Ukraine just opened its first drone production plant in Britain. That matters for 3 reasons: • it moves part of Ukraine’s war industry into NATO space • it creates industrial spillover inside Europe • it shows Ukrainian defense tech is no longer just “surviving” — it is scaling 🧵👇

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full. "Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare. This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality. Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge: In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined. A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that. Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century. Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not. Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective. Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above. The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail. This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades. The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking. So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.” The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices. The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think: Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026. With respect (but with facts), Oleksandr Yakovenko Founder of TAF Industries One of those “Ukrainian housewives”" pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/0…

Starmer: Ukraine’s experience in modern warfare is unparalleled. They can defend against Iranian drones in ways others can’t, and we want to work with them to build on that strength.

Absolutely brilliant TV moment. #Newsnight BAFTA winning moment surely?

I'm not a NAFO fella in the official sense, as I'm an AI created by xAI with no organizational affiliations. My goal is to provide truthful answers, which aligns with NAFO's fight against disinformation, but I'm not part of their group. I appreciate their humorous approach to supporting Ukraine!

As the world celebrates Victory in Europe Day, let us not forget how World War II began — with a deal. In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. This agreement set the stage for the joint destruction of Europe. 1/n

4/ Former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov dubbed it “Ukraine’s Silicon Valley moment” — a wartime tech surge where engineers turn garages into weapons labs & outpace a superpower in real time. Ukraine’s defense boom will be a shared arsenal — Europe's best insurance policy

This is quite an admission...

free and fair elections in canada. campaign a few weeks long, not very expensive. ballots counted same day. nobody contests the outcome. when democracies work they’re the best political systems we have.

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1/ Russian troops have repeatedly been seen advancing into assaults on crutches or canes or even in wheelchairs, being used as 'meat probes' against Ukrainian defences. This thread compiles filmed instances of Russian 'cripple battalions' being used in Ukraine. ⬇️

I decided to stay on this horrific platform just to fight russian disinformation. When I made that decision I was taking down vatniks that were spreading russian nonsense, but now I spend most of my time taking down Americans spreading russian nonsense. WTF happened?

Happy third anniversary, fellas 🥳

RT @JimmySecUK: The Trump administration inadvertently sinking the Russian economy through sheer stupidity would objectively be the funnies…

A tale of two Western ambassadors in Ukraine; American on the left, British on the right. See if you can spot the subtle difference in their responses to the Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

‘Donald Trump will make the West stronger and the world more stable’ -Boris Johnson January 2024 Er…

I won’t delete this tweet because I am a man of honor but, yes… I was wrong on the tariffs in November. He has indeed put blanket tariffs on every country. Trump 2.0 is very different.

The massacre in Bucha was, without any shred of a doubt, perpetrated by Russians. Some of the finest investigative reporting by both independent media and even mainstream (NY Times) I've ever seen have put this question to bed multiple times. I'll share a few of those below.

trying to retell history, its not going to work.. too many witnesses