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#standwithukraine

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🇺🇦 Druzbha (Ukrainian for "Friendship")

🇺🇸 Since 2022, I’ve had the privilege of standing with the people of Ukraine—on the ground during humanitarian trips and from afar. Our friendship is more than words; it’s action. Today, tourniquets 🩸will soon be on their way to #Lviv, #Kyiv, #Kherson, and #Kharkiv.

👉🏽Thinking of my Ukrainian friends, the volunteers I met from around the world, and the heroes on the front lines. You are not forgotten. 🕊️

#Russia transfers 50 #UkrainianChildren to so-called rehab camp

Lesnaya Skazka (Forest Fairy Tale) camp is described as hosting sports & creative activities. But it functions as site of 24/7 ideological #brainwashing, systemic #Russification

At least 20k Ukrainian children were abducted from #Russian-occupied territories & sent #Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine or to Russia itself

Only 1,359 children have been returned

kyivindependent.com/russia-mov

The Kyiv Independent · Russia transfers 50 Ukrainian children to so-called 'rehab camp' in Kalmykia, Kyiv saysBy Olena Goncharova

Ganz ehrlich? Solange die #Linkspartei nicht unmissverständlich fordert, der putinruZZischen Führungsriege den #völkerstrafrecht |lichen Prozess zu machen, sondern stattdessen für wie auch immer geartete Kompromisse mit #putinruZZland plädiert, darf sie zu #Dobrindt und generell zum Thema #Rechtsbruch gern den Rand halten. Danke.

#dieLinke #dieSogenannteLinke #PdL

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

#Völkerrecht #DenHaag #IStGH #IGH

#Rechtsstaatlichkeit #Rechtsstaat #RuleOfLaw

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The European Commission #EC proposed this week to drop the cap to $45, with High Representative Kaja Kallas suggesting that because #RussianOil mostly transits the Baltic & Black Seas, US support for the measure is not essential.

An accord involving all #G7 nations would be more effective because of the strength of US enforcement, but the #US opposes dropping the price cap, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.

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The #G7 introduced the $60-a-barrel cap that restricts the price #Russia can earn from its seaborne #oil. But it has not been effective in curbing the Kremlin's revenues since coming into effect in February 2023, partly because of Moscow's #sanctions-busting "shadow fleet" of older vessels & a slump in oil prices.

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Revenues from #FossilFuels form the core of #Russia's fiscal planning. As well as targeting Russia's #NaturalGas, the European Commission's 18th #sanctions package proposed lowering the cap on seaborne Russian #oil from $60 to $45.

The #EU measures, which also target Russian businesses & banking, requires the backing of all 27 members. The proposal on Russian oil would need the support of the #G7, which meets later this month.

#Putin's #Oil Empire Gets Double Boost

The #US will not back an #EU proposal to impose a price cap on #RussianOil that seeks to curb revenues for Russian President Vladimir Putin's #war machine, acc/to Bloomberg.

#Russia could also benefit from the spike in oil prices following #Israel's attack on #Iran, a major producer of the commodity.

#geopolitics #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
newsweek.com/russia-putin-oil-

Oil tank farm
Newsweek · Putin's Oil Empire Gets Double BoostBy Brendan Cole

Ukraine’s Sapsan ballistic missile to enter serial production

#Ukraine’s domestically developed short-range #Sapsan #ballistic #missile successfully completed #combat testing & is in process of production

With a payload of 480kg, completed testing in May after successfully striking a #Russian military target at a range of nearly 300 km

kyivindependent.com/ukraines-s

The Kyiv Independent · Ukraine's Sapsan ballistic missile to enter serial production following successful combat testingBy Dmytro Basmat