junia🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺⬜️🟥⬜️

Student in political science, int.l relations, Int.l/EU public law

[junia🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺⬜️🟥⬜️ @serenahrm]

Russian investigative journalist Artyom Borovik quoted #Putin in a 2000 article saying,

“There are three ways to influence people: blackmail, vodka, and the threat to kill.”

https://t.co/vc8xEsT7xH

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

🇫🇷🇺🇦🇪🇺 In Paris marschierten heute Truppen aus fast ganz Europa gemeinsam über die Champs-Élysées – die Militärparade zum Nationalfeiertag wurde zur Machtdemonstration für die Ukraine.

Rund 500 Soldaten aus den Staaten der Koalition der Willigen eröffneten die Parade – ein Bruch mit der Tradition, denn normalerweise wird nur ein einziges Gastland eingeladen.
Ukrainische Soldaten marschierten mit ihrer Flagge und erhielten den lautesten Applaus des Tages. In Frankreich ausgebildete ukrainische Co-Piloten flogen zwei Mirage-Kampfjets über die Hauptstadt. Flugzeuge aus elf europäischen Ländern beteiligten sich.
Rund 30 Staats- und Regierungschefs sahen zu. Selenskyj wurde bei seiner Ankunft mit stehenden Ovationen empfangen.
Macron nannte es eine „große Ehre", die Partner der Koalition und die „ukrainischen Freunde" zu empfangen – als Zeichen des „strategischen Erwachens" Europas.

Die Botschaft richtet sich an zwei Adressen zugleich: an Putin, dass Europa geschlossen steht. Und an Trump, dass Europa nicht mehr wartet, sondern sich selbst verteidigt. 1789 stürmten die Franzosen die Bastille gegen die Tyrannei – heute marschiert ein ganzer Kontinent gegen sie.
Quelle: France 24

[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.

[Savchenko Volodymyr @SavchenkoReview]

🇺🇸👀 The US has introduced an updated version of the Graham sanctions bill against Russia.

The document, according to Reuters, proposes a relaxation of several provisions compared to the original version.

According to the new version, the maximum tariffs that can be imposed on third-country buyers of Russian oil and gas will be reduced.

For the five largest buyers of Russian oil, the tariff will be reduced to 100%, instead of the previously proposed 500% for all countries. The largest buyers of Russian oil are China, India, Slovakia, Hungary, and Azerbaijan.

The bill also provides an exemption for countries that import less than 15% of Russian natural gas and take significant steps to reduce these supplies. Japan, France, Hungary, and Belgium could fall under this category.

Furthermore, the new version of the bill imposes sanctions on Russia's "shadow fleet" of tankers, Russian financial institutions, including the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, and major state-owned energy projects, including Yamal LNG, Arctic LNG 1, Arctic LNG 2, and Arctic LNG 3.

The bill also contains a provision allowing Trump to waive sanctions if he deems it necessary in the interests of US national security.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

❗️ A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a Russia sanctions bill that would mandate sanctions on Vladimir Putin, Russian banks, defense firms, energy companies, and the shadow fleet. Trump said the bill has a “good chance” of passing. #US

[Steve Lookner @lookner]

"Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges, we're gonna knock out all their power plants, we're gonna knock out all their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

FOX NEWS: Do you still intend to take Kharg island?

TRUMP: So I can't say that to you because if I did it'd be foolish. But it'd be nice, it'd make a little headlines.

FOX NEWS: Are you ruling out a ground campaign?

TRUMP: I'd say no, if it's appropriate. Sometimes you need a ground campaign, but we have other people that will do the ground campaign for us.

[GeoInsider @InsiderGeo]

NEW: Estonia has disclosed that for the first time, Russia conducted a live-fire military exercise on Lake Peipus without providing any prior notification to Estonian authorities, marking an unprecedented departure from previous practice along the shared border.

The exercise took place on July 9 on the Russian side of Lake Peipus, Europe's fifth-largest lake, through which the border between Estonia and Russia runs. According to Estonian officials, Russian forces fired at moving targets on the water, something that had never previously been observed on the lake.

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur described the exercise as highly unusual, noting that Russian border forces had never before conducted weapons drills on Lake Peipus. He suggested the training may have involved countering naval drones.

Estonia's Police and Border Guard Board confirmed that no advance warning was received from Russia before the live-fire drill, despite authorities monitoring the activity throughout. While Russia has previously carried out military exercises near the land border, officials stressed that conducting a live-fire exercise on the lake itself and doing so without notification represents a notable change in Russian military behavior.

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

So Kyiv was spared the worst with some anti ballistic air defence having appeared since the previous attack.

Nonetheless there was at least one direct hit, debris falling elsewhere and still smoke hanging over Ukraine's capital this morning.

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

War crime alert:
Russia this evening deliberately attacked a van of emergency responders in free Donetsk.

The FPV drone hit the vehicle in Kramatorsk. There was no word on the condition of the officers.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll receives a $5.62 million sex abuse and defamation payment, plus interest, from President Trump. https://t.co/9qU9ZkkPz4

[afec7032 🇷🇺 @afec7032]

Photos of today's Soyuz MS-29 launch, captured from the International Space Station by cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov

Source: Sergey Kud-Sverchkov / TASS

[IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ⚛️ @iaeaorg]

For the 22nd time during the military conflict, the Zaporizhzhya NPP briefly lost all off-site power today, after the disconnection of its sole remaining power line, the 330 kV Ferosplavna-1.

Although the disconnection was reportedly caused by thunderstorms, it once again highlights the fragility of the electrical grid and the need to strengthen the off-site power situation at the plant, DG @rafaelmgrossi says.

[Гакрукс @Gakruks1]

There is no justice in the EU❗️😡
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been excluded from the 21st package of EU sanctions against RF, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova-Chamova said.

[Гакрукс @Gakruks1]

❗️The Russians have installed machine gun nests and missile systems on the roofs of the ZNPP reactor compartments. They also store ammunition and military equipment under technical passages and overpasses connecting the power units with other buildings
https://t.co/JesMuBlQe2

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Пояснення усіх останніх інформаційних атак на міністра оборони у двох реченнях.

Ви навіть не уявляєте, які потоки було обрубано. У цих ображених пасажирів є мережі тг-каналів, вплив на парламент і не тільки. Тому ви побачите ще чимало бруду.

[Гакрукс @Gakruks1]

Corrupt want to fire the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, because he cut off money flows for them❗️😡

https://t.co/UnWox7li6K

[Гакрукс @Gakruks1]

According to the NASA FIRMS fire map, fires were recorded:
- in the Kerch area and the local airfield
- in the western and northern presumably substations
- two points in the area of ​​the port "Kavkaz" and in the Sea of ​​Azov

Power outages began in Sevastopol

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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

“We’re isolating Crimea and closing the routes in, not the route out.

The bridge is still standing for one reason: so the occupiers can fuck off.

Tankers are burning. No fuel. No power. No future for russia’s war machine there.”

Commander UAV Forces is just getting started 🚨

[Bad_Species🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼🇲🇲🇬🇪🇬🇱🌐 @Bad_Species1]

@thegauguy @FedorovMykhailo If this really is a conflict between Fedorov and Syrskyi as the Kyiv Independent writes than Zelensky should rather fire Syrskyi.
It shouldn't be too hard to find a better general than Syrskyi but Fedorov has just done an outstanding job.

[Giovanni Martinelli @giovamartinelli]

@thegauguy @FedorovMykhailo Unfortunately, even the Kyiv Independent confirms the rumors.
This would be a profoundly wrong decision at the wrong time!
As you wrote, a huge scandal!
https://t.co/27oj1RjkVc