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Russia’s war against Ukraine

This photograph, taken on July 24, 2025, shows a damaged residential building following a drone attack in Odesa, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Oleksandr Gimanov / AFP via Getty Images)

War with Russia could last until 2034, Ukraine’s ex-top general Zaluzhnyi warns. “If we try to establish a ceasefire without building up our future defenses, the war will drag on for many more years,” former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said.

Global Starlink outage disrupts Ukrainian front lines. Starlink experienced a global outage on July 24, with the cause still unknown. Ukraine’s military confirmed the disruption affected connectivity along the front lines.

Over 23,000 civilians, 113 children trapped in active combat zones in Donetsk Oblast, official says. Ukrainian and Western military experts assess that Russia may escalate its offensive operations during the 50-day period U.S. President Donald Trump allocated for Moscow to reach a ceasefire settlement.

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Over 1,300 residents remain in embattled Pokrovsk, governor says. Vadym Filashkin said the situation in the region is growing more difficult by the day as Russian forces intensify their offensive.

Russia plans sweeping gasoline export ban to stabilize domestic market, sources tell Reuters. The Russian government has resorted to temporary gasoline export bans multiple times over the past two years, typically to address domestic fuel shortages and alleviate high prices.

Anti-corruption

‘We all hear what society is saying’ — Zelensky vows anti-corruption plan within 2 weeks amid backlash over controversial bill. “We see what people expect from state institutions — ensured justice and the effective functioning of each institution,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Zelensky submits new bill restoring anti-graft agencies’ independence after protests. The bill follows Zelensky’s decision on July 22 to sign a bill that effectively destroyed the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

US Senator Lindsey Graham criticises Zelensky’s signing of controversial anti-corruption law. Lindsey urged Kyiv to reconsider the law as “one of the most widely used talking points for ending support for Ukraine is that it was awash with corruption.”

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Ukraine war latest: China covertly supplying drone engines to Russia despite sanctions, Reuters reports

Beijing is reportedly circumventing Western sanctions by discreetly shipping Chinese-made drone engines to a state-owned Russian manufacturer, labeling them as “industrial refrigeration units” to avoid detection.

Photo: Zvezda / Rutube

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Invisible prisoners — the struggle to free thousands of Ukrainians in Russian captivity

Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainians in the occupied territories have been subject to illegal detentions, brutal interrogations, convictions in an unrecognized legal system, and torture.

Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP via Getty Images

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is spreading lies about Ukraine’s protests. Russia is taking note

Thousands of citizens rallied in cities across the country on the first night with a clear goal: to urge Volodymyr Zelensky to veto a bill passed in parliament that guts anti-corruption reforms, and to express anger with recent government attacks on anti-corruption figures.

Photo: Danylo Antoniuk / The Kyiv Independent

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Georgian-Ukrainian music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism

Founded in 2021 by a local Ukrainian team and the Georgian club Bassiani, ICKPA (pronounced “Iskra” which means “Spark” in Ukrainian) was envisioned as an annual event, aimed at amplifying the voices of creative communities from Eastern European countries.

Photo: ICKPA

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Human cost of Russia’s war

Russian glide bombs strike Kharkiv residential high-rise building, injuring at least 41. Some people were trapped beneath the rubble of the multi-story building, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.

Russian attacks kill 4, injure 33 over past day, damaging UNESCO-protected landmarks in Odesa. Kharkiv Oblast saw the highest number of civilians affected by Russian attacks, which killed three people and injured five others.

International response

Von der Leyen urges China to press Putin to engage seriously in Ukraine-Russia peace talks. “China has an influence on Russia, like the European Union has an influence on Ukraine,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

US approves $330 million in military sales to Ukraine for artillery, air defense support. The U.S. State Department has approved two proposed military sales to Ukraine, valued at a combined $330 million, to bolster the country’s artillery and air defense systems, the agency announced on July 24.

Netherlands, OSCE seek investigation into Russian torture of Ukrainian POWs. The Netherlands and 40 other OSCE member states have formally called for an independent investigation into the torture and mistreatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces, Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp announced July 24.

Indian company sent explosives to Russia despite US warnings, Reuters reports. Among the Russian companies listed as recipients of the explosive substance octogen, also known as HMX, is Promsintez, an explosives producer that has ties to the Russian military, a Ukrainian Security Service official told Reuters.

Opinions and insights

I was 18 when I protested at EuroMaidan. I’m proud of new generation protesting now

“Seeing this evolution of Ukrainian society made me emotional and very proud. All these years of standing up on squares and then on the battlefield weren’t for nothing if this is what Ukraine is now,” writes Toma Istomina,

deputy chief editor at The Kyiv Independent.

Photo: Arsen Dzodzaiev / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images

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In other news

Ukrainian MP, businessman Yaroslav Rushchyshyn dies in motorcycle accident. Yaroslav Rushchyshyn, a Ukrainian member of parliament, entrepreneur, and cultural figure, died following a motorcycle accident, his family confirmed to local media outlet Tvoye Misto on July 25.

Kolomoisky embezzlement case to be sent to court. Kolomoisky, the former owner of Ukraine’s largest bank PrivatBank, and five of his associates were charged in 2023 with money laundering and fraud. They are accused of embezzling Hr 9.2 billion ($250 million) from PrivatBank.

Russia deploys additional electronic warfare systems near Estonian border. The systems, deployed near the Russian town of Kingisepp — roughly 20 kilometers (around 12 miles) from Estonia’s eastern border — are designed to jam communications, disrupt radar systems, and assert control over the electromagnetic spectrum.

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Hey there selfhosters,

I imagine some of you are selfhosting Kubernetes and that you might have used some Bitnami images/helmchars.

Bitnami communicated recently about some changes in their catalog [here] (github.com/bitnami/charts/issu…), and will be effective at the end of August.

For the simple version, they are migrating images from docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy, implying some changes there.

But to be expected is that at some point even docker.io/bitnamilegacy will be removed (or of course pay a license to them to access their “secure” images)

I was wondering if someone was affected by this ?

Cheers !

Upcoming changes to the Bitnami catalog (effective August 28th, 2025)

📢 Overview As of August 28th, 2025, the Bitnami public catalog will undergo the following changes: Community catalog Disable images generation for Debian-based images and gradually move existing on...

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cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/8611451

Well-said about how the courts treat data privacy and doxxing.

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Just one example: General Stroessner

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A recent US government internal review rebuffs claims that Palestinian group Hamas systematically diverted US-funded humanitarian aid, challenging previous assertions by Israel and the US.

An unreported US Agency for International Development (USAID) study examined 156 cases of lost or stolen aid between October 2023 and May 2025, and found no evidence of Hamas benefiting from US-supplied aid.

The report contradicts claims by Israel and the US, which have been used to justify a controversial new armed private aid operation, which has resulted over 1,000 deaths among starving aid-seekers.

USAID report finds no evidence of Hamas stealing US-funded aid

Internal review disputes Israel, US allegations of Hamas aid diversion amid Gaza blockade and humanitarian crisis

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Podcast bros are interviewing presidents and power players without doing basic research beforehand. The result is a propagandistic catastrophe.

A pair of pro-Trump Canadian prankster YouTubers called the “Nelk Boys” recently interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is responsible for the starvation of Gaza and a war on the population that kills hundreds of people per day. It is an unconscionable crime against humanity, which is why he is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

The Nelk Boys, by their own admission, did not do a good job interviewing Netanyahu, asking questions like: “You [and Trump] are very tight, right? Would you call it a ‘bromance’?” They asked Netanyahu what his go-to McDonald’s order is. They raved about the nightlife in Tel Aviv. (“Tel Aviv is lit!”) The closest they came to asking a critical question was when Nelk Boy Kyle Forgeard said that “I’ll see or read stuff on X and people will say, like Israel is killing babies or they’re starving people,” to which Netanyahu just replied “That’s completely false.” (It is true.) Forgeard admitted during the episode that “I see so much stuff about what’s going on in Israel and Iran and Palestine, and to be honest, I just really don’t know what is going on there.” That certainly showed.

Unfortunately, the Nelk Boys are not unique in being completely unprepared to interview political leaders. A number of independent podcasters who have interviewed Donald Trump and JD Vance have been similarly unwilling to do the basic research necessary to carry out an interviewer’s job. These podcasters do not consider themselves right-wing, and in fact hold many left-leaning viewpoints, but because they have totally failed in the task of studying the issues they’re having conversations about, they end up spreading unchecked propaganda.

Look at the kinds of questions that Lex Fridman asked Donald Trump, for instance:

• What drives you more, the love of winning or the hate of losing?
  
  • You’ve said that politics is a dirty game… So if it is a game, how do you win at that?
  • You’ve been successful in business, you’ve been successful in politics. What do you think is the difference between gaining success between the two different disparate worlds?
  • How do you think you’ll do in the debate coming up, that’s in a few days?

  
  

You will not be surprised to learn that Trump thinks he will do well in the debate! From these ludicrous softballs, we learn nothing whatsoever of value about how Trump will govern the country. But even when Fridman approaches the realm of a substantive question, he allows Trump to get away with unbelievable bullshit. For instance, when Fridman says “Let me ask you about Project 2025. So you’ve publicly said that you don’t have any direct connection to—” Trump cuts him off, says he has nothing to do with Project 2025, and Fridman moves on.(After being elected, Trump appointed several of the project’s architects to key positions, and it is now estimated that nearly half of Project 2025 has already been implemented.)

A good interviewer would have gone through Project 2025 item by item, demanding more clarity on whether Trump actually disagreed with the goals of Project 2025, and asking which parts of it Trump would specifically pledge not to implement.

Rise of the Idiot Interviewer

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