BREAKING:
The Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk warns that Russia is in the process of escalating the war and could carry out “provocations” against NATO member states in the coming months
Ex-Russian oligarch Khodorkovsky: Putin thinks like a bandit. If someone immediately makes him a generous offer without demonstrating strength, he assumes an even better offer must be available.
Trump’s team convinced him he could get more. He is still trying to get more. 1/
Work is continuing nonstop in the village of Myla in the Kyiv region to address the aftermath of the Russian strike. First responders have managed to extinguish most of the fires. Explosive ordnance disposal units of the State Emergency Service are also working at the site around the clock, detecting and neutralizing explosive hazards. The scale of contamination in the area is significant, and this work will continue for as long as necessary. Tragically, 38 people have been reported killed by the strike and the subsequent detonation. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Twenty people were injured, including two children. Four people are reported missing. The search for them continues. I am grateful to all the services that remain there with our people and continue to help.
These days, there have also been many air raid alerts in Kyiv and other regions because of Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, some of them have struck ordinary residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. Providing greater protection against this Russian terror is a priority. In total, this week alone, the Russians have launched nearly 2,000 strike drones, more than 1,600 aerial bombs, and 31 missiles of various types, including North Korean ballistic missiles, against our people. Strikes on frontline and border communities are virtually constant – Nikopol, Kramatorsk, Kherson, and communities in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Donetsk, and Sumy regions. We are seeking just responses to every Russian strike and crime. They will certainly come. Thank you to everyone who is helping strengthen Ukraine’s air defense and our protection.
Polish PM Tusk: If Russia attacked Estonia and we didn't react, that would be a total failure of imagination.
We have to be on the front line of NATO's immediate, hard response, or we'll be next in line. 1/
Ми повинні боротись і далі.
Якби важко не було.
Росіяни не жаліють тих хто здається.
Росіяни знищують тих хто здається.
Єдиний шанс для українців - це продовжувати боротись!
Western intelligence believe Russia has captured and started to produce Ukrainian drones which it will use for false flag attacks on NATO countries-WSJ
❗️Belgium refused to support using €200 billion in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine: Defence Minister Theo Francken said the “door is closed,” citing fears of Russian lawsuits through Euroclear. Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain are urging the European Commission to find another mechanism, while Belgium’s foreign minister would allow it only if the risks are shared evenly among all EU countries. The issue is due to be discussed next week.
Whenever new sanctions are announced, you can only wonder why they hadn’t been in place for years already and how many lives might have been saved. The situation now is far more urgent. Send weapons, send interceptors, send Taurus.
🇺🇦 If Ukraine does not take over the arms markets, Russia will do it, — Budanov
Ukraine needs to return to the world arms markets as soon as possible and expand exports of those products whose defense industry already produces more than domestic needs, the head of the OP said.
He stressed that Ukraine may become a "security exporter" for a long time, but Russia will compete for these same markets.
💬We are not the only ones in this world who can offer this. If we do not offer it, our enemy will, — Budanov noted.
Too few realize this, but Russia occupies less Ukrainian territory today than in March 2022.
Control dropped from about 28% of Ukraine down to 20%.
That is a clear failure by any metric
CLARKE: If Putin is not going to stop until he is stopped, there may be a Julius Caesar outcome for him.
That means somebody has got to plunge the knife in, either politically or perhaps in reality.
We remember Prigozhin, although that looked like a serious but foolish attempt.
It wasn’t clear what Prigozhin was trying to achieve, and he was dead in an air crash within a couple of months.
That was a classic case of somebody looking as if he was brandishing a knife against Caesar, and then not doing it.
Whoever brandishes the knife has got to use it.
They’ve got to stab in, politically or in reality, and then everybody else will join in.
What’s interesting is that Julius Caesar was stabbed something like 25 times, but only two of the wounds were fatal.
Everybody joined in, but not very much, because they didn’t actually want to do it.
The Institute for Science and International Security reports Russia has started putting up large lattice towers around the Shahed production site at Alabuga SEZ.
The towers are designed to hold metal mesh as passive protection against drone and missile strikes. An inner ring surrounds the key production workshops, while a taller outer ring extends further to also cover the carbon fiber supply plant.
Construction started sometime after May 18.
https://t.co/8EpXAJDcj2
Chinese foreign minister has told the Finnish President Stubb he would never allow Russia to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Shows you that China thinks it can control Russia with its leverage…
“European leaders’ primary responsibility is to protect their people from Russian threats, not to protect Russia from itself,” Radosław Sikorski says in an op-ed for The Economist.
🔹 The Polish foreign minister urged European leaders to stop fearing that resisting Russia could provoke an even more dangerous response.
“No matter what the Kremlin does, fears that, if resisted, it may do something even more reckless are still used as an argument for caving in to Russian demands.”
🔹 Sikorski argues that Europe should abandon its policy of appeasement and take a firmer approach toward Moscow.
🔹 He recalls how, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West repeatedly sought to integrate Russia into the international system rather than isolate or humiliate it.
“Today, almost five years after igniting the bloodiest European war since 1945, Russia is again trying to get its way by threatening escalation.”
🔹 Sikorski says fears of Russia’s potential collapse or nuclear escalation should not dictate Western policy.
“Both arguments are misguided. Fears that sustained pressure would result in the state’s break-up are overstated.”
🔹 According to Sikorski, Moscow has long been testing the West’s resolve through military and hybrid actions.
“These are not random provocations. They are carefully calibrated tests of resolve.”
🔹 Against this backdrop, he warns that premature negotiations with the Kremlin could strengthen Putin domestically, encourage further hybrid operations, weaken European support for Ukraine, and deepen divisions within the West.
“The uncomfortable truth is that Europe must accept greater risk in the short term to avoid far more serious dangers in the future.”
🔹 @sikorskiradek concludes that Europe’s priority should be protecting its own people rather than shielding Russia from the consequences of its actions.
“Russia regards us as the enemy and wants to destroy our democratic civilisation. We should not rush to appease it. When Mr Putin is ready for peace, he will find a way to communicate it.”
🚨 Russia weaponizes global hunger.
It has launched 134 strikes against Ukrainian ports and civilian ships since July 1.
By sinking grain vessels and targeting ports, Moscow is intentionally driving up global food prices and cutting off food supplies to vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia.
Don’t expect European politicians or citizens advocating for Ukraine's surrender to ever defend their own country if attacked.
They are cowards and traitors who refuse to stand up to Russian aggression
366 killed. 400+ wounded. 300+ captured.
August 29, 2014 — Ilovaisk.
russia promised a “green corridor” — then opened fire on the Ukrainian columns.
Never forget. Never forgive. Never trust russia.