#ColdResponse26 ❄️ The exercise has begun!
32,000+ soliders.
14 nations.
Shoulder to shoulder.
Training across land, air, sea, cyber and space to protect the High North 🤝
#ArcticSentry #ShoulderToShoulder #NATO #WeAreNATO
❗️❗️The Russian government’s legislative committee has approved amendments that expand President Putin’s powers to use troops outside the country, - The Moscow Times
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Russia is deploying GRU and Wagner fighters on shadow fleet tankers to control crews and protect vessels from seizure, Helsingin Sanomat reported. Armed personnel were found on 17 vessels in the Gulf of Finland, also maintaining contact with the Russian navy. #Russia
Ukraine's 425th Skela Regiment confirmed liberation of Ternove on the Hulyaipole axis. Ukrainian forces hold northern Berezove while fighting continues in the south, have entered Kalynivske, and are fighting in the center of Novohryhorivka some 3km south of previous positions. #Ukraine
After the humiliating loss of one of their most important military production facilities, Russia's biggest war bloggers complain that Russian leadership is too busy inventing fake military victories to protect Russian cities.
🚗🛢️ Electric vehicles are starting to cap oil prices
After a sharp spike to $120 per barrel, oil prices quickly dropped to around $80. One of the reasons was Saudi Arabia’s decision to significantly increase oil flows through the pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu from 1.5M to 5M barrels per day.
🇪🇺 Brussels has plan to provide Ukraine with €30bn despite veto by Hungary and Slovakia – Politico
There is hope that this moment can open a path towards a free Iran.
The Iranian people deserve freedom, dignity, and the right to decide their own future.
But allow me to make one important point.
Seeing the world as it is in no way diminishes our determination to fight for the world we want.
Now is the wrong time to ease sanctions on Russia, former US Ambassador Steven Pifer said in an interview with Kyiv Post, adding that it would give Moscow more money for the war.
www.kyivpost.com/post/71657
Hvordan og hvorfor velge europeisk?
www.europabevegelsen.no/europabevege...
So how is the view from your office desk today?
Allied maritime and air forces train together off the northern Norwegian coast as part of exercise #ColdResponse26
#ArcticSentry #ShoulderToShoulder #NATO #WeAreNATO
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📉 In just the first two months of 2026, Russians have almost reached their planned budget deficit for the entire year.
The deficit amounted to 3.449 trillion rubles, while the annual plan is 3.786 trillion.
Compared to the same period in 2025, Russia's oil and gas revenues have collapsed by 47%.
UN rules Russia's deportation of 20,000 Ukrainian children is a crime against humanity
Over 80% haven't returned. Kids were renamed, given Russian passports, placed on adoption databases. This wasn't evacuation - it was policy, the report says
euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/11/a...
🔥 6 Russian chemical industry facilities attacked in the last three weeks:
▪️Metafrax Chemicals JSC;
▪️Dorogobuzh PJSC;
▪️UralChem JSC;
▪️Acron PJSC;
▪️KuibyshevAzot PJSC;
▪️Metafrax Chemicals JSC;
Today, Russia carried out an attack, likely using a "Geran-2" type drone, on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv. The strike hit the territory of a civilian food enterprise - a meat processing plant. Two people were killed, and seven others were injured. All of the victims were employees.
⚡️ Russia's Sochi under 'unprecedented' 24-hour mass Ukrainian drone attack, mayor says.
The air raids have also closed down Sochi's airport.
Ukrainian media, citing the head of the Chernivtsi Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, Bachenynskyi, report that a grenade was found in the body of a fallen soldier that had been returned from Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.
suspilne.media/chernivtsi/1...
Russians… 😅 Putin, results…
The Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency has developed a disinformation campaign backing Orbán ahead of Hungary's elections, targeting opposition leader Péter Magyar, the Financial Times reported. The campaign portrays Orbán as a sovereign leader and Magyar as a "Brussels puppet." #Europe
Ukraine will not run out of money until early May — six weeks later than feared
It gives the European Union time to break Hungary's veto on a €90 billion aid package before Kyiv's accounts run dry, four officials told Politico
euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/11/u...
Ukraine is rapidly cutting its dependence on Chinese components in drone production as Kyiv boosts domestic manufacturing to sustain its war effort against Russia.
www.kyivpost.com/post/71701
Operators of strike UAVs from "Lasar’s Group" of the National Guard of Ukraine burned a high-value enemy 1K148 "Yastreb-AV" radar system in the Luhansk region, deep behind the line of contact. The approximate cost of one such system is around $250 million.
t.me/lasars_group
The terrorist state targeted a minibus with a drone strike in broad daylight, deliberately striking when public transit would be crowded to maximize casualties.
Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime.
Help protect innocent people: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
Parliament calls for a common defence market and action on flagship EU defence projects.
Learn more: link.europa.eu/YxMd46
❗️Ukraine's F-Drones has been selected to supply the Pentagon, chosen from dozens of competitors, the NYT reported. The company makes FPV drones F7 and F10 and the LITAVR Shahed interceptor. The F7 was rated the most effective drone on the front in 2025. #Ukraine
Prices for Russian crude surged above $70 a barrel this week as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz ground to a near-halt.
How big of a windfall could this be for the Russian economy?
Stronger EU-Canada partnership is needed amid global turmoil, say MEPs.
Learn more: link.europa.eu/jTn6tB
White House officials have sought to downplay earlier reports that Moscow is sharing intelligence with the Iranian military.
🤡🤡🤡 Ushakov: In a conversation with Trump, Vladimir Putin noted the successful advance of Russian troops in the "SVO," which should encourage Kyiv to agree to a settlement.
