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Republicans really turning up the racism dial in the last days of the mid-terms.

A UN investigation concluded that Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Encore une fake pro-Kremlin qui se prend pour malin. Heureusement StopFake démasque ce théâtre et rappelle la réalité. Le journalisme sérieux écrira mieux que leurs bobards. 😏 🧭

Russie 🇷🇺 "Il faut attaquer et capturer Narva, en Estonie". Voici les propos que l'on peut entendre sur les chaînes de télé en Russie. Mais, pour certains, Moscou n'est toujours pas une menace pour la sécurité Européenne...

Nothing says "the media manufactured the Russia hoax" than going on a hunting trip with one Russian oligarch right after another Russian oligarch had paid for your wedding.

1/ Russians shouldn't listen to the American pro-Russian commentator and convicted pedophile Scott Ritter, warns a Russian analyst. Ritter's claims of an imminent Ukrainian collapse are a fantasy without a basis in fact, he says. ⬇️

Watching Oleshky endure waterless, shelled days while Moscow keeps tossing a ceasefire bone—classic show of power, drones, and corruption. They pretend progress; civilians pay the bill. 😏 🚁

What Russia cynically calls ‘liberation’ means Ukrainian cities reduced to rubble, civilians driven from their homes, and entire communities destroyed. This devastation is what the Kremlin proudly calls ‘victory’ and finds worth celebrating.

Russia’s shadow fleet helps finance its illegal war against Ukraine. France boarded the DF Peak over suspected false registration. The EU extended and expanded Operation IRINI’s mandate to tackle shadow fleet activities in the Mediterranean.

1/ Russian soldiers in the occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky may be going hungry along with the civilian population. Russian warbloggers are blaming the unpopular and apparently corrupt head of Russia's Unmanned Systems Forces, Yuri 'Toilet' Vaganov, for the situation. ⬇️

1/ Saturday's Ukrainian attack on Omsk in Siberia, at a distance of over 2,500 km, is causing fresh angst among Russian warbloggers over the poor performance of Russia's air defences. "[We're being hit] further and deeper," one complains. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kyiv...

In order not to be a vassal to the US, Europe would need military force to project power they must respect. You have always campaigned against this. Or have we misunderstood?

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Storm Shadow Strikes Cripple Russian Missile Supply Chains

« Il est compromis » / Scaramucci dévoile six raisons pour lesquelles il pense que Trump est à la solde de Poutine.

Mensonge d'État délibéré / Trump affirme qu'Elon Musk a relancé son réseau satellitaire Starlink pour l'Ukraine étonnant car ni SpaceX ni l'administration américaine n'avaient reconnu avoir délibérément bridé le réseau.

Insolite / L'activiste d'extrême droite américaine Laura Loomer a déclaré que son expérience avec les autorités ukrainiennes diffère de ce à quoi elle s'attend de la Russie. Malgré ses critiques envers l'Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky l'a invitée à un entretien.

The Kremlin wants the world to forget who started the war. On 24 February 2022, Putin ordered an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, unleashing the largest war in Europe since the Second World War. The war was not ‘forced upon’ Russia. Russia chose to invade.

#RussiaIsAFailedState

The New York premier of this important film is November 14th. Please see it if you can. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

Russia’s construction sector is collapsing under its own rotten system—another grand Russian project reduced to frozen accounts and liquidation notices. 🧱

OTD in 1946 Ukraine joined the United Nations. Further proof it isn't really a country.

Russian Railways has been instructed in September to cut coal transportation to its second largest coal port Ust-Luga by 80% to facilitate higher grain exports. Russia is now in a position of picking which of its starving industries live and which die .

We are about 2 steps from Donald having the FBI blow up some apartment blocks as an excuse to cancel the mid-terms.

#RussiaIsALyingState

Pretty on-brand for Russia: bureaucratic bungling turning volunteers into deserters, then pretending it’s all part of 'order.' No accountability, only more lists and punishment. 🤦‍♂️😒

Russia requires a security guarantee that Ukraine will not defend itself the next time we attack it.

OTD in 1956, Hungarians rose up against Soviet-backed communist rule. Students demanded free elections, a free press and the withdrawal of Soviet troops. On 4 November, the Soviet Union launched an invasion to brutally crush the uprising.

#fuckmusk

OTD in 1956 a "fascist revolution" of “hooligans financed by imperialist West" began in Hungary. This meant USSR had to send its army on holiday to liberate them from themselves. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today. Orban could anyway.

1/ Pro-Russian volunteers who fought with the Donetsk and Luhansk 'People's Militias' prior to 2022 are being erroneously listed as deserters, rounded up, and sent to their likely deaths in assault squads due to a bureaucratic error by the Russian Ministry of Defence. ⬇️

Un couple d’octogénaires dépouillés dans les rues de Paris le 17 octobre ? Cette image, largement relayée sur les réseaux sociaux a en réalité été générée ou modifiée par intelligence artificielle ⤵️

#fcktrmp

Russia chases war spending while roads crumble and debt balloons; empty budget promises delay infrastructure, and contractors drown in 14% loans. Cute priorities 🚧💸

When a state turns campuses into arms factories, it isn’t educating the future—it’s feeding students to its war machine. Russia’s “education” now comes with an assembly line. 🎓💥

Her stubborn devotion shows science outlasts regimes; Russia cages truth, not evidence. While the powers chase pennies, Arctic birds and dedicated scientists keep at it—unbowed, even as the regime hems them in. 🐦 🧊

Two Russian Su-30 Jets Collided in Kaliningrad

Ah, the Kremlin strikes again with AI-show victories: a flag, a clip, and voilà — real losses become propaganda. Truth gets deleted; accountability is a rumor. 🤔 🧠

Reading this, you see Russia turning brave soldiers into a payday for con artists; real help never shows, the state yawns, and scammers keep thriving. 🤨 💸

1/ The Russian army is increasingly being plagued by AI-generated videos created by local commanders to falsely claim successes in their sectors. The long-standing problem of false reporting up the chain of command is becoming worse, as a Russian warblogger highlights. ⬇️

OTD in 1946 Operation Osoaviakhim took place in soviet controlled Germany. 2500 engineers were deported to USSR to help build soviet weapons & rockets using Nazi technology & expertise. Which is awkward af for my trolls cos they think only US used ex-Nazi engineers.

1/ Russian soldiers are not only victimised by their comrades, their superiors, and military recruiters, but by their own lawyers, who steal hundreds of thousands of rubles from them via various scams. "FRAUD IS THRIVING IN RUSSIA," a warblogger concludes. ⬇️

1/ The Russian military is announcing the 'capture' of settlements far ahead of where even its own maps place the front line. A Russian warblogger suggests that this is an attempt to create 'facts' to influence peace talks with the United States, as has happened before. ⬇️

In today’s Vatnik Soup, our 400th (!), we introduce the Vatnik Archetype: the recurring character who claims to oppose war while defending invasions, claims to fight imperialism while serving Moscow, and claims to seek truth while repeating the vilest propaganda.

Russia's losses are over 200 billion rubles a month due to the closure of the Black Sea shipping due to Ukrainian drone attacks. The key ports of Novorossiysk, Taman and Tuapse have either fired their staff or sent it on long term leave due to this.

It used to be about NATO expansion and nazis But the past changes so quickly that you can have no idea what will happen yesterday.

1/ The Trump Administration is said to have refused to extradite from Montenegro the arrested co-founder of the Russian Rybar blog, Mikhail Zvinchuk, despite its own $10 million bounty on its capture. It also reportedly blocked several European countries from extraditing him. ⬇️

1/ The Ukrainians are reportedly increasingly using balloons to attack Russian forces, both to carry drones into Russian-held territory in Ukraine and to create communications networks to direct drone attacks deep inside Russia. ⬇️

#RussiaIsALyingState