Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was once the richest man in Russia before spending 10 years in prison for going against Vladimir Putin, speaks with CNN's Erin Burnett about the Russian president's mindset and the state of the country's military a month into the war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials have alleged that on July 17, 2014, a phone call was
made at 4:40 p.m. Kyiv time, 20 minutes after the crash of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 MH17,
by Bezler who reports to a person identified by Ukraine’s SBU as Vasili Geranin, a colonel in the main intelligence department of the general
headquarters of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, regarding
the shooting down of a plane that fell beyond a city of Yenakievo
July 10th post 2014 Former Putin adviser Andrey Illarionov,
senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, estimates that
at least 2,000 Russian intelligence officials are operating in eastern
Ukraine
According to
this purported report about the March referendum to annex Crimea, the
turnout of Crimean voters was only 30 percent. And of these, only half
voted for the referendum–meaning only 15 percent of Crimean citizens
voted for annexation.
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international diplomatic crisis between Georgia and Russia began in
2008, ..... reveal the details of a planned military invasion of South
Ossetia by Georgia to ...Events in 2008 - Events in 2009
🇺🇦FM @DmytroKuleba: It has already been one month since #Ukraine has been resisting #Russia's full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian people stood up. Our army foiled the blitzkrieg.
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UN News Russian attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine could be a war crime: UN rights office