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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

To add; Now that Ukraine is under the UK and France nuclear umbrella pooty is totally fucked.

 

Feeling better to see Ukraine doing well in spite of our fearful leader's backstabbing attempts.

 

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Fuck, if I am Putin, I make damn sure that I dont do a live broadcast within 1500km of the ukrainian borders, make damn sure the Ukrs arent lying about the max distance on the Neptune.   Cause that would be an epic way to die...

 

but we all know all his shit is broadcast taped and highly edited.   But i wouldnt mind a Neptune fired from Odessa, beboping accross the Crimea where they all wonder what air defense doing...  taking out his Sochi palace.... just to remind him that he started this shit

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8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:


this just dropped.

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In a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen released on Monday, the companies said Europe needs to be "more technologically independent across all layers of its critical digital infrastructure."

Signatories want “Buy European” requirements for governments to increase demand for homegrown tech and a “sovereign infrastructure fund” to support investments in more capital-intensive industries like microchips and quantum technology.

 

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Frank Karlitschek, CEO of German file storage provider Nextcloud, which signed the letter, said “I don’t think the goal is to be completely independent from the U.S. or the rest of the world … but at least have some assets so that we can at least negotiate.”

The plea follows an earlier industry initiative called EuroStack, which entails the idea of building out a core European tech infrastructure across three layers (hard infrastructure, intermediary services such as cloud services and applications) and reducing Europe’s many dependencies on U.S. Big Tech.

 

 

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New UKR interceptor drone in the wild - photo caught by RUZ surveil drone

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Ukraine’s Defense Forces have reportedly begun deploying new interceptor drones, according to a report from the Telegram channel BPLA Inform on March 17.

The channel shared a photo and a video fragment of an unknown UAV, noting that this particular type of drones had not been previously observed in use.

“During its flight, a Russian reconnaissance drone captured footage of an unidentified UAV, which was quickly identified as an interceptor—likely Ukrainian. It appeared to be attempting to take down the enemy drone,” BPLA Inform wrote.

 

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-allegedly-deploys-new-interceptor-drones-to-target-russian-uavs-6782

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/trump-ukraine-invasion-accountability.html

The Justice Department has informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, according to a letter sent to members of the organization on Monday.

The decision to withdraw from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which the Biden administration joined in 2023, is the latest indication of the Trump administration’s move away from President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s commitment to holding Mr. Putin personally accountable for crimes committed against Ukrainians.

The group was created to hold the leadership of Russia, along with its allies in Belarus, North Korea and Iran, accountable for a category of crimes — defined as aggression under international law and treaties that violates another country’s sovereignty and is not initiated in self-defense.

“The U.S. authorities have informed me that they will conclude their involvement in the ICPA” by the end of March, Michael Schmid, president of the group’s parent organization, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, better known as Eurojust, wrote in an internal letter obtained by The New York Times.

The group remains “fully committed” to holding to account “those responsible for core international crimes” in Ukraine, he added.

The United States was the only country outside Europe to send a senior prosecutor to The Hague to work with investigators from Ukraine, the Baltic States, Poland, Romania and the International Criminal Court.

A department spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday night.

The Trump administration is also reducing work done by the department’s War Crimes Accountability Team, created in 2022 by the attorney general at the time, Merrick B. Garland, and staffed by experienced prosecutors. It was intended to coordinate Justice Department efforts to hold Russians accountable who are responsible for atrocities committed in the aftermath of the full invasion three years ago.

“There is no hiding place for war criminals,” Mr. Garland said in announcing the organization of the unit.

The department, he added, “will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine.”

During the Biden administration, the team, known as WarCAT, focused on an important supporting role: providing Ukraine’s overburdened prosecutors and law enforcement with logistical help, training and direct assistance in bringing charges of war crimes committed by Russians to Ukraine’s courts.

The team did bring one significant case. In December 2023, U.S. prosecutors used a war crimes statute for the first time since it was enacted nearly three decades ago to charge four Russian soldiers in absentia with torturing an American who was living in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

In recent comments, President Trump has moved closer to Mr. Putin while clashing with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky — going so far as to falsely suggest that Ukraine played a role in provoking Russia’s brutal and illegal military incursion.

“You should have never started it,” Mr. Trump said in February, referring to Ukraine’s leaders. “You could have made a deal.” He followed up in a post on social media, calling Mr. Zelensky a “Dictator without Elections” and saying he had “done a terrible job” in office.

The Trump administration gave no reason for withdrawing from the investigative group other than the same explanation for other personnel and policy moves: the need to redeploy resources, according to the people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the moves publicly.

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