Finland continues to face criticism for withdrawing from the Ottawa Treaty, the international landmine treaty.
To the critics: you’re not the ones sharing a 1,340 km border with Mordor.
Ukraine Is Becoming China's Military Laboratory
For years, many insisted that China was a "neutral" actor in russia's war against Ukraine. But the joint investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde showed that it is not the case.
According to the leaked documents, China reportedly proposed providing artificial intelligence technologies and the industrial capacity to mass-produce autonomous drone swarms. In return, russia would supply real combat data from the battlefield in Ukraine.
The documents also describe plans to undermine Starlink through a combination of cyberattacks, electronic warfare, diplomatic pressure, and even the development of low-cost weapons capable of targeting satellites in orbit.
The reported cooperation doesn't stop there. The investigation also describes discussions on advanced air and missile defense technologies and an expanding military partnership that goes well beyond the trade in so-called "dual-use" goods.
These findings paint a disturbing picture. Ukraine is not only fighting russia - it is unwillingly serving as the proving ground where China can study modern warfare, test emerging technologies, and refine weapons that could be used in future conflicts against the US and Europe.
This is no longer just a Ukrainian war.
This russian soldier laughs. He thinks it’s funny that he killed unarmed POWs. Lock him up and throw away the key! Monsters deserve to rot in the dungeon.
“I agree with the majority of Czechs that, to end the war, Ukraine should give up territories historically inhabited by russians,” - Tomio Okamura, Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies.
putin’s lapdogs have no place in the government of a European state.
The Czech people stand with Ukraine, I know that for sure.
Swiss Roger Köppel has decided to make it his job to push Russian propaganda unchallenged to German-speaking audiences.
He should be sanctioned by the EU for it. Russia claims to be at war with us, and he is a clear traitor
Petr Pavel didn't drop some bombshell intelligence in that Telegraph interview. He simply said what every serious analyst already knows: Putin will not touch mobilization before the September Duma elections because even his own circus needs a veneer of normalcy. After the votes are counted the window slams shut and another wave becomes inevitable. Not because of some mystical deadline, but because 721 thousand troops cannot finish the job in Donbas, let alone deliver the maximalist prize Putin still openly demands: the whole of Ukraine.
Strip away the polite diplomatic phrasing and the reality is brutal. Moscow is bleeding men faster than it can recruit them. Ukrainian forces are currently destroying around 35,000 invaders per month, more than the Kremlin can sustainably mobilize even with coercion. Every fresh wave of meat just accelerates the math. Z-bloggers and Kremlin mouthpieces quietly admit it: more bodies do not change the trajectory, they only increase the corpse count charged to Moscow's account.
This is not speculation. It is the observable trend on the battlefield. Ukrainian long-range strike capacity is growing month by month. By the end of 2026 those capabilities will be two to five times stronger. Operational-level logistics will burn, Crimea will be isolated, and the occupiers' rear areas will keep exploding on a daily schedule. Moscow has no path to victory left, only the ability to prolong the slaughter and terrorize civilians while it still can.
The useful idiots in the West who keep whispering about "negotiations" or "frozen conflicts" are either ignorant or actively laundering Kremlin talking points. Putin cannot stop this war even if he wanted to. Demobilizing a million traumatized conscripts and sending them home to ask what the hell they were sacrificed for is political suicide for a regime that rules by fear and imperial myth. The only off-ramp is complete military defeat on the battlefield. Everything else is theater.
Europe should stop treating Ukraine as a charity case and start seeing it for what it is: the only force currently capable of grinding down the imperial threat so the rest of the continent does not have to. Every drone, every shell, every sanctioned barrel of oil is cheaper than stationing your own troops on the eastern flank after Moscow finishes digesting its neighbor. Pavel is right that pressure must continue. The only correction is that two months was always optimistic. The real countdown is measured in Russian corpses and Ukrainian resolve, and that clock is ticking faster than the Kremlin can reload.
Notice how close well armed Finland is to Estonia. Sweden is just over the sea from the Baltics. Two NATO top military powers Germany and Poland are able to get to the Baltic countries very quickly. Denmark controls the entrance & exit for the Baltic Sea & Norway as well
They had names.
Ulyana was only 13 years old.
She was killed near a bus stop.
Kyrylo fought for his life in the hospital.
He became the fifth victim of today’s russian airstrike on Sumy.
Another man, 58-year-old Eduard, was also killed while simply waiting at a bus stop.
No one should die like this.
No child should become another number in a daily report.
My heart is with their families.
Rest in peace💔
They were children.
Yesterday, russia killed them.
🕯 Albina Budanova was 18.
🕯 Dmytro Budanov was 14.
A russian airstrike on Kramatorsk stole their futures.
Their father survived, but he is fighting for his life.
They should still be alive.
The world owes them justice.
Precisely.
And after 35 years of this people should already be getting tired of it.
Why @TheEconomist so hyped this re-packaged version of the same old Kremlin line is beyond me.
This photo must be seen by the entire world so people understand what Russia truly is.
A mother is holding her child as tightly as she can, trying to shield them with her own body while Russia drops guided аerial bоmbs on Sumy.
No child should grow up in a reality like this. No mother should have to become a human shield to protect her child.
Since the start of the day, russian terrorists have continued killing civilians across Ukraine.
💔 Odesa — 6 killed
💔 Sumy — 5 killed
💔 Sloviansk — 1 killed
Twelve civilians murdered in a single day.
I keep hoping tomorrow will be better.
But I know it won't be.
🤯 Russian forces are reportedly using civilian school buses for military purposes.
Videos published by Exilenova show buses marked “Children” being handed over to Russian troops, with another bus seen transporting supplies for the Russian military.
And just like that, everybody stopped talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein's private plane.
Four young girls.
Donald Trump.
Why isn't this being talked about anymore?
Epstein.
Epstein.
Epstein.
HOST: Can Ukrainians win this war?
STUBB: I say yes, and I think they already have.
HOST: They've started to turn the tide?
STUBB: Yeah, definitely. Because this boils down to the theory of war.
Big guy, Russia, attacking a small guy, Ukraine, trying to deny independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
And then Ukraine, after four and a half years, still stands strong and has not allowed Russia to invade them. Then, by definition, they will have won.
Look at things from a Moscow perspective: in the past four years during the active war, they have advanced 60 kilometers. In World War II, they went from Moscow to Berlin, that's 1,400 kilometers.
You have to ask yourself, who has won, who has lost? I say Ukraine has won.