https://www.zdf.de/play/dokus/zdfzeit-106/putins-helfer-100?q=Putins+helfer Bin ich hier der Depp der nicht wagt zu glauben, sendet das #ZDF 30 x rechtlich geklärtes Material, ohne Risiko, da die Quellen #davidfrum #scotthorton #ninajankowicz #gilduran #jonathanbuma #lukeharding #yurishvets #jamescomey belegt sind? Was es hier zu sehen gibt, ist irre. #Trump #musk und co. sind demnach von #Putin #kgb und Russland gekapert u. gesteuert. Ist das eine Räuberpistole oder die Erklärung für den aktuelleb Zerstörungsmode der #USA Regierung
ZDFzeit: Putins Helfer

Gibt es geheime Kontakte zwischen Trump, Elon Musk und Putin? Steckt hinter der US-Politik ein Netzwerk aus Autokraten, Nationalpopulisten und Tech-Oligarchen?

ZDF
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – blistering insider portrait of a nation in decline

The former Tory minister exposes the ‘shameful state’ of recent Conservative rule in this brilliantly frank account of dysfunctional government

The Guardian
‘Justice is on our side, and Putin is old’: Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh

The novelist and press secretary to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny talks about imprisonment, survival and writing under the regime

The Guardian
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy review – deeply personal study of ‘an old-fashioned imperial war’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/30/the-russo-ukrainian-war-by-serhii-plokhy-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy review – deeply personal study of ‘an old-fashioned imperial war’

The great chronicler of Ukraine breaks new ground in his rigorous and elegant analysis of Europe’s biggest conflict since 1945 – and its impact on friends and family

The Guardian
Iron People: Ukraine’s railway network in a time of war – photo essay

Documenting the drivers, railway workers and passengers on Europe’s third largest rail network during an extraordinary year in which Ukraine defied Russia’s plan to conquer the country

The Guardian

#LukeHarding seems to think the new #ukrainian offensive will be to cut the landway from #Russia to occupied #Crimea

Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20027957

Something that talks for this is that #Ukraine has managed to make Russia to deploy more and more forces to #Bakhmut which means there will be less and less forces able to withstand an Ukrainian offeinsive towards #Melitopol

Kuuluisa brittiläinen sotareportteri uskoo, että Ukraina yrittää katkaista maayhteyden Krimille: “Kaikki ovat aliarvioineet ukrainalaisia”

Suomessa vieraileva tietokirjailija ja Venäjä-asiantuntija pohtii esimerkiksi Venäjän hyökkäystä Ukrainaan ja Suomen Nato-jäsenyyttä uudessa kirjassaan.

Yle Uutiset
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov review – bittersweet relic of a sunnier age

Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker prize, the newly translated novel by Ukraine’s leading author is, in today’s context, poignantly playful and ebullient

The Guardian
‘My vendetta against Putin’: the Ukrainian sculptor whose haunting work is shaped by war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/15/michael-reva-ukrainian-sculptor-putin-war?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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‘My vendetta against Putin’: the Ukrainian sculptor whose haunting work is shaped by war

Mikhail Reva has used shrapnel and missile parts to recreate the nightmare world of the conflict

The Guardian
Enemy of the state

How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated

The Guardian
‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics

Vulkan engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, prepare for attacks on infrastructure and spread disinformation

The Guardian