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Beheading Of A Ukrainian Prisoner Of War In Summer 2022
A video depicting the decapitation of a Ukrainian prisoner of war was first published online on 11 April 2023. The video was then circulated through pro-Russian sources. The Proekt called the video the most brutal during the war in Ukraine, emphasizing that in the past such executions were carried out only by members of the Islamic State. Beheading The first known publication of the video occurred 11 April 2023 at 22:24 Moscow time. At 22:40 it was distributed by Vladislav Pozdnyakov, founder of Male State, an extremist political party in Russia. Earlier, on 8 April, pro-Russian Telegram channels began to distribute another video of beheaded Ukrainian soldiers showing two headless corpses of Ukrainian soldiers lying on the ground next to a broken armored vehicle. The hands of the dead soldiers were also cut off. In the video, a man is lying on the ground, dressed in a military uniform, which has a yellow band on the sleeve, used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A masked ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An estimated 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by late May and 7.8 million fled the country by 8 November 2022, while Russia, within five weeks of the invasion, experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, eventually amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarians In Ukraine
The Hungarians in Ukraine ( hu, Ukrajnai magyarok, uk, угорці в Україні, tr. ''uhortsi v Ukraini'') number 156,600 people according to the Ukrainian census of 2001 and are the third largest national minority in the country. Hungarians are largely concentrated in the Zakarpattia Oblast (particularly in Berehove Raion and Berehove city), where they form the largest minority at 12.1% of the population (12.7% when native language is concerned). In the area along the Ukrainian border with Hungary (the Tisza River valley), Hungarians form the majority. Concentrated primarily in Zakarpattia (Trans-Carpathian), in Hungarian those Hungarians are referred to as ''Kárpátaljai magyarok'' (Transcarpathian Hungarians), while Zakarpattia is referred to as Kárpátalja. History Today's territory of Zakarpattia was part of the Kingdom of Hungary since its foundation in the year 1000. From 1867, Hungary was a constituent part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until the latter's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov ( rus, Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков, p=pʲɪˈskof; born 17 October 1967) is a Russian diplomat and the press secretary for Russian President Vladimir Putin.Peskov, Dmitry Kremlin.ru Early life and education Peskov was born in . His father, Sergey, headed the Soviet diplomatic mission in Pakistan. In 1989, Peskov graduated from the |
Emoji
An emoji ( ; plural emoji or emojis) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversation. Examples of emoji are 😂, 😃, 🧘🏻♂️, 🌍, 🌦️, 🍞, 🚗, 📞, 🎉, ❤️, 🍆, 🍑 and 🏁. Emoji exist in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and types of weather, and animals. They are much like emoticons, except emoji are pictures rather than typographic approximations; the term "emoji" in the strict sense refers to such pictures which can be represented as character encoding, encoded characters, but it is sometimes applied to Sticker (messaging), messaging stickers by extension. Originally meaning pictograph, the word ''emoji'' comes from Japanese + ; the resemblance to the English words ''emotion'' and ''emoticon'' is False cognate, purely coincidental. The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smiley
A smiley, sometimes referred to as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram that represents a smiling face. Since the 1950s it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram, or as a form of communication, such as emoticons. The smiley began as two dots and a line to represent eyes and a mouth. More elaborate designs in the 1950s emerged, with noses, eyebrows, and outlines. A yellow and black design was used by New York-based radio station WMCA for its ''" Good Guys"'' campaign in the early 1960s. More yellow-and-black designs appeared in the 1960s and '70s, including works by Franklin Loufrani and Harvey Ross Ball.Ethridge, Mark. “Several Firms Claim to Be Originators of Smile Button.” ''Nashua Telegraph''. September 9, 1971. https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-sep-09-1971-3502894/ Today, The Smiley Company holds many rights to the smiley ideogram and has become one of the biggest licensing companies globally. In October o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. It is distinct from the International Court of Justice, an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes between states. While praised as a major step towards justice, and as an innovation in international law and human rights, the ICC has faced a number of criticisms from governments and civil society, including objections to its jurisdiction, accusations of bias, Eurocentrism and racism, questioning of the fairness of its case-selection and trial procedures, and doubts about its effectiveness. History The establishment of an international tribunal to judge political leaders accused of international crimes was first proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a career in comedy and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series ''Servant of the People'', in which Zelenskyy played the role of the Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party bearing the same name as the television show was created in March 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andriy Yermak
Andrii Borysovych Yermak ( uk, Андрій Борисович Єрмак; born 21 November 1971) (11 February 2020) is a film producer, lawyer and current Head of the . |
Main Directorate Of Intelligence (Ukraine)
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine ( uk, Головне управління розвідки Міністерства оборони України, translit=Holovne upravlinnia rozvidky Ministerstva oborony Ukrainy), also known as HUR MO () or alternatively spelled GUR is the military intelligence service of the Ukrainian government. It is a subdivision of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, not the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was built upon the existing intelligence assets of the Kyiv, Odesa and Carpathian military districts of the Soviet Armed Forces and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). The agency's former motto was "Statehood, professionalism, decency". Since 2016, the agency uses the motto "The Wise will rule the Stars" ( la, Sapiens Dominabitur Astris). Spheres of activity The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine conducts its activity in the military, political, techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrylo Budanov
Kyrylo Oleksiyovych Budanov ( uk, Кирило Олексійович Буданов; 4 January 1986) is Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Major General. Biography Russian-Ukrainian war From 2014 he took part in the Russo-Ukrainian War.Воєнна розвідка України отримала нового очільника Defense Express, 6 серпня 2020 Attempt in 2019 On 4 April 2019, Budanov's Chevrolet Evanda car was blown up by a Russian with documents in the name of Alexei Lomaka, who planted a mine, but it detonated pre ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rusich Group
The Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group (DShRG) "Rusich" (russian: Диверсионно-штурмовая разведывательная группа «Русич», Diversionno-shturmovaya razvedyvatel'naya gruppa «Rusich») is a combat detachment of a pro-Russian Neo-Nazi right-wing group that took part in the Russo-Ukrainian War both in the War in Donbas from June 2014 to July 2015 on the side of the self-proclaimed republics, and in the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of Russian troops. The beginning of the history of the Rusich group was laid in 2009, when a training base for military training was founded. The founder Alexey Milchakov is a neo-Nazi from Saint Petersburg, who had the nickname "Fritz" before being sent to the Donbas (there he changed to the call sign "Serb"). He took part in the Partizan paramilitary training program at the Novorossiya Aid Coordination Center (KCPN) run by the Imperial Legion, a combat arm of the Russian Imperial Movement. Accordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadyrovites
) , patron = , motto = Akhmad is strong!(russian: Ахмат — сила!) , colors = A-TACS , colors_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = , equipment = , equipment_label = , battles = Chechen–Russian conflict * Second Chechen War * Insurgency in the North Caucasus Syrian Civil War * Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war Russo-Ukrainian War * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , decorations = , battle_honours = , battle_honours_label = , flying_hours = , website = , current_commander = Adam Delimkhanov , commander1 = , commander1_label = , notable_commanders = Akhmad KadyrovRamzan Kadyr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
