❗️Six Russian government flights take off amid reports of historic prisoner exchange — Flightradar24 data

Meanwhile, one of Moscow’s airplanes used in prisoner swaps has arrived in Murmansk.

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❗️Possible prisoner exchange: Two Russian aircraft of the special flight squadron are flying from Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport towards Türkiye, Flightradar24 data shows

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⚡️ WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan reportedly freed as part of prisoner exchange — Bloomberg

It is not yet clear who the American citizens were exchanged for.

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😳 ICYMI: Israel Accuses Iran of “Sponsoring Terrorism” at UN

On the same day, Israel targeted and murdered two journalists in Gaza…

Irony is a dead scene.

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❗️Russian-British activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, convicted of spreading ‘disinformation’ about the Russian armed forces, to be part of upcoming historic prisoner exchange – Bloomberg

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😂 US Sen. Marco Rubio Loses His Sh*t Because China, Russia and Iran Don’t Use Dollars for Transactions

Rubio wants to sanction them for “bypassing US laws.”

The US Ponzi financial scheme is collapsing.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ SMO Zone Map for 1 August 2024⚡️

🗓 Territorial Changes on the Map of the War for the Partition of #Ukraine associated with the conduct of hostilities for July 2024:

🔴 In the #Kharkov Direction, mutual attacks of the parties near #Glubokoye and #Tikhoye +1.73 km²

🔴 East of #Kupyansk, the RFAF entered the village of #Peschanoye +6.86 km²

🔴 In the Area of #Svatovo, the RFAF advanced on #Stelmakhovka, #Rozovka and #Makeyevka +6.85 km²

🔴 In the Area of ​​​​#Kremennaya, attack of the RFAF north of the #Torskoye ledge and withdrawal from RFAF positions in the #Kremensky forests +0.33 km²

🔴 At the Line #Soledar - #Lisichansk, the RFAF reached #IvanoDaryevka and occupied #Razdolovka with the surrounding area +15.89 km²

🔴 In the #ChasovYar Direction, the RFAF expanded the control zone at the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal and in #Andreyevka +2.48 km²

🔴 Near #Gorlovka, the RFAF entered the settlements of #Druzhba, #Kirovo, #Shumy, #Artemovo, #Leninskoye, #Novgorodskoye (#NyuYork) and #Yuryevka +22.65 km²

🔴 In the #Avdeyevka Direction, the RFAF occupied the settlements of #Lozovatskoye, #Progress, #Volchye, #Yevgenovka, #Voskhod, #Sokol and #Novosyolovka1st. The control zone has been expanded at #Netaylovo and #Pervomayskoye +52.86 km²

🔴 In #Krasnogorovka they took full control of the central part of the town, advanced to #Maksimilyanovka and south of #Georgiyevka +6.0 km²

🔴 In the Area of #Novomikhaylovka, the RFAF attacked south of #Pobeda, entered the southern outskirts of #Konstantinovka and moved towards the Motorway to #Ugledar +8.5 km²

🔴 In the #Ugledar Section, the RFAF advanced a significant distance from #Sladkoye towards #Vodyanoye + 21.1 km²

🔴 South of #VelikayaNovosyolka, the RFAF occupied #Staromayorskoye and #Urozhaynoye +11.82 km²

🔴 In the #Orekhov Section, progress along the Motorway to #Orekhov from #Pologi and west of #Rabotino +4.96 km²

📌 General Territorial Changes for July 2024 +162.04 km² or +5.23 km² per day on average.

🗺 The Map is based on geodata published on the Creamy Caprice Channel available from public videos and photographs.

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📜 Report: @creamy_caprice; 1 Aug 2024 10:03 GMT+3; #smo #ass

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❗️Major prisoner exchange between Russia, Germany, US and three other Western countries to involve 24 people — CBS

8 of the prisoners involved will be able to return to Russia.

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❗️26 prisoners involved in historic Russia-West exchange – Turkish intelligence

There have ben no comments from government officials. The exchange involves Russia, the United States, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, and Belarus, according to Türkiye’s National Intelligence Organization, which mediated the swap.

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❓Which Russian prisoners could be part of the Ankara exchange?

🟠Alexander Vinnik

A Russian IT specialist was arrested in Greece on July 25, 2017, at the request of the United States, where he is accused of violating US law by creating a cryptocurrency exchange without a US license. According to the US, billions of dollars were laundered through the exchange. If convicted, the Russian faces 55 years in prison.

Vinnik agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of a plea deal with prosecutors on May 3, 2024. The court initially scheduled his sentencing for July 12, but later postponed it until early 2025.

🟠Maxim Marchenko

Arrested in September 2023. He pleaded guilty to illegally purchasing and shipping dual-use American microelectronics to Russia. The combined maximum sentence the Russian faces is 30 years in prison.

🟠Vadim Konoshchenko

Detained on October 27 while attempting to leave Estonia for Russia. On July 13, 2023, he was extradited to the US from Estonia. In the United States, the Russian is accused of conspiring to circumvent sanctions, illegal purchases for the Russian defense industry, and related financial fraud. Konoshchenko did not admit guilt in court; he remains under arrest.

🟠Vladislav Klyushin

Arrested in March 2021 in Switzerland at the request of the United States. He was extradited to the United States, and in February 2023, a jury found the Russian guilty. In September 2023, a court in Boston, US, sentenced Klyushin to nine years in prison. The founder of the M13 IT company was accused by the US authorities of insider trading in securities based on stolen and non-public information with the participation of several accomplices.

🟠Anna and Artem Dultsev

Arrested in Slovenia in December 2022, the court found them guilty of espionage. They were sentenced by the court to one year and seven months in prison and deportation from the country.

Vadim Krasikov

On December 15, 2019, the Berlin Supreme Court found Russian Vadim Sokolov (Krasikov) guilty of murdering Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

🟠Roman Seleznev

The son of a State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, detained by US special service agents in July 2014 in the Maldives, was taken to the United States and, in April 2017, received 27 years on charges of cyber fraud, in particular, stealing credit card data and organizing online fraud, with damages of $170 million. In the second case, he pleaded guilty to being part of the international cyber fraud group Carder.

🟠Vladimir Dunaev

At the request of the United States, Russian citizen Vladimir Dunaev was detained in South Korea on May 25, 2021, in a cyber fraud case. On October 29, South Korea notified the Russian side of the detention and extradition of the Russian to the United States. In January 2024, a US court sentenced Dunaev to 5 years and 4 months in prison in a cyber fraud case. According to the American side, from November 2015 to August 2020, Dunaev was engaged in the theft of funds and confidential information and was also a member of a transnational criminal organization that developed the Trickbot malware.

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❗️Turkish intelligence said that the operation to exchange 26 prisoners from seven countries took place in Ankara with its mediation.

Ten of those released as part of the exchange are heading to Russia, 13 to Germany and three to the United States, Turkish channel NTV reported.

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