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[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@thinkdefence Truly, all just media spin and make believe by the papers

The idea that anybody of these sit there, get furious or noisy is laughable - not sure this group would know how to be noisy

Be a quiet chat over a cup of tea with Starmer likely acting as a mediator in the middle🤣

[Ciarán Cuffe @CiaranCuffe]

It's time to close the loophole that feeds Irish raw materials from Limerick to Russia’s military industry.

It's time for effective EU sanctions.

Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
https://t.co/cZX6hH4UgX

[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@navalhistorian Though the key point you make is spot on.

Mine was the idea that UK will be in control

Projects like this can not follow an annual budget, and need to sit outside this

They will have there own peaks and troughs in spend and commitments

[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@navalhistorian Also unlikely the aircraft will be limited to UK, Italy and Japan

Germany, Canada, Australia amongst others could join

Part of the reality is that UK may have to sacrifice its view it will be a dominate party, with likely less than 15% of the A/C to go to UK

[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@benmoores2 @GarethJennings3 Tell that to the pilots when we are at war in 5 years time

Do people not realise there is a greater than even chance now the UK will be involved in a serious conflict by 2035. People seems to have there heads in the sand

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russia Could Fire Up to 100 Ballistic Missiles at Ukraine Monthly – GUR.

Intelligence services note that Russia's military-industrial complex plans to produce up to 700 Iskander missiles in 2026, maintaining a production rate of 55 to 60 units per month.

Furthermore, an increase in the production of missiles for S-300 and S-400 systems—which the Russian Federation is increasingly employing against ground targets—has been observed. According to estimates, the production of these missiles could exceed 480 units per year.

In addition, Russia plans to procure up to 60 Kinzhal missiles.

It is an alarming sign of strategic naivety that, after more than four years of relentless Russian missile and drone attacks, European leaders still believe Russia can be defeated solely through Western air defenses—without systematically destroying the production facilities for Iskander, Kalibr, Kinzhal, Shahed drones, and S-300/400 systems. Instead of weakening the enemy at the source, they supply expensive Patriot and IRIS-T systems, which Russia overwhelms through mass production and cheap drones. This is not defense policy; it is expensive symptomatic treatment.

Anyone who is serious about achieving victory must strike the factories—not merely the incoming missiles.

[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@thinkdefence Spot on

We need to talk about and understand the operations and needs before we can - "Yes sir - I would love 100 Type 26s please"

Noting we can destroy everything Russia has in port on days 1 and 2, what do we need to deal with a dozen ish SSNs loose etc

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’ve been investigating the russian refinery for days now and the story gets darker and darker. The shipments are sent to Siberia, smelted, and sold to the russian company ‘ASK’. This company distributes aluminium directly to Russia’s missile & drone manufacturers.

[WarspiteFella @WarspiteFella]

@spbwe11_2k @BigPaulieDoyle Wild how some idiot sees that as an excuse

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’ve been wondering why local news here in Limerick hasn’t been reporting the truth about the russian refinery and just noticed the biggest paper here took 5M € government funding from a minister who has defended the plant. Absolutely disgraceful. You cannot call yourself a journalist if you take government money. Explains a lot

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Fantastic news — all EU member states have given the green light to open Cluster 1 in accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova.

We are one step closer to the EU membership: steadily moving towards our goal.

Thank you to @CY2026EU and all EU members for keeping pace and supporting Ukraine’s European choice.

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: EV sales surge in Europe & Australia in May!

Battery-only (BEV) Share
Norway 97.8%
Denmark 78.7%
Finland 47.7%
Sweden 41%
Netherlands 41%
Belgium 37%
France 29%
Switzerland 23%
Australia 19.9%

BEV Only Numbers!
https://t.co/lhxNJDdqmt

[WW3finalboss @WW3finalboss]

🇺🇦🇷🇺 UKRAINE JUST ROLLED BACK RUSSIA’S ADVANCE NORTH OF LYMAN

New from ISW: Ukrainian forces have rolled back the entire Russian advance north of Lyman.

That is not a small correction on the map.

That is weeks of Russian pressure being pushed back, positions lost, momentum interrupted, and another reminder that Moscow’s “inevitable advance” keeps running into Ukrainians who refuse to play along.

Russia can still throw men at the line.

But Ukraine keeps proving that ground taken at huge cost can still be taken back.

[MTS Insights @MTSInsights]

🇬🇧 UK new car registrations rose +7.1% YoY in May to 160,662 units, the strongest May result since 2019.

Private buyer demand jumped +17.2% YoY, while fleet registrations increased +1.8% YoY, and business demand fell -18.8% YoY.

The shift toward electrification continued, with BEV registrations rising +34.2% YoY and capturing 27.3% of the market. Despite recent gains, BEVs account for just 23.9% of registrations YTD, well below the 33% market share target for 2026.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russia has just sanctioned a 17-year-old British tech savant for exposing Moscow's criminal money laundering schemes.

https://t.co/MiL4PNn1Uy

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

❗️Russia plans to increase the share of jet attack drones to 50%, - Syrskyi

He also reported that during May, Ukrainian interceptor drones in three echelons of air defense destroyed more than 3.5 thousand enemy UAVs of various types.

The second echelon, for which the Unmanned Systems Forces are responsible, demonstrates the highest efficiency: more than 1.2 thousand downed drones in May alone.

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.

Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.

The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.

The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).

Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.

I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.