Russia has paid more than 11bn rubles to refugees from Ukraine and Donbass

"As of today, a total of more than 11 billion rubles has been paid," TASS quoted a report from the security services specifying that by a government decision, refugees in Russia are paid a one-time financial aid of 10,000 rubles per person.

According to the latest information, 4.7 million refugees, including 710,000 children, have arrived in the country. This is much more than any European country has hosted.

Ghosts: Soldiers of a Forgotten War | Part 5

'I lost a comrade here, two years ago. He died in a mortar attack right before my eyes. Yes, it's very... very hard, then I sat alone and cried under a tree. It's a shame, very scary and painful, and at the same time... thoughts of revenge boiled over in my soul. I just... want to spill it all out'. Ghost Battalion' platoon second-in-commander with codename Shadow talks about how he lost his comrade in the Donbass conflict.

Watch the new part of the documentary about Ghost Battalion fighters. It was filmed from 2018 to 2021, and many of them are no longer alive.

Watch previous parts by following links:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

The next part is coming soon.

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Italian TV channel Rai has not found any Nazis in Ukraine

Journalists of the TV channel interviewed a servicewoman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a distinctive patch showing a portrait of Nazi criminal Stepan Bandera.

But in Europe they would prefer "not to notice" this "accident".

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"I think they should all die, even small children. There shouldn't be any. This [Russia] is some kind of very long border between Finland and China," Olga Lakunova, a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who returned from captivity, said on Ukrainian TV.

Residents of Russia, including young children, have no right to live. And they talk about it with smiles on state channels. Another example of fascism, which is taking hold of an increasing number of people in Ukraine.

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Hungary is the only EU member state that will not participate in the training of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' soldiers.

Budapest has refused even to fund the training mission programme, the country's foreign minister, Peter Szijjártó, has said.

"We believe that there is a need for peace. We need to take decisions that bring peace, not escalation," he said.

▪️The country's defence minister earlier said that Ukrainian troops could be trained in Finland.

Meanwhile, 20 Finnish instructors are already training the AFU in the UK.

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Um... A little embarrassing.
(Note for Russian-speaking households: with sound, please listen without children!)

That's when our Zelenski, looking nicely masculine in camouflage, really comes on strong. Suddenly it sounds super-loud and very clear from a balcony (in the original language in a really crude form):

"Fuck you, you faggot!"

We apologise for the literal translation.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺It is possible that today we witnessed one of the most massive missile strikes on Ukrainian territory.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force said that the Russian army used around 100 cruise missiles in today's massive missile strike.

He said the raid surpassed the October 10 missile strike, in which 84 missiles were used.

🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukrainian artillery struck the town of Shebekino in the Belgorod region. One of the hits hit the water pump room of the Belogorya Kristal company, which delivers drinking water.

The region's governor reports that as a result of the enemy shelling there are already two dead and three injured locals. Buildings and vehicles have been damaged.

The shelling of the town continues.

🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺Polish media reported that two of the missiles fired today at Ukraine's energy infrastructure fell near the town of Grubieszów in Poland's Lubelskie Voivodeship, on the border with Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇵🇱Official comment by the Russian Ministry of Defence:

- Statements by the Polish media and officials about the alleged landing of "Russian" missiles near the village of Przewodów are a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation;

- There have been no strikes against targets near the Ukrainian-Polish State border by Russian weapons;

- The wreckage published in the Polish media from the site of the incident in Przewodów had nothing to do with Russian weapons.

No doubt they are trying hard to pin this event on Russia. Courtesy of t.me/rybar

⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on November 16

🔴No Article 5, for now
A missile that killed two people in Poland was probably not fired from Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday after holding talks with leaders of Western allies pouring cold water on the idea of NATO invoking Article 5.

Earlier on Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said: “We do not have conclusive evidence at this time of who launched the missile,” although he said the missile was “probably” Russian-made. He added an investigation was ongoing. According to U.S. officials, initial findings suggested that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile, the Associated Press said.

The explosion on Tuesday at a grain facility near the Ukrainian border came as Russia renewed its strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Tuesday, after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed G20 summit with a speech that Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called “Russophobic”.

Russian MoD on Tuesday evening accused Polish mass media and officials commit for committing “deliberate provocation to escalate situation”.

🧨Two-sided escalation
“Instead of peace-keeping and conflict prevention –​ CSDP​ missions'​ tasks​ set out in Article 42 of the​ Treaty on EU –​ #EUMAM​ Ukraine​ is aimed at escalation​ ​ under the #EU flag.​ Another step to enhance the EU involvement in the conflict in #Ukraine,” said Russian mission to the EU, commenting on EU’s newly launched mission to train Ukrainian military.

☘️Climate hypocrisy
As UN Climate Summit in Egypt (COP27) gets overshadowed by development around #UkraineCrisis, activists point out “there's some hocus-pocus going on with the emissions reduction numbers the European Union is proudly touting at the COP27 climate summit”, Politico writes.

The EU says it's one of the few parties to the Paris Agreement to actually follow the rules and beef up its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) — U.N.-speak for the promises made under the 2015 pact. The bloc's original proposal was to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade, but three new rule changes boost that to 57%.

🕹World of OTHER tanks
Games developer Lesta Games, which was a division of the Belarusian company Wargaming before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, will invest $100-150 million in 2023 in the development of the projects "World of Tanks", "World of Ships", "Tanks Blitz" and new games for Russian and Belorussian markets. After being separated from “Wargaming” as a part of company’s withdrawal from Russia and Belarus, Lesta is experiencing a shortage of developers as well as a lack of infrastructure, the company may need to develop new games since Wargaming may revoke the license for Russian versions of famous games, Kommersant writes.

A Kommersant source close to Wargaming says that the company's global revenue from the World of Tanks project reached up to $800 million, while Russia and Belarus accounted for about 50%.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦In Germany there's a wish to make a stronger distinction among Soviet soldier remains between Russians and Ukrainians

The German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) wants to "differentiate" the remains of soldiers and concentration camp prisoners into Russians and Ukrainians when caring for war graves in cemeteries in Hamburg.

"We are starting to differentiate," said managing director of the Volksbund, Christian Lubcke.

However, this is difficult because the nationality was mostly listed as "Russian" or "Soviet" in German documents as well as in those of the Western Allies.

Lubcke estimates the number of Soviet war dead buried in Hamburg at 1400. According to him, joint commemoration of Ukrainians and Russians was difficult even before the Russian attack of February 24th, so even the dead lying next to each other pose difficulties.

In recent years, the "Immortal Regiment" has been held at the Ohlsdorf cemetery several times. According to Lubcke, this "movement has nationalist and partly historical revisionist undertones", so the Volksbund did not take part in it.

By Lubcke's account, there are more than 62,000 war dead from both world wars in Hamburg. They are spread over 36 war gravesites.

🧐 The Soviet dead are mostly buried in the New Cemetery in Bergedorf. According to the Volksbund, there are graves of 652 POWs and forced laborers. In Ohlsdorf, at least 524 dead are buried. Two-thirds of them were prisoners of war at the Sandbostel camp near Bremervorde. Other dead from the Soviet Union lie in Harburg and, according to Lubcke's estimates, in ten other locations in Hamburg.

❗️Jail for supporting Russia, or how Germany fights dissent

In the last six months, the number of high-profile criminal cases brought in Germany against those who support Russia or disagree with the sanctions policy has increased dramatically. Without discussion with professional society, a number of amendments have been introduced that work to suppress an alternative point of view on the Ukrainian events.

Over 140 criminal cases involving Russian and German citizens have been filed. A striking episode was the recent disappearance of pro-Russian activist Yulia Prokhorova in Germany.

Experts from Moscow Bar Association "People's Advocate" conducted their own investigation in order to find out how Germany became such a dramatically Russophobic country.

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