Italy’s financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, has seized a total of €41 million worth of assets owned by Russian oligarch Alexei Fedorychev, including Torre del Gallo, a castle in Tuscany valued at €38 million.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine with referen…
16 July, 2024 Tanker MT Bentley I. Photo from open sources
The Yemeni Houthis attacked two tankers in the Red Sea, one of which was going from Russia to China.
The U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) reported on this.
First, a Panama-flagged tanker, MT …
Ukrainian athlete Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk has won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the Diamond League in Monaco.
Bekh-Romanchuk jumped 14.81 m. This was her first competition since January 2024 due to injury.
Cuban Leyanis Pérez Hernández won first p…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has marked Border Guard Day by conferring the rank of Lieutenant General upon Serhii Deineko, Head of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service, and promoting two other officials to higher ranks.
Source: decrees issued by Zelen…
French bailiffs have seized more than 100 works by avant-garde artists from a Paris storage facility. Among them are paintings by Kazimir Malevich. The bailiffs suspect that the works were stolen from a private collector.
Frankfurt-based law firm Dento…
A number of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and their associates in the United States were arrested or indicted on Feb. 22, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The enforcement actions coincide with the U.S. announcing new sanctions against Russia on th…
Representatives of the US Department of Justice have unveiled a wide range of lawsuits against Russian oligarchs and their allies and announced the arrests of two “intermediaries” of a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Source: Voice of America; Washington P…
The United States will transfer approximately $500,000 in confiscated Russian funds to Estonia for the purpose of aiding Ukraine, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Feb. 17.The transfer marks the second time the U.S. has sent confiscated Russian …
Oleksii Arestovych, a former out-of-staff adviser to the head of the President’s Office and outspoken blogger, was spotted in Monaco.
Source: a short video by Ukrainska Pravda entitled “Monaco Battalion: Arestovych spotted on the Cote d’Azur”
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Internet-famous Ukrainian cat Stepan has fallen sick after a Russian attack on the city of Kharkiv on 23 January.
The cat’s owner said on her Instagram that the cat has had three injections and is now being treated with medications at home.
“I started …