Türkiye proposes deal to end Black Sea attacks

from Daily Sabah

A Turkish diplomat announced that Ankara sent a proposal to Russia and Ukraine that would end attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea. The move follows a sharp increase in attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea in recent months, often using drones.

At least 25 Turkish-owned vessels, four of them flying a Turkish flag, have been hit since late June, industry figures show.

"We have shared a text of a memorandum, a draft text, with the Russians and the Ukrainians to come up with a solution to those strikes taking place in the Black Sea," the diplomat told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday.

Türkiye has been pushing Russia and Ukraine to suspend attacks on civilian vessels, with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan demanding a "moratorium" on Aug. 8 in a call that appeared to have fallen on deaf ears. The attacks have intensified as the foes seek to damage the other's export revenues, with the war now raging into a fifth year...

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Media outlets identify Russian serviceman killed by car bomb in St Petersburg

from Pravda

A Russian serviceman who was killed by a car bomb in St Petersburg on 27 August has been identified as Major Sergei Sechkov of the 332nd Helicopter Regiment. He was listed in the Myrotvorets database and supposedly assassinated by a 24-year-old Russian woman who had been recruited by Ukrainians. [Myrotvorets, which means "peacemaker", is a Ukrainian website that publishes a running list (and sometimes personal details) of people whom the authors consider to be enemies of Ukraine – ed.]...

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Deep State Maximum Pressure on Russia as Ukraine Crumbles

from The Duran

'00:00:00 Introduction Why Was CIA Director Ratcliffe in Moscow 00:00:54 The Official Cover Story Everyone Is Selling 00:01:46 Why This Was Not a Routine Diplomatic Visit 00:04:59 The Two Real Reasons Behind the Moscow Trip 00:07:24 The Donbass Buffer Zone Offer Revealed 00:08:19 Putin and Lavrov Refuse to Meet Ratcliffe 00:10:56 The Hidden Threats Behind the Diplomacy 00:13:05 Vatican Kellogg and Pence All Sent In 00:18:14 The Most Dangerous Moment of the War 00:21:05 Breaking Car Bomb Targets Official in St Petersburg' 

 

Far-right troops bid farewell to Nazi collaborator with torch-lit march in Kiev

from RT

Servicemen belonging to a far-right Ukrainian military unit have held a torch-lit farewell ceremony in Kiev for Evgeny Konovalets, the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which collaborated with Nazi Germany.

Konovalets’ remains were exhumed at a cemetery in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands earlier this week and delivered to Ukraine on Wednesday. They will be temporarily reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery outside the capital.

After dark, fighters of the 3rd Army Corps staged a farewell ceremony for the Nazi collaborator at a cathedral in central Kiev...

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Russia denounces Ukraine's attack on Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea as a ‘terrorist act’

from Tehran Times

"This is a real terrorist attack. In modern terms, it's a terrorist attack," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik radio on Wednesday, adding that the incident stems from a broader revival of global piracy.

The Kremlin also warned that the strike represents a direct provocation against Tehran.

“The Kyiv regime blew up an Iranian merchant vessel in the Caspian Sea. This is an attack on Iran,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, emphasizing that the strike demonstrates the necessity of eliminating "the threat" emanating from Ukraine.

The weekend attack triggered an explosion aboard the merchant vessel, killing one Iranian sailor and severely injuring another.

Following the strike, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi launched an urgent diplomatic push, holding a phone call with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. During the conversation, Araghchi strongly condemned the Ukrainian military’s assault on civilian infrastructure and urged the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and the broader international community to denounce Kyiv’s aggression unequivocally. He demanded that the perpetrators, masterminds, and foreign backers of the attack be held fully accountable...

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Russia hails Poland’s move against ‘Nazi-worshipping’ Zelensky

(He's a degenerate coke-head and fucking Nazi selling out his nation to foreign interests. Graham Platner should go live over there. He would fit right in) 

from RT

Russian officials have welcomed Warsaw’s decision to strip Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state honor. The decision came after Kiev named a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a nationalist force implicated in massacres of Poles and Jews during World War II.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced the move on Friday, saying Kiev had crossed a red line. He argued that “historical truth is not and can never be a bargaining chip” and that remembering the victims was “the moral duty of the Polish state.” 

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council and former president, wrote on X on Friday that “Poland’s president has finally stripped the Nazi-worshipping Kiev degenerate of the Order of the White Eagle.” The decision would not trouble Zelensky, Medvedev presumed, as there was now “more room on his green sweatshirt” for Nazi-era decorations...

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Polish president strips Zelenskyy of honor over naming of army unit after notorious WWII group

(He's a Nazis. The Ukrainians are Nazis. If you stand with them, you're a Nazi.) 

from the AP

Polish President Karol Nawrocki said Friday he will strip Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland’s highest state honor over the Ukraine leader’s decision to name a military unit after a Ukrainian paramilitary organization accused of massacring Poles during World War II.

Zelenskyy was awarded the Order of the White Eagle in 2023 by Poland’s then President Andrzej Duda for his services to security, resilience and the defence of human rights.

But it will now be revoked after Zelenskyy issued a decree on May 26 naming a military unit of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces after the UPA — the Ukrainian Insurgent Army — which operated during the 1940s and 1950s and which is accused in Poland of mass killings.

“For the majority of Polish society, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army remains above all a formation responsible for cruel crimes against the citizens of the Polish Republic during World War II,” Nawrocki said in a 13-minute address on social media...

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‘Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated’: The bloody history of Zelensky’s heroes

from RT

Burned villages. Families slaughtered in their homes. Women, children, and the elderly hacked to death with axes and pitchforks. Thousands of Jews beaten, tortured, and murdered during pogroms that accompanied the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. These are some of the atrocities associated with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its military wing, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – movements whose legacy remains one of the most divisive issues in Eastern Europe more than eighty years after World War II.

For decades, supporters of the OUN-UPA have portrayed its members as freedom fighters who resisted both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in pursuit of Ukrainian independence. Opponents, however, point to a different record: collaboration with the Third Reich, participation in anti-Jewish violence, and the mass killing of Polish civilians during the Volhynia massacres of 1943-1944, which Poland today officially recognizes as genocide. 

Far from being settled history, this debate has recently returned to the center of international politics. In 2026, a new diplomatic dispute erupted after Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky honored the UPA tradition at the state level, prompting outrage in Poland and reigniting long-standing accusations that modern Ukraine is rehabilitating organizations linked to fascism, ethnic cleansing, and wartime crimes. At the very moment when Polish and Ukrainian officials are working together to exhume the victims of Volhynia, disagreements over the legacy of Bandera, Shukhevich, and the OUN-UPA continue to poison relations between the two countries.

Below, we’ll talk about the origins of modern Ukrainian nationalism, the motives behind the mass killings of Poles and Jews by underground nationalist forces, and the reasons why OUN-UIA leaders collaborated with Nazi Germany...

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Ukrainian Strike on ZNPP Dangerous Precedent of Targeted Attack - Rosatom CEO

from Sputnik News

The Ukrainian strike on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) may not be so dangerous in itself, but is a precedent of a targeted attack on a nuclear power facility important, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Monday. 

 

"The strike on the ZNPP may not be so dangerous in itself, but two points are important. The first is the precedent itself, the precedent of a targeted strike on a nuclear power facility," Likhachev told Russian media. 

 

Ukrainian forces carry out 50-60 drone and shell strikes on the territory of the ZNPP and Energodar every day, Likhachev added. 

 

The territories of Ukraine and neighboring Western states will be at a serious risk if the Ukrainian armed forces attack fuel at the ZNPP, the CEO added...

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Putin calls for data on Romania drone incident to be shared

(The president of Romania says it may have been an accident caused by a disabled drone flying off course. Let's see how fast Kyle K. and Ben from Meidas Touch STFU about Russia attacking Romania now) 

from RT

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an “objective investigation” into a drone incident in Romania in which two people were injured. Moscow is ready to share its assessment if it is provided with either the debris of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or the data about it, he told journalists on Friday.

A drone crashed into an apartment block in the eastern Romanian city of Galati near the Ukrainian border early on Friday. The Romanian Defense Ministry claimed the UAV had originated from Russia.

Putin noted that drones have previously crashed in various EU nations, including Finland, Poland, and the Baltic States.

“A short time later, it would emerge that these incidents had nothing to do with Russian aircraft at all. Rather, they involved drones of Ukrainian origin that had gone off course due to electronic warfare… or technical shortcomings,” the president said during his visit to Kazakhstan.

Putin called on the Romanian authorities to share “objective evidence” with Russia, adding that Moscow did the same when the Ukrainian military targeted a Russian presidential residence in a drone strike. “Let them [Romanians] do the same and provide the evidence to us,” he added. 

Romanian President Nicusor Dan, who visited the drone crash site on Friday, told journalists that the incident could have been caused by Ukrainian air defenses. According to him, the drone was a part of a group of Russian UAVs deployed against targets in Ukraine.

“Some of them were shot down over Ukrainian territory, and one of them was probably hit above the city of Reni. Its trajectory changed and it came toward Galati,” he said, adding that the Romanian authorities have data on the drone’s movement. According to Dan, the incident was not considered a deliberate attack by Russia but rather the consequence of military operations not far from the Romanian border...

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Incident Involving Drone in Romania

from Sputnik News

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had just learned of an incident involving an alleged Russian drone in Romania.

"I was just told... It may seem strange, but I just learned, before entering this hall, that something happened with what was supposedly our drone," Putin told reporters. 

No one can say who the drone that crashed in Romania belongs to until an examination is carried out, the Russian president said, adding that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did not visit Romania and did not examine the wreckage of the alleged Russian drone.

 

"We know that Ukrainian drones have flown into Finland, Poland, and some of the Baltic states. The initial reaction was exactly the same as now in Romania: look, the Russians are coming, the Russians are shooting. Then, a short time later, it turned out that these had nothing to do with Russian aircraft, but were drones of Ukrainian origin," Putin said.

 

Russia will conduct an objective investigation and provide an appropriate assessment if it receives objective data on the drone that crashed in Romania, Putin also said.

 

Earlier in the day, the Romanian Defense Ministry said that a drone had struck the roof of a building in Galati, injuring two people. Romanian authorities blamed Russia for the incident but provided no evidence. Furthermore, the Romanian military did not intercept the drone, although it was tracked by radar systems.

 

The Spoiled Prince of Kiev: Zelensky has deceived and ruined his country with Western help

from RT

Rudyard Kipling, a modern classic of the Western literary canon, was both a champion of British imperialism and too honest not to know its very sordid underpinnings of greed, lies, and sheer selfishness.

That’s why the same man who extolled the “white man’s burden” also wrote ‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ a story of two lowlife, ambitious adventurers who manage to swindle their way to becoming kings as well as rich in a remote country on the fringes of the empire, then at its late-nineteenth-century zenith of global primacy. Until, that is, one of them makes the mistake of messing with the wrong woman, who ends up biting him in public. Seeing him bleed, his subjects realize he is a mere mortal and mercilessly dispense with the two imposters.

Ukraine’s ruler – and de facto king (of the old-fashioned, non-constitutional kind) – Vladimir Zelensky is a social climber, too. In his formative years, his native Krivoy Rog was a provincial post-Soviet rustbelt town with a lively gangster scene, a “bandit city” in his own words. Zelensky is also an expert in make-believe by profession, a cynically profane showman of the ‘give-them-whatever-they-want-as-long-as-it-pays’ variety, the cruder and smuttier the better.

Indeed, Zelensky even has a sidekick, who, as in Kipling’s dark story, has shared in the scheme of power-grabbing and plunder: Andrey Yermak, his former chief of staff and very intimate friend, making headlines (again) for being so corrupt and sinister that he stands out, even in Kiev...

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Cuban Lights Expose Darker Shades of Blue

by Scott Creighton

Watched Thom Hartmann for about 7 minutes yesterday. He finally figured out the Project 2025 guys and the Trump regime have been demoing the economy on purpose so they can remake the government in their neoliberal/free market image (like we have done to countless nations over the past 70 years or so)

Was going to post his video until he started going off on evil Russia. Said Trump was out of his mind for siding with Russia over glorious Zelensky and the Nazis of Ukraine. 

Nazis.

Of course... keep in mind... Hartmann knows we regime changed the country under ObamaGod and Ukraine is one of the most corrupt governments in the world second only to Trump and just barely ahead of Milei in Argentina.  

But that doesn't matter. ObamaGod did it so it must be OK.

However... Trump turned off the lights in Cuba so he could send in the Chicago Boys and try to chop up the nation and hand it over to his country club Epstein-class buddies while Russia... well... Russia turned the lights back on.

 

In the end, Hartmann, like Bernie Sanders, is paid to promote neoliberal regime change operations to the alt-left like the ones in Ukraine and Russia and even by extension, Cuba and Venezuela.

War-torn Ukraine is being sold as an ‘investment bonanza’ – but there’s a catch

from RT

Ukraine offers far better investment opportunities than Russia for Western businesses, according to the influential US think tank RAND Corporation, known for its close defense ties. But the pitch to ‘big capital’ comes with caveats.

In a Barron’s commentary two weeks ago, RAND Corp. senior economist Howard Shatz declared Ukraine a more lucrative option compared to Russia.

“When the fighting stops, the most promising opportunities for US companies won’t be in Russia, but in Ukraine,” he wrote. “With US and European support, Ukraine is poised to emerge as a secure sovereign state deeply integrated with the global economy.”

Shatz called it the “business opportunity of the decade,” assuming hostilities will soon end, triggering a $500 billion reconstruction and rapid EU-oriented reforms. Early movers will have an advantage, he said...

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Epstein pitched ‘many opportunities’ in post-coup Ukraine to Rothschild exec

(I wonder how those investments are working out now for Jeffrey. Anyone ever think about tracking his dividend payments from his investment portfolio to see where they are going now?) 

from RT

Convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussed potential business opportunities in Ukraine following the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, newly released documents show. He discussed the matter with Ariane de Rothschild, head of the Swiss private banking firm Edmond de Rothschild Group.

Last week, the US Department of Justice released its additional batch of Epstein-related files. Among them is a March 2014 email exchange in which de Rothschild said she wanted to discuss Ukraine in an upcoming meeting. Epstein’s reply stated: “ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites , many [sic].”

Earlier document releases highlighted business ties between the two. In 2015, after de Rothschild became CEO of the group, she negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein for “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms” for the bank. In 2013, he asked for her help in hiring a female personal assistant, whom he said should be “multilingual, organized.”...

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Kiev-backed suicide bomb plot thwarted in Russia – FSB

from RT

A Ukrainian terrorist plot involving an unwitting suicide bomber has been thwarted in the Russian port city of Sevastopol, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said.

The agency said a Ukrainian intelligence handler persuaded a local resident to carry a portable speaker to the FSB’s regional headquarters, telling him it would be used for surveillance as part of an internal investigation. Officials said the device actually concealed an improvised explosive meant to detonate at the site. Security guards intercepted the device and found the explosives before they could be triggered.

Officials released a record of what they said were instructions given by the Ukrainian handler, who claimed the unwitting accomplice would be offered a job at the FSB, should he prove capable in the fake counter-espionage operation. The job was expected to take a couple of minutes and supposedly necessitated that the suspect scan mobile phones in the HQ security checkpoint to detect traitors...

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Oreshnik Missile Strike and Lukashenko Talks Betrayal in Venezuela

Oreshnik Missile Strike and Lukashenko Talks Betrayal in Venezuela 

power restoration propaganda Radio Free Europe https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-electricity-heating-supplies-powercut-outage-drone-strikes/33644699.html

hypersonic missiles https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/10/russia-hits-ukraine-with-oreshnik-hypersonic-missile-why-it-matters

Iran has em as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si6MBdLo2XM

a call to UNSC for emergency meeting  https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-calls-un-security-council-after-russian-1767947211.html

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Death toll rises to 27 in Ukrainian strike on New Year’s party: Russia

from PressTV (H/T AuntBB)

Russian authorities report that the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike at a New Year’s party in a café in the Kherson region has risen to at least 27 people.

In a statement released on Friday, Russia’s Investigative Committee noted that two children were killed in the attack, with five additional minors among the injured.

At least 100 civilians, including guests and staff, were present at the venue when the “terrorist act” occurred just before midnight on December 31 in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly, according to the statement.

Multiple drones targeted the crowded café and a hotel, igniting a massive blaze, it added. At least one of the UAVs carried an incendiary mixture.

The agency also reported that investigators have recovered fragments of several drones at the scene. A criminal investigation into the act of terrorism has been initiated.

Over 26 forensic examinations, including medical, genetic, explosive, and fire safety analyses, have been ordered as part of the inquiry.

“All members of the Ukrainian military involved in this crime will be identified and brought to justice,” the agency stated.

Russian officials claim the drone strike in Khorly was intentionally timed to maximize casualties and constitutes a war crime...

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With the Threat of Peace on the Horizon, Ukraine Nazis Launch Cowardly Drone Attack on Putin Residence

by Scott Creighton

Nope. The Nazis wont have peace. Not if they can help it. So as peace talks were making headway, Ukraine launched 90 or so kamakazi drones to blow up the formal resident of President Putin.

'... Trump hosted Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in Miami on Sunday for the latest round of discussions on a possible peace proposal for Russia. Asked whether Trump was right to assert that the world is now much closer to peace, Peskov said that “certainly” was the case.

During his joint press conference with Zelensky, Trump said the deal was 95% ready, even though he personally didn’t like to measure progress in percentages. “We’re doing very well,” he added. “We could be very close.” RT

Nope. None of that peace stuff. F-you says the Nazis in Ukraine.

'US President Donald Trump was “shocked” by the Ukrainian attack on the state residence of President Vladimir Putin, stating he did not foresee such “crazy actions,” according to Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov.

The presidential advisor made the remarks to Russian media after a call between Putin and Trump on Monday. Shortly before the conversation became known to the public, Moscow said that the Ukrainian military targeted Putin’s state residence in Novgorod Region with more than 90 kamikaze drones.

“The Russian side made it clear that such reckless actions would certainly not go unanswered,” Ushakov stated. “The US president, according to Putin, was shocked by this news and expressed outrage, stating that he could not have imagined such crazy actions on the part of Kiev,” he added.' RT

I doubt Voldamort (I know but that is what I call him, so there) Zelensky had anything to do with this. It's literally the Nazis from Right Sector or Azov who are calling the shots over there and I bet they did it, well obviously they did it to scuttle the peace process.

Now, did they act on their own due to their rabid hatred of Russian or were they compelled by European business interests or American MIC asshats?

You be the judge. Just don't forget, once again, Ukraine scrubs any possible peace deal, once again.  

Netherlands directs €700Mln in Ukraine aid toward drones

from al Mayadeen English

The Netherlands has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine centered on drone warfare, underscoring The Hague's commitment to sustaining Kiev's battlefield capabilities as the conflict drags on.

Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced on Tuesday that €700 million will be allocated to drones, as part of the Netherlands' latest contribution, coordinated through Western military support mechanisms.

"While important diplomatic progress is made, Ukraine needs our military support every day. At the UDCG meeting, I share our latest support: 700 mln euros for drones and 250 mln euros for US weapons (PURL) [Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List initiative]," Brekelmans wrote on X...

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