Stefania Bonazzoli 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇲🇩

🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇲🇩

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, Ukraine's Defense Forces struck one of the key military enterprises in Russia's Kirov. It supplies components for the occupier's aircraft and missile systems, which are used, in particular, in the massive attacks against our cities and communities. I thank our warriors for their precision. Our response is entirely justified.

Our long-range sanctions also proved effective against an oil facility nearly 1,350 kilometers away. There were other successful strikes as well. Importantly, the operation against Russian logistics, which supplies the occupying army with drone components, navigation equipment, and military gear, remains underway.

I thank every unit of our Armed Forces, our intelligence agencies, and the Security Service of Ukraine involved in achieving these results. Glory to Ukraine!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

💬 "Peace doesn't come when country which was invaded stops fighting. That's not peace. That's occupation," says Ukrainian Nobel laurate Oleksandra Matviichuk.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The silver lining of the destruction of "Russia's Amazon" company is that once Russia is defeated, there will be an ultra-modern Ukrainian drone delivery service already in place! 😂

[Stefania Bonazzoli 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇲🇩 @BonazzoliS]

@ZelenskyyUa @SEPeaceMissions @jaredkushner I truly admire your diplomacy President @ZelenskyyUa : having to deal again with those two useless businessman after more than four years into this war is unbereable.

[Marco M.M. @MMmarco0]

No, Palermo oggi non ha raggiunto 49°C e dirlo non significa minimizzare il caldo, significa rispettare i dati.

La Sicilia sta vivendo una fase molto pesante, con caldo intenso, incendi vasti e situazioni localmente critiche. Questo va detto con chiarezza ma proprio perché la situazione è seria, i numeri non possono essere trattati come dettagli decorativi. Oggi alcuni media hanno rilanciato la notizia di 49°C a Palermo. Guardando i dati disponibili della rete SIAS, quel valore non risulta in nessuna località dell’isola. I picchi più elevati si sono registrati tra l’area di Gela e quella di Caltagirone, con valori fino a circa 45°C. A Palermo la temperatura massima si è fermata poco sotto i 43°C.

Il caldo è stato estremo, le condizioni sono state pesanti e nessuno intende ridimensionare la gravità della situazione. Ma passare da poco meno di 43°C a 49°C non è un dettaglio comunicativo, è cambiare il dato. E quando si parla di meteorologia, cambiare il dato significa cambiare la realtà che stai raccontando. Qualcuno dirà che "sempre caldo è". Vero, ma in meteorologia la differenza tra un dato reale e un dato gonfiato conta eccome.

La scienza non ha bisogno di numeri sparati più in alto per essere presa sul serio e il caldo si racconta con precisione, non con l’asta al rialzo. A livello mediatico certe forzature non aiutano a sensibilizzare ma ottengono sempre l'effetto contrario.

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Президент, Верховний Головнокомандувач, ухвалив надзвичайно важливе кадрове рішення щодо оновлення командування Збройними Силами України. Зараз головне – управління військами та повна концентрація на фронті, адже ворог пауз у війні не робить.

Пане генерале Олександре Сирський, щира вдячність за роки найважчої роботи, за витримку та відданість Україні. Ви зробили для захисту України надзвичайно багато. Оборона Києва, Харківська операція, найважчі ділянки фронту й загалом прийняття командування Збройними Силами в один із найбільш критичних моментів війни.

Ми працювали поруч у цих операціях – разом із ГУР, яке я очолював, і я бачив цю роботу.

Михайла Драпатого знаю давно. Це командир із реальним відчуттям бою, що тверезо оцінює обстановку, ухвалює рішення швидко та береже людей. Армія йому довіряє, і це бойова заслуга. Михайле Васильовичу, попереду великі завдання, і у вас є все, щоб їх виконати.

Армія сильна, командування – в надійних руках. Ми знаємо, за що стоїмо, і знаємо, куди йдемо. Наша стійкість – це шлях до перемоги.

Ви можете розраховувати на мою повну підтримку й допомогу. Наша сила – в єдності та відповідальності ��ожного.

[Stefania Bonazzoli 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇲🇩 @BonazzoliS]

@Agenzia_Ansa Buon viaggio

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

🍿The purple color of the Wild Berry 3.0 is taking on a whole new meaning in the swamps.

It contains a blend of that damned tricolor itself — red, blue, and white fused together.

Worms, you do remember:

“black currant is red because it's green.”

Well then: Wall Street in 1929, as the benchmark for the collapse of an imagined sense of security, will look like a green berry compared to that homespun purple one...

Meanwhile, ⚓️MoLoCHKa in the Black and Azov Seas: +13🔥 in 48 hours. But those are just berries against the backdrop of the ripening purple wild berry patch.

Deal with your own demons — now. The Freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird has already switched on the spotlight for you, so you won't have to grope around in the dark.

We will endure.

Moscow will fall.

Crimea will be fed back up and rebuilt.

Follow the results live:
USF Live Scoreboard “PIDRAKHUIKA”
https://t.co/nud6c36JAg

MAGYAR 🇺🇦
22.07.26

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

👀❗️There's no fuel in Crimea and there won't be, - Magyar

▪️For now, we're leaving the Crimean Bridge alone so those who want to can leave. Let them "shit" across it to their Russia without stopping;
▪️We've burned 21 tankers in 3 days and will burn 121 more, and 221 more, and as many as we can;
▪️Ukrainians in Crimea need to be patient while we "deworm the peninsula";
▪️"Once every 50-100 years, the Russians get beat up, but this is the first war in their lives where Ukrainians are fighting against them. They're fucked."

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

If Trump wins, it’s a fair election. If he loses, there was fraud. Does he realize the election he’s talking about happened under his watch as President? The only reason Trump is bringing this up now is to distract from the fact he’s failed to make Americans' lives better.

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

Magyar’s poetry update: the Black Sea chapter of Operation MoLoChKa has begun.

⚓️🔥Black Sea 20:0. The next cluster of Operation “MoLoChKa” by the Unmanned Systems Forces has been uncorked on Ukrainian Statehood Day – the Birds of the Unmanned Systems Forces in the Black Sea.

The score is open: the first 20 tankers in the Black Sea were hunted overnight on 15 July.

The “fragment of the USSR” myth, imposed on the worms’ lumpen masses, has travelled a centuries-long path from the Baptism of Kyivan Rus to the present day, and now, on Ukrainian Statehood Day, begins its next countdown.

116 vessels of russia’s shadow fleet in the Sea of Azov – the first round of the naval battle is over. Now it is the Black Sea. ⚓️🔥20:0 today: 17 oil tankers, 2 LNG tankers and 1 tugboat hunted.
The official report, together with video proof, will follow later.

Guided by intolerance, even fierce hatred, towards any encroachment upon our Motherland, and by the legacy of generations whose Cossack chaikas defended Ukrainian lands centuries ago and destroyed the far larger and better-armed Ottoman fleet.

No piracy, lavrov – just business. Yours, bloody. In the sights of the Freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird. Into the abyss of the sea.
Your turn has come, enemy…

We will stand.
Moscow will fall, MoLoChKa⚓️is in action.
Crimea will be fed back up and rebuilt.

USF online scoreboard “PIDRAKHUYKA”
https://t.co/nud6c36JAg

MAGYAR🇺🇦
15.07.26

[Stefania Bonazzoli 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇲🇩 @BonazzoliS]

@meme_ec @Kasparov63 To be honest, the first time you deal with those bottle caps , can be a “hard” time 😂😂😂😂😂

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

New footage from the destroyed city of Bakhmut—once a significant Ukrainian city in the Donetsk region. Putin’s "liberators" captured it three years ago, in the summer of 2023. Since then, the city has lain in ruins...

This war, unleashed by a regime of a Stalinist, Soviet-style mold, will go down in history as one of the most insane and senseless wars ever started on Earth.

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The fuel crisis in Russia has long ceased to be a problem solely for drivers and farmers. It is gradually becoming a problem for the state budget. Russian authorities had projected that the deficit for all of 2026 would amount to 3.786 trillion rubles ($48,9 billion) (1.6% of GDP). However, in the first half of the year alone, it reached 5.731 trillion rubles (~ $74 billion) (2.5% of GDP). Even a small surplus in June did not reverse the trend: in six months, the budget hole had already exceeded the full-year target by about 1.5 times. Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries played a significant role in this.

🔷 First, Russia has less oil money. The Russian budget relies heavily on oil and gas revenues. But for oil to translate into tax revenue, it must be processed and sold. Today, Russia is facing increasing problems in this regard. In the first five months of 2026 alone, oil and gas revenues for the federal budget were nearly 30% lower than during the same period the previous year.

🔷 Second, the so-called "damper." It's more profitable for oil companies to sell fuel abroad than domestically. To prevent gasoline from disappearing from Russian gas stations and prices from rising to unacceptable levels, the government pays oil companies compensation for sales on the domestic market. This results in a strange arrangement: the government takes money from oil companies through taxes, and then immediately returns a significant portion of it.

In 2025, these compensation payments accounted for about 10% of all oil and gas revenues in the budget. By the spring of 2026, this share had risen to nearly 30%: in April–June alone, the damper payments totaled about 622 billion rubles ($8 billion) against 2.2 trillion rubles ($28,4 billion) in oil and gas revenues. In other words, an ever-increasing portion of oil money is no longer remaining in the budget.

🔷 Third, new expenses. After the attacks on the refineries, the government had to restrict fuel exports (which means lost revenue), grant tax breaks to refiners, fund additional protection for refineries against drones, and support the domestic market. The budget is simultaneously receiving less revenue and spending more - the worst possible combination.

The Russian government is desperately looking for money. As of January 1, 2026, Russia raised the excise tax on gasoline from 17,088 to 17,959 rubles ($232) per metric ton of Euro-5 gasoline. According to government estimates, the excise tax increase will bring the budget only about 10.5 billion rubles ($135,5 million) in additional revenue in 2026-2027. By comparison, the federal budget deficit exceeded 5.7 trillion rubles in the first half of 2026 alone.

That is why discussions in the State Duma about further excise tax hikes or higher gasoline prices are more a demonstration of activity than a genuine solution. That leaves four remaining sources:

◾️ Taxes on everyone - the primary source.
VAT - the tax built into the price of nearly every item in stores - has been increased from 20% to 22%, the number of taxpayers has been expanded, and excise duties on alcohol, tobacco, and sugary drinks have also been raised. The increase in indirect taxes alone is expected to generate more than 1.2 trillion rubles ($15,5 billion) in additional revenue, while higher excise taxes on "harmful products" are projected to bring in another 138 billion rubles ($1,78 billion) during 2026-2027. Simply put, ordinary Russians will increasingly foot the bill for the deficit every time they make a purchase.

◾️ Debts.
The government is borrowing money domestically at a record pace by issuing federal bonds, which are purchased primarily by banks. The placement plan for 2026 totals up to 6.47 trillion rubles ($83,5 billion), including 1.5 trillion ($19,3 billion) during the third quarter alone. The catch is that about 1.34 trillion rubles ($17,3 billion) of the new borrowings will go toward repaying old debts. This means that the government is increasingly relying on refinancing its own debt.

◾️ Savings.
Russia has a reserve "piggy bank" - the National Welfare Fund. The government had promised to leave it largely untouched in 2026, but as early as February, it had to sell 13.2 billion yuan and 7.9 tons of gold, raising 244 billion rubles ($3,15 billion) to finance the deficit. The fund's liquid portion has shrunk to 3.62 trillion rubles ($46,7 billion) - less than the current accumulated federal budget deficit.

◾️ Property of another.
The state is squeezing more dividends out of state-owned companies and is increasingly confiscating business assets through the courts. In 2025 alone, Rosimushchestvo generated a record 638 billion rubles ($8,24 billion) in revenue for the budget from state property, dividends, and privatization transactions.

So, the fuel crisis has come full circle: less fuel means less oil revenue → more compensation and expenses → a deeper budget deficit → new taxes, debts, the use of reserves, and the mobilization of state assets.

And since it is this very budget that finances Russia's war against Ukraine, every ruble the Kremlin is forced to divert to plug budget holes is a ruble that can no longer be spent on waging war.

[Roberto Ingrosso @RobertoIngross2]

EUROPA AL GELO A CAUSA DEL COLLASSO DI AMOC? NON ERA LA CORRENTE DEL GOLFO?
Si tratta di uno dei temi più affascinanti della climatologia, con possibili implicazioni climatiche su scala emisferica e conseguenze in parte controintuitive, soprattutto per il Nord Europa 1/n🧵

[Olena Zelenska / Олена Зеленська @ZelenskaUA]

У найбільшому архітектурному музеї світу в Парижі відкрилася виставка «Спадщина, що чинить опір. Від Тімбукту до Одеси». Вона без прикрас показує, як архітектурні цінності страждають від війни. Один із головних експонатів – Спасо-Преображенський кафедральний собор в Одесі, сильно пошкоджений російським обстрі��ом.

Проте ця болюча експозиція – не лише про руйнування. Вона також про спротив і відновлення, про те, як українці власними руками рятують свою культурну спадщину та документують злочини, щоб відбудова стала можливою. Дякую команді музею та його президенту Жюльєну Баржетону, що допомагаєте Європі побачити ціну російської агресії й те, як поруч із людьми страждає наша культурна спадщина.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Fier de voir les militaires ukrainiens défiler aux côtés de nos forces. Un symbole de fraternité, de courage et de destin partagé. Pensées au peuple ukrainien qui lutte pour sa liberté et, avec elle, pour celle de tous les Européens.