Should lob a surprise Taurus at the Kerch Bridge during this 🤣

C'mon Germany, Taurus needs to be battle tested anyway, see how effective Russia's AD is against it.

Up next 👀

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 3 June 2025 at 13:30

Lmao.

A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal.

Darren Beattie has provoked alarm within the State Department since being appointed in February for his ardent pro-Russian views and focus on destroying the agency tasked with tackling Kremlin propaganda.

Mr Beattie, the acting under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, is married to a woman whose uncle has taken several roles in Russian politics and once received a personal “thank you” message from Vladimir Putin.

In the years before joining the government, Mr Beattie wrote social media posts suggesting Western institutions should be “infiltrated” by Putin, while he also attacked what he described as the “globalist American empire”.

Many of Mr Beattie’s social media posts also concern China, repeatedly calling on the US to surrender Taiwan to Beijing, and labelling Britain a “poor and pathetic kingdom” that would be “far better off under Chinese dominion”.

In May 2021, public records show, he married a Russian woman called Yulia Kirillova in a ceremony in Broward County, Florida.

Ms Kirillova, who according to her Facebook page was educated in Moscow before studying abroad in Canada and Washington DC, is the niece of Sergei Chernikov, a Russian drinks magnate who part-owns a flat with her mother, Natalia.

Mr Chernikov, whose net worth was estimated to be $150 million in 2005, reportedly received a letter of thanks from Putin for his help in the election campaign which first brought the Russian leader to power.

The same year, Mr Chernikov took his first step into politics, taking a role in the ministry of natural resources, before becoming deputy governor of the Nenets region in Siberia.

“The rise of non-woke (China) and anti-woke (Russia) geopolitical competitors to the Globalist American Empire is not a bad thing,” he wrote in October 2021.

He also said he looked forward to its “prestige and power” collapsing on the world stage and claimed that its “position in the global order [is] rapidly deteriorating”.

Two months before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said: “Imagine the whining from the Globalist American Empire if Putin ‘invades’ Ukraine… I love it when our national security bureaucrats fail!”

He has also praised Putin as “brave and strong”, and claimed the Russian leader had “done more to advance conservative positions in the US than any Republican”. He also declared: “Nato is a much greater threat to American liberty than Putin ever was.”

“The funny thing is just about every Western institution would improve in quality if it were directly infiltrated and controlled by Putin,” he wrote in September 2021.

Many of his posts focus on Britain, claiming it treats white people “far worse” than the Uyghur population that Chinese authorities have imprisoned in camps in Xinjiang.

He has labelled Britain a “sewage pit” and “the most utterly repulsive dystopia on earth”.

In a post more than two years after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, he criticised the UK’s policy of “antagonising Russia”.

All of these social media posts were still online at the time of writing, although Mr Beattie has deleted disparaging tweets about Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, having previously claimed his now-boss attended “gay foam parties”.

Trump official who shut down Russia propaganda unit has links to Kremlin

✈️👀 Analysis of the Diaghilevo airfield after the attack on 01.06.2025, - CyberBoroshno

❗️Burning was detected near 3 Tu-22M3 and 2 Il-76 parking lots. There is a high probability that these planes were hit, but due to the masking we cannot say 100%.

🔥 Image shows one of the presumably hit Tu-22M3s.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 3 June 2025 at 14:39

We might be adding another 5 to the list, Lol. I still don't believe Ukraine's claim of 41 but we're currently at 13-14 visually confirmed, so that number could become 18-19.

Jimmy is hinting at more as well.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 3 June 2025 at 14:58

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine will present the details of Operation Spiderweb in the US Congress.

Senate will have a speech by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Office, Colonel Pavlo Palisa. This will be a closed hearing at which sensitive information will be announced regarding the situation on the battlefield.

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— Savchenko Volodymyr (@savchenkoua.bsky.social) 3 June 2025 at 14:45

The European Commission is confident that the European Union will manage to avoid the economic blowback from a new US Senate bill that envisions 500% tariffs on importers of Russian energy, which, if applied, would wreck about a dozen member states.

"We are in the process of phasing out imports of fossil fuels from Russia, and therefore, this should ultimately not be a problem," Paula Pinho, the Commission's chief spokesperson, said on Tuesday afternoon.

The draft law, jointly promoted by Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, and Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, foresees primary sanctions against Russia and secondary sanctions against its clients in an attempt to force the Kremlin into serious negotiations for a lasting peace in Ukraine.

Graham has described it as "the most draconian bill I've ever seen in my life in the Senate", while Blumenthal said the sweeping restrictions would be "bone-crushing" and place Russia's economy "on a trade island".

The project has amassed over 80 signatures in the 100-seat chamber, an impressive amount of bipartisan support aimed at securing President Donald Trump's backing.

EU confident it will avoid 500% tariffs from US Senate sanctions bill against Russia | Euronews

What about Hungary and Slovakia? Lol.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Trump administration and Ukraine consider parts of Russia’s ceasefire demands, voiced in Istanbul, unacceptable.

U.S. officials say Moscow is undermining meaningful negotiations. Trump is reportedly frustrated with the talks and increasingly shifting focus from Ukraine to the Pacific region.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 3 June 2025 at 16:45

So instead of actually putting his foot down and finally being tough on Russia for repeatedly spitting in his face, TACO is instead retreating to the Pacific region, haha. Who on Earth believes he would do something about China? He's only shifting to Pacific because it is currently "silent" but if China did actually invade anything, I 100% guarantee we'd hear from Trump "I'm mad at China" and "I'll give them two weeks" and then finally "I'm done with trying to bring peace, America is shifting their focus to the Southern Ocean"

If RePowerEU goes through, and since no unanimity is needed it very much should, it would cut Europe from the rest of of Russian energy imports, as in, oil and gas. That would then mean that they would avoid sanctions as they would be free of Russian oil imports.

Cut how? What happens if Hungary and Slovakia refuse to cut off Russian energy imports?