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News.com.au
an hour ago
- News.com.au
Russian deserters facing brutal punishments in Ukraine
Brutal punishments meted out to Russian deserters in the gruelling war with Ukraine are being shared in harrowing videos from the front lines. Soldiers accused of abandoning their posts are tied to trees and left for dead, forced to fight fellow deserters in pits or dragged along behind cars by their comrades. Some of the videos posted to social media sites such as Telegram and obtained by CNN show bound soldiers being viciously assaulted and urinated on. In one clip, a man's voice can be heard as he opens a large metal storage tank holding three men stripped down to their underwear. 'Time to feed the animals! The ones who tried to f*** off,' he says. 'Let's find out what they are doing.' The man asks if the men were hungry: 'Do you want a cookie?' One of the captives nods and a biscuit is crumbled into his hands, which he eats. Ukrainian soldiers report intercepting radio communications of enemy battalions describing the punishments as sacrifices to the witch Baba Yaga – who in Slavic folklore eats children. 'Any large Ukrainian drone they call Baba Yaga. It spreads terrible panic in these damaged people,' the commander, who goes by the call sign Munin, told CNN. 'For them, it's some kind of scary myth that flies in and kills everyone.' Tens of thousands of Russians are estimated to have deserted their army since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022. Get Lost, which helps men desert or avoid conscription, says it has facilitated the escape of 1700 Russians. 'Their lives are not worth anything to their commanders,' founder Grigory Sverdlin said. 'For Russian officers, losing a tank, losing a vehicle, is much worse than losing, say, 10 or 20 people. 'We often hear from our clients that officers tell them they will all be dead in a week. The officer will get another unit, so it's not a problem for them.' US-based Institute for the Study of War cites apparently leaked data from Russia's Defence Ministry that suggests as many as 50,000 men could have deserted so far. Trump's ultimatum to Putin US President Donald Trump on Monday issued Moscow with a dramatic new deadline to end the war or face tough new sanctions, as he met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland. Saying he was not very interested in talking to the Russian leader anymore, Mr Trump said he was 'very disappointed' with Putin over continued strikes against Ukrainian civilian targets. He announced that he was reducing an earlier 50-day deadline set on July 14 for Mr Putin to bring the Ukraine conflict to an end to 'about 10 or 12 days', starting immediately. 'There is no reason in waiting,' Mr Trump said, adding he thought Mr Putin would want to end things quickly. 'I really felt it was going to end. But every time I think it's going to end he kills people. 'I'm not so interested in talking (to him) anymore.' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky swiftly praised the US leader's stand, thanking Mr Trump for his 'clear stance and expressed determination'. 'Right on time, when a lot can change through strength for real peace,' Mr Zelensky said on social media. 'I thank President Trump for his focus on saving lives and stopping this horrible war.'
Perth Now
2 hours ago
- Perth Now
Trump opens golf course in Scotland before heading home
US President Donald Trump has formally opened a new golf course at his sprawling property in Scotland, saying he would play a quick round before heading home to focus on addressing crises in the Middle East and elsewhere. Trump, wrapping up a five-day visit to Scotland, was joined by former football players, golfers and business leaders for a first round of golf at his new second 18-hole course at Trump International near Aberdeen, Scotland. Initially billed as a private visit, the trip quickly morphed into a diplomatic mission, including a trade agreement sealed with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, bilateral meetings with British officials and phone calls aimed at ending a nascent war between Cambodia and Thailand. During a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, Trump raised pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a worsening hunger crisis in the war-torn Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Asked at Tuesday's event what he would say to Netanyahu, Trump said he was trying to get things "straightened out". During his talks with Starmer, Trump said he disagreed with Netanyahu's assessment there was no starvation in Gaza, while giving Russian President Vladimir Putin a much tighter deadline to make progress towards ending the war in Ukraine. Flanked by his two sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, with several grandchildren nearby, Trump raved about the beauty of the new golf course in the dunes of northeastern Scotland, before teeing off. "I look forward to playing it today. We're going to play it very quickly, and then I go back to (Washington) DC and we put out fires all over the world," he said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new course, alluding in part to a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. "We stopped a war - we've stopped about five wars. So that's much more important than playing golf." Several nations have nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, a message endorsed by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a social media post in recent days. Golfers Paul McGinley and Rich Beem teed off with Trump and his son Eric, and an eclectic mix of notable figures followed. Former Chelsea and AC Milan striker and top Ukraine goal-scorer Andriy Shevchenko, who is now the president of his country's football association, was a guest, as were fellow ex-football players Robbie Fowler, Gianfranco Zola and Jim Leighton. Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who met with Trump earlier on Tuesday, also attended, along with Adrian Mardell, the chief executive of Jaguar Land Rover, and Alastair King, the Lord Mayor of the City of London, who represents Britain's finance industry.
Sydney Morning Herald
3 hours ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
Mouthguard data reveals Tizzano copped ‘high magnitude' impact at MCG
Asked about the Gilpin comments later on Tuesday, in an interview with Stan Sport's Lions Central, Schmidt leapt to the defence of Tizzano, who has labelled a diver by sections of the British media and Lions fans. 'I just heard the end of it [Gilpin's press conference] then because we'd just finished training, but talking about the instrumental mouthguards, with Carlo when he was hit, I feel sorry for him because I think he's copping a lot of flak, but that impact was almost double what they determine as a high magnitude impact,' Schmidt said. 'So that's the degree of force that he had to wear I suppose, and that in itself is enough to force someone to recoil as he did. So those are some of the things that we get actual readings on. 'He's had a pretty sore neck for the last 24-48 hours, but he's back, he's resilient, and he's back looking forward to the weekend.' Instrumented mouthguards (IMGs) were funded and rolled out globally by World Rugby last year to all players in elite competitions, and data is captured when players' heads are subjected to forces that, if high enough, can alert game day doctors to assess a player for a potential concussion. Tizzano received treatment for his neck at the MCG but the reading did not trigger an HIA. 'Just in terms of protecting Carlo, I think it's just probably getting the information out there that that level of force causes a chain reaction. That's the equation,' Schmidt said. 'That impact was almost double what they determine as a high magnitude impact.' Joe Schmidt on the Carlo Tizzano clear-out World Rugby will deliver the findings of the referee review to the teams, but not make it public, Gilpin said. Part of the reasoning, Gilpin said, is to protect Piardi and the match officials, given online abuse has in recent years had mental health consequences for referees, and even seen their families threatened. Schmidt would not face consequences for his post-match comments, Gilpin said. 'There's a lot of emotion, understandably,' Gilpin said. 'Joe's comments have continued to respect the fact that the match officials have got a tough job to do. He might disagree with the decisions that were made, but I don't think he's called the integrity of our match officials into question.' Robinson said match officials go through an extensive review process, and like players, and can face consequences for future appointments. 'Our team will have looked at the match and looked at, you know, there are always going to be things that don't work properly and there are going to be things that do,' he said. 'Ultimately, the referees are accountable. So I think there's a sort of a sense that they're not. You know, on the basis of performance over time, referees move up the rankings and they move down. They get picked for Test matches or they don't.' But Robinson also emphasised the need for WR to support whistleblowers, citing Nic Berry being slammed publicly by Rassie Erasmus in the 2021 Lions tour of South Africa. 'Nic got absolutely hammered, and hammered publicly. And you talk to Nic today and that's something he's still recovering from,' he said. 'So I take a real responsibility for protecting referees.' Loading Revealing the ticketing program for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, RA and World Rugby – the joint organisers – revealed there would be one million tickets available for $100, as part of a drive to make the tournament as affordable and accessible as possible. With an extra four teams in the tournament, a record 2.5 million tickets will be sold, with adults starting at $40 and children at $20. A limited number of new Superfan passes will also be sold next month, which guarantee four tickets to any match including the final.
