Armita Garawand war erst 16. Ein Kind, eine Schülerin - ein ganzes Leben lag noch vor ihr. Die Brutalität des Regimes hat ihre Zukunft geraubt. Die Zukunft Irans ist seine Jugend. Die Zukunft Irans sind seine Frauen. Ihren Drang nach Freiheit kann das Regime nicht unterdrücken.

Details of US-supplied Zuni rockets on a Ukrainian Army Aviation Mi-24 - adapter is visible. Typically used on fixed wing aircraft in the US military though still effective on a helicopter.

#UkraineWar: Overview of Russian equipment losses added on 28/10/2023 Full list: oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

Also, PM Fico was forced to resign because a journalist Jan Kuciak who basically investigated the high-profile corruption in Slovakia (especially related to Fico's party) was murdered

An interesting interview on Finnish morning radio yesterday with DefMin Häkkänen. - Israel was attacked sees itself under existential threat, full right to defend - geographical and demographic conditions in Gaza are such that avoiding civilian casualties impossible… areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-...

The 2,000-person 110th neither is Ukraine’s most experienced brigade nor its best-equipped. But right now, it has arguably the hardest and most important job in Ukraine’s war effort: holding Avdiivka.

🇷🇴 Looks like Romania might be learning from the Bulgarian example for a change. Among a flurry of tax introductions/hikes, natural gas transit fee will go from 0.4% to 10% of its cost, a 25-fold (or is it 24-fold @steamtraen.bsky.social?) increase. Will Szijjarto complain from Minsk this time? 🙃

Nerve agents are pretty much all liquids. I'm literally an expert on nerve agents.

🇷🇴 Looks like Romania might be learning from the Bulgarian example for a change. Among a flurry of tax introductions/hikes, natural gas transit fee will go from 0.4% to 10% of its cost, a 25-fold (or is it 24-fold @steamtraen.bsky.social?) increase. Will Szijjarto complain from Minsk this time? 🙃

Die Machtübernahme durch Fico hat für die UA relativ begrenzte Auswirkungen. Er macht jetzt viel Lärm, aber mit dem Machtwechsel in Polen ist auch sein Einfluss nicht übertrieben gross geworden.

Side-Note; the term "Swindling" was originally coined as a short-hand to refer to these outrageous carriage fares.

Today's Forgotten History: While most people believe that Paddington the Bear is named after Paddington Station, it's actually the other way around; the station is named in honor of Paddington's contributions to railway history. Let's review the story...

He should probably visit Ukraine first. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

🇸🇰🇺🇦 Luckily the previous government already sent most of the legacy kit including all the MiG-29s and the S-300 battery. Most of what would be sent now is ammo, including ammo madde by CSG - but IIRC Fico's friend runs it. A potential negative effect: Orban might have a co-vetoer against EU funds.

I can’t describe how sick it makes me. It’s as if your dear one is in surgery, and a whole crowd stands next to you demanding “Just pull the damn plug! Electricity ain’t cheap!” Who are these humans? How did they become so inhumane? #StandWithUkraine

Er war aber mehr als das. Er war ein Leichtathletik-Europameister von 1946, 25 Jahre lang IOC-Mitglied, von 1970 bis 1982 Generalmajor und Kommandeur der dänischen Luftwaffe, sowie 4 Jahre DK Vertreter im Militärausschuss der NATO. Sein Nachruf

🇸🇰🇺🇦 Luckily the previous government already sent most of the legacy kit including all the MiG-29s and the S-300 battery. Most of what would be sent now is ammo, including ammo madde by CSG - but IIRC Fico's friend runs it. A potential negative effect: Orban might have a co-vetoer against EU funds.

I didn't sleep very much last night. I'm tired. It's a pain copying threads over. It's here if you want to look in the other place: x.com/DanKaszeta/s...

A balance sheet betrayal: My thread on the latest russian ministry of finance data dump. The devil is in the detail.. especially on “other income”.

Daily russian telegram roundup

This is a point that often goes missing.👇 Orban, the champion of sovereignty looked anything but sovereign in the ring of his new authoritarian friends. And that makes the EU’s problem even more dire. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And my speech is done I asked my audience: how many of you got here ONLY by foot, bike or public transport NOT A SINGLE PERSON EXCEPT ME And I came from… Berlin

I can see a lot of ways in which, both literally and figuratively the fog of war can give rise to a chloropicrin claim. Indeed, mistaking a tear gas for something more sinister is one of the reasons that the Chemical Weapons Convention bans tear gas in warfare.

Some tweets about this stuff use these claims to also claim "XYZ unit doesn't have masks". Let me see if I can explain this is clear language: If true, you are highlighting a vulnerability to the enemy and you need to not do that.

OK. A bit of thread on Chloropicrin chemical warfare rumours, replicated from the other bad place. A few days ago, I promised a bit of a thread on alleged chloropicrin incidents in the Russia / Ukraine conflict.

This is a perfect example -- Ukraine needs to get those F-16s delivered asap so that Russians can start claiming they're shooting them down by the dozen.

Not surprising for us, but even now, the West finds it difficult to accept that Russian political parties, major companies, Russian Orthodox church, Russian foreign service, or nearly any other such Russian institutions don't lead a fully independent existence. They're fronts for security services.

Dad jokes are inevitable

And the social democratic ex-DefMin Peter Hultqvist says all of this is great ! Let me repeat: _Swedish social democrats_ welcome American troops under American law and no restrictions on nuclear weapons Can’t emphasise enough: what a time to be alive

Tough competition between the time it takes to assemble furniture and join NATO. But in the end, it gets done (thanks to the support of friends and allies).

In terms of colouring, the pollster opted for purple, the mix of dark red for the Left and blue for the AfD. If we add the orange typically reserved for the Free Voters, we get brown, I think.

🇹🇷🇸🇪 After months of we-will-we-won't statements from Erdogan, it's finally down to the 🇹🇷 parliament actually ratifying Swedish NATO accession. Also, will they drag it out long enough for 🇭🇺 to not be the last? Fingers crossed it'll be quick, at last. Now ... where did I put that bottle of Yapıncak?

Congo (Congo Brazzaville) imported 214 tons of bulk wine from Spain in 2021. This is what it looks like in retail

28% der Ukraine ist vermint, sprich muss von Minen geräumt werden. Was bedeutet diese Zahl genau? Wie viel Fläche ist das? 👇😔😳

ab zu aldi, so billig bekommt ihr das nie wieder!

🇧🇬🇺🇦 "Gazprom will send additional gas to Hungary this year" per CEO Alexey Miller There are no comments on the quantity, or indeed whether this gas will go via Ukraine, or whether they want to pay more into the Bulgarian budget.

Well actually, flying with instructors is a normal part of transition to a new type but ok, it's taken a long time and we all want to see the Ukrainian Air Force operate F-16's - it's coming newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/pilots-...

🇧🇬🇺🇦 "Gazprom will send additional gas to Hungary this year" per CEO Alexey Miller There are no comments on the quantity, or indeed whether this gas will go via Ukraine, or whether they want to pay more into the Bulgarian budget.

They have given tens of thousands of lives and countless limbs for us. We owe them much more than we have given. Give Ukraine everything they need and then some.

🐊🚁➡️👢👜👞 7 destroyed and 8 damaged Ka-52s from that one night will means serious downward pressure on prices of leather goods in the region. For everything else - there’s speed tape, right? Right?

“Can we just give Ukraine the full suite of conventional ranged capabilities it needs to liberate its own land (ATACMS, Taurus, F-16s, etc) and end this war as soon as possible? Is that too much to ask?” Can we? Please? Rather than persisting in “as long as it takes”.

🇧🇬🇨🇿 Remember Salisbury? Ammo depots in Czechia, Bulgaria and of course Ukraine blown up after 2014? Gebrev poisoned - twice? A couple more piece of that puzzle, before the "watershed" invasion of Crimea in Christo Grozev and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social's piece ⬇️ Ping @bilyanalilly.bsky.social

🐊🚁➡️👢👜👞 7 destroyed and 8 damaged Ka-52s from that one night will means serious downward pressure on prices of leather goods in the region. For everything else - there’s speed tape, right? Right?

Dear all. Ukraine is still fighting for its survival. Ukrainians still need our full support. Don't forget about Ukraine. Otherwise the Russian terror will go on unhindered.

“How we speak drives how we think, and how we think drives what we do, or choose not to do. When we speak of the Russo-Ukrainian war as a “stalemate”, we misunderstand it, and prepare to make moral and strategic errors.” Timothy Snyder on Ukraine www.ft.com/content/5791...

Der gestrige Tag war beinahe schon ein guter Tag für die RU. Nicht einmal 800 Mobiks verloren und auch nur 71 gepanzerte Fahrzeuge. Bei der Artillerie hatten sie nur 5 Verluste - aber wenn man nicht schiesst, wird man auch nicht gefunden und zerstört. 🤷‍♂️

5 special equipment is, well, pretty special

I see. I just was asking because it's really outstanding. So then, let's have some vatnik tears!