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This week's podcast guest is Anders Puck Nielsen! He is a Danish naval officer and military analyst. Check it out if you would like to join our conversation. @anderspucknielsen.dk youtu.be/FWaotMH9WJQ?...

A couple of examples of the damage and casualties caused by russian strategic bombers during these years of the invasion of Ukraine. #russiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Source: x.com/MarcoFattori...

Smoke can be observed, reportedly near the airbase.

Fire reported after a drone attack on the Russian military airfield in Olenegorsk, Murmansk region of Russia. 1750km from the Ukrainian border.

⚡️ In this episode, we explore the defining features of Russian imperialism since the 16th century. 🔗 : soundcloud.com/user-5795865... This conversation will help you understand that #Ukraine’s experience is one of the most visible examples, but by no means the only one.

🔴 Russian intelligence services have created fake humanitarian organizations to impersonate the ICRC, Ukrainian intelligence finds.

⚡️A public talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and political analyst Anne Applebaum. 🔗 Listen to the podcast: soundcloud.com/user-5795865... In this episode, we discuss the crisis of democracy, the rise of new autocracies, #Trump’s pro-Russian stance, and #Russia’s war against #Ukraine.

Are you unwell @steampowered.com

The Russians are making fun of Donald Trump this morning because they know he is the weakest President that America has ever had. The Russians can’t stop laughing at how easy it is to manipulate Trump.

Russian soldiers tied their own comrade to a vehicle and dragged him in circles on the ground. Reportedly, he left his position without permission. This is their barbaric way of punishing one of their own. If this is how they treat their own people, it’s terrifying to imagine what they do to others

Watching you do nothing even though I no longer make nuclear bluffs makes me wonder why I took your leaders seriously enough to bother making them at all.

Russian imperialism will not be neutralized by negotiations, compromises, or concessions. Instead, such approaches only promote further foreign adventurism in Moscow and military escalation along Russia's borders. @kyivindependent.com www.msn.com/en-us/news/w... @sceeus-ui.bsky.social

Lavrov ups Russia's demands on Ukraine to include a ban on democratic elections. Do we get it yet?

Shadow tanker FALCON has no flag, no insurance, 13 deficiencies including structural ones. Turns off her AIS to hide the fact that she slings LPG from Russia. Entered Baltic Sea an hour ago. Src: equasis.org, marinetraffic.com, @maritimekiwi.bsky.social

Even as fascist Russia threatens a massive combined missile and drone attack on democratic Ukraine, Ukraine is launching a huge drone attack on Russia. The war will continue to rise in intensity until the West gives Ukraine the support needed to defeat fascist Russia.

Please watch this video if you want to better understand Putin and the Ukraine war. Good points are made such as that a peaceful and successful Ukraine, outside Russia’s influence sphere, is simply not acceptable for Putin, even if parts of Ukraine are given up to Russia.

Lavrov said 🇷🇺"will not leave Ukraine under the rule of Zelensky's junta", i.e. the aim is not occupying 4 regions, but a regime change and political control over Ukraine at large. To remind, Moscow also questioned the legitimacy of 🇺🇦 President Poroshenko, who was democratically voted out in 2019.

One person was killed and eight others injured — four of them critically — in a Russian strike on the port of #Odesa using two ballistic missiles. The attack was confirmed by Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksii Kuleba. 📷: Telegram/Oleksii Kuleba 1/2

🤯 Russian soldiers calmly walk past their wounded comrade, who is kneeling by in search of help.

“When the guns go silent, Russia will begin to reckon with Putin’s stupendous folly. No wonder he prefers to keep fighting.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It's hard to tell if the most agonizing thing about the Istanbul negotiations was Russia's blatant delay tactics, which seemingly worked on Donald Trump, or the excessive media hype about a possible meeting between Putin and Zelensky. In this video, I take a look at the diplomatic theater.

NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)

Russia: Putin planted a Russian spy posing as a translator sent by the US embassy in Moscow for Witkoff's latest meeting in the Kremlin in April. She is from SVR - Russia's foreign intelligence.

Imagine the level of cynicism it took to strike an evacuation bus—to murder people who were simply trying to escape their army, to kill those whose lives they had already destroyed. Well, Russia doesn’t need to imagine.

Putin won’t accept peace unless Russian empire is restored, says US ex-defense secretary Gates The former Pentagon chief says Putin is “tapping along” Trump and remains fixated on maximalist war objectives. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/17/p...

Kaja Kallas: “Everyone wants peace — except Russia.” At the summit in Albania, she stressed sanctions and isolation are key to pressure. The EU plans its largest rollout of 4 sanctions regimes, with over 130 new measures expected on May 20, according to Nexta.

Western governments and military institutions face an array of contemporary warfighting challenges which require rapid solutions. It comprises an intellectual deficit in our military institutions. What are they, and how might they be addressed? 1/7 (Image: @DefenceU)

Our own Stratcom Centre is quoted in this new CNN report on Russia's new "blogger schools" training armies of young people to flood social media with fake narratives that hide Russia's atrocities in Ukraine.

❗️Poland withdraws permission for the work of the Russian consulate in Krakow due to uncovered evidence. Russian secret services were behind a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a Warsaw Marywilska shopping center in May 2024 - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Vira Biriuk was taken late at night and spent a year in a Russian prison in occupied Luhansk. 🧵1/11⬇️

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This is how much of a JOKE russia is. Is it “one last” mass missile attack before the “ceasefire”?! Get one in before midnight? 🤦🏼‍♀️ russia is a devious genocida war machine they started this war, they do not want to end it! They show us that EVERY SINGLE DAY!#RussialsATerroristState

During a "Victory Parade" in one Russian region, a symbolic Kremlin tower collapsed after getting caught on festive decorations.

Comrade @phillipspobrien.bsky.social was brave enough to enter the bunker alone. "Ukraine has not been allowed to fight the war they want to fight" Like & subscribe youtu.be/9OmxEPzbWTo

Escalation

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has issued a warning about a "potentially significant" air attack on our country in the following days. It is a very russian thing to do to consolidate their parade and demonstration of force by burning a few families in their beds.

Russia paraded Shahed drones today—the same ones it uses to bomb Ukrainian cities and kill civilians. This parade wasn’t about WWII or modern weapons. It was about glorifying terror and war crimes.

But of course. Is the U.S still unsure regarding russias ready- and willingness for “ceasefires” & “peace”?

When the Soviet-Russian army entered the Serbian part of Yugoslavia in 1944, it started to mass-rape and pillage on a scale where even the Yugoslavian communists protested in Moscow. Stalin just responded: let the boys be boys.

If you know anyone who identifies as a russian, ask them who co-started WWII allied with Hitler? #RussianShameDay

Surreal. Absurd. Comical. #Vday #putin #russia #WW2 #WWII #parade