TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@qoto.org

A list of things DeathSantis HAS regulated. Cranes not among them. Which explains why a crane crashed into an office building during Milton.

https://open.substack.com/pub/rebekahjones/p/desantis-on-milton-crane-disaster?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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Russian Su-34 supersonic fighter-bomber allegedly shot down by F-16.

Several russian milbloggers claim that a Su-34 was shot down during an air bomb drop about 50 km from the front line by an F-16, and even claiming that "NATO has sent the F-16 to hunt."

The Z-channels therefore predict that their attacks with FAB glide bombs will be disturbed and their infantry will suffer even more more losses.

"Our Su-34 was shot down. The crew was killed. The airplane was shot down while dropping glide bombs, about 50 km from the front line. Our Su-34 was shot down apparently by an F-16, which was over enemy-controlled territory. There will be more such losses soon. NATO has released F-16s for hunting. Now there will be less FABs flying. Consequently, the losses of our infantry will increase."

There is no confirmation yet, but we keep fingers crossed.

@freerussia_report

Activist Disrupts Hungarian PM's EU Presidency News Conference In France.

An activist and municipal councilor for a Hungarian opposition party disrupted a news conference in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was laying out his plans for Hungary’s six-month presidency of the European Union.

Márton Gyekiczki, interrupted Orbán as he was speaking about his opposition to immigration, running toward the podium where Orbán sat and throwing a stack of what appeared to be banknotes at the prime minister.

“How much did you sell out the country for? How much did you sell out the country for, Mr. Prime Minister?”, Gyekiczki yelled as the papers scattered. “He sold out to Putin, he sold out to Xi Jinping!”

The president of the Democratic Coalition party, former Prime Minister Ference Gyurcsány, later wrote on social media that he was “proud” of Gyekiczki for his actions. “We will say it everywhere and always: Hungary has a traitorous government!”

The reference about "sold to China" gets understandable when taking into consideration that Chinese police is now allowed to act legally in Hungary. This gives the Chinese regime the possibility to control and spy on their citizens legally, especially dissidents. In 2022 the Spanish NGO Safeguard Defenders denounced that China is operating almost 40 illegal police stations in the EU, targeting and seeking to intimidate mainly political dissidents and members of persecuted communities.

Moreover China is very interested in using Orban the same way as Putin - to influence the EU and get a foot inside. For Orban it's all about the money. China gets an important bridgehead in conquering European markets, Orban gets some sort of a 'strategic corruption' framework agreement with China, like the Budapest-Belgrade railway line renovation, covered to 85% by Chinese loans. It might take an entire century to pay back in full, and the regime "can take out several billion euros a year."

Meanwhile, EU officials have already stated they are looking to limit China's economic aspirations in Europe.

Orban got also thunder from Ursula von der Leyen in a fiery clash at the European Parliament.

“There are still some who blame this war not on Putin’s lust for power but on Ukraine’s thirst for freedom, so I want to ask them: would they ever blame the Hungarians for the Soviet invasion in 1956? There is no European language where peace is synonymous with surrender and sovereignty is synonymous with occupation.”

On Wednesday, some in the European Parliament fired back with a song. After his speech some members started singing “Bella Ciao,” an Italian antifascist resistance song from the World War II-era.

“You are not welcome here,” Terry Reintke, the co-leader of the Greens Party in the European Parliament, told Mr. Orban. “This is the house of European democracy.”

The champion for “illiberal democracy” again called for a change of policy and supported Putin painting a bleak future of an EU "falling apart." Also reiterated his support of Trump saying "We will open several bottles of Champagne if Trump is back,” at a news conference.

'Make Europe Great Again' is Orban's motto in lend-lease. I agree, start with suspending voting rights of every member country that is violating the rule of law.

🇪🇺@EU_Report 🇭🇺
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Two Grumpy old men
https://open.substack.com/pub/twogrumpyoldmenonukraine/p/kyiv-post-classic-obstruction-of?r=70k1h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

A gas station in Grozny went up. Tank thrown 200 meters

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-suffers-malfunction-during-attempt-at-a-speech/58507/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-keeps-stepping-in-it-and-kamala-harris-keeps-making-him-pay-for-it/58505/

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/women-are-pissed/58511/

"Let Zakharova and Olga Skabeeva come here and film it instead of talking any sh*t coming into their heads."
- a woman in Kursk region shares how Ukrainian soldiers took her husband to Sumy for surgery and gave the residents food and medicine.

@ukrainejournal

Olena Zelenska:
🇺🇦 "Resistance" for Ukrainians is a verb.

Because it means living. Act, care, support, love. To act, even if we are now in a state of maximum uncertainty, in the epicenter of bad news, even if we face pain on a daily basis.

Sustainability still means taking action. For his sake, for his sake and for his own sake. Thus, due to the stability of each, the stability of the whole country is formed.

On the International Day of Mental Health, together with Dmytro Monatyk, Roksolana Syrota, Vyacheslav Drofa, Kateryna Osadcha, Oleksandr Teren, Denys Kryvenk, Vladyslav Yeschenko, Yana Shemaeva, Zakhar Biryukov, Khrystyna Boychuk, and Vitaly Lytvyn, we urge you to take care of mental health is the norm.

And nurturing resilience is a daily action, a way of life.
@ukrainejournal

Here is different footage of a tank exploding.

Let's hope they keep tricking them. Deliberately or accidentally, these young women are putting together defective drones.

Russia is tricking young girls from Africa, Asia and Latin America into assembling 'Shaheds' - Associated Press

About 200 foreign women are assembling Iranian drones in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan. Girls aged 18–22 are lured to Russia using the online program Alabuga Start: on the program’s website, they are promised education in Europe, a free plane ride, and work in the service and catering industries, but this turns out to be a scam.

As a result, the girls face constant monitoring, broken promises about wages, and dangerous work with caustic chemicals that ruin their skin. “I regret and curse the day I started doing this,” the newspaper quotes one of the women as saying. Along with the foreigners, there are 15-16-year-old Russian students from vocational schools who also complain about the working conditions.

Analysts have found that since July 29, about 95% of drones have not hit any visible targets in Ukraine. Instead, they fall into rivers and fields in Ukraine, fly into Latvia, and fall in Russia or Belarus. Before July, about 14% of Shaheds hit targets in Ukraine. The publication writes that one of the reasons for the decline in the quality of drones may be unskilled labor.

The Alabuga Special Economic Zone was created in 2006 to attract business and investment to Tatarstan. After February 2022, it quickly expanded, and parts of it switched to military production.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦 Liz

Orchestra lost another plane

https://t.me/Ukraine_Report/25349

🔥More footage of a new explosion and intensifying fire in Feodosia.

After the explosion, the Russian police hastily left the area from which Feodosia residents had previously been evacuated.

The russian Military won't be filling up with fuel from here. 🍾

Update at 23:10 another tank exploded at the oil depot in Feodosia

That's already two for this evening.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report 🇺🇦🔱

The Associated Press (AP) has revealed that young African women are being fraudulently recruited to work in Russia's "Shahed" factory in Tatarstan, where attack drones are manufactured. According to the investigation, around 200 women from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka were lured to Russia through deceptive social media ads offering free flights and jobs in the hospitality and catering sectors.

Upon arriving in Russia, these women, aged 18 to 22, were coerced into working 12-hour shifts assembling "Shahed" drones, which are used in daily attacks on Ukrainian cities. The women worked alongside Russian students in the Alabuga special economic zone. According to accounts, they were under constant surveillance both at work and in their dormitories. Promises of wages were not fulfilled, and they had to work with chemicals that caused skin problems.

The AP's investigation included analysis of satellite images of the factory complex, internal documents, and interviews with several women who worked there. The factory in Tatarstan is Russia’s main production hub for attack drones, aiming to produce 6,000 drones annually by 2025, according to data from the Washington Institute for Science and International Security.

And regarding going nuclear

I think Xi isn't a fan of the nuclear threats. China has always been a NO FIRST USE nation. Like to a fault. And Xi has been a solid supporter of the doctrine.

Their recent nuclear warnings were obviously directed at Putin. Considering that they were about how the nations of the world need to agree to a no first use policy.

All China is interested in, is making money. Lol china doesnt want trade partners exploding.

The funny part is I don't think most pro Russians who cheer at Putin's nuclear rhetoric really understand how it all works.

The US early warning system will detect nuclear launches within a fraction of a second at launch. This isnt a situation where we dont find out until radars pick them up. We detect them less then a second after launch. And here is the scary part. The US has a launch on warning Nuclear doctrine.. As does Russia.

It basically means that the US president has 6 minutes to decide yes or no. And a yes means we launch our entire arsenal at pre defined targets.

The moment Putin decides to go nuclear he has essentially done something that can end mankind.

There is no such thing as a first strike or a decapitation attack anymore. That was an early cold war thing. Early warning satellites have nullified that possibility. The decision to use nuclear weapons is a decision to destroy mankind.

On top of that, a single US Ohio class submarine has about the same destructive power as multiple city killer asteroids. Putin's hypersonic nuclear weapons are not impressive when it doesnt really do anything to change the fact that they cant actually get to the US quick enough to prevent our own launches.

Kelly

@Dianna_DiDi
@ukrainejournal

Fico proposed to strike Brussels with a missile in response to European politicians’ requests to allow Ukraine to use long-range weapons against Russia in self-defense

- What next? Will he declare war against Belgium?

🥹🤸🏻‍♀️Gymnast Sasha Pascal showed how she prepares for training.

The girl lost her leg due to the shelling of Odesa by the Russians, but she is still going strong!

Good Morning!