[FoxNews] Medvedev said Trump's new deadline for Russia to end the war with Ukraine is an additional 'step towards war'
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has "ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions" following "highly provocative statements" made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Medvedev said earlier this week that Trump's new deadline for Russia to end the conflict with Ukraine is an additional "step towards war."
"Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances," he added.
There was no immediate response to Trump's comments from Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Medvedev, now the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, cautioned that Trump’s announcement Monday that Russia must end the conflict with Ukraine in 10 to 12 days would not end well for the U.S.
"Trump's playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things: 1. Russia isn't Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country," Medvedev said in a post on X on Monday. "Don't go down the Sleepy Joe road!"
While Trump announced on July 14 that he would sign off on "severe tariffs" against Russia if Moscow failed to agree to a peace deal within 50 days, Trump said Monday that waiting that period of time was futile amid stalled negotiations.
"I’m going to make a new deadline, of about 10 — 10 or 12 days from today," Trump told reporters from Scotland. "There’s no reason for waiting. It was 50 days. I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made."
Trump’s remarks come as his frustration with Putin has grown in recent weeks amid no progress toward peace between Russia and Ukraine, and just a day after Russia launched more than 300 drones, four cruise missiles and three ballistic missiles into Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian air force.
Trump also wrote on Truth Social Friday that "I have just been informed that almost 20,000 Russian soldiers died this month in the ridiculous War with Ukraine.
"Russia has lost 112,500 soldiers since the beginning of the year. That is a lot of unnecessary DEATH! Ukraine, however, has also suffered greatly. They have lost approximately 8,000 soldiers since January 1, 2025, and that number does not include their missing," the president added. "Ukraine has also lost civilians, but in smaller numbers, as Russian rockets crash into Kyiv, and other Ukrainian locales. This is a War that should have never happened — This is Biden’s War, not ‘TRUMP’s.’ I’m just here to see if I can stop it!"
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...The boats were already right where they're supposed to be; nothing was repositioned. All DJT did was remind the Russians that two can play at Medvedev's game, and ours are a lot more likely to work.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Russians are trying to encircle Pokrovsk.
The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have already repelled 30 enemy attacks in the areas of 11 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, the number of combat clashes between the Ukrainian army and the Russian invaders has reached 70.
Almost half of the enemy attacks are in the Pokrovsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00 on Friday, August 1.
Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions our defenders stopped one of the three Russian attacks. At present the fighting continues.
In the South Slobodskoy direction, the occupiers attacked near Krasny Pervy and were repulsed.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attempted to advance forward three times in the Golubovka area.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out seven attacks in the areas of the settlements: Karpovka, Yampolivka, Kolodyagi, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and Dibrova. One combat clash is still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked in the areas of Grigoryevka, Verkhnekamyansky and towards Zvanovka. One assault was repelled, two more clashes are continuing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy unsuccessfully attacked towards Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, four armed clashes occurred in the areas of the following populated areas: Dilievka, Krymskoye, Toretsk and Aleksandro-Kalinovoye.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian invaders carried out 34 assaults (yesterday at this time there were 28 - ed.) near the settlements of Popov Yar, Mayak, Razine, Novoekonomicheskoe, Zatishok, Lisovka, Promen, Zvirovoe, Udachnoe, Dachnoe and Zeleny Kut. The defense forces are holding back the onslaught and have repelled 30 enemy attacks, four clashes are ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled seven enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrograd, Poddubnoye, Tolstoye, Maliyevka and Voskresenka.
In the Dnieper direction, the invaders also advanced on the positions of Ukrainian units seven times. One clash continues to this day.
In other directions, no enemy offensive actions have yet been recorded.
Let us recall that on July 31, Russia's losses amounted to almost 1,000 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people
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[NewsFront] 21:01 Naval infantry and motorized riflemen broke through one of the most powerful lines of defense on the borders of Donbass. 20:47 Posted Map of the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in Pokrovsk.
20:45 An assault group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to break through to the Volchansk area: worked our UAV operators.
19:05 FPV drone operators revealed the location of a mortar in the Khar'kov region and carried out a targeted strike –video.
18:21 Footage of the destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces crossing over the Oskol River near the village of Gorokhovatka.
18:19 Units of the Force Group "South" continue the offensive on the approaches to Seversk.
17:58 Russian army is moving forward to Peschaniy Verkhniy in the Kupyansk direction.
16:58 Russian Armed Forces blew up a bridge in the Konstantinovka area. The moment of the strike and its consequences recorded using a reconnaissance drone.
16:03 Fighting for Krasnoarmeysk is underway: FPVs of the Center group of troops are driving Ukrainian special forces out of Dimitrov –video.
15:18 Appeared information about the capture of Novoukrainka by the Russian Armed Forces in the South Pokrovsk direction.
At the moment, our fighters are clearing Chunishino. There are also battles in Leontovichi and on the western outskirts of Zverevo.
15:05 Published footage of the search and destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces transport by the Rubicon center’s crews in the border zone.
14:46 According to automatic calculation, for July 2025, the RF Armed Forces released 487 sq. km of territory, of which 84 sq. km are owned by the North group of forces.
14:17 Distance from the forward positions of the Russian Armed Forces to the city limits of Konstantinovka (DPR)makes up more than 1 km in some areas.
13:37 A number of sources they report about the entry of the advanced assault units of the Russian Armed Forces to the outskirts of the settlement of Sukhetskoye.
13:23 In July 2025, Russian troops advanced over 629 square kilometers in the SVO zone. This was the fastest advancement in the entire period since the beginning of the current year.
12:30 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation from July 26 to August 1, 2025
Over the course of a week, units of the North group of forces in the Sumy region defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, two airborne assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the Khar'kov region, the group's units improved their tactical position, inflicted defeat on the formations of the mechanized, tank, motorized infantry brigades, the assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades.
The units of the "West" group of forces have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. The formations of three mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades have been defeated.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses and liberated the city of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Units of the Center group of forces continued offensive operations on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The settlements of Boykovka, Belgiyka and Novoukrainka of the Donetsk People's Republic have been liberated.
Defeat was inflicted on the formations of three mechanized, airborne assault, assault, airborne, infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry, two territorial defense brigades and two brigades of the National Guard.
Over the past week, units of the "East" group of forces advanced deep into the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlements of Zeleny Gai in the Donetsk People's Republic, Maliyevka in the Dnepropetrovsk region, and Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region.
The manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades, four territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade were damaged.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three territorial defense brigades.
11:55 Units of the 68th and 69th Motorized Rifle divisions of the 6th Army completely liberated the right bank of Volchansk.
The North group of troops liberated the historical Volchansk (Volchi Vody).
11:50 Light multipurpose missiles X-39 are working» on the points of launching and controlling drones.
10:58 Russian troops occupied new positions on the approaches to Seversk.
The Russian Army is moving on a broad front towards Rodinske and Biletske.
The settlement of Suvorovo (Zatyshok)released.
10:27 The North group of forces covered the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery gun in the Liptsov direction –video.
10:05 Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked trade pavilions in Kherson region
As a result of the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on trade pavilions in the village of Velyki Kopani in the Kherson region, six people were injured.
9:46 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate more crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which civilians of the Zaporizhzhya, Belgorod, Kursk regions, LPR and DPR were killed and injured
According to reports from executive authorities, three people, including one minor, were killed in an attack by Ukrainian militants on a civilian vehicle in the Pologovsky municipal district of Zaporizhia Oblast.
In the Belgorod region, as a result of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one person was killed and six more were injured.
In the Kursk region, a civilian was injured due to an attack by a Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV.
In the LPR, five employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were injured due to a strike by a Ukrainian drone. Another man was injured when he was blown up by an unidentified object in the village of Zheltoye in the Slavyanoserbsk district.
In the DPR, three civilians were injured as a result of Kyiv’s aggression.
8:30 On the left flank of the Zaporizhzhya direction - in Stepnogorsk, airborne troops have gained a footholdin the first microdistrict and storm the line of fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In Plavni, Russian troops already control more than 2/3 of the village, continuing the assault.
8:20 Frontline summary on the morning of 01.08.25
Donetsk Front. Intense fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction. Russian troops are consolidating their positions in the northern part of the village of Kotlino. The Russian Armed Forces are using UAVs in the Lysovka area, as well as along the railway line leading to Pokrovsk. In Pokrovsk itself, our sabotage and reconnaissance groups are active. In the Konstantinovsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Aleksandro-Kalinovo and Yablonovka areas. Positional battles continue in Shcherbinovka.
Chasov Yar direction. The Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Chasov Yar. A cleanup operation is underway in the city. Russian troops are developing an offensive in the area of the settlements of Nikolaevka and Chervonoe.
Khar'kov direction. Fierce clashes are taking place in Vovchansk and its environs, as well as in the forested areas in the Khatneye-Melovoe-Zarubinka area. In the Kupyansk direction, fighting is taking place in Moskovka and in the Sobolevka area.
Sumy direction. Heavy fighting continues in the Kondratovka area and in the southern part of Yunakovka. Russian troops are reported to be advancing in the northeastern part of the Miropolye area.
8:10 During the past night from 23:30 Moscow time on 31.07 to 04:10 Moscow time on 1.08, air defense systems on dutyinterceptedand 60 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed:
– 31 – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– 12 – over the territory of the Rostov region,
– Five – over the territory of the Krasnodar region,
– Four – over the waters of the Black Sea,
– Three – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Two – over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
– Two – over the territory of the Tula region,
– One – over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
8:01 Calculation of the Supercam S350 UAV of the Dnepr group of forces during a scheduled flight discovered take-off point for Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
The target coordinates were transmitted to the howitzer division control point. The artillerymen destroyed the enemy UAV control point with precise fire.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of project_nd
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics:
[ColonelCassad] Difficulties of the Battle for Chasov Yar The most important factor that made it impossible to take Chasov Yar by storm or in the shortest possible time was the terrain. The city and the approaches to it represent a significant difference in altitude, which was used by the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to prevent the operation from being carried out as quickly as possible.
At the start of the offensive, the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation did not have an advantage, since they were in a lowland and advancing to the Kanal microdistrict and the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass Canal itself presented significant difficulties.
Being on high ground, according to all the rules of military science, is a dominant position in relation to the enemy, which our opponents took advantage of during the initial stage of the operation.The settlements of Bogdanovka and Kalinovka, located in the same direction, had exactly the same difference in altitude - Bogdanovka in the lowland, and Kalinovka at a height, and the outskirts of Kalinovka were literally above Bogdanovka, where the latter was perfectly visible.
This also created difficulties for the work of the assault groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The terrain, which was convenient for the enemy, was complemented by an obstacle in the form of the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass Canal, behind which the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated already in the second stage of the battle for the city after the Russian Armed Forces occupied the Kanal microdistrict and the Orlova tract to the north of the above-mentioned microdistrict.
It was much easier for the enemy to carry out logistics and evacuation there, since they no longer had an obstacle in the form of a canal, and our units had to cross this canal to carry out assault operations, which in itself was quite an "adventure".The second factor: large enemy fortifications in the area and a large amount of artillery. It is no secret that the defense of Chasy Yar began to be prepared during the battle for Bakhmut, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces command feared a quick breakthrough by the Wagner PMC units after the occupation of Bakhmut and the loss of strategically important heights on which the city itself is located was clearly not included in the plans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, so urgent preparations for defense began for the city.
In addition, some fortified areas were already present in the city earlier - let me remind you that until 2022, the Ukrainian ATO headquarters in Donbas was located there. Also, during the battle for the city, the enemy artillery was active - it happened that from 15 to 30 155mm shells were easily spent on a small target, not to mention mortar shelling - the enemy did not have a "shell famine". For example, my friend, who worked to the south of me, told me how one day the enemy spent 24 shells on his position in a short period of time. Everyone remained safe and sound, but the feeling, as they say, "was not pleasant".
The third factor: the changing nature of military operations. If the 2022-2023 campaign was an active artillery operation, tank and small arms battles, then since mid-2023 the main niche has been taken by developments in the field of UAVs, which to this day are almost the main means of fire destruction, together with artillery, which is still moving closer to the background. Those who worked in the Chasov-Yarsky direction know that moving around the area is becoming quite difficult due to the huge number of UAVs of various types - quadcopters with drops, hexacopters with heavy IEDs, FPV drones, reconnaissance "wings" - all this was in abundance in the direction.
It is impossible to count the number of downed UAVs lying around in neighborhoods and forests, since technology in this area has advanced far ahead and production costs have become lower. As a result, we literally had an "airfield" at the exit, where it is, to put it mildly, scary to raise your head, let alone a major offensive. It was the presence of a large number of UAVs in the area that made it difficult to advance, turning the classic urban battles into a "basement to basement" battle, when one assault group was in one basement, and the defending group was in the next.
Chasov Yar yesterday became subsidized and strategically unimportant. But on the Internet, it is still psychologically Ukrainian.
Take a look at the photo at the link. She looks like the caricature of Natasha, from Bullwinkle...
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] They didn't let her make money off her dead husband Right after the funeral — to party with another man: the court deprived the "widow" of a SVO fighter of payments Georgy Kostyrko from the "Akhmat-Spetsnaz" died in March during the "Pipe" operation in the Kursk region. His "widow" Angelina Varyukhina was already planning to get a divorce — the divorce proceedings were scheduled for the end of March.
The court found out that after the wedding in 2024, Varyukhina quickly switched to another life — parties, boyfriends, gifts, intimacy in stories. There was no shared life with her husband, and no children either.
As a result, the court recognized the marriage as fictitious and gave compensation not to her, but to the mother of the deceased. This is the first such case in Russia.
P.S. In the spring, a campaign was also launched to combat fictitious marriages with the aim of receiving payments for the injury and death of fighters in the SVO zone. The decision to transfer the money to the mother is certainly correct.
The usual Daily Mail photos, including satellite photos, and a simple but useful map.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vladimir Putin's Pacific nuclear submarine base was damaged this week by a tsunami caused by a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake, according to analysts.
A pier at the high-security Rybachiy base in Russia's far east appears buckled out of shape, apparently torn from its moorings after the huge waves struck on Wednesday.
The secretive base, located in Kamchatka's Avacha Bay, stores the bulk of Russia's Pacific Fleet ballistic missile submarines.
Images taken by SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites operated by Umbra Space and seen by experts show the dramatic impact of the tsunami, which reached the coast within 15 minutes of the seabed quake.
One pier, clearly visible in pre-quake imagery dated July 17, now lies twisted at a sharp angle, a structural shift that experts say is consistent with tsunami damage.
A surface vessel appears to have been moored at the time of impact, but there was no submarine alongside.
In spite of that, maritime analysts say the development raises troubling questions about the base's vulnerability.
Tom Sharpe, a retired Royal Navy commander, told The Telegraph that the pier is at a 'terrible angle'. He questioned: 'If the base assumption is that a wave got in there and bent that jetty then yes, what else did it do?'
Satellite imagery shows a tugboat alongside the damaged section, possibly involved in emergency repairs.
Experts say if a sub had been docked there, it could have slammed against the pier, or water could have entered through open compartments.
The base is nestled around 75 miles west of the epicentre of the earthquake.
While no direct damage to submarines has been confirmed, the extent of structural harm is still unclear.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed the region's alert system and earthquake-proof infrastructure prevented casualties, but made no mention of the naval base, falling in line with the government's silence on the matter.
Despite being shielded somewhat by the geography of the bay, the base was within the tsunami's strike zone.
Footage from elsewhere along the coastline shows waves up to five metres high inundating towns and ports.
Severo-Kurilsk, located twice as far from the epicentre as Rybachiy, suffered severe port damage, heightening fears about what might have occurred within Russia's nuclear bastion.
the hours after the tsunami, fresh Umbra images showed two submarines still moored at nearby piers.
Submarines undergoing maintenance are especially vulnerable during tsunamis, unable to dive or escape.
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One presumes you'd sortie subs / ships / boats when a tsunami is inbound just like you re-position jet aircraft from locations where hurricanes are headed
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[REGNUM] “When we finished our investigation, the client couldn’t believe his eyes: Kolomoisky turned out to be much bigger than his country,” the head of a forensic company that studied the “business” of the main Ukrainian oligarch once shared his impressions.
Now his fairy tale has come to an end: on July 30, the now state-owned Privatbank announced that it had won a court case in London against its former owners, Igor Kolomoisky and Gennady Bogolyubov. Nationalized in December 2016, the bank filed a lawsuit against them in the High Court of London, accusing them of siphoning off about $2 billion into the accounts of their companies.
London appeared here for the simple reason that the money was being withdrawn through six companies affiliated with Kolomoisky and his partner, which are also defendants in this case. Three of them are registered in Britain, the rest are from the British Virgin Islands.
By the summer of 2023, the amount of claims had grown to almost $4.5 billion, including interest — about half a million dollars a day. And Igor Valerievich himself, once full of confidence in his immunity and living in Switzerland for months, watched all this from the SBU pretrial detention center.
He has been here since September of the same 2023, when the court sent him to jail for only 60 days with the option to post bail of 509 million and some change. A couple of weeks later, the bail was increased to 3.8 billion hryvnia, then reduced, but, one way or another, the greedy "Benya" refused to pay on principle.
"Because I believe that this is racketeering at the state level using all the security structures, including the judiciary. I was taken hostage, put in prison and they are demanding money," Kolomoisky said in court and may now regret his decision.
It would have been much cheaper.
Because the case itself ended in November 2023, and since then the announcement of the decision has been constantly postponed, and it itself has "grown" to five hundred pages. It is easy to guess that the growth of interest was the main purpose of the wait - the final amount of 4.2 billion dollars means the actual confiscation of all property, which the Ukrainians, the British, and the US, whose Justice Department once started the whole story by bringing charges of robbing Privatbank and buying real estate in the States with laundered money, will be happy to do.
And there, Kolomoisky, who pleads not guilty, owns $70 million in commercial real estate in Dallas and Louisville, Kentucky. He also owns the Warren Steel Holdings steel mill in Ohio and a dozen more such plants, four office towers in Cleveland, and a 484-room hotel overlooking the waterfront there.
In London, the Privat group (this is its unofficial name) also owns excellent real estate - as well as in a number of European countries. Therefore, now the process will flow into a search for all the property, proof of its belonging to Ukrainian oligarchs and seizure through the court.
Although there is no need to look for anything special - the aforementioned forensic company also worked for a reason. As noted in the documents that are at the disposal of the Regnum news agency, the ubiquitous Dnepropetrovsk Jews built a separate "mycelium" even in Australia, where, in particular, they owned the Fortescue company, the fourth largest iron ore producer in the world.
And in African Ghana, Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov's firms from the Virgin Islands controlled 90% of the shares of Nsuta Gold Mining Ltd., which produces gold and has a rich manganese mine in the western region of the country.
In Ukraine, where the core of the empire is concentrated, there are still plenty of tasty morsels left even after the oligarch was stripped of 40% of the shares of the mining company Ukrnafta, a block of shares in the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant, and a grain terminal in the Odessa region in 2022.
He remained a co-owner of the Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant and the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore Plant, and owns the Marganets and Pokrovsky Mining and Processing Plants, which mine manganese ore. Benya also remains a beneficiary of the 1+1 Media media holding, which includes the 1+1, 2+2, TET, Plusplus and Ukraine Today TV channels.
Considering that Ukrainian courts have already satisfied Privatbank's claims against former shareholders, all of this will most likely be "nationalized", that is, will change its owner, who would be happy to become, for example, the oligarch's ungrateful protégé, Vladimir Zelensky.
The basis for the lawsuit, which was heard in London, was a scheme to withdraw funds through 270 loans by 46 borrowers associated with the former owners. The scheme was covered by so-called "loan recycling", that is, previous loans were repaid from subsequent loans, and along the way some of the money was lost among numerous transactions.
But this is only one of many cunning machinations that were investigated by the SBU and the ubiquitous NABU, each in its own line. The latter, on July 23, completed its work on the “organized criminal group” headed by the bank’s owner, which in January–March 2015 developed a plan to seize the bank’s money in order to then finance an offshore company under its control and increase its own share in the authorized capital of Privatbank.
Real estate in the States was purchased using a scheme in which the group's ferroalloy plants received credit lines, withdrew money from the bank and split the amounts: some was laundered, some was redistributed among other companies in the Privat group, and some was returned to the bank. And the loans were brazenly "paid off" through the courts by recognizing their payment.
Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov (who successfully fled to Austria) behaved just as brazenly in the London court, which had never seen the defendant but highly praised his behavior. It is noted that both of them, until the very end, groundlessly held a public position on "political persecution" and "violation of human rights" on all issues: from the nationalization of the bank to legal disputes.
And they refused to testify in court without any acceptable explanation.
Instead, they tried in every way to drag out the process: the claim was regularly proposed to include "belated amendments", the plaintiff received the requested documents late, the court was asked to give time to find evidence, and then to turn a blind eye to its absence. The British judge, who described his emotions in the decision, considered that this was "an unjustified and potentially harmful delaying tactic".
The oligarch's request to soften the arrest conditions, since several planes (Kolomoisky owned the company "International Airlines of Ukraine"), which were idle in Kyiv and Odessa, finished him off. Moreover, the court received the request a day before the end date of the potential sale under the contract.
And Gennady Bogolyubov, despite the arrest, in 2023 liquidated three dozen companies from the British Virgin Islands that owned his assets.
So the harsh decision is fully justified by the circumstances. And then the chances of the "main beneficiary" to get out of this interesting story unscathed are very small. The admission of fraud in a civil suit is a reason for British law enforcement to start criminal proceedings. The sum of 400 million pounds, which is the value of Bogolyubov's personal property alone, is an excellent motivator for work.
For example, the pearl of London real estate, according to Regnum news agency, is the Grand Buildings on Trafalgar Square, built in the 1870s, which Bogolyubov bought in 2010 for 173 million pounds. The next number on the list is houses No. 27-31 in the elite Knightsbridge area, bought for 55 million pounds.
Secondly, the FBI investigation into the Privat schemes is ongoing in the US, and we have already explained everything about their motivation. And just in case, in June the Delaware court determined the application of the preclusive (i.e. mandatory) effect of the decisions of Ukrainian courts to the Privatbank lawsuit in the US. And in principle, the conditions are quite consistent with the decision of the London court - it is only necessary to expand the scope of the mandatory effect.
Accordingly, claims that may be made by an American court based on the FBI investigation materials will hardly be ignored in Ukraine. So who will become the new owner of the ferroalloy plants is still a matter of two minds. And Bogolyubov, who has agreed to cooperate with NABU, will definitely not be as greedy as his senior partner – it is already obvious to everyone that Kolomoisky has played himself into oblivion.
Although he is still trying to play politics from his comfortable pretrial detention center to knock Zelensky out, his card is already beaten. The once powerful arbiter of fates, who held political parties in his pocket and set up his president, will be plucked and thrown into the trash.
And the main thing is that no one will even say a kind word about him at the end.
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[Regnum] The head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Semen Krivonos did not deny conducting searches at the former deputy head of the office of the head of the Kiev regime Andriy Yermak, Rostislav Shurma. The searches took place at Shurma's place of residence near Munich in Germany.
Ukrainian media previously wrote that the searches allegedly took place in July, but so far the Munich police and the prosecutor's office have not commented on this matter. However, this information was discussed in the German media.
"I can confirm that the relevant investigative actions took place. Again, due to the law, I cannot comment specifically on either the prospects of this criminal case or its essence," Krivonos said in an interview with the Ukrainian "24th TV Channel."
At the same time, he assured that “the criminal case is being actively investigated.”
On July 31, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on the return of powers to NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), introduced by Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the law, the Prosecutor General and his deputies cannot give instructions to either NABU detectives or SAP prosecutors; they are subordinate only to their superiors. The most they can do is provide pre-trial investigation materials upon request.
NABU can only initiate cases on corruption charges, and its main clients are officials, judges, law enforcement officers and other civil servants.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine may announce suspicion to the new Prime Minister of the Republic Yulia Svyrydenko. This was reported on July 31 by the Ukrainian publication "Strana.ua". It is specified that this investigation is connected with joint flights of Svyrydenko and Andriy Yermak, who does not have the appropriate authority, on state air transport.
According to the investigation, Sviridenko specifically accompanied Yermak so that he could fly to other countries at state expense. NABU sees this as a crime and damage to the budget. That is why Sviridenko and Yermak may be declared suspects in this case.
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[Regnum] Serial production of the Oreshnik medium-range missile system has begun in Russia, head of state Vladimir Putin announced on August 1. "We have produced the first serial Oreshnik complex. The first serial missile. And it has entered service with the troops," the head of state told journalists.
Putin noted that specialists in Russia and Belarus have already selected positions for installing the Oreshnik. The issue of supplying the missile system to the republic will most likely be closed in 2025.
Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko are holding an informal meeting on Valaam. They are planning to discuss the development of Russian-Belarusian relations, the implementation of union projects, current international issues, and topics related to regional security.
On November 21, 2024, the Russian military used the Oreshnik missile system for the first time, striking the Yuzhmash military plant in Dnepropetrovsk. The attack was carried out in response to the use of NATO ATACMS systems by the Ukrainian army.
"Oreshnik" has no analogues in the world. The missiles can hit highly protected targets and objects located at great depth. Dozens of self-separating warheads of the missile develop a speed of about 3 km/s, and the temperature of the striking elements reaches 4 thousand degrees.
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"We have produced the first serial Oreshnik complex. The first serial missile. And it has entered service with the troops," the head of state told journalists.
