New footage of Paul Whelan, the Marine turned safety government serving a 16-year jail time period in Russia for espionage fees he and the United States deny, was printed by a Russian state-controlled information outlet. His brother, David Whelan, advised a information outlet in Detroit that the video was his first glimpse of Paul since 2020, and that he appeared decided and robust.
Here’s the newest on the war and its ripple results throughout the globe.
Poland and the Baltic nations threatened to shut their border crossings with Belarus over safety and immigration considerations. “If there is a critical incident, regardless of whether it is at the Polish or Lithuanian border, we will retaliate immediately. All border crossings that have been opened so far will be closed,” Kaminski stated on the information convention Monday, in accordance to a Reuters translation. The inside ministers accused Belarus of having “triggered and artificially sustained” migration that the nations — all of whom are members of NATO and the European Union — deemed unlawful.
The video of Whelan, printed by Russia Today, appeared to present him consuming lunch and finishing numerous duties round a penal colony whereas carrying a black uniform. Whelan was arrested in Moscow in late 2018 on fees of espionage. He was sentenced in June 2020, and the Biden administration has stated it’s working to negotiate his launch.
Russia’s Federal Security Service stated Monday that it plans to interrogate two U.S. diplomats, after charging a former consulate staffer with “cooperation on a confidential basis with a foreign state,” The Washington Post reported. The diplomats had been accused of directing the previous worker, Robert Shonov — a Russian citizen who labored on the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok — to collect details about the war in Ukraine.
Ukraine plans to order a compulsory evacuation of all youngsters from the Vasylivskyi and Pologivskyi districts within the Zaporizhzhia area, Ukrainian state media reported. More than 1,400 individuals, together with 343 youngsters, have additionally been evacuated from hazard zones within the Kupyansk district since Aug. 9, the Kharkiv regional governor stated in Telegram put up Monday.
Ukrainian forces took management of the village of Robotyne within the Zaporizhzhia area, in accordance to the nation’s deputy protection minister, Hanna Maliar. She stated Ukrainian troops had been additionally advancing southeast of Robotyne, which might deliver them nearer to a Russian-held transportation hub on the best way to the besieged metropolis of Melitopol, a key goal in Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t attend the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi subsequent month, Russia’s Interfax information company reported, citing a readout from a name with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Russia stated it noticed two U.S. drones over the Black Sea, close to Crimea, on Monday. The Russian Defense Ministry stated on Telegram that the 2 unmanned aerial automobiles belonged to the U.S. Air Force and that it deployed two fighter jets earlier than the drones in the end modified course. Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti information company earlier stated {that a} U.S. drone was detected flying over the Black Sea on Sunday. The Post couldn’t independently confirm the studies.
Putin, stained by Prigozhin’s dying, faces requires army funeral: The Kremlin on Monday stated a choice on funerals for Prigozhin and different Wagner Group members who died in a airplane crash final week rested largely with their households, and that it’s unclear whether or not the Russian president would attend a ceremony. The questions over how the airplane crash victims can be honored underscore persevering with divisions inside Russia’s elite over the war and the dangers posed by hard-line pro-war “turbo-patriots” who’ve demanded a harsher strategy in opposition to Ukraine, Robyn Dixon studies.
As the Kremlin weighed the hazards of potential unrest if Putin doesn’t give Prigozhin and Wagner their due as war “heroes,” Kremlin propagandists fanned competing theories concerning the trigger of the crash, apparently designed to tamp down suspicions in Russian society that Prigozhin was assassinated. Western intelligence companies have thus far assessed that the airplane went down after an onboard explosion.
