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Ukraine has criticised plans by Poland to create a new national holiday commemorating Polish victims of massacres carried out during World War Two by Ukrainian nationalists. Kyiv says the idea “flies in the face of the spirit of good neighbourly relations”. On Wednesday, the Sejm, the more powerful...

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- Trump's phone call with Putin: says Putin will "have to respond" to the airbase attacks - Putin rejects direct peace talks and labels Ukraine as terrorists for railway bombings - Zelenskyy rejects Russian memorandum Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was not ready for an “immediate peace” in Ukraine...

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What Kerch Bridge doing?! Not sure the Kerch Bridge holds much more than symbolic value at this point. The new Russian rail route to Crimea running from Rostov to Dzhankoi via occupied Ukraine is operational. The Kerch route is more relevant for civilian services and passenger trains Would be incon...

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The Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul on June 2 handed over to the Ukrainian side its version of a memorandum with the conditions for ending the war, containing two versions of a truce. The document is published by the Kremlin pool channel RIA Novosti. According to the first option, in or...

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Russia and Ukraine agreed to a new prisoner exchange after their delegates met for a second round of renewed peace talks in Istanbul on Monday, but there was no sign the warring sides were any closer to reaching a ceasefire agreement than they were when negotiations were restarted a month ago. The ...

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Full text of Ukraine's draft proposal to be presented this week at Istanbul. Seems like a non-starter from the very beginning. Reuters publishes the full text of the document that Ukraine will bring to Istanbul tomorrow. And the Russians have their own. Better summarised as 'Surrender, wit kantz'. ...

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Very impressive operation by the Ukranians but pretty much everyone should be concerned now. What's to stop any nation from pulling off similar on stationary assets? This was an incredibly difficult operation to plan and execute, not so easy to replicate. According to the FT it took 1.5 years to pl...

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Full text of Ukraine's draft proposal to be presented this week at Istanbul. Seems like a non-starter from the very beginning. Reuters publishes the full text of the document that Ukraine will bring to Istanbul tomorrow. Part I. Key principles of the Agreement and the negotiation process: - A comple...

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Excellent article from Kyiv Independent on the main innovation of 2025 - fibre optic drones. Also worth noting that this was a Russian innovation being adopted by the Ukrainians, rather than vice-versa. Says a fair bit about the trajectory of the last 6 months of war. The first cabled drones were us...

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Much more sane thread to keep message on ignore. 95% noise, most of it hysterical and no value added

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FT has published a highly controversial write-up on the hundreds of millions lost in botched/corrupt arms sales in the Ukrainian Army - estimated at $770m. It's incredibly long, I won't paste over the whole thing, but worth a read (link at bottom): In 2020 Tanner Cook, a 28-year-old from Arizona, op...

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Shaheds getting better over time: How Russia's Shahed drones are getting more dangerous — and what Ukraine is doing about it Russia’s air strikes on Ukraine have become far more deadly in recent months. Part of the uptick is due to limited air defense to bring down ballistic missiles. But Russia’s p...

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@graaf_x - interested on your take on this. I wasn't aware Arestovych was now being lumped in with explicitly pro-Russian media - I know he was among the first calling for direct negotiations with the Kremlin but seems like something more here? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has imposed new ...

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Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said on Wednesday (Apr 30), after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow. "So far, North Korean troop casualties are estimated at around 4,700, i...

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Ukrainian presence in Kursk Oblast down to just 30 sq km, from over 1,300 sq km when the incursion began last August Ukrainian military leadership will probably find a way to spin this as a success but I suspect we'll read Krinky-like stories in 6-12 months from now of the real cost in manpower and ...

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Official response from Russia: no ceasefire Russia does not want a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine and is pushing for a long-term peace settlement that will take into account its interests and concerns, a senior aide to Vladimir Putin has said. Yuri Ushakov, the Russian president’s foreign policy adv...

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A former spy and close friend of Vladimir Putin has been engineering a restart of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Europe with the backing of US investors, a once unthinkable move that shows the breadth of Donald Trump’s rapprochement with Moscow. The efforts on a deal, according to several p...

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Tehui wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 2:43 am Maybe it's time for Ukraine to reconsider China's offer to mediate negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

The Chinese peace proposal from 2022 had Ukraine give up all land east of the Dnipro river to Russia and the river acting as the de-facto border between Ukraine and Russia

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Ukraine has detained its army's chief psychiatrist for alleged "illegal enrichment" charges related to earnings of more than $1m (£813,000) accrued since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022. In a statement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the man sat on a commission deciding ...

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ATACMS gooooing? Ukraine's stockpiles of U.S.-supplied long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) are running low, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Dec. 27, citing senior U.S. officials. ATACMS are long-range ballistic missiles that can fly up to 300 kilometers (about 186 miles). The U.S....

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Another vote for Garmin. Have had the Forerunner 245 for almost a year now, for running it's pretty excellent. Also really like that it lasts 7-10 days on a single charge, which isn't typical for all similar watches Just splashed out on a chest heart rate monitor strap from Garmin to go with the wa...

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Another vote for Garmin. Have had the Forerunner 245 for almost a year now, for running it's pretty excellent. Also really like that it lasts 7-10 days on a single charge, which isn't typical for all similar watches Just splashed out on a chest heart rate monitor strap from Garmin to go with the wat...

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Watch Russia blame Ukraine for this now. Strange that the flight was denied an emergency landing in Russia. Wonder if they were hoping it crash with loss of all hands over the Caspian, to make evidence less available. As the only truly knowledgeable Russian source on the topic of shooting down pass...

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Azerbaijani government sources have exclusively confirmed to Euronews on Thursday that a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash in Aktau on Wednesday. According to the sources, the missile was fired at Flight 8432 during drone air activity above Grozny, and the sh...

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US intelligence believes sending NK troops to fight was NK's idea, not Russia's. One has to assume that getting real modern battleground experience was at least part of the rationale NYT article on this: When North Korean troops began arriving in Russia this fall, some Western officials believed it ...

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North Korean losses allegedly exceed 1,000 troops. Unclear if that's dead or wounded. One hopes that NK experience in fighting this war doesn't carry back over to its own neighbourhood. Despite the reports of how useless the initial waves of NK troops have been, it's only a matter of time until they...

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Give Ukraine the tools to take this war into major Russian cities..... Let the common Russian citizen feel some pain for this invasion.Let the Russian citizens take out Putin. Right now the Russian economy is cratering so plan B is to wait another year and let Russia crumble on its own. Shithole of...

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Make no mistake, the german public stands behind the policy of supporting Ukraine. They shit on the russian cheap gas and the economic effects in that regard. That's a bit of a wild statement to make, and not really rooted in reality given that the second most popular party in Germany is pro-Russia

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Is there any form of a peace/ceasefire that Ukraine sticks to if there's an opportunity to take back territory in future? Its their country, can't see them just sitting there looking at it. The precedent was set with the Russo-Georgian War: the occupied territories remain de-facto under Russian con...

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For the first time, a majority of Polish citizens support ending the war in Ukraine even if it requires Ukraine to cede territory, Polish Radio reported on Dec. 17, citing a survey by the Polish Center for Public Opinion Research (CBOS). The survey found that 55% of respondents prioritized ending t...

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Looks like this one is going to be a bit embarrassing on the far right types gleefully sprinting in to make comments about religion of peace, not giving the slightest shit about peoples lives. Very embarrassing indeed. Will this attacker make it onto the Mount Rushmore of far-right/anti-Islam terro...

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Suspect's Twitter profile:

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Get ready to see the most spectacular 180-degree turn on views about this guy Glad that the usual anti-Islam loons have already written their kneejerk comments before this came out In media appearances, Abdulmohsen has been an ex-Muslim critic of Islam. In 2019 Abdulmohsen gave interviews to the Fra...

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That quote is, of course, missing quite a bit of additional context - the full quote is quite harshly critical of Israel: New statement from Ahmad al-Shar’a on Israel (first time commenting directly since the offensive began Nov 27): -We are not going to engage in conflict with Israel -Israel's argu...

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:28 pm Apparently the Druze are voicing their desire to secede from Syria. They do not want to live under the new Islamist government.

Source: trust me bro

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Ukrainian soldiers on brink of encirclement in 4 villages in Donetsk, according to DeepState Analysts from the DeepState project reported on 12 December that Russian forces have occupied the village of Zoria. The situation around the "Uspenivka pocket" in Donetsk Oblast has been getting worse. Accor...

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The Draft agreement between Al-Julani/HTS/Syrian government and the SDF Summary of SDF and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham Negotiations SDF Demands: - Recognition of autonomous administration and Kurdish rights. - Return of Kurdish immigrants and mediation with Türkiye. - Cessation of Turkish-backed attacks ...

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Here's the full article from Bloomberg. Western officials apparently supporting Russia keeping its Syrian bases as a deterrent against ISIS Russia is nearing an agreement with Syria’s new leadership to keep two vital military bases in the Middle East state, a key objective of the Kremlin after the f...

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Reports of Russian demise in Syria appear premature:

Russia is close to reaching an agreement with the new Syrian leadership to keep two bases in the country, two sources tell Bloomberg

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Trump says Ukraine ceasefire should be monitored by European, not US, troops - WSJ The US president-elect said this at a meeting with the leaders of France and Ukraine in Paris on December 7, sources told The Wall Street Journal. According to them, if any European troops are deployed to Ukraine, th...

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