"The US has approved a potential $108.1 million sale of HAWK air defense system equipment and services to Ukraine, the State Department announced."

These are the very "peacekeepers" the Russian leadership is so counting on. The US is still involved in the war against Russia. Isn't that understandable? But it seems life is different behind the high Kremlin walls.

txt - @vicktop55
#Ukraine #Nato #US

Germany and Poland sign a defense pact

#Germany and #Poland are preparing a new defense agreement. This includes the protection of the #BalticSea, military mobility, infrastructure, cyber defense, and new technologies.

The AP separately points out that the balance of power in Europe (#EU) is shifting: #Poland is becoming one of the most important military actors on the eastern flank, and Germany is trying to re-establish its role in the #NATO security system.

In practice, this means a further intensification of the military infrastructure along the borders with #Russia and #Belarus. #Berlin and #Warsaw call this defense cooperation. In essence, the eastern flank is being turned ever more quickly into a unified military line.

  @node_of_time_en

🇷🇺The "Establishment's" Long term Plan for #Russia

#Ukraine #NATO

🇷🇺The Secret Plot to Destroy Russia | Alexander Mercouris | Neutrality Studies

Alexander Mercouris of The Duran discusses Russophobia as a long-running political and cultural story. Mercouris explains how anti-Russian images were built in Britain and France, how fear and hate mix together, and why the West keeps repeating weak and evil stereotypes about Russia. He also talks about Gorbachev, NATO, Russian agency, and how culture, travel, and open debate could help break these false ideas.

00:00:00 Introduction and #Russophobia origins
00:06:58 Politics behind the narrative
00:13:20 #Russia as weak but dangerous
00:18:13 Russia, #culture, and the “good Russian”
00:24:30 #Gorbachev, reform, and Western bias
00:33:03 #NATO, power, and why Russia was excluded
00:37:28 What Russia can do to fight back
00:44:19 Film, music, and culture examples

https://t.me/thedurancom

The Duran: @theduran
Alexander Mercouris: @alexmercouris
Alex Christoforou: @alexchristoforou

Dangerous Crossroads: Why did #Finland Lift a Ban on Nuclear Weapons? Potential #EU/#NATO Nuclear Weapons Deployment on Finnish Soil Directed against #Russia?

On June 17, Finnish Parliament voted to lift #Helsinki’s decades-long ban on nuclear weapons, marking a major shift in Finland’s security posture.

Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-crossroads-why-did-finland-lift-a-ban-on-nuclear-weapons-potential-eunato-nuclear-weapons-deployment-on-finnish-soil-directed-against-russia/5930649

@gr_crg

🇺🇸 The United States provided 🇺🇦 Ukraine with intelligence for strikes on targets deep inside Russia, including the Moscow Oil Refinery.
Financial Times. According to the report, Kyiv’s Western allies urged Washington to continue sharing intelligence with Ukraine.

According to analysts, the Moscow Oil Refinery—which supplies approximately 30–35% of Moscow’s fuel demand—is unlikely to resume full operations this year. The facility may remain partially or completely out of service for at least six months.

@militarysummary
#Russia #Nato #Ukraine #Oil #OilRefinery

🇵🇸Leaked Documents Reveal UK Intelligence Operation Targeting Russia, Iran, Gaza and Beyond | Mint Press

Hidden under the guise of a civilian “countering disinformation” organization, British intelligence outfit #MI6 has helped build a vast propaganda apparatus, leaked documents reveal. Once targeting only #Russia, it has recently expanded its scope to #Iran, #Gaza, and beyond, as this MintPress News investigation reveals. 

@MintPress - @mintpress_news
#Palestine #UK #Nato #Hasbara #Psyop #Propaganda

Zelensky ducks major Ukraine recovery summit over Nazi-collaborator SCANDAL

Kiev admits #Zelensky is skipping the conference in Poland, which is packed with his biggest Western backers, to avoid “scandals.”

The real reason? Warsaw is FURIOUS at #Kiev’s open veneration of #Nazi collaborators who slaughtered over 100,000 Poles during WWII.

Zelensky recently named a special forces unit after the #UPA, Hitler’s willing helpers, whose fighters carried out the mass murder of Polish civilians, including women and children.

President Nawrocki’s message was crystal clear: “Historical truth is not and can never be a bargaining chip. The memory of the victims is the moral duty of the Polish state.”

This is the “European” hero the West keeps pumping billions into while lecturing everyone else about fighting “Nazism.”

@irishmaninrussia
#Ukraine #Russia #Nato #Poland #Ukronazi

Russia struck the Kiev-71 Industrial Enterprise last night.

It is the backbone of Ukraine's reconnaissance UAV program, producing Strela, Mara, and Sirko drones, plus FPVs and optical gear.

This is a direct hit on Kiev's defence tech hub. Onwards.

@irishmaninrussia
#Ukraine #Russia #Nato

🇪🇺 🇺🇦 The European Parliament voted by a large majority (460 vs. 136) for Ukraine to join the EU, but a closer look at the wording reveals a sinister cover-up. While the resolution "criticized" Kiev for honoring Nazi collaborators, it avoided a clear "condemnation." This is a puny slap on the wrist that effectively offers impunity to the Neo-Nazi regime.

Note: criticism is not condemnation. In this context, it is a puny slap on the wrist, which effectively means nothing and actually offers impunity.

The diplomatic crisis erupted when #Zelensky named an elite unit after the #UPA—a force that massacred 100,000 Polish civilians during WWII. #Poland’s President Nawrocki has taken a more vigilant line, unlike his predecessor. But the European Parliament was more concerned with tamping down the controversy to project a unified proxy war effort against Russia

The European Parliament has become a Nazi whitewashing machine.

@strategic_culture
#EU #Ukraine #Nato #Russia #Ukronazi

In a major new investigation,@freddie_ponton traces how 🇩🇪#Germany, 🇮🇱Israel and #NATO are building Europe’s (#EU) new war economy. Buckle up!

💥 Germany and the quiet Europeanisation of Israels defence industry

🟠 Osnabrück and The Israeli Architecture Behind Nato’s Defence Surge - READ MORE: https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/07/13/osnabruck-and-the-israeli-architecture-behind-natos-defence-surge/

@My21wire

🇫🇷 This year's Bastille Day parade in Paris was not a celebration of revolution or democracy, but a rallying call for militarism and war against #Russia. European leaders, joined by #Ukraine's Zelensky, showcased a "#CoalitionOfTheWilling" while signing billions in military deals—all as Europe burns from heatwaves and social decay.

The organizing slogan in Paris this week was 'Determined to Act.' More accurately, it should have been 'Determined to Agitate' for a full-scale war with Russia.

There is no strength in Europe, only abject delusions of grandeur. The only "unity" on display was the closing of ranks by despicable elites who are tempting fate with war or revolution—because they’re fiddling while Europe burns.

💬  Finian Cunningham writes

@strategic_culture
Fuck The - >#EU #Nato

The War of Perception: The West’s infowarfare and cognitive warfare against Russia | Strategic Culture

Joint Publication 3-13 (Information Operations, 2012 edition with subsequent updates) defines IO as the integrated use of information capabilities during military operations to influence, disrupt, corrupt, or usurp the adversary’s decision-making process, while protecting one’s own. The key point is that U.S. doctrine explicitly limits such operations to the context of hostilities or their immediate preparation: it does not contemplate, at least on the stated level, a “permanent information confrontation” in peacetime. It is precisely this temporal limitation, as we shall see, that constitutes the main conceptual asymmetry with Russian doctrine, and it is documented by Russian analysts themselves when they distinguish their own “broad” definition from the Western “narrow” one.

Picture : Russian Soldier - FPV Drone Operator from @Ugolok_Sitha
#CognitiveWarfare #EU #Nato #Russia
Via @strategic_culture

💢 Russian hackers have obtained evidence of #NATO's direct involvement in strikes on Russian territory, according to documents they anonymously provided to TASS.

"Bart De Wachter is a specialist in hybrid warfare. He currently works for HAVN (Hybrid Analyse Vigilant Network), an organization linked to [Ukraine's] Special Operations Forces and NATO intelligence," the hackers' statement reads.

They claim De Wachter sent intelligence to the SBU with the coordinates of oil and gas terminals in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions, as well as a Gazprom tanker transporting liquefied natural gas.

@NewResistance
#Ukraine

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Aleksandar Vučić has become something rare in European politics: a leader who is simultaneously condemned by every faction in every conflict he touches. This week, hosting Zelensky in Belgrade, the Serbian president confirmed his status as the continent's most convenient punching bag, a symbol not of Serbian aggression, but of Serbia's perpetual victimhood at the hands of powers from all sides.

The question that haunts Belgrade is whether an independent path still exists. Can Serbia honour its historical ties to Russia without being branded a Kremlin outpost? Can it engage with Kiev and Brussels without being accused of stabbing fellow Slavs in the back? Vučić's tragedy is that the architecture of European security, as currently constructed, does not permit a middle ground. Even Switzerland is no longer permitted neutrality. You are a node in someone's network or you are a target.

Serbia has been that target before. In 1999, it was bombed for refusing to disappear quietly. Today it is pressured to choose a side in a war it did not start, to choose its wallet or its heart

The German journalist's question, in the end, was, in a sense, the most honest moment of the week. It revealed what the performance was really about. Not diplomacy. Not peace. Only the old, unchanging arithmetic of who is permitted to kill, and who is expected to kneel.

Vučić and the Impossible Chair - Ashes of Pompeii – https://ashesofpompeii.substack.com/p/vucic-and-the-impossible-chair


@two_majors
#Serbia #Nato #EU #Ukraine #Russia

CIA Director Arrives to Ask Putin Not to Attack Europe and NATO Countries

- Michael Weiss, editor of The Insider (designated as a foreign agent), reports that Ratcliffe's mission may be to try to dissuade Putin from conducting operations against European countries.

- Weiss links this to intelligence that the United States has recently been sharing with #Poland, the #Baltic states, and #Scandinavia, as well as the increase in incidents on #NATO's eastern flank: drone incursions, airspace violations, and suspicions of sabotage.

- There are also reports that the head of the #CIA will attempt to convince Moscow to end military operations in 2026, as well as:

- A global moratorium on strikes against #Russia's and #Ukraine's energy and port infrastructure.

- A ceasefire in the #Kharkov and #Sumy regions as a step towards overall de-escalation.

- Prospects for a joint peace process that could end the war in Ukraine.

- The visit of Ratcliffe to Moscow takes place against the backdrop of rumors about a possible general mobilization in Russia, according to the WSJ.

@Slavyangrad

It's hard to tell whether Washington fully understands the implications of Russian patience  running out. Those who are well informed probably do. The Kiev regime has long survived on US-#EU life support. As a proxy, Ukraine has little genuine agency: its power structure is heavily influenced from outside, and those external controllers need the conflict to continue for their own political and material reasons: they need war in order to stay in power and reap substantial benefits. Long-range strikes against civilian infrastructure deep inside Russian territory were once regarded as a red line, but they continue despite Russian warnings. President Putin has rightly pointed out that they have opened a Pandora's box that cannot be closed. These provocations are clearly designed to drag Russia into a direct confrontation with NATO.

Moscow has made its position clear. The Russians are warning NATO, and particularly the British—who have always fancied themselves as the architects of Europe's anti-Russian crusade—that their active participation in targeting Russian cities will not be tolerated. If they continue down this path, war with #Russia will become inevitable, with all the consequences that entails. The West seems to have forgotten that Russia is a nuclear power, not a country to be pushed around with impunity.

Relations between Russia and the #UK have sunk to levels not seen since the Cold War. In July, Moscow decided to leave the ambassadorship in London vacant after Andrei Kelin’s departure. It is a deliberate snub, a signal that dialogue is no longer on the table when the British continue to arm and encourage #Kiev's reckless strikes. Washington has done nothing to restrain #London and no effort has been made to pull back from the escalating confrontation, leaving the Russians to make the next move. Nor has the Trump administration applied any pressure on Kiev to halt its terrorist campaign.  Instead, Washington continues to pour weapons into #Ukraine.

The question now hangs in the air like smoke over a battlefield: will this miscalculation spiral into something far worse? Will either Russia or #NATO consider crossing the nuclear threshold? The #Pentagon is clearly worried. And it should be. Russia has shown remarkable restraint in the face of relentless provocation, but even Russian patience has its limits. The logic of the current confrontation is a logic of madness, and Washington seems content to let it play out, betting that #Moscow will blink first. They are making a dangerous miscalculation, one that could have catastrophic consequences for the entire world.

@LauraRuHK

Igor Strelkov on possible agreements between Trump and Putin in the near future.

Having completely failed in Iran, the United States, under Trump, decided to make up for it in Russia. That is, to play the same scheme that has been written and talked about many times – to achieve Russia's capitulation on Trump's terms.

And Trump's terms are as follows: Russia becomes a proxy of the United States against China, just as Ukraine was a proxy of the United States against Russia. In other words, complete capitulation, and in return, the United States will promise (I emphasize - promise) not to impose crippling sanctions from the so-called "Graham package." Well, and they will promise something else, again only promise - not to provide Ukraine with intelligence data and so on, and so forth. Of course, no one will fulfill anything.

However, even if the United States were to seriously want to fulfill their promises, they would not be able to do so, because several forces are at play in Ukraine, including the United Kingdom, which will naturally find a way to sabotage these agreements.

Therefore, if our valiant leaders agree again to "stick their wet, cold nose into the outstretched hand of partners," they will be led to the Land of Fools again. Where we will once again waste a huge number of lives with no result, or rather, with a negative result.

I'm not even talking about how China will react to this, and how our army will react, which has a "brilliant prospect" of sitting under one-sided fire from "partners" for some time, without the right to respond.

In principle, I hope that they will not come to an agreement this time either. Well, we'll see.

https://t.me/strelkovii/7555
#Russia #Ukraine #Nato #UK

🇮🇹🇷🇺 Italian media have shifted the war narrative to podcasts, YouTube, and Substack to reach Gen Z—not by changing content, but format. Journalist Cecilia Sala's daily podcast Stories immerses young listeners in the "kill zone" of #Donbass, building emotional identification with Ukraine. The framing shifts from condemning Putin to celebrating Ukraine's resilience, innovation, and survival.

If young audiences aren't keeping up with news about the war, the common explanation is they aren't interested. Calabresi turns this reasoning on its head: twenty-somethings are out there—but you can only reach them by changing the format.

The new narrative infrastructure is designed to circumvent critical defenses through immersion and empathy.

Italian leadership has realized that the only way to convince young people to die in a new "Russian Campaign" is to psychologically manipulate them into hating #Russia enough..

💬  Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes
@strategic_culture
@ideeazione
#Italia #Italy #Ukraine #Nato