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@nexta_tv Mulgikapsad (also Mulgi kapsad) is sauerkraut stewed with lard, meat (mostly pork) and pearl barley. It is in the list of the Estonian cultural heritage, and can be considered to be an Estonian national food. Why is Putin interested how to make traditional Estonian food?

⚡️ BREAKING: The President of Russia has decisively arrived at the site of explosions and fires in the Perm region to personally coordinate the response and reassure people. Oh wait, sorry. Putin has more important things to do — he’s discussing sauerkraut with pearl barley. Perm and Tuapse can wait!

@P_Kallioniemi Let them spend their money in EU and drain Russia. We can grow our economy with that money and give more support to Ukraine.

EU countries like Italy, France, and Spain are again issuing large numbers of tourist visas to Russians, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine and widespread sanctions. In 2024, Russians submitted over 600,000 Schengen visa applications, and more than 540,000 were approved - an approval rate of around 89%. Italy granted 152,254 visas to Russian citizens, about 20,000 more than the previous year. France issued 123,890, and Spain 111,187. For these countries, the source of the money doesn’t seem to matter. Russian tourists are known to spend lavishly, and economic gain appears to outweigh ethical concerns. While their leaders deliver speeches about solidarity with Ukraine and uphold symbolic gestures of support, they continue to welcome Russian tourists, buy Russian energy, and sell luxury properties to oligarchs tied to the Kremlin. France, for example, defends this policy by claiming that tourism helps improve relations with Russia. According to the French Foreign Ministry: "People-to-people ties and cultural exchange enhance mutual understanding and promote dialogue. We make a strong effort to distinguish between the Russian government, which is responsible for the war in Ukraine, and the Russian people, civil society, and the country’s opposition." As usual, some countries seem to be more interested in condemning a genocidal attack on European soil than others.

"If the aggressor does not lay down its arms, there won't be peace and there certainly won't be a lasting peace. The goal, first and foremost, should be to have Russia end its invasion. After that there can be talks on a credible and lasting peace." 🇫🇮 FM @elinavaltonen at #FAC

@TheFl0orIsLaVa We allready renamed the Gulf of Riga to Gulf of Livonia (Liivi laht) so why stop there.

So, we in Estonia decided to make some changes...

@nexta_tv Just put "Made in Ukraine" on a missiles and problem solved.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that Ukraine has the right to self-defense, but made it clear that Kiev will not yet be allowed to use Western missiles to strike deep into Russia "We are not seeking any conflict with Russia, it is not part of our intentions in the slightest," the British prime minister commented on Putin's statement that allowing Western missiles to strike Russian territory would mean a direct war between NATO countries and Russia.

@DefenceU @MoD_Estonia @HPevkur

🇪🇪🤝🇺🇦 Thank you, Estonia! #2YearsOfResistance #2yearsOfUnity @MoD_Estonia @HPevkur Two years ago, russia started an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We are grateful to every country, leader, and person who has stood—and continues to stand—with Ukraine. We will win.

@NOELreports Zero fu..s given by Ukrainian grandma

A Russian soldiers shot a video moments after their military base was hit. Personnel and trucks can be seen while ammo can be heard exploding.

There are two Russian armies fighting in their invasion of Ukraine. There is the "second army" of the world with massive numbers of tanks and artillery pieces and soldiers that march with precision on Red Square and look like recruiting posters. This army is supported by a massive industrial base making "near peer" equipment at elevated rates. Then there is another Russian army invading Ukraine. This one has lost 90% of its professional soldiers ("lifers" in US jargon). It is now filled with soldiers with 30 days or less training. Its officer corps depleted to a frction of the pre-war level. Never well-trained in manuever war or combined arms, this army uses clumsy tactics with little or no situational awareness. Vehicle drivers run over their own troops or into their own minefields. This army's generals order small unit attacks over and over again on the same avenues of approach that were dominated by the enemy the day before. This second Russian army has blown through a massive amount of its first-line equipment. Older T62s from decades ago are seen in its formations and loss columns, because the first line T80/T72 modern versions are becoming scarce. This army's air defesne has proven far less capable than its published specifcations and has been pciked apart by droens and anti-radiation missiles. Self-propelled artillery seen in vast numbers on paper before the invasion are now repalced with ancvient D30 towed guins, vulnerable to counter-battery fire and drones. The second army is the real one. The first army is the myth that Putin may still nourish, but - more importantly- the delusion that drives Western media to claim the war is a "stalemate" or that Russia can fight a long-war as it grows "stronger" deploying non-existent modern equipment and trained troops. The first zdrmy only appears in RedSquare films. The second one shows up in daily clips from the battlefield. THese clips seldom reported or published in Westgern popular media. The same media - ignorant of the battlefield reality- dutifully reports the lines on the map and concludes there is a stalemate. It feeds a narrative that more "resistance is futile" (Russians are the Borg). The scenario for the first army described is that Russia will never give up its occupied territories without a fight to the bitter end. The second army has lost effective control of Sevastapol and is losing its land bridge to Crimea due to long-range artillery fire and partisan warfare. In this real world scenario, Russia has lost much of its basic war objectives and is relying entirely on a political effort to break Western will to supply Ukraine. The Russian losses, verified by third-parties, in the real world are staggering and accelrating. These have consumed the best Russian equipment and their best troops. The comments below have links to multiple sources and information describing this "second Russian army" - the real one. It is clear that Russia's only hope is to break Western will, which cannot be allowed to happen. Ukraine does not need a piece of paper that crates "peace" (they alreayd got one of those in Budapest). Ukraine just needs ammo, as Presdient Zellensky famously said. #RussiaLosingBadly #UkraineMustWin

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DUMB THINGS RUSSIA DID IN THE UKRAINE WAR Sometimes we do not fully realize how stupid, absurd, delusional, and surreal the Russian war in Ukraine is. We got so used to all those idiotic Kremlin statements, to Putin regressing into childhood and being not even able to explain what this war is even about (at a current moment), to mercenary armies of suicidal convicts and Russian neo-Nazis claiming to be "liberating" Ukraine from "Nazim" and at the same time denying Ukraine's very right to exist, that we often miss it out how many insanely mind-blowing things that history textbooks will be telling about this war in the future. Here's my impromptu list of stupid things that happened to Russia or that have been done by Russia in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine since February 24, 2022. It's far from complete, of course, given the fact that the Kremlin never ceases to amaze at hitting rock bottom. So, over the last 19 months of this war, Russia: - Managed to lose a submarine to a cruise missile, for the first time in human history. - Lost its fleet flagship (for the first time since 1905), the biggest warship sunk since 1945, to a nation that has no navy. - Lost at least 2,300 tanks by now (including some 1,000 during the February-March 2022 blitzkrieg), which is more than all tank forces of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy combined, and is comparable to the entire U.S. Army operational tank fleet. - Exhausted its capabilities to the point of having to de-mothball T-62 and T-54/55 tanks that were of relevance around the Cuban Missile Crisis era. - Managed to basically exhaust the gargantuan Soviet stockpile of artillery munitions (which was considered endless) due to insane over-expenditure that reached 60,000 rounds a day in Donbas in mid-2022. - Was seriously expecting to conquer and occupy an unfriendly 40-million nation with a 150,000-strong invasion force. - Plunged into full-swing fascism, a mass cult of territorial grabs, and militaristic hysteria under the Z-swastika while claiming to be ancestors of WWII victors. - Had its troops digging dugouts in the highly contaminated soil of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. - Was so successful that, 6 months after the invasion day, it had to declare mobilization for the first time since 1941 and 1914. - Failed to score air supremacy despite obvious advantage over Ukraine's air force in quality and numbers - Simply declared a 40-million European nation "Nazi" and thus entitled itself to eradicate and occupy it in a war of aggression. - Had a daring landing operation at a strategic airfield that was supposed to be a crushing blow upon the Ukrainian capital but nonetheless failed on day 1. - Lost up to two battalion tactical groups (!) to Ukrainian artillery while trying to cross a river in Donbas in May 2022 - Spent a month trying to break into Kyiv and then simply left, having failed the entire war's key axis, with its most elite forces severely degraded. - As the world's second strongest military, it became dependent on Iranian supplies of kamikaze drones (and likely ballistic missiles) and begged North Korea to provide it with artillery munitions. - Seriously believed Putin's kin Viktor Medvedchuk, who had spent years plundering the Kremlin money and telling cool stories on how Ukrainians were just dreaming of being part of Russia again. - Had its regular military so insanely successful that it had to hastily pump up a "private military company" led by a catering tycoon (a former street criminal) and a neo-Nazi, which recruited masses of suicidal convicts and practiced ISIS-style executions on camera. - As the world's second strongest military power, it re-introduced the phenomenon of "meat grinder assaults" in Europe in the year 2022. - Spent hundreds of missiles to strip a 40-million European nation of electricity and heating in the dead of winter -- and failed. - Occupied nuclear power plants and deployed military forces at their facilities -- for the first time in human history. - Spent a year and lost tens of thousands of men fighting for the ruins of a mid-sized provincial town of Bakhmut (which it declared the new Stalingrad), the eventual capture of which resulted in no further progress at all and was quickly forgotten. - Had its daily acts of nuclear blackmailing so overused that everyone eventually stopped paying attention. - Had Putin ribbon-cutting a wonder wheel in Moscow during the disastrous defeat in Kharkiv Oblast and visiting a turkey farm in Tiumen following the withdrawal from Kherson. - Unleashed the biggest European war since WWII and, after things went south, began whining about Ukraine not willing to have a "ceasefire" and a "deal in negotiations." - Made the West wake up and provide Ukraine with weapons ranging from artillery to tanks, air defense, missiles, and now also jet fighters. - Faced an armed rebellion by the "private military company" which easily captured a key Russian city, a key military HQ, and then moved towards Moscow, making Putin flee and ask for a deal. - Despite all the bravado and megalomanic plans, after 19 months of a full-scale war, Russia occupies 18% of Ukraine's territory (including Donbas and Crimea seized in 2014), and it has lost some 50% of the Ukrainian territory seized after February 24, 2022. - Unleashed the biggest European war since WWII due to "the NATO threat" in Ukraine but couldn't care less about Finland and Sweden joining the alliance - it's all just fine. - Saw Ukrainian drone strikes on the Kremlin and Moscow becoming a new normal. - Had Ukrainian-backed Russian armed nationalist groups crossing the border, capturing Russian towns, killing Russian troops, and leaving unpunished. - Annexed entire Ukrainian regions it did not even fully control by simply formally declaring them Russian regions and having a gala concert at the Red Square. And left Kherson a month later. - After a year of the war, lost at least as many troops as the U.S. had lost within a decade in Vietnam, making this the deadliest Russian war since WWII. - Saw Putin break his word and assassinate the "private military company's" chiefs after they had stupidly believed they could have a deal with Putin. - Committed atrocities in Bucha, Izium, and Mariupol, with mass graves, acts of torture, and executions seen in those lands for the first time since the Nazi occupation and called this "liberation". - Saw The Hague court issue an arrest warrant for Putin on charges of war crimes. - Had to leave Snake Island and then relocate its Black Sea fleet from Crimea to mainland Russia due to devastating Ukrainian attacks, effectively giving up on its control over the northwest Black Sea -- to a nation that has no navy. - Easily exchanged the Mariupol garrison leaders, including insanely demonized Azov Regiment commanders, for no one but Viktor Medvedchuk -- and continued listening to his cool stories about Ukraine. - Triggered the worst man-made disaster since the Chornobyl blast, the Kakhovka dam destruction, leaving swathes of Ukrainian land flooded, including Russia's own military facilities on the Dnipro River banks. - Had its strategic bombers and transport aircraft destroyed on the ground by Ukraine at airfields hundreds of kilometers deep inside Russian territory. - Prior to the 2022 invasion, Russia got Ukraine semi-surrounded with the largest military force seen in the region since the peak of the Cold War -- and then declared that Ukraine SUDDENLY decided to attack Russia and "the Russian people in Donbas." What a coincidence! - Saw its much-advertised winter 2023 offensive (for the sake of which it had launched a large-scale mobilization) fail without any substantial progress. - Made its online bootlickers act as if it's actually Ukraine that has failed with its 20-month blitzkrieg into Russia -- not kinda the other way around. - Had this insanely hyped-up General Armageddon, the hammer of the Ukrainian doomsday who ended up only ceding Kherson, being discharged two months after and exiled following the Wagner coup. - Still struggles to choose a certain end goal for its "special military operation" -- be it "de-militarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine," or "the fight against Satanism and the collective West," or "the protection of the people of Donbas," or "saving Russia and its civilization from losing its sovereignty and collapsing." - During the disastrous withdrawal from Kharkiv, abandoned for Ukraine an amount of munitions and military hardware comparable to the entire Western supply by that moment. - Rendered Donbas largely uninhabitable. - Ruined the region's once-gigantic industrial base. - Made millions flee in terror. - Slaughtered tens of thousands of able-bodied Donbas males forcibly mobilized and then used as cannon fodder in meat grinder assaults. - Leveled entire cities to ashes, with those cities very unlikely to be ever revived due to astronomical amounts of resources required and due to almost complete depopulation. - And then proudly installed its flag over the lifeless ruins and called this "de-Nazification." P.S. Those who knowingly endorse all those things that Russia did to Ukraine should quit calling themselves sane human beings. Support my work here: buymeacoffee.com/saintanger

Turkey is a divided country, even at the heights of national joy where everyone supposed to unify In this instance, a player from the women’s volleyball team was subjected to homophobic abuse leading up to European championship match, which her team won

Ukraine: Refugee children learn Welsh in 11 weeks "After 11 weeks, Natalia, 9, is almost fluent. She said she loves Welsh. Her and her friends' grasp of the language has been called "astounding". bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…

Ukrainian soldiers inspect a position that was just taken from fleeing soldiers. They were in such a hurry that they even had to leave their newly acquired washing machine behind. twitter.com/O_Ostapchuk/st…

Kadyrov’s latest propaganda video. At the end, the children shout “we are the reserves”. The Chechen dictator has lost his mind.

@UAWeapons Someone here asked for the Star Wars version...