"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Finally left Twitter Sorry to the 220k followers

"The price for keeping the dialogue (with the U.S.) cannot be the sovereignty of Ukraine, which this plan undermines altogether," Inna Sovsun, a lawmaker from the opposition Holos party, told the Kyiv Independent.

In the American ‘peace plan,’ some wording was found that had originally been written in Russian, The Guardian reports. Im surprised they even bothered to translate it.

US security guarantees guarantee that you will have to pay them for the inconvenience of being invaded

I’ve said this every month for a year.

Trump’s peace proposal includes using frozen Russian assets, mostly held in Belgium, for U.S.-led reconstruction, with 50% of profits going to the U.S. This enraged EU diplomats, who fear it jeopardizes a proposed EU loan to Ukraine. A senior EU politician said: “Witkoff needs to see a psychiatrist”

Lol, too many things run on Cloudlare... at least bsky seems to be fine...

Tonight the clouds and the fog of the last nights lifted and I got a quick shot of the now half-moon from the back porch...

This isn’t a scene from Mad Max: Furiosa - it’s more like Mad Maxim: Alcohosa, featuring Russian assault troops in Pokrovsk rolling in on hacked-up motorcycles and jery-rigged civilian trucks

My latest piece → For a few months now, arms deliveries to #Ukraine by Germany are for the most part classified, but a Facebook post by the 33rd Assault Regiment suggests that they may have recently received new infantry fighting vehicles from Germany. deaidua.org/news/2025/11...

The US has suspended deliveries of American weapons to NATO allies for Ukraine due to the shutdown, - Axios The publication, citing sources in the State Department, writes that the suspension affected deliveries of weapons such as AMRAAM missiles, Aegis combat systems, and HIMARS.

A brief update on Skynex in #Ukraine: According to information provided by Rheinmetall CEO Papperger during today's Q3 conference call, the Skynex air defence systems supplied by Germany have now also proven themselves in the fight against Russian missiles. 1/3

A brief note: Yesterday, the Brazilian defence magazine Revista Tecnologia & Defesa published an article stating that Germany is offering Brazil 65 Leopard 2A6 MBTs and 75 Marder 1A5 IFVs, which had previously been rejected by the Ukrainian government. 1/4

The European Commission has banned the issuance of multi-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens. From now on, they’ll need to apply for a new single-entry visa each time they travel to the EU, a move aimed at tightening security checks and minimizing risks across Europe.

Die eine Hälfte der AfD fährt nach Washington, die andere nach Moskau, aber alle verfolgen dasselbe Ziel. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

The German government has updated its fact sheet on bilateral assistance for #Ukraine and its citizens. Between the 15th of June 2025 and the 30th of September 2025, Germany spent another €2.13 billion on Ukraine aid, without including the now unknown defence expenditure. 1/4

A small but important update on the subject of Lynx IFVs and #Ukraine. Rheinmetall CEO Papperger announced in an interview with @loyalmagazin.bsky.social (published yesterday) that funding for production in Ukraine is still missing, and a corresponding contract has not yet been signed. 1/6

I often highlight the account creation date when I show accounts pushing Kremlin narratives and it is not just a trivia detail. It’s one of the most reliable tells in information operations because creation-date clustering is a known signature of russian information operations.

According to Politico, the EU is stopping the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas to Russian citizens in most cases — the new rules may be introduced this week. www.politico.eu/article/eu-v...

Ukrainian drones struck the Kostroma GRES power plant in Volgorechensk overnight, Russia’s third most powerful thermal power station. With an installed capacity of 3,600 MW, the facility is a key part of the Russian energy system. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed.

Commander of unmanned systems Robert 'Magyar' Brovdi reports a Shahed storage, assembly, and launch base was destroyed in occupied Donetsk. The strike followed months of intelligence work by SSO, artillery, and recon units of the 414th Brigade, culminating in a precision operation overnight.

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Full moon tonight, tried to take a picture with my old compact camera...

"The evaluation of the refinery attacks in September 2025 has been completed, the map has been updated..." x.com/Anti_RUS_BLA...

More business assets appropriated by the Kremlin to fund the war. Another revenue stream to replace ailing oil and gas revenues. Shares of the companies "Yashkino" and "Kirieshki" have been transferred to state revenue. 1/3

Some very good (initial) news! The German Handelsblatt reports citing government sources that the German government is negotiating increasing funding for Ukraine assistance for 2026 by another €3 billion, bringing it to at least €11.5 or €12 billion in total. 1/5

🎙️ @sicherheitspod.de Folge #100 ist da! Live in Hamburg in der Fabrik reden wir über über "Hybriden Krieg”. Wie mit all der Desinformation, den Drohnenüberflügen, den Sabotageakten und den Luftraumverletzungen am besten umgehen? Und welche Rolle spielen Resilienz und Abschreckung dabei?

🔥 One of the three “Oreshnik” systems was destroyed in Kapustin Yar by Ukraine’s HUR, SBU, and SZR forces, — Vasyl Malyuk.

⚡️ Ukraine destroyed 'Oreshnik' missile inside Russian territory, Zelensky says. SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk later specified that the missile was destroyed at the Kapustin Yar missile range in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast.

🇳🇿 Tūhono Rangi 2025 Von Niedersachsen bis ans andere Ende der Welt: Zwei unserer A400M sind auf dem Weg nach Neuseeland! Gemeinsam mit der Royal New Zealand Air Force trainieren wir erstmalig vom 10.–21. November im neuseeländischen Luftraum. 🌏✈️ Einsatzbereit. Jederzeit. Weltweit.

It's that time again. Another year has passed, and my project “GAU” turns three tonight. Three years, in which I spent almost every single day researching and reporting on Germany's assistance to Ukraine to help in its fight against the Russian aggression. 1/4

In South Korea, talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have concluded; they lasted an hour and forty minutes. According to Trump, they spoke at length about Ukraine and discussed a possible resolution to Russia’s war against Ukraine. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-s...

🇳🇿🇬🇧 A New Zealand company run by a British family of marine insurance experts has helped Russian and Iranian “shadow fleet” ships transport $35 billion worth of oil and petroleum products, - Reuters. Maritime Mutual insured nearly one-sixth of the tankers targeted by Western sanctions.

According to Herman Smetanin, General Director of UDI, the Rheinmetall-UDI joint venture in Ukraine which carries out the repair of German-delivered vehicles like Marder 1A3 IFVs is “showing good results”. 1/2

Carrier is in Med, so approximately a week until it gets on station in SOUTHCOM.

According to a statement made by the German Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius today, Canada is participating in Germany's EAAD initiative, whose goal it is to strengthen the Ukrainian Air Force in the long term. Pistorius said Canada finances IRIS-T systems for #Ukraine. 1/2

NEW: For US sanctions: current contracts are not immediately affected, general license has been issued to allow for a "wind-down" period that gives US citizens and entities time to conclude existing transactions involving Rosneft and Lukoil without facing penalties - THIS IS THE LOOPHOLE

Letzte Nacht wurde das 500 kVA Umspannwerk Arzamasskaja in Lesnogorsk im Gau Nischni Nowgorod, angegriffen. Dies ist einer der wichtigsten Knotenpunkte der Energieversorgung der Region. Darunter sind großer Verbraucher wie zum Beispiel die Infrastruktur von Gazprom und der Mordor Eisenbahnen.

"Politicians from Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Thuringia have been accused of filing parliamentary questions on sensitive issues as a way of spying for Russia." DW www.dw.com/en/germany-f...

⚡ Lithuania will fully close its border with Belarus if incidents involving the mass launch of balloons recur, PM says.

Forscher haben eine stabile Perowskit-Solarzelle mit einem Wirkungsgrad von 27,06 Prozent vorgestellt. Sie soll Solarstrom günstiger und zuverlässiger machen.

Der US Hersteller Bell Textron ist bereit, der Ukraine seine Hubschrauber AH-1Z Viper und UH-1Y Venom zu liefern, so die Pressestelle des Unternehmens. Letzte Woche unterzeichneten die Delegationen ein Memorandum über industrielle Zusammenarbeit, einschließlich der Lieferung von Hubschraubern. /2

Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.

🇵🇱 "Poland will force Putin's plane to land for arrest," - Foreign Minister Sikorski said that the country cannot guarantee the safe flight of the plane over its territory.

“Russia does not hear condemnation; it hears avoidance of conflict. It does not see concern; it sees fear. And that is why it continues.” www.kyivpost.com/opinion/62463

ITER Director-General at the FEC "Listen as the ITER Director-General addresses the 30th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) in Chengdu, China, on 14 October 2025." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTp...

Journalists ought to be reporting more on the accident (tbc) aboard the shadow fleet tanker Falcon. How it demonstrates the increased risks of these aging and uninsured ships. This could as easily have happened in Baltic or North Sea. And who would have covered the environmental clean up?

What hobby/DIY projects are you working on right now? I cleaned up my workbench and found a Figaro CDM7160 CO2 Sensor I got years ago. Not letting that go to waste (they're around 60$), I used an ESP8266 and a Bosch BME280 to make an air quality monitor. Data is plotted with Matlab Thingspeak...

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