🇯🇵🇺🇦The Japan Ministry of Defense has signed a contract to purchase interceptor drones from the Ukrainian company SkyFall.
“Let me dedicate this award to all of the survivors of international crimes as well as to practitioners and defenders of international justice whose passion and courage continue to ensure that impunity will not be allowed to reign.” Navi Pillay, 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
this is my first exposure to new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and let's just say she certainly didn't get the job because of her eloquence 😬
❗️The EU paid about €7.88 billion for Russian LNG from the Yamal Arctic project in the first nine months of 2026, Euronews reports, citing Urgewald and Kpler. A record 12.18 million tonnes reached European ports, up 9.5% year-on-year. #Russia
New primer about the news from the last few hours that the US is getting back to business with Russia. This is not Trump being erratic, it is not about diesel, it is not a small move. It is about the US moving to a more active position of helping Putin. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/this-is-ab...
Exactly. Trump is a willing participant, with his recent suggestion that Ukraine’s strikes on RU refineries were to blame for diesel prices, not his own idiotic war against Iran.
❗️And here we are. Just like expected. A Ukrainian official claimed that during recent talks, US envoys Witkoff and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut off Ukraine from U.S. intelligence if it continued to ignore his requests to stop hitting Russian refineries, Axios tells. US denied. #Ukraine
Russia's Novoshakhtinsk ORP Rostov branch, a fuel depot with over 210,000 cubic meters of storage capacity, was hit overnight in Rostov region. The facility supplies fuel to Russia's Southern Military District, and taking it out would block fuel logistics from the Novoshakhtinsk refinery entirely.
❗️Senator Richard Blumenthal sharply criticized Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel, calling it complicity in Putin’s war against Ukraine, and urged the immediate cancellation of the deal, which benefits the Russian economy
While #Trump is trying to save his ass and Putin is pushing to get sanctions on Russia lifted, that same Russia continues to murder Ukrainians.
Zaporizhzhia, October 10. At least 8 people have been killed and 16 injured in the Russian strike. Three of those killed were children.
Also of interest:
The number of Algerian military transport flights travelling between Algeria➕RU has increased noticeably in recent weeks. The aircraft types used are capable of carrying weapons, military equipment, spare parts➕personnel.
The radical right party that the Finnish ”moderate” right party took into coalition government as a junior partner in 2023, to form the most right wing government in Finnish history, now passed the “moderate” party in polls.
WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED!
🇩🇪 In Germany, 63% of people surveyed support either maintaining or increasing European countries’ military aid to Ukraine.
🚨 In Montenegro, police and Agency for National Security officers have detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, head of the Russian propaganda project Rybar.
The operation targeting the Russian network’s hybrid activities was carried out in the city of Risan.
Trump historically wore Brioni, an Italian luxury company that makes suits in Italy. Here he flashes a Jos. A Bank label, a US company that long offshored its production to China and Bangladesh. They carry an associated label called Joseph Abboud, which is made in US. Curious he didn't choose that.
Es ist beschämend, wirklich beschämend für Deutschland, dass der ehemalige Bundeskanzler Schröder da in Moskau diese Show abzieht, während wir gleichzeitig erfahren, dass Russland 33 friedliche Menschen in Kramatorsk ermordet hat und 20 Menschen in Pryluky, darunter fünf Kinder.
LADY D (9349289) is now sailing through the English Channel. Her next destination still has not been declared, but is likely Saint Petersburg/RU.
Update on CRYSTAL STPETERSBURG (9155389) The vessel vanished off the AIS grid north of Murmansk/RU on 20.09.26 and now reappeared off South Korea. Her destination has been changed to Rizhao/China.
Russian gunrunner
ASCALON (9198226)
is back on the AIS grid and seems to be westbound through #BalticSea. Likely she spent the last 4 weeks in/near Saint Petersburg/RU. Her current draught and her next destination have not been declared.
