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Everything, everywhere, all at once with Hill flurry of activity on Section 702
You can tell from the frenzy of activity this week that we’re nearing the endgame for Congress to act on renewing robust but divisive surveillance powers set to expire at year’s end.
Just look at everything happening this week on the eavesdropping program known as Section 702, which allows bulk warrantless snooping on foreign targets — an authority national security officials say is essential to defending against cyberattacks and more, but that critics worry about how it treats Americans communicating with those foreign targets:
- On Monday, two national security officials wrote a letter to key lawmakers making its case for renewal that includes some changes but not all of those favored by privacy advocates.
- On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray emphasized the usefulness of the program even as some lawmakers challenged him on how best to overhaul it.
- Legislation co-sponsored by the top members of the House Judiciary Committee introduced the latest of several proposals for reauthorization, this one more up the alley of civil liberties groups. Today, the panel will take up that legislation in a markup session.
- The House Intelligence Committee, meanwhile, is slated to consider its leaders’ own version of the renewal legislation.
- All the while, House and Senate leadership are trying to figure out options for a possible short-term extension.
The administration arguments (and rebuttals)
“There is no way to replicate Section 702’s speed, reliability, specificity, and insight, and every day it helps protect Americans from a host of new and emerging threats to include weapons of mass destruction, malicious cyber activity, illicit international fentanyl trafficking, hostile state behavior from China and Russia, and more,” Carlos Felipe Uriart, assistant attorney general, and Matthew Rhoades, assistant director of national intelligence, wrote Monday to a list of lawmakers in both the House and Senate who hold power over the fate of Section 702.
- “Though perhaps less evident, the loss of Section 702 would have an equally devastating impact on the ability of U.S. diplomats to advance and promote American interests and values in the world,” wrote Brett Holmgren, the Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, in Semafor.
Like Uriart and Rhoades did in their letter, Wray argued before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the warrant requirement for querying the communications of Americans — a much-desired addition to the program for privacy hawks — would inhibit the program’s effectiveness, including on cybersecurity.
“702 allowed the FBI to alert more than 300 victims in every state and countries around the world” about a cyberattack, he testified as one example. “Many of those crucial victim notifications were made possible by our ability to conduct U.S. person queries of our existing 702 collection.”
The FBI declined to provide further information on that cyberattack.
Wray’s message was not well-received by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who evoked parallels to other warrant requirements for U.S. communications and took particular umbrage to Wray saying a warrant requirement for U.S. person queries would amount to “unilateral disarmament.”
“You have a lot of gall, sir,” Lee said. “This is disgraceful. The Fourth Amendment requires more than that and you know it.” (On the other side, 702’s boosters say warrants aren’t required for 702, and they point to a federal judge’s opinion from earlier this year on the Fourth Amendment implications.)
Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) left things somewhat more ambiguous on where he stood, only saying that he wouldn’t support a reauthorization of Section 702 without undescribed “significant reforms” to protect “innocent Americans from warrantless surveillance.”
Dueling bills
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee offered legislation last week that stopped short of the warrant requirement for U.S. person queries, leaving national security officials open to the proposal but program skeptics still, well, skeptical.
Now a bill backed by the likewise-bipartisan leaders of the House Judiciary Committee is on the table, too, and that measure notably does include such a warrant requirement. It also includes provisions tied to other Fourth Amendment concerns, such as seeking to prevent feds from being able to purchase Americans’ data from tech companies without a warrant.
- “America’s intelligence community continues to conduct a warrantless, mass surveillance campaign on innocent citizens,” said lead sponsor Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), pointing to past abuses under the existing law. “My legislation addresses numerous loopholes in federal law to end this unconstitutional practice and to ensure rogue agents are held accountable.”
Prominent privacy and civil liberties groups praised the legislation, as did Hill sponsors of an earlier, similar measure. Today, the Judiciary panel will consider what to do with the bill.
Following quickly on the House Judiciary panel’s heels, the House Intelligence Committee is slated to take up another version of the bill on Thursday. The legislation is expected to be closer to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bill, including on how it handles warrants.
Last but not least, a short-term extension of Section 702 might be on deck while everyone undertakes the likely-messy work of trying to reconcile all these different ideas. For weeks, how such legislation might become law — Attached to a bill to prevent a federal government shutdown? Hitching a ride on the annual defense policy bill? — has been the subject of speculation and rumors (and maybe “trial balloons” to see what would be workable). The latest: A potential showdown on the House floor, Politico reports.
The keys
Governments used push notifications to spy on users, Wyden says
Foreign governments have been demanding information on users’ smartphone push notifications, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a letter to the Justice Department, as reported by Reuters’s Raphael Satter.
Most push notifications travel on Apple and Google servers. The companies are “in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps,” Wyden said. He asked the Justice Department to “repeal or modify any policies” that restricted such surveillance from being discussed publicly.
- “Wyden’s letter cited a ‘tip’ as the source of the information about the surveillance,” Satter writes. “His staff did not elaborate on the tip, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.”
- Wyden’s source didn’t identify the governments that made the requests, but “described them as democracies allied to the United States,” Satter writes. “The source said they did not know how long such information had been gathered in that way.”
- In a statement to Reuters, Apple said that “In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” and added that “Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”
- The Justice Department didn’t respond to Reuters’ requests for comment on the surveillance or whether it restricted Apple or Google from discussing it. Google didn’t respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Even with Tuberville military lift, a key cyber nominee remains stalled
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) lift on blanket military holds announced yesterday is giving a temporary sigh of relief for key Pentagon nominations, though at least one key cyber post still faces hurdles.
The 10-month holds imposed by Tuberville in protest of the Defense Department’s abortion care policies threw a wrench on hundreds of military nominations, with a handful of them falling on cybersecurity positions.
- Reactions poured in from various lawmakers, as well as President Biden, who called the decision “long overdue” and said the delay was “pointless.”
But the lifts do not cover all nominees. Tuberville said around 10 promotions at the four-star rank would still remain held. That means Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was tapped to lead the NSA and Cybercom, appears to remain in limbo. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the incumbent, is due to leave as the longest-serving leader of Cyber Command and said he would depart as soon as Haugh gets confirmed.
- But even if rankings did not factor in, Haugh still would have faced an ongoing hold recently imposed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) over whether the Pentagon publicly acknowledges whether the NSA buys Americans’ location data from data brokers.
The blocks have created a pileup of lower-ranking cybersecurity nominees in both Cybercom and the NSA, as the Record’s Martin Matishak reported.
AI-generated Russian propaganda not finding audience, report says
An AI-generated Kremlin propaganda campaign aimed at swaying online discourse on Russia’s war in Ukraine and other geopolitics is failing to substantially reach an audience, CyberScoop’s Elias Groll reports, citing research from Recorded Future.
As Groll writes, the Russian propaganda group dubbed “Doppelganger” appears to have “stood up a fake news outlet and used generative AI to write articles with a generally anti-Western, pro-Russian slant.”
- CyberScoop adds: “Dubbed Election Watch, the website poses as an English-language news outlet and summarizes negative news articles featuring President Joe Biden, such as his struggles to convince Congress to provide additional funding for Ukraine and his dropping levels of support among Arab Americans amid his staunch support of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas.”
Measuring the exact reach of the site is hard to do, but Recorded Future Insikt Group analyst Brian Liston said the reach of that content is “negligible.”
- Social media accounts shared and posted content from the site, but “at most we were only seeing a handful or so of views per post … and even fewer engagements,” Liston said.
Groll later adds: “While nation states are indeed embracing AI-generated content, getting that content to break through to mainstream audiences is another challenge all together. Doing so probably requires gaining traction on platforms with large audiences. But those platforms, such as Facebook, have grown more sophisticated at monitoring state-backed propaganda campaigns.”
- Meta recently said it removed thousands of Facebook accounts in what it deemed to be a Chinese foreign influence campaign that was impersonating Americans on headline-making election issues like health care and abortion.
- But as our colleagues recently reported, the company and other social platforms have stopped receiving warnings from the U.S. government on foreign influence matters as the Supreme Court is expected to decide whether the Biden administration ran afoul of the First Amendment by communicating with social media about removing posts online.
Government scan
Securing the ballot
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Global cyberspace
Privacy patch
Daybook
- The Intelligence and National Security Alliance convenes a discussion on AI use cases in the intelligence community at 8 a.m.
- The House Judiciary Committee considers a bill to amend warrant requirements in Section 702 of FISA at 10 a.m.
- The Atlantic Council holds a discussion on global election misinformation risks in 2024 at 3 p.m.
- The Institute of World Politics holds a seminar on cyber critical infrastructure at 6 p.m.
The congressional free-for-all over 702 is well underway
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! Back in the saddle. Thanks to Ellen and David for keeping the beat going while I was gone.
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Below: A key cyber nominee remains stalled after military holds lift, and AI-generated Russian propaganda isn’t finding an audience. First:
Everything, everywhere, all at once with Hill flurry of activity on Section 702
You can tell from the frenzy of activity this week that we’re nearing the endgame for Congress to act on renewing robust but divisive surveillance powers set to expire at year’s end.
Just look at everything happening this week on the eavesdropping program known as Section 702, which allows bulk warrantless snooping on foreign targets — an authority national security officials say is essential to defending against cyberattacks and more, but that critics worry about how it treats Americans communicating with those foreign targets:
- On Monday, two national security officials wrote a letter to key lawmakers making its case for renewal that includes some changes but not all of those favored by privacy advocates.
- On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray emphasized the usefulness of the program even as some lawmakers challenged him on how best to overhaul it.
- Legislation co-sponsored by the top members of the House Judiciary Committee introduced the latest of several proposals for reauthorization, this one more up the alley of civil liberties groups. Today, the panel will take up that legislation in a markup session.
- The House Intelligence Committee, meanwhile, is slated to consider its leaders’ own version of the renewal legislation.
- All the while, House and Senate leadership are trying to figure out options for a possible short-term extension.
The administration arguments (and rebuttals)
“There is no way to replicate Section 702’s speed, reliability, specificity, and insight, and every day it helps protect Americans from a host of new and emerging threats to include weapons of mass destruction, malicious cyber activity, illicit international fentanyl trafficking, hostile state behavior from China and Russia, and more,” Carlos Felipe Uriart, assistant attorney general, and Matthew Rhoades, assistant director of national intelligence, wrote Monday to a list of lawmakers in both the House and Senate who hold power over the fate of Section 702.
- “Though perhaps less evident, the loss of Section 702 would have an equally devastating impact on the ability of U.S. diplomats to advance and promote American interests and values in the world,” wrote Brett Holmgren, the Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, in Semafor.
Like Uriart and Rhoades did in their letter, Wray argued before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the warrant requirement for querying the communications of Americans — a much-desired addition to the program for privacy hawks — would inhibit the program’s effectiveness, including on cybersecurity.
“702 allowed the FBI to alert more than 300 victims in every state and countries around the world” about a cyberattack, he testified as one example. “Many of those crucial victim notifications were made possible by our ability to conduct U.S. person queries of our existing 702 collection.”
The FBI declined to provide further information on that cyberattack.
Wray’s message was not well-received by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who evoked parallels to other warrant requirements for U.S. communications and took particular umbrage to Wray saying a warrant requirement for U.S. person queries would amount to “unilateral disarmament.”
“You have a lot of gall, sir,” Lee said. “This is disgraceful. The Fourth Amendment requires more than that and you know it.” (On the other side, 702’s boosters say warrants aren’t required for 702, and they point to a federal judge’s opinion from earlier this year on the Fourth Amendment implications.)
Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) left things somewhat more ambiguous on where he stood, only saying that he wouldn’t support a reauthorization of Section 702 without undescribed “significant reforms” to protect “innocent Americans from warrantless surveillance.”
Dueling bills
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee offered legislation last week that stopped short of the warrant requirement for U.S. person queries, leaving national security officials open to the proposal but program skeptics still, well, skeptical.
Now a bill backed by the likewise-bipartisan leaders of the House Judiciary Committee is on the table, too, and that measure notably does include such a warrant requirement. It also includes provisions tied to other Fourth Amendment concerns, such as seeking to prevent feds from being able to purchase Americans’ data from tech companies without a warrant.
- “America’s intelligence community continues to conduct a warrantless, mass surveillance campaign on innocent citizens,” said lead sponsor Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), pointing to past abuses under the existing law. “My legislation addresses numerous loopholes in federal law to end this unconstitutional practice and to ensure rogue agents are held accountable.”
Prominent privacy and civil liberties groups praised the legislation, as did Hill sponsors of an earlier, similar measure. Today, the Judiciary panel will consider what to do with the bill.
Following quickly on the House Judiciary panel’s heels, the House Intelligence Committee is slated to take up another version of the bill on Thursday. The legislation is expected to be closer to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bill, including on how it handles warrants.
Last but not least, a short-term extension of Section 702 might be on deck while everyone undertakes the likely-messy work of trying to reconcile all these different ideas. For weeks, how such legislation might become law — Attached to a bill to prevent a federal government shutdown? Hitching a ride on the annual defense policy bill? — has been the subject of speculation and rumors (and maybe “trial balloons” to see what would be workable). The latest: A potential showdown on the House floor, Politico reports.
The keys
Governments used push notifications to spy on users, Wyden says
Foreign governments have been demanding information on users’ smartphone push notifications, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a letter to the Justice Department, as reported by Reuters’s Raphael Satter.
Most push notifications travel on Apple and Google servers. The companies are “in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps,” Wyden said. He asked the Justice Department to “repeal or modify any policies” that restricted such surveillance from being discussed publicly.
- “Wyden’s letter cited a ‘tip’ as the source of the information about the surveillance,” Satter writes. “His staff did not elaborate on the tip, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.”
- Wyden’s source didn’t identify the governments that made the requests, but “described them as democracies allied to the United States,” Satter writes. “The source said they did not know how long such information had been gathered in that way.”
- In a statement to Reuters, Apple said that “In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” and added that “Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”
- The Justice Department didn’t respond to Reuters’ requests for comment on the surveillance or whether it restricted Apple or Google from discussing it. Google didn’t respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Even with Tuberville military lift, a key cyber nominee remains stalled
Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) lift on blanket military holds announced yesterday is giving a temporary sigh of relief for key Pentagon nominations, though at least one key cyber post still faces hurdles.
The 10-month holds imposed by Tuberville in protest of the Defense Department’s abortion care policies threw a wrench on hundreds of military nominations, with a handful of them falling on cybersecurity positions.
- Reactions poured in from various lawmakers, as well as President Biden, who called the decision “long overdue” and said the delay was “pointless.”
But the lifts do not cover all nominees. Tuberville said around 10 promotions at the four-star rank would still remain held. That means Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was tapped to lead the NSA and Cybercom, appears to remain in limbo. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the incumbent, is due to leave as the longest-serving leader of Cyber Command and said he would depart as soon as Haugh gets confirmed.
- But even if rankings did not factor in, Haugh still would have faced an ongoing hold recently imposed by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) over whether the Pentagon publicly acknowledges whether the NSA buys Americans’ location data from data brokers.
The blocks have created a pileup of lower-ranking cybersecurity nominees in both Cybercom and the NSA, as the Record’s Martin Matishak reported.
AI-generated Russian propaganda not finding audience, report says
An AI-generated Kremlin propaganda campaign aimed at swaying online discourse on Russia’s war in Ukraine and other geopolitics is failing to substantially reach an audience, CyberScoop’s Elias Groll reports, citing research from Recorded Future.
As Groll writes, the Russian propaganda group dubbed “Doppelganger” appears to have “stood up a fake news outlet and used generative AI to write articles with a generally anti-Western, pro-Russian slant.”
- CyberScoop adds: “Dubbed Election Watch, the website poses as an English-language news outlet and summarizes negative news articles featuring President Joe Biden, such as his struggles to convince Congress to provide additional funding for Ukraine and his dropping levels of support among Arab Americans amid his staunch support of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas.”
Measuring the exact reach of the site is hard to do, but Recorded Future Insikt Group analyst Brian Liston said the reach of that content is “negligible.”
- Social media accounts shared and posted content from the site, but “at most we were only seeing a handful or so of views per post … and even fewer engagements,” Liston said.
Groll later adds: “While nation states are indeed embracing AI-generated content, getting that content to break through to mainstream audiences is another challenge all together. Doing so probably requires gaining traction on platforms with large audiences. But those platforms, such as Facebook, have grown more sophisticated at monitoring state-backed propaganda campaigns.”
- Meta recently said it removed thousands of Facebook accounts in what it deemed to be a Chinese foreign influence campaign that was impersonating Americans on headline-making election issues like health care and abortion.
- But as our colleagues recently reported, the company and other social platforms have stopped receiving warnings from the U.S. government on foreign influence matters as the Supreme Court is expected to decide whether the Biden administration ran afoul of the First Amendment by communicating with social media about removing posts online.
Government scan
Securing the ballot
Industry report
Global cyberspace
Privacy patch
Daybook
- The Intelligence and National Security Alliance convenes a discussion on AI use cases in the intelligence community at 8 a.m.
- The House Judiciary Committee considers a bill to amend warrant requirements in Section 702 of FISA at 10 a.m.
- The Atlantic Council holds a discussion on global election misinformation risks in 2024 at 3 p.m.
- The Institute of World Politics holds a seminar on cyber critical infrastructure at 6 p.m.
Four Russians become first charged under US war crimes act

The U.S. is bringing its first-ever charges of war crimes against four Russian military personnel for atrocities committed against an American citizen in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges Wednesday, unsealing an indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia.
“Congress passed the U.S. war crimes statute nearly 30 years ago, to give us jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes committed against American citizens abroad,” Garland said in a press conference announcing the charges.
“In an indictment returned yesterday in the Eastern District of Virginia, we have charged four Russia affiliated military personnel with war crimes against an American citizen living in Ukraine. The charges include conspiracy to commit war crimes, including war crimes outlawed by the international community after World War Two, unlawful confinement, torture, and inhuman treatment.”
Updated at 10:28 a.m.
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MOSCOW, Dec 6 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin was escorted to the Middle East by four Russian fighter jets on Wednesday for a rare trip abroad, during which he will discuss oil, Gaza and Ukraine with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Putin’s meeting with the prince known as MbS comes after oil prices fell despite a pledge by OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies led by Russia, to further cut output.
The Kremlin chief’s plane was flanked by Sukhoi-35S fighter jets, which the defence ministry showed flying beside his Ilyushin-96 aircraft from Russia to the United Arab Emirates.
In Abu Dhabi, President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan welcomed his “dear friend” and UAE jets greeted the Kremlin chief with a fly-past trailing the colours of Russia’s flag.
“Our relations, largely due to your position, have reached an unprecedentedly high level,” Putin told him. “The UAE is Russia’s main trading partner in the Arab world.”
The Russian delegation includes top oil, economy, foreign affairs, space and nuclear energy officials.
Putin said Russia and the UAE cooperated as part of OPEC+, whose members pump more than 40% of the world’s oil, adding that they would discuss the Israeli-Hamas conflict and Ukraine.
After the UAE, Putin is due to travel to Saudi Arabia for his first face-to-face meeting with MbS since October 2019. His last visit to the region was in July 2022, when he met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran.
It was not immediately clear what Putin, who has rarely left Russia since the start of the Ukraine war, intends to raise specifically about oil or geopolitics with the crown prince of the world’s largest crude exporter.
The trip to meet MbS, just days after a key OPEC+ meeting was delayed, appeared rushed. One source had told Reuters beforehand that MbS had plans to visit Moscow.
Putin, who last visited the region in mid-2022, is due to host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow on Thursday.
[1/4]President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates December 6, 2023. Sputnik/Sergei Savostyanov/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensing Rights
The Kremlin said that as well as oil, Putin and MbS would talk about the war between Israel and Hamas, the situation in Syria and Yemen, and issues such as ensuring stability in the Gulf, while an aide said Ukraine would also be discussed.
Putin and MbS, who together control one-fifth of the oil pumped each day, have long enjoyed close relations, though both have at times been ostracised by the West.
At a G20 summit in 2018, just two month after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a Saudi consulate, Putin and MbS high-fived and shook hands with smiles.
MbS, 38, has sought to reassert Saudi Arabia as a regional power with less deference to the United States, which supplies Riyadh with most of its weapons and which is the world’s top producer of oil.
Putin, who sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, says Russia is engaged in an existential battle with the West – and has courted allies across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia amid Western attempts to isolate Moscow.
Both MbS and Putin, 71, want – and need – high prices for oil – the lifeblood of their economies. The question for both, is how much of the burden each should take on to keep prices aloft – and how to verify the burden.
OPEC+
OPEC+ last month delayed its meeting by several days due to disagreements over production levels. Saudi’s energy minister said OPEC+ also wanted more assurances from Moscow it would make good on its pledge to reduce fuel exports.
Relations between Saudi and Russia in OPEC+ have at times been uneasy and a deal on cuts almost broke down in March 2020, with markets already shaken by the onset of the COVID pandemic.
But the two managed to patch up their relations within weeks and OPEC+ agreed to record cuts of almost 10% of global demand.
Since war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October, Putin has cast the conflict as a failure of U.S. policy in the Middle East and has fostered ties with Arab allies and Iran, as well as with the militant Palestinian group.
Editing by Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn, Bernadette Baum and Alexander Smith
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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. Contact: +447825218698

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PUTINS KRIEG: Brückenkopf bei Krynky! – “Russische Kriegsblogger beschreiben das so”
Mehr als 21 Monate nach Beginn des Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat sich Russlands Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu zum Wintereinbruch zufrieden mit dem derzeitigen Frontgeschehen gezeigt. «Unsere Soldaten (…) nehmen eine vorteilhaftere Position ein und erweitern die Kontrollzonen in alle Richtungen», sagte Schoigu am Freitag. Auch westliche Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine könnten die Lage auf dem Schlachtfeld nicht wesentlich verändern, behauptete er.
Russland, das am 24. Februar 2022 ins Nachbarland einmarschiert ist, hat in den vergangenen Monaten immer wieder militärische Niederlagen hinnehmen müssen. Derzeit aber gibt es vermehrt Berichte, dass ukrainische Einheiten vor allem im Osten ihres Landes stark unter dem Druck russischer Angriffe stünden. Zugleich hat die Ukraine im südlichen Gebiet Cherson, das sie in Teilen bereits wieder aus russischer Besatzung befreit hat, kleinere Erfolge zu verzeichnen. Vor einigen Wochen gelang ukrainischen Soldaten dort das Übersetzen auf das besetzte linke Ufer des Flusses Dnipro.
Der ukrainische Generalstab berichtete am Freitag von rund zwei Dutzend russischen Attacken vor allem südlich der Stadt Bachmut im östlichen Donezker Gebiet. Zugleich hieß es, dass ukrainische Einheiten auch zu Gegenangriffen angesetzt hätten. Zudem seien nördlich und südlich von Awdijiwka ebenfalls fast zwei Dutzend russische Angriffe abgewehrt worden. Über Kämpfe wurde auch bei Kupjansk im Gebiet Charkiw und bei den Dörfern Robotyne und Werbowe im Gebiet Saporischschja berichtet.
Im Gebiet Cherson seien die ukrainischen Soldaten weiter auf dem südlichen Ufer des Dnipro präsent. Ukrainische Stellungen im Dorf Krynky seien aus der Luft bombardiert worden. Insgesamt wurden dem Bericht zufolge mehr als 130 ukrainische Ortschaften in acht Gebieten durch russische Artillerie beschossen. Russische Luftangriffe seien in den Gebieten Charkiw, Donezk und Cherson geflogen worden.
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В Армии обороны Израиля заявили о “самом напряженном дне” с начала операции в Секторе Газа. В ВОЗ говорят, что ситуация для мирных жителей ухудшается с каждым часом.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address U.S. senators by video Tuesday during a classified briefing as the Biden administration urges Congress to approve the White House’s nearly $106 billion request for funds for the wars in Ukraine, Israel and other security needs. Jamil Jaffer discusses how support for Ukraine will benefit the U.S., too.
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PUTINS KRIEG: Brückenkopf bei Krynky! – “Russische Kriegsblogger beschreiben das so”
Mehr als 21 Monate nach Beginn des Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat sich Russlands Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu zum Wintereinbruch zufrieden mit dem derzeitigen Frontgeschehen gezeigt. «Unsere Soldaten (…) nehmen eine vorteilhaftere Position ein und erweitern die Kontrollzonen in alle Richtungen», sagte Schoigu am Freitag. Auch westliche Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine könnten die Lage auf dem Schlachtfeld nicht wesentlich verändern, behauptete er.
Russland, das am 24. Februar 2022 ins Nachbarland einmarschiert ist, hat in den vergangenen Monaten immer wieder militärische Niederlagen hinnehmen müssen. Derzeit aber gibt es vermehrt Berichte, dass ukrainische Einheiten vor allem im Osten ihres Landes stark unter dem Druck russischer Angriffe stünden. Zugleich hat die Ukraine im südlichen Gebiet Cherson, das sie in Teilen bereits wieder aus russischer Besatzung befreit hat, kleinere Erfolge zu verzeichnen. Vor einigen Wochen gelang ukrainischen Soldaten dort das Übersetzen auf das besetzte linke Ufer des Flusses Dnipro.
Der ukrainische Generalstab berichtete am Freitag von rund zwei Dutzend russischen Attacken vor allem südlich der Stadt Bachmut im östlichen Donezker Gebiet. Zugleich hieß es, dass ukrainische Einheiten auch zu Gegenangriffen angesetzt hätten. Zudem seien nördlich und südlich von Awdijiwka ebenfalls fast zwei Dutzend russische Angriffe abgewehrt worden. Über Kämpfe wurde auch bei Kupjansk im Gebiet Charkiw und bei den Dörfern Robotyne und Werbowe im Gebiet Saporischschja berichtet.
Im Gebiet Cherson seien die ukrainischen Soldaten weiter auf dem südlichen Ufer des Dnipro präsent. Ukrainische Stellungen im Dorf Krynky seien aus der Luft bombardiert worden. Insgesamt wurden dem Bericht zufolge mehr als 130 ukrainische Ortschaften in acht Gebieten durch russische Artillerie beschossen. Russische Luftangriffe seien in den Gebieten Charkiw, Donezk und Cherson geflogen worden.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed dissatisfaction with the deteriorating relations between Russia and Western countries during a Kremlin ceremony where he accepted the credentials of new ambassadors. The strained ties, exacerbated by Russia’s offensive against Ukraine, were evident as Putin swore in diplomats from countries such as Britain and Germany, both of which have faced tensions with Moscow. Putin acknowledged the challenging times due to Western sanctions imposed on Russia and highlighted historical relations with the UK, expressing hope for improvement. He also lamented Germany’s reduced reliance on Russian energy and addressed strained communication with Sweden, which is preparing to join NATO. Additionally, Putin expressed regret over strained ties with South Korea, signaling a willingness to improve relations. The diplomatic exchanges underscored the complex geopolitical landscape and ongoing challenges in Russia’s foreign relations.
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The surprise attack launched by Hamas on Israel has thrown the region into an unprecedented level of military escalation. Hamas’s army wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, infiltrated into Israel, breaching the southern border, and a bloodbath followed. According to the latest reports, Hamas terrorists had detailed maps of locations in Israel, including its military bases, hinting that the group’s assault was a long-prepared one.
A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report revealed that the Hamas terrorists had a well-prepared infiltration route map, along with detailed maps of the towns and military bases that they targeted. Some of them had tactical guides identifying weak spots, showing the scale of planning behind the deadly attack.
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“Taken together, the documents indicate that Hamas set out from the start to target not just military installations, but to attack civilian population centres and to take hostages,” the Wall Street Journal report stated.
A map recovered from an Israeli site attacked by Hamas. | Photo: South First Responders via Wall Street Journal
Some of the documents even mentioned the number of civilians in the Israeli areas, provided detailed descriptions of the kibbutz (a Jewish settlement), and included estimates of when the Israeli army could arrive.
A 14-page document in Arabic, titled “Top Secret” and dated June 15, 2023, was also recovered from the Hamas terrorists. It described the plan to infiltrate a kibbutz and take its residents as hostages. The document also contains details of the deployment of Hamas operatives for various operations, referred to as “Hour S, Day Y”.
The Wall Street Journal quoted Michael Milshtein, a former Israeli military intelligence officer, who pointed out that this level of planning by Hamas had not been seen before. “There is nothing close to this level of planning in any of the steps Hamas had taken in the past,'” he told the newspaper.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists launched missile attacks against Israel from Gaza, and their operatives entered southern Israel, killing several citizens and taking many as hostages. In retaliation, Israel declared a ‘state of war’ and announced Operation ‘Iron Swords’ in Gaza. The attack has resulted in thousands of casualties on both sides.






