Karelia is the homeland of the Finno-Ugric peoples (Bordering Finland between St. Petersburg and Murmansk) and they are alleging to be a separatist movement. Blogger regards them with suspicion as they might just be Russian puppets who are trying to provide Russia with an excuse to invade Finland.
Ukraine and Denmark are collaborating in putting satellites up into space in order to replace the unreliable Starlink. Russia is also trying to provide its own satellite communications service.
Finland is trying to fortify its border with Russia so that Russia is deterred from attacking it.
Moldova no longer depends on Russia for energy and instead has power lines to Romania.
Ireland is scheduled to host the next EU summit and has gotten over 50 bomb scares.
Ukrainian FPV drones show up in Yemen. Not clear why they're there.
Ukrainian commenter Maria Drutska comments both by writing posts and narrates show on YT channel.
Ukraine prepares for talks in Abu Dhabi.
Births for Ukrainian women in 2020 was 1.2 per woman. It's now 0.8 to 0.9. “Only 43% of refugees plan to return to Ukraine, while at the end of 2022 there were 74%.”
Ukrainian hotel gets hit. Bridges in Kyiv also get hit. Stores and cars in Kharkiv hit. Warehouse and trucks in Dnipro hit. “High-rise buildings, private houses, power lines and transport were damaged.”
Underground shelter hit. Over 50 Ukrainians die. Plenty more damage.
“Zelensky says Russia brought additional occupier forces into Oleshky and the surrounding community under cover of the humanitarian operation.”
Russians place decoys of mobile air defense units along road. Blogger: “This is a poor attempt at military deception (MILDEC).”
Russian bridge on the route to Crimea hit.
Russian fuel tanks and body armor maker hit.
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