🇪🇺 The European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to impose progressive tariffs on nitrogen fertilizers from Russia and Belarus, starting July 1. While current tariffs of 6.5% will remain initially, additional duties of €40-45 per ton will be added by mid-2026.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 13:00

According to ASTRA, Ukrainian drones hit a functioning workshop at the “Splav” defense plant in Tula — part of Rostec and a producer of MLRS, air-launched rockets, and heavy flamethrower systems.

Just 3 days ago, Putin reportedly awarded its staff for “contributions to weapons development.”

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 15:09

Russian occupiers are receiving orders to kill Ukrainian soldiers who are taken prisoner, according to CNN.

Radio intercepts of conversations between Russian troops indicate that they are being instructed to execute captured Ukrainian servicemen.
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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) 22 May 2025 at 15:46

❗️Putin says Russian forces are now working to create a "security buffer zone" along the Russia–Ukraine border. Recently, Ukrainian commanders reported that they saw Russian troop buildup along the Kharkiv border. In Sumy, Russian forces are already active.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 16:41

Electronic warfare vehicles have been deployed around the Kremlin as drone attacks enter their third day.
Mobile networks are down, the entire perimeter is fortified.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 14:45

President Zelensky: Held a government meeting on key economic steps—jobs, tech development, and secure social opportunities are our top 3 priorities. Also invited 🇬🇷 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 🇸🇮 🇲🇩 to the next Ukraine–Southeast Europe Summit. Grateful to all supporting 🇺🇦 and new defense aid packages.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 17:27

❗️Ukraine proposes that the EU join funding the Armed Forces starting in 2026, says Finance Minister Marchenko. This aims not only at support but full integration of Ukraine’s military into Europe’s defense system. Costs would be a small share of the EU’s GDP.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 19:00

Ukrainian drone activity over Russian airspace has severely compromised and disrupted civilian air travel in Russia.

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— (((Tendar))) (@tendar.bsky.social) 22 May 2025 at 17:40

🇪🇺 Brussels is preparing a “Plan B” to launch EU accession talks with Ukraine without Hungary, should Orban maintain his veto. The workaround, dubbed “parallel negotiations,” would see 26 member states move forward with Kyiv—even if unanimity isn’t reached. Possibly already by fall.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 20:27

The EU Council will discuss suspending Hungary’s voting rights under Article 7 on May 27 over serious breaches of European values, including judicial independence and minority rights. This could stop Hungary from blocking aid to Ukraine and EU sanctions on Russia.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 22 May 2025 at 19:54

Interesting that many republicans haven't drank the trump kool-aid.  And that seems unusual since most politicians of the same party will have a shit eating grin while parroting back whatever the POTUS says.

This article mirrors what ryuu said a few posts up about how the civilian air traffic is being shut down to a greater degree lately. Ukraine has decided to focus its drones on attacking Russia's airports, not in an attempt to kill civilians, but to let the citizens know that this is a painful war that they probably won't be able to win. So, it's a great idea. Contrast that with Russia attacking civilian buildings in the past such as schools and hospitals. Ukraine's drones are just doign things like attacking planes and runways, so it won't really make them look bad on the international level. This should also force russia to pull EW and anti-air from the front in Ukraine, giving the attackers less of a chance to win.


https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-new-drone-strategy-cripple-moscows-airports-make-russian-population-pay/

Haha, taking Houthi tactics of disrupting Ben Gurion air traffic with threats and daily missiles that mostly don't do any damage.

They do it to keep setting off the air raid alarms reminding people the genocide is still going, as well as costing Israel a lot of money to intercept each missile.

Hopefully it will be more effective against Russia although Putin has even less issues suppressing his own citizens :/ Disrupting air traffic has a similar effect as sanctions anyway, costly.

There are no airports in the Vatican, so Putin would have to fly into Italy then travel on to the Vatican.

Not that Id be crying if Putin was arrested.

Yep, those pesky houthis know how to do it alright

Shame they still won't call out Trump though, they're framing it as if poor old Trump is being played and they can't stand for that, nobody disrespects Trump! As if he is some senile old man in a nursing home in need of defending, which is incredible framing considering he is the President of the United States, Lol. They'll never say the truth that Trump is a complete idiot being played by Putin, or simply, Trump is a Russian asset, they still have to give Trump an out but he won't take it, Republicans are still cowards for this reason.

True but there's still zero chance Italy arrests him when he has an invite from the Pope himself, it would be a huge drama between Italy and The Vatican. They likely wouldn't arrest him even if it was Italy because it's peace talks and they need to entertain this horseshit for idiots who still believe Putin is negotiating in good faith. Obviously I'd rather he were just arrested, well, I'd rather much worse things happen to him. Any citizen who takes him down would be a hero.

While Italy has no jurisprudence over the Vatican, the Vatican doesn't have any airport or sea port to enter the country without going through Italy. As such, Italian police could arrest Putin at the airport or on the way to the Vatican if he wanted to go to visit the pope.

Meloni has also been very pro-Ukraine, even putting her allies into their place when those wanted to support Putin or tried to say something disparaging of Ukraine. As such, arresting Putin if he were to Land in Italy wouldn't be that outlandish as you seem to think.

Though to be fair, I expect this to be just another excuse of Putin, but for once, it's not entirely without merit.

USA announced it wants to set 50% tarifs on products from the EU.