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According to British intelligence, Ukraine’s attempts to retake the southern city of Kherson from Russian troops are “accelerating. “
The city, taken at the beginning of the Russian invasion and maximum political dominance occupied through Moscow, is now “virtually isolated” from other occupied Russian territories, the British Defense Ministry said.
Major knowledge leaks made on behalf of the hacktivist organization Anonymous reveal that Russia’s cybersecurity defenses are weaker than previously thought, according to cybersecurity experts.
Although Russia maintains its offensive capabilities, leaks of information from russia’s Central Bank, the roscosmos area agency, several of Russia’s largest oil and fuel corporations and other Russian corporations have “disappointed” the cyber community, said Shmuel Gihon, a security official. Cyberint corporate risk intelligence.
“We expected to see more strength from RussianArray,” Gihon said, “at least in terms of its strategic assets, such as banks and TV channels, and especially entities. “
Anonymous claimed responsibility for hacking more than 2,500 Russian and Belarusian sites, Jeremiah Fowler, co-founder of cybersecurity firm Security Discovery.
The leaked knowledge is so great that it will take years to review, he said.
The decentralized collective of hackers has lifted the veil on Russia’s cybersecurity practices, Fowler said, which is “shameful and demoralizing for the Kremlin. “
— Monica Pitrelli
The White House declined to provide an update on talks with Russia on a U. S. proposal. U. S. for WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan.
“I can’t go into more detail just for the privacy and security of the process. We are confident that we have put a really broad offer on the table,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a daily news briefing.
Earlier that day, the Kremlin said to date there is “no agreement” on a U. S. request to Griner and Whelan for Russian detention.
The Kremlin said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will respond to a phone call request from U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken when he has time, according to an Interfax report.
—Amanda Macias
The United Nations World Food Programme estimates that up to 47 million more people may face an acute lack of food confidence this year if Russia’s war in Ukraine continues.
Last week, representatives of the UN, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to reopen 3 Ukrainian ports, an obvious breakthrough as the Kremlin’s war against its former Soviet neighbor enters its fifth month.
The deal follows a months-long blockade of dozens of Ukrainian ports scattered across the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Less than 24 hours after the deal was signed, Russian missiles rained down on Odessa, Ukraine’s largest port.
The UN secretary-general has warned in the past that the armed confrontation in Ukraine threatens to unleash “an unprecedented wave of hunger and misery, leaving in its wake social and economic chaos. “
—Amanda Macias
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to his presidential palace and offers him dinner as part of questionable talks marking a new level in the Saudi leader’s diplomatic rehabilitation, a move that sparked strong complaints in France after the horrific Saudi murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi journalist in the United States, in 2018.
The scale in the prince of the oil-rich state comes after France and other European countries seek secure energy resources to lessen their dependence on Russia’s oil and combustible materials as part of their war against Ukraine. France is also a major supplier of arms and defense to the Gulf countries.
It is the momentary step, after Greece, of the crown prince’s first official stop in the European Union since Khashoggi’s death.
French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Macron can be counted on to raise human rights issues with the prince, while also seeking to protect energy materials from outside Russia.
– Associated Press
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine “will not surrender” despite major Russian rocket attacks.
“Restless tomorrow. Once the terror of the rockets returns. We will not give up. We will not give up. We won’t be intimidated,” Zelenskyy said in a morning interview on messaging app Telegram. “Ukraine is an independent country, a loose and indivisible state. And so it will be. “
The Ukrainian army on Facebook that Russian forces had intensified shelling in Ukraine and that some rockets had been fired from Belarus.
—Amanda Macias
The Kremlin said there is “no agreement” on a U. S. request for WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan from Russian custody.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Moscow is aware of media reports about a U. S. proposal to release Griner and Whelan.
“Since it hasn’t been finalized now, I have nothing more to add,” Peskov said.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would discuss the U. S. proposal to release Griner and Whelan with his Russian counterpart. The Kremlin said Wednesday it had not yet won any phone call requests between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Blinken. .
—Amanda Macias
The U. N. Security Council was unable to agree on a welcome deal last week to bring grain and fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia to millions of hungry people around the world, Norway’s ambassador to the U. N. said.
He would also have congratulated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Turkish government for their key role in organizing the agreement.
“Norway and Mexico have been running for days to unify the council in a welcome message to the vital agreement to resume grain, food and fertilizer exports across the Black Sea,” Norwegian Ambassador Mona Juul told The Associated Press. “We regret that this is not possible. “
Russia and Ukraine on Friday signed separate agreements with Turkey and the UN, paving the way for Ukraine, one of the world’s top breadbaskets, to export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural products stranded in Black Sea ports due to the Russian invasion.
– Associated Press
Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian presenter who protested her country’s war on live television at the start of the invasion, found the blame for discrediting the Russian armed forces.
A Moscow ruling cited as evidence Ovsyannikova’s social media posts criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The evidence confirms the guilt of Ovsyannikova. No there is an explanation as to why doubt its authenticity,” the ruling said. Ovsyannikova called the procedure “absurd,” according to Reuters.
Just days after the invasion began, Russia enacted a law banning “fake news” about its armed forces or what it calls its “special army operation” in Ukraine, with a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
—Natasha Turak
The focus will have to be on achieving a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine following the grain export deal negotiated between the two last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference.
He added that the successful deal could foster acceptance as true between the two sides, expanding the possibilities of a diplomatic solution to the war that has been raging since Russia invaded its neighbor last February.
So far, there is no indication that trust has materialized since Turkey negotiated the deal, as soon after, Russia introduced missiles into the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, as well as the largest city at the time, Kharkiv, and other regions.
Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports has sent global food costs soaring and triggering an external alarm, as Ukraine is one of the world’s leading grain exporters and feeds millions of people, especially in the Middle East and Africa.
—Natasha Turak
None of Ukraine’s largest cities, Kharkiv, are safe, their mayor said.
“The Russian aggressors seek to make Kharkiv a pitiful city, like the ones they have in Russia,” Terekhov told AFP. , guns in hand. “
“We have nine neighborhoods in the city and they are all bombed with different intensity and at other times. So you can’t say that any place in Kharkiv is safe,” he said.
“Yes, it’s in the shelters and it’s on the subway. But there is no neighborhood, there is no position in the city, where you can pretend it is completely Array”
By the end of March, about part of the city’s population had fled, regional officials said at the time. Said. The death toll in the city is estimated at several hundred.
—Natasha Turak
Natural fuel flows from Russia to Germany remained solid on Thursday, a day after their total capacity dropped to around 20%.
Gazprom said its source is 42. 1 million cubic meters, up from 42. 2 million cubic meters on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Gazprom blamed the relief on the installation of a turbine along the pipeline, which has been met with disbelief and condemnation in Europe, which says Russia seeks to blackmail nations like Germany. Natural fuel costs skyrocketed due to a shortage of sources.
“Rising fuel costs increase business costs and reduce customers’ budgets, leaving them with less cash to spend on other goods and services. As a result, we expect the eurozone to enter recession this autumn with inflation still high,” Barenberg analysts said. . in a new study note on Thursday.
—Matt Clinch
Stephen Lovegrove, the UK’s national security adviser, warned of the accidental escalation of a nuclear war with Russia or China, the global communication channels of the bloodless war are no longer available.
“The two monolithic war blocs without bloodshed, the USSR and NATO — not without alarming clashes — were going to succeed in an un unusual understanding of the doctrine missing today,” he told the U. S. Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday. .
“The doctrine is opaque in Moscow and Beijing, to mention Pyongyang or Tehran. “
He added that during the Cold War, the world benefited from a “series of negotiations and dialogues that boosted our understanding of Soviet doctrine and capabilities, and vice versa. “
“It gave any of us a higher point of confidence that we made a miscalculation on our way to nuclear war. “
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—Matt Clinch
A British intelligence update on Thursday reported “growing momentum” in Ukraine’s attempts to retake the southern city of Kherson from Russian troops.
The city, taken at the beginning of the Russian invasion and maximum political dominance occupied through Moscow, is now “virtually isolated” from other occupied Russian territories, the British Defense Ministry said.
“His maximum [Ukrainian] forces probably established a bridgehead south of the Ingoulets River, which bureaucratizes the Russian-occupied northern border of Kherson,” he said.
On Wednesday, Ukraine showed it had attacked the Antonivsky Bridge, a key direction for Russian forces in Kherson.
—Matt Clinch
A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NBC News that Russian forces had seized Ukraine’s second-largest forces plant.
In an interview uploaded to YouTube, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych also said Moscow would redeploy troops in three southern regions.
Russian-backed forces had claimed in the past to have captured the plant. The British Defense Ministry said a Russian personal army corporation “probably controlled to make tactical advances in the Donbass around the Vuhlehirska force plant,” adding that some Ukrainian forces “had probably withdrawn from the region. “
Frontline advances are complicated or highly unlikely to verify, as the situation in Ukraine can be quickly replaced.
— Natalia Tam
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he would discuss a U. S. proposal to release WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan with his Russian counterpart.
Blinken said he would discuss his phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, the prompt release of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, who “were unjustly detained and will have to be allowed to return home. “
“As for our efforts to secure the passage house of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner, they understand that I cannot and will not move on to the main points of what we have presented to the Russians for so many weeks,” he said.
Blinken told State Department reporters he would also discuss the U. N. -brokered plan to resume agricultural exports from Ukrainian ports.
—Amanda Macias
The Ukrainian Navy said on its Facebook page that the ports of Chornomorsk, Odessa and Pivdenny will resume grain exports from Ukraine.
Last week, representatives of the UN, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to reopen 3 Ukrainian ports, an obvious breakthrough as the Kremlin’s war against its former Soviet neighbor enters its fifth month.
The deal follows a months-long blockade of dozens of Ukrainian ports scattered across the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Less than 24 hours after the agreement was signed, Russian missiles landed at Odessa, Ukraine’s largest port.
—Amanda Macias
Ukrainian ports will restart grain shipments; U. S. DealsU. S. Release of U. S. Detainees Griner and Whelan
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