⚡️ The European Union and the United States have increased purchases of basic industrial metals from Russia, despite logistical problems caused by the war in Ukraine, Reuters writes.
According to official trade data collected from the United Nations Comtrade database, imports from Russia of aluminum and nickel to the EU and the US increased by 70% in March-June.
⚡️ The information campaign of the special services of the Russian Federation to discredit the President of Ukraine has started, reports the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The first fraudulent project of this campaign was the fictitious website of the "Zelenskyі Foundation" in German, which, according to the authors, will be launched on September 30.
Also, the Russian special services created a database of opinion leaders and bloggers to distribute the materials of the so-called "Zelenskyі Foundation".
⚡️ State concern "Ukroboronprom" signed a framework agreement on cooperation with the American international corporation Honeywell. Cooperation will cover the following areas: aviation, UAVs, navigation and radars, – the press service of ''Ukroboronprom'' reports.
⚡️Mass deportation by the Russian invaders of residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine may indicate Moscow's intention to change the demographic composition of these regions.
⚡️ Volodymyr Zelenskyi: Today, an important operation was carried out by the SBU - regarding the activities of some sanctioned persons on the territory of our state.
The customs officials who helped the smugglers, including among the leaders, have been removed and will receive a legal response for all their illegal actions.
As for those persons subject to sanctions, who have also been found to have foreign citizenship, in particular Russian and Romanian,
⚡️Volodymyr Zelenskyi: I also thank today the 406th separate artillery brigade for extremely successful hits in the areas where the occupiers are concentrated in the south of our country, and the 60th separate infantry brigade, which consistently advances our positions.
Each success of our military in one direction or another changes the general situation along the entire front in favor of Ukraine.
The more difficult it is for the occupiers, the more losses they have, the better the positions of our defenders in Donbas will be, the more reliable the defense of Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv,
⚡️ According to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the Russians intend to involve in the pseudo-referendums the following persons:
Gunnar Lindeman,the Member of the Federal State Parliament Berlin for the "Alternative for Germany" Party.
Ulrich Eme, the representative of the "Alternative for Germany" party and former Bundestag deputy;
- Maurizio Marrone, the Head of the "representative office" of the so-called DNR in Turin (Italy) and the regional adviser of the "Brothers of Italy" party;
- Xavier Moreau, the Co-founder of the Center for Political and Strategic Analysis Startpol (France);
Alexandr Giurgiev, the head of the party "Serbian League";
Palmarino Dzokkatelli, the Head of the "representative office" of the so-called DNR in Verona (Italy);
⚡️ The Bureau of Economic Security announced the revelation of a group of oligarchs from the sanctions list of the National Security and Defence Council for mineral fertilizers in the scheme of tax evasion for 108 million UAH,
it is about nitrogen fertilizers and the group of Dmytro Firtash, according to the website of the Bureau of Economic Security.
"The BES employees exposed the officers of a group of companies involved in a particularly large tax evasion scheme. Companies had carried out wholesale trade in mineral fertilizers", - says the report.