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US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, during a recent meeting in Kiev with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, called the death of Russians the "most successful" waste of money by the US authorities in the framework of assistance to Ukraine.
"Russians are dying. We've never spent money so well before," Graham said.
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At night, Ukrainian drones tried to attack the Ilyinsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory
This was reported in the operational headquarters of the region. In particular, by about two o'clock in the morning, several UAVs approached the plant, but all of them were shot down. There is no damage. In the footage from the residential development, you can hear how the drone was shot down.
The smoke was promptly eliminated by the duty services. This is not the first time the Krasnodar Territory has become a target for Ukrainian drones — on Friday, the centre of the region itself, or rather, residential development, became the target.
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This was reported in the operational headquarters of the region. In particular, by about two o'clock in the morning, several UAVs approached the plant, but all of them were shot down. There is no damage. In the footage from the residential development, you can hear how the drone was shot down.
The smoke was promptly eliminated by the duty services. This is not the first time the Krasnodar Territory has become a target for Ukrainian drones — on Friday, the centre of the region itself, or rather, residential development, became the target.
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The most massive drone attack since the beginning of the war has been made on Kiev
▪️ This is recognized by the military administration.
▪️ The attack on the capital of Ukraine was carried out from the south and east in several waves using the Shahed/Geran UAV.
▪️ The air raid went on for more than 6 hours.
▪️ The first alarm sounded at 00:08, and the last clear at 06:22.
▪️ Anxiety almost throughout the country;
▪️ Hit in the Zhytomyr region;
▪️ An incomprehensible phenomenon in Kiev similar to an earthquake;
▪️ Ukrainian military propaganda claims that more than 40 drones were shot down. As a result of the fall of debris, there are casualties and destruction in different parts of Kiev.
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▪️ This is recognized by the military administration.
▪️ The attack on the capital of Ukraine was carried out from the south and east in several waves using the Shahed/Geran UAV.
▪️ The air raid went on for more than 6 hours.
▪️ The first alarm sounded at 00:08, and the last clear at 06:22.
▪️ Anxiety almost throughout the country;
▪️ Hit in the Zhytomyr region;
▪️ An incomprehensible phenomenon in Kiev similar to an earthquake;
▪️ Ukrainian military propaganda claims that more than 40 drones were shot down. As a result of the fall of debris, there are casualties and destruction in different parts of Kiev.
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Rishi Sunak will ask stores to cap basic food prices
No 10 in discussions with supermarkets over French-style approach to cost of living crisis
Downing Street is drawing up plans for retailers to introduce price caps on basic food items such as bread and milk to help tackle the rising cost of living, The Telegraph can disclose.
Rishi Sunak’s aides have started work on a deal with supermarkets akin to an agreement in France in which the country’s major retailers charge the “lowest possible amount” for some essential food products.
The move would amount to the biggest attempt to manage supermarket prices since controls established by Edward Heath in 1973. However, No 10 insists that any action by retailers would be voluntary.
It comes amid growing concern in government about sustained pressure on household finances from inflation and the rising cost of borrowing.
A Treasury source said: “Food inflation is much more resilient and difficult to get rid of than we anticipated.”
The Telegraph can also disclose that continued inflation and increases in gilt yields are throwing into doubt Mr Sunak’s aspiration to cut personal taxes before the next general election.
Official data published last week showed core inflation in the UK economy, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, increased to 6.8 per cent in April, its highest level in 31 years.
Ten-year gilt yields are at 4.33 per cent, having peaked at 4.54 per cent, following Liz Truss’s mini-Budget.
A government source repeated Mr Sunak and Jeremy Hunt’s mantra that “we need to address high inflation and high borrowing first” before cutting taxes. A Cabinet source added: “If you haven’t got growth you haven’t got the money [for tax cuts], it’s as simple as that.”
A minister said that tax cuts were now highly unlikely until next spring at the earliest.
The Prime Minister is thought to be preparing to address the state of the economy in public remarks this week, as officials prepare fresh advice on how long high inflation is likely to persist.
The proposal for a French-style agreement on food price caps has been quietly discussed within Whitehall and among industry figures in the last fortnight.
In France, the supermarkets that signed up to the deal with the government each identified items in their own shops that would be subject to price freezes or reductions. In many cases own-brand items were selected on the basis that retailers found it easiest to control their costs.
But one source briefed on the plan warned that it would be “anti-market” and could harm smaller retailers who would lose business to the supermarkets offering cut-price items.
The source added: “It’s very easy to point the finger at retailers and say they are making a fortune, but some of the margins they are operating at are not that big. It is quite tight.”
A No 10 source said that the proposals were at a “drawing board” stage.
The source said that there was a recognition that supermarkets were “not operating on big profit margins”, but added: “The pressures are such that we are working with retailers on anything that can be done at their end to bring down prices for consumers.” Talks with retailers were at “early stages”.
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No 10 in discussions with supermarkets over French-style approach to cost of living crisis
Downing Street is drawing up plans for retailers to introduce price caps on basic food items such as bread and milk to help tackle the rising cost of living, The Telegraph can disclose.
Rishi Sunak’s aides have started work on a deal with supermarkets akin to an agreement in France in which the country’s major retailers charge the “lowest possible amount” for some essential food products.
The move would amount to the biggest attempt to manage supermarket prices since controls established by Edward Heath in 1973. However, No 10 insists that any action by retailers would be voluntary.
It comes amid growing concern in government about sustained pressure on household finances from inflation and the rising cost of borrowing.
A Treasury source said: “Food inflation is much more resilient and difficult to get rid of than we anticipated.”
The Telegraph can also disclose that continued inflation and increases in gilt yields are throwing into doubt Mr Sunak’s aspiration to cut personal taxes before the next general election.
Official data published last week showed core inflation in the UK economy, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, increased to 6.8 per cent in April, its highest level in 31 years.
Ten-year gilt yields are at 4.33 per cent, having peaked at 4.54 per cent, following Liz Truss’s mini-Budget.
A government source repeated Mr Sunak and Jeremy Hunt’s mantra that “we need to address high inflation and high borrowing first” before cutting taxes. A Cabinet source added: “If you haven’t got growth you haven’t got the money [for tax cuts], it’s as simple as that.”
A minister said that tax cuts were now highly unlikely until next spring at the earliest.
The Prime Minister is thought to be preparing to address the state of the economy in public remarks this week, as officials prepare fresh advice on how long high inflation is likely to persist.
The proposal for a French-style agreement on food price caps has been quietly discussed within Whitehall and among industry figures in the last fortnight.
In France, the supermarkets that signed up to the deal with the government each identified items in their own shops that would be subject to price freezes or reductions. In many cases own-brand items were selected on the basis that retailers found it easiest to control their costs.
But one source briefed on the plan warned that it would be “anti-market” and could harm smaller retailers who would lose business to the supermarkets offering cut-price items.
The source added: “It’s very easy to point the finger at retailers and say they are making a fortune, but some of the margins they are operating at are not that big. It is quite tight.”
A No 10 source said that the proposals were at a “drawing board” stage.
The source said that there was a recognition that supermarkets were “not operating on big profit margins”, but added: “The pressures are such that we are working with retailers on anything that can be done at their end to bring down prices for consumers.” Talks with retailers were at “early stages”.
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Rishi Sunak will ask stores to cap basic food prices
No 10 in discussions with supermarkets over French-style approach to cost of living crisis
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Meatgrinder: Russian Tactics in the Second Year of Its Invasion of Ukraine
Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine.
Executive Summary
The scale of Russian losses in 2022, combined with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation confronting NATO systems they had not previously contended with, has caused a significant deviation in Russian operations from the country’s doctrine. This report seeks to outline how Russian forces have adapted their tactics in the Ukrainian conflict and the challenges this has created for the Ukrainian military that must be overcome. The report examines Russian military adaptation by combat function.
Russian infantry tactics have shifted from trying to deploy uniform Battalion Tactical Groups as combined arms units of action to a stratified division by function into line, assault, specialised and disposable troops. These are formed into task-organised groupings. Line infantry are largely used for ground holding and defensive operations. Disposable infantry are used for continuous skirmishing to either identify Ukrainian firing positions, which are then targeted by specialised infantry, or to find weak points in Ukrainian defences to be prioritised for assault. Casualties are very unevenly distributed across these functions. The foremost weakness across Russian infantry units is low morale, which leads to poor unit cohesion and inter-unit cooperation.
Russian engineering has proven to be one of the stronger branches of the Russian military. Russian engineers have been constructing complex obstacles and field fortifications across the front. This includes concrete reinforced trenches and command bunkers, wire-entanglements, hedgehogs, anti-tank ditches, and complex minefields. Russian mine laying is extensive and mixes anti-tank and victim-initiated anti-personnel mines, the latter frequently being laid with multiple initiation mechanisms to complicate breaching. These defences pose a major tactical challenge to Ukrainian offensive operations.
Russian armour is rarely used for attempts at breakthrough. Instead, armour is largely employed in a fire support function to deliver accurate fire against Ukrainian positions. Russia has started to employ thermal camouflage on its vehicles and, using a range of other modifications and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), has significantly reduced the detectability of tanks at stand-off ranges. Furthermore, these measures have reduced the probability of kill of a variety of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) at ranges beyond 1,400 m.
Russian artillery has begun to significantly refine the Reconnaissance Strike Complex following the destruction of its ammunition stockpiles and command and control infrastructure by guided multiple-launch rocket systems (GMLRS) in July 2022. Russian artillery has also improved its ability to fire from multiple positions and to fire and move, reducing susceptibility to counterbattery fire. The key system enabling this coordination appears to be the Strelets system. There has been a shift in reliance upon 152-mm howitzers to a much greater emphasis on 120-mm mortars in Russian fires; this reflects munitions and barrel availability. Responsive Russian fires represent the greatest challenge to Ukrainian offensive operations. Russian artillery is also increasingly relying on loitering munitions for counterbattery fires.
Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering each 10 km of front. These systems are heavily weighted towards the defeat of UAVs and tend not to try and deconflict their effects. Ukrainian UAV losses remain at approximately 10,000 per month. Russian EW is also apparently achieving real time interception and decryption of Ukrainian Motorola 256-bit encrypted tactical communications systems, which are widely employed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine.
Executive Summary
The scale of Russian losses in 2022, combined with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation confronting NATO systems they had not previously contended with, has caused a significant deviation in Russian operations from the country’s doctrine. This report seeks to outline how Russian forces have adapted their tactics in the Ukrainian conflict and the challenges this has created for the Ukrainian military that must be overcome. The report examines Russian military adaptation by combat function.
Russian infantry tactics have shifted from trying to deploy uniform Battalion Tactical Groups as combined arms units of action to a stratified division by function into line, assault, specialised and disposable troops. These are formed into task-organised groupings. Line infantry are largely used for ground holding and defensive operations. Disposable infantry are used for continuous skirmishing to either identify Ukrainian firing positions, which are then targeted by specialised infantry, or to find weak points in Ukrainian defences to be prioritised for assault. Casualties are very unevenly distributed across these functions. The foremost weakness across Russian infantry units is low morale, which leads to poor unit cohesion and inter-unit cooperation.
Russian engineering has proven to be one of the stronger branches of the Russian military. Russian engineers have been constructing complex obstacles and field fortifications across the front. This includes concrete reinforced trenches and command bunkers, wire-entanglements, hedgehogs, anti-tank ditches, and complex minefields. Russian mine laying is extensive and mixes anti-tank and victim-initiated anti-personnel mines, the latter frequently being laid with multiple initiation mechanisms to complicate breaching. These defences pose a major tactical challenge to Ukrainian offensive operations.
Russian armour is rarely used for attempts at breakthrough. Instead, armour is largely employed in a fire support function to deliver accurate fire against Ukrainian positions. Russia has started to employ thermal camouflage on its vehicles and, using a range of other modifications and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), has significantly reduced the detectability of tanks at stand-off ranges. Furthermore, these measures have reduced the probability of kill of a variety of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) at ranges beyond 1,400 m.
Russian artillery has begun to significantly refine the Reconnaissance Strike Complex following the destruction of its ammunition stockpiles and command and control infrastructure by guided multiple-launch rocket systems (GMLRS) in July 2022. Russian artillery has also improved its ability to fire from multiple positions and to fire and move, reducing susceptibility to counterbattery fire. The key system enabling this coordination appears to be the Strelets system. There has been a shift in reliance upon 152-mm howitzers to a much greater emphasis on 120-mm mortars in Russian fires; this reflects munitions and barrel availability. Responsive Russian fires represent the greatest challenge to Ukrainian offensive operations. Russian artillery is also increasingly relying on loitering munitions for counterbattery fires.
Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering each 10 km of front. These systems are heavily weighted towards the defeat of UAVs and tend not to try and deconflict their effects. Ukrainian UAV losses remain at approximately 10,000 per month. Russian EW is also apparently achieving real time interception and decryption of Ukrainian Motorola 256-bit encrypted tactical communications systems, which are widely employed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine.
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Video of an unsuccessful launch of an anti-aircraft guided missile in Kyiv tonight. Ukrainian air defense again worked in residential areas in the course of repelling an attack by Russian kamikaze drones of the Geran family.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Comment by the Russian Embassy in the United States
📌 We have noted increasingly frequent comments in recent days coming from White House and State Department concerning the Russia-Belarus military-nuclear cooperation. They once again accused us of “irresponsible and provocative” behavior.
📌 We would like to emphasize that it is the sovereign right of Russia and Belarus to ensure their security by means we deem necessary amidst of a large-scale hybrid war unleashed by Washington against us.
📌 The measures we undertake are fully consistent with our international legal obligations. As Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu stated, Russia is not transferring nuclear weapons to Belarus: the control over them and decision on their use remain with the Russian side.
📌 Before blaming others, Washington could use some introspection. The United States has been for decades maintaining a large arsenal of its nuclear weapons in Europe. Together with its NATO allies it participates in nuclear sharing arrangements and trains for scenarios of nuclear weapons use against our country.
📌 We have noted increasingly frequent comments in recent days coming from White House and State Department concerning the Russia-Belarus military-nuclear cooperation. They once again accused us of “irresponsible and provocative” behavior.
📌 We would like to emphasize that it is the sovereign right of Russia and Belarus to ensure their security by means we deem necessary amidst of a large-scale hybrid war unleashed by Washington against us.
📌 The measures we undertake are fully consistent with our international legal obligations. As Minister of Defense, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu stated, Russia is not transferring nuclear weapons to Belarus: the control over them and decision on their use remain with the Russian side.
📌 Before blaming others, Washington could use some introspection. The United States has been for decades maintaining a large arsenal of its nuclear weapons in Europe. Together with its NATO allies it participates in nuclear sharing arrangements and trains for scenarios of nuclear weapons use against our country.
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The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
George Orwell wrote in 1984 that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S. in ways that leading U.S. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations.
Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.
The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement, and in the most recent G7 statement. Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds!
There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.
Biden and his foreign policy team refuse to discuss these roots of the war. To recognize them would undermine the administration in three ways. First, it would expose the fact that the war could have been avoided, or stopped early, sparing Ukraine its current devastation and the U.S. more than $100 billion in outlays to date. Second, it would expose President Biden’s personal role in the war as a participant in the overthrow of Yanukovych, and before that as a staunch backer of the military-industrial complex and very early advocate of NATO enlargement. Third, it would push Biden to the negotiating table, undermining the administration’s continued push for NATO expansion.
The archives show irrefutably that the U.S. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Nonetheless, U.S. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision.
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By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
George Orwell wrote in 1984 that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S. in ways that leading U.S. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations.
Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.
The Biden team uses the word “unprovoked” incessantly, most recently in Biden’s major speech on the first-year anniversary of the war, in a recent NATO statement, and in the most recent G7 statement. Mainstream media friendly to Biden simply parrot the White House. The New York Times is the lead culprit, describing the invasion as “unprovoked” no fewer than 26 times, in five editorials, 14 opinion columns by NYT writers, and seven guest op-eds!
There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.
Biden and his foreign policy team refuse to discuss these roots of the war. To recognize them would undermine the administration in three ways. First, it would expose the fact that the war could have been avoided, or stopped early, sparing Ukraine its current devastation and the U.S. more than $100 billion in outlays to date. Second, it would expose President Biden’s personal role in the war as a participant in the overthrow of Yanukovych, and before that as a staunch backer of the military-industrial complex and very early advocate of NATO enlargement. Third, it would push Biden to the negotiating table, undermining the administration’s continued push for NATO expansion.
The archives show irrefutably that the U.S. and German governments repeatedly promised to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” when the Soviet Union disbanded the Warsaw Pact military alliance. Nonetheless, U.S. planning for NATO expansion began early in the 1990s, well before Vladimir Putin was Russia’s president. In 1997, national security expert Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled out the NATO expansion timeline with remarkable precision.
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The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
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Nazi documents reveal that Ford had links to Auschwitz
Newly released papers may hamper US firm's legal battle against slave labour claims
Julian Borger in Washington for The Guardian
Nazi documents show the Ford Motor Company was one of 500 firms which had links with Auschwitz...
Although it was unclear how deep or extensive Ford's contacts with the camp administration were, the documents are likely to provide ammunition for former slave labourers who are suing the company in a US court over claims that they were forced to work in the Cologne plant run by Ford's German subsidiary.
The list of industries linked to Auschwitz was among Nazi-era documents recently handed over by Moscow, where the camp archive has been kept since the end of the war.
A total of 1.1m people, 90% of them Jews, are thought to have died in the camp in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim.
The papers discovered include construction plans, orders for raw materials and reports. They also name the German industrial giants Krupp, Siemens and IG Farben.
Jacek Turczynski, the head of a foundation representing Nazi-era slave labourers, said: "The list includes Ford, but we do not have any other details."
He added that some of the companies listed used slave labour, while others only inquired about the possibility of using Auschwitz inmates as workers. It has not emerged how far each of the named companies was implicated.
"It could have been just correspondence, they could have supplied some equipment," Barbara Jarosz, the head of the Auschwitz museum, said.
Ford has previously acknowledged that its German subsidiary, Ford Werke AG, used slave labour at its Cologne plant, and is fighting a class action lawsuit by former labourers in a New Jersey court.
The car firm's lawyers argue that the Michigan-based parent company lost control of its German operations when the war broke out and the Cologne plant was seized as "enemy property".
Jim Vella, Ford's global news director, issued a statement saying: "Whatever occurred at the Cologne plant during world war two was and is the responsibility of the German government, as successor to the Nazi regime.
"Wartime reparations claims historically have been resolved by government-to-government agreements and that is how this matter should be resolved, too."
Ford has also argued that the statute of limitations on the victims' claims had expired.
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One of the former slave labourers suing Ford is Elsa Iwanowa, 74, who has testified that she was abducted as a teenager along with 2,000 other children from a Russian village and forced to build military vehicles at the Nazi-run Ford plant.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind against a US company, was inspired by the success of Nazi victims in securing reparations from Swiss banks which had profited from Nazi wartime deposits.
It claims Ford's German plant "became an eager, aggressive and successful bidder for forced labourers", and alleges that senior Ford executives knew that thousands of workers were being abused.
The US district judge in the case, Joseph Greenaway, is due to rule next month on Ford's motion to dismiss the case.
The firm has called the former US secretary of state Warren Christopher as a witness to testify that former US administrations have upheld the principle that governments should decide war reparations rather than the courts.
However, if the newly unearthed documents show that Ford Werke AG was deeply involved in the operations of the death camp, a dismissal is less likely.
Ms Jarosz said archivists were still reviewing the Auschwitz documents to establish the names of slave labourers used by some of the companies involved.
Victims' organisations say there are detailed files with the names of 100,000 workers still in the Moscow archives, which have yet to be released.
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Newly released papers may hamper US firm's legal battle against slave labour claims
Julian Borger in Washington for The Guardian
Nazi documents show the Ford Motor Company was one of 500 firms which had links with Auschwitz...
Although it was unclear how deep or extensive Ford's contacts with the camp administration were, the documents are likely to provide ammunition for former slave labourers who are suing the company in a US court over claims that they were forced to work in the Cologne plant run by Ford's German subsidiary.
The list of industries linked to Auschwitz was among Nazi-era documents recently handed over by Moscow, where the camp archive has been kept since the end of the war.
A total of 1.1m people, 90% of them Jews, are thought to have died in the camp in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim.
The papers discovered include construction plans, orders for raw materials and reports. They also name the German industrial giants Krupp, Siemens and IG Farben.
Jacek Turczynski, the head of a foundation representing Nazi-era slave labourers, said: "The list includes Ford, but we do not have any other details."
He added that some of the companies listed used slave labour, while others only inquired about the possibility of using Auschwitz inmates as workers. It has not emerged how far each of the named companies was implicated.
"It could have been just correspondence, they could have supplied some equipment," Barbara Jarosz, the head of the Auschwitz museum, said.
Ford has previously acknowledged that its German subsidiary, Ford Werke AG, used slave labour at its Cologne plant, and is fighting a class action lawsuit by former labourers in a New Jersey court.
The car firm's lawyers argue that the Michigan-based parent company lost control of its German operations when the war broke out and the Cologne plant was seized as "enemy property".
Jim Vella, Ford's global news director, issued a statement saying: "Whatever occurred at the Cologne plant during world war two was and is the responsibility of the German government, as successor to the Nazi regime.
"Wartime reparations claims historically have been resolved by government-to-government agreements and that is how this matter should be resolved, too."
Ford has also argued that the statute of limitations on the victims' claims had expired.
...
One of the former slave labourers suing Ford is Elsa Iwanowa, 74, who has testified that she was abducted as a teenager along with 2,000 other children from a Russian village and forced to build military vehicles at the Nazi-run Ford plant.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind against a US company, was inspired by the success of Nazi victims in securing reparations from Swiss banks which had profited from Nazi wartime deposits.
It claims Ford's German plant "became an eager, aggressive and successful bidder for forced labourers", and alleges that senior Ford executives knew that thousands of workers were being abused.
The US district judge in the case, Joseph Greenaway, is due to rule next month on Ford's motion to dismiss the case.
The firm has called the former US secretary of state Warren Christopher as a witness to testify that former US administrations have upheld the principle that governments should decide war reparations rather than the courts.
However, if the newly unearthed documents show that Ford Werke AG was deeply involved in the operations of the death camp, a dismissal is less likely.
Ms Jarosz said archivists were still reviewing the Auschwitz documents to establish the names of slave labourers used by some of the companies involved.
Victims' organisations say there are detailed files with the names of 100,000 workers still in the Moscow archives, which have yet to be released.
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Nazi documents reveal that Ford had links to Auschwitz
Newly released Nazi documents show the Ford Motor Company was one of 500 firms which had links with Auschwitz, Polish officials said yesterday, delivering a setback to Ford's attempts to extricate itself from allegations that it profited from wartime slave…
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Morning arrival of Geranium kamikaze drones at the nationalist military infrastructure facility in Zhytomyr.
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Is anyone in NATO capable of such a thing? Abrams, Leopards you say? Oh well!!!
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Erdogan has won!
In Ankara, Erdogan's supporters gather in front of the residence.
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The enemy detects new take-offs of the Russian strategic aviation:
Previously, and by now, there are in the air and can be used to strike Ukrainian targets:
◾9 TU-95MS,
◾2 TU-22M3.
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Previously, and by now, there are in the air and can be used to strike Ukrainian targets:
◾9 TU-95MS,
◾2 TU-22M3.
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Противник фиксирует новые взлеты стратегической авиации:
Предварительно, по состоянию на данный момент, в воздухе зафиксированы и могут быть использованы:
◾9 ТУ-95МС,
◾2 ТУ-22М3.
Два майора
Предварительно, по состоянию на данный момент, в воздухе зафиксированы и могут быть использованы:
◾9 ТУ-95МС,
◾2 ТУ-22М3.
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‼️💥 One of the most powerful combined strikes was dealt to Kiev, southern and western Ukraine
▪️ Just 18 hours after the most massive UAV attack on Kiev, the Russian Armed Forces again hit the capital of Ukraine, but now also in other regions. This is already the 15th air attack since the beginning of May.
▪️ Almost simultaneously with the UAV attack, strategic missile carriers TU-95MS launched Kh-101/555 cruise missiles from the Caspian region, which made the attack on Kiev again combined, from different directions.
▪️ In total, the air defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian military propaganda, allegedly detected and shot down more than 40 air targets.
▪️ The number of missiles and UAVs that reached their targets is again classified, but, for example, after a strike on an object in Odessa, a powerful fire and smoke enveloped the city were recorded.
▪️ Also, explosions thundered in Western and Central Ukraine, the result of the attack was again classified by the Ukrainian side.
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▪️ Just 18 hours after the most massive UAV attack on Kiev, the Russian Armed Forces again hit the capital of Ukraine, but now also in other regions. This is already the 15th air attack since the beginning of May.
▪️ Almost simultaneously with the UAV attack, strategic missile carriers TU-95MS launched Kh-101/555 cruise missiles from the Caspian region, which made the attack on Kiev again combined, from different directions.
▪️ In total, the air defense forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian military propaganda, allegedly detected and shot down more than 40 air targets.
▪️ The number of missiles and UAVs that reached their targets is again classified, but, for example, after a strike on an object in Odessa, a powerful fire and smoke enveloped the city were recorded.
▪️ Also, explosions thundered in Western and Central Ukraine, the result of the attack was again classified by the Ukrainian side.
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Операция Z: Военкоры Русской Весны
‼️💥По Киеву, южной и западной Украине нанесен один из мощнейших комбинированных ударов
▪️ Спустя всего 18 часов после самой массированной атаки БпЛА по Киеву ВС РФ снова ударили по столице Украины, но теперь еще и по другим регионам. Это уже 15-я воздушная…
▪️ Спустя всего 18 часов после самой массированной атаки БпЛА по Киеву ВС РФ снова ударили по столице Украины, но теперь еще и по другим регионам. Это уже 15-я воздушная…
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The Russian missile strike damaged the infrastructure of the port of Odessa, the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.
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Российский ракетный удар повредил инфраструктуру порта Одессы, сообщает оперативное командование "Юг" ВСУ.
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ANKARA, May 29 — RIA Novosti. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan promised to implement the "gas hub" project proposed earlier by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
"In his congratulatory message, Mr. Putin repeated the issue of Turkey, namely Thrace, becoming a "gas hub". We will take this step together with them. Thrace will be the center," Erdogan said, speaking to supporters in his residence after the victory in the second round of the presidential election.
The President promised to continue to strengthen Turkey's position by investing in transport and energy to bring them to the world level.
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"In his congratulatory message, Mr. Putin repeated the issue of Turkey, namely Thrace, becoming a "gas hub". We will take this step together with them. Thrace will be the center," Erdogan said, speaking to supporters in his residence after the victory in the second round of the presidential election.
The President promised to continue to strengthen Turkey's position by investing in transport and energy to bring them to the world level.
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Эрдоган пообещал реализовать предложенный Путиным проект газового хаба
Президент Турции Тайип Эрдоган пообещал реализовывать проект "газового хаба", предложенный ранее российским лидером Владимиром Путиным. РИА Новости, 29.05.2023
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A criminal case was opened against a US senator after words about spending on the "death of Russians"
Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case on the fact of the statement of Senator Graham
Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case on the fact of the statements of US Senator Lindsey Graham. This was reported in the press service of the RF IC.
"Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia A.I. Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigation Department to initiate a criminal investigation into the statements of the American senator about the murder of Russians," the agency said in a statement.
They added that in a video that appeared on the Internet, Graham, during a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, "declared the financial involvement of the United States in causing the death of Russian citizens."
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Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case on the fact of the statement of Senator Graham
Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to open a criminal case on the fact of the statements of US Senator Lindsey Graham. This was reported in the press service of the RF IC.
"Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia A.I. Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigation Department to initiate a criminal investigation into the statements of the American senator about the murder of Russians," the agency said in a statement.
They added that in a video that appeared on the Internet, Graham, during a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, "declared the financial involvement of the United States in causing the death of Russian citizens."
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На сенатора из США заведено уголовное дело после слов о тратах на "смерть россиян"
Председатель СК России Александр Бастрыкин поручил возбудить уголовное дело по факту высказываний американского сенатора Линдси Грэма. Об этом сообщили в пресс-службе СК РФ.
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May 28 (Reuters) — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham disputed Russian criticism of his support for Ukraine on Sunday, saying he had simply praised the spirit of Ukrainians in resisting a Russian invasion with assistance provided by Washington.
Graham, shown in a video clip of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday, acknowledged his host's praise for military assistance valued at $38 billion since the outset of the conflict in February 2022.
He described the help as "the best money we've ever spent".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced Graham, suggesting his comment on U.S. financial assistance was linked to a later remark that Russians "are dying" in the conflict.
But the release by the Ukrainian president's office of Graham's complete remarks showed there was no such link.
Graham said he was visiting on the 457th day of a war that Russia had assumed would be completed within three days and Graham said Ukrainians resisting the invasion reminded him of "our better selves in America. There was a time in America that we were this way, fighting to the last person, we were going to be free or die."
"Now you are free," Zelenskiy responded in the encounter. "And we will be."
Graham replied: "And the Russians are dying."
Zelenskiy then added: "Yes, but they came to our territory. We are not fighting on their territory."
Peskov and other Russian officials directly linked Graham's praise for the benefits of U.S. assistance to his comments on Russians dying in the conflict.
Initial extracts of the conversation released by Zelenskiy's office had not made clear that the two remarks were made in different parts of the conversation.
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Graham, shown in a video clip of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Friday, acknowledged his host's praise for military assistance valued at $38 billion since the outset of the conflict in February 2022.
He described the help as "the best money we've ever spent".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced Graham, suggesting his comment on U.S. financial assistance was linked to a later remark that Russians "are dying" in the conflict.
But the release by the Ukrainian president's office of Graham's complete remarks showed there was no such link.
Graham said he was visiting on the 457th day of a war that Russia had assumed would be completed within three days and Graham said Ukrainians resisting the invasion reminded him of "our better selves in America. There was a time in America that we were this way, fighting to the last person, we were going to be free or die."
"Now you are free," Zelenskiy responded in the encounter. "And we will be."
Graham replied: "And the Russians are dying."
Zelenskiy then added: "Yes, but they came to our territory. We are not fighting on their territory."
Peskov and other Russian officials directly linked Graham's praise for the benefits of U.S. assistance to his comments on Russians dying in the conflict.
Initial extracts of the conversation released by Zelenskiy's office had not made clear that the two remarks were made in different parts of the conversation.
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