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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 06/10/2026
Oil from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on #Ukraine
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Oil from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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Progressief Nederland @progressiefned.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Onze oproep aan het kabinet: het kan anders. - Gewone mensen moeten erop vooruitgaan - Geen bezuinigingen op uitkeringen bij werkloosheid of langdurige ziekte - Geen 2,5 miljard extra naar de allerrijksten Dit land kan zoveel eerlijker. Steun de oproep! progressiefnederland.nl/hetkananders
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Oproep aan het kabinet: het kan anders
Miljarden naar miljonairs en bezuinigen op gewone mensen? Dacht het niet! De koers moet om: gewone mensen erop vooruit, geen bezuinigingen op uitkeringen bij werkloosheid of langdurige ziekte, en de a...
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 01/09/2026
Terwijl het Nederlandse verdienmodel verdampt, ruziet Den Haag over de kortetermijnverdeling van de taart
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Terwijl het Nederlandse verdienmodel verdampt, ruziet Den Haag over de kortetermijnverdeling van de taart
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🤬🤬The moment a jet-powered russian shahed slams into a residential building in Kyiv. A home. In the middle of Ukraine’s capital. This is what russian terror looks like.
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Luc Stultiens @lucstultiens.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Nederland heft minste belasting op vermogensinkomsten van alle EU-landen! Dit rechtse beleid is in belang van de grootste vermogens, de rekening komt weer terecht bij gewone (werkende) mensen. Kies voor het algemeen belang: Stop de subsidie op vermogen, verlaag de belasting op werk!
Nederland heft de minste belasting op inkomen uit vermogen van alle EU-landen, bron Europese Commissie.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These are people trying to escape the fire by jumping out of windows after Russia struck a business and shopping center in Lozova, Kharkiv region, today‼️
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 18/08/2026
De XR-demonstrant zet zijn leven in voor anderen, de boze boer riskeert de levens van anderen voor zichzelf
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De XR-demonstrant zet zijn leven in voor anderen, de boze boer riskeert de levens van anderen voor zichzelf
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Leen van Dijke @leen1955.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Het is onbekend hoeveel Tesla heeft uitgegeven om vakbondsmensen uit te saneren (uitkoopregelingen). Maar geld maakt Tesla niks uit als ze de vakbonden maar kunnen kaltstellen. Hebben we in de gaten wat voor een bedrijf Tesla is..? Waarom reageren we niet verontwaardigd (met bv een kopersstaking)?
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Arnout Brouwers @abrouwers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Over Ruslands oorlog tegen Oekraïne 👇
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Free weekend update. Lead this week--once again Russia's allies show they are more intent on helping Russia win than Ukraine's are in helping Ukraine win. The difference is stark. Also, the US shows how it uses its leverage over Ukraine to help Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
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Weekend Update #198: Russia's Allies Are More Helpful Than Ukraine's
Actually, The USA Is Quite A Good Ally For Russia; Ukraine Is Slowly But Steadily Liberating Territory.
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This research paper in The Lancet - the UK’s oldest and most respected medical journal - estimates that Elon Musk’s cuts to USAID will cause over 14,000,000 avoidable deaths by 2030. Fourteen. Million. Deaths.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 22/07/2026
This is true. Putin will rather run Russia into the ground than stop the war. So that is the trajectory we are on.
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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shocking. The Japanese colleagues need to get their act together. European counterparts should stand ready to help them. No ego please. Just results. We know Tokyo has its heart in the right place.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Moscow is losing this unprovoked war and its demands are inherently illegitimate. Instead of offering concessions, the West must demand total Russian withdrawal, full legal accountability, and complete reparations
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Free weekend update. Can Russia can come up with a counter (soon) to the Ukrainian long-range strike campaign on their oil production? There may have been another analytical mistake in this war, assuming fast adaptation cycles. That is always been the case. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #192: Can Russia Counter?
India Shows The True Fraudulence Of US Sanctions, Two Reports Worth Reading
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Meanwhile in the US, sanctions against Russia is removed. The US is an adversary my fellow Europeans, not our friend. Unfortunately. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/19/u...
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US quietly removes sanctions from firms accused of supplying Russia's military - Euromaidan Press
Treasury dropped sanctions on Cyprus, Dubai, Turkish, and Finnish firms tied to Russian military supplies - without explanation.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
If Europe wants real peace, it must make a frozen conflict unattractive. Written with @factforce.bsky.social for the @kyivindependent.com
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Rick Green @bcbrews.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"the #Trump administration... is bending over backwards... to help Russia. This week was no exception. Very quietly, the US government removed sanctions on important Russian businessmen, Russian ships and even some Turkish companies that do business with #Russia."
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now
We Will Rue The Day
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
In this 178th in-depth essay on my strategic blog, I argue that Europe must define a bold strategy to ensure russia’s full defeat. While Ukraine can win, now isn't the time to succumb to the dangerous temptation of a botched peace—i.e. the perpetual war. tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/the-collap...
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The Collapse and the Strategy
We Must Seize the Historic Opportunity Presented By Russia’s Inevitable Defeat
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
OTD in 1996, as per the Budapest memo guaranteeing their territorial integrity, Ukraine handed their final nuclear warhead to Russia. They also gave the entire command firing chain, delivery vehicles heavy bombers (Tu-22) & 1068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It appears that yet another massive Russian attack will happen tonight. We will endure this night, as we did many others already. God bless our air defense forces. This song about Kyiv, performed by a grandson and his 80-year-old grandpa, really touched me.
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
36 European Nations create criminal tribunal in The Hague to prosecute Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukraine United States did not join bc, hopefully, Trump will be the next international criminal prosecuted by the tribunal www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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'Point of no return': 36 countries join tribunal to prosecute Putin
The tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine marks "the point of no return" in the search for justice, the country's foreign minister said on Friday. But the court will face limitations in ...
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The red square coordinates I’m crying
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
2/2 — to Nazi crimes. The second reason is political. If they openly acknowledged these crimes, they would have a legal and moral duty to act.” (Nicolas Tenzer)
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On Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and European indecision | How Come
YouTube video by Ukrainer in English
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
1/2 "Although the press reports on torture, rape, and deportations, most political leaders avoid addressing them publicly. There are two reasons for this. The first is psychological. The scale of the crimes is so enormous that it brings us back to the darkest chapters of our shared history ...
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On Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine and European indecision | How Come
YouTube video by Ukrainer in English
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
REP. ADAM SMITH: We roll out red carpet for Putin, we belittle and insult President Zelenskyy in White House — he has no cards, right? Well, year after that, it looks like Zelenskyy had couple of cards to play because Ukraine is actually winning against Russia.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Footage showing a Russian drone strike in Dnipro. Four people are reported injured.
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Wijze woorden in Elseviers Weekblad door Hans Siebers over de vooringenomen kritiek van @steijehofhuis.bsky.social op het gedegen vakwerk van migratiesocioloog Hein de Haas. @heindehaas.bsky.social.
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Marcia Luyten @marcialuyten.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Onweersproken leugens, twijfelen aan feiten, valse balans en eenzijdige berichtgeving aangereikt door medewerkers van het Russisch regime. We moeten het hebben over journalistiek (ook als journalisten) www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...
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Poetins propaganda kon primetime Nederlandse hoofden en harten bereiken
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Age Akkerman @ageakkerman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wie zich afhankelijk maakt van uiterst rechts om rammelende en door adviesorganen felbekritiseerde wetten door het parlement te jagen, blijft uiteindelijk zelf besmeurd achter.
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Paul Fleetwooo! @macalbatross.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@anderspucknielsen.dk advocating for a sensible strategic policy. That everyone can be damn sure the Ukrainians will be up to fight the Russians makes them being part of our alliance so important for deterrence purposes. It's in all of Europe's interest.
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Ukraine's role in European security
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/03/2026
"Europe does not need permission to help Ukraine restore its borders. It needs the will. There is a basic rule that applies to nations as much as to people: pour your energy into the things you can affect," writes Academic director at the University of Amsterdam Andrew Chakhoyan in his op-ed.
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War in Iran, war in Ukraine: Europe must act where it counts
"Flying balalaika" or a "death moped with wings" is how Ukrainians refer to the Iranian-Russian Shahed drone. On March first, one of these crude, cheap, but devastatingly effective killing machines st...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.
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DrJHAmsterdam @drjohamsterdam.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Nederland heeft de laagste staatsschuld van grote EU-landen, een recordhandelsoverschot en historisch lage werkloosheid, maar VVD-minister Heinen schildert de situatie in ons land op de rand van de afgrond. Poging om te korten op voorzieningen en de zorg. Trap er niet in. PRO stem tegen.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Give your key defenses and fortress cities to Russia which has been unable to take them in 12 years of fighting, and then we who are acting to strengthen Russia will pretend to help you protect the rest of your country. This is shameful, rotten, and stinks of corruption.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15/03/2026
Former NATO SG, now FinMin of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, stated that the attack on Iran was unlawful and that this is the position of Norway. He also commented on NATO as a whole and its survival of the Trump admin.
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Age Akkerman @ageakkerman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Mr. Nobody against Putin is not only about Russia.....
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Trump: “The last person we need help from is Zelenskyy.” Meanwhile, a drone freely flying over the Victoria Base in Baghdad. Searching the compound. Then hitting a facility. Arrogance and incompetence of Trump will cost many American lives.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My latest for @platformraam.nl in which I explain why we should not resume talks with Putin's Russia. Some new arguments since my previous piece on this very issue. platformraam.nl/artikelen/30...
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We should not resume talks with Putin’s Russia
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Age Akkerman @ageakkerman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Very impressive report @volkskrant.nl from #kramatorsk. Free, no paywall, in English and Dutch: www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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The Ukrainian City That Must Not Fall: Nine Bloody Days in Kramatorsk
Four years after the full-scale invasion, the city of Kramatorsk has become almost completely isolated from the rest of Ukraine. Most residents have fled. According to many who remain, the city is on ...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/02/2026
⚡️Ukraine liberates 300 square kilometers in southern counteroffensive, Zelensky tells AFP. "I won't go into too many details, but today I can congratulate our army first and foremost —all the defense forces — because as of today, 300 (square) kilometers have been liberated."
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Ukraine liberates 300 square kilometers in southern counteroffensive, Zelensky tells AFP
"I won't go into too many details, but today I can congratulate our army first and foremost —all the defense forces — because as of today, 300 (square) kilometers have been liberated," Zelensky told A...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Hello All, Just sent out this piece, a case study of how Trump has gone to great lengths to help Russia in its campaign to kill Ukrainian civilians and freeze Ukrainian cities. Trump was deliberate and, sadly all to effective. The USA is helping Putin now. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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How Trump/USA Is Helping Putin Kill Ukrainians
The Patriot Case Study
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Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
substack.com/@cliffsedge/...
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Cliff Schecter (@cliffsedge)
This has to be one of the funniest and most truthful things I’ve seen all day
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