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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦The US is still buying $3.5B worth of oil products made from russian crude. russian oil flows to India/Turkey, gets refined into jet fuel, then heads to America.
The EU is banning this loophole. The US? Not yet. Isaac Levi from says the US could hit Putin harder by...
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https://www.channel4.com/news/global-oil-prices-could-increase-energy-analyst-on-russian-oil-sanctions
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Vance and Lammy host European, US, #Ukraine officials to talk ceasefire
The hastily arranged meeting is a "vital forum" to discuss progress towards peace, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/vance-and-lammy-host-european-us-ukrainian-officials-to-talk-ceasefire
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"The answer to the Ukrainian territorial question is already in the Constitution of #Ukraine.
No one will and cannot back down from this. Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier."
- Volodymyr Zelenskyi, President of Ukraine
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦kremlin officials are reportedly demanding that #Ukraine surrender the Ukrainian “fortress belt” in Donetsk Oblast before any ceasefire, a move the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says is deliberately designed to be unacceptable.
They assessed that moscow “lacks the means to capture” the fortified cities and instead wants Kyiv to abandon them “in exchange for nothing.”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/09/giving-up-ukrainian-fortress-belt-at-center-of-putins-demands/
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦#Zelenskyy: No Land-for-Peace Deals With russia
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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦The Answer to the Ukrainian Territorial Question Already Is in the Constitution of #Ukraine, No One Will Deviate From This – and No One Will Be Able To – Address by President #Zelenskyy 09.08.2025
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The Ukrainian people deserve peace. But all partners must understand what a dignified peace is. This war must be brought to an end – and russia must end it.
Full address https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidpovid-na-ukrayinske-teritorialne-pitannya-ye-vzhe-v-konst-99445
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Oslo takes measures against russian 'shadow fleet'
The introduction of new control mechanisms come at the same time as a suspicious tanker has been criss-crossing outside Norway's Arctic coast for more than three weeks.
https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/oslo-takes-measures-against-russian-shadow-fleet/434655
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦World's cartoonists on this week's events
by Politico
Drawing the top stories around the globe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/worlds-cartoonists-on-this-weeks-events-166
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On the night of 9 August (from 22:30 on 8 August), the enemy attacked #Ukraine with 47 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of dummy drones, as well as two Iskander-K cruise missiles
The missiles targeted the city of Dnipro
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According to preliminary data, as of 09:00, air defence forces shot down/suppressed an Iskander-K cruise missile, 16 enemy Shahed-type UAVs and various types of drone simulators
A total of 31 UAVs were recorded hitting 15 locations.
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On the night of 9 August (from 22:30 on 8 August), the enemy attacked #Ukraine with 47 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of dummy drones, as well as two Iskander-K cruise missiles
The missiles targeted the city of Dnipro