Day 1669 War in Ukraine

Aerial drones carry small land drones as the initial wave of an attack. This saves on manpower as the machines, as they're attacking, can keep a close eye on where the enemy weak and strong spots are before any personnel come under fire.

Trump is bragging about a deal with Greenland, but didn't the US just agree to the 1951 agreement that was already in force?

Turkey produces a deescalation plan to both Russia and Ukraine concerning shipping on the Black Sea.

Poland installs automatic air raid sirens.

Ukraine has destroyed about a third of Russia's refining capacity. If Russia wants to mess with Poland, it'll REALLY be in trouble!

Russia's attacks on civilians have increased support for Poland to increase its defense budget.

Ukrainians who live under Russian occupation have to put up with “concentration camps, the theft of children, forced conscription into the army, police terror, expropriation and a few other things.”

A Russian attack on Europe could be less than a year away, but we don't want people to get panicked too far in advance of when intelligence agencies say that an attack is imminent.

NATO has 4k pages of plans on all sorts of contingencies.

The new Ukrainian FP-7 ballistic missiles were used in the “massive overnight attack on Moscow.”

Attacks on Ukraine in just this week alone: 2k attack drones, 1,700 guided bombs and 19 missiles.

Russians hit a monastery, and an apartment building block, 2.1 million out of 5 million sq. meters of Ukrainian warehouse space destroyed,

Ukraine re-takes a lot of territory.

The road from Mariupol to Dzhankoy (right after getting into Crimea) is littered with the wreckage of vehicles trying to supply Crimea.

Oleshky is surrounded by Russian troops who are not allowing any electricity or gas in. Ukraine is tying to negotiate a humanitarian corridor.

Over 400 flights from Moscow delayed.

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