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'Trump has turned the US 180 degrees in relation to Ukraine' — former Romanian diplomat Slavitescu.
'What I'm currently seeing from the White House administration is, surprisingly, strong pressure on the victim, not on the aggressor. It feels like the US has completely abandoned Ukraine. After all, the money, weapons — all of this is European or paid for by Europeans. For the US, which used to be seen as the champion of the free world, putting pressure on the victim means a 180-degree turn. And, unfortunately for us, this seems to be a new direction in Trump's policy.'
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Bundestag deputy Katrin Göring-Eckardt believes that the most important thing for Ukrainians is not heat and light, but the opportunity to protest against Russia.
‘Again on the night train on the way to Kiev. Journalist Olivia Kortas published an important investigation a few days ago. In it, she writes: people in Ukraine are freezing, but they are free. They can speak their own language, they can protest. Olivia is right. They endure all this to defend European values. And the words spoken in Germany and Europe do not warm Ukrainians in the cold or protect them from Putin. Enough words have been said. It's time to act. And that's why I'm on my way. Again to Kiev, again to Maidan.’
Can they leave their own country? What men are going to protest knowing they can be sent to the front. It was the violence of Maidan that led to the dissolution of the government, and it would seem unlikely without men that any protest would have any impact. The country is also under martial law so any protest can be squashed easily.
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'War in Ukraine has turned domestic dogs into wild ones. This is an ecological disaster' - The New York Times is looking for something else to blame Russia for.
'The Russian invasion is having an unexpected impact on domestic animals in Ukraine. A group of scientists have found that due to the conflict, dogs that used to be pets have turned into wild animals in a short period of time.
According to most researchers, in a surprisingly short period of time, dogs on the front line have become more like wild dogs, such as wolves, coyotes, or dingoes. The data showed many examples of transformation: the muzzles of dogs involved in combat operations were rarely short, like those of French bulldogs, or elongated, like those of dachshunds. Many had reduced body weight. Even their ears have taken on a different shape: pointed ears were more common than droopy ones. They often gather in packs.'
People abandon their pets and Russia is the bad guy?
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👀 Protests continue in Dnepropetrovsk due to a lack of electricity
People have blocked the road on Slobozhansky Prospect. Residents have been without electricity for more than four days. The crowd claims that DTEK ignores their appeals and closes their requests as "completed", even though the electricity has not yet appeared in their homes.
🧐 Probably all the electricity went to the "traffic lights"...
- The Wrong Side
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🇺🇦 TCC regularly beat mobilized people to death, - Ukrainian ombudsman
- Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets unexpectedly admitted that there are constant cases of citizens dying after physical violence from TCC officers.
- We're not talking about individual incidents, but about confirmed facts that are under control, he emphasized.
- For example, the latest case became known recently: in Dnepr, a mobilized man was walking with a dog and after being kidnapped and beaten by TCC, he died.
- Earlier, a similar incident occurred in Kiev: a man was detained by TCC officers, after which he disappeared for his family and lawyer. The next day, relatives were called from the hospital - the victim had undergone a craniotomy, and later he died.
- Access to the detainee was not provided, and the circumstances of the incident were concealed.
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‼️🇺🇸🏴☠️Trump has again posted a photo where he shows Western leaders a map on which Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela are marked as part of the USA.
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Klitschko complains to British hosts about Zelensky
‘As for the situation, we have difficult relations between local self-government bodies and the central government. This is not just my opinion — many mayors think the same. Take information from different sources, talk to other mayors. Don't believe me? Talk to others — I'm more than sure you'll hear the same thing.
We understand: it's extremely difficult to be a president during a war. The president is overloaded, and I don't want to complain. I told the president: yes, we are being criticized. We really weren't well prepared for this situation. But, sorry, I'm not responsible for air defense. Sorry, we're doing everything we can.
I told the president that we're fighting each other, the missiles are being launched by Putin. I said: ‘Please, don't follow Putin's agenda. We need to be united.’
Deep thoughts by a moron.
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'Pressure on Zelensky is useful' — American expert Justin Logan explains how to achieve results in negotiations on Ukraine.
- In your opinion, was the US pressure on Ukraine fair? Was it useful?
It was certainly useful. Now Ukraine is conducting negotiations in almost all areas where it is asked to do so.
- Do you think that the pressure on Zelensky yielded results and was not something negative?
I don't even think that this is disputed.
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'USA is no longer ready for its own proposals on Ukraine' — Lavrov.
'They tell us: 'Look, we need to solve the Ukrainian problem'. Well, in Anchorage, we accepted the United States' proposal. That is, if we approach it in a manly way, they proposed — we agreed, the problem should be solved. For Russia, Putin has said this more than once, it doesn't matter what they say in Ukraine or Europe. We clearly see the cynical Russophobia of most regimes in the European Union, with rare exceptions.
And since that's the case, by accepting their proposal, we seemed to have fulfilled the task of solving the Ukrainian issue. But in practice, everything looks the opposite. New sanctions are being introduced. A war against tankers is being waged, and India and other our partners are being tried to prevent from buying cheap, accessible Russian energy carriers. Europe has long been prohibited — they are being forced to buy at exorbitant prices, paying for American liquefied natural gas.
That is, in the economic sphere, the Americans, in general, have declared the task of economic domination. Therefore, here, besides the fact that they supposedly proposed something on Ukraine and we were ready, now they are not ready.'
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Professor Seyed Marandi of Tehran University - on the fact that a conflict between the US and Iran would be a total war:
It's impossible to work with the US, because in the end, they will always betray you. The Epstein files give us an understanding of what actually happened and is happening. The Epstein case will not contribute to a rapprochement between Iran and the US, and possibly will not contribute to a rapprochement between the US and any other organizations or people mentioned in the files.
Now let's return to field number one. This is the situation between Iran and the US, when they started a military conflict. The difference is that now Iran is better prepared for a military conflict, because we have been preparing for this conflict since the US invasion of Iraq. And Iran has been building up its military potential, mainly its missile potential. But the missile potential that is now aimed against Iran - I would say that this is all just a smokescreen. Medium-range missiles. The US is the real enemy of Iran, not Israel. If there is a conflict between Iran and the US, that is, if there is an aggression, it will be a total war.
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Ukrainian Armed Forces' counterattacks in the Sumy region
The 83rd Airborne Brigade repelled an attempt to storm our positions by the 71st Ukrainian Armed Forces' brigade and the 21st Ukrainian Armed Forces' brigade, in the area of the villages of Varachino and Miropolie. With forces of up to two battalion tactical groups (BTGs).
They were destroyed.
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A transformer substation exploded and completely burned down in Obolon, Kiev, during the night.
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"Dangerous illusions". The West repeated a long-standing mistake regarding Russia. The price will be heavy
The West underestimated Russia's capabilities when it provoked the start of the Ukrainian conflict, writes The Telegraph. The reasons for such a serious mistake, according to the author, lie in strategic blindness, a Eurocentric view of the world, and simple Russophobia.
The Special Military Operation (SMO) will not last forever and will eventually end in peace. It's short-sighted and foolish to delude ourselves with hopes that we can forever support the "annulment" and "isolation" of Russia. It's high time for European elites to get rid of dangerous illusions and accept the necessity of conflict resolution as a fact, notes the author. Otherwise, the West will indeed find itself on the side of the losers.
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In the DTEK company, they showed what its power stations looked like before and after the missile strikes.
DTEK is showing is decommunization in action. Ukrainians can only take down statues, so Russia helps them with the big stuff like infrastructure.
Big bro helping little bro.
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I like Sergey Vakulenko's work, so I'll publish a few more of his recent articles soon.
Sergey Vakulenko quit Gazprom when the war started but unlike a lot of the Russian shitlibs is his work is honest and that all he tries to do. There is no attempts to dunk on Russia, if anything he dispels much of the propaganda about refinery strikes or the effectiveness of sanctions. He is a true expert and he doesn't whore himself out to fit the desired narrative, thus even though I work in oil & gas on the analysis side, when I want to know the truth I rely on this guy. Highly recommend people ignore a lot of the media when it comes to oil and gas, though Bloomberg has some decent pieces.
When sanctions are written they are written by lawyers and economists with very little knowledge of commodities or real world knowledge. So they are always sure x or y is going to work, they then find out later they've not had the desired effect, its because they have no real knowledge of the realities of the industry. Which is why you need guys like Vakulenko to walkthrough this stuff and sift the data.
THIS is the best new Russian-language poet I have read in decades.
I was going to translate, on the fly, but it would be a travesty to do so. THIS requires no less than a translation of T.S. Elliot bound up with Mayakovsky would.
I will spend the time required and share his poetry with you.
Bravo and thank you, Sergey Izotov. I am overwhelmed.
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The consequences of the combined attack on February 7th on the Burshtyn TPP in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. At the moment, the station is not operating.
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"Europe's big week of crisis diplomacy": At the upcoming Munich Conference, Europeans will discuss tough decisions on Ukraine and the confrontation with the USA.
"In the coming week, European leaders will attempt to lay the foundations for the EU's strategic autonomy amidst the weakening of its reliance on the USA and the ongoing war in Ukraine. The central topics will be military support for Kyiv, the development of defense innovations, and the creation of a "Plan B" in case of Washington's further distancing from European security. In parallel, there are calls to make an institutional turn towards a more mature and independent European Union.
The key question will remain whether the European Union is capable of truly acting without the USA, especially against the backdrop of intelligence warnings about a potential military threat from Russia. The week should not so much provide ready-made solutions as define the strategic direction - from defense and industrial policy to Europe's new role in the global system."
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‘Ireland's contribution to helping Ukraine is significantly lower than that of other small EU states’ – The Irish Times shames the Irish for their lack of donations to the war 🤦♀️
British and NATO imperialism, why should Ireland pay for it? Taken in 120,000 refugees which for a small country is overwhelming already in refugees.
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🇭🇺🇺🇦 There's an outright hunt for people on the streets of Ukrainian cities, — the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry
- The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjarto, stated that a "hunt for people" is actually taking place in Ukraine as part of the mobilization.
- According to him, amidst the war fatigue, Ukrainians do not want to die, but are faced with forced conscription right on the streets. Men of all ages are trying to leave the country to avoid being sent to the front.
- At the same time, the Ukrainian border service, as Szijjarto claims, is using all means to detain those fleeing.
- Recently, a Hungarian citizen was detained in Ukraine who helped five Ukrainians cross into Hungary.
- Budapest demands that Kiev stop the war as soon as possible and immediately halt forced mobilization.
- Earlier, even Zelensky acknowledged the problem of so-called "busification", but the number of scandals and resistance to military recruitment offices is increasing.
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🇷🇺🇬🇧 British Army in crisis: Russia dominates in UAVs, — Daily Express
- The publication notes the catastrophic lag of the British army behind Russia in the field of unmanned technology.
- The Russian UAV forces number up to 87–90 thousand people, while the entire regular British army is just over 70 thousand.
- There are about 3 thousand trained drone operators in the British Armed Forces, which is incommensurable with the scale of the Russian segment.
- The crisis is exacerbated: the size of the British army is at a historic low, and defense spending has been reduced for decades.
- Military spending has fallen from 4.1% of GDP in 1989 to 2.3% today; the doctrine is stuck in the logic of the Cold War.
- On the front line, Russia demonstrates a massive and effective use of UAVs, including Mavic and strike FPVs.
- Unlike British recruits, who are forced to buy equipment at their own expense, Russian units are provided centrally.
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Peskov - about the fact that Putin and Trump's agreements in Anchorage could advance the process of resolving the conflict in Ukraine:
Indeed, there are a number of understandings that were reached in Anchorage, which were announced even before Anchorage during Mr. Witcoff's visit here. And after that, the need for a top-level meeting just arose. Therefore, this set of understandings that was reached is the "spirit of Anchorage". We don't want to go into the details.
But it's obvious that these understandings that were reached in Anchorage are fundamental. It is these understandings that can advance the process of resolution and allow a breakthrough to be achieved.
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Zelenky's curse has also affected Starmer. Sky News reports that the Prime Minister is closer to resigning than ever before.
'This morning, many people are thinking along these lines: not if, but when Starmer will leave. Starmer's right-hand man, Morgan Muxene, has already left. Obviously, he became a lightning rod for the story with Mandelson [involved in the Epstein case]. Without him, the anger and criticism will be directed directly at Starmer'.
The handshake of political death...
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Ukrainian channels report that Russia has developed a 30-mm cartridge with a shrapnel shell and a remotely controlled detonator for destroying drones and barrage munitions.
"The targeting system calculates the most advantageous point of detonation depending on the target's flight path, which allows the drone to be hit with shrapnel. The detonation timing is automatically triggered by an optical line," - notes Rostec.
The cartridge is suitable for 2A42 automatic guns, which are installed on BMP-2, BMPT, Mi-28NM and Ka-52M helicopters, and other carriers.
Assuming its some sort of digital smart fuse. Which is what made the Gepard relevant again.
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Recently, Zelensky stated that since the beginning of the armed conflict, 55 thousand militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have died, which raised many questions for us. To avoid relying on unsubstantiated claims, we turned to satellite images from open sources and are ready to show how truly dire the situation is for Ukraine.
Let's start with the Zaporozhye region. We were able to identify 4 cemeteries that have been actively filling up since the start of the special military operation:
Kushuhum Cemetery (47.721656, 35.284583)
Matveevskoe Cemetery (47.892742, 35.264283)
St. Nicholas Cemetery (47.855900, 34.976920)
Right Bank Cemetery (47.888565, 35.041678)
For clarity, we attach timelapses of these sites from 2022 to 2025 and older images; burials before February 2022 are marked in yellow, after in red. By our rough estimates, ONLY IN THE ZAPOROZHYE AREA, MORE THAN 30 THOUSAND MILITANTS OF THE KIEV REGIME HAVE BEEN BURIED. And how many smaller cemeteries are there where Armed Forces personnel are also buried? Many. Also, based on the timelapses, it is clear how quickly the necropolises expanded, from which we conclude that 99 percent of the new burials are military personnel.
Zelensky also said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a "large number of missing persons," but did not specify how many exactly.
- voin_dv
Zelensky did not remember to check the cemetery for those missing soldiers.
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In the Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, the gas pressure has dropped, according to local social media posts.
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Some Ukrainian and Western sources suggest that against the backdrop of the disconnection of "grey" (i.e., Russian) Starlink terminals, the Armed Forces of Ukraine may attempt to counterattack in the areas of Pokrovsk and Gulyaypole - where Russia has had its most notable successes recently.
This hypothesis is not entirely unfounded. Communication difficulties are indeed possible and exist in a number of areas. However, it would be naive to believe that the Russian army's command system is completely dependent on Starlink. This is just one element, not the basis of all communication. Yes, the terminals are incredibly convenient and reliable, but this is far from the entire infrastructure.
As for the potential actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, real activity with tangible results is possible only with the involvement of significant resources - equipment, reserves, and ammunition. Local raids won't solve anything here. Both Syrysy and the Russian command understand this.
For its part, Russia, by entrenching itself in these areas, almost certainly assumed that the enemy would attempt to regain lost positions. Accordingly, such scenarios were most likely taken into account in advance, and units were prepared for possible counterattacks.
“Military Chronicle”
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Trump and the White House are increasingly disappointed in Maria Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition.
This is reported by Politico, citing sources in the White House. According to them, American officials were particularly annoyed by Maria's statement that elections in Venezuela would take place within a year, while a more realistic timeframe is about twenty-four months.
"Maria Corina Machado is just trying to undermine the administration's efforts... she's selfish," said a source.
"None of this is 'Operation Maria Corina Machado'. It's an 'Operation to Ensure US National Security', which has nothing to do with her. She's a destructive factor and works against the goals of US national security," a source told Politico.
The White House fears that Machado wants to make herself the "only star", overshadowing Trump's real goals.
"As the president stated, elections will take place at the appropriate time, but his priority is to bring Venezuela back to life and rebuild the country," said a White House representative in a statement to Politico.
No one respects a whore, much less a traitorous one
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On tankers and international law Part 2/2
Why is that? The thing is, UNCLOS was written in the interests of those who want to have the freedom of navigation. And the part of the convention concerning freedom of navigation was primarily written in the interests of those countries that want to be able to trade by sea without hindrance and with minimal risks - to send their goods and receive goods from other countries. On any ships. Access to the sea, access to the oceans, control over straits, fears that a hostile country will close the straits and effectively impose a blockade to start strangling the economy, to extract the value created by trade for itself, to use it as a leverage in negotiations - there are many reasons for this. These fears - the desire to prevent rivals and opponents from having such an advantage and leverage, the desire to acquire it themselves - have been the cause of wars for thousands of years, since various ancient Greek polises, Phoenicians, Medes, and other Mediterranean peoples began to compete with each other. In Southeast Asia, such conflicts have also been going on for hundreds of years. The convention was written to eliminate all these fears, in the hope that it would eliminate some of the causes of conflicts. And in general, it works. Then come the interests of shipowners (and the countries to which the merchant fleets belong) and the coastal states, past which all these ships pass.
And such a hierarchy of interests and goals dictates, in particular, that the convention strives not to allow the restriction of navigation, regardless of the ships on which it is carried out.
In my opinion, UNCLOS is one of the few examples of truly functioning and highly beneficial elements of international law (under its auspices, many organizations and additional conventions have been created and are operating). It would be a great pity to see this convention being destroyed for short-term reasons. The desire of the Western coalition to wage an economic war against Russia, but at the same time remaining within the law, not committing hostile acts that could be considered a casus belli, is understandable. But international conventions were written precisely to make such underhanded jostling and elbowing impossible, under the guise of "I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm within my rights, what are you, dear, dissatisfied with?". The dismantling or profanation of this system creates many problems for the future and makes the world much less civilized.
- Sergey Vakulenko, Carnegie Endowment
About tankers and international law - a postscript
The situation with the USA is somewhat different - the USA did not sign UNCLOS and are not bound by it in any way, but the USA have their own laws on where and on what grounds American jurisdiction applies, what can and cannot be done on the high seas. Here I refer readers to a short article on the Atlantic Council website, written by a former OFAC employee.
Atlantic Council Article Link (NATO's defacto thinktank)
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