Author: Dal Stanton
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12/14/2023 – Ukraine says it wiped out Russian tax data in cyber offensive
Experts say restoring Russia’s tax system could take at least a month after Ukraine’s reported hack From Euromaiden Press BY ALYA SHANDRA Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has allegedly attacked Russia’s tax system, destroying the entire database and its backup copies, according to a statementby the intelligence agency on Tuesday. HUR claims Russia will be unable…
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12/14/2023 – Why Russia fights like ISIS and how to de-Putinize liberated youth
Security scholar Omar Ashour explains how Russian tactics in Ukraine parallel terrorist extremist strategies and examines deradicalization models to reintegrate youth subjected to Kremlin disinformation. From: Euromaiden Press BY ALYA SHANDRA Security expert Omar Ashour identifies alarming similarities between Russia’s military operations in places like Crimea and Donbas and the playbook extremist organizations like ISIS…
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12/14/2023 – ISW: Russia likely presses attack to prompt aid debates in West
Russia lost 87% of its pre-war ground forces but continues partial mobilization efforts to sustain its eastern Ukraine offensive, which US intelligence believes is meant to erode Western backing for Ukraine. From: Euromaiden Press BY MARIA TRIL Russian military forces are likely undertaking costly offensive operations in multiple areas of eastern Ukraine in an attempt…
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12/14/2023 – Putin’s Trojan horse? Orban’s veto looms over Ukraine’s EU bid
As EU leaders prepare to converge in Brussels, unblocked funds may persuade Hungary to approve crucial financial aid for Ukraine, but its membership bid still hangs in the air From: Euromaiden Press BY BOHDAN BEN The EU summit on 14-15 December 2023 will decide on three critical Ukrainian issues: financial and military aid and the…
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12/14/2023 – How do Ukrainians live with the war?
How do Ukrainians live with the war? What does normality mean, what purpose do plans for the future have when a missile could strike in the next moment? A personal essay by filmmaker and writer Iryna Tsilyk. From: Euromaiden Press BY IRYNA TSILYK Iryna Tsilyk, a Ukrainian writer and filmmaker, was the first Ukrainian to…
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13/14/2023 – Just one question
From Kyiv Post 💬Volodymyr Zelensky said that during a conversation with Viktor Orban, he asked him to name at least one reason why Ukraine should not be in the EU: “I asked him to name me at least one reason. Not three, not five, not ten, just one reason, and I am waiting for an…
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12/14/2023 – Putin says Russian goals in Ukraine are unchanged and there will only be peace when it achieves them – as it happened
From: The Guardian by Geneva Abdul (now) and Tom Bryant (earlier), last hr Summary That is the end of today’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine . Here’s a summary of the main events. Head over to our Europe blog , helmed by my colleague Lili Bayer in Brussels. Vladimir Putin has held his annual end-of-the-year press conference, saying…
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12/14/2023 – We are losing our best people
From: Meanwhile in Ukraine 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Holiadynets went to the frontlines in the first days of the full-scale invasion. He defended Avdiivka this whole time. On October 19th, 2023, Volodymyr went to evacuate his wounded brothers-in-arms. While he was supporting a badly wounded person to the car, a tank shelling started and Volodymyr was killed.…
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12/14/2023 – Let them vanish like water that runs away;when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.Psalm 58:7
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 658): Let them vanish like water that runs away;when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.Psalm 58:7 It was another sleepless night. Ballistic missiles came around 3 am, so we woke up to explosions. There’s no time to turn on air raid sirens when ballistic missiles are coming,…
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