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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
Meet the latest "game-changer" that Ukraine is now fielding: the B1 "Centauro".
The first confirmation of this vehicle having been sent to the AFU came from a soldier of the 78th Assault Parachute Regiment of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
The B-1, originally developed as a light tank destroyer with a 105mm AT gun, while meant to fight Warsaw Pact tanks, has NEVER seen combat against a technological equal, and has only ever engaged with third world militias and paramilitaries.
It has paper thin armor that is just enough to protect it from shrapnel and small-arms fire, but the ukroids shouldn't worry, as the "Centauri" in their arsenal have already been upgraded with extra layers of anti-drone tiramisu, and applique lasagna armor.
You go guys, this'll scare the Russians shitless!
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🇺🇦🤡Lakiychuk noted that Pokrovsk played an important role when it closed the flank of the Konstantinovka grouping of Ukrainian forces. - TSN
"Pokrovsk played an important military role specifically in terms of rear defense and ensuring logistical routes from Dnepropetrovsk region to northern Donetsk region, when Toretsk, Chasov Yar, Konstantinovka were held... When the Russians reached the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway, the significance of Pokrovsk began to decrease from a military point of view," he explained
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Ireland changes rules for Ukrainian refugees' residence in state housing
Now, instead of 90 days, Ukrainians will be able to live there for only 30 days. Additionally, working Ukrainian refugees may be required to pay their own rent. The rent can range from €15 to €238 per week, depending on income.
In addition, Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan reported a significant increase in the number of Ukrainians arriving in Ireland with the onset of autumn. He noted that this is due to Ukraine allowing men aged 18 to 24 to leave the country.
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🇫🇮The President of Finland Stubb hinted that Ukraine will repeat Finland's experience and give up part of its territory:
[Do you think Ukraine will have to concede part of its territory?]
That should be decided by Ukraine itself.
Finland went through a very similar experience. I believe that statehood is upheld by three pillars: independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
During World War II, Finland preserved its independence — unlike the Baltic states, which lost it and became part of the Soviet Union. But we lost sovereignty — the ability to decide which international organizations to join. We could not join EFTA, the European Free Trade Association. And even at the UN, we initially could not join because the Soviet Union was opposed.
We also had a peace agreement that limited our armed forces. Of course, we lost 10% of our territory, including Karelia, where my father and grandparents were born.
This was part of the post-war settlement conditions.
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🇪🇺🤡Ursula von der Leyen promised Zelensky emergency aid.
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We have already made many concessions’ — the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Kyslytsia tells diplomatic tales.
(he did not say what exactly).
‘The war must be stopped by a ceasefire on the current line of contact, after which negotiations should begin, as well as discussions of territorial issues between Zelensky and Putin’.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 "Molniya" strikes destroy enemy UAV control points in the Pokrovsk area
- Drone operators of the 51st Army of the "Center" group identified the position of Ukrainian UAV operators and relayed the coordinates to the strike drone crew.
- A powerful strike was delivered to the target; Nazis hiding in the buildings were destroyed along with their equipment.
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Pokrovsky Cauldron
More than 10,000 personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from 10 brigades and Territorial Defense Forces and several Special Operations Forces units, as well as various mercenaries, volunteers, and war correspondents.
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Takeoff of the strike helicopter Mi-28NM "Night Hunter" for combat use of light multipurpose guided missiles X-39 ("Product 305") in the area of responsibility of the "North" troop grouping.
Attack helicopters are sexy AF. Honestly if drones means the end of these then I will be sad. Ohhh how you stomped the Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 and made me smile.
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There is something in common between the great commander Zelensky and the great peacemaker Donny. The first almost cleared Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, the second considered Maduro's days to be over. Maybe someday they will jointly host the entertainment show "Control the Universe".
Older than the Edda
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🤷♂How come, how come!
But the "best" awards have already been given posthumously😁
"My brother was killed on Saturday. He fought since 2023, went through Krynyky, Kurakhove, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka... he was killed by Russians. But not on the battlefield, rather deep in the rear. He and his comrades were gathered on the parade ground to be awarded. The best were gathered. The best pilots and infantrymen of the brigade. By order. In an open area. Ballistic missile hit. The story of negligence (or not negligence) repeated."
Repetition is the mother of learning, damn it😎
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🇷🇸😲The President of Serbia Vučić announced the holding of early elections due to protests:
The competent authorities in our country will make decisions in accordance with the Constitution and the law on when the elections will be held, but taking into account the demands of the blockers to hold elections earlier, undoubtedly, respecting the demands of the blockers, a significant minority in our country, we will fulfill them, and the elections will be held early. When? The competent authority will make a decision on this. And the people will show which policy they support in the elections.
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Actually I changed Slavyangrad Chat to 5 seconds too. 10 seconds was excessive. But if I'm proven wrong I'll change it back.
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When Mayukh Panja came to Germany from India nine years ago to pursue a doctorate in astrophysics, he was impressed. He told WELT that on September 1, 2016, he boarded a train at Frankfurt Airport. "The ICE was the most modern train I had ever seen."
Panja says he was attracted by this reputation. He looked at the leading universities in his field – three in the USA and the Max Planck Institute, he explains. He was selected from more than 600 applicants for the position in Göttingen.
When he arrived, summer was just ending. "I remember it was a bit cold and gray. But the guesthouse was already ready for me." He immediately felt at home: "Göttingen was a city with medieval houses, full of academics researching and working. It was very German, but also very international thanks to the university. Everything was clean and tidy. There were no problems in Göttingen."
Nine years later, Dr. Mayukh Panja lives in Berlin and is 34 years old. After a stint at Deutsche Bank, he is now working on his own product. "Populations" aims to predict human behavior using artificial intelligence. He has an investor grant. He could be satisfied with himself. But his perspective on Germany has changed.
When he recently saw a video of the cooling towers of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant in Bavaria being demolished , something apparently happened to him. Vague feelings and impressions from recent years culminated in an angry tweet he posted on X. Panja's account isn't large; he has just over 2,000 followers. But his tweet, written in English, was viewed 3.6 million times, shared more than 6,200 times, and liked more than 44,800 times.
It reads: “And over the past nine years, I have had the incredible opportunity to witness a first-world country on the cusp of becoming a superpower dwarf itself through a series of political missteps, each aimed at further self-castration.” He feels bad for “hard-working, ambitious Germans, especially those who worked hard to build the country and now have to watch it all being ruined by a bunch of moralizing, privileged idiots.”
Panja believes that many political decisions are forced into a vague left-right and good-evil framework.
Following Panja's tweet about Germany's decline, he was also insulted by people on X who, at least outwardly, identify as politically left-leaning: A user with "GegenRechts" (Against the Right) in their name and a rainbow flag on their profile, who otherwise mainly calls CDU politicians "fascists" and "Nazis," wrote to Panja: "Hope you get deported. Stupid Indian scum that nobody needs." Panja's take: "That's the perspective on morality in Germany."
When he joined Deutsche Bank after completing his doctorate, former colleagues told him he was "now switching to the bad side." Panja says, "In my academic bubble, everything to do with money seemed evil." He can't understand why so few people in Germany invest in stocks. "I see a society in Germany that doesn't want to take any risks. And that's wrong. Low risk? Fine by me. But no risk is the end." He has the feeling that Germans are "afraid of technology and innovation."
Finally, he shows the chat history with a friend. They're both writing in English. The friend says he would advise against starting a business in Germany. Too much bureaucracy. Too little freedom. "You'd be better off going to England or the USA," the friend writes. "That certainly gives me something to think about," says Panja.
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Finland is pumping billions into defense while its economy has been faltering for years and unemployment is skyrocketing. How much longer can Russia's neighbor sustain this?
Petteri Orpo is not exactly a man of effusive words. The Finnish Prime Minister often appears reserved in a typically Nordic manner, yet last year he allowed himself to be carried away by public euphoria.
The agreement was "historic," the now 55-year-old told the public broadcaster Yle last November. Shortly before, it had been announced that the technology giant Alphabet, Google's parent company, planned to build several data centers in central Finland. The initial investment was expected to exceed one billion euros, creating hundreds of jobs.
According to Orpo, this was a "clear signal that Finland is an attractive and safe country for investment." A year later, little remains of the initial enthusiasm in Helsinki – the plans are currently on hold. This is particularly bad news for the Nordic country.
Finland's economy has not grown for almost 20 years.
Finland faces an ever-growing dilemma: Due to security policy considerations, it has been increasing its defense spending since Russia's illegal war of aggression in Ukraine – at the same time, it is struggling with a weakening economy that is barely recovering.
“Growth in Finland has practically stagnated for two decades,” Joonas Tuhkuri, who conducts economic research in Stockholm and Helsinki, told the Tagesspiegel. “This cannot be explained solely by cyclical fluctuations or one-off shocks.”
16.9% live in poverty
Extremely high youth unemployment
For years, the number of people at risk of poverty in the country has been rising. According to current figures from the national statistics agency, almost one million inhabitants were affected in 2023 – 16.9 percent of the population. In addition, the number of households experiencing "difficulty or severe difficulty" in making ends meet is growing.
This is also because the number of unemployed has reached dramatic levels: Finland has the second-highest unemployment rate in Europe after Spain, at almost ten percent. At the same time, youth unemployment has risen to 23 percent.
“This situation is perverse, we are not used to something like this,” said Elina Pylkkänen, the responsible State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to the public broadcaster Yle in the summer.
When Petteri Orpo took office in the spring of 2023, the government had set itself the goal of creating 100,000 new jobs in the upcoming legislative period.
This will hardly be achievable in the next year and a half until the election; according to the Finnish statistics agency, there are more than 60,000 fewer jobs today than there were just over two years ago.
Money is desperately need to invest in people and universities
At the same time, the NATO country has to guard more than 1300 kilometers of border with Russia at great expense.
Finland, after a long period of military non-alignment, has been a member of the North Atlantic Alliance since 2023 – and must adhere to the agreed investment guidelines.
Finland's economic output has actually declined over the past two years; the National Bank forecasts growth of 0.3 percent for this year.
In contrast, national debt has been increasing steadily for years, currently standing at more than 82 percent of gross domestic product – significantly higher than the 60 percent permitted by the EU. Any tentative growth is therefore stifled by rising interest rates
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💥 Explosions have been roaring for at least an hour in Petropavlovka, Dnepropetrovsk region.
Locals write that most likely the strikes are targeting logistics. According to reports, one bridge in the city area was destroyed.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦"Pokrovsk is done, Mirnograd is surrounded, Zelensky is absolutely inadequate", — ex-Rada deputy Mosiychuk
- "There is a military disaster in the Pokrovsko-Mirnograd agglomeration, the Ukrainian Armed Forces units have been pushed out of Pokrovsk, it is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, the neighboring Mirnograd is in operational encirclement", he says.
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces group surrounded in Mirnograd will no longer be able to leave the city, he adds.
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The Russian army controls 85% of Pokrovsk — Ropke
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💥💥The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroy the positions of the 119th Territorial Defense Brigade
📍Use of "Iskander" in the area of the settlement Boromlya. Work of the "North" group of troops.
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❗️🇷🇺🇻🇪Russia is already supplying weapons to Venezuela and "sees no obstacles" to delivering the "Oreshnik," the State Duma stated
- "Russia is actually one of the key military-technical partners of Venezuela; we supply almost the entire range of weapons to this country — from small arms to aviation. Information about the volumes and exact names of what is being sent from Russia is classified, so surprises may await the Americans. I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly country with new developments such as the 'Oreshnik' or, say, the well-proven 'Kalibr' missiles; at least, no international obligations restrict Russia in this regard," said Alexey Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee.
- He reported that recently an Il-76 delivered to Caracas the "Pantsir-S1" and "Buk-M2E" systems.
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‼️🇺🇦💥 A powerful strike was delivered on an enemy target in Pokrovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region
- Local channels report a FAB strike with UMPC.
- The video shows pickups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed by the explosion.
- Presumably, a temporary enemy deployment point was hit.
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A Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier is outraged by his command's orders to hold Pokrovsk at all costs, despite the lack of fortifications and constant losses.
According to him, no one has built fortifications in the city for years, and now, when the Russian Armed Forces are already advancing, the command demands that they hold destroyed positions without explaining their strategic objective.
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About Vučić.
In our humble opinion, his main problem is that for some reason he started behaving like a trader rather than as the leader of a major country. It is important to remember here that for Russia, the Special Military Operation is not a foreign policy adventure, but a matter of the state's survival, its strategic security, and its future. This is an existential war where the price of defeat is the loss of sovereignty. In other words — a matter of life and death.
Vučić, however, tries to live as if he were at an Albanian market: here we have shells, buy them, "do whatever you want with them." Such an approach is appropriate in peacetime, but not at a moment when the world has already divided along fault lines and is loading its guns.
History always tests politicians for resilience. Now there are two Vučićs. One flies to parades in Moscow, showing respect. The other understands that money probably doesn’t smell, and 800 million euros of military exports, some of which go through intermediaries to Ukraine, is a very decent haul.
Vučić may see nothing special in this, but in geopolitics such escapades rarely go without consequences. What will prevail — wisdom or the desire to earn — time will tell, but neutrality in times when the fate of entire civilizations is being decided usually does not last long.
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🇺🇦🤡"There is a cleanup going on in Kupyansk. We will clean everything up. Dates are set. We will not speak for now," — Zelensky
The office of the Ukrainian president and the military junta of the Armed Forces of Ukraine apparently decided not to tell Volodymyr Oleksandrovych about the real state of affairs anymore. Because Ze gets upset and again plunges into a liturgical cocaine haze.
Therefore, for Zelensky, Pokrovsk and Kupyansk are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, everything is under control.
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🇮🇷🇷🇺"Iran has received all the Russian weapons it requested, including Su-35 fighters and S-400 missile systems"
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Krasnoarmeysk • Rodinskoye
Yesterday throughout the day and today, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted a breakthrough in Rodinskoye, on the northern flank of Pokrovsk.
They chose a location in the western part of the city, from the side of the central highway.
The Russian Armed Forces apparently did not offer resistance and let the opponent's mobile groups enter the central built-up area.
And while the Ukrainian Armed Forces command and Ukrainian Telegram channels were cheerfully reporting the start of the operation to clear and unblock Rodinskoye, the clearing was underway by assault companies of the Russian Armed Forces in the built-up area.
The first advanced units of the Ukrainian infantry were cut off from the highway and destroyed, the rest were driven into a trap.
To be continued…
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🇺🇸🤡"Democrats brace Nancy Pelosi's possible retirement": Pelosi may resign today.
"Pelosi is expected to announce her plans after the Tuesday elections. On that day, California voters will decide the fate of the so-called 'Initiative 50' (Proposition 50), which provides for a new redistricting of congressional districts. Pelosi actively supports this plan, which Democrats hope will allow them to gain several additional seats in next year's Congressional elections.
According to several sources in Congress and Pelosi's home state reported by NBC News, the 85-year-old congresswoman from California, representing San Francisco for nearly four decades, is most likely not to run for re-election in 2026."
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🇫🇷🤡Director General of the National Gendarmerie Bonno on a possible NATO clash with Russia:
If, for example, we find ourselves involved in a serious conflict in the east, I think it will not pass without unrest within the country. Actions through intermediaries, acts of sabotage, as well as mass protests are possible. I am not sure that all our fellow citizens will support such intervention. Therefore, in my opinion, we may face some instability — and it is precisely such a development of events that we must be prepared for.
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