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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2h

🔘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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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2h

🇺🇦 The government allocated 36.6 billion hryvnias for the needs of the Ministry of Defense, - Shmyhal

In particular, 500 million hryvnias will be spent on supporting Ukrainian gunsmiths. The remaining funds will be distributed to cover the most priority needs:

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 4h

🔥 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 · 9h

👊🇺🇦 Zelensky received a report from Vasyl Malyuk on the effectiveness of Ukrainian long-range strikes, in particular tha successfully destroy Russian air defense systems.

👀 The President approved new operations to reduce the military potential of the Russian Federation.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 12h

🇺🇸💥Trump administration has prepared secret legal opinion justifying strikes against a "secret and extensive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers," - CNN.

⚔️ US Department of Defense memo sent to lawmakers last week stated that the country is in a state of "armed conflict" with the cartels.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 13h

The company said it could use jammers to block the signal needed to control the drones and bring them down. But the problem is that “we are not allowed — legally,” Quevrin said. One concern with bringing down drones is that they can cause damage or injure people if they fall.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 13h

Country director for Thales Belgium highlighted sightings over the company’s Évegnée Fort site in the eastern Liège region, the only Belgian facility where it is licensed to assemble and store explosives for its 70 mm rockets.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 13h

🇧🇪 One of Europe’s biggest air defense companies Thales Belgium is warning that its top secret factories are being overflown by increasing numbers of drones, and it wants clear rules on how to jam or bring them down, - Politico

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

Russian Railways attributed the disruption to "technical reasons," and freight and passenger trains were delayed several hours along a detour.

Later, Ukrainian media reported that partisans had derailed a train carrying military cargo, paralyzing the St. Petersburg-Pskov train service.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🚂 In the Leningrad Region, tracks were blown up, and a train carrying military cargo derailed, - 112

Train service was suspended on the Stroganovo-Mshinskaya section of the Leningrad Region.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸🇨🇦 Donald Trump stated that the US and Canada are working closely on the Golden Dome missile defense system.

"It's a defense mechanism. You know, Reagan wanted a system like this, but at the time, there wasn't even comparable technology. It's truly amazing."

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ Security has been tightened at a Russian nuclear test site in the Arctic amid fears of a “drone attack” similar to the one that occurred during Operation Spiderweb.

Rresearchers at The Barents Observer have discovered anti-drone nets installed on satellite images of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇦❗️The court found guilty a former employee of the Kharkiv Territorial Procurement Center who twice punched a history teacher in the stomach, and sentenced him to three years of restricted liberty and 150,000 hryvnia in moral damages.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

🇪🇺🛡️ European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius:

German intelligence claims to have evidence that the Kremlin is discussing an attack on NATO. And if they are discussing it, are they planning an attack? We don't know. Such signals must be taken seriously. They may indeed be prepared for war.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

The 465-page review—covering purchases since early 2024—shows Kyiv’s struggle to curb wartime corruption.

Ukraine now produces ≈60 % of its own armaments, from drones and howitzers to armored vehicles, but still relies on European-funded programs (notably Denmark’s $1.6 billion scheme).

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 1d

❗️🇺🇦 An internal audit of Ukraine’s defense-procurement agency found dozens of contracts awarded to higher-bidding companies, late or incomplete deliveries, and prepayments for weapons that never arrived, totaling about $129 million in overspending, - NYT

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the aircraft were flying with their radar transponders on, but without submitting flight plans, a violation of international air traffic safety rules.

The maneuvers raised concerns about the increased activity of Russian aircraft in the region.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

✈️ NATO again scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian planes over the Baltics — three times in a week, - LRT

Su-30, Su-35, MiG-31 fighter jets, as well as An-12 and An-72 aircraft, were spotted in the skies over the Baltic Sea, heading from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇺❗️🇺🇦 Up to 5,000 Cubans are currently fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine.

⚔️ Zelensky also named China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and African states as additional sources of mercenaries fighting alongside Russia.

Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/foreign-recr...

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

☢️❗️A series of strikes was recorded 1 km from ZNPP - the shelling threatens nuclear safety, — IAEA

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

Therefore, Ukraine is taking absolutely fair steps. We would gladly not do this, we would gladly wish there was no war, but the “Russians” do not want this. For now. And therefore, only pressure can stop this war.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

Ukraine does not kill civilians. But they must understand the price of this.

Ukraine responds and strikes at military facilities and energy facilities that sell energy resources. Russia sells its energy resources, and then uses this money exclusively for war.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

🇺🇦👊 Zelensky: The “Russians” do not understand the price of all these blackouts, all the challenges that the citizens of Ukraine are experiencing and going through during this war.

And here the question is not even about their morality, which is nonexistent, but about the physical sensation.

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

💡🇺🇦 What will happen to electricity? It’s difficult for me to say today, – Zelensky.

“We will be ready for all relevant challenges. We are working on this every day. Well, we will protect, we will fight.”

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Six facilities located in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk region are connected to the power grid and provide electricity in the event of a shutdown of another source.

📌 The project to install batteries worth $ 140 million was completed in August.

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