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🇬🇪🇪🇺 A large pro-European march is taking place in Tbilisi, just six days before the parliamentary elections.

Supporters of the country's European course gathered at five locations before marching to Freedom Square. The slogan of the event is "Georgia Chooses the European Union."

The march was organized by non-governmental organizations and supported by Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, as well as major opposition parties. This demonstration is a response to several laws recently passed by the government, which have effectively led the EU to suspend Georgia's accession process.

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🔥In Dzerzhinsk, Novgorod region , Russia, an attack was carried out on the FKP "Ya. M. Sverdlov Plant", which produces explosives, local residents report

The plant is one of the largest Russian manufacturers of industrial explosives, transfer charges for the mining industry, perforating charges for the oil and gas industry, seismic and geophysical work.

Update from RBC
Drones hit the largest explosives factory in the Russian Federation 900 km from the border, - sources

Last night, SBU, SSO and GUR drones struck the Sverdlov plant.
It is a component of the Russian military-industrial complex and is under sanctions by the EU and the USA, as the plant's products are used to wage war in Ukraine.

At this factory, the enemy produces explosives, aviation and artillery shells, aviation bombs, including anti-aircraft missiles, warheads of cumulative anti-tank guided missiles, warheads for anti-aircraft missile systems.

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Overnight, 110 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted and shot down over Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said

“43 UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region, 27 over the territory of the Lipetsk region, 18 over the territory of the Oryol region, 8 over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region, 7 over the territory of the Belgorod region, 6 over the territory of the Bryansk region, and one over the territory of the Moscow region,” the department reports.

Russian report, is unconfirmed as being factual.

Update :
Russian officials mostly report on the "repulse" of the attack, and avoid details about the consequences. However, in particular, the governor of the Lipetsk region, Ihor Artamonov, wrote that "special services are working at the places where the debris fell", and asked not to publish footage of the consequences.

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The boy went to thank the Ukrainian soldier and received his chevron❤️

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🇷🇺A former top manager of a Russian oil company was found dead in Moscow.

Mykhailo Rogachev, the former vice president of the Russian oil concern Yukos, was found dead in Moscow. According to preliminary data, he fell from a window in the city center.

This isn't the usual window falling joke.
It actually happened.

The incident took place in Protopopivsky Lane and, according to sources, it was a suicide.

It is reported that Rohachev suffered from a severe form of cancer.

Mash russian telegram clarified that he left a suicide note before deciding on this step.

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🔥 The General Staff of Ukraine reports that Ukrainian troops have struck a Russian airfield.

Last night drones attacked the infrastructure of the military airfield "Lipetsk-2", which is in the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation.

In particular, the target was ammunition depots, storage areas for fuel and lubricants and aviation equipment.

It is known that the airfield is home to Su-34, Su-35 and MiG-31 aircraft.

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Would you say Kim and Putin look the same.
Both Russian ?

According to Liganet.
Military personnel from the DPRK will fight without their identification marks.

"They should be changed into the military uniform of the Russian Federation, they should be without North Korean identification marks, like Buryat, the Russian military, who are sent to the Kursk region, to recapture Suzha," said Andriy Kovalenko, head of the CPD. According to his data, the troops from the DPRK can be transferred to the border of the Belgorod region.

South Korean media reported that North Korean soldiers will fight under the guise of Russian Buryats and Yakuts.

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https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/here-comes-the-weird-part/58630/

The Bulwark
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/getting-back-to-the-peoples-business?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

Dan Rather

https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/aretha-franklins-think?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

Jeff Tiedrich with video

https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/shh-dont-wake-the-elderly-golfer?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=70k1h

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/donald-trump-hallucinates-about-imaginary-football-game/58647/

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed that the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region is likely encouraging Russia to engage more actively in prisoner exchanges.

Earlier, ISW noted that the frequency of exchanges between Ukraine and Russia has significantly increased since the Ukrainian operation in Kursk began on August 6. Since then, both sides have exchanged a total of 267 prisoners each during three separate exchanges.

For comparison, from January 1 to August 6, 2024, Russia and Ukraine conducted only three prisoner exchanges.

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We SHOULD NOT attempt to walk on the ledges she does.

Cat's life from the first person (camera on the collar). We should greet our neighbors like she does. Friendly and warmly.

Good Morning! Have a nice day! 😽

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Ukrainian kamikaze UAV strikes hit Russia's Kremniy EL plant in Bryansk region.

The company is one of Russia's largest microelectronics manufacturers.

Its products are crucial for various sectors, including military applications, with approximately 90% of its output dedicated to defense needs.
The Ya. M. Sverdlov Plant produces a variety of defense products, including:
Artillery shells and aerial bombs, including guided ones.
Ammunition for engineering troops and helicopter mining systems.
Human-charge anti-tank guided missiles.
Warheads for air defense missile systems.
The plant is also the only manufacturer of octogen and hexogen in Russia, and also produces explosives and specialized chemicals. @ukrainejournal

The Russians have released a new propaganda video claiming that Zelensky is a zombie

It's astonishing how much money they invest in propaganda and producing such content.

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The United States cannot confirm that North Korea has sent troops to Russia to participate in the war against Ukraine, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

He stated that if this information is true, it would be a concerning development for both North Korea and Russia.

▪️Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov claimed that nearly 11,000 North Korean soldiers are being prepared in Russia for the conflict in Ukraine. Some of them are reportedly already undergoing training at military bases in Vladivostok, Ussuriysk, Khabarovsk, and Blagoveshchensk.

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Zelensky’s Nuclear Arms Comments ‘Dangerous Provocation’ – putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's suggestion that Kyiv would seek nuclear weapons if it could not join NATO was a "dangerous provocation," russian President vladimir putin said Friday.

The Ukrainian leader made the comments at an EU summit on Thursday, in which he said "either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, which will protect us, or we must have some kind of alliance."

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~ someone is pee on his pants👀🙃😁

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"Putin sympathizers are like Hitler sympathizers"
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ZDFheute: You write in your new book that if there is any political danger left for Putin, it comes from those returning from the front.
Glukhovsky: In the end, the revolution of 1917 was not fought through by intellectuals, but by those returning from the front in the First World War. The situation is similar today.
The intellectuals or the middle class who took to the streets in russia against Putin were never able to offer any real resistance to the police. We don't even know how to fight. But soldiers who have been confronted with death, who have killed themselves, show a completely different willingness to use violence. Those returning from the front will destabilize russia for a long time to come and create a dangerous situation for the regime.

ZDFheute: Will it end up like the war in Afghanistan? The war ended in 1989 with a disaster for the Soviet Union, and two years later the state fell apart.
Glukhovsky: It is much worse today. In ten years of the Afghanistan war, 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed. In the Ukraine war, we are talking about more than half a million dead and seriously injured after two and a half years. That is a huge trauma. Many who survive the war at the front come back as murderers, thieves and rapists. They will live among us in the future. A country like russia will not care about such people. There is no plan for that.

ZDFheute: What do you say to people in Germany who are demanding negotiations with Putin so that the war finally stops?
Glukhovsky: I'd tell them, Putin sympathizers are like Hitler sympathizers. If we negotiate a ceasefire with Putin now, it will be nothing more than a period of peace between two wars. The only long-term solution to this war is the defeat of the regime.
Any outcome of this war that Vladimir Putin could present to his people as a victory will inevitably strengthen and perpetuate this regime. And it will remain an aggressive authoritarian imperialist regime in nature.
Do the Europeans want that, do the Germans want that? Education in schools and kindergartens has become much more soldierly and patriotic since the beginning of the war, children are being indoctrinated. This means that Putin is preparing for a long fight against the West.

ZDFheute: You have many fans in Germany. What can they expect from you next?
Glukhovsky: A small collection of plays will be the next thing I will publish here. But also video games. I like experimenting with genres and media. And with a bit of luck there will be a film adaptation of my script, a realistic thriller. But I can't say more about that yet.

The interview originally was conducted in German by Eva Schmidt and can be read here.