🔥 Russian steel giant Severstal reported a 370% drop in profit to 57 million rubles, with revenue down 18% and EBITDA down 54%.
Cash reserves fell 96% and negative cash flow widened, indicating a deepening crisis in the Russian steel sector.
It is day 1518 of Putin's 3 day special military operation.
Russians are building extensive fortifications and minefields along the coast of temporarily-occupied Crimea because they are afraid of Ukrainian troops invading.
Everything is clearly going according to Putin's plan.
Yesterday a group of resisters banded together and traveled to the Dilley concentration camp filled with infants, children, teens, families to be deported in months or years. It must be closed down and all the kidnapped children and families released! They are abusing/neglecting them 24/7. #pinks
At least 4 people are injured, including a 17-year-old girl.
As Ukraine's allies continue to remove Russian sanctions, attacks on Ukraine's civilian population are expected to rise.
Ukraine has downed or suppressed 116 of 143 Russian drones and one missile overnight April 20-21, following launches that included Iskander-M ballistic missiles and about 80 Shahed UAVs. #Ukraine
The ombudsman called on the international community to move from statements to concrete action: to ensure access for international missions, strengthen the documentation of crimes, and establish effective response mechanisms.
📹: Alla Malysh-Lykhman
At the same time, Russia continues to manipulate these facts. It is itself shelling the city, deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure, and then attempting to shift responsibility for its own crimes onto Ukraine. This is a deliberate and cynical information tactic.
❗️Humanitarian catastrophe in Oleshky: people there are not living - they are surviving.
Please also take the time to read the materials by @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social
about the situation (see quoted post). She has thoroughly researched the subject. Thank you, Zarina, for all your relentless work.
WTF News 📰
Trump requires all Visa applicants social media accounts to be public for vetting purposes.
Not getting vaccinated against a preventable disease will cost anti-vax Americans: $7.8B over 5 yrs.
Measles cases alone cost us $244M in costs. A 1% annual decline in MMR vaccine among young children will result in 17000 cases/yr + 4000 hospitalizations & death.
🧪 archive.today/JhR56
www.bringkidsback.org.ua/en
1.6 Million children are missing from
Ukraine.
They were captured when Russia occupied regions of Ukraine.
Promising mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer!
In 8 of 16 patients, the vaccine "taught" the immune system to recognize the tumor, triggering the body to produce immune T cells to kill the tumor cells.
Of these 8 patients, 7 (87.5%) were alive 4-6 years after surgery.
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Republicans rigged the maps in other states to give themselves an advantage for the midterms.
Democrats have a chance to get payback by taking control of Virginia's maps.
If you're in Virginia, check out IWillVote.com
VOTE YES on April 21.
#VoteYesVirginia #USDemocracy #MomSky
Oil infrastructure in Russia's port city of Tuapse continues to burn.
This is what democracy looks like.
Thank you to all the protestors.
#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
📊 Zelensky: Russia has big problems with the economy. A budget deficit of $100 billion cannot be covered by a short war in the Middle East. So far, they have covered only 10%, no more.
The war in Iran strengthens the “Russians”, depletes the Americans and Europe’s energy reserves.
A Ukrainian drone strike hit railway infrastructure near Persiyanovsky in Russia’s Rostov region, disrupting train traffic after damage to contact power lines. The site lies near a military unit and logistics facilities. #Russia
Morning footage from the port city of Tuapse in Russia, which was heavily hit by Ukrainian drones overnight. Meanwhile it is reported that another wave of Ukrainian drones is heading for Krasnodar Krai. #Russia
Yesterday, Russian authorities reported that the fire at Tuapse was extinguished.
Ukrainian Defense Forces took note of that and remedied the situation.
BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Bad. Really, Really, Bad.
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Republicans against 🤬🍊🐔💩
“As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity makes it pretty clear: Trump comes before everything, even over his religion.
It’s a cult.
🚀 Taganrog, a missile strike on the Atlant Aero LLC enterprise, which produces the Molniya drones and produces components for Orion UAVs.
🔥 Fuel storage tanks are burning low in Sevastopol.
In a world first, an interceptor drone launched from an unmanned surface platform shot down a Shahed per USF. The operation was carried out by the Nemesis 412 brigade.
Due to the chaos Trump unleashed on the Strait of Hormuz, Sudan's “inflation is going through the roof. And so, whatever food is already available has become out of reach for very many people.”
~ Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair tells @democracynow.org
#USDemocracy #MomSky #Sudan
Morning in Sevastopol, Crimea 🔥
#ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #Pinks #ProudBlue
Listen to this. The Trump regime had so much fun manipulating the stock market with up, down, up, down, pause, on again, up, pause & insider trading, they're doing it now with the Hormuz Strait with lies about it being open, lies
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Russian losses per 19/04/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff
+1070 men
+6 tanks
+10 ACVs
+82 artillery
+5 MLRS
+2019 UAVs
Ukraine has downed or suppressed 203 of 236 Russian drones launched overnight April 18-19, including around 150 Shahed UAVs, with impacts recorded at 18 locations and debris falling at 8 sites. #Ukraine
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