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M58 MICLIC mine clearing training for Ukrainian soldiers

C-4 in rope section is 107 meters long and contains 6.8kg of C-4 explosive per meter. It can clear a swath of 8m x 100m of conventionally fused anti-personnel and AT mines.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is in Kyiv today.


Video:
""Let me be clear: Ukraine’s rightful place is in the Euro-Atlantic family. Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. And over time, our support will help you to make this possible" - @NATO Secretary General @ jensstoltenberg"

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"US Justice Department announced the indictment and arrest of John Can Unsalan, the president of Metalhouse LLC, for engaging in a three-year scheme to violate U.S. sanctions against oligarch Sergey Kurchenko and two of Kurchenko’s companies."



"Switzerland imposes sanctions on PMC Wagner and Russian news agency RIA FAN, owned by Prigozhin."


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Swiss Impose Sanctions On Russian Wagner Group
4/20/2023 2:15:59 PM

The logo of the Wagner Group painted over with an anti-war graffito in Belgrade, Serbia. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved
The government has again expanded its list of sanctions against Russia, this time to include the paramilitary Wagner Group and the news agency RIA FAN.

The Swiss move follows and “reinforces the impact” of a similar decision taken by the European Union (EU) a week ago, the economics ministry said on Thursday.

The Wagner Group – a Russia-based military organisation and “an instrument of Russian hybrid warfare” – is being targeted for its “active participation in Russia's military aggression against Ukraine”, the ministry wrote external link.

It added that while the legal nature of the Wagner group is unclear, it is “part of a complex network of global companies (operating in a range of sectors including aviation, security, technology, commodity trading, financial services and influencing activities) which are linked through overlapping ownership structures and logistics networks”.

RIA FAN – whose board of directors is headed up by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin – has meanwhile been sanctioned for “dissemination of pro-government propaganda and disinformation”.

Prigozhin himself has been subject to Swiss sanctions since October 2020 due to activities in Libya, the Keystone-SDA news agency reports.

Facts and bans
Two other media outlets recently sanctioned by the EU – RT Arabic and Sputnik Arabic – escaped a similar measure from the Swiss side. While the channels are significant purveyors of Russian media manipulation and falsification, the Swiss government remains convinced that the best way to counter disinformation is with facts rather than bans, it said.

“Therefore, while these two media outlets will not be blocked in Switzerland, there will be a ban on advertising on them,” the economics ministry wrote.

The sanctions come into force at 6pm Swiss time on Thursday.

After some initial hesitation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Switzerland has since followed the EU and introduced a series of sanctions against Russia. It has taken over ten packages of measures to date.

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"The Kyiv City Council has terminated the land lease agreement with the Russian Embassy, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has announced. The council also asked the Cabinet of Ministers to return the building and the surrounding area to state ownership."



"A group of Republican congressmen drafted a joint letter to Biden calling for an end to the current format of aid to Ukraine.

Among the congressmen who signed the letter are Marjorie Taylor Greene, a notorious Trumpist and supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, and Rand Paul, who had previously blocked aid to Ukraine.

In their opinion, the current strategy of the Biden administration - constant aid and sanctions - leads to "escalation and even more violence" and increases the threat of a direct clash with Russia."

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Russia should be told to pack up all their embassy's worldwide & told to fuck off, as they have shown utter contempt for peace.

There actions in Ukraine are nothing more than genocide !

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Posted by a Russian source describing the situation for them on the left bank in the Kherson region:
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LMAO at "they ride boats like fucking Cuban drug lords".

EDIT: I replaced the screenshot with one of the original source along with a video.

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"Three Russian Su-35 aircraft landed in Iran. Perhaps these are the cars that Moscow promised Tehran. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), relying on its sources, reports that Russia plans to transfer a total of 60 Su-35 combat fighters to Iran."

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"The first photo of the MIM-104 "Patriot" air defense system launcher somewhere in Ukraine."


Video: "Rammstein-11 begins."
At first glance it almost looked like these two were squaring up.

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"The newly formed 47th Airborne Assault Brigade, armed with M-55S tanks supplied by Slovenia and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles"

Those Bradley's look a lot bigger next to those other tanks.

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"Residents of Kherson tell about tortures and humiliation Russians subjected them to during occupation."