Ukraine News. Saturday 25 August. [Ukrainian sources]

SATURDAY HEADLINES:
In Russia, they said that Kiev was rescued by US sanctions from the invasion of Putin's troops.  CIA informants in Russia stopped going to the connection.  American senators demanded all encryption and recording of negotiations between Trump and Putin.  Before the US elections, Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Twitter will hold a private meeting.  Putin boasted a technique for suppressing protests.  Russians threaten to place their nuclear weapons in Syria.  Two tons of cocaine with the logo of "United Russia" found in the Belgian port.  The US Navy revived the Second Fleet in the Atlantic to counter the Russian Federation.  Police in Odessa prevented the export of two Ukrainian women to China for sale in sexual slavery.

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It was the imposition of US sanctions against Russia to stop President Vladimir Putin from a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine.

This was written in a column on "Apostrophe" by Russian blogger and financier Slava Rabinovich.

"Putin's amputations against Putin are unequivocal, so Putin has torn Crimea and some of the territories in the Donbas to Ukraine, but it is clear what his plan was - he repeatedly spoke on the Novorossian quasi-Hitler speeches. This was the initial plan and If sanctions were suspended in the direction of emotion, and take and see how the Russian Federation lived in 2013 - to recall where the ruble was, at what level was the Russian stock market in the dollar equivalent, which was the size of GDP in dollar equivalent and so further - and compare with If sanctions were not working then I fear that Ukraine would have left less than half of the territory, and Kiev could be captured by the Russian occupiers, that is, the sanctions stopped Putin's plans for Novorossiia.

apostrophe.ua  In Ukrainian/український

The informers of the CIA of the United States on the territory of the Russian Federation have ceased to be in contact, so the US intelligence does not know Putin's intentions before the Congress elections that will take place in November

This is reported by The New York Times with reference to American officials close to intelligence.

"The most important informants in the Kremlin are largely out of touch, leaving the CIA and other intelligence agencies in their ignorance of Putin's intentions regarding the November interim elections," the statement said.

According to the publication, the ministry does not believe that sources have been compromised or killed. Instead, they came to the conclusion that CIA informants in Russia were silent, probably due to aggressive counterintelligence activities in Moscow.

In addition, current and former officials also said that the expulsion of US intelligence officers from Moscow was detrimental to collective efforts.

Thus, US intelligence does not have access to data about Russia's intentions regarding future elections in America.

At the same time, various cybercrime companies report a large number of Russian hacker attacks on websites and data from US political police.

Senior intelligence officials, including US National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, warned that Russians were trying to undermine American democratic institutions.

-As it was reported, American senators demanded all encryption and recording of talks between Trump and Putin.

-Before the US elections, Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Twitter will hold a private meeting
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-Ukraine and the United States will consider steps towards Russia's non-interference with the elections in Ukraine.

-Trump's adviser warned Russians from interfering in the 2018 election.

espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

Senators from the United States Democratic Party Robert Menendez and Gianni Shahin have sent a request to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide interpreter and other documents related to the meeting of Trump and Putin on Helsinki on July 16.

This is stated in a letter from the senators to Pompeo, published on the site of the Senate.

Senators have been asked to provide "all classified and unclassified encryption, interpreter entries and directives" linked to the July summit when Trump and Putin met for more than two hours in the presence of translators. If such documents do not exist, the senators are asked to confirm this.

The importance of familiarizing and checking materials by congressmen Menendez and Shaheen motivate the need to "respond to any Russian misinformation."

"The Russian authorities took advantage of the lack of White House communications to spread their own, perhaps false, reports on what was happening at this personal meeting," the letter read.

Senators also stressed that their concerns about the summit grew due to fears that the Kremlin could try to intervene in the upcoming Congressional elections in November.

-As reported, Tramp's adviser warned Russians from interfering in the 2018 election.

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Head of Cyber ​​Security Policy Division Facebook Nathaniel Gleicher invited representatives of some of the 10 largest technology companies to meet at the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco

The main purpose of the meeting is to prepare for the interim elections in the USA, which will be held in November this year. The corresponding Gleicher letter is available to BuzzFeed.

Among the invitees are Google, Microsoft, Snapchat, and others.

"Over the past few weeks, we had the intention of organizing a conversation to continue discussions in our area of ​​information operations, election protection and the work that we all do to cope with these challenges," the letter said.

The attention of US authorities to these companies has intensified after Facebook and Twitter "have too slowly reacted to reports of foreign intervention by security services in their platforms to influence users before the 2016 election."

-As reported, Tramp's adviser warned Russians from interfering in the 2018 election.

espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

In Russia, they showed a new technique to deter activists during protests.

Relevant photos are posted online.

"Rossgvdary at the Army-2018 exhibition demonstrates the latest blow to the people, for the sake of this state and has plundered pensions," commented Mikhail Svetov on Twitter on a new technique.

"I do not cut it, this is going to disperse the crowd? A certain miller", "The caterpillars are rescuing from the transition to Molotov's cocktails?" - commented on what was seen on the net.

Note that some saw the similarity of a new Russian machine with similar engineers in Slovakia.

"The funny thing is that she * was laced with a Slovak machine under the name - I'm not kidding - GOSHEN RAIOT", - Alexei Kovalev writes on Twitter.

"Please, please, something from Russian for the last time for at least 1000. And do not need to vodka, if you drink it more than anything else in the world, it will still not be a primordial invention...." - supported Kovalev in the network.



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In response to new US sanctions, Russia may resort to the deployment of its own tactical nuclear weapons complexes in other countries, in particular Syria, the transition to cryptography in calculations for the export of arms, and the suspension of participation in a number of treaties with the United States, including missile proliferation technologies

With such a call came the first deputy chairman of the State Duma committee on economic policy, innovation development and entrepreneurship, the president of the association "League for the promotion of defense enterprises" Vladimir Gutenev, reports TASS.

"It's no secret that serious pressure has already begun on Russia - and it will only intensify - in the field of military-technical cooperation, including in the sale of weapons abroad. We see that Americans already say about sanctions against those countries that buy Russian weapons", - he said.

According to the State Duma deputy, Russia should "follow the example of the United States and place its tactical nuclear weapons abroad."

"I do not exclude that theoretically one of such countries may be Syria, where we have a secure air base," Gutenev emphasized.

-Recall that a new package of restrictive measures against the Russian economy was approved in response to the actions of Putin's special services in the English town of Salisbury.

-In general, with the onset of Russia's armed invasion of Ukraine, Russian companies' assets doubled as a result of sanctions.

espreso.tv  In Ukrainian/український

In the port of the Belgian city of Ghent, the police intercepted three containers with two tons of cocaine, packed in 1903 briquettes weighing about 1 kilogram each. The briquettes with the drug were branded with the logo of the Russian political party "United Russia".

In a video taken by reporters from the Belgian television and radio company VRT, the logo of the Russian "party of power" - the bear and the Russian flag fluttering - are clearly visible on each of the briquettes in at least one container.

According to the Dutch and Belgian media, including De Telegraaf and RTL, referring to the representative of the East Flanders Police on August 23 , the cost of cocaine is estimated at 100 million euros. Containers with him arrived in Ghent from Brazil. The detained party became the largest in the history of Ghent.

Earlier it was reported that about 400 kg of cocaine, found at the Russian embassy, ​​was burned down in Argentina.

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The US Navy on Friday, August 24, officially announced the resumption of the Second Fleet in the Atlantic Ocean.

Such a decision was approved because of a surge in the activity of Russian submarines in the Atlantic region, reports Censor.NET with reference to Politico.

The second fleet in Norfolk, Virginia, disbanded in 2011, will again be provided with ships, aircraft and naval forces for potential operations along the East Coast and the North Atlantic.

"Our maritime control and force design, two of the most important components of our national security, are being challenged by foreign powers, in particular Russia and China," said Admiral Chris Gredi, commander of the Navy fleet of the United States.

Admiral John Richardson, chief of the Naval Operations Department, issued an order to restore the Second Fleet earlier this year, emphasized that the fleet was not "looking for a battle," but realities demand the presence of a "massive maneuverable combatant group" in the Atlantic region.

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A foreigner who arranged a trafficking channel in Odessa was arrested in Odesa.

This is reported by the Police Department in the Odesa region, informs Censor.NET.

The attacker offered women high-paying jobs abroad, but upon arrival, they were sexually abducted.

"A foreigner was looking for women who were in a difficult financial situation and offered them a high-paying job with $12,000 a month, and he promised good working conditions, free meals and lodging, and in order to rely on potential victims, the attacker paid for registration of necessary documents for travel abroad on the conditions that these expenses will be deducted from the future salary", - law enforcement officers inform.



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