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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · Mar 16

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · Mar 16

Russia has carried out the systematic kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children, erasing their identities and forcing them into Russian families.

Now, Trump, Musk, and Rubio are helping Russia cover up this genocide as his regime cancels a crucial contract working on this horror

Trump Is Helping Russia Get Away With Genocide

State Department terminated a contract that assisted in documenting evidence of Russian's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2h

Coping, Russian style.
It was all lies about the gas shortages... until it hit home!
Seven weeks apart.
#UkraineSanctionsInAction

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 4h

Just before the invasion a lot of calm and composed intellectuals said that 🇷🇺 would never be so reckless as to attack 🇺🇦.

Now I here same soothing voices.

🇷🇺 would never dare to attack much stronger NATO.

I am not so sure. Terrible scenarios are possible.

open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

Putin will only end this war when he recognizes that starting it was a mistake. He must understand that he cannot win this war.

Yes, Russia may lose this war, as it has lost so many others before – to Great Britain, Japan, Poland, or in Afghanistan.

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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 4h

"Mass layoffs would mean admitting an economic catastrophe - something the Kremlin is unwilling to do. Instead, authorities pressure enterprises to keep people formally employed while effectively sending them on "short weeks" or unpaid leave."

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5h

Large Russian enterprises are switching to three- and four-day work weeks, Russian media outlets report.

◾️ Uralvagonzavod - one of the world’s leading manufacturers of armored vehicles (including T-72 tanks) and Russia’s largest producer of freight railcars - is now operating below full capacity.

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 6h

Polish police have debunked social media reports alleging that a Ukrainian killed three people in the city of Krakow, describing the claims as part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Triple murder hoax was fake news from Kremlin: Polish police

Police denied online claims that a Ukrainian killed three people in Poland.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6h

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Military support to Ukraine from European countries decreased by 57% compared to Jan-June 2025, even taking into account their contributions to the NATO PURL initiative, - Kiel Institute

Average monthly volume of military aid during this period was 43% below the level of the first half of 2025.

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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 6h

Zelensky strips scandalous ballet dancer Sergei Polunin, a Putin fanboy, of Ukrainian citizenship #Ukraine

Zelensky strips scandalous ballet dancer Sergei Polunin, a Putin fanboy, of Ukrainian citizenship

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 6h

A novel punishment from the courts of Estonia!

A trader who donated to Russia, was order to pay 30 times more to a Ukrainian aid organisation, as well as doing 75 hours' community service.

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 4h

#dkmedier

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 5h

The EU still isn’t ready to stop Russian drones — and its 2030 defense plan may already be irrelevant.

EU defense chief Kubilius warns Russia can strike from cargo ships now, while Europe is only halfway to NATO goals.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/14/e...

EU can’t stop Russian drones yet, defense chief says — 2030 goal already outdated

At a security conference in Brussels, Andrius Kubilius revealed the bloc has met only 50% of NATO's defense capacity targets.

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Andreas Umland @umland.bsky.social · 5h

As for now, this piece, posted a few hours ago, on how smaller powers may react to Russia's destruction of the post-World War II order remains the lead story of The National Interest.

nationalinterest.org/feature/the-...

Screenshot taken at 7:00 pm CET, on 14 October 2025.

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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 5h

A Ukrainian MiG-29 crew struck a Russian northern drone-control node with two AASM HAMMER precision munitions, destroying an entrenched UAV team.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h

The ICE raids, the Guard deployments, the fear — it’s all real.
But I can’t shake the feeling that Trump pushed too far too fast.
People are waking up. Judges are pushing back.
Maybe this isn’t the end of democracy — maybe it’s the moment it remembers to fight back.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

When Power Overreaches: The Gut Feeling That America Is Starting to Push Back

I admit I've made some bad predictions...but maybe not this time. Or maybe

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FalloutCatFella @falloutcatfella.bsky.social · 7h

📍They said that the mobilized ones will not be on the front lines - they threw them like meat to stop the Ukrainian counterattack in the fall of 2022,

📍The conscripts will not participate in military operations - they participated in the Kursk direction. Now and again 😊 3/

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Cameron Thomas MP 🔶 @libdemcam.bsky.social · 2d

In occupied Ukraine, toys like these stuffed with plastic explosives, are left by Russian soldiers.

This is terrorism, sanctioned by the Russian state.

Once Russia is defeated, it must never be able to wage such a war on its peaceful neighbours again.

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 9h

God idea.

After 🇷🇺 demonstrated to all mankind that they want to stay in some kind of late Middle Age - constant wars over territories and expansion just to steal.

Next step - mines all across the narrow Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea and a thorough blockade of all goods to Transnistria.

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SaltyDogFella ⚓️ @saltydogfella.bsky.social · 9h

"Kaliningrad will be destroyed." General Hodges publicly threatened Putin — online.ua

news.online.ua/en/kaliningr...

"Kaliningrad will be destroyed." General Hodges publicly threatened Putin — online.ua

Former commander of US Army Forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges, warned that a Russian invasion of NATO would be a disaster for the Russian dictator, as the Alliance countries would strike…

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9h

Yesterday, the premiere of a documentary called The Farmers of Kherson by Caolan Robertson took place in the UK

This is a powerful story about Ukrainians, about the farmer Oleksandr Hordiienko and his colleagues who demine, cultivate and harvest their land despite Russian attacks, drone safaris

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 9h

😅 He is the weak link in Rusikyi Mir.

Their economy is even worse than Russias as I understand. Perhaps except for Orange man - no one is willing to save it.

🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t get it either.

Don’t think the Russian differentiate much between being calm or just weak.

If they enter our airspace there should be serious consequences.

Shooting it down is not an act of war or too harsh if a hostile country enters your territory with military equipment.

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · 13h

The German ruling coalition has agreed on a new model for military service. The new system will be based primarily on volunteers, and any manpower shortfalls will be filled by lottery. Additionally, the German government also plans to increase the size of its armed forces.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13h

Chinese shipments of fiber-optic cables to Russia grew almost tenfold between July and August, after hitting record highs in May and then again in June, according to the data from China’s customs office. Exports of lithium-ion batteries, probably used to power the drones, also shot up over summer.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 13h

🇨🇳⚠️WP: China has materially helped Russia gain a key battlefield advantage in its grinding war against Ukraine, increasing exports over the summer of key components needed to make the fiber-optic drones that have enabled Moscow to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses on the front lines.

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🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔 @tordenskjoldcph.bsky.social · 13h

Translation: Please help me 😭.

AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 13h

Lukashenko ready for 'big deal' with US if it serves Belarus's interests #Ukraine

Lukashenko ready for 'big deal' with US if it serves Belarus's interests

kyivindependent.com

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