Песков – о приглашении иностранных лидеров в Москву на Парад Победы: Никого не приглашали из зарубежных лидеров. Это не юбилейная дата, это наш праздник, святой для всей России, всех россиян. [Лукашенко?] Насколько я знаю, не планируется.
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Песков – об американском законопроекте по передаче конфискованных российских активов Украине: Конечно, очень опасный прецедент, вопиющее искажение любых правовых норм. Нарушение вообще всех правовых понятий, ни что иное как просто экспроприация частной собственности и попытка псевдоузаконить эту экспроприацию. Это наглядным образом демонстрирует хрупкость устоев сейчас в области частной собственности, политики, экономики и остального. Ничего, кроме глубочайшего непонимания и неприятия, не может вызывать.
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В России в ответ на действия стран Запада ужесточили формат общения иностранных дипломатов с госорганами, все контакты теперь будут осуществляться через МИД, сообщило РИА Новости со ссылкой на внешнеполитическое ведомство.
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На территории Белгородской области развернули до пяти дивизионов ОТРК "Искандер-М" — Минобороны РФ.
Сегодня над нами со стороны Белгородской области пролетели уже пять ракет.
За сутки силами ПВО на нашем направлении сбито 7 украинских Точек У, пять вчера и две сегодня.
Просто представьте масштабность происходящего только по этим трем абзацам. Это только сутки, только одного направления. Без учета РСЗО и прочей артиллерии, которая давно стала просто звуковым фоном.
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Вода из Северо-крымского канала в 2022 году будет бесплатно поставляться всем потребителям, в том числе предприятиям и рыбохозяйствам — глава Крыма Аксенов.
Директор СВР Нарышкин: По поступающим в Службу внешней разведки России сведениям, Вашингтон и Варшава прорабатывают планы установления плотного военно-политического контроля Польши над "своими историческими владениями" на Украине.
* По данным СВР, первым этапом "воссоединения" должен стать ввод польских войск в западные области Украины под лозунгом их "защиты от российской агрессии".
* C администрацией Байдена обсуждаются модальности предстоящей миссии. Согласно предварительным договоренностям, она будет проходить без мандата НАТО, но с участием "желающих государств". Варшава пока не смогла условиться с потенциальными участниками коалиции единомышленников.
* «Миротворческий контингент» Польши планируется разместить в тех частях Украины, где угроза непосредственного столкновения с вооруженными силами России минимальна. В приоритетные задачи польских военных войдет постепенный перехват контроля над стратегическими объектами на западе Украины.
* По сути, речь идет о попытке повторить историческую для Польши "сделку" после Первой мировой войны, когда коллективный Запад в лице Антанты признал за Варшавой право сначала на оккупацию части Украины для защиты населения от "большевистской угрозы", а потом и включение этих территорий в состав польского государства.
* Польские спецслужбы ищут «договороспособных» представителей элиты Украины для формирования ориентированного на Варшаву противовеса националистам. По расчетам Варшавы, закрепление польских военных на западе Украины с высокой степенью вероятности приведет к расколу страны.
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Пресс-бюро СВР: Сделанное директором Службы внешней разведки Сергеем Нарышкиным заявление относительно планов Вашингтона и Варшавы разместить в западной части Украины польский «миротворческий контингент» является не версией, а разведывательной информацией, полученной из нескольких надёжных источников.
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Министерство обороны Польши заявило о начинающихся уже в воскресенье «масштабных военных учениях» в приграничных частях страны, об усилении передвижения колонн своей техники и попросило граждан не публиковать снимки происходящего:
* С воскресенья 1 мая по дорогам практически всей страны будет осуществляться движение колонн военной техники в связи с военными учениями, которые пройдут в соответствии с программой подготовки вооруженных сил Польской Республики.
* Движение техники будет осуществляться по дорогам Западно-Поморского, Любуского, Великопольского, Куявско-Поморского, Лодзинского, Мазовецкого, Люблинского и Варминско-Мазурского воеводств (в основном север и восток страны).
* Военные колонны можно будет встретить на автомагистралях, скоростных дорогах, а также на дорогах местного значения.
* Прибытие и прохождение колонн также будут использоваться участниками учений для отработки приема и переброски союзных сил, координации трансграничных действий и сотрудничества с принимающими государствами.
* Транспортные средства, участвующие в учениях, чаще всего будут двигаться в ночное время, чтобы их движение как можно меньше создавало затруднения. Тем не менее, некоторые поездки будут проходить в течение дня и даже в часы пик трафика.
* Просим граждан не публиковать информацию и фотографии передвижения войск и их местонахождения, даты и время прохождения военных колонн, данные о вылетах и посадках военных самолетов.
* Любое необдуманное действие в сети, публикация фотографий с изображением важных военных объектов, техники может иметь негативные последствия для системы безопасности и обороны».
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Парламент Гагаузской автономии Молдавии принял в двух чтениях закон, разрешающий георгиевскую ленту.
МИД Дании подтвердил гибель на Украине своего гражданина, который воевал в составе Иностранного легиона ВСУ.
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Великобритания направит 8 тыс. военных на учения НАТО в Восточной Европе «по противостоянию России».
Они присоединятся к 18 тыс. военнослужащих НАТО на эстонско-латвийской границе. Также 1 тыс. солдат направят в Польшу, ещё 2,5 тыс. — в Северную Македонию.
«Этим летом десятки танков будут переброшены в страны от Финляндии до Северной Македонии… К ним присоединятся десятки тысяч военнослужащих НАТО и альянса «Объединённые экспедиционные силы», в который входят Финляндия и Швеция», — пишет The Guardian.
Британские СМИ отмечают, что это крупнейшее подобное развёртывание контингента в Европе со времён холодной войны.
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Boris Johnson accused of revealing Ukrainian ‘military secrets’ by former head of Polish army
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Boris Johnson has been accused by a former head of the Polish army of “tempting evil” and jeopardising efforts to support Ukraine in its war against Russia by revealing that Ukrainian soldiers were receiving training in Poland on how to use British anti-aircraft missiles.
General Waldemar Skrzypczak, also a former junior defence minister, said the British prime minister’s comments could threaten the safety of the troops involved with the conflict now in its third month and showing no signs of abating.
Mr Skrzypczak said that Mr Johnson had revealed “a military secret” when he gave details of the Ukrainian training plan during a trip to India last week.
“Military training is a matter of the army, in such a situation secret. Let a man restrain himself and think before he says such things,” Mr Skrzypczak told the Polish tabloid Fakt, which portrayed the former general as irritated.
“The prime minister may not be aware of it, but with such statements he puts the success of the entire military operation at risk, as well as the safety of the soldiers,” he said. “Such statements are tempting evil.”
Mr Skrzypczak said he was concerned about how much detail Mr Johnson had been prepared to go into. “It is hard to imagine that when we were on missions abroad, one of the politicians would talk about our plans or training on television.”
Mr Johnson announced last week during his trip to India that for the first time ever, Ukrainian troops on the frontline were being trained to use military equipment on British soil as well as in Poland.
The location of the mission and the exact number of individuals involved – understood to total “around a couple of dozen” – are being kept strictly secret for security reasons but Mr Johnson did share that troops were being trained to use anti-aircraft defence and armoured vehicles.
Mr Johnson told reporters: “I can say that we are currently training Ukrainians in Poland in the use of anti-aircraft defence, and actually in the UK in the use of armoured vehicles.”
The Stormer system, designed to fire the UK-manufactured Starstreak high-velocity air defence projectile, was sent to Ukraine as part of the UK’s military assistance package.
Tensions between Russia and the west continue to mount as the Kremlin voiced its frustrations at Nato for supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, said Russia was “effectively” at war with Nato because of its military provision to Kyiv and warned that the risk of nuclear war is now “considerable.
Russian president Vladimir Putin went further by warning the west of Russia’s “lightning fast” retaliation to anyone interfering with its “special operation” in Ukraine.
The Russian president said: “If someone intends to intervene into the ongoing events [in Ukraine] from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to those strikes will be swift, lightning fast.”
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Pentagon says Russia ‘several days’ behind objectives in Donbas
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Defense officials assess that Russia is “several days” behind schedule in achieving its objectives in the Donbas, hobbled by logistical issues and Ukrainian resistance, the Pentagon said Friday.
Russian ground forces are making “plodding, uneven progress” in the southeastern region, a senior Defense Department official said Friday.
Moscow aims to attack Ukrainian forces in the Donbas from the north, east and south out of Mariupol, the official said, adding that Russian forces are falling behind on all fronts.
“They meant to be much further along in the total encirclement,” said the official who asked for anonymity in order to candidly discuss operations. Now they are “nowhere close to linking north with south.”
Russian forces are wary of repeating their mistakes trying to take Kyiv, where ground forces advanced too far ahead of their supply lines and did not have the resources to sustain the fight, the official said this week. Now, they are able to move only a few kilometers on any given day, the official said.
“They literally just sprinted to Kyiv and then didn’t have the backup, didn’t have the fuel, didn’t have the food, didn’t have the spare parts to keep them there,” the official said. “They don’t want to make that same mistake.”
While Russia has an advantage in the Donbas because it’s a smaller and more open area, ground forces will be hampered by rain, mud and other weather conditions as spring continues, the official said.
Adding to Russia’s troubles, the Pentagon also assesses that Moscow is having problems with replenishing its inventory of precision-guided munitions, the official said. Most of their strikes are being conducted with “dumb bombs” instead of precision weapons.
While it is difficult to predict the outcome of the conflict, for now the Ukrainians “continue to resist effectively in the Donbas,” the official said.
The Pentagon’s assessment comes a day after the White House unveiled a massive new $33 billion funding request to bolster Ukraine’s military in the ongoing fight. The proposal, which Congress must still approve, includes more than $20 billion in new military and security assistance, and sends a signal to Russia that the United States intends to continue backing Ukraine.
Facebook moderators call on firm to do more about posts praising Bucha atrocities
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Facebook moderators have called on the company to let them take action against users who praise or support the Russian military’s atrocities in Bucha and across Ukraine.
Almost a month after evidence of widespread murder and mass graves was uncovered by Ukrainian forces taking the suburb of Kyiv, the social network still has not flagged the atrocity as an “internally designated” incident, the moderators say.
That ties their hands in how they can treat content related to the killings, they say, and forces them to leave up some content they believe ought to be removed.
“It’s been a month since the massacre and mass graves in Bucha, but this event hasn’t been even designated a ‘violating event’, let alone a hate crime,” said one moderator, who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity. “On that same day there was a shooting in the US, with one fatality and two casualties, and this was declared a violating event within three hours.”
Under Facebook’s public moderation guidelines, users are barred from posting content that makes violent threats through “references to historical or fictional incidents of violence”. But in private documents issued to moderators, who work for third-party contracting firms such as Accenture or Bertelsmann, they are told to wait for regional input from Facebook itself before determining whether a “documented violent incident” counts.
In the absence of that input, content that praises events in Bucha is tough to remove if it’s even slightly coy about whether it’s celebrating the murder of people. One post, for instance, showed a T-shirt featuring a butcher carving up a pig, with Russian text on it reading “РеZня в Буче Можем поVторить” – “Slaughter in Bucha, we can repeat”.
“My suspicion is that this is just not as close, not as important to American audiences or the American public, so it just doesn’t get the attention,” the Facebook moderator said. “After two weeks I realised that they probably aren’t going to do anything about it.
“I was quite happy with the initial reaction of Facebook to the war,” they added. “I was quite happy with the exceptions that were made that allowed dehumanising speech against soldiers. Those changes brought some balance into the policies: victims and oppressors were not treated the same and were not given the same rights. But now, it has become clear that what counts for Facebook is American public opinion. They only care if they look good in the US media.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said: “It’s wrong to suggest we wouldn’t remove graphic content that celebrates or glorifies the atrocities in Bucha, or any post that mocks the death of individual victims or advocates for violence against Ukrainians in any way.
“We’ve longstanding policies that make clear this content is not allowed on Facebook and Instagram,” they added. “We have been providing additional guidance to content reviewers on these policies and content associated with the war in Ukraine to explain how our policies apply in the current context, and will continue to do so.”
State use of force is treated differently to criminal acts of violence under its policies, Facebook said, based on extensive consultations with outside experts.
The issue was raised by the nonprofit campaign group Foxglove Legal. Its director, Martha Dark, said: “Facebook can act swiftly on mass killings when it wants to. In the US, for example, mass shootings tend to be classed within hours as a ‘violating event’ – this blocks posters from praising the murders, celebrating the perpetrators, or calling for more violence.
“The Bucha massacre happened a month ago. Facebook has a simple policy it could adapt to end this now. It just can’t be bothered. Facebook will claim for the hundredth time that it ‘takes these matters seriously’ and is ‘working closely with moderators’ to fix them. That’s just spin from a tech giant that cares only about the bottom line.”
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Чехия не будет платить за российский газ в рублях, сообщил премьер республики.
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«В ЕК обратились десять стран: Дания, Финляндия, Латвия, Греция, Австрия, Венгрия, Словакия, Бельгия, Болгария и Польша. Последняя считает, что нынешняя интерпретация российских условий Еврокомиссией может вызвать разногласия внутри ЕС. По данным источников, ЕК согласилась уточнить формулировки. Обратившиеся страны уверены, что нынешняя позиция Еврокомиссии позволяет обходными путями выполнить российские условия по оплате, и требуют исключить эту возможность».
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Киевские власти просят жителей столицы ограничить использование личного транспорта, чтобы украинские военные были обеспечены топливом — заявление администрации города.
The UK cannot strengthen Nato while waging a trade war with the EU
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Liz Truss wants G7 and Nato countries to wage economic war, through sanctions, against countries like Russia, and potentially China, which flout the international rules-based order. In an important speech this week outlining her vision, the foreign secretary said “we need a global Nato” to tackle global threats, including in the Indo-Pacific. She argued the G7 should “act as an economic Nato” by defending a partner targeted by an aggressor, in line with Nato’s “all for one and one for all” principle.
It’s an ambitious idea for the new geopolitical era that began when Russia invaded Ukraine. Yet the government’s approach is full of contradictions. Boris Johnson is about to risk an economic war with the EU by suspending key parts of the Northern Ireland protocol on goods going from Great Britain to the province. Legislation allowing the government to override it will be included in the Queen’s speech on 10 May.
This would be counterproductive on several fronts. The UK can hardly tell other countries to “play by the rules”, as Truss did in her speech, if Johnson rips up an international agreement he signed. That is precisely how the plan will be viewed around the world, and closer to home in the House of Lords, where the bill will meet strong opposition.
David Frost, who negotiated the protocol with the EU and later became Brexit minister, admitted this week that Johnson conceded an Irish Sea trade border to secure a Brexit agreement, but knew there would be trouble ahead. He told the Policy Exchange think tank: “We faced a choice – take this deal … and sort out the detail in 2020 … or walk away, fail to deliver Brexit on 31 October [2019]… We decided the lesser risk was to push the deal through and trust that we could sort out the detail with the EU later.”
In other words, Johnson knew the “oven ready deal” he offered at the 2019 election was nothing of the sort.
Overriding the protocol would divide the anti-Russia coalition at a critical stage of the war and delight Vladimir Putin as much as the 2016 Brexit vote did. It would sour relations between the UK and the Biden administration, which made it clear the UK’s stance is a “big issue”.
The Treasury is warning that a trade war with the EU would compound the cost of living crisis, just when Johnson is desperately seeking ways to alleviate it and has announced a fourth delay in bringing in checks on goods imported from the EU.
Unilaterally ditching the protocol would poison the UK’s relations with the EU, currently in their best shape since the 2016 referendum due to cooperation on Ukraine. It would kill stone dead Johnson’s hopes of resetting relations with Emmanuel Macron following his re-election. The French president’s distrust of Johnson would be vindicated. UK diplomats are gloomy about a rapprochement. One told me: “The UK is not going to be a priority for Macron. It will be events at home, Germany and Ukraine.” Better relations with France are the only way to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, not crowd-pleasing gimmicks like sending some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Similarly, Johnson’s real audience when he legislates on Northern Ireland will be right-wing Tory MPs, who detest the protocol but are starting to turn against him over Partygate. His message to hardline Brexiteers: if you remove me, you might end up with someone who is not a true believer.
In public, the move will be portrayed as vital to protecting the Good Friday Agreement. Ministers believe the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) will not return to the power-sharing executive after next Thursday’s elections to the Northern Ireland assembly unless the protocol undergoes major surgery. The DUP faces the highly symbolic prospect of Sinn Fein becoming the largest party and seizing the first minister’s job from it. To stop its nightmare becoming reality, the DUP is claiming that it has already persuaded UK ministers the protocol is unsustainable.
The other aim of legislating would be to put pressure on the EU to make concessions. Truss has adopted a more conciliatory stance since taking over the talks from Frost but there has been little significant progress. Although Johnson is driving the move to override the protocol, Truss will support it. (She, too, has her eyes on Tory backbenchers, in case Johnson loses his job.)
In doing the right thing in Ukraine, notably by sending arms, Johnson has shown that post-Brexit Britain can be a force for good in the world. He has rebuilt bridges with several EU countries, deservedly winning plaudits from them as well as Ukraine.
But if he provokes a needless economic war with the EU, he will throw away much of that goodwill and trust. And for the primary purpose of appeasing Tory Brexiteers, Johnson will be fiddling while Ukraine burns.
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The Times: «В супермаркетах по всей Европе цены на продукты питания растут почти каждую неделю. Конфликт на Украине усиливает и без того резко растущие счета за электроэнергию. Инфляция мгновенно уничтожает доходы тех, кому посчастливилось получить повышение заработной платы.
* По мере того, как общественный гнев растет из-за кризиса стоимости жизни, а правительства пытаются компенсировать ущерб, высокопоставленные европейские чиновники говорят что-то другое. Они говорят, что континент должен признать, что две потребности жизни - продовольствие и топливо - были слишком дешевыми для целого поколения.
* Показатели инфляции этой весной в еврозоне мрачные: годовая инфляция составляет более 7 %, а 44-процентное увеличение затрат на электроэнергию также приводит к росту цен на продовольствие. Двойной удар от конфликта на Украине и отказа от российского импорта топлива вместе с переходом Европы на безуглеродную энергию усилили безумный рост цен.
* В странах ЕС стоимость мягкой пшеницы выросла на 64,6 % с марта прошлого года, а цена на рапс выросла на 77,8 %. В настоящее время ощущается нехватка подсолнечного масла, 73 % мирового экспорта которого приходится на Россию и Украину.
* Европейская комиссия рассматривает более высокие цены как давно назревший и неизбежный расчет с реальностью. Власти ЕС открыто предупреждают, что предыдущая низкая стоимость жизни была за счет окружающей среды и зависела от импорта российского ископаемого топлива.
* Помощник вице-президента комиссии, ответственной за энергетическую политику ЕС, Дидерик Самс признал, что «никто не осмеливается сказать вслух» избирателям, что прошлый уровень жизни был неустойчивым и что высокие цены будут теперь постоянными. «Да, с этого момента энергия будет намного дороже. Энергетика была слишком дешевой в течение последних 40 лет», - сказал он на недавней встрече брюссельских политиков в аналитическом центре Брейгеля. «Мы извлекли из этого выгоду и создали огромное богатство за счет планеты Земля и геополитических дисбалансов с зависимостью от России. Чтобы это исправить, нам нужно платить больше за энергию, а также за еду. Две основные потребности в жизни - продовольствие и энергия - мы заплатили слишком мало за последние 40 лет»
* Позиция комиссии о том, что европейцы жили «слишком дешево», рассматривается во многих национальных столицах как политический динамит, который рискует негативной реакцией на том же уровне, что и общеевропейская оппозиция жесткой экономии десять лет назад, политика, которая широко рассматривается как стимулирующая рост правого популизма.
* Бельгийские данные сегодня показали, что эффект снижения НДС, чтобы помочь людям оплачивать счета за электроэнергию, был уничтожен ростом цен через месяц после его введения. Налоговая льгота снизила стоимость средней семьи на 237 евро в год, но после дальнейшего всплеска цен в апреле счета, по оценкам, будут выше на 450 евро в этом году.
Весной и в Италии, и в Испании поразили протесты против повышения цен на топливо и энергоносители, а на президентских выборах во Франции в эти выходные доминировал вопрос о стоимости жизни.
* Чтобы сократить расходы, ЕС на прошлой неделе попросил людей сократить их личное потребление энергии. Европейцев попросили внести свой вклад в сокращение энергетических доходов Кремля, меньше ездить, отключать кондиционер и работать из дома три дня в неделю. Самс признал, что социальные беспорядки, вероятно, неизбежны, поскольку очень мало политического пространства, чтобы смягчить удар высоких затрат на проживание».
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Ukraine accuses Russian forces of seizing 2,000 artworks in Mariupol
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Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of seizing “over 2,000 artworks” from museums in the occupied city of Mariupol and moving the pieces to areas of the Russian-controlled Donbas region.
“The occupiers ‘liberated’ Mariupol from its historical and cultural heritage. They stole and moved more than 2,000 unique exhibits from museums in Mariupol to Donetsk,” the Mariupol city council said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel on Thursday.
They said the haul includes several original works by the 19th-century Mariupol native Arkhip Kuindzhi and the famed Russian romantic painter Ivan Aivazovsky as well as a unique handwritten Torah scroll, and the Gospel of 1811 made by the Venetian printing house for the Greeks of Mariupol.
“Mariupol city council is preparing materials for law enforcement agencies to initiate criminal proceedings and make an appeal to Interpol,” the council added.
In a separate statement, Petro Andriushchenko, a member of the city council, said Russia seized three original paintings by Kuindzhi, who gained international fame for his portraits of the Russian landscape.
According to the Mariupol city council, the works came from the three local museums, including the Kuindzhi art museum, which was heavily damaged during a Russian airstrike on 21 March 2022.
Natalia Kapustnikova, director of the Mariupol Local History museum, told the pro-Kremlin outlet Izvestiya that she handed over the works of Aivazovsky and Kuindzhi to the Russian forces “following the end of the hostilities”.
“The head of the Kuindzhi art museum hid the paintings when the war started. I knew where they were … They were then moved to safety,” she said.
Moscow has largely taken control of the south-eastern port city of Mariupol, which has been razed to rubble by Russian bombs. An estimated 2,000 Ukrainian troops and up to 1,000 civilians are still holed up in the besieged Azovstal steel plant on the outskirts of the city.
If confirmed, the art seizure in Mariupol would signify the first known instance of mass cultural looting by Russian forces since the start of the war.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, previously accused Russian troops of engaging in mass looting after video and audio recordings appeared to show Russian forces sending parcels containing stolen goods back to Russia. The Guardian also collected evidence that suggests looting by Russian forces was a systematic part of Russian military behaviour in Ukraine.
Ukraine has rushed to preserve its art objects and monuments since the outbreak of the war more than two months ago, as many feared Moscow would specifically target the country’s cultural heritage, a war crime under international law.
Ukrainian fears for its cultural assets have been exacerbated by a series of public speeches made by Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he rejected Ukraine’s independent identity, language and traditions.
A number of leading museums across the country have since moved their art to undisclosed locations.
The global arts organisation Getty previously warned that millions of artworks and monuments in Ukraine were at risk of being looted or bombed.
In a March statement, Getty said: “The material cultural heritage of the world is our common heritage, the identity and inspiration for all humanity. Cultural heritage has the power to unite us and is critical for achieving peace.”
“It is also too often the target of war, another way to destroy and overtake a society by erasing its memory.”
A number of Ukrainian cultural sights have already been destroyed by Russian shelling, including the Ivankiv museum, which housed Ukrainian folk art, while Unesco estimates that over 50 Ukrainian historical buildings have suffered extensive damage since the start of Russia’s invasion.
The Guardian has contacted the Russian military for comment.
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Despite payment, investors brace for Russia to default
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Prices for Russian credit default swaps — insurance contracts that protect an investor against a default — plunged sharply overnight after Moscow used its precious foreign currency reserves to make a last minute debt payment on Friday.
The cost for a five-year credit default swap on Russian debt was $5.84 million to protect $10 million in debt. That price was nearly half the one on Thursday, which at roughly $11 million for $10 million in debt protection was a signal that investors were certain of a eventual Russian default.
Russia used its foreign currency reserves sitting outside of the country to make the payment, backing down from the Kremlin’s earlier threats that it would use rubles to pay these obligations. In a statement, the Russia Finance Ministry did not say whether future payments would be made in rubles.
Despite the insurance contract plunge, investors remain largely convinced that Russia will eventually default on its debts for the first time since 1917. The major ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s have declared Russia is in “selective default” on its obligations.
Russia has been hit with extensive sanctions by the United States, the European Union and others in response to its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and its continuing military operation to take over Ukrainian territory.
The Credit Default Determination Committee — an industry group of 14 banks and investors that determines whether or not to pay on these swaps — said Friday that they “continue to monitor the situation” after Russia’s payment. Their next meeting is on May 3.
At the beginning of April, Russia’s finance ministry said it tried to make a $649 million payment due April 6 toward two bonds to an unnamed U.S. bank — previously reported as JPMorgan Chase.
At that time, tightened sanctions imposed for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prevented the payment from being accepted, so Moscow attempted to make the debt payment in rubles. The Kremlin, which repeatedly said it was financially able and willing to continue to pay on its debts, had argued that extraordinary events gave them the legal footing to pay in rubles, instead of dollars or euros.
Investors and rating agencies, however, disagreed and did not expect Russia to be able to convert the rubles into dollars before a 30-day grace period expired next week.
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Putin keeps the ruble surging as Russia makes 11th-hour effort to avoid default
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to support the ruble continue to pay off — and then some.
Russia's currency hit a two-year high against the US dollar Friday. The ruble gained ground after the country said it managed to pay back creditors with dollars as Russia tries to avoid a default.
The country's finance ministry said in a statement that it made a $565 million eurobond that was due this year, as well as an $84 million eurobond that was set to mature in 2024. Both payments were made in US dollars, the finance ministry claimed, as required by the bond's contract stipulations.
"The payments were made in the currency of issue of the corresponding eurobonds — in US dollars," Russia's finance ministry said in a statement. "In this way, the obligations of servicing sovereign eurobonds are being carried out in observance of the conditions laid out in the issue documentation."
On April 6, Russia said it had made the payments on those bonds in rubles, leading S&P to declare three days later that Russia was in default on its foreign debt obligations. Although the dollar payments are already overdue, Russia's late payment in dollars serves as a last-ditch effort to avoid default.
Bond payments typically come with a 30-day grace period. For these bond payments, that grace period ends May 4. We may never know if S&P changes its mind about Russia's default. Because of sanctions, the credit-rating agency pulled its rating on Russian debt on April 15.
Russia has the money to pay its debts. It just can't access about half of those funds after the West placed unprecedented sanctions on its foreign reserves, totaling about $315 billion.
But Russia has apparently found a way to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in debt without accessing its frozen reserves. A US Treasury official said the payment must have come from a new pile of money, because it did not lift its restrictions on Russia's sanctioned dollars, according to Reuters.
The news sent the Russian ruble, which has been surging for two months, to a two-year high against the US dollar. One dollar could buy about 68 rubles Friday, less than half the number it could buy in early March. At its peak on March 7, the ruble was trading at 135 to the dollar.
Russia has been able to prop up the ruble despite global sanctions by hiking interest rates, preventing Russian brokers from selling securities held by foreigners and demanding payment for gas and oil deliveries in rubles, among other actions. These measures have allowed Moscow to artificially manufacture demand for the ruble, even as the nation's economy remains in tatters.
The country has since been able to scale back on its dramatic rate hikes, including another surprise rate cut Friday.
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Foreign Office investigates reports of captured Briton paraded on Russian TV
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The Foreign Office is investigating reports that a British national has been detained by Russia after a video emerged showing a man in camouflage clothes being questioned.
In the video, reportedly shown on Russian television, the man appears to give his name as Andrew Hill. He speaks with an English accent, has his arm in a sling, a bandage around his head, and blood can be seen on his hand.
The video, which has not been verified, has been shared online.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said it was urgently seeking more information and supporting family members.
“The FCDO condemns the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes and calls for anyone detained to be treated humanely in accordance with the requirements of international humanitarian law,” it said.
Two other British men, said to be working as humanitarian aid volunteers, are also believed to have been detained in Ukraine by Russian forces.
The Presidium Network, a non-profit group, said Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were captured early on Monday morning at a checkpoint south of the city of Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine.
Urey, who was born in 1977 and is from Manchester, and Healy, born in 2000 and from Cambridgeshire, travelled to Ukraine of their own accord, the organisation said.
They were not working for the Presidium Network, which helps to get aid into Kyiv.
The organisation said the pair were driving to help a woman and two children to evacuate when they went missing.
Presidium Network said it was concerned Russian forces might think the two men were British spies.
Meanwhile, in an intelligence update on Saturday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the UK said Russia faced “considerable challenges” and troops were likely to be suffering from “weakened morale”.
Posting on Twitter, the MoD said: “Russia hopes to rectify issues that have previously constrained its invasion by geographically concentrating combat power, shortening supply lines and simplifying command and control.
“Russia still faces considerable challenges. It has been forced to merge and redeploy depleted and disparate units from the failed advances in north-east Ukraine.
“Many of these units are likely suffering from weakened morale.
“Shortcomings in Russian tactical coordination remain. A lack of unit-level skills and inconsistent air support have left Russia unable to fully leverage its combat mass, despite localised improvements.”
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Slovakia’s jets might soon be freed up for Ukraine, thanks to a Polish deal.
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In a move that could presage the transfer of its MiG-29 warplanes to Ukraine, Slovakia has reached an agreement with neighboring Poland for Polish F-16 jets to patrol its skies so as to free up a Slovak fleet of Soviet-made fighters.
Poland and Slovakia, both NATO members bordering Ukraine, are among the alliance’s most robust supporters of American-led efforts to help Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion. They have allowed a steady flow of arms to pass through their territories into Ukraine and pushed for ever tougher sanctions against Moscow.
After a meeting between the two countries’ defense ministers on Friday in Bratislava, the Slovak capital, Poland said its air force would start patrols over Slovakia as part of their joint efforts to help Ukraine. No timeline was given for when the patrols would start.
Slovakia’s defense minister, Jaroslav Nad, said Poland would step in to “take care of the airspace of the Slovak Republic when Slovakia decides to ground its MiG-29s.”
Slovakia has not said explicitly that it will send its MiGs to Ukraine, but it has raised the possibility of doing so — provided that it can find an alternative way to protect its airspace, which the agreement with Poland would seem to achieve. This month Slovakia sent its Soviet-made S-300 air defense system to Ukraine after the United States agreed to provide it with a substitute system of Patriot missiles to complement air-defense batteries already given on a temporary basis by Germany and the Netherlands.
Eager to replace its aging MiGs with more modern warplanes, Slovakia signed an $800 million contract in 2019 with Lockheed Martin Corp for 14 F-16s. While delivery of those planes has been delayed — they were initially due in January 2014 — any transfer of Slovak MiGs to Ukraine would put pressure on the United States to speed up the arrival of the F-16s.
Ukraine has repeatedly asked for MiG aircraft from NATO-member countries that are former Soviet satellite states and which still have the warplanes, delivered before the collapse of communism, in their fleets.
In the early weeks of Russia’s invasion, however, NATO countries were reluctant to transfer warplanes, fearing that could put them at risk of retaliatory strikes by Russia, which has repeatedly warned it would target weapons flowing into Ukraine from the West.
Poland last month declined to provide its own fleet of MiG-29s to Ukraine directly, instead offering to fly the planes to a United States military base in Germany, where they could then be flown to Ukraine. Washington, worried about provoking Russia, declined the offer.
Yet as the war rages on with credible reports of Russian atrocities, wariness of providing Ukraine with bigger and better weapons is fading despite increasingly menacing warnings from Moscow. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this week threatened “lightning-fast” retaliatory strikes against anyone “who intends to intervene from the outside and create a strategic threat to Russia that is unacceptable to us.” In an apparent reference to Russia’s arsenal of nuclear and or hypersonic weapons, he said “we’re going to use them if we have to.”
NATO allies are now committed to trying to aid Ukraine with more advanced and heavy weapons, and the United States has been trying to organize the shipment of Soviet-era weaponry from former Soviet-bloc countries that Ukraine’s military can use without significant extra training.
But these shipments are sovereign decisions, not alliance ones, and NATO is expected to support the proposed bilateral Polish-Slovak arrangement, which it was almost surely informed of in advance.
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Посол Польши в России отдал дань памяти жертвам сталинских репрессий
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30 апреля посол Польши в России Кшиштоф Краевский в Иркутске отдал дань памяти жертвам сталинских репрессий. Польский дипломат также встретится с представителями польской общины и открыл выставку, посвященную польскому исследователю Сибири Брониславу Пилсудскому.
Кшиштоф Краевский объясняет, что приехал в Сибирь, чтобы поляки, живущие и работающие в этом регионе России, знали, что Польша помнит о них:
«Я хотел узнать о положении наших соотечественников в этот сложный период, а также пережить вместе с ними День Польши, День флага и День Конституции 3 мая».
Посол РП Кшиштоф Краевский призывает поляков воздержаться от поездок в Россию в ближайшее время, независимо от обстоятельств.
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