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Goodnight Resisters everywhere

Russia deliberately restricts international shipping in the waters of the Sea of Azov in order to take possession of it and the Kerch Strait. Russia illegally built the Kerch Bridge, which has created a permanent obstacle to shipping, in particular for large international vessels carrying Ukrainian goods.

This was stated by the ambassador on special assignment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Korynevych, during his speech at the court in The Hague, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine report.

The Crimean Bridge is not just an engineering structure, but also a powerful symbol of Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of Ukrainian Crimea. Built after the illegal annexation of the peninsula in 2014, the bridge became a vital artery for the supply of Russian troops to the occupied territories of Ukraine.

The bridge is clear evidence of Russia's violation of international law and Ukraine's territorial integrity. It serves as the main route for the movement of Russian military equipment, ammunition and other resources to the occupied territories of southern Ukraine.

The building is a legitimate target for the Ukrainian military. For example, the bridge was successfully hit on October 8, 2022 and July 17, 2023.

Korynevich also emphasized the importance of dismantling the Crimean bridge and restoring free passage through the Kerch Strait.

Photo : The Crimea Bridge previously ready for repairs.

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The video of the cow balloons

In Slovakia, 550 square meters of camouflage nets were made for Ukrainian Defenders.

The netting marathon lasted around the clock for 6 days in the city of Košice. The camouflage nets will be sent to five Ukrainian brigades.

Good morning Resisters everywhere

Goodnight Resisters everywhere

🎼 I've got a feeling..

A message spotted on a ruzzian channel - with music added for your enjoyment.

🎼 I've got a feeling..

A message spotted on a ruzzian channel - with music added for your enjoyment.

Japan Warns Russia Over Violating Airspace, Fires Flares for First Time

Tokyo mounts a more aggressive response than in previous incursions by Russian planes.

TOKYO—Japanese jet fighters fired warning flares at a Russian military reconnaissance plane that violated Japan’s airspace on Monday, the first time Tokyo has taken such an aggressive stance against incursions of its airspace mostly carried out by Moscow. 

A Russian IL-38 patrol plane entered Japanese airspace three times between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. local time Monday as it flew over waters off Rebun Island, the northernmost part of Japan’s major Hokkaido island, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Yoshimasa Hayashi, said.

Tokyo has lodged an “extremely stern protest” with Moscow for the violation, Hayashi added. 
Russia’s Defense Ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. 

On Monday, Japan’s air force scrambled F-15 and F-35 jet fighters in response to the first airspace violation, and the jets began firing flares during the third one-minute incursion by Russia around 3:42 p.m.

It was the first time Japan’s air force has fired flares since it started deploying only defensive measures against airspace violations in 1958.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said the air force took the action only after issuing warnings to “the opponent.” He refused to comment when asked if the Russian patrol plane was flying with other Russian aircraft. The plane wasn’t undertaking particularly dangerous actions, he said.

Excellent quality satellite images of the consequences of the drone attack on the arsenal near Tikhoretsk in the Krasnodar Territory of ruzzia

It can be seen that train wagons with ammunition were being unloaded at all affected ammunitions warehouses during the strike.

A very well chosen time.

Totally unreal news

⚡️ Breaking news! Sensational discovery by an international team of paleontologists.

The death of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was not caused by an asteroid. An asteroid could not have caused such enormous damage.

Dinosaurs became extinct due to the fall of debris from a Ukrainian UAV!

⚡️Ukrainian forces break through another section of Russian border, 95th Brigade claims.

Ukraine's 95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade said on Sept. 23 it had broken through another section of the Russian border.

The brigade published a video purporting to show the breakthrough of engineering barriers, the crossing of airborne assault units into Russia, and the first battles near the border.

Video: Ukraine's 95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade

Wasting no time upon arrival in the US, President Zelensky immediately visits an ammunition factory in Scanton, Pennsylvania.
He is there to thank the workers. They dramatically increased production for Ukraine

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And yet, in 2022 and 2023, your words and actions signalled a categorical refusal to negotiate with the enemy, whereas now you seem to have opened a window to the idea of negotiating, a willingness to ask if negotiations are worth pursuing.

If we go back two years, to the G-20 summit, in Indonesia, in my video appearance, I presented our formula for peace. Since then, I’ve been quite consistent in saying that the Russians have blocked all our initiatives from the very beginning, and that they continue to do so. And I said that any negotiation process would be unsuccessful if it’s with Putin or with his entourage, who are all just his puppets.

Everyone said that we have to allow the possibility of some kind of dialogue. And I told them, “Look, your impression that Putin wants to end the war is misguided. That’s a potentially fatal mistake you are making, I’m telling you.” But, on our end, we have to demonstrate that we do have this desire for dialogue—and ours is a genuine one. Our partners think we should be at the negotiating table? Then let’s be constructive. Let’s have a first summit where we all get together. We shall write up a plan and give it to the Russians. They might say, “We are ready to talk,” and then we’d have a second summit where they say, “This formula of yours, we agree with it.” Or, alternatively, “We disagree. We think that it should be like this and like that.” This is called dialogue. But to make it happen, you have to prepare a plan without the Russians, because, unfortunately, they seem to think that they have a kind of red card, as in soccer, that they can hold up and block everything. Our plan, however—it is being prepared.

I understand that you are going to present this plan to Biden?

The victory plan is a bridge. After the first peace summit, our partners saw that Russia was not prepared for any talks at all—which confirmed my message to them and my insistence that without making Ukraine strong, they will never force Putin to negotiate fairly and on equal terms. No one believed me. They said, We’ll invite them to the second summit and they’ll come running. Well, now we have the second summit planned and they don’t look like they’ll come running.

And so the victory plan is a plan that swiftly strengthens Ukraine. A strong Ukraine will force Putin to the negotiating table. I’m convinced of that. It’s just that, before, I was only saying it and now I’ve put it all on paper, with specific arguments and specific steps to strengthen Ukraine during the months of October, November, and December, and to enable a diplomatic end of the war. The difference this time will be that Putin will have grasped the depth of this plan and of our partners’ commitment to strengthening us, and he will realize an important fact: that if he is not ready to end this war in a way that is fair and just, and instead wishes to continue to try to destroy us, then a strengthened Ukraine will not let him do so. Not only that but continuing to pursue that goal would also considerably weaken Russia, which would threaten Putin’s own position.

What happens if Biden says, “With all due respect, this is a difficult time, the election’s coming up, I’m having enough trouble with Congress without trying to increase aid packages for you,” and he rejects your request—do you have a Plan B?

We have been living in Plan B for years. Plan A was proposed before the full-scale war, when we called for two things: preventive sanctions and preventive reinforcement of Ukraine with various weapons. I told our partners, If Ukraine is very strong, nothing will happen. They didn’t listen. Since then, they have all recognized I was right. Strengthening Ukraine would have significantly lowered the probability of Putin invading.

A SEA OF FLAGS 🇺🇦

A comparison of how many flags of fallen soldiers there were in 2022 and how many there were so far in 2024 on the central square of Kyiv.

A permanent display stands in Kyiv - a flag for every soldier killed.

5 Finnish flags to add to this, 5 volunteers from Finland were killed. 😢

Add to that the huge number of murdered civilians. So many precious lives lost. 😭
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2 years ago Ukraine de-occupied most regions of Kharkiv and found mass graves particularly IZYUM. russ atrocities. @ukrainejournal

Good morning. Rainy here. Clear skies when I went inside. Then a violent middle of the night thunderstorm.

Eternal Memory

Ukrainian Nina Pashkevich, 47-year-old weightlifter, coach, and army sniper, was killed in action in the Donetsk Oblast

She had won the Ukrainian Weightlifting Championship in April 2024, adding to collection of nearly 100 sports awards.

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