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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
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Poland seeks British help to protect Ukraine after Trump win - The Times
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, will hold talks with the leaders of Britain, France and Nato over concerns about the impact of the US election.
Poland wants to build an alliance with Britain to prevent a sell-out of Ukraine by the West when Donald Trump enters the White House next year.
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, is to hold talks “in the coming days” with Sir Keir Starmer, President Macron of France and Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of Nato, because of concerns about the impact of the US election on the war.
On Saturday Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr, re-shared a video on Instagram of a forlorn-looking President Zelensky standing alongside Donald Trump, with the caption: “POV: You’re 38 days from losing your allowance.”
Trump was said to have spoken on the phone to President Putin on Thursday and urged him not to escalate the war in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported. However, this was strongly denied by the Kremlin on Monday.
“This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it’s just false information,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said. “There was no conversation.”
He added: “This is the most obvious example of the quality of the information that is being published now, sometimes even in fairly reputable publications.”
Trump had spoken to Zelensky last week and was said to have told him he would support Kyiv.
Trump has repeatedly questioned the level of American backing for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invaders and boasted that he would get a peace deal “done in 24 hours”.
Britain, Poland and France are seen as key European players in preventing a new US administration from going behind Kyiv’s back to do a deal with Putin.
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“This new political landscape is a serious challenge for everyone — especially in the context of a possible end to the Russian-Ukrainian war as a result of an agreement between the president of Russia and the new president of the United States,” Tusk said.
He will meet Starmer in Warsaw or London as early as this week and host Macron and Rutte in Poland in an attempt to secure western support for Ukraine via a European alliance that will include the Nordic and Baltic states.
Tusk, who dealt with Trump as president of the European Council between 2016 and 2019, once told a meeting of EU leaders that the American was “stupid” and “on a mission against what we stand for” in Europe.
His attempt to build an inner alliance on Ukraine is revealing of Europe’s fears that a peace deal with Putin could, through transfers of territory and enforced neutrality for Kyiv, hand a victory to Russia.
“We will very intensively co-ordinate co-operation with countries that have a very similar view on the geopolitical and transatlantic situation and situation in Ukraine,” he said. “Nobody wants the conflict to escalate. At the same time, nobody wants Ukraine to weaken or even capitulate; this would be a fundamental threat to Poland and Polish interests.”
During talks with Zelensky in Budapest on Thursday, Starmer pledged Britain’s “unwavering” support “to step up” in defence of Ukraine. After meetings in Hungary, which leads Europe’s pro-Russia camp, the Ukrainian leader attacked unnamed European countries for “strongly” pushing Ukraine to compromise.
European diplomats regard Britain — alongside Poland and France — as critical to holding the line in Europe because of German hesitation on, for example, allowing the Ukrainians to use missiles supplied by the West to hit targets on Russian territory.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign affairs chief, landed in Kyiv this weekend in the first significant expression of European support for Ukraine since Trump’s victory. “We will back Ukraine as much as we can,” he said.
During the night attack in the Tula region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a chemical plant.
Ukrainian drones have struck the Aleksinsky chemical plant, which produces gunpowder and ammunition for the Russian military, in Russia's Tula Oblast, sources at the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) report.
The SBU sources said at least 13 drones flew at the plant overnight, and orange smoke erupted due to the gunpowder at the site.
The plant itself was shut down, and personnel evacuated, a 110 kV supply was damaged.
It is also reported that in addition to the chemical plant, the Aleksin Thermal Power Plant was confirmed to have been hit, and a power line was damaged.
In 2023, the Aleksinsky Chemical Plant was included in the US sanctions list due to the production of ammunition, as well as polymers, paints and varnishes, and composite materials for the Russian military-industrial complex.
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I am a Democrat who supports Ukraine in their battle against The Russian Z fascist invaders.
I am a 73 year old Covid hermit who
lives on 10 acres in a sparsely populated area of the Ozarks. I heat with wood that is leftover by the lumber industry. When cutting oak for lumber only the trunk is used.
The largest town is population 2992. The county is 13k people scattered over 713 square miles.
Joined Dec 2022
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