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mse-eu.bsky.social @mse-eu.bsky.social · 13h
"... Russia's home front is currently the most vulnerable it's ever been, all while Ukraine is bringing new tech to the battlefield that could change everything. I discuss ground robotics, fuel shortages, and how Russia's winter position compares to Ukraine's. ..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjvJ...
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Russia’s Winter From Hell is About to Begin
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 17h
🔥 Open warfare inside the Kremlin as Putin’s cash reserves run dry. Hit with an $86B deficit and $136B in toxic loans, oligarchs are refusing to fund the war, forcing the FSB to shake down private enterprise. 👉 Russia is now spiraling into complete, permanent, and catastrophic ruin.
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 17h
🔥 With oligarchs refusing to fund the war, a bankrupt Kremlin has unleashed the FSB to shake down Russia's private businesses to stay afloat. Now a full-out Kremlin war has begun. youtu.be/qlxm-MjWuDI
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Kremlin Power Struggle EXPLODES As Putin's Money Runs Out
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Jason Jay Smart @jjsmart.bsky.social · 16h
🔥 Russia is losing. And now he is scared. jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/putin-need...
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Putin Needs an Investment Boom. Russia Is Getting a Debt Bill.
High interest rates and capital starvation derail Putin’s plans to expand Russia’s stock market.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 16h
Today, the EU has announced a new sanctions package in response to Russia’s continued war of aggression against Ukraine and its systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 16h
The new measures target mid-level suppliers at the core of Russia’s military-industrial complex, accounting for over €20 billion in annual turnover and employing more than 250,000 people.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 16h
One of the biggest recipients of Russian troll farm support on the X platform says that the theories of Ukraine's strikes on Yandex facilities having reduced Russian troll activity are nonsense, as he gets 35 likes among his 4,000,000 followers.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h
Russians have recently been complaining en masse about poor-quality diesel fuel and equipment breakdowns. Diesel fuel is being diluted and quality standards are not being met. Diesel fuel standards in Russia and the United States are not identical.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 15h
Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said, "We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 15h
Trump could’ve continued ignoring the Russo-Ukrainian war like he’d been doing for months but instead he decided to remind Americans that he cannot achieve anything, even a 24hr ceasefire. Putin mocks all his proposals. Americans better punish this embarrassingly weak president at the polls.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 14h
“Ukrainians feel they are being used as scapegoats by Trump as he looks to deflect blame for rising fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections.” Peter Dickinson joined Poland’s TVP World as Trump pressures Ukraine to stop attacks on Russian refineries INTERVIEW: youtu.be/qpdQF5bL1xU?...
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 14h
‼️ Russia struck a children’s playground in a residential complex in my neighbourhood in Kyiv. Children could have been playing there. It’s just an ordinary Monday evening. Families are at home, kids are playing outside.
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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 23h
Wir sind in Europa wieder einmal in einer schwierigen akuten Lage, weil Trump gegen unsere Interessen arbeitet, wir aber weiterhin sehr abhängig von ihm sind. Wir investieren gleichzeitig zu wenig unserer Verteidigungsausgaben darin, eigenständiger handlungsfähig zu werden.
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 22h
Trump announced on Sunday an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, saying it was taking effect “immediately” and that “both parties have agreed.” As usual with Trump: A complete lie. Nobody had agreed on anything. How can the US tolerate a POTUS who usually lies?!
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22h
⚡️ Kallas: "If we want to end this war, the only way we can do this is putting more pressure on Russia,"
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 21h
How can we know that Trump supports Putin? Because he refuses to condemn anything Putin does. He refuses to condemn Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, Putin's terror bombing of Ukraine, Putin's terror actions in Europe, and even his bombing of US companies in Ukraine.
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 21h
Great illustration of Trump’s deal with russia.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 21h
“Putin clearly has no interest in Trump’s energy ceasefire or any kind of ceasefire.” Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Turkey’s TRT World as Russia continues attacks on Ukraine’s power grid despite Trump’s call for an energy ceasefire
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21h
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin could order attacks to stop on election day — but Russia has rejected a longer ceasefire.
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Kremlin rebuffs Zelenskyy’s 60-day truce after Trump's energy ceasefire announcement
Dmitry Peskov said Putin could order attacks to stop on election day — but the Kremlin has rejected a longer ceasefire.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 21h
Trump has not helped end the war in Ukraine. He has prolonged it. In doing so, he has sided with autocratic Russia and against democratic Ukraine. That pivot has further undermined America’s reputation as the 'leader of the free world'.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 21h
Read more in my latest essay on Substack: "Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians" michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Shamelessly Abandoned Ukrainians
Doing so does not advance American interests or values.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h
"Im XXX and Russia is not my enemy" crowd seems to be dead along with Russian data centers 👀
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
2/ Obviously it’s Trump’s war in Iran that is the issue. But Trump can’t accept that.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
3/ So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms though I bet Putin told him it would.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
4/ But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
5/ Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
6/ In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h
7/ I spell out war through weakness here: snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 20h
Maryna Starchenko, 36, the wife in the photo, was murdered in a russian terrorist attack in Kharkiv yesterday. Her husband survived. Stolen lives, shattered photos, broken memories. We won't bring all these beautiful people back. But we owe them fight for justice.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20h
The Trump admin sinking lower and lower to salvage its outrageous alignment with Putin. Keep reporting this madness for all American voters to see
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Grumpy Nancy @grumpynancy.bsky.social · 20h
Satirical cross-stitch artwork on white fabric depicts 
Donald Trump beside the words, 

“Ukraine protects children’s identities. 

Putin erases them. 

Trump wants a peace prize.” 

The artwork references Ukraine’s October 12, 2026, parliamentary vote expanding minority-language education rights, 
the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Putin 
over the alleged unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children, and Trump’s publicly expressed desire for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

“Putin erases them” is a satirical metaphor, not a literal legal finding.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 19h
Ukrainian strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a dramatic decline in automated online activity, raising questions about whether the attacks may also have disrupted Moscow's influence operations abroad www.euronews.com/2026/10/12/d...
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Ukrainian strikes on data centres and Russian bot activity in freefall
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said social media had become less hostile following Kyiv's strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres, as web users report plummeting bot activit...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 19h
Britain and the EU will hold their annual leaders summit on Nov. 20 in Brussels, U.K. PM Andy Burnham has confirmed the date in a statement to the House of Commons.
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UK and EU agree to hold Brexit ‘reset’ summit on Nov. 20
The two sides want to use the meeting to sign off new agreements on agri-food trade, emissions trading, and a youth mobility scheme.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h
When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20h
Losing count of how many times Russia has rejected a ceasefire because it hopes to conquer all of Ukraine. Putin is incapable of making peace.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20h
Just to spell it out: as the aggressor, if you’ve accepted that you wouldn’t advance and take more territory, there’s nothing stopping you from freezing the contact line and negotiating final peace terms. But russia keeps rejecting this option. Because it obviously wants to continue its conquest.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20h
This is what “we will achieve all the goals of the SMO” means. They keep repeating it but many refuse to hear it. Russia wants to end Ukrainian independence. There’s nothing to negotiate but Ukrainian surrender. Therefore only pressure on russia and all the military help to Ukraine can bring peace!
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 19h
Putin's supporters keep saying that Russia can't lose and that's why Ukraine has to surrender to end the war. But the truth is the opposite: Russia can't win on its own terms and that's why the fastest way to end the war is to speed up its defeat.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18h
For those still focusing on how much diesel Trump agreed to buy from Russia, IT WAS NEVER ABOUT DIESEL, and there will probably never be diesel. It's merely a foundation that allows Trump to attack Ukraine for striking Russia's oil industry, protecting it, because..
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18h
..protecting the Russian oil industry is protecting Putin, and protecting Putin is to protect the billions of "deals" that Putin is dangling in front of the Trump family. Stop talking about diesel. It's about providing Trump with an excuse to protect Putin's refineries.
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18h
For twelve years, millions of Russian troll farm accounts - gleefully supported by this platform - have been the wind beneath the wings of both far-right and far-left content, polarizing and creating violent division, with pro-Russia being the single commonality. Sadly, based on..
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18h
this manufactured consensus, life has imitated art, ushering in support for far-right nazism in Germany and France, acquiesce and complicity in America's Republican party and far-left pro-Iran sentiment within the Democratic party. Meanwhile, all along, Ukraine was holding the solution.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 18h
Don't normalize russian terrorists murdering children in their beds. Don't normalize russian terrorists murdering children in their beds. Don't normalize russian terrorists murdering children in their beds. Don't normalize russia's genocide of Ukrainians.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 18h
Yesterday, a Russian ballistic missile was found in a children’s playground in Kyiv, in the middle of a residential complex. Russia continues its senseless, indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, terrorising Ukrainians in their own homes.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 19h
Moscow calls its latest strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure ‘retaliation’.   That explanation conveniently skips years of Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, homes and energy facilities.   A familiar omission in Kremlin FIMI: what happened first.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 20h
If Russia truly wants peace, it can end its invasion, withdraw its troops and stop indiscriminately bombing Ukrainian cities. Helping Ukraine defend itself did not start this war, and it is not an obstacle to peace.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 21h
Putin claims Russia has never been the first to deliberately strike civilian infrastructure.    The Mariupol Drama Theatre was bombed in March 2022 while civilians were sheltering inside.    The historical record does not begin wherever the Kremlin finds it convenient.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 22h
Russia continues to deny the UN and other humanitarian groups safe access to occupied Oleshky while falsely accusing Ukraine of causing the humanitarian crisis.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 22h
Thousands of civilians, including children, are left facing critical shortages of food and medicine, with limited access to running water and electricity under Russian occupation.
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