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Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Eurasia, and post Soviet enthusiast.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

Russia is now losing troops at an estimated 8:1 ratio compared with Ukraine, according to a new CSIS analysis. The report estimates Russia has suffered about 1.4 million killed, wounded, and missing since the start of the full-scale war, including roughly 450,000 dead. It attributes the widening loss ratio to Ukraine’s extensive use of drones, along with Russian tactical shortcomings, poor coordination, corruption, and low morale. #Russia

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed the capture of the village of Kopani in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The 225th Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuted this information, stating that the village remains fully under Ukrainian control. Ukrainian soldiers published video footage from Kopani and captured a Russian serviceman who was trying to install an enemy flag. The Russian offensive in this sector has failed.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

State ownership of companies is communism.

Shocking to me how passive Republicans have reacted to these Trump actions. I thought they believed in capitalism, free enterprise, and the like.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

I enjoyed watching the pro-Kremlin sycophant Tucker Carlson squirm when asked why he’s allowed into Russia.

Funny how Tucker can travel there freely while journalists like Jerome Starkey, Caolan Robertson, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and much of the Ukraine: The Latest team have faced arrest warrants, imprisonment, or bans simply for doing their jobs.

The question isn’t why they’re targeted.

The question is: why isn’t Tucker? 🤔

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

JUST. FUCKING. WOW. The humility, decency, and integrity of Jack Smith came across loud and clear. This career prosecutor is an American hero. Jack Smith is the antithesis of the depravity, corruption, and moral bankruptcy of Trump, Todd Blanche, the DOJ, and Kash Patel.

Here is a synopsis of Jack Smith's first televised news interview since he criminally charged the most corrupt president in American history, Donald Trump.

Core Pillars of the Interview

ㆍ The Fragility of the Rule of Law: Smith warned that the rule of law is under an unprecedented attack, declaring it is "different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime." He explained that democratic systems do not run on autopilot and rely entirely on the good-faith commitment of people inside public institutions to uphold them.

ㆍ Consistency Over Politics: He reiterated that a healthy democracy requires investigating cases by focusing strictly on the facts and the law, applying the exact same standards regardless of political affiliation.

ㆍ Defending Career Public Servants: Smith spoke passionately about the career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff who are being "demonized for doing their jobs" by political figures. He expressed that he feels "terrible" about how they are being treated.

ㆍ The Call to Support Them: He emphasized the moral necessity for regular citizens to stand up for these civil servants, stating, "It's really important that we stand up for them and let them know that there are a lot of people out there who back them and who are with them."

ㆍ The Danger of Lost Trust: Smith noted that the loss of institutional trust has a dangerous "cascading effect" on the legal system, warning that when judges and the public lose faith in prosecutors, the Justice Department loses its ability to perform basic functions.

Warnings About Upcoming Elections

ㆍ Deeply Concerned for the Future: When asked directly if the country is witnessing a real-time assault on the upcoming election cycle, Smith explicitly stated, "I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely."

ㆍ Bad Actors Have Adapted: He warned that individuals who attempted to subvert the 2020 election have likely learned from past failures, adapting their strategies to be more effective next time.

ㆍ State Attorneys General Must Step Up: Smith emphasized that the federal apparatus cannot be the sole line of defense, noting that state attorneys general now have a massive responsibility to enforce the rule of law within their own state borders to protect voting integrity.

Anticipating Personal Retaliation & Indictment

ㆍ Expecting Retaliation: Wallace asked Smith point-blank if he expects to be criminally indicted by the current Trump administration.

ㆍ A Distinct Possibility: Smith acknowledged that an indictment "could happen," given the administration's vocal hostility toward him and the likely use of the Justice Department to target him directly.

ㆍ Refusing to Back Down: Despite the threat of prosecution, he declared, "I am not going to be intimidated. We did our work, pursuant to department policy... I'm not going to pretend that didn't happen because they are threatening me."

How Legal Experts & Media Analysts Reacted

ㆍ An Extraordinary and Historic Moment: Commentators and legal analysts noted that a public media tour by a former Special Counsel defending the DOJ's integrity against a sitting president is entirely unprecedented in modern political history.

ㆍ Nostalgia for Institutional Norms: Media figures reacted strongly to the broadcast, expressing a sense of nostalgia for a time when the Department of Justice operated under strict, non-partisan legal norms. Smith was praised as a rare, authoritative voice willing to publicly champion rank-and-file civil servants.

ㆍ Composure Under Extreme Pressure: Legal observers highlighted Smith’s calm, professional, and articulate demeanor during the broadcast. Analysts noted that his refusal to get defensive or angry stands as a model for how public officials should handle intense political weaponization.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Well well freaking well. Here’s Fox News’ Dana Perino saying in no uncertain terms, that what they screamed about Hunter Biden comes nowhere close to what we’re seeing with @EricTrump and @DonaldJTrumpJr 😳

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Top journalist Ana Kasparian drops a massive revelation.

She confirms the UAE just bought half of the Trump family's crypto company, funneling a staggering 580 million dollars directly to the President.

The White House is entirely for sale.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, what the f*ck is going on?" A Russian woman asks.

She's been standing in lines for three days to get fuel - without success.

First, it was "Kyiv in three days," now it's "fill your fuel tank in three days".

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Reminder: This exact and only strategy to collapse Russia by destroying oil refineries was blocked by Biden, even accusing Ukraine of "war crimes" for striking Russian oil infrastructure.
Biden, Burns, Sullivan, Blinken et al bear responsibility for thousands of Ukrainian deaths.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Russian warbloggers are warning that despite growing indications of a planned second mobilisation after the Russian legislative elections in September 2026, there are major unresolved practical problems in actually carrying out a new mobilisation. ⬇️

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

You can’t make this sh*t up.

A Trump supporter lost nearly $33K on Trump tokens and somehow blames Democrats and “anti-Trump investors,” not Trump, who made $1.5 billion from his crypto scam in 2025.

It’s a cult.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jack Smith: I'll give you an example from from my life. I resigned as special counsel. I know I need to get a lawyer because the president has said he wants to jail me for doing my job. And so I retain lawyers, as soon as that becomes public, the president and the justice department target that law firm, and they do it because they don't want me to have counsel. They don't want to have anyone represent me…

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump literally just admitted that everything his children do they have inside information on.

But republicans were mad because Hunter Biden was on the board of a foreign gas company.

[Trent Telenko @TrentTelenko]

Oh My! ⬇️

"Employees spoke on camera about unique, modern lathes and specialized machines imported https://t.co/W9lWwCkqY6. from South Korea, the Czech Republic, or Italy. Journalists displayed the interiors of production halls, making it easier for Ukrainian analysts (including those from the InformNapalm group) to precisely locate key machines within the factory's structure.

And already on June 27, the SZU carried out a strike with FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles on the facility presented in the report. Of the five missiles launched, at least three struck targets directly within the complex.

According to analyses of satellite images from July 1, it was precisely those halls containing the unique machine park that were destroyed."

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

The Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker has already been suspended.

The account collected Trump's stocks, etc. from open sources.

The most transparent administration in history!

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Zelenskyy summoned Zaluzhnyi to Kyiv and asked him: "If elections are held this autumn, will you run?"

Zaluzhnyi answered: "Yes. I will." — Ukrainska Pravda.

Zelenskyy tried to talk him out of it. He said their conflict risked dividing the country. 1/

[Kvist @kvistp]

They don't even care about sharing their daily war crimes anymore....

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ukrainian soldiers rinsed their mouths with water from a fire extinguisher and ate rations they took off the Russians they killed to survive in the encirclement.

Russians poisoned them with gas, thinking these were elite forces. Ukrainians held their position for 109 days.

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[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The Russian military continues ramping up agressive efforts to lure women into Putin's corpsegrinder in Ukraine.

Russians begin to realize that Putin will eventually murder everyone in the country to hold power.