Russian spies in Mexico and the US Southern border – GS https://t.co/JywhfaEvRo – The News And Times #NewsAndTimes #NT #TNT #News #Times#World #USA #POTUS #DOJ #FBI #CIA #DIA #ODNI#Israel #Mossad #Netanyahu#Ukraine #NewAbwehr #OSINT#Putin #Russia #GRU #Путин, #Россия… pic.twitter.com/pUtSUbYNk6
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Day: March 12, 2024
“More worryingly, Russia has identified Germany as the weakest link in the alliance and Scholz as a useful idiot to take Germany out of the equation.” https://t.co/HHmQKxyfmo
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) March 12, 2024
Prions pour la paix en République démocratique du Congo, ainsi qu’en Ukraine martyrisée et en Terre Sainte. Que les hostilités qui causent d’immenses souffrances à la population civile cessent au plus vite.#TPMP #Quotidien #AN #Putin #Moscow pic.twitter.com/ttHuzNA2Qr
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Hoho, #Putin is nog door het Koninklijk Huis en VVD’er #Rutte paar jaar geleden uitgenodigd om 300 jaar samenwerking Rusland- Nederland samen te vieren!
Russische militairen hebben in 1813 Napoleon verdreven en Nederland een Koninkrijk gegeven en hen Oranje genoemd pic.twitter.com/HDoEgfXw5i
— Analist.2022 (@boofketimo) March 12, 2024
⚡️”#Putin wants a pause in the war to gather strength,” President Volodymyr #Zelensky said in an interview with Cinque minuti.
The President also added that the Russians also lack experienced soldiers who died on the battlefield. pic.twitter.com/mYMln5tV4e
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) March 8, 2024
#TRE45ON would end the #UkraineRussianWar in a day by giving #Ukraine to #Putin. That’s called #Appeasement. #ComradeTrump, @TuckerCarlson, #MAGAMikeJohnson and the other #MAGARepublicans are #UsefulIdiots. pic.twitter.com/MAC4vjntNy
— CHUNTERKAP (@chunterkap) March 10, 2024
Sketch from eyewitness photo.
A child, wearing Batman pajamas, murdered in their bed by #Putin #Russia in #Odessa #Ukraine .
This little life was someone’s everything.
Evil exists.#PutinWarCriminal @IAPonomarenko @johnsweeneyroar @reflextv @RonanLTynan @badiucao pic.twitter.com/C0CbcHWhP0— Marc Nelson 🌊 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 (@Marcnelsonart) March 5, 2024
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MOSCOW, March 6 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday said that Russia will not meddle in the November U.S. presidential election, and dismissed American findings that Moscow orchestrated campaigns to sway both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections.
President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since the last day of 1999, has dropped a series of ironic remarks about the U.S. election, saying that he finds Joe Biden preferable as the next U.S. president to Donald Trump.
“We never interfered in elections in the United States,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a lecture to students on stereotypes about Russia, occasionally slipping into English.
“And this time, we do not intend to interfere… We do not dictate to anyone how to live – but we don’t want others to dictate to us,” Peskov said.
Peskov said any attempt from abroad to interfere in Russia’s presidential election later this month would be prevented. Russia, he said, did not care about Western criticism of the vote which Putin, barring an unexpected development, is certain to win.
A 2019 report by U.S. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, opens new tab found that Russia had “interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion” while U.S. intelligence believes Russia interfered in the 2020 election.
In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report, opens new tab saying that Putin had authorised a range of influence operations aimed at denigrating Biden’s candidacy and supporting Trump while undermining public confidence.
The United States last year released a U.S. intelligence assessment that found Moscow was using spies, social media and Russian state-run media to erode public faith in the integrity of democratic elections worldwide.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow, Russia December 7, 2023. Sputnik/Sergei Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
The war in Ukraine has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Putin has warned that the West risks provoking a nuclear war if it sends troops to fight in Ukraine.
Peskov, Putin’s spokesman since 2008, said that relations with the United States had probably never been worse.
But he said Russia did not see Americans as enemies and said that the world’s two biggest nuclear powers had special responsibility to ensure global strategic security.
Relations “have probably never been worse. America is fighting against us,” Peskov said.
He said U.S. tanks were being destroyed by Russian forces in Ukraine and said U.S. aircraft would suffer the same fate if sent to Ukraine.
After Putin sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in 2022, the West slapped what it said were the toughest sanctions ever imposed on a major economy.
The sanctions “do not hurt us,” Peskov said.
On the contrary, he said, they had led to an “internal mobilisation” of the economy and society. Peskov said Russian economic growth of 3.6% last year showed the sanctions had failed.
Asked what the future held for Russia, Peskov said it would not be easy because the tectonic plates of geopolitics were shifting. But Russia, he said, would remain open to the world.
Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge
Editing by Andrew Osborn
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As Moscow bureau chief, Guy runs coverage of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Before Moscow, Guy ran Brexit coverage as London bureau chief (2012-2022). On the night of Brexit, his team delivered one of Reuters historic wins – reporting news of Brexit first to the world and the financial markets. Guy graduated from the London School of Economics and started his career as an intern at Bloomberg. He has spent over 14 years covering the former Soviet Union. He speaks fluent Russian.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech in front of the monument “Fatherland, Valor, Honor” near the headquarters of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR), in Moscow, Russia June 30, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
MOSCOW, March 11 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence service on Monday accused the United States of trying to meddle in Russia’s presidential election and said that Washington even had plans to launch a cyber attack on the online voting system.
Putin, who is almost certain to win the March 15-17 presidential election, has warned the West that any attempts by foreign powers to meddle in the ballot would be considered an act of aggression.
Russia’s SVR Foreign Intelligence Service said in a statement it had information that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration had set out to meddle in the election, state media reported.
“According to information received by the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, the administration of J. Biden is setting a task for American NGOs to achieve a decrease in turnout,” the SVR was cited as saying.
“With the participation of leading American IT specialists, it is planned to carry out cyber attacks on the remote electronic voting system, which will make it impossible to count the votes of a significant proportion of Russian voters,” the SVR said.
The SVR, the main successor to the KGB’s First Directorate foreign spying service, did not set out any evidence for its assertions. There was no immediate reaction from Washington.
The West casts Putin as a dictator, a war criminal and a killer who has led Russia into an imperial-style land grab that has weakened Russia and forged Ukrainian statehood, while uniting the West and handing NATO a post-Cold War mission.
Putin casts the Ukraine war as an existential battle between a “sacred” Russian civilisation and an arrogant West which he says is in cultural, political and economic decline and which sought to humiliate Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin last week said that Russia will not meddle in the November U.S. presidential election, and dismissed American findings that Moscow orchestrated campaigns to sway both the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections.
Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since the last day of 1999, has dropped a series of ironic remarks about the U.S. election, saying that he finds Joe Biden preferable as the next U.S. president to Donald Trump.
Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge
Editing by Andrew Osborn
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