'Ukrainian arms company showcases attack UAV with 200-km range' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Dutch journalist (ret). Former security and defence editor at Radio Netherlands. Earlier: correspondent in Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Prague. Here: news selection on Russia's war against Ukraine and other defence issues. Anonymous followers not welcome.
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'Ukrainian arms company showcases attack UAV with 200-km range' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
'Zelensky outlines details of Coalition of the Willing meeting: Our goal is to end war with reliable peace' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyt...
Trump wil dat Europa economische druk zet op Rusland en China
⚡️Macron: 26 nations ready to send troops or military support to Ukraine as part of a 35-nation plan for security guarantees, calling it a “strategic signal to prevent renewed fighting.”
💀 Macron: Russia has lost some one million soldiers by the dead or wounded.
🇫🇷🇺🇦 Macron: 26 countries committed to taking part in reassurance force in Ukraine, be it land, sea or air role. In next few days, US support to security guarantees will be finalised. If Russia continues to refuse peace talks, there will be new sanctions in coordination with the US.
As a result of a russian missile strike near Chernihiv, 2 humanitarian mission workers who were conducting demining operations were killed. 3 more people were wounded. Some people dedicate their lives to saving others. In terrorist russia, people are raised and taught to kill.
Country famous for being a 'gas station with nukes' now has no gas.
Two next steps for European action in the next days: 1) working on American support: US has reassured Europeans that there will be US support, scope and nature needs to be clarified 2) sanctions and secondary sanctions Meetings: another bilateral RUS-US and trilateral US-RUS-UKR
Coalition of the willing meeting today in Paris is over. Livestream below: Key elements: - 26 states ready to deploy troops: Europe, Asia, Canada - deployment ONLY "on the day after the ceasefire" More: 🧵 www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
🇸🇪 Swedish authorities on Thursday accused #Russia of being behind a surge in GPS interference over the Baltic Sea that has increasingly disrupted aviation. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/04/s...
Eleven years under Russian occupation and Ukraine’s Donetsk region has been looted to the point that surviving residents are forced to make public pleas, asking the "authorities" to stop stealing everything.
Earlier this week, two Dutch F-35s were scrambled during a large-scale Russian attack against Ukraine. They were to defend Polish airspace, but reportedly didn't fire shots in anger. The Netherlands and Norway have jointly deployed F-35's to Rzeszów, a major hub for Western support to Ukraine.
'F-35’s gealarmeerd vanwege mogelijke dreiging NAVO-grondgebied' www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieu...
Een bezoek aan Trump wordt niet afgestemd met de regering, hij gebruikt zijn veto in een maand meer dan zijn voorganger in een jaar - de nieuwe Poolse president trekt zijn eigen plan. Stuk voor @nieuws.nos.nl nos.nl/artikel/2581...
Tijdens de aanval hebben twee Russische drones het Poolse luchtruim geschonden, meldt het opperbevel. Ze zouden het luchtruim weer verlaten hebben zonder schade aan te richten.
Nederlandse F-35’s zijn eerder deze week ingezet om het Poolse luchtruim te beveiligen tijdens een Russische aanval op Oekraïne. Dat heeft het Poolse opperbevel bekendgemaakt op X. Warschau heeft Nederland bedankt voor de inzet. De F-35’s opereren gedurende 3 maanden vanaf het vliegveld van Rzeszów.
⚡️ Two drones violated Polish airspace amid Russian attack on Ukraine, Warsaw says. The drones left Polish territory without causing damage, Poland's General Staff Chief Wieslaw Kukula said.
🦩🚀 Flamingo missiles attack on Crimea, - Exilenova ❗️One missile hit FSB building. The second left a crater near the boats, which were probably damaged by the shock wave. The third one fell a few hundred meters from the object - it was probably shot down.
Luchtalarm in Kyiv. Een 'snel bewegend object' vliegt richting de stad.
Looks like your typical 'go-fast', used by drug smugglers in the Caribbean. The Dutch navy, operating out of Curacao, has been intercepting lots of these, in cooperation with the US Coast Guard. Two MoD photos attached.
Rutte: Poetin bepaalt niet of westerse troepen naar Oekraïne gaan
While peace talks drag on, Putin is plotting a fresh assault in eastern Ukraine — with 100,000 troops now massed near Pokrovsk, a key transport hub for Ukrainian forces in Donbas that Moscow has failed to capture in over a year. www.kyivpost.com/post/59438
‘Spiegel learns Germany's potential contribution to security guarantees for Ukraine’ www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
Ukrainian drone strikes strangle Putin’s fuel supplies. Refinery attacks have triggered a fuel crisis and halted Moscow’s lucrative gas exports — as pressure grows on the Russian president to start negotiating. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
⚡️ 15 killed, 26 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day. Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 112 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight, with air defenses intercepting 84.
❗️The "Coalition of the Willing" meeting has started at the Elysee Palace. Trump's representative Witkoff is present at the meeting
❗️It is not for Russia to decide whether Ukraine can have foreign troops as security guarantees, — NATO Secretary General Rutte Ukraine is a sovereign nation. If Ukraine wants to have security guarantors in Ukraine to support a peace agreement, that is up to them. No one else can decide that.
Allegations that Russia jammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s private jet gripped Europe this week ― but the story is beginning to unravel.
🇫🇷🇺🇦 Macron said that the partners have completed the preparation of security guarantees for Ukraine, and now the document awaits political approval. 👀 Today in Paris, a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" with Zelensky, followed by a conversation with Trump.
✈️🇺🇦💣 Russian drone pilots, who regularly engaged in their usual business in this building - terrorizing local residents, fully felt the power of Ukrainian aviation, - Soniashnyk ✔️ Hola Prystan, a temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region.
Russian fascists are brainwashing and training children taken from occupied Ukraine to die for Russia in the war against their own homeland, and eventually against the rest of Europe.
🙏 In Odesa, a warehouse was on fire, a truck was damaged as a result of an attack by Russia, — State Emergency Service ❗️More than 40 rescuers extinguished the fire. According to preliminary information, there were no injuries.
Daar hebben ze mij niets over verteld ;)
Daily update on Russia's war against Ukraine by the Centre for Defense Strategies: cdsdailybrief.substack.com/p/russias-wa...
'European leaders face tough choices as the UK and France host another meeting on Ukraine' apnews.com/article/ukra...
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‘Church destroyed by Russian shelling in Myrnohrad’ www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...
Journalistiek niet meer mogelijk in Rusland? Met een stevig team (en ja, dat kost wat) kan er veel, zo laat Steve Rosenberg maar weer eens zien vanuit Vladivostok www.bbc.com/news/article...
‘Buitenlandse troepen als onderdeel van veiligheidsgaranties voor Rusland “onaanvaardbaar”’ www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/l...
‘Om 15.00 uur is Nederland een nieuw legeronderdeel rijker: in Den Haag gaat dan het nieuwe operationeel hoofdkwartier van start. Dit moet defensie op elk moment van de dag een compleet beeld geven van alles wat bij de krijgsmacht vliegt, vaart, rijdt en rolt.’ www.ad.nl/politiek/joi...
‘Zelenskyy in Paris explains why territorial concessions to Putin are unacceptable’ www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
‘DeepState analyses Russian attempts to penetrate Kupiansk’ www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
⚡️Russia’s Belgorod governor bans residents from posting unofficial drone strike footage. Belgorod authorities introduced new restrictions on sharing information about drone attacks in the region, the Astra Telegram channel reported on Sept. 3.
⚡️ Ukrainian military 'strongest' security guarantee for Europe, EU's Kallas says, as Russia shows no intent to end war. "That is why we are also supporting them with training, funding, and equipment," EU Foreign Affairs Chief Kaja Kallas said.
@TheStudyofWar NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin explicitly stated that he does not consider Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be the legitimate president of Ukraine, invalidating the very basis of any future peace agreement between Ukraine and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Met de Donbas vernietigen de Russen het Sovjet-erfgoed van #Oekraïne. Zoals de historische toegangspoort van de befaamde machinefabriek van #Druzhkivka.
"I am the law."
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
Factievorming in de VS.
Macron: Europa bereid om veiligheidsgaranties te bieden aan Oekraïne na vredesakkoord https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/03/macron-europa-bereid-om-veiligheidsgaranties-te-bieden-aan-oekraine-na-vredesakkoord-a4904981
🇨🇳 China secretly supplied Russia with £47m worth of parts and materials for the production of UAVs, — The Telegraph. Russian companies received engines, fiberglass, microchips, cameras. £11m went to the production of Shaheds. 97 Chinese manufacturers supplied their products to Russian companies.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
🚨 Russia: Fuel crisis has reached Moscow. Some gas stations are out of 95 RON octane (equivalent to US 91 octane). Around 20% of Russian oil refining capacity has been taken out by recent Ukrainian strikes.
🇫🇮🇺🇦Finnish President Alexander Stubb & President Zelenskyy at the airport today. Notice two things; 1: A red carpet roll out, 2: Matching outfits, not suits. It’s subtle, yet clear signs of respect & unity ✊🏼 Two strong world leaders, with the same demonic, terrorist neighbor.
Half of clashes since day start take place in Pokrovsk axis – General Staff #Ukraine
⚡️ Britain is preparing to send military forces to Ukraine once the war comes to an end. united24media.com/latest-news/...
Ukraine says 40% of its long-range strike targets in 2025 have been Russian refineries. And the tempo of the campaign shows no signs of flagging
⚡️ Zelensky arrives in Paris, meets Macron ahead of security guarantees summit with 'Coalition of the Willing.' It's Zelensky's eighth visit to Paris since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
📍Higher quality images of the damaged FSB base in Crimea.
Satellite imagery of the aftermath of a claimed strikes by new ‘Flamingo’ missiles on the Russian base in Armyansk, Crimea. Big crater is seen never the shoreline. Consistent with the declared one-ton warhead mass.
Myrnohrad literally means ‘Peaceful city’. It is close to Pokrovsk.
In August Ukraine hit these fuel targets 2nd Ryazan 3rd Sochi 7th Afipsky 8 Yertan (Millerovo) 10 Saratov 12 Unecha/Druzhba 14 Volgograd 16 Nevinnomyssk Nitrogen 18 Nikolske 20 Novoshakhtinsk 21 Unecha/Druzhba 22 Albashneft 24 Syzran 28 Kuibyshev + Afipsky 30 Krasnodar + Syzran
Het moet wel iets met defensie te maken hebben. Bijvoorbeeld versterking van bruggen en viaducten zodat ze het gewicht van tanks aankunnen.
'Van een vlaggetje tot rommelige gedenkplek: Kyiv worstelt met spontaan eerbetoon aan gesneuvelde soldaten' platformraam.nl/uit-andere-m...
KYIV POST: Ukraine Upgrades ‘Palianytsia’ Drone Missile – Now With 650 km Range A new version of Ukraine’s “drone missile” initially unveiled last year was spotted at an arms exhibition in Poland, according to defense outlet Militarnyi. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/59380 #Ukraine […]
'Ukraine responds to Putin's proposal for Zelenskyy to meet him in Moscow: "unacceptable"' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
First time a Global Hawk has been flying over Finnmark in northernmost Norway. www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/glo... #AirForce #NATO
Putin’s Pals Brag that Trump and Tulsi Followed His Orders The Kremlin is delighted that a slew of current and former intelligence officers were stripped of their security clearance, claiming it as a huge victory for Putin. My latest for @thedailybeast: www.thedailybeast.com/putins-state...
Donald Trump vowed today to keep American troops in Poland, adding he could even increase their numbers. “We’ll put more there if they want,” Trump told journalists at a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki. “They’ll be staying in Poland.” www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Starting 1 December, Denmark will produce solid rocket fuel for Ukraine’s long-range Flamingo missiles, part of Kyiv’s multibillion-dollar European-funded arms buildup The plant will be located near Skrydstrup Airbase, home to Danish F‑35 fighters euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/03/u...
Nederland heeft de wapenexport naar Israël fors ingeperkt – maar nog niet genoeg, zeggen tien organisaties
Trump: “We never even thought of removing soldiers from Poland. We do think about it with regard to other countries. But we are with Poland all the way and we will help Poland protect itself.”
'The US has warned European allies against using creative accounting to meet NATO’s 5% spending target, a warning seen as directed at Italy's controversial plan to classify the Strait of Messina bridge as a military expense. ' www.euractiv.com/section/defe...
Dodental Kostyantynivka gestegen naar negen.
Based on experience so far, the consequence will be that Trump will warn Putin that if he doesn't stop the war in two weeks, there will be consequences (& repeat ad inf).
Amerikaanse aanval op vermeende drugsboot in internationale wateren is een "aanslag op de internationale rechtsorde". Meer: marineschepen.nl/nieuws/aanva...
'Oekraïense wapenfabrikant gaat in Denemarken brandstof produceren voor nieuwe kruisraket' www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/l...
Deze uitspraak van Poetin tijdens persconferentie in China. Lees: zolang Poetin (met hulp van Trump) Zelensky's arm niet helemaal omgewrongen krijgt om een onmogelijke deal te sluiten, blijft Rusland doorvechten tot het krijgt wat het wil...👇
'Putin tells Ukraine: end war via talks or I will end it by force' www.reuters.com/world/europe...
'Polish president will press Trump to keep strong US military presence in his country to deter Russia' apnews.com/article/trum...
🔴 Russia is forcing abducted Ukrainian children into its army once they turn 18.
'Russians pulling reinforcements to Pokrovsk sector, Dobropillia salient' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...
'New data shows Russian oil and gas revenues down 35% year-on-year' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
'Putin says he can end war in Ukraine "on acceptable terms", otherwise by force' www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
China is het als eerste land gelukt om mensachtige robots te maken. Worden vooral in het leger ingezet. Het is niet bekend hoe lang hun batterij meegaat.🫢
Acht doden door Russische beschieting van Oekraïense frontstad Kostyantynivka.
⚡️Ukraine plans to roll out enhanced military contracts for soldiers over 24, official says. The offer may also be made available to those already serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky's Deputy Chief of Staff Pavlo Palisa said.
NSTRIKE BREAKING: at this moment, more than 300 Ukrainian kamikaze drones are massively attacking the Kursk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Ryazan Rostov, and Krasnodar regions in Western and southern Russia – in some cities, loud explosions can be hurt
Haha!
During a joint press conference with Danish PM Mette Frederiksen, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a call with U.S. President Donald Trump in the near future to increase sanctions on Russia, aiming to get Vladimir Putin to agree to leader-level talks soon.
Ukraine plans to roll out enhanced military contracts for soldiers over 24, official says #Ukraine
Ukraine’s Air Force tests a new glide bomb. It’s the kind of long-range, stand-off weapon Kyiv needs to strike back from a distance. www.kyivpost.com/post/59392
Lavrov: "For lasting peace, new territorial realities must be recognized under international law." They want international recognition of Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories. If that happens, that will mean completely destruction of existing international law and order.
⚡️ Poltava Oblast authorities deny wrongdoing amid claims of $5 million in embezzled fortification funds.
Dit is een buitenrechtelijke executie van burgers, aka niet-combattanten. Er is geen gewapend conflict/oorlog. Genoeg normale rechtshandhavende mogelijkheden om dit aan te pakken, al is het misschien niet in internationale wateren.
Pas op het moment dat de EU over dit soort kernraketten beschikt kan het meepraten met de grote jongens. Ook in de 21ste eeuw komt macht nog steeds uit de loop van het spreekwoordelijke geweer. Soft power is leuk, maar zet geen geostrategische zoden aan de dijk.
