Mooi stuk parool.nl/a-bc7e9d9f

57% in favor of peace talks, 38% in favor of continuing the war. At the same time, more than 50% support mobilization. The approval rating has held - people QUICKLY ADAPTED to the mobilization.levada.ru/2022/10/26/odo…

NEW: We reviewed more than a thousand pages of Russian military documents left behind in a command bunker in Balakliia, Ukraine. The documents shed new light on Russia's chaotic retreat from the Kharkiv area in Sept. Thread with some of our findings 1/x

Asked Bernie Sanders about the CPC's Ukraine letter:

'I don't agree with that, and they don't agree with it, apparently. It was withdrawn today, so it becomes a non-issue.'

AOC + other progressives have faced protests over their support for Ukraine $.

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Norway arrests ‘Brazilian researcher’ accused of spying for Russia theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

Looks like possibly another GRU illegal using Brazilian cover rumbled, this time in Norway. ⁦Pjotr Sauer⁩ & ⁦jon henley⁩ report

A colleague said that Giammaria had a “funny accent” that reminded him of Russian… theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

De Russische onafhankelijke tv-zender TV Rain zendt vanaf maandag uit vanuit het Init-gebouw van DPG-media in Amsterdam. De zender werd dit jaar in Rusland geblokkeerd. ‘Veel Russen zijn hongerig naar de waarheid’.
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Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, says Russia is not preparing to abandon Kherson and is instead reinforcing the city. It’s evacuating non-essential personnel so it would be able to withdraw quickly if Ukraine seizes the Kakhovka dam, cutting off the Russian force.

And the country’s investigative committee just announced that they will be looking into his statements

Since they are fascist, beste Doutzen.

Putin's agents in Amsterdam asked known authors to write essays re modern values with 'Death and the Penguin' as starting point, then they added text of Putin's fascist ideologist A.Dugin and are offering this to world publishers in Frankfurt! Please share! Authors should know!

Dit is slecht nieuws. Oekraïne begint in het noordwesten van het land nu ook kwetsbaar te worden.

Verzwakking zowel militair als logistiek als humanitair is erg ongewenst. Een goed moreel kan dat op een gegeven moment niet meer compenseren.

One of the UFC’s biggest stars is in attendance at #UFC280 alongside Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov’s teenage sons—sons who just returned from capturing three Ukrainian POWs on occupied territory bloodyelbow.com/2022/10/22/234…

‘The army has nothing’: new Russian conscripts bemoan lack of supplies. ⁦Pjotr Sauer⁩ theguardian.com/world/2022/oct…

“We have to be realistic…Ukraine first needs to capture him alive and then hand him over to us,” said Piet Ploeg, who lost his brother, sister-in-law and nephew when flight MH17 was shot down. “But miracles do happen in this world.”
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In one week, the number of convicts conscripted into the Russian army out of prison went up by a third. Russia Behind Bars, a non-profit advocate for the incarcerated, says that army recruitment has begun in Siberian penal colonies, and among CIS citizens.
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