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  • Russian cargo ship 'on Syria mission' sinks in Mediterranean

    12/24/2024 8:50:32 AM PST · by Apparatchik · 91 replies
    Sky News ^ | 24 December 2024
    A Russian cargo ship that Ukraine claims was sent to Syria to collect weapons has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, according to officials in Moscow. Two crew members are missing after an engine room explosion sank the Ursa Major between Spain and Algeria, the foreign ministry said. Fourteen other crew were rescued and taken to Spain. Ukraine's military intelligence claimed yesterday that the ship, previously called Sparta III, had been sent to Syria to remove weapons and military equipment after the fall of Bashar al Assad.
  • New regions may join Russia, Medvedev says

    12/18/2024 11:49:49 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 47 replies
    TASS ^ | December 14, 2024 | Sofya Sandurskaya
    Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has not ruled out the emergence of new regions in Russia. "Actually, this experience (of Donbass and Novorossiya’s integration - TASS) may be useful in the future as well, if new but very close-by regions appear in our country soon. This is quite possible," he said at the 22nd United Russia party congress.
  • Ukraine says it killed senior Russian general who died in scooter blast

    12/17/2024 1:11:08 AM PST · by RandFan · 100 replies
    BBC ^ | Dec 17 | BBC
    Summary Ukraine says it killed a Russian general who died in an explosion in Moscow on Tuesday morning Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was at the entrance to a residential block when a device hidden in an electric scooter went off Sources in the Ukrainian security services tell the BBC Kirillov was a "legitimate target" On Monday, Kirillov was charged in Kyiv for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine Kirillov had already been sanctioned by the UK, and others, for his role in Russia's use of chemical weapons The bomb was remotely operated and contained around 300g of explosives,...
  • Kiev names street after Holocaust perpetrator

    12/16/2024 12:38:30 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 76 replies
    Pravda Canada ^ | December 16, 2024 | Staff
    The Ukrainian capital has honored WWII Nazi collaborator and murderous militia commander Taras ‘Bulba’ Borovets A street in Kiev has been renamed in honor of WWII Ukrainian militant Taras Borovets, as part of a nationalist push to glorify “outstanding figures of Ukraine” and erase Russian and Soviet history. The Ukrainian government went on a de-Russification spree in 2015 following the US-backed coup in Kiev the year prior, and redoubled its efforts following the escalation of the conflict with Moscow in 2022. Holocaust scholar Marta Gavryshko noted the name change of Monday morning, calling it a “symptom of a troubling phenomenon”...
  • BREAKING: 'I didn't intend to leave Syria': Bashar al-Assad purported post on Telegram

    12/16/2024 5:51:17 AM PST · by RandFan · 35 replies
    BBC News ^ | Dec 16 | BBC News
    Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad appears to say he never intended to flee to Russia - in what is purported to be his first statement since the fall of Damascus eight days ago. Assad's reported statement was put on the Telegram channel belonging to the Syrian presidency on Monday, although it is not clear who currently controls the channel. In it he says that, as the Syrian capital fell to rebels, he went to the Russian military base in his stronghold in the Latakia province "to oversee combat operations" only to see that Syrian troops had abandoned positions. The Hmeimim...
  • Russia deals 'massive blow' to Ukraine's thermal power plants, energy company says

    12/14/2024 6:47:33 PM PST · by delta7 · 82 replies
    Kiev Independent ^ | 13 Dec 25 | Martin Fornusek
    Russia targeted DTEK's thermal power plants during a mass aerial attack on Dec. 13, damaging their equipment, the company said in a statement. Moscow's forces launched around 90 missiles and 200 drones in one of its largest mass attacks on Ukraine's power grid as the winter is setting in. "DTEK thermal power plants were attacked. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties," the company said. The plants' equipment was "seriously damaged," with energy sector employees already working on repairs. The company does not usually reveal the location of the targeted plants or the full extent of damage due to...