EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine
I hate how credible these scenarios sound, and especially hate that the main factor differentiating between them is the course of US presidential primaries.
Thievery to suppress dissent is a natural tactic for Putin.
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[Is anyone else finding that the NYT no longer oneboxes here?]
Reuters:
Exclusive: China warns Ukraine over naming its firms ‘sponsors of war’ - sources
KYIV, Feb 1 (Reuters) - China has told Ukraine that their bilateral relations could be damaged by Kyiv’s designation of more than a dozen Chinese companies as “international sponsors of war”, two senior Ukrainian sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
The warning was communicated to Ukraine last month at a meeting of China’s ambassador to Kyiv with senior Ukrainian government officials, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Horror and nightmare indeed. War is Hell.
An unverified story from a Russian Telegram account. The word “reportedly” is doing a lot of work.
reportedly taken his own life
reportedly employed by the Almaz-Antey defense plant
Whoever wrote it up for the Kyiv Post seems not to have realised that “Gorobets Anton Igorevich” is just a formal bureaucratic way of writing Anton Igorevich Gorobets.
Storm Drain?
Arguably, he’s already well and truly started the process by bombing the Ukrainian infrastructure flat.
But still, there’s a lot of theft and destruction to go before they can bring those occupied territories down to the “all-Russia level”.
Of course the paperwork is faulty. Right at top of the form where the candidate’s name is supposed to be filled in they misspelled “Putin”.
