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"It could take 20 years before birth defects from rubella become common again."
"Unvaccinated children have to grow old enough to become pregnant."
"We will see babies being born who are blind, deaf and have heart disease."
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Author: Patricia Callahan
Publication: ProPublica @ProPublica
March 19, 2026
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#USA #Russia #Japan #Nigeria #Healthcare #Eugenics
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues
Russian hackers exploit #Zimbra flaw in Ukrainian govt attacks
#NEWS OF THE DAY:
#UKRAINE PEACE TALKS PAUSED AMID #IRAN #WAR: Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said that the trilateral peace negotiations between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. are put on a “situational pause” because of the war in the Middle East. #Ukraine #Russia #USA #PeaceTalks #MiddleEast #Geopolitics #DmitriyPeskov
#IRAN #WAR CAN END RUSSIA’S ISOLATION: The major Qatar’s LNG hub in Ras Laffan, attacked by Iran, supplies gas to Asia, Africa and Europe. Further destabilization of the world’s LNG market could lead Russia out of its international isolation. #Energy #LNG #Qatar #Iran #Russia #Economy #GlobalTrade https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/iran-war-us-israel-trump-03-19-26?t=1773917437680
"WaPo: 'The Trump admin temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to calm markets and stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran, which has sent crude prices spiraling upward. This allows Russia to begin selling some 128 million barrels of oil that are estimated to have already been loaded onto tankers previously facing restrictions from the US.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Iran #war #Putin #Russia #oil #gas
/11
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-327-31326
"'On Thursday, futures for Brent crude oil closed at just above $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. The move will provide a huge financial boost to Russia, which experts say has already been receiving about $150 million per day from increased oil sales since the US attacked Iran two weeks ago. The lifting of the sanctions positions Putin as one of the biggest beneficiaries Trump’s war on Iran.'”
Ukraine Depended on Western Weaponry. Now That Script Has Flipped.
Kyiv’s European allies are snapping up its military know-how as they seek to build up their own
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
#Switzerland Implements Full Ban on Russian #Gas and New #Sanctions Against #Belarus and Russia
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
What Russia Turned Crimea Into After Twelve Years of Occupation
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
Former #L3Harris #Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker
Friends,
It feels like it was in a different century, but at the beginning of the #russia-#ukraine full scale war I speculated that you could predict development in conflict based on the intensity of attempted #cyberattacks, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/Predicting_developments_in_real_world_conflict_from_patterns_of_failed_logins.html. The data now covers four years.
I ponder whether it's worth using the data (linked in the article) to see how these things correlate.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
#ssh #passwordguessing #cybercrime #passwordgropers #hailmarycloud
#Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from US defense contractor
#cybersecurity #Russia #OperationZero #SpecialTechnologyServices
They both woke up on February 24, 2022, at 5 a.m., not yet processing that this day would no longer be a celebration. #Russia had turned it into a date that would symbolize national mourning.
Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian #Oil Smuggling Ring
Interesting case from #CERN where #Russia team leaving the project sabotaged continued operations of the module they delivered by refusing to supply documentation on its operations, thus threatening continuity of the project:
When CERN definitively ended its cooperation with Russia, engineers were left with Russian equipment for which complete documentation was lacking. Shutting down the equipment threatened to paralyse the key ALICE experiment. That’s when the Poles stepped in, figured out how the Russian equipment worked, reverse engineered it, and not only saved the project, but became key players in the Large Hadron Collider. Krystian Rosłon from the Warsaw University of Technology revealed the details of this incredible operation to the PAP Nauka news agency.
Source: https://spidersweb.pl/2026/02/rosjanie-cern-odejscie-polacy-zlamali.html (in Polish)
#Poland PISM analyst Daniel Szeligowski on #Russia & #Ukraine “peace negotiations”
Let’s get some basic facts straight again, or who is “going to have to get moving” and come to the negotiating table.
In early 2014, Ukraine was a neutral country, led by a pro-Russian president, with around 70% of the population opposed to NATO membership. Yet Russia violated Ukraine’s neutrality, annexed Crimea, and then launched a covert invasion in eastern Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko won 2014 presidential election after campaigning on a settlement with Russia and preserving a special status for the Russian language. He was initially sceptical about NATO membership and emphasized Ukraine had to rely primarily on its own army to ensure security.
Volodymyr Zelensky also won the presidency promising compromise with Russia - with politically naive statements to stop the shooting, sit down with Putin, and talk. He was even more sceptical about NATO membership than Poroshenko, once saying he never visits anyone unless invited.
Zelensky went to the Paris summit with Putin in December 2019 with a conciliatory position. He genuinely wanted to reach an agreement and was ready to make concessions. Later on, he negotiated multiple ceasefires, and even began withdrawing troops from the then front line.
Zelensky was also ready to drop Ukraine’s NATO bid in exchange for a Russian troop withdrawal from Ukraine’s territory, and talks were already underway before 2022. Yet Putin still launched a full-scale invasion.
A few hours before the Russian attack, on the night of 23/24 February 2022, Zelensky called the Kremlin to propose negotiations once again. But no one picked up. Predictably, Putin chose war over diplomacy.
Immediately after the invasion, Zelensky declared readiness to negotiate with Russia without any preconditions. Instead of accepting the offer, Putin sent his stooge Medinsky to present Ukraine with what amounted to a capitulation ultimatum.
In the first weeks of the invasion, Zelensky repeatedly signaled readiness to drop Ukraine’s NATO bid, but sought international security guarantees. Yet Putin demanded Russia be consulted before any assistance is given to Ukraine in case of aggression, and he broke off the talks.
Putin has so far shown no willingness to compromise with Ukraine. His war aims remain maximalist - subjugating Ukraine and changing its regime. He seeks Ukraine’s partition and turning what remains into a Russian protectorate. He has absolutely no real interest in Donbas.
The U.S. side’s messaging on peace talks is pure abstraction - it amounts to an attempt to construct a parallel reality. Putin has not changed his position on compromise with Ukraine, and the supposed technical concessions are meant to mislead inexperienced American negotiators.
Zelensky has repeatedly shown readiness to negotiate, from early compromise offers to dropping the NATO bid. Ukraine has come to the table more than once. It is Putin who must eventually come to the table, yet current U.S. policy signals to him that he still doesn’t have to.
Source: https://xcancel.com/dszeligowski/status/2024100117280690270?s=20
Ukraine destroys half of Russia's 'key' Pantsir air defense systems, security service says
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia: DoJ
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/exl3harris_exec_sold_8_zeroday/
#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #russia
#DOJ says #Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’
India Seizes Three Tankers in First Action Against Dark Fleet
Paywall Free: https://archive.is/YY1HL
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #India
Russian army casualties in Ukraine surge
https://www.ft.com/content/ce74d2d8-5562-4e6d-9e5f-041b017b5d39
Paywall Free: https://archive.is/v6fmr
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
An elderly man in Russia has been fined 30,000 rubles after liking YouTube videos that ‘discredit’ the Russian army.
https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/elderly-man-fined-for-liking-youtube-videos-in-russia-3316723/
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
Kremlin and Kazakhstan Both Have #Kompromat on Trump, Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/69648
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #Russia
Russia’s Tank Era Is Over—Thanks to Ukraine’s Remote-Controlled Revolution
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
Estonia Seizes Container Ship Bound for Russia in Major Gulf of Finland Security Operation
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #SlavaUkraini #ghostfleet
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Kyiv agreed to a plan if #Russia breaks any future ceasefire agreement.
The #EU’s Coalition of the Willing will respond with military action if the attack continues for 48 hours, and the U.S. will step in if it continues for 72.
https://www.ft.com/content/0f26d56d-98cd-4999-8908-4a851a2de773
Russian hackers exploit recently patched #Microsoft #Office bug in attacks
Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says
#Russia #Poland #cybersecurity #power #infrastructure #energy
"For all the talk of Russia’s “weaponisation” of gas supplies, history tells a different story. For decades, first the Soviet Union and later Russia continued supplying energy to Germany and the rest of Europe through multiple geopolitical crises, including during the height of the Cold War. More recently, even after the delivery of German weapons to Ukraine, and then the attack on Nord Stream, Moscow repeatedly stated that it was up to Berlin whether to resume gas supplies or not.
The United States, by contrast, has a long and well-documented history of weaponising energy — using it as leverage to extract economic and geopolitical concessions. And under Donald Trump, this has become explicit policy. The US National Security Strategy, published in November 2025, designates “American energy dominance” across oil, gas, coal and nuclear power as a top strategic priority, explicitly framing the expansion of American energy exports as a means to “project power”. This is not mere rhetoric. The Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to intervene aggressively in domestic and global markets, upend established policies and exert pressure not only on adversaries but also on long-standing allies.
By the time Trump returned to office, Europe’s dependence on US energy was already a fait accompli, following the EU’s decision to cut itself off from Russian gas and the sabotage of Nord Stream. Since then, Trump has only actively sought to deepen that dependence. In April 2025, for instance, his administration used the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs to pressure Germany and other EU states to refrain from importing any Russian energy."
#Cyberattack on Polish energy grid impacted around 30 facilities
EU countries give final approval to Russian gas ban
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-countries-give-final-approval-russian-gas-ban-2026-01-26/
Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted #Poland power outage
According to the #GooglePlay statistics, these are the countries with more #ArcaneChat users 👇
1. #Russia
2. #Cuba
3. #UnitedStates / #USA
4. #Iran
5. #Germany
6. #India
7. #Brazil
8. #Canada
9. #France
10. #Indonesia
happy to see families of all over the world enjoying ArcaneChat 💜
#family #chat #privacy #security #encryption #sovereign #decentralization
Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv
#music #video #Russia #Ukraine #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini
#UK govt. warns about ongoing Russian #hacktivist group attacks
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, a central question lies among the range of likely topics: What will U.S. President Donald Trump do next? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/world/politics/global-leaders-davos-messy-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #davos #environment #greenland #middleeast #israel #gaza #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #venezuela #nato #un #iran #china
@bogo #ArcaneChat is just a #DeltaChat client, my main user is... wait for it... ME! so it is basically Delta Chat with some tweaks to my taste, I shared it and it turns out some other people seem to like it, according to the #GooglePlay downloads it is mainly used in #Russia, #Cuba, #USA, #Iran, #Germany and #India
I don't actively try to convince people to use it, and in general it is better to push for DC that is multi-platform, then in #android some might prefer AC as their DC client
"After Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow in Syria, Maduro’s fall in Venezuela represents a serious blow to Russia’s global ambitions, and this is good news for Europe. However, the fall of a regime, illegitimate as it may be, through an illegal military attack by a foreign country and the establishment of a quasi-colonial protectorate constitutes a violation of the most basic norms of sovereignty and independence on which European security is built. It is Russia’s dream for Europe.
True, Putin does not need Trump’s free pass to pursue such a vision. He has done so in Ukraine, as well as in Georgia and Moldova, well before Trump toppled Maduro. But there is no doubt that Trump’s green-lighting of spheres of influence – not just in words but in action – embodies the law of the jungle so dear to dictators such as Putin. For Europeans to silently condone such a vision is not just unethical. It is plain stupid."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/europe-venezuela-donald-trump-vladimir-putin
#EU #Europe #USA #Trump #Venezuela #Imperialism #Maduro #Ukraine #Putin #Russia
For the first time, #Ukrainian experts joined NATO's Loyal Dolos 2025 exercise to practice Article 5 collective defense mechanisms.
Integrating lessons from the war with #Russia, 1,500 personnel tested the combat readiness of a #NATO rapid-deployment corps.
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Ukrainian drones targeted Lukoil’s #oil refinery in the #Russian city Volgograd.
The plant previously produced over 5% of #Russia’s total refinery output, proving Kyiv’s focus on valuable energy infrastructure.
I think what surprised me as I learned more about Unit 731 is that the Japanese also experimented on Russians...and that the experiments lasted until 1950!!
https://english.news.cn/20251213/990e50bd2cac4d93a169693be9fd2236/c.html
The same strategy made no demands of #Russia whatsoever other than that they do us the favor of being welcomed back into the fold of civilized nations with no accountability for the looting, killing, raping and murder they've committed.
#Aeroflot Flight 6502: when a pilot's ego killed 70 passengers - https://boingboing.net/2025/12/16/aeroflot-flight-6502-when-a-pilots-ego-killed-70-passengers.html "the pilot, Alexander Kliuyev, made a bet with his crew: he wagered he could land the aircraft using instruments only, with the cockpit windows completely curtained off.
He couldn't." #russia
“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
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The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
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[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic now turned foe. On the contrary, only a few months ago the Nato boss was literally calling Trump “daddy”.
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Few embody the contradiction more fully than Britain’s own Keir Starmer. He prides himself on his solidarity with Zelenskyy, but remains silent as Trump demonstrates his solidarity with Putin.
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It’s come to something when the sharpest geopolitical voice in Europe belongs to the pope. Leo criticised Trump for “trying to break apart” an Atlantic alliance that remained essential. In the current climate, even naming the problem counts as a radical act. Now it’s time for those leaders who do not speak in the name of God, but for the peoples of Europe, to be as brave.”
Via @glynmoody & @ChrisMayLA6
#europe #EU #USA #unitedStates #fascism #regimeChange #war #russia #appeasement
Ukrainian children being sent to North Korea sparks outrage
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-children-being-sent-north-151600242.html
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #DPRK #NorthKorea
Russians Planned Explosions on Planes Flying to the USA from Europe
Trump still thinks Putin is a great guy.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russians-planned-explosions-on-planes-flying-to-the-usa-from-europe/
@jpmens Thankfully, Donald, you are not in charge in #Ukraine. You are also not in charge of the #EU. You are, however, #russia 's rent-boy. With an approval rating of 41% among your own people.
If you were to have elections right now in your own country, your party would be wiped out and no amount of huffing, puffing, intimidating, deflecting, gerymandering and plain old lying is going to help you.
No one wants you. You are done.
The Deathonomics of Putin’s War
“Black widows” marrying soldiers to collect death benefits are symptomatic of society-wide rot.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/russia-putin-war-dead-black-widows-death-benefits-fraud/
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #putinswar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
No, these guys are beyond ridiculous 😂 Neo-Nazi Alexander #Dugin just self-censored the word “kill”, apparently so that his post isn’t moderated on the world’s top free speech platform which he had been praising from behind his VPN in #Russia for the whole last week 😂 Don’t worry Sasha, if they don’t moderate your daily flood of literal Nazism, they won’t ban you for one “kill” 🤦
#Russia Medvedev and Dmitriev ranting on Twitter/X about “EU limiting free speech” through a VPN because they themselves blocked Twitter in Russia is an epic level of absurdity 😂
I feel like such a genius because I know Asian Russians exist. 😆
It's all because I have read Russian fiction, namely, Sergei Lunkyanenko, and listened to Russian bands like Otyken 🤭
How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead
An online bazaar of freelance headhunters finds new recruits to fight Ukraine, emboldening Vladimir Putin at the negotiating table and scaring European leaders about what his growing army might do next.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/russia-planned-war-of-attrition-00672960
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
I read the serious discussions about ‘who eavesdropped on Ushakov and Dmitriev’ and can’t help but chuckle to myself.
All these deliberations about whether it was the NSA or GCHQ are based on the assumption that Ushakov had to use a secure means of communication. Had to… because why exactly?
Because politicians are renowned for their unwavering commitment to adhering to rules, including #OPSEC? But they are not.
Let us recall the US and European leaders who, in #Ukraine Kyiv in 2013, happily chatted on the phone and were recorded (‘Nuland–Pyatt call’).
Shortly afterwards, Sergei Glazyev from the #Russia presidential administration did the same and was recorded… by the new SBU (‘Glazyev tapes’, much less well-known but much more devastating).
In summary, if one can generalise the concept of high-level politics in #infosec matters, it is that those in power do not apply the rules to themselves and do not learn from their mistakes precisely because they are in power.
In short, Hanlon’s razor applies.
"We are living through the most disgraceful episode in American history since slavery and it’s not even close. Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had told Adolph Hitler in 1941: 'I’ll force the British and French to let you keep half of Poland in exchange for some kickbacks to my friends and family.'”
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia #PutinsPoodle
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-thieving-crooks-selling
"This analogy is not a stretch. It is exactly what is happening now, as described in a recent explosive Wall Street Journal exposé that documents exactly how much Russia is dangling the prospect of riches to friends of Donald Trump Jr. and other connected Americans in exchange for a dishonorable peace that sells out Ukraine, our European allies and the vast majority of Americans who oppose Vladimir Putin’s genocidal war."
"Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
Dmitriev, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, had found receptive partners in Witkoff—Trump’s longtime golfing partner—and Kushner, whose investment fund, Affinity Partners, drew billion-dollar investments from the Arab monarchies whose conflict with Israel he had helped mediate.
(...)
“Russia has so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” Witkoff told (...) describing at length his hopes that Russia, Ukraine and America would all become business partners. “If we do all that, and everybody’s prospering and they’re all a part of it, and there’s upside for everybody, that’s going to naturally be a bulwark against future conflicts there. Because everybody’s thriving.”
When a version of the 28-point plan leaked earlier this month, it drew immediate protests. Leaders in Europe and Ukraine complained it reflected mostly Russian talking points and bulldozed through nearly all of Kyiv’s red lines."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290
#USA #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #Kleptocracy
#LGBTQ #VideoGames #Steam #Russia
'PC gaming’s top marketplace, Steam, has censored a game featuring artwork from a prominent queer artist over Russian propaganda laws, but the game’s developer isn’t taking it lying down.'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/27/steam-card-game-lgbtq-propaganda/
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russian officials on how to pitch a Ukraine peace deal to President Donald Trump, according to an audio recording reported by Bloomberg.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-peace-deal-trump-putin-witkoff-11108302
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #RussiaUkrainewar #SlavaUkraini
An amazing #city
The largest city in the world
...Not anymore
"With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, #Indonesia's capital #Jakarta soared from 33rd place to surpass #Japan's Tokyo, according to a new #UnitedNations report"
A mind boggling fact for you:
The population of #Java is about 155 million
The population of #Russia is about 145 million
Java is about 2/3 the size of #GreatBritain!
That's what rich volcanic soil does
The U.S.-Russia Plan Gives Trump a $300 Billion Signing Bonus
If Europe moves fast to seize Russian assets, it may be able to sink this bad deal.
#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #uspol #trump
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Rubio told U.S. officials that the 28-point plan was from #Russia, not the U.S., Politico reports.
This contradicts Rubio’s posts on X saying the plan had U.S. input.
The plan is widely criticised as too favourable to Russia.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/lawmakers-deny-peace-plan-ukraine-00666185
Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset
This ‘peace plan’ is not only a tragedy for Ukraine, but an immediate crisis for Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4a54a0233ca03bfe
#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini #politics #trump
Si es real es bastante acojonante.
#Russia started deploying a new attack tactics on #Ukraine military units - in #Mikolaiv unknown perpetrators offered a woman with a child large amount of money for “delivering a package to soldiers”.
She was expected to leave the package to soldiers and then leave, confirming delivery by messaging an agreed number. When she only approached the soldiers the package exploded, killing herself and three soldiers from mine disposal unit. The bomb was of course remotely controlled and the woman was from the beginning planned to be killed. She left a young child in a hotel where she stayed.
If that scenario sounds a bit familiar it’s because it is, that’s precisely one of the methods ISIS employed.