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Maria Drutska

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Thoughts on Rus-Ukr war updates. I speak fluent sarcasm. linktr.ee/maria.drutska

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 2h
Another sign of Russia's dramatically decreased international influence: Azerbaijan is publicly ridiculing Russia's global standing. In a speech, President Aliyev said the two superpowers are the US and China, and specifically said there is no third. His fear of Putin is gone.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 3h
I wish I could say I was surprised. After reports Trump wants to make business deals with Russia before the war ends, it seems that the sale of Lukoil to a new potential buyer may benefit Trump allies. Conflict of interest? There's no conflict at all, just Trump's interests.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 17h
🚨 Putin is already expanding his war by normalizing drone strikes in Moldova. Due to the lack of a strong response to past tests, Russia is increasing frequency and types of drone strikes. Expect one to "accidentally" hit something important soon, with Ukraine being blamed.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FAFO: Orban may stand trial over the illegal detention of an Oschadbank convoy and seizure of funds. As suspected at the time, it seems likely Orban personally ordered the illegal action for political reasons. I look forward to seeing that asshole's perp walk after conviction.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that there was a night-time disco party in temporarily-occupied Donetsk City after drone sanctions were applied. 🪩⚡️🪫
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Discontent in Russia keeps growing: 🔹Propagandists publicly speak of traitors and civil war 🔹Zyuganov is warning the elections were stolen, the economy is terrible, and Putin's war will be lost 🔹Businesses are moving funds out of Russia so they don't get taken for Putin's war
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In an interview with Time Magazine released today, Trump returned to a familiar theme and declared: "I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest." Right. Because all of the smartest people I've ever known make a habit of repeatedly declaring publicly how smart they are.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔊 Sound on for this one. A Russian governor has promised that Russians will have flying cars in the near future. However, they have them today - numerous Russian tanks have drone-assisted takeoff capability, reaching hundreds of feet in the air. You're welcome.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is once again blaming Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries for the diesel shortages caused by his Iran war. That being said, if Trump really wants to end Russian refinery strikes, he should get his buddy Putin to agree to a mutual ceasefire. I won't hold my breath.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The UK has offered to extend their nuclear umbrella to countries which are part of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force. This would cover all Baltic and Nordic countries, and with the increased threats from Russia it may be a critical deterrent against expansion of Putin's war.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US is warning Russia against election interference, and looking to expand business deals with Canada. ...No, wait, I got that backwards. The US is warning CANADA against election interference, and looking to expand business deals with RUSSIA. WTF?? Make it make sense!!🤯
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Tu-95MS, the same kind of aircraft that has been murdering Ukrainian civilians for years with cruise missiles, has crashed in Amur oblast. They don't have many left, every single one lost is an important victory meaning less attacks on our cities. Many happy returns.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another horrific night for Kyiv. Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital again, with strikes reported across several districts. In the Solomianskyi district, missile debris fell into the courtyard of a residential building.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❗️A drone crashed near the Yahodyn border crossing on Ukraine’s border with Poland. The blast wave damaged the checkpoint building at the entrance to the Yahodyn international border terminal. Russia’s attacks are getting uncomfortably close to NATO territory.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨Signs of anger towards Moscow are publicly appearing in Russian regions. Nizhny Novgorod's regional government plans to discuss a ban on fuel exports from the region itself due to shortages. When winter arrives, the fuel crisis will explode due to the lack of winter fuel.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The official Russian election results for dozens of regions still have not been published due to "irreconcilable mathematical contradictions." Translation: they stuffed way too many ballots into ballot boxes, voter turnout is above 100%, and releasing data will make it obvious.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‼️ GOD, THIS IS HORRIFIC. Russia struck a building of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv. People are climbing out of the windows of the burning building, trying to escape the flames and smoke. There are dead and injured.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russian economists were banned from talking about the retirement age being increased. This of course means the retirement age in Russia will be increased again, due to Putin's war draining the budget. As @darthputinkgb.bsky.social says, don't believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.™
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is once again blaming Ukraine for the global fuel shortage he caused with his war against Iran. And, as Putin targets fruit markets and pharmaceutical companies in Kyiv, he described the war as "Ukraine and Russia going at it", as if it was some schoolyard fight.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‼️ Russia struck the Stolychnyi market in the Kyiv suburbs with jet-powered drones. Two people have been killed. Around ten others were reportedly injured. Bodies were seen lying on the road near the market as massive fires burned around the strike site.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
❗️Russia is once again attacking different districts of Kyiv. Fires have broken out at strike sites in the city centre. The video shows the Pecherskyi district. Another night. Another wave of Russian terror against Kyiv.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two weeks before the elections, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Russia was not considering tax increases. Four days after the elections, the Finance Ministry unveiled a whole package of tax increases.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
❗️ 🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces are using drones to deliver food to civilians trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky. In one of the largest recent operations, around 4 tonnes of food were dropped at 100 locations across the city. Around 2,000 Ukrainians remain trapped there, including dozens of children.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
❗️“We are witnessing attempts to create a Fourth Reich,” - Lavrov, accusing Europe and Germany in particular of militarising and preparing for war with Russia. Interesting. A Goebbels-style propaganda machine. A cult of the leader. Crushing dissent and independent media...
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An obvious ex-con they apparently picked to play the role of a Russian “hero of the special military operation,” and decorated with some random junk vaguely resembling medals, appeared on Russia’s main state TV channel to tell us just how “cruel” the Ukrainian Armed Forces are.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Russian tax trap keeps tightening, with many new taxes planned due to budget shortfalls and the cost of Putin's war. As a result, massive amounts of cash are being withdrawn from banks every month as people try to avoid higher taxes via cash payments. Predictable result.📉
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump signed the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill into law on September 18th. It requires a lot of sanctions to be applied within 30 days. Since the new sanctions will notably increase chances for an end to the war, I hope Trump follows through in the way US Congress intended.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russia: invades Ukraine. Europe: starts preparing for the possibility it might be next. Russia: “Why are you threatening us?” ❗️Lavrov says European warnings of preparing for a possible war with Russia may become a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” He insists Russia has no intention of fighting Europe...
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
❗️Another interesting case from Europe’s eastern flank. Latvia says cables are being deliberately cut, surveillance equipment damaged and distribution cabinets sabotaged along its eastern border in an apparent attempt to disrupt the deployment of its new automated border-surveillance system.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump urged Zelensky to travel to Moscow to meet Putin for peace talks, - Bloomberg. With all due diplomatic respect: fuck off.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
❗️Putin says Russia “knows” about alleged violations of the rights of Russian speakers in the Baltic states and has “already developed an approach” to respond. He insists Russia will act only through humanitarian and international-law mechanisms.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Putin is again using Russian gas supply as a weapon, this time against Armenia. Russia suddenly cut Armenia's gas supply last week, and threatened to permanently halt it November 1st if Armenia doesn't agree to Russian demands. This will likely backfire as with the EU in 2022.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
‼️An internal EU report warns rearmament is not yet fast or effective enough to be ready to defend against Russia by 2030. Gaps include air/missile defence, munitions, and drones. The current pace of rearmament may be unprecedented, but more is needed. Especially if Russia attacks before 2030.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dmitry Medvedev, issuer of drunken nuclear threats, is now doing so using a pseudonym. "Alexander" threatened Lithuania with a new, "very short" nuclear special military operation after they lifted their ban on nuclear weapons. New name, same smell of vodka and desperation.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
❗️While world leaders gather at the UN General Assembly in New York to talk about peace, this is what Russia is doing in Kyiv. This morning, a Russian drone struck a 16-storey residential building in the city centre, Pechersk district. Apartments across two floors were completely destroyed.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
❗️A Starlink ground station in Poland providing connectivity to Ukraine, including the Ukrainian military, was targeted in what Polish authorities describe as an act of sabotage. The fire hit the station’s power system and generator in an apparent attempt to disable it and disrupt internet access.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Perm oil refinery has received more drone sanctions overnight. Multiple points of fire have been identified in videos and pictures, no doubt caused by successfully-intercepted drone debris. As long as Putin's war continues, the Russian fuel crisis will keep getting worse.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia continues to do everything possible to lure foreigners into their war against Ukraine as cannon fodder. 10% of Russian POWs are now foreigners. The latest trick is a fake acting job offer. The only camera which applicants are likely to see is on an incoming FPV drone.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🐼 Xi Jinping says two more giant pandas - Ping Ping and Fuchuan - will soon arrive in the US. This is more than a cute diplomatic gift. China has used “panda diplomacy” for decades as a symbol of goodwill and cooperation.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It is day 1675 of Putin's 3 day special military operation. Major state-owned companies like Russian Railways, Aeroflot, Rosneft, Russian Post, and Transneft are being moved from Moscow to outlying regions to escape Ukrainian strikes. @darthputinkgb.bsky.social remains a master strategist.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Russia is escalating because Russian leadership is panicking. After four years of senseless colonial war Vladimir Putin has achieved nothing. Sergei, I know you’re listening. Tell your boss – enough is enough!” - @radek-sikorski.bsky.social, probably my favourite diplomat of our time.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AND NOW, SOME GOOD NEWS FROM RUSSIA… Bears have started entering Russian cities en masse. At least 25 attacks have been recorded since June, with sightings and incidents reported across multiple regions. Nature is healing. 🐻
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry, did I hear that correctly, or did a candidate for the French presidency just blame Ukraine for the increase in Russian sabotage across Europe?
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says Article 5 is deliberately ambiguous: “We will never exactly tell anyone when Article 5 is triggered or not, because we don’t want to make our adversaries any wiser.”
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
❗️Russia will not stop its war while peace negotiations are taking place, – Lavrov He also repeated the Kremlin’s usual “root causes”: blamed Ukraine and Europe for the failure of the Minsk agreements, claimed Kyiv had been preparing a military operation to retake the occupied Donbas...
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ Russia planned to attack Spain, France, and Italy using Gerbera drones launched from container ships in the Mediterranean. It is believed that this triggered CIA Director Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow last month to warn Russia against this attack.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ A Russian ballistic missile struck near a maternity hospital in Kyiv’s Podil district. Windows were blown out and part of the maternity hospital’s facade was damaged. A nearby clinical diagnostic center was also damaged. One person was killed in the parking area near the medical facility.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile, Russia is attacking Kyiv and Odesa with ballistic missiles and drones. 18 missiles were launched at Kyiv in just half an hour. Another 13 targeted Odesa and the surrounding region. One missile fell near Kyiv’s CHP-4 power plant but failed to detonate.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
During the US national anthem, two B-1 bombers roared directly overhead at low altitude. Just watch Xi Jinping’s face. Not a flinch. Not a change of expression. Completely composed.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇨🇳🇺🇸 Xi Jinping has arrived in the United States with First Lady Peng Liyuan. Donald and Melania Trump personally welcomed them at Joint Base Andrews - a rare presidential airport greeting.
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