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[Vic @vic_010100]

Schiffe der Rusal-Fabrik in Irland steuern direkt St. Petersburg an, um Aluminiumoxid für Russlands Kriegsmaschinerie zu beliefern. Doch das ist noch nicht alles:

Das 134 Meter lange Frachtschiff „Arne“ verließ am 1. Januar 2026 St. Petersburg und legte am 25. Januar am irischen Werk Aughinish Alumina an. Nach der Beladung bewegte sich das Schiff am 28. Januar vor der irischen Küste auf einer Tiefe von 90 Metern mit herabgelassenem Anker genau im Bereich des transatlantischen Datenkabels AEC-1 zwischen Irland und den USA. Zuvor kreuzte es das Kabel C-Lion zwischen Deutschland und Finnland, das genau in diesem Zeitraum Schäden aufwies. Am 22. Februar stellte die deutsche Polizei bei einer Kontrolle am Nord-Ostsee-Kanal fest, dass der linke Anker samt Kette fehlte.

So wie das aussieht, nutzt das russische Unternehmen von Putins Oligarch Oleg Deripaska seine Schiffe auf der Route zwischen Irland und Russland nicht nur für den Rohstofftransport, sondern auch als perfekte Tarnung für verdeckte Sabotageoperationen gegen die globale Internet-Infrastruktur.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, I presented state awards of Ukraine to the people without whom Operation “Spiderweb” would not have happened. We have no right to name them – everything remains absolutely classified and will remain so for a long time. This is already a historic operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, one that was carefully prepared, and on this very day one year ago, it entered its final stage – striking Russian military equipment. Farther than Ukrainian long-range capabilities had ever reached before. As precisely as no one in Russia expected. And as justly as the enemy’s strategic aviation deserves.

“Spiderweb” destroyed or at least damaged 41 aircraft. Never before had Russia lost such equipment, in such numbers, and as a result of strikes by drones that were incomparably cheaper. Ukraine has once again proved that it knows how to act asymmetrically, that it defends itself actively and truly creatively, and that Russia has no chance of overcoming Ukrainian courage. Ukraine will always be one step ahead – in technology, in bravery, and in the ability to capture the world’s attention and rally the support of millions of human hearts.

Ukraine is now applying long-range sanctions against Russia for this war literally every day. We did not start this war, we did not provoke it, and the only thing we wanted for Ukraine and Ukrainians was peace. But as long as the Russians choose the opposite, and as long as Russia does everything to drag out this war and expand it, Ukrainians will continue to find responses that will definitely work. I thank all our warriors for their precision! I thank the Security Service of Ukraine for its long-range leadership! I thank everyone who helps us! Glory to Ukraine!

[🟡 The Professor 🕵️‍♂️ @TheNewsProfesor]

@WarMonitor3 Were these drones manually piloted or autonomously left the containers and targeted the aircraft on their own?

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

Bakhmut. The same streets before and after the Russian occupation.

[EU Privacy & Infosec @EUprivacynet]

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[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

“I ask myself, why do you from the AfD hate Ukraine so much? What did the people of Ukraine actually do to you that you side with putin” - Jürgen Hardt.

Jürgen Hardt, member of the German Bundestag (CDU):

“Madam President, dear colleagues, if this debate has brought clarity on one point, it is that the AfD is clearly on the side of Russia and in opposition to Ukraine. And that is a shocking finding, a shocking revelation of this debate, that a party that walks across the country saying they represent national interests, that thinks and acts, or claims to think and act, in a national German way, of all things reaches out their hand to the one who causes the greatest damage to Germans and Europeans, namely the President of Russia, putin, and does his business here in Germany.

And the voters in Germany should know that, which is why it is good that we witnessed this here today.

I ask myself, why do you from the AfD hate Ukraine so much? What did the people of Ukraine actually do to you that you side with putin and are more interested in the issues you are raising here than in the massive war crimes, starting with the abduction of children?

Thousands of children have been abducted to Russia, taken away from their parents by Russia.
putin is internationally prosecuted for this reason, he is internationally wanted. Why can't you even recognise that as a crime, instead of parroting putin?

And you begin your motion with a lie that is very telling. The second sentence of your motion claims that at the time of the bombing of Nord Stream 2, over half of the gas supply to the Federal Republic of Germany was carried out through this pipeline. That is a flat-out lie.

Weeks before, there had been... No, this is not a party convention, given the large amount of speaking time the AfD had, there is no need for further follow-up questions... All right, thank you very much, all good... So.

The situation was crystal clear: at the time of the bombing of Nord Stream 2, no gas transfer through these pipelines to Germany was taking place anymore because putin had turned off the gas tap on the Russian side. The exact opposite is true of what you said.
So.
And through this inversion of facts, your entire motion gets exactly the spin you want to give it and which we are opposing. Namely, that Ukraine is allegedly the bad guy and not putin. The truth is the opposite.
putin is harming the German people. putin is harming Europe.
Putin is killing people in Europe.

Presumably, putin’s drone misguidance ensured that yesterday, for the first time in the history of the European Union, citizens of the EU in an EU country had to go into bunkers out of fear of a drone.

And yet you say here, putin is the good guy, and this federal government and Ukraine are the bad guys.

You have completely lost your mind! Apologies for this unparliamentary expression.”

#Germany
#AfD

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

ChatGPT diagnosed 40 million people with a disease that was invented as a joke.

Not a real disease. Not a misunderstood disease. A completely fictional condition with a fake name, fake papers, and fake statistics.

And it told patients to see a specialist.

The disease is called Bixonimania. A Swedish researcher at the University of Gothenburg invented it in 2024 to answer one question: what happens when you plant obviously fake medical information on the internet and watch AI absorb it?

She deliberately chose the name bixonimania because it sounded ridiculous — bixon is a nonsense word, and mania is a psychiatric term that no legitimate eye condition would ever use. She uploaded two papers to a preprint server. Both were obviously fraudulent. AI-generated images of patients with dark circles gave the fake research a veneer of plausibility.

Then she waited.

She did not have to wait long.

By April 13, 2024, Microsoft Bing's Copilot was declaring that bixonimania was an intriguing and relatively rare condition. On the same day, Google's Gemini was informing users that bixonimania was caused by excessive blue light exposure and advising them to visit an ophthalmologist. Later that month, Perplexity AI outlined its prevalence, one in 90,000 individuals were affected and OpenAI's ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms matched the fictional illness.

One in 90,000. A precise statistic. For a disease that does not exist.

Every red flag was visible. The name was absurd. The papers were crude. The condition made no scientific sense. None of the AI systems flagged any of it.

They read the fake papers. They absorbed the fake statistics. They presented both to patients with clinical authority and zero hesitation.

Then it got worse.

Three researchers at the Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research in India published a paper in Cureus, a peer-reviewed journal owned by Springer Nature, the parent publisher of Nature itself that cited the bixonimania preprints as legitimate sources.

A real peer-reviewed paper. In a Springer Nature journal. Citing a fictional disease as established medical fact. Passing editorial review. Entering the permanent scientific record.

It was only retracted after the hoax became public.

Nature published a full investigation of the experiment. Alex Ruani, a health-misinformation researcher at University College London, called it a masterclass in how misinformation operates.

Here is the scale of what this means.

More than 40 million people turn to ChatGPT every day for health information, according to OpenAI's own analysis. ECRI, a US patient-safety nonprofit has named chatbot misuse the number-one health technology hazard of 2026. ECRI's report found that chatbots have suggested incorrect diagnoses, recommended unnecessary testing, promoted substandard medical supplies, and even invented nonexistent anatomy when responding to medical questions.

Number one. Out of every health technology hazard that exists in 2026.

An April 2026 study published in BMJ Open found that nearly half of the answers provided by leading AI chatbots to common health questions contain misleading or problematic information.

Nearly half. Of all health answers. From the tools 40 million people use every day.

Here is the line from the researcher that cuts through everything.

The Bixonimania case is striking precisely because it was engineered to be so obviously fake. The real question it raises is: what is passing through the same systems that is not nearly so easy to spot?

The experiment used a ridiculous name. Fraudulent papers. Visible red flags at every level.

It was designed to be caught.

It was not caught.

The AI that told patients about Bixonimania is the same AI they asked about their chest pain, their medication, their child's symptoms, and their cancer screening schedule.

40 million people. Every day.

And nobody is telling them that nearly half of what comes back may be wrong.

Source: Osmanovic Thunström · University of Gothenburg · Nature · April 2026 ·

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[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Massive Russian attacks against Ukraine.

Exclusively civilian targets and infrastructure were attacked—something Russia will, as always, deny.

The ceiling at the Lukyanivska metro station has collapsed; those seeking shelter can barely breathe.

The market in Lukyanivka is on fire as a result of the Russian attack.

In Poland, air defenses have been placed on high alert, and NATO fighter jets have scrambled—not to help, but merely to take a few photos for the family album.

Death, destruction, suffering. For over four years, Europe has done nothing but watch.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

“They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Absolute insanity. Tech billionaire Oracle CEO Larry Ellison confesses a dystopian AI mass surveillance network designed to constantly track citizens. He confirms the administration plans to use AI to monitor every camera, creating an inescapable dragnet over the entire nation.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful?

​Let’s look at the facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

You pressured Ukraine by cutting off weapons support entirely, constantly badmouthing us, and showing up at our doorstep waving Russian "peace plan" you demanded we sign immediately.

​And now, after Ukraine stands more firmly on its feet without your support, you realize you can't pressure us anymore. So your excuse is that you are tired and leaving?

​How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime? Send your team to Kyiv, support our fight, and apply real pressure on aggressor.

Sanction Russia and seize their shadow fleet instead of handing out sanction waivers. Do that, and maybe negotiations will magically become "fruitful."

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KASPAROV: Dictators always lie about what they've done, but very often tell you exactly what they're going to do. Mein Kampf was published in 1925, and it was a blueprint. Nobody took it seriously in 1925.

In 2005 Vladimir Putin, already in his second term as Russian president, in control of Russian nukes and enormous amount of money, addressed Russian Duma and Senate. He said bluntly, "The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century."

Vladimir Putin made it very clear then, and for those who didn't want to hear him saying it in Russian in Moscow, he repeated it in 2007 at Munich Security Conference, looking straight in the eyes of Bush 43 and all other leaders of free world.

For those who couldn't hear him, the next year he attacked Republic of Georgia. So Vladimir Putin's goal was, is, and will be, and there's no indication he's changed it, to restore the glory of Russian Empire, which means to push NATO back to 1997 borders.

That was a part of the ultimatum that Vladimir Putin laid down back in 2007 and put again on the table in December 2021. Ukraine is the main target now, but it's not the ultimate goal.

The problem is Europe still doesn't want to recognize it. We're still talking about hypotheticals. This is not a threat. This is a menace.

[CeCe @cecegkh]

Your K9 partner forgets EVERY ounce of training the second he smells whipped cream in the Starbucks drive-thru 😂

“Rex trying to intimidate the pup cup makers…

Officer Coats is just trying to get coffee and his partner is over here conducting a full-on stare-down like the baristas owe him backpay.

Who else has a dog that turns into a dramatic diva for treats? My dog has never had a pup cup. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has obtained new Russian documents assessing the aggressor state’s losses from the war. Importantly, this is specifically a Russian internal assessment – one they are trying to conceal both from the world and from their own domestic audience.

The first major indicator is a reduction in active oil wells. Just a single Russian oil company – and not even the largest one – has already been forced to shut down around 400 wells. Given the specifics of Russian oil production, these are significant losses, as restarting wells in Russia is far more difficult than in other oil-producing countries.

The second indicator is a reduction in oil refining of at least 10% in just a few months this year alone. We see that our Ukrainian long-range sanctions are truly effective, and we will continue to scale up this line of our active actions. The data on the banking crisis in Russia is also quite convincing: 11 financial institutions are preparing for full liquidation due to problems that cannot be resolved by other means, while another eight banks have accumulated critical issues that cannot be addressed without external resources. This year’s federal budget deficit figures also look encouraging for us, standing at almost $80 billion by the fifth month of this year, alongside the bankruptcy of a significant number of Russian regional budgets.

I have also instructed the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Luhovskyi, to share, in a format that does not compromise our sources, the obtained information on Russia’s attempts to involve global companies in resolving its financial hardship and in sanction-evasion schemes. In particular, we have recorded attempts to organize the export of grain from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea – and, regrettably, other forms of economic exploitation of the peninsula involving entities from the United States. We will inform our partners. We are also recording attempts to bring investment and technology from democratic countries into Russia’s Arctic oil and gas projects. We know how to counter this. Thank you to everyone who helps us. Thank you to all our Ukrainian intelligence officers.

[Intercontinental GT Challenge @IntercontGTC]

The Dacia doesn't care for your oil slick

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#IGTC | #24hNBR

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: United States under this administration is no longer interested in leading democratic coalitions against Russia or anyone else.

President Trump has begun to align US foreign and domestic policies with values and practices of the autocratic world.

Democracy is no longer at center of United States foreign policy or American identity.

President and his administration attempted to strip funding from USAID or Radio Free Europe, American institutions that once promoted democracy around the world.

Trump verbally attacked Canada, European Union, America's Asian partners, placing inexplicably high tariffs on their goods.

Trump shouted at Ukrainian president in Oval Office, threatened to annex Greenland by force, claimed that EU was created to "screw US," and echoed Putin in calling NATO paper tiger.

Trump negotiated with Russia not to bring just peace to Ukraine or security to Europe, but also in order to help US businesses profit from lifting of Russian sanctions.

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

If your phone number got hijacked tomorrow, you could lose access to your:

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[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed conflictmap UKR.

We try to avoid statements but there are limits.

After analyzing thousands of videos over more than four years, we feel we have earned the right to speak plainly: Russia is committing war crimes repeatedly and systematically and they are getting worse.

The longer the West fails to respond decisively, the more these crimes continue. This inaction also sends a dangerous signal to other authoritarian regimes, suggesting that international law can be violated with little consequence. As a result, the boundaries of international law are becoming increasingly weak and difficult to enforce.

The last few days have once again shown that the Russian regime is a terrorist regime that has little regard for humanitarian law:

(1)
After Ukraine agreed to a Russian 3-day ceasefire proposal, for the Russian commemoration of the end of World War II and its victory over Nazi Germany, Russia launched one of the most severe attacks on Kyiv since the beginning of the war, resulting in multiple civilian casualties.
This stands in stark contrast to Russia’s public rhetoric about peace and historical memory.

(2)
It is not enough that Russia is deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, also known as the “human safari”, it has now also started attacking clearly marked UN vehicles, which would represent another serious violation of international law. Attempts to hide or destroy evidence only make these actions more alarming. And its not the first time they try to hide or manipulate evidence.

Western leaders, especially the Trump administration, should wake up instead of being so easily manipulated by the Russian regime.

0:00-0:17, location at 0:05 - United Nations (UN) vehicle was hit by Russian drones.
46.62328, 32.595023
JHFW+826 Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

0:18-End - United Nations (UN) vehicles were hit by Russian drones.
46.621161, 32.576600
JHCG+FJ9Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

Great work by @99Dominik_!

GeoLocated by @99Dominik_ and @Zeldamices

Geolocation:
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Location:
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Statement by the UN representative:
https://t.co/6Wqf6v24ro
https://t.co/4LblB2U1FI

Sources:
https://t.co/rjrtra5WCv
https://t.co/uxKiJHpMvN
(Longer)
https://t.co/KdQmjFmJ4m
https://t.co/u9gLCy07sW

The original source has deleted their Telegram post with the video, but the information and the Russian unit claiming responsibility have been archived. https://t.co/QNakvALfNi

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[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

🌑 "Russians are worse than the Nazis": The Testimony of an Elder

"Russians are worse than the Germans. There was never such a horror before. The Germans didn't touch us like this. But now, they kill the young, the old, everyone. They do whatever they want. How is this possible? Are Russians even human? Why burn the homes of peaceful civilians? Why are they doing this? They cannot defeat the Ukrainian military, so they destroy everything here."

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Here’s how Trump talks to democracy — and how he talks to authoritarianism.

And this man is the President of the United States.