⚡️ RUSSIA'S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE — AUG 18, 2026 (#1)
■ Fewer casualties despite increased engagements; Liveuamap reports 🇺🇦 advances near Oleksandrivka (however, the total occupied area increased by 18 km²)
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📈 See dashboard for full data:
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The AVT-5 unit at the Perm Oil Refinery sustained serious damage. At least three process columns considered critical to its operation were damaged in the drone strike. #Ukraine
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime.
This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."
🔥🔥🔥 Ukraine 🇺🇦 is now carrying out one of its largest successful attacks on Moscow Region.
👉 Fires burning oil refineries, at airport, and Crimea is being hit.
Die AfD gilt als Verdachtsfall, fünf Landesverbände als gesichert rechtsextrem. Ein Verbotsverfahren ist juristisch möglich aber politisch blockiert.
Wer blockiert, warum, und was du tun kannst. 🧵
"Nearly 60% of those detained have no criminal convictions...
'When it was built in the middle of the Everglades last summer, officials said they needed to put it out there because they were going to house the worst of the worst... Clearly that’s not the case'..."
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Belbek airfield and a key object for storing Russian drones and missiles were also under attack in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Watch the video, it’s impressive.
Alleged aftermath footage. Ukraine’s Defense Forces reportedly used six strike drones to hit a Russian deployment and command post in occupied Henichesk on the Arabat Spit, Kherson Oblast. A large fire broke out at the site. #Ukraine
FIRMS detected a large-scale fire on the Arabat Spit in occupied Crimea. The area is known to host Russian troop concentrations and many storage sites. #Crimea
"CBS is assenting to its own diminishment."
"The biggest loss is to core America values, including the right to speak freely, even in brutally mocking terms, about those in power..."
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Thomas Massie pushed for the release of the Epstein files, and the response has been tens of millions in outside spending, smear campaigns, and coordinated attacks. If this is what they do to a sitting member of Congress, imagine what Epstein survivors face when considering whether to come forward.
CNN: The White House is claiming it was the president's tough rhetoric that brought Iran to its knees
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I'm sorry. That's not 'tough rhetoric.' It's insanity. It's calling for the murder of an entire civilization
The EU Council has approved a full ban on Russian gas supplies, Reuters reports. Russian LNG deliveries will be banned from January 1, 2027, and pipeline gas from September 30, 2027. The law was approved in Brussels, with Slovakia and Hungary voting against it. #Ukraine
Rishi Sunak:
This is, in one moment, the most dangerous period that we've lived in in our adult lifetimes. We're in this new world order.
It's less rules-based. It's more power-oriented. Pax Americana is gone.
The US role in the world is changing.
Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."
❗️The 🇷🇺Russians are leaving the El-Qamishli military airfield in northern Syria.
Right now, military equipment is being loaded onto transport aircraft. This has been a strategically important Russian point since 2019.
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa welcomed families of fallen Ukrainian Defenders in his residence in Lisbon.
The meeting took place within the CHOVEN project, a program for support and rehabilitation for families who lost their loved ones in the war.
Thank you, Portugal! 🇵🇹🇺🇦
❗️🇩🇪German company Circus SE is collecting robotic kitchens CA-1 with artificial intelligence for the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military.
The CA-1 is a fully autonomous robotic kitchen. It handles the entire food preparation cycle: from selecting ingredients and cooking to serving and cleaning the equipment.
Kristi Noem has been an abject failure leading the Department of Homeland Security for the last year – and the abuses of power we’re seeing from ICE are the latest proof that she has lost control over her own department and staff. 🧵
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator.
The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him.
It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."
We had to put up with school shootings because "the 2nd Amendment"
But watch ICE eliminate the right to bear arms by executing anyone they find with a gun and to hell with the 2nd Amendment.
ICE will soon be killing citizens in their own homes because they're scared there might be a gun inside.
Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.
Peskov on the talks in Abu Dhabi:
"I cannot yet give an assessment. It would be a mistake to expect any high level of effectiveness from the first contacts. This is a very complex matter, with complex issues on the agenda”
Fossil fuels + biofuels use high levels of water in extraction, production + in energy generation, says IEA. If governments pursue the most ambitious net zero targets, water use in the energy sector could reduce by 20 billion cubic metres by 2030.
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Kyiv Pechersk Lavra was damaged by the Russian attack on Kyiv on January 24th -for the first time since WWII.
Windows&doors were blown out,some decorations damaged.Lavra is on the UNESCO Heritage list.
Russia believes the Lavra to be the center of "Russian Orthodoxy"
Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job.
“I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.