Matingbee

Matingbee

@matingbee.bsky.social

Worked in Middle East & Africa in secure military communications. Jumped out of the rat race in 2001 moved to Cornwall 2 years later and took on a smallholding. My wife and I started a couple of businesses which got far too big so now I'm retired, sort of!

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Olga Patlyuk
@olgapatluyk.bsky.social

Putin copies the dіctators of the past — Hіtler and Stalіn. Like them, he wages war under the guise of "liberation," destrоys the truth, spreads fear, and dreams of an empire built on the blоod of others.

Matingbee
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bsky.app/profile/kyiv... France and Belgium are funding the missiles and drones murdering Ukrainian civilians!!!🤬🤬🤬

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France and Belgium bought 97% of all Russian gas imported into the European Union in 2024, remaining the bloc’s main buyers. www.kyivpost.com/post/54095

kyivpost.comFrance and Belgium Wonʼt Back EU Russian Gas Ban, Remain Top BuyersFrance and Belgium bought 97% of all Russian LNG imported into the European Union in 2024 and are afraid to back out of it.

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Kate from Kharkiv
@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

“They gave Putin a reason to go in and bomb the hell out of them last night,” Trump says of Kyiv’s Operation Spiderweb. And before that, there was famously no russian bombings of Ukraine, right? Wrong. You morally rotten piece of shit they bomb us every freaking day!

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‼️ For the first time in three years, the U.S. Defense Secretary will skip the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting ("Ramstein"), AP reports. Pete Hegseth will arrive in Brussels only after the session ends and will not participate even via video. Hesgeth shows his true priorities. Pathetic idiot!

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From the Telegraph just now..... A bomb planted by Ukrainian spies has rocked Russia’s Kerch bridge that links occupied Crimea to the mainland. The small-scale attack, carried out by Ukraine’s security service early this morning, allegedly involved 1,100kg of explosives covertly placed under

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impaired the heavily-fortified structure. Pictures later showed a chunk of the bridge’s metal barriers lying across one of the lanes, but traffic has reportedly resumed. The bridge was previously targeted by Ukraine in 2022 and 2023. “So today we continued this tradition underwater.

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From the Telegraph just now..... A bomb planted by Ukrainian spies has rocked Russia’s Kerch bridge that links occupied Crimea to the mainland. The small-scale attack, carried out by Ukraine’s security service early this morning, allegedly involved 1,100kg of explosives covertly placed under

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its base months ago. “Today, without any casualties among the civilian population, at 4:44 in the morning the first explosive device was activated!,” Ukraine’s SBU said in a statement. The Kerch bridge, also known as the Crimean bridge, acts as a vital supply route to Russian forces on the

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peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, and has long been one of Kyiv’s main targets of the war. Footage, released by the SBU, showed an explosion originating from underwater at the base of the bridge. The scale of the damage is unclear, but does not appear to have significantly

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"This is not a pawn that can be sacrificed. The US will not abandon Ukraine in the fight against Russia," — Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at Black Sea Security Forum

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▪️Ukraine is just one of Putin’s goals, he won’t stop there; ▪️ The war will not end when Putin says "enough"; ▪️The US did not do enough to stop the war in 2014. Agreed, and that was the weakness of the Obama and Biden administration. However from 2016 to 2020 you and Trump were too busy to care!

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"The responsibility for the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 lies with Europe and the world. After all, all key states knew about Putin’s plans, but did not take them seriously," — Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at Black Sea Security Forum .

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According to him, on the eve of the full-scale invasion, European leaders received clear signals about Russia’s intentions. But no one took them seriously, most simply denied them. Did that include the US Trump administration? Of course it did, but Pompeo's recollection can be conveniently missing

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"We need to hand over Taurus to Ukraine as soon as possible" Ben Wallace, Former UK Defense Secretary at Black Sea Security Forum "We have nothing to fear. We have a great alliance. And Russia constantly ignores all the rules of war. Every action must be countered, reacted to.

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We need to do everything as soon as possible, hand over Taurus to Ukraine. And it is better to do it as soon as possible, so that Putin does not take advantage of this chance and does not implement his plans." Spot on Ben!!

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"Olaf Scholz has consistently played along with Putin, failing to keep his promises to Ukraine. The new Chancellor Merz wants to change that.I would really like to be in the Kremlin right now to grab Putin and throw him out of there." Ben Wallace, Former UK Defense Secretary ONLY FROM A HIGH WINDOW

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"Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says Berlin isn’t aiming for Russia’s complete military defeat in Ukraine. The main goal is to help Ukraine defend itself against further aggression. He believes the war will likely end through negotiations, not total Russian surrender." CLOUD CUCKOOLAND!

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Tetїana
@tpspindel.bsky.social

1/ Let’s be honest: russia doesn’t want a ceasefire. They’re stalling. They’re playing everyone—just like they always do. Because a ceasefire doesn’t help putin. It threatens him.

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There is a consensus growing, that the US want out of Europe as they feel they need to concentrate on China and Asia Pacific. This is possibly what is behind Trump's hamfisted ranting. Europe is now finally taking their security seriously and it could end the NATO alliance in favour of

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a European Alliance. It's a tough one, but could work out well in the long term. It needs a transition period, particularly with the Ukraine war ongoing, but Trump can't spell "transition" so he probably won't agree to it.

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