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Volodymyr Zelensky holds secret NYC meeting with top financiers

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended a secret roundtable in New York City with the nation's top financiers.
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Volodymyr Zelensky attended a secret roundtable in New York City with the nation's top financiers, including private equity bosses at JPMorgan, Google and Blackstone to discuss rebuilding war-torn Ukraine.
The meeting was hosted by the nation's largest bank, JPMorgan, on Wednesday evening, and included Google CEO Eric Schmidt, billionaire Mike Bloomberg, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman.
The former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and billionaire Barry Sternlicht were also in attendance, sources told CNN.
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Sparks fly as Zelensky confronts Russia in rare New York encounter​


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Sparks fly as Zelensky confronts Russia in rare New York encounter

As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an impassioned address before the UN Security Council, the Russian ambassador sat scrolling through his phone.
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BLUF:

<Russia angrily objected – aggrieved by the fact that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky had been invited to speak

Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, insisted this went against the rules – much to the chagrin of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who had the job of presiding over the meeting.
“I must say, coming from you, this lecture about violating the rules in this building is quite an impressive shoot,” Rama fired back.

“But there is a solution to this. If you agree to stop the war, President Zelensky will not take the floor.” >

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From The Mirror (US):
Vladimir Putin's nuclear missile forces reach 'highest degrees of combat readiness'
Vladimir Putin has put over 3,000 nuclear missile troops through vigorous exercises which involved the “highest degrees of combat readiness”, Moscow has announced today.

Footage shows the Tagil Rocket Division drills engaged in exercises in the Sverdlovsk region - including the Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBCMs) being shifted around on mobile launchers. Russian defense ministry TV channel Zvezda said drills involved “maneuvers on combat patrol routes” in the Ural Mountains and exercises in how to combat Western air attacks on their nuclear arsenal - in the midst of Putin’s war on Ukraine.

The TV channel claims they are training through “active electronic suppression and intensive actions of saboteurs”, supposedly to prepare for the worst circumstances - and achieve the high-level “combat readiness”. The drills involve over 300 pieces of military equipment - including the Yars missiles with a range of 6,835 miles.
The channel added: “The missile regiments equipped with mobile Yars ground-based missile systems are actively changing their field positions. At the same time, they are developing new areas of combat patrols.” The state-controlled TV channel - one of the many vehicles of Russian propaganda - claim the positions of the Yars missiles are “securely concealed deep inside Russia”, adding that launchers can be located “almost anywhere in the country” if necessary.


Along with the Yars mobile missile system, Russia is using one of its newest military creations, the Listva remote demining vehicle. Lt-Gen Andrei Burbin, Deputy commander of Russian Strategic Missile Forces, said they are using “new equipment, including special support units, engineering units, [and] security and defense”, adding that “the personnel show good training”.

The military newswire of Interfax, a Russian news agency headquartered in Moscow, reported that one of the key goals in training is to “assess the current state of the missile formation, its level of combat readiness, and the performance of its commanding officers in implementing the 2023 training objectives.”


Yars ICBM systems are a central part of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces and make up a significant part of their nuclear arsenal. They are 22.5 meters long, weigh 54.6 US tons and have an accuracy of 150 meters. They also carry multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles.

This comes as Russian missiles and artillery pounded cities across Ukraine early Thursday, sparking fires, killing at least two people and trapping others under rubble, authorities said, as Ukrainian ally Poland said it would stop providing weapons amid a trade dispute.

The early morning wave of missile strikes on what's known as the International Day of Peace was Russia's largest in over a month, and came amid the United Nations General Assembly summit in New York, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had denounced Russia as "a terrorist state."
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This could be more of the same Russian rhetoric.
 
From Business Insider:
Russian commanders are ordering troops to make 'hysterical' and 'ill-conceived' counterattacks with shoddy artillery shells: report
- Russian forces are using desperate tactics to hold back Ukrainian advances, according to a think tank.
- Soldiers say they're being ordered to make "ill-conceived" counterattacks, the Institute for the Study of War said.
- Ukraine is making slow but significant progress on the front near Bakhmut.

Russian commanders are ordering troops to make "ill-conceived" and "hysterical" counterattacks near the east Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in an urgent bid to regain lost ground, according to a respected US think tank.

The Institute for the Study of War said recent posts by Russian military bloggers and servicemen revealed desperate conditions for the Russian military near Bakhmut, which has been at the center of ferocious fighting.

Troops from one battalion published a video online in which they said they had abandoned their equipment after being ordered to form an assault group and attack in the Bakhmut direction, the ISW said.

The think tank added that soldiers were being posted to the front line with shoddy artillery shells that don't explode when fired, and referred to reports that Russia had been sacrificing safety and quality in its efforts to build weapons quickly.

It added that morale was low after Ukrainian forces killed "most of an unspecified Russian regiment and almost an entire retreating assault group in the area."


The ISW cited a Russian military blogger posting on Telegram, who criticized flawed orders to counterattack and retake the village of Andriivka, near Bakhmut.

"The milblogger claimed that the Russian military command was planning 'weak' counterattacks and failed to provide accurate intelligence to Russian assault units. The milblogger observed that Russian forces also lack artillery support, while 'hysterical' counterattacks are depleting Russian resources and reserves," said the report.

Insider has been unable to verify the claims cited by the ISW, but it's one of a series of reports painting a picture of desperation as Russia seeks to stop Ukraine from breaking through its defensive lines.

As Insider's Sophia Ankel reported, Ukraine is believed to have punched through Russia's formidable anti-tank and "dragon's teeth" defenses with vehicles for the first time, according to multiple analysts.

George Barros, a lead analyst at ISW, located the assault near the southern village of Verbove.

Experts believe that Ukraine is probing several axes on the front line simultaneously, as part of a strategy to get Russia to spread its forces thin.

The UK's military intelligence on Wednesday said that Ukraine was drawing closer to cutting off a crucial supply route to Bakhmut.

The city has been the scene of some of the most ferocious fighting in the war, with Russian forces taking control of the region in May in one of the Kremlin's few notable recent successes.

"Since 15 September 2023, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have secured the villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka, approximately 8km to the south of the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut. This tactical success brings Ukrainian forces closer to the T 05-13 road, one of the main supply routes into Bakhmut from the south," the UK Ministry of Defense said.
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Neat!!
US President Joe Biden can legally transfer frozen reserves of the Russian Federation to Ukraine - The New York Times.

According to a legal team led by Professor Larry Tribe, the president can use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977.

"The IEEPA expressly states that the President may investigate, block, regulate, direct, and compel, rescind, prevent, or prohibit transfers of property.
"These powers relate to the transfer of 'any right or authority' over property in which a foreign state has an interest and which is under US jurisdiction," the expert report said.

This law has already been used before. For example, George W. Bush froze Iraqi assets in the United States after the invasion of Kuwait and transferred them to the United Nations Commission for the Victims of Saddam Hussein's Aggression.
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