Yuri Zoria

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A philologist by education, in 2003-2007 Yuri worked as a journalist in a Luhansk online media. He was born and lived all his life in the peaceful provincial city of Luhansk, where nothing serious happened. Until 2014. Now he is an IDP. Follow Yuri on twitter: @loogunda

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hungary robbed $82 million ukraine's state bank fabricated subtitles toilet-office joke video justify · post fkae hungarian mentioning corruption money youtube/navgovhu background cash gold bars seized oschadbank's convoy authorities ukrainian-gold-stolen-by-hungary-and-faked-video

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International

Hungary robbed $82 million from Ukraine’s state bank, now it has fabricated subtitles on a toilet-office joke video to justify it

They took a year-old private video from an illegally seized phone of couriers joking about preparing documents in a public restroom and added a phrase about "corruption money" that was never spoken to the subtitles.

ukrainian intelligence called last russian railway ferry kerch strait still afloat — now it's out action too · post slavyanin fire after hur drone strike overnight 6 2026 667795266_1269138582064226_7153982447190295773_n ukraine

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian intelligence called it “the last Russian railway ferry in the Kerch Strait still afloat” — now it’s out of action too

The Slavyanin carried fuel, weapons, military equipment, and ammunition to Russian forces in occupied Crimea. HUR says it destroyed its ability to operate with a drone strike on the night of 5-6 April.

ukraine hit crimea's key fuel hub struck deep luhansk oblast — while clearing air defenses across occupied south · post drone targeting footage nasa firms satellite fire detection feodosiia maritime

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine hit Crimea’s key fuel hub and struck deep into Luhansk Oblast — while clearing more air defenses across the occupied south

The Feodosiia Marine Oil Terminal fire was visible over 20 km away and confirmed by NASA FIRMS; in separate strikes that week, Ukrainian forces also destroyed a Buk-M3, Tor-M2, and a Zoopark-1M radar Brovdi called "a fierce enemy" of Ukrainian artillery.

isw russians weaponizing civilian harm intentional tool war pervasively employing human safari tactics · post city bus destroyed russian fpv drone strike central nikopol dnipropetrovsk oblast 7 2026 bf95c240-8250-4560-b5a5-f330db5c2f3f russia

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Latest news Ukraine

ISW: Russians “weaponizing civilian harm as an intentional tool of war” by pervasively employing human safari tactics

The assessment follows two FPV strikes on civilian buses in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 7 April — part of a pattern that the UN has previously confirmed as crimes against humanity.

ukraine's greatest philosopher visited estate russia burned down 242 years later · post donets-zakharzhevskyi velykyi burluk kharkiv oblast fire after russian drone attack 7 2026 росія знищила садибу донців-захаржевських у

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine’s greatest philosopher visited this estate. Russia burned it down 242 years later

The Donets-Zakharzhevskyi estate in Velykyi Burluk — a locally protected architectural monument where Hryhorii Skovoroda once stayed — was completely consumed by fire on 7 April after two direct drone strikes; no casualties were reported.

russia's buffer zone wishlist now includes vinnytsia — moldova's transnistria ukrainian official says · post oblast ukraine news reports

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says

Zelenskyy's office deputy chief Palisa said this is the first time such plans have been recorded, though he stressed Russia currently lacks the forces to act on any of its territorial ambitions.

kyiv confirms hit sheskharis be-12 last night — black sea oil hub crimea-based anti-submarine aircraft · post three separate fires burning terminal novorossiysk krasnodar krai russia russian air defense systems

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Latest news Ukraine

Kyiv confirms it hit Sheskharis and a Be-12 last night — a Black Sea oil hub and a Crimea-based anti-submarine aircraft

Ukraine's General Staff confirmation follows OSINT verification of three hits at the Novorossiysk terminal, which accounts for 3.5–4.5 mn tonnes of Russian crude exports per month.

russia listed ivory coast promising country influence operations — ran four anti-ukraine campaigns five months · post materials russia's disinformation campaign against ukraine internal files côte d'ivoire fake ukrainian embassy

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International

Russia listed Ivory Coast as a “promising country” for influence operations — then ran four anti-Ukraine campaigns there in five months

Leaked documents from the Russian network "The Company," analyzed by France 24, reveal how Moscow ran four disinformation campaigns against Ukraine in Ivory Coast in 2024.

turkstream pipeline explosives serbia most probably russian false-flag operation aimed hungary's election ukraine says · post serbian president aleksandar vucic (left) hungarian prime minister viktor orbán 000kty8k6p25mnf7-c124 vučić announced military

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TurkStream pipeline explosives in Serbia are “most probably” a Russian false-flag operation aimed at Hungary’s election, Ukraine says

Explosives were found one week before Hungary's 12 April elections — Hungarian opposition leader and security experts had publicly predicted the operation days earlier.

russia talks compromise demands capitulation — lying trump while preparing more occupation zelenskyy says · post ukrainian president volodymyr during ap interview 5 2026 388ac15b-6316-45ec-8a9c-54c67fbad097 ukraine news reports

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia talks compromise, demands capitulation — and is lying to Trump while preparing more occupation, Zelenskyy says

Moscow's logic is internally consistent but strategically unacceptable: Ukrainian withdrawal would stop Russian casualties while giving Russia the foothold it needs for further occupation.

armenia could quit russia's nato-equivalent alliance economic union moscow uses gas leverage parliament speaker says · post armenian alen simonyan national assembly yerevan 0611243ca972cd96cf4b0f858fc6e42bc60193 (1) armenia's said 4 country exit

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Armenia could quit Russia’s NATO-equivalent alliance and economic union if Moscow uses gas as leverage, parliament speaker says

Simonyan said on 4 April that a gas price hike would prompt Armenia to exit both the Russia-led CSTO military bloc and the Eurasian Economic Union.

russia's primorsk governor said pipeline hit two hours later wasn't nasa showed fire tank farm · post firms satellite data active signatures oil export terminal leningrad oblast russia 5 morning

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s governor said a pipeline was hit in Primorsk. Two hours later he said it wasn’t. NASA showed a fire at the tank farm

Leningrad Oblast governor Drozdenko revised his account of the 5 April drone strike on Primorsk — scrapping the pipeline damage claim and saying shrapnel had hit a fuel tank — while satellite data pointed to fire at the oil depot, not a pipeline at all.

ukraine struck refinery 800 km inside russia — hit power plant keeping running · post glow fire lukoil-nizhegorodnefteorgsintez visible kstovo nizhny novgorod oblast following ukrainian drone strike 5 2026 пожежа-на-території-нпз-«лукойл»-last-night-у-кстово

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine struck a refinery 800 km inside Russia — then hit the power plant keeping it running

The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez facility in the Volga region, one of Russia's largest refineries by volume, processes up to 17 mn tonnes of crude a year and is a key supplier of petrol to Moscow Oblast.

fico joins orbán demanding eu lift russian energy sanctions — week before hungary’s election could end orbán’s 16-year rule · post slovak prime minister robert visiting hungarian viktor budapest 2024

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International

Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule

After a call with Orbán on 4 April, Slovakia's PM claimed Brussels must immediately reopen dialogue with Russia and restore Druzhba pipeline flows — revenues that directly fund Moscow's war against Ukraine.

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Yuri Zoria

Hungary robbed $82 million from Ukraine’s state bank, now it has fabricated subtitles on a toilet-office joke video to justify it

Ukrainian intelligence called it “the last Russian railway ferry in the Kerch Strait still afloat” — now it’s out of action too

Ukraine hit Crimea’s key fuel hub and struck deep into Luhansk Oblast — while clearing more air defenses across the occupied south

ISW: Russians “weaponizing civilian harm as an intentional tool of war” by pervasively employing human safari tactics

Ukraine’s greatest philosopher visited this estate. Russia burned it down 242 years later

Russia’s buffer zone wishlist now includes Vinnytsia — via Moldova’s Transnistria, Ukrainian official says

Kyiv confirms it hit Sheskharis and a Be-12 last night — a Black Sea oil hub and a Crimea-based anti-submarine aircraft

Russia listed Ivory Coast as a “promising country” for influence operations — then ran four anti-Ukraine campaigns there in five months

TurkStream pipeline explosives in Serbia are “most probably” a Russian false-flag operation aimed at Hungary’s election, Ukraine says

Russia talks compromise, demands capitulation — and is lying to Trump while preparing more occupation, Zelenskyy says

Armenia could quit Russia’s NATO-equivalent alliance and economic union if Moscow uses gas as leverage, parliament speaker says

Russia’s governor said a pipeline was hit in Primorsk. Two hours later he said it wasn’t. NASA showed a fire at the tank farm

Ukraine struck a refinery 800 km inside Russia — then hit the power plant keeping it running

Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule

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