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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

BROWDER: The reason Putin is waging this war is that he stole so much money that he’s afraid of his own people. And so best way to keep your own people from getting mad at you is to create somebody else for them to be mad at. Machiavelli 101: create a foreign enemy, start a war.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

By the way, would be a shame if bank runs started in Russia. If i was Russian I’d pull out all my money, today

[magiC @magiC_fckputin]

@vassalsofusa @Gerashchenko_en Don't bother pretending that those ruZZian savages are playing by any rules.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

It’s harvest season now, and in Ukraine, it’s an extremely difficult one.

This video is from Zaporizhzhia region. Farmers are putting out a fire caused by drone debris.

What’s happening with the harvest in Ukraine right now? This year, Ukraine has a good harvest - in some areas, better than expected: around 64 million tonnes of grain, including roughly 23 million tonnes of wheat, 32 million tonnes of corn, and more than 5 million tonnes of barley. Together with oilseeds, the season’s export potential exceeds 50 million tonnes.

The problem is harvesting it: Russian forces continue to attack farmers and agricultural machinery. Then there is the challenge of getting the harvest out through the ports of Greater Odesa. Russia is striking them with unprecedented intensity: more than 180 attacks on port infrastructure in the first half of the year, compared with around 150 during all of last year. In a single month, 28 civilian vessels were attacked.

As a result, around 90% of shipping operators have suspended port calls; foreign vessels have not entered major ports for weeks; and the largest terminals have halted purchases.

The next problem is storage. If the wheat cannot be exported now, grain elevators will be full right through September-November, when the harvest of 32 million tonnes of corn begins. For Ukrainian farmers, this creates a squeeze: domestic prices are falling because there is a surplus of grain with nowhere to go, while global prices are rising at the very same moment.

Additional pressure comes from the energy sector: Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid and fuel infrastructure are driving up the cost of drying and transporting grain, just as Ukrainian strikes on refineries are doing the same for Russian farmers. This front works both ways.

And most importantly - the time horizon. If Ukrainian farmers cannot properly sell their 2026 harvest, they will cut spending on seeds, fertilizer, and fuel for the 2027 harvest, while some farms will reduce the amount of land they cultivate. This year’s logistics crisis becomes next year’s production crisis.

The sooner Russia loses its ability to continue its aggression against Ukraine, the sooner markets and global food security will begin to recover.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Kim Jong Un has earned up to $22 billion from weapon sales to Russia, cyberattacks, and trade with China - Bloomberg.

"North Korea is in a stronger position than at any point in the last 35 years"

Maybe the war that 'has nothing to do with you' actually has something to do with everyone?

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

Is sport really outside of politics?

The Russian Olympic Committee is sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defense, and almost half of the Russian medals at the Olympics in Tokyo were won by privates, sergeants, ensigns and officers from the Russian army, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian National Guard.

The majority of Russian Olympic athletes are soldiers in sports uniforms.

And the pro-Russian Zimbabwean fuckwit #KirstyCoventry knew this when her predecessor handed over the brief - “Get Russia Back In The Olympics”. Her appointment was more than likely conditional that she would do this for Putin’s pal #ThomasBach

[magiC @magiC_fckputin]

@Isa_Yusibov Not the first, the second, the third etc. time since 1991 that they are making this up. Why do you think that this time it is "the" time they will do smth?

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ @Netflix has acquired rights to the Russian series Masha and the Bear, which incorporates pro-Kremlin, militaristic propaganda aimed at children.

🧵 1/15 ⬇️

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

History’s Zero: Putin Rewrites the Past. Again

The dictator has distorted the history of World War II, conveniently forgetting that in 1939 the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland, annexed the Baltic states, attacked Finland, and helped pave the way for the deadliest conflict in human history through its secret deal with Hitler.

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and its secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe between two totalitarian powers eliminated Poland as a buffer state and removed Hitler’s fear of a two-front war. Just one week later, on September 1, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II.

Moscow’s attempt to appease an aggressor while expanding its own empire ended in disaster. In 1941, Hitler turned on his Soviet partner, and the war Stalin believed he had postponed arrived at the gates of the USSR itself.

[magiC @magiC_fckputin]

@VolodyaTretyak She's planting a seed of an idea, starting another propaganda stream. ruzzians clearly realised they won't win.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Defence Minister Fedorov: Belgium's defense minister personally found a plane at night to get missiles to us before the attack.

Almost a hundred for F-16s, sent reactively through Brussels by Canada. Result: 100% destruction of cruise missiles in that strike.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Amazing Ukrainian ingenuity. This is the cheapest way to neutralize russian threats.

Ukrainian interceptor drones such as the Wild Hornets STING and SkyFall P1-SUN typically cost around $1,000–2,500 per unit, depending on the model and configuration.

Meanwhile, the russian Shahed-type drones cost around $20,000–$70,000 per unit, depending on the model and configuration.

The return on investment is 20 to 1.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

CNN: You said Ukraine is going to ultimately win this war.

CARNEY: We, Germans, British, French, all share same view that tide has turned. Putin is going to lose this war. It’s only matter of time. From now until he realizes or accepts that, it’s absolutely senseless slaughter.

[magiC @magiC_fckputin]

@MichaelEging @JPLindsley I would rather hear it directly. And Gorbatchev said there was no such agreement. People should stop imagining things.

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Pope Leo XIV in Madrid: “I encourage you to nurture the process of European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity.”

Wonderful.
A powerful reminder of how beautiful and hopeful the European project truly is.

🇪🇺🇪🇸

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

If you didn’t notice, Russia presented in St Petersburg a “positive scenario” for Europe’s future:

- nuclear strike on Ukraine,
- war till 2036;
- occupation of Kyiv;
- disintegration of EU;
- Russia’s domination in Europe.

Think about it next time when saying 🇷🇺 means well.

[Sweden in EU @SwedeninEU]

Letter from 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇨🇿 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 proposing new measures to limit EU tourist visas for Russian citizens 👇

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

All those podcasters you half jokingly said are probably paid by Russia are now literally having a meet up in Moscow

[magiC @magiC_fckputin]

@Alexbrowder_ Amazing!!!

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

Hunter, you, perhaps unwittingly initially, caused so much damage for Ukraine. You know full well you were hired by Burisma FROM MOSCOW in the spring of 2014, after Burisma's CEO fled Ukraine's 'drain the swamp' revolution.

And yet you have allowed everyone from Tucker Carlson to the BBC claim that you worked for a 'Ukrainian firm,' when in fact Burisma's CEO only hired you after he fled Ukraine—precisely when the Kremlin needed your dad to do nothing to stop Putin from taking Ukraine's Crimea in 2014.

Yet millions of Maga folks oppose Ukraine primarily because they falsely think YOU made money there. All you have to do is be honest and say, 'no I was hired from Moscow.'

Why won't you?