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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21m
NEW: Russian high-ranking military officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, continue presenting greatly exaggerated claims of Russian frontline advances. (1/10) Read the full report: isw.pub/UkrWar101626
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 38m
The White House order formally sets steep Russia-related tariffs under the Graham Act, then immediately waives them. That includes a 500% tariff on Russian goods and 100% tariffs targeting the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas and the top five facilitators of Russian oil sanctions evasion.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 44m
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with missiles and drones. Shot down: 289/332 Various types of drones (23 of which were jet-powered) 4/4 Kalibr cruise missiles 0/? Iskander-M/KN-23 missiles 0/? Kh-22/32 missiles Hits were recorded at 22 locations, and debris from downed targets fell on 3 #Ukraine
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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 1h
Trump setzt Sanktionen gegen Russland aus #USA #Russland #Sanktionen
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Trump setzt Sanktionen gegen Russland aus
Erst macht der US-Präsident einen umstrittenen Diesel-Deal mit Moskau, nun setzt Trump Sanktionen aus.
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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 8h
Evan Barker, a former Democratic operative who "left the left", tells Matt Gaetz "Something that I admire a lot about people like you, and J.D. Vance, and Donald Trump actually, and Josh Hawley too, you know, these Republicans who are actually willing to sort of break with their party."
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1h
1/ Russian soldiers are "the new oil", says a Russian warblogger. They are a source of easy wealth for scammers, who have robbed tens of millions of rubles from new recruits and injured men, who are preyed on by their fellow soldiers, recruiters, and even fellow patients. ⬇️
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h
The claims were quickly ridiculed even by pro-Kremlin military bloggers who are typically quick to celebrate Russian breakthroughs.
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Putin Brutally Mocked by His Own for Bogus War Briefing
The battlefield boasts were widely panned even by Kremlin propagandists, who said “psychiatrists” were needed to make sense of the disconnect.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 5h
Trump signs an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause is in the U.S. national interest. apnews.com/article/russ...
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Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying waiver is in US national interest
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that puts on hold a sweeping new sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause was in the national interest.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 2h
President Trump has signed an executive order to waive key Russian Sanctions and Tariffs from the Lindsay Graham Act due to "national interest". Tariffs of 100% on all goods from the largest 5 importers of Russian oil and gas or countries… x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2111328…
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h
Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number. More: www.404media.co/heres-what-t...
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404 Media @404media.co · 16h
As of last January, Telegram had given U.S. authorities data on 2,253 users, 404 Media previously reported. @josephcox.bsky.social has the latest. Read now: www.404media.co/heres-what-t...
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 12h
A Turkish crime gang known as the Daltons may have carried out the September arson attack on a Starlink station in Poland on orders from Russian intelligence, Der Spiegel reports, citing the usual anonymous security sources in unspecified countries. www.spiegel.de/panorama/pol...
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Polen, Anschlag auf Starlink-Terminal: Behörden prüfen Spur zur türkischen Mafia
Der Brand in der Internetstation sollte wohl die ukrainische Armee schwächen. Polen machte Russland verantwortlich. War auch eine türkische Bande der Organisierten Kriminalität involviert?
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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 7h
⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a significant disruption to internet connectivity in Zhytomyr Oblast, western #Ukraine, corresponding to power outages after Russian drone attacks targeting energy and transport infrastructure 📉
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by region in Ukraine from October 10, 2026, to October 16, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents dates and times. A green line represents Zhytomyr region's connectivity remaining stable throughout most of the period, before dropping on the night of October 16 (Ukraine time). The disruption corresponds to a power outage following Russian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure.The minimum and current connectivity levels are 62% and 68%, respectively. The chart has a dark background, and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 13h
The U.S. military is expanding operations in Panama, with a full Army Civil Affairs company, a reestablished jungle warfare school, military divers operating near the Panama Canal, and rotating engineer and medical teams. No permanent bases are planned, per Military Times.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 13h
The UN’s latest food security assessment projects 19.2 million Afghans, 38% of the population, will face crisis level hunger or worse this winter.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 13h
I am fairly certain this is top 3 articles I've read these past few years and believe me, I read a lot. A story about a young Russian defector, his incredible resolve, absolutely unbelievable mother's love, final escape to Ukraine through the battlefield,monitored by air. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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The Defector: A Russian Officer Turned Against His Country and Helped Ukraine Kill Hundreds
One of the deadliest saboteurs in recent military history, Lt. Lev Stupnikov fed troop locations and battle plans to the enemy before making a daring escape.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 14h
The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile targeting Yanbu, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea and three drones over Riyadh and southern Saudi Arabia today.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 14h
Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, plans to expand its workforce at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant to 200 specialists, its chief says. The facility operates one reactor and has two under delayed construction.
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Liveuamap @liveuamap.com · 14h
Putin has stated the need to destroy infrastructure, including bridges and road junctions in Ukraine liveuamap.com/en/2026/16-o...
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16h
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil refineries, saying they were justified if they disrupt the Russian government’s war effort.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16h
Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was injured after being attacked by Israeli settlers while reporting on Palestinian olive harvesting in the occupied West Bank village of Abu Falah. At least two people were injured in the… x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2111117…
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 22h
this is all also true for a segment of the western left - swimming in Russian propaganda and what often feels like a specifically anti-Semitic, very personal hatred for Zelenskyy
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 17h
Russian Occupation Update, October 16, 2026: Russia continues to deport Crimean Tatar political prisoners to penal colonies that are sometimes thousands of kilometers away from Crimea. Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUpdate101626
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 18h
The U.S. may face shortages of its most powerful conventional bunker-buster bombs as hardened Iranian military and nuclear facilities remain, according to a CSIS analysis. The authors estimate that only a low single-digit number of Massive… x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2111088…
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18h
⚡️ BREAKING: Drones struck the Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi region, approximately 2,500 km from Ukraine. The Gazprom-owned facility is Russia’s largest gas condensate processing plant, with an annual capacity of 12 million tonnes.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 18h
Trump: we are running low on ammo not because of my war on Iran but because Biden gave “massive amounts” of Tomahawks to Ukraine. The U.S. didn’t supply a single Tomahawk to Ukraine! Not a single one!
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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 18h
I spoke to the The Wall Street Journal about the critical dependencies on US military hardware and infrastructure that can’t easily be replaced. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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The Weapons and Intel That Only the U.S. Can Give to Ukraine
Despite its homegrown alternatives to U.S. military support, Ukraine has no substitute for some American intelligence and systems, such as Starlink.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 19h
Across 20 campaign posts targeting the US midterms, we proved with verifiable evidence that Matryoshka artificially inflates view counts and other engagement metrics. While the average post in thie campaign shows 56K views on X, only ~2.1K (3.8%) of them could be organic.
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Stephanie Baker @stephanie-baker.bsky.social · 21h
Our latest: Russian disinformation operators are deploying an army of bots to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the US midterm elections. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Russia Is Using an Army of Bots to Push Fake US Election Videos
State-backed Matryoshka campaign targeting Democrats inflates view counts of fabricated stories, creating illusion of popularity.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 21h
Ukrainian drone manufacturer SkyFall has shown Associated Press its new StarGate aerial medical evacuation drone. The drone can carry 150 kg, fly up to 15 km and reach speeds of 105 km/h. It has already been delivered to Ukrainian troops for frontline testing.
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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 21h
⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a decline in internet connectivity in Volyn Oblast, western #Ukraine, corresponding to power outages after an onslaught of deadly Russian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure overnight 🔌
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by region in Ukraine from October 10, 2026, to October 16, 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents dates and times. A green line represents Volyn region's connectivity remaining stable throughout most of the period, before dropping on the early morning of October 16 (Ukraine time). The disruption corresponds to a power outage following Russian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure.The minimum and current connectivity levels are 66% and 66%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red circle highlighting the decline at the end of the period, and includes the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23h
"We interpret Trump's Russian diesel deal as a permanent rift within NATO" is a euphemism for "how do we spin the idea a fascist is carrying out a policy we really like?"
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 23h
It proved a difficult night for many despite "only" 149 attack drones being fired by Russia. Ukraine releases full details today. With 8 drones still airborne, the 114 stopped = 80.9% 77/108 jets = min 71.3% There were 27 hits in 24 locations. Debris also caused impacts in 14 other places.
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Soar Atlas @soaratlas.bsky.social · 23h
💥Could this be from the reported Houthi missile attacks? Satellite imagery shows what appears to be damage to the administrative tower at Saudi Aramco’s headquarters complex in Dhahran on Oct 15. Explore and Compare: tinyurl.com/4jcp63aj #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23h
(NB: Ukrainian sources are suggesting that Zelenskyy's former press secretary – now critic – Yulia Mendel is the "young woman from Ukraine" whose video Trump has been watching.)
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23h
1/ Donald Trump's interview with Newsmax yesterday shows very clearly that he subscribes to many false Russian-originated claims and conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine and has a strong personal dislike of President Zelenskyy. Here's a full transcript:
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Damascus says it will leave Russia’s constituency at the IMF and rejoin the Arab group, reversing an arrangement in place since 2012.
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Florian Flade @florianflade.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
News🚨“Alster-Mord“: Vor zehn Jahren wurde ein 16-jähriger Junge in #Hamburg erstochen. Der IS bekannte sich, der Täter wurde bis heute nicht gefasst. Nach unseren Recherchen führte damals eine Spur zu einem Freund von Anis Amri ⬇️ www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...
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"Alster-Mord" in Hamburg: Eine Spur führte ins Islamisten-Milieu
Vor genau zehn Jahren ist der 16-jährige Victor Elling in Hamburg bei einem Messerangriff am Alsterufer getötet worden. Bis heute ist der Täter nicht gefasst. Nach Recherchen von WDR und NDR führte ei...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
So we are clear, "Russia Russia Russia" was *never* a hoax.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Police confirm three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher were killed in a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. A 16yo gunman was killed by a community member who pursued him into the school. Two others were wounded. - AP
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
A defendant accused of plotting attacks on Iran International journalists in the UK says a man he identified as an IRGC officer based in the UK threatened to kill him and his mother. Prosecutors dispute his account. - Iran International
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Iraq has introduced electronic ID and facial matching rules for mobile SIM registration, giving operators 720 days to register existing subscribers. Fines can reach 3 million dinars.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has urged the Department of Defense Inspector General to immediately investigate reported speed restrictions on SpaceX Starlink terminals and critical intelligence-sharing disruptions in Ukraine between… x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2110888…
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
BREAKING: The order to limit a satellite system (Starshield) used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter / Reuters
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Secretary Rubio has urged the President of Lebanon to NOT comply with a Hezbollah demand that the government release a truck full of seized explosives Hezbollah claims were intended for the war with Israel.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
FinCEN issued an alert urging U.S. banks to identify suspected Iranian misuse of religious charities and diversion of khums donations. Treasury says the networks can use cash couriers and informal transfers to fund the regime and its proxies.
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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We are horrified by this plot and relieved no one was hurt. We stand with Hindu and Indian Americans. No one should fear being murdered at prayer. The white supremacist behind it targeted Jews and Black people too, as often happens. Showing up for others is how we protect ourselves.
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Teen accused of plotting mass shooting at Chicago-area Hindu temple | CNN
Police in a Chicago suburb announced Wednesday that they had thwarted a potential mass shooting, arresting a 19-year-old man who they said may have planned to target a Hindu place of worship.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: The Houthis attacked Yemeni government-controlled cities with missiles and drones, likely to weaken the Yemeni government’s legitimacy and possibly to disrupt government counteroffensives. + 3 maps 🧵 (1/5) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate10...
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
NEW: Ukrainian forces reportedly regained unrestricted access to Starshield on October 15, following in-motion speed restrictions on SpaceX’s Starshield communications network over Ukraine. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar101526
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