Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 6, 2026 21:09
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Summer Vacation In Crimea Has Been Ruined
Ukraine Just Warned ALL Russians to FLEE Crimea (while they still can)
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Does Andrew Chakhoyan really believe the crap he wrote??
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Originally posted by second:
Turning Crimea From An Asset Into A Russian Liability
It Seems To Be Happening In Front Of Our Eyes
Phillips P. OBrien | Jun 22, 2026
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/turning-crimea-from-an-asset-in
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The last few days have given some concrete evidence about both the situation for the Russian occupiers of Crimea and Ukrainian plans for the peninsula. The Ukrainian strategy of isolating the peninsula seems to be both accelerating and having concrete results. If the Russians do not have the ability to counter soon, Crimea could be isolated, with pretty dire strategic results for them.
The best piece of concrete evidence for the isolation of Crimea is that the peninsula is running out of fuel. Yesterday, the Russian governor was forced to take the dramatic step of forbidding fuel sales to civilians. According to a BBC story:
Governor Sergey Aksyonov said individuals and businesses would be turned away from petrol stations, and fuel would only be sold to government agencies ensuring Crimea's “functioning and security”.
It is hard to overstate how serious the fuel situation must be on Crimea for such a draconian restriction to be imposed on civilians. Putin has always maintained the fiction that Crimea is some happy and functioning part of the Russian state. No more.
Back in July 2024, I wrote that Ukraine isolating Crimea would be a three step process, and at that point only the first step has been accomplished (which was the cutting off of Crimea from the sea). The next two steps would be far more difficult, but if they could be accomplished, the whole process might culminate in an attempt to take down the Kerch Bridge.
And here is the conclusion:Quote:I saw this Ukrainian boast that they had just disabled the remaining Russian air defense systems protecting the Kerch Bridge:
Now that the seas are no longer safe for Russia, the Ukrainians want to deny the Russians the air over Crimea as much as possible—why giving themselves (the Ukrainians) the ability to attack what they want across and connecting to Crimea. This campaign will basically lead to the air-sea isolation of Crimea— and those who know my work know what that usually means. I promise to write more on that later if you are interested.
Only once the air-sea isolation of Crimea is complete can Ukraine really go for the last part of the campaign—possibly the most difficult, but one that would be the nail in the coffin for Russian control over Crimea. That would be completely severing or at least severely damaging the road and rail links into the peninsula.
People might wonder why the Ukrainians haven’t gone against the Kerch Bridge like they might have expected—its because it will only be truly devastating to shut the Kerch Bridge off completely if Russia has lost air-sea control around the peninsula, and the road-rail connections from the north (occupied Ukraine) into Crimea can be shut off or severely damaged as well.
This is the ultimate end point, one imagines, for the Ukrainian campaign against Crimea. Once you start seeing more efforts to take down the Kerch Bridge its because Ukraine feels it has successfully completed the first two steps.Quote:
Army Media @armyinformcomua
Ukraine just stripped the Kerch Bridge of its air defence.
In a joint operation on June 21, Ukraine’s Security Service and Special Operations Forces struck two Pantsir air defence systems deployed directly on the Crimean Bridge — and simultaneously disabled four S-400 radar stations.
Six air defence assets. One operation. The bridge that Russia built as a symbol of its grip on Crimea is now unprotected.
Every air defence system destroyed around the Kerch Bridge expands the operational window for what comes next. Every radar station disabled removes another layer of early warning for Russian forces defending the peninsula.
What the Ukrainians have done is remarkable. It has taken years of planning and effort, a number of extremely difficult steps, and has put the RussianNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Over the last few years we've seen a lot of people take decades worth of credibility they've built up and just set it right on fire in front of everyone.
Maybe we need to see some more.
You start making claims like the ones that they've been making recently and you're wrong about them?
I don't know man...
I know that these lemmings are really set in their ways. And I know that the people making the 3 to 8 clickbait videos per day know that about their regular lemmings, but eventually everyone has a breaking point and at some point they will just refuse to continue to be lied to.
When your entire viewer base is pissed off people looking to be angry all day long, you've got to keep upping the ante to keep them coming back for more everyday. If you don't, somebody else is going to and they're going to start sniping your audience from you.
So if the model is to make everything make you angrier every day, what happens when even pretending to be objective flys out the window?
Well... We already know the answer to that. Everybody starts ignoring you. The media has never been so powerless as it is right now. Even independent journalism on both sides has been seeing massive dips.
But you've got a spouse and kids. Obligations. Bills to pay. So you become even more desperate...
Whether you acknowledge it or not, you've left any illusion of objectivity out of your opinions years ago. And you don't care that half or more of the country knows that every word you say is bullshit because all you care about is the 10% that believe every single word you say while trying to wrangle as many as those other 40 or so percent that are regularly voting Equus Asinus, but haven't yet tethered themselves down with the tenets of your cult.
What do you do then?
What do you do when the lying by omission or lying by framing stops working on an ever-increasing amount of the population because somebody finally told them what to look for when they're being lied to? When people start actually clicking on article headlines and reading a paragraph or two before just taking the framing the headline itself as their new thought of the day?
What do you do then?
What do you do when none of the small stories like Trump eating McDonalds everyday or having an OCD attack over the rip in the Reflecting Pool move the needle even one millimeter anymore?
What do you do then?
What do you do when every trick you've ever learned starts becoming ineffective because you yourself helped inoculate an entire planet from your bullshit, ragebait and lies by completely over-saturating everyone with it for years?
I'll tell you what you do.
You start telling bigger lies...
More risky lies...
Lies that could see you, your channel and maybe even your very prominent household name personally destroyed in an instant if you didn't dot all your Ts and cross all of your Is before you hit play on that camera and opened your big fucking mouth to tell other people what they should think about your "Shit to be Pissed Off About Today" lineup.
Lies that can be eventually traced back to the single source that conjured the lie.
That's the tricky thing about lies... ain't it?
The truth coming back to you is something that you don't have to account for because you're dealing with the truth. You are not the one who Made the "truth". You're simply reporting on the Truth that is happening.
Just a little tip to those of you who have never worried about being held accountable for your lies until the last 2 years.
Maybe try telling the truth?
I assure you... If you did it right, you probably wouldn't lose much of your current audience because there is literally a fucking endless supply of very true things that everyone should be pissed off about. You will find no shortage of content.
Would lies like these be a bridge to far?
Likely not for Ted or Second, but I'll bet if the
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Dutch Destinus produces 1,000th Ruta cruise missile jet engine
June 22, 2026, 05:51 PM
https://english.nv.ua/nation/destinus-produces-1-000-ruta-cruise-missi
le-engines-50618405.html
Dutch defense firm Destinus manufactured the first 1,000 T150 turbojet engines to be used in its Ruta family of cruise missiles, the company announced on June 22.
Ukrainian outlet Defense Express called the milestone a positive sign for Kyiv, since the Netherlands previously pledged to pay for and deliver 700 Ruta missiles to Ukraine.
Destinus said the T150 is intended for the Ruta B1 (Block 1) and Ruta B2 (Block 2) variants. The company said the milestone “strengthens Europe’s ability to produce cruise missile engines at industrial scale.”
Destinus said the engine was developed entirely in-house and is being manufactured at facilities in Europe. The company did not disclose what share of the components are European-made or the rate of production, Defense Express noted.
Sidney Berndt, Destinus’ chief manufacturing officer, said the company is planning to produce thousands of missiles a year and is already scaling up capacity, including through a joint venture with Germany’s Rheinmetall, Rheinmetall Destinus Strike Systems.
Defense Express said the T150 production figures indicate Destinus could deliver the 700 Ruta cruise missiles to Ukraine within the planned timetable.
According to Defense Express, the Ruta B1 has a range of more than 300 kilometers and can carry a payload of more than 150 kilograms. The Ruta B2 extends range to about 700 kilometers and includes improvements such as reduced radar cross-section and air-launch capability.
It is unclear how many Ruta missiles Destinus has delivered to Ukraine so far. Defense Express said deliveries are likely test batches used to refine existing versions and develop new ones. Ruta has reportedly been supplied to Ukrainian forces since early 2024. The publication added that while the first version was closer to a jet-powered drone in design, the second and third versions are full-fledged cruise missiles.
Read also:
Fugitive Russian founder’s company unveils Ruta Block 2 cruise missile https://english.nv.ua/nation/ruta-block-2-cruise-missile-may-soon-targ
et-russian-air-defenses-50575817.html
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Russian strikes drove Ukraine’s sharpest economic contraction since the recovery began, and forecasters have cut the year to near zero.
By Peeter Helme
23/06/2026
On 22 June, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a record budget of 4.4 trillion hryvnia ($97.6 billion), most of it borrowed from Europe. The money to keep Ukraine fighting, and eventually to rebuild it, is flowing as never before.
The constraint that now shapes Ukraine’s economic future is no longer money but electricity, workers, and institutions to use it.
Real GDP fell 0.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, the National Bank confirmed on 18 June, and 0.7% against the previous quarter. The number is small. What hides behind it is not.
For nearly three years, Ukraine’s economy grew through bombardment—near-continuously from the middle of 2023, when the country clawed its way back from a collapse of almost 29% in the invasion year. It dipped only once before now, briefly, when drought hammered the harvest at the end of 2024. The first quarter of 2026 was the sharper break.
More at https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/23/ukraine-economy-contraction-jun
e-2026/
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Ukraine has cleared its first remote drone control system for operational use under NATO-standard codification procedures, Militarnyi reports.
The system allows Ukrainian drone operators to control UAVs from remote locations far from the battlefield, reducing their exposure to artillery, FPV drone strikes, and electronic warfare targeting launch sites near the front line while maintaining continuous drone operations across wider areas of the front.
The system, Hornet Vision Ctrl, was developed by Ukrainian company Wild Hornets and allows operators to control drones remotely from anywhere in the world. It has now been officially approved for use by Ukraine’s Defense Forces following codification under NATO standards, the company told Militarnyi.
The complex includes a ground control station with a digital video system, a 360-degree omnidirectional antenna, and operator workstation equipment designed to enable long-range drone operations with low-latency communication.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/23/ukraine-approves-first-nato-sta
ndard-drone-control-system/
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Over the last few years we've seen a lot of people take decades worth of credibility they've built up and just set it right on fire in front of everyone.
Maybe we need to see some more.
You start making claims like the ones that they've been making recently and you're wrong about them?
I don't know man...
I know that these lemmings are really set in their ways. And I know that the people making the 3 to 8 clickbait videos per day know that about their regular lemmings, but eventually everyone has a breaking point and at some point they will just refuse to continue to be lied to.
When your entire viewer base is pissed off people looking to be angry all day long, you've got to keep upping the ante to keep them coming back for more everyday. If you don't, somebody else is going to and they're going to start sniping your audience from you.
So if the model is to make everything make you angrier every day, what happens when even pretending to be objective flys out the window?
Well... We already know the answer to that. Everybody starts ignoring you. The media has never been so powerless as it is right now. Even independent journalism on both sides has been seeing massive dips.
But you've got a spouse and kids. Obligations. Bills to pay. So you become even more desperate...
Whether you acknowledge it or not, you've left any illusion of objectivity out of your opinions years ago. And you don't care that half or more of the country knows that every word you say is bullshit because all you care about is the 10% that believe every single word you say while trying to wrangle as many as those other 40 or so percent that are regularly voting Equus Asinus, but haven't yet tethered themselves down with the tenets of your cult.
What do you do then?
What do you do when the lying by omission or lying by framing stops working on an ever-increasing amount of the population because somebody finally told them what to look for when they're being lied to? When people start actually clicking on article headlines and reading a paragraph or two before just taking the framing the headline itself as their new thought of the day?
What do you do then?
What do you do when none of the small stories like Trump eating McDonalds everyday or having an OCD attack over the rip in the Reflecting Pool move the needle even one millimeter anymore?
What do you do then?
What do you do when every trick you've ever learned starts becoming ineffective because you yourself helped inoculate an entire planet from your bullshit, ragebait and lies by completely over-saturating everyone with it for years?
I'll tell you what you do.
You start telling bigger lies...
More risky lies...
Lies that could see you, your channel and maybe even your very prominent household name personally destroyed in an instant if you didn't dot all your Ts and cross all of your Is before you hit play on that camera and opened your big fucking mouth to tell other people what they should think about your "Shit to be Pissed Off About Today" lineup.
Lies that can be eventually traced back to the single source that conjured the lie.
That's the tricky thing about lies... ain't it?
The truth coming back to you is something that you don't have to account for because you're dealing with the truth. You are not the one who Made the "truth". You're simply reporting on the Truth that is happening.
Just a little tip to those of you who have never worried about being held accountable for your lies until the last 2 years.
Maybe try telling the truth?
I assure you... If you did it right, you probably wouldn't lose much of your current audience because there is literally a fucking endless supply of very true things that everyone should be pissed off about. You will find no shortage of content.
Would lies like these be a bridge to far?
LikelyNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
The problem with videos is, you can't even believe them anymore.
And when there's really nobody in the media that you can trust anymore since all of those whores have already lit their credibility on fire, what authority would you ever turn to and just blindly believe when they tell you which ones are fakes and which ones arent?
Not only is it getting harder to tell real videos from AI generated videos by the day, but a couple of years go somebody got one of the big news channels to post a video from a video game as war footage and everyone jumped on it and passed it around until somebody figured it out and they all looked like assholes. Again.
I think in 2026 we have to be real with ourselves and admit that we truly do not even know when a video we are watching is something that actually happened.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The problem with videos is, you can't even believe them anymore.
And when there's really nobody in the media that you can trust anymore since all of those whores have already lit their credibility on fire, what authority would you ever turn to and just blindly believe when they tell you which ones are fakes and which ones arent?
Not only is it getting harder to tell real videos from AI generated videos by the day, but a couple of years go somebody got one of the big news channels to post a video from a video game as war footage and everyone jumped on it and passed it around until somebody figured it out and they all looked like assholes. Again.
I think in 2026 we have to be real with ourselves and admit that we truly do not even know when a video we are watching is something that actually happened.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I was looking for articles about that video game war footage and why bother looking for something that happened a few years ago when we've got another one from just 6 days ago...
https://fullfact.org/conflict/iran-israel-fighter-jet-video-game-war-t
hunder/
At least the media didn't jump in on this one right away and it was just shared all over social media by a bunch of "educated" 2-digit IQs that beleive they're 3-digts.
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A dramatic video of a warplane being shot down has been viewed thousands of times on social media, and shared with claims it shows Iranian fighter jets attempting to enter Israeli airspace.
But this isn’t real footage. The video is actually from the military game War Thunder.
The clip was shared on X and Facebook on 14 June with claims that three Iranian fighter jets were destroyed.
We traced the clip to a video posted on YouTube on 7 June, claiming to show the video game War Thunder. This version is much clearer and therefore more obviously computer-generated. The account sharing it regularly posts clips from the game and the end of the clip features the game’s distinctive ‘kill sound’.
A spokesperson for Gaijin Entertainment, which makes the game, also confirmed the footage is from War Thunder.
Iran fired missiles at northern Israel on 7 June, prompting retaliatory strikes from Israel. On 14 June the US reached a preliminary agreement to end the war with Iran.
Although Israel claimed to have shot down an Iranian jet in March, we’ve not seen any evidence of this happening in June.
We have previously fact checked many other video game clips that have been shared on social media with misleading captions saying that they depict real-world events. We’ve written about what to check if you suspect footage purporting to be news may actually be from a video game.
For further advice on how to verify videos before you share them, read our toolkit.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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