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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1h

🇺🇸🤔🇭🇺 Trump to Orban: You are fantastic. I know a lot of people don't agree with me, but I am the only one that matters.

I endorsed him the last election and he won by 28 points. You will do even better even this time if you have another election.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2h

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Successful assistance in helping to end the Russian-Ukrainian war could outline the U.S. capacity to show leadership in more complicated cases.

🚀 Trump claims he would first “talk to the Russians,” and then, maybe, send Tomahawks to Ukraine.

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theukrainianreview.info/8-wars-ended...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7h

🇺🇸🤔 Trump: I sent Witkoff to meet with Putin thinking it would be 15-20 minute meeting.

Witkoff had no idea about Russia or Putin. He did not know much about politics.

His meeting with Putin lasted 5 hours. I said "what the hell did you talk about for 5 hours?" They talked about interesting things.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 9h

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Hamas announced it had handed over all living hostages to Israel, - BBC

Hamas announced the release of all surviving hostages, and the bodies of the 28 dead Israelis will be handed over later, according to BBC Istanbul correspondent.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇸😲 Trump is one of the largest private Bitcoin holders on the planet, his BTC assets are estimated at $870 million, — Forbes.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 20h

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump: Ukraine needs Patriots very badly. They’d like to have Tomahawks. We’ll see.

I might have to speak to Russia about that. Tomahawks are new step of aggression.

If this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks.

Biden gave them $350 billion. We gave them respect.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

📉 The import ban on Russian coal alone has affected one-quarter of Russia’s global coal exports, resulting in an €8 billion annual revenue loss.

🔥 However, after a series of attacks, Russia has begun to experience shortages at home.

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theukrainianreview.info/bad-news-for...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇨🇳🇺🇸 J.D. Vance: In the coming weeks, we'll find out whether China wants to start a trade war against the US or whether they're willing to be reasonable.

If they respond very aggressively, I guarantee you, Trump has a lot more cards than China. I hope they choose the path of reason.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇭🇺❌🇺🇦 At a time when Europe urgently needs unity, Orbán’s Eurosceptic and anti-Ukrainian stance poses a particular risk.

🇪🇺 Europe’s security now depends on overcoming internal divisions before external threats exploit them once again.

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theukrainianreview.info/europe-plans...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

⚔️ Russia may be able to pose a significant threat to NATO on a timeline much sooner than 2036, - ISW

❗️Russia’s ongoing sabotage and drone reconnaissance activities in Europe indicate that Russia has already entered “Phase Zero” of campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

So imagine a long-range missile takes off and is flying, and we know it could have a nuclear payload.

However, it cannot change the state of affairs on the front lines.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🥴 Peskov: The issue of Tomahawks is a matter of extreme concern for us; Putin has already spoken about this.

This is a special weapon; it can have a non-nuclear or a nuclear configuration.

Recall the reports from our special services that the Ukrainians could create a so-called 'dirty bomb.'

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

In August, Russia's profit from the sale of ALL energy resources (crude oil, petroleum products, gas, LNG, and coal) reached its lowest level since 2022, at €546 million per day.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

📉 Goldman Sachs forecasts a 10% decline in Russian oil production in 2026, from 9.3 to 8.4 million barrels per day, - The Telegraph

The oil refinery crisis means there's nowhere to store the accumulated oil. Furthermore, oil companies are suffering from a high key interest rate of 17%.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇸🤔 Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton will soon be charged with federal crimes, - NBC News.

In August, FBI raided Bolton's home and office. The raids focused on Bolton's handling of classified materials and possible use of these documents to leak information to the media.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇱🇹 Lithuania is training in Vilnius to protect the most important food stores in the event of an emergency, - LRT

207 support stores and pharmacies are planned in Lithuania. They will provide half of residents with essential products in one day, even in the event of power or communication failure.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇦 Yermak: The leaders of UK, France and Germany announced on Friday that they had agreed during a telephone conversation to move to using frozen Russian assets to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Countries emphasized that they would do this in coordination with the US.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

For the fourth year now, our state has been standing against Russia's full-scale and terrorist aggression. And we are doing everything to stop Russia.

I am proud of each of our heroes. Thank you to our Ukrainian families who raised such Ukrainian heroes. Thank you for protecting Ukraine.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🎖️🇺🇦 Zelensky: Awarded our soldiers with the Golden Star and presented the awards to the families of the Heroes of Ukraine, who were awarded the title posthumously.

It is thanks to the fact that millions of our people really stood up for defense of Ukraine, that Ukraine was able to preserve.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: I spoke with Keir Starmer.

We need to strengthen our air defense and expedite every decision regarding missile and system deliveries.

We discussed the possible participation of the UK in PURL initiative. We are also preparing new sanctions steps against Russia.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

In response to the crisis in Russia and the inability to protect oil infrastructure, Putin may resort to escalation, seeking easy targets, particularly within NATO.

The situation in Russia is reminiscent of the end of WW I, when war fatigue devastated the German home front after failed offensive.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

‼️ Putin is at a dead end and may start a new war to cover up Russia's collapse - The Telegraph

Putin is losing the economic war faster than he is achieving a military advantage in Ukraine. Russia's summer offensive faltered—the occupation army lost 800 men a day.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 A Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson on the Tomahawk:

Currently, the Ukrainian and American teams are working to agree on all the details. This concerns the configurations and configurations of the Tomahawk missiles that could be provided to Ukraine.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

…give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease Trump, - NYT

Under a deal, Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to US companies…

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