Zelensky has confirmed that RU has no intention whatsoever of stopping the war – instead, they are significantly reinforcing. Based on what we know about Russia, we can be quite certain that these negotiation rounds are a war strategy, and from experience, they intend to come up with something additional – exactly what I am trying to speculate about 😀
Also, things are moving quickly in hockey – yesterday, the Russian MoD confirmed that only ground troops and the air force would participate, and today Belarus confirms that nuclear forces are naturally also participating.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/13/7525986
This is also good reading, you already know everything if you have been following the posts, but it is a serious publication unlike my wild guesses and constant misses.
Zelensky released some important information, RU losses are 1:1 KWIA as we previously guessed. Then the total number is what is reported, which I long didn’t believe was the case, sad.
KWIA was also 1:3 in favor of UA.
However, UA previously confirmed that 80% of the wounded return to their units, with 18 dead for Ukraine and 531 for RU, that’s a kill ratio of 1:30 😶
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-losses-3-times-higher-than-ukraines-zelensky-says
UA has also attacked nodes of the Druzhba oil infrastructure – they haven’t been able to do that in an entire war, so this is significant, perhaps the biggest since Kursk in August 2024.
The reason, of course, is the EU – an older article.
So, Biden, Scholz, Macron, Starmer, Boris Johnson, von der Leyen, NATO, and everyone else have throughout the entire war prevented Ukraine from attacking critical infrastructure in Russia.
Trump probably also prevented UA attacks on refineries in February this year.
No one has stopped Russia, which has completely knocked out all UA refineries, oil transport, electricity production, and other things that they have surely rebuilt several times over.
Shortening the war has not been a priority for our leaders after all…
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/58040
Now we have the major node that I always forget where it is, Tomsk, Omsk, somewhere that Ukraine hasn’t been allowed to target in an entire war, if they can take out the node, it’s game over for Russia’s oil industry.
Either Ukraine has said “screw it” and is going all out, or Trump isn’t as sinister as we think, I’m guessing Ukraine is going all out.
Russia has never said a word about the refineries, so neither will Trump.
But that should mean they have some allies in Europe, and I think I know who 🧐
From what I can see, Ukraine has a little gas left, but the tank is echoing quite empty now, yet they remain silent and keep fighting.
The number of downed UAVs is also steadily decreasing as RU uses improved versions and has changed tactics, building large quantities of long-range drones – 79,000 per year.
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-aims-to-build-79-000-shahed-type-drones-in-2025
You have probably also noticed that no one talks about the atrocities anymore, it has become normalized. It’s not very normal if you are subjected to them – if you have been castrated, it’s lifelong, and if you have been raped daily for two years as a woman or man, it’s also lifelong.
Yes, we can argue for a coldness and indifference from Europe that doesn’t at all match the humanitarian superpower we consider ourselves to be, but from what I have seen around the world, we are still light years ahead in terms of humanity compared to many other countries.
It is indisputable that the conflict in Ukraine is the worst in terms of human suffering and also the conflict that poses the highest risk to Europe, and both civically and politically, it has not been handled properly for over three years.
What are the popular demonstrations on the streets about today?
They should be about burning down Russia and paving over the sh1t, but you have never seen that, and all the different organizations that are supposed to protect people and us like the UN, Amnesty, and the Red Cross have, in the worst case, turned against Ukraine instead.
A classic example is when the Red Cross deceived the defenders of Azovstal into surrendering and then turned their backs, they arrived at the camps and laughed at the prisoners instead.
Or Amnesty, which criticized Ukraine for abuses in the war instead of Russia for a long time until the pressure became too great, and the UN, which consistently kept the number of civilians killed to a minimum, a number that no one who has taken a basic math course believes.
In the past year, have they conveyed any other figure of civilians killed as a truth without flinching?
Something will happen between today and the summer of 2026, I am quite sure because Russia is now increasing significantly in everything that can be interpreted as an intention for more war. They are their own worst enemies, so timelines never match, but we can assume that they have something planned after they put out the peace smoke.
You already knew earlier that they trained militias in the Balkans to overthrow governments in Moldova and perhaps Romania, right?
And then they made a deal with the strong clan leader of Libya to start pushing migrants again, have we also discussed that they have something new from 2015 in the works?
Czechia is also at risk of getting a pro-Russian leader in October, by the way.
I have managed to keep my feeds free from Russian influence, but I notice quite a few around me slipping into the wrong narratives.
Drone flyovers of German high-value targets were five hundred in three months – that’s a high level.
Sabotage is rampant, but our countries are increasingly keeping a lid on it, the above report only came out because someone leaked it.
Is there anyone reading these world-leading posts and believing that the only country Russia is flying drones over is Germany?
Anyone 🧐
So we have many thousands of flyovers over military bases, naval bases, substations, nodes, ammunition depots, radio towers, and other things that in the event of war will be pre-targeted.
War preparations?
Big things like the Baltics closing the border and expelling Russians, they can’t keep that a secret, but we don’t hear about everything that can be kept under wraps.
Therefore, I continue from yesterday – the Balts know that NATO has abandoned them, so they have turned to Ukraine.
Ukraine is not extraterrestrial, so they have promised that when it hits the fan, they will start their own offensive, but it is important that RU is allowed into the Baltics, and with joint forces, they can then make a decisive move. If the border is closed, RU will instead try to take down Ukraine before turning to the Baltics.
Well, I’m not sure if I believe in this myself because it would require a lot of trust and different countries unreservedly trusting each other, but what could offset this is “your enemy’s enemy.”
Probably not all of Europe is at all aware of this, maybe the Balts, Finland, and Poland?
We have had signs pointing in that direction – Finland has promised to fight with Estonia and Poland with Lithuania.
Other parts of Europe have vaguely expressed themselves on the issue only and now they want a ceasefire in Ukraine and have prepared a white paper to wave around.
It will be the dirtiest asymmetric warfare you have ever seen but the starting shot must be Russian.
Why is that?
Because then no cowardly and weak politicians in Europe can complicate things, they are faced with a fait accompli and must comply – the ball is in play.
Considering how the situation is developing, Ukraine has probably informed this circle that they will not be able to hold out much longer.
The situation itself simply forces a counterattack because it can no longer be avoided.
Belarus must rise up like a man, woman, person, or any other gender identity but I’m not listing all of those.
The problem I struggle with is not that Ukraine will not attack into Russia but that Europe will not do its part – I am like a resigned man/woman/other gender identity on the third divorce when it comes to Europe actually.
Any country in Africa has proven to be a more loyal buddy than Europe when it really matters, with Europe as the wingman you had to go home alone from the bar every night.
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Russian losses 2025-08-14:
(191 two times, probably a mistake)
SLAVA UKRAINI
AFU reports:
Great, then it was time again! 💥🔥👍
Lukoil in Volgograd is one of Russia’s larger refineries. Seems to be the sixth largest.
Information about the capacity varies between 14.5 to 15.7.
If the entire refinery is shut down, Russia loses about 5% of its maximum capacity or 6% of its normal capacity.
Fingers crossed that they managed to hit a column directly so that it will take at least a couple of months to repair.
“Russia: Oil refinery in Volgograd on fire following Ukrainian drone strikes. The Lukoil facility had a refining capacity of 15.7 million tons per year – over 300,000 barrels of oil per day.”
If FIRMS is correct, it seems to be a serious fire (but you can’t rely on it 100%, refineries are a pretty hot business and can show up on FIRMS even in normal circumstances).
“More good footage of objective monitoring of the damaged refinery. NASA satellites recorded a large-scale fire at the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery. The governor of the Volgograd region confirmed the fire, traditionally stating the alleged fall of debris.”
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lwdfavgihk26
Based on this, one might think that the fire does not concern the refinery, but FIRMS say otherwise.
“Ukraine launched a mass drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd region overnight on August 14, with an oil refinery in Volgograd among the targets. The strike triggered a spill of petroleum products and ignited fires.
Local authorities confirmed strikes on the city, including on an oil-processing facility, but did not specify whether it was the LUKOIL-owned plant.”
https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-drones-strike-russia-s-volgograd-igniting-fires-and-causing-oil-spill-at-lukoil-refinery
“As a result of falling debris, a spill and fire involving petroleum products occurred at the Volgograd oil refinery,” Governor Andrey Bocharov said.”
https://www.uawire.org/ukrainian-drones-strike-russia-s-volgograd-igniting-fires-and-causing-oil-spill-at-lukoil-refinery
To check how it normally looks at FIRMS at Lukoil, three screenshots have been taken from FIRMS. The first one is from the 10th, the second one from the 12th, thus before the attack, and the last one is from the last 24 hours. I have also checked some other random days and it seems to vary between what we see on the 10th and the 12th.
It is quite obvious that there is a fire at the facility and that it is not normal operations.
2025-08-10:
2025-08-12:
Last 24 hours:
(Heat)radiating news!💥🔥
Looking at FIRMS for today only, unfortunately, it seems like most of it is already extinguished.
The red box in the middle doesn’t contain much interesting, what I suspect is the primary distillation is a bit further to the left. The red box to the right is the tanks.
Now the whole middle part has been on fire, hopefully the primary distillation has been damaged, even if it doesn’t burn down or is completely written off, they will have to clean up, change cables, etc. It should be gone in a few weeks at least.
From this picture, one can also conclude that the entire plant has been shut down because there is no red at all where it normally is.
Is it the one from yesterday or new for today?
Fronts sum up to 127, compared to the total of 148. Significant decrease in Lyman. Strong increase in Pokrovsk, which with 56 attacks almost reaches the average of 59 for the “offensive” of spring and summer. Also a significant increase in Siversk. Several other fronts are down or remain at low levels.
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 6↘️
S Slobozhansky 5
Kupyansk 3↘️
Lyman 13💥↘️
Siverskyi 14💥↗️
Kramatorsk 3↘️
Toretsk 7
Pokrovsk 56💥💥💥↗️
Novopavlivka 14💥↘️
Huliaypillia 1
Orikhivsk 1
Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 4
Siverskyi 14💥↗️
In the areas of Hryhorivka, Novoselivka, and Pereizne.
Pokrovsk 56💥💥💥↗️
In the areas of the settlements of Volodymyrivka, Nikanorivka, Chervonyi Lyman, Novoeekonomichne, Rodynske, Promin, Chunyishyne, Zvirove, Kotlyne, Udachne, Horikove, Novoukrainka and Dachne.
Lyman 13💥↘️
In the areas of the settlements of Novovodyane, Karpivka, Ridkodub, Kolodyazi, and Torske.
A possible explanation for the difference between the total front sum and the reported one:
Over the past day, the aviation, missile forces, and artillery of the Defence Forces struck eight areas where personnel, weapons, and military equipment were concentrated, two artillery systems, a logistics depot, a command post, and a radar station of the Russian invaders.
👍
From this morning’s Kyiv Independent:
Russia aims to build 79,000 Shahed-type drones in 2025, Ukraine’s military intelligence says. Shahed-type drones, originally designed in Iran, have become a key element of Moscow’s long-range strike arsenal against Ukraine, frequently used to target cities, infrastructure, and energy facilities.
Russia’s daily losses 3 times higher than Ukraine’s, Zelensky says. “For example, yesterday’s figures, which are roughly average: Russian losses per day are about 1,000 – 500 killed and 500 wounded,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent.
Russia exceeds monthly recruitment targets, Ukraine’s military intelligence says. The Kremlin planned to enlist 343,000 people in 2025 and has already fulfilled over 60% of that goal, Vadym Skibitskyi, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR), said.
Ukraine strikes oil facility in western Russia in overnight drone attack, Kyiv confirms. Ukrainian drones targeted the Unecha oil pumping station, part of the Transneft Druzhba pipeline network, sparking a large fire, an intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent.
Drone attack sparks blaze at oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd, Russian official says. “As a result of falling debris, oil products spilled and caught fire at the Volgograd Oil Refinery,” regional Governor Andrey Bocharov claimed on Aug. 14.
https://kyivindependent.com
Together with the one I shared with yesterday, one really begins to suspect that it is Putin who is sitting in the driver’s seat.
So, is it the case that the USA is planning to act as a curling parent to try to get Putin where they want him?
Bribing him with lifted sanctions to get him to the meeting?
Or is it that they so desperately want to help him and that’s just a poor excuse for why they are easing the sanctions?
The question is which alternative is worse…
“US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian transactions to facilitate Alaska peace talks”
https://kyivindependent.com/us-temporarily-lifts-sanctions-on-russian-transactions-to-facilitate-alaska-peace-talks/
From yesterday:
“Donald Trump can offer Vladimir Putin access to rare minerals to get the Russian president to want to end the war in Ukraine, reports The Telegraph. The newspaper writes that the American president is going to Alaska with several economic offers that ‘may entice Putin’.” https://omni.se/a/VzEXgV
Even though I don’t think it’s about money for Putin. For him, it’s about honor for mother Russia. And a revenge after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nothing else. Trump probably thinks that everyone can be bought for money, being the businessman he is. Nowadays, the media can claim anything. They make a mountain out of a molehill and create news out of nothing.
I also don’t believe that Putin cares so much about money for his own sake (he has enough to get by), but to keep the war machine running, a functioning economy in Russia is required. It’s not impossible that he could be bribed with something just to participate in meetings, which would be perceived as a pure win in Russia if it doesn’t require more than that.
However, I don’t think mere bribes will be enough to get him to withdraw from occupied areas. His thirst for revenge probably outweighs that, and he has indoctrinated the population so heavily now that they will not allow any return of land for any trade deals.
I agree with you, Trump probably completely misjudges Putin in that case.
Putin himself has enough, but his war machine probably needs more, so it’s probably something he wants from Trump, eased sanctions.
Trump, on the other hand, is probably motivated by money, so if he gets a piece of the pie, he can surely resume some trade with Putin.
Donald Trump has no intention of discussing any possible territorial divisions between Russia and Ukraine when he meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week.
He told the European leaders and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky at the summit on Wednesday, according to two officials and three other individuals briefed on the conversation. This was reported by NBC News.
During the meeting, Trump is said to have stated that he is entering the meeting with Putin with the goal of securing a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Trump and the European leaders are said to have agreed that a ceasefire in Ukraine is necessary before peace negotiations can begin, according to the sources.
Russia has announced that the country will impose restrictions on Whatsapp and Telegram, following allegations that the platforms have failed to share information regarding fraud and terrorism. Several international media outlets report this.
“Access to foreign messages will be possible again once they start complying with Russian legislation,” Russia’s Ministry of Digitalization writes, according to The Guardian.
In a statement, Meta, the owner of Whatsapp, writes that they “oppose governments’ attempts to restrict people’s right to secure communication.” Meta also points out that “this is precisely why Russia is trying to block Whatsapp for over 100 million Russians.”
It is not far from agreeing with the worst pessimists who are convinced that Trump is following “Project 2025” with the ultimate goal of all power belonging to the president.
Starting to suspect that Trump is testing the limits and boiling the frog to see how far he can go in terms of controlling the “violence capital.” At the same time, he can identify those who choose to oppose him and counteract and purge them.
If that’s the case, we will see it happening in more cities and in other contexts in the future.
“Donald Trump will ask Congress to extend federal control over the police in the capital Washington DC, reports The Hill. The President’s statement comes just two days after taking control of the local police force at the same time as the National Guard was called in.
According to the law invoked by Trump to take action, the police can only be placed under federal control for 30 days, after which Congress must approve an extension.
The President is also considering declaring a national emergency to bypass the law. This idea is rejected by law professor Claire Finkelstein at the University of Pennsylvania. According to the law, Trump cannot extend the measures himself.
– When 30 days have passed, it’s over, she tells Reuters.”
https://omni.se/trump-lovar-att-forlanga-kontrollen-over-polisen/a/rPQO4A
Time for Europe to take its responsibility
He is probably testing his possibilities to build up a power apparatus similar to Putin’s. He is starting to use the National Guard more and more as his own security force.
Thank you Johan! The recipe they use is well known! Funny how many people can never learn the basics and instead jump right into the Russian trap?
https://youtube.com/shorts/u1cTRn5tBs8?si=5-TdWuPPuo_96h0T
Completely incomprehensible actually
“💥 There was a strong explosion in the center of Rostov, after which a missile threat was declared, – Dnipro Osint ❗️The footage shows that the explosion was on the roof of a high-rise building.”
“Ukrainian drone interceptor captures split-second detonation of Russian Lancet after it was hit.”
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lwdtuelsyc2o
🚨 BEWARE OF FALSE FLAGS: In the lead up to the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, Russians are hitting their own civilians and blaming Ukraine. So far they’ve hit: – An aquapark (!!) with children in occupied Kherson region. – A random street in Belgorod, civilians injured.”
They are devilishly skilled Russians, you have to give them that. Devils usually are. If they manage to make Zelensky look like a child murderer before the meeting tomorrow, it could certainly lead the emotionally driven Trump astray. On the other hand, it’s a high-stakes game that if exposed, could backfire on me and Putin. What about the children? Nothing more than tools.
It’s a bit of a specialty for the Russians. Surely more of that kind will come. They warned yesterday that Ukr would bomb civilians, and then you know they have some mischief going on.
And what do we think they have taught Hamas?
“💥 The work of the Anti-Tank Platoon and UAV unit of the Rifle Battalion of the 93rd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade “Kholodnyi Yar””
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lwdt2varvk2l
“❗️🇰🇵North Korea will soon send six thousand soldiers and hundreds of pieces of equipment — tanks, armored personnel carriers and howitzers — to war against 🇺🇦Ukraine, — Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Budanov”
30,000 are on the way in total
Well, so instead of increasing the support for Ukraine, they are stepping back instead?
“❗️🇬🇧Britain has abandoned the idea of sending a 30,000-strong contingent to 🇺🇦Ukraine, — The Times Instead, London is offering to patrol the western skies of Ukraine with Typhoon and F-35 fighters, train the Ukrainian Armed Forces, demine the Black Sea, and help rebuild the army.”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lwdrsf6uuc2a
Is the peacekeeping force already gone?
Not even half.
By the way, what actually happened with those Patriots that Trump approved for delivery to Europe so that they could in turn deliver them to Ukraine?
“🇺🇦 Ukrainian Air Defence shot down and suppressed 24/45 Russian drones and 0/2 S-300/400 missiles.”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lwdproixys2w
They fly higher and apparently have jet engines
“Anyone reading these world-leading posts and thinking that the only country Russia is flying drones over is Germany?”
I still wonder why we no longer receive news articles about flyovers above Swedish facilities. Is the media not aware of them? Has it lost its news value? Has the media been asked to remain silent (less likely)?
Surprisingly little buzz about the activities on the masts along the entire E22 coast at Easter. Does no one care?
There are also many strange break-ins at facilities where nothing is stolen. High level of ambition to then not take anything. A lot of effort for nothing. 🤨
Russian war preparations against Europe are at an extremely high level right now.
Then they seem to be test-driving like with the Norwegian hydroelectric power plant and the Finnish water.
No one knows yet what caused the major power outage.
Yes, why is everyone silent?
a little Cold War lid on again
If we didn’t have submarine activity against us a few years ago too 😀
Not at all. It was minks. Many say. However, not my friend who was directly involved.
It was both RU and NATO that tested Sweden’s preparedness.
Have you seen The Key to Hårsfjärden? Very interesting (SVT)
https://youtu.be/8Gyi8WTHXAM?si=kpQEAqe9dT5_AFnD
While on the subject of contemporary history, you can also watch Spies in the People’s Home (TV4) Palme’s role in spy Sweden:
https://youtu.be/MPgTk0mlhYY?si=Q1BVZiXboN-cVqCT
MXT writes the above about the UK but has anyone heard about Merz and Macron’s proposal for a peacekeeping force in Ukraine?
Europe’s promises seem to have an extremely short half-life nowadays
Not at all. That was minks. Many say. However, not my friend who was directly involved.
🧐
“12,000 customers in Halland and Småland were without electricity after a major power outage, reports P4 Halland. The issues are said to be almost resolved by 13:30.
It affected, among others, the municipalities of Hylte, Gislaved, and Gnosjö.”
https://omni.se/12000-utan-strom-i-halland-och-smaland/a/QML2aA
Saw some notice about it a few days ago, and it was regarding a possible ceasefire, but that’s hardly likely to happen.
🧐🤔
“12,000 customers in Halland and Småland were without electricity after a major power outage, reports P4 Halland. The issues are said to be almost resolved by 1:30 p.m.
This affected, among others, the municipalities of Hylte, Gislaved, and Gnosjö.”
https://omni.se/12000-utan-strom-i-halland-och-smaland/a/QML2aA
Explains why there were so few comments 👍
Here it sounds like economic cooperation is at the top of the agenda.
“Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will discuss a ‘bilateral economic cooperation’, the war in Ukraine, and global security issues during their meeting in Alaska on Friday. This is reported by the Kremlin, according to the Financial Times.
Moscow believes that there is ‘enormous, untapped potential for trade and economic cooperation’, said Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov to the state-owned Tass.
According to Ushakov, the meeting is scheduled for 11:30 local time on Friday, which corresponds to 21:30 Swedish time.”
https://omni.se/kreml-ledarna-oppna-for-ekonomiskt-samarbete/a/gw8Qk5
Starting to get curious about what the USA has cooked up here 😀
Do you think China is starting to get nervous?
Well, I don’t think the discussion is so much about the war, and maybe that’s just as well, it’s too complicated for Trump.
Putin wants to lift sanctions, and Trump wants a piece of the pie. Putin will surely try to get Trump to stop Ukraine’s bombings of the refineries, by explaining that economic cooperation is hindered by Ukraine’s terrorism.
I’m not quite sure what to think about this. After all, they have used their own money to buy emission rights which they then discard.
Just hope that China doesn’t get any ideas and buy up all of them, then it’s just a matter of time before Germany’s industries shut down.
Otherwise, I could have believed that emission rights could become something one can invest in and trade, trying to buy cheap and sell high.
“German environmental activists have managed to accelerate the climate transition by buying and discarding the EU emission rights aimed at the industry, reports DN.
German organizations offer individuals to buy these, which are then torn apart. This means that there are fewer left for the industry, leading to a faster reduction in total emissions than what the EU has decided.
– If it becomes widely known that a certain amount (of emission rights) is annulled, of course, one takes that into account the next time negotiating in the EU, says Mattias Goldmann, founder of the 2030 secretariat, which works to help Sweden achieve the EU’s climate goals, to DN.
In theory, the German organizations have reduced Europe’s emissions by 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Equivalent to more than the entire municipality of Kalmar’s carbon dioxide emissions for a whole year.”
https://omni.se/aktivister-lurar-marknaden-koper-utslappsratter/a/Xjy25B
Why should Germany’s industry shut down, I’m not in on it?
Emissions trading is just something we’ve come up with to save the climate, right?
On a global scale, they make no difference at all since China, the USA, and India are increasing their emissions by magnitudes more than we are reducing ours.
So, they are just fictional and someone is making money (who?) so it would make sense to shut them down, right?
It’s probably good if individuals invest money instead of the industry?
Simplified description of how it works as I understand it.
It’s within the EU but then different countries have slightly different handling.
There is a fixed cap for the number of emission allowances available in total (within the EU and each respective country).
(Every year, the number decreases to increase the pressure to streamline and replace fossil fuels.)
Large companies that emit a lot of CO2 are allocated a smaller number of emission allowances but must buy more if they don’t have enough. If they emit less, they can sell them.
When it comes to, for example, fuel, transport, and heating where it directly involves fossil fuels, they don’t receive any emission allowances at all and must buy them.
Since there is a cap, a player could buy up all the emission allowances (preferably at the beginning of the year before the need to buy more arises). Then they simply refuse to sell.
This could lead to a shortage of emission allowances, and the industries that emit more than they have allowances for will then have to buy the corresponding allowances in the following years and submit them retroactively, in addition to paying a fine of around 100 euros per allowance (they cost about 75 euros this year), so the cost becomes more than double.
The companies are then faced with the choice of stopping/reducing production or being economically penalized.
It’s not as simple as I made it seem that China could step in and buy everything, but someone with money could really cause trouble.
Buying small amounts like activists have done doesn’t have much impact unless there is actually a total shortage at the end of the year and companies choose to reduce production to avoid penalty costs.
It’s not the case that emissions automatically decrease because you buy an unused emission allowance, as you touched upon. It’s a slow process to have an impact in the long run.
But what I wrote was about the possibility of sabotaging for companies.
For the companies, it’s therefore NOT good if individuals buy too many allowances, leaving them without, as it will cost them more or lead to having to reduce production (or quickly invest in non-fossil-based solutions).
For the environment, it might be beneficial in the long run as it increases pressure on companies, but as stated in the article, reducing emissions by 200,000 tons, as they write, only applies in theory.
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About China and others.
Emission allowances are not something we’ve just come up with in the EU.
China has it to some extent concerning electricity production (which is, of course, a large part), and they currently have relatively low-priced allowances.
UK, USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Turkey are some others that have ETS (Emissions Trading System) systems.
India plans to introduce it.
Russia has actually discussed it (but it probably won’t happen)
Most non-EU countries don’t have it either
(On the other hand, it’s the non-EU countries that emit the most based on where it’s consumed.)
So far, the EU has its own ETS system, and the rest of the countries also have their own.
There is currently no global trade, mainly because countries set their own prices. It would need to be regulated, similar to currencies, for it to work.
Otherwise, a Swedish company could buy cheap allowances from another country.
There’s a high risk that a less scrupulous country might start issuing emission allowances and selling them cheaply just to make money, without leading to any actual reduction in CO2 emissions.
“⚡️ India shifts oil purchases away from Russia before Trump-Putin Alaska meeting, Bloomberg reports. State companies Indian Oil Corp. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. secured supplies from the U.S, Brazil, and Middle Eastern producers for September-October delivery, Bloomberg reported.”
https://bsky.app/profile/kyivindependent.com/post/3lwegdwocfk2
“US Treasury Secretary Bessent: We’ve put secondary tariffs on Indians for buying Russian oil. I could see, If things don’t go well, then sanctions or secondary tariffs could go up… President is the best at creating leverage for himself, he will make it clear to Putin that all options are on the table”
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lwefwmb5uk2t
Who is Russia selling to next and will the EU increase purchases from them, maybe that’s something to follow?
Trump Approval Ratings
Trump takes a big step up by 1.5 points since last time and is now at -12% (-14% last week). So, he is currently in a better position than last time at this point.
The world was lucky because my comment disappeared here
“US President Donald Trump har förhandlat fram en preliminär fredsöverenskommelse mellan Armenien och Azerbajdzjan som för USA in i Kaukasus, samtidigt som det potentiellt ger Ryssland en knuff ut ur regionen och håller Iran under kontroll.”
Ukrainian forces have halted the Russian advance near the city of Dobropillja, reports Reuters citing Donetsk governor Vadym Filashkin.
Russian forces managed earlier this week to bypass the Ukrainian defense line and advance ten kilometers, according to the Ukrainian military. The sudden Russian advance, the largest in the past year, was seen as an attempt to pressure Ukraine ahead of Friday’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
In recent days, Ukraine has sent reinforcements to the area in eastern Ukraine.
Then I hope that we will have it confirmed later today or tomorrow through an update on DeepStateMap.
Just ran straight into Deepstate this morning and instead it has broadened a bit but not expanded north.
Think Azov is cutting the process short, is an MRR that ran as far as they could and they had no water and some have surrendered just to get a drink.
Should be easy to cut them off if there are people on site.
Reminiscent of the Kyiv push in miniature.
One might think so – to me the whole sequence of events signals that Ukraine has poor staffing at various front sections.
Azov was tangible and then everything is okay but there were quite large movements and it continues to move on Deepstate.
Deepstate seems to have full integrity – Ukraine should be grateful for them.
I believe part of the problem is that front-line leaders do not want to admit such things.
BREAKING: Ukraina återlämnade 84 krigsfångar och civila från rysk fångenskap, enligt president Zelenskyy. Enligt presidenten inkluderar de återlämnade personerna de som har varit i fångenskap sedan 2014, 2016, 2017.
Where is Amnesty 😶
Oh damn, 2014 is eleven long years, are there any pictures of the prisoners?
Johan, regarding the oil.
Here is a graphic showing which countries buy oil from Russia and how their percentage share changes between 2020 and 2025. Europe has decreased from accounting for 50% of the purchases to 5%. Actually better than I thought. Then China and India buy more, and we probably buy from the same sources they bought from before.
So Russia sells about the same amount as before (but of course gets a little worse price).
Something that surprises me is that the USA seems to have increased and therefore buys more than Europe right now. It must be because it is cheap.
“🛢Russian crude oil and condensate exports (2020- 1H2025) 📈📉 Change in share in Russian exports: 2020 – 2025 🇨🇳 China: 34% – 46% 🇮🇳 India: 1% – 36% 🇹🇷 Turkey: 2% – 6% 🇪🇺 Europe: 50% – 5% 🇺🇸 USA: 2% – 0%”
https://bsky.app/profile/theukrainianreview.bsky.social/post/3lwdv3sgl422l
Europe has indeed not bought oil from India but refined products. The figure I’m throwing around also includes refined products and everything that has had Russian origin.
That is, India’s 1% – 36% also goes to us, but through a detour 😀
China probably not.
Didn’t the USA go from 2% – 0%?
Yes, there is something fishy about the numbers.
Well, of course, we buy processed where the raw material comes from India.
Sad, but what can you do?
At least we don’t think about the children as the humanitarian superpower we are 😀
I have to admit regarding Ukraine’s possible inability to reach that pumping station. It was huge! Bigger than some of the depots they targeted over a year ago.
“👀 Satellite images of the results of strike on oil pumping station “Unecha” in Bryansk region, – Dnipro Osint ❗️Near the support pumping station there are large traces of fire, the station cannot function. It has the capacity to pump 60 million tons of raw material annually.”
https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lwdqyax4ec24
If nothing else, a good slap in the face for Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia?
Does it mean that you are now leaning towards that they haven’t received it before, not just that they haven’t been able to?
If they have been forbidden, or asked preferably not to do it, or if they didn’t want to before, I don’t know (and neither do you.. 😉).
There’s probably a higher likelihood that they were asked to refrain, but I don’t think they were forced.
But if we assume they were forbidden, have they been granted permission now, or are they ignoring the ban?
We don’t know that either, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they simply ignore it.
What I would have done by now, one has had enough time to solve it.
We KNOW that Ukraine was not allowed to bomb the oil depots in Novorossiysk as Zelensky stated it clearly.
We also know that Ukraine could do it because now they have done it and they have targeted goals thousands of kilometers from Ukraine since when, late 2023?
We also know that the EU exempted Druzhba from the sanctions because that link was in today’s post.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/31/why-the-druzhba-pipeline-was-spared-from-the-eu-ban-on-russian-oil
Now we are discussing open information and trying to make reasonable assumptions based on what we know and to consider other options when you have access to the above information, why then?
You suggest three alternatives, one of which would be that Ukraine does not want it – do you believe in that alternative yourself? That they have not WANTED it until now, summer 2025?
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Yes – the last part is interesting and what is relevant to discuss, and your options are that Trump is a good guy or that Ukraine is acting freely, and if they are acting freely, then Europe has started to do the right thing.
I don’t think Trump is on our side and therefore I guess that it is Ukraine that is acting.
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Not allowed/forbidden is also a twisted choice of words because throughout the whole war we have seen the West stop giving support when Ukraine has done something they are not allowed to do – everything is halted.
Europe, Biden, Trump have all done it.
Technically, Ukraine has not been forbidden to do something, but they will not receive any more support if they continue.
The post you are referring to is from May 2022 and is about exceptions from the sanctions. Germany, among others, cut off oil supplies to itself.
Doesn’t mean that Ukraine was forbidden to do anything then, they didn’t start invading Russia until much later.
You don’t think that things could have happened since then?
You don’t think that there is a possibility that Ukraine wanted to be considerate and not cause trouble for its allies?
Perhaps you remember Russia’s propaganda about us in Europe freezing to death?
Do you think the population would support Ukraine if they saw prices skyrocketing and shortages occurring?
Isn’t that where the problem lies?
We don’t want slightly higher oil prices but instead take tortured-murdered-raped five-year-olds as payment?
That is the de facto consequence of the war having lasted so long.
But well, there is no law saying that we should protect the children so no one has, in the legal sense, done anything wrong.
Trump is an exciting president to say the least, I don’t understand why the left doesn’t praise him since now Nvidia will give 15% of its profit to the American state – they tried that in Sweden but it didn’t work.
Then the president of peace has now entered -stan while the USA was supposed to withdraw from the world stage.
I’m starting to get very curious about the meeting tomorrow not with a focus on the Ukraine war but how China will interpret it 🤣🤣
Trump seems to be pushing the American line to get Russia on board against China now very firmly.
But how will Chinese support to Russia in the Baltics go? 😱
You must keep the ice cool 😄
😂👍
I learn quickly ✊✊
Europe has indeed experienced the greatest temperature increase in recent decades, let’s hope we don’t have to see this every year. The USA has done well this year with lower temperatures. They have some fires on the west coast but should be able to avoid catastrophic fires unless late summer becomes hotter and drier, of course.
“The extensive forest fires in southern Europe continue to rage. The EU states in a statement that the union is working “continuously” to support countries such as Greece, Spain, and Portugal, which have been severely affected, writes AFP.
Sweden is participating in the firefighting efforts through the EU’s civil protection cooperation, reports SVT News.
– It is hot and dry, which creates conditions for large fires to occur, says MSB’s coordinator Anders Marcus.
In Spain, another person has died in the fires on Thursday.
“The threat is still extremely high,” writes Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on X.”
https://omni.se/skogsbranderna-fortsatter-att-rasa-extremt-hot/a/zAm31v
I thought there would be more forest fires than this, are the GRU and FSB on vacation or something?
Maybe they can’t handle the heat?
🤣🤣
Those two at the end may have been bought?
They were also young so they had the energy to start fires.
“Several people have been arrested in both Spain and Greece, suspected of causing several of the forest fires that have been raging in the countries in recent days. In the Spanish city of Zamora, a man was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to an area with garbage, according to Reuters. The heat caused the fire to spread quickly. 4,000 hectares of land burned and five people were injured, the police said. In Greece, two young men are detained suspected of deliberately starting the large fire that broke out in the city of Patras on Tuesday, writes the newspaper Ta Nea.”
https://omni.se/a/VzEBP1
hahaha, yes there we have the GRU and FSB sabotage operation 👍👍👍
Then I will bring it up tomorrow because I have some information about all the sh1t that is going on.
Considering that in Sweden we have a price for murder of 1000 SEK, the hourly rate for starting a forest fire shouldn’t be unreasonably low in southern Europe, right?
So it’s not impossible to fish in various online groups until you find someone willing to set fire to something for five hundred euros.
We have already had a pyromaniac in Europe that could be linked to Russia.
Quite Off-Topic
Let’s hope we can bring forth more Swedish “demon producers”.
“Taylor Swift praises the Swedish producers Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster. In the podcast ‘New Heights,’ she describes Martin as a mentor, adding:
– These guys, they are geniuses, she says according to Expressen.
The mega star’s upcoming album, the twelfth in line, was recorded in Sweden and will be released in early October.”
https://omni.se/swift-hyllar-svenskarna-grabbarna-ar-genier/a/MnQ2Ko
This video was released around the same time as one of Max Martin’s first hits:
https://youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?si=SO2nlH6t0L74G5qx
Does it remind you of a certain president?
Or Johan at the office? 😀
😂😂😂
“It has been an intense week for European diplomats ahead of the meeting between Trump and Putin, writes Paul Adams in an analysis on the BBC. The intense week concluded with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky being welcomed to the UK by the country’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Adams notes that the embrace between the two leaders was a clear symbolic gesture of solidarity. He also notes that Starmer broke protocol when he accompanied the president back to the car at Downing Street. …”
I believe Starmer is trying to nestle himself into a job in Ukraine, as he is soon worn out in the UK.
Now I am extremely interested in the Friday meeting to see what Trump has cooked up with Putin but also what the reaction from Europe will be.
Peacekeeping troops on Saturday?
The definition of a peacekeeping force is that they stand between the warring parties, not in Kiev or Lviv.
They probably think that just staying at the barracks is enough.
Or maybe that it’s enough to mark them on the map?
It was a solid explanation about the emission rights MXT – thank you for that 👍
Isn’t this practically a tax added to the price for the customer, now I got curious and it seems to cost 40 billion EUR annually for the EU?
This graph is interesting because it shows a decrease in emissions while the emission rights are increasing in price, and for example, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency uses this correlation as evidence that it works.
https://etidningen.hbl.fi/p/ekonomiska-samfundets-tidskrift/2025-04-07/a/eu-s-utslappshandel-ar-effektiv-men-vacker-ocksa-fragor-och-oro/6839/1885901/61976455
If you Google China, for example in graph three in the link below, they have started to increase significantly in CO2 emissions in the early 2000s, which was also when the outsourcing of our manufacturing to China really took off.
The emission rights were introduced in 2005.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-have-now-caused-more-global-warming-than-eu/
Am I wrong if I say that the emission rights have contributed to making it attractive to move our manufacturing to China?
Also, global CO2 emissions have not decreased but increased, even if Europe is plummeting.
Is there any indication that we have not actually just moved emission-intensive production to China instead?
Nothing in what I read indicates an actual decrease, and “the air is common” is something everyone knows, so it’s only the global that matters.
A completely honest question – for me as a EU citizen, what is the upside of emission rights?
I am interested in saving the environment and having a job so my children have food – have emission rights contributed to that?
Emissions have steadily increased since the industrial revolution and you are absolutely right that we have not managed to reduce the rate of increase.
You are also correct in your reasoning about emission rights.
Carbon leakage occurs when countries ignore emissions, benefiting from it while the overall effect is essentially non-existent. At the same time, it is not intended to have a direct effect, but to lead to a transition.
It is also the only way to capture CO2 in the economy, and a driving force to find new technical solutions to reduce emissions.
Whether it results in more revenue for the state, adjustments can be made to other taxes or grants can be given to companies trying to transition to fossil-free production.
Emission rights will of course not work properly until we have global trade with common prices or find other ways. Tariffs based on the amount of emissions imported are among the things being worked on.
Emission rights have worked for Europe.
The USA has also managed to slow down somewhat.
China is, of course, a major culprit, but it is largely due to everyone importing, so their industry and economy are growing. They are under some pressure and still, for example, building coal power plants.
But then we also have several other countries experiencing growth in living standards and consumption in South Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Most are far from emitting as much per capita as the industrialized countries, so it is a huge uphill battle just there, and many, of course, ignore CO2.
I’m afraid the race is run, but regardless.
The question is, do we want to do something about CO2 or should we just ignore it?
If we do nothing now, it will only get much worse in the future.
If we wait too long, it will not even be possible to stop all emissions completely.
So, if you want to do something, you have to start somewhere.
Saying that we should ignore it because China is a big country, so it doesn’t matter what we do is absurd. If the wealthy industrialized countries can’t be bothered, then who will care?
If one doesn’t think CO2 is something to care about because they don’t understand, or believe in what it will lead to, or simply ignore it because they think their own well-being right now is most important, I can understand if they instead think it’s crazy to waste money on it.
Unfortunately, that’s how most people reason, short-sighted and selfish.
They ignore setting up a strong defense in the Baltics, because surely nothing will happen. 😉
I have an idea –
Plant trees on an industrial scale like China does in areas that are starting to experience erosion for all the money?
40 billion euros per year is not small change.
We start with the Mediterranean countries until we are done with them and then we move across the Mediterranean to Africa.
All funded by us?
Idea number two – in Sweden we significantly expand hydropower and invest in SMR, all else being equal. One must seek funds from the same pot of money so not everything went to trees 😶
Well, tree planting helps temporarily until the first generation of trees grows up. So it’s an excellent way to try to delay the problems.
The oceans are otherwise our biggest lifeline right now. An enormous buffer for both temperature and CO2.
By the way, China cheats when they can’t be bothered to plant and water, they just paint with green color instead, easiest thing ever! 😂
https://youtu.be/Cvc7VymDa4c?si=DpXkSdCRTYEmtctl
There are one or two more advantages to trees besides CO2, I thought 😀
The land becomes arable, erosion decreases, the local climate becomes more pleasant, and it is possible to start moving back into the area without being a nomad.
Well, CO2 doesn’t seem to worry you that much, but of course, painting green is not enough either, so regardless, we shouldn’t do like China… 😄
Good overview from FIRMS MXT – isn’t this new for today?
Not the one from yesterday?
The intensity of the refinery bombing is higher than it was at its peak before, in that case.
I saw it first this morning but it was probably last night or possibly already yesterday evening. The fourth one now in August and the biggest one so far.
FIRMS that I posted as I wrote were my own from that moment when I posted.
Well done 👍👍
👍💥🔥🔥🔥
By the way, thank you! 👍
Test
Damn cookies!
Welcome back to the page.
One would like to ask – “how many are having trouble with logging in and have given up” but the problem is that no one can answer 😀
Anyway, maybe those who are logged out will read that it’s cookies that need to be cleared, I with an iPhone had to do:
Settings (the gear icon) – apps – safari – and then “clear history” which was light blue.
Since it’s only internet pages, it didn’t log out any apps which I was worried about.
The next problem that MXT usually discusses is if you switch between different IP addresses, then the security program will lash out.
I was thinking of skipping the security program but that’s not possible. Last night, there were spam registrations of new accounts coming in, every other minute, for a couple of hours until I reactivated it.
The risk is then that they will start filling old posts with spam comments and junk links besides filling up the database with garbage.
No, we do not want that 👍
Had issues with logging in last week, but if I open it in incognito tab it works just fine.
Agreed!
I haven’t been affected myself but it’s really sad that others are.
If the cookie has become corrupted, I can’t do anything about it either..
One option if you don’t want to clear cookies is to use incognito mode.
Maybe better
Daglig Ukraina karttråd för torsdag den 14 augusti 2025
Highlights: Lukoil-raffinaderiet i Volgograd träffat av ukrainskt drönarangrepp förra natten
Ryska styrkor avancerar något som förväntat i västra Donetsk mot Andriivka-Klevtsove (fd Iskra), där ukrainska styrkor drog sig tillbaka över den lilla floden
Fortfarande noll geolokationer från den påstådda ryska framryckningen nordost om Pokrovsk eller den ukrainska motattacken
Vi har redan sett en kraftig ökning, men förvänta er en hel del desinformation, “källor säger” och allmänt bedrägeri de kommande dagarna med avseende på kriget och mötet mellan Putin/Trump.
Karta: uacontrolmap.com
🔥💥 In 12 days, Ukrainian UAVs hit 5 oil refineries. All of them stopped their work.
• 02.08.2025 – Ryazan Refinery Processing volume: ~13.1 million tons per year, 5% of the total Russian volume.
• 02.08.2025 – Novokuybyshevsk Refinery Processing volume: ~8.3 million tons/year.
• 07.08.2025 – Afip Refinery Processing volume: 7.02 million tons/year.
• 10.08.2025 – Saratov Refinery Processing volume: ~7.0 million tons/year.
• 14.08.2025 – Volgograd Refinery Processing volume: ~14.8 million tons/year.
https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1955973738794451081?s=46
🎥Joni Askola: Alaska Talks: The Unspoken Roadblocks to Peace in Ukraine – Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/embed/hiDL3O6yZaU
Hey and 205, is my list wrong?
It was about Volgograd yesterday and now once again that MXT brought up, right?
Komi is also confirmed, I have checked that.
63
2 AUG 25
Novokuibyshevsk refinery, Samara
64
2 AUG 25
Rosneft’s Ryazan refinery
65
7AUG25
Krasnodar Krai – Afipsky
66
11AUG25
Saratov
67
11AUG25
Komi
68
13AUG25
Sloviansk-on-Kuban
69
13AUG25
Volgograd
70
14AUG25
Lukoil in Volgograd
Looks like it’s correct, but I haven’t made any notes myself and I’m starting to get goldfish memory.. 🐠
Looks like the dates are off by a day. Could #69 and #70 be duplicates?
Komi seems to be missing from Maks’ list. There was probably a double hit, a fuel depot near the front.
nix 2000km
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drone-attack-struck-oil-refinery-about-2-000-kilometers-from-border-russian-media-report/
You may be right, the earliest reports from Volgograd are from over a day ago, but it may well be the same attack. They didn’t mention anything about Lukoil then, it came several hours later but it took quite some time before they knew exactly where it was.
I remove another Volgograd
Good that you managed to make an edit where 205 👍
Yes, I have been asking all day but now it is clarified that there are not two refineries in Volgograd but one?
It is impossible to figure it out on Google.
The one who arrived on the 13th just said Volgograd and then today the 14th was Lukoil in Volgograd.
You have five empty columns in your table that mess up the design of the website.
I’ll fix an overflow-hidden tomorrow.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf K. leans on the USA as a security guarantee. Has this war shown that this does not seem to be the case?
🤔 Maybe doesn’t sound so well-thought-out.
It literally means that the UK says that the USA is the one who ultimately can put pressure on Russia. That may have been the case. It is not the case today. Today, the ability to exert pressure on Russia lies with the collective states of Europe, as does the role of security guarantor. The USA has clearly shown that it has failed its security commitment when Ukraine negotiated away its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees for the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity from both Russia and the USA. It is now up to Europe to provide the deterrent capability and guarantee security for Ukraine. If Trump now wants to align with Putin. The USA cannot be trusted when it comes to security guarantees.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/kristersson-europa-och-usa-star-samlade-infor-motet-i-alaska
Don’t I usually say what Starmer is?
From Joni Askola’s video above:
“But it’s not too late. If European countries announce military and financial aid now, Ukraine gains leverage to reject a bad deal. Europe could also finally offer security guarantees.”
Yes, that’s where we are right now with the USA evading its responsibilities and commitments on security guarantees.
Europe is already a larger financial supporter of Ukraine’s defense than the USA.
Why are Europe’s leaders hiding behind the USA? The USA has already de facto backed out.
Have Europe’s leaders also resigned?
They have never stepped on…
Maybe it’s time to introduce, and require, an “AI driver’s license” before using it for anything other than personal use?
“Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch apologizes to columnist Elina Pahnke after incorrectly quoting Pahnke during her speech in Almedalen. In a Facebook post, Ebba Busch writes that the quote turned out to be false, and that it is “extremely unfortunate.” “The quote comes from a search via an AI tool. But the quote is not correct as we now understand, but rather a paraphrase of what has been said in other contexts.”
Op-ed the other day argued for allowing the use of AI for exams, etc. at universities and so on… so will it come to using AI to pass the driving test?
“Politicians need to acquire basic knowledge of how AI works. That’s according to Moa Johansson, who researches artificial intelligence at Chalmers in Gothenburg, to Sveriges Radio after it emerged that KD leader Ebba Busch used a fake quote in her Almedalen speech. Johansson says that AI tools are good at generating text that flows well and is grammatically correct, but adds: – They definitely do not come with any guarantees.”
https://omni.se/a/xmnWBR
Couldn’t manage to post anything for tomorrow…
Chaos
30 people in total arrested in Spain and many of the fires were deliberately set
https://al24news.dz/en/spanish-police-arrest-four-over-new-forest-fires/
Planted? Really? And here I was believing last year’s SVT reporting that suggested the forest was self-igniting due to global warming…
The environmental zealots are the next terrorist trend. (Taken, didn’t come up with it myself.)
Since the end justifies the means and civil disobedience obviously does not yield radical enough results, it’s not just arsonists who are setting fires. – Anyone surprised?
In Turkey, four people have been arrested for starting 61 fires.
Two arrested in Greece for arson
https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/14/thousands-displaced-in-greece-spain-and-portugal-as-wildfires-continue-to-rage
💥🔥
“❗️🇷🇺Russian ammunition depot destroyed in temporarily occupied Yenakiyevo”
https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lwf5nkpxr22p
“The Ukrainian Navy intercepted signals indicating that a Russian Su-30SM crashed somewhere southeast of Snake Island. Rescue efforts from the Russian occupation are underway and wreckage has been found. The whereabouts of the pilots are unknown.”
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3lweop2hhyk2q
“The loss of the Russian Su-30SM is confirmed by Russian sources. The crew is dead.”
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3lweyi5p5622c
The environmental zealots are the next terrorist trend. (Taken, didn’t come up with it myself.)
Since the end justifies the means and civil disobedience obviously does not yield radical enough results, it’s not just arsonists who set fires. – Anyone surprised?
Russian losses 2025-08-15
940 KIA
2 Tanks
3 AFVs
40 Artillery systems
1 MLRS
1 Aircraft
147 UAVs
140 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
3 Special equipment
https://bsky.app/profile/matsextrude.bsky.social/post/3lwfydcyroc26
Continued low numbers, like yesterday, but slightly up again in Lyman and Novopavlivka and touching bottom in Kramatorsk/S Slobozhansky (been an attack a few times in the last three months).
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 5
S Slobozhansky 1↘️
Kupyansk 5
Lyman 20💥↗️
Siverskyi 9💥↘️
Kramatorsk 2
Toretsk 5
Pokrovsk 53💥💥💥
Novopavlivka 21💥↗️
Huliaypillia 0
Orikhivsk 0
Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 6
Lyman 20💥↗️
In the areas around the settlements of Ridkodub, Grekivka, Myrne, Shandryholove, Kolodyazi, and Karpivka.
Pokrovsk 53💥💥💥
Popiv Yar, Poltavka, Zoloty Kolodiaz, Nikanorivka, Majak, Volodymyrivka, Shakove, Rubizhne, Vilne, Novoeekonomichne, Myrolyubivka, Mykolaivka, Rodynske, Chervonyi Lyman, Promin, Kotlyne, Lysivka, Sukhyi Yar, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Udachne, Novoukrainka, Balagan.
In this year alone, the deep strikes by Ukraine’s Defense Forces have caused Russia losses exceeding 4% of its GDP!
Every tenth strike occurred at a depth of over a thousand kilometers from Ukraine’s state border.
EFFECTIVENESS OF DEEP STRIKES AGAINST RUSSIA Starting from 01.01.2025 $74.1 billion Russia’s GDP losses amount to 4.11% on an annualized basis.
Type of targets
Oil refineries 4%
Storage facilities 7%
Oil pumping stations 10%
Terminals/ports 42%
Other 37%
Depth of damage
500-1000 km 9%
200-500 km 14%
0-200 km 40%
>1000 km 37%
https://x.com/generalstaffua/status/1956230768465719789?s=46
Apologies, I was a bit late today, but now there is a new post up!
https://johanno1.se/en/war-in-ukraine-2025-08-15/