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🔴 Russian forces launched a massive combined missile and drone strike on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure overnight, damaging power facilities in eight regions.
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Fascinating episode! An absolute MUST-LISTEN!!
🙏 @indopacpodcast.bsky.social! Where it is shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that China, while it is more discreet, is just as aggressive as Russia on the international front and just as disregarding of human rights.
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Crimea is Ukraine.
Donetsk is Ukraine.
Luhansk is Ukraine.
That’s a fact.
Russia’s “referenda” in these territories were shams, held at gunpoint. That’s also a fact.
Facts matter.
Homunculus Loxodontus
All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this
🚢 Europe is planning to seize Russia’s shadow fleet after a spate of sabotage incidents. Talks are underway to use legal, environmental & piracy laws to crack down on tankers dodging sanctions & fueling Moscow’s war. Challenges remain, momentum growing.
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French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million.
Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?
Familiar
A Ukrainian drone takes down 3 Russian Mavic drones using a shotgun, then fires at a Russian combatant and finishes them off with a grenade.
Russia is running GPS-jamming machines in St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, affecting aviation and sometimes shipping around Baltic Sea.
Some of my most appreciated work has been localizing these machines in time, space and volume.
Here's a rundown of previous geo-work, reversed chronological order.
A major offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk operational zone is not a rumour; fighting is underway, and the Ukrainians have achieved some successes. Let’s wish the warriors good luck.
A platoon of 14 Russian soldiers surrendered to just two Ukrainian paratroopers from the 79th Air Assault Brigade.
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What a POS
Călin Georgescu's shock win in the first round of Romania's presidential election led to allegations of an orchestrated TikTok campaign to rig the race.
The situation is becoming a serious test of the EU's new social media regulation rules.
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Alliance countries need to return to Cold War-era defense budgets to fend off Russia, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said today.
Biden has approved a new aid package for Ukraine.
It will include additional air defense systems, artillery, drones, and armored vehicles.
Excellent piece, as always
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have imposed sanctions on Georgia’s ruling officials following the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Tbilisi.
Germany's intelligence chief warns that Russia's sabotage and hybrid warfare may push NATO to consider invoking Article 5, its mutual defense clause. He also highlighted the risk of direct military confrontation as Moscow ramps up its military potential.
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Delighted.
❤️🩹 A baby girl was born in the shelter of a perinatal center in Lutsk during Russian attack on Ukraine this morning.
📷: Volyn Regional Medical Association for the Protection of Motherhood and Childhood
Gazprom shares are trading at an all-time low.
A person who invested $1,000 in Gazprom shares in 2008 would only get $11 today! Eleven dollars!
russia is collapsing.
🇬🇧 The UK secretly delivered dozens of Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine weeks ago when Ukraine started running low on the long-rnage missile, reports Bloomberg. These shipments were not publicly announced.
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"We were once kids, too!"
No one should endure the horrors of war, say the fighters… neither the children who attend school despite missile attacks nor the adults who work 24/7 for Ukraine or risk their lives defending the country.
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Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko is asking the world to have some courage and reject Russia's empty nuclear scare tactics. Russia can only win if we let them win.
Angela Merkel sold 40 million people to a slaughter house for cheap russian gas stolen from indigenous lands russia colonized. that’s the only way she deserves to go down in history. period.
The Donbas, rich in mineral deposits and once industrially thriving, has spent over a decade resisting Russia's assault.
Now, its cities are becoming ghost towns, unlivable under the strain of war.
What a pig
