New App Connects Donors Directly To Ukraine’s Drone Units A new fundraising app launched by Ukraine's UNITED24 connects donors directly to frontline drone units to help build international support for the defence of Ukraine.

New App Connects Donors Directly To Ukraine’s Drone Units

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russia - please sir - can I have some more? situation

Sergey Katyrin: regions may need budgetary assistance due to crop losses

Some southern regions of Russia may require targeted budgetary assistance due to crop losses and reduction of sown areas due to weather conditions.

Ukrainian USVs struck a second refinery. The Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar region, Russia, is burning.

/6. ‼️Important update. Kuybyshevsk Refinery, not Novokuybyshevsk Refinery, was subjected to a massive drone attack tonight. Both refineries are located literally across the street from each other, which is where the inaccuracy came from. Kuybyshevsk Refinery has a capacity of 7 million tons per year

Russia's reckoning is coming Beyond the bluster of his meeting with President Trump, Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Isolated, outmanoeuvred, and stalled on the battlefield, Russia is tottering financially and militarily, while Zel...

“Vladimir Putin is in trouble. Isolated, outmanoeuvred, and stalled on the battlefield, Russia is tottering financially and militarily, while Zelensky's Ukraine continues to hold the upper hand.” ⁦‪A good piece from ⁦‪@EngelsbergIdeas‬⁩
Engelsberg ideas.com/essays/russias-reckoning-is-coming/

Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian export oil pipelines and the doubling of US tariffs on India are hitting Moscow's crude flows.

Weekly crude shipments from Russian ports fell by 320,000 barrels a day in the week to August 24, according to tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.

Rheinmetall has opened a new munitions factory in Unterlüss, Germany—built in just 1.5 years. Once at full capacity, it could become Europe’s largest artillery shell production site, possibly even the world’s. Output is set to hit 350,000 shells annually, with much headed to Ukraine.

New blow in the Russian fuel crisis. On Russia's Kuril Islands they've stopped selling gasoline Ai-92 to the public. They're saying it will be retained for specialized vehicles and that a new batch will come later in the afternoon.

www.kommersant.ru/doc/7988844

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The deputy acting governor of Kursk region has been arrested.

www.kommersant.ru/doc/7988867

Russia has already decided that the world does not care how many international rules they break, just like the IOC doesn’t care about their athletes using steroids. They did a political cost benefit analysis and decided to do whatever they want.

Ukraine: Apparent Russian Cluster Munition Attack Nine civilians were killed and more than a dozen injured in an apparent Russian cluster munition attack on July 8, 2023, in a residential district of the Ukrainian town of Lyman. Russia’s repeated use...

1/6 Russia has repeatedly used cluster munitions in densely populated areas of Ukraine, a clear violation of international humanitarian law. These weapons are designed for maximum area damage, not precision. In cities, that means civilians.
www.hrw.org/news/2023/08...
#RussiaIsATerroristState

❗️ Klitschko near the houses destroyed by Russian missiles:

"Among the injured are 9 children. This is the largest number of wounded children in one night in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale war."

1/ Wounded Russian soldiers are complaining that they experience unbearable conditions on slow evacuation trains that travel for days without air conditioning or medical assistance for the men on board. ⬇️

After new EU sanctions package, Microsoft has stopped cooperation with Indian refinery, which is 49% owned by Russian Rosneft - Bloomberg

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Educational Thread: From Mandate Maps to Revolutionary Posters

Most Western narratives treat “Palestine” as a fixed national concept.

But its meaning changed dramatically over the 20th century—and powerful actors shaped that shift.

Minister Al-Shibani and his delegation were received at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ guest palace in Moscow, where they are set to hold discussions with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

14/ The fallout?

Trust in volunteer fundraising eroded
Legit orgs attacked without proof
NAFO collapsed into cliques
Soldiers on the ground suffered from less aid and more noise
All while the Kremlin sat back and watched.

12/ Beecher’s content was eagerly shared by certain “volunteer influencers” looking to take down rivals or promote their own projects.
No legal filings. No formal investigation. Just vibes and drama passed off as “truth.”

Classic disinfo playbook used by our own side.

Ukraine Fundraising: When Helping Becomes a Battleground
What began as a collective humanitarian effort in Ukraine has, in some corners, turned toxic, a war of egos, fundraising turf wars, and influencer drama. Here's how it unraveled and who got hurt. 👇

‼️ Russia: “Railroad service in Rostov region paralyzed after Ukrainian drone raid”

According to Russian Railways , UAV “debris” reportedly damaged the contact network on the Likhaya-Zamchalovo section.

Over 50 long-distance trains were delayed.

www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/07/19/v...

Donetsk… It’s so sad… The city was not razed to the ground like Mariupol, but the occupation simply destroyed it from the inside(((

For the first time, the EU has sanctioned Chinese banks over cooperation with Russia. As part of its 18th sanctions package aimed at weakening Russia’s war machine, the EU has targeted Suifenhe Rural Commercial Bank and Heihe Rural Commercial Bank, both regional lenders.

There must be some kind of misunderstanding, comrade, I wanted to do paperwork

New epic two-flag Wild Hornets raffle to fund FPV drones for Ukraine’s Border Guards—raffle prizes are two flags signed by over 110 Border Guards troopers altogether and 15 items of unique Border Guards merch👇

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Meanwhile, Russian milbloggers are busy digesting the Azerbaijani president’s message to Ukraine.

Here’s where you can see what MOEX is doing in response to Trump’s press conference (it’s still going)

tradingeconomics.com/russia/stock...

Quick OFZ Nerd Time update

This is still progressing as expected 👇

I *think* if they continue at the pace they’ve been going it’s probably about 3 weeks away

С производителя межконтинентальных баллистических ракет потребовали более 211 млн рублей Минобороны РФ подало четыре иска в суд против ГКНПЦ имени М. В. Хруничева

More than 211 million rubles demanded from manufacturer of intercontinental ballistic missiles
Russian Defense Ministry files four lawsuits against Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

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