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Our thought, our song
Will not die, will not perish…
Oh there, people, is our glory,
Glory of Ukraine!
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Russia's Baltic port of Ust-Luga is ablaze this morning following a major overnight Ukrainian drone attack.
Locals reported multiple major fires rising from the oil terminal/port area.
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UK counter-terror police arrest US Army member in espionage investigation linked to Russia
bbc.in/3Wm0JBH
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The last of the tankers carrying Russian diesel towards the US has made a U-turn about 400 nautical miles from New York.
So no Russian diesel has not reached the US.
Two of the three tankers carrying Russian diesel that were heading to the US under the "diesel deal" have changed course, the Financial Times reports.
The Russian tanker Talisman, which is under US, UK, and EU sanctions, has turned away from the US Atlantic coast and entered the Mediterranean. It is now off the coast of Algeria, signalling "for orders" - indicating that it has no confirmed buyer or destination port.
The tanker Leruo, sanctioned by the UK, EU, and Canada, changed its declared destination to Brazil on Monday.
The third tanker, Agioi Fanendes, is expected to arrive in New York this weekend. However, Kpler analyst Matt Smith said that given the apparent reluctance of US buyers due to regulatory, legal, and sanctions-related concerns, it would not be surprising if this vessel also changed course.
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So we're going to give russia a veto on security guarantees for Ukraine.
And some people think he's the smartest one in the cabinet.
Security guarantees for Ukraine must also be acceptable to Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
He said no final plan had been agreed upon and did not rule out formalizing the guarantees through a treaty.
hromadske.ua/en/war/274102-r…
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Russian authorities report that Ukrainian Forces used AGM-188 Rusty Dagger cruise missiles in an overnight strike on a target in Donetsk Oblast.
Locals reported multiple explosions and a large fire after the strike.
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Two people killed in their car. Just going about their lives.
Kramatorsk, Ukraine.
A russian strike deliberately targeted their civilian car.
Nowhere is safe. russia is a murderous state.
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Ukrainians: don’t want to be enslaved and killed by russians.
Russians: want to enslave and kill Ukrainians.
A random Western thinker: “Why not to seek for a compromise?”
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In Arkhangelsk region, partisans appear to have blown up a railway bridge as a fuel train was crossing it
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🚆 A railway bridge collapsed in Russia. Probably, sabotage.
Today at 05:10 on the Cheremukha - Viled section in the Arkhangelsk region, a span of a railway bridge over the Viled River collapsed. As a result of the collapse, several freight train cars derailed.
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🔥Russians are panicking over Ukraine’s new refinery strike tactics. Drones reportedly switch targets mid-flight, and Trump can no longer simply pull the plug.
The Russian Telegram channel *Дневник Разведчика* (Intelligence Officer’s Diary, 147,800 subscribers) describes a major shift in Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign following the strikes on Kstovo, Samara and Yaroslavl.
Previously, Ukrainian drones were sent toward predetermined targets. If the first drones successfully hit a refinery unit, the rest continued toward the same target.
Now, according to the Russian channel, Ukrainian operators can monitor strikes in real time and redirect incoming drones while they are still in flight.
Once a primary distillation unit is hit, subsequent drones can be redirected toward storage tanks, cracking units, electrical substations or other critical equipment.
Instead of concentrating an entire wave on one target, Ukraine can distribute the damage across multiple parts of the refinery.
The Russians are describing something far more dangerous for their oil industry than simply larger drone attacks: the ability to adapt an entire strike while it is happening.
The channel attributes this capability to Israeli HiSKY SmartLight satellite communications terminals, which it says Ukraine is using as an alternative to Starlink.
It claims the terminals allow two-way communication over Russian territory, making it possible to adjust flight paths, identify air-defence positions and redirect drones around interception zones.
And then comes the most revealing part.
The Russian channel argues that American restrictions on Starlink have backfired spectacularly.
Its conclusion:
"Trump has simply lost his leverage over Kyiv’s long-range strikes."
And:
"Ukraine has slipped off the American leash and found a commercial alternative that the White House cannot switch off with a phone call."
That is coming from a Russian military channel, not Ukrainian propaganda.
Moscow is now discussing a scenario in which Ukraine can strike multiple critical refinery units in a single operation, adapt to Russian air defences in real time and continue its campaign without depending on American-controlled communications.
Putin has been trying to get Trump to restrain Ukraine’s refinery strikes. Now Russian military commentators are warning that even American pressure may no longer be enough.
The irony is extraordinary. Washington reportedly tried to limit Ukraine’s options. The Russians are now complaining that Ukraine has found a way around those limits.
The HiSKY deployment, electronic-warfare resistance and real-time retargeting capabilities are claims made by the Russian channel, not independently established technical facts. The attribution in the draft matters, especially for the claims about Trump’s leverage.
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At the same time as every single anti-migrant party in Europe is being supported by russia, every single one of them, russia is sending migrants into Europe.
Operation Migrant: Inside the Russian smuggling scheme moving Middle Easterners and Africans into the EU
Routes for the illegal movement of people across the Belarusian border continue to operate, with migrant flows coordinated by Russia’s FSB.
theins.press/en/inv/299252
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"Russia, fortunately, will disappear forever."
E' ufficiale: la Russia oggi è messa peggio dell'URSS.
La situazione dei conti è di molto peggiore alla fine dell'era sovietica, quando l'URSS stava per cadere.
Ma a conti fatti la situazione è ancora più grave, e di molto, perché l'URSS all'epoca non comprendeva solo la Russia odierna, ma anche tutti i territori coloniali occupati. E invece questo deficit, più grave di quello dell'URSS, riguarda solo la Russia.
La caduta dell'URSS, che Putin ha sempre definito come l'evento più traumatico della storia, sarà rose e fiori in confronto al baratro in cui Putin sta gettando il suo paese.
La Russia, per fortuna, sparirà per sempre.
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The Russian trolls really don’t like this post🤣
Time to identify what is really going on in spate of sabotage incidents across Europe. Here is a gift article from FT.
“Estonia’s interior minister has said Russian acts of aggression in Europe should be considered “state-sponsored terrorism” rather than hybrid incidents, as European authorities probe who was behind the hacking of supermarket fridges around Europe.
A rising number of sabotage acts, arson attacks and other destabilising actions in Europe have been linked to Russia. Such incidents have been dubbed hybrid attacks, as they do not meet the threshold of military aggression.
“Russia is the biggest challenge and biggest threat to Europe . . . And they have been attacking Europe constantly. They’re just doing it below the military threshold but they are doing it constantly.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic…
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Rosneft has introduced fuel purchase limits at filling stations across Russia, according to authorities in Zabaykalsky Krai. The regional economic development ministry says motorists can buy up to 30 liters at urban stations and 50 liters along highways. #Russia
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🔥 8 russian oil refineries struck in just 11 days.
A combined annual refining capacity of 98.25 million tonnes.
russia's war machine is getting a little less fuel every day.
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Don't doubt any of the logic here, but it's worth mentioning that the Kremlin has chosen to expand their demands and not just go for Ukraine's capitulation but is now also looking to get concessions from Europe too. Seemingly with White House support.
PREDICTION: Ukraine is going to come under intense pressure to surrender over the next two months.
Ukrainian intelligence believes fascist Russia’s dictator Putin has stockpiled enough ballistic missiles and other strategic weapons for a campaign to destroy Ukraine’s energy and water infrastructure over the winter. The aim is to make major Ukrainian cities unlivable in the winter months, and provoke a mass refugee crisis from Ukraine into Europe that will further destabilize the political situation in the EU.
Why over the next two months? For these three main reasons:
1. The next U.S. Congress sits in early January 2027. The Democrats will then have majorities in the Senate and House, and thereafter Trump’s administration could well be seriously constrained. Before that, however, there are two months left for the Trump administration to provide useful aid to the Kremlin. That includes withholding Patriot system interceptors, which will make Ukraine more vulnerable to missile attacks.
2. With key EU member states heading into critical electoral cycles in early 2027, political leaders in Western Europe will be under immense pressure to prioritize domestic economic demands over underwriting Ukraine’s defense and state budget, leaving Kyiv facing a catastrophic funding shortfall just as its winter needs reach their peak.
3. Ukraine's rapidly maturing deep-strike campaign – which has systematically taken offline nearly a third of Russia's refining capacity while striking missile propellant plants and airfields deep inside the Russian interior – is inflicting severe domestic economic and operational costs on Moscow. The Kremlin calculates that its narrow window to force a Ukrainian capitulation is now in the next few months, before Kyiv’s expanding domestic long-range missile and drone capabilities permanently erode Russia's own industrial stability and home-front security.
This upcoming period will thus be an intense attritional race between Putin's attempt to weaponize winter and Western flaccidity, and the West's ability to sustain Kyiv until these fleeting strategic windows close.