With an estimated $12 trillion in mineral wealth, the Donbas is an immense economic prize. Russia's strategy is not just about acquiring these assets, but about the deliberate economic strangulation of Ukraine, aiming to cripple its sovereignty by seizing its most valuable resources. 😡
❗️Trump told Putin that Russia "may have to continue to fight and suffer, because both sides suffer, before they can be separated," - The Times The newspaper writes that Putin took this as a green light to continue attacks on Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump will make an important statement today. The speech is scheduled for 9 p.m. Kyiv time the White House announced. 🤞
⚡️Putin, Zelensky not ready for face-to-face meeting, Erdogan says. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the remarks on Sept. 1 after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China.
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Is Trump being played? ‘Unlikely’ Putin is going to give up on demands from Ukraine (MSNBC) 😟
Bessent: Trump Administration Ready to Act as Russia “Despicably” Steps Up Attacks He added: “So I think with President Trump, all options are on the table, and I think we’ll be examining those very closely this week.” #Russia #Ukraine united24media.com/latest-news/...
💥💥Ukrainian aviation dropped a guided bomb and demolished a massive elevator in Kherson region. Turns out occupiers turned it into a training center for drone operators and a command post. ✅ Found fast, buried even faster.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian troops liberate village in Donetsk region from 🇷🇺 forces 🇺🇦 Defenders have managed to liberate the settlement of Novoekonomichne from 🇷🇺 forces. The village is located near Pokrovsk, according to the General Staff, AFU #Russia #Ukraine newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraini...
Scott Bessent, US Secretary of the Treasury: Putin has, in a despicable manner, increased the bombing campaign [of Ukraine]. So I think with President Trump, all options are on the table, and I think we'll be examining those very closely this week.
#TwoWeeks ago, US President Donald Trump warned he'll know how he would proceed unless Russia comes to the negotiating table. Now, 14 days later, India continues to ‘help broker’ Russian oil despite America’s pressure 😲
Consider, let's examine, might, possibly, could. Two weeks. Putin has intensified bombing across Ukraine, prompting the U.S. to consider all possible sanctions against Russia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated.
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency were denied access to a newly built dam on the channel of one of the cooling ponds at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. #Ukraine #Russia United24
What happens when a cult leader dies? What will happen to MAGA when Donald Trump dies?
Meanwhile, in Russia, enrollment of Ukraine war veterans and their children at Russia’s 18 highest-ranking universities has risen 58% Children gather for lineyka, or “line-up” Flying the Russian flag is now mandatory at schools
🇺🇦 Pres Zelenskyy: Today, a new school year has begun in Ukraine. Millions of children will gain knowledge offline and online. Today, together with schoolchildren from one of the schools in the Kyiv region, I shared this atmosphere. #Ukraine #Kyiv
🇮🇪🇺🇦 Ireland is ready to contribute to providing security guarantees for Ukraine, — Zelenskyy following a conversation with Irish Prime Minister
The White House said that the United States can assist in the coordination of security guarantees for Ukraine and that President Donald Trump has directed his national security team to work with Europe. 🥴
Bessent on sanctions against Russia: "All options are on the table, and I think we’ll be examining them very closely this week." We keep hearing about “this week,” “two weeks,” or “50 days,” but as one deadline expires after another, nothing ever happens.
Viktor Yanukovych, a Kremlin ally who fled to Russia, was impeached by the Ukrainian parliament after the 2014 Maidan protests and sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison for treason in 2019. President Volodymyr Zelensky stripped him of his Ukrainian citizenship last year. 😿
The Kremlin has today decided to drag out disgraced former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych for the first time in years - even Russian audiences will recognise this as clear sign that the Putin regime is getting desperate
Putin is a 'war criminal' receiving 'red carpet treatment' Author Sir Bill Browder speaking about Vladimir Putin's appearance at the SCO summit in China. 😈
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sept. 1 that the Trump administration is considering new sanctions on Russia after Moscow intensified strikes on Ukraine despite recent peace talks.
US President Donald Trump is #still working on a Russia-Ukraine peace summit, the White House said Friday 😹
❗️There was no agreement between Putin and Trump regarding the Russian President's meeting with Zelensky, - Putin's aide Ushakov
China, India, Russia seek to challenge US dominance at Tianjin summit (FRANCE 24 English) Reduce tariffs to #zero ❓🤔
Wikipedia: Russian hybrid efforts ... include using soldiers without insignia called ″little green men″ to annex Crimea in 2014, and the broad #disinformation campaigns targeting the 2016 US election and Brexit referendum. Putin blames West for 2014 'coup' in Kyiv as 'root cause' of Ukraine crisis
ICYMI: ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is pursuing a hybrid campaign directly targeting NATO states, including using GPS jamming and sabotaging military logistics in NATO members’ territory, and is likely using EW innovations developed in the war in Ukraine against NATO states at this time.
Just two days ago, von der Leyen declared, "Putin is a predator. His representatives have targeted our societies for years with hybrid attacks and cyber attacks." Today Putin proved beyond doubt that he is indeed a predator! 😡
There have been countless similar cases with vessels in the seas. These situations have not been unique, and there was no reaction, so they became standard practice for Russians. We will see what kind of reaction there will be now.
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after suspected Russian GPS jamming disabled all navigation systems at Plovdiv Airport, Financial Times reports. The aircraft circled for an hour before landing manually.
Putin once again made a statement regarding the war against Ukraine. According to him, "the crisis in Ukraine did not arise as a result of Russia’s attack, but because of a coup in Kyiv provoked by the West."
#Austrian FM: Russia Not Ready for Real Peace Negotiations 🇷🇺 #Russia continues to show no genuine interest in a peaceful settlement & must be compelled to join negotiations, Austria’s Foreign Minister Meinl-Reisinger said during an informal meeting of EU foreign united24media.com/latest-news/...
Kyiv mourns its smallest angel Yesterday the city says goodbye to 2-year-old Anhelina and her mother, Nadiia, killed in the Russian attack on August 28. A child who never had the chance to grow up. A mother who will never again hold her daughter.👇
Pro-Kremlin media reported over the weekend that dozens of Polish bikers had broken into a memorial complex in the Tver region to hold a “torchlight ceremony” and were subsequently arrested.
❗Ukraine's foreign minister on anniversary of Poland invasion warns against appeasing aggressor
In 1938, Chamberlain thought he’d avoided a war by allowing #Hitler to take over the Sudetenland. Hitler, of course, continued to push into Europe. Now, as Trump floats the idea of ceding Ukrainian territory to Russia, we must remember that appeasing a #dictator is rarely a strategy for success. 😈
💔Russians kill five people in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Donetsk oblasts
❗️The plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen made an emergency landing in Bulgaria - due to the action of Russian electronic warfare, navigation was disabled and specialists were forced to use paper maps
Bulgaria has confirmed the incident and added that since February 2022, a significant increase in GPS jamming and spoofing is being observed.
Most of the GPS problems come in eastern Europe, bordering Russia. The International Air Transport Association and the EU Aviation Safety Agency (Easa) held a summit in January to discuss GPS jamming and “spoofing” 😡 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
‼️Eighty-six years ago, the world entered the bloodiest war in history. Its outbreak became possible because for too long the dictator was not confronted with force. Instead, attempts were made to appease him with concessions and negotiations.
Putin's conditions for ending the war include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia. #peace ❓🤔 www.reuters.com/world/china/...
⚡ ISW: Russia is stepping up a coordinated disinformation campaign designed to weaken Western support for Ukraine and derail European involvement in peace talks. united24media.com/latest-news/...
RMF 24 reports that Polish President Karol Nawrocki, during events marking the 86th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, stated that he wants reparations from Germany. www.rmf24.pl/regiony/troj...
Re-shaping global trade and global geopolitics with Russia 😈😉
Alaska summit with Trump could “pave way for peace in Ukraine” — Putin at SCO summit
The Kremlin has recently been intensifying three rhetorical lines aimed at influencing Western decision-making in the Kremlin's favor: accusing European states of prolonging the war in Ukraine, levying nuclear threats against Western states, & claiming that Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable.
"Crisis in Ukraine did not arise as result of 'invasion,' but as a result of a coup d'état in Kyiv, supported by Ukraine's western allies." - Russian President Putin speaking at the plenary session of the SCO 😮
🇷🇺 Russian forces have been surrounded by 🇺🇦 military near Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast, military spokesperson Trehubov Aug. 30. "At least for now, the 🇷🇺 units that were advancing on Dobropillia — these 'crab claws' — have been cut off and surrounded," Trehubov kyivindependent.com/russian-unit...
Trump is working hard for Russia & China, now trying to push India into their alliance. Trump has not imposed any tariffs on Russia & now less on China than the 50% tariff war he has launched on India, ending all US attempts to engage with India. This is worse than stupid.
Trump has imposed additional tariffs on India over the purchases of crude from Russia, but there is no sign yet that either India or China are going to stop purchasing Russian oil😉 www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil refineries: The US urged Kyiv to suspend these attacks, promising in return to use its channels of influence to persuade Russia to refrain from strikes on Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/behind-the-s...
🇺🇦 President Zelensky announced that new strikes deep inside 🇷🇺 Russia are imminent, with both forces and capabilities already in place. #Ukraine #Russia Post : NOELreports
September 2024 was the most successful for Ukraine in terms of strikes on Russia's rear. Two large ammunition depots -– in the towns of Toropets and Tikhoretsk – were destroyed. 😊
The U.S. has provided by far the most weaponry to Ukraine. Till March 12, 2025, the U.S. had provided $66.9 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 😮 www.state.gov/bureau-of-po...
❗️At the beginning of the full-scale 🇷🇺 Russian invasion, 🇧🇬Bulgaria supplied 🇺🇦Kyiv with 1/3 of all ammunition - President of the 🇪🇺European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
"Trump assured ..." What happened to Trump’s ‘red lines’ in the Russia-Ukraine War? 😹
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe is developing "quite precise plans" for a possible deployment of troops in Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees, — Ursula von der Leyen 🇺🇸 Security guarantees are absolutely crucial. Trump assured us that the American presence will be part of the support.
“European War Party” Hindering Trump’s Peace Efforts – Peskov 🤡
NEW: The Kremlin is pursuing a multi-pronged informational effort aimed at deterring Western support for Ukraine and undermining European participation in the peace process. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 31, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar083125 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ [🧵] (1/2)
Stunning footage of a rare dark coloured deer, with estimates suggesting they make up less than 1% of all deer.
⚡️75% of Ukrainians are ready for a ceasefire only if security guarantees are provided. A survey by the Rating Group, conducted Aug. 21-23, found that the majority of Ukrainians polled want peace & are open to concessions, but only if their country receives security guarantees.
The EU's foreign affairs chief, Kaja Kallas, stated that frozen assets will not be returned to Russia unless Moscow pays reparations to Ukraine. A residential building heavily damaged during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack in Kyiv this month. Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images 😡
Now this is funny 😄
Putin met with Xi Jinping at the SCO Forum in China.
Ahead of his journey to China, Putin said Moscow and Beijing stand together against “discriminatory sanctions” on global trade. #AmericaFirst, or what❓🤡
Does Putin Want to 'Recreate' the Soviet Union? Former US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison thinks he does. 😡
💬 “He wants to restore the old Soviet Union. And that includes part of my country,” says German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
⚡️ Trump administration to fire most of Voice of America's staff. VOA was established during World War 2 in an effort to counter Nazi propaganda.
On the 1,284th day of the special military operation, these are the estimated total combat losses of Russia, the so-called superpower. Data are being updated. 😉
Peskov: “We are ready to resolve the problem by political and diplomatic means, but since we do not see reciprocity from Kyiv, we continue the special military operation.”
"Our relations should not be defined by third countries,” Modi stated. In turn, Xi Jinping said that India and China can be not rivals, but strategic partners, if they focus on shared interests.
Amid growing pressure from the United States, including the imposition of 50% tariffs on Indian goods due to purchases of Russian oil, Modi and Xi discussed strengthening trade and economic ties and the need for strategic autonomy from external influence.
Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed in a meeting that India and China are partners and not rivals. They further agreed that the two countries' interests outweigh differences. Trump’s tariffs❓❓😟 edition.cnn.com/2025/08/13/i...
Indian Prime Minister Modi is in China for the first time in seven years, where, on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Tianjin, he held a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. India and China have drawn closer against the backdrop of trade wars.
The Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council openly threatens that Macron and Merz will be "identified by their teeth."
Russian Foreign Minister ADMITS Ukraine Has 'RIGHT To EXIST' 😮
🤡 Kremlin: We are ready to resolve the problem by political and diplomatic means. But as long as we do not see reciprocity from Kyiv in this, we continue the "special military operation."
Russian President Vladimir Putin touched down in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin on Sunday for a showpiece Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit with an entourage of senior politicians and business representatives.
'after the war ends'❓ After the war ends, Putin may not be alive 😿 nypost.com/2025/03/27/w...
Russians did not allow IAEA experts to enter the newly built dam near the Zaporizhzhia NPP IAEA experts cannot enter the newly built dam on the channel of one of the cooling ponds of the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Russian invaders are not letting the experts in. www.rbc.ua/rus/news/ros...
❗️There will be new strikes deep into Russia — Zelensky announces new deep strikes. Forces and means are already prepared
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink believes “Russia has no intention of stopping this war” 😡
⚡️ Russia says the quiet part out loud — war in Ukraine to continue, more mass bombings of cities. "Today we will clarify the tasks of the troop groups in the directions for the autumn period," Valery Gerasimov said.
Do attacks boost Putin’s image❓😮 Residents gather at the site of an apartment building struck during Russian drone and missile attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine. Officials reported at least 21 people killed, including four children, with dozens more wounded in the assault. [Reuters]
Russia’s attacks aim to boost Putin’s image ahead of China visit - journalist
“No mountain or ocean can distance people who have shared aspirations,” China’s President Xi Jinping said in July 2024, addressing leaders from SCO. China and Russia declared a “no limits” partnership when Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. 😡
Leaders of 26 states are expected to attend the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing that will take place on September 3⤵️
Hillary Was Right‼️
❗️russia will intensify its strikes on Ukraine in the coming weeks, – ISW. Analysts believe that russia will use its replenished stocks of missiles and drones to worsen the condition of Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of the upcoming winter. ㅤ
The enemy continues its energy terror in the Odesa region. Four DTEK energy facilities were attacked during the night. Putin, who is wanted for war crimes by ICC, arrived in Tianjin on Sunday to a red carpet welcome and warm greetings from top-ranking city officials. 😈
Putin arrived in China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). He got a red carpet in the airport but Xi Jinping did not arrive to greet him personally.
