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It’s staggering that the EU still issues more than half a million visas each year to Russian citizens. As @ilvestoomas.bsky.social points out on the Continental Rift Show today, it’s Spain, France, and Italy that issue the vast majority of those visas.

Elon Musk spreads disinformation about Ukraine after being exposed for sabotaging military operations by the WSJ. The US tax funded billionaire, Trump's largest donor, (backed by Israel and Russia); tied to the deaths of thousands of children due to USAid cuts, blames Ukraine for not surrendering.

New in PN: The plot against Ukraine (and Europe) "Trump’s open effort to join nations like Iran & North Korea in aiding Putin’s murderous assault on Ukraine is nothing short of disastrous & will leave a lasting moral stain on the US. But there may be something of a silver lining to this dark cloud"

Insteaf of a thousand words. A woman trapped under the rubble after a Russian strike is showing rescuers how old her daughter is. The little girl was killed by Russia.

President Zelenskyy: "Starlink shuts down at speeds above 161 km/h in Ukraine, but works at speeds exceeding 180 km/h in the EU" President Zelenskyy said Ukraine had conducted tests to determine whether SpaceX was experiencing technical issues or whether this was a "deliberate operation."

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

10/ In the short term I expect to see Starlink being dropped like a hot potato by governments around the world. Nobody will want to be in the same position as Ukraine, of imploring Musk to turn it back on while their civilians are being killed as a direct result of the outage.

Trump pauses new Russia sanctions passed by Congress amid deepening row with Ukraine www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

⚡️ Russian attacks left 2,433 civilians dead or injured in September, marking an 85% increase compared to last year.

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, potentially worth $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The deal would boost Russia’s war finances and undermine Ukraine’s efforts to cut off revenues funding Russia’s invasion.

"They aren't really shooting at us."

For the past 3d, russian drones have been bombing Kyiv nonstop. russia is particularly targeting education infrastructure. This horrifying photo shows people escaping a massive fire through a window in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. russians also bombed 2 schools and 2 kindergartens.

One more sick indictment of Russia's regime, full of war criminals. A teenager, in shorts, clearly not military, was hunted down for fun, by a Russian drone pilot in Kherson. What's more the animals proudly publish the terror. It's not known what happened to the boy.

As expected, House Speaker Mike Johnson has killed a vote on Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, which passed the Senate earlier this year. The Trump administration will do absolutely nothing to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s brutal war.

As of now, after Russia’s strike on Kryvyi Rih’s biggest shopping center, 16 are dead and 130 injured. Nine are still missing, including 2 children.

Again it’s just *crazy* to me that the actual North Korean army is fighting a war with a European country and it’s just sort of a footnote in European news. And the political reaction is just some polite objections from a few foreign affairs ministers. Normal stuff, carry on everyone.

In Radushne, people gathered to honour the memory of the large Voronov family, murdered by Russia. A grief so immense that words cannot contain it. 💔

You all need to erase the idea of the noble and mythical Russian that is so oppressed they couldn't possibly speak out and nonconsenting of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It's a lie, they do have access to all the same info we all do. A small, very small minority, is actually standing against this.

The moment russian guided bombs struck Sumy, captured by security cameras from a local cafe. Having nowhere to run, people fall on the pavement, covering their loved ones with their bodies. Incomprehensible cruelty.

The death toll in Kyiv has risen to 11 people after the Russian attack. 46 more people injured. So many tragedies brought upon us by the Russian scum. There is another air raid alert right now.

The now famous explosion of the roof-tossing oil silo in Moscow, Russia, was probably caused by a Russian air defense missile. Absolutely hilarious.

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Ukrainian emergency crews battling the fire, including at the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, following the Russian strike.

Seems like yesterday Russia specifically went out of it's way to target Ukrainian culture. They bombed the Kharkiv art museum, the Dormition Cathedral, and the Kyiv’s Dovzhenko Film Studio.

In two weeks, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire World War I.

Instead of a thousand words. Ukrainian Defender before and after Russian captivity. 📷: wwsof/Threads

Thought experiment (certainly not original): how and how much better would US and global security be if the US had provided all the munitions it has used against Iran since 2/28 to Ukraine instead? (Yes, yes, Ukraine cannot use some of the munitions, lacks the platforms, but in general). Discuss.

Disgraceful

Russia and China are helping Iran but Trump is angry at... Europe Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

I've a voicemail which is just 5 minutes of Orban crying about how sorry he is.

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ukrainian interceptors downed Iran’s drones in Middle East, says Zelenskyy ft.trib.al/NH9Ou3E

Russians destroyed Mariupol. Now they’re browsing apartments there. And they have the audacity to call it “a bit nerve-wracking.” This is who they are. This has always been who they are.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

2/ Vance, absent from the Iran war campaign, is literally selling his soul to keep Russia's biggest friend in Europe in power. "Or[c]ban" trails by up to 23 points in some opinion polls and various leaks show he called in Moscow's FSB to fix the election, just 5 days away.

These are not video from an apocalyptic film. This is #Ukraine Russians destroyed an entire street in Korosten (Zhytomyr region). One person was killed and five injured. 📹:Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty

This city is covered in nets, and the reason is disturbing.

A train car in which six passengers were killed by a Shahed strike in the Kharkiv region at the end of January.

Consider the opportunity costs of the war in Iran. The missiles might have been sent to Ukraine, to end that war. The money might have bought healthcare for Americans. The attention of Europe and Asia might have been focused on countering Russia and China, not re-opening the Strait of Hormuz

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

Give your key defenses and fortress cities to Russia which has been unable to take them in 12 years of fighting, and then we who are acting to strengthen Russia will pretend to help you protect the rest of your country. This is shameful, rotten, and stinks of corruption.

While Moscow loudly supports separatist movements abroad,even mild calls for independence inside Russia can lead to prison. The Kremlin’s “self-determination” has clear limits. Just ask yourself: how has the Kremlin reacted to secessionist aspirations in Tatarstan or Dagestan?

⚡️Czech drone facility making weapons for Ukraine set on fire, investigation underway. The facility belongs to Czech defense firm LPP Holding, which manufactures AI drones used on the battlefield in Ukraine. A group protesting Israeli weapons claimed responsibility for the blaze.

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

Russia's oil discount hit $28 a barrel in February—the widest since 2023. Buyers demanded it just to touch sanctioned crude. By mid-March, Indian refiners were paying $4-5 above the global price for Russian oil. The Iran war didn't just help Russia. It flipped the entire sanctions logic overnight.