Russia is unable to hinder the delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine, Sky News
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RU 105th, 106th Separate Logistics Brigades Added to Luhansk Area
Added RU 105th, 106th Separate Logistics Brigade to the Luhansk area.
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Russian MP confuses Mariupol mayor
Russian MP Sablin traveled to Mariupol to seek publicity but didn’t even know the name of the collaborator he was meeting. Sablin claimed he would meet with Mayor Petro Andrushchenko, but that’s the name of the legitimate mayor’s advisor. It seems he simply Googled the surname and found the wrong person.
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Forest access ban in Volyn near Belarus border
A complete ban on visiting forests has been introduced in Volyn near the border with Belarus, reports the Regional Military Administration. MAP https://censor.net/ua/p3350058
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Zelensky urged Glastonbury to push politicians
Zelensky at the Glastonbury festival urged pressing politicians to help Ukraine: "Prove that freedom always prevails!"
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Criminals within Research Institute stole 250M rubles, designed 19T ruble arms program.
34/ An organised criminal group within the 46th Central Research Institute signed fictitious research contracts with contractors and employees, stealing 250 million roubles. The same people designed the state armament programme, worth over 19 trillion roubles.
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Weak financial controls enable corrupt “one-day firms” to embezzle funds.
29/ Yet another factor is weak controls over where money is paid to. Corrupt officials and contractors create so-called "one-day firms" – companies that only exist on paper for a very short time. They're used to cash payments before vanishing without trace.
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Defence Ministry’s motive to hide violations due to bad publicity and protecting well-connected individuals
27/ Quite apart from individual corrupt relationships, this gives the defence ministry a strong motive to keep quiet about violations. It has an institutional aversion to causing bad publicity, embarassment and harm to politically well-connected individuals.
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Russia’s secret defense procurement: corruption and lack of transparency
26/ Lack of transparency is a further problem. Russia's defence procurement system is cloaked in secrecy, with even the Russian parliament unable to review spending. Oversight, such as it is, is confined to within the defence ministry, whose own departments collude in corruption.
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Russian Defence Ministry’s lack of transparency fuels corruption
21/ Corruption is made far easier by the Russian Defence Ministry's industrial policy and its absolute lack of transparency. Under Sergei Ivanov (defence minister from 2001-2007), around 1,500 Russian defence companies were merged into a dozen vertically integrated concerns.