Residents of Kyiv singing the Kyiv anthem while sheltering in the metro during one of Russia's largest missile attacks on Ukraine this morning.

Russia has redeployed about 30,000 troops to help fight off Kyiv’s incursion into Kursk region, Ukraine army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

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We cannot allow Russian bombers to be better protected than Ukrainian civilians are. Let's ask ourselves if we are being honest about how much we actually support Ukraine.

How a secretive trader known as ‘Hector’ is said to have become one of the most powerful kingpins in the global oil trade, selling Russian and Iranian crude from Dubai. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via Bloomberg Markets

This is a brilliant new book Stephanie Baker it will make your heart race in it. Also making pray at Donald Trump loses this selection as he is a stooge and cipher for Putin. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/166805…

It is entirely justified for Ukrainians to respond to Russian terror by any means necessary to stop it. Every day and night, our cities and villages endure enemy attacks. Just in the past week, Russia has launched over 160 missiles of various types, 780 guided aerial bombs, and

Russia's state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport imported millions of $100 bank notes from Rwanda's Defense Ministry. Desperate times call for desperate measures. verstka.media/rossiya-zakupa…

Ukraine says Russian missiles killed at least 41 people in the central town of Poltava, in one of the deadliest strikes since the Kremlin’s invasion in February 2022 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

When Putin launched his all-out assault on Ukraine in February 2022, the United States & its allies responded with historic economic sanctions to punish his regime and damage the Russian economy and war machine. Stephanie Baker's new book examines the scale, scope, & complexity

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It's hard to understand why there isn't more outrage at Russia's continued missile attacks on Ukrainian civilians. At least three children were killed in the Western city of Ukraine.

Andrii Sybiha is expected to replace Dmytro Kuleba as Ukraine's foreign minister as Volodymyr Zelenskiy reshuffles the government bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

Great to be interviewed on Marketplace by Kimberly Adams about my forthcoming book, Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia, out Sept. 10. You can listen and read more here marketplace.org/2024/09/03/eco… #Russia #Ukraine #book #sanctions

New US sanctions target Russia Today editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and others for allegedly interfering in the US election by recruiting "unwitting" American influencers. It's kinda incredible Simonyan hasn't been sanctioned already... home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

The new DOJ charging documents raise a curious question: DOJ charges two lower-level employees of a Russian front company, but despite providing chapter and verse about the complicity of the two "Founders" of that company, the Founders are not charged. My Suspicion (based on my

In an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Punishing Putin, I tell the backstory of how McDonald's and Coca-Cola execs were on the phone conferring over how to respond to Putin's full-scale invasion, just one of the many tales of how Western companies tried to navigate sanctions

My favorite part of the DOJ indictment against RT figures is how they invented a fictional profile for a wealthy European banker named Eduard Grigoriann allegedly financing the operation. Not very sophisticated.

The trolling continues ➡️Vladimir Putin said Russia will support US Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election because she’s been endorsed by President Joe Biden bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

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