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Alex Panchenko

@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social
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Ukraine-based journo / analyst / etc. #Ukraine #Russia #HybridWar #CriticalThinking #factsmatter Comfort is a drug. Evolve or die. I professionally hate the concept of "escalation".

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25m
A Russian drone hit a school in Kyiv this morning. Thankfully, kids were in the shelter and are safe. Russia is terrorizing civilians in Kyiv day and night.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 1h
Yesterday morning's Kyiv war smog caused by Russian airstrikes, but caught by a skilled photographer.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 1h
Splitting NATO is just another objective shared by the Kremlin and the current US administration. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 1h
Hilarious twist of traitor's fate. In 2014, a prominent firebrand Ukrainian lawyer moved to Russia-occupied Donetsk, apparently due to mental issues from mourning husband's natural death. Yesterday she posted she was about to be arrested and killed in RU jail, called for everyone to flee Russia.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 5h
Several countries, including the UK, France and the Baltic countries did not receive an invite to a planned meeting in Poland that will focus on NATO’s future Trump and his cronies are doing everything to ruin NATO as Russia escalates across Europe. More gifts for Putin
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 1h
You would think Elon Musk fights like hell for slapping 100% legal, righteous, bipartisan American voters-approved US sanctions on his global Starlink competitor from Russia. We'll see if he does...
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3h
Russian Treasury Yields hit a new decade high of 16.88%. Russia is now issuing record levels of state debt at credit card rates. Global investors are unwilling to loan Putin money because they do not think Russia will survive this war to pay it back.
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Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · 2h
'UK says there are strong indications Iran played a part in a security incident at a US-run air base' apnews.com/article/brit...
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UK says there are strong indications Iran played a part in a security incident at a US-run air base
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in an incident involving five men arrested near a U.S.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 10h
In our scary new world, time management is even more important than you could imagine👇
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 14h
Swedish Air Force advertised its intent to strike deep into Russia in the event of a war. This was stated in an interview in Swedish Aftonbladet a few days ago. Now it has reached Russian language press. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex...
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Segerplanen i luftkriget – slå till inne i Ryssland
Om Ryssland anfaller kan Putin inte längre räkna med att vi bara försöker parera hans slag. Flygvapnets nya plan för att avgöra luftkriget är att gå på offensiven – och slå ut mål långt inne i Rysslan...
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 12h
Anyone still whining that we need more diplomacy with Russia, while the Russians respond to all diplomatic efforts by killing more Ukrainian civilians, is just helping spread the Kremlin’s propaganda.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 12h
A quick guide of what to do if a Russian airstrike / shelling began when you are in town with your child, just published by Ukraine's Rescue Service and UNICEF.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 12h
So my Kyiv home survived a brief (under two hours) emergency power outage due to damage from RU terrorist strikes, for the first time since April. With flying colors: all the contingencies and back-ups were in place😎. Tomorrow, yet unspecified parts of Ukraine are scheduled for peak hours outages(
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 12h
Consistent reports: Russians are using new sophisticated tactic of terrorist deep strikes targeting specifically the pylons holding the high-voltage power transmission lines in Ukraine. The tactic involves aiming drones at particular pylons [not an easy task] and new specialist anti-steel warheads.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 15h
BRKNG: Emergency unscheduled electricity outages are ordered in Ukraine's capital Kyiv due to the damage from Russian airstrikes today.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 16h
"Across occupied Ukraine, Russian forces are waging a religious war against non-Orthodox Christians. Evangelical communities are branded as cults (...), raided and shut down. Pastors and believers are routinely arrested and in some cases even tortured and executed.": journo @sostrovsky.bsky.social .
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Russia’s religious war in occupied Ukraine
YouTube video by Simon Ostrovsky
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 16h
A positive Ukraine story: Stewards on a train that was halted and evacuated in the middle of nowhere due to imminent Russian drone attack challenged distressed passengers to go mushroom-hunting while they wait out the threat.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 18h
Russia’s system for the unlawful deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children has now reached North Korea. The EU has sanctioned the state-run Songdowon International Children’s Camp for participating in programmes involving Ukrainian children transferred from occupied territories.
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RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 18h
Ukraine has one of the world's largest #manganese reserves, a key battery mineral. The EU imports 100% of its battery-grade supply. War has stalled production, but reconstruction could change that. See how Ukraine's minerals can power Europe's future 👇 🔗 razomwestand.com/energy-trans...
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 17h
Hilarious.
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russian desk @deskrussia.bsky.social · 20h
The Kremlin is pursuing a peripheral strategy that aims to encircle and subvert Europe. In Vladimir Putin’s mind, transforming our continent into a satellite state would tip the global balance of power to the detriment of a disunited and fragmented West. desk-russie.info/2026/09/22/o...
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Our Beautiful Present Time: War • russian desk
During visits to Moscow and then Kyiv on September 5 and 6, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner appear to have prioritized negotiating an energy truce, hoping
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
Another crude oil tanker has been hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
UKMTO has received a time-late report of an incident within the Strait of Hormuz.
A verified source has reported that a crude oil tanker has been struck on the port side by an unknown projectile.
Authorities are investigating.
Vessels are advised to transit with caution and report any suspicious activity to
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 21h
BRKNG IMPORTANT: Belgium's defense minister drops the political correctness and says it how it is: the West [in his case, European Union] is defenseless against the Russian invasion because it's been spending on wellfare state instead of defense.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 22h
IMPORTANT: Ukraine's Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi confirms "massive" Russian airstrikes on energy sites last night and this morning, says this attack has been "the largest and most sophisticated since the previous heating season [March 2026]"; urges local governments to ready back-up solutions.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23h
The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukraine fact of a historic proportion.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good underappreciated point.
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Charles McPhedran @charliekreuz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Inside activists’ desperate search for the Ukrainian children stolen by Russia: Kathryn Diss’ film is distressing but compelling viewing. One news line out of it: Yale researchers say they have tracked the movement of some 35,000 children, many more than the official Ukrainian estimate of ~20,000.
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The Children Russia Stole: The undercover network bringing Ukraine's kids home | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rescue Service warns of a "dense fog" [i.e. smog] and low air quality in central Kyiv due to "smoke and soot from previous shellings", advises against being outside and venting homes. I confirm: the sky there looks gray-brownish from a distance, more like a duststorm than a peacetime cars smog(
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least 1,175 Ukrainian citizens have been abducted, tortured and jailed by Russia, according to official Russian data.
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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A school in Sumy after a Russian gen0cide attack on it while children were inside. There is no justice great enough for Russia's crimes in Ukraine.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Loud bangs in Kyiv just now, in what appears to be a Ukrainian fighet jet chasing a Russian drone and shooting it down with the onboard autocannon. Unconfirmed reports suggest RU drones are targeting major electricity sites in the city.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russian soldiers are forcing their way into homes in occupied Oleshky and threatening residents for food and alcohol, according to the head of the local military administration. Around 1,500 civilians remain trapped amid severe shortages of food, water, and medicine. buff.ly/AizyGuq
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four years in total isolation after Russia abducts and tortures young Mariupol woman Iryna Navalna buff.ly/nbYbhWz
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Four years in total isolation after Russia abducts and tortures young Mariupol woman Iryna Navalna
Russia 'needed' claims of having 'thwarted' a terrorist attack to justify the so-called 'referendum' held at gunpoint to try to justify Russia's full of aggression
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
European Union has been under a kinetic Russian attack for more than a year. Now that the attack intensifies (while the oil price continues to skyrocket), Trump administration suggests that EU states unseal and waste their fuel reserves meant exactly for wars and disasters. What could go wrong?
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This vital European Union initiative would be going much better if Germany wasn't phuking around with elections under enemy fire🤯.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good morning to you from Kyiv, Ukraine, where most of us survived yet another Russian ballistic missile strike. Sadly, three people have been killed, including a child. There are destroyed homes and big fires. I didn't get much sleep because of the loud explosions( How is your time of day going?
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv left the warheads of two ballistic missiles lying right next to residential buildings. Police bomb disposal experts neutralized both warheads, each weighing about half a ton. The dangerous remnants were then removed for further disposal. 📷Ukraine’s National Police
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As was entirely predictable, in the absence of full support for Ukraine from the West, the war is intensifying and getting closer to the EU border. The West's response should be to increase aid to democratic Ukraine to help it fight back against and then defeat fascist Russia.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe some Americans outraged by how ICE handles 10,000s of migrant deportations will be interested in this hypocrisy: Trump admin has been lifting major Ukraine-related sanctions off Russia, for NO reason whatsoever, under a pretext that Kremlin frees <50 inmates, all unrelated to US or Ukraine.
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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The story that "Trump supports easing sanctions against Russia in exchange for political prisoners" is a propaganda fairytale. Putin's partner is dutifully playing his role in rehabilitating Russia and bringing it back into the fold. Prisoners are a pathetic pretext for dummies.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026
Unlike the nightly drone and missile attacks Ukrainians had grown used to, these new attack waves stretch throughout the whole day. Russian drone strikes follow you into your commute, your office meeting, and your evening stroll, interrupting whatever you happen to be doing at any given moment.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cherry on top. One of the first things the vile KGB rapist in question did after the Soviet collapse: become a non-public but instrumental co-founder of a nascent Green Party or Russia, befriend prominent eco-activists. Shows the importance of political subversion for Russian secret services.
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fascist Russia's voting figures would be comedic, if they were not also so tragic.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Random from my bookmarks: journo investigation into a KGB informant who was targeting suspected homosexual teens in then-Leningrad (Putin's home city) using rape, fakes and blackmail to recruit new stooges. In Putin's Russia, he got office and funding to keep doing the same for police. ENG subs.
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Агенты спецслужб насиловали и вербовали 40 лет | Историческое расследование
YouTube video by Проект
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026
“Fascist imperial Russia has not seen and does not see Western companies as partners for mutual benefit, only as targets for weaponization, manipulation, and confiscation," write Bennett Freeman and Nataliia Popovych in this op-ed.
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After Nestle and Auchan seizures, Russia is coming for others
The recent Russian seizure of assets belonging to corporate giants Nestle and Auchan made headlines, all the more striking given the companies' years of loyalty to the Kremlin regime, including throug...
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Isa Yusibov @isayusibov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While EU doesnt have the guts to confiscate frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, Putin keeps humiliating these European cowards meduza.io/en/news/2026...
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‘Let them be scared.’ Senior Russian government source says temporary takeovers of European companies’ assets are meant to pressure EU over sanctions. — Meduza
“The time has come for asymmetric measures. Let them think about what measures they are taking and what sanctions they are introducing,” a senior Russian government source told Reuters, referring to t...
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important if true. F-16s and other Ukraine Air Force fighter jets became an important air defense asset again - now that at least 30% of Russian deep strike drones terrorizing Ukrainian cities are jet-powered thus too fast for many UA assets.
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Alex Panchenko @alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are Ukrainians opening a Pacific Front in The War?
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