@United24media@FNotian10384 Greetings from the west of Ireland 🇮🇪
Us Irish fellas have been working on highlighting this for months #Alumina22
There is an Irish government “investigation” into this scandal. This guy is the bottleneck @peterburkefg who has YET to set a deadline for this investigation 🤔
Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina refinery knowingly continues to export alumina to Russia.
This aluminum is used in missiles, drones, and military aircraft.
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Day 1575 of the war in Europe. Every single day you will find a thread here bringing you all the important news, fact checked, and updated throughout the day.
Wednesday has started very quietly - let's see if it stays that way.
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Details released of the airmen killed y'day when their Su-24M bomber crashed.
Major Bohdan Zahorulko was a leading test pilot for Antonov. He mobilised to the Air Force after the invasion.
Senior Lt Bohdan Babenko from Kharkiv Region, served as a navigator and was just 23.
1/ Summer vacations in Crimea are definitely off, in the face of constant Ukrainian drone attacks and worsening fuel shortages across the peninsula. The Crimean economy is said to be in deep trouble, with factories and amenities closing, and workers being laid off en masse. ⬇️
⚡ Hungarian PM Peter Magyar ordered an immediate internal probe into the March detention of Ukrainian Oschadbank cash collectors and seizure of their assets under the former Orbán administration.
"The Prosecutor General must address the matter without delay," Magyar announced.
🇫🇷🇺🇸 Macron: President Trump, just like all of us, agreed that there was no serious willingness from Russia to hold peace discussions or negotiations.
I have always trusted President Trump because we always talked very frankly.
When we disagreed, we stated it, and when he is committed to something, he has held those commitments.
And today, the U.S. and Trump committed to something, and that is very important.
❗️🇨🇳 Rutte on China helping Russia militarily in Ukraine:
We are not naive; we follow everything exactly. I cannot tell you more at this moment, or at least in this open press conference, but you can be assured that we follow everything.
🇪🇺🇦🇲 EU to cut tariffs on Armenian goods banned by Russia — FT.
The tariff cuts will affect “most of the 20 or so categories of goods” banned by Russia from Armenia. The proposals could be formally tabled in the coming weeks. They would need the approval of a majority of EU countries to pass.
In May and June, Russia banned the import of almost all agricultural products from Armenia, including flowers, vegetables, herbs, peaches, strawberries, apples and fish. The bans were introduced shortly before the parliamentary elections in Armenia on June 7.
🤬 In Dnipropetrovsk, OVA showed a video of yesterday's attack by Russian terrorists on civilians in Nikopol.
The drone operator deliberately aimed it at people on the street. Three civilians died as a result of the strike.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 Merz: All G7 partners will increase their military and financial contribution to Ukraine.
And the message to Russia is clear: all G7 partners will increase the pressure on Moscow, including through sanctions.
This sets a new tone in transatlantic unity and determination.
✈️❗️Russia cancels flights en masse due to fuel problems, – Russian media
More than 100 flights have been delayed at Sochi airport, some have been canceled. Due to repeated flight delays, people have to spend the night at the airport, and there are not enough places in hotels.
Passengers also complain about problems with food and transportation. Airlines explain the delays by technical and logistical difficulties.
A similar situation is observed in other regions of Russia.
In today’s Russian papers:
• “Nearly 2/3 of Russian regions have budget deficit”
• Drone attack on Moscow region
• “Unscheduled repairs at Russian oil refineries”
• What to call the new world order…?
#ReadingRussia
“To force these beasts into peace, they need to be pounded harder and harder and harder.”
— Maximilian Andronnikov (‘Caesar’), spokesperson for the Freedom of Russia Legion, on what it would take to make his fellow Russians want to end the so-called ‘SMO.’
One of my closest friends serves in the 3rd Assault Brigade in unmanned systems.
She is currently in rehabilitation after yet another combat injury caused by shrapnel during a mission.
She is so young.
And yet already so incredibly strong and brave that I am sitting here crying while writing this.
She should be traveling the world, discovering new horizons, studying philosophy, and working on a master’s degree.
Instead, she eats chebureky between combat deployments and waits for the bones in her leg to heal so she can return to the front and risk her life again.
Not for glory.
Not for adventure.
But to stop Russian forces from bringing occupation, destruction, and death to more Ukrainian families.
Sometimes people ask me why Ukrainians keep fighting.
Because people like her exist… 💔💔💔
🇺🇦👀 Armed Forces of Ukraine have transferred thousands of hours of combat video to train allied AI
The American startup Enabled Intelligence has provided access to a giant archive of video recordings from Ukrainian drones. Half a million hours of real combat footage from the front will be used to train artificial intelligence.
Thanks to this data, drones will be able to recognize and hit targets without the participation of an operator, which is critically important in the conditions of operation of enemy electronic warfare equipment.
The data is already available to "approved users". This list includes structures of the United States, Ukraine and NATO member countries.