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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1h

One year ago, the Kremlin denied the presence of North Korean soldiers in Russia as “fake news.” They were lying. Now Moscow hosts art exhibitions celebrating North Korea’s participation in the war against Ukraine

www.rferl.org/a/north-kore...

From Denial To Display: North Korea Glorifies Fight Against Ukraine

An art exhibition in Moscow has showcased North Koreans fighting Ukrainian troops, a facet of the Russian invasion which the Kremlin once dismissed as "fake news."

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 6h

Ukrainian forces have reportedly liberated the village of Mali Shcherbaky this morning on the Zaporizhzhia front in southern Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like Russia may be in even deeper trouble than many imagined. Putin’s actions in recent days speak volumes:

- apologising to Azerbaijan
- begging Cuba for soldiers
- importing fuel from China
- cancelling summit with Arab leaders

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 9h

Helicopters play a crucial role in Ukraine’s air defences. This chopper has shot down so many Russian drones that it is fast running out of space to record fresh kills

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 20h

“Russia’s overstretched air defenses are already struggling to cope with Ukrainian drones and may soon be overwhelmed by flocks of flamingos.”

Peter Dickinson joined Poland’s TVP World as Ukraine continues to bring Putin’s invasion home to Russia.

LINK: youtu.be/liPdukp10-4?...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

Ukraine carried out a successful long-range drone strike this morning on Russia's Bashneft-UNPZ oil refinery in Ufa 1,400km from the Ukrainian border as Kyiv’s bombing campaign against Putin’s war machine continues to gain momentum

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

“Ukraine is the ultimate MacGyver nation. If Trump supplies Tomahawks, Ukrainians will find a way to use them.”

Business Ukraine’s Peter Dickinson joined Poland’s TVP World as the US weighs up providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles for deep strikes inside Russia.

LINK: youtu.be/liPdukp10-4?...

Debate on Tomahawks continues as Russia pounds Ukraine’s energy grid | Ukraine This Week

YouTube video by TVP WORLD

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has held a “very positive and productive” call with US President Donald Trump today. Judging by the accompanying photo Zelenskyy’s team has released, it was a very positive call indeed!

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

“Nice countries you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to them.”

Putin the geopolitical gangster is a master of intimidation tactics. He is now using Russian drones to menace Europe into abandoning Ukraine

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Putin the geopolitical gangster is trying to intimidate Europe

Putin the geopolitical gangster is trying to intimidate Europe into abandoning Ukraine with an escalating campaign of gray zone aggression designed to highlight the continent's vulnerability to Russia...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

Ukraine reportedly carried out a successful long-range drone strike early this morning on a Russian oil refinery complex in Bashkortostan, 1400 km from the Ukrainian border

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

After months of lies and denials, Putin has this week publicly apologised to Azerbaijan President Aliyev for shooting down an Azeri passenger jet in 2024. This embarrassing U-turn suggests Putin is deeply concerned by Russia’s recent loss of influence in the South Caucasus

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 1d

“Battlefield innovations in Ukraine are transforming modern warfare.”

Business Ukraine publisher Peter Dickinson joined New York’s RTVI US as Ukraine and Russia wage the world’s first full-scale drone war

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 2d

German defense industry giant Rheinmetall and an unnamed EU country will use hundreds of millions of euros in frozen Russian funds to supply Ukraine with more drone-killing Skyranger air defense systems

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Germany’s Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine with Skyranger air defense systems using frozen Russian funds - businessukraine.ua

German defense industry giant Rheinmetall has announced a deal to supply Ukraine with an undisclosed number of additional Skyranger 35 air defense systems, which come mounted on the chassis of Leopard...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 2d

Putin the geopolitical gangster is using drones to intimidate Europe into abandoning Ukraine

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Putin the geopolitical gangster is trying to intimidate Europe

Putin the geopolitical gangster is trying to intimidate Europe into abandoning Ukraine with an escalating campaign of gray zone aggression designed to highlight the continent's vulnerability to Russia...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 3d

After ten months of Kremlin lies and denials, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged Russia’s responsibility for downing an Azerbaijani jet in late 2024

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/w...

10 Months Later, Russia Admits Deadly Downing of Azerbaijani Plane

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 3d

Across central Asia and the Caucasus, former Russian colonies are forging deeper ties with China, the European Union, Turkey, or the Gulf states, as they seek to protect themselves against further Kremlin aggression

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Breaking Russia’s Hold Over Its Former Empire

When Vladimir Putin joins summits of former Soviet states in Tajikistan this week, the leaders around the table will most likely declare their close bonds with Russia. In reality, many have been dista...

www.bloomberg.com

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 3d

NEW POLL: More than 2/3 of Americans are in favor of arming Ukraine. This includes 73% of Republican voters, 1% ahead of Democrats. Supporting Ukraine is one of the few issues that most Americans seem to agree on right now

LINK: harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/u...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 4d

“Putin views foreign recruits as cheap and politically convenient cannon fodder for his invasion.”

Business Ukraine publisher Peter Dickinson joined India’s Republic to discuss the problem of Indian nationals being duped into fighting for Russia.

LINK: youtu.be/Tbuo_-zEVDc?...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 4d

“Russia has become a military that is capable of both evolving during this war and readying itself for future, high-tech conflicts.”

www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/how-r...

How Russia Recovered

What the Kremlin is learning from the war in Ukraine.

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 4d

Trump offered Putin extremely generous peace terms and received empty promises and deadly escalations in return. It is now time for America to speak to the Russian dictator in the language of strength, the only language he truly understands

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Putin rejected Trump’s generous deal. Time to try peace through strength.

President Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine by offering Putin Kremlin-friendly peace terms have failed to convince the Russian dictator. It is now time to speak to Putin in the language of str...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 4d

Belarusian gasoline exports to Russia quadrupled in September as Moscow sought to tackle fuel shortages caused by Ukrainian attacks on its energy infrastructure, Reuters reports

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 5d

Ukraine has reportedly set a new world record for the longest ever drone strike with a successful attack on a Russian oil refinery located in Tyumen approximately 2100 km from the Ukrainian border. There are also some suggestions that the drones may have been launched locally, Spider’s Web-style

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 6d

"Zelenskyy has warned Moscow that if they turn the lights off in Ukraine, Ukraine will turn the lights off in Russia."

Business Ukraine publisher Peter Dickinson joined BBC News as Russia begins a fourth consecutive winter bombing campaign against Ukraine's civilian energy infrastructure

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 6d

“In the 21st century you don’t need tanks to put technologically advanced countries on their knees.”

Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya on Putin’s escalating aggression against Europe

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Europe needs to ‘get serious’ about threat posed to it by Russia, Ukraine minister says

Sergiy Kyslytsya says Kremlin already at war with Europe and predicts that Vladimir Putin will ‘escalate escalating’

www.theguardian.com

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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 7d

Putin’s Moldova election failure highlights Russia’s declining influence #Ukraine

Putin’s Moldova election failure highlights Russia's declining influence

Russia's failed bid to sway recent elections in Moldova underscores the challenges Putin faces as he seeks to reassert Russian dominance over countries once ruled from the Kremlin at a time when Moscow’s ability to project power is increasingly in question, writes Kateryna Odarchenko.

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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