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[Link] Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
Russia has lost almost 500 tanks in its invasion of Ukraine, according to independent battlefield researchers at the open source intelligence group Oryx. According to Ukraine, the number is closer to 700.
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[Link] Ukraine accused of helicopter attack on oil depot inside Russia
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Russia has accused Ukraine of sending attack helicopters across the border to strike an oil storage facility in what would be the first raid on Russian soil since the outbreak of the war if confirmed.
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[Link] 'You're not being told the truth': Schwarzenegger speaks out, pleading to end Ukraine war
Read: 18/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has told the Russian people they were being fed misinformation about their country's assault on Ukraine and he appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the attack.
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[Link] Ukraine Canceled Crypto Airdrop Because Unethical Investors Wanted ‘Profit’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, crypto donations started to pour in from around the world as people rushed to help the country in its defense against a foreign aggressor.
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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.
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[Link] Zelenskyy Says Ukrainian Forces Are Ready to ‘Fight to the Last Soldier’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian armed forces are ready to fight as long as it takes to roll back Russia’s invasion.
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[Link] Huge Russian convoy outside Kyiv disperses after reports of food, fuel shortages
Read: 13/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Satellites have captured imagery of a convoy of Russian forces that had been slowly advancing towards the Ukraine capital having dispersed and redeployed into nearby locations.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.
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[Link] We Followed a Foreign Fighter on His Way to Join the War in Ukraine
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
PRZEMYŚL, Poland - In the dead of night outside the Polish town of Przemyśl, an ex-British soldier named Luke hopped into a taxi after flying from Birmingham, England earlier that day, and made his way to a nearby border checkpoint with one goal in mind: Joining the Ukrainian war effort.
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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.
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[Link] We Talked to Survivors of Ethiopia’s Brutal Civil War
Read: 23/12/2021 www.vice.com
After 13 months of brutal war between the Ethiopian military and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a rebel group in the country’s north, Tigrayan forces now say they’ve withdrawn from neighboring regions.
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[Link] Ethiopian rebels form new alliance to oust PM as forces advance on the capital
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The war, which has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2 million from their homes, has intensified in recent weeks. The Tigray People's Liberation Front claims to have captured several towns in recent days and says it is considering marching on the capital.
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[Link] ‘We are living in terror’: Ethiopians say PM’s tactics have stoked war
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Addis Ababa was its usual bustling self a year ago. Events were taking place day and night in the Ethiopian capital; bars and restaurants were filled with visitors from other African countries where stricter anti-Covid measures had been put in place. Now all that has changed.
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[Link] Ukraine Doxes Russian Government Hackers’ Phone Calls
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ukraine’s Security Service published the conversations on its official YouTube channel on Thursday.
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[Link] ‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians was legal, says Pentagon
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon inspector general said after an investigation.
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[Link] ‘The court of God will be waiting for him’: Iraqis react to Colin Powell’s death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
For many Iraqis, Colin Powell was the face of the US invasion which caused an estimated 200,000 deaths, unleashing nearly two decades of domestic chaos and precipitating chaos throughout the region.
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[Link] Climate change is a national security issue, but not in the way Scott Morrison imagines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison describes climate change as a national security issue. He’s right – but not in the way he imagines. If global heating exacerbates conflict, conflict also exacerbates heating, in a dialectic that fundamentally links decarbonisation to the struggle for peace.
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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem
Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com
Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.
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[Link] As Taliban Forces Close In, Women Journalists Fear For Their Lives
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Her voice cracked during the call every so often, but Zahra Joya carried on. “Sorry about the connection. The war, it seems, has impacted our phone connections and internet,” the 28-year-old journalist said over a call from Kabul.
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[Link] Pentagon Wrongly Admitted Killing 21 Civilians in Iraq and Syria
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
The Defense Department has been forced to withdraw a key part of an official report to Congress, after wrongly claiming responsibility for killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria who were actually slain by close U.S. allies.
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[Link] Afghan Interpreters Escaping the Taliban Are Being Flown to Canada
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Flights carrying Afghani interpreters and support staff who helped the U.S. and Canadian militaries during the Afghanistan War touched down in North America over the past week, as a new Taliban offensive surges across the country.
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[Link] How an Islamic concept distorted by the alt-right is part of Ben-Roberts Smith’s defamation case
Read: 5/8/2021 www.crikey.com.au
A barrister acting for Ben Roberts-Smith has alluded to an obscure Islamic juridical concept — popularised by anti-Muslim alt-right figures — to discredit an Afghan witness describing alleged war crimes committed by Australian troops.
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[Link] UN urges ‘verifiable withdrawal’ of Eritrean troops from Tigray
Read: 14/7/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Human Rights Council approves resolution calling for ‘swift and verifiable withdrawal of Eritrean troops’ from conflict-torn Ethiopian region.
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[Link] Twenty-one of Australia's most elite soldiers to testify against Ben Roberts-Smith
Read: 14/6/2021 www.abc.net.au
Twenty-one current and former soldiers from Australia's most elite military regiment will make unprecedented court appearances in the defence case of the newspapers being sued by veteran Ben Roberts-Smith.