Leonid Ragozin
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Nationality: journalist. Freelancer, made in the BBC. Reporting what you need to know, not what you want to hear. Also, Lonely Planet guides.
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Dressed in his prison outfit, Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky spells out one of elite’s key postwar fears; Will Europe keep funding Ukraine after the war is over or not? He says that given the demise of metallurgy and agriculture, hryvna would go into free fall within a year without European subsidies. I personally think that European countries have no choice but to keep funding postwar Ukraine because a massive pivot towards Russia/China would be otherwise inevitable. Well, of course there is the option of prolonging the war, but making Ukraine bleed forever is a policy that only worsens the eventual outcome for everyone involved, as the last five years of the conflict have explicitly shown. Via СТРАНА.ua
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The new head of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute, Oleksandr Alfiorov, says Putin can’t be compared with Hitler because Hitler - he believes - was highly educated and influenced by German philosophy and art (fact check: Hitler didn’t have a university degree). He also adds that Russians can’t be compared to Germans (of the Holocaust period), because Germans are highly cultured and Russians are worse than Orcs and more like goblins. Alfiorov is an alumni of the original Azov and of the 3rd detached assault brigade which is controlled by Azov movement’s political leadership. The first neo-nazi in charge of a government institution in Europe, perhaps. Via Politika Strany
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Russian TG channels circulated video of what they claimed to be CIA chief John Ratcliffe’a convoy leaving the Kremlin yesterday. It requires verification. But if Ratcliffe visited the Kremlin and didn’t meet Putin, it sounds like he was deliberately snubbed. He didn’t need to go all the way to the heart of Moscow to shake hands with SVR chief Naryshkin whose HQ is located on the outskirts of the city, not far from Vnukovo airport. Putin did meet Ratcliffe’s predecessor William Burns in 2021 for what resulted in a long and fateful meeting.
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Azov movement leader and 3rd corps commander Andriy Biletsky presided over a torchlit ceremony of the reburial of OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets who collaborated with the nazis and was killed by a Soviet agent before the WWII. The reburial is part of the new history policy pursued by Zelensky’s administration under its new chief Kyrylo Budanov. An act that makes all the mainstream figures claiming that Azov has been depoliticised and that Ukraine has no nazi problem look like idiots at best and mendacious nazi sympathisers at worst. Also, another slap at Poland which was the “hero’s” main nemesis during his time.
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Police was called to a night club in Odessa and Zelensky-appointed military administration made a condemning statement after a Russian-language song was aired at a night club - and the audience sang it together rather enthusiastically, as you can see in the video. Making Russian a protest language for the Ukrainian youth will be an amazing achievement of ethnonationalist nation builders. Meanwhile, language ombudsman complains that children, including her own, use Russian language more and more.
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Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy says that the impact of Oreshnik missile strike on critical infrastructure was horrible, but it would have been on a totally different scale had it been carrying a warhead. He also says the hypersonic missile didn’t show up on any radars and that Ukraine has nothing to counter this kind of weapon. Via Strana
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Ukraine’s “completely de-politicised” 3rd Army Corps aka Azov movement stages a torchlit ceremony dedicated to its own military school, named after OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets. Starring the political leader of Azov movement who doubles as 3rd Corps commander, Andriy Biletsky.
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Canada-based grandson of Stepan Bandera says - with heavy English accent - that Ukraine needs another Bucha for everyone to switch to Ukrainian. This has always been the gist of OUN’s strategy - provoking reprisals against innocent civilians in order to swell their ranks. Via Strana.
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Putin tells journalists - in passing - that he thinks the conflict is coming to an end. He also claims the West wanted to destroy Russian statehood a few months into the conflict. That must be his answer to “Kyiv in three days” meme. Both sides in this war grossly distort and exaggerate the other side’s intentions so as to claim they’ve averted something terrible through insane escalation.
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