🛰 Great news! Ukraine has launched its first satellite for its own communications network
Himera, together with Denmark's GomSpace, has launched the Obria Nano satellite into orbit.
With its help, Ukraine will be able to develop its own communications infrastructure, relying less on foreign satellite systems.
The first test satellite of Ukraine's future sovereign satellite communications network is already undergoing testing.
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Let me show you what it's like to live in an autocracy. This morning, the heating went off in New Belgrade due to a technical malfunction. My mom, an educated woman and a medical doctor who has traveled the world, immediately assumed it was revenge by remnants of the regime because we voted against them. Autocracies change your psyche. The state becomes an actor that persecutes you, takes from you and watches you. This fear and distrust make it harder for people to connect and organize collectively against the regime. Russia is Serbia multiplied a hundredfold.
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Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.
SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses
The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see.
On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior)
Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable.
The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran.
SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon.
$SPCX $TSLA
Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Great line from Clement here: "The "attritional war" narrative that should witness a slow increase of Russian gains until Ukrainian collapse didn't happen. On the contrary, Russia is advancing slower and slower, and Russian losses are increasing."
3 years ago, Russia 🇷🇺 launched the Avdiivka offensive that slowly turned into the 3rd Donbas 🇺🇦 battle of the full-scale war
3 years later, the Russian offensive is still ongoing, at a much slower pace than before. 2026 was a very difficult year, and Russia failed to keep up the advance pace it had in 2024 and 2025, even suffering from 2 counterattacks in Komar and Lyman.
If the Russian offensive on the Donbas was initially centered on the southern and western direction, it moved north, with the main battle ongoing near Dobropilla. You can easily follow the chain of towns from Kurakhove, Pokrovsk and all the way to Barvinkove, behind the Donbas fortress that Russia is attacking.
At the same time, Russian advance on the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia highway was stopped, while the one further south was slowed down.
🟥Russian control before 2024
🔴Territory taken in 2024
🟠Territory taken in 2025
🟡Territory taken in 2026
Big ⬜️ line : Donbas administrative border
Small ◽️line : main roads
What the map tells us :
-> Setbacks in 2024 and 2025 were due to multiple factors, including bad unit coordination, absence of fortifications, and a high number of Russian human resources. Since then, most of the issues have been resolved.
-> The "attritional war" narrative that should witness a slow increase of Russian gains until Ukrainian collapse didn't happen. On the contrary, Russia is advancing slower and slower, and Russian losses are increasing.
Every time someone is saying Russia is definitely winning the war, show them this map and ask why the "2nd most powerful army in the world" is struggling that much in Donbas while losing more and more men.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
literally let's become smaller, poorer and less capable to defend ourselves.
russia, china and the USA will shred the leftover countries in pieces.
This is the stupidest idea there ever was.
The Telegraph: AfD leader Alice Weidel calls for the EU to become a federation of “sovereign states” — a move that threatens to break up the bloc
The publication notes that the plan would turn the EU into a “loose” alliance and could effectively mean its dismantling.
“We would like to restructure and reform the European Union, which is no longer a union of sovereign states. National parliaments and governments must take the decision-making process into their own hands,” Weidel said.
Weidel warned that if the plan is not implemented, her party will push for “Dexit” — Germany’s withdrawal from the EU, following the example of Brexit.
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Stubb: "... I am sick and tired of all the EU bashing. Every conference I go to, I hear the same old record that Europe has fallen behind the US and China and is doomed. I fundamentally disagree."
Today, I spoke about the future of Europe at the opening ceremony of the academic year at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.
Thank you for the great discussions @coebruges.
Read my speech at presidentti.fi/en
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Spot on.
Oh my, another idiot take that just won’t die. The Europeans are not funding Russia’s war. They started from a deep structural dependency on Russian energy and have made tremendous — and fast — progress on decoupling. This isn’t something you just turn off overnight. And they still contribute far more to Ukraine in aid anyway.
In contrast, the US is not even remotely dependent on Russian fossil fuels and yet the Kremlin asset in the White House is easing sanctions anyway while completely shutting off aid.
Contrary to the braindead takes of Trump apologists, the hypocrisy runs squarely through Washington, not Brussels.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Spot the difference.
🇪🇺 @EIB, Europe's public bank, lends @Airbus €3bn. With interest, to be repaid and at competitive market condition.
@USTradeRep: a risk to the transatlantic trade truce.
🇺🇸 Washington state approved an $8.7bn tax break for Boeing in 2013, the biggest in US history. Nothing to repay.
@USTradeRep: nothing to see here.
Add also the trade deals: Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and China have pledged more than 450 Boeing jets to the White House as part of their trade deals with the US - orders decided by tariff threats, not by price. Not exactly the "market-driven" aerospace Ambassador Greer talks about.
Usual American double standard:
When US wins, it's the free market.
When others win, it's unfair competition.
Meanwhile, the WTO ruled against US subsidies to Boeing too – and Europe has kept its retaliation on hold since 2021 anyway.
One loan, with interest, and Washington throws a tantrum. Can you imagine what would happen if Europe came together and started competing, with the same tools and methods, in all the other areas?
Today, Ambassador Greer issued a statement regarding the status of the U.S.-EU deal to pause duties on certain EU imports, following a record-breaking loan from the European Investment Bank to Airbus.
ustr.gov/about/policy-office…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The US gave Boeing billions too (tax breaks, R&D support, etc.).
seattletimes.com/seattle-news/l…
The current US-EU deal requires financing on market terms for both sides. Airbus and the EIB say this loan is a standard commercial facility on market terms.
ustr.gov/about-us/polic…
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Žižek: Europe can't find its place in today's 1984 world of an American sphere, a Russian sphere and so on. In a way that is a good thing.
Europe doesn't need eternal masochism about its guilt. It needs more self-confidence. The world needs Europe's legacy more than ever. 3X
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Serbia 🇷🇸: victory celebrations in the northern city of Novi Sad for the second night in a row.
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🇩🇪 German elite special forces KSK are preparing for a possible military clash with Russia, completely changing their training program and tactics. This was stated by the commander of KSK, - BILD.
According to him, if previously special operations were planned for about three days, now the fighters are preparing for a long stay in the field.
"We are very specifically focused on the enemy in the person of Russia," he noted.
For some reason I am seeing an increasing number of Chinese posts on my timeline and they're almost always surprisingly novel, insightful and well thought out.
Much more than the usual trash I'm being served here. I'd like to see more of that.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
🇫🇷🇺🇦 “(...) Safran, which has halved the production cycle in two years, will produce six times as many AASM bombs and is expected to be able to produce up to 2,000 AASMs per year from 2027 (compared with 200 per year in 2022, over 1,000 in 2025 and around 1,400 in 2026).”
Défense : Safran sort l’artillerie lourde pour doubler son chiffre d'affaires à l'horizon 2030 @SAFRAN @SafranElecDef @OlivierAndries @FranckSaudo @GifasOfficiel @GICAT_FR @Gican_InduNav @DGA @Armees_Gouv @AJDPresse @AJPAE latribune.fr/article/defense…
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Boosting, since Elonia Muskatina, doesn't want you seeing this.
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
Today we are unveiling Contra, an AI-controlled autonomous air defence system designed to protect countries from scaled drone and missile attacks.
Alongside Contra, two new interceptors:
AD-1 Inferno to counter jet-powered threats. AD-2 Ambush to counter high-altitude threats.
Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 retweeted
This needs to be investigated internationally and if I were Norway I would be very pissed.




















































