Shaun Walker Central

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Finnish investigators into suspected sabotage find 100km trail on Baltic Sea bed

Dec 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker Central

Finnish investigators say they have found a seabed trail stretching “almost 100km” around the site of an underwater electricity cable that was damaged on Christmas Day in a suspected act of Russian sabotage. The ship under suspicion of causing the damage, a vessel called the Eagle S flying the flag of the Cook Islands, is believed to be part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, used for transporting Russian oil products subject to embargos after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Trump’s return raises questions over future of CIA’s Russian recruitment drive

Nov 26, 2024 | msn.com | Shaun Walker Central

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Trump’s return raises questions over future of CIA’s Russian recruitment drive

Nov 26, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Shaun Walker Central

For the past three years, the CIA has run an unusually bold outreach programme. It targeted Russians within the country’s government and security services, attempting to turn them into double agents. Slickly produced recruitment videos portrayed cooperation with the US secret agency as the patriotic choice for officials disaffected with Vladimir Putin’s regime and the war in Ukraine. The videos ended with instructions on how to contact the CIA in a secure manner.
Zelenskiy: Ukraine’s troops now in full control of Russian town of Sudzha

Aug 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker Central

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has claimed Kyiv’s troops have full control over the Russian town of Sudzha, which had a prewar population of 5,000 people and contains infrastructure pumping Russian gas towards Europe. Sudzha, roughly six miles inside Russian territory, is the biggest of 80 settlements that Ukraine claims to have taken during the ten days since its surprise incursion into Russia began.
Ukrainian team blew up Nord Stream pipeline, claims report

Aug 15, 2024 | msn.com | Shaun Walker Central

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Ukrainian team blew up Nord Stream pipeline, claims report

Aug 14, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Shaun Walker Central

The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines carried natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea but were damaged by explosions in September 2022. The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines carried natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea but were damaged by explosions in September 2022.
Does the old man still have it in him? How will Putin respond to Kursk invasion

Aug 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Shaun Walker Central

As Ukraine’s assault on Russia’s Kursk region continues, Moscow’s repeated insistence that everything is under control is wearing thin. Images broadcast on Ukrainian TV on Wednesday, showing a reporter speaking from the town of Sudzha, with no obvious signs of ongoing fighting in the background, seemed to quash Russian claims on Tuesday that “the uncontrolled ride of the enemy has already been halted”, and that the Russian army had regained the initiative.
How children of freed spies learned they were Russian on flight to Moscow

Aug 5, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Shaun Walker Central

Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, who did not know who Vladimir Putin was, were greeted by the Russian president following a prisoner exchange. Artyom Dultsev, Anna Dultseva and their children, who did not know who Vladimir Putin was, were greeted by the Russian president following a prisoner exchange.
Prisoner swaps between Russia and west started in 1962 during cold war

Aug 1, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Shaun Walker Central

The top-secret negotiations, the hushed rumours and the planes converging on Ankara, a third-country location that was kept secret until the final moment. There was much cold war-style intrigue in the buildup to Thursday’s prisoner exchange, the latest in a long line of swaps between Moscow and the west that dates back to the cold war.
Who’s who among the prisoner exchange between Russia and the west?

Aug 1, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Shaun Walker Central

Evan GershkovichA Wall Street Journal reporter, Gershkovich became the first western correspondent to be arrested for espionage since the fall of the Soviet Union. Detained in March 2023 while on a reporting trip to Ekaterinburg, Russian authorities claim he was collecting information for the CIA, but have never made public any of their supposed evidence. Gershkovich, his newspaper and the US state department have all denied the charges.