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In today’s summary:

• In Kursk region, Ukrainian troops are trying to occupy the regional center of Korenevo and completely isolate the Glushkovsky district
• The Russian command has not yet transferred units from Donbass to the Kursk direction
• The Russian Armed Forces have increased the pace of their advance toward Pokrovsk; a mass evacuation has been organized in the city itself
• Ukrainian drones hit the Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region and almost reached Murmansk
• The names of over a hundred conscripts who went missing and were captured in the Kursk region have been established
• The US administration has not responded to a request for permission to use Storm Shadow on Russian territory for over a month
• Germany plans to cut military aid to Ukraine from the budget, replacing it with loans secured by frozen Russian assets
• Kamikaze drones from a sewer pipe and the first tank with a fully rubberized “king-barbecue” have been spotted on the front lines
• The situation at the front
• The offensive operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has been going on for more than two weeks. In recent days, no large-scale changes in the LBS have been observed , but actions to expand the combat zone have not ceased. The presence of Ukrainian troops was reported in Olgovka , Vishnevka and Snagost on the approaches to Korenevo – another regional center, which is apparently planned to be taken after Sudzha .

Entrées clandestines dans les maisons, piratage, logiciels espions : l’Allemagne veut étendre les pouvoirs de la police.

Actuellement, les perquisitions ne sont autorisées en Allemagne que si les forces de l’ordre informent explicitement la personne concernée des soupçons concrets pesant sur elle, et du but de la perquisition. Selon des révélations exclusives du journal Spiegel, cela s’apprête à changer.

Perquisitions secrètes

Both schemes are connected by the Cypriot company Dimicandum Invest Holding LTD and are linked to the Presidential Affairs Department of Belarus.

A European company assists Belaruskali in the export of sanctioned fertilisers. However, the only European element it contains is that of being registered in Cyprus. The company is owned by a native of Eastern Ukraine. The CFO is a former Belarusian official. Evidence gathered by BIC suggests that Viktar Sheiman, Aleksandr Lukashenko’s closest associate, is likely linked to this scheme, making money by inflating the transportation and expedition cost for the state-owned potash producer. In the course of this investigation, we have also uncovered another crime to which he may be linked – the illegal re-export of premium cars from Ukraine to Russia.

The interaction of national armed forces and private business sectors offers a useful lens for viewing the politics of numerous countries of the so-called Global South. A rising trend of military political activism—often accompanied by military commercial activity—underlines the importance of drivers and outcomes in these relationships.

Il était pourtant clair que la Russie était dirigée d’une main de fer par un fou assoiffé de puissance et que ce dernier, faisant fi de toute rationalité et alors que le conflit avec l’Ukraine s’éternisait, avait fait sauter le pipeline sous-marin Nordstream, plongeant les Allemands dans le désarroi.

Ukraine’s unexpected incursion into the Russian border region of Kursk has brought the war home to many Russians in an immediate and deeply distressing way.

Ukrainian troops occupied dozens of villages and forced the evacuation of almost 200,000 people from the southwestern region. Russian media have graphically covered the scenes of chaos and panic. The reports convey at least some of the fear and despair of local people hustled onto buses amid vistas of violence and destruction.

Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Kursk and Belgorod, the first foreign invasion of Russia since World War II, has put the Kremlin’s mouthpieces into a tizzy as they simultaneously argue that the “provocation” is intended to “sow internal chaos,” but that, fear not, “order will be restored.”

Some speculate that if Russia is not able to quickly get its act together, it may turn to its old playbook of dirty tricks, hoping that a false flag operation could remedy the embarrassing problem of having gone from being “the occupiers of Ukraine,” to being “occupied by Ukraine.”

This might have been done upon Ukraine’s demand as part of their newly clinched security pact’s requirement for standardizing historical narratives.

The Warsaw District Court recently ordered the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) to reopen its investigation into “Operation Vistula”, which was the forcible post-war resettlement of ethnic Ukrainians and other Polish citizens from the southeastern part of the country. The initial one that was launched in response to a request by the president of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland, the head of the Lemko Union, and one Ukrainian who was subject to resettlement concluded that it wasn’t a communist crime.

Belgian authorities are expected to make a decision soon regarding Tajik refugee Sitoramo Ibrokhimova. She will most likely be extradited to the Rahmon regime, as was her sister, 27-year-old Nigora Saidova, who was sent to Tajikistan along with her seven-month-old daughter on charges of aiding terrorism, which, according to The Insider, were fabricated. In her homeland, Saidova was sentenced to eight years in the worst women’s prison, where prisoners face rape and torture. Poland has been denying refugee status to Tajiks year after year — they are among the top three in terms of refusals, after Russians and Iraqi citizens. Emomali Rahmon uses the fear of ISIS to persecute entire families of emigrants – these can be both relatives of terrorists and relatives of oppositionists, but, as The Insider and the Polish weekly Polityka found out, European authorities do not really understand the case materials and often extradite citizens to Rahmon against whom the charges are obviously falsified. According to human rights activists, sometimes those forcibly returned are extradited to Russians: they are interrogated on the territory of the 201st military base near Dushanbe – tortured and forced to confess about ties to Ukraine.