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Ukraine
Your news for the morning of Wednesday, August 16 – Day 539 of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Aug. 16, 2023
War in Ukraine
The Swedish company SKF confirmed three of its employees died in the attack which Russia said damaged “Ukraine's military-industrial complex.”
Aug. 15, 2023
War in Ukraine
After the attack on a Russian military command post, the Mariupol city council reports that 50 Russian soldiers were hospitalized in the city, with more than a dozen fatalities.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
The IOC has yet to make a decision on whether Russians and Belarusians can take part in the Paris Games – which run from July 26 to August 11 2024 – as neutral competitors.
Aug. 15, 2023
Putin
The Russian President and Defense Minister used opening addresses at a military trade show near Moscow to claim Russian technical superiority against “much-hyped” Western weapons.
Aug. 15, 2023
Putin
The conference was intended as “an essential platform for open discussion of the most pressing global and regional security issues” – more accurately to blame everyone else for the war in Ukraine.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
The bad news keeps coming for Russians – not only is the money in their pockets worth less and less, they now have to contend with a 12 percent interest rate.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
As long as the war continues, it gets worse for the Russian economy. Hiking policy rates won’t solve anything, they might temporarily slow the pace of depreciation of the rouble, the author writes.
Aug. 15, 2023
War in Ukraine
According to reports, a tussle between two units fighting for Russia escalated from a knife brawl to a full-on shooting match with grenade launchers and automatic weapons.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
A weaker ruble is now just a reflection of the underlying problem, which is that the oil price cap and sanctions are working. And the cause, of course, is the war.
Aug. 15, 2023
War in Ukraine
No place is safe, even the south-west of Ukraine, as Russia's incessant and indiscriminate missile and drone attacks pound the defiant country.
Aug. 15, 2023
War in Ukraine
The CORTEX Typhon Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-UAS) are designed to counter a wide range of unmanned aerial threats.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
The explosion in the city of Makhachkala took place at a fuel station after a fire had broken out. A total of 102 people were injured as a result of the incident, of whom 35 died.
Aug. 15, 2023
Russia
The 45 diplomats and employees of the Russian Embassy in Chișinău, whom Moldova had expelled in July for engaging in espionage, have left the country.
Aug. 15, 2023
Ukraine
Russia fired a total of 28 missiles overnight, 16 of which were shot down. The cities of Lviv and Lutsk in the west of the country were hit, as well as Dnipro in the east.
Aug. 15, 2023