A judge has forced Elon Musk to disclose who helped him buy Twitter.

And to no one's surprise: Two rich Russians from Putin's inner circle were part of the deal. Their names are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, and allegedly they are related to companies on the list.

And clearly, EU parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt is not having it.

https://fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-owner-list/

Obviously, indirect Russian relations in itself is not proof of Russian influence.

I will do some more digging.

South African authorities have blocked the supply of artillery shells from the German concern #Rheinmetall’s plant located in the country to #Poland.

The sources of the Polish edition of Rzeczpospolita, who said that the government of South Africa did not want these munitions to get to #Ukraine.

The shells were to be manufactured by the South African company Rheinmetall Denel Munition, which is 51% owned by German Rheinmetall.

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/south-africa-blocks-artillery-shell-delivery-to-poland/

#SouthAfrica #Germany #EU #Russia

The notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group exploited a zero-day flaw in the Windows AFD.sys driver to elevate privileges and install the FUDModule rootkit on targeted systems.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-driver-zero-day-exploited-by-lazarus-hackers-to-install-rootkit/

Poll: Harris leads Trump by 4 points in 3 battleground states

https://www.voanews.com/a/poll-harris-leads-trump-by-4-points-in-3-battleground-states-/7737598.html

Regarding Poroz in the Bilhorod region: Russian military blogger Anatoly Radov acknowledges that the AFU has taken the border village. It looks to be due to recent operations. From Ukrainian side we read that the village has been shelled since this morning by Russians.

"Unfortunately, the Poroz thing is confirmed. As for what kind of border we have... To cover it completely, we need to mobilise at least 200,000."

Update from the Russian side regarding the Kursk region.

They note that the AFU continues to transfer reserves into the region, and consolidate their positions along the main routes. In addition, they report that at night, AFU units were moving forwards towards Lgov and Kurchatov.

So far, zero reporting about success from Russian counterattacks. The situation has been far from stabilized by the Russians.

More confirmation on Poroz.

"Poroz. Graivoron city district. The video of the Khokhls (ethnic slur for Ukrainians) with the DRG is true. Locals talk about two civilian hostages."