Ukraine fails to stop any missiles overnight, after Zelensky says no interceptors remain Trump lied when he told Zelenskyy that he could have a license to produce interceptors. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Ukraine fails to stop any missiles overnight, after Zelensky says no interceptors remain

Ukraine relies on U.S.-manufactured systems as its only means to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles. The Ukrainian president said partners’ delays in supplying interceptors were causing “horrific c...

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😔 78 facilities were damaged in the Kyiv region during the night attack by Russia, - Timur Tkachenko 13 warehouse buildings, a production facility, four private households, a greenhouse farm and 59 vehicles.

The reality is that this is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to force Ukrainian capitulation and this is how he wants to do it.

I'd like to thank Donald for all he did ti help make this possible.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 13h ago

⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.

⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.

Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue

A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...

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❗️Serhiy Flash: The war of attrition has entered its next phase. The enemy is attacking everything in a row: retail warehouses, food warehouses, logistics hubs, enterprises, construction material warehouses.

That means that even short cross-border clashes will give Putin the opportunity to declare that NATO no longer exists. Putin cannot win the war in Ukraine. I think even he understands that. But he needs some kind of political victory.

If we imagine that France will have a president friendly to Putin, which is not at all unlikely, it will sharply change the balance. In Germany, there will be elections in many federal states, and pro-Putin Alternative for Germany party is growing in strength there.

I think Putin is also aware of this, but it means that an unprecedented attempt at escalation will now be made. First of all, Putin is counting on the political map of Europe changing in 2027. Elections all over Europe, especially in France.

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APPLEBAUM: Witkoff and Kushner had a pretty profound effect on how peace negotiations been conducted, and it’s not positive. They prolonged war in Ukraine because their attitude was, "We’re going to Moscow to do deals with Russian companies." Russians were delighted by this,

Since 2022, Russia has systematically targeted Ukrainian culture—destroying warehouses, libraries, and print shops. This isn't collateral damage; it’s a deliberate war on Ukrainian identity and education. 🧵 1/12

One of Wildberries' largest logistics hubs in northwestern Russia (154,000 sq m) continues to burn following a drone attack in Krasny Bor, Leningrad region. The Syzran and Kstovo oil refineries were also struck.

💧💡🇺🇦 It's hard to live more than 3 days without water and sewage. Russia changes targets for strikes in winter, - Shmyhal This winter, the enemy plans to attack Ukraine's water supply, Energy Minister said to POLITICO.

❗️Russian oil refining fell to 3.6 million barrels per day in July, down 150,000 bpd from June, according to Bloomberg. The report says this is Russia's lowest monthly refining rate since May 2002. For comparison, July 2021 averaged 5.59 million bpd. #Russia

Over 🇺🇦 kinderen in bezet gebied: "(...) De getuige legde uit hoe het schoolhoofd van de plaatselijke school, vergezeld door zwaarbewapende soldaten, van huis tot huis ging om ouders te ondervragen die hun kinderen niet naar school stuurden en nog geen Russisch paspoort hadden aangevraagd."

We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories – what we found was more shocking than we could have imagined

International law forbids the indoctination and militarisation of children in occupied territories.

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Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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Around eight million books were destroyed in Kharkiv yesterday. Many Ukrainians are responding by buying books from the affected publishers and from KnyhoLand, the bookstore chain that also used the warehouse. I bought these today.

"I am the eldest sister, and from now on, my 7 little angels..." ​After Russian missile strike on Radushne that took the lives of the Voronov family, their daughter posted a message alongside a 2020 family photo. ​"Our mommy took this photo of us... I am the eldest sister, and from now on,

to tweet pro-Russian propaganda, that's disappeared. HOST: Is that common knowledge that they were actually being... Rick Wilson: Public story, legal filing. Department of Justice went after Tenet Media because they were accepting money for these influencers to go out and take pro-Russian stance.

Rick Wilson: I think Russia's financial situation is so dire that they've stopped paying American influencers they've been known to pay. Tenet Media scandal in US, where Russians were paying Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin hundreds of thousands of dollars a month

The Americans have made sure that the Russians can fire their missiles at civilians with impunity, so that Russia will be presenting the same unrealistic set of demands again. They are not going to help Ukraine and Europe, they are on Russia’s side and not capable of leading negotiations either.

Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦@pravda.ua · 4d ago

‼️ Rubio: coming weeks will show whether Ukraine-Russia peace talks can resume

Trump said Ukraine has rich rare earth mineral reserves and described the US-Ukraine minerals agreement as "a pretty good deal." He said the United States can "take almost anything we want" under the agreement and that the US could access those resources whenever it chooses. #Ukraine

The Ceuta/Spain refugee crisis gets another angel if you know many refugee have Moroccan police escorts and aid.

Russia commits war crimes every single day

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4d ago

It was a massive attack involving dozens of ballistic missiles. Russia killed nine people and injured 28 more, including four children, in Kyiv overnight. Civilian infrastructure was heavily damaged across multiple districts of the city.

Horseshoe theory in action: Three people with virtually identical foreign policy takes

If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.

"Als je niet kunt accepteren dat Trump het afgelopen anderhalf jaar Oekraïne van luchtverdediging heeft beroofd en nieuwe hulp zo lang mogelijk heeft uitgesteld, zodat Poetin Oekraïne zo lang mogelijk vanuit de lucht kan terroriseren – dan kun je de realiteit niet onder ogen zien."

Fits the pattern

Meduza in English@meduza.io · 5d ago

After telling Volodymyr Zelensky the U.S. would grant Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missiles, Donald Trump now says he hasn't decided after all. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

🔥AFU attacked two more Wildberries warehouses in Volgograd and Zelenodolsk, Tatarstan. 💥 Nizhnekamsk, where the refinery is located, was also under attack. 💥 Explosions were also heard in Kaspiysk, Dagestan. Attack on the port. ❗️Drones hit the Volgograd refinery.