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At night, meeting a drone is probably the scariest. You only hear the sound. It sees you in detail – even the mustache on your face. You look like a camel – supposed to carry cargo to the position, but they probably won’t be waiting for it. #414FinalShot

🔥🔥 BOOM — Ukrainian drones just turned Putin’s prize oil refineries into bonfires again! Poor lil’ Vlad is watching his war piggy bank go up in flames. Cry harder, Moscow. This is what karma looks like. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦💥

UK at UN: War could end the moment Russia stops its invasion. Putin can't achieve his goals by military means. Putin is desperate to convince us all that Russia's victory is inevitable and our support is lost cause. But no one is falling for it. Europe's support is here to stay.

Magyar's update: Permanent digital constipation: 10 top wormie oil pour houses got roasted during 20 days of May, and 6 of them had operations halted by “debris” from the Freedom-loving Ukrainian Bird. ⛔️Moscow, Ryazan, Perm, Kirishi are down, Samara partially down, and Tuapse remains flatlined indefinitely. Primorsk and Yaroslavl also stopped operations during May. *the list below includes only refineries worked over during May 01–20 by USF Birds together with other deep-strike units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. There were other pour houses hit in May where USF Birds were not involved. A whole cloud of LVDS and NPS facilities (oil pumping stations) also got cottonized – just yesterday and today alone, seven NPS and one LVDS in the Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, and Yaroslavl swamp regions. Oil constipation across the swamp map over time: 🔥May 18+20 – “Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez” refinery (KSTOVO, Nizhny Novgorod region, rf) – hit 🔥May 17 – Moscow refinery (MOSCOW, Moscow region, rf) – suspended⛔️operations 🔥May 15 – “Ryazansky” refinery (RYAZAN, Ryazan region, rf) – suspended⛔️operations 🔥May 13 – “Tamanneftegaz” oil terminal (VOLNA, Krasnodar region, rf) – hit 🔥May 08 – “Yaroslavlsky” oil refinery (YAROSLAVL, Yaroslavl region, rf) – operations halted, later restored 🔥May 07 – “Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez” refinery (PERM, Perm region, rf) – suspended⛔️operations 🔥May 05 – “Kirishisky” refinery (KIRISHI, Leningrad region, rf) – suspended⛔️operations 🔥May 04 – “Kuibyshevsky” refinery (SAMARA, Samara region, rf) – part of capacities shut down⛔️ 🔥May 03 – “Transneft – Port Primorsk” oil terminal (PRIMORSK, Leningrad region, rf) – hit 🔥May 01 – “Tuapsinsky” refinery (TUAPSE, Krasnodar region, rf) – suspended⛔️operations. Today’s Lukoil – in the video pinned in the comments. Let’s continue, Gentlemen! Online USF scoreboard “PIDRAKHUIKA” sbs-group.army MAGYAR 🇺🇦 20.05.26

Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi: Yesterday Ukraine launched more offensive actions than Russia — first time in this war. The plan works: bleed their manpower, reduce their potential. Only Pokrovsk holds 99,800–900 enemy troops — the largest concentration on the entire front. 1/

Good--better to make the truth more and more apparent to Europeans. The USA will not fight to defend them (or any other democracies), the USA is not reliable, is favoring dictators and is an enemy of freedom.

Free midweek update just dropped. This week Trump really did try to talk himself into restarting the bombing of Iran, but in the end fell back on exactly the same excuses he has used for months not to. This repetition is making him seem weaker and weaker, madness.

The view from an apartment in moscow🔥

🔥🛢️Russian Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez Oil Refinery, in Kstovo was targeted early this morning. This refinery has an annual capacity of 17mln tons and is the fourth largest in Russia. 800km from the frontline.

Not long ago, Ryazan 🇷🇺 was one of Russia’s most heavily defended oil refineries. It is burning anyway. A freedom-loving Ukrainian 🇺🇦 bird found the gap. Russia built the shield. Ukraine found the seam.⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Scoop: The Trump admin is planning to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities the US would have available to assist European nations in a major crisis, like an invasion of a NATO member, sources said w @JonathanLanday @andrew_r_gray

Moscow region right now 👀🔥

New from Moscow region 👊🔥

Une réponse aux pro-russes dans mes mentions : Zelensky est l'homme le plus important que l'Occident ait produit depuis Churchill et Charles de Gaulle. Au matin du 24 février 2022, un homme de 44 ans, ancien comédien, élu sur un programme de réformes administratives, s'est réveillé dans une capitale encerclée par la deuxième armée du monde. Les Américains lui ont proposé un avion. Tous les services de renseignement occidentaux donnaient Kiev à 72 heures. Sa femme et ses enfants étaient des cibles désignées. Il a répondu cette phrase que vous connaissez tous (et qui est entrée dans l'histoire) : "J'ai besoin de munitions, pas d'un taxi." Arrêtez-vous une seconde sur ce qu'il faut être pour dire ça. Pas pour le tweeter depuis un canapé. Pour le dire quand on sait que dans la nuit, des commandos Spetsnaz tournent dans Kiev avec votre photo dans la poche. Quand on sait que ses propres généraux ne savent pas s'ils tiendront 48 heures. Quand on sait que partir, c'est sauver sa famille, et que rester, c'est sans doute mourir. Combien d'hommes politiques occidentaux que vous connaissez auraient dit ça ? Macron ? Scholz ? Starmer ? Trudeau ? Sanchez ? Aucun. Sans doute pas. Zelensky, lui, a fait quelque chose que l'Occident avait oublié qu'on pouvait faire. Il a décidé. Il a décidé, dans la seconde, qu'il préférait mourir à Kiev que vivre à Varsovie. Et cette décision a reconfiguré la guerre en 48 heures. Les Ukrainiens, qui étaient prêts à fuir, sont restés. Les Européens, qui étaient prêts à négocier la reddition, ont envoyé des armes. Les Américains, qui regardaient ailleurs, ont rouvert le dossier. Un homme, par sa seule présence physique à un endroit précis, a déplacé l'histoire. Lisez Carlyle si vous avez oublié comment ça marche. Relisez les pages de Plutarque sur le moment où Thémistocle décide de tenir Salamine contre l'avis de tous. Relisez Churchill en mai 1940 quand le cabinet de guerre, Halifax en tête, le pressait de négocier avec Hitler via Mussolini et qu'il a répondu "If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground." On peut trouver ça grandiloquent depuis nos canapés de 2026. C'est ce qui a sauvé la civilisation occidentale. Les peuples ne tiennent pas par leurs constitutions. Ils tiennent par des moments où un homme refuse l'évidence statistique de la défaite. Zelensky est ce moment. Pour notre génération. Une civilisation tient debout sur trois choses (je le redis parce que je le crois). Une vérité qu'elle ose nommer. Un bien qu'elle ose distinguer du mal. Un héritage qu'elle ose transmettre. Zelensky incarne les trois en même temps, par le simple fait d'être resté à Kiev. La vérité : c'est une invasion, pas une "opération spéciale", pas un "conflit régional", pas un "désaccord historique". Le bien : un peuple qui se défend a raison contre celui qui l'envahit, point. L'héritage : il y a une Ukraine, elle a une langue, une histoire, des morts, et ces morts méritent qu'on ne brade pas leur pays sur une table à Genève pour faire plaisir à un dictateur fatigué. Aron disait que les nations sont les seules réalités historiques sérieuses, et que tout le reste est commentaire. Je le crois de plus en plus. Zelensky a redonné à un mot que nous avions enterré (le mot "nation") une dignité que nous croyions perdue. Alors aux pro-russes de mes mentions, je n'ai pas grand-chose à ajouter. Vous défendez un régime qui assassine ses opposants par la fenêtre, qui kidnappe des enfants par dizaines de milliers, qui bombarde des maternités, qui exécute ses propres soldats à l'arrière du front. Vous le défendez avec le vocabulaire du "réalisme" et du "multipolarisme" et de la "fin de l'unipolarité américaine". Très bien. Continuez. Mais sachez ceci : dans dix ans, dans vingt ans, quand on écrira l'histoire de cette décennie, votre nom sera oublié et celui de Zelensky sera dans les manuels. Slava Ukraïni. Au travail.

"Russia's defeat is already a settled matter, and they know it very well themselves. Russia's professional army ran out..they have no strength.. Even if the fighting continues, Russia's future has changed,. forever." - Kyrylo Budanov🇺🇦

HODGES: We are going to regret that we, United States, didn’t do more to help Ukraine, because Ukraine going to win this war. Ukraine’s defeat of Russia is in best interests of all of us. Ukraine will become dominant defense industry power in Europe. America will be left behind.

When Donald Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Jeff Landry, arrived in Nuuk on Sunday, he was accompanied by physician Joseph Griffin, who told Danish broadcaster TV2 News that he had traveled to gain insight into Greenland’s healthcare system. However, Greenland’s Department of Health told Sermitsiaq that it had not been contacted regarding any planned meetings. “The Department of Health and Persons with Disabilities is not aware of any plans for a meeting,” the department stated. Greenlandic health minister: “Deeply problematic” According to Griffin, he is in Nuuk as a volunteer and has no affiliation with the U.S. government. On Sunday, Greenlandic Health Minister Anna Wangenheim wrote on LinkedIn that she viewed the Americans’ approach as deeply problematic: “It is deeply problematic when individuals with a political mission to make Greenland part of the United States send a so-called ‘volunteer doctor’ to Nuuk to ‘assess our needs.’” “Greenlanders are not test subjects in a geopolitical project,” the minister wrote. — Sermitsiaq

After years of pleading with their local governor and Putin to build a school, residents of Russia's Irkutsk have given up on waiting for government to make funds available, now asking Putin to beg Chinese President Xi to provide them with school facilities. Further they offer to learn the Chinese language in exchange, which they believe is the only path left remaining for Russians to have any future.

@opsylojay1 How does a blind guy know when a kid isn't making eye contact?

Turns out, for 23 years, every morning he’d pick up a blind kid at the same stop. Kid’s name was Jamal. Dad learned his name week 1, even though Jamal never said a word back. Dad would describe the weather, the traffic, what song was playing on the radio. Just narrating the ride so Jamal wouldn’t feel lost in the dark. The letters were from Jamal. All 23 years’ worth. Last letter said: “Mr. Chen, you were the first person who made me feel like I wasn’t alone in the world. I’m a teacher now. I do the same thing for my students who won’t make eye contact. I tell them about the weather. Thank you for teaching me how.” At the funeral, a guy I’d never met walked up and said: “My dad taught me that kindness doesn’t need a reply to be real.” That was Jamal. I had no idea my quiet dad was someone’s reason for speaking.

My dad was a bus driver for 23 years. Same route, 5AM-1PM, every weekday. He never talked about work at home. When he died, we got a package at the house. No return address. Inside was a shoebox full of letters and one note: “Open these when you’re ready to understand your dad”

This is exactly what Serbia wants. Decoupling EU accession from dialogue with Kosovo. The only problem, Serbia is already a candidate and we are not (+ we have 5 EU non-recognizers) so it’s in our interest for a legally binding agreement centered on mutual recognition, tied to EU