After another Russian airstrike, around 70% of homes in Kiev are without electricity. 293 drones and 25 cruise missiles/flares were flown into Ukraine overnight, again targeting civilian power infrastructure in and around major Ukrainian cities. As a result, Ukraine again called on foreign partners to speed up the delivery of air defence systems and ammunition for them. But Ukraine is also hitting back. The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region has indicated that he is considering evacuating residents because of problems with electricity supplies. And this happened, too:

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• The day after the disappearance of businessman Baumgertner, an employee of the Russian embassy in Cyprus committed suicide. According to analysts, the deceased was allegedly working with the embassy’s monitoring and spying equipment and was therefore not a diplomat but a Russian intelligence agent. The embassy claimed that the man died on 8 January, but did not inform the embassy of his death until four days later, banning Cypriot police from its premises and seizing the alleged suicide note.
• The Russian Orthodox Church has begun distributing vile leaflets in Russia that promote participation in the war with Ukraine and contain an open call for genocide. According to the authors of the leaflet, the task of believing Russians is to “wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth.” The leaflet then presents the whole challenge as a moral or even spiritual obligation.
• The Pentagon is integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence into its network. Grok will be integrated into the Pentagon’s computer network by the end of this January. It will be used together with Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence, among other things, to process sensitive information and intelligence data.
• Russia is using its shadow fleet to smuggle weapons from occupied Ukraine through Crimea, including into Europe. One of the organisers and coordinators of these operations is Russian army major Yevgeny Dmitriev, who works with Kadyrov’s paramilitary unit Akhmat.
• The Iranian security forces and army have begun a bloody crackdown on the current wave of protests. Officials admit around two thousand dead, but the real numbers may be much higher. The army is cordoning off entire cities, hunting down protesters in the streets and firing live ammunition into crowds.
• The head of the “Rossotrudnichestvo” admits that former fighters of Wagner’s group work in the organisation. According to Yevgeny Primakov, these are “very capable people” who previously helped open so-called “Russian houses” in the Central African Republic and Mali.
• Republican lawmaker and professional sycophant Randy Fine introduced a bill in the US Congress on 12 January that would allow Trump to annex Greenland and grant the territory federal state status.
• In one day, drones hit four tankers en route to the oil terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia: the Delta Harmony, the Matilda, the Freud, and the Delta Supreme. All four were flying the Greek flag.
• The Ukrainians hoisted the flag over the Kupyansk city hall building, which until recently was held by remnants of Russian troops. Another 25-90 Russian troops remain surrounded at three locations in the city.
• Russia carried out a double strike on the logistics terminal of Novaya Posta in Kharkiv. 4 employees died in the airstrike, 6 others were injured. Rescue workers managed to rescue three dozen people from the rubble.
• France is demanding that a new EU loan of €90 billion for the defence of Ukraine be linked to a strict condition that only European weapons be bought from it.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Atlant Aero air plant in Taganrog, where, among other things, Russian Orion reconnaissance drones are manufactured.
• The Babiš-controlled House of Commons refused to distance itself from Tomio Okamura’s New Year’s speech.
• Russia yesterday hit two cargo ships sailing from ports in Ukraine’s Odessa region with drones.
• In 2025, the Russians killed at least 2 514 civilians and wounded 12 142 others.
• Trump imposes tariffs of 25% on all countries cooperating with Iran.
• Ukrainians hit and destroyed an ammunition depot in occupied Makiivka

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• A little bit.
• Russian attack on Panamanian cargo ship
• Taganrog Air Race
• Kupjansk

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The Ukrainians showed journalists the wreckage of the Russian Oreshnik missile, as well as the findings of an analysis of its key components and systems. Despite Russian propaganda, the missile is no modern piece of kit. In fact, it almost exclusively uses decades-old technology and even shares some components with the rocket that carried Gagarin into orbit. Analysts say the modern components make up about 10% of the rocket. Of course, it is still a potentially very lethal weapon, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. But its reliability is best illustrated by the fact that the Russians have so far managed two successful launches. Moreover, experts say that the missile is so inaccurate that its use without a nuclear warhead makes no sense at all. So why is it so crucial to Russian propaganda? Analysts believe that it is part of Russia’s nuclear rhetoric and nuclear threats, i.e. that it is more important in information warfare than in conventional warfare. And it is true that in the field of information, Russia has been winning for a long time. Anyway, that’s not all that happened:

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• Russian nuns, who until recently worked in the Estonian Orthodox Church on the basis of fake contracts, are now banned from entering the Schengen area. The case concerns Abbess Ekaterina Khaynikova and Sister Juvenalia (Elvira Korolyova alias “Matyusha”) from the Krestovozdvizhensky Monastery near Moscow, which reports directly to Patriarch Kirill. Formally listed as employees of the Narva Cathedral, they were actually living in Russia and receiving Estonian social benefits. The investigation found that the nuns openly supported the war against Ukraine, raised funds “for the SVO,” traveled to occupied territories, and cooperated with units of the Russian armed forces. The Estonian authorities recall that the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church are used by Russian intelligence services and military to undermine the security of other countries.
• The UK is developing a new ballistic missile system for Ukraine called Nightfall. The missile will carry a 200-kilogram warhead and have a range of 500 kilometres, allowing it to strike deep into Russian territory. The UK Ministry of Defence is investing £9 million in the initial phase to produce and test three missiles.
• US oil companies are reportedly reluctant to take over the Venezuelan oil industry, or at least very reticent to do so, because of the high cost of modernisation, security issues, political instability and the current low oil price, which would not bring profits for decades.
• The US media claim that Trump has ordered the top brass in the military to draw up a plan to invade Greenland. But the US General Staff is reportedly resisting Trump’s orders. Meanwhile, several congressmen have called on the military not to follow illegal orders, which would include orders for military action on allied territory.
• Russia, Iran, China and South Africa are participating in naval exercises off the coast of South Africa called “Will for Peace 2026”, with Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia joining as observers.
• According to The Telegraph, British officials met with German and French officials to begin preparations for the deployment of military forces to Greenland.
• Kadyrov is hospitalised in a serious condition after his kidneys failed, according to Ukrainian military intelligence.
• Russia dispatched 154 drones to the Ukrainian power grid during the freezing night from yesterday to today.
• The Ukrainians launched a large-scale airstrike on Voronezh last night.
• Ukrainian drones hit oil platforms in the Caspian Sea belonging to Lukoil.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Affected oil platforms
• Russian losses
• Anatomy of a Nutcracker
• On the front
• Failed
• Minus Africans
• Drone work in Pokrovsk
• Didn’t pass
• The Russian and his “consumer soldiers”
• Drones don’t sleep
• Ukrainian air raid on Voronezh
• Minus fuel storage
• Piggy on a motorcycle
• Collecting trophies
• He didn’t hide
• Drone ambush

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The United States warned yesterday that Russia was preparing for a massive attack on Ukraine with drones and missiles, and it actually came last night. For only the second time since the war began, the Russians carried out a successful strike using the Oreshnik system, and it was on Lviv. Like the first time, this time the system probably did not carry the main warhead, but destroyed the targets only by the kinetic energy of the projectile. But there were also other missiles, ballistic missiles and kamikaze drones in the air - 278 projectiles in total. In Kiev, the Russians targeted heating infrastructure in several neighborhoods to deprive residents of hot water supplies, in several waves to maximize potential civilian casualties. Thus, the second attack on Kiev killed a 56-year-old paramedic who was providing assistance to victims of the first attack. Another Russian drone hit a high-rise apartment building in Kiev, killing an entire family. In total, four people were killed and 22 others were injured in the airstrike. And this also happened:

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• Sometimes good still wins. Like in this story: A drunken Italian was praising Putin on a bus on the way to Kiev. He was wearing an embroidered shirt given to him by his Ukrainian fiancée. All this did not escape the notice of another Ukrainian passenger, who in response opened the Threads app and started writing posts capturing all the monologues of the master and attempts at dialogue. By the time the bus arrived at the border crossing, the posts had gone viral - and the border guards knew exactly who was arriving and at what time. The Italian never made it to Ukraine; instead, he was banned from entering the country for three years. And the fact that he had a series of videos on his TikTok with the caption “Journey to Russia, my homeland” certainly didn’t help either.
• Russian bloggers write that as a result of the nightly shelling by Ukraine, some 556,000 residents of the Belgorod region are without electricity and heat, and some 200,000 people are without water supplies.
• Iraq has nationalised the production infrastructure at the West Qurna-2 oil fields, where Russia’s Lukoil has been producing. It will then take over production for the next 12 months and in the meantime will look for a new buyer.
• The Russian Foreign Ministry says Trump agreed to release two Russian crew members of the Mariner tanker who were detained by US authorities at Moscow’s request.
• The U.S. Senate passed a resolution prohibiting Trump from deploying the military without congressional approval. But for it to take effect, the House would also have to approve it and… Trump.
• US ships are in pursuit of four more tankers that have changed their “nationality” to Russian and are trying to escape the naval blockade of Venezuela.
• Russia threatens to hit their bases with ballistic missiles if peacekeepers from any third countries show up in Ukraine.
• Ukrainian drones have hit a fuel train in occupied Crimea and a Russian ammunition depot in the village of Hirne in the occupied Donetsk region.
• Russia is now also systematically attacking vegetable oil production in Ukraine, which accounts for up to 15% of foreign revenues.
• Foreign Minister Macinka has arrived in Kiev for a state visit. He is accompanied by a Turk.
• Russian Gazprom’s gas export volume to Europe fell by 44% in 2025.
• Ukrainian missiles hit a Russian thermal power plant in the Oryol region.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Nutcracker
• Macinka
• Russian heating plant
• Denacification
• The cloaking didn’t work
• Kiev
• Kiev
• Kiev
• Kiev
• The drones are working
• Belgorod
• Minus the fuel train
• Minus the artillery
• Minus one… no, like two.

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What is the Mariner oil tanker carrying that is being pursued by US ships in the Atlantic? Maybe something more interesting than oil. Or so think a growing number of analysts who are watching the action in real time. For context, the Marinera is originally the tanker Bella 1, which until recently flew the flag of Guyana. On March 17 last year, it sailed from the port of Rajaee in Iran bound for Venezuela, where it never arrived. After unsuccessfully attempting to break the US naval blockade of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea and a US Coast Guard ship attempted to intercept him, he made his escape across the Atlantic. During the voyage, he then switched his registration from the Guyana Naval Register to Russia, renamed himself from Belly 1 to Mariner, painted a Russian flag on his hull, and asked the Russian Navy for help. And Russia did respond. First, it called on the Americans to abandon the pursuit of the tanker immediately, and more recently it sent a nuclear submarine and several other warships to escort the tanker on its voyage across the North Atlantic to Russia. In contrast, the United States has moved combat aircraft and flying tankers belonging to the US Air Force Special Operations Command to the British Isles, near which the Mariner is now heading. And according to tracker data, several British RAF aircraft were also in the air over northern Britain today. It’s hard to believe that the two superpowers would undertake such extensive manoeuvres over just one oil tanker. That is why some analysts believe the ship may have been carrying much more sensitive cargo from Iran: weapons, technology or specialised personnel. Later this afternoon, U.S. Marines then boarded the tanker. It is unclear how Russia will react. The North Atlantic is now setting up a potential confrontation between the Russian navy and its US counterpart or NATO air force. But now more news:

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• Desolation can kill. Kryzstof Galos, the Polish deserter who went on his own to Zaporozhye region in 2023 because he did not believe there was a war going on, probably died of torture in the Russian prison in Taganrog. This is according to Ukrainian prisoners of war who were imprisoned and tortured in the same facility. The Kremlin denies everything, but according to sketchy information, Galos was captured by Russian soldiers at a checkpoint as early as 2023 and treated as a potential spy.
• Trump is demanding that Venezuela expel any representatives of Russia, China, Iran and Cuba and cut all economic ties with these countries. Trump has also announced that the ‘transitional government’ of Venezuela will sell around 50 million barrels of oil to the United States at a bargain price.
• Lithuanian migration authorities are considering revoking the residence permit of Leonid Volkov, a leading figure of the “Russian opposition” and a close associate of businesswoman Yulia Navalny, for publicly calling for the “denazification” of Kyrylo Budanov.
• The Ukrainian foreign minister Sybiha was on the phone with his Czech counterpart Macinka. Macinka’s foreign ministry then issued a statement pledging to work to “mitigate anti-Ukrainian sentiment” among Czech citizens.
• According to former Trump security adviser Bolton, Trump doesn’t care if NATO breaks up. The annexation of Greenland and the breakup of NATO would be seen by Trump as “two birds with one stone”.
• Andrej Babiš announced that the munitions initiative for Ukraine will continue under his government. However, not a single crown from Czech taxpayers will go into it. For context - it didn’t go before either.
• Russia has officially denied responsibility for the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines flight J28243. The investigation has been closed, with bad weather being to blame.
• France, Poland, Britain and other European states and their partners are now realistically discussing how to respond to possible US military aggression against Greenland.
• The Russian army shelled the centre of Kherson, killing a 68-year-old man who suffered multiple injuries from shrapnel and died at the scene.
• The UK confirmed the delivery of 13 Raven anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine. Two prototypes of the Gravehawk system have also been delivered.
• Former Trump adviser Fiona Hill says Russia offered the United States to trade Ukraine for Venezuela in 2019.
• India’s largest oil refiner, Reliance Industries, announced it would not buy any Russian oil in January.
• According to Bloomberg, Russia is using the Czech PC game Arma 3 to recruit volunteers for its war with Ukraine.
• One of the Cold War’s greatest traitors, double agent Aldrich Ames, has died in a US prison at the age of 84.
• Since 31 December, mobile internet access has been restricted in Kamchatka due to the possible threat of drone attacks.
• Another undersea cable has been sabotaged in the Baltic Sea - this time near the Latvian port of Liepāja.
• Ukraine will hold talks with its partners today on the fate of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
• North Korea erects a monument to soldiers killed in the fighting in the Kursk region.
• Ukrainian drones hit a Russian fuel depot near Belgorod.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Putin said Russian soldiers are waging a holy war
• Minus fuel storage
• Events on the dry Kachov Dam
• Did not pass
• Don’t move, they won’t see you
• Boom
• US intercepts another tanker from the shadow fleet
• He didn’t hide

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Russian Colonel Erik Selimov, commander of the 136th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade, was killed in a traffic accident near Alchevsk in the Luhansk region. The vehicle in which the commander and three of his bodyguards were travelling collided with a UAZ carrying soldiers from the 88th Independent Motorised Rifle Brigade. Selimov and all three soldiers from the 136th separate motorised rifle brigade died on the spot. Two soldiers from the 88th separate motorised rifle brigade are in critical condition under the care of doctors. That’s the way it goes sometimes. And it also happens this:

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• Poland has called on the European Commission to investigate the massive volume of propaganda content on TikTok generated by artificial intelligence promoting Poland’s departure from the EU, which, according to the syntax of the sentences, is a coordinated Russian disinformation campaign.
• The current head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, has officially announced his resignation. But he is not quitting the SBU, he will continue to work on intelligence and military operations. The new head of the SBU is the commander of its Alpha unit, Yevgeny Khmara.
• Around 100 Russian soldiers are fortifying the border village of Hrabovske in Sumy Oblast, from where they recently kidnapped local residents, and are conducting long-range mining operations to block any Ukrainian counterattacks.
• In Russia’s Amur region, 36 freight wagons derailed on the Gudachi-Gonza section. As a result of the accident, the railway infrastructure was damaged and train operations on this section were completely halted.
• The Latvian Prime Minister, Evika Siliņa, reported that an undersea fibre-optic cable belonging to a private Latvian company had been damaged in the Baltic Sea near Liepāja.
• Russian collaborator and porn actor Rajchl suggests that Czech companies should return to the Russian market, anti-Russian sanctions should be lifted and local migrants from Ukraine should be deported back to their homeland.
• Ukrainian FPV drones of the 77th Brigade eliminated about forty Russian soldiers who tried to infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines along the Soyuz pipeline in the Kharkiv region.
• During the US operation to evacuate Nicolás Maduro, 32 Cuban citizen soldiers and intelligence officers were killed while defending him. Cuba declared three days of national mourning.
• Serbia’s only oil refinery, majority owned by Russia’s Gazprom, will resume operations on 17 or 18 January after receiving a temporary licence from the US.
• Russian drones hit the plant in Dnipro, which is owned by a US company. The attack spilled about 300 tonnes of sunflower oil on nearby roads.
• Responding to a reporter’s question, Trump again said the US “absolutely needs Greenland for our defense and the European Union knows they have to give it to us”.
• The Russian tanker “Qendil” from the so-called shadow fleet, which was earlier targeted by Ukrainian drones, ran aground off the Turkish coast.
• The SBU and state police detained a 25-year-old woman who was recruited via Telegram to blow up a military vehicle in Kiev.
• In an overnight raid on Kiev, the Russians hit a private clinic building in the Obolon district. Unfortunately, one person was killed and others sustained injuries.
• Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian Finance Minister, as Economic Development Adviser.
• Russian forces are attempting to break into Lyman in the northern Donetsk region, but are facing casualties and failing to break through the defences.
• In his latest text, Medvedev called on Russia to kidnap the “neo-Nazi” German Chancellor Merz.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian military battery manufacturing plant Energia in the Lipetsk region.
• The number of civilian casualties in the recent Russian airstrike on Kharkiv has risen to six.
• Trump has said he does not believe the alleged attack on Putin’s mansion actually happened.
• Slovak volunteer Daniel Valovsky was killed at the front.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• GUR at the front
• Russian drone hits lead
• Raid on Dnipro
• The occupiers came out of the pipes… and went out.
• Events in Kupjansk
• Woman - Russian agent
• Energy
• Ukrainian drone, Russian POV
• Nice pile
• Drones at work

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The United States has carried out a military intervention in Venezuela, capturing dictator and Russian ally Nicolas Maduro and his wife and bringing them to the United States to face charges of ‘narcoterrorism’. The attack was preceded by artillery and missile training aimed at Venezuelan bases and air defence stations, after which US special forces infiltrated Caracas by helicopter. The whole operation was successfully completed in 30 minutes. The Russian-provided Venezuelan air defence forces did not fire a single shot. However, there can be no question of overthrowing the regime there yet. Maduro’s government is going ahead without him, with the Defence Minister’s speech reaffirming his determination to defend the United States with all available means, and the Vice-President requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council while he travels to Moscow for talks. In the end, whatever one’s opinion of the government of the dictator Maduro, it is an act of aggression on the part of the United States under international law, and if it does not bring about positive change, it will be a political disaster. Not to mention the fact that all dictatorships will use American action as a model for their own interventions. The most interesting reactions so far have come from Russian military bloggers. They are both shocked that the United States was able to smoothly carry out what Russia tried in vain to do in 2022, but mostly they are in a panic about what this is likely to mean for Russia. For if the United States were able to overthrow the current Venezuelan government and subsequently dominate the market for Venezuelan oil, then the price of Russian oil could fall so much that it would not be worth Russia’s while to extract it at all. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• The Ukrainian media write about Okamura as a useful idiot of Russian propaganda, quote his recent statements about Ukrainians and wonder how such words can come from the leader of the country that created the munitions initiative. In response to Okamura’s speech, Finnish activist and expert on Russian propaganda Pekka Kallioniemi published for the first time a volume of his series on Russian propaganda personalities, “Vatnik Soup”, which is dedicated to the Czech politician.
• Ukraine and the United States agreed at the level of the general staffs on a military document with four parts and annexes on support for Ukraine’s armed forces, their equipment, renewal, modernisation and monitoring of the implementation of future peace agreements, including responses to possible violations.
• The Ukrainian cabinet is facing a number of changes. Zelensky proposes to appoint Mykhailo Fedorov as Ukraine’s new defence minister. Current Prime Minister Shmyhal will reportedly become First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy.
• Despite the recent fiasco with the command post, the Ukrainians still control the vast majority of Hulyaipol and have been launching strikes against Russian groups infiltrating homes in the city.
• Ukraine has ordered the forced evacuation of more than 3,000 children and their parents from frontline villages in the Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
• China is converting some cargo ships into floating platforms for launching reconnaissance and attack drones.
• A child died as a result of the Russian attack on Kharkiv on 2 January. His body was found under the rubble.
• Ukraine could become a member of the European Union as early as 2030, according to its minister.
• Budanov accepted the nomination and became the new head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
• Kadyrov is hospitalized in Moscow’s intensive care unit.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Part of Krasnodar region is without electricity
• Kharkiv
• The drone has found
• The Russians are counting their losses
• The drones rushed in at the last minute
• Minus PVO
• Russian blogger on the situation of Russia

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Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, is apparently alive! Ukraine’s intelligence services are said to have uncovered a Russian plan to kill Kapustin and carried out a counter-intelligence operation that lasted more than a month. As a result, Kapustin’s life was saved, those involved in organizing the assassination within the Russian special services were identified, and money intended for the murder was seized and diverted to support Ukrainian intelligence units. According to the SBU, Kapustin is still in Ukraine and is preparing to rejoin his forces. And this is also happening this:

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• In his New Year’s address to Ukrainians, Zelensky promised to do everything possible to end the war as soon as possible. But he also stressed that the end of the war must come, not the end of Ukraine. Therefore, he said, any eventual peace deal will have to include robust security guarantees for Ukraine, which will be ratified by the parliaments of all the states involved, because Ukraine will not repeat the “traps” that the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Agreements proved to be.
• Information has appeared on the Russian Telegram that Russia has quietly terminated all contracts with the military and is not offering new ones. As of 1 January, the Russian army is said to be switching to conventional conscription, and all soldiers serving in the army who join in the future will receive salaries like ordinary conscripts. This will end the system of generous signing bonuses and other benefits. If this is true, it seems that the Russian economy can no longer afford contract soldiers.
• Finnish authorities yesterday boarded the “Fitburg” cargo ship from the Russian shadow fleet, which had earlier dragged its anchor along the Baltic Sea floor, damaging a trio of undersea cables connecting Estonia and Finland. The ship is now being escorted to a Finnish port for further investigation. The crew consists of Russians, Kazakhs, Georgians and Azerbaijanis. According to official data, it was sailing from St Petersburg to Haifa, Israel.
• The Hungarian drone commander reports that Ukrainian drone systems hit at least 10 targets on New Year’s Eve: 5 in occupied territory and 5 deep in Russia. These include an oil refinery, a fuel depot in Tatarstan, a radar station near the village of Khvardiye in Crimea, fuel depots and a military base in the village of Valujki, as well as another Russian TOR anti-aircraft system.
• Unknown drones attacked a café in the village of Chorly in the temporarily occupied Kherson region overnight. The head of the occupation administration there, the collaborator Saldo, claims that 24 people were reportedly killed and over 50 injured in the airstrike. Some channels report that local collaborators and Russian soldiers celebrated the New Year in this café.
• The US intelligence agencies CIA and NSA have informed Trump that Putin fabricated the Ukrainian raid on his residence. Trump subsequently published a post on his Truth Social network where he confirmed this and identified Russia as the one preventing an end to the war in Ukraine.
• The local CSOB cancelled the bank accounts of a company that manufactures weapons in the Czech Republic and sends them to Ukraine, among other places. And not only business accounts, but also personal accounts of the owner and his family members.
• The Russians hit Odessa and towns in the Volyn region last night during a combined missile and drone attack. Around 100,000 civilians in Volyn are without electricity because of the Russian airstrikes.
• Russian military bloggers are now admitting that Russian air defense is in such a state that if the Ukrainians launch a concentrated attack on a selected target, then it will 99% actually be hit.
• While the Czech government coalition keeps threatening to halt the munitions initiative, 24 countries have already joined the PURL initiative to buy US weapons for Ukraine.
• Russia hit an ecopark near Kharkiv with a glide bomb: The local lions were injured, many enclosures were destroyed and most of the birds in the aviaries died.
• In his New Year’s speech, Putin praised Russia’s war efforts but made no mention of Ukraine, the peace talks or plans to end the war in 2026.
• The rector of the Church of the Protection of the Holy Mother of God in the village of Hryshyn, Archpriest Vasyl Kiyko, was killed as a result of Russian shelling.
• In 2025, there were only 4 days when Russia did not carry out any airstrikes on Ukraine. The other 361 were targeted by drones and missiles.
• Rajchl said that any arms collections for Ukraine should be criminalized.
• The Ukrainians hit the Russian oil refinery Ilsky again last night.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the Russian rally point
• More Russian cavalry
• Sting vs. Shahed
• Zaporozhye

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Russia has still provided no evidence that Ukraine attacked Putin’s residence. On the contrary, Russian journalists themselves went to Valdai, which is not far from the residence in question, and were unable to find anyone who could confirm that the area was under attack. The daily Mozem Objasnit interviewed a total of 14 locals. None of them heard the drones, explosions or the work of the air defense forces. There are also no mentions of the attack in local social media groups. No one has also received any text messages warning of an imminent airstrike. Peskov said on this account that no concrete evidence “is needed”. The fact that this is a blatant lie does not prevent Putin from playing his geopolitical game on the basis of it. The fake attack has already been condemned by the leaders of India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. Russian propagandists, led by Solovyov, are again calling for nuclear retaliation.

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• The Russian General Staff informed Putin that Russian forces had advanced to within 15 kilometres of the southern suburb of Zaporozhye. However, according to the DeepState mapping project, the Russians are still 30 kilometers from the borders of Zaporizhzhya’s cadastral territory (the town itself is still several kilometers away), and the front line has barely moved in recent days. This confirms the oft-stated theory that the Russian army command is lying to Putin about the real situation on the front. Nevertheless, Putin said during the briefing that “it is necessary to continue the special military operation”. He said Russian forces must regain full control of Zaporozhye.
• Conservative media personality Lauren Chen, the founder of the Tenet Media Project, which has provided a platform for several right-wing commentators, including Tim Poole, Benny Johnson and Dave Rubin, and who was indicted by the FBI in 2024 for accepting millions of dollars in funding from Russia Today, the Russian state-run news agency that led to Chen’s deportation to her native Canada, was readmitted to the United States in December with the help of Trump administration officials.
• Zelensky is under no illusions: Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to succeed, and such “promises” from Moscow are just a way to placate President Trump. He stated this in an interview with the American Fox News channel. According to him, Putin can promise cheap electricity, but Ukraine does not need Russian energy and, more importantly, has already paid too high a price for it: Ukrainian lives. According to Zelensky, Putin is only looking for ways to communicate with Trump.
• Experts say that of the three satellites of Russia’s Tundra early warning programme, only one is working: Kosmos-2552. The other two - Kosmos-2541 and Kosmos-2563 - have stopped actively correcting their orbits and are virtually out of service. Kosmos-2552 is said to be showing less obvious problems so far, but it failed to perform a scheduled maneuver for the first time in November 2025.
• Zelensky is demanding that any peace deal be ratified by the U.S. Congress and the Ukrainian parliament, not just signed by leaders. This is because Ukraine has had a Budapest Memorandum in the past that was signed by individuals and it did not work.
• According to the Ukrainian resistance group ATES, Russian occupation officials are hastily leaving the occupied part of Kherson Oblast. This is reportedly due to hostility from residents, fear of guerrilla attacks and attacks from Ukraine itself.
• Journalist Tom Nichols of The Atlantic magazine called Trump’s claim that Putin wants Ukraine to prosper one of the stupidest things Trump has ever said and a matter worthy of inclusion in an imaginary “hall of fame.”
• During the Ukrainian operation carried out on 30 December, a logistics centre, a warhead depot and several preparation sites for Russian attack drones were hit at the occupied Donetsk airport.
• A new opinion poll has again shown that 76% of Ukrainians consider it unacceptable to recognise Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia as part of Russia in exchange for an end to the war.
• According to Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, Russian troops shot dead seven Ukrainian civilians in Pokrovsk, including an entire family.
• Russian troops shell the Kherson thermal power plant almost every day. It is therefore currently impossible to resume its operation.
• Czech disinformation channels are spreading Russian propaganda about alleged drug smuggling in Patron’s stuffed dog toys.
• Latvia has completed the construction of a fence on its border with Russia. In total, almost 280 km of barriers have been built.
• Putin signed a law that allows Russians to ignore the rulings of international courts.
• Russia put three Iranian communications satellites into orbit on 28 December.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• They didn’t arrive
• Drones at work
• Yoga on the front
• Strikes on Donetsk airport
• The drones are working
• Minus fifty

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Putin responded to the upcoming meeting between Trump and Zelensky with a forceful statement. He said Russia is no longer demanding that the Ukrainian army withdraw from the Donbass because it is supposedly advancing so fast that it doesn’t matter. But in the same speech, he called on the Ukrainian army to leave Donbas immediately or Russia will supposedly abandon any peace talks for good. For context, it should be added that the Russians have advanced at several points by throwing all combat-ready reserves into the meat grinder, and analysts say it will be a while before Russia is able to conduct further coordinated offensives. Until then, it is said to be doomed to a slow advance by the tactic of gradually wearing down Ukraine’s defenses. Moreover, according to DeepState, Russia still controls not Pokrovsk, but only about 50% of the city, and the Ukrainians are building up reserves there for a potential counterattack. But Putin is not the only Russian leader who is completely out of touch with reality. More in today’s review:

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• Russia and Ukraine have announced a temporary ceasefire at the Enerkhodar nuclear power plant to allow for urgent repairs to power lines. The plant is constantly on the verge of a blackout - the external power supply repeatedly fails due to shelling and the plant has lost all external sources of electricity several times. While the Russian side claims that the situation is “under control”, it readily admits that there is a risk of Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like consequences. Ukraine, on the other hand, points to the constant Russian shelling and mining of the surrounding territory, which makes repairs to the energy infrastructure extremely difficult.
• Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said: ‘I would very much like Ukraine to be a country friendly to Russia. A country where the rights of Russians and Russian-speaking people are fully restored and guaranteed. Where the rights of the canonical Russian Orthodox Church are restored. Where there is concern for the people, and not just a totalitarian line that allows absolutely no deviation and seeks to remove everything that makes up our common heritage.”
• Just hours after the ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand went into effect, a Belarusian Il-62MGr cargo plane arrived in Cambodia with an unknown cargo. For context, it should be known that while Thailand is considered a regional ally of the United States and NATO, Cambodia is primarily armed by China, Vietnam and Russia.
• Ukraine removed two brigade commanders after Siversk fell to the Russians. Colonels Oleksiy Konoval (54th Brigade) and Volodymyr Poteshkin (10th Brigade) were removed for reporting false reports on the situation at the front. They claimed to their superiors that the garrisons were in position, even though the soldiers had left their positions several weeks earlier.
• According to Zelensky, Russia is preparing the ground in advance for non-recognition of any Ukrainian elections. Moscow will reportedly demand that Ukrainians in the occupied territories and in Russia also have the right to vote, and then create the preconditions for declaring the elections illegitimate, according to intelligence reports.
• U.S. Vice President Vance said that Denmark is not doing its job and not behaving like a good ally, and if the United States supposedly needs to “assert territorial interests” in Greenland for the sake of its security, “Trump will do it no matter what European leaders scream.”
• Lavrov on Ukraine and its allies: “These disturbed people keep forgetting that it was they who invaded another country, started a bloody war, and now pretend it is a besieged fortress while thundering about ‘the enemy at the gates’.”
• The remaining Russian troops are still holed up in a few small pockets in Kupyansk, and it could take another two weeks to liquidate them, according to Viktor Trehubov, head of communications for the Joint Operations Staff.
• Poland will begin installing an “anti-drone wall” on its eastern border in six months. The installation of the entire system will take up to two years to complete and will cost more than €2 billion.
• Mr Zielinski visited Canada, where he met Prime Minister Carney. On that occasion, the Canadian Prime Minister announced further economic aid to Ukraine in the amount of 2.5 billion dollars.
• Some reports suggest that the Ukrainians withdrew from Myrnohrad over Christmas, where only special forces are now operating.
• Russia has conscripted over 400,000 people this year and plans to conscript once that many in 2026.
• American Shawn David McVey, who served in Ukraine as a volunteer, was killed on the battlefield.
• Estonia is building around 600 new defensive positions on its border with Russia.
• Ukrainian drones again hit a Russian refinery in Syzran.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Putin’s ultimatum
• Russian refinery
• He didn’t finish
• Zelensky in Miami
• A group of Russians fleeing Kupjansk
• Kiev power plant after air raid
• Shahed took the wires on the way
• He swerved once…
• Shooting down Shaheds
• Russian attack

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Turkey shot down a Russian reconnaissance drone with a Sidewinder missile from an F-16 aircraft after three separate violations of Turkish airspace in a matter of days: the first Orlan-10 drone crashed just 50 km from Istanbul; the wreckage of the second Merlin reconnaissance drone was found in western Turkey, where defence industry factories are located. According to Turkey, there is a pattern here that suggests deliberate surveillance, and it is not a navigational error as Russia claims. According to local media, Turkey is also seriously considering closing the canals linking the Mediterranean and Black Seas completely to all Russian vessels - not just military ones - if Russian provocations continue. Such a move would fundamentally cripple Russian exports by sea, as it would refer Russia to sea routes via the North Sea or, conversely, eastwards towards Alaska. However, it can be assumed that this will not happen and that it is merely a show of force on Turkey’s part. But the deterrent effect should be more than sufficient. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• An Indian citizen who came to Russia on a student visa died in the war with Ukraine. Twenty-two-year-old Adjaya Godara came to Russia in November 2024 to take language courses while looking for extra income. A few months later, he was conscripted into the army and sent to the front without any military training. He had previously told his family that he had been deceived and essentially forced into military service.
• The Russians entered the town of Hulyaipole in the Zaporozhye part of the front. Russian soldiers posted a video showing them at the command post of the 1st Battalion of the Ukrainian 106th Territorial Defence Brigade in the very centre of the town. From the video, the Ukrainian soldiers appear to have left the command post in a hurry, leaving behind their computers and phones.
• The SBU detained a hitman in Kiev who tried to kill a Ukrainian GUR officer. The detainee is a 28-year-old citizen of a Central Asian country who was hired by the Russian FSB via Telegram. He was promised $50,000 and legal residency in the EU for the murder. He faces life imprisonment.
• Solovyov received the award “For Merit for the Fatherland” of the third degree in the Kremlin. In a subsequent thank-you speech, he said that “the war gave his generation back its meaning”. According to Solovyov, the Russians “stand against absolute evil, so their victory is inevitable” and “because they are Russians, God is with them.”
• The Russian Foreign Ministry urged its citizens not to travel to Germany. The reason given was that ‘persecution of compatriots’ was taking place in Germany, and to give the message the right weight, the ministry attached a photograph of the bombed-out Reichstag to the appeal.
• Germany’s Federal Minister for Digital Affairs, Carsten Wildberger, is working with a group of experts to introduce age limits on the use of social media - from Facebook and Instagram to TikTok.
• On 24 December, explosions were reported at a Russian military base in Ussuriysk, near the border with North Korea and China. Two explosions hit the parking lot of the 80th Brigade of the Red Battalion of Vitebsk.
• The Russian daily Kommersant claimed that the US was negotiating with Russia to use the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant for cryptocurrency mining and joint control without Ukraine’s participation.
• The Ukrainian army launched a counterattack north of Pokrovsk and retook Suchetske, Suvorove and the Krasnolymanskaya mine north of Rodynske.
• Russia sentenced a tortured journalist from Melitopol to 15 years in prison for supporting Ukraine on Telegram.
• In Kazakhstan, more than 700 trials of participants in the war against Ukraine were opened in one year.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with US President Donald Trump on 28 December.
• In six districts of Russia’s Yakutia, the coal reserves of the local heating plants have almost run out.
• Putin said Russians would welcome a tax increase if the money was used for the war.
• Dozens of objects from Belarus reportedly infiltrated Poland during the overnight raid.
• Russia conducted a night raid on the Kovel railway station on the line to Lviv.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian propagandists are sceptical about Ukraine
• Minus the new Russian SUV
• Russian anti-drone treatment
• Reducing the Russian Army
• The Russian world has arrived in Donetsk
• Logistics reduction

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Christmas Eve. Today’s report comes out at the end of the day on purpose, so that you can take the opportunity to not read it at least one day a year. For I have recently realized that it is not only important to have enough good information to make informed decisions. It’s just as important to maintain your mental well-being. This is so that we can more easily tolerate information - especially the gloomy kind - without letting our hardships turn us into cynics and without allowing Russian propaganda to make us eventually resign ourselves to overwhelm. Therefore, I wish you a happy Christmas in the circle of those closest to you. Recharge your batteries, recharge your positive emotions, and enjoy to the full the peace and tranquillity that we do have in the Czech Republic - unlike most of the world. In the New Year, every extra energy will be needed. And now the news:

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• The U.S. State Department is imposing sanctions on individuals it says are involved in “censoring American citizens” (in effect, fining Elon Musk). Among those on the sanctions list are Thierry Breton, author of the Digital Services Act, Imran Ahmed of the Center for Combating Hate in the Digital Space, Clare Melford of the Global Misinformation Index, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg of HateAid, and her colleague Josephine Ballon.
• SBU military counterintelligence drones hit and destroyed a Russian Il-38N maritime reconnaissance aircraft at the Yeysk airbase just before the recent attack that damaged a Russian Kilo-class submarine. It is the Il-38N that is capable of detecting a variety of vessels, including maritime drones.
• An unidentified man threw an explosive through the window of a police vehicle in Moscow. Two policemen were killed on the spot, two others are in critical condition and the attacker also died. The Russians killed had fought in Ukraine in recent years and there is evidence that they were involved in the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
• Russia has rejected the US-Ukraine 20-point peace plan and is already preparing counterproposals. President Zelensky, on the other hand, has said that Ukraine could hold a national referendum on the 20-point peace plan if Russia guarantees at least a 60-day ceasefire.
• Philanthropist Howard Buffett went to the suburb of Kupyansk in Kharkiv Oblast to help the White Angels police unit evacuate civilians.
• Russian forces dropped three aerial bombs on Zaporozhye on the night of 23-24 December, injuring 3 people and causing fires in garages and vehicles.
• Zelensky said in his Christmas speech that all Ukrainians now share one wish: “that “HE” dies”. He meant, of course, Putin.
• Ukrainian intelligence has revealed a link between Chinese satellite imagery of Ukraine and Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities.
• Russia hit a Turkish cargo ship en route from Odessa across the Black Sea. This is the fourth Turkish-flagged ship to be hit.
• The Estonian Ministry of Climate Affairs announced that Ukraine will receive €2 million from Estonia to restore its energy infrastructure.
• According to the Minister of Defence, Ukraine is on track to receive a total of 3 million FPV drones in 2026.
• The Ukrainian army announced that it has withdrawn from Siversk. The town is now under Russian control.
• A Ukrainian man who carried out espionage on behalf of Belarus was sentenced in court to 15 years in prison.
• A Russian rubber factory in the Tula region caught fire after an alleged drone attack.
• Two North Korean soldiers captured in Ukraine requested extradition to South Korea.
• A refinery in Saratov, Russia, is still burning fiercely.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Saratov, refinery
• Minus Il-38N
• Turkish ship hit
• The drones are working
• The Russians are going into battle… in handcuffs
• Russian soldiers complain about suicide missions
• Reducing the Russian fleet
• Minus Grad
• Drone attack on Taman

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Since November 2023, Belarus has been implementing a classified state project to build an ammunition plant and create a complete production cycle for 122mm and 152mm artillery and rocket ammunition for the Russian army in Ukraine. Thus, Belarus continues to play the role of Russia’s forward base as well as its “bank”, willingly providing whatever Putin asks for. That is why the steps taken by the current US administration to loosen some of the sanctions against Belarus in recent months are incredible. To allow Belarus to get its economy back on its feet now is to indirectly finance Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Sweden has detained the Russian cargo ship Adler, whose owner is subject to EU and US sanctions and is accused of transporting weapons used in the war against Ukraine. The ship was detained in Swedish territorial waters for not having a mandatory customs declaration. However, it was later released again by the Swedish coastguard without any charges being brought.
• The head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Operational Training Department, Lieutenant General Sarvarov, was killed in a car explosion in Moscow. The explosion occurred when Sarvarov slammed on the brakes. As a result of the explosion, he suffered severe multiple injuries to his lower limbs from shrapnel and later died in hospital.
• Video from the Ukrainian 92nd Brigade shows two Russian soldiers moving into position on horseback. One of them was probably killed by an FPV drone along with the animal, the other was thrown by the horse and escaped.
• The head of a Ukrainian arms company, Anatoly Khrapchynsky, warned that Russia was producing about 20% more weapons, equipment and ammunition than it needed for the war with Ukraine. He says he is stockpiling supplies for potential operations in Europe.
• The Serbian news server “Danas”, citing Russian sources, reports that Serbian and Armenian banks have begun blocking financial transactions and even the bank accounts of Russian citizens living in the two countries.
• Boris Titov, Putin’s special representative for relations with international organisations in the field of sustainable development, said that at least 40 000 migrants from India may come to Russia for work next year.
• Lithuania has supplied Ukraine with a thermal power plant. The operation lasted 11 months and included 149 deliveries of technical equipment to enable emergency repairs to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
• Intelligence services in NATO countries suspect Russia of working on a weapon that could disable entire constellations of satellites at once using clouds of tiny fragments in orbit.
• In November 2025, China bought a record $961 million worth of gold from Russia, the largest single transaction in the precious metal in history.
• In January 2026, NATO will open a second major military assistance centre on Romanian territory, creating a southern supply corridor to complement the existing Polish route via Rzeszów.
• A working group is being set up in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada to urgently address the issue of holding possible presidential elections under martial law.
• Russian troops crossed the border in the Sumy region, entered the border village of Hraboske and took about fifty local residents back to Russia.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in the village of Volna in the Krasnodar region. Two Russian oil tankers were also hit in the attack.
• The Russian oil tanker Valery Gorchakov, which was hit by a drone near the Novoshakhtinsk oil terminal on 18 December, continues to sink.
• Russian LNG shipments to China more than doubled last month year-on-year to 1.6 million tonnes.
• Ukrainian partisans destroyed two Russian fighter jets - Su-27 and Su-30 - at the Lipetsk-2 military air base.
• According to ISW, Russian forces have apparently captured the city of Siversk in the Donetsk region after 41 months of fighting.
• Two American legionnaires were killed at the front: Jones Ty Wingate and Zacherl Brian Leonel. ⠀
• The price of Russian Urals crude oil has fallen again - to $34 a barrel.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus Savarov
• Stopped attack
• Minus two fighters
• Vegetable oil warehouse burns in Odessa
• Minus the drone
• Russian movement on donkeys/horses
• They didn’t arrive
• Failed
• In the trenches
• Destruction of Mechanized Attack
• Taman

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The Russians again hit a bridge near Odessa on the main route from Moldova. First, kamikaze Shahed drones and then a ballistic missile hit the bridge. The missile carried cluster munitions, which are designed to destroy live forces, while they cannot seriously damage the bridge. The Russians therefore used the missile to try to kill either civilians or the intervening security forces. At the same time, the missiles also landed on a logistics facility at the Odessa port, where they destroyed several trucks, killing at least seven people and injuring 15 others. However, Russia will continue to lie that it is not attacking the civilian population. And this is what happened this:

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• Putin said that “as long as the West respects Russian interests, there will be no more special military operations”. However, Reuters reports that US intelligence believes that Putin will try to occupy the whole of Ukraine and eventually return to his control the territories or states that were part of the Soviet Union in the past. So it seems that “Russian interests” and other “special military operations” are the same thing.
• The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) hit two Russian Su-27 fighter jets at Belbek military airport in occupied Crimea with drones. One of the drones was already on the runway at the time, fully armed and ready for a combat mission.
• India confirms that 202 of its citizens have served in the Russian military since 2022. So far, 119 have returned, 50 remain trapped in Russia, 26 have been killed and 7 are missing.
• Stanislav “Spaniard” Orlov, commander of the Russian neo-Nazi 88th “Española” Brigade, was killed by his own men. According to Russian channels, he was shot while trying to be arrested by Russian security forces.
• British intelligence confirms with high probability that the submarine “Kolpino”, hit in Novorossiysk, has been decommissioned and cannot move independently.
• The Ukrainian General Staff reports that Russian forces have used chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops nearly 12,000 times since the start of the all-out invasion.
• Australia has sent the last delivery of 12 M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. A total of 49 tanks were delivered: 37 in July and another 12 in December.
• On the night of December 19, Special Operations Forces (SOF) drones hit the Russian Project 22460 patrol ship “Ochotnik” in the Caspian Sea.
• Poland started the development of a new self-propelled howitzer, the Krab 2, thanks to the experience gained from the use of the current version in Ukraine.
• A Russian ammunition depot in Bryansk region was hit and destroyed overnight. Secondary explosions continued well into the night. Poland is ready to hand over MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in exchange for other technologies - probably drones.
• SPD voters criticize their party after its proposed defense minister promised continued aid to Ukraine.
• Putin’s envoy Dmitriev is on his way to the United States to meet with Kushner and Witkoff.
• Russia denies that its troops crossed the Estonian border, although the entire incident is on video.
• Orbán said that in the event of war in Ukraine, “it is not clear who attacked whom.”
• Another downed Russian drone has been discovered in Turkey.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Bridge at Odessa and cluster munitions
• Bridge near Odessa
• The affected port
• Concert in bombed-out power plant
• Donetsk region
• Fleet reduction
• The drones are working
• Zaporozhye Defence Line

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Ukrainian drones hit the Russian military airport Belbek in occupied Crimea. The airstrike destroyed a Russian MiG-31 fighter-bomber, which was fully armed with missiles at the time of the attack. The Pantsir-S2 air defence system, which was supposed to protect the airport from the drones, was also destroyed, as was the 92N6 radar belonging to the S-400 system and two other Nebo-SVU radars. These attacks are important not only because they weaken the Russian army, but also because they weaken the Russian military industry. Russia profits from its massive arms exports, especially to Africa, Asia and some countries in South America. And if its clients see on the ground that the systems are not working as they should on paper, countries will start looking for other suppliers. However, this is also happening this.

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• The US announced a massive military package for Taiwan, the largest ever. The package, worth over $11 billion, is to include: The US Armed Forces Tactical Operations Network (TMN), 82 HIMARS missile systems, 420 ATACMS tactical missile systems, 120 M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers, 1,545 TOW missiles, 1,050 Javelin anti-tank missiles, parts for Harpoon anti-ship missiles, ALTIUS-600M and 700M drones, and spare parts for AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters.
• On the Zaporizhzhya front, a cynical system of corruption operates within the Russian military. A group of soldiers pays their commander 50,000 rubles in cash every month to avoid the front. In return, they work in the army headquarters, where they are assigned fictitious “internal tasks” while official documents label them as combat mission participants in order to keep their higher pay and benefits.
• On Wednesday morning, a trio of Russian border guards crossed the border with Estonia and were on Estonian territory for about 20 minutes. The Estonian authorities claim in official communications that this may have been a provocation, but it is equally possible that it was a mistake; however, given that it is impossible for the Russian border guards not to know which way the common border runs, it can be assumed that it was a provocation.
• According to the Guardian, Russian military intelligence is conducting an intimidation campaign in which it is threatening Belgian officials. The aim is to prevent the transfer of frozen Russian currency reserves to Ukraine. At the same time, there are reports that the Americans are also discouraging European leaders from seizing Russian assets.
• In a speech yesterday, Putin described European leaders as “underdogs”. Today, Russian state propaganda ‘explains’ that this is because they are the descendants of European Nazis with ‘imperialist ambitions’ who are redrawing maps and dreaming of revenge for the Second World War. In short, classic Russian psychological projection.
• The US Senate has approved a defence budget for fiscal year 2026 of more than 900 billion dollars. The bill also includes $400 million for Ukraine as part of a programme to buy new weapons.
• Erdoğan is offering Russia back its S-400 missile systems, reportedly unused as Turkey seeks to restore relations with the US and a potential purchase of F-35 fighter jets, which has been halted due to the acquisition of the air defense systems.
• Trump justifies possible military intervention in Venezuela on the grounds that US companies until recently had licenses to extract Venezuelan oil, and that he thus wants to “take back what belongs to the United States”.
• According to Putin, “the objectives of the Special Military Operation must be fulfilled unconditionally”. He also reiterated the need to occupy other Ukrainian territories and referred to Odessa as a “Russian city.”
• Tankers carrying Russian oil in the Black Sea have begun to take a detour along the coasts of Georgia and Turkey to reduce the risk of attacks by Ukrainian naval drones.
• A fire broke out at the Ordzhonikidze plant in Saratov, Russia, a major industrial complex known for producing aerospace and defence equipment.
• Britain is demanding that Abramovich hand over £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea to Ukraine. If he fails to do so, the funds will reportedly be obtained through the courts.
• Russia sank several vessels at the entrance to the port of Novorossiysk, de facto barricading the Black Sea Fleet ships from the high seas.
• According to TASS, Steve Witkoff handed Trump a crate of red caviar from Russia’s Khabarovsk region.
• Ukraine hit an oil tanker in the port of Rostov, Russia, last night. Two crew members were killed and three others were injured.
• The Russian army absorbed some territorial defence units in order to deploy them to the front.
• Poland began production of anti-personnel mines for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
• The EU approved a complete withdrawal from Russian gas by the end of 2027.
• The Ukrainians regain control of about 90% of Kupyansk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian propaganda about Europe
• Allegedly a Russian drone-destroying laser
• Minus the S-400
• Bingo!
• Straight to the hole

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Yesterday, Ukrainian naval drones hit the Russian Kilo-class (NATO designation) submarine 636 Varshavianka in Novorossiysk harbour. Official Russian military channels deny that the vessel suffered any damage, but Russian military bloggers say the pressure wave hit the submarine’s tail and damaged the stern fins and rudders. Even if that was the only damage, it means that this particular submarine, a carrier of Calibre missiles, will be out of commission for at least several months. Ukraine understands all too well that to defend itself effectively it must destroy the missileer, not its missiles. I wish all its partners understood that. But now for more news:

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• In the Russian town of Odintsovo, a ninth-grader, Timofey K., stabbed several pupils at a local school. Videos on the networks show that the attacker explicitly targeted immigrants. He was wearing a T-shirt with “No Lives Matter” written on it and before the attack he actively addressed the pupils and asked which of them was a foreigner. Police said the attacker was a supporter of neo-Nazi movements. This is the second attack on a Russian school in two days.
• British Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton, Chief of the General Staff, said the country must prepare for a possible war with Russia. He said the risk of an attack was real and needed to be openly communicated not only to the military but also to ordinary people - families and households. The situation, he said, is the most dangerous in his entire career in the army.
• The Swedish Navy has announced that armed personnel in Russian military uniforms are on board tankers carrying Russian oil and subject to sanctions. According to the Swedish authorities, the Russian fleet is increasingly carrying out surveillance and escort operations for the vessels in question in the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland.
• The UK has pledged more than $800 million to Ukraine for airspace defence. The funds will be used to purchase “thousands of air defence systems, missiles and automated drone shooting towers”.
• In Ufa, Russia, five members of a Marxist discussion group were sentenced to prison terms of 16 to 22 years in a maximum security prison. They were accused of attempting to “establish Soviet power”.
• An unidentified drone came dangerously close to Turkish airspace. The Turkish military sent an F-16 fighter jet to meet it and destroyed the target to eliminate any threat to civilians.
• The Moldovan Prime Minister announced today that the Lukoil fuel terminal at Chisinau airport has been confiscated and will be transferred to the ownership of the Moldovan state within 20 days.
• According to German MP and defence expert Roderich Kiesewetter, Russia has deployed some 360 000 troops in Belarus near the NATO border.
• Lavrov said the United States had promised Russia that it would not accept Ukraine into NATO and would oversee the transfer of the occupied territories to the Russian Federation.
• President Zelensky said during his speech in the Dutch parliament that nearly 30,000 Russians die every month in the war against Ukraine.
• 427 000 inhabitants of the Ukrainian part of the Donetsk region were left without electricity after yesterday’s Russian attacks.
• The anonymous donor who sent $100 million for drones to Gift for Putin is billionaire Ivo Lukachevich.
• The Russians bombed the premises of a company that makes water heaters and radiators in Odessa today.
• SBU drones hit a Russian oil rig in the Caspian Sea for the third time in a week.
• Ukrainian forces hit a gas processing plant in Astrakhan, Russia, yesterday.
• Former Danish soldier Tristan Carl Pedersen (22) was killed in action in Ukraine.
• Lukashenko confirmed that he had offered dictator Maduro asylum in Belarus.
• Zakharova declared that if it were not for Lenin, there would be no Poland.
• Nearly 288,000 households in the Odessa region are still without electricity.
• The price of Russian crude oil fell to $40 a barrel today.
• Russia has rejected the offer of a Christmas truce.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainian missile hits moving fuel train
• PVO destroys drones over Odessa
• Russian chess player in Avdiivka
• Minus Russian air defense
• Russians bomb supermarket
• Gunfight near Pokrovsk
• Legion at the front
• Slušná trefa!
• Russian envoy to Britain

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Austria has uncovered a conspiracy network organised by the Russian FSB posing as “Ukrainian Nazis”. The network was coordinated by a native Austrian who has long worked for the Russian intelligence services. From 2022, he and a colleague - a Bulgarian citizen who was later arrested in London - organised the production and pasting of stickers and spray-painting of graffiti with far-right and neo-Nazi symbols in public places. All these actions were aimed at giving the impression that neo-Nazi symbols were being spread by Ukrainians. In addition, the two men, in cooperation with others, created a network of websites that mimicked the European branches of the Ukrainian Azov regiment. According to the investigation, the psychological operation did not only concern Austria, but also other European countries. In short, there are so many Nazis in Ukraine that Russian intelligence has to constantly invent them. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Prisoners who were released during some of the exchanges for Russian soldiers described what is known in Russian prisons and prison camps as a “gentleman’s kit”: suffocation with plastic bags, electric shocks to the genitals, breaking of fingers, needles under the fingernails, and forcible removal of any pro-Ukrainian tattoos.
• Ukrainian media report that Siversk in the Donetsk region, which Russian troops have been actively attacking since the end of October under the cover of a thick fog, has been almost completely captured and its recapture will require the deployment of reserves, which are currently lacking in this area.
• The Russian Volunteer Corps fighting on the side of Ukraine (RDK) has called on all civil and political opposition forces in Russia to unite on a single platform and use Russia’s exclusion from PACE to become a legitimate international alternative to the Kremlin.
• Pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who is being prosecuted in the U.S. for FCPA violations, won a court case in Austria and will not be extradited to the U.S. because U.S. prosecutors failed to meet a deadline for filing an appeal.
• Russia’s oil and gas revenues in December are estimated to be almost half of the previous year’s level, at around 410 billion rubles ($5.17 billion).
• Polish border guards uncovered a tunnel dug from Belarus to Poland that was being used by smugglers to move goods and people. At least three perpetrators were detained by investigators.
• Ukraine is now facing up to 300 Russian attacks a day, the most since the war began, as Russia attacks along virtually the entire front line.
• Belarus released 123 political prisoners yesterday, just hours after the US agreed to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash.
• Mass protests erupted in Hungary over videos showing violence against children in state-run orphanages.
• Estonia has begun construction of the first concrete bunkers along its south-eastern border with Russia as part of the Baltic defence line.
• The Russians launched another airstrike on Odessa this morning. Explosions rocked the city for at least six hours straight. Russia is a terrorist state.
• The Ukrainians hit two Russian fuel depots overnight - one near Volgograd, the other in occupied Crimea.
• A Russian An-22 military transport plane with seven people on board crashed in Russia’s Ivanovo region.
• Ukraine imposed sanctions on 656 vessels associated with the Russian “shadow fleet”.
• Ukrainian drones again hit the Russian Afipsky refinery near Krasnodar overnight.
• Witkoff and Kushner arrived in Berlin for talks on ending the war.
• Russia deployed Oreshnik missiles in Belarus.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian plane crash
• Turkish ship hit by Russia was carrying… tomatoes
• Afipsky
• Also Afipsky
• Minus the Russians
• Fighting in Kupjansk
• TNT preparation
• Minus the fuel depot in Russia
• Minus the fuel depot in Crimea
• Hvardisjke in Crimea, Russian air defense
• Dawn over Odessa and Russian drones
• Minus the Russian column
• Zaporozhye
• Odessa is still without electricity
• …and no water

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The SBU says it has detained three suspected Russian agents in connection with yesterday’s bombing in Kiev that killed a National Guard member. The attack was carried out by three Ukrainians from the Odessa and Donetsk regions, aged 23, 27 and 25. They all worked in construction and were recruited by the Russian FSB in an attempt to earn extra money through the Telegram app. Following instructions, they assembled homemade bombs, planted them and monitored the explosion via phones with online transmission. As a result of the attack, one National Guard member was killed and three others were injured. A second bomb exploded while emergency responders were on the scene. The lesson? If there is a military conflict, it won’t just be the Russians who try to kill you. It will also be your neighbours, acquaintances or even relatives - all those who have turned their failure in life into hatred of the democratic system. All those who are already swallowing Russian propaganda. And this is also what is happening this:

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• Zelensky visited Kupyansk and made a video of it. For the last few weeks, the Russians, including Putin himself, have claimed to have conquered (or “liberated”) the city. The reality is that the Ukrainians managed to push the Russians out of most of the city during the counter-attacks and cut off several dozen Russian soldiers from supply routes. Thus, most of the city is once again under Ukrainian control.
• Ukrainian armed forces, in cooperation with the Black Spark guerrilla group, hit two Russian ships off the coast of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Caspian Sea. The ships ‘Composer Rachmaninov’ and ‘Askar-Saridja’ were carrying weapons and military material. Both vessels were sunk.
• Ukraine successfully struck the Slavneft-JANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl Region, Russia - one of the largest refineries in Russia with an annual production capacity of around 15 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate. There were explosions and a large fire at the target site.
• A Russian drone hit an evacuation vehicle of UAnimals, a non-profit animal protection organisation, in the Donetsk region. Two UAnimals employees and two animals were in the vehicle at the time of the attack. Fortunately, no one was killed.
• The Russian Central Bank has filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court against the Belgian depository Euroclear, arguing that its actions caused harm by blocking access to Russian assets. Like… yes, that’s the point of the asset freeze.
• Pakistan’s prime minister provided amusement for diplomats and security when he lost his temper and, after waiting 40 minutes for President Putin, stormed into the room where Putin was meeting with President Erdogan.
• The famous Russian filmmaker Sokurov harshly criticized Putin during the video call, telling him that he was making Russia look like North Korea by banning all forms of creativity, and even in the days of the USSR it wasn’t that bad.
• Bryan Lanza, who served as a senior adviser to US President Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign, has become a consultant to the international division of Russian oil company Lukoil.
• Russian channels are reporting that a Ukrainian drone attack on an AN-26 military transport plane at the Kacha airport in occupied Crimea has left personnel injured and dead, according to reports.
• A supposedly more detailed version of the new US National Security Strategy has been leaked to the media, according to which the United States wants to persuade Austria, Italy, Hungary and Poland to leave the European Union.
• Russians hit a Turkish ship in Odessa port. According to preliminary information, the ship was carrying generators. This is another piece in the puzzle of anti-Russian propaganda about “not attacking civilian targets”.
• US “Secretary of War” Hegseth has excluded Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll from negotiations on Ukraine. The reason is Driscoll’s “overly proactive stance.”
• NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned, “We must be prepared for a war on the scale experienced by our grandparents and great-grandparents.”
• Outgoing Prime Minister Fiala announced that the Czech Republic had delivered the promised 1 800 000 pieces of artillery ammunition to Ukraine this year through the Ammunition Initiative.
• Outbreaks of Hong Kong flu have occurred in 17 regions of Russia, mainly in the Far East, the Urals and Siberia.
• Fico announced that he would not support any proposals to fund Ukraine’s military spending at the EU summit.
• Lukashenko met with the US special envoy for Belarus, John Cole.
• Russia hit a sports school in the Sumy region right in the middle of a training session.
• The European Union approved the freezing of all Russian assets indefinitely.
• The Russians allegedly crossed the river that protects the town of Hulyaipol.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Zelensky visits Kupjansk
• Solovyov near Pokrovsk
• Drones vs. Russians
• Minus Russian infantry
• Ukrainian soldier destroyed a drone
• Crimea plane hit
• Russian column smashed
• 12 Russians surrender
• Russians in Siversk
• Ukrainian action
• Cleansing of Kupyansk
• Russian power plant fire
• Mínus

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According to the Financial Times, European intelligence services foiled a large-scale terrorist operation to blow up cargo planes heading from Europe to the US. Investigators seized around 6 kg of explosives and uncovered a vast criminal network linked to Russian structures. The same perpetrators had previously carried out bomb attacks on DHL logistics centres in Poland, Germany and the UK. According to media reports, at least 20 suspects in Poland and Lithuania are implicated in the case. The alleged mastermind has since fled to Azerbaijan. Well done! And this is what happened this:

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• The SBU detained a ship from the Russian “shadow fleet” in Odessa port. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the ship was flying the flag of an African country and regularly transported agricultural products from occupied Crimea. On board were the captain and 16 crew members - citizens of several Middle Eastern countries.
• Zelensky responded to Trump’s blathering about the need for elections in Ukraine: he called on the US and Europe to ensure the security of the vote. If that happens, he said, Ukraine will be able to hold elections within 60 days. Russian officials immediately called that bluff.
• Republican Thomas Massie introduced a bill in the US Congress to withdraw the US from NATO, calling the alliance a “relic of the Cold War” and arguing that the funds saved should be spent on US homeland security.
• Mass seizures of property in occupied territories are now officially legal. Occupation authorities have been given the power to declare houses “ownerless” and hand them over to others. This new rule will remain in effect until 2030.
• According to Ukrainian intelligence, there is a risk of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups infiltrating the Odessa and Vinnytsia regions. Intensive mobilisation is underway in Transnistria, and mass production of drones and training of their operators has started.
• A video has appeared on Russian social media showing the new commander of PMC Wagner’s private army, Dmitry Podolsky, known as “Salem”. He lost both legs and one arm during the war against Ukraine.
• On Friday evening, Markus Frohnmaier, deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary faction, will be the “guest of honour” at a gala dinner of the New York Young Republicans Club, which has called for a “new civil order” in Germany.
• Ukrainian assault troops are clearing Kupyansk after cutting Russian supply routes to the north of the city a few days ago. The Ukrainian General Staff reports that approximately 60 enemy soldiers remain inside the city.
• The British Ministry of Defence has announced the death of one of its soldiers in Ukraine. He reportedly died in a tragic accident while taking part in observing tests of a new Ukrainian defence system.
• Oleksandr Syrskyy, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces, said that Ukraine had regained some 13 square kilometres of territory in Pokrovsk after at one point having no troops left in the town.
• In Australia, people under 16 are banned from using mass social networking sites as of today. Platforms must delete children’s profiles that already exist and must not create new ones.
• Trump is threatening new sanctions against the International Criminal Court in The Hague unless the court commits in writing not to prosecute him.
• The most popular category of porn in “traditional”, LGBT-rejecting Russia is “transgender”, according to Pornhub’s annual statistics.
• For the first time ever, Danish intelligence has identified the US under the Trump administration as a potential security risk.
• Russia’s Syzrani oil refinery halted operations on 5 December after suffering damage in a Ukrainian drone strike.
• A Russian Il-76 transport plane crashed west of the city of Port Sudan. None of the crew survived the crash.
• Ukraine and Poland are negotiating the transfer of Polish MiG-29 fighter jets to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
• 3 drones hit the Russian Shadow Fleet tanker Dashan flying the Gambian flag in the Black Sea.
• Pope Leo XIV warned that Trump is “trying to break” the alliance between the US and Europe.

Interesting videos

• Drones work even in fog
• SSO eliminated eight occupiers
• Russian video of missiles guiding missiles to a dam near Kharkiv
• Another Russian lays down his life for PR action
• Minus Russian PVO
• Russian Shahed drops submunitions
• Artillery hit
• Dashan
• Tanker Dashan
• Mínus Dva
• Updated RuAF losses

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Russian domestic propaganda is now preparing the Russian population for war against the whole of Europe. Sergei Karaganov, chairman of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, said on television that the current war will not end until Russia “morally and politically” crushes Europe, because, he said, the current European elites are “pushing the world towards a global war”. Europe, he said, will disintegrate and become “a junkyard of nations at war with each other” because it is a source of “evil for all humanity”. European propaganda, he said, has created an indoctrinated population worse than that of Germany at the end of the Second World War. Karaganov therefore hopes that “Europeans will come to their senses before Russia has to resort to mass retaliation”. Russia is the third empire with more snow. And this is also happening this:

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• According to the Politico, the US is pressuring Zelensky to give up Donbass. But he insists that peace talks should be derived from the current front, not from Russian demands. Indeed, to give up the Donbas would mean ceding to Russia a multi-layered defence and a belt of fortress cities built up over many years and at the cost of unimaginable losses. Ceding them would also allow Russia to use them as footholds for an invasion of the rest of Ukraine.
• Russia ranks 28th out of 36 in the latest Global AI Ecosystem Development Index. Even the best Russian models lag behind older versions of ChatGPT and Gemini. While Putin recently identified AI development as a strategic priority, thousands of IT talents have left Russia for the West due to emerging totalitarianism and war. So now there is no intelligence in Russia. Neither real nor artificial.
• The European Commission is proposing to distribute financial guarantees among EU member states to provide Ukraine with a “reparation loan” financed by frozen Russian assets. These guarantees are necessary to persuade Belgium to confiscate the 185 billion euros deposited in Euroclear. A further €25 billion is scattered across the Union in private bank accounts.
• Zelensky held talks with European leaders in Britain. The British Prime Minister began his address to him by saying “We stand with Ukraine” and stressed that any potential ceasefire must be fair and lasting and that decisions on Ukraine must be made primarily by Ukraine.
• Trump let it be known that he was disappointed by the lack of any response from Zelensky to Trump’s peace plan. According to Trump, Russia is ready to make a deal and Zelensky’s team is said to be excited about it. So sure…
• According to Zelensky, “overtly un-Ukrainian” proposals were removed from the peace plan after the first rounds of negotiations. The draft subsequently presented by Witkoff in Moscow was therefore cut from 28 to 20 points.
• On one of the Russian bombers parked in the hangar, the ejection system suddenly activated, with the crew already inside at the time. As a result, the pilot and navigator were killed.
• According to the Ukrainian ombudsman, the Kremlin is preparing a new hybrid attack: staged “anti-war” demonstrations across Ukraine, for which it is recruiting mothers of fallen soldiers.
• Russia has charged Robert “Hungarian” Brovdi in absentia for organizing an alleged terrorist attack in Russia’s Kursk region and issued an international arrest warrant for him.
• Cambodia and Thailand - the same countries Trump previously claimed he helped settle their disputes - are now accusing each other of a new escalation.
• Ukraine’s SBU has released new footage showing its Alpha unit destroying a Russian Mi-26 helicopter with a drone.
• The Czech company LPP is preparing to supply Ukraine with a new Narwhal cruise missile with a claimed range of up to 680 km.
• Ukrainian Su-27 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Yevhen Ivanov was killed during a combat mission in eastern Ukraine.
• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni promised to send more electricity generators to Ukraine.
• Gasoline now costs more in Russia than in the United States. The difference is already about 8%.
• Ukrainian drones destroyed 70% of the fuel tanks in the Russian port of Temryuk.
• Russia has sacrificed up to 1.35 million troops to gain 1.45% of Ukraine’s territory.
• The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with an additional EUR 700 million in 2026.
• 34 years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Karaganov
• Russia’s own army
• Minus the pile
• Minus the helicopter
• Surprise!
• Evacuation after a mine injury
• Minus a shipment of ammunition

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In Russian propaganda, it is regularly claimed that the Russian advance is what it is (slow) because the Russian army is extremely considerate of the civilian population of Ukraine. What does the Russian “liberation” really look like? I guess it looks like this: As soon as any city is within range for Russian artillery, the systematic terrorization of the civilian population begins. The target is shops, power stations, waterworks, schools, transport infrastructure… in short, everything that the civilian population needs to live a normal life. The goal is to make normal life in the city simply unsustainable, so that the civilian population will leave as soon as possible and Russia can accelerate the devastation of the city, which is now left with practically a fraction of people with nowhere to go, soldiers, and collaborators who help to direct the attacks on the two previously mentioned groups of people. This goes on for weeks, months, sometimes years. By the time the tanks and infantry approach the city, it is just an empty ruin. Then Russia literally blows all the remaining, still standing buildings to s**t. This is usually the point at which the Ukrainian army retreats, leaving only paratroopers, special forces and saboteurs to operate in the rubble. For the next few months, the Russians conquer the smoking ruins at the cost of tens to hundreds (in the case of villages) or thousands to tens of thousands (in the case of district towns) of lives, and when there are no Ukrainian soldiers left in the town, the Russians declare the town “liberated” and take the surviving collaborators to some godforsaken village across the Urals. Then Ukrainian artillery starts leveling the remaining piles of bricks and panels, and after a short pause the whole situation repeats itself a few kilometres away. The Russians do not even respect the lives of their own soldiers, let alone foreign civilians. Then, when the Ukrainian army is far enough away, the “reconstruction of the liberated city” begins. This looks like a Chinese company moving in on a selected site, building prefabricated boxes instead of the original tenements and apartment blocks, moving in a few poor people who have believed the domestic propaganda about fabulous real estate at fabulous prices, Russian state television coming in to film a glorified report, and the new tenants being left to their fate in crumbling apartments without electricity or water. The thoughtfulness of it all is oozing out. But there is also this:

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• Several US media outlets claim that Trump and his proxies are pushing Ukraine to approve the handover of Donbas to Russia as soon as possible. According to Axios, Zelensky was even basically expected to agree to the Donbass cession without any further negotiations or compensation during a phone call between him, Witkoff and Kushner. But yesterday Zelensky let it be known that the Ukrainian representation has no option under Ukrainian, international, and ultimately moral law to hand over Ukrainian territories to anyone.
• Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, cited a fake news report to justify the upcoming AI regulation in Russia. In his speech to Putin, he mentioned a media story about a “corrupt AI minister in Albania” - a story printed by the satirical Croatian media outlet Newsbar. According to the article, a virtual minister named Diella was removed from her post for accepting a bribe of 14 bitcoins during a selection process. Volodin did not understand that this was a humorous story.
• When asked by reporters, Trump said that “Russia now has a stronger negotiating position because it’s bigger.” He said Zelensky should start accepting offers of reconciliation because he is losing on the battlefield. For context, it is worth recalling that according to the still valid Budapest Memorandum, the United States (but also Russia) is the guarantor of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
• The International Court of Justice in The Hague has formally accepted Russian charges against Ukraine for alleged genocide in the Donbas. Thus, Ukraine must submit a response to Russia’s allegations by December 7, 2026. Russia must submit its charges by December 7, 2027.
• Trump said that “it has always been the general consensus, even long before Putin, that Ukraine would not be admitted to NATO.” If he wasn’t lying, he was inadvertently confirming that Russian propaganda about the need to invade Ukraine to expand NATO is being sucked out of thin air.
• The four men accused of murdering Russell Bentley, an American communist and propagandist who fought in the Donbas since 2014 on the side of pro-Russian militants, were sentenced to prison terms of up to 12 years.
• Russian domestic propaganda continues to prepare the Russian population for a larger war with Europe that could come within months or years of Trump forcing Ukraine to capitulate.
• A Russian An-22 military transport plane crashed in the Ivanovo region. Seven people were on board, their fate is still unknown, but it is believed that they did not survive the crash.
• Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president and drug trafficker, who was recently pardoned by President Trump.
• Poland has commissioned its military reconnaissance satellite capable of taking detailed images even through clouds or smoke.
• Ukrainian troops withdrew from Lysiivka and Sukhny Yar in the area south of Pokrovsk to avoid being surrounded.
• Zelensky is on a visit to Rome. He has met with the Pope and will later meet with the Italian government.
• The Russian censorship authority has banned Russians from accessing the Roblox gaming and development platform.
• Ukraine’s Sumy was without electricity after a Russian night raid.
• Trump calls for new presidential elections in Ukraine.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Two captured six
• Totals
• Rotation and evacuation
• Idiot Trump
• Ukrainian drone strikes
• A game of hide and seek
• Bingo!

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Russia has activated all its foreign influencers in a coordinated information attack on Europe. The entire MAGA movement, including its top leaders, is flooding the digital space with calls for the dissolution of the EU, a revolution against “European bureaucrats” and calls for support for the far right, which it says is the only one capable of “stopping censorship and the civilizational transformation of Europe.” All of this is aided by technocrats like Musk and Durov, who, moreover, have already bent the algorithms of their networks in the past to spread such propaganda more quickly. Ironically, Russian leaders such as Medvedev and Dmitriyev have been widely sharing and commenting on calls to ‘end censorship’ across all known networks, even though all Western social networks, including Facebook, Instagram and X, are banned in Russia. So far, the sharpest reaction in top politics has been demonstrated by Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski, who told Musk to “fly to Mars where no one will censor Nazi salutes.” But the key information is that Russia (of course) wants the EU and NATO to break up so that it can more easily attack individual states. And anyone who seeks to do the same is - consciously or unconsciously - an agent of Russia. Even if it is the US president. And this is also happening this:

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• Russian prosecutors are seeking sentences ranging from 1.5 to 15 years for the defendants in the Russell Bentley murder case. Bentley, known as “Texas,” came to the Donbas from the United States in 2014 and joined a militia there. But the defendants, Vitaliy Vantsatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, Vladimir Bazhin and Andrei Iordanov, did not know Bentley and became convinced he was a spy. They are now accused of torture and physical violence leading to Bentley’s death, and of attempting to conceal the crime by transferring Bentley’s body to a car, which they then set on fire.
• Kremlin spokesman Peskov let it be known that Russia welcomes the new US national security strategy. First, because unlike the strategies of previous administrations, it does not name Russia as a security threat, but also, for example, because the Trump administration calls further NATO expansion undesirable, or because it outlines a similar vision of the world that Russia wants.
• The daughter of Russian General Tokarev is happily enjoying her travels in Europe. A graduate of the Ministry of Defence’s ‘Boarding School for Girls’, she claims to have obtained a European visa without any problems. Her father, General Aleksandr Tokarev, was directly involved in the military invasion of Ukraine and is a war criminal whose name appears in the Ukrainian ‘Book of Executioners’.
• The New York Times reports that the intensified Russian offensive is exacerbating the internal problems of the Ukrainian army in many sectors of the front line. The newspaper says the situation is not yet critical, but is gradually worsening, with the main problem being a continuing shortage of resources and manpower. Russia, on the other hand, is said to be taking advantage of its numerical superiority and willingness to endure heavy losses.
• Ukrainian hackers wiped 165 TB of data from Russian logistics giant Eltrans+, a key supplier of Chinese electronics to Russian missile factories. Over 700 servers were taken out of service, all delivery notes were destroyed and the company’s website was defaced with pro-Ukrainian messages.
• Kellogg says the deal on Ukraine is almost done. Only two points are said to be blocking the peace deal. The outstanding issues concern the status of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant and the Donetsk region.
• The volume of foreign currency held by Russians in bank accounts has halved since 2022, and only a few extremely wealthy individuals now hold 95% of this volume.
• Last night, Russian terrorists hit Slavyansk in the Donetsk region. 8 people were injured, including a pregnant woman and a 15-year-old boy.
• Russia is now using Shahed drones not only for long-range raids but also for bombing frontline positions.
• Kiev is now experiencing regular power cuts lasting up to 13.5 hours each day.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian military airport Engels near Saratov last night.
• The Russians hit a power plant near Kremenchuk, Ukraine, overnight.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainians blew up a small dam on a Russian supply route
• The Russians did the same thing
• Lviv found itself without electricity at night
• Remote drone strikes
• Russian losses
• Drones on the hunt
• Shooting down Shahed
• He didn’t hide
• Russian FPV drone

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31 years ago today, Ukraine signed a series of international agreements known collectively as the “Budapest Memorandum”. It gave up, among other things, its nuclear arsenal in exchange for several countries guaranteeing its security. The reality? Of the three guarantors, one has repeatedly attacked it, another has tried to sell it to the first, and only one - the UK - has kept its word, at least in part. So Russia and the US have basically told every country in the world that having nuclear weapons is the only way to keep the peace. Because the most vague agreements are only worth the paper they are written on. And here’s today’s news:

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• The US State Department has called on consulates to screen visa applicants for any form of “censorship”: content moderation, “countering disinformation”, fact-checking or online security. They will check not only the applicant’s profile, but also the profiles of family members who are applying for a visa with them. If consular officials find evidence of “engaging in the restriction of protected forms of expression”, the visa may be denied.
• The UK on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, targeting, among others, the entire GRU military intelligence service, which after a three-year investigation has been identified as the clear perpetrator of the 2018 Novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury, where former Russian agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned and a bystander died. Investigators have also concluded that the assassination was ordered by the GRU by dictator Putin himself.
• A Russian soldier shot and killed a Ukrainian soldier who was trying to surrender near Siversk. The Ukrainian soldier came out of the rubble of the house with his hands above his head, but the Russian soldier, who was hiding nearby, immediately opened fire. The wounded Ukrainian soldier subsequently tried to take cover but was killed by another shot. The whole situation was filmed by a drone.
• In Perm, Russia, 12-year-old Maria Yushkova was summoned to a police station after a video of her emotionally reciting a poem against the construction of a mosque appeared online. According to local media, the interrogation lasted several hours and the authorities threatened the girl’s parents that they would take her away from them.
• Somewhat paradoxically, the Russian army today has a slightly larger fleet of armoured vehicles than it did in 2022, despite losing more than 16,000 vehicles in the war with Ukraine, as it has fished out and repaired around 13,000 Soviet-era machines from warehouses and produced around 4,000 new ones.
• Overnight, Ukrainian drones hit an oil refinery in Syzrani and the seaport of Temryuk in Russia’s Krasnodar region. Large fires broke out at both sites after the attack, which firefighters were still trying to bring under control all morning.
• In temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukrainian military intelligence (GUR) drones destroyed a frontline Su-24 bomber and an Orion drone. In addition, 5 radars of Russian air defence systems were also hit.
• Closed-door talks between the Ukrainian and US delegations ended in Miami. Ukraine was represented by the Chairman of the National Security and Defence Council Rustem Umerov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Andriy Hnatov.
• Ukrainian drones hit “Grozny-City” and damaged the skyscrapers that house the Chechen Security Council, the Ombudsman, the Audit Chamber, the Electoral Commission and several other government bodies.
• The European Commission accused the X/Twitter internet network, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, of breaching EU rules on social network transparency and fined it €120 million.
• Sweden will phase out development aid to five countries (Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Liberia and Bolivia) over the next few years and use the savings to increase aid to Ukraine.
• Washington is demanding that Europe take over most of NATO’s conventional defence functions - from intelligence to missile defence - by 2027.
• After several months, the Russians are pushing again in the Kharkiv region. They have managed to take control of the ruins in the north of Vovchansk and are making forays further south.
• The Russians hit one of Kherson’s maternity wards in broad daylight yesterday. Several people were lightly wounded and the explosions destroyed the surgeries there.
• The G7 and the European Union are planning a complete ban on the transport of Russian oil by sea. It could become part of the next sanctions package.
• The French army opened fire on five unidentified drones near a nuclear submarine base in Brest last night.
• During his visit to India, Putin mentioned that Gandhi “foresaw a just multipolar world” which Russia and India are jointly defending.
• Ukraine accused Russia of transporting abducted Ukrainian children to “re-education camps” in North Korea.
• The British government is prepared to hand over some €9 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
• The United States has temporarily suspended part of the sanctions against the Russian oil giant Lukoil.
• FIFA presented its first ever Peace Prize to Donald Trump. We are living in a travesty…

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Coordinated drone bombing
• Trump and FIFA
• Temryuk
• Maternity hospitals in Cherson
• SOF in Kupjansk
• Russian drone impaler
• Minus the Russian column
• Drones in Crimea
• Syzran
• The drones are working

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In a televised interview, former Russian ground forces commander Vladimir Valentinovich Chirkin publicly admitted the fiasco of the Kremlin’s original strategy for invading Ukraine. According to him, the Russian intelligence services assured the Kremlin that 70% of Ukrainians would support Russia and only 30% would oppose it. In fact, the exact opposite was the case - and this, in his view, became one of the factors that led to the failure of the “three-day special operation”. Chirkin also complained that the Russian army grossly “underestimated the enemy and overestimated itself” and that the capture of Kiev failed because of this, leading to a chaotic retreat from northern Ukraine. The then Defence Minister Shoigu is said to have tried to handle the situation gracefully, calling what was happening a “gesture of goodwill”. We remember that very well, of course. The funny thing is that even though Putin’s fiasco has now been admitted by a top Russian military official, the Russian fifth column will still continue to parrot the propaganda that this was an agreed withdrawal. On the other hand, propaganda from the Russian FSB can apparently lie very effectively even to its own politicians. So we cannot be surprised that it is so easily succumbed to by individuals much less mentally equipped than the Russian President. But back to news:

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• Italy withdraws from the PURL programme, under which NATO countries jointly purchase US weapons for Kiev’s needs. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that negotiations on a possible peace deal are currently underway and Rome is said to “prefer diplomacy”. It’s really getting to be like the morons in the backyard here…
• Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev secretly filmed SpaceX’s confidential materials - technical documentation, engines and the spacecraft’s internal equipment - on his smartphone while preparing for the Crew-12 mission. To cover up the scandal, he was immediately expelled.
• The Romanian Ministry of Defence destroyed a Ukrainian Navy Sea Baby drone, which it said was “endangering navigation in the Black Sea”. Army divers therefore defused the drone. Ukraine had used the drone in operations against Russian vessels.
• In one of the latest Russian attacks on Kiev, the studio of the STB television station, where several popular Ukrainian television programmes were filmed, was completely destroyed. That is when the Russians will again claim that they are not hitting civilian targets.
• According to Euronews, a planned meeting between the US and Ukrainian delegations in Brussels has been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Kremlin claims that after meeting with Putin, Witkoff and Kushner “promised” to go directly to Washington.
• The Romanian government has approved the seizure of real estate from Russian oil giant Lukoil. This affects not only the country’s third largest refinery, but also more than 350 other elements of oil and gas infrastructure.
• A 37-year-old researcher from Kherson University, Tetyana Asauljuk, was killed in her own home yesterday as a result of a Russian artillery attack on a civilian housing estate in Kherson.
• Ukraine is building a rocket fuel factory in Denmark. It is also the first time that a NATO country has allowed Ukrainian arms production on its territory.
• The Druzhba oil pipeline to Europe was blown up again in Russia. This time, a section near the village of Kazinsky Vyselki on the Taganrog-Lipetsk route was hit.
• Lithuania is reintroducing compulsory military service: high school graduates and university students will have to join in 2026.
• Two Russian security service officers were wounded in Chechnya after Ukrainian drones hit an FSB building in the Achkoy-Martan district.
• Marines defending Myrnohrad describe the situation around the town as a complete encirclement, and has been since at least 29 November.
• Russian authorities have abandoned the construction of a new railway from Siberia to China due to lack of funding.
• According to Politico, the EU has added Russia to its blacklist of countries involved in money laundering.
• Russia stopped publishing statistics on the number of disabled people because of massive war casualties in Ukraine.
• Putin kept Witkoff and Kushner waiting in the Kremlin for three hours to meet with him.
• Trump announced that the U.S. would stop funding aid to Ukraine in any way.
• Another Russian drone crashed in Moldova.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian losses
• Myrnohrad
• Cleaning the industrial zone of Pokrovsko
• The Russians launched a drone
• Russian losses at Lyman
• Drone with automatic target acquisition
• SOF at the front
• Russian drone crashes again in Moldova
• Saboteurs versus Druzhba
• Evacuation under fire
• The Russians are entangled in fiber optics

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On Twitter, Telegram and TikTok there is currently another continuation of the Russian campaign “why there is no footage of the fighting in Ukraine”. This time the narrative being peddled is “If the Russian army is so bad, why isn’t it executing defenseless Ukrainian prisoners?” In fact, just in the last few days, several videos have emerged showing the Russians doing exactly that. And that’s why Russian propaganda is reacting this way. This type of propaganda is designed to put the complete opposition to any claim and create the impression in the minds of less informed people that the truth either does not exist or is “somewhere in the middle”. At the same time, it relies on the fact that the vast majority of the population will never see such hard evidence (videos), partly because such content does not penetrate them, but also because even if it did, most people would rather not view it - they are not built for such raw content. Often, such Russian propaganda takes on completely absurd, cynical forms, denying even the most basic facts just so that there will be a “contrary opinion”. In the same vein, the Russians spread claims such as the aforementioned “where is some footage of the war?” (as if there were none) or “there is no evidence that the Russians bombed civilians” (even though they do it every day and most of it is on video). But you’ve known that for a long time, so let’s move on to the next news:

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• 34 years ago today, Ukraine clearly voted in a national referendum that it did not want to be part of the Russian world. At that time, 83% of all the inhabitants of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions voted in favour of Ukrainian independence, and even 54% of the inhabitants of Crimea, which the Russians had been systematically colonising for decades, replacing the indigenous population with ethnic Russians.
• According to new information, one of the victims of yesterday’s Russian airstrike on Vyshhorod is one of the team of missile designers at FirePoint, the company that produces Flamingo missiles. So it was not a stray missile or downed debris, but a totally targeted strike, in which the Russians took no account of how many other people - civilians - would die in the strike.
• Ukrainian military intelligence launched another successful bomb attack on the occupiers in Berdyansk. This time, a bomb exploded under a propaganda billboard at the entrance to the town, where the occupiers were holding a meeting. The explosion killed 5 of them, wounded 4 others and also damaged their armoured vehicles.
• Russia is escalating its control over the internet. Threats of fines have not brought the expected shift of Russians away from VPN services. As a result, Russians are now losing access to the internet altogether. When a connection provider detects VPN access, it simply cuts the connection.
• A car exploded in a Moscow housing estate. According to reports, the car belonged to a scientist from the Moscow Laser Research Institute “Polyus”, a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. But the vehicle was empty at the time.
• NATO manoeuvres have begun in Finland near the Russian border. The Northern Axe 25 exercise is taking place in the Kainuu region, which borders Karelia. More than 3,000 troops are taking part, including troops from the UK.
• Putin signs a draft state budget with a record large component for the defence ministry. Russia will spend at least $166 billion on the war against Ukraine in 2026.
• The Netherlands has committed to buy 250 million euros ($290 million) worth of US weapons for Kiev in a PURL mechanism.
• Kazakhstan and Turkey have asked Ukraine to stop attacking elements of Russian oil infrastructure in the Black Sea.
• The Russians sent ballistic missiles to Dnipro in broad daylight. One of them hit a residential area, killing four people and injuring approximately 40 others.
• Putin signed a decree allowing Chinese citizens 30-day visa-free entry into Russia.
• Almost half of Russian oil companies are now losing money because of the sanctions.
• Zelensky met with Macron in Paris and is due to visit Ireland for the first time tomorrow.
• Russia has announced that it will begin evacuating its citizens from Venezuela.

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• Updated RuAF losses
• Myrnohrad
• Russian safari in Kherson
• STING drone shot down Russian Geran jet for the first time
• GUR set up a bomb at the Russian reunion
• Drones at work
• Sabotage of the Russian railway
• The Russians have started drafting men straight from the airports
• Dnipro today
• Minus the bridge builder
• The Russians were filming at the front…
• Construction of defensive fortresses
• Good Russians

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The Ukrainian Euromaidan project writes: “It is worth remembering that Ukrainians are not fighting ‘for Zelensky’ - they are fighting for their right to life, their freedom and their dignity. Since 2014, they have been waging a war on two fronts: against Russia’s genocidal murderers and against their own corrupt politicians. The successful raids by anti-corruption organisations are therefore not a sign of weakness, but on the contrary, they demonstrate the strength of institutions even in the current difficult times. A strength of institutions that is unfortunately not self-evident even in the most free countries, as current events suggest. Whoever uses the successes in the fight against corruption as an excuse to demand concessions to the Russian mafia state is part of the problem, not the solution.” And that’s what happened this:

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• According to The Wall Street Journal, US officials were not 100% informed about the details of the negotiations between Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev. According to WSJ sources, the negotiations between Dmitriev and Witkoff lasted nine months. Officials in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Sanctions Review Division often learned about the details of these meetings only from their British counterparts. Ahead of a planned Russia-U.S. summit in Alaska, Dmitriev and Witkoff reportedly discussed a possible prisoner swap. According to the CIA and the State Department, they were not fully briefed on these discussions. Then, a few days after the Anchorage summit, the European Intelligence and Situation Centre sent a report to several senior European national security officials. The contents of the document ‘shocked’ European officials because it described the trade and economic plans that the US and Russia were discussing together. Among them was a rare metals mining project in the Arctic, with a stake in the project going to a longtime friend of Trump Jr.
• The Russian fascist state organised another massive raid on the Ukrainian capital last night. The Russian military used 36 missiles and 596 drones against targets in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, 577 missiles were destroyed by air defenses. Half of Kiev is without electricity and there are at least 2 dead and 37 wounded in the city. The New Post Office distribution centre, the Terminal shopping centre and several residential buildings were hit.
• German naval bases recorded the highest number of drone sightings in October, with the total volume of overflights over military bases reaching record levels. Until now, however, the primary targets for reconnaissance have been German army and air force facilities.
• The Ukrainians have added tankers from the Russian shadow fleet sailing through the Black Sea to their “sanctions list”. Sea Baby naval drones hit two of these tankers last night: the Kairos and the Virat, which were on their way to Novorossiysk to load oil.
• Russian forces now control approximately 30% of Kupyansk. Small infantry units are operating in the city, but the area west of the Oskil River remains a grey zone which the Russians are unable to effectively resupply because of the heavy losses caused by Ukrainian drones.
• At the Yasnyy test range near Orenburg, a rocket exploded after barely leaving the ground during a practice launch. Ukraine’s Defense Express suggested it may have been a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.
• The Ukrainian military attacked the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) naval terminal near Novorossiysk using naval drones. As a result, one of the berths was severely damaged and can no longer be used.
• The special economic zone in Yelabuza, where the Russians assemble their Shaheeds, is in flames. The fire broke out in a battery factory that produces cells for cars and trucks such as Lada.
• Swedish Foreign Minister: ‘It is obvious that Russia does not want peace. Those parts of the world that still believe in a rules-based world order must immediately increase their support for Ukraine and put more pressure on Russia.”
• Jordan is demanding that Russia stop recruiting its citizens in the online space and end existing contracts after two Jordanians were reportedly killed while serving in the Russian armed forces.
• Vasyl Verameychyk, a Belarusian soldier who fought for Ukraine in the Belarusian Legion, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in Belarus after he was kidnapped from Vietnam, where he was vacationing.
• Zelensky appointed Rustem Umerov as head of the Ukrainian delegation to the peace talks, replacing Andriy Yermak, who resigned due to the current investigations.
• A giant Ukrainian An-124 cargo plane was spotted in Israel, where it had visited to pick up an unknown cargo.
• Putin yesterday suggested “officially declaring” that Russia has no intention of invading Europe.
• Ukraine has again hit the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
• The Russian city of Kazan was plunged into darkness after an explosion at a nearby electricity substation.
• Donald Trump’s son Eric announced the launch of Trump brand vodka.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Imposing sanctions on a Russian tanker
• Kiev
• Morning in Kiev
• Russian airstrike on Kiev
• Kiev
• Kiev
• Morning Kiev
• Russian PVO reduction
• An-124 in Israel
• Reducing the Russian arsenal
• Drones
• Russian raid on Ternopil
• Russian missile test

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Yesterday, 86 years ago, the Soviet Union opened artillery fire on its own soldiers in the village of Mainila, near the Finnish border, to falsely accuse Finland of military aggression and to create a pretext for its forthcoming invasion. In the ensuing Winter War, Finland inflicted absolutely crushing losses on Moscow’s armies, yet lost part of Karelia and several islands. Stalin justified the war by, among other things, the need to create a buffer zone near Leningrad (now St Petersburg). Unlike Putin’s virtually identical lies, however, the world leaders of the day did not fall for it and expelled the Soviet Union from the League of Nations. History repeats itself. Or as they also say, history rhymes. Unfortunately, today’s leaders don’t even have the courage to expel Russia from the UN, let alone stand up to it. And yet this is what is happening this:

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• Kasparov: “This is the best show Putin could ever dream of. It’s not about how many guns and ammunition you have. It’s about whether you are ready to fight and die. (…) NATO was created for one single war - not for Afghanistan, not for Syria - for one single war: to protect free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is now the only country that is actually fighting this war, and we are still debating: whether to admit it to NATO or not! (…) Ukraine is the only country that embodies the purpose of NATO! Thanks to Ukraine, Russia has not yet fulfilled Putin’s dream of restoring the Russian Empire. But if, God forbid, Ukraine is forced to accept the current agreement, it is absolutely clear that Putin will realize his dream. And you are next. But you dare not fight.”
• Russian propaganda has attempted to exploit yesterday’s shooting in the US, in which two US National Guard members were shot near the White House, to portray the shooter as a liberal, a leftist, a product of Biden’s immigration policies, or even a supporter of Ukraine. However, the investigation revealed that the perpetrator was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan who arrived in the US in 2021 but was granted asylum in mid-2025 by the Trump administration.
• The New York Times claims that US Army Secretary Driscoll actively intimidated European diplomats with Russian missiles while promoting his “peace plan” for Ukraine. According to the newspaper, he claimed that Moscow was expanding its long-range arsenal and could launch a “devastating” attack that would “extend beyond Ukraine’s borders” if the war was not ended quickly.
• A Russian flight attendant working for Ural Airlines was sentenced to seven years in prison for posting on a local Telegram group that the Russian military had committed violence against her friends in Ukraine. According to the court, she was guilty of “spreading false news about the Russian military.”
• CNN reports that Donald Trump plans to invite Poland to attend next year’s G20 summit “at a higher level” - instead of South Africa. Poland has long sought this status, and this year it overtook Switzerland to become the world’s 20th largest economy.
• France will launch a new voluntary military service programme next summer, lasting 10 months, according to France 24. Participants will serve only on French territory and its overseas territories - they will not be deployed in foreign operations.
• According to Reuters, the Russian government may be forced to rehabilitate its state-owned railway company, which currently has debts of $51 billion.
• Ukrainian troops are now connected to Myrnohrad by a single road, which is also only passable when fog obstructs the Russian drones’ view.
• The Americans are reportedly convinced that the recording of the phone call between Witkoff and Ushakov was leaked to the media by Ukrainian intelligence.
• A 12-year-old girl, Adriana Unoltova, who was injured in the November 19 attack on Ternopil, died in hospital.
• Rubio announced that the US will present its security guarantees to Ukraine only after a peace deal is signed.
• The International Monetary Fund will provide Ukraine with $8.2 billion over four years as part of the extended agreement.
• The Latvian government is seriously considering the possibility of completely removing the railway lines leading to Russia.
• The North Korean authorities have introduced compulsory Russian language instruction from the 4th grade of primary school.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The remote mining works
• Russian losses at the front
• Beriev in Taganrog
• Logistics reduction
• Another raid on the Samara refinery
• Minus Grad
• A hit in the Russian rallying point in Pokrovsk
• Drone versus drone
• Intervention in Chechnya
• A raid on the front

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The Russians used 22 missiles and cruise missiles against Ukraine last night, as well as 460 drones. In Kiev, CHP-5 and CHP-6 heating plants were hit, as well as a hypermarket and apartment buildings. At least six people are dead and dozens have been injured. Several neighbourhoods are without electricity and hot water supply. We are living in a time when one fascist power is terrorising tens of millions of civilians every day, and another power, which until recently played the world’s guardian of democracy, is quite seriously considering rewarding the former for its terror. And speaking of…](https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid02tiFdBVDTftt5ZHhCf4tsSBnRcd2JqMrsGxKVucaRk5TcLRQwbW4mwpJmHk14R6sjl)

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• iDnes writes that “Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the likely next Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš as pragmatists who care about the citizens of their countries.” When someone is praised by a fascist superpower, it should be a warning light for everyone.
• The Russians have started spreading disinformation on the networks that their troops have taken Kostyantynivka near Donetsk. Ukrainian General Bakulin, who is in charge of the operation there, therefore shot a video from the centre of the town to dispel the rumours.
• According to Bloomberg, Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff has been secretly advising senior Kremlin official Yuri Ushakov on how Putin should submit a peace plan for Ukraine directly to Trump.
• In Russia, the trial of a former Ukrainian weightlifting champion who proudly admitted to a series of successful guerrilla actions on Russian territory. The court sent her to prison for 19 years for this.
• Lavrov said that Europe wanted to sabotage the peace talks by rewriting the proposed agreement, but said that nobody listens to Europe anyway because it wanted Russia to be defeated.
• The Ukrainians hit an oil terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia, as well as one of the airborne warships docked in the port in an overnight raid.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Beriyev scientific and technical aviation complex in Taganrog. The airstrike also destroyed a “flying laboratory”: the Beriyev A100LL.
• Trump says the proposed peace plan has been modified based on suggestions from both sides and a final version will be presented soon.
• A company from the Czech Republic is facing accusations that it resold Chinese drones to Ukraine at a margin of up to 20 times the original price.
• The Americans met with the Russians in the United Arab Emirates and held closed-door talks.
• Zelensky announced that he was ready to sign a revised draft peace agreement shortly.
• Sweden is intensively preparing its military and society for a potential conflict with Russia.
• Rosneft chief Sakhin announced that Russia is ready to become China’s resource bank.
• Two women suffered serious injuries when the Russian army struck Dnipro in broad daylight today.
• Romania reports Russian drones violating its airspace after an overnight raid.
• Another legionary from the Czech Republic - 27-year-old Jiri K.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• General Bakulin in Kostantinivka
• Russian PVO
• And again.
• Taganrog
• Ammunition shipment to the front
• Kiev just after the airstrike
• Minus A100LL
• The Americans captured four Russians
• Attack repelled
• Kraken in action
• Kiev
• Tuapse

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The “peace agreement” proposed by the US side takes on a bizarre context. According to Reuters, the Russians handed it over to the Americans at a secret meeting with Trump’s associates in Miami, Florida. This is confirmed by other politicians who, moreover, claim that it is not an American proposal at all, but only Russian conditions that the Americans were supposed to convey to their partners in Ukraine as intermediaries. The US Secretary of State, however, insists that this is a document co-authored by the United States and Ukraine, but adds in a roundabout way that it is not an ‘American plan’. Ukrainian Minister Umerov is also said to have attended the meeting in Florida, but claims that he was not involved in the drafting of any document and that he was only told by the meeting participants that a document was being prepared. Some analysts therefore speculate that the Russians purposely leaked their proposal to the US media as an “American plan” in order to cause information chaos and panic. Either way, the devil to know. And that’s what happened this:

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• The total volume of problem loans held by legal entities reached 10.4 trillion roubles in the third quarter, according to the Russian Central Bank. Since the beginning of the year, debts that companies and individual entrepreneurs have not repaid on time have increased by 1.9 trillion roubles and by 600 billion roubles in the third quarter. A number of mining and metallurgical companies, hit by falling demand and prices for their products, have called for debt restructuring in recent months. Earlier, the oil and gas industry, which has faced sanctions and a sharp drop in oil prices, also had credit problems.
• Reuters reports that nearly 200,000 Ukrainian citizens who have entered the United States since 2022 now risk losing their legal status. This is due to huge delays in processing extensions of stay - people can find themselves without valid documents literally overnight.
• A meeting with national security advisers of the leaders of the UK, France and Germany took place in Switzerland. Another meeting followed with delegations from the US and Ukraine. Reuters reports that Rubio and Witkoff are on the ground for the US.
• Rescue work has been completed in Ternopil - six people were never found under the rubble. All six, including one child, are listed as missing. That brings the total number of people killed in the Russian airstrike to 33. Ninety-four were injured, including 18 children.
• According to a statement from the 7th Airborne Army Corps, Ukrainian forces have cleared the centre of Pokrovsk and are continuing to push Russian troops to the outskirts of the town. Fighting continues in the streets, but positions in the city centre remain under Ukrainian control.
• Investigators believe that Yuri Sizov of the Russian GRU military intelligence unit No. 92154, also known as the 322nd Special Training Centre or “Senezh”, and smuggler Yevgeny Ivanov are responsible for the recent sabotage on the Polish railway.
• Budanov claims that Russian General Oleg Makarevich, who ordered the blowing up of the Kachovka hydroelectric plant, led an advisory mission in Venezuela, where more than 120 Russian instructors are now training the Venezuelan armed forces.
• In Yakutia, due to “lack of budget funds”, they have suspended the payment of bonuses for signing military contracts, although just a few months ago these payments were increased to 2.7 million rubles.
• Personnel at Volkel air base in the Netherlands deployed ground weapons after spotting several unidentified drones over the base, but the drones disappeared before retaliation.
• Trump said that if Zelensky rejects the current plan, “then he can continue to fight with all of his tiny forces”.
• The Ukrainians repeatedly hit the Russian Shatura power plant in the Moscow region overnight.
• Pro-Ukrainian partisans set fire to a locomotive in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
• Russia began blocking VPN services on its territory.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Child victims of Russian air raid buried in Ternopil
• Ternopil
• Ukrainians in Pokrovsk
• Šatura Power Plant
• Shatura
• Shaturskaya
• Snappr
• Minus the ammo truck
• Production of Russian losses
• Russian military truck accident
• Russian drone removes landmines
• Coordinated drop
• Russian attack at Zaporozhye
• Drone Action
• Raid on Crimea
• Russian on the front
• Strikes on the Russians in Pokrovsk

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Ukrainian envoy to the UN: “Ukraine has received a draft peace plan from the US side. We agree to work on the points in the plan so that it leads to a just end to the war. In this context, let me make a few critical points. 1) While Ukraine is prepared to engage in meaningful negotiations to end this war - including at the level of leaders - our red lines are clear: There will never be any formal or other recognition of Ukrainian territory temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation as Russian territory. Our country is not for sale. Ukraine will not accept any restrictions on its right to self-defence or on the size and capabilities of its armed forces. We will not tolerate any violation of our sovereignty, including our sovereign right to choose the alliances we wish to join. We will not reward the genocidal intentions underlying Russian aggression by undermining our identity, including our language. 2) Peace requires enhanced security and sustained financial assistance to Ukraine. Strengthening Ukraine’s defence capabilities is not escalation - it is the only way to get Russia to engage constructively in international peace efforts. In this regard, we express our deep gratitude to all partners and allies. 3) The Kremlin regime will not stop unless it is stopped. There is only one realistic way to end this war: Russia must be forced to retreat - economically, politically and militarily.” And then there’s this:

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• A Russian FPV drone attacked an evacuation vehicle at the entrance to Lyman. Inside at that moment was American volunteer Devon Masser, two officers of the police unit “White Angel” and journalist of the Donbas.Realii news website Serhiy Horbatenko. Masser suffered injuries from shrapnel in his face. Miraculously, they all survived.
• Trump is urging Zelensky to immediately sign his proposed “peace deal” (de facto surrender). He has reportedly given Ukraine until the end of next week or else threaten to stop selling US weapons and sharing intelligence.
• Russian envoy to the UN Nebenzia: “We are not at war with Ukrainian civilians. Our armed forces act with the utmost responsibility and conduct highly precise strikes exclusively on military targets and Ukraine’s transport and energy infrastructure.” Eh…
• According to US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, the United States is prepared to impose new sanctions on Russia and will continue to supply arms to Kiev if Moscow ignores calls for a ceasefire.
• Polish Prime Minister Tusk: “All decisions concerning Poland will be taken by Poles. Nothing about us without us. As for peace, all negotiations should include Ukraine. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”
• A Russian Shahed drone hit a UN World Food Programme warehouse in Dnipro, destroying over 10,000 food parcels intended for civilians near the front line.
• The sanctioned Russian tanker Seahorse was denied entry into Venezuela - it was stopped at sea by the US destroyer USS Stockdale.
• An explosion occurred at one of the territorial recruitment centres in Odessa. According to official reports, one person was killed and another injured.
• Social networks were flooded with posts defending Trump’s approach to Ukraine in the spirit of the usual Russian propaganda.
• During a combat mission near Pokrovsk, combat medic Maryna Vorontsova (nickname Lagertha) was killed.
• European leaders are reportedly working on their own peace plan for Ukraine.
• Hungary resumed taking Russian oil and gas today.
• Five people died in an overnight Russian airstrike on Zaporozhye.

Interesting videos

• Minus the Russian subversive group
• The intervention of a car with volunteers
• In India, a fighter jet crashes during an aviation day
• An American captured two Russians
• Russians in Pokrovsk
• Minus the Russian attack
• Minus another air defence system in Crimea
• Russian attack stopped
• Updated RuAF losses

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The Russians have launched a large-scale airstrike on western Ukraine. Two cities were hit hardest: Ternopil and Lvov. In Ternopil, a Russian Ch-101 missile hit an apartment building, killing at least 25 people, including three children, and wounding 73 others. More people are believed to remain under the rubble. But civilians have also come under fire at the other end of the country - in Kharkiv - which reports at least 30 people injured after an overnight bombing, and the number is still rising. A total of 41 of 48 missiles and 442 of 476 Russian drones were shot down during the night attack, but it was far from enough. Russia is a terrorist state. And we should never forget who was on its side when this was happening. But now for more news:

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• Russian lawmakers have approved a new budget. Nearly 13 trillion rubles will go to the war next year. And if we add spending on all the security agencies and “national security”, the total will reach about 17 trillion, which is one and a half times more than all social spending combined. At the same time, VAT is being increased to 22% and small businesses will be gradually liquidated: the revenue threshold for compulsory VAT will fall to 20 million roubles in 2025, to 15 million roubles in 2027 and even to 10 million roubles from 2028.
• Reuters reports that senior US military officials will present to Zelensky in Kiev tomorrow a peace plan that the US has negotiated with Russia. This will take place during a meeting between Zelensky and US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll and Army Chief of Staff Randy George. Both officials have already arrived in Kiev.
• Following the Ukrainian attacks on the Zujivska and Starobeshivska thermal power plants, around half a million people, representing 65% of the population in the Russian-occupied part of the Donetsk region, were left without electricity. A state of emergency has been declared in the region by the occupation authorities.
• The Ukrainian Parliament has dismissed Svitlana Hrynchuk as Minister of Energy. The Parliament also voted to dismiss the Ukrainian Minister of Justice, Herman Halushchenko, both of whom are implicated in the Energoatom corruption scandal.
• Russia will allocate $11 million in 2026 for geological exploration of the east coast of North Korea to find potential oil and gas deposits, all as part of a project included in the federal budget on Putin’s instructions.
• British Defense Secretary John Healey announced this morning that the Russian spy ship, the Yantar, is on the edge of British waters north of Scotland, where it arrived in the last few weeks.
• The United States is demanding that Serbia completely expel Russian shareholders from the Serbian oil and gas company NIS so that it can be removed from the sanctions list.
• Russian attacks have caused catastrophic damage to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and have already destroyed nearly 70% of the country’s energy production capacity.
• The EU imposed sanctions on the Arctic LNG-2 project, which continued to purchase from and own stakes in two major Russian suppliers.
• Poland accused Russia of terrorism and closed the last Russian consulate in the country. Russia said it “will not go unanswered”.
• Russia has already forcibly mobilized 46,327 Ukrainian citizens from Russian-occupied territories and annexed Crimea.
• The Russians have still not managed to take Myrnohrad near Pokrovsk, so they are demolishing the town with three-tonne aerial bombs.
• German AfD politician Natalie Steinbeck uses a “.ru” address as her work email.
• The US has deported 50 people to Ukraine - some of whom have lived in the US since the USSR.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Projectile impact on Ternopil
• Ternopil
• Attack on the power plant near Ryazan
• SOF events
• The Georgians captured two Russians
• Minus the Russian drone with ammunition
• Zelensky held talks in Turkey
• Evacuation at the front
• Russian attack
• Captives

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The Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, General Wieslaw Kukula, declared that Poland was effectively in a pre-war phase. According to him, Russia is already preparing the ground for a possible aggression: “The enemy has started preparations for a real war. It is creating conditions to undermine public confidence in the government, the armed forces and the police, and is thus preparing the ground for possible aggression on Polish territory. Meanwhile, the Polish authorities are reporting a third sabotage on the Polish railway. On the Warsaw-Lublin line, near the Puławy Azoty station, railway employees on patrol found an unknown metal plate bolted directly to the rail. A few dozen metres away, a smartphone was attached to the sleeper with wires. Commenting on the current developments, German Chancellor Merz said that the period of peace and tranquillity in Europe that we have enjoyed for decades is coming to an end. The German Defence Minister echoed the same sentiment, saying that the past summer could have been ‘the last summer of peace’ for Europe. And, unfortunately, the gentlemen are probably right. But now for more news:

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• The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament said that the Ukrainian government was showing “hostility” and “ingratitude” towards the Georgian people. He also accused Ukraine of allegedly trying to drag Georgia “into an escalation of the conflict with Russia”. The Ukrainian foreign ministry responded without the usual diplomatic niceties. Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tychy thanked the Georgian government “for everything,” including its refusal to impose sanctions on Russia, helping Moscow circumvent the existing sanctions, steering the country away from the EU and NATO and toward Russian influence, as well as its regular disparaging remarks toward Ukraine.
• Oleksandr Savov - a marine and one of the defenders of Azovstal who returned from Russian captivity only eight months ago - has died. A soldier in the 36th Brigade, he spent nearly three years in captivity after surrendering to the Russians in Azovstal in 2022. He returned from Russian captivity gravely ill - suffering from tuberculosis, skin diseases and lymphostasis of the legs. In later interviews he said that the “treatment” by Russian doctors in captivity was essentially torture and medical experiments.
• Russian state media has come up with a new tale: the alleged assassination attempt on former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow’s Troykurovskoye cemetery. According to the report, the organisers hired two “perfect villains” - a migrant from Central Asia and a man from Kiev. Both are, of course, described as drug addicts and, unsurprisingly, the FSB uncovered everything and arrested the perpetrators.
• Zelensky and Macron signed a historic agreement in Paris that strengthens France’s military support to Ukraine and includes the delivery of French aircraft to the Ukrainian armed forces. Ukraine will thus buy 100 Rafale fighter jets from France.
• Overnight, Ukraine again hit a thermal power plant in Oryol, a substation in Veshkaima in the Ulyanovsk region and another substation near occupied Donetsk.
• According to Ukraine’s energy ministry, Russian forces hit energy infrastructure in five Ukrainian regions overnight on Monday.
• Orbán: “Ukraine has no chance of prevailing against Russia’s ongoing invasion, and the EU’s continued financial support for this country is simply insane.”
• A Turkish ship carrying liquefied gas was damaged during an overnight Russian airstrike on Izmail in the Odessa region.
• Ursula von der Leyen sent a letter to EU Member States containing a formal proposal for the expropriation of Russian assets.
• Russia began using a new type of Iranian Shahed drone equipped with an 8-9 kg warhead.
• Poland reopened two border crossings with Belarus - Bobrowniki and Kuźnica Białostocka.
• Finland moved its heavy artillery to the Russian border.
• France will deliver 55 electric locomotives to Ukraine.
• The price of Russian oil has fallen to $36 a barrel.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• How the Russian attack went
• How the Russian raid on Novopavlivka ended
• Highway north of Pokrovsko
• The occupier was making doggy pieces
• Russian PVO reduction
• Blackout in Donetsk
• Minus the Russian factory
• Straight to the hole
• Ukrainian Mirage

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With the arrival of the first cold days, Russia has launched a new wave of attacks on Ukraine’s energy system. Power plants, substations, hydroelectric and gas infrastructure are under daily attack - but this time the tactics have changed slightly. Instead of exploiting weaknesses in air defences, Russia is now trying to cut off entire areas from the common energy grid, especially areas in the east that are close to the front line and the border. The aim is to disrupt the system along the Dnieper and isolate the peripheral nodes that depend on only one or two power plants. In short, Russia wants to make Ukraine gradually completely uninhabitable for any civilians, and it is incredible that the world has slowly become used to the fact that Ukraine is facing a terrorist state of a calibre that the Islamic State can only quietly envy. But now for more news:

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• The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) announced on 14 November that it had filed a motion for the arrest of former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov. Chernyshov was charged on 11 November with illicit enrichment in a massive corruption case involving the state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom. Seven other suspects have also been charged, with Timur Mindich, a close associate of President Volodymyr Zelensky, alleged to be the main mastermind.
• Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valery Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, died in Kiev after suffering severe injuries in a massive Russian attack on the night of 14-15 November.
• The Polish government has criticized Ukraine for the latest corruption scandal and urged it to actively address similar problems in its own interest.
• Zelensky: “At present, Russia has not met another deadline set by Putin for the conquest of Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, and the deadlines have been extended again.”
• Former employees of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant are now working in Belarus - and some of them have already received Belarusian passports.
• Ukrainian intelligence reports that North Korea has cut its supply of shells to Russia in half as its own stockpiles run thin.
• Ukrainian forces blew up the road from Selydovo to Pokrovsk, a key route for Russian attacks in the Donetsk region.
• During the raid on Novorossiysk, the Ukrainians also destroyed four launchers of the Russian S-400 Triumf air defense system and two radars.
• According to Bloomberg, the United States is postponing sanctions against Russian oil giant Lukoil.
• Russians disguise themselves as Ukrainian soldiers near Pokrovsk to infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines.
• According to the US Coast Guard, a Russian military vessel has been spotted near Hawaii.
• The United States quietly conducted a successful test of its B61-12 nuclear bomb in August.
• Both Ukraine and Russia agreed to another prisoner swap of 1,200 for 1,200.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• At Pokrovsk
• Heat plant repeatedly bombed by Russians
• Poor pig.
• At Lyman’s
• He didn’t hide
• Ryazan
• Purity

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Russia may have gotten a kompromat on Donald Trump from Jeffrey Epstein. Citing Epstein’s correspondence released by the US Democrats, Politico claims that a year before his death, Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact the Russian Foreign Ministry to pass information about Donald Trump to Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin. Epstein wrote to former Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland and asked him to “suggest to Putin” that Lavrov contact Epstein directly. Jagland replied that he would meet with Lavrov’s adviser the next day and “pass on the suggestion”. The emails also show that Epstein discussed Trump with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s former permanent representative to the United Nations. It’s nice when things fall into place. And there’s still this this going on:

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• The Italian daily Corriere della Sera refused to publish the interview with Sergei Lavrov - both in print and online. The editorial board justified this by saying that Lavrov’s statements “contain many controversial statements that require verification of facts or additional explanations”, in an amount that exceeds “a reasonable degree”.
• According to the human rights organisation Crisis Group SK SOS, Aliya Ozdamirova, a 33-year-old Chechen woman who had fled Chechnya in the past because of threats, was forcibly taken from Georgia back to the Russian Federation and murdered there. The organisation claims that the murder was probably committed by relatives with ties to Kadyrov.
• The Parliament of Montenegro approved the participation of its armed forces in the NSATU programme, a NATO programme responsible for training Ukrainian security forces and strengthening Ukraine’s defence capabilities.
• Another day, another war crime by Russia. The Russians “boasted” on Telegram of photos showing that they shot three Ukrainian prisoners near Myrnohrad who surrendered and laid down their arms.
• Together, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden have allocated an additional $500 million for arms for Ukraine as part of the PURL initiative.
• On the island of Phuket, Thai police detained a Russian citizen, an alleged hacker and possibly a GRU officer, at the request of the United States.
• Germany reintroduces conscription: compulsory screening of all persons aged 18 and a lottery if not enough volunteers are found.
• Germany will cut financial support for Ukrainian refugees to about a third and will now consider them as standard asylum seekers.
• The Ukrainian government has announced that it will launch large-scale audits in all ministries and state companies because of new corruption scandals.
• Russian channels suggest that the Russian Air Force has lost another Su-30SM fighter jet and its crew. It was supposed to have crashed in the Russian part of Karelia.
• Overnight, Russian forces launched one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 138 drones at Ukrainian regions.
• Havlicek said that the purchase of F-35 fighter jets was a done deal, despite YES’s pre-election promises.
• Rubio clarified that Hungary had received an exemption for Russian gas for only 12 months.
• According to ISW, the Russians now control less than half of Pokrovsk.
• Another oil refinery is burning in Russia’s Tatarstan.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Four flamingos
• Development at Pokrovsk
• Ukrainian attack
• Ukrainian work near Pokrovsk
• Russian TV report full of war crimes
• Minus 25
• Tatarstan
• Tatarstan 2
• He was looking the other way…
• MANPADS over Russian Eagle
• Russians under drone attack

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Ukrainian customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 14,487 stamps depicting Hitler and swastikas from Poland into Ukraine. This was reported by the State Customs Service of Ukraine itself. The smuggled stamps were found hidden among used clothes at the Shehyni-Medyka border crossing. Import of similar items is prohibited under the Ukrainian law on propaganda of totalitarian regimes. Why such a shipment was heading to Ukraine is probably well imagined by readers of this page. In fact, the customs officers did not just thwart the smuggling, but probably another attempt by Russian propaganda to portray Ukraine as a state full of Nazis. And this is what happened:

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• Russia has started testing a new measure: when anyone returns to the country from abroad, their SIM card is disconnected from mobile internet and SMS for 24 hours. The same happens if the card has been inactive for more than 72 hours. Russia hopes this will prevent Ukrainians from using Russian mobile networks to control and guide remote drones.
• According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia is ready to negotiate with the United States to resume preparations for a meeting between Putin and Trump. But Lavrov also called the Ukrainian president a “Nazi” and warned that if a nuclear power conducts nuclear tests, Russia will do the same.
• A C-130 military transport plane crashed in Georgia en route from Azerbaijan. Turkish and Azerbaijani military personnel were reportedly on board. The cause of the crash is unknown, but according to videos on social media, the machine broke apart in flight.
• In Moscow’s “Obruchevsky” social care home, a 20-year-old woman suffering from epilepsy and a tendency to self-harm had to have both arms amputated after being restrained with woollen stockings “so she could not hurt herself” - and then forgotten by staff.
• A court in Minsk has branded the website of opposition politician Syarhei Tsikhanousky and all his social media accounts - Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram - as “extremist material”.
• Ukrainian forces withdrew from five villages along the contact line on the Zaporizhzhya front. There is nothing left to defend after incessant Russian airstrikes and shelling.
• India’s five largest refineries, which together account for two-thirds of the country’s oil imports, have not placed a single order for Russian crude for December.
• In the latest survey, 56% of Russians said they were “tired of war”, with another 27% agreeing somewhat. Only 20% of Russians support the continuation of the war.
• Almost all Ukrainian regions are facing long emergency power cuts, lasting up to 12 hours in some places, due to Russian state terror.
• More than 600 soldiers from Russia’s Central Military District are reported to have died as a result of drugs, suicide and alcohol.
• The Russians are again dressing their diversionary troops near Pokrovsk in civilian clothes to infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines.
• In the Ulyanovsk region of Russia, mobile internet has been completely shut down until the end of the “special military operation”.
• About 70% of the artillery ammunition fired by the Russians now comes from North Korea.
• The Russian Federation plans to take in tens of thousands of workers from India and other Asian countries.
• Sudan pulls out of deal to build Russian naval base
• Romania reports that a Russian drone landed on its territory last night.
• Ukrainian drones landed on a refinery near Saratov.
• The Russian refinery Orsknefteorgsintez is on fire near Orsk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians are demolishing Myrnohrad
• Russian attack on Pokrovsk
• Plane crash in Georgia
• Refinery at Orsk
• Orsk
• Spinky
• The Russian wanted to film the tank attack
• Russian soldier from the front
• Cleaning of Pokrovsk
• Russian shelter visited by drones
• Search min
• Drone ambush
• A smart car and a Russian soldier

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The 7th Corps of Ukrainian paratroopers on the situation in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad: “Over the past week, the 7th Corps has liquidated 236 Russians, 136 others have been wounded. Our soldiers also hit 1 tank, 3 armored fighting vehicles and 23 cars and motorcycles. The enemy continues to increase the number of attacks on Ukrainian positions in the Pokrovsk agglomeration. Last week the Russians attacked our troops 132 times. This is almost 20% more than in the previous week. The elimination of the Russians in the northern part of Pokrovsk continues. The most intense fighting is currently taking place in the industrial zone. At the same time, the enemy is trying to concentrate its efforts in other parts of the city and in the western suburbs in order to make further advances towards the village of Hryshyn, which lies to the north-west of Pokrovsk. The defensive operation in Myrnohrad continues. Logistics and timely resupply of food and ammunition are being ensured.” And this is also happening this:

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• The Bratislava prosecutor’s office has closed the criminal case against former Prime Minister Eduard Heger and former Defence Minister Jaroslav Nada, saying that the transfer of old Soviet-made Slovak MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in spring 2023 was not in violation of the law.
• Last night, three Russian drones attacked a Clear Energy facility built only in 2016 - the country’s first and largest biomass thermal power plant, which supplied electricity to thousands of households and symbolized Ukraine’s transition to renewable energy.
• The Russians crossed the border into Ukraine at a new location in the Kharkiv region. According to the Ukrainians, the Russians will attempt to create a “sanitary zone” along the entire border, linking their two areas of operation at Kupyansk and Vovchansk.
• The propaganda game Squad 22: ZOV, created with the support of the Russian Ministry of Defence, has been a complete flop on the Steam platform, with fewer than five people playing it daily, according to SteamDB.
• A Russian government commission has approved a bill banning the expulsion or extradition of foreigners serving in the Russian armed forces and taking part in combat operations - including the war against Ukraine.
• The Iraqi government froze Lukoil’s oil payments due to US sanctions. In return, Lukoil stopped paying wages to all foreign workers at the West Qurna-2 well.
• According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Britain’s King Charles III played a key role in restoring the relationship between him and Donald Trump.
• Russia has begun a major mobilization of reservists. According to official statements, the people so mobilised are to protect critical infrastructure in Russia.
• A video that appeared on Telegram shows that the Russians have started using incendiary warheads with white phosphorus in their FPV drones.
• Russia has sentenced an absent Czech drone fighter fighting in the ranks of Ukraine to 13 years for mercenarism and terrorism.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the war in Ukraine would only end “when Russia achieves its stated goals”.
• Syrian claims that the Ukrainian military has “B and C” plans for Pokrovsk - for every possible development.
• Trump pardoned dozens of people accused of influencing the 2020 US election.
• Trump appoints John Cole as special envoy for Belarus.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus Grad
• If it doesn’t work the first time…
• Minus the Russian substation
• Russian BMPs
• Minus the bikers
• The resistance is working
• The Russians attacked the volunteer truck
• Minus the substation
• Owl versus Russian drone
• The Taganrog substation
• Russian losses

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Ukraine last night faced one of the strongest attacks in months, targeting the country’s energy infrastructure. The Russians sent a total of 503 drones and missiles/shots, 415 were shot down by air defences. Emergency blackouts were imposed in several regions. In Dnipro 11 people were injured, 3 people were killed, among the injured is a 13-year-old girl. In Kharkiv region, a petrol station burned down and eight people were injured. In Kiev, rocket debris set fire to several vehicles and damaged nearby buildings; surface transport was halted due to power outages. Electricity and water supplies are limited in Poltava and Kirovohrad oblasts and Kremenchuk remains completely without electricity. In Odessa and Mykolaiv, power and industrial buildings were on fire after the strike, fortunately all was without casualties.

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• Former police officer Konstantin Shakht, one of the suspects in the kidnapping and murder of cryptocurrency fraudster Roman Novak and his wife in the UAE, has been arrested in St Petersburg. Investigators allege that Shakht and his accomplices lured the couple to Dubai under the pretext of “meeting investors,” took them hostage, and when they failed to gain access to Novak’s cryptocurrency wallets, killed them and buried their bodies in the desert. According to The Insider, the suspects include two veterans of a “special military operation,” Yuri Sharipov and Vladimir Dalyokin.
• Polish President Karol Nawrocki has suggested that the “ideology of the OUN-UPA and the Bandera movement” should be compared to Nazism, Communism and fascism, which would carry a prison sentence of up to three years. However, the Sejm rejected the proposal by 244 votes. But the president’s proposal to limit social programmes for Ukrainian refugees passed.
• Journalist: “What is the main reason for the disagreement with the Russians that is preventing the summit with Putin in Budapest?” Donald Trump: “The main reason for the disagreement is that they just don’t want to stop yet, but I think they will.”
• Among the victims of yesterday’s helicopter crash in Dagestan were a chief engineer, a chief trainer for helicopter design, and the deputy director of an approved plant in Kizlyar that makes avionics for Russian military aircraft.
• A video has appeared on Russian channels of a Russian engineer being interviewed by the media and describing how with a little imagination “anything can be mined - books, toys, vaporizers…”.
• In Ulyanovsk, Russia, around 300 workers at the nuclear power plant under construction there are protesting over the fact that they have not been paid for some time.
• Zelensky announced that Ukraine has begun mass-producing analogues to China’s DJI Mavic drones.
• The IAEA has negotiated a local arms embargo for the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and its immediate surroundings.
• Orbán negotiated with Trump an exemption for Hungary from US sanctions on Russian oil and gas.
• According to the NATO Secretary General, the alliance already produces more munitions per month than Russia.
• The DeepState project reports that Myrnohrad is under tactical encirclement.
• Belgorod is in darkness after a Ukrainian airstrike on the Luch thermal power plant.
• Saratov came under attack by Ukrainian drones last night.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian propaganda with Kirk
• The Russians were repairing a Coast Guard ship
• Russians in Pokrovsk
• Optical fibres in the fields near Pokrovsko
• How Russia treats rejectionists
• At Pokrovsk
• Ukrainian events in Pokrovsk
• Russian FPV Drone Disposal
• Okamura is “famous”
• Rotation after 100 days on the front
• Helicopter in Dagestan
• The Russians are devastating Pavlohrad
• Trefa

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Overnight, Ukrainians hit a Russian warehouse of missiles and kamikaze drones at an air base near occupied Donetsk, which the Russians use to launch missiles into Ukraine. According to news outlets, the Ukrainians knew about the base for a long time but probably waited until the warehouses were full before hitting the base. One source claims that there have been hundreds of kamikaze drones and at least once that many missiles destroyed (up to 1,000 drones and 1,500 missiles). Videos from the site confirm that the munitions explosion was massive, so whether a few hundred or a thousand warheads were destroyed, it will be a palpable loss for the Russians. And this is also what’s happening this:

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• Russian foreign intelligence claims Western states are planning sabotage at the occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, with Russia accusing NATO of pressuring Kiev to carry out a strike on the plant that would claim casualties among Ukrainians and EU residents “similar to the tragedy of flight MH17”. Given that the Russians shot down flight MH17, it can be assumed that they are also planning the sabotage described above.
• The Russian pro-regime singer Shaman arranged a wedding in occupied Donetsk. His wife was a much older former mistress of Vladimir Putin who, instead of wearing a white dress, came to the ceremony in a military uniform. Where is the Nazi propaganda!
• According to some sources, the withdrawal of the main forces from Pokrovsk has already begun, and the elite corps have come to the rescue not to launch counterattacks but to keep open the corridor through which the Ukrainians are withdrawing from the city.
• Bulgaria is drafting legislation to allow it to take control of the Burgas oil refinery owned by Lukoil because of the US sanctions imposed on Rosneft and Lukoil.
• Ukrainian forces have recaptured the municipality building in the centre of Pokrovsk, but it is estimated that, despite the current stabilisation operations, around 80% of the city is still under Russian control.
• Overnight, Ukrainian drones hit a Lukoil refinery near Volgograd as well as one of Russia’s largest power plants, Kostroma GRES.
• Lukashenko has called on Ukrainian refugees to come to live in Belarus, where he says he will provide them with a good standard of living.
• Belgian intelligence believes the Russians are behind the flights of unknown drones over Belgian infrastructure.
• Pro-Ukrainian guerrillas filmed videos of several locomotives being set on fire on Russian territory.
• The Russian Ministry of Armour has called on the military to immediately begin nuclear force tests.
• The European Union will reportedly completely abolish Schengen visas for citizens of the Russian Federation.
• In Belarus, a fire broke out at one of the country’s two Naftan refineries.
• The Russian Air Force took delivery of two newly manufactured Su-34 fighter jets.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian filming positions after Ukrainian strike
• Sudan
• Night hunting
• Tank thwarts Russian attack
• Russians test new shotgun
• After the Russian airstrike
• The Russians hit the church
• SOF at the front
• Belarusian legionnaires escaped the drone
• Russian army
• Drones on the hunt

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The Ukrainians attacked targets in Russia again last night. In Sterlitamak, a water purification plant at a petrochemical plant partially collapsed, according to the regional governor. At the same time, explosions and fires were reported in the Volgograd, Lipetsk, Kursk and Novgorod regions. In Kstovo, the SIBUR-Kstovo refinery was on fire after a drone strike, in the Volgograd region the energy infrastructure was hit and in Rylsk 16 000 people were left without electricity after a substation there was hit. And this is what happened this:

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• A well-known Russian army officer, General Leonid Ivashov, sharply criticized the Russian government about the development of the war: “The fact that we have advanced somewhere near Pokrovsk is only a tactical success; on the operational-tactical level we have no successes, and on the strategic level we have suffered defeat in all directions. (…) The fact that we are isolated and the permanent members of the UN Security Council are issuing statements in support of Ukraine is already our strategic defeat.” And a strategic defeat, according to him, will lead to the collapse of Russia.
• Ukraine has launched a counter-offensive at Kupyansk to cut off Russian troops in the city from supply routes and reinforcements and gradually eliminate those who remain in the city. The counter-offensive has scored partial successes, but it is premature to estimate how it will turn out. According to Zelensky, there are now about 60 Russian troops in the city.
• Three days ago, a Russian ballistic missile hit a Ukrainian military base as a medal ceremony was underway. Several veterans of the war with Russia lost their lives needlessly because of it. Ukraine is now investigating who was responsible for the whole incident.
• Russian propaganda has begun spewing dozens of artificial intelligence-generated videos on Twitter and Telegram in which fake Ukrainian soldiers surrender by the hundreds or cry desperately on camera and beg for help.
• Poland has decided not to wait for Brussels’ decision and has begun building its own “anti-drone wall”. A combination of radars, jammers and air defence systems designed to protect the country from foreign drones.
• In a barracks near Chelyabinsk, two contract soldiers beat a third to death over a personal dispute. The military court gave them prison sentences of 9 and 11 years.
• According to Alexei Skobey, deputy commander of the Belarusian special forces, Minsk could “if necessary” deploy its “peacekeeping troops” in Ukraine.
• The Ukrainians launched an attack on an islet in the middle of the Kakhovka dam, in which they seized a Russian observation post and eliminated two occupiers.
• The intensity of Russian attacks near Kostyantynivka reportedly dropped precipitously after the Russian army moved some forces from this section south to Pokrovsk.
• The Ukrainian navy used drones to strike an elite Russian unit on the occupied Sivash drilling platform in the Black Sea.
• The Belgian military has ordered personnel at military bases to begin shooting down any unknown drones.
• Two captured North Korean soldiers have requested that Ukraine not repatriate them but hand them over to South Korea.
• Chinese state-owned refineries stop buying Russian oil because of US sanctions.
• The European Union has approved €1.8 billion in funding for the Ukrainian state apparatus.
• The Russians dropped a total of 5,328 aerial bombs on Ukraine in October.
• Italy is preparing its 12th military aid package to Ukraine.
• Ukrainian photographer Kostyantyn Huzenko was killed at the front.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Maintenance
• The Russian tanks are bogged down in the swamp
• Antonivsky bridge in Kherson
• Russian ship in Narva
• Minus the cyclist
• The Russians don’t understand that they are in captivity
• Saratov
• Turkish Legionaries
• Minus the Russian train and the transshipment point

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According to a study conducted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Deloitte, Ukrainian refugees will generate a staggering 2.7% of Poland’s GDP in 2024. “The study shows that the entry of Ukrainian refugees into the Polish labour market has not had a negative impact on the economy, such as an increase in unemployment or a decline in real wages; on the contrary, it has contributed to an increase in employment of Poles and to an improvement in the productivity of Polish companies and employees. All the evidence shows that Ukrainian refugees will continue to have a positive economic impact as long as they remain in Poland, far outweighing the cost of any support they have received.” Moreover, it is not only Ukrainians employed in Polish companies who are contributing to the success, but also companies directly founded by Ukrainian refugees. The situation is therefore similar to that in the Czech Republic, where the benefits of refugees have long outweighed the support provided. Therefore, if some politicians are calling for Ukrainians to be deported back to their homeland, they should explain how they intend to replace their contribution to national economies. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• The Russians plan to reopen in December the theatre in Mariupol, where several hundred people died in 2022 after an air bomb hit the city. For months afterwards, occupation authorities claimed that rotten fish was responsible for the stench that wafted from the site. When it reopens, the theatre will perform - how else but - plays by Russian authors.
• The Russians hit Rodynske, north of Pokrovsk, with heavy artillery fire today, which would confirm that Ukraine has managed to push the Russians out of the town. Witnesses on the ground also describe fields literally littered with fallen occupiers on the approach to the town, which were defused by Ukrainian drones.
• Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan said that many of the negative stereotypes Armenians have about Turkey and Azerbaijan are the result of decades of propaganda by the Soviet secret services.
• Following Russian airstrikes, the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region is completely without electricity. Parts of Zaporizhzhya, Kharkiv and Chernihiv oblasts are also reporting power cuts.
• Ukrainians hit one of the tankers from the Russian shadow fleet in the port of Tuapse during a drone strike. The oil terminal and other port infrastructure were also damaged.
• Turkish refineries have begun to cancel purchases of Russian oil due to the sanctions and seek replacements, mostly in Iraq and Kazakhstan.
• On Estonian territory, near the Russian border, a local resident discovered a 250kg aerial bomb while walking in the woods.
• During the night, Ukrainian unmanned systems hit a total of 5 Russian substations with a total capacity of 5066 MVA.
• Unidentified drones were spotted over Kleine Brogel airbase in Belgium twice in 24 hours.
• The G7 countries pledged in a statement to help Ukraine rebuild its damaged power system.
• The “Hungarian” Brovdi announced that Ukraine is preparing strikes that have the potential to plunge all of Russia into darkness.
• The Russians now control about 60% of Pokrovsk and heavy fighting continues in the streets of the city.
• Russia inaugurated the new nuclear submarine Khabarovsk.
• A plane with ties to Russian Wagner landed in Venezuela.
• Germany handed over the promised Patriot systems to Ukraine.
• A Russian tugboat burns in the Kerch Strait.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Helicopter drop
• Airdrop through the eye of a drone
• Pokrovsk
• Strike on the fuel line
• Drones versus Russians
• Drone in action
• Bonesetter
• Russian raid on a Roma settlement
• Minus the Russian substation
• Attack by Russian motorcyclists near Pokrovsk
• Blackout near Moscow
• Minus the Russian robot
• Russian tanks at Pokrovsk
• Minus the boat with the Russians
• He was carrying ammunition and didn’t bring…
• Raid on Russian positions in northern Kupyansk
• Russians hit a gas station near Mykolaiv with cluster munitions
• Minus the Russians at Belgorod

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According to French investigators, the recent jewel heist at the Louvre in France has a Russian trail. One of the suspects is Pierre Malinowski, who has dual French and Russian citizenship, has served in the French army in the past, also worked as an assistant for Marine Le Pen’s father (Jean-Marie Le Pen) and is believed to be the “brains” behind the operation. Malinowski is also president of the Foundation for the Development of Russian-French Historical Initiatives in Moscow. He only acquired Russian citizenship in 2018 and is reportedly close to the dictator Putin himself. In the past, according to investigators, he hired former mercenaries from the Foreign Legion as security guards, who then stole various objects for him from several French museums and handed them over to him during personal meetings in Dubai or Moscow in particular. And then [this] happened too(https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid0MgfzpendUoTeSyKAMDRgzeWvtA8WfzrR8TcqgpEvPQ7wxBrKH7Fv7D16i62QGF3gl):

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• U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent commented on Dmitriev’s statement that U.S. sanctions have no effect. According to Bessent, Dmitriev is merely a propagandist, while the facts say otherwise: the Russian economy is in war mode, so its growth has completely stopped, the country is already facing up to 20% inflation, and further US sanctions could completely dismantle the Russian economy.
• Ukraine is sending its special forces to the partially besieged Pokrovsk to try to locate and neutralise the Russian subversive groups that have been carrying out raids in the city and even causing civilian casualties. Around 40 Russians have already been located and eliminated.
• The Ukrainian army captured an Iraqi mercenary near Vovchansk. He testified that he was working illegally in Russia as a restaurant worker, where the Russian foreign police came for him and gave him the choice of 20 years in prison or a short service in the Russian army.
• Lithuania has again closed its border with Belarus. This time, however, indefinitely, after another 70 or so weather balloons, used by cigarette and drug smugglers, arrived from Belarus over Lithuanian territory.
• Russia has dispatched several flights of military cargo planes to Venezuela in recent weeks. It has probably handed over equipment and weapons to the dictator there for a possible conflict with the United States.
• Poland has detained two Ukrainian citizens on suspicion of spying for Russian intelligence services. Authorities say they were supposed to install hidden cameras along routes used to transport military aid to Ukraine.
• Unlike the Polish court, an Italian court has allowed the extradition of a detained Ukrainian suspected of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline for prosecution in Germany.
• The US envoy to NATO, Matt Whitaker, said the United States expects Hungary to give up imports of Russian gas and oil.
• Swedish arms company Saab announced its intention to build a plant in Ukraine to assemble, test and repair the JAS Gripen aircraft.
• Georgia detained three Chinese citizens who were trying to buy 2 kg of uranium in the country and smuggle it through Russia to China.
• Russian channels report that the Russian air force has lost another Ka-52 attack helicopter and its entire crew.
• Ukrainian drones repeatedly hit a Russian fuel depot near occupied Luhansk.
• The Ukrainians pushed the Russians out of Yegorivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians managed to penetrate further into Pokrovsk and move more soldiers into the city.
• Laying mines in the Russian rear
• Hostel in Záporoží
• Zaporozhye
• Russian drone and petrol station
• Drone to the blind
• Rus: I am a tree
• Russian air raid
• Minus four
• Tank battle near Donetsk
• Russian shelling of Kherson

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The situation in Pokrovsk is rapidly deteriorating after the Russians infiltrated the city. Up to two hundred Russians are currently holding positions in the city itself. The fall of the city is almost certainly a matter of days, weeks at most. It is almost impossible to resupply the city and it is impossible to rotate, as most of the routes are controlled by FPV drones. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the Ukrainian army is desperately trying to evacuate civilians instead of devoting itself fully to defence. Thus, sheer stubbornness and recklessness is once again costing unnecessary human lives. It must be added, however, that some analysts predicted the fall of Pokrovsk more than a year and a half ago. Instead, it held on for months to come, and the Russian account of its conquest will likely be seen by historians as yet another Russian fiasco, despite the outcome. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev appeared on Fox News during his visit to the US, where he told viewers that US sanctions against Russia are ineffective, confirmed his plan to meet with Trump’s team and said Russia is open to providing security guarantees to Ukraine if Ukraine is a neutral country and gives up some territory, which he justified with the usual propaganda about Ukrainian attacks on Russian-speaking civilians. Dmitriev also claimed that Ukraine, not Russia, was holding up peace talks.
• Ukrainian intelligence has documented a war crime committed by Colombian “mercenaries” fighting against Ukraine as part of the 30th Independent Motorized Rifle Brigade, which belongs to the 2nd All-Union Army of Russia’s Central Military District. In the intercepted conversation, one of the field commanders issues an order in Spanish to execute all “enemies” - Ukrainian soldiers, as well as civilians, including women and children.
• According to Budanov, Russia is attempting to cause a complete blackout in Ukraine because it believes that the ensuing crisis and social pressure can help Russia end the war on its terms. Attacks on civilians to bring about political change also have a simpler name: terrorism. It is literally its definition.
• The Russian propagandist Solovyov declared on his television programme that there will be no Kharkov, Poltava, Mykolayiv or Odessa, and no Kiev. At least Kharkiv and Odessa are claimed by Russian propaganda to be “Russian” cities.
• Reuters claims that Washington has prepared further sanctions against Russia’s economy and energy sector in case Russia refuses to end the fighting or again opts for delaying tactics.
• Nine ballistic missiles landed on Kiev overnight. Four of them hit parts of the heating infrastructure. The airstrikes left at least two dead and twelve wounded.
• Satellite images showed a Russian tanker pumping oil into a Chinese tanker on the high seas to avoid Western sanctions.
• Italy is preparing its twelfth military aid package to Ukraine, focusing on strengthening air defences.
• Britain reports a 30% increase in Russian submarine activity off British shores.
• Britain provides Ukraine with 5,000 multi-purpose missiles.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians under the dam
• Russian FPV drone over Kherson
• Liberated village Suchetske
• Russian trenches under Belgorod
• Flooded Belgorod region
• Minus Russian air defence
• The mud season has begun
• Russian mechanized attack
• Captives
• On the front

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The Russians shot five civilians in the Donetsk region, including three members of one family. The incident occurred on 20 October near the frontline west of Bakhmut. The family and their two sons were hiding in the basement of the family home. When the younger son went out to fetch water, the occupiers broke into the basement where the parents and the older son were and started interrogating them about the Ukrainian soldiers. When they got no answer, they left at first, but later one of the Russians returned and shot everyone. A 57-year-old woman survived by falling unconscious after suffering a gunshot wound to the jaw. She later woke up to find that her husband and elder son were dead. She immediately found the body of her younger son in the adjacent basement next to her neighbours, a 62-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son, who had also been shot. The woman managed to walk into Ukrainian-controlled territory, where she was treated and informed the authorities. The prosecutor’s office is prosecuting the incident as a war crime. And this is what happened this:

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• The European Union has approved a 19th package of sanctions against Russia that includes, among other things, banning Russian gas imports, denying Russian citizens access to cryptocurrency services, imposing sanctions on banks in China and Kazakhstan that are involved in Russian sanctions evasion, and adding more ships from the so-called shadow fleet to the sanctions list. Lipavsky’s proposal to restrict the movement of Russian diplomats in the Schengen area was also approved.
• The Russians killed Ukrainian journalist Olena Hubanova of the “Svoboda” TV channel and her cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, who had been working in the most dangerous areas of the Donetsk region since the first days of the invasion. They were killed in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, when their car was hit by a Russian Lancet drone.
• Russian military medic Alexei Zhilyaev, who provided Radio Free Europe with a Russian defence ministry database containing information on 166,000 wounded soldiers, was hospitalised in France after months without contact with his surroundings. Doctors say his condition is serious - he has lost his memory and cannot walk. But poisoning has been ruled out.
• The British destroyer HMS Duncan and a Wildcat helicopter intercepted the large anti-submarine ship Vice Admiral Kulakov in the North Sea with the support of the French Navy and a Dutch NH90 helicopter.
• Skiers and snowboarders from Belarus and Russia will not be able to qualify for the next Winter Olympics.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Plastmass ammunition plant site on the outskirts of Chelyabinsk, 2 000 km from the border.
• The Russians carried out a double strike on a village in the Kharkiv region, killing one of the responding firefighters.
• Spain will finance the purchase of US weapons for Ukraine under the PURL mechanism.
• The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is again fed from the Ukrainian electricity grid.
• Britain detains three men suspected of spying for Russia.
• The United States imposed sanctions on Russia’s Rosneft and Lukoil.
• Ukraine carried out a successful strike on a refinery in Ryazan, Russia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Plus seven prisoners
• Damaged dam
• Minus 60
• Kiev
• Also Kiev
• Intervention in Kiev
• Exempt
• The Russian attack ended in a swamp
• Minus thirteen
• You don’t, you get
• Russian attack on the windmill
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• Search min
• Fuel depot near Moscow
• Air defence over Tula

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Latvian police, in cooperation with Europol, Estonian and Austrian police, raided an inconspicuous basement space in Riga, dismantling an organised Russian-language group that operated approximately 50 MILLION (!!!) fake social media accounts through which it organised financial fraud and other illegal activities. During the raid, 1,200 SIM card boxes were seized along with 40,000 active SIM cards, which the group was not only using itself, but in addition “renting” to other criminal groups from around the world for their own criminal activities. Also seized were hundreds of thousands of other (as yet) non-functional SIM cards, 5 servers, 2 websites, hundreds of thousands of dollars and euros in bank accounts and cryptocurrencies, as well as 4 luxury vehicles. And all of this was directed by five people who were also arrested by the police. So it was a relatively small group with a huge hit. This at least gives a better idea of the enormity of the problem posed by the ‘troll farms’ in Russia, India and South-East Asia, which employ thousands of people and are often not only tolerated by the state, but even supported or even set up. And then there was this:

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• The Russians undertook a mechanized attack in the direction of Mala Tokmačka, during which they lost 2 tanks, 12 armored infantry vehicles, 6 other armored vehicles and dozens of soldiers. Such attacks are now typical of Russian tactics: an attack by a large column of assorted vehicles, which is usually largely dispersed during the movement, but all it takes is for two vehicles with infantry to pass and Russia is able to push the front further and further.
• A joint letter from several European leaders and President Zelensky calls for an immediate cessation of fighting on the current line of contact and the start of peace talks. According to the wording, this is a way of getting President Trump, who recently proposed this himself and who is mentioned in the letter, on his side.
• Former Russian spy Andrei Bezrukov warned Putin not to go to Budapest. He said British intelligence might try to kill him, which would lead to World War III. Bezrukov suggests instead that the leaders meet in Dubai.
• Russian businessman and Telegram owner Pavel Durov announced that he would buy the recently stolen jewels from the Louvre from robbers. But not to return them to the French museum. He wants to donate them to the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi.
• The Polish foreign minister warned Russia that if Putin’s plane entered Polish airspace, the Polish air force would escort it to the nearest airport and from there to The Hague.
• The 72-year-old perpetrator of the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Fico was sentenced to 21 years in prison for terrorism, effectively life in prison.
• The new Russian guided aerial bomb with a rocket engine has a range of around 200 km and carries a 100 kg warhead.
• The head of the Dutch intelligence services announced that the Netherlands had limited information sharing with Trump’s CIA.
• Ukrainians report that they have eliminated a group of Russian saboteurs who shot civilians in Pokrovsk.
• Fico said the only time the Russians are on their knees is when they are tying their shoelaces.
• Poland detained eight people suspected of preparing sabotage operations.
• The Russians massively bombed Orichiv near Zaporozhye.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians bomb civilian neighbourhoods in Kherson
• Cherson
• The camera of the policeman who intervened on the hit kindergarten in Kharkiv
• After the Russian attack
• Minus two more Russian radars
• Russian losses
• A Russian drone and an ass crank, literally.
• Russian attack on motorcycles
• Bonesetter
• The artillery is working
• Dostál
• Minus the tank
• Octopus drones
• Bonesetter

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Asked by a reporter whether Ukraine would have to cede some territory to Russia in exchange for peace, Trump said, “Well, Putin will take something. I mean, the Russians fought hard for it and Putin won a lot of real estate.” It is quite frightening that the current president of the most powerful country in the world still refers to himself as what he originally was - a real estate entrepreneur, and calls the territory of foreign countries “real estate” (property). At the same time, it has emerged that Trump on Friday again pressured Zelensky to agree to Russian terms to end the war, angrily discarding the maps of the front that Zelensky brought to the meeting. However, Zelensky later reiterated to the media that Ukraine was not going to make any concessions to Russia as the aggressor, and that even if the current conflict ended, Russia would always be a danger not only to Ukraine but to the rest of Europe, which is why, for example, he was not going to agree to disarm or otherwise weaken Ukraine. Unfortunately, such arguments fall on deaf ears among well-read, history-savvy, intelligent people. And we have Trump instead. But now for more news:

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• In response to the mass “No Kings” protests across the United States, Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social profile of him, wearing a crown on his head, literally bombing crowds in the streets with shit from his jet. J.D. Vance then shared another AI video in which Trump is depicted as a king while Kamala Harris and other politicians bow down to him.
• Sweden’s defense minister: ‘To keep the peace, we must be prepared for a possible war both morally and militarily. A complete change of mentality is needed: we must go into war mode to decisively deter the enemy, to preserve and maintain the peace.”
• According to Zelensky, there is no way Russia can be said to be winning, and moreover, the Russian military is now extremely weak. While it has managed to conquer 1% of Ukrainian territory, it has lost 1.3 million soldiers and tens of thousands of pieces of equipment in the process.
• Russian railways are planning massive redundancies because of the poor financial situation. In 2024, RZD’s profits fell to a tenth of the average profits of previous years, and in 2025 even to a twentieth of the average profits of previous years.
• Russian hackers broke into the IT systems of eight British bases and published personal information of military personnel there on the darknet.
• The Russians bombed a mine in the Dnepropetrovsk region today. 189 miners were underground at the time. They are still being evacuated.
• Nearly 100,000 Russians are without electricity because of a fire at a 100kV substation near Perm, Russia.
• Ukrainian drones again struck the Russian Novokuybyshevsk refinery last night.
• Three quarters of Russian regions are facing fuel shortages.
• Ukrainians hit a Russian gas processing facility near Orenburg.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Cooked Spring
• Russia tastes its own medicine
• The Russians bombed a kindergarten near Kharkiv
• Kindergarten in Kharkiv
• The affected nursery
• Kiev
• Ukrainian drones in Dagestan
• Dagestan
• After the Russian airstrike
• Russian ICBM test
• The work of drones
• New generation of Sea Baby drones
• Ukrainian tank working
• 50 surrendered
• Saransk
• A tank, I guess?
• Ukrainians evacuate wounded civilians
• Minus the Russian planes
• Reducing Russian logistics

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In his latest letter from prison, Igor “Strelkov” Girkin claims that the Russian meat grinder is running out of meat and calls the generals of the Russian army “assholes”. According to him, Russia has already lost hundreds of thousands of regular soldiers, mobilized reservists and volunteers, is running out of money, and yet Russia is further away from victory than it was three years ago, while Ukraine is stronger today. Girkin predicts that Russia faces either revolution or collapse. It’s about to happen. But in the meantime, there’s more news:

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• Trump wants to meet Putin in person again and the two leaders have chosen Budapest as the venue for their next meeting because “they like Viktor”. However, Germany has told Hungary that if Putin does indeed come, Hungary is obliged to detain him, as the Hungarian government’s decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute will not come into force until 2026. In addition, Putin would have to fly via a NATO country on his way to Hungary, which is also part of the International Court of Justice. Orbán, however, promises not to arrest Putin but, on the contrary, to welcome him and ensure his safety.
• According to the Ukrainian media, Russia is attempting to trigger a cascade effect with its strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and thus a complete collapse of the Ukrainian energy system. Here it is worth recalling that the vast majority of military bases have their own power sources independent of the high-voltage grid for just such cases. Russian strikes are thus terrorising the civilian population in particular.
• Azerbaijan has had a former senior official, Ramiz Mehdiyev, arrested. According to the authorities, he was planning a violent coup in the country in cooperation with Russia. However, Russia rejected his plan and instead informed the current government of the entire plan.
• Russian propagandist Denis Kazanchik said on his programme that there was no such thing as a Czech nation until the beginning of the 20th century. There were only Germanized ethnic groups, he said. The “Czechs”, he said, are literally created by Russia.
• During a phone call with the Americans, Putin’s associate Kirill Dmitriev suggested that the two countries build a “friendship tunnel” linking Russia’s Chukotka with Alaska, and called on Elon Musk to help fund the project.
• A court in Rostov, Russia, sent 15 soldiers from Ukraine’s Aydar regiment to prison for 15 to 21 years. They were charged only with membership of the regiment. Nothing else.
• The French authorities have announced that they have detained four Russians who were planning to murder a prominent Ukrainian journalist who was exposing Russian war crimes.
• Trump said in a meeting with Zelensky that he hoped to end the Russian invasion because “it would be the ninth war he’s ended.”
• A Polish court - like the Italian one - has rejected the extradition of a man suspected of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany and revoked his detention.
• Russian air defences shot down their own Su-30SM aircraft over Crimea as it tried to engage Ukrainian drones.
• Trump’s former adviser and current critic John Bolton has been indicted for leaking classified material and faces up to 180 years in prison.
• Canada’s prime minister has warned Russia that Canada is prepared to shoot down Russian planes if provocations continue.
• Britain’s MI5 announced that it has recently seen a 35% increase in agents from Russia, China and Iran being detected and arrested.
• There was a shootout between conscripts at a Russian base near Moscow. The result is one dead and five wounded.
• An Avangard chemical plant, which supplies explosives to the Russian military, exploded in Sterlitamak, Russia.
• Belarus attempts to take advantage of current relations with Trump to restart cooperation with Europe.
• Ukrainian drones hit a Russian fuel depot in the town of Guardia in occupied Crimea.
• Finland will supply Ukraine with another military aid package worth around $60 million.
• Indian refineries started buying crude oil from the US ExxonMobil.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Understandable
• High-quality smoke screen during Russian attack
• Strikes on the Russians in Pokrovsk
• Minus the Russian anti-drone radar
• Polish judge
• The Russians killed a fellow soldier who was about to surrender
• Ukrainian sniper
• Drones versus Russian logistics
• Minus the turtle tank
• Minus the Russian marines

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Exactly the kind of photos, videos and statuses that Filip Turek produced on his networks in the past years are still used by Russia today to justify why it had to invade Ukraine in its propaganda. So if tomorrow it decides to invade us - and it definitely wants to - it will have PR material for ten invasions thanks to Turk and his ilk of salon Nazis. Somewhat ironically, Turk’s escapades are being downplayed by the very same people who, over every photo of some idiot crapping in Ukraine, crow that it is a fascist country and deserves “denazification”. Therefore, one should always express oneself in the public space in such a way that no one can doubt one’s positions and moral integrity, and that one’s statements cannot be used or outright abused. All the more so if he wants to run for public office and represent the position of at least part of the population. But now news:

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• Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski has appealed to European leaders to help Ukraine strike military targets in Russia. Sikorski said Putin is now desperately trying to distract attention from the fact that he is losing the war with Ukraine.
• A fuel depot in Feodosia in occupied Crimea has again been hit by Ukrainian drones. 16 tankers that had withstood previous attacks were damaged. The P-18 Krasnaya Polyana radar station was also hit.
• Zelensky signed a decree stripping Ukrainian citizenship from those officials who are also Russian citizens. The decision will affect, among others, the current mayor of Odessa, Trukhanov.
• The U.S. Navy UDT-SEAL Museum has posted a Twitter/X post on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy. Only they used a photo of the Russian missile cruiser Varyag in the graphic.
• Not only did the Russians not deny yesterday’s FPV drone attack on UN humanitarian aid trucks, they proudly posted the entire video of the attack, backed by music from the band Rammstein.
• Sweden has allowed its pilots and vessel commanders to decide for themselves whether to shoot down aircraft or drones that violate Swedish airspace.
• The winning party in the Moldovan elections announced its nominee for prime minister. He is Alexandru Munteanu, a businessman who has lived in Ukraine for the past 20 years.
• The Hungarian foreign minister flew to Moscow for the Russian Energy Week forum, where he assured the Russians that Hungary will not give up Russian oil and Russian gas.
• At a NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, the U.S. Secretary of Defense urged partners to buy more U.S. weapons for Ukraine using the PURL mechanism.
• A truck with soldiers on board collided with a passenger car in Dagestan. At least two members of the Russian Rosguard did not survive the accident.
• Russian judge Viktor Momotov was accused of running a network of brothels in three Russian regions with underage prostitutes.
• Russia has charged Khodorkovsky and 22 other anti-war activists with “terrorism” and “planning a coup” in absentia.
• Because of the Russian advance north of Kupyansk, Ukraine decided to evacuate other frontline villages.
• Syria’s transitional president flew to Moscow to negotiate with Putin over the extradition of Bashar al-Assad to Syria.
• Seven Ukrainian districts were briefly without electricity after an overnight Russian airstrike.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• videos will be here later

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The Guardian recalls that Russia actively supports and uses far-right forces and organisations to achieve its geopolitical goals, in particular to secure victory in the war. Such parties use as a lift to power: fear, poverty and the ongoing war, spreading Russian propaganda. The far-right politicians who are coming to power proclaim that they will cut aid to Ukraine and blame the victim of the aggression - Ukraine - for the war that Russia has already started in 2014. At the same time, the commentary warns that the longer the war lasts, the greater the influence of these parties in Europe is likely to become. Indeed, we are seeing the consequences here at home. But now for more news:

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• Trump: ‘I arranged for Witkoff to meet with President Putin because I thought it would take about 15-20 minutes. Steve didn’t know anything about Russia or Putin. He didn’t know much about politics in general. He wasn’t very interested. He was really good at real estate. (…) His meeting with Putin lasted 5 hours. I asked him, ‘What the hell did you talk about for 5 hours?’ He said, ‘We talked about a lot of interesting things.’”
• According to military bloggers, the situation in Kupyansk is utter chaos. Russians are reportedly infiltrating the town disguised as civilians, launching raids from empty cellars. Neither side is holding stable positions, the situation is constantly changing, and the main role is played by constant ambushes, which cause both sides heavy losses.
• After several months of stagnation, the Russians are again advancing on the southern side of Pokrovsk. This threatens to cut the town off from one of the main supply routes. The Ukrainians have reportedly flooded the aqueducts under the town, blocking and minesweeping the exits so that the Russians cannot use them to penetrate the town.
• The European Union will allocate 10 million euros to create an international tribunal to try Vladimir Putin. It will allocate a further EUR 6 million to investigate Russian war criminals and to help abducted children and victims of sexual violence by the Russian army.
• Ukrainians hit the Sigma shopping centre in Donetsk with missiles and drones. In fact, the Russians themselves earlier released a video showing that they had turned the mall into a logistics centre to assemble Molniya kamikaze FPV drones.
• Polish intelligence chief Slawomir Cenckiewicz has claimed that Russia is using cryptocurrencies to cover up payments to various fifth column saboteurs for drone incidents, hacking and other hybrid attacks.
• Ukraine has hit a fuel depot in occupied Feodosia in Crimea for the second time. A massive fire has been raging at the site ever since.
• Medvedev threatens that if Ukraine gets Tomahawks, it could turn out badly, especially for Trump.
• Russia’s coal industry has already seen a $2.8 billion drop this year.
• Russia has already conducted some 300 airstrikes on Ukrainian rail infrastructure since late summer.
• At least 314 Belarusian citizens have already fallen in Russian ranks, the oldest being 63 years old.
• Partisans sabotaged a Russian railway near Novocherkassk.
• Trump and Zelensky have called each other twice in the last two days.
• The Ukrainian delegation is headed to Washington.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Interesting style of Russian drone disposal
• Volgograd
• Drones are doing
• Minus the Russian strike group
• Snipers walk past Russian casualties at Pokrovsk
• Drone ambush
• ❤
• He didn’t escape

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The Russians at Chernihiv carried out a double strike on energy company workers. The first projectile came when they were trying to repair the damaged infrastructure, the second when colleagues came to their aid. Two workers were killed and others sustained injuries. This is another of Russia’s many war crimes, which its fifth column vehemently denies. And it also happened this:

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• Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia as a precautionary measure after a suspiciously large number of military personnel appeared in its vicinity. According to the Estonian government, the move was intended to prevent potential provocations from Russia.
• On his Truth Social, Trump thanked Putin for the video of Putin declaring that Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for his “comprehensive solutions to the world’s problems”.
• North Korea unveiled its new intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade. Former Russian President Medvedev also attended the parade.
• Lukashenko put part of the Belarusian army on high alert and ordered it to carry out assigned tasks. However, it is never said what these tasks are supposed to be.
• One of the Russian missiles in yesterday’s raid on Zaporozhye hit the dam of the local Dnieper dam. The dam was damaged, but there’s no danger of a breach.
• Ukraine, in cooperation with Japan, has imposed sanctions on companies in five countries that help the Russian arms industry.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian refinery Bashneft-Ufa as far away as Bashkortostan, 1 400 km from the border with Ukraine.
• Latvia has ordered 841 Russians to leave the country by 13 October for failing to comply with new immigration regulations.
• Russian channels report that the Russian air force has lost another Ka-52 attack helicopter and its crew.
• Orbán has said that Hungary does not want to be in any union with Ukraine - neither NATO nor the EU.
• Ukraine and the Netherlands have signed a contract for the joint production of drones.
• An explosives factory exploded in the United States.
• 60 out of 83 Russian regions report fuel shortages.
• The success rate of the Ukrainian air defence force has dropped to an average of 74%.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• How the Russian attack at Pokrovsk went
• Feodosia
• Minus the tanker
• Swedish Mine Disposal Machine
• He didn’t hide
• Hospital in Kharkiv
• Russian FPV drone hits Ukrainian armoured vehicle
• Minus the Russian infantry
• Minus the Russians
• Ukrainian counterattack at Zaporozhye
• Drones at work

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Zelensky said, “Putin is terrified of ceasefires because it is difficult for him to go from ceasefire back to war. To go from total war to a ceasefire and then to start total war again is not easy. It is not easy from an economic point of view, it is not easy from the point of view of society, it is not easy from the point of view of world politics. And it is certainly not easy from the point of view of those countries that are still giving Putin a hand. And that is why he has chosen war for the time being. But it is possible to stop it. We need to put more pressure on Russia. Pressure will work if they lose more by continuing the war than they might lose in other scenarios. Our strikes on targets deep inside Russia, strong sanctions, holding the front, defending, but of course supporting peace initiatives because it’s the right thing to do, all of that will work.” And so did this:

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• The Russians are again disguising themselves as civilians at Kupyansk to infiltrate the city and sow panic among soldiers and civilians. In one case, Russians in civilian clothes shot dead two men and a woman on the outskirts of Kupyansk who were trying to evacuate the town. Ukraine now claims to have tracked down the Russian commander who gave the order to kill the civilians. He is believed to be Andrei Syrotyuk, the commander of the 121st regiment of the 68th motorized artillery division of the Russian army.
• Chief of the General Staff Karel Rehka will recommend to the government that it provide Ukraine with 30 upgraded T-72M4CZ tanks, which the army originally ordered for its own use but eventually has no use for because it will get Leopard tanks.
• According to Zelensky, the Ukrainian counter-offensive at Pokrovsk was successful because it thwarted the plan the Russians had told the Americans during the Alaska talks: that they would take the rest of the Donetsk region during September, or November at the latest.
• Russian propagandists discussed on television that if Russia does not have the capacity to end the war victoriously by 2035 at the latest, then it should agree to a ceasefire and start preparing for a new war.
• U.S. MAGA Republican and disinformation activist Anna Paulina Luna announced that she would meet with Putin associate Kirill Dmitriev to “talk peace and trade” between the two countries.
• The Ukrainian delegation is heading to the United States for talks. Topics to be discussed include air defense, energy, anti-Russian sanctions, as well as how to proceed in further potential negotiations with Russia.
• The Ukrainian parliament unanimously approved the deployment of the Ukrainian army abroad. In particular, the decision will allow Ukrainian forces to participate in joint NATO exercises in Britain and Turkey.
• Ukraine has reportedly developed a battery for small drones with up to 77% more efficiency, yet the same weight. The potential range of the drones has thus increased several times.
• The AZS Prajm petrol station network in Novosibirsk announced that it is temporarily suspending the sale of 92-octane petrol due to fuel supply disruptions.
• Russian airstrikes have already deprived Ukraine of more than half of its total natural gas production. Russia’s goal is to make Ukraine uninhabitable in winter.
• NATO countries are reportedly discussing what the alliance’s response to Russian provocations should look like. A military response is not ruled out.
• Sweden has handed over 400 tonnes of fishing nets to Ukraine to make protective nets against FPV drones.
• Overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked a Russian refinery in the town of Kotovo in the Volgograd region.
• The Ukrainian parliament approved a law on the creation of cyber forces in the Ukrainian army.
• Ukrainian drones hit a Russian fuel depot near Rostov.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the petrol station near Belgorod
• Shootout
• Ukrainian intelligence on Russian ambitions
• Minus the drone
• The Russians found a mine
• At Záporoží
• On the front

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Trump has indicated that Ukraine will receive US Tomahawk missiles. However, he said he would first want to know how the Ukrainian military plans to use them to avoid an unnecessary escalation of the conflict. Russian military bloggers are panicking while correctly pointing out that it takes months to train personnel to use them, so if the strikes happen in the next few months, it will be obvious that the decision was made much earlier, or even that Ukraine has already received the missiles and is practicing their use. Back in April, it was reported that the United States had approved the sale of up to 163 Tomahawk missiles to the Netherlands. And it can be assumed that the Netherlands was planning to buy them specifically for Ukraine. But away from speculation and back to the news:

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• Russian propaganda is now claiming that the British navy is planning a false flag attack using pro-Ukrainian Russians and Chinese technology on a Ukrainian or European ship in European waters to give the impression that China is supporting Russia. There is a catch: of course China supports Russia. So it is not clear what this complex construct of Russian propaganda is supposed to prove.
• A Ukrainian drone hit the cooling tower of Russia’s Novovoronezh nuclear power plant. However, Rosenergoatom claims that the drones were diverted from their course by electronic warfare systems. So the cooling tower was probably not the original target of the drones at all.
• Chelyabinsk is the next major Russian city to introduce limits on refuelling. Now a person can buy a maximum of 30 litres of petrol or 70 litres of diesel per vehicle per day.
• Russia’s RIA Novosti has aired a report in which a Russian soldier claims that Poles fighting on the Ukrainian side are being injected with drugs that mean they don’t have to eat or sleep for two weeks and feel no injuries.
• In Paris, a car exploded near the residence of the outgoing French Prime Minister just as the yuppie Prime Minister, who is also the current French Defence Minister, was about to meet with coalition partners.
• Russian cities from Sochi to Anapa are struggling with giant swarms of stinking marbled godwits that infest homes to hide from sudden cold temperatures.
• The Russian refinery KINEF had to shut down its ELOU-AVT-6 unit, which represents 40% of the total production of this particular refinery, due to Ukrainian air strikes.
• Slovakia handed over a humanitarian aid package to Ukraine containing various construction equipment, trucks, demining systems and evacuation vehicles.
• A spokesman for the Ukrainian navy claims that Ukraine has already carried out more than 50 raids this year using Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles.
• The SBU detained a Russian legionnaire who volunteered to join Ukrainian forces to actually leak information to Russia.
• Russia already records at least 989 criminal “veterans” who committed murder or manslaughter after returning from Ukraine.
• Following the Ukrainian airstrike, the vast majority of the occupied Zaporizhzhya region is without electricity.
• According to the European Commissioner for Defence, the Kremlin is realistically considering an attack on a NATO country.
• Russia again targeted Ukrainian railways: depots in Poltava and Sumy regions were hit.
• Ukrainians at the front captured an Indian who fought in Russian ranks for 3 days before surrendering himself.
• Orbán accused Zelensky of “moral blackmail” over pressure to admit Ukraine to the EU.
• Ukrainians hit a Russian refinery in Tumen, 2,000 km away from the Ukrainian border.
• The Russians have occupied about 3,300 sq km of Ukrainian territory since the beginning of 2025.
• Putin is 73 years old today. It’s Putin’s birthday, we have one wish…

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the radar
• SOF at Jampil’s
• Russian POV: drone strike
• Russians hit the church in Kostyantynivka
• Russian fuel train on fire
• Minus five
• Odessa Opera House cellar during the Russian air raid
• Two lousy actors
• Kiev
• The drone found him even in the dense forest
• In the Sumy area

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The Russians launched another large-scale airstrike on targets mostly in western Ukraine. There were 496 drones and 53 missiles/shots in the air, and the Ukrainian air defence forces defused 478 of them. Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv reported hits. In Lviv, an industrial site of Sparrow Capital was hit, which according to the mayor had nothing to do with the army or military industry. The building housed warehouses of Polish clothing brands Reserved, Cropp and Sinsay. The power system was also affected. Thousands of people are currently without electricity. In total, the airstrike claimed at least 9 lives. And this is what happened this:

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• The pro-Russian Georgian Dream party claims to have won in all districts, including the big cities, in the municipal elections. In the capital Tbilisi, it is said to have won 77.4% of the vote, despite months of protests against it.
• How did the Czech elections turn out abroad? In most of Europe, the Together coalition won. In Scandinavia, the Pirates scored the most points. ANO won the elections in only two countries, Russia and Belarus.
• During an overnight air raid, one of the Russian projectiles landed on a family house near Lviv. A family of four, including a 15-year-old girl, died in the rubble.
• In Moscow’s “Technopolis”, a building housing companies involved in the production of drones and other drones burns down.
• Putin said that if Ukraine received US Tomahawks, it would mean the end of US-Russia relations.
• German police deployed laser weapons near Munich airport for the possible destruction of unknown drones.
• Pro-Russian Daniel “Fiddler” Sterzik called on supporters to contribute to his livelihood after his election defeat.
• The United States passed the so-called “Iryna law”, a law named after a murdered Ukrainian refugee. It tightens bail rules and introduces psychiatric evaluations.
• The European Union has strongly rejected Russian claims that it interfered in the political situation in Georgia.
• Quite unexpectedly, Kadyrov awarded himself another order, “Hero of Chechnya”.
• According to Babis, Ukraine is currently not ready to join the EU.
• Ukrainian kamikaze drones hit a Russian refinery near the town of Kstovo.
• What the Russian media says: Kremlin agent wins Czech elections.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the Russians at Kupjansk
• A missile from the Russian air defense in Stary Oskol
• Russian drone pilot caught not only his own drone
• Action on the front
• Novosibirsk
• Russians are newly hunting Ukrainian locomotives
• Russia tests its own “Sting”
• Minus the tank
• Russia: 6 people out of 100 survived the first attack
• Drones are doing
• Petrol in Donetsk
• Russian losses
• Putin’s lunch with generals

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A Ukrainian soldier nicknamed “Burger” writes on Telegram about the situation near Pokrovsk: “I really don’t have time to remember and process in my head all those fallen Russians. There are as many of them as locusts. They are dying thanks to infantry, drones, mines, artillery and often surrender too. But they keep coming and it never stops. Heavy equipment is almost non-existent. The Russians just go around destroying everything with KABs and artillery. The fields are full of dead Russians. The roads are littered with corpses, dogs are eating them, FPVs with napalm are flying into the bushes with Russians and there are fires everywhere. Something is constantly exploding and burning, even in the rain. It was the same in Severodonetsk. It’s the same now around Pokrovsk. It’s very difficult here. But Pokrovsk is holding on. And the Russians are paying hard for it every day. As soon as the winter is over, it will be total chaos. Advancing into the enemy’s operational area in winter is a nightmare.” And this is also happening this:

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• Danish intelligence reports several incidents off the coast of Denmark in which Russian warships targeted Danish vessels and helicopters with radar and on-board weapons, and at other times provoked Danish ships by approaching them on a collision course and attempting to collide with them. For context, this is exactly what the Russians did to Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait before 2014, and what China is doing to Taiwanese or Philippine ships.
• Ukraine’s Naftogaz reports that last night Ukraine was under attack by 381 Russian drones and 35 missiles/shots, which targeted not a single military facility but only gas installations, with the aim of causing a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine in the coming months due to fuel and heat shortages.
• French photographer and war reporter Antoni Lallican was killed near Druzhkivka near Donetsk when the Russians hit his car with an FPV drone. He was wearing a vest with “PRESS” written on it, but that did not stop the Russians from killing him.
• Batal Bigvava, known as “Balu”, the commander of the international brigade “Pyatnashka” fighting on the side of the Russians, was killed in fighting in Ukraine.
• The Russians hit with an Iskander missile a gathering of trucks near Chernihiv that had come to load grain from the current harvest. One of the drivers was killed and several trucks destroyed.
• Today, in broad daylight, Ukrainians hit the Russian Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in the Orenburg region - 1,400 km from the Ukrainian border.
• The SBU confirmed that Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy was murdered on the orders of the Russian secret services.
• Munich airport was closed for seven hours yesterday due to sightings of unknown drones.
• Belgium reports that 15 unknown drones flew over one of its military bases today.
• The latest prisoner exchange saw 185 Ukrainian soldiers return home, as well as 20 civilians.
• Ukrainian drones reportedly hit Sochi yesterday, while Putin himself was in the city.
• Britain has accused Russia of deliberately jamming satellites belonging to the British air force.
• Denmark has become the largest donor of aid to Ukraine as a proportion of GDP.
• An An-2 plane crashed near Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Both pilots were killed in the crash.
• Ukrainian media say: Elections have begun in the Czech Republic. A tilt towards Russia is likely.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Crimea terminal hit
• MANPADS versus drone
• The Russians destroyed the bridge at Rajhorodek
• Belgorod
• Minus Shahed
• Hunting the Russians
• Minus ten
• Bradley
• He didn’t escape
• The Russians killed his entire family
• MANPADS over Crimea
• Crimea
• On the front

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Yesterday, Russian intelligence issued a warning that Ukraine is planning a false flag attack on infrastructure in Poland. It can therefore be assumed that Russia or Belarus is planning some kind of sabotage, which it will then accuse Ukraine of. This is also suggested by the information provided by Andriy Kovalenko, director of the Ukrainian Centre for Combating Disinformation. According to him, Russia and Belarus are preparing sabotage teams made up of members of special forces to infiltrate Poland and carry out attacks on critical infrastructure. And this is also happening this:

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• As a result of the Ukrainian airstrikes, Russia has already lost 38% of its total refining capacity. As a result, gasoline production fell by 1 million tonnes in September, creating a 20% fuel deficit on the domestic market. Russia is now considering importing gasoline from China, South Korea or Singapore to stabilise the domestic market.
• Russia has been trying in vain for several days to fight its way to the troops who have been surrounded north of Pokrovsk. But most attempts to resupply troops or move reinforcements have been stopped by Ukrainian FPV drones. To that end, the Russians have moved their elite formations into the sector in question.
• The Ukrainian army successfully liquidated the collaborator Vladimir Leontyev, who until recently held the post of mayor in the Russian-installed occupation administration of Novaya Kakhovka. After being hit by a drone, Leontyev was taken to hospital where he succumbed to serious injuries.
• On 28 September, a Turkish truck driver, Tevfik Bektaş, was killed in an airstrike on Kiev while bringing electric generators to Ukraine. He tried to take cover from the blasts in the cab of his vehicle, which was then directly hit by a Russian missile.
• For the eighth time during the night, Russia bombed the large Barabashovo market area in Kharkiv. Hundreds of shops were burned in the ensuing fire and others were damaged. At least six people were injured in the airstrike.
• France intercepted the Russian Shadow Fleet tanker Boracay near Saint-Nazaire. Its crew refused to provide the coastguard with proof of the vessel’s nationality and refused to cooperate with the authorities.
• Another refinery is burning in Russia - as far away as Yaroslavl. But Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones are not to blame. They say the situation is the result of an accident caused by human error.
• Russia’s friends in the Afghan Taliban have disconnected their country from the Internet. As a result, banking systems, airports, communication channels and other services have collapsed.
• Former British Defence Secretary Wallace said that the way to make Crimea uninhabitable was to supply Ukraine with missiles and have the Kerch Bridge bombed to pieces.
• In an overnight air raid, the Russians killed a family of four in one of the hit apartment buildings near Krasnopil: the parents and their two children, aged 6 and 4.
• Heavy rains flooded parts of Odessa. A young girl is missing after being swept away by the current. The floods have already claimed 9 victims, including one child.
• Russia criticises the conduct of the elections in Moldova. The Kremlin says the elections were fraudulent and resembled a dictatorship.
• Romania and Ukraine plan to jointly produce drones to protect NATO’s eastern borders.
• Ukraine receives €4 billion in macroeconomic financial assistance from the EU.
• Poland discovered another downed Russian Gerbera drone - 320 km from the border with Ukraine.
• Austria expelled a Russian diplomat suspected of spying against OMV.
• Russia has already used over 50,000 Shahed drones against Ukraine.
• Water supplies were restored in Donetsk today.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian drone strike on civilian train
• Train hit near Sumy
• Russian drones over Shostka
• Drone arrival on Russian soldiers
• Minus TOS
• Russian TV on hybrid war with the West
• Probably another “military target”
• In the Russian trenches
• Kirishi
• Didn’t pass
• Minus the drone
• The Russians didn’t finish
• Minus the Russian position
• Poor horse.
• Georgia
• Barricades in Tbilisi
• Tbilisi

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Russia’s bet on Moldova has gone horribly wrong. The party of the current President even won a majority of the votes, which means a gain of 55 seats in the parliament, and it enjoyed relatively strong support not only at home but also in occupied Transnistria, even from voters in Russia and Belarus. In total, the pro-Western parties won around 70% of the vote, while the pro-Russian parties won around 25%. Russia’s debacle was underlined by the ‘mega-protests’ that the pro-Russian parties called for after the results were announced, which attracted around three hundred people in the capital, which did not prevent opposition leader Dodon from declaring himself the winner, accusing Moldovans voting abroad of a national tragedy and announcing that he would seek to annul the elections. I send my congratulations to Moldova and keep my fingers crossed that we will follow the same path this weekend. But now for more news:

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• Polish investigators have confirmed that none of the Russian drones that flew into Poland carried an explosive warhead or other explosives. Instead, the drones were equipped with additional fuel tanks to extend their range. Poland has therefore again categorically ruled out the possibility that the drones were over Poland by mistake.
• After a long series of pro-Russian statements, JD Vance made a televised appeal to the Russians themselves, telling them that their soldiers are dying daily in Ukraine without any tangible results. He said the Russians should “wake up and face reality”.
• The Polish embassy building was damaged during yesterday’s air strike on Kiev. The Foreign Ministry reported that “a grenade of a smaller calibre” pierced the roof of the embassy and landed in one of the kitchens. Fortunately, no one was injured.
• Russia sent troops to the Sumy region to try to cross the water reservoir at Kondrativka in small, single-seater inflatable boats. Ukrainian drones made sure that no one got to the opposite bank.
• Another night, another sighting of unknown drones over strategic locations in Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Denmark closed its skies to all civilian drones from today to Friday in response to the incidents.
• When asked if the United States had allowed Ukraine to hit targets in Russia with U.S. weapons, Kellogg replied that there is no such thing as a safe haven when it comes to military targets in Russia.
• Zelensky urged the West to consider closing the Baltic Sea to all Russian ships because of repeated sabotage, movements of ships from the so-called shadow fleet, drone incidents and other provocations.
• At least 3,000 civilians have already been injured (and often killed) in the Russian “safari” in Kherson. Many of the victims are senior citizens who have no chance to escape the drones.
• In Bryansk, an industrial site of Elektrodetal, which produces electrical connectors for military use, among other things, was hit by a Ukrainian Neptune missile.
• Residents of Sevastopol are now allowed to fill up with a maximum of 30 litres of petrol per purchase. The problem is that many petrol stations do not even have 30 litres of petrol.
• According to the Polish foreign minister, Trump started supporting Ukraine purely because he was familiar with the situation, and he would not tolerate being on the losing side.
• Germany has moved its frigate FGS Hamburg to the port of Copenhagen to strengthen its Baltic Sea defences.
• A Syrian official confirmed that several Russian troops were surrounded near the village of Dobropillja.
• Putin signed a decree on autumn conscription. It affects some 135,000 men.
• The Ukrainian army shot down a Russian Mi-8 helicopter with infantry using an FPV drone today.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians shot a retreating soldier
• The Russians filmed the raid on the Slavutych substation
• Minus the Russian
• Russian evacuation of burning vehicles
• Buchanka was looking for mines
• The Russians burned the base
• University of Sumas
• Blackout in Dnipro after Russian airstrike
• Belarusian legionnaires escaped with minor injuries
• Minus bridge in Russia
• Minus the Russian
• Shotgun vs. Drone

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Russian propaganda claims that Ukraine is planning a provocation in which it will use repaired - originally crashed - Russian kamikaze drones and send them over Romania or Poland to draw NATO into the war. In fact, the Russians always release such reports when they need to create an alibi for their own actions in advance. One can therefore suspect that the Russians are preparing another provocation in a NATO country - similar to the one they sent their drones over Poland. And this is also what is happening this:

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• The Russian Kilo-class submarine armed with Kalibr missiles, Novorossiysk (B-261), under the Black Sea Fleet, broadcast a distress signal after reporting a “danger of explosion” in the Mediterranean Sea near Gibraltar. According to analysts, she is leaking fuel directly inside her hull and so is floating virtually just above the surface awaiting help.
• Authorities in Kenya raided a hotel near the capital Nairobi where 21 men were preparing to move to Ukraine. At the same time, a local man was arrested, but more importantly, a Russian embassy employee, who together were organising the recruitment of volunteers to fight against Ukraine in the Russian ranks.
• One of the runways at Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam had to be closed today after a Transavia plane almost collided with an unknown drone during landing.
• The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant has been without an external power source for 72 hours. Experts warn that if fuel cooling is not provided, a repeat of the Fukushima scenario could occur.
• Norway reports movement of unknown drones over a key air base - Ørland base. So is Denmark, right next to two bases that host F-16 and F-35 fighters.
• Moldova’s pro-Russian “Heart of Moldova” party was barred from the weekend’s parliamentary elections after a court ruled that its funding was against the law.
• According to the OSCE, the Russians are deliberately hiding wounded and maimed Ukrainian prisoners from Red Cross workers, always showing only those who are in good shape.
• Lavrov said at the UN, “We need a new world order in which colonialism is not the driving force. In which wars will not be declared for colonial reasons.”
• Unlike the French President, German Chancellor Merz supports the seizure of Russian assets and their use to help Ukraine.
• Estonia suppressed one of the unknown drones using the EW system and its wreckage is now being examined by investigators.
• According to Zelensky, Ukraine already operates one originally Israeli Patriot system and two more are on the way.
• The Netherlands detained two teenagers suspected of being recruited by Russia for espionage activities.
• Denmark will provide Ukraine with another military aid package worth around $400 million.
• The International Paralympic Committee restored full membership to Russia and Belarus.
• Trump approved the sale of 80% of TikTok’s US arm to US companies.
• Iran signed a deal with Russia to build two nuclear power plants in Iran.
• Ukraine has two new separate heavy mechanized brigades: the 12th and 29th.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian raid on Dnipro
• Dnipro after Russian airstrike
• Drone impact site
• GUR works in the Caucasus
• Turkish fishermen pull Ukrainian drone from the sea
• Reporting of mass graves near Mariupol
• Minus the Russian elite
• Minus the Russian
• Refinery in Samara with cage protection
• Minus Grad

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Moldovan oligarch and former deputy speaker of the Moldovan parliament Vladimir Plahotniuc, who is estimated to have deprived Moldova of up to 12% of its GDP in the so-called “theft of the century”, returned to Moldova today. In handcuffs. Plahotniuc, who for years was considered one of the most powerful businessmen in the country, fled the country in 2019 to escape prosecution that accused him of a large-scale embezzlement of funds from the banking sector, including for the benefit of another pro-Russian oligarch - Ilan Șor. Meanwhile, his links to Russia and his attempts to destabilise Moldova have landed him on the sanctions lists of both the United States and the European Union. In July this year, Plahotniuc was arrested in Greece, where he was hiding, at Moldova’s request, and his extradition took place today. It almost seems that the Eastern European countries are better at dealing with their criminal oligarchs than their Central European neighbours. But now for more news:

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• New videos show that at least one of the naval drones attacking Russian ports yesterday hit its target, the Tuapse pier, which serves as a transshipment point for the subsequent export of Russian oil, LNG and other raw materials.
• Horatiu Potra, the fugitive pro-Russian mercenary leader who was planning a violent coup in Romania, was arrested in Dubai with his son and is now awaiting extradition to Romania, where he faces 25 years in prison.
• Denmark had to close some airports for the second time in three days because of unknown drones. Drones were spotted at a total of four airports across the country between 10am and 2am.
• Fuel shortages have already spilled over into the Leningrad and Moscow regions, with 360 petrol stations across Russia having to close completely due to fuel shortages.
• Yesterday, Russia hit a Ukrainian training ground near Chernihiv with a ballistic missile and kamikaze drones. The missile directly hit one of the shelters and caused casualties among personnel.
• Russia attacked Ukrainian railways in Mykolaiv, Kirovograd and Vinnytsia regions overnight, causing power cuts and train delays.
• Putin said that “Poland has forgotten that its western territory was a gift from Stalin” and that Russia “will have to remind Poland of this.”
• Several European airports were again under cyber attack, causing problems with automatic check-ins and delays to some flights.
• The Ukrainian military reports that it shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber over the Zaporozhye front early this morning.
• Ukrainian drones hit and destroyed two more Russian An-26 aircraft in occupied Crimea, as well as an MR-10M1 “Cape M1” radar.
• Peskov responded to Trump’s words: “Russia is definitely not a tiger, but rather a bear. And paper bears do not exist.”
• Poland will introduce an amendment to the law that will allow Poles to serve in the Ukrainian army without fear of legal repercussions.
• U.S. Secretary of State Rubio held talks with his counterpart Lavrov at the UN for nearly an hour.
• Bulgaria announced that it will terminate its gas transit contract with Russia next year.
• The Russians jammed the GPS signal of a plane carrying the Spanish Defence Minister on its way from Spain to Lithuania.
• A series of explosions rocked an industrial estate in Swindon, UK. The cause is under investigation.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian chemical plant EuroChem near Krasnodar.
• Turkey moved its early warning aircraft (AWACS) to Lithuania.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Drone shot down over Kiev
• Strike on the heating plant in Belgorod
• In front of the Moldovan embassy in Moscow
• The magic of disappearance in Belgorod
• Russian raid on the mall, Bila Cerkva
• Minus the Russian cannon
• The place of intervention in Kiev
• Morning in Kiev
• The Russians are bombing Myrnohrad
• Morning Kiev
• Minus the Russian drones in Melitopol
• The family miraculously survived the Russian air raid
• Minus the Russian radar
• A small plane is being chased by a Russian drone
• Minus the Russian… tank?

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Russia has granted political asylum to a former adviser to former President Biden who accused him of sexual harassment during the 2020 campaign, allegedly dating back to around 1990. But she never formally accused him, and eventually moved to Russia in 2023 because of alleged “concerns for her safety.” But there she immediately began spreading Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine. Tara Reade thus gives the impression that she was planted by Russia from the start. And this is also what’s going on this:

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• Russian state media claim that NATO is preparing to deploy troops in the Odessa region with the aim of occupying Transnistria and potentially the rest of Moldova. This is probably a way of mobilising pro-Russian voters for the Moldovan parliamentary elections which will take place this weekend.
• The North Korean dictator has announced that North Korea will soon acquire a new ‘secret’ weapon. Analysts say it is likely that Russia has given North Korea the technology needed to build nuclear submarines.
• The Russians bombed the town of Tatarbunary near Odessa last night. A hotel, a post office, a cultural centre and a local government building were hit. At least one person died and others were injured.
• Russian military channels shared a call to troops to conserve fuel as it is in short supply due to Ukrainian airstrikes on refineries. Reports also say the Russian military is reducing fuel rations.
• A Polish investigation confirmed that none of the Russian drones that flew into Poland carried a warhead. Thus, they were all reconnaissance drones and Gerber decoy targets.
• Bosnian Dario Ristic, who fought in Ukraine on the side of Russia, was arrested in Sarajevo upon his return to Bosnia and Herzegovina and charged with involvement in war crimes.
• At least 130 freight trains carrying goods from China are waiting on the Belarusian side of the border with Poland to see if Poland will reopen the border. But Poland is not planning any such move.
• The airports in Copenhagen, as well as in Oslo, had to suspend operations for several hours last night because of unknown drones hovering over the airport premises.
• The governor of Russia’s Orenburg region has called on residents of the Donbass region to move to Orenburg and leave their homes and apartments to Russian army soldiers.
• Ukraine will open embassies in four Latin American countries: the Dominican Republic, Panama, Uruguay and Ecuador.
• Norwegian special forces detained two Singapore citizens who were flying civilian drones over military installations.
• Sweden has announced that it is ready to shoot down Russian drones in the airspace of the alliance without warning.
• Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 103 of 115 Russian-sent kamikaze drones and missiles/rockets overnight.
• Russia has deployed new AI drones that self-select targets. But most often they attack civilian vehicles.
• Latvia plans to restore wetlands on its eastern border as a natural defensive wall against Russia.
• Estonia offers to host British fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
• China has supplied Russia with several railcars of transformers.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Railways at Smolensk
• Russian losses, Time Spring
• Lukashenko on peace deal
• Russians bomb Ukrainian rescue workers
• Incident on the Russian railway
• Minus the robot
• Stupid timing
• Leopard near Pokrovsk
• Minus Buchanka
• Attack on Russian positions
• Russian ship off Denmark

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What are the tactics that the Russian military is currently employing on most fronts? Small assault formations on ATVs or motorcycles. The vast majority of soldiers will not reach their destination because they will be destroyed by mines or FPV drones along the way. And if someone does survive, commanders scrutinize their route to send another unit after the same. This is not a regular military tactic, but a pure lottery with human lives. In short, Russia. And this is also what is happening this:

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• Afghanistan has rejected Trump’s demands that it return control of Bagram airbase to US forces. The Taliban even let it be known that they would be happy to fight the Americans for the next 20 years rather than hand over the bases without a fight. Trump, in return, threatens the Taliban that he will deal with evil if they refuse the Americans.
• According to Ukrainian foreign intelligence, the end of the war will mean the collapse of the Russian economy. Indeed, it is currently stimulated only by massive production in the military-industrial sector. But all other sectors have shrunk and growth has stalled.
• The U.S. Department of Defense has informed accredited media that it now has to pre-approve with the Pentagon any information it plans to publish, including that which is not classified.
• Analysts at Bloomberg believe that Putin, after the Alaska summit, became convinced that the United States would not intervene in any way in the war in Ukraine, and therefore stepped up airstrikes and added other provocations.
• Russian General Lapin, former commander of the North and Central military districts, has been “retired” from the Russian army. He will now serve as an assistant to Tatarstan’s head of military affairs, Rustam Minnikhanov.
• The Ukrainian army reports that the personnel situation in the forces is better now than it was six months ago, but it still lacks the troops to take Ukraine on the offensive.
• Ukrainian forces have advanced and conducted a tactical encirclement of Russian troops in Oleksiivka in the occupied part of the Sumy region.
• Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed three Russian Mi-8 helicopters in occupied Crimea as well as a 55Zh6U Nebo-U radar.
• Petr Pavel proposes that NATO shoot down Russian drones violating Alliance airspace.
• Zelensky meets with Trump during the UN General Assembly in New York.
• Ukraine’s military will create a new separate branch of the army: the Assault Forces.
• Polish authorities have discovered the probable wreckage of the last of the Russian drones.
• Trump claimed to have prevented conflict between Armenia and Cambodia.
• The UN Security Council will meet tomorrow at the request of Estonia.

Interesting videos

• Russians shot a family and took a young girl hostage
• Russian antennas on the church tower
• Ukrainian action in the rear
• Russian shows losses in his unit
• Disabling a Russian drone
• They surrendered
• Debris from a Russian air defense missile damaged a combine near Belgorod
• In a Russian trench
• Drones over Russia
• Alleged Ukrainian drone suppressed by EW systems
• Impact of three jet drones on Zaporozhye
• Russian Taganrog
• The Floater
• Updated RuAF losses

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Chief drone officer Robert “Hungarian” Brovdy announced that he is aiming for drone pilots to make up 5% of the army instead of the current 2.2%. If this is achieved, he said, then Ukraine will completely dominate the battlefield at all levels - tactical, operational and strategic - and create an impenetrable virtual wall 100 km wide along the line of contact. If this fails, then he announces that he will resign from command. Hopefully his vision will come true, but for now, more news:

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• Ukrainian media have reported videos of an operation during which a projectile was removed from the heart of one of the Ukrainian Azovstal defenders. What makes the story even more incredible is the fact that the soldier spent three years in Russian captivity with the projectile in his heart muscle because the Russians refused to operate on him.
• Mining giant Exxon Mobil has announced that it has no plans to participate in the Arctic Oil project in Russia despite recent talks between Putin and Trump in Alaska. This is despite Russia freezing $4.6 billion worth of the company’s assets.
• New information suggests that the Russian attack in the direction of Kupyansk is being commanded by a Ukrainian defector, Lieutenant General Serhiy Storozhenko, who was born near Kharkiv and defected to the Russian side after the 2014 occupation of Crimea.
• According to Ukraine’s defence minister, Ukraine will soon be able to deploy up to 1,000 drone-interceptors a day into combat, which could help solve the problem posed by Russia’s kamikaze Shahed drones.
• According to the Wall Street Journal, some European Union leaders believe that Donald Trump is deliberately throwing impossible demands on the table so that he does not have to take any action against Russia.
• A Polish investigation has confirmed that the house in the Polish village was not damaged by the Russian drones themselves, but by an AIM-120 AMRAAM missile fired at one of them from a Polish F-16 fighter jet.
• According to Lavrov, Europe does not want peace, but revenge for World War II, and therefore there is no place for Europe at the potential negotiating table.
• Trump said during a meeting with British Prime Minister Starmer that he had ended the years-long war between “Abr…bayjan and Albania.”
• According to ISW, Putin is not counting on a significant shift of the front, but is counting on Russia to win the attrition war.
• Lithuania has removed the last high-voltage wires connecting its domestic grid to the power grid in Kaliningrad.
• The European Commission has approved 19 sanctions packages against Russia. It will present details of its contents this afternoon.
• The Russian government is considering increasing the value added tax from 20% to 22% to save the collapsing economy.
• The Russians dropped an aerial bomb on downtown Kostyantynivka, killing 5 civilians aged 62-74.
• According to sources in Ukrainian intelligence, some 20 000 Cuban citizens are fighting on the Russian side of the conflict.
• Britain has detained three people (two men and a woman) whom it suspects of spying for Russia.
• Ireland handed over three mine clearance robots and thirty armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine.
• Another earthquake hit Kamchatka, this time measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale.
• The Baltic Sea washed up the wreckage of the Russian Gerbera drone on a beach in Latvia.
• Putin confirmed that 700,000 Russian troops are currently fighting in Ukraine.
• Estonia ended funding for Russian-language schools.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians came to Pokrovsk
• Resignation
• Minus the Russian depot
• F-16 versus drone
• Russians at Pokrovsk
• Minus two Russian seaplanes and a helicopter
• Russian helicopter in Crimea
• Russia, after a drone strike
• At Záporoží
• Minus the Russian base
• Did not pass
• Russia is brainwashing children

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The Russian state media agency TASS has broadcast a report that someone has created a makeshift memorial in front of the US embassy in Moscow to the slain Ukrainian Iryna Zaruka and the slain Klerofascist and disinformationist Charlie Kirk. It is entirely ‘coincidental’ that a virtually identical memorial has also recently appeared in Prague’s Wenceslas Square, and it is entirely ‘coincidental’ that the people behind it are close to pro-Russian ‘conservative’ movements. A coincidence like thunder. And it also happened this:

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• An investigation by the Washington Post found that the current FBI director, Kash Patel, received $25,000 last year from Global Tree Pictures, a film company owned by Russian Igor Lopatonok that produces films promoting conspiracy theories, even directly funded by the Putin Foundation.
• Poland’s President Nawrocki called on the Rzeczpospolita daily to explain how its editors came to discover that a missile from an F-16 fighter jet had fallen on a house in the village of Wyryki. Nawrocki said neither he nor the Polish Security Council had such information.
• Alexei Navalny’s widow claims that analysis of clothing samples carried out by two independent laboratories confirms that her husband was poisoned in a Russian prison. Meanwhile, Russia has again refused to prosecute the case.
• The Lithuanian authorities have reported that the drone that flew into Lithuanian territory on 28 July was launched from Belarus. The drone was first spotted at an altitude of 200 metres near Vilnius and was later found crashed on a training ground near Kaunas.
• At Solovyov’s televised debate, Russian propagandists discussed that “Macron probably wants to be the last French president” and threatened all of Europe (especially France, Poland and Ukraine) with nuclear war.
• According to Zelensky, the purpose of the Russian drones over Poland was to create the impression that it was impossible to provide Ukraine with additional air defence systems because European countries needed them for their own defence.
• The Russian State Duma unanimously approved Putin’s proposal to cancel Russia’s participation in the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
• Washington approved two large military aid packages to Ukraine under the so-called “Priority Ukraine Requirements List” (PURL). Their total value is around $500 million.
• Ukraine captured a Kenyan citizen at the front who, according to his own words, came to Russia as a tourist and was subsequently recruited into the army under false pretenses.
• According to Zelensky, Russia has already carried out three failed offensives this year and plans to launch two more major ones this autumn.
• The Russians have found a new target for their night raids: the Ukrainian railway. Almost every night a station, track or train is hit.
• Romanian pro-Russian presidential candidate Călin Georgescu has been accused of attempting a coup.
• The Russians hit a Red Cross vehicle in Kherson with an FPV drone. 2 employees were injured.
• A Russian fighter jet was probably burned at the Russian Morozovsk airport, according to satellite images.
• Lavrov said Russia will consider Western troops on Ukrainian territory as “occupiers”.
• Hungary again refused to stop buying Russian oil. It said there was no adequate alternative.
• Poland intends to keep its border with Belarus closed after the end of the West-2025 manoeuvres.
• The Ukrainian parliament approved a century-old security cooperation agreement with Britain.
• The Ukrainian parliament approved the establishment of a new office of military ombudsman.
• Lithuania opened its first school for future student dronemen.
• Lavrov declared that the Russian military never attacks civilian targets.
• The European Parliament will establish a permanent representation in Kiev.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Entrepreneur in Russia
• Saratov
• Two Russians and one Ukrainian with drone support
• Dnipro
• Russian fighter jets over oil platform
• Russian bombing
• SOF are working
• Salavat Refinery
• Minus the boat

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Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski has called on NATO to consider the possibility of the alliance shooting down Russian drones over Ukrainian territory. He also called on the alliance to take control of Russia’s shadow fleet in the Baltic Sea, which he said was facing an environmental disaster due to the tragic state of its tankers. Medvedev responded by saying that shooting down Russian drones would mark the beginning of a war between NATO and Russia. The pitchfork was thrown by Putin’s own spokesman Peskov, who in turn declared that ‘NATO is de facto at war with Russia’. And then there’s this news:

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• The conservative scene is trying to create an equivalence between the murder of a Ukrainian asylum seeker on the subway and the shooting of the Utah klerofascist Kirk, with the generous support of Russian propaganda channels. Kirk himself was an active disseminator of Russian propaganda, describing Zelensky as the murderer of a million people, claiming that Ukraine was to blame for the war, supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the deportation of refugees back to Ukraine. Troll farms and the usual Russian propaganda personalities have also been calling on the American public to start a civil war for days now.
• Poland has repeatedly said that there is no doubt who was behind the drones that infiltrated Poland: Russia. According to Polish officials, it was Russia’s way of testing NATO’s response without starting a full-scale war. After all, Russia does not deny that the drones were its. This is where the official version differs from the Russian propaganda, which tries to cast doubt on the origin of the drones and cover them up in every possible way, and which is then spread by Russian propaganda ‘influencers’ in Western countries.
• Trump has admitted for the first time that he has failed in his peace efforts around Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, he openly branded Russia as the aggressor and criticised Europe for not being tough enough on Russia. China, however, has threatened the West with a “decisive response” if NATO countries, under pressure from Trump, impose secondary tariffs on Chinese exports because of its purchases of Russian oil.
• The Ukrainians captured the rest of the Russian assault group that infiltrated Kupyansk through a former gas pipeline. Under interrogation, the captured soldiers testified that orders from the Russian command included breaking into nearby civilian homes, killing all adult males in the homes, and using women and children as human shields against Ukrainian attempts to clear the homes of Russian troops.
• According to Kellogg, if Russia were winning, its army would be in Kiev, Odessa, or at least west of Dnipro today, overthrowing the Ukrainian government. But none of that has happened to date, which he says is clear evidence that Russia is losing the war.
• A Ukrainian air strike hit a Russian radar station near Rostov and completely destroyed the RLK-1 radar complex there - part of the air traffic control.
• Poland’s president signed a resolution allowing troops from NATO countries to enter Polish territory to defend the alliance’s eastern borders.
• Ukrainian troops report a complete internet blackout from Starlink on the entire front. The company says it is a global outage.
• Russia has produced over 30,000 Shahed kamikaze drones this year and plans to double production next year.
• The Czech Republic has sent three military helicopters to Poland to help protect against Russian drones.
• Ukrainian filmmaker and former political prisoner of Russia Oleh Sentsov was promoted to regimental commander.
• Hackers from Ukrainian military intelligence hacked into Russian election software.
• The Russian Air Force says it has received a new batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• It must be fun
• Refinery in the East
• Minus the refinery
• Confessions of a Russian Soldier
• Zelensky gave out the metals

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In the recent drone strike on Primorsk near St Petersburg, the Ukrainians dealt a significant blow to Russia’s ability to export oil. According to Ukrainian intelligence, not only the port terminal itself was hit, but also the pumping station “NPS-3,” “NPS Andreepol” and “NPS-7” in three regions of Russia. In addition, after the raid on Primorsk, a fire broke out on board two oil tankers. Thus, while the West is considering further sanctions, Ukraine is gradually adding more and more Russian oil infrastructure to its own “sanctions list.” And that’s what’s happening this:

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• The Russians at Kupyansk are again using a malfunctioning gas pipeline to penetrate behind Ukrainian lines. The journey reportedly takes up to three days, and the Russians have set up “rest stops with supplies” along the way. They are also using wheeled boards and scooter bottoms to reduce the time of movement. But the Ukrainians report that they have already destroyed three of the four branches of the pipeline and flooded the pipeline.
• Russia is reportedly seeking to buy back the S-400 air defense systems it sold to Turkey in 2019. And Turkey may nod to the sale because it is under U.S. sanctions over its purchase of the Russian systems, so it is happy to get rid of the systems.
• Trump has informed world leaders that he is prepared to impose crushing sanctions on Russia, but only if all NATO countries join in and also completely stop buying Russian gas and oil.
• Argentina is changing the rules. Only children born to parents who have lived in the country for at least two years will now be granted citizenship. Argentina has had too many pregnant Russian women who have travelled to the country for this purpose.
• A Su-30SM/Su-35 fighter jet crashed during landing at the Russian military airport Kubinka. The pilot - a colonel in the Russian Air Force - is seriously injured and is under the care of doctors.
• Zelensky reports that Russian forces in the Sumy region have completely lost the ability to conduct offensive actions and the entire Russian offensive on Sumy is de facto over.
• The United States will propose to the G7 to prepare a legal framework for the seizure of frozen Russian assets.
• A Ukrainian drone strikes a Russian oil refinery in Ufa. A small fire subsequently broke out at the site.
• The European Union has extended sanctions against Russian leaders for a further six months.
• Lithuania warned that it would immediately close its common border with Belarus at the first provocation.
• Bulgaria closed a beach in Burgas after debris from a drone washed up in the sea.
• NATO launched Operation Eastern Sentry on its eastern flank.
• A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Russia.
• Ukraine celebrates Borscht Day today.
• Boris Johnson is in Odessa.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians shot a horse for fun
• Today’s Russian raid on Kharkiv
• US observers in Belarus
• What they’re doing on Russian state TV
• Episentr
• Minus the ammunition vehicle
• What it says in Russian history textbooks
• Russians hunt drones in small planes
• Minus the Russian transmitter
• Snajpr was working
• You can’t hide from a drone

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Confirmed losses of military equipment in the Pokrov sector alone already exceed those of entire armies in most wars of the second half of the 20th century. Russia, for example, lost 732 tanks or 1,532 armoured vehicles. Meanwhile, Russian and Ukrainian losses maintain a roughly 4-5:1 ratio in favour of Ukraine. But the fiercest fighting is probably yet to come. Ukraine reports that Russia has moved another 150,000 troops into the sector. A total of 5 naval and paratroop brigades are moving from the Sumy front to do so, the 156th ground infantry brigade, which has recently turned into a mechanised unit, a motorised artillery division from Kherson is also going to help them, and several tank regiments are to support the whole offensive. Thus, 9 whole armies are regrouping near Pokrovsk at the moment, while so far there have been 7-8 in the vicinity of the city. The fall of Pokrovsk would open the way for the Russians to gradually occupy the rest of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

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• If you need tangible proof of Russian propaganda, go no further than Poland. In the immediate aftermath of the Russian drone strike, ResFutura analyzed comments on the primary social networks (FB, IG, X, YT, TT), looking at who the commenters believed was responsible for the drone strike on Poland. Another 15% blamed the Polish government, 8% the mainstream media and 5% NATO/West.
• Mukesh Ambani, Indian billionaire and owner of Reliance Industries, is one of the key enablers of Russia’s circumvention of Western sanctions. His company processes a third of all Russian oil shipped to India, including through entities registered in Estonia.
• US envoy Cole met with Lukashenko. On that occasion, he presented him with a letter in which Trump tells Lukashenko that he prays for his robust health. After the meeting, Lukashenko ordered the release of 52 political prisoners.
• Slovak Foreign Minister Blanár said, “I want to believe that the drones that penetrated Polish territory were drones that did not go there to attack Poland, but were meant to end up on Ukrainian territory.”
• Former Ukrainian President Yanukovych lost a court case he had with the European Union over the sanctions, so the sanctions remain in place, as does his ban on entering Schengen territory.
• An officer in the Chechen Akhmat forces made a video claiming that Russia is far behind Ukraine in the production and use of combat drones.
• The U.S. House of Representatives approved an $890 billion defense package, $400 million of which is to fund aid to Ukraine.
• The Ukrainians captured a Russian soldier who shot dead his two commanders, blew up the trenches he was supposed to hold, and came himself to surrender to the Ukrainians.
• In the occupied territories, Russia has begun to view Ukrainians who have not collected Russian passports as foreigners and has threatened them with deportation.
• One of the Russian Gerbera drones crashed into a military compound in the village of Pilica after entering Polish airspace yesterday.
• In Utah, USA, ultra-conservative activist and disseminator of Russian propaganda Charlie Kirk was shot dead yesterday.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian reconnaissance ship Project MPSV07 near Novorossiysk in the Black Sea.
• Britain will produce drone-interceptors for Ukraine capable of destroying Shahed kamikaze drones.
• The Russians damaged the building of the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Sumy during an overnight raid on Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian army purchased more than 1,000 new Novator infantry vehicles.
• The UN Security Council meets over Russian drones over Poland.
• Poland has already located the wreckage of 16 Russian drones on its territory.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Exploded munitions on the railway
• Zapad-2025
• Russian reportage
• Kinef
• Fuel train derails near St. Petersburg
• Russian scrapyard
• Minus the Russian ammunition at Donetsk
• Burning tanker in Primorsk, Russia
• Trefa
• Metafrax
• Russian attack
• There was a surprise waiting for the Russians inside the pipeline
• Minus the Beech

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Yesterday, the Ukrainians fully unveiled their new domestically produced weapons. That was when five missiles landed on a Russian base on the site of the former Topaz plant in occupied Donetsk. More projectiles hit the command posts of the 41st All-Union Army and the 20th Guards Motorised Artillery Division. According to videos on social media, they were most likely “Khlebiki”, Palyanytsya jet drones, which blur the distinction between a drone and a cruise missile. Their paper range is up to 650 km, their speed up to 900 km/h and they carry a warhead with up to 100 kg of explosives. Moreover, the attack came at a time when the Russians are massing a significant force around Donetsk for a “decisive strike” to take the rest of the Donetsk region. What damage has been caused, however, is not known at this time. But if past similar strikes are anything to go by, we can expect an influx of death certificates in the coming days and weeks. After all, Ukrainians don’t waste their precious missiles and drones unless they are sure that a strike will hurt. And there’s still this going on:

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• Russian military propagandist Yuri Podolyak spoke on his channel about the situation on the eastern front: ‘Our troops tried all summer to encircle and capture Kupyansk, but failed. Valery Gerasimov’s statement that Kupyansk was surrounded and partially captured was, to put it mildly, untrue. As it turns out, our problems at the front are related to lying at the level of local commanders, who then spread lies up the chain of command. As a result, our troops are sent on the offensive without adequate artillery and air support, leading to unjustified losses and ultimately failure to achieve their stated objectives.”
• According to the Financial Times, the United States has informed European countries that it is abandoning the joint fight against disinformation coming from Russia, Iran and China, and canceling the 2024 memoranda that gave rise to the various task forces.
• The Czech Republic decided to expel a Belarusian diplomat after the BIS uncovered a Belarusian intelligence network in Europe. The expelled “diplomat” was supposed to be a directly coordinating member of the Belarusian KGB who was merely abusing diplomatic cover.
• According to analysts, the Russians are building high-voltage pylons to connect the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to the Azovstal site, which the Russians are now using as a military base.
• The murder of the Ukrainian girl in North Carolina has already been exploited by Donald Trump, who has indirectly blamed it on the Democrats and urged his supporters to vote for the Republican candidate for the Senate.
• A captured Russian soldier, Serhiy Tuzhylov, pleaded guilty in court to shooting three captured Ukrainian soldiers near Vovchansk in June 2024. He now faces up to life in prison.
• The Ukrainians are trying to cut off the Russian advance north of Pokrovsk. The counterattack is being conducted from two sides to isolate Russian troops on the edges of the breakthrough.
• Two days ago, a Ukrainian drone hit and damaged a Russian pumping station in the Vladimir region that supplies oil to Moscow.
• Another Wagner drone has crossed into Finland from Russia. Authorities have detained him and are holding him in custody until they know whether he will be charged with anything.
• Russia’s Slovyansk refinery near Krasnodar has had to completely halt production indefinitely due to drone attacks.
• The French government has resigned after failing to win support for its national budget proposal.
• Merz declared that Ukraine is not the end but only the beginning in Russia’s imperial ambitions.
• Donetsk is completely out of gasoline. The gas stations there currently offer only diesel.
• The Russian bombing has practically flattened hospital No. 5 in Kostyantynivka.
• Cases of desertion in the Russian army have tripled in recent months.
• Yesterday’s air raid on Kiev caused damage to several heating plants in the Kiev region.
• Orbán claims that the United States has already unofficially recognized Russia’s victory in Ukraine.
• The size of the Russian shadow fleet continues to grow despite sanctions.
• Rheinmetall will deliver Skyranger air defense systems to Ukraine this year.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• West-2025
• Drones at work
• Russian air defence on the Smolensk estate
• Bingo!
• Good work
• Prince Harry is in Kiev
• Minus the ammunition dump in Luhansk
• Minus the drone
• Russian Column
• Drones…
• Vovchansk

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The Russians broke their record again. A total of 818 drones or missiles flew into Ukraine last night. The record was also set by the air defense, which managed to destroy 747 drones and 4 cruise missiles/rockets. Sadly, a young mother and her two-month-old baby were still killed in an airstrike in Kiev. In total, four people were killed and at least 44 injured, including three horses at a Kiev riding club. For the first time since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian government building, specifically the seat of the Cabinet of Ministers, was also hit. In addition, one of the drones strayed into Poland and fell to the ground 50 km from the Ukrainian border. Western leaders have traditionally condemned the attack. But this time, Zelensky told them that their indignant Twitter statuses bring no real comfort to people who have lost loved ones or the roof over their heads. And that’s what happened this:

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• Russian military bloggers complain that the Russian command sent sabotage groups to Kupyansk to raise the Russian flag for PR reasons, but as soon as the soldiers showed up in the open with the flag, Ukrainian drones found them and killed most of the soldiers.
• A detained former Ukrainian politician whom Ukraine accuses of spying for Russia has returned to Ukraine. Until now, he has been hiding in the United Arab Emirates, which has approved his extradition.
• Trump says he is ready to launch a second phase of sanctions against Russia. According to US Treasury Secretary Bessent, Trump could easily trigger a complete collapse of the Russian economy.
• Peskov openly said on TV that people should realize that the FSB has access to all online conversations and on all social networks and apps used by Russians.
• Ukrainian drones hit and probably knocked out of service the Russian Ilsky refinery last night. A part of the refinery that produces advanced E5 fuel was hit.
• A group of drunken Russian soldiers quarrelled somewhere on the front line until a shoot-out broke out, leaving one dead and several wounded.
• The Kremlin is now offering a recruitment bonus of around half a million crowns for the army contract to keep up the pace of mobilisation.
• The body of a Canadian soldier who went missing during a NATO mission on September 2 has been found in Latvia. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed by the authorities.
• Budanov said Russia plans to invest an estimated $1.2 trillion to modernize the military and rearm.
• In Uzhhorod, a rail link to European-standard tracks was inaugurated.
• According to Syrian, Ukraine liberated five times more territory than it lost in key sections in August.
• According to the New York Times, 92 volunteers from the United States have already fallen in Ukraine.
• A massive fire is raging in the port of Chornomorsk near Odessa. Authorities have not disclosed the cause.
• The Russians hit the bridge in Kremenchuk, which connects the two banks of the Dnieper River, last night.
• Ukrainians again hit part of the Druzhba oil pipeline with drones.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians hit pensioners waiting for pensions
• Fireplace
• Minus the Russian base in Crimea
• Ukrainian mechanized counterattack
• The Russian ambush failed
• Drone shot down over Poland
• Russian supply route
• Minus the Hurricane
• Trefa
• Russian drones were waiting to ambush
• Events at Toreck
• Azov at the front

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Today, Russians killed a Ukrainian farmer Oleksandr Hordienko in Kherson region with a drone. The name probably won’t tell you anything, but you’ll probably remember a photo of a burly, mature man protecting a tractor plowing a field with a shotgun in his hand. Oleksandr was determined not to let the Russians deprive him of his livelihood. With his own money, he bought jammers to put on cars and farm machinery, armed himself and tried to shoot down FPV drones that threatened the farmers. Unfortunately, his determination proved fatal. Russia is a terrorist state. And yet this is what’s happening this:

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• Ukrainian police managed to foil an attempted school massacre. A 15-year-old schoolboy was arrested in Transcarpathia when he tried to enter a school building with a combat knife while streaming everything online. Investigators were reportedly tipped off by colleagues in Britain who, while monitoring social media, found posts in which the schoolboy described his plan.
• At an exhibition in Poland, Ukrainian arms start-up Fire Point revealed plans to expand its arsenal to include FP-7 and FP-9 missiles with a range of 200 and 855 km, respectively, and a warhead of 150 and 800 kg, respectively, in addition to Flamingo missiles.
• Putin announced that he was ready to negotiate peace with Zelensky, but not in a third country. He insists that the talks take place in Moscow. He knows that this is a completely bizarre and impossible condition. He himself does not want peace.
• The Finnish police have discovered secret caches of hundreds of firearms, 100 000 rounds of ammunition, hand grenades, anti-tank missiles and a 75 mm cannon in the towns of Vikkaala and Korialla in eastern Finland.
• The InformNapalm investigative project identified 33 Russian guards from the IK-10 prison who were involved in torturing Ukrainian prisoners by electrocuting, beating or denying them food.
• The United States began importing eggs from Russia for the first time in 33 years. The reason for this is the shortage of domestically produced eggs caused by the outbreak of bird flu in American farms.
• The Russians sentenced several Ukrainian journalists in the occupied territories to harsh prison terms on trumped-up charges of “terrorism” and “treason.”
• Putin warned that foreign troops on Ukrainian territory, including international peacekeepers, would be a “legitimate target” for Russia.
• The first meeting of Ukrainian and US board members of the investment fund related to the mineral extraction agreement took place.
• The overnight airstrikes killed 11 people and injured 32 others. The Russians launched a total of 157 drones and 7 cruise missiles/rockets.
• Putin admitted that Russia’s central bank is failing to keep interest rates under control, which will lead to across-the-board price increases.
• Belarus claims to have detained a Polish citizen who was allegedly gathering secret information about the ongoing Zapad-2025 exercise.
• Fico will meet with Zelensky in Uzhhorod today to discuss Ukraine’s strike on the Druzhba oil pipeline.
• Ukrainian drones again hit a Russian refinery in Ryazan last night, as well as a fuel depot in Luhansk.
• Investigative media have already identified more than 125,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
• The Philippines will work with Ukraine to develop and produce new naval drones.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the bridge
• Russians punish disobedient soldiers
• Video of the Russian drone that hit Sumy
• Jarovaya
• Minus the cannon
• Bingo!
• Russian base in Donetsk hit
• Minus rocket cannon fire

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China held a massive military parade - the largest in its history - to showcase its advanced weapons, including powerful lasers against flying targets and DF-5C missiles capable of nuclear strikes anywhere in the world. Then, in its usual totalitarian schizophrenia, it ended the parade by releasing 80,000 doves of peace. Trump commented on the parade on Truth Social with a message to the Chinese president, “Please give Putin and Kim Jong-un my warmest regards as you plot against the United States.” I guess he was upset that he wasn’t invited. But now for more news:

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• In Georgia, protests against the current pro-Russian government have flared up again after the ruling Georgian Dream party presented a 470-page report that de facto blames Georgia for the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. Opposition parties say the government wants to use the report to ban or otherwise crack down on some opposition platforms altogether.
• The killer of Ukrainian politician Parubiya has confessed to the crime, but denied that he was blackmailed in any way by Russian intelligence services. He said his goal was to get into prison and be exchanged for a Ukrainian prisoner of war so that he could get to Russia and try to find the body of his son who died in the war.
• Russia sent a total of 502 drones, 16 Kalibr missiles and 8 Ch-101 missiles to Ukraine last night. Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 430 drones and 21 missiles. One person died and 35 were injured in the airstrike. The targets were installations in western Ukraine as well as Kropyvnytskyy.
• Putin signed 22 agreements with China during his visit to Beijing. But analysts say he didn’t get what he wanted most: for the UnionPay system to return to Russia and, in turn, for the Mir payment system to return to China, key elements that help Russia circumvent Western sanctions.
• Trump commented on an incident in which the Russians jammed the GPS navigation of a plane with Ursula von der Leyen on board: “This way, nobody knows where the jamming came from, but it took away her ability to use her cell phone, which is sometimes a good thing.”
• In Kostyantynivka, the last hospital there had to shut down due to constant Russian shelling. The civilian population lost its only access to health care.
• Trump confirmed that he had called Putin last week and said that Putin had “told him some interesting things that will be of interest to people in the coming days.”
• Lavrov said the only way to lasting peace is for the international community to recognize Russia’s claim to the occupied areas of Ukraine.
• Putin said the participation of North Korean soldiers in the fighting in the Kursk region was “part of the fight against neo-Nazism.”
• A large oil spill is approaching the coast of Crimea. Oil is reported to have leaked from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline.
• President Zelensky arrived in Denmark for a security summit of Ukraine, the Baltic and Nordic states.
• Sweden’s Gotland was completely without electricity for the second time. The cause is still unknown.
• Overnight, the Ukrainians put the railway infrastructure at Kuteynikovo station near Rostov out of service.
• In a poll, 6 out of 10 Russians said they are more proud of their country now than a year ago.
• Ukrainians hit a Russian radar base in Anapa last night.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Fuel crisis in Russia
• Minus the S-300
• African mercenary
• Refinery Afipsky tonight
• Drones at work
• Russian prosecutor ran over a girl in Melitopol
• Bombing Russian logistics
• Minus ten
• Minus the Beech
• Russian on a walk
• The drones are working
• Russian base through the eye of a drone
• Minus the Russian cannon

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Russians are not yet very interested in the new government-controlled social app Max from the “Russian Facebook” vKontakte, so the authorities are working tooth and nail to ensure that as many Russians as possible install it. In some smaller towns, for example, councillors periodically broadcast calls from the municipal radio station to download the app. The government has also paid dozens of influencers to tout the app to young audiences. But even that was probably not enough, as the Russian government took a radical step in June: Starting September 1, today, the Max app must be pre-installed on every phone and tablet sold in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine. Critics inside and outside Russia have called Max a “digital gulag”. In developing it, Russia was likely inspired by similar government apps in China. The primary purpose of the app is similar to Meta’s Messenger. However, it contains expanded functionality and in the future it is intended to become a similar “superapp” to China’s WeChat (and what Musk planned to create from his “X”) - offering bank account and payment management, communication with authorities, etc., all under the microscope of Russian intelligence and censorship authorities. Its publisher is VK, which owns all the major Russian social networks: vKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Moj Mir, as well as the Mail.ru email service, the Agent app, various online and mobile gaming platforms, search engines, cloud services and so on. Virtually every Russian already uses at least one of them. Max was used by 2 million Russians at the end of July. Digital totalitarianism is slowly beginning. And it’s also happening this:

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• Israel has dealt a crushing blow to Russia’s allies in the Arabian Peninsula - the Yemeni Houthis. In a single airstrike, the Prime Minister, the Cabinet Secretary, the Personnel Director of the Government, the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Agriculture, the Minister of Tourism, the Minister of Sport, the Minister of Labour, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Information of the internationally unrecognised Islamist government were killed.
• Norway has abandoned plans to buy US frigates and will instead buy Type-26 warships from Britain for an estimated $13.5 billion. There is speculation that after the Americans showed in Ukraine that they can shut down critical functions remotely, Norway has lost confidence in American technology.
• At the meeting in China, Putin again lied to the Indian prime minister that “the war in Ukraine is the result of a Western orchestrated coup” and “the need for Russia to intervene to protect those who have not accepted the outcome of the coup.”
• The Russians have reportedly changed tactics due to a lack of heavy equipment and well-trained infantry, and are now primarily focused on searching for and destroying Ukrainian artillery or drone positions behind the line of contact.
• An OSKB exercise has begun in Belarus, involving some 2 000 troops from Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as some 450 pieces of equipment, nine aircraft and 70 drones.
• Ursula von der Leyen’s plane had to land in Bulgaria using paper maps because the GPS/GNSS signal around the airport was completely jammed for almost an hour at a time. The authorities suspect Russia.
• Tonight, the Estlink 1 undersea cable between Finland and Estonia lost voltage. The cause of the outage was reportedly a malfunction in one of Finland’s power plants.
• Photos on Russian networks show that a funeral was held in Russia for eight FSB officers who were killed together in a Ukrainian air raid near Belgorod.
• An unidentified man in Sydney smashed through the gate of the Russian consulate with his SUV after a confrontation with police. His motive is not yet known.
• Ukrainian investigators detained a 52-year-old man suspected of murdering a Ukrainian politician in Lviv the day before yesterday.
• Merz said Europe needs to realise that it IS already in conflict with Russia. Because Russia is behaving like one.
• Zelensky will meet with European leaders in Paris on September 4. It’s not yet certain whether Trump will be there.
• The Russian fuel shortage has already arrived in Luhansk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• As a reminder, Girkin confirms that there was no referendum in Crimea
• Russians in thermal ponchos
• The rest of the Storm Shadow missile off the coast of Crimea
• Ukrainian drone showers one grenade after another
• Minus the Russian subversive group
• Russian drone in Zaporozhye
• Russians at Pokrovsk
• Former Russian base
• Ukrainian drone strike
• The dismantled Russian column
• The Russians hit the demining team

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Yesterday, 11 years ago, on 29 August 2014, the so-called Ilovaja massacre took place. At that time, the Russians surrounded the Ukrainian army at Ilovyask and it was agreed that Ukrainian soldiers would be allowed safe passage into government-controlled territory. However, the Russians did not keep their word and instead shot up the column of retreating soldiers with heavy artillery in a pre-targeted corridor. 366 soldiers were killed on the spot, four hundred were wounded and another three hundred were captured by the Russians after the massacre. It is one of the many reasons why Ukrainians today don’t trust a nose between their eyes. And one of the many reasons why we, too, should not trust Russia with any false talk of peace. But now news:

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• The InformNapalm investigative project has obtained documents proving the current Hungarian government’s cooperation with the Russian state-owned company Helicopters of Russia. The plan involves the legalisation of Russian military equipment by assembling it in Hungary from Russian parts and then exporting it to the world under a European brand.
• China is holding a bizarre military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Representatives of 26 countries are to take part. This includes North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Russian dictator Putin, as well as Serbian President Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Fico.
• The Ukrainians are launching counter-attacks at Kupyansk and also to the south-east at Kruhlyakivka, where the Russians have advanced in recent weeks. In close proximity to Kupyansk, the Ukrainians have pushed the Russians out of Sobolivka and Moskalivka. At the same time, they are trying to cut off the Russian advance from the northwest.
• Russian Minister Belousov announced at a briefing that Russia is increasing the number of contract troops to keep up the pace of offensive operations, and that the Russian military will purchase 10,000 motorcycles, ATVs and buggies.
• The European Union is working on a legal framework that would allow it to transfer around EUR 200 billion to Ukraine for the country’s post-war reconstruction, raised from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets.
• The Ukrainians hit the Russian oil refinery near Samara again last night. A massive fire broke out at the site afterwards. A second refinery, in Syzran, was also hit.
• The death toll from the Russian airstrike on Kiev has risen to 25. A mother and her two-year-old daughter are among the dead. The one who owned the big teddy bear in the photos.
• Macron and Merz are calling for secondary sanctions on countries allowing Russia to finance its invasion of Ukraine.
• Macron tells Trump that if Putin doesn’t meet with Zelensky by Monday, he’s playing a joke on Trump.
• The German company Quantum Systems is now producing various types of drones in several factories right here in Ukraine.
• Denmark plans to spend 1.4 billion euros on weapons production in Ukraine this year alone.
• The United States is moving part of its fleet to the coast of Venezuela. Officially to fight the cartels.
• Ukraine has called a meeting of the UN Security Council over the air strike on Kiev.
• One dead and six wounded after overnight Russian airstrike on Zaporozhye.
• A US federal court has ruled most of Trump’s tariffs illegal.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian bomb hits elderly couple’s house
• Russian attack on the Zaporozhye front destroyed
• Minus Russian helicopters in Crimea
• Fico with Putin
• The Russians are bombing Myrnohrad
• Azov is working
• Minus TOS
• Collection
• Drones at work

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Russia has launched another massive airstrike on Ukraine. At one point there were 598 drones and 31 ballistic missiles or cruise missiles in the air. The target was primarily the Ukrainian capital or its civilian infrastructure. In Kiev, two Iskander-K missiles landed shortly after each other on an apartment building. This could not have been a mistake or a missile diverted off course. The death toll is now 18, 4 of whom are children. A building housing the EU mission for Ukraine or the British Council, a shopping centre and several civilian Intercity trains also appear to have been targeted by the Russians. The new Russian Geran-3 jet drones were also among the drones that hit Kiev. Investigators found in them, among other Western components, pumps from the German company Bosch or PBS TJ-40-G2 engines manufactured by PBS Velka Bitesh. It’s hard not to be embarrassed reading this. But now for more news:

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• Danish authorities suspect the US government of fomenting separatist tendencies in Greenland. According to Denmark, at least three Americans are suspected of undertaking subversive activities in Greenland, inciting locals to fight for their independence, creating lists of people sympathetic to the MAGA movement and collecting materials for a PR campaign. Two others are trying to establish relations with local businessmen and politicians. Danish intelligence believes this is an attempt to divide Denmark and Greenland for Trump’s political ambitions.
• The United States saw another mass shooting yesterday. A gunman killed 3 people and injured 20 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. But why is the news in the totality of events concerning Ukraine? Because, according to the photos, the shooter had, among other messages on several ammunition magazines, signs in Russian written in Cyrillic referring to “memes” from the Russian part of the internet. In addition, he was wearing a T-shirt with a patch with the FSB logo, listening to Russian rappers and keeping a diary in broken Russian.
• According to a New York Times investigation, the Russians, through their agents in Europe, are monitoring routes in eastern Germany where aid from NATO partners is flowing into Ukraine. They are using drones, presumably launched from merchant ships in the Baltic Sea.
• Ukrainian drones again hit two Russian refineries last night - Afipsky near Krasnodar and Kuybyshev near Samara. A huge fire broke out in both after the strikes. Not counting today’s strike, the Ukrainians have already deprived Russia of 21% of its total refining capacity in recent weeks.
• The Russians hit a Ukrainian Laguna-class exploration ship - the Simferopol - in the Danube Delta. One sailor was killed, others were injured and several are missing. The Russians claim the ship sank, but that is unlikely to be true.
• Hungary has imposed sanctions on Ukrainian drone operator “Hungarian” for his involvement in drone strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia, which Hungary has described as an attack on its national sovereignty.
• Hungary is suing the European Union over its decision to use frozen Russian assets to fund aid to Ukraine.
• Portugal’s President de Sousa has said that Trump is currently behaving like a Soviet agent in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Ukrainian FPV drones hit a Russian Bujan-M class missile ship in the Sea of Azov off the coast of occupied Crimea.
• NATO ships and aircraft search for a Russian submarine that threatened a US aircraft carrier during exercises off Shetland.
• Rheinmetall opens Europe’s largest ammunition plant for the production of 155mm artillery shells.
• Partisans destroyed a Russian locomotive in the distant Komi Republic with molotovs.
• 7 new underground schools for 6,000 pupils opened in Kharkov.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians shot a civilian
• Assassination of a politician
• The Russians dropped a minus on the bus
• Reduction of Russian air defense in Crimea
• Three have surrendered
• Kraken on the Sumian part of the front
• Putin in China
• Modi in China
• Russians at the UN
• Russian chemical plant on fire
• Zeal for the cause
• Video from a Chinese camera on a Russian drone
• Two weeks of FPV drone work

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Today’s editorial is going to be rather unpleasant. The media has carried the crazy account of 33-year-old Vyacheslav, who was taken prisoner by the Russians after the Russians captured his bombed-out position while fighting at the front. Russian soldiers subsequently cut his throat and threw him into a rubbish pit, believing that the injuries inflicted were incompatible with life. However, Vyacheslav survived, managed to treat his wound provisionally with a piece of cloth and crawled back to the Ukrainian positions for the next 5 days, where his colleagues gave him first aid and managed to evacuate Vyacheslav. The photos from the hospital are shocking. It is almost unbelievable how huge a cut wound a human body can survive. At the hospital afterwards, he described how his near-death was merciful compared to what the Russians did to the intelligence officers they had also captured: the Russian soldiers “symbolically” deprived them of their eyes, lips, ears, nose and genitals. For context, yesterday the Russian Prime Minister signed a decree proposing to cancel the Russian Federation’s participation in the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. If this is how Russian soldiers treated prisoners when the Russian Federation was a signatory to the convention, what will captivity look like when the soldiers get a clear signal from the Russian Government that they do not have to hold back? Try not to imagine. And check out other news:

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• The disinformation scene has been alive for several days now with a “sensational” headline from Novosti, according to which “the modern American F-35 fighter jet lost an aerial duel with the 20 years older Rafale”. In reality, this was a simulation of close combat (“guns only”) and the F-35 had almost all the on-board systems that make it a dominant 5th generation aircraft switched off for the purpose of the exercise.
• The Russians came dangerously close to Kupyansk, and even their sabotage units penetrated the outskirts of the city. But the Ukrainian counterattack has pushed them out of the city for now, and from OSINT maps it looks like the Ukrainians are planning to cut off the Russian advance from the north and slowly liquidate the trapped units, as they are now north of Pokrovsk.
• Lavrov tried to claim that Russia supposedly committed in the Budapest Memorandum not to use force against Ukraine, but only not to use nuclear weapons against it. The text of the memorandum is publicly available and anyone can see that this is a lie.
• Nawrocki’s veto of the Ukrainian refugee support bill also threatens the funding of Starlink terminals for the Ukrainian army. Therefore, the Polish president will propose a law to keep the funding for satellite internet.
• Tragedy struck in North Carolina, USA, when a homeless and repeat offender fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Ukrainian asylum seeker, Irina Zarutska. She succumbed to her injuries at the scene.
• The Russians posted a video on Telegram showing their drone dropping a grenade on a civilian in Kherson who was walking his dog to the sound of joyful music. Both the man and the dog suffered shrapnel injuries.
• The Russians finally managed to put out a refinery in Novoshakhtinsk. The action involved 400 firefighters and 150 pieces of equipment. 35,000 people from the surrounding villages were without water supplies for several days due to the firefighting.
• The Russians hit a mine belonging to the Ukrainian company DTEK during a night raid. 1 miner was killed and three injured. Another 146 miners are still underground awaiting extrication, prevented by a power outage.
• The Russians murdered 69-year-old British aid worker Annie Lewis Murphy by FPV drone while she was delivering aid to civilians in the Donetsk region.
• Trump’s cabinet is considering imposing sanctions on European statesmen it says are responsible for European Digital Services Act (DSA) legislation.
• Russian drones are targeting not only military but also civilian vehicles on the highway connecting Kherson and Mykolaiv to create an atmosphere of terror for the Russians.
• The European Commission replied to Hungary that the Ukrainian attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline do not pose any threat to European energy security.
• The Chinese President congratulated the former Soviet republics on their Independence Days, including the “friendly Ukrainian people”.
• Map channels claim that the Russians now hold two villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region: Zaporizke and Novoheorhijivka.
• Adam Kadyrov has not received any medals for a long time, so now he has received the Order of the Defender of the Chechen Republic”.
• Ukrainian drones hit a Russian logistics hub in occupied Crimea near the Dzhankoy base.
• Russia plans to open ports in the occupied territories to international shipping.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian attack stopped
• Minus the S-400 in Crimea
• Russian mechanized attack
• Fighter crash in Poland
• Petrol station in Dagestan
• Ukrainian sabotage deep in Russia
• Surviving dog still looking for his owners
• The Russians damaged the Ukrainian Neptune
• Russian Penza
• New prisoners

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