Notices by MAKS 23 👀🇺🇦 (maks23@mastodon.social), page 2

❗️Drone hits high-rise building in Kyiv

Just WOW… Novorossiysk 🤯🤯🤯

‼️⚠️ Russia is preparing for a protracted war, viewing Ukraine as part of its global confrontation, — Ukrainian FIS

Putin identified 4 objectives:
▪️Total control over the Russian people and a maximum increase in weapons production.
▪️Building a global "anti-Western axis" that includes Iran, North Korea, China, and regimes unfriendly to the West in Africa and Asia.
▪️Preparing for offensive action in Europe.
▪️Destabilizing the world, fueling conflicts such as the wars in the Middle East and Africa.

🤡 “The bridges across Kyiv must be destroyed. The Kyiv Dam must be destroyed. Kyiv must be flooded, Kharkiv destroyed. Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy wiped off the face of the earth. First we warn, then we destroy. There is no other way to fight.”, — Solovyov

💔🙏 18 people were evacuated from Hulyaipole in one day.

The residents were evacuated by police officers. Small bags, pets and memories…

During the evacuation, a Russian drone hit a civilian car right in front of the people – the death of the driver became an argument that it was worth leaving as soon as possible.

Almost half a thousand people remain in Hulyaipole. Currently, humanitarian aid, pensions are not being delivered to the city, and there have been no communications for four years.

🇮🇳 Five big Indian refiners haven’t placed any orders for Russia oil for next month, - Bloomberg

India has scaled back purchases of Russian crude for arrival in December, showing that Western sanctions and trade talks with the US are having a major impact on buying patterns.

❗️🇺🇦 Belgium, Slovakia and Hungary are blocking the "reparations loan" to Ukraine, the basis of which is to be confiscated Russian assets, - journalist Tsaplienko

🇧🇪 Belgium is afraid of legal consequences.

🇸🇰 Slovakia found an excuse and calls the loan "heating up the war" that will prolong the conflict.

🇭🇺 And only Hungary is not inventing anything, but simply constantly blocking everything that should help Ukraine.

➡️ That is, there is no common solution.

🇭🇺❗️🇺🇸 There are inconsistencies in the official statements from Hungary and the US, - Reuters.

▪️Hungary: Orban and Szijjártó claim the exemptions are indefinite.

▪️USA: The exemptions are for one year, and Hungary, in addition to purchasing $600 million worth of LNG from the US, has committed to diversifying its supply sources.

🇩🇪 Germany is set to approve €3+ billion in new defense spending, - Bloomberg

▪️20 Airbus light combat helicopters ~€1 billion;
▪️100,000 night-vision devices ~€1 billion;
▪️IRIS-T SLM missiles ~€1.2 billion.

🇺🇦 Angelina Jolie under an anti-drone net in Kherson. The realities of Ukrainian frontline cities.

🤔🇺🇸 Trump stated that the war in Ukraine will end soon, but sometimes both sides "need to let off steam" before making peace.

🇷🇴🇺🇦 Zelensky: I had a productive call with the President of Romania, Nicusor Dan.

We spoke about further defense assistance to Ukraine and our need to strengthen air defense, as well as the significance of the PURL initiative.

We also covered defense cooperation – our capabilities and the systems we are ready to export to Romania, as well as the projects we can jointly implement within the SAFE instrument.

🤬 Ukraine risks being left without long-range missiles and UAVs, — Defense Express

Production in Ukraine has stopped due to destroyed factories, lack of laboratories and fuel recipes.

Pavlohrad chemical plant — the only one that could make rocket fuel — is now in a risk zone, 80 km from the front.

Without investments in special chemicals, protected production and science — Ukraine risks being left without long-range weapons

🇸🇪🇺🇦 Sweden can help finance Ukraine’s possible purchase of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets using export credits, military aid, and potentially frozen Russian assets, - Reuters

✈️ Shmyhal: "We continue to work to accelerate the process of their transfer and integration, so that Gripen aircraft will be deployed to protect Ukrainian skies next year."

🇺🇦👀 Angelina Jolie secretly visited Ukraine and arrived on foot, - Politico

Jolie did not inform the Ukrainian government about her intention to visit the country.

As for the incident with the mobilization of her bodyguard, the Ground Forces told Politico that the information disseminated in the media is distorted. All the details are currently being established.

🇧🇪 Belgian intelligence services believe Russia is involved in drone incidents, - Belga

Belga's sources in intelligence services have pointed to several signs of foreign interference in the drone launch situation. In particular, such actions "go beyond the capabilities of amateurs."

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky is gradually winning over Trump voters, - WSJ

Zelensky's approval ratings among Republicans are rising again. The publication notes that 64% of Republican voters now consider Putin the main obstacle to peace, while only 13% view Zelensky.

📉 SZR: The total profit of Russian enterprises for January-August 2025 decreased by 8.3%.

The share of problem borrowers among legal entities reached 23%, and about 165 thousand companies are no longer able to service their debts.

🇺🇸❗️Four Republican senators voted with Democrats on Thursday to approve a bipartisan resolution to repeal President Trump’s global tariffs, including steeper rates on long-time allies such as the European Union, Japan and South Korea, - The Hill

The one-page Senate joint resolution simply declares that the national emergency declaration to authorize sweeping reciprocal tariffs on countries cross the globe would be “terminated” on the date of its enactment.

🇺🇸‼️ The Trump administration has cut the annual U.S. refugee cap to 7,500, down from Biden’s 125,000, with most slots reportedly going to white South Africans, - AP