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Friends,

Winter is coming. Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure will increase.

Russia has ramped up drone production and is changing its attack tactics. There will be blackouts in winter. #Kyiv will be Russia’s main strategic and symbolic target⤵️

Venezuelan Government says that it expects an US "armed attack" against Venezuela in "a very short time." -CBS news

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Russians are showing off their new expensive anti-drone electronic warfare system.

Ukraine aligns new sanctions with Japan, targeting Russian military suppliers in China, Türkiye, Kazakhstan The measures target eight individuals and 14 companies in Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, and the Seychelles, with 10-year asset freezes and trade restrictions.

Ukraine and Japan have sanctioned Russian military suppliers operating across five countries

The coordinated sanctions show how Moscow relies on a global network - from China and Türkiye to Kazakhstan and the Seychelles

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VAMPIRE complex intercepted a Russian cruise missile.It’s usually used against drones,but Ukrainian Defenders managed to intercept a missile using it,as well
VAMPIRE-portable complex that can be mounted on most cargo-carrying vehicles to launch low-cost APKWS missiles or other laser-guided munitions

Liyty drone on its way to Ufa to strike some Russian oil refineries

Journalist,historian,author @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum:

"I spent most of the day talking to Ukrainians,some of whom are fighting,some of whom are making drones,some of whom are doing other things to keep their country going.I’ve to say it doesn't feel like a place that's giving up…”

If you think you are smarter than the previous generation...

50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.

💙💛 Situation in Kupiansk and exit from pipeline are under control of Armed Forces of Ukraine. Counter-sabotage operation is underway in city - General Staff

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❗️🇵🇱Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: The Russian government suggests that Russian drones breached Poland’s airspace by mistake while the Russian UN ambassador claims it’s a physical impossibility for Russian drones to reach Poland.
Which Russian lie are we supposed to believe?

Apple and Blackberry Kuchen Kuchen, in this context, may be simply "cake" in German, but what it means in America, taken there by German refugees, is a sweet, but not too sweet, yeasted dough, baked in a slab and topped as desir...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Apple and Blackberry Kuchen, which is rather like a Germanic fruit-topped focaccia. And I should tell you that it’s as wonderful (and more common, actually) made with plums. www.nigella.com/recipes/appl...

Joint statement by #Belgium 🇧🇪 with 🇦🇹🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇮🇪🇸🇸🇪, on the infringement of the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ persons in #Hungary.

💔Stas’s story is just one of thousands about the destruction of children’s national identity in the occupied territories.

“Mom, can I speak Ukrainian here?” — that was the first thing Stas said when he finally found himself in safety. He’s just 12 years old.

Lipetsk, Russia: Russian soldiers finally returning home packed neatly in boxes.

In the good old days they were supposed to jump over Zealand - and my brigade’s task was to ensure they got a hard landing ;-) Now, things have changed to the better and we are #StrongerTogether

F-16 air strikes on Russian ground targets with SDB and other munitions. t.me/utac_team/115

Truly horrific night for Kyiv

European leaders travel to Kyiv in push for 30-day ceasefire German chancellor Friedrich Merz joins French, British and Polish leaders in show of solidarity with Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the UK will travel to Kyiv on Saturday to show solidarity with President Zelenskyy after Putin hosted the leaders of China and Brazil at Moscow’s Victory Day parade — and amid renewed calls for Russia to agree to a lasting ceasefire. on.ft.com/3RZGSCK

Coalition of the Willing
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Coalition of the Killing

Day 153. #GeorgiaProtests
📷 David Chkheidze

⚡️ Russians launched a double-tap attack on rescuers who responded to a house fire after a previous shelling in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, State Emergency Service said.

The strike damaged the rescue truck. Later, Russians attacked rescuers again, damaging another vehicle.

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The possible EU visa-free suspension is already taking over other issues in Georgia. It’s gonna be big.

🔎🇪🇺"WELCOME TO THE HOTEL ORBÁN" – Our investigation reveals how Hungary’s 2024 EU presidency tried to steer EU delegations to spend money at the Orbán family’s luxury hotel in Budapest. Here’s Viktor Orbán’s daughter, Ráhel, promoting Hotel Dorothea.

🔗Read the full story: vsquare.org/hungary-eu-p...

The school in Kharkiv, close to where the Russian missile struck.

I remember passing by it just a week ago and seeing kids rehearsing their prom dance in the yard, and now it's ruins.

EU affirms Ukrainian territorial integrity, decries Russian sham referendums amid Witkoff controversy The "referendums ... were completely fraudulent and at gunpoint," European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper said on March 24.

⚡️EU affirms Ukrainian territorial integrity, decries Russian sham referendums amid Witkoff controversy.

The "referendums ... were completely fraudulent and at gunpoint," European Commission spokesperson Anita Hipper said on March 24.

Europe won’t be fully free, united, and at peace, until the last piece of the Russian puzzle - the Lukashenka regime - is removed, and Belarus is free. #FreeBelarus

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