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Russian Tu-160 Bomber rolling into Ramenskoye

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CIA, MI6 Praise Kursk Invasion. Ukrainian drones strike Moscow region. Kamala Launches ‘Policy’ Website. Overthrowing the Constitution. WHO: Cell Phones and 5G are TOTALLY safe

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Sep 10, 2024

CIA, MI6 Chiefs Praise Ukraine's Kursk Invasion For Bringing War To 'Ordinary Russians'

Burns & Moore spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London...

CIA Director William Burns and Richard Moore, the head of the UK’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency, spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London on Saturday, where they praised Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Moore said the Kursk invasion was "typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians, to try and change the game" and said it had "brought the war home to ordinary Russians." Burns said the operation in Kursk was a "significant tactical achievement" that boosted morale in Ukraine. While the fighting continues in Kursk, Russian forces have been making more rapid gains in Ukraine’s Donbas region since the invasion was launched.

Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal

Ukraine-Russia talks fell apart after Kiev asked foreign backers for advice, the former US deputy secretary of state has said

The US, UK and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the liberal news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting.

Multiple drones intercepted near Moscow – mayor

At least ten UAVs were shot down while approaching the Russian capital overnight

Russian air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow during the night, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. Preliminary reports indicate there were no casualties or damage on the ground. The first UAV was intercepted in the Lyubertsy district on the outskirts of the Russian capital, the official stated on Telegram around 2:30am on Tuesday. Fifteen minutes later, Sobyanin reported that two more drones were shot down in the Ramensky district southeast of Moscow. He noted that falling debris did not cause any casualties or damage, stating that emergency services were working at the sites.

BREAKING Russia: Ukrainian drones are striking Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, for the first time ever It’s the second-largest airport in Moscow after Sheremetyevo Airport

The moment when a Ukrainian UAV struck a residential building in Ramenskoye, suburbs of Moscow. The drone crashed right into the middle of the building

The drone crashed right into the middle of the building. One person was injured. The drone crashed into an apartment on the ninth floor, resulting in destroyed windows & more...

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

The Trump-Harris Debate (AP) Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy. The Democratic vice president provoked Trump with reminders about the 2020 election loss that he still denies, delivered derisive asides at his false claims and sought to underscore the Republican former president’s role in the Supreme Court’s overturning of a national right to abortion two years ago. Trump tore into Harris as too liberal and a continuation of Biden’s unpopular administration, as he launched into the sort of freewheeling personal attacks and digressions from which his advisers and supporters have tried to steer him away. Less than two months from Election Day and hours before the first early ballots will begin to be mailed Wednesday in Alabama, the debate offered the clearest look yet at a presidential race that has been repeatedly upended.

Greece cracks down on excessive tourism (Financial Times) Greece has said it will crack down on short-term holiday rentals and cruise ship traffic as part of a set of measures to curb excessive tourism in the Mediterranean country. “Tourism supports the economy with resources and jobs, but it must also pay its special share of social returns,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said while announcing the measures on Saturday at a trade fair in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-biggest city. Mitsotakis announced the introduction of a fee of up to €20 for cruise ship passengers to the most popular islands such as Santorini and Mykonos. During the summer months, multiple ships, some carrying thousands of visitors, dock every day at the most popular destinations. Concerns have grown in Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy and Greece about the damage to local communities and the environment caused by surging visitor numbers and light regulation.

Belarusians fleeing repression at home say they face new threats and intimidation abroad (AP) More than a half-million Belarusians have fled their country in the past four years as the authoritarian government launched a harsh crackdown on its political opponents. Some of them, however, are discovering that they can’t escape intimidation and threats in their new lives abroad. Dziana Maiseyenka, 28, was detained without warning while crossing the border from Armenia to Georgia, where she had taken refuge from Belarus a year ago to escape what she called “the nightmare at home.” Authorities in Minsk, she was told, had issued an international arrest warrant against her on charges of “organizing mass unrest.” She knows what a return to Belarus will mean: Her father was imprisoned for nearly three years on similar charges. When he was released last year, he was promptly arrested again. As hard-line President Alexander Lukashenko seeks his seventh term next year to extend his three-decade rule, opposition leaders in exile say he is ramping up the pressure on Belarusians who moved abroad. The aim is to avoid a repeat of the mass protests that broke out around the 2020 election by quashing any opposition support from abroad.

A woman is killed near Moscow as over 140 Ukrainian drones target Russia, officials say (AP) Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war. A woman died and three people were injured in the town of Ramenskoye, just outside Moscow, where drones hit two multistory residential buildings and started fires, Moscow region Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. Five residential buildings were evacuated due to falling drone debris, Vorobyov said. The attack also prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down three airports just outside Moscow—Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky. A total of 48 flights were diverted to other airports.

Pokrovsk: Ukraine’s vital eastern town in Russian sights (BBC) The town of Pokrovsk plays a crucial role as a logistics hub used by Ukrainian forces in the eastern region of Donbas. It is home to a key railway station, and it is located at the intersection of several important roads. Russian forces have for months sought to capture the town, but their advance has quickened in recent weeks and they have seized the village of Novohrodivka about 10km (6 miles) to the south east. Before the war, Pokrovrsk was home to some 69,000 residents, with many of them employed in coal mining, metallurgy and machine-building. It sits adjacent to another mining town, Myrnohrad, which is even closer to the front line and is coming under fierce bombardment. “Pokrovsk is a very important hub, a centre of defence. If we lose Pokrovsk, the entire front line will crumble,” military expert Mykhaylo Zhyrokhov warned. Ukraine relies on the town’s rail and road infrastructure to provide supplies and reinforcements to its troops on the eastern front line, as well as to evacuate the wounded.

Pakistan’s Firewall (Rest of World) In July, Pakistan launched a firewall in the name of national security, one that critics said was just a way to monitor and regulate content on the internet in the country. It’s had a seriously adverse impact on the country’s startup scene, and has reportedly destabilized access to the internet as a whole and spooked investors. The tech industry is responsible for 1 percent of GDP but 10 percent of Pakistan’s exports, but the heightened government scrutiny of the internet and the firewall has caused internet speeds to drop by up to 40 percent in the country.

More strollers sold for furry companions than infants (Korea Herald) In perhaps yet another sign of the country’s declining number of births, South Korea’s largest online marketplace reported Monday that sales of pet strollers exceeded those of baby strollers for the first time this year. According to Gmarket, of the total strollers sold on the platform during the first three quarters of this year, those for pet animals accounted for 57 percent, while those for babies constituted the remaining 43 percent. South Korea is witnessing a growing trend of families choosing to adopt and spend money on pets, a development that contrasts with the country’s declining birth rate and the falling number of babies born here. The number of newborns has dropped from 640,000 in 2000 to 470,000 in 2010 and further down to 270,000 in 2020. Last year, the figure dipped below 250,000.

A robot begins removal of melted fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant (AP) A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom. The robot’s trip into the Unit 2 reactor is a crucial initial step for what comes next—a daunting, decades-long process to decommission the plant and deal with large amounts of highly radioactive melted fuel inside three reactors that were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, or TEPCO, which manages the plant, says an estimated 880 tons of molten fuel debris remains in the three reactors, but some experts say the amount could be larger. The government says decommissioning is expected to take 30-40 years, while some experts say it could take as long as 100 years.

Francis will be only the second pope to visit Singapore (AP) When Pope Francis arrives Wednesday in Asia’s financial powerhouse Singapore for the last leg of a four-nation tour, he is expected to bring his message of unity and hope to one of the world’s richest nations. The 11-day trip, which earlier took him to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and East Timor, is the longest for the 87-year-old pontiff since becoming head of the Catholic Church in 2013. Francis will be the second pope to visit Singapore, after a five-hour stopover by the late John Paul II in 1986. According to a 2020 Singapore population census, Buddhists make up about 31%. About a fifth of the population claimed no religious belief, while Christians account for almost 19% and Muslims about 15%.

Australia plans social media minimum age, citing mental health concerns (Washington Post) The Australian government plans to set a minimum age limit for teens to use social media, citing mental health concerns, a move that has broad political support but that has some experts warning of harmful unintended consequences. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Tuesday that his government would introduce the legislation in Parliament this year—ahead of an expected May election—but that the precise age limit was yet to be decided. Both the center-left Labor government and the conservative coalition in opposition have embraced the issue, and some states have already moved to implement social media age limits. Some experts say the issue isn’t so simple, however. “What Australia is looking for is a bit of a simple fix or a simple answer to what is really a very complex question,” said Lisa Given, a professor of information sciences at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. “The question is, is this more about politics and headlines versus an actual solution that is going to protect children?”

An Israeli strike on a Gaza humanitarian zone tent camp kills at least 40 people, Palestinians say (AP) An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted “significant” Hamas militants and disputed the death toll. It was among the deadliest strikes yet in Muwasi, a sprawl of crowded tent camps along the Gaza coast that Israel designated as a humanitarian zone for hundreds of thousands of civilians to seek shelter from the Israel-Hamas war. Gaza’s Civil Defense said its first responders recovered 40 bodies from the strike and were still looking for people. It said entire families were killed in their tents.

Algeria’s president joins opponents in claiming election irregularities after being named the winner (Politico) Have you ever won so hard that you questioned how it could have happened? The president of Algeria has. On Saturday, incumbent Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune won his country’s presidential elections in a massive landslide victory, securing 94.7% of ballots while his next-closest competitors won just 3.2% and 2.2%. On Sunday, those political rivals were quick to pounce on the vote tallies, saying they contradicted earlier numbers announced by Algeria’s election authority. Tebboune eventually added his voice to theirs, with all three campaigns issuing a joint statement criticizing the country’s election authority for switching up its vote tallies. Tebboune was expected to secure an easy win over the weekend, but not to this extent. His 94.7% marks the largest margin of victory out of all elections held this year. The massive gap is only likely to further perceptions in Algeria that the electoral system is being abused to keep the country’s political elite in power. It's unclear how much more apathetic Algerian voters can become—voter turnout plunged to a new low over the weekend, with just 5.6 million of the country’s roughly 24 million voters submitting ballots.

Joy in Mud Bowl: Football tournament celebrates 50 years of messy fun (AP) College football players aspire to play in bowls games. Professional players dream of playing in the Super Bowl. A bunch of amateurs in New Hampshire just want to get muddy. On Sunday, a three-day sloppy, muddy mess wrapped up for the Mud Bowl, which is celebrating its 50th year of football featuring players trudging though knee-deep muck while trying to reach the end zone. For these athletes, playing in mud brings out their inner child. “You’re playing football in the mud, so you’ve got to have a smile on your face,” said Jason Veno, the 50-year-old quarterback of the North Country Mud Crocs. The annual event takes place at Hog Coliseum, located in the heart of North Conway. It kicked off Friday night with revelry and music, followed by a Tournament of Mud Parade on Saturday. All told, a dozen teams with men and women competed in the tournament in hopes of emerging as the soiled victor.

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One killed in Ukraine drone attacks on Russia

Russian officials say they shot down 144 Ukrainian drones around the country overnight in a wave of attacks that have killed one woman, set residential buildings on fire and grounded flights in Moscow. The governor of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov, said several flats in two high-rise apartment buildings in Ramenskoye in Moscow region were set on fire. Mr Vorobyov said a 46-year-old woman died and three people were injured in Ramenskoye, while 43 people were evacuated to temporary accommodation centres. Ukraine has so far not commented on the attacks. Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday that of the 144 drones that its air defences intercepted, half were in the western border region of Bryansk, 20 were in Moscow and 14 were over the Kursk region. State media reported that the strikes shut down four airports in Moscow and more than 30 domestic and international flights that serve the Russian capital were suspended. Russia's aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, confirmed on Telegram on Tuesday morning that three of the airports - Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Vnukovo - had resumed operations. The Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram that its air defences downed 38 out of 46 Shahed-type attack drones launched by Russia. They were shot down over a number of regions and cities including Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv and Poltova. The air force added that Russia also launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and a Kh-31 air-to-surface missile. Ukraine and Russia regularly launch overnight drone raids on each other's territory. The latest wave of drone strikes comes as Moscow claims gains in eastern Ukraine. On Sunday, Russia said it had taken control of the village of Novohrodivka, just 10km from the key town of Pokrovsk. Kyiv has not commented, but sources told the BBC that Ukrainian forces had retreated from there. So far this month, Russia has launched a wave of deadly strikes on Lviv, Poltava and Kharkiv. Russia's response to Ukraine has hardened after Kyiv launched its offensive into the country's Kursk region last month. Read the full article

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A drone struck a building in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoye, causing casualties and injuries. Additionally, the Zhukovsky Airport in the Moscow region was targeted by drones. Numerous flights were delayed, including at Vnukovo, Domodedovo, and Sheremetyevo airports. Authorities from the Bryansk, Tula, Lipetsk, and Kaluga regions also reported drone attacks.

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An official says a lady was killed when particles from a destroyed drone hit an residence block, sparking a fireplace.One individual has died in Moscow after particles from a downed Ukrainian drone struck the residence block the place he lived and began a fireplace, Russian officers say. Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov stated drone particles broken at the very least two high-rise residence buildings within the Ramenskoye district within the early hours of Tuesday, setting a number of flooring ablaze. The town's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, stated emergency groups had been despatched to a number of areas within the area, in addition to to the realm close to Zhukovo airport and across the Domodedovo district, the place certainly one of Moscow's largest airports is situated. Greater than 30 flights have been suspended. Russia stated its air defenses shot down greater than 70 Ukrainian drones in a single day and at the very least 15 have been intercepted in and round Moscow. The Ramenskoye district, about 50 kilometers southeast of the Kremlin, has a inhabitants of about 250,000 individuals, in line with official information. Russian channels SHOT and Baza Telegram, that are near Russian safety providers, posted movies displaying flames popping out of a multi-storey residential constructing and stated 5 residences had been destroyed. Within the Bryansk area bordering Ukraine, “59 enemy-type unmanned aerial automobiles (UAVs) have been intercepted and destroyed,” Governor Aleksander Bogomaz reported on Telegram. He described the assault as “huge” however stated there have been no casualties or injury. Two extra Ukrainian drones have been intercepted within the Tula area south of Moscow, Russia's official TASS information company reported. Greater than two and a half years since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine has accelerated the event of its home drone trade to have the ability to assault Russia's vitality, army and transport infrastructure. Ukraine didn't touch upon the assault, which got here as airstrike warnings sounded in kyiv amid one other Russian drone assault within the Ukrainian capital.

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12095Khz 0358 10 SEP 2024 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 45434. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsday preview. @0401z World News anchored by Danielle Jalowiecka. § At least 19 people have been killed in an overnight Israeli strike in the designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Witnesses said the strike obliterated an area crowded with tents for displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, south-west of Khan Younis, leaving huge craters in the sand. “The bombing was incredibly intense. People were thrown into the air,” one displaced man told the BBC. “You can’t imagine the devastation.” The Israeli military said its aircraft attacked what it called “a number of senior Hamas terrorists” operating there, a claim Hamas denied. § An extendable robot began on Tuesday a two-week mission to retrieve the first sample of melted fuel debris from inside one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Highly radioactive fuel and other materials in the reactors melted when a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged the plant’s cooling systems. § Australia plans to set a minimum age limit for children to use social media citing concerns about mental and physical health, sparking a backlash from digital rights advocates who warn the measure could drive dangerous online activity underground. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his centre-left government would run an age verification trial before introducing age minimum laws for social media this year. Albanese didn't specify an age but said it would likely be between 14 and 16. "I want to see kids off their devices and onto the footy fields and the swimming pools and the tennis courts," Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. § Russian officials say they shot down 144 Ukrainian drones around the country overnight in a wave of attacks that have killed one woman, set residential buildings on fire and grounded flights in Moscow. The governor of Moscow, Andrei Vorobyov, said several flats in two high-rise apartment buildings in Ramenskoye in Moscow region were set on fire. § Nearly 200 environmental and land defenders around the world were murdered in 2023, with Colombia once again the deadliest place for activists, watchdog Global Witness said in a report. The report also sounds the alarm on a “crackdown on environmental activists across the UK, Europe and the US”, warning “laws are increasingly being weaponised against defenders”. § More than 1,700 prisoners are being let out early in England and Wales today as part of a government scheme to deal with overcrowding. The prison population in England and Wales hit 88,521 last week, an all-time high, and Keir Starmer says the situation is at "crisis point". § The United States did not give any sort of concessions to Nicaragua in exchange for the release of more than 100 political prisoners last week, an official said on Monday. "There were no exchanges or concessions made," Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Eric Jacobstein, said in a press conference. Jacobstein said that the administration of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega continued to imprison its citizens for political reasons and urged the leader to free them. § American actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died aged 93. He died early on Monday morning surrounded by his family, agent Barry McPherson said. @0406z "Newsday" begins. Backyard gutter antenna w/MFJ-1020C active antenna (used as a preamplifier/preselector), JRC NRD-535D, 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2258.

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En 1971, sin embargo, estudios soviéticos determinaron la necesidad de diferentes tipos de cazas. El programa PFI (Perspektivnyy Frontovoy Istrebitel o "Caza Frontal Avanzado") se complementó con el programa Perspektivnyy Lyogkiy Frontovoy Istrebitel (LPFI, o "Caza Táctico Ligero Avanzado"). Se planificó que la fuerza de cazas soviética se compondría aproximadamente de un 33% de PFI y un 67% de LPFI. Estos programas fueron paralelos a la decisión de la USAF que creó el programa "Lightweight Fighter" y resultó en el desarrollo del General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon y el Northrop YF-17.

El caza PFI fue asignado a Sukhoi, lo que resultó en el Sukhoi Su-27, mientras que el caza ligero fue asignado a Mikoyan. El trabajo de diseño detallado del Producto 9 de Mikoyan, designado como MiG-29A, comenzó en 1974, con el primer vuelo el 6 de octubre de 1977. Los satélites de reconocimiento estadounidenses observaron por primera vez el avión de preproducción en noviembre de ese año; fue apodado Ram-L porque se observó en el centro de pruebas de vuelo Zhukovsky, cerca de la ciudad de Ramenskoye.

La división de trabajo entre el TPFI y el LPFI se hizo más evidente a medida que el MiG-29 comenzó a entrar en servicio de primera línea con las Fuerzas Aéreas Soviéticas (VVS) a mediados de la década de 1980. Mientras que el pesado y de largo alcance Su-27 fue encargado de las misiones más exóticas y peligrosas de barridos aéreos profundos de activos valiosos de la OTAN, el más pequeño MiG-29 reemplazó directamente al MiG-23 en el rol de aviación frontal.

#MiG29 #Su27 #CazasSoviéticos #GuerraFría #FuerzaAéreaSoviética #HistoriaMilitar #LPFI #PFI #AvionesDeCombate

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airsLLide No. 8856: RA-46511, Antonov 24RV, Aeroflot, Moscow-Bykovo, May 21, 1993.

Bykovo was the smallest of Moscow's four commercial airports, besides Moscow-Sheremetjevo (international flights), Moscow-Domodedovo (medium to long distance domestic flights, e.g. to Siberia) and Moscow-Vnukovo (short to mid-range domestic flights). It was mainly used for regional services to destinations within one to two hours flying time, and for "private" charter flights, e.g. staff flights of major industrial entities. Furthermore, it was home to a so-called repair factory, i.e. a heavy maintenance base for Ilyushin 76 transports, Ilyushin 18 and Yakovlev 42 airliners.

Located only a few kilometers from Moscow-Zhukovsky, the once secluded airport for test flights and research institutes in Ramenskoye, Bykovo closed for traffic in 2010.

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"Unveiling a Remarkable Act of Compassion: Russia's Unprecedented 27 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid Soars to the Heart of Gaza Amid Escalating Israel-Hamas Clash!"

Russia has sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip amidst the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. The aid was transported from Egypt, according to Moscow’s emergency situations ministry. Deputy Minister Ilya Denisov stated that a special plane departed from the airport at Ramenskoye near Moscow, destined for El-Arish in Egypt. The Russian humanitarian aid will be…

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Alongside its regular army units, mobilized units, and prisoners’ units waging war in Ukraine, Russia has dozens of pseudo-mercenary groups that receive financing from large companies and state agencies. The Uran battalion, for example, is funded by Russian state space corporation Roscosmos; the Soyuz unit, which consists of martial artists, is supported by state-owned companies Sberbank and Rosatom; and before his death, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin spoke of private military companies linked to energy giant Gazprom. According to journalists at independent outlet iStories, the oligarch brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg decided to get in on the trend by taking control of the Española battalion, a paramilitary group of far-right football fans. Meduza retells their reporting in English.

Viktor Shendrik, the head of the security department at Russia’s state railroad monopoly Russian Railways, is the sponsor of the Española battalion, a paramilitary group consisting of Russian football fans that’s active in Ukraine, the independent outlet iStories has reported, citing three sources who know Shendrik.

Shendrik is a protege of the billionaire brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, two of Vladimir Putin’s oldest friends and closest allies. A past iStories investigation revealed how the Rotenbergs installed Shendrik in his position at the railroad firm after years of doing business with him. (The brothers own multiple companies that contract for the railroad company.)

“Española was created by fans, mostly of Spartak [soccer club]. Then the Rotenbergs came in with the idea of taking a PMC [private military company] under their own control,” one source told iStories. “A lot of major companies are creating their own private armies right now, and the brothers wanted to create their own private army on the basis of Española.” The source said the Rotenbergs chose Shendrik to head the new entity because of his experience in the security sector.

Viktor Shendrik graduated from the Russian FSB’s border service academy in the town of Golitsyno before serving in the agency’s secretive Vympel unit. In addition to his position at Russian Railways, Shendrik is on the board of directors of Transtelecom, Russia’s second-largest telecommunications company. According to leaked documents, he earned over two billion rubles (over $21 million) in 2021.

Española was founded as a volunteer battalion of soccer fans with far-right views from all over Russia and originally belonged to a battalion from the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic.” In February 2024, Española declared itself a private military company. It boasts a reconnaissance unit, an assault unit, an artillery unit, an electronic warfare unit, a drone unit, and a sniper unit. Its supplies are managed by Ilya Khanin, a soccer fan and the brother of Nikolai Khanin, the head of Moscow’s Ramenskoye district.

Like most of Russia’s volunteer formations, Española is formally a part of Redut, a pseudo-PMC that serves as a mercenary recruitment proxy for the Russian Defense Ministry; this means that Española’s fighters sign their contracts with Redut. Española’s commander is a CSKA Moscow fan named Stanislav Orlov who goes by the call sign Spaniard and who started fighting in Ukraine in 2014. Española fighters took part in the siege of Mariupol’s Azovstal Iron and Steel Works and have fought in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions as well as in the battles for Vuhledar and Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.

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Robin Westenra

Sep 10, 2024

Woman killed in Ukrainian drone raid outside Moscow – governor

Multiple residential buildings were damaged in the city of Ramenskoye, to the southeast of the Russian capital

Ukraine carried out a drone raid on Moscow and its suburbs overnight involving at least 14 UAVs, officials said.

The attack damaged several apartment buildings and resulted in at least one fatality and multiple injuries, according to Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov.

The governor initially said: “unfortunately, a nine-year-old child has died,” after a drone struck a high-rise on Sportivny Proezd in the city of Ramenskoye, igniting a fire in multiple flats on the 11th and 12th floors. 

However, in a follow-up post on Telegram about 90 minutes later, he clarified that the child actually survived – but a 46-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries. Three more people were wounded in that attack and hospitalized.

Another UAV hit a building on Vysokovoltnaya Street, damaging an apartment on the 9th floor and injuring at least one person.

Vorobyov stated that all emergency services promptly arrived at the scenes and organized the evacuation of residents. “The evacuated residents have been placed in temporary accommodation at a recreation center,” and provided with hot meals, the governor added.

In total, at least 14 drones were detected and intercepted across the Moscow Region’s districts of Podolsk, Ramenskoye, Lyubertsy, Domodedovo, and Kolomna overnight, according to both the Moscow Region governor and the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin.

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"Unveiling a Remarkable Act of Compassion: Russia's Unprecedented 27 Tonnes of Humanitarian Aid Soars to the Heart of Gaza Amid Escalating Israel-Hamas Clash!"

Russia has sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip amidst the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. The aid was transported from Egypt, according to Moscow’s emergency situations ministry. Deputy Minister Ilya Denisov stated that a special plane departed from the airport at Ramenskoye near Moscow, destined for El-Arish in Egypt. The Russian humanitarian aid will be…