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Ukraine could’ve launched the attack on civilian population centers, like Russia does to them daily. Instead, they chose a strictly military target - the very bombers being used to kill Ukrainian civilians. A brilliant operation solely designed to defend their own people.

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If the number of hit RU aircraft cited by unnamed Ukrainian sources ("40+") is accurate, then the Russian Air-Space Force has just sustained its single largest fleet loss since WW2. Hundreds of Soviet aircraft were lost in the many proxy wars and crashes of the Cold War, but not on one day.

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BRKNG: Ukrainian FPV drones smuggled deep inside Russia hit several Russian airbases this afternoon - UA journos posting a leaked drone video of big airplanes on fire with a voice attributed to Ukraine Security Service (SBU) Chief. The SBU itself hasn't confirmed the attack yet (it rarely does).

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Fresh satirical cartoon on Donald Trump's 'disappointment' with Putin:

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Make it FOUR: another sabotage of a rail track was discovered in Russia 60 km away from the Ukraine border / frontline this morning. It's unclear if the RU maintenance train that was inspecting the rail line in question actually derailed.

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Three Russian railway trains derailed last night reportedly as result of sabotage by Ukraine: two in Russia less than 100 km from the UA border / frontline; one in RU-occupied southern Ukraine. In both Russia cases, bridges collapsed👇 (were blown, according to RU regime) causing major disruption.

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The NY Post is many things. A champion of liberal internationalism? Not one of them. Still, they ran my piece on 3 scenarios for how russia’s war ends — and the only path to durable, lasting peace no one dares to name. #ArmUkraineToWin nypost.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 17 hours ago • 10 comments

DOZENS of independently-reported, seemingly-unrelated criminal incidents and murky media campaigns in 2019-2022 Ukraine (like attempted arson of a Zelensky senior staffer's house) can be matched to a leaked workflow archive of a Russia spy agency's notorious black ops unit 29155:

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So, you absolutely should not REPOST this👇

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There is a full on cyberwar happening right now between Russia versus Europe and its allies.

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Biggest threat to every NATO country? Most countries: ‘Russia.’ USA: ‘Probably us. Yeah, definitely us… Oh, and Russia. Maybe China. But mostly us.’

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This is what Russia calls a military target: A depot for repairing public transport in Kharkiv. One trolleybus destroyed. 18 damaged. Three people were injured.

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IMPORTANT: 109,000+ Russian servicemen are now identified, BY NAMES, to have been killed in action while invading Ukraine - OSINT research by @en.zona.media et al. The team estimates that the TOTAL Russia fatalities in The War are "MUCH bigger", amounting to at least 165K.

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Kellog says, Kremlin disproves)

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A Canadian-funded effort is tracking the movements of Ukrainian children taken during wartime, story by @markmackinnon.bsky.social : www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

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Brian Whitmore: There is simply no magic formula, no concession, and no grand bargain that would satisfy the Kremlin’s maximalist and eliminationist goals. Moscow wants to end Ukraine’s sovereignty, nationhood, and statehood. @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social @powervertical.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Fiber optic drones of the 28th Brigade destroyed hangars with Russian equipment from the inside

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Fresh documentary on the persecution of Christians in Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine. Not the first on the issue, but focusing on southern Ukraine rather than the persecuted churches in Donbas.

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PhD students, post-docs, PhD holders in 20th century Eastern Europe: if you want a job, me and my pals at the Pilecki Institute are about to drop the motherlode. 12 jobs available across various fields. And you get to work with me. Keep your eyes on this space.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"We were flying over Europe. We saw red flashes on the ground. We were watching Russians bomb Ukrainians in the winter of 2015. It was profound. I was affected by it. [My Russian ISS colleagues] went to join Putin's party." Retired US astronaut Col. Terry Virts www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgS...

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"Dostoyevsky! Pushkin!"

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Very worrying(

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Even a broken clock...

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"Nothing is going to change until Putin sees more costs for his actions—and the president stamping his feet on social media doesn’t count." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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🔴 Russian authorities are reportedly circulating explicit instructions outlinin which forms of torture should be applied to Ukrainian servicemen.

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Just so you know, russian soldiers themselves refer to it as ‘human safari’

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russian disinformation is the biggest winner of this partnership

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“Since Vladimir V. Putin took power more than 25 years ago, at least 108 monuments to Stalin have been erected across Russia, and the pace has accelerated since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.” Celebration of murder! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

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US administration openly intervened on behalf of the authoritarian populist candidate in the Polish presidential election

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BRKNG: Russian drone attacks against Ukrainian civilians in Kherson Province “amount to crimes against humanity of murder” - UN Commission on human rights investigation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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Russia firefighters posted videos of responding to defense industry sites successfully attacked by Ukrainian? drones in Moscow last night. Evidently, this facility is FRESHLY-built with a building tech that didn't exist in RU 15-20 years ago, despite the surplus 1000s of old Soviet facilities.

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A UA drone appears to score a direct hit on a Russian drone factory, Kronshadt, in Dubna, Moscow Oblast. Russia's defense ministry says 296 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight - an attack on a scale that rivals Russia's attacks on Ukraine. Moscow airports were also closed.

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