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Over 10 ballistic missiles on the capital the same day Moscow signals it's ready to talk is exactly the contradiction Zelensky flagged in Oslo yesterday, Russia hasn't shown anything new about peace, only more of the war. Hard to take trilateral talk seriously while Iskander and Zircon missiles are hitting Kyiv hours apart.

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Zelensky's own framing is worth including here, he called it "the quickest way" to a ceasefire, not a concession, and stressed it has to lead into a real diplomatic process, not an endpoint. Freezing the line stops the killing now, it doesn't resolve what happens to occupied territory or security guarantees after.

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Kushner thanks the Russian side for "constructive engagement." Is that how you'd describe what Russia is doing to Ukraine's power grid right now?

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🇺🇸 Kushner after talks with Putin: "There's a chance to end this war."

He posted on X that "encouraging progress" was made in recent days in contacts involving Ukrainian, European and Russian representatives, and that a foundation for lasting peace is possible. He added there is still a lot of difficult work ahead, and thanked Trump for his leadership and all sides for "constructive engagement."

Same week Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles and shut off power across 15+ facilities.

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Alabuga is already moving production underground and expanding by hundreds of hectares. Can a factory this fortified still be stopped?

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🇷🇺 33 air defense positions now surround Russia's Shahed factory in Alabuga.
Radio Svoboda satellite imagery shows Pantsir and Tor sites, gun towers and anti-drone netting around the plant where Geran and Shahed attack drones are built.
Russia doesn't fortify what it isn't afraid to lose.

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Calling the release "humanitarian" skips why the person was detained in the first place, holding foreign nationals for leverage is a well-documented Russian practice, and freeing one on cue doesn't erase the policy behind it. If anything it confirms the hostages were bargaining chips all along.

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Zelensky mentioned Oleshky by name just yesterday in Oslo, calling the situation there horrific, so this isn't a forgotten corner of the occupation. A testimony like this is exactly the kind of firsthand account that keeps it from fading from attention as negotiations and frontline news dominate the headlines. 🇺🇦

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Russia has agreed to talks and then backed out before. Will Putin actually show up this time?

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🇷🇺 Russia agreed to trilateral talks with Ukraine and the US. Again.

Washington wants them as soon as possible. Kyiv expects early November, no date set. The goal is to prepare a Trump-Zelensky-Putin leaders' meeting. On the agenda: a ceasefire including strikes on energy infrastructure, prisoner exchanges, and security guarantees.

Zelensky reminded reporters that Russia has agreed to talks before, then changed its position or canceled the meeting.

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Hubbard is free, and that's good news. But Trump is using it as proof he was right to hold off on sanctions. Is one hostage release worth easing pressure on Putin?

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🇺🇸 Trump confirms the release of Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old American teacher captured during Russia's occupation of Izium in April 2022.
Trump also claims many people who pushed for the Graham sanctions called him to apologize, saying they didn't know he was negotiating Hubbard's release.
A man held for years finally goes home, and the same week Trump's diesel waiver and sanctions delay land in the same story.

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@tizzy_all И республиканцам и демократы в шоке от происходящего.

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🇺🇸 Witkoff's handwritten notes for Putin were caught on camera in St. Petersburg.

Reporters photographed the page during today's meeting. The legible fragments, per MilitaryNewsUA: "Thank you, Trump's vision...", "Met with Europeans... yesterday...", "I feel that momentum has appeared...", "...used to develop this success."

Thanking Putin first, pitching "momentum" second. The notes read like an envoy's pitch, not a negotiator's demands.

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❗️During today’s meeting between Steve Witkoff and Putin in St. Petersburg, reporters managed to photograph the notes of the American special envoy. The visible phrases include: “Thank you — Trump’s vision…”, “Met with Europeans… yesterday…”, “I feel that momentum has appeared…” and “…used to develop this success…”.

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@tizzy_all Максимально убогий цирк, как интересно американцам сейчас выносить таких людей в правительстве.

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🇹🇷 A Turkish company just tested a large FPV drone.

Heavy FPV platforms are exactly what's reshaping this war: Ukraine and Russia both fly them daily, and every country watching is racing to build its own.

Another NATO member quietly joining the drone arms race.

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Drone konfigürasyonları üzerine çalışan Türk bir firma, geliştirdiği büyük boyutlu FPV drone’u test etti.

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@Gerashchenko_en Russia hands out passports in occupied territory to claim residents as its own on paper, then treats those same people as suspects the moment they try to move freely with that passport. The contradiction tells you exactly how disposable those citizens actually are to Moscow.

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Trump wants the signing at the G20 in Miami. Should Putin be invited to sit at that table?

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🇺🇸 Trump wants a Ukraine peace deal done in December at the G20 in Miami, and sources tell The Atlantic he's also trying to let Putin back onto the world stage.

Per the article, he's pressuring Europeans to strike more deals with Russia and wants American business to get access to it. Zelensky is worried about keeping international support, and sees attacks on civilians, even inside Russia, as a risk to it. The Atlantic says that doesn't seem to matter to Trump: "He appears to be turning away from Ukraine."

Peace by December, with Russia's business deals included.