Driving sanctions on @IntlCrimCourt is @LindseyGrahamSC. The Senator worked with ICC to punish Russia over its Ukraine invasion but says he feels betrayed by its indictment of Israeli officials.
“This is a kangaroo court,” Graham said https://t.co/I4BDUlxLRA
U.S. Vice President JD Vance warned global leaders and tech CEOs at a Paris summit on artificial intelligence that “excessive regulation” would kill the rapidly growing AI industry. https://t.co/gdt14aSb3Q
BREAKING: The European Union vowed that U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum “will not go unanswered,” adding that they will trigger tough countermeasures from the 27-nation bloc. https://t.co/Mfylu7uDMz
Oleksii Yukov is a body collector in Ukraine. He has rooted through feces to retrieve the teeth of men whose corpses were eaten by pigs. He says you would do the same if it were your child. https://t.co/jKpERHGRsh
#ScrippsHowardAwards Finalist for Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize:
@frontlinepbs, @AP – “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes”
@tmjennings & @ekinetz
Watch:
https://t.co/0jREQKLQSD
@kyivindependent devastating look at children killed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine BULLET HOLES | An investigation into Russia’s systemic killings of Ukrai... https://t.co/GQDIez1lYv via @YouTube
Very clever methodology by Mediazona & Meduza here, inspired by COVID-19 calculations....How many Russians have died in Ukraine? Data shows what Moscow hides https://t.co/E7IvoHdJPx
China & Wagner Group are now collaborating in Africa:
Wagner Group militants have conducted a mission last night to evacuate and search for Chinese citizens who were targeted by terrorist groups, they were working at a mine near Dimbi village in the Central African Republic.
Shocking. She was there to cover a trial. Then this happened: Russian journalist sustained a brain injury and fractures during a brutal beating in Chechnya https://t.co/KOXVi3Oppv
Putin admits the Wagner Group was fully financed by Russia.
"We fully financed this group from the federal budget. Just from May 22 until May 23 the state paid Wagner companies 86,262,000,000 rubles [about 1 billion USD] for cash support and incentive payments."
⚡️Russian Ministry of Defense: All messages and video footage distributed on social networks on behalf of Y.Prigozhin about the alleged “strike by the RF Ministry of Defense on the rear camps of PMC Wagner” do not correspond to reality and are an informational provocation. The armed forces of the Russian Federation continue to carry out combat missions on the line of contact with the armed forces of Ukraine in the area of the special military operation.