The Minister for Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, says that sustaining the fight will require not only more weapons but also access to high-speed broadband internet.
In this way, he has asked the billionaire Elon Musk to continue facilitating his access, after the founder of SpaceX has already provided more than 12,000 Starlink antennas to Ukraine so far.
Those terminals are proving crucial in supporting infrastructure across Ukraine as it wages its own social media information war against Russia.
Satellite images show how the Russians appear to be increasing theft of grain grown in Ukraine, one of the world’s largest grain exporters, as the war drags on, CNN reports.
The images have been recorded in the port of Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, a territory that Russia has invaded and controlled since 2014. They show the ships, the Matros Pozynich and the Matros Koshka, berthed next to what appear to be be grain silos with the cereal flowing out into an open warehouse, CNN reports.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had already launched accusations against Russia for “gradually stealing” Ukrainian food products and trying to sell them, taking advantage of the conflict.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also traumatized Estonia and the other two Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania, as they celebrate the deployment of weapons with Finland and Sweden applying for NATO membership.
The Baltic states, encouraged by successive administrations in Washington, have long called for an increase in NATO forces on the border with Russia and Belarus as well as a Scandinavian reinforcement. Now, after the radical change in European public opinion, the wish can come true.
Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks also sent a strong message to Putin. “As strong as it sounds, we have to tell Putin: ‘You have nuclear weapons, so do we; if you want war, you can have it; we are not afraid of you!” he exclaimed.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Congress today Vox’s initiative to declare Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘persona non grata’ for undertaking the invasion of Ukraine.
The text of the petition emphasizes that the invasion of Ukraine is “an extremely serious violation of international law and national sovereignty” and, although it is not yet known when the war will end, it can be assumed that “it will result in thousands of dead and assassinated, the destruction of houses, schools and hospitals, towns and cities”.
“The only person responsible for what is happening in Ukraine and in Russia is Mr. Putin with his expansionist and power cravings. The Russian people are also victims of the tyranny of a satrap’s regime and should not suffer the consequences of what they do a dictator who should never set foot in the capital of Spain again”, they proclaim.
US President Joe Biden said today that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine “highlights the importance” of maintaining a “free” and “open” Indo-Pacific.
“We live in dark times in our shared history,” the president said at the start of a meeting of the Quad regional strategic alliance in Tokyo.
In this way, he reiterated that “as long as Russia continues this war, we will be partners and lead a global response”, since “this is more than a European issue, it is a global issue”.
The Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, predicts that the Russian economy will suffer serious long-term damage as a result of the war in Ukraine, due to European sanctions.
In its monthly bulletin for May, the Bundesbank predicts that the structural problems that the Russian economy already has will intensify. The Bundesbank recalls that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in April that Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) will fall by 8.5% this year and that the fall will continue next year, but at a lower rate.
The IMF forecasts a recession in Russia that will exceed the one suffered after the global financial and economic crisis in 2009. The Russian central bank also forecasts that GDP will contract between 8 and 10% this year. From 2013 to 2021, Russia’s real GDP grew by an average of 0.9% per year, according to the Bundesbank.
Russia accuses the West of “militarizing” cyberspace by supporting an “army of hackers” to confront it and promote a strategy that seeks to completely control the information that circulates through the Internet.
The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vasili Nebenzia, said on Monday that Western governments are backing an “army of hackers” launched by Ukraine to attack Russia and that this poses the risk of triggering a “large-scale” digital confrontation. That would be extremely dangerous.
The US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, responded by accusing Moscow of “launching baseless attacks to spread exactly the type of disinformation” that must be prevented and combated, and assured that Russia “continues to close, restrict and degrade internet connectivity, censoring content, spreading disinformation online and intimidating and arresting journalists for telling the truth about their invasion.”
The Turkish threat to block the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO has caused stupor. It is feared that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold his own, as long as some of his capital demands are not met. But Nordic political asylum for Kurdish refugees is just the tip of the iceberg in Ankara’s list of grievances, which has raised accusations of marketing.
Meanwhile, in Turkey, what causes amazement is that, after seventy years in NATO – forty of them on the same border with the USSR – they are spared for emphasizing their security interests in front of the applicants. Or that, after decades at the gates of the EU, the rusty gears of Brussels suddenly work like silk to accelerate the candidacies of Ukraine or Moldova.
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Kurenkov as the new Emergencies Minister on Monday after the death of the previous minister, Yevgeni Zinichev.
Putin has submitted the candidacy to the Federation Council, the Russian Senate, which must confirm the appointment. Russian senator Andrei Klishas, for his part, has pointed out that the presentation of the candidacy will be “examined”.
Zinichev, 55, held the post of Emergencies Minister since May 2018, and died after falling off a cliff during the recording of a documentary directed by film director Alexander Melnik, who also lost his life.
The head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, has stated that his country has resumed contacts with Russia, in the military field, to prevent an escalation between the two countries.
The general has indicated that both he and the Pentagon chief are focused on risk management and avoiding a possible escalation with Russia. Within these efforts, “we have reopened communications at the military level and I have called my Russian counterpart,” Milley said, although without offering details about the content of the conversation.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Andrea Rudenko, has expressed concern about NATO’s plans to supply arms to Moldova, an idea that, as he explained, “raises several questions.”
“Because Moldova’s constitution clearly establishes its neutral status outside the bloc, the supply of weapons, in particular by a NATO member country, raises questions,” he insisted.
Likewise, he has warned that a supposed departure of Moldova from the Commonwealth of Independent States would be a mistake and would affect the country’s economy. “Now Moldova, as part of the CIS, is a member of the free trade zone. Withdrawal from such agreements will have a negative impact on its economy,” he said.
The pro-Russian leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk republic, Denis Pushilin, assures that the Ukrainian prisoners of the Azovstal steel mill will be tried in a court that is planned to be created in that territory.
Pushilin told the Russian agency Interfax that all “Azovstal prisoners are in the territory of the DPR” and denied reports that some of them were sent to Russian territory.
The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, has denied that the Ukrainian opposition deputy Viktor Medvedchuk will be exchanged for the military of the Ukrainian forces arrested after the seizure of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. “We have already said that Medvedchuk is a citizen of Ukraine, and he is not a military man,” he has settled.
“In the case of the people who surrendered in Azovstal, we are talking about the military and members of nationalist formations, so they are completely different categories and here we can hardly talk about exchanges,” the spokesman explained.
The court has sentenced Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin, 21, to life in prison for the murder of an unarmed civilian in the Sumi region, in an express trial.
Shishimarin, originally from the city of Irkutsk, in Siberia, had pleaded guilty and had offered a detailed description of the facts at the opening of his trial, last week, in which he confessed to having fired a 62-year-old man with his submachine gun. , next to his house, in the village of Chupakhivka, on February 28, four days after the start of the Russian invasion.
He killed Oleksandr Shelipov from a vehicle in which he was traveling with three soldiers, one of whom gave him the order for fear that the victim would give them away, he refused, but the other insisted, according to the defendant himself. He shot her between three and four times.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that “the next few weeks of the war will be difficult,” noting that the hardest fighting is in Donbas, in the east of the country. However, he reiterated that “we have no alternative but to fight.”
In addition, he stressed that the cities of Bakhmut, Popasna and Severodonetsk, “the occupants have concentrated the greatest activity so far”, where he denounced that “nobody destroyed Donbas as much as the Russian army does now”.
Zelensky added that the Russian occupiers intend to show that they will not leave the occupied areas of the Kharkov region, Kherson, the occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region and Donbas. “They’re going on the offensive in some areas,” he admitted.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denounces that the Russian Armed Forces carry out the ‘scorched earth’ technique in the east of the Ukrainian territory.
Defense spokesman Oleksander Motuzianik has assured that the Russian Army is carrying out “intense firing with tactical missile systems and aircraft along the entire combat line.”
Motuzianik has added that this tactic favors Russian troops entering the cities once they have been destroyed, although he has stressed that the Ukrainian Army is managing to repel Russia’s offensives.
Twenty countries announced on Monday that they will donate more military aid to Ukraine, as stated by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin.
In this way, he explained that “many countries” have reported that they will deliver artillery ammunition, coastal defense systems, tanks and armored vehicles of all kinds to kyiv.
“Other countries have made new commitments to train Ukrainian forces and support their military systems,” Austin said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Monday the death of 87 people in the town of Desna after a bombardment by Russian forces last week.
“Unfortunately, under the rubble we have found 87 murdered victims. The future of Ukraine will no longer count on these people,” Zelensky lamented.
“As president of a country at war, I think about the present in Ukraine and how many people are dying every day,” he said.
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