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SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · Jul 14

Russian Propaganda Narratives in The New York Times - Why?

On July 12, The New York Times published a report from Russia’s Kursk region titled:
“A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia.”

This article plays directly into Moscow’s hands.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · Jul 8

Who the fuck is john

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 8

REPORTER: Ukraine has asked the international court to go after Russia for using toxic chemicals in the fight

TRUMP WHISPERING TO HEGSETH: What do you know about this?

HEGSETH WHISPERING: John might know

TRUMP: Well, I'd ask John to discuss it

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · Jul 7

What happens to a child taken from Ukraine?

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Ships with Russian crews zigzagging over pipelines”

If only someone had warned about this…. since forever

Б'єрнберт Hedgehog Fella @bjornbert.nafofellas.com · Jul 8

www.bt.no/nyheter/okon...
På tide med handling. Langt på overtid

Skip med russisk mannskap seiler sikksakk over rørledninger. – Situasjonen er bekymringsfull.

Politiet har avdekket uvanlige seilingsmønstre utenfor Mongstad, Sture og Kollsnes. Bare én prosent av skipene utenfor Vestland blir kontrollert.

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Granger @grangere04117.bsky.social · Jul 3

Project 22010-class oceanographic research vessel Almaz at Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad.

She's the second ship of a ship class where Yantar is a member of. Her deployment would mirror her sister in that she would be supporting activities of the Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research (GUGI).

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Jul 2

Well, the US was not really thinking of sending more anti air weapons to Ukraine, it was planning on stopping what little was on its way. The US is cutting Ukraine off during this vital moment. Once again, flattering Trump is not the right strategy. A free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of Ukrainians

Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Jun 29

No submarines? This is madness

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Jun 29

Ukraine is not being prepared as it should in air defense, and instead of sucking up to Trump, the Europeans should be far more proactive. They even have cards to play, if they had self respect. How about saying Europe will only buy US weapons if the US sells Ukraine Patriots?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · Jun 18

Hi All, Latest piece for The Europe Dispatch by @alanderminna.bsky.social just appeared. She looks at the tricky question of whether more European states are going to have to introduce conscription to contend with the Russian threat in the future. Its free to read. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The Conscription Comeback and the Social Contract

In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the question of obligatory military service and what the existing conscription systems – and their social acceptability – look like in the Nordic

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Jun 18

Cluster munitions are designed to maximise damage of a single strike by releasing several submunitions over a larger area—in effect distributing explosive force to multiple impact zones, indiscriminately targeting beyond the range of one concentrated blast. Russia is launching them at kindergartens.

Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · Jun 17

NEW: Russian forces conducted the third largest combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion on the night of June 16 to 17. More ⬇️(1/3)

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 17, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar061725

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · Jun 15

President Zelensky warns that Russia is planning further attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which may draw less global attention due to the focus on the Middle East. Intelligence on threats to nuclear facilities has been shared with the IAEA and U.S. counterparts.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Jun 14

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that current communication between the US and Russia resembles a “warm conversation"

Such a tone only reinforces the Russian ruler’s confidence, as Vladimir Putin does not want peace, he added euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/14/r...

Russia’s warm conversations with US are ploy to dodge sanctions, not end the war, says Zelenskyy

America must show strength, the Ukrainian leader urges, warning that any pause in pressure only encourages further Russian aggression.

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Jun 14

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · Jun 9

Read Charles King’s 2020 essay on what the decline of the Soviet Union looked like from the inside—and why great powers can be blind to their own decay until collapse is imminent:

How a Great Power Falls Apart

To know how great powers end, one could do worse than study the last one that actually did.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Centre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social · Jun 6

Last night, on 5 June, Russia launched 407 Shahed and decoy drones into Ukrainian airspace. Around 17,500 Shahed drones and decoys were launched by Russia between January and June 2025. This accounts for a staggering 50% of the total drones launched since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · May 3

1/ THE SINKING OF MOSKVA, PART 3: After being struck by Ukrainian missiles on 13 April, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was abandoned and left to drift burning overnight. This thread tells the story of the ship's final hours, and what happened next. ⬇️

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

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Underdriver sabotasjetrusselen til sjøs

Les innlegget.

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Apr 4

Chronicle in today’s Aftenposten, after NUPIs Lars Gresvik erroneously argued how “premature conclusions of underwater sabotage” in the Baltic Sea only breeds unnecessary fear—with decreased cable security as consequence. An unreasonable logic of course, undermining the Russian seabed warfare threat

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · Mar 22

Putin has just signed a decree allowing him to ethnically cleanse Eastern Ukraine further. Those he didn’t slaughter, will now be forcibly deported.
The mass extermination of Ukrainians and their culture continues with apparently help from the Trump administration 🇺🇸

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Tormod Malvin Sæther @torsae.bsky.social · Mar 22

🧵I had the privilege to sit down with 🇺🇦 Minister for Strategic Industries, Herman Smetanin and presidential advisor, Alexander Kamyshin, in Oslo. We discussed Ukraine's growing arms industry.🚀 1/12

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · Mar 11

Another conceivable scenario is Russia agreeing to the ceasefire but not respecting it, as seems to be the Russian custom with agreements.

Then an interesting question will be whether the truth about who violated the ceasefire first matters to the US

Sabine Fischer @sabfis3.bsky.social · Mar 11

Another moment of truth. If Russia does not accept, which is not unlikely as they have not achieved what the want, it could lead to a twist that has been part of the Ukrainian Trump calculus from the start: Putin doesn't deliver, Trump gets angry. Will he then back Ukraine? An open question.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Mar 11

Breaking news: Ukraine is ready to accept a US proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire in its war with Russia as long as Moscow does the same, Kyiv and Washington said on Tuesday. www.ft.com/content/3e00...

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Mar 10

Meanwhile, Dark Storm claims responsibility for the DDOS attack, an alleged “pro-Palestinian” group with “highly likely unconfirmed links with Russia”.

www.orangecyberdefense.com/fileadmin/gl...

www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-ou...

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Mar 10

Of course it was… Ukrainian cyber guys are clever enough to hack Musk’s infamous X server, but not cloak their IP.

And so the disinformation campaign discrediting Ukraine as a means to justify future Starlink blackouts and generate further battlefield effects in the Kremlin’s favour intensifies.

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · Mar 10

"X was hit by a massive cyberattack today, with IP addresses linked to the Ukraine area," Musk said in response to today's mass attacks on X. The platform was unavailable to lots of users during the day.

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great article and must-read thread from my @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social colleague @sandertordoir.bsky.social . As Trump’s US undermines European security & strengthens Putin’s Russia, Europe needs to realise its industrial strength & use it effectively.

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · Mar 10

I wrote a new piece for foreign policy.

The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card.

When it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water.

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Heavy Industry Is Europe’s Trump Card

The continent has an upper hand in its looming security competition with the United States.

foreignpolicy.com

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Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · Mar 10

Sources:
- function.mil.ru/news_page/co...
- www.eurasiantimes.com/big-shift-u-...

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