Oksana D

[Oksana D @davidovichr]

https://t.co/U0r6kuX0Lf

[Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences @actfast]

https://t.co/flZsy5HHbK

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukraine finds and strikes Russian targets nearly 90% faster. Soldiers pull satellite images straight onto their phones, skipping headquarters review.

Each image reaches the frontline unit on a phone, tablet, or laptop about 15 minutes after the satellite captures it — WSJ. 1/

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

“He posed as an industrial enthusiast to obtain a sample of alumina. Then as an agricultural journalist to reach a minister. Now Caolan is exposing the link between Irish exports and Russia’s war machine.”

https://t.co/go0G1iNK7y

[Dan the “Shadow Tanker Bonker” @realLangerDan]

🚨According to the Irish Times, the Irish Government refused FOI requests to release 2023 briefing documents on Aughinish Alumina export destinations because of the potential damage to Ireland’s international relations.

Makes you wonder what is in these documents…

#Alumina21

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"We will slaughter every Russian speaker in Ukraine until they admit that we're rescuing them."

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Putin faces a succession crisis in Chechnya that could erupt into a new war inside Russia, draining troops and money he needs for Ukraine — Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy.

The region's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is probably terminally ill, and his heir is his 18-year-old son. 1/

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

Here is Putin personally honouring the brigade that committed these crimes against children. Never forget.

https://t.co/TNBc1Oix6y

[Tamara Krawchenko 🌻🍉 @T_Krawchenko]

Profile of a Ukrainian psychologist who was working with two little girls ages 9 and 11 who were raped by Russian soldiers in Bucha. Never forget that Putin personally rewarded these butchers.

https://t.co/ovQ0M98Iiq

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Proteste in Griechenland
Zugang zur öffentlichen Küste abgesperrt.
IDM Capital – ein israelischer Immobilienentwickler – plant ein 136,5 Millionen Euro Resort auf 205.000 Quadratmetern öffentlichem Küstenland. 140-Zimmer-Fünf-Sterne-Hotel. 248 Luxusapartments. Die griechische Regierung klassifiziert es als „Strategische Investition" – das ermöglicht beschleunigtes Genehmigungsverfahren und Sondernutzung von Küstenzonen.

Griechen protestieren.
Dasselbe Muster wie in Albanien: Investoren kommen. Gesetze werden angepasst. Öffentlicher Raum verschwindet. Küsten gehören den Menschen – nicht den Investoren.

🇬🇷🇦🇱🇪🇺

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Hodges: It is humiliating for Russia that Ukrainian drones can fly for hours through Russian airspace and hit targets deep inside the country.

They are not gaining much on the ground, the Black Sea Fleet is no longer a factor, and they still cannot stop Ukrainian strikes. Their main option remains attacks on civilian targets. 1/

[Markus Mattsson 🇺🇦🇫🇮 @markus_tm]

Had a look at Finnish exports data on aluminium. It appears that we've been exporting it to russia all the time during the full-scale war.

Previously, our Minister of Education was implicated in this business (https://t.co/tWatcbnLlQ), but these volumes seem large for that. 👇

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Three African countries have begun construction of a gas pipeline to Europe that bypasses Russia – Business Insider.

Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria are carrying out the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project, which, once completed, will be capable of supplying the EU with up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually.

Construction work has already started in Algeria. The total length of the gas pipeline will exceed 4,000 km.

The project is considered one of the key routes for replacing Russian gas on the European market.

[Oksana D @davidovichr]

@rtenews @KernowGold Bravo @CaolanReports! Slava Ukraini! 💐

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Irish reporter and social media influencer Caolan Robertson has been awarded an Order of Merit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
https://t.co/s7fm2zygKg

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝕯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝕯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔱△ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇺🇲🇬🇷 @TheDeadDistrict]

Air Defense UGV

The 60th Separate Mechanized Inhulets Brigade has received a ground-based robotic air defense system equipped with artificial intelligence. The system can independently identify a target, track it, and engage it without human involvement.

The robotization of units to preserve personnel is an initiative of the commander of the Third Army Corps, Andrii Biletskyi. AI technologies simplify the operation of air defense systems and increase their effectiveness.

[Nate Sibley @NateSibley]

The big item in this bill is sweeping mandatory sanctions on Russia (no real cost for US taxpayers, in fact we make money from enforcement actions)

[Bojan Pancevski @bopanc]

The sanctions against Russia are so lax that even Putin's cronies are able to buy western jets and expand their luxury lifestyles.
My report via @WSJ https://t.co/dVLFZ7w4mL

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Suckers and sycophants from 130 countries landed in St Petersburg for Putin's forum.

Useful idiots checked in, raided the minibar, tested bedsprings. Then sirens and blasts hit.

Ukraine sent its own secret delegation: a swarm of drones - Boris Johnson in Daily Mail.

Johnson:

This was meant to be Putin's Davos.

No amount of free vodka is going to persuade people to invest in Russia if they think a Ukrainian drone is going to come through the window.

The drones travelled more than 500 miles, eluded Russia's air defences, hit oil depots in St Petersburg, and damaged a corvette in dry dock so badly that it won't be sailing for months, if not years.

We could unfreeze Russian assets, help with Tomahawks and other long-range missiles, and cripple the sanctions-busting shadow fleet of oil tankers.

A defeat for Putin would be a wonderful moment for a world starved of good news.

They are going to win. We just need the guts to help them win faster.