"Why would we talk to Russia about Ukraine? That's none of their business."

Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 16h ago

Marco Rubio: Why would we talk to Iran about Lebanon? That's none of their business.

Even a dog freezes in silence to honor fallen Ukrainian defenders.

Absolute cinema. 🍿 Áron Orbán, younger brother of former Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, has been detained on suspicion of human smuggling and visa fraud. The probe targets an alleged cash-for-visas scheme, part of a wider post-election anti-corruption crackdown. 📹 Police Hungary

I don't really want to get in the middle of all this and it's really too soon to have any solid information but just for the hell of it let me show you how it looks, simply by association. oko.press/trzech-pod...

1/2 🧵Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges ran U.S. Army Europe. He just said out loud what Washington whispers: he thinks Putin BOUGHT Trump. His advice? Confess now…before the new Congress starts pulling threads.

😠 Fresh video footage from Russian-occupied Mariupol shows residential districts buried beneath sprawling, uncollected mounds of household waste and rotting garbage.

❗️President of Moldova Maia Sandu: Today we launched the Vulcănești–Chișinău power line, linking Moldova to Romania and the European grid. For decades, Moscow used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova buys zero Russian gas,

Die AfD träumt von der Ukraine als „Schweiz des Ostens“. Ein kleines Detail ist ihr entgangen: Die Schweiz hat ihre Neutralität selbst gewählt und verteidigt sie bewaffnet. Der Ukraine will man dagegen die freie Bündniswahl absprechen. Neutralität als Selbstbestimmung. Nur ohne Selbstbestimmung...

Nobody has it harder these days than Russian propaganda networks. Somehow, they have to figure out who exactly fed whom the magic Maidan cookies and orchestrated a color revolution: the Americans in Ukraine or the Ukrainians in America.

Gareth Jones was a hero who deserves to be better known.

An early fella fighting an early vatnik. 🥲

⚡️Midterm elections 'doubled' Ukraine's chances of getting US military aid, official says. "In general, we are more optimistic for cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine," David Arakhamia, head of Zelensky's parliamentary faction, told reporters on Nov. 6.

Midterm elections 'doubled' Ukraine's chances of getting US military aid, official says

"In general, we are more optimistic for cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine," David Arakhamia, head of Zelensky's parliamentary faction, told reporters on Nov. 6.

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Walter Duranty, a British-born journalist. He’s best known for winning a Pulitzer Prize for his Soviet reporting, and for denying the Holodomor while millions of Ukrainians starved.

I also want to thank BBC News for continuing to avoid White House propaganda that Oleshky was all Melania's doing. I've reported several times about the Pope giving the first public push of momentum, and the Beeb confirms FLOTUS leapt in at the last moment after a year of talks

This kind of sums up the problem with the corrupt White House regime. Everything's done urgently to arrange a nice photo shoot. Russians, who broke an agreement with the US by invading Ukraine, are lauded for Oleshky, while 175 miles from there they murder 50+ in one attack.

🇫🇮 In Finland, a court sentenced the Russian captain of the cargo ship Fitburg to 3 years and 6 months in prison for damaging underwater cables in the Gulf of Finland, - Yle Together with the captain, the ship's boatswain, Azerbaijani citizen, was sentenced to 2 years and 10 months in prison.

November 4, 2026

⚡️️ Pro-Russian Latvian moves to Russia, gets forcibly conscripted into the Russian army. While in pre-trial detention, Sergei Mulivanov signed a military contract and was subsequently sent to participate in the Russian invasion he had previously vocally supported.

Pro-Russian Latvian moves to Russia, gets forcibly conscripted into the Russian army

While in pre-trial detention, Sergei Mulivanov signed a military contract and was subsequently sent to participate in the Russian invasion he had previously vocally supported.

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Democratic aides have already named support for Kyiv as one of their priorities. The party may also oppose other Trump decisions. At the same time, not only Democrats but also many Republicans are expressing support for Ukraine in Congress.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Democrats in the US Congress can achieve a new aid package for Ukraine and overcome Trump's veto, — Reuters The bill could gain the necessary two-thirds of the votes to overcome the presidential veto.

I’m sitting on a train in Hertfordshire and I can smell this picture from here.

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Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov bemoaned the outcome of the midterms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ0w...

Vladimir Solovyov bemoans the outcome of the midterms

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

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Probable participants of the next ice hockey 🏒 world championship.