Putin has already killed a sitting Ukraine MP who also was the Chair of the parliament (the No. 2 official in Ukraine) in 2016-2019. Pretty much "a major world leader in my book", given the size and importance of the country.
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Putin has already killed a sitting Ukraine MP who also was the Chair of the parliament (the No. 2 official in Ukraine) in 2016-2019. Pretty much "a major world leader in my book", given the size and importance of the country.
So, terrorist Russia, in its escalation, is suspected of GPS jamming the plane carrying the EU chief.
France preparing for war with Russia, has ordered doctors and hospitals to ready themselves for an influx of wounded and casualties, they have only until May 2026 to get ready, must be able to treat hundreds if not thousands per day. Also urges citizens prepare emergency survival kits.
THIS is who many in the West still hope to get back to business as usual with.
Exiled journos report the new INSANE level of anti-West militarist indoctrination at all education levels in Russia, incl. KINDERGARTENS😱 Ukraine-hating is a must for all children, but school graduates are also expected to know the Kremlin propaganda version of the 20th century China geopolitics.
Very much so. When it comes to Asia, Putin can only dream of the level of respect and help he's been getting from Donald Trump.
As if The War wasn't enough, there's a phukin dust cloud in Kyiv, Ukraine today. Meteorologists blame it on a hot windless weather. No comparison to the last week's apocalyptic thing in the US city of Phoenix, but still unusual and annoying on your breathing(
Personally, President Trump is free to step wherever he wants. But the United States as a superpower COUNTRY can only "step" away from the Russia-Ukraine War in one direction - into HISTORY'S GRAVEYARD ⚰️ - where America and its ECONOMY would be lying next to the Spanish Empire, Belgian Empire etc.
And the author is a veteran Ukraine observer writing on society, culture and religion😎
The myth of “great #russianCulture” is not innocent. It props up the regime, excuses the “little person” who takes no responsibility, and infantilizes society into helplessness. Culture is not above russia's war but its integral part. krytyka.com/en/articles/...
NEW: The Kremlin appears to have launched a coordinated informational effort posturing military strength on the battlefield in order to shape Western thinking and falsely portray a Russian victory as inevitable.🧵(1/4) isw.pub/UkrWar083025
Source on Facebook (in Ukrainian): www.facebook.com/yaroslav.yur...
Regarding yesterday's assassination of a prominent Ukraine MP Andriy Parubiy , his fellow MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn came up with a whole list of reasons why RUSSIA obviously DID IT, but these two would suffice:
Thank you for bringing your irrelevant "anti-colonial " whataboutism in a discussion about federal vs. local law enforcement / governance(
Americans and their friends cheering out this kind of rhetoric are naive and shortsided, completely ingoring the European and African experience.
Most importantly, guys, it would be a CATASTROPHIC DISTRACTION from The War. You know, Ukraine was once united with Lithuania and Estonia in mid-20th century: in Russia's GULAG camps inmates from these three nations survived and rebelled together. D'you want that kind of re-unification?
NEW: The Nordic and Baltic states are driving a more robust European engagement on Ukraine amid apprehension over Trump’s dance with Putin, writes @michaeldweiss.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
So Trump's ICE are selling DECENT migrants out: ◾A former federal witness / informant (and a brave Cali firefighter) - to a country where he might, G-d forbid, face retribution ◾Dozens of Russian citizens who fled Putin's war instead of earning on it - back to the brutal GULAG 2.0 for daily torture.
A Donbas family with a child was made homeless by Russian airstrikes TWICE IN TWO WEEKS. First, their home in Dobropillya was destroyed by a Russian glide bomb. Then, on August 28, their new home in Kyiv was hit by a Russian airstrike while they were sheltering in a parking.
I am completely shocked and devastated. Andriy Parubiy was assassinated today in Lviv. He was a true statesman, a core driver of Euromaidan, Parliament Speaker in 2016-19 — his initiatives were always aimed at defending Ukraine's identity and nationhood. This loss is enormous. Eternal memory.
Please don't gaslight me (and several other journos who spotted this) to fit some ideological stereotype you probably have in your head. bsky.app/profile/alex...
Hey George, your help might be needed as a survivor of WW2 internment camps. It's about this bsky.app/profile/alex... Kinda similar to your past. This is your chance to make yourself useful about issues WAY larger than anything you've posted about so far. Tnx.
* I have no sympathy for most Russians living in the West, and I support the toughest possible security measures to weed out spies and influence agents among them. That said, the right to flee a torturous lawless regime waging a total war MUST remain SACRED and UNIVERSAL.
Horrendous crime committed by the Trump administration: dozens of Russian citizens who fled to US are deported TO RUSSIA, where some have already been jailed and tortured. It's a sadistic betrayal, inhumane and illegal under US law. We must all stand up and fight to stop this❗️ Please repost.
225 ❗️ apartment blocks damaged (1 is destroyed) in last night's Russian airstrike on Ukraine's capital Kyiv; 5400+ windows in people's homes were taken out by blasts and debris: city governor earlier today. At least 21 civilians known to have been killed, 63 wounded as of now.
Misha, I expect you to not ignore the fact that the Russian fascist Z-propaganda played SOME ROLE in the radicalization of Robin Westman, the Minneapolis school shooting murderer.
Reupping: The Case for Designating the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism The International Working Group on Russian Sanctions Working Group Paper #5 September 28, 2022 fsi9-prod.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
"Meanwhile, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has responded to at least four flights of Russian surveillance planes into the Alaska air defense identification zone in the past week, according to statements from the command." www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/a...
Experts agree that the so-called peace talks are a farce, with no party expecting any meaningful results.
BLOCKED for unprovoked incivility.
Means it doesn't exist as described by you. Drop me some links about "primary focus of multiple governments" - and stop calling it newsworty until you do. All I see so far is a US academic article which I'll certainly read this week.
No, it's more like you're being a troll.
No, since I obviously meant "Ukrainian things" that are NEWSWORTHY internationally or domestically.
Past my point as well. As many thousands of professionals, I'm concerned about the systemic global online proliferation of fascism / imperialism symbols and narratives by Russia more than about DIRECT recruitment of individual terrorists abroad by FSB (which is a real thing as well).
Tnx. I'll take my time to read about it since I have no clue about it. You meahwhile should stop calling it a "Ukrainian cult" for quite some time - to avoid being thought of as a Kremlin disinfo warrior. If it was a real "Ukrainian thing" (and not a RU fake), I would know somehting about it.
Any sane educated adult should be sure what I mean.
What cult would that be? I've no idea what you're talking about.
The "takeaway "Ukraine is bad" is impossible for anyone anywhere.
Past the point. Many Islamist terrorists don't speak or read fluent Arabic - and get radicalized in other languages using terrorist slogans / memes / terms in Arabic mostly as logos and visual symbols.
No.
Not really domestic: bsky.app/profile/alex...
Hopefully, urgent EU action against the Kremlin beachhead in Hungary was the No. 1 issue at these meetings.
Sobering but important analysis by @mikecarpenter.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/119673/ukrai...
bsky.app/profile/andr...
He made NO mistakes with several memes and slogans in Russian specific for The War in Ukraine, correctly spelled them in Cyrillic.
Well, all the blame for the actions of current American government essentially lies with Russia anyway🤷♂️
Consistent official warnings about cancellations and traffic closures suggest that several Kyiv areas, up to square kilometers in size each, were hit by Russian CLUSTER MUNITIONS and / or air burst warheads last night. In other words, deliberately-inprecise weapons disregarding collateral damage.
RFK Jr. has been, for years, a noticeable talking head of Russia's global disinfo machine. Not as much as some of today's WH staffers but still noticeable. So I don't see why would he care about US "national security".
All of you sneering at those of us sceptical that Trump was going to convince Putin to do anything, this is what happens when you indulge him and kick the can down the road. kyivindependent.com/russia-drone...
Again, with max clarity: The fact that the current, literal Russian war / genocide propaganda somehow got into American wannabe mass-shooters discourse is important IN ITSELF, new to many pro audiences and worth watching. It HAD A ROLE in the particular shooting (I don't care if it was 10% or 70%)
Clearly not. It's you trying to convince me that I must ignore something IMPORTANT because it's, I dunno, not new in your opinion? Go have a good one🤗
bsky.app/profile/alex...
I think you're hopelessly lost in your own reasoning, sorry.
the one NOT capitalized and not in Russian - unlike the ACTUAL writing on Westman's guns.
Well, a "non-niche" presence of the Russian war / genocide propaganda, in Russian language, in the Western "circles" of wannabe mass-shooters is PRECISELY my point(
He capitalized РЭБ = радиоэлектронная борьба. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%...
Not sure what your point is. Journos submerged in the context of The War and Russian state fascism Z-propaganda instantly recognize the NICHE Russian-language memes from there on the weapons of a non-Russian mass shooter in phukin Minneapolis. In your opinion, it's what? Coincidence? Unnewsworthy?
How is the Russian military abbreviation "РЭБ" (very niche term in Rus language outside the invasion on Ukraine) is "a reference to the Columbine shooters"?🙃 You're stretching, son. Try yoga©️
UPDATE: the hourslong combined Russian air strike on Kyiv, Ukraine is officially over. At least 3 people killed, at least 24 wounded (some remain under rubble); there have been fires and / or damage at 20 locations and in "hundreds of buildings" across the city - governor Tymur Tkachenko just now.
How about "Russian government will pay for radicalizing Robin Westman"?
UPDATE: So deep was the Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman submerged in the cultural context of Russian fascism / imperialism that he apparently marked his weapons with VERY NICHE references to the pro-Kremlin Serbian fascism discourse in the 1990s Yugoslavia civil war:
I wonder if the Mayor addressed the RUSSIAN ANGLE in the shooting yet: bsky.app/profile/alex...
* The text in Russian on Westman's pistol says "Vodka and EW jamming": sounds like a slogan / tattoo / morale patch in SPECIFIC circles of Russian fascists cheering the War in Ukraine. You would NOT learn it from a typical Russian language course in US or from studying Russian classic literature.
US politicians work overtime Flooding The Zone ©️ with their thoughts, prayers and guns-hating - apparently to spin the fact that the Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman was an AVID FAN OF PUTIN'S RUSSIA who followed the RU invasion of Ukraine, used its symbols and abbreviations on his rifle.
Good morning from Kyiv, Ukraine, where the dawn is blackened by smoke from fires caused by the ongoing Russian airstrike on the city. *Usually I see the smokescape from the opposite side of Kyiv. Today it's the Left Bank burning. The death toll is now 3; at least 12 people are wounded.
It is hard to learn for an average Minneapolis kid. But that's not why I asked anyway.
Mayor reports collapse of a midrise apartment block in the Left-Bank Kyiv due to the ongoing Russian air strike on Ukraine. This usually means dozens of victims, at least several fatalities and a daylong rescue op. * For a second, it got me thinking if such news can be considered "BRKNG" anymore.
Ehm, Stars and Stripes?) Seriously, one OSINT team you guys may wanna ask for help is Ukraine's Deep State NGO.
UPDATE: Kyiv authorities confirm more fires across the city after the latest wave of Russian missiles - now in the Right-Bank neighborhoods as well. At least two apartment blocks are now burning, in addition to a kindergarten and several commercial buildings.
Well, I get sick posting about RUSSIA being "a global threat of a kind we haven’t seen before", and Trump being merely a symptom of that threat.
RFK Jr is lying when he says everyone wants the COVID vaccine can still get it because of “shared clinical decision making.” He is threatening doctors legally if they prescribe the COVID vaccine off label.
Sound of drone here in western Kyiv, and anti-aircraft fire. High-rise on fire, and damage to kindergarten in east of capital following Russian attack.
A terrible night in Kyiv. Ballistic missiles, Shakheds. Since the start of talks on a meeting in Alaska, Kyiv has never been under such heavy shelling #Ukraine
Kyiv authorities report fires in a high-rise apartment block and a kindergarten in the Left-Bank part of the city due to the ongoing Russian air strike on Ukraine.
And now the Russian drones are heard being fired upon over Kyiv, simultaneously with a couple of ballistic missiles.
bsky.app/profile/euan...
2-3 series of very loud explosions in Right-Bank Kyiv in the last half hour, consistent with ballistic missiles strike and / or air defense intercepting them. No sounds consistent with drones or flak cannons.
Minneapolis school shooting is a tragic clusterphuk reflecting the MESS that today's America is: Shooter, a troubled teen with a weird obsession with Russia, specifically with its Gestapo agency FSB. Targeted a CATHOLIC school while at least one prominent US Catholic is a Kremlin's influence agent.
Can we see the original please? And why / how did he learn Cyrillic?
100000s of Westerners help Ukraine DIRECTLY, at own expense - not trusting their states' "leaders" with the survival of Europe.
I'm not making it personal. First of all, I'm capable and willing to care about the interests of all the free world, beyond and regardless of Ukraine. Just cosmopolitan common sense. Second, MOST Westerners are still struggling to free themselves from their pre-2014 stereotypical positive worldview.
🤦♂️ What "bandwidth"?? You of all people should've noticed Rutte's mention of the need to "scale up NATO air defense by 400%". Or the fact that EU doesn't have a single weapon with 1000 km range (let alone a supersonic one). There's no bandwidth for ANY feel-good causes in the West anymore.
It's about societal survival, not business( Fossils and nuclear are online now and people's lives depend on their electricity output. Pollution and climate are, sadly, MUCH less important. Switching fossils / nukes off will require a mammoth centralized investment, and a DEEP sociopolitical reform.
* your research paper probably forgot to mention two herds of elephants in the room: - China controls world market of solar panels and can destroy it by cutting its subsidized export - Denmark / EU simply don't have money or labor for costly expansion of the "Green Energy" (not with Russia's war).
Hence the painful need to keep fossil fuels electricity generation (even building new plants in some cases)💔
There IS no market physically for the expensive renewable energy. Commercial consumers will just offshore their operations (a key reason why EU can't scale up weapons manufacturing) and home consumers will just flee the inaffordable housing: abroad, to homelessness, to the grave.
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
A good question from @economist.com Trump is letting 🇷🇺 pursue maximalist goals while it pounds 🇺🇦: a strategy that Mao called “talking while fighting” That didn’t work in Korea, why would it be different now? economist.com/internationa...
They're NOT working well as they need gigantic subsidies to replace the fossil fuels. Solar today is completely dependent on China-made panels. I suggest you watch everything in this DW channel. Journos are biased pro-renewables but don't censor out their downsides. www.youtube.com/@DWPlanetA
Fresh @wsj.com story about primitive but cost-effective Ukraine air defense tricks youtu.be/IkDpFaVeZLA
Didn't need the lecture: I used to work in coal as a media guy. Know everything there is to about air and water pollution; saw the inside of the hell that a typical Donbas mine is. Live in a green pioneer country. Notwithstanding, TODAY's renewables are just unsustainable so far💔 Watch DW "Planet A"
Yes, we're stuck with the nuclear fission if we wanna limit the air pollution. Hopefully, the West eventually begins making PV panels affordable enough to maintain the existing solar farms. I got what his immediate point is, unsure if that's a real air defense problem.
youtu.be/7GCOGldDho8
That's only because they were massively installed due to massive totally unfeasible subsidies. C'mon, you're a military officer thus almost an engineer. Look trhu the greenwashing propaganda. A gigantic, essentially, bit of a propeller airplane high up at a sea mast can't be feasible to maintain.
Your irregular reminder that the ubiquitous LLMs (Large Language Models "AI") are essentially just a huge dangerous scam while the REAL revolution in artificial intelligence is happening in the #DroneWarfare - meaning, of course, in Ukraine, Russia, China, Israel, Iran and North Korea.
It's not feasible🤷♂️ Wind farms actually produce very little electricity, in a VERY unpredictable manner at an unacceptable cost, so defending them militarily makes no sense whatsoever. I mean the guy looks like a typical Chad (a stupid ignorant handsome male), but even a broken clock...
Protecting the Russian aggressor makes the war bloodier and longer. And that is just what we are doing. Good reporting by WSJ here but poor choice of photo. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Don't look away. And consider supporting Zarina's courageous journalists work on the ground.
So @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social on X posted a fresh video from the group of Russian soldiers who ROUTINELY hunt Ukrainian civilians with small drones. A man walking his dog is bombed with a frag grenade for no military reason. He's seen limping away dragging his profusely bleeding pup by the leash.
