Month: July 2026

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Putin is trapped in his own war – textbook trap. Call up another 500,000? That publicly admits the whole thing is a disaster. Don’t call them up? The front collapses this winter, the military says. 30,000 losses a month and rising. But mass mobilisation scares the Kremlin more than the body bags. It drains an already exhausted workforce, wakes the soldiers’ mothers (the only group that has ever made the Russian state actually sweat), and makes the war personal for every Russian family – exactly what four years of state TV carefully hid behind “special military operation”. No version where he doesn’t have to admit what he’s refused to admit for four years. A wi

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨 It’s now confirmed: there will be a new mobilization in Russia. How do we know? The Russian government is denying that a new mobilization is planned. As @DarthPutinKGB says, don’t believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.™

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇨🇳🇾🇪🇸🇦 China is now operating with a strategy built decades in advance. Following the Houthi blockade of the Bab el Mandeb, while the region faces growing disruption, China appears to be calmly maintaining access to its energy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz, while its commercial vessels continue transiting the Red Sea without facing significant interference. Why? China identified the world’s key strategic chokepoints years ago and began establishing military and logistical footholds near them long before today’s crises emerged. At present, two Chinese commercial vessels are reportedly loading oil at Yanbu and continuing their journey through the R

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Pics from yesterday’s Putin propaganda show in Irkutsk show a thoroughly beaten man. This little bastard is about to pay.

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Ukraine appears to have struck at least 10 Wildberries warehouses across Russia and occupied Ukraine this week. Wildberries = Russia’s Amazon. Ukraine: “We hit logistics, economy and daily life — all at once.” 🔥 Key insights • Attacks strain Russia’s already stretched air‑defense network • Russian consumers increasingly feel the war • Russian Central Bank cuts rates again to project “stability” • Romania shoots down an unidentified drone • Explosion damages a cargo ship headed for Ukraine • Ukraine continues long‑range strikes on Russian energy & logistics • Russia launched 5 Kh‑59/69 missiles and 180 drones overnight • No confirmed territorial changes on Jul

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s drone revolution has started a war inside its own military. The latest leadership crisis in Kyiv has exposed a much bigger debate than a cabinet reshuffle. At its core is a fight between 2 visions of warfare: the Soviet-era model built around artillery, hierarchy and attrition, and a younger generation that believes drones, rapid innovation and lower troop losses will decide the future of war. That divide is embodied by former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. At 35, he became the face of Ukraine’s drone revolution, redirecting funding toward domestic drone production, reforming military procurement and pushing technology over traditional firep

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🚨Update: This is a bunker buster bomb so heavy it can only be carried by a heavy bomber, and it exists for one job: to reach the things enemies bury deepest. It’s the GBU-57, America’s 13.6-tonne bunker-buster! The GBU-57 weighs about 30,000 pounds and stretches over 20 feet, but most of that is not explosive. It is a long, dense, hardened-steel spike designed to punch through many metres of rock and reinforced concrete before it does anything at all. Only then does a delayed fuze trigger the charge buried in its tail, so the blast goes off deep underground rather than on the surface. Because of its sheer size, the B-2 Spirit is the aircraft built to carry it

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: ⚡️Fire reported overnight at Engels air base, home of Russia’s heavy bombers. The cause of the fire remains unclear. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry announced a drone threat over the region earlier in the night. https://kyivindependenm/fire-reported-overnight-at-engels-air-base-home-of-russias-heavy-bombers/

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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: The New York Times, citing multiple people briefed on the matter, reports that President Donald J. Trump switched from the Qatari donated Boeing 747-8 to the legacy Air Force One during the NATO summit after the Secret Service received what officials deemed a credible threat that Iranian proxy forces were targeting the president and whatever aircraft he was traveling aboard. The Qatari donated 747-8 is currently serving as the VC-25B “Bridge” aircraft, a temporary presidential transport intended to fill the gap until Boeing delivers the long delayed next generation VC-25B fleet. According to the report, the threat was not specific to the aircraft itself, but t