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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1m

The Israeli hostages are home. But now we need to bring the Ukrainians back
Trump’s Gaza peace deal was a triumph for victims of forced disappearances and should set a precedent across the globe

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 3m

Opinion

What’s going on with Putin’s broken submarine? Here’s my take as an old sub hunter
The fall of Syria has been a serious blow to the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 7m

Nato in talks to make it easier to shoot down Russian jets
Defence chiefs want aircraft carrying ground-attack missiles over allied airspace to be possible targets

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 12m

Russia accuses Mikhail Khodorkovsky of plotting coup
Moscow’s intelligence service launches fresh criminal case against former Yukos oil magnate and 22 other dissidents in exile

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 15m

Senate fails to advance GOP funding bill for 8th time as shutdown drags on

The Senate failed to reach the 60 votes needed to advance the House-passed bill to end the government shutdown & extend funding into next month, with no new Democrats offering support
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Senate fails to advance GOP funding bill for 8th time as shutdown drags on

The Senate once again fell short of the 60 votes necessary to advance a bill to reopen the government.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 20m

Jack Smith speaks out against the Trump administration in rare interview
The former special counsel warned of threats to public servants and the independence of the judiciary in an interview at University College London Faculty of Laws.

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Jack Smith speaks out against the Trump administration in rare interview

The former special counsel warned of threats to public servants and the independence of the judiciary in an interview at University College London Faculty of Laws.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 21m

GOP Rep. Cory Mills hit with a restraining order from ex-girlfriend
Lindsey Langston said that after they broke up, Mills threatened to blackmail her and physically harm anyone she dated.

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GOP Rep. Cory Mills hit with a restraining order from ex-girlfriend

Lindsey Langston said that after they broke up, Mills threatened to blackmail her and physically harm anyone she dated.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 23m

US Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' challenge to $1.4 billion defamation judgment

The justices turned away his appeal of the Connecticut Appellate Court's decision in a defamation lawsuit against him to uphold most of the judgment issued by a judge and jury in 2022

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 25m

Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

Owens, who has built a large online following for her controversial conservative views, applied for a visa to undertake a speaking tour in November 2024.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 28m

Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 29m

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 30m

Ukraine authorities order mass evacuations from around devastated Kupiansk

Another official in the affected area later told public broadcaster Suspilne that the list of localities to be evacuated by families had been expanded to 40.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 32m

Russia makes more precise drones and is using them to attack Ukraine’s vital rail network

They are part of Russia’s broader targeting of infrastructure that now is being carried out with greater precision thanks to advances in long-range drone tech

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Russia makes more precise drones and is using them to attack Ukraine’s vital rail network

Russia is intensifying drone strikes on Ukraine’s rail network, a critical lifeline for commercial freight, passenger traffic and military logistics.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 33m

Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it’s political

Airports in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Phoenix, Seattle and more say the video’s political content goes against their policies or regulations

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Some airports refuse to play Noem video on shutdown impact, saying it's political

Airports around the country are saying they won’t play a video with a message from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in which she blames Democrats for the federal government shutdo...

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 34m

Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it’s up to FIFA to choose sites

“We could take them away,” Trump said of the World Cup games. “I love the people of Boston & I know the games are sold out. But your mayor is not good.”

Lol, FIFA's job, not trump

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Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites

President Donald Trump is threatening to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 36m

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump admin has revoked the visas of 6 foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

Snowflakes..

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US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 38m

Russia blasts ‘freaks’ at Time magazine over cover that Trump hated
“Only unhealthy people” could have chosen the photo Time used, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova fumes.

Someone desperately trying to stop TLAM'S 😏😉
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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 41m

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Trump to Spain: Spend more on defense or face ‘punishment’ tariffs
U.S. president berates “unbelievably disrespectful” Madrid for failing to reach NATO’s military investment target.

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Trump to Spain: Spend more on defense or face ‘punishment’ tariffs

U.S. president berates “unbelievably disrespectful” Madrid for failing to reach NATO’s military investment target.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 42m

NATO weighs options to sew up ‘patchwork’ air defenses
Mounting drone incursions are sparking a debate on national rules that some see as limiting NATO’s top military officer.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1h

1070 sacks of 💩 removed from Ukraine 🇺🇦

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 13h

A new stage of the war: the West is talking about Ukraine's victory again

The emergence of a debate in the world media about who is winning is confusing the Kremlin and attacking the remnants of its authority. A range of reasons directly influenced the change of opinion
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Новий етап війни: на Заході знов заговорили про перемогу України

Поява у світових ЗМІ дискусії про те, хто перемагає, плутає Кремлю всі карти та б’є по залишках авторитету. Безпосередньо на зміну думки вплинув цілий комплекс причин – від ситуації на полі бою до під...

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 14h

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, court hears

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson was unlawfully stopped driving a Bentley at the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, and counter-terrorism officers made a disproportionate use of their powers, his lawyer has told a court.

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Tommy Robinson police stop at Channel Tunnel unlawful, court hears

The far-right activist was charged under the Terrorism Act over an incident at the Channel Tunnel in July 2024.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 14h

UK spy plane circles Russian territory for intelligence

A Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic surveillance aircraft has conducted a patrol circling the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

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UK spy plane circles Russian territory for intelligence

A Royal Air Force RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic surveillance aircraft has conducted a patrol circling the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 14h

Defense Cooperation with the USA: Engine Assembly Plant for F-35 Fighter Jets Built in Finland

The production facility, located in Linnavouri, Nokia, will initially serve as an engine assembly site and will later be converted for its maintenance and overhaul.

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Defense Cooperation with the USA: Engine Assembly Plant for F-35 Fighter Jets Built in Finland - Militarnyi

A plant for assembling and maintaining engines for fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets has been established in Finland.

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 14h

China Supplied More Than 500 Thousand km of Fiber Optic Cable to Russia in August

According to China’s customs service, a record 527,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable were shipped to Russia in August, nearly three times the amount shipped in June.

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China Supplied More Than 500 Thousand km of Fiber Optic Cable to Russia in August - Militarnyi

China has significantly increased exports of key components for the production of FPV drones to Russia.

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