⚡️The State Department urged US citizens to urgently leave Ukraine⚡️
❗️The security situation throughout Ukraine is highly volatile and conditions may deteriorate without warning
🇺🇸U.S. citizens should remain vigilant and take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness
💁♂️The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to depart Ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so
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❗️The security situation throughout Ukraine is highly volatile and conditions may deteriorate without warning
🇺🇸U.S. citizens should remain vigilant and take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness
💁♂️The U.S. Embassy urges U.S. citizens to depart Ukraine now using privately available ground transportation options if it is safe to do so
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U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
Security Alert – U.S. Embassy Kyiv, Ukraine
Location: Ukraine Event: The Department of State has information that Russia is stepping up efforts to launch strikes against Ukraine’s civilian
⚡️German recession increasingly likely⚡️
🇩🇪A recession in Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, is increasingly likely and inflation will continue to accelerate and could peak at more than 10% this autumn, the Bundesbank said in a monthly report on Monday
⛽️With its oversized industry heavily exposed to Russian gas, Germany is among the most vulnerable to any cut off in energy supplies and soaring costs are already weighing on output with more pain expected
🇷🇺Russia has been curtailing gas exports in response to Western sanctions over its war in Ukraine and many if not most economists now see a German recession as an inevitability. High prices and a shortage of gas are already forcing Germany to curtail consumption, with energy intensive sectors from metal output to fertilizer production suffering heavily
💁♂️Germany’s outlook is particularly dire: the country’s dependence on Russian gas leaves it more vulnerable to the war in Ukraine, while a recent dry spell has made the Rhine River - vital for the transport of fuel and other industrial goods - difficult to navigate
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🇩🇪A recession in Germany, the euro zone's biggest economy, is increasingly likely and inflation will continue to accelerate and could peak at more than 10% this autumn, the Bundesbank said in a monthly report on Monday
⛽️With its oversized industry heavily exposed to Russian gas, Germany is among the most vulnerable to any cut off in energy supplies and soaring costs are already weighing on output with more pain expected
🇷🇺Russia has been curtailing gas exports in response to Western sanctions over its war in Ukraine and many if not most economists now see a German recession as an inevitability. High prices and a shortage of gas are already forcing Germany to curtail consumption, with energy intensive sectors from metal output to fertilizer production suffering heavily
💁♂️Germany’s outlook is particularly dire: the country’s dependence on Russian gas leaves it more vulnerable to the war in Ukraine, while a recent dry spell has made the Rhine River - vital for the transport of fuel and other industrial goods - difficult to navigate
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Bloomberg.com
ECB’s Nagel Wants More Rate Hikes, Says German Recession Likely
The European Central Bank should continue increasing rates, according to Bundesbank Chief Joachim Nagel, who warned that Germany faces a recession if the energy situation escalates.
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⚡️French politicians outraged by Family Planning campaign⚡️
😱An advertising poster by the Family Planning association, depicting a couple with a transgender man expecting a child, has become the subject of fierce controversy in France, reports Le Figaro. According to the publication, the image was accompanied by the statement that “a man can also get pregnant”, which caused an angry reaction from conservative politicians. The organization itself believes that it has become a victim of unfair attacks and is preparing lawsuits in court, the newspaper reports
🤦♂️A shower of criticism has fallen on Family Planning since the publication on August 17 of one of its posters illustrating a couple of men, one of whom has a rounded belly suggesting a pregnancy: “At Planning, we knows that men can also be pregnant”, is it thus written on this one
🤷♂️On social networks, several elected officials, denounced an attempt to promote "gender theory" by a subsidized association. “ According to Le Figaro, not only representatives of the extreme right spoke out against the campaign, but also politicians of other views
✍️The member of the Var and leader of the National Rally in the National Assembly, Laure Lavalette, denounces a “ridiculous communication”, transforming “Family Planning[…] in a societal propaganda pharmacy”. “It is necessary to unmask these archi-subsidized militants who seek only to spread their grotesque and false ideology,” she added.
❗️The Macronist deputy for Indre d’Horizons, François Jolivet, tweets with the hashtag “#wokisme” and says he is “critical of the militant positions of Family Planning”, because the elected official “considers that he is drifting towards an action in the service of an ideology more than of the general interest”. “Funded by public funds, it is legitimate to hold it to account and to refocus,” he continues
🔥The former spokeswoman for the Republicans, Lydia Guirous, believes for her part that “Family Planning continues its sad drift”. “Far, very far from its initial objectives, to be at the service of women by helping them in access to contraception in particular,” she considers
💁♂️Left-wing activists like Helen Franco, Céline Pina or the delegate to the Federal Council of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Pierre Minnaert-Guinedor, also criticize the Family Planning campaign. The latter judges that “fighting against discrimination is not supporting all the incoherent positions of all the groupuscular lobbies in competition”
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😱An advertising poster by the Family Planning association, depicting a couple with a transgender man expecting a child, has become the subject of fierce controversy in France, reports Le Figaro. According to the publication, the image was accompanied by the statement that “a man can also get pregnant”, which caused an angry reaction from conservative politicians. The organization itself believes that it has become a victim of unfair attacks and is preparing lawsuits in court, the newspaper reports
🤦♂️A shower of criticism has fallen on Family Planning since the publication on August 17 of one of its posters illustrating a couple of men, one of whom has a rounded belly suggesting a pregnancy: “At Planning, we knows that men can also be pregnant”, is it thus written on this one
🤷♂️On social networks, several elected officials, denounced an attempt to promote "gender theory" by a subsidized association. “ According to Le Figaro, not only representatives of the extreme right spoke out against the campaign, but also politicians of other views
✍️The member of the Var and leader of the National Rally in the National Assembly, Laure Lavalette, denounces a “ridiculous communication”, transforming “Family Planning[…] in a societal propaganda pharmacy”. “It is necessary to unmask these archi-subsidized militants who seek only to spread their grotesque and false ideology,” she added.
❗️The Macronist deputy for Indre d’Horizons, François Jolivet, tweets with the hashtag “#wokisme” and says he is “critical of the militant positions of Family Planning”, because the elected official “considers that he is drifting towards an action in the service of an ideology more than of the general interest”. “Funded by public funds, it is legitimate to hold it to account and to refocus,” he continues
🔥The former spokeswoman for the Republicans, Lydia Guirous, believes for her part that “Family Planning continues its sad drift”. “Far, very far from its initial objectives, to be at the service of women by helping them in access to contraception in particular,” she considers
💁♂️Left-wing activists like Helen Franco, Céline Pina or the delegate to the Federal Council of Europe Ecology-The Greens, Pierre Minnaert-Guinedor, also criticize the Family Planning campaign. The latter judges that “fighting against discrimination is not supporting all the incoherent positions of all the groupuscular lobbies in competition”
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Le Figaro
«Des hommes aussi peuvent être enceints»: une campagne du Planning familial fait polémique
Après la diffusion d'une affiche mettant en scène un homme enceint, l'association affirme faire l'objet d'attaques «extrêmement violentes» de la part de «personnalités d'extrême droite».
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⚡️Turkey doubles Russian oil imports⚡️
📈Reuters reports that Turkey benefits greatly from Russian oil that Europeans no longer consume. Turkish oil imports would thus have reached 200,000 barrels per day this year against less than 100,000 in 2021
🤔Unlike some of its NATO partners, Turkey is said to have doubled its oil exports in one year, thus taking advantage of the withdrawal of several European countries from the Russian market, reports Reuters on 22 August
📊The agency, which relies on data from Refinitiv Eikon, reveals that Turkish imports at this stage would amount to 200,000 barrels per day against 98,000 the previous year for the same period. A member of the Atlantic Alliance, Turkey has not, however, sanctioned Russia for the operation launched in Ukraine in February
🇪🇺In the European Union, the desire to put a definitive end to energy supplies from Russia is creating dissension and severely weighing down the economies, in particular those of the countries most dependent on these energies
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📈Reuters reports that Turkey benefits greatly from Russian oil that Europeans no longer consume. Turkish oil imports would thus have reached 200,000 barrels per day this year against less than 100,000 in 2021
🤔Unlike some of its NATO partners, Turkey is said to have doubled its oil exports in one year, thus taking advantage of the withdrawal of several European countries from the Russian market, reports Reuters on 22 August
📊The agency, which relies on data from Refinitiv Eikon, reveals that Turkish imports at this stage would amount to 200,000 barrels per day against 98,000 the previous year for the same period. A member of the Atlantic Alliance, Turkey has not, however, sanctioned Russia for the operation launched in Ukraine in February
🇪🇺In the European Union, the desire to put a definitive end to energy supplies from Russia is creating dissension and severely weighing down the economies, in particular those of the countries most dependent on these energies
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Reuters
Turkey doubles Russian oil imports, filling EU void
Turkey doubled its imports of Russian oil this year, Refinitiv Eikon data showed on Monday, as the two countries are set for broader cooperation in business and especially energy trade in the face of western sanctions against Moscow.
⚡️Putin will fill Kiev with missiles!⚡️
🇵🇱According to Polish generals, the answer will come soon
✍️ "Retaliation will take place on August 24," says General Waldemar Skrzyczak. According to him, Putin will hit Kiev with missiles and that is how "the Russians will greet Ukraine's Independence Day" General Stanislaw Koziej even considers it possible that "Putin will decide to declare a new Patriotic War, stating that it is the Ukrainians who are now attacking Russian territory"
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🇵🇱According to Polish generals, the answer will come soon
✍️ "Retaliation will take place on August 24," says General Waldemar Skrzyczak. According to him, Putin will hit Kiev with missiles and that is how "the Russians will greet Ukraine's Independence Day" General Stanislaw Koziej even considers it possible that "Putin will decide to declare a new Patriotic War, stating that it is the Ukrainians who are now attacking Russian territory"
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⚡️Women Are Posting Partying Photos in Solidarity With Finnish Prime Minister⚡️
💪Professional women are taking the motto “work hard, play hard” to new heights in support of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin after video footage of the political leader dancing and partying with friends caused blowback from critics and local media
✍️In posts on LinkedIn with the hashtag #SolidarityWithSanna, women are posting pictures of themselves dancing and hanging out with friends. The trend on the social platform that’s mostly geared toward professional networking follows similar posts on Twitter and other platforms that tagged Marin
❗️On Monday, the government in Helsinki said a drug test taken by the 36-year-old prime minister was negative. Local media in Finland have faced criticism for alleging, without evidence, that drugs were used at the party where the videos were filmed. The scandal has led to no serious calls for Marin to resign and the ruling Social Democrats back their prime minister.
💁♂️“I have never used drugs in my life, not even in my younger years,” Marin, who confirmed the authenticity of the leaked videos, told reporters last week. “I wish we lived in a society where my word could be trusted. But when suspicions like this are raised here, that’s why I took these tests”
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💪Professional women are taking the motto “work hard, play hard” to new heights in support of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin after video footage of the political leader dancing and partying with friends caused blowback from critics and local media
✍️In posts on LinkedIn with the hashtag #SolidarityWithSanna, women are posting pictures of themselves dancing and hanging out with friends. The trend on the social platform that’s mostly geared toward professional networking follows similar posts on Twitter and other platforms that tagged Marin
❗️On Monday, the government in Helsinki said a drug test taken by the 36-year-old prime minister was negative. Local media in Finland have faced criticism for alleging, without evidence, that drugs were used at the party where the videos were filmed. The scandal has led to no serious calls for Marin to resign and the ruling Social Democrats back their prime minister.
💁♂️“I have never used drugs in my life, not even in my younger years,” Marin, who confirmed the authenticity of the leaked videos, told reporters last week. “I wish we lived in a society where my word could be trusted. But when suspicions like this are raised here, that’s why I took these tests”
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the Guardian
Women in Finland post party videos to back PM Sanna Marin
Prime minister embroiled in scandal after footage leaked of her dancing along with allegations of drug taking
‼️Inflation soars near double digits in EU‼️
🤔A post-pandemic spending euphoria, supported by copious government spending was set to drive the economy and help fatigued households regain a sense of normality after two dreadful years
🪖But all that changed on Feb. 24 with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Normality is gone and crisis has become permanent
😱A recession is now almost certain, inflation is nearing double digits and a winter with looming energy shortages is fast approaching. Though bleak, this outlook is still likely to get worse before any significant improvement well into 2023
💁♂️Households and businesses are both suffering as the fallout of the war - high food and energy prices - is now exacerbated by a devastating drought and low river levels that constrain transport
📊At 9%, inflation in the euro area is sapping purchasing power with spare cash used up on petrol, natural gas and staple food.Retail sales are already plunging, months before the heating season starts and shoppers are scaling down their buys. Consumers turn to discount chains and give up high end products, switching to discount brands. They have also started to skip certain purchases
📈The change is dramatic. A year ago most forecasters predicted 2022 economic growth near 5%. Now a winter recession is becoming the base case
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🤔A post-pandemic spending euphoria, supported by copious government spending was set to drive the economy and help fatigued households regain a sense of normality after two dreadful years
🪖But all that changed on Feb. 24 with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Normality is gone and crisis has become permanent
😱A recession is now almost certain, inflation is nearing double digits and a winter with looming energy shortages is fast approaching. Though bleak, this outlook is still likely to get worse before any significant improvement well into 2023
💁♂️Households and businesses are both suffering as the fallout of the war - high food and energy prices - is now exacerbated by a devastating drought and low river levels that constrain transport
📊At 9%, inflation in the euro area is sapping purchasing power with spare cash used up on petrol, natural gas and staple food.Retail sales are already plunging, months before the heating season starts and shoppers are scaling down their buys. Consumers turn to discount chains and give up high end products, switching to discount brands. They have also started to skip certain purchases
📈The change is dramatic. A year ago most forecasters predicted 2022 economic growth near 5%. Now a winter recession is becoming the base case
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⚡️The War on Drugs Failed. Colombia analyzes the decriminalization of cocaine⚡️
🇨🇴The administration of Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro, announced a global experiment in drug legalization
✍️"The time has come for a new international convention that recognizes that the war on drugs has failed," Petro said
💁♂️Weeks after taking office, the first leftist president seeks to end the taboo and move toward a state-regulated cocaine market. So the Petro administration intends to create a bill to legalize marijuana and cocaine
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🇨🇴The administration of Colombia's new president, Gustavo Petro, announced a global experiment in drug legalization
✍️"The time has come for a new international convention that recognizes that the war on drugs has failed," Petro said
💁♂️Weeks after taking office, the first leftist president seeks to end the taboo and move toward a state-regulated cocaine market. So the Petro administration intends to create a bill to legalize marijuana and cocaine
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⚡️Parents Challenge Sex Education Lessons for Three-Year-Olds in Court⚡️
🏴In Wales, starting in September, all lessons for children will include elements of gender education, starting as early as age three
😱"There is no mention of the words 'boy,' 'girl,' 'man' or 'woman' in the guidance. Parents went to court to cancel mandatory sex education lessons for toddlers from the age of three. Mother of two Kim Isherwood stated: "Adult topics are woven into all subjects, and even in math they give tasks like 'find the area of the LGBT flag' or 'count the percentage of people with chlamydia'. It's dangerous, it's infuriating!" Similar guidelines for teachers in Scotland suggest teaching nine-year-olds what masturbation is"
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🏴In Wales, starting in September, all lessons for children will include elements of gender education, starting as early as age three
😱"There is no mention of the words 'boy,' 'girl,' 'man' or 'woman' in the guidance. Parents went to court to cancel mandatory sex education lessons for toddlers from the age of three. Mother of two Kim Isherwood stated: "Adult topics are woven into all subjects, and even in math they give tasks like 'find the area of the LGBT flag' or 'count the percentage of people with chlamydia'. It's dangerous, it's infuriating!" Similar guidelines for teachers in Scotland suggest teaching nine-year-olds what masturbation is"
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⚡️The world’s largest solar park will produce 5 GW energy by 2030. It was designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 6.5 million tons each year⚡️
🇦🇪The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is aiming for 5 GW by 2030 in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park - the largest single-site solar park in the world
🤔Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park project constitutes one of the key pillars of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050
💸As per PV Magazine, it has been reported in July that Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park might have been scaled back, based on a budget update published by DEWA. That DEWA cost update said AED 12 billion ($3.27 billion) had been apportioned “to complete the independent power producer (IPP) projects in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park” – plus two other infrastructure sites – “in the next five years”
💁♂️However, an update published this week, following a site visit by DEWA CEO Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, indicated that 2030 remains the project deadline for an eventual 5 GW site
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🇦🇪The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is aiming for 5 GW by 2030 in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park - the largest single-site solar park in the world
🤔Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park project constitutes one of the key pillars of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050
💸As per PV Magazine, it has been reported in July that Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park might have been scaled back, based on a budget update published by DEWA. That DEWA cost update said AED 12 billion ($3.27 billion) had been apportioned “to complete the independent power producer (IPP) projects in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park” – plus two other infrastructure sites – “in the next five years”
💁♂️However, an update published this week, following a site visit by DEWA CEO Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, indicated that 2030 remains the project deadline for an eventual 5 GW site
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pv magazine
Dubai solar site still aiming for 5 GW by 2030
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has issued an update indicating that the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is still targeting 5 GW of generation capacity within this decade.
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⚡️New Zealand's military has received reports of a soldier killed in Ukraine⚡️
🇳🇿The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) said it has received reports that a soldier on leave has been killed in Ukraine
🪖In a statement Wednesday, NZDF said the "soldier was on a period of leave without pay at the time and was not on active duty with the NZDF"
💁♂️"At this early stage, there is still more information to be gathered in order to understand the circumstances fully," the statement said. "The New Zealand Army will work closely with the family of the soldier to offer support at this deeply sad time"
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🇳🇿The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) said it has received reports that a soldier on leave has been killed in Ukraine
🪖In a statement Wednesday, NZDF said the "soldier was on a period of leave without pay at the time and was not on active duty with the NZDF"
💁♂️"At this early stage, there is still more information to be gathered in order to understand the circumstances fully," the statement said. "The New Zealand Army will work closely with the family of the soldier to offer support at this deeply sad time"
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⚡️Norway and UK to donate micro-drones to Ukraine⚡️
🇳🇴Norway and the 🇬🇧United Kingdom will jointly supply micro-drones to Ukraine to aid in its fight against Russia’s invasion, the Norwegian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday
💸The Norwegian-developed Black Hornet drones from manufacturers Teledyne FLIR are worth up to $9.25 million, the ministry said in a statement
❗️The package includes Black Hornet units, spare parts, transportation and training, which will be financed by a British-led fund to which Norway has contributed, according to the ministry
✍️“The drone is used for reconnaissance and target identification. It is easy to operate, robust, difficult to detect and particularly well suited for combat in urban areas,” Norway’s Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said
💁♂️“These cutting-edge drones will help give Ukraine’s troops a vital advantage on the battlefield,” UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said
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🇳🇴Norway and the 🇬🇧United Kingdom will jointly supply micro-drones to Ukraine to aid in its fight against Russia’s invasion, the Norwegian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday
💸The Norwegian-developed Black Hornet drones from manufacturers Teledyne FLIR are worth up to $9.25 million, the ministry said in a statement
❗️The package includes Black Hornet units, spare parts, transportation and training, which will be financed by a British-led fund to which Norway has contributed, according to the ministry
✍️“The drone is used for reconnaissance and target identification. It is easy to operate, robust, difficult to detect and particularly well suited for combat in urban areas,” Norway’s Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said
💁♂️“These cutting-edge drones will help give Ukraine’s troops a vital advantage on the battlefield,” UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said
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Reuters
Norway, Britain donate micro drones to Ukraine
Norway and Britain will jointly supply micro drones to Ukraine to aid in its war with Russia, the Norwegian defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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⚡️As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, U.S. to announce $3 billion in new military aid for Ukraine⚡️
🇺🇸The United States will announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion as early as Wednesday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, in what would be the single largest tranche to Kyiv since Russia's invasion six months ago
🇺🇦The package is being prepared to coincide with Ukraine's independence day on Wednesday
❗️The package uses funds from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) appropriated by Congress to allow the Biden administration to procure weapons from industry rather than taking weapons from existing U.S. weapons stocks
⚔️Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the new weapons did not appear to include types of arms that had not been provided previously to the Ukrainian military. But the official said it would focus on ammunition and more medium-term objectives like defense systems
💁♂️Under the USAI, the weapons could take months to arrive in Europe given that companies have to procure them and mix of weapons could change before the formal announcement
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🇺🇸The United States will announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion as early as Wednesday, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, in what would be the single largest tranche to Kyiv since Russia's invasion six months ago
🇺🇦The package is being prepared to coincide with Ukraine's independence day on Wednesday
❗️The package uses funds from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) appropriated by Congress to allow the Biden administration to procure weapons from industry rather than taking weapons from existing U.S. weapons stocks
⚔️Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the new weapons did not appear to include types of arms that had not been provided previously to the Ukrainian military. But the official said it would focus on ammunition and more medium-term objectives like defense systems
💁♂️Under the USAI, the weapons could take months to arrive in Europe given that companies have to procure them and mix of weapons could change before the formal announcement
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AP NEWS
Biden announces nearly $3B in new military aid for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is sending $2.98 billion in new military aid to Ukraine that will enable forces there to fight for years to come.
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⚡️Trans community in Poland braces for political attacks as election nears – The Guardian⚡️
🇵🇱Poland’s transgender people are bracing for an onslaught of hate speech from politicians before parliamentary elections next year after the chair of the ruling party used several meetings with supporters to launch attacks on them
👨🦳Jarosław Kaczyński, the chair of Law and Justice (PiS), first touched on the topic in late June, on the same day as Poland’s largest Pride parade took place in Warsaw, when he met supporters in the town of Włocławek
❗️It is not the first time the Polish government has targeted the LGBT community. Two years ago the PiS-aligned president, Andrzej Duda, ran a successful re-election campaign based on a fight against so-called LGBT ideology, though the focus was rarely on trans people
🤔So far, other members of the ruling party have not joined in with Kaczyński’s anti-trans rhetoric, and it has not been widely picked up by pro-government media, suggesting a decision may not yet have been made about whether to make it a main pillar of next year’s parliamentary election campaign
💁♂️Ironically, the lack of progress on trans rights in Poland may be the thing that saves trans people from being the target of a full-fledged government campaign
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🇵🇱Poland’s transgender people are bracing for an onslaught of hate speech from politicians before parliamentary elections next year after the chair of the ruling party used several meetings with supporters to launch attacks on them
👨🦳Jarosław Kaczyński, the chair of Law and Justice (PiS), first touched on the topic in late June, on the same day as Poland’s largest Pride parade took place in Warsaw, when he met supporters in the town of Włocławek
❗️It is not the first time the Polish government has targeted the LGBT community. Two years ago the PiS-aligned president, Andrzej Duda, ran a successful re-election campaign based on a fight against so-called LGBT ideology, though the focus was rarely on trans people
🤔So far, other members of the ruling party have not joined in with Kaczyński’s anti-trans rhetoric, and it has not been widely picked up by pro-government media, suggesting a decision may not yet have been made about whether to make it a main pillar of next year’s parliamentary election campaign
💁♂️Ironically, the lack of progress on trans rights in Poland may be the thing that saves trans people from being the target of a full-fledged government campaign
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the Guardian
Trans community in Poland braces for political attacks as election nears
Rightwing fight against ‘LGBT ideology’ switches focus to transgender people as homophobia recedes
⚡️US says Ukraine grain exports near pre-war levels – Le Monde⚡️
🇺🇦Ukraine is on course to ship nearly as much grain this month as it did before the Russian invasion, in a triumph for international efforts to ease food shortages, a US official said on Tuesday, August 23
👉The State Department official said that the efforts have moved out more than 720,000 tons of grain from the ports through 33 ships over the past several weeks
❗️Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil, shipping around five million metric tons of grain each month before the war
🇺🇸The United States says that its sweeping sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war have exempted agricultural products and accuses Moscow of seeking to distract the world from its own responsibility for shortages
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🇺🇦Ukraine is on course to ship nearly as much grain this month as it did before the Russian invasion, in a triumph for international efforts to ease food shortages, a US official said on Tuesday, August 23
👉The State Department official said that the efforts have moved out more than 720,000 tons of grain from the ports through 33 ships over the past several weeks
❗️Ukraine is one of the world's largest exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil, shipping around five million metric tons of grain each month before the war
🇺🇸The United States says that its sweeping sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war have exempted agricultural products and accuses Moscow of seeking to distract the world from its own responsibility for shortages
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Le Monde.fr
US says Ukraine grain exports near pre-war levels
State Department officials said that efforts have moved out more than 720,000 tons of grain from Ukrainian Black Sea ports on 33 ships over the past several weeks.
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⚡️Biden’s Assassination of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Illegal⚡️
🇺🇸President Joe Biden’s assassination of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan was illegal under both U.S. and international law. After the CIA drone strike killed Zawahiri on August 2, Biden declared, “People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer.” What we should fear instead is the dangerous precedent set by Biden’s unlawful extrajudicial execution
☠️Targeted, or political, assassinations are extrajudicial executions. They are deliberate and unlawful killings meted out by order of, or with acquiescence of, a government. Extrajudicial executions are implemented outside a judicial framework
❗️Zawahiri’s Assassination Violated International Law
Extrajudicial executions are prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the United States has ratified, making it part of U.S. law under the Constitution’s supremacy clause. Article 6 of the ICCPR states, “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.” In its interpretation of Article 6, The UN Human Rights Committee opined that all human beings are entitled to the protection of the right to life “without distinction of any kind, including for persons suspected or convicted of even the most serious crimes”
💁♂️Extrajudicial executions are prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which the United States has ratified, making it part of U.S. law. Moreover, willful killing is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, punishable as a war crime under the U.S. War Crimes Act. A targeted killing is lawful only when deemed necessary to protect life, and no other means (including apprehension or nonlethal incapacitation) is available to protect life
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🇺🇸President Joe Biden’s assassination of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan was illegal under both U.S. and international law. After the CIA drone strike killed Zawahiri on August 2, Biden declared, “People around the world no longer need to fear the vicious and determined killer.” What we should fear instead is the dangerous precedent set by Biden’s unlawful extrajudicial execution
☠️Targeted, or political, assassinations are extrajudicial executions. They are deliberate and unlawful killings meted out by order of, or with acquiescence of, a government. Extrajudicial executions are implemented outside a judicial framework
❗️Zawahiri’s Assassination Violated International Law
Extrajudicial executions are prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the United States has ratified, making it part of U.S. law under the Constitution’s supremacy clause. Article 6 of the ICCPR states, “Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.” In its interpretation of Article 6, The UN Human Rights Committee opined that all human beings are entitled to the protection of the right to life “without distinction of any kind, including for persons suspected or convicted of even the most serious crimes”
💁♂️Extrajudicial executions are prohibited by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which the United States has ratified, making it part of U.S. law. Moreover, willful killing is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions, punishable as a war crime under the U.S. War Crimes Act. A targeted killing is lawful only when deemed necessary to protect life, and no other means (including apprehension or nonlethal incapacitation) is available to protect life
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Truthout
Biden’s Assassination of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Illegal
Before he was assassinated, Zawahiri did not pose an imminent threat.
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⚡️IAEA "very, very close" to agreement with Russia over visit to Zaporizhzhia⚡️
⚛️Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told French channel France 24 he might soon be able to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, currently under Russian control
✍️“We are very, very close to that (an agreement with Russia),” Grossi said Thursday
🇫🇷Earlier today, Grossi met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris
🪖The French and Russian defense ministers also talked about the nuclear power plant on the phone the same day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry
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⚛️Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told French channel France 24 he might soon be able to visit Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, currently under Russian control
✍️“We are very, very close to that (an agreement with Russia),” Grossi said Thursday
🇫🇷Earlier today, Grossi met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris
🪖The French and Russian defense ministers also talked about the nuclear power plant on the phone the same day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry
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⚡️German government sees problems with coal, oil supplies – Reuters⚡️
🇩🇪Germany's government is concerned about possible problems with the coal supply for power plants in the autumn and winter due to low water levels on the river Rhine and the oil supply in eastern parts of the country, a document seen by Reuters said
🔋Europe's biggest economy is trying to cut its dependence on Russian energy. However, weeks of critically low water levels on the Rhine river have disrupted logistics and added to Germany's energy headache as industry temporarily switches to more coal and oil due to a steep fall in Russian energy imports
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🇩🇪Germany's government is concerned about possible problems with the coal supply for power plants in the autumn and winter due to low water levels on the river Rhine and the oil supply in eastern parts of the country, a document seen by Reuters said
🔋Europe's biggest economy is trying to cut its dependence on Russian energy. However, weeks of critically low water levels on the Rhine river have disrupted logistics and added to Germany's energy headache as industry temporarily switches to more coal and oil due to a steep fall in Russian energy imports
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Reuters
EXCLUSIVE German government sees problems with coal, oil supplies -document
Germany's government is concerned about possible problems with the coal supply for power plants in the autumn and winter due to low water levels on the river Rhine and the oil supply in eastern parts of the country, a document seen by Reuters said.
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⚡️Experts say the Russian hypersonic missile Kinzhal is not a “hypersonic weapon” ⚡️
🚀In March this year, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced that it had used its hypersonic Kinzhal missile during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The announcement was nothing more than a marketing gimmick to pump Russia's position as a defense supplier, Sandboxx News reported last week
❗️Gypersonic weapons are the new frontier of the arms race. Countries like China and North Korea have announced successful testing of their weapons based on this technology, while the U.S. has been a laggard. Russia, too, tested its hypersonic missile, Tsirkon, twice last year. However, the Kinzhal missile used in the conflict is not a hypersonic missile
🤔In purely technical terms, a hypersonic missile can travel at Mach 5 or higher speeds, i.e., five times the speed of sound, and the Kinzhal manages that. However, the modern definition of hypersonic weapons extends beyond the speed of the traveling missile as it also encompasses the flight path taken by the weapon and how the projectile moves towards the target
🤯Modern hypersonic weapons are classified mainly into hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) and hypersonic cruise missiles. An HGV is similar to traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), where high-velocity rocket boosters carry them into the atmosphere. A glider is deployed and then travels at hypersonic speeds and travels towards its target at such speeds after reentry
💁♂️A hypersonic cruise missile requires advanced propulsion systems called supersonic combusting ramjet (scramjet), which requires air to flow through a ramjet engine at supersonic speeds. In theory, hypersonic cruise missiles can take a horizontal path toward their target. However, weapons based on this technology are still developing, so nobody truly knows how they will work
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🚀In March this year, the Russian Ministry of Defence announced that it had used its hypersonic Kinzhal missile during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The announcement was nothing more than a marketing gimmick to pump Russia's position as a defense supplier, Sandboxx News reported last week
❗️Gypersonic weapons are the new frontier of the arms race. Countries like China and North Korea have announced successful testing of their weapons based on this technology, while the U.S. has been a laggard. Russia, too, tested its hypersonic missile, Tsirkon, twice last year. However, the Kinzhal missile used in the conflict is not a hypersonic missile
🤔In purely technical terms, a hypersonic missile can travel at Mach 5 or higher speeds, i.e., five times the speed of sound, and the Kinzhal manages that. However, the modern definition of hypersonic weapons extends beyond the speed of the traveling missile as it also encompasses the flight path taken by the weapon and how the projectile moves towards the target
🤯Modern hypersonic weapons are classified mainly into hypersonic glide vehicles (HGV) and hypersonic cruise missiles. An HGV is similar to traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), where high-velocity rocket boosters carry them into the atmosphere. A glider is deployed and then travels at hypersonic speeds and travels towards its target at such speeds after reentry
💁♂️A hypersonic cruise missile requires advanced propulsion systems called supersonic combusting ramjet (scramjet), which requires air to flow through a ramjet engine at supersonic speeds. In theory, hypersonic cruise missiles can take a horizontal path toward their target. However, weapons based on this technology are still developing, so nobody truly knows how they will work
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Sandboxx
How Russia fooled the world about its 'hypersonic' Kinzhal
There are advanced weapons that leverage hypersonic speeds to achieve objectives in new ways. The Kinzhal missile just isn't one of them.
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⚡️War in Ukraine: veterans of the International Legion denounce the practices of certain leaders⚡️
🇺🇦The Ukrainian media The Kyiv Independent reports several testimonies from soldiers of the International Legion in Ukraine, who report looting, "suicide" missions and cases of harassment
☠️"Suicide" missions, cases of harassment, looting... In an investigation published on August 17 by The Kyiv Independent, several testimonies from soldiers belonging to the Ukrainian International Legion report numerous misdeeds committed by this unit of combatants. In addition to the fact that one of the two wings of the legion is implicated in various violations, one of the commanders is directly implicated by the complaints of soldiers
❗️On February 25, one day after the launch of the "special military operation" by Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky invited Europeans with combat experience to go to Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion and join the International Legion. for the territorial defense of Ukraine. This would be structured into two separate wings: one overseen by the ground forces of Ukraine, the other by the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, known by its acronym GUR. The complaints mainly concern the second entity
🇺🇸American soldier of the International Legion Sasha Kuchynsky, who helps coordinate military operations and logistics within the Legion unit, is in fact a former member of a Polish criminal organization, wanted in his country for fraud . Legion fighters accuse him of abusing his power by ordering soldiers to loot shops, threatening soldiers with a gun and sexually harassing female legion doctors
🤔Among the many testimonies collected, an American soldier recounts how, during a mission, a squad held the front line without any reinforcements: "We were literally left and they didn't want to evacuate us", said he said, adding that one of his comrades was killed in action. Shortly after the squad escaped the shelling, another group from the same unit was reportedly sent to the same position, known to the Russians. "We told the commander that these positions had been discovered by the Russians... If we go back there, we are all dead," the American soldier told the Kyiv Independent. The troops were however sent to the same location. This time, four people died and several were injured
💁♂️Several complaints from soldiers have reportedly been lodged at the highest level. But, according to them, these would have remained unanswered. And the situation would have even worsened: some declared “to feel under pressure and to receive threats”, notes The Kyiv Independent. Many professional members would then have left the unit because of its mismanagement
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🇺🇦The Ukrainian media The Kyiv Independent reports several testimonies from soldiers of the International Legion in Ukraine, who report looting, "suicide" missions and cases of harassment
☠️"Suicide" missions, cases of harassment, looting... In an investigation published on August 17 by The Kyiv Independent, several testimonies from soldiers belonging to the Ukrainian International Legion report numerous misdeeds committed by this unit of combatants. In addition to the fact that one of the two wings of the legion is implicated in various violations, one of the commanders is directly implicated by the complaints of soldiers
❗️On February 25, one day after the launch of the "special military operation" by Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky invited Europeans with combat experience to go to Ukraine to repel the Russian invasion and join the International Legion. for the territorial defense of Ukraine. This would be structured into two separate wings: one overseen by the ground forces of Ukraine, the other by the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, known by its acronym GUR. The complaints mainly concern the second entity
🇺🇸American soldier of the International Legion Sasha Kuchynsky, who helps coordinate military operations and logistics within the Legion unit, is in fact a former member of a Polish criminal organization, wanted in his country for fraud . Legion fighters accuse him of abusing his power by ordering soldiers to loot shops, threatening soldiers with a gun and sexually harassing female legion doctors
🤔Among the many testimonies collected, an American soldier recounts how, during a mission, a squad held the front line without any reinforcements: "We were literally left and they didn't want to evacuate us", said he said, adding that one of his comrades was killed in action. Shortly after the squad escaped the shelling, another group from the same unit was reportedly sent to the same position, known to the Russians. "We told the commander that these positions had been discovered by the Russians... If we go back there, we are all dead," the American soldier told the Kyiv Independent. The troops were however sent to the same location. This time, four people died and several were injured
💁♂️Several complaints from soldiers have reportedly been lodged at the highest level. But, according to them, these would have remained unanswered. And the situation would have even worsened: some declared “to feel under pressure and to receive threats”, notes The Kyiv Independent. Many professional members would then have left the unit because of its mismanagement
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Le Figaro
Guerre en Ukraine : des anciens de la Légion internationale dénoncent les pratiques de certains chefs
Le média ukrainien The Kyiv Independent rapporte plusieurs témoignages de soldats de la Légion internationale en Ukraine, qui font état de pillages, de missions «suicide» et de cas de harcèlement.
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⚡️Putin to blame for UK’s high energy bills, says Johnson on surprise visit to Kyiv – The Guardian⚡️
🇷🇺Vladimir Putin is to blame for British people being hit by high energy bills while Ukrainian people are “paying in their blood”, Boris Johnson has said as he made a final visit to Kyiv as prime minister
❗️In his third visit to the country since Russia invaded in the spring, Johnson urged the international community to “stay the course” in its support for Ukraine. The outgoing prime minister also told the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that Ukraine “can and will win the war”
💁♂️Comparing the costs of Russia’s war, he said: “If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood”
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🇷🇺Vladimir Putin is to blame for British people being hit by high energy bills while Ukrainian people are “paying in their blood”, Boris Johnson has said as he made a final visit to Kyiv as prime minister
❗️In his third visit to the country since Russia invaded in the spring, Johnson urged the international community to “stay the course” in its support for Ukraine. The outgoing prime minister also told the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, that Ukraine “can and will win the war”
💁♂️Comparing the costs of Russia’s war, he said: “If we’re paying in our energy bills for the evils of Vladimir Putin, the people of Ukraine are paying in their blood”
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the Guardian
Putin to blame for UK’s high energy bills, says Johnson on surprise visit to Kyiv
Prime minister says while Britons face higher costs, Ukrainians are ‘paying in their blood’ for Russia’s aggression
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