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A UK cheerleader for Ukraine, mostly, ‘for as long as it takes’
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · Sep 7
found it! Unmissable link to understanding that war is not just about explosions planes and tanks. Ex soldier and MP Bob Sealy has a book about it & this discussion is brilliant unmissable for understanding where Russia is at and how stupidly naïvely complacent the West is.

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Russia's New Total War - From Child Abduction to Cyber Attacks and Drones to Disinformation
YouTube video by Silicon Curtain
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 10h
Putin is losing the war, so prepare for escalation www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/faf8e43...
Putin is losing the war, so prepare for escalation
The clock is ticking for Russia’s leader – and that means Europe faces an imminent danger
www.telegraph.co.uk
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 1d
Brave! 🤞🍀🤞
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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 1d
"Latvia has ordered 841 Russian citizens to leave the country by Oct. 13 after they failed to prove their Latvian language proficiency and to undergo mandatory security checks."
@politico.eu
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Latvia orders more than 800 Russian citizens to leave by mid-October
Russian citizens who failed to comply with Riga’s new immigration rules must leave by Oct. 13 or risk deportation.
www.politico.eu
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d
Where are Ukraine's oligarchs now? This KI Insights briefing, drawing on analysis by expert Anatoliy Oktysiuk, explores where Ukraine’s major oligarchs stand today – financially, politically, and geographically – and examines how they may seek to re-enter political life as the landscape evolves.
Where Are Ukraine’s Oligarchs Now? Power, Projects, and Political Futures
Once the country’s kingmakers, Ukraine’s oligarchs have seen their fortunes and influence curtailed by war, sanctions, and political reform. Yet they remain far from irrelevant. This KI Insights brie...
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 1d
No normally functioning country indulges itself in such wanton destruction of its next door neighbouring country’s civilians. Russia is a rogue, post Soviet den of equity run by nasty death cult war criminals, it seems to me.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d
Russia launched an overnight strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, marking the anniversary of its first wave of energy terror in 2022. Over 450 drones and 30+ missiles were used, causing power outages across Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Odesa, and more. Kyiv's left bank is without power.
saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 1d
🙏🤞🤞🙏🙏❤️🫂
saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 1d
While we in the West get to sleep peacefully in our beds tonight😔…..💥😫
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 1d
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko: The enemy is striking the city’s critical infrastructure
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 2d
Where is Russia’s karmic boomerang? What is keeping it? Where is it? So far only reputation damage - military exposed as a joke instead of the second most powerful army in the world, its hoodlum government exposed as nothing more than a criminal enterprise with delusions of grandeur and some nukes
saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 2d
nv.ua/en/50551211....

Russia goes shopping abroad seeking gullible replacement recruits for its death and destruction aggressions.
CCD: Russia runs global mercenary recruitment campaign
Russia is conducting a mercenary recruitment campaign across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, disguising it as “cooperation” with local governments and “security agencies,” the Center for Co...
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 3d
… and to understand how Russia defines war differently. Silicon Curtain’s
video interview with former MP Bob Seely recently was about Jonathan Fink recommending his book “Total War” which explains how it works compared to how we think of what constitutes war?
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3d
🇪🇺👀 Violation of EU airspace is a hybrid war by the Russian Federation, it's time to call a spade a spade, — Ursula von der Leyen
saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 3d
🫡 Wishing him a bright future beyond this darkness
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 3d
🇺🇦🙏 Ukrainian journalist Heorhiy Ivanchenko lost his leg in Russian FPV drone strike. His colleague 🇫🇷Antoni Lallican was killed.

From the first days of the full-scale invasion, Ivanchenko worked on the front lines — documenting Russian crimes, helping to evacuate people, bringing humanitarian aid.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5d
The "I Want to Live" project published Russian statistics on the losses of the Russian Armed Forces in 2025.
t.me/c/1616052141...
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 5d
“Kept in the dark and fed shit” - like mushrooms. They know nothing, poor things.
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 5d
My privilege to do it 🙏!
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 5d
💪👏👏🫡

The mini-missiles designed to ram Putin’s drones out of the sky www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/a1361b0...
The mini-missiles designed to ram Putin’s drones out of the sky
Low-cost interceptor that can be fired from a hand-held cannon could become a powerful part of the EU’s defence capabilities
www.telegraph.co.uk
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 6d
Comments behind Telegraph articles suggest this is not yet true….😔. Read this on me.

The West is waking up to the Russian drone onslaught www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/13bae6e...
The West is waking up to the Russian drone onslaught
Britain and the rest of Europe cannot risk being caught unprepared by Putin again
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10d
That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...
Russia to import gasoline from Asia as nearly 40% of refining capacity shuts down, media reports
Russia is considering importing fuel from China, South Korea, and Singapore to stabilize its domestic market, according to Kommersant.
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 6d
French Photojournalist Killed and Ukrainian Photojournalist injured badly in Drone Attack in Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/w...
French Photojournalist Killed in Drone Attack in Ukraine
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6d
🚁🔥 Another angle of the already shot down Mi-8, which was hit by FPV drone.
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 6d
#Pokrovsk
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 6d
Border guards took out a high-value target: a Russian TOS-1A “Solntsepyok” heavy flamethrower system on the Pokrovsk front. Additional strikes on the Lyman, Toretsk, and Pokrovsk directions hit russian personnel, destroyed vehicles, and disrupted key logistics infrastructure.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 6d
🇺🇸🇺🇦 North Carolina passed "Iryna's Law" after the murder of a Ukrainian refugee on a train, - Fox News

North Carolina Governor signed new law named after Iryna Zarutska. Law strengthens bail enforcement and prohibits unsecured release for certain categories of offenders, including repeat offenders.
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 7d
BASTARDS🤬😰🤬!

Russian drone strikes Ukrainian passenger train www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/538f128...
Russian drone strikes Ukrainian passenger train
Volodymyr Zelensky posts video of burning carriage after incident, in Sumy region, injures dozens
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 7d
This was President Zelenskyy's moment of remembrance at his Day of Defenders speech this week. Russia will be defeated.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 8d
Russia now has to import gasoline from China. This is the ultimate humiliation for the Russians to be so at the mercy of China for both their imports AND exports.
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saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 7d
This is a nice tidy clip that says it all - to those paying attention to what Ukraine has achieved with its 💥💥💥💥focussed attacks inside Russia. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
saltyv.bsky.social @saltyv.bsky.social · 7d
May his fame grow wider. Investigative journalism is intense, can be dangerous and his death at 58 suggests to me, is also health hazardous. What they do is a necessary part of the maintenance of ‘democracy’.
I bow low 👏👏👏🫡 Rest now.
a candle with a match sticking out of it and the words never forget above it
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