She is the most underrated leader in Europe.
Maia Sandu, President of Moldova, is fighting Russian hybrid war every single day.
She is trying to bring her country closer to Europe and to deliver peace, prosperity, and freedom to her people.
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When people start asking why we don’t have enough food , show them this : it’s a farm in Ukraine after Russian drone bombed it today
As you can guess from damage , many were wounded, at least one critical , some of the animals have not survived .
We don’t hаtе Russia enough
Unmanned Systems Forces carried out drone strike on "Crimean Titan" plant in occupied Armiansk, one of largest producers of titanium dioxide in Eastern Europe!
Facility was operating for occupiers. "There were 23 strikes. Entire plant has been destroyed", local public channels.
Lest we forget.
💔 13 June 2023. Kryvyi Rih.
13 civilians were killed when a russian missile struck a residential building at night.
Three years later, russian missiles still hit homes, hospitals, and civilians across Ukraine.
Remembering matters.
Stopping it matters more.
Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo
Carney: “The next world order will likely be built out of Europe.”
Europe is entering a geopolitical expansion phase:
Ukraine, Moldova and the Western Balkans moving toward future EU accession, deeper agreements with the UK and Canada, and a European NATO defence budget that will exceed €800bn by 2030, surpassing Russia and China in nominal terms.
But scale alone is not enough.
Europe must complete the single market in services, finance and energy, reduce the innovation gap with the US, and build a unified foreign policy capable of defending European interests.
UKRAINIAN CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE BLACK SEA FLEET - SEA DENIAL: HOW UKRAINE PUSHED THE FLEET OUT OF SEVASTOPOL
Hi, this week I wanted to write about the Ukrainian campaign against the Russian Black Sea Fleet. I’ve divided it into six posts. I’ll be posting them daily around 4 p.m. I hope you enjoy reading them. This is the fifth post on this topic.
The most important thing to understand about Ukraine's Black Sea campaign is what it was actually trying to do. It was never an attempt to win command of the sea in the old sense - patrolling the water, escorting convoys with warships. Ukraine has no fleet for that. What it pursued instead was sea denial: making the waters around Crimea, and increasingly the wider Black Sea, too dangerous for the Russian Navy to operate freely.
This is asymmetric warfare in a fairly pure form. Ukraine couldn't match Russia ship for ship, so it changed the terms of the contest. Cheap, precise, expendable systems instead of expensive crewed platforms. And a more achievable goal - deny the enemy the sea - rather than the harder one of controlling it. CSIS summed up the result as "the hunter becoming the prey," with the Russian fleet pushed into a defensive posture where it now conducts minimal operations.
The entire reason Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 was the naval base at Sevastopol - the warm-water port that had anchored Russian and Soviet sea power for two centuries. Yet by 2024, CSIS assessed there were "no naval operations happening out of Sevastopol of any significance today." Russia withdrew the bulk of its fleet east to Novorossiysk, on the Russian mainland - a retreat documented as early as 2023.
That relocation came at a real cost. The fleet had to abandon the infrastructure that made Sevastopol valuable in the first place: the dry docks, repair yards, and ammunition depots. Ukrainian strikes through 2023 and 2024 reportedly forced Russia to stop military vessel repairs in occupied Crimea entirely. A fleet that can't easily repair its ships is a fleet slowly grinding itself down.
And the retreat didn't buy lasting safety. Naval News reported in 2026 that Novorossiysk itself is now within reach of Ukrainian aerial, surface, and subsurface drones. Submarines reportedly submerge at their berths to cut their visibility, and the harbor's protective seawalls, in that report's phrase, are "becoming a cage." The problem for Russia is that there's nowhere good to go next. Sochi and the Georgian port of Ochamchire are too small. A retreat through the Volga-Don Canal to the Caspian Sea would likely be irreversible.
There's a quieter cost too, one that doesn't show up in lists of sunk ships: readiness erosion. CSIS analysts describe how every time Russia suspects a drone boat is loose in the Black Sea, it has to scramble helicopters and aircraft to hunt it - burning airframe hours and crew fatigue chasing a threat that might cost Ukraine a few hundred thousand dollars to send out. Forcing a major navy to spend scarce, expensive resources defending against cheap, plentiful ones is the essence of cost-imposition strategy, and Ukraine has done it at scale.
The political fallout inside the Russian system has been real as well. CSIS noted the campaign contributed to the firing of both the Black Sea Fleet commander and the chief of the Russian Navy - a rare admission, in an opaque system, that something had gone badly wrong.
None of this means Russia is finished in the Black Sea. It still launches long-range missiles from the eastern part of the sea and from submarines, and the surviving fleet, confined as it is, hasn't been destroyed. But the central goal Russia had - secure Crimea, dominate the sea, blockade Ukraine - has largely slipped. The fleet is alive, but it's been pushed into a corner and kept there.
The video shows an attempt by Russian air defenses to defend the port of Sevastopol, Exilenova
See the rest of the posts about Ukrainian attacks on the Black Sea Fleet in the comments.
Sources in the comment below
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Russian blogger “Rybar” claims that 60% of Ukrainian long-range strike UAVs are launched without a warhead.
Their purpose is to saturate Russian air defenses and force them to engage, because decoy UAVs cannot be distinguished from armed ones.
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Der russische Z-Kanal Military Insider berichtet, dass die in Kronstadt zerstörte ru. Korvette "Boikiy" nicht wiederhergestellt werden kann.
Das Schiff, dessen Bau 10 Milliarden Rubel und 8 Jahre dauerte, wurde von mehreren Drohnen im Wert von Zehntausenden von Dollar zerstört.
ZELENSKYY: War will stop if Russia decides to stop. I understand what Russians and Americans discussed in Anchorage. Putin's lying to Trump. It's a mistake to negotiate about Ukraine without Ukraine, especially for U.S. We're ready to stop the war, but won't leave our territory.
🇬🇧 Today, the United Kingdom marks Trooping the Colour – a ceremony rooted in military tradition, discipline, and service.
Ukrainian soldiers live by these values every day. That's why we deeply value the partnership between our armed forces: British soldiers once trained ours. Today, Ukrainian soldiers share their battlefield experience with allies.
We are grateful to the British people, to everyone who stands with Ukraine, and to His Majesty King Charles III, whose steadfast support and calls for allies to stand shoulder to shoulder have resonated with many Ukrainians.
To our British friends – the respect is mutual. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
«Ciò che lega Russia, Cina, Iran e Corea del Nord non è la religione o l’ideologia. La Cina è comunista, la Russia nazionalista, l’Iran teocratico. Ciò che li unisce è la paura del linguaggio liberale: diritti, stato di diritto, separazione dei poteri e tribunali indipendenti». (@anneapplebaum)
"Russia" did not lose 27 million in the war the Kremlin helped Hitler start.
The Soviet Union was not Russia, it was a Russian rule over an Empire of different subjugated cultures.
Over 5 million Ukrainians died in World War 2 and up to 7.5 million served in the Red Army.
REP. McCAUL: Putin's taking real hit now. Ukrainians surprised everyone with innovation. Fact that they’re pushing Russians back now, while inflicting 30,000 casualties a month on Russians, speaks volumes. We need to put pressure on Russia to negotiate from position of strength.
Ich gehe noch einen Schritt weiter,solange die RF in der Konstellation bestehen bleibt, wird sie für ihre Nachbarn und ganz Europa eine existientielle Gefahr darstellen, deshalb darf sie diese Größe nicht mehr haben. Jakutien, Dagestan, Burjartien und wie sie sonst noch alle heißen müssen eigenständige- unabhängig von Moskau- Republiken werden‼️
Russian guards connected a field telephone to POW Vladyslav Stryukov's genitals and shocked him for hours during interrogation.
They wanted him to testify against his commander. He refused. They kept torturing him until he signed a confession, The Insider. 1/
“By the end of the summer, the situation will change so dramatically that every Ukrainian will like what they see,” — Rustam Mustafayev, Strike Drone Company.🤞🙏
"This Russian aggression must end with our victory so that Russia will never bring back genocide to Ukraine and will never ever try to do so..."
- Zelensky 🇺🇦
They are strong nation, I never doubted it🫡❤️