A railway bridge in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region has collapsed and caused a derailment. Sabotage is a likely cause. The Arkhangelsk region is located north of Moscow and borders the Kara, White and Barents seas.
The Soviets built hundreds of these open truss railway bridges across the country. They were well designed and very sturdy but father time and deferred maintenance were never denied.
An aircraft repair factory in Staraya was also hit.
Negotiations began in Abu Dhabi between the United States, Ukraine and Russia, also with representatives from several European countries.
Lavrov said Russia had no intention of stopping the killings of Ukrainians.
Your reminder that Kushner is a Russian useful idiot.
What a fucking stupid idea.
The Kyiv Independent has a good story on how Zelensky’s former chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, royally screwed up his relations with the Trump regime.
The “troubling” channel has been more harmful than helpful, Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv Independent, which was also confirmed by a U.S. government official.
According to a senior Ukrainian official, Yermak often misunderstood Wiles and the American way of communicating. Wiles would sometimes agree to do something or help set up a meeting just to be polite, the official said.
Yermak, however, interpreted these responses as concrete commitments and successes, and often reported them to Zelensky as personal achievements.
“Susie would tell him ‘I’ll see what I can do’ when asked about something, and Yermak would then go and talk to the president, presenting this as his victory,” the senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.
These misunderstandings created “several problems” that hampered Ukraine’s relations with the Trump administration, they said.
A source close to the Trump administration told the Kyiv Independent that the infamous outburst in the Oval Office was largely due to Yermak’s misinterpretation of the mood in the Trump White House.
Yermak didn’t understand how much Americans disliked him, they said, claiming that former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg tried to persuade Zelensky to avoid the ill-fated meeting in the Oval Office, but his advice was rejected by the authoritarian Yermak.
The source close to the U.S. administration claimed that as allegations of corruption began to swirl around him, in mid-to-late 2025, Yermak deliberately undermined Kellogg, one of the most pro-Ukrainian members of the administration, in order to forge a closer relationship with his replacement, Steve Witkoff.
“At one point, he simply stopped responding to Kellogg while he was still in his official position. He intentionally cut his knees out from under him to get closer to Witkoff,” the source said.
Resistance is futile.
Hey! Who* left this drone here?
*Yes, (bad) pun.
Russia attacked a home improvement store Epicent.
Russia also continues to turn Sloviansk into a wasteland.
Oh damn! How are we going to do without Russian diesel?
2,220 additional Russians.
Good riddance.
Ukrainian drones can now be redirected in mid-flight.
Previously, Ukrainian drones were sent to predetermined targets. If the first drones managed to hit a refinery unit, the others continued towards the same target.
Now, according to the Russian channel, Ukrainian operators can monitor strikes in real time and redirect incoming drones while they are still in flight.
Once a primary distillation unit is hit, subsequent drones can be redirected to storage tanks, cracking units, electrical substations, or other critical equipment.
Instead of concentrating an entire wave on a single target, Ukraine can spread the damage across multiple parts of the refinery.
Let’s check the Russian economy.
Let’s check the fuel situation.
Putin’s fan club in Krasnodar came out with another video. This time, they want Elon Musk to know that he is welcome to come build his flying cars in Russia and that if he needs a place to stay, one of them has offered to share their apartment with him.
These ladies are almost as fun as Golman.
And here is yet another video appeal to the Tsar because the local authorities in Novosibirsk are taking these people home. What I find particularly ironic is that these people point out that they have lived there for a long time and that it is their house and that the authorities are trying to take it away from them.
This is similar to what Russia is doing to Ukraine.
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