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Ukraine war briefing: Russian drone factory attacked, 1,000km away in Tatarstan

Factory making Iranian-designed Shahed drones is hit, far from Russia-Ukraine border; Russian strikes damage energy and other civilian facilities in Poltava oblast. What we know on day 1,209

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy reposts US missive from first Trump term that Crimea is Ukrainian

Casualities as Russian missiles strike Kyiv and Kharkiv; strike damages Shahed factory in Tatarstan, says Ukrainian military. What we know on day 1,156

The Guardian - AU

World Update: Ukraine faces prospect of defeat – but the west must ensure a just peace

There’s a degree of irony that countries attending the 2024 Brics summit this week voted to adopt the Kazan declaration (named for the capital city of the autonomous republic of Tatarstan in Russia, where the summit is being held). The declaration’s first clause emphasises that “all states should act consistently…

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Tech firms remove social media posts from a Russian drone factory after an AP investigation

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media posts from a industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The Independent UK

African woman promised a life in Europe and duped into building Russia’s drone army

Tourism, paintball games and a pitch on TikTok - How Russia recruits women from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Nigeria

The Independent UK

Ukrainian drone attacks target oil refinery and factory deep inside Russia

Attacks more than 800 miles from border are first in Tatarstan region since beginning of war

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine drone attacks 'hit big Russian oil refinery and drone factory' 800 miles from frontline

They attacked targets in Tatarstan, a highly industrialised region south-east of Moscow, in the early hours

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Ukrainian Drone Strikes Major Russian Refinery 1,300Km Away

Ukrainian drone strike on Russian refinery in Tatarstan escalates conflict, raising concerns about facility vulnerability and changing nature of warfare.

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Russia-Ukraine war: drones strike Russian factories more than 1,000km from Ukraine – as it happened

Kyiv officials say attack in Tatarstan was on a facility producing long-range drones

The Guardian - UK

Brickbat: Don't Get Cross

The Russian central bank has stopped circulation of a new 1,000-ruble note following complaints from some priests of the Russian Orthodox Church. The priests complained that the image on the note of a church in Tatarstan does not have a cross on it. But the real church also does not…

Reason

Turning away from the West, Russia seeks to strengthen economic ties with the Muslim world

The Russia-Islamic World Forum will begin in Kazan, southwest Russia, on Thursday. The two-day event was first held in 2009 and aims to strengthen economic ties between Russia and Muslim countries. In the wake of a rupture between Russia and the West, these ties are now part of a shifting…

France 24

Man gets stuck all night up to neck in oily pit after falling in on way home for work

A man in Russia's oil region of Tatarstan was involved in a desperate situation in which he became stuck in a pool of bitumen. He was eventually found covered form head to toe and rescued

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