Ignas Karvelis 🇱🇹🇺🇦
@karvelis.bsky.social
Intelligence | Counterinsurgency | Hybrid war | LatAm | documentary photography | tacos | beer. Not necessarily in that order. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
🇱🇹 Lithuania plans to set up production of Ukrainian drones on its territory under a bilateral defense industry cooperation agreement with Ukraine. militarnyi.com/en/news/lith...
Lithuania Plans to Manufacture Ukrainian Drones on Its Territory
Lithuania plans to set up production of Ukrainian drones on its territory under a bilateral defense industry cooperation agreement with Ukraine.
militarnyi.com
Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says reut.rs/3RJibxX
Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says
A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across some of the world's most vulnerable regions by the end of next year, the World Food Programme said on Wednesday.
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My Sunday essay on #Ukraine's long-range drone strikes against Russia. “We are making history here. This is where democracy beats totalitarianism," Lt Col Ray said, as a drone vanished over the horizon, engine thrumming. It left black smoke & a whiff of gunpowder www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘This is where democracy beats totalitarianism’: Ukraine’s drone strike force takes the fight to Russia
Exclusive: at a launch site in the Ukrainian countryside, members of the elite ‘Magyar’s Birds’ brigade are turning Russia’s vast size into a weakness
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Wildberries must surely be the world's most digital company. Everything's in the cloud now.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 3d agoA view of the burning Wildberries logistics hub in Novosemeykino, Samara region.
Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “The timing chosen for this hybrid warfare operation was not accidental… 1/
If you watch anything on #Moroccans coming to #Ceuta, make it this report. CBS News have interviewed some of them & they confirm that social media posts on Facebook & Instagram told them Spain had opened its borders. They're playing with people's hopes & lives. It's awful. We must combat fake news.
35 years ago today, seven Lithuanian officers left for work and never came home. In the early hours of 31 July 1991, Soviet OMON forces carried out the Medininkai massacre, killing seven unarmed border and police officers.
I can tell you my love for ore will still be strong, after the boys of Sumer are gone.
People need to step back and understand what they are seeing. After a few months of war, the USA is running out of munitions and options fighting a country with no air force, no navy and a damaged infrastructure. US decline is real and self-inflicted.
Nobody tells me anything! The e-book of Newton and the Counterfeiter for 3 bucks at all the e-book retailers! Isaac Newton as the first real-world scientific detective! It really is a great story, though I do say so as shouldn't. And now it's a baahgain, as we say in the Hub of the Universe.
Newton And The Counterfeiter
A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept When ...
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Free weekend update out. If the week before might have been the worst week for Ukraine in a long time, this week was much better. A new armed forces commander has been appointed and he has wide support. However, the stand off between Zelensky and Fedorov continues. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #195: The Worst Week Becomes Much Better (But Not The Best)
Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi; Wildberries and Azov
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My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals a network of criminal complicity at heart of Reform UK rooted in identity fraud by George Cottrell - the criminal fraudster secretly funding Farage and Reform - in cahoots with a Reform treasurer and a casino owner 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...
bylinetimes.com
Estonians from company Rannarootsi made an ad with guys with Ukrainian flaged shirts and 'unknown' refinerys burning on the backround grilling their new oninon* sausages. Local vatniks are FURIOS. *onion is an estonian slang for rusnya
There are indications that Russia will significantly increase conscription after the Duma elections in September and bar draft-age men from leaving by imposing exit visas jamestown.org/kremlin-rhet...
Kremlin Rhetoric Hints at Escalation - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Kremlin has insisted it is waging something short of a war, a “special military operation” (SVO). In an interview on July 5, Rus...
jamestown.org
How are the earthquakes reshaping Venezuela’s political transition and its new relationship with the U.S.? 🔴 Tomorrow: Join our online event“Rebuilding Venezuela: Transition, Earthquakes and a New Relationship with the U.S.” Register here: www.crisisgroup.org/how-we-work/...
Congratulations to Major General Drapatyi on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine! This is an important step for the people of Ukraine on the path to peace and victory⤵️ 📹: Drapatyi on a BMP-2 jumping over separatist barricades in Mariupol, 2014.
The key question is whether Ukrainian strikes can reduce Russia’s combat power faster than Moscow can adapt to the innovation cycle. With Dr. Lesia Bidochko for "The National Interest" @epik-ukraine.bsky.social @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social @nordicukraine.bsky.social
How Ukraine’s Deep Strikes Are Reshaping Russia’s Strategic Choices
Russia has three possible options to respond to Ukraine’s strategically successful mid- and long-range strikes into its territory.
nationalinterest.org
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2w agoYou've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
The russian Ministry of Finance has officially suspended all auctions for its Federal Loan Bonds (OFZ) until further notice. The ministry cited the need to "stabilize the market situation" as domestic bond yields face extreme upward pressure. 🧵 1/4
Where will climate change hit agriculture hardest ? CADI - Climate-Driven Agricultural Decline Index, maps observed and projected productivity losses for local crops at 10 km resolution driven by shifting climate conditions. Climate change is highly uneven. cadi.econai.org/ssp370_absol...
Really feels like the (completely incorrect) idea that Crimea is some kind of special place for Russia has completely collapsed in the past few weeks—even in Russia itself.
I know there will be a million articles on the history of #England v #Argentina ahead of Wednesday. So, I will get in early with one I wrote last year. #WorldCup2026 open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
Animals and Pirates: A Brief History of Argentina versus England
Why are two nations whose capital cities are 11,000km apart such bitter rivals? There's more to it than you probably think...
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“I think people want control over what it is that they're seeing on the internet." www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...
'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."
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Why is Ukraine suddenly dominating the Sea of Azov? In just 6 days, over 70 russian ships—mostly shadow-fleet oil tankers and tugs—have been damaged or destroyed. Tonight alone saw 28 hit. 🧵 1/
Babe, wake up: white people are gentrifying the Michelada www.bonappetit.com/recipe/big-b...
Fresh Tomato Michelada
Use summer's ripest offerings to make this Mexican party bev.
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