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Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦

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#Resist #VoteBlue 💙 #truth #Equality #LoveIsLove Glory to Ukraine! #NAFO Lithuanian-American who worked for the revolutionary Lithuanian parliament, which declared independence in 1990 and helped to end the Soviet Union. Still bonking the Kremlin today...

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Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 @daivavenckus.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thank you #FellaForgers
This Lithuanian-American #NAFO #Fella #Fellarina is hopped up on coffee and ready to engage on BlueSky.

And I'll continue to bonk at the old place and lift up Ukrainian voices ...

Glory to Ukraine!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17d

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 @daivavenckus.bsky.social · 17d

Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica after an agitator demanding violence confronted him and the police took him away. Part 3
#nokings

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Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 @daivavenckus.bsky.social · 17d

Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica skillfully diffusing an agitator getting into his face demanding violence. SMPD arrived to peacefully detain the agitator. Part 2
#nokings

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Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 @daivavenckus.bsky.social · 17d

Rob Reiner at the No Kings protest in Santa Monica confronted by an agitator demanding violence. Part 1
#nokings

Daiva Venckus 🇱🇹🇺🇸🇺🇦 @daivavenckus.bsky.social · 17d

All we want to do in Santa Monica is dance!
#nokings
#santamonica
#nofascism

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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social · 17d

Hence . . . Krasnov.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29d

⚡️ Estonia slammed Angela Merkel for implying that Poland and the Baltic states helped trigger Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Estonia Denounces Merkel’s Suggestion That Baltic States and Poland Influenced Russia War

Estonian leaders have criticized Angela Merkel's comments linking the Baltic states and Poland to Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 29d

🇱🇹🇺🇦 Zelensky: I held a meeting with Prime Minister of Lithuania – this is her first foreign visit, and it is very meaningful that it is to Ukraine.

We discussed continued defense assistance, joint weapons production, and investments in Ukraine’s defense industry. Energy sector.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · Oct 5

⚡️Lithuania's Vilnius airport closed in response to airspace violation, media reports.

Lithuania's main airport was closed late on Oct. 4 following a sighting of 13 "contraband" balloons flying towards the site, Lithuanian outlet LRT reported.

Lithuania's Vilnius airport closed in response to airspace violation, media reports

Lithuania's main airport was closed late on Oct. 4 following a sighting of 13 "contraband" balloons flying towards the site, Lithuanian outlet LRT reported.

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TVP World @tvpworld.bsky.social · Oct 5

Thousands of cultural workers protested across Lithuania on Sunday after the culture minister’s portfolio in the newly formed government was handed to a populist party whose leader has been accused of anti-Semitism.

Lithuania’s culture sector rallies against populist party

Culture organizations say Lithuania’s democratic values are at risk.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Oct 2

Explosives hidden in corn cans — Russia planned sabotage in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany.

A suspected GRU courier was told to dig them up in Lithuania and drop them near Łódź.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/02/e...

Explosives in corn cans: Russia’s plot to strike Poland, Lithuania, and Germany revealed

Authorities intercepted a courier carrying disguised bombs and drone parts.

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · Oct 2

⚡️Lithuania will not open airspace near the border with Belarus until December, Minister of Defense told BNS.

Good thinking.

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The Economist @economist.com · Oct 1

Western officials do not know why Russia has ramped up its poking and prodding. Some allies believe that recent incidents in Poland and Estonia were accidental, a function of Russian sloppiness rather than malfeasance, though Poland strongly disagrees

Russia is violating Europe’s skies with impunity

Shooting down a Russian plane could expose splits in the NATO alliance

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · Oct 1

Ukraine war briefing: Estonia warns of Putin distraction tactics as EU leaders meet to discuss ‘drone wall’

Estonian leader Kristen Michal says Putin wants Europe ‘talking about ourselves, not Ukraine’ ahead of meeting in Copenhagen. What we know on day 1,316

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ukraine war briefing: Estonia warns of Putin distraction tactics as EU leaders meet to discuss ‘drone wall’

Estonian leader Kristen Michal says Putin wants Europe ‘talking about ourselves, not Ukraine’ ahead of meeting in Copenhagen.

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Peacemaker Fella @peacemaker420.bsky.social · Sep 24

ruzzia : we didn’t fly fighter jets loaded with missiles for 12 minutes and 100 km into your territory.

Estonia: pulls out pictures of radar and fighter jets loaded with missiles flying 12’minutes 100 km deep in Estonias territory
ruZZia is a terrorist state

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“Stop Lying!”, Estonia FM Confronts Russia at UN With Radar Proof of Airspace Violation | AC1G

YouTube video by DRM News

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SaltyDogFella ⚓️ @saltydogfella.bsky.social · Sep 22

Lithuania 🇱🇹 to host Ukrainian children for rehabilitation after their return from russia

newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/lithuan...

Lithuania to host Ukrainian children for rehabilitation after their return from Russia

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Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc.bsky.social · Sep 21

READ!! Lithuania’s ex-Top Diplomat: 👇🏻

“Russia escalates, we do nothing,

Russia escalates more, we do nothing,

Russia escalates even more, we do nothing...

guys, I think I am starting to see a pattern here.”

landsbergis.com/nato-quick-a...

NATO's quick and decisive responses also need to deter

The geopolitical Groundhog Day is still stuck on repeat.

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BenB 🇺🇦 @benborges.xyz · Sep 22

Lithuania invests 15 million euros in the recovery of Ukraine's most valuable resource — its people
Lithuania is not only next to Ukraine on the front lines. A true friend and reliable partner invests in our future, in the strength and resilience of people affected by the war....

Lithuania invests 15 million euros in the recovery of Ukraine's most valuable resource — its people

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Sep 20

💬 Lithuania’s Defense Minister Dovile Šakalienė: NATO must take Russian air provocations seriously.

Citing Turkey’s downing of a Russian Su-24 in 2015, she warned that NATO’s northeastern border is being deliberately tested.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Sep 20

🇺🇸🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 In late August, Pentagon officials told European diplomats the US would cut some security aid to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia and urged Europe to be less reliant on Washington, - Reuters

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Sep 20

🔴 Estonia’s Defense Forces released the flight path of Russian MiG-31 jets that crossed into its airspace on September 19.

The fighters entered near Väinloo Island without clearance, stayed 12 minutes, had no flight plans, and flew with transponders switched off.

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BenB 🇺🇦 @benborges.xyz · Sep 21

NATO was ready to 'use force' against Russia, Estonia says after airspace incursion
"We saw on Friday that NATO is functioning very efficiently... even to the point that if we were truly forced to use the last resort, which is the use of force, then there was a readiness for t...

NATO was ready to 'use force' against Russia, Estonia says after airspace incursion

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Meduza in English @meduza.io · Sep 19

A fragment of a Russian drone was found after washing up on a beach in western Latvia, the country’s military reported on Friday.
meduza.io/en/news/2025...

Russian decoy drone fragment washes up on Latvian beach — Meduza

A fragment of a drone was found after washing up on a beach in western Latvia, the country’s military reported on Friday.

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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · Sep 19

Lithuania's aid to Ukraine exceeds EUR 1.7 bln – Sybiha #Ukraine

Lithuania's aid to Ukraine exceeds EUR 1.7 bln – Sybiha

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