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Ukrainian forces near Bakhmut (8 November 2023) | picture: AP According to him, the Rusovites are still in the land mines in the area, as well as in the villages of Kreminna and Svatove, where they may have made limited progress.He did not give details of the Russian flows to US analysts in the current assessment. The information was based on a statement by the Ukrainian military that the situation near Bakhmut was unusually tense. The commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Oleksandr Sersky, spoke of the Russian offensive, and the best-trained units of the Oldensk Wagner Group (in…

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According to her, the barrier should be 200 kilometers long and three meters high, with barbed wire in its upper part. Finland and Russia share the longest border in the European Union, at around 1,300 kilometers in length.According to the BBC, Helsinki has been trying to strengthen its eastern border since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow launched more than a year ago. And the station states that a large number of Russians began in September to flee to Finland in response to the mobilization ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then Helsinki imposed significant restrictions on the entry…

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The agency added that the president can once again decide on a possible renewal of participation in the agreement. The law has already been published and is in force.Putin announced Russia’s suspension from the deal last week in a speech to Russian lawmakers. Then they immediately approved the submitted document.At the same time, Russian diplomacy announced last week that Moscow would continue to observe the limitations laid out in the agreement, which limits the two powers’ nuclear arsenals to a maximum of 1,550 strategic nuclear weapons and 700 ICBMs or missiles. Russia undertakes to continue to abide by the limits…

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Belarusian police are looking for a man they suspect of diverting a flight on Sunday at Machulychye military airport near Minsk. According to the Belarusian opposition, a Russian military A-50 early warning aircraft was damaged. The opposition Zercalo website said police were officially looking for the man on suspicion of having committed a “particularly serious crime”. He also posted photos that were being distributed by the police “with an appeal for vigilance”. The Belarusian authorities have not yet confirmed the news of the attack on the Russian plane. Minsk 7:02 February 28, 2023 Post it on Facebook Share on Twitter…

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Macron’s announcement came during a speech at the Elysee Palace ahead of his trip to Central Africa on Wednesday. The Associated Press reported. He is scheduled to visit Gabon, Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Congo.In a speech, Macron called for the start of a “new era”. According to him, France should give up interfering in those parts of Africa that it once ruled as a colonial power. He declared that Africa was no longer France’s “backyard”.There is another way. “To reach African countries as partners with whom we share interests.” He also posted his speech on Twitter.Seeing…

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The revenue states receive from excise taxes on conventional fuels is a significant component of the budget for road and highway maintenance. But electric cars are not fueled with gasoline and diesel, so their owners do not pay these taxes. So some governments are looking for ways to solve this lack of revenue.News of a somewhat controversial idea comes from the US state of Washington, where they propose a tax of 2.5 cents per mile. It will apply to highways, state and county roads, as well as city streets, but not to private roads not maintained by the state.At the…

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By decree, Zelensky dismissed the commander of the united Ukrainian forces, who surrendered to fight in the Donbass. Moskaliev changed the number of military leaders and talked with them. According to Reuters, Moskalyov suspended his post from March 2022. The Ukrainian military did not agree to remove the leader in social protests.Russia is said to be trying to control Donbass, and in recent weeks Zelensky has described the military situation there as difficult and painful. A Ukrainian official said that the Russian forces continue to reach the city of Bakhmut, despite their losses.Even on Sunday, Ukrainian General T.B. reported that…

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The largest demonstration is taking place again in Tel Aviv, where one hundred thousand people took to the streets in the evening, according to the Channel 12 TV station, and the daily newspaper “Haaretz” estimates that the number of participants reached 160 thousand. 30,000 people took part in the Haifa demonstration and thousands demonstrated in other cities, including Jerusalem.The demonstrators again wave Israeli flags and carry various banners. In Tel Aviv, a group of people unfurled a huge banner with portraits of Netanyahu, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which is…

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When, at the end of January, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the name of the new Minister of Defense after several meetings, everyone was surprised. Not only because Schulz violated his original commitment to achieving gender balance in the current government and replaced the current minister Kristin Lambrechtova, who resigned after a series of scandals and many mistakes, with a man.The uproar was caused by the fact that Schultz chose a name that no one else had said. Boris Pistorius, a 62-year-old politician from Lower Saxony, where he has served as mayor of Osnabrück and interior minister for the past 10…

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“This discovery is unique: the complete carcass of a prehistoric brown bear,” he said. Reuters Maxim Chbrasov of Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk.Extreme temperatures in the region have helped preserve the bear’s soft tissues for 3,460 years. So are the remains of the last food the animal ate: bird feathers and plants. According to the description, the bear is 1.55 meters tall and weighs about 78 kilograms.“For the first time ever, an animal carcass with soft tissues has reached the hands of scientists. Thus we have the opportunity to examine its internal organs and its brain,” Zebrasov describes.Oldest DNA reveals…

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