How Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies and saboteurs Since last spring, Ukraine's SBU has arrested more than 700 people implicated in espionage, arson and bomb plots orchestrated remotely by Russian intelligence. Of those, around 175 (~25%) were under the age of 18. www.ft.com/content/5cb5...

Sweden's public service TV company SVT has been under a DDOS-attack since yesterday, kicking their public facing systems (news, TV, etc) offline for parts of Sunday evening. The attack might still be ongoing but is fully remedied. SVT are among other things responsible for public announcements.

1/12 russia launches political party in Norway, using local collaborators/traitors to undermine support for Ukraine through an expensive ad campaign. Beware—this could happen in your country too!

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are. Allow me to try. Let’s begin with Adam Smith. In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.

Over the last week, US military aid flights to Ukraine jumped, with 747 freighters delivering supplies from a number of locations: 2x from McGuire Air Force Base 3x from Joint Base Charleston 1x from Ramstein Air Base 1x from MacDill Air Force Base 1x from Biggs Army Airfield

Heja Sverige!

Excellent speech by Rasmussen. Too bad that nobody in Trump's administration understands what Rasmussen is talking about...

It speaks volumes that we are having to go and check if this is a real Trump pronouncement or not.

Something in Serbia is $500k/day interesting to US Military. There has been several unusual surveillance flights last days. Serbia is seeing large protests over corruption after a newbuilt canopy over a train station collapsed and killed 15 people. Prime minister was forced to resign.

🇪🇺⚔️🛡️ "It's time for the European Union to take security and defense into its own hands," — Ursula von der Leyen

MAGA propaganda so bad that even russian propaganda is debunking it, what the hell is going on anymore

💸China and India stop trading in Russian oil because of US sanctions, Reuters reports

Egypt is the new destination for stolen Ukrainian grain: CMC's Russian flag handymax bulker Matros Shevchenko transited Bosphorus toward Black Sea en route to occupied Sevastopol after delivering 27000mt of stolen wheat to Alexandria. ——Matros Shevchenko is laden with cargo loaded in Damietta.

💯 Once guns fall silent in Ukraine, Russia will begin military revival – British general

Hopefully he keeeps his word.

📉 The Russian economy faced a sharp drop in export revenues in late 2024 due to sanctions, — Russian media with reference to the Russian Central Bank. ❗️Taking into account export and import services, the trade surplus of the Russian economy in December amounted to $2 billion.

Since this seems to be a current topic, a good read... rusi.org/explore-our-...

150-200 cables are damaged each year, 15% (7-43) by anchors. If we assume Baltic maritime activity is 5% of the global total (likely way too high) Baltic Sea ought to see 1.5 incidents per year. 2023 & 2024 averaged at 6 breaks annually, 4 x higher. Map, visual aid for eyeballing 5%.

Great move.

Good. Very good.

As someone who grew up on an island in the Mediterranean, I’m no stranger to blue skies. But this Blue Sky is different 😃. Here, I’m new. So as I do my first post, I look forward to connect, interact & continue to advance democracy. This is what we do at the European Parliament. Watch this space.

Excellent article. Russia won't be able to continue war in Ukraine forever. Not even years. Russia’s Hidden War Debt open.substack.com/pub/navigati...

Danish navy and Swedish coast guard patrolling north Kattegatt. A follower spotted 'RUSSIAN WARSHIP' on AIS in this area a few hours ago. Same area as corvette + submarine were spotted last week. It is just outside nuclear power plant Ringhals and where stalking of FI tanker happened.

Given the extraordinary amount of Russian naval activity around Baltic Sea today I thought I'd summarize what I saw: * Corvette and sub stalks Finnish tanker NW Anholt * Three navy tugs doing racetracks south Anholt * Corvette enters Kattegatt from south cont ....

There is a strong gale (43 knots) in Kattegatt and 3 Russian tugs are operating around a disabled Russian refrigeration ship (previously accused of spying). The tug pulling looks to have problem. The two others are in what I think is a readiness pattern. Submarine? Unknown.

✈️🇺🇦 For the first time in history, an F-16 destroyed 6 cruise missiles in one sortie, – Ignat ❗️According to the former spokesman for the Air Force, this was the result our pilot showed during a massive attack on December 13, 2024.

This morning a Russian corvette and a submarine stalked Finnish tanker JATULI. JATULI was moving south in international waters, Kattegatt, when she met SKR-531. The corvette turned around, started following and soon thereafter a KILO submarine started driving alongside. Src: mariner @tommyjb1967

🇺🇸 US to announce "substantial" military aid package for Ukraine in coming days – media

😤 Azerbaijani President demands compensation and admission of guilt from Russia for downed plane

Borderguard OH-HVI visited EAGLE S

Public interest trust will continue to be suspended from access to Horizon & Erasmus programs. This includes roughly 2/3 of Hungary's universities. Not surprising given the halfhearted amendments submitted by the govt.

Maybe Kirill gave one of his 60.000 euro watches to Orban?

An article worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/centrala...

Erinomainen kirjoitus presidentti Niinistöltä. Toivottavasti tämä käännetään monelle Euroopan kielelle. "Euroopan on oltava vahva yhdessä, ei sotiakseen vaan taatakseen rauhan." www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

And even if they could build Oreshniks, they don't bring anything new or superior capability to the field.

Second vessel diverted: Russia’s smuggling operation to steal Ukrainian grain, regularly conducted by state-owned companies using falsified manifests & seaborne subterfuge is disrupted: Tartus-bound Mikhail Nenashev, like Matros Pozynich, is adrift east of Cyprus, waiting for instructions.

1/2 Interesting article. Ang yes, USA needs to be more active if it wants to survive at the global big power competition. Biden's policy left freedom of action to the local actors with bad results. In Nato regional groups has been forbidden discussion point. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine will receive $50 billion from frozen Russian assets in the coming weeks, Blinken said at a briefing. 🤝 According to him, there is a coordinated US-EU plan to quickly transfer funds to Ukraine.

Another Russian asset...

Tucker is idiot or Russian asset. Probably both.

The most important thing for Ukraine in a possible peace agreement is reliable security guarantees. And that is probably not some ink on a paper. They want troops on ground. As we saw in Bosnia in 1990's. UN didn't keep peace. Nato armoured divisions backed by airpower did.

What really happened is not important in Russia. Who writes the history is...

Anonymous announces Operation Georgia in response to the government's refusal to reject Russia's influence and its betrayal of the people's democratic EU aspirations. #opGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

1/2 Itse en kehtaisi tätä analyysiksi kutsua. Huhtanen ei tiedä mistä puhuu. Venäjä lähti 2022 juuri sellaiseen sotaan mihin Puolustusvoimat varautui. HS-analyysi | Suomi uskalsi tuhota jalka­väki­miinat, koska Puolustus­voimat valmistautui väärän­laiseen sotaan: www.hs.fi/suomi/art-20...

🇬🇪👊 Georgia continues to struggle, protesters have been tear gassed, water cannoned, brutally beaten and dispersed, but the crowd is gathering again!

With comments by @peto69.bsky.social

Kaikki merkittävät läntiset tiedustelupäälliköt Euroopassa ovat antaneet samankaltaisia lausuntoja viimeisen puolen vuoden aikana. Toivottavasti: 1. Poliittiset johtajat kuuntelevat heitä. 2. Tekevät myös jotain turvallisuuden ja puolustuksen parantamiseksi. yle.fi/a/74-20128216

Today EU Parliament votes for Comission. Von der Leyen presenting the team and programs. Talks about security and defence, Niinistö report mentioned. Russia uses 9% of GNP to its armer forces. Europe uses on average 1,9% of GNP to defence. Need to invest more.

⚡️🇬🇧🚀 The UK government recently supplied Ukraine with dozens more Storm Shadow cruise missiles, - Bloomberg ❗️The deliveries took place several weeks ago. They were sent before the recent decision to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles at targets inside Russia.