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Oil loadings have been suspended at Saudi Arabia’s critical Red Sea port of Yanbu -Reuters The oil export suspension comes after an attack heavily damaged the country’s East-West pipeline, used to bypass Gulf seaports and the Strait of Hormuz.

A Russian Shahed crossed Moldova and entered Romanian airspace, triggering emergency alerts and scrambling NATO jets. Moscow keeps warning Europe about ‘escalation’. But Moscow’s war already keeps crossing the border.

The Kremlin’s ‘liberation’ narrative conveniently leaves out what followed: decades of Soviet occupation, mass deportations, repression and forced Russification.

@joni_askola Well done, mate! Congrats!

There's a reason why the Trump administration and family is hesitant to help Ukraine or put new sanctions against Russia: they actually want to do business with them. And this has been going on for ages: In 2008 Donald Trump sold a Palm Beach mansion to Russian oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M, while four years prior he only paid $41M for the estate. They're all corrupt through and through. propublica.org/article/donald…

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. It’s best known for promising “no war” while actually encouraging wars by ending sanctions on belligerent states. 1/20

The Russian salient north of Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine has collapsed. Ukrainian forces are moving into this area, conducting mopping up operations. It is only a matter of time until all Russian units in that former salient have been dislodged or neutralized. Basically the entire Russian invasion force west of the Zherebets' River in this sector is currently in utter disarray. It took Russian more than a year and countless losses to even establish that salient. The Russian propaganda announced Lyman's fall already. Seeing the collapse in a matter of weeks only paraphrases the absolute insanity of the Russia tactics to mindlessly throw in bodies with virtually zero gain and now even a territorial loss. Far worse for the Russian invasion is the setback on the operational level. Their movements have already been minuscule. Lyman is vital if Russians want to move forward. Even according the most optimistic prognostications for the Russian side, it would have taken years for them to take the Ukrainian fortress cities Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, if at all. This setback, however, not only wasted a tremendous amount of Russian resources and troops, but also pushed the target even further away. It marks now the official failure of Russian summer offensive.

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The moment of a deliberate Russian strike on the newsroom of Ukrainian TV channels “We Are Ukraine” and “We Are Ukraine+.” People were inside the building at the time of the attack.

BREAKING: 🇲🇩 Moldova has detained a 49-year-old man accused of spying for Russia’s FSB and collecting information on both Moldovan and U.S. military objectives in Moldova. According to Moldovan authorities, the Azerbaijani-born man was recruited by individuals allegedly working for the FSB and had been under surveillance since August. Investigators say he collected information on Moldovan military facilities and U.S. military-related objectives in the country. The information was allegedly intended to be passed to a coordinator linked to Russian intelligence. Authorities also say he was being prepared for possible sabotage operations in Moldova and Ukraine. During searches, police seized his phone and reportedly discovered communications with a man who allegedly presented himself as an FSB officer. This comes just a few hours after Romania announced the arrest of a Russian citizen accused of preparing a sabotage operation on Romanian territory, with investigators alleging links to Russian intelligence.

UPDATE: As best I can tell, more or less the entire North Eastern part of Romania is under the air alert. This is unprecedented (at this scale) to say the least.

UPDATE: Multiple cities in the Eastern part of Romania are now receiving the same emergency alert.

BREAKING: Romania’s public warning system has issued an emergency alert to the population of Iasi, Romania’s third largest city (~300k).

@SPunk_321 You seem weirdly happy about it.

The left has an insanity problem. The right has a stupidity problem. The center has a timidity problem.

@MihailCazacu1 @Werefella Touché!

The latest Ipsos poll ordered by Reuters puts his approval rating at 33%. One in three US citizens continues to venerate this complete lunatic. The imbecile annexed the moon last night.

@PeterCStewart 😂

@camcrod Spot on!

So the good people of Saxony-Anhalt have decided the best response to Russia trying to blow something up in Germany every other day is to vote for an openly pro-Russian party led by a nazi "anti-immigrant" defender of "traditional values", one who is herself a gay immigrant living in Switzerland, married to another immigrant. Alright..

@STweet69 International treaties aside, him saying he's annexed the moon is about as consequential as me declaring I annexed Saturn.