Carl Chr Clemmensen

Drilling Engineer retired from Oil&Gas. Dislike tyranny and imperialism. Like freedom fighters, fighter jets, guitars,Clausewitz and

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

@NatalkaKyiv When even moscovians start blaming the annexed territories for their own decline, the imperial fantasy is eating itself alive. Good.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Poland's Deputy PM, Sikorski: NATO doubled defense spending since Trump one. At The Hague we pledged to double again. By decade's end Europe's defense budget will match US spends today

And we have a narrower mission, only defend European territory. No bases around the world 1/

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: Those are things Trump has no control over. Those are the things changing the outcome here.

Why has he been on Putin's side? I have my ideas. Many people I know have their ideas. I won't speculate on air. But it would be completely unrealistic to think he's changed. 3X

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Serhii Kernytskyi spent 346 days at a position near Chasiv Yar, killed 23 Russians and took 6 prisoner.

He deliberately let them close to 20 meters before throwing a grenade. He has been nominated for the title of Hero of Ukraine — 24th Brigade.

Throughout that year Kernytskyi kept a video diary — filming attacks, trophies and daily life on his phone. There was no signal, but the phone worked.

Hundreds of short videos survived: a dugout burning after an incendiary device, him counting trophy rifles, frying ribs and cooking soup.

Before the army he was a construction worker from Khmelnytskyi Oblast. He mobilized on November 3, 2024. He expected to stay three months, then maybe six.

It turned into almost a year. When he asked his commander why they weren't rotating him out, the answer was: there are no people, no one to send.

The position was a dugout three by four meters near Chasiv Yar, later named "Kernytska" after him.

On the first day a comrade was killed — a shell punched through the ceiling and left a hole one and a half by one and a half meters.

His close-combat tactic was simple: let the Russians come within 20-25 meters, meet them with a grenade, finish them off. Shooting through the bushes further back made no sense.

Kernytskyi: "So I don't miss. So I have certainty that I will take him down."

In winter he stood watch for two hours at a time — by the third his hands froze so badly he couldn't reload his rifle.

He packed the dugout walls with sandbags and trophy body armor to stop shrapnel. He ran the wood stove pipes far out through brambles and covered them with branches.

He never asked his commander for ammunition, grenades or food — he collected everything from killed enemies.

He accumulated 12 trophy AK-12 rifles, a body armor vest, a laser sight, dry rations and cigarettes.

At the end of January 2026 he was left alone. First one comrade was killed by an FPV drone. Then the second, who had been with him for nearly a year, died from a shrapnel wound to an artery.

Kernytskyi: "In the morning we're laughing, by evening — already the heavenly watch."

When drones spotted a group of 8 Russians moving to take the position, he burned the sleeping bags, stripped the trophy rifles and threw the firing pins into the field.

He walked out alone in a moonless night, moving like a tortoise — his legs barely held after months of concussions.

He could not bring his two fallen comrades out. He covered one lightly with earth. The other remained in the dugout.

Kernytskyi: "I cannot justify myself. How do I explain it to their families. How do I look them in the eyes. It is terrifying."

He is now in hospital — his legs are not functioning after a year of constant concussive blasts. He never thought about an award and did not expect one.

Kernytskyi: "I just wanted to stay alive and see my family. For my family to see me. That was all I had."

Author: Tymofiy Mylovanov

[Carl Chr Clemmensen @CarlClemmensen2]

@P_Kallioniemi Trump talks and acts like a raging moron.
For how long will
Americans allow him to destroy their country 🤔

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Trump is threatening countries that plan to impose a digital services tax on American companies with a 100% tariff on all goods exported to the US.

This will never happen, and if he is that reckless, the courts would likely overturn the decision quickly.

There is every reason for the EU to impose these taxes, require social media giants to comply with European laws, and ensure that Europeans' data never leaves Europe. For too long, the broligarchs have taken advantage of the European market.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The angry man in Ohio looked around his miserable cul-de-sac, searching for something, anything, to hold against Europe, and from that sun baked patch of nowhere he found his weapon at last.

An air conditioning unit. A box.

This, he decided, was the win. Poor, sweating Europoor, undone by a appliance.

Meanwhile in Europe sits a continent so staggeringly beautiful, so quietly superior in almost every way that actually matters, that no sane person could ever stand before a humming grey box on a wall and think to himself, this, this is the thing no nation on earth can beat.

And yes, before he gets too excited, we have them here too. Fewer in Norway than in Spain, for fairly obvious reasons, and probably fewer across Europe than in America altogether. Still not a win any of us are losing sleep over.

If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: @Microinteracti1

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

In order to minimize environmental impact Ukrainian naval drones always hit the rear motor part of russian oil tankers, disabling them without oil spill. This tactics is very hard vs to an easy (enviromentally dangerous) hit on side, requires great skills.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Lukashenko fears Ukraine: Relay stations used to adjust Russian attacks on Ukraine from Belarusian territory have ceased operations – Zelenskyy.

You deal with filthy terrorists like Putin and Lukashenko only through pressure and strength—something Western European leaders will never learn.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Zelensky increasingly looks like the man holding the West’s future in his hands

Financial Times columnist Edward Luce argues that Volodymyr Zelensky has found himself in a unique position: simultaneously confronting Putin, facing pressure from Trump, and yet remaining one of the most recognizable and influential political figures in the world.

According to the author, Ukraine is playing an increasingly important role in shaping debates about the future of the EU, NATO, and European security. And with Europe’s largest and most battle-tested army, Kyiv now carries significant weight in those discussions.

While many Western politicians shift their positions according to polls and election cycles, Zelensky has spent the last four years defending the very values the West often claims to stand for.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

A strange thing, and a strange story.

Today, Ukraine resembles a Cossack standing knee-deep in blood, holding up the sky over Europe while still finding time to listen to lectures about proper behavior from people sitting comfortably in dry suits.

They say the order was taken away.

Funny.

That is roughly like a sparrow issuing a reprimand to thunder for making too much noise during a storm.

Ukrainians stopped collecting other people's judgments long ago. When your land is plowed not by a plow but by missiles, you begin to understand the true value of metal, ribbons, and grand titles.

Somewhere in the corridors of European politics, old cabinets filled with diplomas argue about historical memory. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian soldier lighting a cigarette above a trench carries more weight in a single glance than all those disputes combined.

Today, Ukraine resembles an oak tree in the middle of a storm. Around it swirl papers, certificates, decorations, resolutions, and grievances. But the oak remains standing.

Because strength is not found in awards.

Strength is when a nation looks war in the eye for a fifth year and refuses to look away.

And while some hand out or take away decorations, Ukrainians continue doing what they do best: making history, in which other people's seals and stamps have long since lost their decisive importance.

Thank you, Mr. Presidents. Through your actions, you have shown the true character of the Ukrainian people.

[Ciaran Kilbride @CiaranKilbride1]

@JayinKyiv Making your enemy do what's bad for him is the true test of who has the military initiative. And Magyar is bad ass ! 🇺🇦💪✌️

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

@JayinKyiv That southern peninsula the katsaps annexed by bluff is about to get a real bill. The drone boss just sent the estimate.

[Dark & Stormy 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇺🇨🇦 Slava Ukraini!! @CyranoUSA]

This "flight event", if it spreads virally as I suggest in my pinned post of June 11, will likely become far more effective than bringing down the Kerch Bridge on Russia's view of the war and Putin's reign.

Ukraine just took out three ferries that went to and from Crimea. The Russians apparently just stopped rail traffic from Crimea to the north (or via the Kerch Bridge?). Sales of gasoline or diesel to civilians was banned as of Monday morning in Crimea. And Ukraine has been pummeling Russian military and naval targets in Crimea at will for many weeks.

The five to eight hundred thousands of Russians who "emigrated" to Crimea after 2014, as urged by Moscow, must be terrified. Many of them took over houses and businesses after Russia transported a hundred thousand Crimeans to other areas. What will happen to them if the Russian troops are forced to withdraw?

Taking down the bridge would be a big deal -- but only a one-day (or two) event. A couple weeks of global coverage of a hundred thousand illegal Russian carpetbaggers clogging the roads in fear could bring the end to Putin.

Slava Ukraini!

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Backing up statements by other Ukrainian military sources, today's message by the Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces essentially says that all manner of hell is about to occur in Crimea.

"Moscow and the bunker grandpa will hold on to Crimea to the last, as the main trophy of the war, even in "island" mode.
Of course, it's just a pillar of the ideology of greatness and a bunch of perks, like plus "Russia's internal Azov Sea" and so on.

However, using Crimea as a launching pad for attacks on Ukraine is a military absurdity.

Here's the recipe for borscht from the Freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird:
a complete air defense missile system, the destruction of the remnants of the fleet, the shutdown of the shadow economy, TOTAL resource and logistical exhaustion, a tourist default, an energy desert, a transport lockdown, etc...

Feed it, bunker grandpa, with subsidies, but don't dream of controlling it - it won't be like before.

Ukrainians in the occupied territory, sorry now for the constant anxiety, closed bridges/roads, darkness, silence and stress. Stay away from military objects and everything flammable, share firewood and just be careful - the Bird works meticulously, but sparks will always fly when logging.

There's no other way to demilitarize the bastard and smoke out 1 million occupants from the peninsula. It's a job for professionals, and we know it.

Crimea will bring down Moscow, it's a point of psychological breakdown, a needle in a haystack hidden right under our noses.
All dictatorships collapse suddenly, remember any example.

Today, Moscow's Crimea is "failing". A suitcase without a handle - a heavy burden.

The SBS Birds are implementing the recipe for borscht from the Freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird in TOT.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

The MFA statement on Poland isn't diplomatic theater. It's the sound of a nation that has finally internalized what its soldiers have been proving for four years on the battlefield: we no longer accept any foreign capital dictating which parts of our history are permissible. Stripping the order from Zelenskyy was never really about some 1940s paperwork. It was a deliberate gesture of contempt toward the Ukrainian soldier, the Ukrainian dead, and the Ukrainian right to remember our own dead on our own terms.

That contempt has now been met with a consolidated Ukrainian response from the current president and his predecessors. Good. Subjectivity is not granted, it is seized and then defended. Our subjectivity is currently being purchased with orc corpses at a rate their meat-grinder cannot sustain. When you are grinding through 35,000 of their men a month while they crawl forward a few square kilometers of ruined villages that cost them more lives than the villages had residents before the war, you stop asking permission to define your own national memory.

The Poles want to keep Volhynia as a political weapon while their own historians still treat Katyn as ancient history and pretend the AK massacres of Ukrainian civilians in Sahryn and Pavlokoma never happened. Selective historical memory is not a Polish monopoly, but pretending only one side's graves matter is a luxury belief that collapses the moment someone else starts paying the current butcher's bill for European security. Ukraine is that someone.

This is not ingratitude. Gratitude for concrete help is on record and will remain. But gratitude is not subordination. While Ukrainian brigades keep the imperial corpse from advancing toward Warsaw, Berlin, or the Baltic states, certain Polish politicians still imagine they can lecture us on which of our own liberation movements are allowed to exist in our national pantheon. The OUN and UPA fought both Nazi Germany and Soviet occupation. Their record is complicated, like every wartime movement that faced two totalitarian empires at once. What is not complicated is that the right to decide who belongs in Ukraine's national memory belongs exclusively to Ukrainians who are currently bleeding to keep any memory at all.

The same principle applies to Washington, to Berlin, to Paris. No one gets to tell us which parts of 20th century Ukrainian resistance are politically inconvenient this week. We have earned the right to tell our own story the hard way, meter by meter, corpse by corpse. The faster Europe understands that a strong, sovereign Ukraine that sets its own historical and strategic terms is the cheapest insurance policy the continent has ever had, the fewer of their own sons will have to learn it later under worse conditions.

We are not asking for favors. We are providing a service at ruinous cost to ourselves. The least that can be expected in return is the elementary respect of not being treated like historical criminals in our own country while we keep the next empire from reaching your borders.

The contempt stops here. Our history is ours. Our victory will be ours. And if that bothers certain neighbors, they should remember which country is currently the only thing standing between them and the revived Moscow empire that still dreams of swallowing us both.

The battlefield is settling these arguments faster than any foreign ministry ever could. Pay attention.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: Russians very publicly and clearly not winning the war. Gap between Russian propaganda and reality becoming clearer.

That’s beginning to have echoes. You can see it on Russian internet, in responses of Russian influencers.

Critiques of Putin starting to bubble up. People are commenting, “Why aren’t we winning? Why aren’t we trying harder?”

There are people talking about nukes again. That always happens when Russians are losing. There’s a sense of shakiness and instability.

Putin has been trying to persuade Russians not to pay attention to the war: “It’s an inevitable Russian victory. We’re going to win sooner or later. We’re much bigger than they are. They’re not a real country. Their country is run by Nazis. It’s not a real government. And we’re going to win.”

Now, it’s becoming clear to a lot of people, not just those near the front line, but in Moscow and St. Petersburg, that they are not winning the war.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Russia only changes after defeat. Until Russia is defeated, crushed on the battlefield, I don't see it changing.

Because there are too many people at the top that are happy or invested in the status quo.

They're incredibly wealthy through corruption. They don't invest a lot in making life better for average Russian.

They certainly don't give a damn about their soldiers. So, I don't see Russia changing until they are defeated.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HOST: What's your forecast for 2026?

FEDOROV: It depends on many factors, like whether Russia will have mobilization or not.

HOST: Would mobilization change the situation a lot?

FEDOROV: We'll be able to achieve our plan to destroy 50,000 Russians per month much more quickly.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

The new Volga breaking down before buyers could even leave the dealership is pure Kremlin symbolism: a clapped-out empire trying to rebrand its rust as revival. Same with their "superpower" army, their "inevitable" victory, their whole imperial cosplay. Moscovia doesn't build working systems anymore. It can only loot, lie, and collapse in slow motion while pretending it's 1945 again.

This isn't a car failure. It's the national business model on wheels.