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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Jan 8

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🇷🇺 Putin is silent — and the silence is loud.
After the U.S. removed Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, Moscow said almost nothing.
No emergency speech.
No strong response.
Just… silence.
That tells us more than any statement ever could. 🧵👇

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This is a strategic humiliation for Russia.
Venezuela was a Russian ally.
So was Iran — until the U.S. struck its nuclear infrastructure.
So was Syria — until Assad’s regime collapsed.
Russian “strategic partnerships” now mean nothing.

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Why couldn’t Moscow respond?
Because Ukraine consumes everything.
Russia’s war has drained its military, industry, and attention.
Maduro asked for drones, missiles, radar.
The Kremlin had to say no.
Russia can barely sustain Donbas — let alone project power globally.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Dec 17, 2025

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'Every new strike only unites us' — Odesa endures 5-day blackout after Russian strikes

ODESA, Ukraine — Rolling into Odesa’s downtown, the constant hum of hundreds of generators drowns the ability to converse.

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Just days earlier, the region came under a massive strike involving Shahed-type attack drones,
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ballistic missiles, and cruise missiles.

The city, home to one million residents, was plunged into near-complete darkness on Dec. 13, with hundreds of thousands of residents left without electricity, while water and heating services became scarce.

“The emergency situation that arose as a result of the enemy's massive attack on the energy infrastructure has acquired the status of a state-level emergency,” Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Dec. 17.

Some residents have remained without electricity to this day.

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On the surface, it might have looked like Russia
kyivindependent.com/tag/russia/
achieved its goal:
plunging Odesa
kyivindependent.com/tag/odesa-obla…
into complete darkness.

The response unfolding across shops, houses, and entire neighborhoods tells a different story — one of determination, adaptation, and defiance.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Dec 15, 2025

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The worst thing that could happen to Putin.

There's no going back.

The worst thing that could happen to Putin.

The endless, slow, Russian grind forward has been turned or halted. In Pokrovsk and Kupiansk the Russian army is in retreat. Ground formerly gained at great cost is being reclaimed as Russia’s ability to maintain war is depleted.

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Nineteen months of effort and still, after taking more than 60,000 casualties Russia has failed to take #Pokrovsk.

- After nearly four years and 1.2 million casualties, Putin’s three-day military operation has nothing to show for the money and manpower spent.

Russian aircraft are falling out if the sky from lack of maintenance.

This week an Antonov 52, the world’s largest transport aircraft, was filmed snapping in two and crashing to the ground.

The fifty-year-old, six engine jet was a long way past it’s acceptable service date. Two fighter pilots of an SU 34 were killed when their ejection seats misfired in a hangar, and they were propelled into the concrete ceiling of the hangar.

Poor servicing, tired maintenance staff or sabotage, the loss adds to the increasing failures of the Russian military machine.

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The Russian Ruble is worthless on the international markets. One Ruble is worth about 0.01 US Dollars or one cent. In Russia, war economy companies are unable to pay staff. Some are two months behind in wages.

The Russian ‘Shadow fleet’ that is illegally transporting Russian oil is getting sunk in the Black Sea. Ukraine has been careful to strike empty tankers to avoid environmental catastrophes. Under this threat the ships cannot travel to Russian Black Sea ports to load up. Several ships left port only to suffer damage to crucial machinery while at sea. Russia depends on oil sales to maintain its economy. At heavily discounted rates these sales still provide just enough to keep the Russian economy afloat.

Desperate for hard cash Russia is trading gold reserves. As it’s air defences crumble in the west Russia is selling S300 air defence systems to Iran and there are reports of them trading an old Nuclear-powered Submarine to India. It’s car-boot sales at an international level.

Most Russian professional soldiers have died in the past four years. New replacements are pushed into formerly elite units and sent to the front lines to die quickly.

All the criminals taken from prisons and promised freedom after six months of service are dead.

The Koreans cheerfully supplied by Kim Jong Un are also dead.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Nov 19, 2025

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Is @ZelenskyyUa finally ready to fire his notorious right-hand man, Andriy @AndriyYermak?

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has consolidated an unprecedented level of power within Ukraine’s government — wielding influence across parliament, the Cabinet, and key state institutions.

“The thinking in the president’s head is shaped by a single person,” Vitaliy Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s board of directors said. “And even if Zelensky were a governance genius, that would still be a disaster.”

Image: Lisa Litvinenko/The Kyiv Independent.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has consolidated an unprecedented level of power within Ukraine's government — wielding influence across parliament, the Cabinet, and key state institutions.

(a Ukrainian politician and former film producer who has served as the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine since 11 February 2020 my respons/Lewi )

Despite his dominance, however, Yermak has remained a controversial figure, often viewed with skepticism both inside Ukraine and abroad.

Yermak's reach extends into law enforcement through trusted deputies and places him at the center of high-level diplomatic meetings, frequently sidelining Ukraine's traditional foreign service.

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His role as Zelensky's gatekeeper has made him indispensable, but also a subject of ridicule and frustration among allies, who complain that his ubiquity far outstrips his skills.

"We have to deal with him, he's Zelensky's man," a senior European official told the Kyiv Independent. "We don't have a choice."

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Nov 15, 2025

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In Kupiansk, Russian troops are in a worse position than Ukrainian military

This was reported by the spokesperson of the operational-strategic group of forces "Khortytsia," Viktor Trehubov.

He clarified that the improvement was achieved thanks to a series of strikes on those groups of Russian troops trying to infiltrate the city.

The invaders who found themselves in the city cannot either leave or establish supply and replenishment – the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preventing this.

"We see when something is dropped to them – so when they approach it for something, they can be hit," explained Trehubov.
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/u-kupyansk…

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As of November 15, no more than fifty Russian invaders will remain in #Kupyansk ,
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in the #Kharkiv region ; the situation in this direction, although it remains difficult, has improved significantly over the past week.

And in general, in Kupyansk, the invaders are now

"in a worse position" than the Ukrainian defenders . 😀

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This was reported

- by Viktor Tregubov, spokesman for the operational-strategic group of troops "Khortytsia".

He specified that the improvement was achieved thanks to a series of strikes on groups of Russian military personnel who were trying to infiltrate the city .

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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Nov 13, 2025

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"For them, this is the best finale": in Donetsk region, Azov fighters captured two dozen occupiers. Video
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The Azov

fighters have once again replenished the exchange fund.

This time they captured 21 Russian occupiers in the Dobropol and Konstantinov directions . As the military noted, some of them surrendered voluntarily, while others had to be forced to lay down their arms.obozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/azo…

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This was reported by the press service of the 1st Corps of the Azov Naval University.
t.me/azov_media/7561

The military also showed a corresponding video

"The video shows 21 Russians captured by the fighters of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in the defense zone of the brigades of the 1st Corps of the Azov National Guard in the Dobropol and Konstantinov directions," the report says.

Some of the occupiers realized that there was no point in resisting and surrendered. Others had to be persuaded with weapons.

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