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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h

🤬 Russia hits Mykolaiv with long-range KAB for the first time: smoke rises from the spot.

The target flew over 150 km, and its speed reached 500 km/h.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h

🔥Day 4: Oil terminal in Feodosiya continues to burn!

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h

‼️Flight movement of missiles and drones during the attack on Ukraine

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 German Chancellor Merz said he would call for the EU to use Russian assets frozen in the West to provide a 140 billion euro ($163 billion) loan to Ukraine to finance its war effort at the upcoming EU summit, - Reuters

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇦❗️Naftogaz asks to save gas: Russia massively attacked gas infrastructure for the sixth time since the beginning of October.

Missiles and Shaheds hit civilian facilities that provide Ukrainians with gas and heat.

There are casualties among Naftogaz employees and destruction in several regions.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 11h

💥 Update: Special Operations Forces struck Saratov Oil Refinery

Saratov Oil Refinery is one of the oldest Russian oil refining enterprises, and is part of Rosneft oil company.

SOF struck this facility exactly a month ago, on September 16,

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🔥 On the night of October 16, AFU struck the Saratov Oil Refinery, - General Staff

As of 2023, the volume of oil processing was 4.8 million tons. The enterprise is involved in ensuring the needs of the Russian Armed Forces.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The closed program of Zelensky's visit to Washington.

▪️The program includes: meetings with US defense giants, energy negotiating bloc, speech in Congress and political consultations, preparation for negotiations with Trump.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🇮🇳👀 Some Indian refiners are preparing to cut Russian oil imports, with expectations of a gradual reduction, with the U.S. pressuring New Delhi to stop buying Russian crude to help end the war in Ukraine, - Reuters

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 11h

Putin is deaf to everything the world says, so the only language he can still understand is the language of pressure. Pressure through sanctions, pressure through long-range.

Now the momentum for achieving peace in the Middle East is important. It is also possible in Europe.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇦 Zelensky: This night is a strike on our people, our energy sector, and our civilian infrastructure. Russia used more than 300 strike drones and 37 missiles.

They are hitting with “Shaheds” with cluster munitions, and they are inflicting repeated strikes to injure firefighters and energy workers.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Air Defence shot down:

▪️283/320 UAVs;
▪️?/2 aeroballistic missiles Kh-47M2 "Kinzhal";
▪️?/26 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles;
▪️?/2 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
▪️5/7 Kh-59 guided aircraft missiles.

*In addition, 18 enemy missiles were lost in location.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇦🤩 Launch of an AGM-88 HARM missile from a Ukrainian Air Force MIG-29.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 11h

🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️🇨🇳 Trump is working on creating a "victory fund" for Ukraine, which will be financed by new tariffs on China, — The Telegraph.

❗️Trump instructed Bessent to present the plan to his European counterparts before Zelensky's visit to Washington on Friday.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

💥 Volgograd region, Balashovskaya substation was damaged overnight.

‼️ Balashovskaya substation is a 500 kV high-voltage hub that is part of the main grid and ensures the transmission of electricity between regions.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 12h

🇨🇳⚠️ A senior NATO official said about 80% of the critical parts in Russia’s drones and modern weapons are made in China, - United24

❗️Since 2023, Beijing has supplied over $20 billion in components, tools, and materials.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 Tomahawk missiles’ long-range capabilities and sizable payload would enable the Ukrainian military to inflict substantial damage on key Russian military assets located deep within Russian territory, such as the Shahed drone factory in Yelabuga and Engels-2 Air Base, — ISW

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 U.S. contractors, not Ukrainian troops, would likely operate and maintain Tomahawk cruise missiles if they are supplied to Ukraine, - FT

A senior Western official told the FT that this approach minimizes escalation risks and prevents sensitive technology from being transferred.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

🙏 Emergency power outages are being introduced in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy and Kirovohrad regions.

❗️Russia has been using drones and missiles to strike DTEK Naftogaz facilities in Poltava region. Gas production in the region has been halted.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h

Russian losses ❗️

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23h

🦅👀 Drone threat in Saratov, Volgograd, Tambov, Voronezh, Oryol and Kaluga regions.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23h

⚡️💡Kyiv, Kyiv region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Odesa region – emergency shutdowns canceled, – DTEK

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇦⚓️ Odesa’s mayor Trukhanov can no longer hold his position after his citizenship was annulled.

The move has divided public opinion: while many Ukrainians welcomed it as long overdue, others questioned its legal basis.

Read⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/political-or...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸🇻🇪 The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, - NYT

The new authority would allow C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela and conduct range of operations in Caribbean.

The agency would be able to take covert action against Maduro.

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