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Sept 6 (Reuters) - Kremlin has been seizing assets of some Western companies in Russia through decrees signed by President Vladimir Putin and court orders related to lawsuits over halted projects or blocked funds amid Western sanctions. Below is a list of the companies affected so far...

The capabilities in this announcement include:

RIM-7 missiles and support for air defense;

Stinger missiles;

Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);

155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;

Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles;

Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;

Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles;

M113 Armored Personnel Carriers;

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles;

Small arms ammunition and grenades;

Patrol boats;

Maritime training equipment;

Demolitions equipment and munitions;

Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.

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Well, friends, the time has come and we are posting a video with the results of our work on the total destruction of Russian reconnaissance UAVs 🔥 In a very short period of time, we managed to knock out almost all the Katsap "eyes" in the area, which greatly facilitated the work of our logistics, artillery, and other calculations, and significantly reduced enemy shelling from both artillery and guided aerial bombs.

The video confirmed the destruction of 49 air targets:

ZALA - 36 units

SUPERCAM - 7 units

Orlan - 5 units

Lancet - 1 pc

Thank you to everyone who joins in helping us collect drones, because there are no limits to their potential, and thanks to your donations, we have the opportunity to develop this field and almost every day open new directions for the use of unmanned systems that will save the lives of our priceless people, like at the front. and in the rear 🤝🫡

Please support 🤝

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We have geolocated all the crashes in this video.

In the image with the map, each UAV is marked with a corresponding color:

🔴 - ZALA

🔵 - Orlan

🟢 - SUPERCAM

🟣 - Lancet

🔴 LBZ is marked with a red line.

📄KMZ file in the comments.

00:05 (ZALA) - 48.519923,37.895365

00:07 (SuperCam) - 48.521787,37.876606
00:08 (ZALA) - 48.518432,37.887651
00:09 (ZALA) - 48.521123,37.924977
00:10 (SUPERCAM) - 48.477687,37.873126
00:12 (ZALA) - 48.512929,37.874156
00:13 (ZALA) - 48.519680,37.795310
00:14 (ZALA) - 48.502509,37.910853
00:15 (ZALA) - 48.505576,37.951279
00:17 (ZALA) - 48.514702,37.899472
00:18 (Orlan) - 48.511881,37.877163
00:19 (ZALA) - 48.533521,37.858968
00:20 (ZALA) - 48.468888,37.821583
00:21 (Orlan) - 48.501641,37.941590
00:22 (ZALA) - 48.504558,37.930736
00:23 (ZALA) - 48.543473,37.788251
00:24 (Orlan) - 48.511881,37.877163
00:26 (ZALA) - 48.463350,37.743585
00:27 (SUPERCAM) - 48.455482,37.834717
00:30 (ZALA) - 48.506356,37.867286
00:32 (SUPERCAM) - 48.550198,37.761697
00:34 (ZALA) - 48.495125,37.910432
00:35 (ZALA) - 48.412613,37.833004
00:36(ZALA) - 48.552258,37.703094
00:37(ZALA) - 48.481609,37.862242
00:39 (SUPERCAM) - 48.475742,37.797806
00:41(ZALA) - 48.522977,37.864580
00:42 (SUPERCAM) - 48.559797,37.829599
00:43 (ZALA) - 48.5369120,37.8543823
00:47 (ZALA) - 48.476286,37.804667
00:48 (ZALA) - 48.5422184,37.8469643
00:51 (SUPERCAM) - 48.453352,37.879388
00:53(ZALA) - 48.563811,37.824387
00:54(ZALA) - 48.486928,37.780586
00:57 (Orlan) - 48.410001,37.722912
00:58(ZALA) - 48.492063,37.882139
00:59(ZALA) - 48.414744,37.790848
01:00 (ZALA) - 48.463252,37.789794
01:02 (ZALA) - 48.514822,37.893666
01:03 (ZALA) - 48.490216,37.843813
01:05 (ZALA) - 48.475761,37.842493
01:06 (ZALA) - 48.437672,37.760565
01:07 (Orlan) - 48.503979,37.831441
01:08 (Orlan) - 48.509467,37.887363
01:09 (SUPERCAM) - 48.482632,37.838071
01:10 (ZALA) - 48.468104,37.816168
01:11 (ZALA) - 48.511721,37.905233
01:12 (Lancet) - 48.520893,37.887190
01:15 (ZALA) - 48.481580,37.764446

"It is crucial that all the weapons from the already announced support packages finally reach the combat brigades. We also need strong long-range decisions from our partners to bring closer the just peace we are striving for," he wrote.

Zelenskyy will meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. Separate talks will be held with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Following this, the president will travel to Italy to attend the international economic forum Ambrosetti, where meetings with Italian business representatives and talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are planned.

On Thursday, Der Spiegel, citing informed sources, reported that Zelenskyy plans to "convey the full seriousness of the situation" to partners at Ramstein.

Sybiha served as Ukraine's Ambassador to Turkey from 2016 to 2021. In May 2021, he was appointed Deputy Head of the President's Office of Ukraine, where he handled foreign policy issues and the development of strategic partnerships.

In April 2024, he was appointed First Deputy Foreign Minister by government decision.

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Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 06.09.24 (орієнтовно)

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tv-presenter-who-worked-channel-one-russia-charged-violating-us-sanctions-imposed-russia

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Russian military raided another store in Kursk >region

In August, Russian soldiers robbed the Kapitosha children's clothing store in Kornevo (less than 20 km from the border). The corresponding video from the store's surveillance cameras was published by blogger Michael Naki. The camera lens captured a soldier in a Russian uniform stealing cash from the children's store's cash register. The date of the shooting is listed as August 12.

“And this is our Russian army, our defenders,” a female voice behind the scenes comments on the recordings from the Kapitosha cameras in one of the videos.

The authenticity of the video was confirmed in a conversation with ASTRA by a local resident who left Kornevo (he asked to remain anonymous). He claims that "according to rumors , the military broke into almost all the retail outlets." His family's business also suffered from the Russian military, the man says, although he was told about this by witnesses - and, accordingly, he does not know for sure what exactly the military stole.

In August, videos appeared online showing Russian military personnel robbing a Wildberries warehouse and a mobile phone store in the border area of the Kursk region.

https://x.com/rafaelmgrossi/status/1831670124656402633

I had saved this site a couple of years ago. This doesn't seem correct unless pink means fighting. I know Ukraine has captured some areas and it doesn't seem to show. Any thoughts if I should ditch this as a source?

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🔥The 24th Brigade really likes the smell of napalm in the mornings in Donbas!

Soldiers of the battalion of unmanned aerial systems "RAROG" of the 24th OMBr named after King Danylo destroy the occupiers with napalm from the air.

We are literally burning down the positions of the Russians together with the invaders.

To be clear it is not hold in $, but in RMB, gold and rubel. Before the war in held $174billion, so a massive decrease.

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Shooting down the new Lancet with FPV🔪

Soldiers of the 11th Brigade of the National Guard shot down with your drone a new modification of the Lancet "Izdeliye-51", which flies at a distance of 50+ km.

He wanted to attack one of our facilities, but not today, bastard, not today.

Thank you for your donations to the Heavenly River Road!

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The Moscow Times reports that Russia’s Ministry of Health has pressed research institutes to provide immediate updates on their efforts to combat aging, cognitive decline, and osteoporosis, as well as to strengthen the immune system.

"We were asked to urgently send all of our developments, and the letter arrived, let’s say, today, but everything had to be sent yesterday," one researcher told Meduza.

The urgency is reportedly driven by Mikhail Kovalchuk, a 77-year-old scientist and close friend of Putin. Kovalchuk, who heads the Kurchatov Nuclear Research Institute and has ties to a state-funded genetics program that includes Putin’s eldest daughter, endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, is said to be leading the push for life-extension research.

"The big boss set the task, and officials rushed to implement it in every possible way," according to a Kremlin insider.

Kovalchuk is described as being "obsessed with eternal life."

He reportedly pitched the idea to Putin.

"A significant number of civilians, abandoned by Russian authorities without any means of survival – food, electricity, water, and gas – remain in the territory controlled by Ukrainian forces," the statement reads.

Military officials emphasized that since its establishment, the commandant's office has been providing comprehensive assistance to residents. Most of them are elderly people and children. Daily medical check-ups and necessary medical aid are provided both in the city of Sudzha and in other villages of the Kursk region under Ukrainian control.

In accordance with international humanitarian law, the military commandant's office also supplies civilians with food and water.

The Ukrainian Ground Forces added that throughout the time of the operation, the Russian side has not created any humanitarian corridors nor provided any assistance to its citizens.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Oleksandr Syrsky, suspended Roman Hladkyi, Chief of Staff of the Unmanned Systems Command, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The General Staff clarified that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will conduct a special investigation into Hladkyi, who was appointed to the position in late August. This decision followed a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on National Security, Intelligence, and Defense, which had previously demanded such an investigation.

Shortly after Hladkyi’s appointment became public, information began to spread that he had previously been suspected of treason and corruption, and that his wife holds a Russian passport. Ukrainian military personnel expressed outrage on social media.

Ukrinform also reported that Hladkyi’s daughter had participated in swimming competitions for the Central Sports Club of the Russian Army. Additionally, according to the TSN TV channel, Russian intelligence services had attempted to recruit Hladkyi himself.

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 05.09.24 (орієнтовно)

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