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- On Wednesday, Russia said it shot down two Ukrainian drones aimed at the Kremlin in Moscow, condemning the assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin. Kyiv denies any involvement.
- Drone attacks and sabotage on Russian soil have increased, including as Kyiv says it is preparing to launch a massive counteroffensive.
- May 9, a national holiday, commemorates Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. While a large military parade on Red Square in Moscow is going on as planned, several parades across the country have been cancelled.
- “Massive” Russian strikes on Wednesday in the Kherson region killed 21 people and injured 48, according to a new report, including at a train station and a supermarket.
Where did drones come from?
Questions remain after the drone attack on the Kremlin. One in this case: where did they come from? Defense consultant Pierre Servan in Le Parisien puts forward two hypotheses: “a false flag attack (a trick of war that betrays intentions to the enemy that he does not have) to cause affection around the life of Vladimir Putin” or a truly Ukrainian attack, but carried out on the territory of Russia, “with the complicity of the Russian army.”
Explosives planted at Zaporizhia NPP
The Atomic Energy Agency told the Ukrainian government that Russian explosives and military equipment had been planted inside the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
This is the opinion of the Ukrainian Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which, according to it, was informed by the IAEA representatives during the weekly communication meeting between the IAEA Crisis Center (CRC) and the National Regulatory Commission regarding the activities of the IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye NPP site. plant, which took place on May 2, 2023.
This equipment was to be placed in the engine room of power unit No. 4.
game to circumvent censorship
Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported on Wednesday that it had found a way to circumvent media censorship in Russia by hiding news and reports about Ukraine in a popular online game in Russia.
In Counter-Strike, “we built a Slavic city called Voyna, which means war in Russian,” the editor explained. In the basement of one of the city’s buildings, the newspaper’s technicians have hidden a room where players can find reports in Russian made by the newspaper’s war correspondents in Ukraine. The walls of the digital room are covered with articles and photographs depicting events such as the massacres in the Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Irpin. On one of the walls, players can find a map of Ukraine, where attacks on civilians are reported, and articles in Russian are read from Helsingin Sanomat.
Welcome
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Source: Le Parisien
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