An important response by FIIA colleague Sinikukka Saari to the increasing talk about negotiations re: Ukraine. The West should not let Russia fool us - AGAIN - into thinking that it would solve anything. Please read, it’s only 2 pages:

fiia.fi/en/publication…

🚂Choo-choo!🚄

New pro-Kremlin 🇸🇰 govt removed state owned CEO of Zuzana howitzers producing company.
He considered 🇺🇦 as a key market, he had disputes with current MoD Kaliňák.
Domen Prešern, also on bsky 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker
e.dennikn.sk/3681068/skonci…

In a fresh Nord Stream doc DW sets out to try if sail boat hypothesis is possible.

They fail to even find the pipeline much less work on it and bring stuff down on the first try.

Perfect weather, large work vessel, highly trained divers, exact locations known to team. Link 👇🏼

russian SJ-100 with all domestic components...

Another historic step for the citizens of 🇺🇦🇲🇩🇬🇪🇧🇦 regarding their 🇪🇺 aspirations.

We’ve adopted our 2023 Enlargement Package recommending to open negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, to grant candidate status to Georgia, and to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and

As former monitor for the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews based in Russia's North Caucasus & South Caucasus many years back, I extensively visited Jewish communities in the region, although visiting the ancient Jewish community in Derbent, Dagestan was always difficult.

Dokąd przeprowadzają się Polacy? W 2022 gminę zameldowania zmieniło 150 tys. osób. Z tego 57 tys. przeprowadziło się do jednego z miast z największym napływem imigrantów wewnętrznych: Warszawy, Krakowa, Wrocławia, Gdańska, Poznania, Łodzi, Rzeszowa, Szczecina, Lublina i Katowic

Allegedly driven by a Mr Gorbachev 🙃

In four months of hard fighting, the Ukrainians have lost just five Leopard 2A4s, three Leopard 2A6s and a single Challenger 2. Nine Western tanks out of 150 or so that Kyiv’s allies have delivered.
Most were taken out by AT mines in the Mala Tokmachka area.
Until this week ...

A critical election. It is not coincidental that GERB - with help from the National Security Agency and the Central Electoral Commission - abolished machine voting on Friday. DPS and the pro-Kremlin Revival sided with GERB.

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It was always the vetoing/posturing on the 🇪🇺 council level, even if it’s just giving a bit of help to Orban, that was going to be the most harmful to 🇺🇦.

It’s understandable why many Western leaders, due to their socialisation in the Cold War, still think of one big WW3 as the worst case scenario. But unfortunately, we need to be more creative what comes to possible worst cases, and think outside the old frameworks.

RUSSIAN 🇳🇱 MILITARY INVENTIONS:

FIRST MAIN BATTLE TANK WITH SPACE FOR INDOOR TOILET AND WASHINGMACHINE‼️

WHO IS LAUGHING NOW WESTERN LIBERAL LESBIANS?

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Yesterday’s announcement that Slovakia will no longer be donating weapons to Ukraine is a distraction, a drop in the bucket compared to the damage to the Ukrainian effort these two can do at the EU Council.

#UkriCor 🛳️ steaming along 😁

I saw someone mapping the Ukrainian supply routes into Avdiivka in a rather lacklustre way. So I decided to do my own, more informative, map.

To talk about the logistics of Avdiivka we also need to talk about the terrain west of it.

So Avdiivka, a thread:

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Listen I’m not trying to be funny by dunking on him, I seriously think Aaron Bastani is one of the stupidest people working in the entirety of British media. Genuinely the man is as thick as dog shit. A knuckle dragging simpleton. Room temperature IQ.