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At present, we are not seeing any indication that the Starlink restrictions have been lifted.
There are isolated cases where a Starlink terminal may operate somewhat faster than the imposed limit, but this is most likely due to SpaceX’s algorithms or specific operating conditions, rather than the restriction being removed.
(Quoting Zelensky's miltech advisor)
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Putin personally ordered a new wave of attacks on @NATO countries in Europe. The Leipzig airport plot was one of the opening shots.
Putin was driven by frustration with the stalled negotiations and Ukraine’s deep strikes.
My report via @WSJ
wsj.com/world/europe/airfiel…
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Steve Witkoff to Putin:
You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being a humanitarian.
You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again.
It suits the Kremlin to have Washington believe that a deal with Putin is just around the corner. One more meeting, one more concession, one more phone call. And while the Americans wait for a peace deal, Russia keeps waging war.
Russia gets concessions. Ukraine gets pressure.
Kushner has again demanded that Ukraine stop striking Russian oil refineries. This works well for the Kremlin: Washington is already making concessions to Russia while demanding concrete concessions from Ukraine. As long as Moscow keeps hopes of a deal alive, the US may hold off on new sanctions and persuade Kyiv to accept additional terms for the sake of successful negotiations.
Talks can go on forever. Even while the war continues.
Discussing a new document or a possible summit allows American mediators to report progress toward peace. Russia retains direct access to Washington and the opportunity to sell its version of why the war began and what it would take to end it.
No luck with peace? Let’s talk business.
Dmitriev has reported discussions about joint projects, including nuclear-powered data centers. Walking away from the talks would then mean giving up the benefits the US administration hopes to gain.
Open-ended demands allow Moscow to keep bargaining.
Without a definitive list of Russian conditions, every round can end with statements about progress and the need for further consultations. Meanwhile, Moscow can keep adding demands.
Take Putin’s October 16 statement about a “security zone” in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, which he does not intend to discuss in peace negotiations. Russia maintains an additional territorial demand while simultaneously signaling its willingness to meet with the US.
In St. Petersburg, watch what Russia actually agrees to do.
Which strikes will it stop? When? Who will verify this? What security guarantees for Ukraine will it accept?
Without this, another “very constructive conversation” will simply mean the Americans have had their hopes raised again. They will leave to prepare for the next meeting, and Russia will keep waging war.
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“The Ukrainians are not going to fold. They're not going to surrender. You can cut off their Patriots, you can cut off their intelligence. But people don't like to live on their knees. Ukrainians are not going to give up their territory because doing so would condemn all the people in that territory to torture, rape and murder. So it's not going to happen.”
“So what President Trump has actually done is he's undermined his own objective, to get to a quick resolution of the war, which I think he really wants, by pursuing a strategy which is to lower pressure on Putin and to raise pressure on Ukraine, which is going to achieve the opposite result.”
“So, it's not going to work, because you can't choose a country's fate without including that country and its people. 44 million people who have a right to dignity and sovereignty and a say over how they live. And none of those people want to live under the cruel rule of Vladimir Putin, no matter what President Trump thinks about it.”
“And then you add the fact that Trump is actively aiding Putin, by promoting a narrative of the war that is false, exactly matches Russian propaganda, and places Zelensky in a terrible position where he's got to either decide to live in Trump's reality, which is a bunch of lies about how the war started and how how it's going, or to defend his people and do his job as the president of the country.”
“You add all those things together, it's a perfect storm of toxicity whereby the president is putting America on the side of the aggressor and the war criminals and against the side of the victims of this conflict. And it's bizarre. And there's no way to to look at that and to say that's anything that America has ever stood for in the past. Yet, here we are.”
“And the result is very predictable and predicted. He's going to get a lot of Ukrainians killed without actually solving the problem. And that's a tragedy.”
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"Surveys show that most Americans stand with Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia, view Putin as a dangerous threat who shouldn’t be trusted, and want to see the United States offer more assistance to Ukraine," writes David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute along with John Herbst and William Taylor, both former U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine.
Read more in their recent article for @TheAtlantic: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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As part of the team from @ChathamHouse, I contributed evidence to the House of Common's Foreign Affairs Committee looking at 'the likelihood that Russia will seek to test NATO’s collective defence arrangements'.
I conclude that probing and testing NATO's cohesion is highly likely. This is because the potential political gain to Russia of dividing the alliance is significant, with risks that can be managed below the threshold of open conflict.
But the likelihood of a deliberate conventional attack designed specifically to test Article 5 is much lower. Such an attack would require Moscow to believe not only that NATO was politically divided, but that Russia could control any escalation that followed.
At present, it is unable to make that judgement with any confidence.
committees.parliament.uk/wri…
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🚨BREAKING: This new chart from @TheStudyofWar overlays Ukraine’s strikes on Russian refineries with the price of diesel fuel. There is NO CORRELATION between strikes on Russian refineries and spikes in the price of diesel here in the U.S. They are not driving up prices here.
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Trump: we are running low on ammo not because of my war on Iran but because Biden gave “massive amounts” of Tomahawks to Ukraine.
The U.S. didn’t supply a single Tomahawk to Ukraine.
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A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Department of Defense inspector general to investigate disruption of the Starshield systems in Ukraine.
foreign.senate.gov/press/dem…
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Very honored that my last story for @washingtonpost, which published after I was laid off, won Le @PrixBayeux. It detailed the terrifying journey of a soldier trapped in the kill zone for 177 days. Was so glad to accept it in person with Anastacia Galouchka and Serhii Korolchuk.
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Grynkewich at @WarsawForum :
Nothing keeps me up at night. My job is to keep other people up at night.
#WSF2026
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While every criticism of Trump's decision to buy Russian diesel is justified, Europeans should not forget that they themselves are still sending billions of euros every month to Russia for energy. b4ukraine.org/whats-new/russ…
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The FT reports that Witkoff and Kushner told Ukrainian officials in Miami that the US would cut off intelligence support if Ukraine keeps attacking Russian energy facilities.
When Congress is back next month, they ought to:
1) Invoke Section 216 of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). This will allow Congress to investigate whether the waiver triggers Congressional review.
2) Bring @RepBrianFitz's bill to kill the diesel waiver to the floor via a discharge petition.
3) Speedily pass the FY2027 Intelligence Authorization Act. The Senate bill has a provision that would require continued intelligence sharing with Ukraine until a ceasefire or peace agreement, permit restrictions only for specific national security reasons, and require Congress to be notified within 15 days of any restrictions and their consequences.
And Republican and Democratic members need to message they are united on this and it will be happening.
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Here’s a 2022 law that prohibits US purchase of Russian oil without prior consultation with Congress & certification that the Ukraine war is over. The Graham Russia Sanctions Act goes after 3rd country purchasers of same. Will Congress use its tools?
congress.gov/117/plaws/publ1…
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Fmr US officials say it’s unclear if Putin even has the amount of diesel that Trump cited to sell.
And the timing of the call with the Ukraine talks in Miami was no coincidence
“Putin is a lot of things, but he's not stupid,” one former official said.Â
cnn.com/2026/10/09/politics/…
On the Russia diesel deal, @gbrew24 says it's just a "bandaid."
@pickeringenergy says it's "not a needle mover," adding: President Trump put the volume in tons because it sounds bigger. "This is more politics than a game changer.”
cnn.com/2026/10/09/politics/…
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Some helpful context from Alex. Europe will continue to back Ukrainian deep strikes on energy infrastructure. (French intel key here, even if CIA is told to stand down.)
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4/ "I am confident that one of the key conditions will be the supply of spare parts and components for refineries that were damaged by drone attacks. While the damaged refineries have been brought back online, it is clear that the repair time,…
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Sweden is putting Patriots on the ground and Gripens in the air over the airport that feeds Ukraine.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Tuesday that Swedish Patriot air defense is going to eastern Poland. The job is not abstract deterrence. It is to keep the logistics hub that feeds Ukraine from being shut.
The country that spent two centuries outside alliances is now guarding the ramp.
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New story:
In 2024, sitting inside the U.S. attorney's office in Honolulu, the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents.
He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for government contracts.
He said his most important patron was Maine Senator Susan Collins.
propublica.org/article/fbi-s…
