Referred to as “vomit-inducing.” Prominent Russian Sergei Lavrov's conversation with the Hungarian Foreign Minister.
The Baltic States may have been providing intelligence on Russian ports. Not smart for an American professor to say that on TV, but not smart for someone to have spilled that in the first place!
Our blockades and sanctions on both Iran and Cuba are pretty clearly a waste of time and resources. Both sets of leaders might have a harder time holding on to power if their citizens were free to travel and to import US intellectual and material products.
April 9 is the anniversary of day Soviet troops killed 21 demonstrators on this same Rustaveli Avenue in 1989.
Anticipating Orban's defeat in the upcoming Hungarian election, a Georgian Dream ideologue blames US VP Vance.
The EU has the same problem with the Hungarian Foreign Minister that Democrats had with Senators Manchin and Sinema, who just continually obstructed every measure. They need to go to majority rule as opposed to unanimity.
Orban caught in unsuccessful plot to bomb and to then blame Ukraine for the bombing.
Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic: “Victor Orbán has been in charge of Hungary for 16 years. He has used his power as a democratically elected leader to take over the institutions of the state, judiciary, media, bureaucracy, universities.” Funny, but Hungary isn't much of an economic success story. His campaign is essentially blaming all of Hungary's problems on Ukraine.
VP Vance says Ukraine and Russia are merely having dispute over "a few square kilometers of territory" Not true and quite insulting.
Pope Leo XIV denounces US diplomacy.
Zelenskyy warns that drones are already very long range. They will improve on that.
“The Donets-Zakharzhevsky estate in Velykyi Burluk, Kharkiv region, has been destroyed down to its foundations.” Built in 18h Century, it survived two world wars.
Last remaining Russian rail ferry disabled across the Kerch Strait.
Russians developing remotely detonated mines.
https://balloon-juice.com/2026/04/08/war-for-ukraine-day-1504-we-are-clean-on-opsec/
