Aggression unanswered is permission. The West keeps hoping that Russia will simply run out of ways to corrupt and destabilize, but that's not how it works.

Finnish flights are cancelled because of Russian electronic warfare against the west.

The GPS jamming has been ongoing for month. The Russians are humiliating Europe, but our politicians decide to do nothing. Avoiding escalation, even when aggression is directed at us.

The largest western banks in Russia paid the Kremlin more than €800mn in taxes last year, a fourfold increase on prewar levels, despite promises to minimise their exposure after the invasion of Ukraine, ⁦Euan Healy⁩ and ⁦Anastasia Stognei⁩ report on.ft.com/3UBv6k3

27APR24 Avdiivka sector ORBAT and operational thread. Over the past week RuAF has achieved series of local successes on Avdiivka sector. These began with sudden and unexpected penetration into village of Ocheretyne on 22APR24. 1/20

Russian Oligarchs' Role in Drone Manufacturing and Sanction Evasion: Investigating sanctions evasion with exclusive documents and email correspondence.

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The Russians apparently threw the 27th MRD into the fray in the north of Avdiivka and gained ground in Ocheretyne. The developing situation might motivate the Russians to throw mechanized reserves into the fray.

This might be the kick-off for the Russian spring offensive.

“In light of Greene’s own prior statements, one might imagine that the plight of Hungarians in Transcarpathia is not something she would organically discover or take any interest in. Perhaps coincidentally,the same narratives are being actively promoted by the Russian media.”

GeoConfirmed UKR - 30.000!

30.000.
Thirty thousand.

Our Ukraine map has just reached 30,000 GeoConfirmed entries.

What started on February 24, 2022, with just one person trying to geolocate certain events in Ukraine to get a better insight into what was happening, has grown…

Onkohan meidän koulutuspolitiikassa ollut jotain vikaa, kun tämä krooninen lääkäripula jatkuu vuodesta toiseen?

USU: Tässä on karmea totuus Suomea riivaavasta lääkäripulasta
iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/e515…

There is a technological solution; Musk previously disabled Starlink use in parts of Ukraine (including during an active Ukrainian operation against the Black Sea Fleet using Starlink guided maritime drones).

He could block Russia’s use of Starlink with a flick of a switch.

Dear Baltic colleagues, I am (somewhat desperately) looking for an expert from Latvia and Lithuania working on Russian hybrid interference, for a project together with Frivärld Patrik Oksanen ! Would be extremely grateful for recommendations

The case of Russia, as a nuclear power, grabbing the territory of its neighboring state is the first of its kind, basically, IR rules in such situations are being set here as a precedent. If a nuclear power can annex parts of the other nation's territory, that's a new rule.

This rule would make the world an even more dangerous place, since various dictatorships would be motivated to attempt to develop their own nuclear programs, seeing they can get away with almost anything, if their adversary is not a nuclear state.

Last night we tested a brand new, in-house base map, hoping to. at some point, transition to that from the CyclOSM that we currently use.

In less than 5 hours, we got over 200 000 tile requests. In terms of absolute users, it's not mindblowing, but this was Finnish nighttime.

For a lot of democracies with collapsing birth rates the 2030s onwards is just going to be governments consuming the future to give temporary rewards to gerontocratic voting bases.

Kun GRU:n kätyri Gabriel Temin osti kahdella miljoonalla eurolla drooneja Jimm's PC-Store Oy kiitti, kumarsi ja toimitti.

Menee hermot näihin seteliselkärankoihin, jotka olisivat myyneet Stalinillekkin aseita.

Russia has indeed gotten pretty far with pure rhetoric, without significant changes in posture to indicate preparations for nuclear use.

His largest business partner, the Chinese Communist Party, bans Twitter entirely. But we don’t talk about that because we don’t want to upset them.

How it started: How it is going: