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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Ukrainian defenders liberated the village of Mali Shcherbaky, Zaporizhzhya region, from the russian fascist invaders.

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📷 24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar" 🇺🇦

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Last night, Ukrainian FP-1 attack UAVs struck a warehouse in the Sigma shopping centre in temporarily-occupied Donetsk.

The russian fascist invaders were assembling and storing Molina 1/2 kamikaze drones at this site.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1d

Putin puppet Trump called President Zelenskyy on 25 July 2019, demanding the Ukrainians fabricate "dirt on Biden."

Trump illegally withheld Congress-mandated aid to back up his blackmail.

Trump was impeached and should have been convicted for this high crime and misdemeanor.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine released a video showing scenes of the liberation of Mali Shcherbaky.

Ukrainian units advanced up to 3.5 km in the Orikhiv sector in Zaporizhzhya region. They caused a significant number of russian casualties and took prisoners.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is so deranged and so much in Putin's pocket he says he might "speak to Russia" about supplying Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukrainians – the people who are defending their country from a Russian invasion!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Ukraine: "They'd like to have Tomahawks. We talked about that. We'll see. I might have to speak to Russia, to be honest with you, about Tomahawks. Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don't think so."

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2h

Increased russian and North Korean losses over the past day:

>1,200 personnel (killed or seriously wounded)

tanks +5
artillery systems +29
operational-tactical UAVs +390
vehicles +145

mod.gov.ua/en/news/the-...

The estimated combat losses of russians over the last day: 1 200 persons, 390 UAVs and 29 artillery systems | MoD News

The estimated total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 14.10.25.

mod.gov.ua

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1h

Ukrainian defenders have taken half of the village of Oleksiyivka, Sumy region, temporarily-occupied by the russian fascist invaders.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 1h

Militants of the russian terrorist state attacked a UN humanitarian convoy near Bilozerka, Kherson region, this morning.

The United Nations condemns the attack but refuses to say who did it. The russian terrorist state is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2d

"So we will erase all of Ukraine off the face of the earth. What difference does it make to the West?"

Fascist Russia is waging a genocidal war of aggression to annihilate the Ukrainian nation.

via @juliadavisnews.bsky.social

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 8h

☠️ Swarms of kamikaze drones from the Third Army Corps continue to destroy Russians along the front line.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 8h

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇺🇦 Trump: President Erdogan can help with the Russia-Ukraine war, he is respected by Putin.

He’s a friend of mine, I get along with the tough ones, I don't get along with the weak ones.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 8h

🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 The US will be able to transfer only 20-50 Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine - not enough to change the course of the war, - FT.

"The US has about 4,150 Tomahawk missiles, but will be able to transfer only a few dozen to Ukraine. New purchases are limited," — former Pentagon official Mark Kanchian

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 8h

👊🇺🇦 The 33rd separate assault regiment, together with the 24th separate battalion "Aidar", are breaking through the enemy's defenses in southern Ukraine.

During the operation in Orikhiv direction, Ukrainian assault troops liberated the settlements of Mali Shcherbaki, Shcherbaki and partly Stepove.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7h

🤬 The Russians hit Kharkiv with three KABs.

The building of a medical institution where people with endocrine diseases are treated and power lines were damaged. Several districts of the city were left without electricity.

Kirovohrad region: damage to buildings, 5 settlements without electricity.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 6h

🗣️ Rutte: If China were to move against Taiwan, it's likely China would force its junior partner, Russia, to move against NATO to keep us busy.

Russia’s military is stretched there and elsewhere… There’s a lone and broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 6h

🗣️ Ben Hodges: If Russia were to attack Poland in 2025 the same way it attacked Ukraine, it would be destroyed by NATO air forces and ground troops.

One can be certain that Kaliningrad would be wiped out within the first hours. All Russian facilities would be destroyed, including in Sevastopol.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6h

🇨🇳⚠️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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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h

• total exports of oil products through Baltic ports - a drop of 15.4%, to 4.36 million tons;

• through ports of the Black and Azov Seas - by 23.2%, to 2.52 million tons;

• in Far East - a decrease of 1.5%, to 661.3 thousand tons;

• from Arctic ports - an increase of 1.8%, to 30.2 thousand tons.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h

🛳️👀 Reuters: Exports of oil products from Russia by sea in September decreased by 17.1% compared to August - to 7.58 million tons.

Unplanned shutdowns of a number of key refineries due to Ukrainian strikes reduced fuel exports and caused an increase in crude oil supplies.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h

🔥🤩 Lesogorsk (Russia) substation "Arzamasskaya-500"

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3h

🇺🇦 The presence of Russian citizenship in some individuals has been confirmed - appropriate decisions have been prepared regarding them, - Zelensky

❗️Zelensky signed a decree on the deprivation of citizenship of the mayor of Odesa, Trukhanov, — Suspilne.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Kallas handed over several dozen units of equipment for border guards. In 2024–2025, the EU has already handed over 40 vehicles.

❗️Considering how much the losses of vehicles on the front have increased, the pickup trucks that Kallas brought are a significant help.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h

🇺🇸👀🇺🇦 US Permanent Representative to NATO announced that Washington will make an important announcement tomorrow regarding arms supplies to Ukraine.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 59m

❗️ Emergency power outages in Kyiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Donetsk regions.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 43m

🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker:

President Trump has provided Ukraine with the best weapons in the world: they need them. PURL program is vital to bringing Russia to the negotiating table. I would encourage those who have not yet participated to do so.

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