The Russian invasion.The outside world's response

The Russian invasion. The outside world's response  

German arms giant wants to build tanks in Ukraine  

 

The German arms giant Rheinmetall is considering building a tank factory in Ukraine for just over two billion kroner, Der Spiegel and Rheinische Post report.  

 

According to the company's CEO, Armin Papperger, the factory could produce up to 400 tanks per year, at full operation. In that case, it would be protected from Russian attacks with anti-aircraft robots, the company states.  

 

Ukraine has estimated that between 600-800 tanks are needed to fight the Russian invasion. 

 

The skyscraper, which is now the subject of conspiracy theories, was hit by a robot at the end of February last year and has since been repaired Efrem Lukatsky / AP  

 

The Russian invasion. The outside world's response  

Conspiracy theories spread: "They want people to doubt"  

 

A series of conspiracy theories are spreading about the war in Ukraine, DN and BBC report. Among other things, there is a clip circulating on social media where what are claimed to be dead bodies in Ukraine are moving. An image of a repaired high-rise building has also been widely circulated, and the skeptics believe that the building could not possibly have been repaired during a full-scale war. 

 

But the context these images are put in is incorrect. The clip of the "dead" bodies comes from a climate protest in Austria. The building in Kyiv is far from the front line of the war, but has actually been repaired.  

 

According to Per Enerud, senior adviser at the Agency for Psychological Defense, the purpose of spreading the disinformation is to make the outside world waver in its support for Ukraine.  

 

- You don't need a very strong effect, it's enough to create an environment where people say that "we can't be sure that it's true", he tells DN.

 

Illustration image. AP  

 

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Russia gets hold of chips despite Western sanctions  

 

The Russian military depends on the import of advanced chips and the country secures access to them by rounding off the sanctions imposed by the EU and the G7 countries. This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to EU sources and trade data.  

 

In addition to imports from China, it is about Russia buying the technology via countries such as Turkey, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan.  

 

Criticism is now being directed at the EU, which, unlike the US, lacks a single authority tasked with ensuring that imposed sanctions are followed. Within the Union, the responsibility falls on the individual Member States. 

 

- It would of course have been easier for everyone if it was an EU-level institution that decided, says the head of the Latvian Financial Supervisory Authority Toms Platacis to Bloomberg.