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Dnipro, Thursday 26June, morning

Has been a while since I posted rethe situation in dnipro, a region we now share with RF forces. This has been partly as I have been quite busy, I have increased my volunteer medivac driving to 4 days a week, and partly because very little has been happening. Like most of the world, Dniproans watched on while Israel and Iran staged a pretend war glad that the usa, and Europe would now be busy elsewhere. Seriously though, given the size and nature of the conflict here in ukraine, calling that a 12 day war is rediculous. At best it was a minor missile skirmish where less people died in those 12 days than are killed in Ukraine in half a day.

Still, it again displayed the weakness, and ineffectiveness of western weapons, something I have seen first hand in Ukraine many times over the past few years.

I have done a couple drives west the past few weeks also, and military supplies continue to flow, at a lower than average level maybe, but still they come. Whereas once there ...

Medvedev:

“On Changing Approaches, or Why Ukraine Must Not Become an EU Member

Some 15–20 years ago, hardly anyone here objected to Kyiv’s plans to join the European Union. It was like: if you want to, go ahead, knock yourself out. Just don’t come crying later when you lose access to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) market. It seemed like Ukraine’s economic cooperation with the EU posed no fundamental threat to our country—especially since its chances of joining the EU were close to zero. Our firm position was to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. NATO’s expansion toward our borders was, and remains, a direct threat to Russia’s national security.

But today, the old European Union that was once founded on the European Coal and Steel Community essentially no longer exists.

It has become a politicized, globalist, and in recent times—an openly Russophobic organization. An organization dreaming of revenge against Russia. The idiotic European politicians of recent years have done everything ...