When we welcomed the start of dialogue with @YouTube, we said we trusted it would lead to consistent results. Today it has. YouTube has begun global removal of videos promoting Alabuga and other sanctioned entities. We welcome this decision and expect the process to continue. Alabu­ga is a Russian weapons factory. The Shahed drones assembled there are killing Ukrainian children in their beds, striking maternity hospitals, and destroying residential buildings across our cities on a near-daily basis. Alabuga is recruiting teenagers, some as young as 15, to work on those very production lines. Platforms that carry promotional content for Alabuga are not neutral service providers. They are part of the chain that sustains that production and enables Russian atrocities. YouTube recognised this and acted. Structured, direct dialogue with a platform of global reach produced a global result. We are grateful for that. We now call on all other major platforms to act without delay. The Alabuga recruitment campaign is active. It targets young people. It operates across multiple platforms simultaneously. Every day of inaction is another day that content recruiting teenagers to a sanctioned weapons manufacturer reaches its intended audience on the open internet. We are ready to extend the same dialogue to any platform prepared to act on the same basis.

Would the US national hockey team fly to Berlin in 1943 to play an exhibition game? Imperialist and terrorist Russia is no better than fascist Germany was. And criminal and murderer Putin is no better than Hitler!

Ukraine’s mid-range drone campaign is ripping apart Russian supply lines, and Moscow faces an impossible trilemma trying to stop it: There are simply no cheap, efficient, and low-manpower solutions to protect Russian logistics. Ukraine will face the same issue in the future. Ukraine has held a decisive advantage for several months with its mid-range strike drones. Utilizing AI-enhanced and Starlink-integrated technology, these low-cost systems, including the Hornet drone, fly over 100 kilometers behind the front lines to accurately destroy Russian logistics under heavy jamming. This strategic window of opportunity will not last forever. Russia will eventually improve its own mid-range capabilities, which are already far from non-existent, and turn this tactic back on Ukraine. The Ukrainian military must exploit this current edge and inflict maximum damage on Russian logistics networks before that shift arrives. Even when Russia upgrades its tech, blocking Ukraine's drone campaign will remain an absolute nightmare. Because these drones are nearly immune to electronic jamming, Moscow is forced to physically stop them. They are so cheap to produce in high numbers that using traditional air defense interceptor missiles makes no economic sense. Russia will likely turn to alternative countermeasures, such as deploying protective nets over roads, centralizing logistics into heavily defended convoys rather than vulnerable single trucks, and using anti-drone interceptor drones. However, Russia faces a structural trap: they cannot field a solution that is simultaneously cheap, efficient, and doesn’t require too much manpower. They can only choose one or two out of three. Cheap interceptor drones require a lot of manpower along key roads. Lower-manpower systems with more range are far too expensive to deploy by the hundreds. This dynamic provides a vital lesson for Ukraine. The Ukrainian military must immediately start preparing for the day Russia scales up its own mid-range drone campaigns (which is already starting to happen). Developing somewhat sustainable solutions right now is the only way to protect Ukrainian logistics when Russia’s tech allows it to copy this strategy

No, in fact if you model the Russians own air alerts issued to civilians, this is approximately the trajectory taken by UA drones to hit St. Petersburg and/or Ust-Luga.

Když Evropané říkají, že Rusko nemá důvod na ně zaútočit, zapomínají, že Rusko žádný důvod ani nepotřebuje.

@didzisdejus iedvesmoja ar savu angļu valodas eksāmena treniņu rīku — tā pati problēma bija arī matemātikā. Uzbūvēju matempro.lv: 1500 reāli CE uzdevumi (2009.–2025.), bezgalīgi ģenerēti uzdevumi, paskaidrojumi katram solim. Bezmaksas.

Politiķiem un viņu tehnologiem, kas kampaņā pret progresīvajiem pazaudējuši mēra sajūtu paskaidroju: Pērn VSAA man izmaksāja daļu no tēva uzkrātā 2. pensiju līmeņa. Naudu, ko es labprāt nekad nebūtu saņēmis. Ņirgas par potenciālu invaliditāti vispār ir jauns līmenis.

Ukrainian POW Oleksandr Hrytsiuk was returned weighing around 50 kilograms, covered in bruises, missing fingernails, with a broken nose after months of torture and starvation. There are hundreds of stories like these. This is what Russian captivity means for Ukrainians

In some very real sense, Ozempic was invented in 1990. Pfizer ran the human trials and just never published them. They showed it lowered blood glucose in diabetics, slowed gastric emptying, and killed hunger; the same 3 things that make Ozempic work today. The joint venture agreement said internal data stayed internal, and that was that. Pfizer killed the program in 1991. The reasoning, as far as I can tell, was that nobody would ever want an injectable diabetes drug besides insulin. So, the license went back to the hospital in Boston that held the patents. Novo picked it up in 1992 and spent the next two decades building liraglutide, then semaglutide. It's insane that data sat in a filing cabinet for 30 years. I only know this because Jeffrey Flier, one of the Harvard scientists in the room, finally wrote it up. He's in his late 70s and didn't want the history to die with him. This makes you wonder what else is in those filing cabinets. Ozempic could've existed 27 years ago.

While Italians celebrate fake russian culture at the Venice Biennale, real russian culture is on display in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Piedāvājam Putina pretkara plakātus — brīvi publicējami, pavairojami, drukājami, lietojami, uz Krieviju eksportējami. Plakāta autors: Krišs Salmanis. 🔗 ir.lv/rubrika/karikatura/pla…

Increasingly frantic statements from the Russian dictator following the humiliating parade experience – now admitting that he started the war in Ukraine to punish them for their desire to join the EU and that he intends to do the same to Armenia.

Thanks to the Ukrainian esports community and @MFA_Ukraine efforts, TikTok accounts streaming and promoting the Alabuga cybersport tournament have been blocked, following similar decisions by Twitch. Alabuga recruits youth, including minors, into producing Shahed attack drones — directly enabling the killing of Ukrainian civilians in Russia's genocidal war of aggression. Grateful to @Twitch and TikTok for their principled decisions. A clear signal: sanctions must be enforced, and digital platforms cannot serve as cover for Russia's military propaganda or the recruitment of teenagers into producing weapons of terror. We welcome the start of a constructive dialogue with @YouTube on the same issue and trust it will lead to consistent results. Gaming and digital ecosystems cannot shield the militarization of education or complicity in Russia's aggressive wars.

To glicerīnu uz krieviju 2,5 gadus eksportē Latvijas uzņēmums, ko Ukrainas prezidents iekļāva sankciju sarakstā 2023.gada decembrī, skat @AivarsMarkots tvītu. Kā 2,5 gadus ne @Valsts_drosiba, ne @vid_gov, ne @arlietas, ne @atis_svinka, ne @ViktorsValainis šo nav apturējušas. Kā? Te raksts - kyivindependent.com/watchdog…

Vēl tik trūkst Latvenergo un Latvijas Dzelzceļš

Eiropas Komisija aptur Venēcijas biennāles finansējumu Krievijas dalības dēļ. lsm.lv/raksts/kultura/kultur…

WTF

Estonia cancels €500M combat vehicle purchase, boosts drone defense. This is exactly the kind of decision that shows Estonia is paying attention to the reality of modern war. Legacy platforms and heavy armor still have a role, but their dominance is fading in a battlefield shaped by drones, AI, and persistent surveillance. Estonia understands that if you are serious about national defense, especially on Russia’s doorstep, you cannot afford to prepare for the last war. You have to prepare for the one that is already happening. This is a smart, disciplined move, and it deserves recognition. The rest of NATO needs to take a hard look at this and start making real changes. Investment has to shift toward drone and AI enabled capabilities at scale, not small test programs. Short range air defense must focus on fast, effective systems designed to defeat drones at low altitude. Not everything needs to be missile based. Radar guided gun systems in the 30mm range and below are going to be critical when facing mass drone threats. At the same time, we need to build depth. National level stockpiles of drone components, batteries, and repair parts are essential. Standardized training programs must be implemented across the force so every soldier understands how to operate drones, counter them, and survive under constant aerial observation. This capability cannot sit at the top. It has to be pushed down. We need company level attack drone teams as a standard, with that capability extending down to the platoon level. That is how you increase combat power without increasing manpower. Small, well trained drone teams are already delivering precision effects that used to require heavy weapons, indirect fire, or air support. When that capability is embedded directly into tactical units, leaders gain immediate options to find, fix, and strike targets in real time without waiting on higher headquarters. At the company level, these teams should be organized, trained, and equipped to conduct continuous operations alongside infantry, armor, and artillery. At the platoon level, smaller, agile drone elements should support maneuver in close contact. This creates layered capability across the formation and dramatically increases lethality, responsiveness, and survivability. This is not a future problem. It is happening now. The battlefield has already changed, and the window to adapt is closing. The nations that move now will be ready. The ones that wait will learn the hard way. Слава Україні. Героям слава. 🇺🇦 news.postimees.ee/8449574/es…

11 collu Macbook Air no 2012. gada mūžam dzīvs ;)