Happy Friday, my dear friends!

This is my periodic appeal to keep supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦. You can help by:

➖ Talking and posting about Ukraine
➖ Amplifying Ukrainian voices
➖ Advocating for military assistance
➖ Donating, if you can.

Two Ukrainian Defenders from the 138th Territorial Defense Battalion held their position in the Zaporizhzhia direction for 165 (!!) days.

Oleksandr Tishaiev&Oleksandr Aliksieienko conducted reconnaissance,strengthened defenses,repelled enemy attacks while under constant drone &artillery strikes

Zahra in Autumn Balcony (2023) by Hanna Soltani.
Oil on canvas.

WSJ: How Chinese engines power Russia’s deadly drone raids on Ukrainian cities Covert exports from China provide Russia with drone engines, navigation gear, and batteries, WSJ says.

China is helping build the Shahed drones Russia uses to bomb Ukrainian cities.

New reports say Chinese companies shipped engines, navigation systems, and batteries to Russian firms — including those under US and EU sanctions. WSJ reviewed the evidence.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/31/w...

David Hockney : A Road, 1977

Bold brushstrokes and vibrant colors.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
Park Row, Leeds. 1882.
Oil on Canvas.

Widespread flooding across Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa's landfall today.

They've got a long road ahead for recovery after an impact like that....

Maybe the Fossil fuel industry should pay 🤔 🤷

We are spending the night surviving under missile and drone attacks,filled with stress and fear.When the air alert finally ends and it’s safe again,a new struggle begins.You start the day exhausted, sleepy, and with a heavy headache.The rest of the day is a battle with both mental and physical pain.

Boats in Positano (2016)
by Andrea Patrisi

Juan Brufal

Eleanor in the Lillies
by Brian Haberlin

The Little Path to Granny's House (2025)
by Gillian Rule

Reading by Lamplight (1909)
by George Clausen

Beach Treasures (1998)
by Jeffrey T. Larson

Edward Hopper.
Colina y casas. Cabo Elizabeth. Maine. 1927

Franz Sadlacek.
Austriaco, 1891-1945.
El químico. Autorretrato. 1932 Óleo sobre lienzo.
Museo Leopold, Viena.

Juan Brufal

After Schiele

⚡️⚖️ Zelensky: "I received a small spoiler from MFA Sybiha that the Netherlands has made an official decision to be the country of origin of the tribunal to open an office, to open a tribunal against the crimes of the Russian Federation."

Morning in Kharkiv.
Even though the child is still so little, they already feel the danger💔
Explosions outside the window during breakfast.

Russia is stealing childhood from our children. It wants them to live in fear.
🎥 labromomua

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, on the sidelines of the Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, began his speech in Russian, calling to "restore international cooperation."

Idiot, and what do you think caused such a disastrous situation?

Belgium is basically a narco-state, top Antwerp judge warns “Extensive mafia-like structures have taken root,” judge writes in anonymous letter laying out how criminality seeps into every part of Belgian society.

Drug-trafficking is turning Belgium into a narco-state and the rule of law is under threat, an Antwerp judge wrote in an anonymous letter published today asking the federal government for urgent help.

Sandu ties Moldova’s fate to Ukraine despite Hungary blocking both EU paths President rejects decoupling despite Hungary’s veto blocking both countries

"We want to become full members" 🇪🇺

Moldova's President Sandu rejects decoupling from Ukraine's EU path, defying Hungary's veto Moldova and Ukraine remain united 🇲🇩🇺🇦

🇺🇸🇭🇺🇹🇷🇸🇰U.S. Ambassador to NATO Whitaker: We expect Hungary, Turkey & Slovakia to plan an exit from Russian oil & gas.

Léo Marie Gausson :
The Red Tree House, 1890

A Michigan native, Andrea Kowch cites the Midwestern landscape as the prime inspiration for her work. Kowch's charming, haunting scenes have been compared to the work of Andrew Wyeth and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wyeth, Kowch paints in a realist style, using rural settings as metaphors for her female subjects' internal states. And as in Hitchcock's films, the scenes Kowch depicts are not what they seem; mysterious plots and backstories seem to lurk below the surface. Kowch's fictive world is both domestic and wild: rabbits nest in women's laps, quails sit in their hands, moths land on their blouses. Even when her characters are inside, the natural world intrudes.

Andrea Kowch :
Through the Boughs, 2015

Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches

Muskegon Museum of Art

Further info in the alt text 👇

Andrea Patrisi (Italian Artist, born 1954)
"Boats in Positano", 2016.
Oil on Canvas, 40 × 50 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Thomas W. Schaller Born (1950) American
“Long Blue Stairway, Morocco “
Watercolor, 15 x 11”
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

🇬🇧🇩🇪☢️ Britain must look at sharing nuclear weapons with Germany to counter the “critical” threat posed by Russia, defence chiefs have said, - The Telegraph

Former chief of defence staff and Nato secretary general have urged the UK to open up talks with Berlin over a fresh defence pact.

Morning Tea
by Pawel Ceran