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🛡️Kyiv bears brunt of Russian missile and drone attack as air defence downs two Iskanders and 255 UAVs

Latest piece. If the Dems take control of Congress, the first investigation (after corruption) has to be about the use of AI in US warfare. American tech executives have placed themselves in a pernicious situation and we need to understand what happened. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-first-...

So, the USA ignores EU sanctions. What does that mean for anything sanctioned by the USA? Can the EU just ignore that? It seems so.

🤦‍♂️Russian diesel heads to US aboard tanker under EU sanctions

⚡️Finnish and Norwegian leaders call Putin afterwards, Zelenskyy

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NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his willingness for a complete or partial ceasefire, including moratoriums on strikes against energy infrastructure or the Black Sea, but the Kremlin continues to reject a ceasefire. Read more: https://isw.pub/UkrWar102626

Moscow thought Washington could force Ukraine to obey. Putin aide Yuri Ushakov admitted the Kremlin expected the U.S. to pressure Kyiv into compliance after Anchorage. It failed. His explanation: Europe kept standing behind Ukraine. Thank you, Europe! Support link is in our Bio.

Ukraine continues to scale up the use of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) on the battlefield. The 412th Nemesis Brigade provides a striking example, with UGV missions jumping from 31 in September to 122 in October, a nearly fourfold increase in just one month.

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Russian businesses’ payables reportedly rose 28% to 155 trillion rubles by June 2026. Expert RA said firms were delaying payments to counterparties as working-capital shortages, losses and costly borrowing made trade credit their main financing source. 1/6

🇷🇺HIV is spreading across Russia, with 27 regions affected by the epidemic. According to experts from Rospotrebnadzor, the virus has spread beyond traditional high-risk groups and is now affecting the wider population.👇(ALT)

The Kremlin promised a “quick victory.” The last three years have brought relentless attacks, massive losses, and destruction, while Russian territorial gains have slowed down dramatically. Russians are losing...🤫 (Map: Clement_Molin)

This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

~350 Drones over Russia 🔥✌️ @dronebomber.bsky.social

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❗️Strike on cars with people near the Lisova metro station in Kyiv. There may be victims here too, local media reports.

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 🔥 Voronezhsintezkauchuk petrochemical plant was hit! 🔥 Joint-Stock Aircraft Manufacturing Company (VASO) was also attacked in Voronezh. 🚂 Sverdlovsk Region, 20 Freight Train Cars Derailed, 7 Tankers Carrying Fuel Catch Fire

💡🇺🇦❗️ Emergency power outages have begun in Kyiv after the Russian attack on energy infrastructure, — DTEK

🔥 Explosions in Oryol and Sochi, - ATESH

🔥 In the occupied Luhansk region, the attack of strike drones has been going on for several hours. The Defense Forces in the area of ​​the village of Khrustalny blew up an ammunition depot. The secondary detonation has been going on for over an hour.

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Daily truck traffic from Rostov Oblast to occupied Crimea via the R-280 highway has fallen from around 2,000 to just 800–1,000, a decline of 50–60% since Ukraine launched its mid-range strike campaign against Russia’s land corridor to Crimea in May 2026.

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Russian ballistic missiles struck campus territory, a park and a metro station. There are killed and wounded. Russian terror is constant, they are killing people daily. Ukraine needs air defense!

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‼️Ukraine's General Staff urges public not to spread rumours about evacuation routes out of Oleshky

Russian-occupied Luhansk region is reportedly under a large-scale drone attack. #Ukraine

⚡️Update: Paramedics caught under fire, university campus struck as Russian ballistic missile attack kills 1, injures 10 in Kyiv.

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Iran says it is monitoring its borders after reports that Ukraine is deploying thousands of drones in countries neighboring Iran, including Iraqi Kurdistan. Tehran said its armed forces will respond decisively wherever they perceive a threat. #Iran

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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. ⬇️

Democracy in action 👇

NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.

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GURMAN: “.. iPhone Duo screen-cracking issue is real. .. the company is investigating. Several people have sent me images and stories of their new $2000 device breaking within hours.” @markgurman.bsky.social $AAPL www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

⚡️ Lithuania is calling for stricter controls to prevent stolen Ukrainian grain from passing through EU.

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2/ The development of such drones and a massive production capacity in Russia raises the possibility that Putin could hold Europe to ransom with vast drone fleets, which would be difficult to counter with the current limited anti-air defences in most European countries.

1/ Russia is developing the capability to launch tens of thousands of kamikaze drones against European cities such as Paris, says a Russian drone developer. He describes heavy long-range drones such as the Iranian Shahed and Russian Geran as "a new weapon of deterrence". ⬇️