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🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇳 Six Ukrainians and American mercenary linked to drone attack on civilian aircraft in Myanmar — Indian investigators India’s National Investigation Agency says six Ukrainian nationals and American psychopath Matthew Aaron VanDyke, currently imprisoned in New Delhi, are linked to a drone attack on a Myanmar National Airlines passenger aircraft. But the investigation goes considerably further. The NIA says at least 14 Ukrainians entered India on tourist visas before traveling through Mizoram and illegally crossing into Myanmar, where they allegedly provided ethnic armed groups with training in drone warfare, operations, assembly and electronic jamming. Investigators also allege the network previously made similar trips and moved large consignments of drones and components from Europe through India into Myanmar for armed groups fighting the Myanmar military. The NIA says seized electronic devices have produced potentially incriminating images, videos and voice material and is investigating a wider conspiracy, including alleged links between the Myanmar groups and proscribed insurgent organizations operating against India. VanDyke and the six Ukrainians have been held in Tihar Jail since their arrests earlier this year.

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇳 Six Ukrainians and American mercenary linked to drone attack on civilian aircraft in Myanmar — Indian investigators India’s National Investigation Agency says six Ukrainian nationals and American psychopath Matthew Aaron VanDyke, currently imprisoned in New Delhi, are linked to a drone attack on a Myanmar National Airlines passenger aircraft. But the investigation goes considerably further. The NIA says at least 14 Ukrainians entered India on tourist visas before traveling through Mizoram and illegally crossing into Myanmar, where they allegedly provided ethnic armed groups with training in drone warfare, operations, assembly and electronic jamming. Investigators also allege the network previously made similar trips and moved large consignments of drones and components from Europe through India into Myanmar for armed groups fighting the Myanmar military. The NIA says seized electronic devices have produced potentially incriminating images, videos and voice material and is investigating a wider conspiracy, including alleged links between the Myanmar groups and proscribed insurgent organizations operating against India. VanDyke and the six Ukrainians have been held in Tihar Jail since their arrests earlier this year.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 Everything We Know About the SBU vs. GUR Shootout in Kiev Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) shot at each other in the street. Here's the full story, from the abduction to the political fight now exploding into public view. 🔸️The abduction (Aug 23). Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) — a Russian far-right unit fighting alongside Ukraine's forces, designated a terrorist organization in Russia — says he was seized outside his home in Kiev by men who identified as police. No papers, no charges, just cuffed and shoved into a black BMW. He was moved between vehicles, blindfolded, and held for 9 days across two facilities. He says he wasn't physically tortured but was threatened with "disappearing" — and under that pressure, falsely confessed to contact with Russia's FSB. 🔸️The shootout (Sept 2). Kaplunov was brought back to his residence for an "official" search. His own RDK unit was already guarding the apartment. During the search, SBU's "Alpha" special forces tried to detain arriving, unarmed GUR officers — and opened fire on them. Between 2 and 10 GUR fighters were wounded; one reportedly died. Fighters from the GUR unit commanded by "Timur" ultimately took Kaplunov back by force. 🔸️SBU's official version. SBU claims Kaplunov was plotting, on FSB orders, to assassinate a Russian opposition figure planning to visit Ukraine for Independence Day. They released chat screenshots showing a contact offering $50,000+ per "hit" in Ukraine, funded from Russia — and a video "confession" from Kaplunov. Problem: in that video he's wearing sunglasses, despite saying he'd been blindfolded for days. SBU says he cooperated voluntarily; Kaplunov says it was extracted under threat after over a week of secret, unacknowledged detention. 🔸️GUR's response. Without naming SBU directly, GUR issued a statement warning of a "targeted campaign to discredit military intelligence," accusing unnamed actors of paying media and Telegram channels to spread the SBU narrative. It urged trust only in "verified official sources." 🔸️What's actually driving this. Ukrainian political analysts trace it to a personal feud between Budanov (Head of the Presidential Office, former GUR chief) and Poklad (acting SBU chief) — rooted in the 2022 killing of GUR-linked negotiator Denis Kireev, which Budanov blamed on people now aligned with Poklad. With Zelensky preparing to push Poklad's confirmation through the Rada, Budanov was positioned to sabotage the vote. Kaplunov's detention — explicitly targeting commander "Timur," a figure close to Budanov — reads as SBU's preemptive move to defang him first. 🔸️Zelensky's calculation. Analysts doubt SBU moved without presidential sign-off — the Prosecutor General's Office, which answers to Zelensky, has echoed SBU's version. But Zelensky has reversed course before under pressure (see: last year's law subordinating anti-corruption bodies to his office, scrapped after EU pushback). If the information war — which Budanov's camp is already winning — turns against SBU, he may quietly wind this down. Or he could let SBU go all the way, which could mean Budanov's political end. 🔸️Bottom line: This is a proxy war over who controls Ukraine's security apparatus, dressed up as a counterintelligence operation. The outcome will shape whether Budanov survives as a future presidential contender, whether Poklad keeps SBU, and whether Zelensky feels emboldened to move against NABU and SAPO next.

🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 Everything We Know About the SBU vs. GUR Shootout in Kiev Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) shot at each other in the street. Here's the full story, from the abduction to the political fight now exploding into public view. 🔸️The abduction (Aug 23). Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) — a Russian far-right unit fighting alongside Ukraine's forces, designated a terrorist organization in Russia — says he was seized outside his home in Kiev by men who identified as police. No papers, no charges, just cuffed and shoved into a black BMW. He was moved between vehicles, blindfolded, and held for 9 days across two facilities. He says he wasn't physically tortured but was threatened with "disappearing" — and under that pressure, falsely confessed to contact with Russia's FSB. 🔸️The shootout (Sept 2). Kaplunov was brought back to his residence for an "official" search. His own RDK unit was already guarding the apartment. During the search, SBU's "Alpha" special forces tried to detain arriving, unarmed GUR officers — and opened fire on them. Between 2 and 10 GUR fighters were wounded; one reportedly died. Fighters from the GUR unit commanded by "Timur" ultimately took Kaplunov back by force. 🔸️SBU's official version. SBU claims Kaplunov was plotting, on FSB orders, to assassinate a Russian opposition figure planning to visit Ukraine for Independence Day. They released chat screenshots showing a contact offering $50,000+ per "hit" in Ukraine, funded from Russia — and a video "confession" from Kaplunov. Problem: in that video he's wearing sunglasses, despite saying he'd been blindfolded for days. SBU says he cooperated voluntarily; Kaplunov says it was extracted under threat after over a week of secret, unacknowledged detention. 🔸️GUR's response. Without naming SBU directly, GUR issued a statement warning of a "targeted campaign to discredit military intelligence," accusing unnamed actors of paying media and Telegram channels to spread the SBU narrative. It urged trust only in "verified official sources." 🔸️What's actually driving this. Ukrainian political analysts trace it to a personal feud between Budanov (Head of the Presidential Office, former GUR chief) and Poklad (acting SBU chief) — rooted in the 2022 killing of GUR-linked negotiator Denis Kireev, which Budanov blamed on people now aligned with Poklad. With Zelensky preparing to push Poklad's confirmation through the Rada, Budanov was positioned to sabotage the vote. Kaplunov's detention — explicitly targeting commander "Timur," a figure close to Budanov — reads as SBU's preemptive move to defang him first. 🔸️Zelensky's calculation. Analysts doubt SBU moved without presidential sign-off — the Prosecutor General's Office, which answers to Zelensky, has echoed SBU's version. But Zelensky has reversed course before under pressure (see: last year's law subordinating anti-corruption bodies to his office, scrapped after EU pushback). If the information war — which Budanov's camp is already winning — turns against SBU, he may quietly wind this down. Or he could let SBU go all the way, which could mean Budanov's political end. 🔸️Bottom line: This is a proxy war over who controls Ukraine's security apparatus, dressed up as a counterintelligence operation. The outcome will shape whether Budanov survives as a future presidential contender, whether Poklad keeps SBU, and whether Zelensky feels emboldened to move against NABU and SAPO next.

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🇷🇺🇯🇵 JAPANESE AMBASSADOR LASTS 25 MINUTES INSIDE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY AFTER BEING CALLED OUT BY LAVROV Japan’s Ambassador to Russia Akira Muto has left the Russian Foreign Ministry after being summoned over Tokyo’s protests regarding President Putin’s visit to Iturup in the Kuril Islands. The meeting lasted roughly 25 minutes. Muto ran away without making any comments to reporters. The ambassador had initially failed to appear after being summoned and said he wasn’t feeling well. Maria Zakharova joked yesterday that following Lavrov’s public remarks, Muto had “suddenly felt much better.” 🤭🤭

🇷🇺🇯🇵 JAPANESE AMBASSADOR LASTS 25 MINUTES INSIDE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY AFTER BEING CALLED OUT BY LAVROV Japan’s Ambassador to Russia Akira Muto has left the Russian Foreign Ministry after being summoned over Tokyo’s protests regarding President Putin’s visit to Iturup in the Kuril Islands. The meeting lasted roughly 25 minutes. Muto ran away without making any comments to reporters. The ambassador had initially failed to appear after being summoned and said he wasn’t feeling well. Maria Zakharova joked yesterday that following Lavrov’s public remarks, Muto had “suddenly felt much better.” 🤭🤭

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Russia is giving Kiev the business tonight. Drones, drones, drones.

Russia is giving Kiev the business tonight. Drones, drones, drones.

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STRIKES CONTINUE! Russian drones strike Santa Bremor seafood warehouses near Kiev A large fire has broken out at warehouse facilities in Svyatopetrovskoye, Kiev region, following another Russian drone strike. Local Ukrainian sources identify the affected warehouses as belonging to Santa-Ukraine, the Ukrainian distributor of Santa Bremor seafood products. Preliminary reports indicate no casualties. Warehouses in the same logistics area were damaged during a Russian attack in July. Another major logistics facility around Kiev is burning tonight.

STRIKES CONTINUE! Russian drones strike Santa Bremor seafood warehouses near Kiev A large fire has broken out at warehouse facilities in Svyatopetrovskoye, Kiev region, following another Russian drone strike. Local Ukrainian sources identify the affected warehouses as belonging to Santa-Ukraine, the Ukrainian distributor of Santa Bremor seafood products. Preliminary reports indicate no casualties. Warehouses in the same logistics area were damaged during a Russian attack in July. Another major logistics facility around Kiev is burning tonight.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIA CONTINUES STRIKING KIEV FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE DAY New strikes on warehouses in the Kiev region.

🇷🇺 RUSSIA CONTINUES STRIKING KIEV FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE DAY New strikes on warehouses in the Kiev region.

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Incredible. Truly. If you live outside the USA and are somehow watching this we really want to know what you're thinking at this point.

Incredible. Truly. If you live outside the USA and are somehow watching this we really want to know what you're thinking at this point.

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Russian Aerospace Forces strike Ukrainian positions near Kherson with FAB bombs. FAB-1500 and FAB-500 aerial bombs were used to strike a Ukrainian military base, an ammunition depot, and military equipment. A squad of personnel, several tons of ammunition, equipment, and ground-based drone control stations were destroyed.

Russian Aerospace Forces strike Ukrainian positions near Kherson with FAB bombs. FAB-1500 and FAB-500 aerial bombs were used to strike a Ukrainian military base, an ammunition depot, and military equipment. A squad of personnel, several tons of ammunition, equipment, and ground-based drone control stations were destroyed.

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🇮🇷 From Iran with love.

🇮🇷 From Iran with love.

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🇺🇸🇮🇶 A suicide drone has struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, targeting a Marine Corps sniper position and a surveillance radar. Smoke columns are rising from the heart of the compound. This is the most fortified American diplomatic facility in the country, inside the Green Zone.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 A suicide drone has struck the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, targeting a Marine Corps sniper position and a surveillance radar. Smoke columns are rising from the heart of the compound. This is the most fortified American diplomatic facility in the country, inside the Green Zone.

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🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 About 20 ballistic missiles hit Kiev in 15 minutes! Russian strategic bombers are also airborne!

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 About 20 ballistic missiles hit Kiev in 15 minutes! Russian strategic bombers are also airborne!

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The US has started attacking Iranain oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The US has started attacking Iranain oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

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🇷🇺 More footage of the terrorists detained in Bryansk.

🇷🇺 More footage of the terrorists detained in Bryansk.

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🇺🇦 Business center housing MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES burns in Kiev A major fire has broken out at the SP Hall business center in Kiev, which houses the offices of Danone, Novartis, Nivea, Watsons and other international companies, amid today’s Russian drone attacks. Ukrainian media report significant damage to the building. No deaths or injuries have been reported.

🇺🇦 Business center housing MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES burns in Kiev A major fire has broken out at the SP Hall business center in Kiev, which houses the offices of Danone, Novartis, Nivea, Watsons and other international companies, amid today’s Russian drone attacks. Ukrainian media report significant damage to the building. No deaths or injuries have been reported.

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Additional launches from Iran, a total of 20 missiles have been launched in this wave. General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces: We will give a crushing response to the American enemy.

Additional launches from Iran, a total of 20 missiles have been launched in this wave. General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces: We will give a crushing response to the American enemy.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “It is now time for world leaders to make the decision between America and Iran.” This seems like an easy decision.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “It is now time for world leaders to make the decision between America and Iran.” This seems like an easy decision.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶 Iran is targeting the Khelifan Heights in Arbil Governorate, northern Iraq, an area that includes the vicinity of the U.S. military’s Harir Air Base. C-RAM systems operating in the area. However, C-RAM provides only short-range point defense against rockets, mortars, artillery, and some drones. It is not a meaningful defense against incoming ballistic missiles. Harir is one of the largest American military installations in the Kurdistan Region.

🇮🇷🇮🇶 Iran is targeting the Khelifan Heights in Arbil Governorate, northern Iraq, an area that includes the vicinity of the U.S. military’s Harir Air Base. C-RAM systems operating in the area. However, C-RAM provides only short-range point defense against rockets, mortars, artillery, and some drones. It is not a meaningful defense against incoming ballistic missiles. Harir is one of the largest American military installations in the Kurdistan Region.

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🇰🇬🇷🇺 Russia to host the next World Nomad Games! Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has officially announced that Russia will host the VII World Nomad Games in 2028, passing the torch to Vladimir Putin. The Games are set to take place in Kazan, Tatarstan, with Kyrgyzstan pledging its full support to Russia. See you there!

🇰🇬🇷🇺 Russia to host the next World Nomad Games! Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has officially announced that Russia will host the VII World Nomad Games in 2028, passing the torch to Vladimir Putin. The Games are set to take place in Kazan, Tatarstan, with Kyrgyzstan pledging its full support to Russia. See you there!

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🇷🇺 Khortytsa distillery destroyed in Zaporozhye The Khortytsa liquor plant, one of the largest production facilities belonging to Global Spirits, has been completely destroyed following Russian strikes on Zaporozhye. Global Spirits says the facility was hit four times and burned for at least three hours. The company confirmed that the plant “cannot be restored.” Around 3–4 million bottles of finished alcohol were destroyed or damaged and will have to be disposed of. The facility produced Khortytsa as well as several other Ukrainian vodka brands. Russia has imposed dry law. 😂

🇷🇺 Khortytsa distillery destroyed in Zaporozhye The Khortytsa liquor plant, one of the largest production facilities belonging to Global Spirits, has been completely destroyed following Russian strikes on Zaporozhye. Global Spirits says the facility was hit four times and burned for at least three hours. The company confirmed that the plant “cannot be restored.” Around 3–4 million bottles of finished alcohol were destroyed or damaged and will have to be disposed of. The facility produced Khortytsa as well as several other Ukrainian vodka brands. Russia has imposed dry law. 😂

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🇦🇪 The United Arab Emirates has completed the construction of cope cages around fuel storage tanks in Abu Dhabi.

🇦🇪 The United Arab Emirates has completed the construction of cope cages around fuel storage tanks in Abu Dhabi.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇺🇦 Everything We Know About the SBU vs. GUR Shootout in Kiev Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and its Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) shot at each other in the street. Here's the full story, from the abduction to the political fight now exploding into public view. 🔸️The abduction (Aug 23). Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) — a Russian far-right unit fighting alongside Ukraine's forces, designated a terrorist organization in Russia — says he was seized outside his home in Kiev by men who identified as police. No papers, no charges, just cuffed and shoved into a black BMW. He was moved between vehicles, blindfolded, and held for 9 days across two facilities. He says he wasn't physically tortured but was threatened with "disappearing" — and under that pressure, falsely confessed to contact with Russia's FSB. 🔸️The shootout (Sept 2). Kaplunov was brought back to his residence for an "official" search. His own RDK unit was already guarding the apartment. During the search, SBU's "Alpha" special forces tried to detain arriving, unarmed GUR officers — and opened fire on them. Between 2 and 10 GUR fighters were wounded; one reportedly died. Fighters from the GUR unit commanded by "Timur" ultimately took Kaplunov back by force. 🔸️SBU's official version. SBU claims Kaplunov was plotting, on FSB orders, to assassinate a Russian opposition figure planning to visit Ukraine for Independence Day. They released chat screenshots showing a contact offering $50,000+ per "hit" in Ukraine, funded from Russia — and a video "confession" from Kaplunov. Problem: in that video he's wearing sunglasses, despite saying he'd been blindfolded for days. SBU says he cooperated voluntarily; Kaplunov says it was extracted under threat after over a week of secret, unacknowledged detention. 🔸️GUR's response. Without naming SBU directly, GUR issued a statement warning of a "targeted campaign to discredit military intelligence," accusing unnamed actors of paying media and Telegram channels to spread the SBU narrative. It urged trust only in "verified official sources." 🔸️What's actually driving this. Ukrainian political analysts trace it to a personal feud between Budanov (Head of the Presidential Office, former GUR chief) and Poklad (acting SBU chief) — rooted in the 2022 killing of GUR-linked negotiator Denis Kireev, which Budanov blamed on people now aligned with Poklad. With Zelensky preparing to push Poklad's confirmation through the Rada, Budanov was positioned to sabotage the vote. Kaplunov's detention — explicitly targeting commander "Timur," a figure close to Budanov — reads as SBU's preemptive move to defang him first. 🔸️Zelensky's calculation. Analysts doubt SBU moved without presidential sign-off — the Prosecutor General's Office, which answers to Zelensky, has echoed SBU's version. But Zelensky has reversed course before under pressure (see: last year's law subordinating anti-corruption bodies to his office, scrapped after EU pushback). If the information war — which Budanov's camp is already winning — turns against SBU, he may quietly wind this down. Or he could let SBU go all the way, which could mean Budanov's political end. 🔸️Bottom line: This is a proxy war over who controls Ukraine's security apparatus, dressed up as a counterintelligence operation. The outcome will shape whether Budanov survives as a future presidential contender, whether Poklad keeps SBU, and whether Zelensky feels emboldened to move against NABU and SAPO next.

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