Russian Propaganda Narratives in The New York Times - Why? On July 12, The New York Times published a report from Russia’s Kursk region titled: “A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia.” This article plays directly into Moscow’s hands. 1/5

Who the fuck is john

What happens to a child taken from Ukraine? (1/12)

“Ships with Russian crews zigzagging over pipelines” If only someone had warned about this…. since forever

Project 22010-class oceanographic research vessel Almaz at Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad. She's the second ship of a ship class where Yantar is a member of. Her deployment would mirror her sister in that she would be supporting activities of the Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research (GUGI).

Well, the US was not really thinking of sending more anti air weapons to Ukraine, it was planning on stopping what little was on its way. The US is cutting Ukraine off during this vital moment. Once again, flattering Trump is not the right strategy. A free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Ukraine is not being prepared as it should in air defense, and instead of sucking up to Trump, the Europeans should be far more proactive. They even have cards to play, if they had self respect. How about saying Europe will only buy US weapons if the US sells Ukraine Patriots?

Hi All, Latest piece for The Europe Dispatch by @alanderminna.bsky.social just appeared. She looks at the tricky question of whether more European states are going to have to introduce conscription to contend with the Russian threat in the future. Its free to read. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Cluster munitions are designed to maximise damage of a single strike by releasing several submunitions over a larger area—in effect distributing explosive force to multiple impact zones, indiscriminately targeting beyond the range of one concentrated blast. Russia is launching them at kindergartens.

President Zelensky warns that Russia is planning further attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which may draw less global attention due to the focus on the Middle East. Intelligence on threats to nuclear facilities has been shared with the IAEA and U.S. counterparts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that current communication between the US and Russia resembles a “warm conversation" Such a tone only reinforces the Russian ruler’s confidence, as Vladimir Putin does not want peace, he added euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/14/r...

Read Charles King’s 2020 essay on what the decline of the Soviet Union looked like from the inside—and why great powers can be blind to their own decay until collapse is imminent:

Last night, on 5 June, Russia launched 407 Shahed and decoy drones into Ukrainian airspace. Around 17,500 Shahed drones and decoys were launched by Russia between January and June 2025. This accounts for a staggering 50% of the total drones launched since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

1/ THE SINKING OF MOSKVA, PART 3: After being struck by Ukrainian missiles on 13 April, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was abandoned and left to drift burning overnight. This thread tells the story of the ship's final hours, and what happened next. ⬇️

Chronicle in today’s Aftenposten, after NUPIs Lars Gresvik erroneously argued how “premature conclusions of underwater sabotage” in the Baltic Sea only breeds unnecessary fear—with decreased cable security as consequence. An unreasonable logic of course, undermining the Russian seabed warfare threat

Putin has just signed a decree allowing him to ethnically cleanse Eastern Ukraine further. Those he didn’t slaughter, will now be forcibly deported. The mass extermination of Ukrainians and their culture continues with apparently help from the Trump administration 🇺🇸

🧵I had the privilege to sit down with 🇺🇦 Minister for Strategic Industries, Herman Smetanin and presidential advisor, Alexander Kamyshin, in Oslo. We discussed Ukraine's growing arms industry.🚀 1/12

Another conceivable scenario is Russia agreeing to the ceasefire but not respecting it, as seems to be the Russian custom with agreements. Then an interesting question will be whether the truth about who violated the ceasefire first matters to the US

Of course it was… Ukrainian cyber guys are clever enough to hack Musk’s infamous X server, but not cloak their IP. And so the disinformation campaign discrediting Ukraine as a means to justify future Starlink blackouts and generate further battlefield effects in the Kremlin’s favour intensifies.

Great article and must-read thread from my @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social colleague @sandertordoir.bsky.social . As Trump’s US undermines European security & strengthens Putin’s Russia, Europe needs to realise its industrial strength & use it effectively.

While the US is planning a complete stop in European exercise participation by next year, the "Axis" powers are strengthening ties and enhancing interoperability. Later this month, Iran's annual maritime security exercise is set to kick off in the Gulf of Oman with Chinese and Russian warships

“Tonight, on The Real Housewives of DC…” Musk and Rubio take on the Polish MFA, yet only succeed in accidentally admitting that Poland and other neighbouring nations are—in all likelihood—indeed next on the Kremlin’s imperialist war roster if Ukraine falls. Can’t make this stuff up.

There is a real danger of the U.S. falling for Russia’s lie that it seeks peace, something Trump already said he believes, and getting rug-pulled by Russia’s pseudo-solutions. @popovaprof.bsky.social & @oxanashevel.bsky.social in The National Interest

🤝 Ukraine's defence minister reveals Nordic-Baltic countries' plans to support Ukraine

He has just made it very likely that no military organisation will allow themselves to be placed in such a situation again. Why would Starlink ever be seen as an assured, trusted service?

US defense companies might never be trusted again on.ft.com/3DtQQZs

I’ve really had enough of these takes that it’s been unfair that Europe has outsourced its defence to the US. First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.

Trudeau didn’t directly address Europeans but he nevertheless had an important message for Europe. Engaging with the Trump administration‘s strawman arguments in good faith is no use. In that sense MAGA people seem to have read their Russian playbook very carefully.

‼️ Macron declares "new era" and warns of Russia's threat to France and Europe

These important nuances are critical to any forecast of possible ramifications of the US' extortionist withdrawal from allied intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Though the scope of intel cutoffs remains unknown, would caution as well against simultaneously inflating performance of Russian intel 🧵

One thing to keep in mind is that European states have always had the basic strength to do much more for Ukraine. They have the money, technology and people needed. They have lacked the strategic ability to think on their own and were too afraid to break with the USA.

A very realistic worry, even before Trump took office. But now much more likely.

Trump on his misguided desire to illegally annex Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark, historically the US’ staunchest ally in Scandinavia: “One way or another, we’re gonna get it” Concerning, right? Not to Congressional Republicans, uniting instead in eerie laughter. This is chilling.

A senior Ukrainian official said Ukraine would probably run out of US military supplies in “two or three months”. “After that, it will be very difficult for us. It will not be a total collapse, but we will be forced to withdraw from areas...” w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b439...

In the discussion of how 'America First' might affect US-Norwegian defence cooperation along NATO's northern flank moving forward, a credible threat assessment is an absolute minimum. Instead, overly simplified evaluations of the nature and character of the Russian threat dominate discourse 🧵

Vetoing UKR NATO membership, aiding a severely premature RUS victory by pushing devastating territorial concessions while eroding solidarity and Article V credibility midst sweeping DoD budget cuts and rumours of "denuclearisation" and pulling US forces from the Baltics... Kompramat is kompramating?

En ukrainsk seier forblir vårt tryggeste skjold mot Kremls umettelige imperialisme. Tiden er overmoden for europeiske beslutningstakere å følge Zelenskyjs eksempel—å lede fra front. Ukrainas fremtid forblir vår egen, og den berges neppe med etterpåklokskap. Ranter i VG 👇 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/xm...

Ukrainian successes at sea are impressive. Yet, as long as the Russian Navy continues to threaten maritime trade while projecting power ashore in support of the Kremlin's SODCIT campaign, the battle of the Black Sea is not won. www-foreignaffairs-com.fhs.idm.oclc.org/ukraine/ukra...

The US’s refusal to offer Ukraine security guarantees means that there 'are now several unpalatable futures that Europe must plan against', writes Jack Watling in the latest RUSI Commentary. Learn more below.

Those calling for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia should know that Moscow’s control over captured Ukrainian territory isn’t just about land—it’s about systematic destruction of Ukrainian society through “human rights abuses, political repression, and war crimes,” argues Nataliya Gumenyuk.

So "peace" involves rewarding the Kremlin’s imperialist invasion with illegal land grabs of sovereign Ukraine, which will remain a non-NATO member—the frail, volatile and redrawn borders of which will only be “secured” by non-NATO peacekeepers uncovered by Art 5? Thank you, next.

🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 Tomorrow, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s energy system, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. "Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail," she added.

Russia's top secret GUGI is based in Olenya Guba, 100 km from Norway border. Can create havoc on oil & gas installations on the seabed. Their tools seem straight out of a James Bond movie. News story with input from @inahpkvam.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/AvBL...

This. Instead of NATO signalling an unwavering commitment to a total Ukrainian victory through ensuring necessary denial and punishment while maintaining ambiguity of our own red lines, allied deterrence strategy is doing the opposite—rather emboldening an appeased Kremlin's cost-benefit calculus

It's entirely unclear to me what the @theguardian.com editorial board was thinking when they published this. The INF, as an arms control treaty, became untenable once Russia materially breached it from 2016 onwards, having violated its spirit long before. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1/5

Excellent piece from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social On the Biden administration’s failed Ukraine policy - tallies with my analysis (from Aug) of German policy Scholz’s approach “has been in effect, an expensive way to make Europe less safe” dgap.org/en/research/...

Noticing some simplifications of the Russian air campaign in Syria these days, particularly relating to the historical trends in scope and scale of missile strikes in support of the Assad regime. A thread 🧵

For reference, the 'increase' accounts for only 1,75 % of the unprecedented 2000 bn NOK surge in oil and gas revenue following the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine in 2022. Norwegian donations rank 12th by share of GDP, allocating only 0,6 %. In other words, the petroleum giant that could, but wouldn't

Russia launched its largest-ever drone assault overnight, in what has already become a record-breaking season of aerial attacks in scope and scale. As winter approaches, the SODCIT campaign targeting Ukraine's energy grid will only intensify. As will indiscriminate terror bombings of civilians