is suspected to be behind a “colossal” ransomware attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide — just weeks after President Biden boasted about taking President Putin to task on cyberattacks.
In a post on a blog typically used by the Russian-linked REvil cybercrime gang, a group
New York Post (News)
May 30 2023
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Drones strike Moscow in first attack on Russian capital’s residential areas since Ukraine war began
Moscow was hit by drones Tuesday morning, in what appeared to be the first attack on residential areas of the Russian capital since the invasion of Ukraine and a dramatic display that the Kremlin's war was increasingly coming home.
The incident caused damage to some buildings and forced residents to evacuate homes, local officials said.
It comes weeks after an alleged drone
NBC News (Online)
May 17 2023
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The Offensive Before the Offensive: Ukraine Strikes Behind Russian Lines
Early this month, four drones attacked a Russian oil refinery almost 300 miles from Ukraine. The next day, another drone hit it. Not long after another drone bombed a fuel depot on the other side of Russia, near Belarus.
Call it the offensive before the offensive. Strike by pinpoint strike, Ukraine is taking aim at ammunition stores and caches of other supplies that Moscow’s forces need
Wall Street Journal (News)