A massive column of smoke rises from the Wildberries logistics hub in Aleksin. The warehouse has burned out completely.
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Ukraine has accused Russia of committing a war crime after a video was released showing a drone chasing down and wounding a vegetable seller in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.
Ukraine accuses Russia of war crime after video shows drone ‘safari’ attack on civilian
Footage released by Ukrainian police shows the drone pursuing a man around a van being used as a street stand before exploding as he dives for cover behind the vehicle.
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Four Years On: An Update on the Air War Over Ukraine. A great short read on where things stand, though the description of Finland's main medium-range SAM as a "highly effective as a point defence asset against cruise missiles" does hurt a bit 😆
Four Years On: An Update on the Air War Over Ukraine
An established Ukrainian F-16 Fighter Wing and the overstretch of fighters and air defences on both sides by sustained long-range strike campaigns have changed the nature of the air war.
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Russia’s Saratov oil refinery following yesterday’s massive drone attack.
🔥🛢️A clearer view of the massive fire at the Saratov oil refinery following today’s attack on the facility.
Several parts of the Wildberries building in Novosemeykino, Samara region, in Russia have collapsed. That facility is gone.
POST EDITORIAL The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing
Opinion | The military’s antidrug campaign accomplished nothing
Trump pushed legal limits with boat strikes, alienating allies, but traffickers adapted.
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Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · last wk.67 boat strikes 221 people killed EXCLUSIVE: Operation Southern Spear has not reduced the volume, availability, purity or price of cocaine arriving in the U.S., according to an internal DEA assessment and a closed-door Pentagon briefing for senators, and has made enforcement more difficult
"Immigrants helped end one of the most evil regimes in human history," this guy says with the hardest r he can muster
Nied@nied.bsky.social · 4d agoThat's right!
Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
Russian-flagged Rosatom container ship "Yanina" is sinking in the Black Sea 🔥👀
📚🇺🇦‼️A warehouse belonging to the RNK-Ranok publishing corporation is on fire in Kharkiv. According to preliminary estimates, at least 8 million books were destroyed in the fire. Two drones struck the same location.
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump's $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, according to a new court filing. Read more: https://cnn.it/44Xems3
As a new month begins, the skies are still light, but the soul is heavy. The darkness of Russia's collective character is evident wherever it treads, wherever it spreads murder, hate, colonial neo-nazism. It's Day 1620 of this💩in🇺🇦 And I've made a daily thread every one of 'em!
Russia hit Ukraine overnight with 35 missiles and 185 drones. Air defense shot down 2 missiles and 154 drones. Kyiv was the main target.
Video shows helicopters battling yesterday’s fire at the Wildberries logistics hub in Penza.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... here I talk to Uberto Pasolini about HIS adaptation of the Odyssey of a couple of years ago with R Fiennes and J Binoche. Nolan isn’t the only adaptation in town!
BONUS: Mary Beard on Homer's Odyssey
Podcast Episode · Ancient Lives with Mary Beard · 28 July · Bonus · 13min
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Winning the beach landing isn't the same as winning the whole fight. The Allies took Sicily in 38 days and still let three German divisions walk out the back door. warontherocks.com/the-importan...
The Importance of the Invasion of Sicily
On July 10, 1943, the Allied invasion of Sicily — codenamed Operation Husky — put more assault troops ashore on its first day than the Normandy landings
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In Wrocław, Poles brutally beat a Ukrainian couple because of their accent. A group of three men attacked the guy and his girlfriend.
Having claimed for years to be just on the verge of victory, the Kremlin now appears to have embraced a far more modest ‘observation’ of ‘positive momentum’.
🇷🇺A video has been published online showing Russian soldiers recording the moment a Ukrainian strike drone attacked an occupying Russian soldier riding a motorcycle. As the drone approached, one of the Russian soldiers attempted to shoot it down with his firearm, but failed.
🇷🇴🇷🇺 Russia’s ambassador was summoned to Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the downed drones. Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu stated that Romania’s diplomatic protest against Russia regarding the drone incursions will be based on the results of the investigations.
Tehran says Ukraine attacked an Iranian merchant ship in the Caspian Sea this morning, killing 1 crew member & wounding another. Meanwhile, on X, Zelensky said he will share evidence with the US showing Russia is assisting Iran in targeting US bases in the Middle East via satellite surveillance.
Иран обвинил Украину в ударе по торговому судну в Каспийском море
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Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters.
Watcher Guru@watcher.guru · 2w agoJUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
A Ukrainian F-16 has shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet in a dogfight for the first time. US General Dan Caine reported this during a hearing in the US Senate.
Massive smoke rising over Krasnodar after the Wildberries warehouse fire.
Russia's Finance Ministry has announced it will stop issuing government bonds "to facilitate market stabilization". Russian financial markets have been crashing in recent months, with 10year bond rates now close to 17%. minfin.gov.ru/ru/press-cen...
'For Ukraine’s civil society, having glimpsed the prospect of a successful conclusion of the war, the fear that Ukraine’s hopes may be smothered by elite squabbling is an unacceptable outcome.' writes Jack Watling in the latest RUSI Commentary on the removal of Mykhailo Fedorov.
The Dismissal of Ukraine's Defence Minister
Fedorov's removal leaves critical issues unresolved between the Defence Ministry and General Staff.
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⚡ Ukrainian Warriors struck a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet and a Pantsir-S1 missile system at Khalino air base in Russia's Kursk region. Ukraine's Defense Forces also carried out strikes on:⤵️ 📹: The 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade "Black Forest" struck the MiG-29 and the Pantsir-S1.