Alan Brewer @AlGGDirect

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Rebekah Maciorowski @bekamaciorowski

a week ago

Pinning my fundraising raffle! Don’t forget - it ends on June 25.

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PAIN AT THE PUMP: Fuels/energy products account for ~63% of Russia's total goods exports-- but gas is increasingly hard to find in Putin's kingdom. Some gas station chains are subject to federal and regional purchase restrictions.

PAYBACK: The answer to this week's brutal Russian attack on Ukraine has been delivered. This is Moscow this morning. All four airports are closed and its refineries and military targets are burning.

RAISING THE BARS: Among the recent visitors to Moscow was one of Ukraine’s latest creations, the ‘Bars’ mid-range turbo-jet powered drone/cruise missile hybrid.

- Giorgia Meloni on Russia: "The only way to guarantee peace is deterrence... Deterrence comes from the Latin 'de' - via da - e 'terrere', to scare. You must be strong enough to make the enemy desist from the possibility of attacking you. It is strength that builds peace, not weakness..." She is really great...😉

NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said. nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/…

Today is one of the most extraordinary days of the war. Watch @DomNicholls, @mbohnert, and I assess the significance of a raid which left Moscow ablaze and cemented Kyiv's momentum in the conflict: youtu.be/Scnurany_C8?is…

🇺🇦23:45 | 18/06 Approximate flight routes of our UAVs: 🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement; According to Russian sources, around 300 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.

Anyone care to guess how high it went?

Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK

2 hours ago

Another angle of the famous fuel tank explosion in Moscow earlier today.

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He hired a crony incompetent company at a wildly inflated cost.

James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki

23 hours ago

It's a political thing because that's explicitly how Trump framed it: he attacked Obama and Biden and said he was going to fix what they had failed to. And now that his hubristic bloviating has backfired on him - and the country - yet again, people of course are mocking him.

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Chinese tourists in Moscow filmed an epic explosion at the refinery after the Ukrainian attack. One of them joyfully stated that he filmed the best shot because he was in the perfect location. They liked the show!

Following up on the agreements made by President @ZelenskyyUa, we are taking a major step forward in our anti-ballistic program. At UDCG, together with Boris Pistorius, we signed an agreement to co-develop and manufacture anti-ballistic interceptor missiles with Ukrainian and German companies to protect our cities. We also agreed on the joint production of thousands of Ukrainian "Termit" UGVs in Germany, fully funded by our partners. Grateful to Germany for supporting leadership-driven solutions that strengthen European security.

🔥🔥 I don’t think the Moscow air defense is supposed to fire, after a long volley of small arms fire, and then do a fly by of the drone. But: You do you, Russian air defense.

Ukraine just dropped a bombshell at the Paris expo: the upgraded FP-1 and FP-2 long-range strike drones from Fire Point are game-changers that will haunt Russian rear areas for years to come. The FP-2 now sports a radical monowing design with an integrated fuel tank, letting it haul a massive 200 kg warhead out to 370 km or still deliver 105 kg of pure hate across 700 km. That kind of reach with that payload means no Russian logistics hub, airfield, or ammo dump is truly safe anymore. Even more terrifying for the enemy, the FP-1 deep-strike variant has been fitted with an extra wing fuel tank that pushes its operational range to an astonishing 2,700 kilometres. Two thousand seven hundred. Let that sink in. These birds don’t just fly farther, they fly smarter. Integrated AI systems give them the autonomy to adapt mid-mission, shrug off jamming, and put warheads exactly where they will hurt Moscow’s war machine the most. Every new kilometre of range is another kilometre deeper into the territory Russia thought was untouchable. The Kremlin’s “safe” rear is shrinking fast, and Ukraine’s strike capability is only accelerating. This is what industrial-scale drone warfare looks like when a nation fights for its survival. The orcs will feel these upgrades from Donbas all the way to the Urals.

Ukraine 🇺🇦 has now targeted around 500 russian 🇷🇺 trucks and vehicles during the last 48 days. Mid-range strikes continue to expand across occupied territories, on roads, bridges and rear base. This continues to slow down russian offensive. 🧵THREAD🧵1/13 ⬇️

A Ukrainian-made winged drone missile in flight somewhere over the Moscow region.

🇺🇦 just patiently knocking out every fuel storage depot that either is or could be used by 🇷🇺 to supply fuel to the front. This one is 2km from the 🇺🇦 border. The methodical dismantling of 🇷🇺 capabilities is beautiful for us, but must be horrifying for 🇷🇺 in the know

Exilenova+ @Exilenova_plus

22 hours ago

Gukovo, Rostov Oblast. An oil depot has been attacked by strike UAVs; a fire has broken out at the site.

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NEW: Russian Occupation Update, June 18, 2026 The Kremlin facilitated the temporary deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian-occupied separatist region of Abkhazia in Georgia, likely for the first time in an official capacity since 2022. Other Key Takeaways: Russian nuclear energy operator Rosenergoatom organized and financed the temporary transfer of children from occupied Enerhodar to children’s camps in occupied Crimea as part of a career guidance and support program. Russian occupation officials are responding to Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign against logistics in occupied areas by restricting the transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian-run summer camps. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree codifying Russia’s penetration into the most local level of the legal system in occupied Zaporizhia Oblast. Russian occupation officials issued first-time Russian passports to teenagers from occupied Donetsk Oblast in a Russia Day ceremony. Ukraine’s intermediate and long-range strike campaign against Russian logistical and energy assets is generating economic pain in occupied Crimea. A Russian-controlled occupation court in Simferopol extended the pre-trial detention of four Crimean Tatar women in a case alleging their involvement with the Hizb ut-Tahrir pan-Islamic organization. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law refining the regulatory framework for the free economic zone (FEZ) operating in occupied Ukraine. Russian state-owned Sberbank continues to expand and deepen its influence in the financial sector of occupied Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Russian occupation administrators are responding to Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign against Russian logistics in occupied areas by intensifying controls on information flows and access. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video conference on Russian development efforts in occupied Ukraine.

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HOW’S IT GOING? Russia started bombing Ukraine with a fleet of ~thirty-four Tu-22M3 strategic bombers. They’ve lost 24, and have nine of ten left, a depletion rate of 70%. Pity.

I spent 2 days in Paris 🇫🇷 in EUROSATORY for the first time and was able to see some interesting developments. I spent some time around the numerous Ukrainian 🇺🇦 companies to witness the drone revolution. Example here, the famous Bulava drone used for mid-range strikes. 👇