Search results for tag #ukraine
I'm glad the war in #Ukraine has almost ended and they no longer need their troops and drone defense at home.
#Zelensky confirms that Ukrainian forces are operating in five Middle Eastern countries to help intercept Iranian drones even as #Trump said he doesn't need Kyiv's help.
#WarOfAggression #IranUnderAttack
#RegimeChange #WarOnIran #EpsteinWar #WestAsia #Iran #tRump #WarForOil #Israel
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Ukraine is quietly helping five Middle East nations shoot down Iranian drones, even as Trump says he doesn't need Kyiv's help Fortune Zelenskyy confirmed teams are operating in five countries as Kyiv looks to turn battlefield expertise into an
air-defense lifeline.
Brilliant. When Russia invaded Ukraine, in Latvia they changed the name of the street in Riga where the Russian Embassy is to "Ukrainian Independence Street", and the medical museum over the road put up this unflattering picture of Putin as a grinning skull. #travel #ukraine #latvia #riga
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The corner of the Russian Embassy, with the street sign attached (and an explanation underneath, just to rub it in)
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The medical museum opposite, complete with Putin death mask
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The Russian Embassy itself
Russian hackers exploit #Zimbra flaw in Ukrainian govt attacks
The release of the Jeffrey #Epstein files in the U.S. revealed multiple links between the late sex offender’s network and #Ukraine, including contacts with modeling agencies, travel arrangements for #Ukrainian women, and real estate business dealings.
#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
#EU PRESSURES #HUNGARY TO REMOVE BLOCK ON UKRAINE LOAN: EU leaders urge Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to lift his veto on a vital 90-billion-euro ($103 billion) loan to Ukraine. Without this funding, Kyiv can run short of money for its defense in weeks. #EU #Hungary #Ukraine #ViktorOrban #ForeignAid #DefenseFunding https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eu-leaders-press-hungarys-orban-lift-block-ukraine-loan-2026-03-19/
Hello, @EUCommission - can you explain to me and I'm sure others are equally curious - why Orban/Hungary is allowed to blackmail the EU over the 90bn€ loan to Ukraine?
Can't his vote be limited somehow, since he's still deep in Putin's pockets?
#Orban #Ukraine
Orban is afraid of democracy.
Orban is a puppet of Putin, wreaking havoc and making the EU #parliament dysfunctional, by blocking and delaying #EU resolutions, including crucial aid to #Ukraine.
"Mr Orban, you are not a patriot. You are just a useful idiot of russia and china... You turned your country into a banana republic! You robbed your people and enriched your family and friends."
"Under your rule #Hungary has become one of the poorest and officially the most corrupt country in the EU."
Thank you, Moritz Körner for stepping up to the bully. Now, #Hungarian people should do the same. Otherwise, Hungary will turn into another Belarus, or worse yet - russia.
"If we allow Russia to succeed in Ukraine, no country is safe. What happens in #Ukraine will shape Europe for generations."
Kaja Kallas
#Ukrainemustwin
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Kaya kallas
"You know, I've had quite enough of the Killer Khamenei regime!"
- Aure
Iran threatens to strike Ukraine over drone assistance to Israel, says the country is a "legitimate target."
#AureFreePress #Ukraine #iranwar #BreakingNews #Breaking
More at @Free_Press
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Killer Khamenei Jr.
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President Zelensky
#Ukraine is the bastion of the free world. I am daily in awe of Ukraine
"Ukraine retakes most Russian-held areas in #Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after weeks of counterattacks"
"Ukrainian troops have liberated more than 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) in the area during the operation... In February, Ukraine liberated more territory than Russian troops captured during the same period"
"In Russia, I will face criminal prosecution because I oppose the war in Ukraine."
A 16-year-old orphan, Timur Turkov, who fled Russia to avoid future mobilization, now faces deportation from Kazakhstan for "illegally crossing the border."
In Russia, Timur faces criminal charges for "justifying terrorism" and "discrediting the army."
If this case gains public attention, it could help Timur. Let's share as widely as possible.
#AureFreePress #News #press #Ukraine #Russia
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
Year 4 of this terrible #Ukrainewar. Europe has now given more military aid than any other bloc #Ukraine...
(source: @kielinstitute Ukraine Support Tracker)
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A treemap illustrating military aid to Ukraine in billions of dollars. Europe provided $168 billion, with Germany contributing $50.2 billion, and Norway $20.6 billion. The UK, Netherlands, and other European countries also contributed. The United States provided $74.7 billion. Other contributions came from Canada at $5.1 billion and Australia at $1 billion. Data is sourced from the Ukraine Support Tracker by the Kiel Institute, covering February 2022 to December 2025.
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ALT tag: "Bar chart titled 'Military Aid to Ukraine % of GDP' shows countries' aid relative to GDP. Norway leads with 4.3%, followed by Estonia at 3.1%, and Sweden at 2.8%. The USA is at 0.32%, despite leading in absolute dollars. Countries bordering Russia or Ukraine are marked. Source: Ukraine Support Tracker, Feb 2022 - Dec 2025."
russian aggression is relentless. It leaves only devastation, ruined cities, and shattered lives. By destroying Ukrainian cities, russia also seeks to erase their identity and spirit - everything that connects them to #Ukraine.
#ArmUkraineNOW to stop the evil and prevent Putin regime's crimes from spreading across the continent. Nato into Ukraine! Stop Putin's genocide of Ukrainians.
Give every weapon in the arsenal of democracy to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
#europe #Deutschland #France #Italy #Germany #Spain #Balltics #Poland #Czechia #England #Uk #eu #usa #nato
#HUNGARY BLOCKS #EU SUPPORT FOR #UKRAINE: As EU leaders traveled to #Kyiv to mark the anniversary of Russia’s war, Hungary blocked the bloc’s 20th sanctions package against Moscow and threatened to veto a €90 billion loan for Ukraine’s defense. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ukraine-visit-hungary-blocks-russia-sanctions-funding-feud-viktor-orban/
@EUCommission #Hungary refuses to stand with #Ukraine, with the #EU and prefers to stand with the aggressor. What kind of EU needs such a traitor member state?
#Hungary blocks #EU sanctions AND $106 billion loan for #Ukraine, risking a domino collapse
Put about right,
Showing solidarity with Ukraine by showing the flag colors does not change anything as long as Putin and trump friend Orban can get away with blocking a majority decision.
Somebody please give him a cup of tea, putin style.
AND, get back the 10 Million the commision transferred unlawfully, give that to UKR instead.
#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
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
#Ukraine is developing a secure #military comms #network in case of #Starlink shutdown.
This comes as Ukraine seeks to move away from dependence on the US. Ukraine also recently cut off Starlink usage for the Russian military. https://epravda.com.ua/oborona/ukrajina-gotuyetsya-do-zapusku-viyskovih-mobilnih-
A #Russian Shahed drone was recorded carrying #FPV drones.
This means that FPV #drones, which are typically used only near the #front, could attack to any part of #Ukraine. Attaching multiple drones to a Shahed, will also mean that air #defense tactics will need to be adapted. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1420613719609087
#Zaluzhnyi Ukraine's former Commander-in-Chief, spoke publicly for the first time about a rift between him and #Zelenskyy.
Both men clashed over defense strategies but, Zaluzhnyi told The AP, that tensions peaked after his office was raided by Ukraine's security service. https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-war-zaluzhnyi-zelenskyy-raid-5ff9e5e2054e0b17c
#ukraine #news
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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
“Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter states: ‘No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.’”
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c309pj8d8qqo
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Swastikas line the background at the lighting of the Olympic torch at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Officials and a German athelete give the Hitler salute as the sole African American gives a regular military salute and the Japanese athletes stands with his hands at his side at a medal ceremony during the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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
European solidarity.
#Ukraine #Europe #winter #solidarity #StandWithUkraine
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Cartoon showing two neighboring houses. One house shows people watching a movie and listening to music. A thermostat on the wall indicates it's 21 degrees Celsius inside. A person is holding a smartphone in his hands with a low battery symbol visible on the display. He is looking a a socket to charge it; the socket is currently taken by a plug that connect to a cord that goes outside and to the roof of the house, where it is powering a large LED sign mounted on the roof. The sign reads: 'Europe stands with Ukraine'. The neighboring house, with a tattered Ukrainian flag in the garden, is a smoking ruin. Through the shattered window we can see a mother and child shivering in the dark of the stone-cold interior.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/116013347110442102
once again: #Ukraine #Gaza and now #ICE #MAGA terrorism are one and the same #war.
Bezos’ disembowling of The Washington Post ―the newspaper that exposed Watergate― is proof USA’s 800 billionaires are working as a dictatorship of the oligarchy.
they are 800 out of ±3,000 worldwide, but these warmongering sociopaths believe they will control the other 2k and the world with a unitary executive remote controlled thru the White House, a bought Congress and USA’s nuclear arsenal.
BDS THE 800
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
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/
Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv
#music #video #Russia #Ukraine #war #PutinsWar #Putin #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini
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
Recomano molt aquest documental de la guerra a Ucraïna. Si teniu Filmin, aquí és pot veure:
https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/2000-metros-hasta-andriivka
"La misión de un pelotón ucraniano es atravesar un kilómetro y medio de bosque para liberar un pueblo estratégico de las fuerzas rusas. Un periodista les acompaña y es testigo...".
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
The EU is considering a two-tier EU membership for Kyiv, the first stage would allow Kyiv to gain access to the EU market, subsidies, and development funds.
This would go against any precedent set by past EU accession processes.
https://www.ft.com/content/a42ea7ba-af22-4133-b1d3-e2fdf561c7ba
#ukraine #eu #kyiv
Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s ex-Prime Minister and head of one of Ukraine’s biggest political parties, has been arrested, with bail has been set at around $760,000. She is banned from contacting 66 MPs and must surrender her passport.
It is believed she bribed lawmakers to sway votes.
https://www.dw.com/uk/vaks-priznaciv-ulii-timosenko-333-miljona-griven-zastavi/a-75538643
France has replaced the U.S. as the main intelligence provider, now supplying two-thirds of the data.
This shift allows Kyiv to reduce its reliance on U.S. intel. The U.S. has previously temporarily cut off intelligence to #Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/france-replaces-us-as-main-intelligence-provider-to-kyiv-macron-says/
Polish President Nawrocki:
We in Poland, we don't know a different Russia than an aggressive Russia. Never mind Tsarist Russia, White Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or today's Putin's Russia - it is always the threat for Poland, for Europe, for East-Central Europe.
In history, we know only Russia who is the threat. Even nowadays in the 21st century, after Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Russia is still a threat to Europe.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
LIFE SAVING HELP...
This is how Kyiv residents survive without electricity and heating after Russian attacks.
Invincibility points are places where people can warm up, rest, charge mobile phones and other devices, use the internet, get hot drinks, and receive basic assistance.
UKRAINE NEEDS OUR HELP!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews #Kyiv
Why hasn't the proposed peace keeping force for Ukraine from the coalition of the willing been sent to Greenland yet? Lets test the concept.
"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
"Trump seems intent on carving up the world into three large power blocs — one under the thuggery of Putin, the second under the thuggery of Xi, and the third under Trump’s thuggery (allied with sou-thugs like Israel’s Netanyahu and Hungary’s Orban)."
#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela #oil #Putin #Ukraine #Xi #Taiwan #Netanyahu #Gaza #thugs
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#NEWS OF THE DAY:
#ZELENSKYY REITERATED THAT #UKRAINE CANNOT WITHDRAW FROM ITS TERRITORIES: He made the remarks after his meeting with Donald #Trump in Florida, adding that a 20-point draft of the revised peace plan to end the war is now almost complete. https://kyivindependent.com/we-cant-just-withdraw-from-our-territories-zelensky-says-following-his-meeting-with-trump/
#SECURITY GUARANTEES INCLUDE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN #UKRAINE: For the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. included the deployment of American troops in Ukraine in security guarantees. https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-polytics/4075052-ssa-mozut-rozgornuti-vijska-v-ukraini-ak-element-garantij-bezpeki-tusk.html
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
6 #Ukrainian banks signed a #record-breaking UAH 21.5 #loan deal to fund defense production.
This 3-year consortium agreement aims to boost domestic #weapons manufacturing and reduce reliance on #military imports
https://english.nv.ua/business/banks-back-ukraine-arms-push-with-historic-deal-50571830.html
#ukraine #zelenskyy #war
Ukrainian hacker admits affiliate role in #Nefilim #ransomware gang
Getting into the Christmas spirit. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#Christmas #Xmas #Ukraine #Sudan #PeaceOnEarth
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Cartoon showing a living room where Santa is decorating a Christmas tree. A box next to him is filled with Christmas ornaments and is labeled ‘Christmas spirit CRISIS TEAM’. Behind him elves are shoving skulls and bombs labeled ‘Gaza’, ‘Ukraine’ and ’Sudan’ into a closet and trying to close the closet door so they do not spill out again. Outside we see a war going on in the distance, with buildings on fire and bombs being dropped while nearby an elf is operating a snow cannon to make the garden white.
Interesting reframing. Cost of aid to #ukraine in cups of coffee per month.
(by @topleadEU)
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A map titled "Aid to Ukraine Costs a European 1.2 Cups of Coffee a Month" shows the total bilateral aid provided to Ukraine recalculated into cups of coffee per capita per month. European countries contribute amounts ranging from 0.7 to 7.7 cups, with Scandinavian and Baltic countries contributing the most: Norway at 7.7 cups, Estonia at 6.5 cups, and Latvia at 5.8 cups. The U.S. contributes 2.5 cups per month, while Japan and New Zealand contribute 0.2 and 0.1 cups, respectively. Sources include the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, World Bank, and Mandore Media.
My position is that we should skip to the inevitable betrayal, dispense with the pretense that the United States is interested in a just peace for #Ukraine, and try to do as little damage as possible while recognizing that reality.
Kaja Kallas:
Countries want to be in NATO because they don't want Russia to invade them, to attack them. And that's why Sweden and Finland joined NATO. That's why the Baltic states joined NATO, to have this defense umbrella, really.
Now, if this is not in question [for Ukraine], or this is out of the question, then we need to see what are the security guarantees that are tangible. They can't be papers or promises.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
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
@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
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.
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“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
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
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