Serhii bought six Dutch turbines in southern Ukraine. A Russian drone damaged one; his crew repaired it. Refurbished turbines can have 15–20 years left. Factories are buying before the Dutch program gets moving. NedZero cannot count how many now work in Ukraine. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/u...

Ukraine’s factories are buying Dutch wind turbines without waiting for a government program

As Dutch wind farms swap small turbines for bigger ones, the machines they retire are finding a second life in a Ukraine racing to spread out its grid before winter.

euromaidanpress.com

THIS IS VERY BIG! Rumour saying that General in Chief Drapatyi's team is considering Valerii Markus for the post of Chief Sergeant of the AFU to lead army reform and build a true professional NCO corps. Fingers crossed.

Elezioni I retroscena che i segugi hanno tirato fuori sono tanti e tutti molto gustosi In primis, non si è votata la mozione M5S (su cui torneremo dopo), ma le altre si E Lorenzo Guerini, Lia Quartapelle, Virginio Merola, Nicola Carè e Piero Fassino👇

23:40 | 05/08 Approximate flight routes of our UAVs: 🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement; According to Russian sources, around 430 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.

we are just a fleck of dust full of hopes and desperation, floating in the infinite void.

Saganism@sagan.bsky.social · 7h ago

☢️ Washington is reviewing its nuclear strategy, with the Pentagon considering a greater role for tactical nuclear weapons. militarnyi.com/en/news/u-s-...

U.S. Develops New Nuclear Strategy With Focus on Tactical Nuclear Weapons

The Pentagon is developing a new U.S. nuclear strategy that places greater emphasis on the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons.

militarnyi.com

❗️Russians hit a ship off the coast of Odesa again today

🔋 A new battery upgrade is giving Ukraine’s DJI drones nearly twice the flight time, extending their reconnaissance missions on the battlefield. militarnyi.com/en/news/ukra...

Ukrainian Defense Forces’ DJI Drones Receive Tulip Tech Batteries, Extending Flight Time

Dutch company Tulip Tech has presented the results of using its new 4S1P 16 Ah battery in Ukraine, which extends the flight time of DJI drones.

militarnyi.com

Valerii Markus is reportedly under consideration to become chief sergeant of Ukraine's Armed Forces. The role would focus on army reform and building the NCO corps into a full institution. Markus previously criticized the former military leadership, including Oleksandr Syrskyi. #Ukraine

russian rail hunted by Ukrainian 413th SBS. Choo-choo! t.me/raid_413/1700

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China baut erneuerbare Kapazitäten 40-mal schneller aus als die Atomkraft - sogar unter Berücksichtigung der unterschiedlichen Volllaststundenanzahl.

😂 Wildberries management has begun stealing goods from entire logistics hubs and then recording them as "destroyed by drones", - Babel This particularly applies to valuable items such as jewelry and electronics.

Loomers keeps popping up with pearls.

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 10h ago

Laura Loomer: "Nothing serious comes out of Fox News. Okay? It's basically TV for stupid people. It's TV for stupid people."

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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🇩🇪 Russian Matryoshka disinformation campaign activity detected in Germany

Russian Matryoshka disinformation campaign activity detected in Germany

German authorities report a rise in Russia-backed disinformation campaigns ahead of regional elections in federal states.

pravda.com.ua

After last nights half successful drone attacks at Leipzig airport a police heli took of from Berlin at midnight towards area and spent first 30 min circling a field next to Autobahn 9, NW of airport and subsequent hours above an industrial area/hamlet by Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Returned 03:30.

"~I wrote that article while servicing as a hooker donald trump"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

trump is distilling a impressive cohort of cowards to run the administration. The show of the regime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

US is purging commanders of US nuclear ballistic submarines.

Pro-Democracy Indiana Resister 🇺🇸 🔄 🆘 🟦@woodenstares.bsky.social · 11h ago

This can’t be good. youtu.be/k5LhCz9Tt0I?...

Israeli police have detained six people, five of them minors, after an attack on the St James Monastery in the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, in which the group spat on and threw stones at the compound housing the Armenian Apostolic Church’s headquarters in the region.

In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post

I had not seen this yet. They used this stuff since Bush times to build consensus.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

Palestinian and Israeli protesters staged a sit-in at the Religious Zionist Party’s headquarters in Shoham on Wednesday. Demonstrators accused far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s party of funding outposts linked to settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Incidentally, today a leading russian drone manufacturer was blown up in his car and is badly mangled and in coma in some russian hospital.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 14h ago

Die Zeit reports Russian intelligence planned to assassinate Stefan Thumann, head of German drone maker Donaustahl. German services thwarted the plot after allied countries warned them, and Thumann is now under increased protection. He has not attended trade fairs for security reasons. #Ukraine

5.0 The drone that was found carried a packet with explosives and was analyzed by German authorities. The 4th test revealed that it contained Semtex and PETN and a detonator but that one got loose so the device didn’t explode! It potentially could have blown up the Antonov!🤯 bsky.app/profile/flor...

Florian Flade@florianflade.bsky.social · 14h ago

🔴 Bomben-Drohne am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle: Sprengstoffspezialisten haben das Fluggerät und seine explosive Fracht untersucht. Der vierte Test schlug positiv auf Semtex und PETN an. Mehr: www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... #Leipzig

the amount of destabilization trump has brought to the international order is staggering. he's like a babboon swinging a monkey wrench inside a server room.

Call Me Garbage Again@tambria.bsky.social · 15h ago

so Pirro brought the proofs to the other court which matters, the trump one.

Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) 🦋💙PD@googeliart.bsky.social · 15h ago

Contents of Jeanine Pirro’s mystery box revealed as she tried to convince Trump what really caused the Reflecting Pool damage www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 16h ago

❗️🇺🇦 NABU and SAPO handed over a new suspicion to the former ambassador of Ukraine to the US Olha Stefanishyna, - RBC-Ukraine Currently, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court is choosing a preventive measure for her.

Video showing simultaneous launch of six Russian ballistic missiles from area in fascist Russia close to Ukraine's border. The missiles are launched from mobile carriers, which can set up in minutes, then quickly retreat to hiding places. Hard to detect and destroy.