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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7h

In August, Russia's profit from the sale of ALL energy resources (crude oil, petroleum products, gas, LNG, and coal) reached its lowest level since 2022, at €546 million per day.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7h

📉 Goldman Sachs forecasts a 10% decline in Russian oil production in 2026, from 9.3 to 8.4 million barrels per day, - The Telegraph

The oil refinery crisis means there's nowhere to store the accumulated oil. Furthermore, oil companies are suffering from a high key interest rate of 17%.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 8h

🇺🇸🤔 Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton will soon be charged with federal crimes, - NBC News.

In August, FBI raided Bolton's home and office. The raids focused on Bolton's handling of classified materials and possible use of these documents to leak information to the media.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 12h

🇱🇹 Lithuania is training in Vilnius to protect the most important food stores in the event of an emergency, - LRT

207 support stores and pharmacies are planned in Lithuania. They will provide half of residents with essential products in one day, even in the event of power or communication failure.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 15h

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇺🇦 Yermak: The leaders of UK, France and Germany announced on Friday that they had agreed during a telephone conversation to move to using frozen Russian assets to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Countries emphasized that they would do this in coordination with the US.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 15h

For the fourth year now, our state has been standing against Russia's full-scale and terrorist aggression. And we are doing everything to stop Russia.

I am proud of each of our heroes. Thank you to our Ukrainian families who raised such Ukrainian heroes. Thank you for protecting Ukraine.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 15h

🎖️🇺🇦 Zelensky: Awarded our soldiers with the Golden Star and presented the awards to the families of the Heroes of Ukraine, who were awarded the title posthumously.

It is thanks to the fact that millions of our people really stood up for defense of Ukraine, that Ukraine was able to preserve.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: I spoke with Keir Starmer.

We need to strengthen our air defense and expedite every decision regarding missile and system deliveries.

We discussed the possible participation of the UK in PURL initiative. We are also preparing new sanctions steps against Russia.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

In response to the crisis in Russia and the inability to protect oil infrastructure, Putin may resort to escalation, seeking easy targets, particularly within NATO.

The situation in Russia is reminiscent of the end of WW I, when war fatigue devastated the German home front after failed offensive.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ Putin is at a dead end and may start a new war to cover up Russia's collapse - The Telegraph

Putin is losing the economic war faster than he is achieving a military advantage in Ukraine. Russia's summer offensive faltered—the occupation army lost 800 men a day.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸🇺🇦🚀 A Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson on the Tomahawk:

Currently, the Ukrainian and American teams are working to agree on all the details. This concerns the configurations and configurations of the Tomahawk missiles that could be provided to Ukraine.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

…give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease Trump, - NYT

Under a deal, Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to US companies…

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

💔 A 7-year-old boy was killed by Russians during today's strike on Zaporizhzhia.

Relatives said his father, who is currently in hospital in critical condition, spent three years in Russian captivity.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

Over the month, the enemy increased the number of air attack means used by 1.3 times. And although our air defense demonstrates efficiency at the level of about 74%.

Last month, the number of hits on Russia was brought to 70. In particular, oil refining in Russia has been reduced by 21%.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇦 Syrskyi: During September, the total losses of the Russian occupiers amounted to 28.5 thousand people.

Thanks to the successful actions of AFU, we manage to stop and throw back the enemy, who planned to seize the territory of the entire Donetsk region in early autumn.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 Russian oil product production plummeted by 10% after drone strikes, — Bloomberg

Ukrainian drone strikes, which have hit 28 oil refineries in Russia since August, have plunged fuel and other oil product production to multi-year lows.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🏅As history has shown, the Nobel Peace Prize does not always signify genuine progress toward sustainable peace.

❗️Yet, it often becomes a diplomatic instrument — a way for countries to draw global attention or to court influence.

Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/how-the-nobe...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇦🇺🇸🏅 Kyiv will nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he sends Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine and helps achieve a ceasefire with Russia, — Politico quotes Zelensky.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump said he could resolve the war between Ukraine and Russia.

We're close to resolving an eighth. And I think we'll eventually resolve the situation with Russia, which is terrible. Last week, by the way, 7,000 people died in Russia, between Russia and Ukraine.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

And it is definitely not easy with those countries that still shake Putin’s hand today. And that is why he is choosing war for now.

But it is possible to stop this. We need more pressure on Russia. Pressure will work when they lose more from the war than they can lose in other scenarios.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

💯🇺🇦 Zelensky: Putin is personally afraid of a ceasefire, because it is difficult for him to go from a ceasefire to a war again.

Going from a full-scale war to a ceasefire and then starting a full-scale war again is not easy for them. It is not easy economically, it is not easy with society, world.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ Trump: The hostages are going to be released — our time would be probably Monday... We think they'll all be coming back on Monday, and that'll include the bodies of the dead.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇸🇵🇸 Trump: Gaza is going to be a much safer place, and it's going to be a place that reconstructs — and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct.

🇮🇱 Trump: I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago... I said, "Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi. They can't fight the world."

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 3d

🔘implementation of defense industry development programs;
🔘introduction of new technologies;
🔘expansion of defense industry production capacities;
🔘purchase of weapons and military equipment.

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