Jun 9 Buonasera Mag
Ferocious battles in Donetsk, Death sentences, Belarus, Sanctions US-NZ-Canada, Scholz, Bulgaria, Kara-Murza, articles to read
Catching up…
EA Worldview’s Ukraine Up-date- hop over to Scott’s amazing hourly Ukraine up-date page. I’ll fill in with some bits and bobs.
Stories we’re following…
Ukraine’s MFA Kuleba: “We are fighting for our land, for our people, & we do not need any "Minsk-3", no new “contact lines“, no ceasefire that will freeze the situation for years & prolong pain & suffering”.
Ukrainian military casualties are now between 100 and 200 a day, according to a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky - the highest estimated total to have been made public so far.
British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim have been sentenced to death by the so-called Appellate Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Russian 'DPR'.
InformNapalm: Data of the commander of the 38 Brigade (m/u 92616) which in the near future may receive an order to attack Ukraine from the north.
General Staff: Russian military prepares for new offensive on Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast. Russians continue to shell the towns near Sloviansk, including Adamivka and Dolyna. On June 8, a Russian airstrike also hit Sloviansk. Some 24,000 people still remain in the city.
Russia announces it does not expect Gazprom to cut gas supplies to any more European customers as its roubles scheme - set up in response to Western sanctions - is functioning as intended.
Russia may be getting more revenue from its fossil fuel sales now than before its invasion of Ukraine, according to one US official.
The so-called DPR and LPR and Kherson and Zaporizhshya regions are planning to integrate into one federal district as part of Russia. Three sources from Meduza.
US Treasury has banned U.S. money managers from purchasing Russian debt or stocks on secondary markets as part of sanctions imposed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
The UN chief Antonio Guterres says he has asked colleagues to help find "a package deal that allows for the safe and secure export of Ukrainian-produced food through the Black Sea, and unimpeded access to global markets for Russian food and fertilizers".
Canadian sanctions : Canada suspends exports of 28 services vital for Russia's oil, gas and chemical sectors.
New Zealand's foreign affairs minister says the sanctions are imposed so Russia and Belarus will not consider New Zealand as a safe haven for their activities and will ensure that businesses across the country will not unknowingly fund Putin's war efforts.
Turkey’s FMA Cavusoglu said he believed the world should work together to open a safe passage for Ukraine's agricultural exports and that Turkey viewed the russian demands to lift restrictions on its farm exports as "very legitimate".
The EU Parliament with an overwhelming majority passes a resolution recognising the Chinese govts actions against the Uyghurs as crimes against humanity and a serious risk of genocide.
German Chancellor Scholz held a phone call with Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg earlier today. Scholz and Stoltenberg discussed updating Nato's strategic aims in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a German government spokesperson said on Thursday.
Donald Trump is set to be questioned under oath next month as part of a civil investigation into his company’s business practices in New York.
1.6bn people ‘severely exposed’ to impact of Ukraine war, says UN
The UN’s secretary general, António Guterres, warned that the consequences for the world of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are “speeding up” and “threatening to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution, leaving social and economic chaos in its wake”.
While this year’s food crisis is “about lack of access”, next year’s “could be about lack of food”, he said while presenting the UN’s second report on the repercussions of the war, AFP reports.
Guterres said: The war’s impact on food security, energy and finance is systemic, severe, and speeding up. There is “only one way to stop this gathering storm: the Russian invasion of Ukraine must end”, he urged.
He said he had asked colleagues to help find “a package deal that allows for the safe and secure export of Ukrainian-produced food through the Black Sea, and unimpeded access to global markets for Russian food and fertilisers”.
The deal is “essential” for hundreds of millions of people in developing nations, including in sub-Sarahan Africa, he said.
The UN report said an estimated 94 countries, home to around 1.6bn people, are “severely exposed to at least one dimension of the crisis and unable to cope with it”.
The report says that the war may increase the number of food-insecure people by 47m people in 2022, bringing it to 323m by the end of the year.
It is estimated that up to 58m more Africans may fall into poverty this year, the document adds.
Politico EU, Welcome to Bulgaria, where the Ukraine war is NATO’s fault
NATO is to blame for provoking the “special military operation”, as Vladimir Putin called his invasion of Ukraine. Washington helped Kyiv build secret biological weapons labs. Ukraine is defended by Nazis and the world supports Moscow’s efforts to liberate the country from a fascist regime.
Vladimir Kara-Murza Thread
I am proud of my colleagues and comrades who, despite everything, remain in Russia and continue to openly oppose the criminal aggression of the Putin regime against Ukraine.
Peter Dickinson, More than three-quarters of Russians still support Putin’s Ukraine War
A survey conducted in late May by Russia’s only remaining independent pollster, the Levada Center, found that 77% of Russians currently back the war. This represented a slight increase on the corresponding figure for April, when 74% of respondents voiced support for the ongoing invasion.
Anders Aslund, Putin Is Going to Lose His War
Systemic corruption has hobbled Russia’s ability to fight a war successfully. Since 2013, for example, Putin has awarded at least $3.2 billion in military procurement contracts to his friend Yevgeny Prigozhin—who has provided Russian troops with such meager food supplies that they have resorted to looting grocery stores simply to feed themselves.
Liveuamap- 3 months of war
We’re signing off. Thanks for reading…
Mo & Scott