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This is a really significant development, especially given that it’s the UK that wants to get rid of US components - one of the hitherto closest US allies, with a deeply US-intertwined defence industry. ”We don’t want to depend on how some negotiations are going”, a UK govt official said

>imperial concubine controls national security >court eunuchs are ceaselessly fighting for internal influence >the viziers are scheming over who replaces the leader >the leader fritters away all his time repeatedly replacing the grass on the lawn >the palace debt grows greater by the day

OTD in 1968 Soviet Russia invaded to save Czechoslovakia from the Prague Spring. Some of these tanks are in Ukraine today. We said we were protecting them from Nazis. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today...

The focus here is, quite reasonably, on the slur, but I am also struck by how bankrupt his argument ("color-blind, merit-based, we want the best") is, given that he's in the process of losing a war in the Middle East really quite badly. The actual *performance* of the DoD is visibly reduced!

Thanks to Donald for all he's doing to not give a shit about this. Traditional conservative values.

I cannot communicate how shameful and disgusting that is.

Russian rear logistics routes littered with destroyed trucks, fuel tankers and other supply vehicles.

If it looks like a duck, says it's a duck, quacks like a duck, jails or shoots anyone for not being a duck, and then creates famine for ducks as a result of forced collectivisation of duck ponds....it's a communist duck. 🦆

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️

Communism is like the horizon. An imaginary line where the sky meets the earth, which recedes further away every time you step closer to it. That's why it is never reached.

Last night, russian missile attack on Kyiv killed 15 people in their homes and beds. ​In the video, an elderly woman asks rescuers if her grandson could still be alive inside the ruined apartment. ​The clip ends as his body is carried out of the wreckage as she screams in agony.

Slow. I am slow today. Night missile and drone attack. Day with many alerts. Lives lost. Tomorrow is a day of mourning in Kyiv. Again. Of course, we hold on. Those who survived the night.

Kyiv.

The Navalny poisoning propaganda farce in 3 acts. Act 1. OTD in 2020 a Russian in Russia, under surveillance by Russian intelligence, left a hotel in Russia & got on a Russian plane going from Russia to Russia & consumed a Russian nerve agent only Russia by the CIA.

A Russian Shahed gets shredded by an MG3 machine gun at almost point blank range. The interception was carried out by a machine gun crew of Ukraine’s 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade.

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Zelensky said about 90% of Russian cruise missiles in the latest combined attack were intercepted, while defenses against ballistic missiles performed significantly worse. Ukraine needs more Patriot missiles and is ready to buy them, he said, urging partners, especially the US, to act. #Ukraine

🇵🇱 PM Tusk: I think that it’s not those who stopped Nord Stream 2 who should be ashamed, but those who built it. Germany is responsible for Europe’s dependence on Russian gas. And Russia turned out to be the aggressor. Germany shouldn’t prosecute those who, when their country was attacked by Russia

Kupyansk is being reduced to a wasteland of concrete rubble by russians for simply wanting to be free of occupation. They destroy everything and kill everyone.

Ukraine's State Border Guard Service says a mobile fire group shot down a cruise missile with a machine gun in Kyiv region today. The missile was heading toward the capital and fell outside populated areas. #Ukraine

Zelensky expects more Ukrainian deep-strike operations under new Defense Minister Khmara, citing his experience conducting such operations at the SBU. Other priorities include air and anti-ballistic defense before winter, an audit of agreements with partners, mobilization, contracts and rotations.

Attacks on Russian logistics appear to be intensifying again. Footage from the R-280 highway, which connects the annexed Crimean peninsula to southern Russia's Rostov region via the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions, shows burning Russian military vehicles. #Ukraine

Yet he rewards North Korea and fails to pressure Russia, despite both being allies of Iran

I feel like I needed to take a brave stance and articulate my opposition to the accelerating encroachment of LLMs into educational and professional life. I realize I may be persecuted for these takes. othermeans.substack.com/p/against-th...

🇺🇦 The art installation "The Future Remembers" was presented at the "Motherland" monument on the occasion of Independence Day.

Konstantin Kisin: “...every Western idiot like Tucker Carlson goes to Moscow and says, ‘Oh my God, the underground!’ Well, that was built by totalitarian dictators with slave labor. You can get a hell of a lot done with slave labor and totalitarianism.”

Is there another war we can start or something? I need to get Natalie Harp out of the news before I see any more of this

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

Ukraine's 59th Unmanned Systems Brigade targets Russian military logistics supplying occupied Crimea with strikes at ranges of up to 200 km. #Ukraine

Kharkiv parks are getting pretty for the independence day 🇺🇦

❗️Satellite imagery by Exilenova+ confirms substantial damage to a Russian Su-34 frontline bomber hit overnight at the Akhtubinsk airfield. The imagery shows a fuel spill and subsequent fire around the aircraft following the strike. #Ukraine

Ukrainian intelligence estimates Russia can produce over 200 cruise and ballistic missiles a month. Its stocks include 600+ Oniks, 450+ Kalibr, 400 S-400 missiles, around 130 Iskander-M, 120+ Zircon, up to 100 Kh-101, plus around 50 Kinzhal and 50 North Korean missiles. #Ukraine

🚨🚨🚨 🧵 Russia is at war with NATO. Russian sea drone was spotted in Romanian EE zone by a commercial vessel. The drone was disabled by a Romanian F-16 with its onboard cannon just a few hundred meters from the Neptun Deep / Neptun Alpha gas drilling platform in the Black Sea.

The death toll from the overnight russian attack on Kyiv has risen to 15, with 39 others injured‼️ Rescuers are currently carrying out search and rescue operations at the site of the russian attack.

Ukraine's 63rd Mechanized Brigade continues targeting Russian logistics, destroying UAZ vans used extensively by Russian forces to transport supplies. The vehicles carry everything from water to ammunition, making them frequent targets for Ukrainian drone pilots. #Ukraine

❗️EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Russia is "losing the war it started" and retaliating by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. She said the EU is working with member states and partners to strengthen Ukraine's anti-ballistic capabilities and protect lives. #Ukraine

They deserve it for defending themselves.

Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on the TANECO refinery in Nizhnekamsk and the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Krasnodar region on August 19-20. Fires were recorded at both sites. TANECO can process up to 16 million tons annually, while Tamanneftegaz handles up to 19.9 million tons. #Ukraine

Russian Pantsir-S1 interceptor debris is washing up on Turkey's Black Sea coast. Launch motors from 9M335 surface-to-air missiles have been recovered along the coasts of Istanbul and Sinop. #Russia

I never could’ve imagined the photos from WWII London with people sleeping in the tube to hide from bombs would come to life in my own city. But they did . Despite my horror, they do, daily, for the 5th year now. Like this one, with people of Kyiv this night and early morning, sleeping in Kyiv metro

Its taken 4 replies and we've decided that "because the catholic church supported hitler" it means North Korea isn't communist.

🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen: Russia is losing the war it started. And it is retaliating by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. We are working with Member States and our partners to support Ukraine’s anti-ballistic capabilities. So that Ukraine has the means to prevent the loss of lives.

Russian channels are cheering the overnight strikes on Kyiv that killed 12 civilians and injured more than 30. One graphic depicts drones attacking the capital alongside calls to "burn military facilities in Kyiv" and "burn them clearly." The actual attack killed ordinary civilians. #Ukraine

SNYDER: It's a long list of dictatorships that Trump has bailed out, directly or indirectly. He's bailed out Russia. Russia's going to lose the war in Ukraine eventually, but if it weren't for Trump, they wouldn't have stayed in it this long. Trump just made it so easy for them to keep fighting.

so uh what the fuck has been going on in the west wing

1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin warns that the West and Ukraine are slowly boiling the Russian frog, aiming for Russia’s exhaustion and eventual military-political capitulation. He accuses the Russian government of weakness and a misplaced willingness to find a compromise. ⬇️

ATESH says an agent inside Russia's 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade reported that its commander, Colonel Dmitry Shabaev, was wounded on August 19 while inspecting a brigade command post near Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia region. He was evacuated, while his condition remains unclear. #Ukraine

A Romanian F-16 destroyed a small maritime drone near the Neptun Deep platform in Romania's Black Sea exclusive economic zone after it was spotted by a commercial vessel. Romanian officials said Ukraine confirmed that the drone did not originate from Ukrainian territory. #Europe

Russia's overnight attack on Kyiv killed 12 people and injured more than 30, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Eight of those killed were residents of the Solomianskyi district, which suffered the highest death toll in the capital. #Ukraine

McFAUL: You can't do something as horrible as what Russia has been doing to Ukraine without massive support from society. Putin is giving orders to his soldiers, but these documented mass atrocities that are happening in Ukraine are being committed by Russians. That’s not Putin.

1/4 By mistaking enthusiasm for his reforms as approval for a political fight, Mykhailo Fedorov just blew a massive opportunity. Fedorov spent years building credibility as minister, but calling for wartime elections right after losing the defense ministry reveals a major lapse in judgment

Ukraine's 1129th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment is using Osa air defense systems to hunt Russian jet-powered drones. The air defense crews themselves are covered and backed up by Ukrainian drone operators, with RBS 70 systems also involved in the layered defense shown in the footage. #Ukraine

Russia accomplished something over the years. They got the world to watch them kill Ukrainians, grow indifferent, and eventually become comfortable with it.

The death toll from Russia's mass attack on Kyiv has risen to 13 after rescuers found another woman's body under rubble in Solomianskyi district. Across Kyiv and the region, 14 people were killed and more than 40 injured. Around 20 residential buildings in the capital were damaged. #Ukraine

🇺🇦 Budanov: When people talk about ending the war, they ask: When? It is an understandable question, and I respect everyone who asks it. But professionally, I have become accustomed to asking a different one: What comes next? #NoPeaceWithoutJustice Read 👀 theukrainianreview.info/long-term-pe...

Ukraine's Tencore signed an MoU with Copenhagen Global at DALO Industry Days 2026 to enter Denmark's institutional procurement market with its ground robotic systems. The partners plan joint promotion and deeper cooperation under Build with Ukraine and other intergovernmental projects. #Ukraine

Remaining in place is, of course, the preferable option to removing itself in a rapidly expanding cloud of shrapnel and surprised sealife.

A new type of surface Russian drone (USV) has been found off the coast of Romania, drifting close to the Neptun Alpha drilling platform... Here -> www.hisutton.com/Russian-USV-...

In russia, the Taneco oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, came under a drone attack this morning🔥

🇺🇦 Zelensky: For a significant part of the day today in Kyiv and in the region – in Boryspil, in Brovary – work continued after the Russian strike. It was a combined strike: a lot of ballistics, cruise missiles, there were drones. Unfortunately, ballistics is the most difficult thing right now.

This is not a sunrise. Or a sunset . It’s not even the famous Saharan dust storm . It’s the fire after Russian ballistic missiles bombed Kyiv area this early morning Photo , shared : nnastyay/threads

Surprisingly candid interview with Matthias Schmale, the head of the UN mission in Ukraine. Well worth listening to. He basically says the UN is not fit for the task, and that we need to abandon the idea of some countries having veto power.

I do not think that is how a jobs market works

Prosecutors say at least 14 private homes, 4 warehouse buildings, a gas station, an apartment building and 8 vehicles were damaged in Boryspil district during Russia's overnight attack on Kyiv region. #Ukraine

CLARKE: There's a particular animus between Moscow and London. Russians actually do go for us. They really hate us. They've always assumed Brits are behind everything that goes wrong for them, that we're great fixers behind the scenes. They take James Bond image more seriously than they should.

u.s. public universities are great and it's kind of a shame so many legislators have decided they hate them

So, uh, given what bond yields and the stock indexes are doing, combined with weak job numbers and dismal consumer confidence numbers (for a while),is it fair to say the economy is, at minimum, blinking yellow - despite oil prices remaining only modestly elevated?

Let russia in? The first thing they’ll do is steal. In this case — from those their country kills. This tune is Shchedryk by Mykola Leontovych, a Ukrainian composer murdered by russia. This performance is literal dancing on a grave.

PETRAEUS: Obviously North Korea will learn drone warfare from Russia. China is also seeing Russia as a laboratory. Chinese have manufacturing capacity on steroids that we don’t have. While Ukraine is making 8 to 10 million drones a year, we [the US] produce maybe half a million.

😡 Russians attacked Aurora with Shahed in Slovyansk: the store was completely burned down, there are many wounded, — said the head of the city military administration Vadim Lyakh

Russians launched a massive airstrike on central Kramatorsk, killing 1 person and injuring at least 11 others‼️

MORE: Putin has been able to present a fictional picture of the Russian military’s performance on the battlefield to the Russian public more readily than he can dissemble about the economic situation. ⬇ 🧵(1/3)

🇺🇦‼️ The Varus warehouse in Boryspil was also hit during the night attack, storing part of the chain's inventory. Some stores may experience temporary partial disruptions in the availability of some products.

Mykyta worked at a Nova Poshta branch in Kramatorsk. russia killed him in a targeted strike. His colleagues, loved ones, and customers remember him warmly. This is how his memory will live on. Those who murdered him will forever stay war criminals, awaiting punishment.

Russians casually debate who is best to send to kill Ukrainians: their own people or North Koreans in exchange for some wheat and oil. The option to stop the war doesn't occur to them because they support the war and want Ukrainians dead.

The story of Doris Miller is legendary. Let's not allow a draft-dodger to steal his valor.

Doris Miller’s Navy Cross should absolutely be upgraded to a Medal of Honor but he should also get a carrier named for him.

Two rote/pair of JAS 39C Gripens (acc to FR24) operating over northern Poland last hours, including aerial refueling. Operating from base Kallinge. Very unusual to see them broadcasting (but they fly a lot).

About 90% of cruise missiles downed in overnight Russian attack, ballistic missiles pose greater challenge – Zelenskyy

SCARBOROUGH: Donald Trump felt a kinship with the worst dictators and thugs on the planet and raged the most at democratically elected leaders in Western civilization. Now, we’ll let people figure that out, but I still haven’t heard a good explanation. It doesn’t make any sense.

Fedorov seems to have miscalculated both the level of personal support he had and the likelihood that his provocation about elections would strike a chord with society.

‼️ Prosecutors identify Russian soldier who executed captured Ukrainian commander with shot to head

“Missile defense is essential. America used to provide that. Hopefully, we can get that program going again.” Our ambassador Liev Schreiber came to Kyiv, witnessing the aftermath of a russian attack: destroyed buildings and innocent victims. His conclusion speaks volumes.

Ukraine's NABU and SAPO released new recordings from the "Forest Gump" operation, with investigators alleging a large-scale corporate raiding scheme. The case mentions current and former officials, lawmakers and businessmen, while released images show bags packed with Ukrainian hryvnia banknotes.

The just finished Han Kuang exercise in Taiwan was more realistic, longer & had an emphasis on whole-of-society preparedness. It had insights for civil-mil integration, civil defence & resilience for other democracies - if we are smart enough to watch & learn. mickryan.substack.com/p/taiwans-wh...

HODGES: I don't know what Trump and Xi discussed in Beijing. But I am sure that Trump administration wouldn't be willing to go to war over Taiwan. We also saw announcement that only aircraft carrier in Pacific is being moved now towards Middle East. If this report is accurate,

The European Commission has effectively rejected Ukraine's request for €220 million in additional grants for farmers affected by Russian attacks on Black Sea ports. Brussels said assistance will instead come through existing EU mechanisms, including loan interest subsidies and lending programs.

💔🇺🇦 One person died after a fire broke out in a residential area in Holosiivskyi district, where a fire is being extinguished. Kyiv residents advised to close windows due to deteriorating air quality

NEW: Russian forces launched a massive, combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine, continuing a pattern of stockpiling ballistic and cruise missiles for several days to amass enough for major attacks that cause significant civilian casualties. (1/7) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar082026

Good night, sleep well and see you all tomorrow!

❗️Ukrainian attack drones struck the Perm Oil Refinery this morning, setting the facility ablaze. Locals reported multiple explosions and columns of smoke. The refinery has processing capacity of about 226,000-260,000 barrels per day, equivalent to roughly 13-13.1 million tons annually. #Ukraine

It’s called ”Project Brakestop”

And today’s 6th air raid siren in Kyiv just cleared , which brings the total duration of Russian attacks on Kyiv today to 15 hours . 15 hours of people needing to hide in bomb shelters , or

📍Kyiv, the Motherland Monument 🇺🇦 The audiovisual art installation “The Future Remembers” by lighting designer Mykola Kabluka is dedicated to the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.

People don’t talk enough about Russian colonialism

Russian losses per 21/08/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff +1390 men +3 tanks +5 ACVs +57 artillery +2 MLRS +4 AD systems +1980 UAVs +12 GRCs +39 cruise missiles

🇪🇺🇺🇦 The same conditions apply to women conscripts in the EU as to men, says European Commission spokesman He said the EU decision to extend temporary protection does not differentiate between men and women in terms of military service if they are conscripts.

Just watched a video of an older lady wailing excruciatingly in Kyiv after learning her grandson didn’t make it through Russian attack tonight : he was buried in his bed under the collapsed building after Russia bombed Kyiv with missiles . I’ve heard wailings like hers so many times by now it’s

“My role as ambassador is about being a storyteller.” Happy birthday to actor, baker, candlestick maker, and UNITED24 ambassador, @mishacollins.bsky.social 🎂 Thank you for being a friend; for helping our people, visiting Ukraine, telling stories about it — stories to remember🧵

Ukraine expects NATO's Military Committee to visit in October, Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi said. It would be the committee's first such visit in eight years. Drapatyi said Ukraine's priorities include deep strikes, flexible infantry tactics, frontline robotization and air defense. #Ukraine