🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine plans to acquire AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and UH-1Y Venom transport helicopters. The Ukrainian government and U.S. manufacturer Bell have signed a letter of intent to explore industrial cooperation and potential sales through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky: I thank EU for adopting the strong 19th sanctions package. This is a demonstration of unity at a time when Russia is escalating the war. The restrictions target exactly those things that help Moscow continue this war: oil and gas sector, shadow fleet, defense-industrial complex.

Sweden and Ukraine have signed a letter of intent for the purchase of 100 to 150 Gripen E fighter jets for the Ukrainian Air Force.

🇺🇦✈️ Ignat explained why the Swedish Gripen are the most optimal fighters for Ukraine ‼️ Our pilots have already mastered the Gripen. He noted that these aircraft are suitable, firstly, because of the relatively cheap maintenance.

🇸🇪✈️🇺🇦 Zelensky on Gripen fighter jet purchase from Sweden: We expect a future contract to include no fewer than 100 jets. Ukraine aims to get and start using Gripen jets next year.

Sweden and Ukraine have signed a letter of intent to buy 100-150 JAS 39 Gripen E jets for Ukrainian Air Force. Thank you, Sweden! 🇸🇪🇺🇦

Ukraine and Sweden have signed an agreement for the purchase of 100–150 new JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets for Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arr...

⁉️ Media reports say Sweden wants to sell Ukraine 120 Gripen aircraft

Did Thor deem you unworthy? Anyway, here's Sven and his friends

It is a good day for Ukraine, it is a good day for EU, and it is a good day to be Sven. Now we just wait for the customary nuclear threats from Medvedev against Sweden as the icing on the cake. I love to have had miniscule hand in this. Je suis Sven!

The reality is that EU is playing Trump to get what we want, and that makes it impossible for Trump to sell out to Putin. Give agency where agency is due.

Russian mass surrender at the encirclement of Kucheriv Yar. What started as a stunt to impress Trump before the Anchorage meeting with Putin is ending in a military defeat for the Russian aggression.

The rate of surrenders and liberated villages is now slowly creeping upwards as Russia continues to drop in combat power due to an increasing lack of heavy equipment.

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And there goes my well laid plans to arrest Putin to shit. Sigh...

EUROPE ARMS UP FOR UKRAINE: HOW €2 BILLION FOR DRONES WILL TURN WAR INTO THE INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE When Ursula von der Leyen appeared before the media in Brussels in late September, her words sounded like a dry 1/

☝️ Impressively thorough thread by @falloutcatfella.bsky.social on Europe's cooperation with Ukraine in the long-term development of drones and the associated technological and security transformation.

EU will stand behind Ukraine until victory, or a peace deal is made based on Ukrainian demands. We will continue to help Ukraine whatever Trump and Putin may wish, and we have the means to do so indefinitely if needed.

Dear Americans! Either you bombed a boat from either the Columbia in South Carolina, or Washington District of Columbia, or you truly suck at geography and meant the country of Colombia with an O in it.

This would be a mistake. Either you are a full member or not. The way to fix the "hungary" problem is to go from veto to qualified majority vote. I do not like the idea of second-rate member states.

Adolf, you don't mind if I give weapons to Churchill?" One Putin call, and the Tomahawks vanished. Looks like Ukraine will have to build its own!

An EU reparations law is the right way to help Ukraine www.bruegel.org/first-glance...

Not without importance. 🇪🇺

The Mighty One has arrived. Practice your walking skills Fellas! There will be an exam performed by Marv.

Autumn in Kharkiv parks

So, by that logic, the US should be handed over to the UK, because "the region is predominantly English-speaking"?

And there we go again. NL chooses cowboykit no-matter-what. European strategic autonomy? Nice for empty talk. When it comes to actual procurement choices, transatlantic dependence is what we go for. 🤦‍♂️ @demiurg.bsky.social: what is the EU doing about it? Why are we not procuring stuff collectively?

#Airbus unveils its strategy on targeting the global #defense #UAS market : Aliaca, Flexrotor, Capa-X, VSR700, H145M-ULC, SIRTAP, Eurodrone, Zephyr, Do-DT25 (LOAD) & Do-DT45... www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

The often maligned Eurodrone effort has passed the Critical Design Review, and proceeds to prototype stage, according to OCCAR. First flight supposedly still planned for 2027. www.hartpunkt.de/eurodrohne-s...

There is presently no new indication France intends to abandon the Eurodrone program. Related gossip appears to regurgitate statements made by Lecornu in autumn last year. www.opex360.com/2025/10/17/l...

Reports from Orenburg say an explosion occurred near the local gas processing plant. No official confirmation yet, but local channels are pointing to a possible UAV strike.

This morning, Ukraine hit Russia’s Novokuybyshevsk refinery in Samara, one of Rosneft’s key plants, processing 8.8M tons of crude annually, about 3% of Russia’s total refining capacity. Located ~1000km from Ukraine’s border, the site has been targeted before in previous strikes.

Atesh carried out sabotage on a key communications node in Bryansk region, disabling a tower that coordinated Russian forces and border units. The strike is said to have disrupted command centers, including border service units, the 84th engineer‑airfield battalion and a Rosgvardia regiment

If the EU collapses along with the descent of the USA into fascism, then EVERYONE around the world is in trouble. And it would mean liberal democracies would be isolated, undermined, and usurped one by one. It is VITAL that Europe and the #EU stands united together along with its allies. 3/3

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Trump rejected Zelensky’s push for Tomahawk missiles in what sources described as a “tough” and at times emotional 2.5-hour meeting. After a long call with Putin the day before, Trump made clear his focus is now on diplomacy, not escalation. Putin put Trump back to factory settings.

A Polish judge refused to extradite a Ukrainian citizen to Germany, arguing that if Ukraine carried out a mission to destroy enemy pipelines, such actions would be lawful during a war. The judge emphasized that Ukrainian soldiers, including special forces, cannot be labeled terrorists or saboteurs.

Austria has dropped its objections and agreed to support the EU’s 19th sanctions package against Russia. Vienna had previously demanded that frozen Russian assets be partially unfrozen to compensate Raiffeisen Bank for fines imposed by Moscow, but this was rejected by other member states.

Analysts projected Putin's likely flight route to Budapest for the Trump summit, suggesting the Russian dictator's plane will be escorted by military aircraft from Turkey, a NATO member country.

💥The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine struck the Hvardiyske oil depots of the Russian state reserves in temporarily occupied Crimea. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/spec...

This presupposes the Black Sea is safe and that Ukraine doesn't have little surprises like this around.

De VVD sluit de VVD uit.

The fire at the oil depot in Hvardiis'ke, occupied Crimea, has now also popped up on FIRMS data.

Herinnert u zich deze pareltjes van tweets nog van #JA21 mevrouw Annabel Nanninga? #verkiezingen Lees en huiver...

Ik lieg het u nog 1 keer uit #VVD #Verkiezingen www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

It's clear that there is a strong basis for a moderate, intelligent, centrist coalition in the Netherlands: GL-PvdA, CDA, D66. There will be a nice, robust cordon sanitaire around the malicious foreign-funded traitors of PVV. Other parties should politely ask the centrists whether they may join.

👀‼️ Footage of the repelling of an attack by a huge column of Russian armored vehicles on the village of Shakhove, Donetsk region this morning

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.