Great cred to Jay for producing these newsreels. Really good.
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Great cred to Jay for producing these newsreels. Really good.
Out of everyone the Kremlin could exhume, they chose Yanukovich? Personally, I’d only tune in if they bring back Prigozhin, at least he was entertaining. #ExhumePrigozhin
Putting Yanik on the air is a sign of real desperation in the Kremlin.
Air raid sirens all over Sweden. They test it at 15.00 on the first Monday of each month. Feels more real than ever before now though.
We can no longer deny it: Russia is at war with us. After the Russian attack on the EU Office in Kyiv last week, now they do this. They will not succeed.
Russia basically believes it has a carte blanche for anything in Europe. The U.S. has given a silent nod, the Europeans are considered lame.
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence revealed that UralVagonZavod, Russia’s top tank producer, relies heavily on over 260 foreign-made CNC machines and high-tech tools—many sourced before 2022. Despite sanctions, the plant continues to expand, now using European equipment rerouted through third countries.
Is Russia trying to assassinate EU-leaders too now?
Amen. 10 years ago already.
The flamingos flew away🦩🦩🦩
The leader of the Free World is Ukraine: our only fighting defender from the Russia-North Korea-Iran-China axis of nihilism.
⚔️ OSUV Dnipro: "Now the Russian units that went directly to Dobropillya, these "crab claws", have been cut off and surrounded. Therefore, they will not be there for long."
Sometimes a love affair is better than a marriage. We were never united in history, Finland belonged to Sweden. Finns were marginalized, native Swedes were the upper class. I think both Finland and Sweden are, and will be, stronger as great friends than in a formal union.
Reportedly, this is an attack on an underground explosives storage in Tula region of Russia on August 30th. According to reports, pyroxylin powder (a smokeless powder used in small arms ammunition, artillery systems and individual rocket engines) was stored there.
Ukraine looks to finally have hit a target it's been trying to get to most of the week. Authorities in Tula region say "drone debris fell on the territory of a manufacturing enterprise." Kyiv Intel says it destroyed an underground explosives warehouse at the Aleksin Chemical Plant.
A former Speaker of the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has been shot dead in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was gunned down by a killer disguised as a fast-food delivery driver. Parubiy was an activist arrested by the USSR pre Independence and was a prominent figure in the Maidan protests.
#RussiaOnFire in Volgograd this morning too.. Locals say the tractor market is burning. I wonder if that's all they build there, since the war? The cause of the fire hasn't yet been established.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems is expanding production in Ukraine, — Politico. • Quantum Systems transferred Vector reconnaissance drones to Ukraine as humanitarian aid in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion.
India is such a disappointment. The Indian people should know better than to support fascist.
⚡️Update: Ukrainian drones strike oil refineries in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, Samara Oblast, commander says. Ukrainian drones struck oil refineries in Russia's Krasnodar Krai and Samara Oblast overnight on Aug. 30, the commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, confirmed.
⚡️Update: 1 killed, 16 injured, including two children, in Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia. The number of injured victims has risen to 16, including a 10-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, in Russia's overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia, officials reported.
“Ukraine has succeeded in disrupting around 20% of Russia’s oil refining capacity in the past month.” Business Ukraine publisher Peter Dickinson joined FRANCE 24 as Ukraine’s deep strike campaign against Putin’s war economy continues to gain momentum
🇩🇰🇺🇦 Denmark plans to contribute around €1.4 billion in 2025 toward weapons production by Ukrainian defense companies, — Defence Minister Poulsen. ❗️€600 million in contracts are already placed last year.
Hungary was the only country not to support the joint EU statement condemning strikes on Kyiv—the list of countries backing the resolution does not include Hungary.
The Kyiv Independent’s investigative journalist Alisa Yurchenko exposes how Russia has quietly expanded its Votkinsk missile plant with the help of Chinese and Taiwanese machinery imported through intermediaries to evade Western sanctions.
Another fuel target has been hit by Ukraine in Russia. Defence staff publish this video showing how they targeted a linear production station near Naytopovichi in the Bryansk region. The station pumps diesel through main oil product pipelines, with an annual capacity of over 10m tons.
This is a sanction. A real sanction.
Let's sing "we shall overcome" as was a Swedish ministers suggestion during a domestic crisis in the early 90s.
News like this every day now, combined with some Ukrainian counter attacks. Is the Russian very slow steam roller grinding to a halt? Combined with increased Ukrainian attacks on Russia I see a very small light, far away in the tunnel.
Masha looks a bit swollen. The nerves need their daily dose of vodka?
Good. Keep smashing them, #Ukraine.
The EU has to finally deal with the traitor regimes in Hungary and Slovakia.
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
The U.S. has given Russia a free-card. Russia is using it.
Massive terrorist attack. Should dominate news in Europe for weeks. But it hardly made headlines today. Enormous shame.
"Trump just wants the war in Ukraine to end. It doesn’t matter how."
Good to finally be included into the "expert" group since I have been calling it all a farce for a long time.
“Putin must do the thing he has repeatedly refused to do.” Not how you talk to dictators. You say “Do this, or there will be these consequences.” Anything less will be perceived as weakness, and encourage more aggression.
”Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led to any number of unintended consequences, but none so quick and profound as the consolidation of the Nordic and Baltic regions under the NATO umbrella. The Nordic and Baltic states have also been the most enthusiastic supporters of Ukraine.”
⚡️ Update: 16 killed in Russian mass attack on Kyiv, including 4 children. The death toll of a Russian mass attack against Kyiv on Aug. 28 has risen to 16, Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko said.
🔥 In 10 days, Ukrainian UAVs hit 4 oil refineries and 2 oil pumping stations. Almost all of them stopped their work, - DroneBomber • 18/08 – Druzhba Refinery • 20/08 – Novoshakhtinsk Refinery Processing volume: ~7.5 million tons/year. • 21/08 – Druzhba Refinery (Unecha)
Afternoon now in Kyiv but search & rescue continues with people still feared trapped here, in the Darnytskyi district. Russia fired TWO cruise missiles in separate waves at the same Kyiv tower block, not a mistake, not air defence. Yet Russia says it targets only military. Scum
The death toll in Kyiv is already up to 16 since I began the thread. It's difficult to know where to start and even though I am from the UK I think it's important to note the British Council was among the many significant buildings hit. The UK has summoned the 🇷🇺ambassador
All the killings of Ukrainians are carried out by hundreds of thousands of Russians, with the support of millions of others - both silent and supportive.
The reality is much worse.
⚡️Ukraine hits Russian cruise missile carrier near occupied Crimea, intelligence claims. Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) hit a Russian Buyan-M-class small missile ship, a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles, near Russian-occupied Crimea in the Azov Sea on Aug. 28, HUR reported.
Some Swedish media mention the attacks against Kyiv, none has it big.
Every person who ever said anything supportive, or was reluctant to arm Ukraine carries part of the responsibility for this terror.
Russians are real barbarians. How do they expect to win the war by terror bombing and killing civilians? The worst terror in Europe since WWII, and it hardly gets attention in western media now. This alone should cover the first pages for days.
This, however, is the most awful news to get in the morning. Pretty personal too as we have our home in western Kyiv, and close relatives nearby. We are not there though, but that doesn't matter much when there are many casualties near home.
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/7. Liyty kamikaze drone on approach to Kuybyshevskiy oil refinery breaks through Russian air defense.
/6. ‼️Important update. Kuybyshevsk Refinery, not Novokuybyshevsk Refinery, was subjected to a massive drone attack tonight. Both refineries are located literally across the street from each other, which is where the inaccuracy came from. Kuybyshevsk Refinery has a capacity of 7 million tons per year
🔥🛢️/1. Tonight there is a very large attack on the Russian Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery with a capacity of 7.9 million tons per year, Samara region of Russia. According to eyewitnesses, at least dozens of drones hit the refinery. The entire territory is shrouded in smoke and fire after the attack.
Ukrainian USVs struck a second refinery. The Afipsky refinery in the Krasnodar region, Russia, is burning.
A heavy explosion occurred at the oil pipeline between Ryazan with Moscow. The pipeline connects the refineries of Ryazan and Kapotnya in Moscow. Reportedly the oil flow has been suspended. Both refineries have already been visited by Ukrainian drones in the past.
Of course www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Beyond the strong ideological collusion between Trump and Putin, the US administration is primarily obsessed with returning to business as usual with Moscow. It is indifferent to everything else, particularly the fate of the Ukrainians. Europe must act accordingly. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
The farce is never ending. All because Trump wants headlines, Putin wants all of Ukraine and the Europeans lack guts to confront Russia.
Somebody who took their time could almost patch the whole war together with all the videoclips.
Putin believes he is on a sacred mission to erase Ukraine, reverse the verdict of 1991, and revive the Russian Empire. He is not going to be swayed by the promise of short-term financial gain
In recent weeks, Ukraine stepped up attacks against Russian oil processing and exports, creating a gasoline shortage in parts of Russia. Attacks on 10 plants disrupted at least 17% of RU's refinery capacity, or 1.1 million barrels per day, according to Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Dictator style home decoration. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Many political talking heads, at least here in Germany, grossly misrepresent guaranteeing Ukraine's safety as a "blue helmets" kind of task, only with big numbers of troops involved. That, of course, is BS. It's no peacekeeping, as there's no peace to be kept. And the aggressor views us as an
The questions journalists should ask western leaders about security guarantees: 1. Are you willing to march on Moscow? 2. Can you endure tens of thousands of casualties if needed? Any hesitation in the answer and the word "guarantee" should be removed from any statement.
🦅 Drone threat in Volgograd, Bryansk, Belgorod, Oryol, Kaluga, Smolensk and Kursk regions, as well as in temporarily occupied Donetsk and Crimea.
Article worth reading by Alexander Motyl in The National Security Journal. It references the conversation I had with Paul Krugman about the weakness in military analysis today. nationalsecurityjournal.org/why-the-expe...
These people now what freedom and independence really mean, and what it cost. The video below is worth watching.
✈️🚫 Due to drone attacks on August 23-24, about 200 flights were delayed at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, with delays lasting over 20 hours.
The first image of the "Long Neptune". The missile has become not only longer but also noticeably thicker, while retaining the characteristic features of the standard version. united24media.com/latest-news/...
Unveiled - Ukraine's anti-ship missile R-360 "Neptune" with increased range of up to 1,000 km.
I am very disappointed with how media has reported on the peace of 2025 farce. If I say it's raining when it's snowing I am sure media would point it out. Why not now when governments are talking about ceasefires, peace and security guarantees? Don Quixote had a better grasp of reality.
I see no peace any time soon.
Any "guarantee" that is not part of a war plan against Russia and a willingness to endure the hardships of war until that victory is achieved is no guarantee but empty talk. Please keep this in mind when discussing the "peace" farce of 2025.
Personally I don't believe in the European talk about guarantees. What is a mass casualty even occur because if inexperienced European commanders with the result that public opinion in the home country demand that the tropps withdraw. Will the leaders stay firm and lose an election?
European troops stationed in Ukraine must be willing and ready to fight a war with Russia, and they must be willing to follow thru until victory. If there is the smallest doubt about such a commitment there is no "guarantee", just empty talk.
“If you’re constantly misunderstanding what the other side is talking about, you can believe you are making progress…” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"All wars end with negotiations." - J.D. Vance
Didn't Saddam Hussein meet George Sr. to agree about resolving the Kuwaiti war or George Jr. to settle the Iraqi war? How did the negotiations with Saddam end anyway?
VP Vance said all wars end with negotiations.
Ignorance is mainstream in the U.S. now. Few in the elite has any clue, few among the people care.
Best sanctions.
The Novatek export terminal at Ust-Luga in Russia is burning. The facility, which is around 800 km (500 miles) from the Ukrainian border, supplies oil tankers at the Baltic Sea.
/1. As a result of the strike on Ust-Luga —Gas Processing Complex sustained damage. The facility most affected was the cryogenic gas fractionation unit, which is considered the core of the plant.
The Gazprom Ust-Luga gas processing complex, part of the Baltic Gas Chemical Cluster, was hit in the attack, OSINT analysts from CyberBoroshno report. The facility’s cryogenic gas fractionation unit—key to the plant’s operations—sustained critical damage.
Jay is doing a great job with his economic reports. Russia is indeed going down. I recommend you to follow Jay here as well as on YouTube.
So, while Russia was intensifying its attacks on Ukraine the U.S. decided Ukraine should not attack Russia. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
In Estonia, watch also for troubles in city of Narva, right on the Russian border. 90% of the local population speaks Russian. An ideal place to start creating 'problems'...
Russian Telegram channels report that operations at Pulkovo Airport have been disrupted due to a drone attack on Russia's Leningrad region.
Will NATO go to war with Russia if it hits Tallinn with a few cruise missiles? That's the question to ask.
This is really bad. Russia often accuse others of what it does or plan to do itself. Considering the extreme appeasement of Russia in Europe and its alliance with the U.S. Russia might just try to hit Estonia to test if it can get away with it, which it likely can.
The suspension of oil flow through the Druzhba pipeline is costing Russia an estimated €370 million in crude export losses each month, or up to €1.5 billion by the end of 2025, according to Russian media.
Some more good news.
The exchange between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó is really something to behold of. The ratio is also interesting.
The biggest failure of the past week wasn’t about Trump or Putin, but Europe. Europe must decide what we’re willing to do to secure our continent. That starts with Ukraine. Until we do that & act accordingly, Putin & Trump will determine the direction of this war. berlinbridge.substack.com/subscribe
🇺🇦 72,6% of Ukrainians believe in Ukraine's victory over Russia, 16,9% do not believe.
