Ukraine hit Moscoa, St. Petersburg and Belgorod all in one night ⚔️💥 Energy infrastructure burning, air defenses scrambling across 3 major Russian cities simultaneously 🛢️🌍
Putting key lockboxes on public trees damages urban nature, creates security risks, and is illegal in many cities. Is it allowed in Denmark? Asking for a friend!
Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, was summoned to Moscow after Lukashenko gave in to President Zelensky's demands and removed the repeaters that were placed on the border between Belarus and Ukraine.
Lukashenko flew to Russia for a meeting with Vladimir Putin two days ago, and has not been seen since!
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke publicly about Ukraine's attacks on infrastructure during a Kremlin briefing on June 23.
The statement marks the leader's first comments on the matter since Ukraine launched dramatic back-to-back strikes on the Moscow Oil Refinery on June 16 and 18. The June 18 strike was the largest drone attack on Moscow since start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
"Before we move on to the main agenda, I would like to say a few words about matters that are not directly related to today's specific agenda items," Putin said at the beginning of a government video conference that ostensibly focused on Russian healthcare, transportation, and education.
The conference comes as Putin faces mounting political pressure at home, with Ukrainian strikes, fuel shortages, and internet shutdowns intensifying the impact of the war on life in Russia.
Even so, Putin did his best to frame Ukraine's increasing success at hammering Russian energy facilities as a victory for Moscow.
"We are aware — and can see — that as the situation at the front rapidly deteriorates for the Kyiv regime, and as the adversary loses territory after territory while our troops capture one settlement after another, the regime has adopted a tactic of striking our civilian targets and infrastructure," he said.
"They are attempting to disrupt energy supplies and impact the tourism season — intentions they have openly communicated to us through various channels."
Putin's claims both exaggerate Russian troops' momentum on the battlefield and minimize the effects Ukrainian deep strikes have already had on Russian society.
Exactly ten years ago tomorrow - on June 23, 2016 - the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. While mainstream EU institutions originally thought the economic pain of Brexit would permanently kill anti-EU movements, the actual lesson of the last decade has been completely different.
Instead of campaigning to exit the bloc, Europe’s nationalist and populist parties have universally abandoned "Exit" platforms. They realized that triggering a hard exit is a catastrophic logistical nightmare. Instead, they are now focused on winning domestic power to stall, veto, and hollow out EU policies from within the room—making them far more electable and vastly harder for Brussels to fight.
For me, it’s remembering when my family used to print out physical MapQuest driving directions. If you missed a single turn, you were completely on your own or had to pull into a gas station to buy a physical map book.
What’s a normal childhood reality you experienced that would sound like a medieval chore to a kid today?
A widening property-fraud investigation into a $4 billion luxury resort linked to Jared Kushner has led Albanian authorities to freeze developer assets, compounding pressure from public protests and international critics.
Source: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/albania-freezes-assets-in-kushner-resort-probe
We spend most of our time debugging routing protocols, firewall rules, and configuration drift. But sometimes, the root cause is purely physical and completely absurd.
I’m talking about things like:
What is the weirdest, non-software physical event that completely tanked your network operations?
Meloni introduces a law banning sexual education in school without parental consent. In primary and nursery schools, such topics are completely banned, with or without parental consent.
Video: St. Petersburg Oil Terminal. The distance from Ukraine’s state border to this facility of Russia’s oil industry, which serves the war, is about 1,100 kilometers. Purely military targets at the Kronstadt base were also hit.
I was spending way more time managing my productivity setup than doing actual, real work, spending weeks tweaking Notion templates, downloading habit trackers, color-coding Google Calendar, and watching videos.
If I missed a single habit checkmark on a Tuesday, it ruined my whole vibe and I’d just scroll on my phone the rest of the day out of guilt. It felt like playing a video game where the chores never end.
Last month, I got so fed up that I deleted the apps and threw out my journal.
Now, I literally just use a single sticky note every morning. I write down one big thing that needs to get done. If I finish it, the day is a success. If I do other stuff, cool. If not, whatever.
My stress is way down and I’m actually hitting my deadlines for once because I'm not wasting energy tracking my life.
Has anyone else reached this point with over-optimizing everything? Or am I just becoming mentally sick?😜
Russia begins talk to end war with Ukraine to save its economy, Reuters reports.
Europe regulates everything, innovates nothing, and wonders why all its top talent flees to the US. While the rest of the world builds AI and aerospace tech, Europe’s biggest economic asset is charging tourists €20 to look at old buildings. Change my mind.
I created this account ages ago, completely forgot about it, and have just been lurking silently ever since. I finally figured it was time to say hello instead of reading in the shadows.
