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Changes on the map over the past 24 hours:
➡️ Shilovka has been liberated (+23.5 km2)
➡️ Sobolevka has been liberated (+4.5 km2)
➡️ The Russian Armed Forces control most of Stepnogorsk, as well as the settlement of Plavni (+2.9 km2)
Divgen 🇺🇦 TG
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The Ice Hockey Federation of Russia has requested that the IIHF guarantee their participation in the 2027 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships or move the tournament away from Canada.
#IIHF
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Russia is now tying any Ukraine settlement to a whole new security architecture for Europe and Eurasia, and Washington is alarmed. Alexander explains why this process could take years, and unpacks Lavrov's tough line, Kushner and Witkoff's rush back to Putin, Merz's EU budget veto threat and the steady Russian advances in Zaporozhye and Sumy. If Trump is in a hurry and Putin is not, who really holds the leverage now?
youtu.be/A3frJKb0Wog?is=urhf…
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IRGC says two 'Rogue and Criminal' Oil Tankers (supertankers) exploded in the Strait of Hormuz last night.
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✈️🇨🇳 More PLA Air Force Y-20 Cargo planes were observed doing trips from the western regions towards air bases near the coast today, as China is conducting large-scale 'unannounced' military drills around Taiwan and in the Western Pacific.
MORE: The scale of these deployments suggests that the PLA is conducting a major exercise that simulates isolating Taiwan. The number of vessels involved and the geographic range of their deployment are greater than the PLA’s most recent exercise around Taiwan — Justice Mission 2025.
The coordination of surface forces from the Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Commands is rare. Major PLA exercises targeting Taiwan since 2022 have largely centered around the PLA’s Eastern Theater Command, the organization primarily responsible for Taiwan-focused operations.
The presence of four major surface groups beyond the first island chain from three separate theater commands could represent an effort to coordinate the principal surface combatants of all three coastal theater commands in a single far-seas operation.
The positioning of major PLAN combatants in the West Pacific, between Guam and Taiwan, and combined PLAN and CCG forces conducting a closer encirclement of Taiwan also follow patterns from previous PLA exercises. Strait Thunder 2025a, for instance, involved an “inner” encirclement of Taiwan alongside a carrier strike group operating between Taiwan and Guam.
The recent PLAN maneuvers could improve the PLA’s ability to effectively deter or prevent outside forces from reaching Taiwan during a contingency by preparing its coastal theater commands to coordinate their forces during such an operation.
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The Qatari delegation (A7-MHH) is already returning from Tehran, so there are high chances they went there to pick-up or deliver a message.
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My latest for @ukcolumn on the deliberate Colonialist plan to destroy Syria's anti-Imperialist heritage:
Colonialism and global capitalism are designed to burn the history and culture of prey nations to the ground through forced assimilation into systems branded onto entire countries by violence and oppression. Education systems are dismantled and discarded. Language and tradition are driven underground. Connections to a historic belonging and ancestral resistance to repression are severed brutally. In such an environment, colonial narratives prevail until the past is an ember, slowly fading as future generations are born into the new reality. Trauma and fear turn people from resistance, to acceptance, and finally to the abandonment of the principles that once held society together. The loss of their land, their homes, and their identity is deliberate to ensure they lose their roots and origins in the upheaval of everything they believe in. This method of disintegrating indigenous institutions and ecosystems forces people into ever shrinking sectarian rivalries and finally, hatred, that is intended to persist for eternity.
However, history also teaches us that indigenous cultures show extraordinary resilience when faced with such barbaric ravages. There is always a struggle, albeit a reduced one for some time, to reclaim their heritage and to ensure their civilisation survives the complex damage caused by colonisation and occupation. Syria is no exception. Now it is in the throes of perhaps the most debilitating stage of the colonial project, but resistance does not die completely, ever. It goes underground. It reorganises, it rearms, it strategises, and it waits until the opportunity arises for it to strike and to expand. The scars of the colonialist project never fade, but they become a driver for the resistance, towards a future of liberation, just as they have always done in Syria’s long and fractured past.
Read the entire article:
ukcolumn.org/article/syrias-…
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BREAKING: US Attorney General Todd Blanche has been relocated to a US military base, joining a growing number of senior Trump administration officials who have moved into military housing over security threats from Iran, per NewsNation.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life two days ago.
Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller have been moved to US military bases as well.
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Remains of the Roman Fort at Ambleside in the Lake District. Built during the 2nd century AD, the fort guarded the Roman road from Brougham to Ravenglass, and replaced an earlier 1st century fort. 📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Ambleside #Cumbria
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Clowns from the USA Witkoff and Kushner are already in Moscow
I assume that the tour of this circus has the intention of convincing Russian President Putin to agree to freeze the conflict in Ukraine along the current line of contact and allow representatives of the European ruling class to also join the clown show and at least sometimes sit near the so-called negotiating table or at least under it..
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I favour the moron option...
This is beyond parody. The email that caused hundreds of schools to close in Italy today was sent by a certain “Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misogynistan” — so you have Russia, Islam and far-right incelism all wrapped into one. There are only two options here: either our governments are led by morons or they are deliberately engaged in a strategy of tension to terrorise the public (while having a laugh on the side).
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🌌 Giving the Iris Nebula another chance! Sometimes the data are better than the first processing suggests. I went back to my original NGC 7023 capture and experimented with the Seestar app's processing tools.
Same data, different processing, and a result I'm much happier with!
🔭 Seestar S50 | EQ mode
📷 242 × 30s | IR-cut
teapawt.org/rafstargazer/status/21…
ALT Image (c) @RafStargazer
Iris Nebula (NGC 7023) is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus, located about 1,400 light-years from Earth. It is illuminated by the bright star SAO 19158, which is surrounded by dense clouds of interstellar dust. This image was captured during the night of October 17–18, 2026, using a Seestar S50 telescope with the IR-cut filter. The data were collected using live stacking of 242 × 30-second exposures, for a total exposure time of 2 hours 1 minute. Final post-processing was performed in the Seestar S50 app.
#Astrophotography #SeestarS50
ALT Image (c) @RafStargazer
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Some of the Russians who fought Britain and France in the Crimean War lived long enough to be filmed. Among the people in this clip are soldiers and nurses who survived the siege of Sevastopol, the Crimean port they defended in the 1850s. The footage appeared in The Defence of Sevastopol, released in 1911, which combined historical reenactments with documentary scenes of surviving veterans.
Former soldiers and nurses step toward the camera one after another, wearing their medals, while others wait behind them. By the time they were filmed, the siege had been described in books and recreated for the screen, but they could still remember being there.
More than a century later, we can watch these few moments and see the faces of people who lived through it.
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'In Ucraina morti oltre 400 mila russi', hacker svelano i dati di Mosca
Bilancio rubato da gruppi bielorussi e ucraini.
Oltre 400 mila morti in quasi cinque anni di guerra. E' stato diffuso il primo bilancio ufficiale delle perdite russe, sebbene non tramite canali istituzionali che al contrario su quelle cifre mantengono il segreto di Stato, ma grazie all'intrusione di hacker bielorussi e ucraini nel sistema informatico dell'agenzia di statistica di Mosca Rosstat.
Dai dati trapelati - poi condivisi con alcuni media tra cui il Guardian - risulta che sono appunto oltre 400.000 i soldati russi caduti nei combattimenti in Ucraina. Una cifra in linea con la stima di 500.000 militari morti avanzata lo scorso settembre dall'intelligence britannica, mentre lo Stato Maggiore delle forze armate di Kiev parla di "circa 1.609.380 di perdite totali del nemico al 9 novembre", includendo però nel conto sia i morti che i feriti.
I dati di Rosstat, trafugati dal gruppo bielorusso Cyber Partisans, legato all'opposizione, e dal collettivo ucraino Silent Crow, contengono oltre 11 milioni di certificati di morte, con relativi dettagli sull'età del defunto, il luogo di residenza e il luogo del decesso. Di questi, ben 412.576 certificati di morte collegavano esplicitamente i decessi alla guerra, sia attraverso codici ufficiali di causa di morte sia tramite riferimenti scritti a combattimenti e operazioni militari. I due gruppi di hacker hanno annunciato la violazione il 1° novembre e hanno pubblicato i dati durante lo scorso fine settimana. Rosstat ha confermato di essere stata vittima di un attacco informatico, ma ha negato che siano state divulgate informazioni sensibili.
Le cifre emerse offrono un quadro senza precedenti delle perdite subite dalla Russia in tempo di guerra, perdite che Mosca ha cercato di nascondere. Le autorità russe non hanno pubblicato un bilancio delle vittime dall'inizio dell'invasione dell'Ucraina, nel febbraio 2022: le informazioni sulle perdite militari sono infatti trattate come segreto di Stato. Il Guardian non è stato in grado di verificare in modo indipendente l'autenticità dei dati forniti. Tuttavia, le cifre sono sostanzialmente coerenti con altre stime delle perdite russe. L'agenzia indipendente russa Mediazona ha, ad esempio, identificato per nome quasi 286.000 soldati russi morti, basandosi su registri ufficiali, necrologi sui social e fotografie di lapidi, e ritiene che il numero reale delle vittime sia più vicino al mezzo milione. Alcuni soldati infatti risultano ancora dispersi, mentre altri non sono mai stati identificati.
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe Is Building A Military Machine: Ukraine Is Being Drawn Into An Anti-Russian Alliance Ahead Of EU Accession.
According to Rapporteur, the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament has drafted a new EU defence policy.
It provides for permanent multinational forces under a single command, joint intelligence, cyber security and space infrastructure, and centralised arms procurement prioritising European manufacturers.
Financing would come through joint EU bonds and a tax on defence companies' excess profits.
🇺🇦🇳🇴Ukraine and Norway are offered "Quasi-Member State" status in the European military system, granting access to joint weapons development, production and procurement without waiting for full EU membership.
Who decides?
Currently, key military issues require unanimous consent from all Member States. The S&D Group proposes majority voting, transferring some powers from national governments to pan-European bodies.
Consequently, Ukraine's military integration could precede its political accession to the EU and the resolution of long-term security guarantees.
#EUDefenceUnion #EuropeanDefence #Ukraine
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An UNEDITED image of Jupiter from my telescope
You can see the ‘Great Red Spot’ and a shadow of one of its moons!
