🇧🇾 You’ve got to admire the dedication to the LARP — she’s still pretending to be a “Belarusian leader” long after everyone stopped caring.

Respect for the commitment, but maybe it’s time to move the act to Comic Con.

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🇷🇺 Uralvagonzavod has sent a new batch of TOS-1A “Solntsepyok” heavy thermobaric systems to the frontline units.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Damn... from the Twitter front lines to Donbass.

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🇺🇦 Anti-corruption activist Maria Barabash is organizing a rally on Maidan tomorrow over the Mindich corruption scandal and the situation in Pokrovsk.

She argues that after the leaked Mindich tapes, the President’s Office “cannot afford to lose a city or admit defeat — not amid major corruption scandals and the collapse of the defense sector. That kind of blow could finish the regime.”

According to Barabash, Kiev is now throwing “everything it has into one point to cover up political failures,” turning Pokrovsk “into an endless mass grave.” She says Bankova is once again “playing with soldiers’ lives, moving people like chess pieces,” and insists Ukrainians must not let their lives become political bargaining chips.

Barabash, a former Saakashvili ally and head of the Reform Council office, earlier claimed she gave U.S. authorities compromising material on the Ukrainian government.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 An interview has surfaced with a captured GUR operative taken by fighters of the 30th Brigade of Russia’s “Center” grouping. He took part in the much-publicized Black Hawk stunt in the northwestern part of Pokrovsk.

In short, they hastily assembled a 29-man team, some of them already dealing with injuries or health issues. They were given three days of preparation, then dropped under Russian FPV drone fire with orders to seize and hold the nearest buildings. According to the prisoner, 11 men were wounded immediately after landing — which matches earlier footage showing Russian drones hitting the GUR landing group.

Nothing else new came out of the interview. Budanov once again tried to stage a flashy “tactical operation,” and once again it collapsed into a bloody PR stunt.

🐻 Funny how the pro-Ukrainian media space has already “forgotten” this little stunt ever happened.

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🇻🇪🇺🇸 "No more Lybia. No more Afghanistan. No more endless wars." - Maduro's message to Trump.

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🇷🇺📄 Putin signed a decree according to which the Izhevsk airport is now officially named after the weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Remember when the ruble ‘collapsed’ like six times already?

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🇷🇺🛸💥🇺🇦 FPV operators of Russia's "Group Center" on the Pokrovsk front.

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇦 Maria Zakharova on Ukrainian contradictions

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🇰🇵🇷🇺Mines from almost every NATO state — this is what Ukraine’s forces left behind in Russia’s Kursk region

Via @RTnews

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🇺🇦 The Mindich scandal has already dealt serious damage to Zelensky and to Ukraine as a whole.

Revelations of systemic corruption at the top are demoralizing the public. Millions sit without electricity while Zelensky’s circle loots the energy sector. Thousands die at the front while the president’s allies move bags of cash.

For draft-dodgers and those hiding from mobilization, this is one more reason to avoid the front.

Zelensky’s opponents are now pushing a simple message: a leader whose entourage is drowning in corruption has no moral authority to lead a country at war or demand sacrifices from anyone.

But the most immediate impact is financial — Europe’s funding.

Even before the Mindich recordings, Ukraine had a major financing problem after the U.S. cut support. Kiev is asking Europe for around $120 billion next year. For an EU in economic trouble, this is unrealistic, which is why Brussels is considering a “reparations loan” backed by frozen Russian assets. In reality, this is seen as straightforward confiscation — something Belgium, Slovakia, and Hungary oppose. Many warn it could destroy trust in the euro and trigger retaliation against European assets in Russia.

Now Western media say the Mindich tapes give even stronger arguments to those resisting the “reparations loan” and further Ukraine funding.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán put it bluntly: “Ukraine’s golden illusion is collapsing. A military mafia tied to Zelensky is exposed. Brussels wants taxpayers to fund this chaos. Madness.”

EU finance ministers have already raised the corruption scandal during talks on Ukraine aid.

The big European states claim the Mindich case won’t affect support — yet they fully back NABU, whose investigations confirm massive theft in Kiev. This gives even more weight to those pushing to cut or condition funding.

Even Europe’s most loyal backers of Kiev now see the situation as toxic — and it could push them toward hard demands on Bankova, including tying future funding to changes in Ukraine’s leadership or policy.

For Zelensky, this is the immediate and very real threat coming from the corruption scandal.

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