People are chanting "Sakartvelo"🔥
Free Georgians are gathering in Rustaveli. we are taking another step towards the European Union and thereby moving away from rotten Russia!‼️
Protesters blocked Rustaveli Avenue in the center of Tbilisi 🔥🔥🔥
Students from more than 40 universities are sent here in a procession. There are already more than 2 thousand free people! t.me/c/1784704508/1…
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development recommended that Russians "refrain from traveling to Georgia."
“If you are already in the country, we recommend avoiding visiting crowded places, in particular the historical centers of the cities of Batumi and Tbilisi,” -
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the ministry said.
Russians, we will tell you more: Upper Lars is open. Yes, there are traffic jams, but this is only because your relatives listened to the voice of the Georgian streets. And you listen to him, we are not happy for you‼️ ‼️
President Salome Zurabishvili made an appeal and congratulated the public ❤️❤️❤️ formulanews.ge/News/86733
"I want to congratulate the society on the first such victory. I welcome the correct decision of the government. This decision to take into account the real -
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strength of the people - what appeared on the streets of Tbilisi, the unity, the will of the people was unusually obvious"
According to her, the recommendation on depolarization has been implemented because the whole society has united against this bill
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At the next action at the Parliament of Georgia, it was reported that the "Georgian Legion" transferred money from Ukraine to feed the participants of the action‼️‼️‼️
Our heroes!
+ Anthem in Kutaisi🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪
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There are a lot of us
We all came out to support our freedom and independence!
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There are also many of us in Batumi🔥🔥🔥
❗️ The mayor of the capital, Kakha Kaladze, thanks the Minister of Internal Affairs and the security forces for the fact that on March 7 and 8 they defended the rule of law with high professionalism, -
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the fundamental value of the European family was beaten and shot at the protesters😡😡😡
The representative of Azerbaijanis in Georgia appealed to his compatriots to join the action :
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We [Azerbaijani Georgians] have been fighting for the development and defense of our homeland for centuries. And now I urge you to join us.”
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia announced that all those detained on March 7-8 were released.
BRAUD LIE. Lawyers have been looking for people for the second day and cannot find them😡😡😡 t.me/c/1784704508/1…
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More than 20 thousand people are now at a protest near the Parliament of Georgia🔥🔥🔥
Protesters hold posters "Freedom", "No to Russian law" and "I'm not afraid"
A minute of silence passed for the dead Georgian volunteers who fought against Russia on the side of Ukraine🙏
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Here is the answer😡😡😡
Released those who were on administrative offenses! Those who were arrested on criminal charges are still in custody !!!
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These posters are pasted over the walls of Parliament 🔥🔥🔥
The Georgian authorities are depicted wearing ties in the colors of the Russian flag. The QR code leads to a video with the title "Georgian people deserve more." In it, this phrase is repeated in a row by -
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several people.
At the end of the video there is a quote from the Gospel: “Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs, so that they do not trample it with their feet and, turning, do not tear you to pieces.”
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At a rally in front of the parliament in Tbilisi, an appeal was made to the President of Georgia to convene an extraordinary session of parliament‼️‼️
"The will of the people regarding the revocation of the law on foreign agents should be formalized legally, -
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without delay," Lelo representative Anna Natsvlishvili said. Opposition deputies are addressing the president, she said.
According to Natsvlishvili, "if Georgian Dream is sincere in its statement today about withdrawing the draft law, "then it should not be against it."
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The inscription on the poster: "You can't poison me with gas - my ex is much more toxic"👏👏👏
The protesters are ironic about the actions of the security forces, who have been poisoning civilians with gas for two days.
The plenary session of the Georgian Parliament will be held tomorrow, March 10. Earlier, the legislature announced the cancellation of meetings for the current week‼️‼️‼️
Deputies will meet tomorrow to fail the vote on the bill on "foreign agents" in the second reading‼️‼️‼️
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The Bureau will meet at 11.45, and in 15 minutes - the plenary session‼️‼️‼️
Earlier, the parliamentary apparatus stated that this was impossible due to infrastructure damage during protest riots‼️‼️‼️
The best solution for them would be self-dissolution of parliament😡😡😡
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We stand and loudly let the parliament know that our choice is not their desire for Russia, our choice is the European Union🔥🔥🔥
Once such a law was adopted, it will be adopted again. They beat our protesting friends - they will beat them again. These people don't change!
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The rally in front of the parliament in Tbilisi is still going on and going smoothly, but people are already starting to disperse. The organizers of the action urged to meet again tomorrow at 11:00 am to follow the course of the plenary session /36 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The anthem of Ukraine sounds🇬🇪🤝🇺🇦
The son of the third president of Georgia Nikoloz Saakashvili and ex-wife / first lady Sandra Roelofs at the rally near the Parliament of Georgia❤️
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The Georgian Interior Ministry denied media reports that tear gas was used in the Freedom Square metro station last night to disperse the rally.
1/ Ukrainian teenager killed in Ireland wanted to become a cybersecurity expert and fight against Russia — media
17-year-old Ukrainian citizen Vadym Davydenko, who died from knife injuries in a refugee center in Ireland, dreamed of becoming a cybersecurity expert and fighting against Russia as part of a cyber unit hromadske.ua/europa/253304-…
According to the sources, Vadym was fond of sports, studied IT, but wanted to study cybersecurity and then return home to fight on the front lines in a cyber unit.
"He wanted to get a better education in Ireland, because, you know, it would be difficult in Ukraine - very difficult.
- I don't understand how such a bright person could be taken from life like that ," the journalists quote a family friend.
The man allegedly missed his flight from Poland to Ireland and his family insisted he fly home, but he decided to continue. He also had a girlfriend in Ukraine who was planning to visit him in Ireland, but she is "absolutely devastated" after learning of his death.
3/ The man allegedly missed his flight from Poland to Ireland and his family insisted he fly home, but he decided to continue. He also had a girlfriend in Ukraine who was planning to visit him in Ireland, but she is "absolutely devastated" after learning of his death.
He was murdered shortly after arriving in Ireland—he had only been there a few days.
As a reminder, on October 15, a 17-year-old Ukrainian teenager died hromadske.ua/europa/253211-…
from a knife wound in a reception center for people seeking international protection in Dublin, Ireland . Another boy and a woman were hospitalized with injuries.
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⚡️US helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports.
Sources told the Financial Times that the U.S. is involved at every stage of operational planning, although Kyiv retains control over target selection, with Washington advising on target vulnerabilities.
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(A purported images of a fire burning at the Tuapse oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai following a reported attack by Kyiv on March 14, 2025. (Astra / Telegram)
2/ The U.S. has been assisting Ukraine in conducting strikes on Russian energy sites for several months, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Oct. 12, citing unnamed Ukrainian and American officials.
3/ According to the newspaper, ft.com/content/f9f42c…
U.S. intelligence has supplied Kyiv with targeting data for Russian major oil refineries and infrastructure far beyond the frontline.
American support reportedly extends to helping plan the flight routes, timing, altitude and tactics of Ukrainian drones, allowing them to evade Russian air defense systems.
1/ ( - Interesting thoughts here, by an retired US admiral, he gets some good points here, war today is at big changing, regarding just 1 year ago.
- I will thread this out, hope you will having some points. ../Lewi)
What positive changes are happening in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, what might "trigger" Putin, and why Ukraine needs not only "Tomahawks." An interview with retired US Rear Admiral Montgomery
A conversation with retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery is not just an interview about the course of the war in Ukraine.
It is a strategic discussion about the balance of power, timing, and the limits of the West's political will.
Montgomery is among those military strategists who think not only in terms of the front line but also the security architecture in which that front exists.
His answers are always precise, pragmatic, and at the same time uncomfortably honest—about what Ukraine can and must do on its own, and what it cannot manage without external support.
About the future that is being decided now.
About whether Ukraine can regain the initiative, whether Europe can remain a bastion of stability without the American shoulder,
And whether the West is ready to force the Kremlin to peace not with words but with force?
—his thoughts were shared in an exclusive interview by retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery. obozrevatel.com/ukr/location/s…
2/ Montgomery emphasizes three simple but harsh truths:
- modern technology and long-range weapons change the balance, unmanned systems compensate for the enemy's human superiority, and economic and political pressure is perhaps the only real mechanism capable of forcing the Kremlin to make concessions.
At the same time, the interview goes far beyond the Ukrainian context.
At its heart is a broader strategic dilemma:
- is Europe ready to take responsibility for its own security if the United States reduces its military presence on the continent? .....
The administration in Washington increasingly talks about "shifting focus" to the Indo-Pacific region, and in Europe - about the need to "do more."
- However, as Montgomery notes, none of the European armies has the full range of capabilities that American air and naval power or nuclear shield provide.
"And that is why the question is not only about money, but about Europe's ability to act quickly, coherently and decisively"....
3/ When dictator Putin tests the West with drones over Poland, attacks on telecommunications cables, or cyberattacks on European airports, he is not testing defense as such, but the limits of patience and unity.
The admiral says frankly:
- NATO is facing not a military but a political challenge.
About the future that is being decided now. About whether Ukraine is able to regain the initiative, whether Europe can remain a bulwark of stability without the American shoulder, and whether the West is ready to force the Kremlin to peace not with words, but with force - retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery shared his thoughts in an exclusive interview with OBOZ.UA.
– Let's start with the current difficult situation on the front. In your opinion, can Ukraine regain the initiative on the battlefield under today's realities, and what is needed for this
1/ "In fact, a Ukrainian counteroffensive is currently underway": former CIA director urged not to overestimate Russia's successes in Donbas
Retired US General and former CIA chief David Petraeus stated that the situation on the front should be assessed soberly. According to him, Russian forces have not achieved a decisive breakthrough; instead, Ukrainian forces continue counteroffensive actions, liberating new territories.
In an interview with the German publication WELT, Petraeus noted that the Ukrainian army has reclaimed about 200 square kilometers in recent weeks. At the same time, Russia has paid a huge price for its advances – over a million killed and wounded soldiers.
David Petraeus said the situation on the front should be assessed soberly . According to him, Russian troops have not achieved a breakthrough, while Ukrainian forces continue counter-offensive actions, liberating new territories.obozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/tsr…
3/ In an interview with the German publication WELT, welt.de/politik/auslan…
Petraeus noted that the Ukrainian army has regained about 200 square kilometers in recent weeks .
At the same time, Russia has paid a huge price for its advances - more than a million soldiers killed and wounded .
" As someone who, as a general who served in five combat tours, wrote letters of condolence to the mothers and fathers of America, I cannot fathom this number ," the general said
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Russian Drones Turn the Streets of Kherson Into a Civilian Kill Zone
Attacks have increased to a level and range that has made the streets of Kherson a daily gauntlet
(By
Oksana Grytsenko
and
Jane Lytvynenko
| Photography by Emanuele Satolli for WSJ
Oct. 8, 2025 10:30 pm ET)
2/ MYKOLAIV, Ukraine—Yaroslav Pavlivskiy waved his hands as he sprang from his car, pleading for mercy with the operator of a Russian drone circling overhead as he drove home from a market in the southern city of Kherson.
The operator flicked a switch to release a grenade, which exploded and tore into the legs of the 69-year-old pensioner. A passerby used a belt as a tourniquet to stop him from losing too much blood, saving his life.
In the hospital the next day, the doctor showed Pavlivskiy a Russian video of the incident, which was set to techno music and carried a caption: “A drone operator spotted another ‘civilian.’ After reconnaissance, the target was eliminated.”
Russian drone operators have turned daily life in Kherson into a terrifying gauntlet. A year ago, from the other side of the Dnipro River, they began sending drones, in addition to using bombs and artillery, to take potshots at civilians.
Now the attacks have intensified to such an extent that Ukrainian authorities, civilians and human-rights groups say it has become a systematic effort to keep people off the city’s streets under threat of execution from the skies
(Yaroslav Pavlivskiy with his wife, Halyna)
3/ The drones drop grenades or antipersonnel mines, or swoop on targets and explode on impact. They target buses, markets, gas stations, and even medical and police vehicles. Residents fear the approach of winter, as nights grow longer and trees shed their leaves that provide natural cover.
It is part of Russia’s growing strategy to terrorize civilians in an effort to sap Ukrainians’ strength to resist in the fourth year of war. The attacks have left Kherson and villages along the Dnipro almost deserted. The youngest victim killed in the region, also known as Kherson, was a 1-year-old boy.
The Russian Defense Ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment.
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"Russian troops suffered the greatest losses on three fronts in Ukraine: ISW explained what lies behind the numbers"
Recently, a leak of Russian documents revealed the real losses of the Russian Federation on the front since the beginning of 2025.
It also indicated that on some fronts, the Russians are suffering abnormally high losses:
- the ratio of killed to wounded is almost 1 to 1 – compared to the classic ratio of 1 to 3.
The aggressor paid the highest price on several priority fronts for Moscow, but the gains there for Russia are practically negligible.
The leaked data indicate this, and the Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar explained what can be said about the prospects of continuing the war based on the current losses of the #Russian Federation. understandingwar.org/research/russi…
2/ The ratio of killed and wounded in the Russian army is abnormally high
Analysts have drawn attention to the leak of Russian data on the losses of the occupation army , published recently by the "I Want to Live" project .
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According to the leak, from January to August of this year, Russia lost a total of 281,550 of its soldiers on the battlefield .
86,744 people were eliminated (including 1,583 officers and 8,633 recruits ).
33,996 people are considered missing , including 11,427 recruits .
Another 158,529 were wounded in battle (this figure includes 6,356 officers and 16,489 enlisted men ), and 2,311 were taken prisoner.
These figures, noted ISW, are practically in line with the data announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky:
299,210 people killed and wounded as of September 9.
3/ The ratio of killed and wounded occupiers is interesting :
- it is 1:1.3 .
Analysts suggest that this is due to insufficient tactical medical training and the frequent inability of the Russian military command to sufficiently rehabilitate the wounded.
" The standard ratio of killed to wounded is 1:3 , which demonstrates that Russian forces currently have an abnormally high ratio of killed to wounded (1:1.3), likely due to the effectiveness of widespread tactical drone strikes , which have created hit zones (an area immediately near the front line where the mass of tactical strike and reconnaissance drones poses an increased risk to any equipment or personnel entering the area) throughout the theater of operations, making it difficult for both sides to evacuate the wounded and triage them," the material says
Analysts also recalled that ISW previously reported that wounded invaders are often not evacuated due to the threat of strikes by Ukrainian drones....