"On this day 18 years ago, Russia launched its brutal war against Georgia.

The occupation of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region was a warning of what was to come : the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Georgia #RussianAggression #RussianInvasion #Crimea #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo

🏡🇺🇦 You look at that bench by the table and wonder: How many evenings have been spent here? How many jokes have been told, how many problems discussed, how many children have grown up while the adults sat here and talked about life?
The Odesa courtyard is alive. It breathes.
#ukraine #ukrainian #photography #photo #photographie

🍒 Cherry borsch is not a modern invention.

Cooks in Poltava and Podillia have been adding cherries to beet broth for centuries. Not for novelty — for balance. The fruit brings a natural acidity that makes the whole bowl taste cleaner and deeper.

Full recipe → https://proborsch.com/recipe/quick-cherry-red-borsch-in-crockpot-recipe

#cherryborsch #borsch #ukrainianfood #slowcooker #crockpot #sundayborsch #proborsch #cook #cooking #food #foodie #foodies #ukraine #ukrainian #recipe #soup #kitchen #chef

#Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister:

"We have detected intensive #Russia propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from #Ceuta to sow destabilisation."

Far-right from #EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames.

#unity #solidarity

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screenshot of Minister's tweet; first line in toot

#Russia: I've seen people wondering what Wildberries & Ozone are.

They're similar to Amazon in that they're both retailer & marketplace. Anyone can buy there, anyone can sell.

Delivery is mostly in-store. They work with a ~100.000 pickup points where people can also test or try the items.

They sell anything from Purina dogfood (WTF #nestle) or military body armour. Like Amazon you can share reviews, showing for example your armour while standing in front of your owl collection.

#Ukraine

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Wildberries website. Purina proplan. Food. Image of a sad dog. https://www.wildberries.ru/catalog/861361823/detail.aspx

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man in body armour standing in front of his owl statue collection. https://www.wildberries.ru/catalog/518651992/detail.aspx It's in the sport section.. https://www.wildberries.ru/catalog/sport/broneodezhda

🇺🇦🕺💃 This inner light, this ability to live in spite of everything and dance as if you were sixteen again—that is our defining cultural trait. Odesa is going through extremely difficult times, but its heart beats in time with those flying, utterly free steps.
#ukraine #ukrainian #summer #dance

#Ukraine ’s 40 Day Gambit, Smoke Over St Petersburg, and #Putin ’s Intransigence. The Big Five, 5 July edition

https://mickryan.substack.com/p/ukraines-40-day-gambit-smoke-over

Viele Drohnen-Scanner sind einfache TV-Tuner und schlecht im Erkennen von FPV #Drohnen in der #Ukraine. Wir haben Geräte von 30€ - 6.000€ getestet und versuchen das ganze mal komplett zu erklären: https://www.berlinstory.de/news/anti-drohnen-scanner-wie-funktionieren-sie/

At Ukrainian universities, Russian studies fell out of favor after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in 2022. But a new program at one prestigious school is drawing interest with a different philosophy: To defeat a stronger enemy, one needs to fully understand them. #ukraine #russia #highered

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0627/ukraine-university-russian-studies-know-your-enemy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into MONITORING UKRAINE @monitoring-ukraine-csmonitor

“According to Russian military bloggers, the average life expectancy of a new recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once they are sent onto the battlefield, Russian fighters survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/russia-ukraine-war-putin-escalation-nato-europe/

#russia #war #military #casualties #Ukraine

#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples

So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆

Well not strictly, it's only for allies

And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed

It's called #TrophyLab

#UkraineWar

As The Kyiv Independent said in February 2025, "The American president has changed sides in this war. The American people have not."

https://kyivindependent.com/20-000-teddy-bears-displayed-in-los-angeles-to-symbolize-ukrainian-children-abducted-by-russia/

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #LosAngeles

😎🐶 There he goes, wearing glasses, looking like a businessperson with important matters to attend to and serious plans. Tongue sticking out, tail held high: “I found some glasses! Now I’ll be smart! Or I’ll sell them—it’s a market right here!”
Starakonka, Odesa 🇺🇦
#ukraine #ukrainian #dog #dogsofmastodon #photography #photo

What #Ukraine is doing in #Crimea now is beyond incredible. They have systemically hit refineries and fuel transport infrastructure.

They have hit all the bridges entering Crimea from Southern Ukraine. They have hit all the ferries transporting goods in and out of Crimea.

And today they hit the air defences that protect the Kerch Bridge.

They are making Crimea intenable for the Russians, and isolating Russian Units in Occupied Ukraine.

#RussiaUkraineWar

🫶Following a gala event at the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Kirill Petrenko donated the entire prize money from the 2026 Léonie Sonning Music Prize – equivalent to €134,000 – to organisations supporting 🇺🇦 #Ukraine 💛💙 #classicalMusic www.pizzicato.lu/kirill-petre...

Kirill Petrenko spendet den Lé...

#Putin ist der Aggressor, er will die #Ukraine vereinnahmen mit allen nur erdenklichen Mitteln und terroristischer Vorgehensweise, das kann und darf man nicht hinnehmen - auch nicht das russische Volk!
Wer diesen Angriffskrieg unterstützt, darf nicht nach Europa - that's it

#NEWSFLASH: #Ukraine enters talks to join EU.

The first negotiation cluster is set to start on June 15, allowed by #Hungary lifting its 17-month veto. https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/ukraine-enters-talks-to-join-eu

I fully support #Ukraine in the #UkraineWar

Ukraine has to fight. #Russia can just go home. If Russia wins, their #ethnofascist #imperialism and #colonialism means #genocide for Ukrainians

However they have limited #labor. So they turbocharge #innovation

From such efforts, something horrible is born with terrible implications for the world

Literally #Skynet from "The #Terminator" movies

"Fully #autonomous #drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

https://web.archive.org/web/20260610215543/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-have-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time/

#War

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Technology Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties By Matthew Sparkes 10 June 2026 Drones are a common sight on the battlefields of Ukraine, but they are normally controlled by human pilots Frank Herrmann/Getty Images

Der angebliche #Friedensvorschlag des Präsidenten der #Ukraine - die Ablehnung durch #Putin - die Darstellung in unseren #Medien
Der sog. Friedensvorschlag besteht überwiegend aus Beleidigungen Putins. Wer sich selbst informieren möchte: https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769
Dass Putin darüber überhaupt ein Wort verloren hat...
Aber für unsere Medien ist Putin derjenige, der ein Abkommen verweigert.

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things

#ai #llm #slop #Ukraine

Während die Aggression gegen die #Ukraine brutaler wird, gewinnt der einstige sowjetische Diktator Josef #Stalin an Popularität unter den Russen. Denkmäler werden ihm errichtet. https://taz.de/!6182826

The Interdiction War: How #Ukraine Is Cutting #Russia 's Southern Lifelines, plus Xi's Big Week and a Possible #Iran Deal. The Big Five, 24 May

https://mickryan.substack.com/p/the-interdiction-war-how-ukraine

Inside #Ukraine ’s Battlefield #Innovation Loop https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/inside-ukraines-battlefield-innovation-loop/

Passend dazu vermeldet die Ukraine erfolgreiche Drohnen-Schläge gegen eine nun brennende Ölraffinerie bei Moskau.

Der #Fossilismus scheitert längst auch militärisch. Gesellschaften, die eine volkswirtschaftlich ertragreiche und gegen Kriege & Krisen resiliente Energie-Infrastruktur erleben wollen, sollten schneller in post-fossile, erneuerbare Heimat- und Friedensenergien inklusive Batteriespeicher, Elektromobilität & Wasserstoff-Elektrolyseure investieren.

#Ukraine #Russland #Ölraffinerie #Moskau #Fossilismus #Gewaltenergien #Drohnenkrieg #Erneuerbare #Friedensenergien #Heimatenergien #Resilienz

https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116593589694457872

It's #VictoryDay!

Some decrepit #Kremlin goons spent 45 minutes saluting each other in #RedSquare

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For Victory Day, celebrating the #RedArmy's defeat of #NaziGermany in a war started when the #Soviets and the #Nazis agreed to invade #Poland together, let's watch this new video from #Kramatorsk

Ukrainians cower, fearful of " #HumanSafari": #Ukraine's civilians are hunted for laughs by #Russia's drones, the videos then posted on #socialMedia

5 killed:

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4120129-injury-toll-after-russian-attack-on-kramatorsk-rises-to-13-five-killed.html

#UkraineWar