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Yanto retweeted
🇷🇺 Economist Vyacheslav Shiryaev:
If Ukraine decides to finish the job, russia’s oil refining can be wiped out in 2 to 3 weeks.
Not years.
WEEKS.
Over the past 5 days, 3 russian refineries have been completely shut down.
Ten major refineries left.
One a day.
Gasoline production → zero.
russia cannot import 100,000 tonnes of fuel a day.
It doesn’t have the currency.
It doesn’t have the options.
Ukraine holds the switch.
And once the refineries are gone, the war economy runs on fumes.
Bessent shows us his frequent smirk on his "howdy doody" face that he's so famous for.
Yanto retweeted
I used to think freedom meant being able to go anywhere.
Now I think it means being able to sleep without fear.
Yanto retweeted
The corner of Akácfa & Rákóczi in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. A destroyed Soviet BTR-152 armored vehicle blocks the sidewalk.
Gives me the chills that this is where I live today. I turn this corner every day.
History is not just in history books.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
ALT Fortepan / Gyula Nagy (ID: 24730)
Yanto retweeted
So elect Democrats to everything in ‘28 & get all the money out of the system. End Citizens United & get all the money out!
Yanto retweeted
🇺🇦 She gave her life saving others❤️🩹
Olha Taran a combat medic of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, she served for nearly seven years and continued saving wounded soldiers in the encircled Mariupol.
On April 12, 2022, she ran to protect a wounded comrade during a Russian mortar attack. She covered him with her own body.
She did not survive this attack💔
On October 1, 2026, this courageous servicewoman was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine and the Golden Star.🫡
Eternal honor. 🇺🇦
Rest in peace, heroine, young and beautiful 💔🙏
Yanto retweeted
This hits hard…@Timodc was the first person to call me after I submitted a video to publicly break with my Party and Trump. The real deal…
.@Timodc talked to @NicolleDWallace after the election. They both had to fight off tears.
Yanto retweeted
Thomas Massie says he'll have the 218 signatures next week to force a House vote on a new Epstein files bill.
It would let survivors get their own records and let state attorneys general prosecute.
ALT Thomas Massie and a redacted Epstein document
Yanto retweeted
Happy Birthday, Joni Mitchell! 🎸
What's one of your favorite Joni Mitchell songs or collaborations? 🎶
Roberta Joan "Joni" Anderson, born in Alberta, Canada, on November 7, 1943, is regarded as one of the greatest songwriters & female guitarists of all time. Emerging on the folk music scene in Saskatoon in the 1960s, the beloved musican and artist has released 19 studio albums & 33 singles. After suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2015, Joni spent some time rehabbing, and in 2022, for the first time in 9 years, Joni performed live at the Newport Music Festival. Joni's accolades are innumerable. She has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame(1981), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame(1997), Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame(2007), and in 2020 she was awarded the Les Paul Award, becoming the first woman to receive the award.
Yanto retweeted
Seven russian oil refineries struck by Ukraine in just nine days.
🔥 Novokuibyshevsk, Ufa, Kstovo, Yaroslavl, Ryazan, Afipsky, Saratov.
Combined annual processing capacity: 78.15 million tonnes — nearly 24% of russia's total refining capacity.
Yanto retweeted
Pete Hegseth is projecting, because what he just lamented Democrats to be guilty of is the exact image he sees in the mirror: the politics of personal destruction.
His own political theater could be coming to an end though, because Rep. Thomas Massie plans to move towards an impeachment vote next week. Removing Hegseth would require a simple majority in the House and two-thirds support in the Senate.
Yanto retweeted
America just checkmated Trump’s VETO Powers!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The attached NBC graphic shows 2026 House election projections giving Democrats a majority (259 seats; 218 needed), not a veto override. Overriding a presidential veto requires a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers (290 House votes if all members participate).
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-…
congress.gov/crs-product/RS…
constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/a…
Yanto retweeted
The Polish people have always stood by their European brothers during the darkest terrorist attacks of recent years.
Today, after the attack in Krakow, it is our turn to stand with them.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and all of Poland. 🇵🇱
Yanto retweeted
🔥 NOW IT'S BECOMING CLEAR WHY RUSSIAN OIL REFINERIES CAN BURN IN SEVERAL PLACES AT ONCE AFTER UKRAINIAN DRONE STRIKES!
Russian Telegram channels are sounding the alarm. And here's what they're saying.
According to their reports, Ukraine has allegedly begun using a new Israeli-developed satellite communications system called HiSKY SmartLight.
Let me explain in simple terms what its potential advantage could be.
Previously, a drone would fly toward a predetermined target. Now, according to Russian sources, operators can maintain communication with drones, receive information during flight, and change their missions in real time.
What does that mean?
If the first drones strike one section of an oil refinery, subsequent drones could be redirected toward other facilities.
This is how Russian channels explain the multiple fires reported at refineries in Kstovo, Samara, and Yaroslavl.
And there's another detail that particularly worries the Russians.
They claim this new system could make Ukraine less dependent on America's Starlink and potential restrictions imposed by the United States.
In other words, if these Russian reports are accurate, Ukraine has developed new technological capabilities for its long-range drones.
And now for the best part.
The Russians themselves acknowledge that this could become a massive problem for their oil industry!
🇺🇦 THANK YOU TO OUR DEFENDERS, ENGINEERS, AND EVERYONE DEVELOPING UKRAINIAN TECHNOLOGY!
Let the aggressor feel the consequences of the war it started.
P.S. I'm moving from Twitter/X to Substack. Join me there and follow my work.
mykhailorohoza.substack.com
Yanto retweeted
Відчувається новий стиль атак на НПЗ ворога. Наносяться масовані атаки модернізованих дронів, яких ППО окупантів не бачить, і з збільшенням вибухівки.
