In other news, Iran is basically repeating Ukraine's path to re-inventing its electricity sector with massive shift to decentralized solar power generation. youtube.com/shorts/XwU7J...
Iran's solar paradox
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Alex Panchenko
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Ukraine-based journo / analyst / etc. #Ukraine #Russia #HybridWar #CriticalThinking #factsmatter Comfort is a drug. Evolve or die.
There’s are war crimes. Intentional terror killing of civilians. The Russian way of war. U.S. failure to support Ukraine is complicit in these deaths.
Ranked News@rankednews.bsky.social · 2h agoRussia exploits Ukraine’s air defence shortage: A fresh wave of Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has resulted in a tragic toll of at least 17 dead and more than 40 wounded. The attack underscores the acute vulnerability of Ukraine's air defenses, a sho… https://ranked.news/1214691?u=b
Kyiv claims that a North Korean unit equipped with approximately 120 ballistic missiles is being deployed in Russia. The Allies know what they must do: neutralize the archer rather than attempt, with all the uncertainties that entails, to shoot down the arrow. www.bfmtv.com/internationa...
Kiev affirme qu'une unité nord-coréenne équipée de missiles balistiques se déploie en Russie
Une unité nord-coréenne spécialisée dans le lancement de missiles balistiques a commencé à se déployer dans l'ouest de la Russie et pourrait orienter ses lanceurs en direction de l'Ukraine, a déclaré ...
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More sad news from Ukraine today. Oleksiy Yukov, the leader of the Black Tulips group that bravely retrieved the bodies of soldiers - Ukrainians and Russians alike - so that their families could give them a proper burial, has died. Spending a day with Yukov was both inspiring and terrifying. RIP.
Ukrainian volunteer unit braves minefields to bring back remains of the dead
The Black Tulips take pride in helping repatriate those who gave their lives fighting for Ukraine: ‘We’re helping bring our guys – who defended their country – home to their families, to their mothers...
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Pres. Zelensky on X: 'Ballistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today. It is very important that our partners understand that delays in supplying them, or an unwillingness to provide anti-ballistic systems, lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction.'
UPDATE: Six workers have been killed by last night's Russian airstrike at a distribution center for Silpo, which is a large Ukrainian supermarkets chain selling mainly food and toiletries - company's post.
Alex Panchenko@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 13h agoAlso among the targets of the massive Russian airstrike across Ukraine last night: distribution centers of three largest supermarket chains in the Kyiv area; a big production facility in Dnipro that was making hygiene products like toilet paper, wet wipes, trash bags etc. - respective firms' spoxes.
Overnight, Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the Kyiv region. None of them were intercepted, as Ukraine does not have anti-ballistic missiles. 17 people were killed. #Ukraine
Trending in Ukraine social media is ammonia, incl. this obscene Soviet HAZMAT preparedness rule applicable to YOU as well: "Smell ammonia? Get down to the phukin basement!🔽 Smell chlorine? Get up the phukin hill!🔼" (Gaseous ammonia is lighter than the air, chlorine gas is heavier.)
OK, now I've seen dawn photos of those people killed on that platform where the governor stands on video( Women mostly. You decide if I should repost the photos.
Alex Panchenko@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 13h agoUPDATE: multiple civilians got killed at a railway stop in Kyiv suburbia during the Russian airstrike last night as their commuter train was coming late so they decided to wait for it on the platform [despite the air siren]: a district governor streaming live from the site for Ukrainian TV.
Sexual violence has become a systematic weapon in Russia's war against Ukraine.
How Russia Uses Sexual Violence as a Weapon Against Ukrainians
Survivors, prosecutors, and the UN detail how sexual violence has become a systematic weapon in Russia's war against Ukraine — from Bucha to POW camps.
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Also among the targets of the massive Russian airstrike across Ukraine last night: distribution centers of three largest supermarket chains in the Kyiv area; a big production facility in Dnipro that was making hygiene products like toilet paper, wet wipes, trash bags etc. - respective firms' spoxes.
UPDATE: multiple civilians got killed at a railway stop in Kyiv suburbia during the Russian airstrike last night as their commuter train was coming late so they decided to wait for it on the platform [despite the air siren]: a district governor streaming live from the site for Ukrainian TV.
"Rescue workers are continuing to operate under high-risk conditions, as the risk of further enemy strikes persists," the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said. https://cnn.it/458il4Y
YEP, made me worry for a minute, as I live close to one of the ammonia sites that fit the description. Then decided that cooling down the apartment was worth the small risk of dying from ammonia exposure. BTW, there are HUNDREDS of ammonia sites in a city like Paris, NYC, LA etc.
Euromaidan Press@euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 14h agoA Russian strike ruptured a tank holding roughly 300 liters of ammonia in the Holosiivskyi district overnight, part of a massed barrage that killed 14 people across Kyiv & the oblast. Emergency crews contained the leak. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r... 📷 DSNS
Among the targets of last night's Russian airstrike in the Kyiv area: big logistics and manufacturing sites of the Epitsentr-K, Ukraine's largest home improvement chain. The firm says its tiles production is destroyed and will be moved abroad; mourns the loss of lives, jobs and UA tax revenues.
Most deaths and injuries from last night's massive Russian airstrike occurred in Kyiv's inner suburbs: Brovary to the northeast and the sprawling western axis. Apparently, many of the dozens of casualties worked evening and night shifts at shopping malls and distribution centers there.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 16h 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.
Man, if Putin had told Trump exactly what he wanted the US to do to help Iran and Russia and hurt Ukraine, it would have been exactly what Trump did in his war. This is a Russian strategic dream we are watching.
Hello from Kyiv, Ukraine, where we survived yet another Russian missile strike. It was very loud for a couple hours after midnight. There are people killed, injured and trapped under the rubble; massive fires in the industrial areas and in two suburbs. Ironically, I lost my sleep only afterwards.
The fruit seller from Mykolaiv, who survived the sick "human safari" attack in Kherson. 52 year old Yuri and his doctor spoke to @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social, he told how he was sorting garlic at the farmer's market when the drone started to chase him.
Air war on a big city means people in the suburbs can be getting deafened and rocked by explosions, dying in their homes - while a guy in the inner city like myself is not hearing anything war-like at all outside.
Margo Gontar@margogontar.bsky.social · yesterdayKyiv suburbs under massive drone attack right now
Guys from Michigan, if that is a real Senate candidate, look no further. I can't imagine any other issues for the US Senate today than Russia's global invasion (which Trump's presidency is de facto part of).
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterdayFirst thing I saw when I opened my Instagram today
Remember 2014 Ukrainian martyrs I posted about last week? Fresh from UA law enforcement today, a case of a Ukrainian woman who almost got martyred at that time. Two Russians from RU + a local traitor tortured her satanically: raped; broke bones with a hammer, drilled flesh, cut off a finger etc.
I joined Louis Sykes on "The Trump Report" to talk about what I discovered while writing my next book, 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸, on Russia's long-term programme of political subversion of the USA, and whether it has succeeded. Louis called it "alarming". See what you think. youtu.be/dKLECqMRNy8?...
Has Trump fallen for Putin's plan to overthrow democracy in America? | Keir Giles
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I deleted my inaccurate post about the civilian being purposely attacked by a Russian drone while selling fruit on a street in Kherson, Ukraine. He in fact survived the attack, and the video was filmed by locals from a window. Dozens of Khersonians DID NOT survive similar human safari by Russians.
In addition to Russia's vast globe-trotting shadow fleet of HAZARDOUS RUSTBUCKETS smuggling oil, there's a sister fleet of LNG carriers forming, @financialtimes.com reports. These ones leak less, but burn and explode more easily.
+37C is forecast for Kyiv Region today, and barely anyone will talk about it either. People are concerned about surviving The War in all possible ways (from physical to household economy to mental to political) and relationships, not "killer heatwaves" and climate crisis.
Alex Panchenko@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social · 3d agoOn climate crisis and "killer" heatwaves. +34C is expected in Kyiv today: not a record but a lot this up north. Last week saw "extreme wildfires danger level🔥", incl. in the mildly-radioactive Chornobyl Zone. Guess what, barely anyone is talking about it. Neither will YOU when a war comes to you.
'US says deal with Ukraine on joint Patriot missile production unlikely before winter' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyt... "We do not allow anybody but U.S. manufacturers to make those [PAC-3 missiles] in the United States," Whitaker said.
US says deal with Ukraine on joint Patriot missile production unlikely before winter
U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has said that work on joint production of air defense systems with Ukraine and Europe is ongoing, but a long-term agreement on producing missiles for Patriot s...
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