NEW: Iran’s ballistic missile program is a military organization that consists of both combat and support elements. and it is impossible to evaluate the overall degradation of Iran’s ballistic missile program based on one element of the system. Iran Update, April 3, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate04...
❗️Reports are coming in of an attack on the local thermal power plant (TPP) in the Russian city of 🇷🇺Oryol.
t.me/United24medi... Die ganze Welt weiß, dass ru eine riesige Desinformationskampagne speziell in 🇩🇪 gestartet hat. Hunderte Nachrichtenseiten verbreiten Meldungen aus Trollfabriken, die ursprünglich prigoschin initiiert hat. Nur hier wollen es viele nicht wahrhaben. /Ch
Trump claims the fighting in Ukraine could end soon, calling it “the worst bloodbath since WWII.” He says pressure through India and oil is working, and other countries are stepping back. “When Russia sells oil, it has money to act. I think we’ll solve this. Hopefully soon.”
❗️The Defense Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine are cutting off the enemy's logistical routes on the approaches to Pokrovsk, — 7th Airborne Assault Troops Corps As a result of an airstrike, the road connecting Selydove and Pokrovsk has been destroyed.
A Russian storms the front line with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other.
Drone operators are forced to explore every hole to clear the area of Russian infantry.
/1. Swedish authorities boarded a Maltese-flagged ship “Vezhen” seized in connection with the latest breach of cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to begin an investigation. On the published photo of a seized ship a heavily damaged anchor is visible.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 2y ago‼️Another submarine cable connecting Latvia and Sweden on the Ventspils - Gotland section was damaged in the Baltic Sea. "At this time, there is reason to believe that the cable is significantly damaged and that the damage is caused by external influences”
Russia expands it's influence operations to social media network BlueSky. Aimed at sowing division, discrediting Ukraine and diminishing support for Germany's SPD party, operations by the Russian government's "Social Design Agency" began on January 17th.
Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe
This flash report describes the key behaviours of what is likely the Russian influence operation Doppelgänger’s expansion to Bluesky.
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Polish President Duda: Gas flows from Russia to Europe should never be resumed, even after Russian invasion of Ukraine ends. The Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled.
/3. Statement of the Swedish PM regarding the damaged cable in the Baltic Sea.
Russian soldiers complain about unknown individuals posing as volunteers. These "volunteers" arrange meetings at specific times and locations, only for missile strikes to hit the area soon after.
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
Ah yes, remembering to blackmail countries that are defending against an invasion from 2 nuclear powers. I had it on my 2024 bingo card for Slovakia. Notably, Ukraine is not breaking any contracts here, it completed all obligations and is just not renewing it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Slovakia Threatens Ukraine With Power Cuts Over Gas Flow Halt
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened to cut off back up power supplies to Ukraine if Kyiv stops transporting Russian gas to Central Europe.
bloomberg.com
And obviously by "balanced approach" I don't mean the awful BBC style. Presenting something like a discussion between a scientist and a flat-earther as a balanced discussion is idiotic.
Democracies operate best running on informed facts. Freedom of speech was essential when we were in times of informational scarcity. Now is the age of informational abundance and "alternative facts". People get overwhelmed and regress to vibes and feelings. What is needed is a balanced approach
Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 2y agoMisleading framing of misinformaiton challenge👇 MOST tools recommended (by scholars etc) to counter misinformation do NOT run counter to freedom of expression (pre & debunking, nudges, critical thinking). Are these people afraid of the marketplace of ideas? www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PC...
That is incredibly little when put to numbers Ukraine's allies are operating with
AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦@amplifyukraine.eu · 2y agoUkraine received over $41 billion in international aid in 2024, finance minister says #Ukraine
‼️A Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed using a Magura V5 maritime drone for the first time in the world - Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.
Putin just screwed all the prisoners that agreed to help him murder, loot and rape in Ukraine. Now they don't get the promised cash, because the Russian government is broke.
Articles like this, shameless hagiographies of failed establishment figures, which distort history and say outright failure is brilliance—helps to explain the rise of Trump. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The strategist in the hurricane
Jake Sullivan faced the toughest global challenges of any national security adviser in a half-century. How did he do?
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Gas, heating, and hot water supplies in Transnistria have been cut off due to the halt of Russian gas deliveries, reports Tiraspoltransgaz-Pridnestrovie. Moldova’s government also announced that by January 2025, most of its electricity will come from Romania and the rest from local sources.
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2. Maybe this is a distraction altogether and AFU actually are looking to make a move other place in Ukraine. There have been reports of AFU grouping in the south. 3. There are significant forces of russians in kursk, so it is quite possible to stop this even if it is a proper offensive. 4/4
A bit more details from what is known. Ukrainian push is NE towards a small village of Berdin. Russians made a counter-attack from the N-NW towards Mala Lokna. So far the reports are that Berdin is AT LEAST contested or controlled by AFU... 1/4
t.co/9FRp990PRc When I first came to Ukraine I had the attitude that you can’t hate all Russians. I even learned Russian as a second language living in a region where most spoke Russian primarily.
https://kyivindependent.com/garry-kasparov-without-decisive-military-defeat-there-wont-be-change-in-russia/
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This has been the story I have seen many times. The closer people get to know russia and russians, the more clear cut their attitude becomes.
Shaun Pinner@shaunpinner.bsky.social · 2y agot.co/9FRp990PRc When I first came to Ukraine I had the attitude that you can’t hate all Russians. I even learned Russian as a second language living in a region where most spoke Russian primarily.
