Author: Dal Stanton
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10/18/2025 — Sweden Ends Two Centuries of Neutrality : “We’re Not at War, But Not in Peace Either.”
From: Donga.com — “We have a historical duty to resist Russian power expansion and help Ukraine win the war.” This statement came from Maria Malmer Stenergard, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, during a speech to the Swedish diplomatic corps last November. The following month, ahead of a NATO Foreign Ministers’ meeting, she declared, “We must prepare for…
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10/18/2025 — Ukraine War: The Summit That Never Was
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / October 18, 2025 As Trump courted peace and Putin plotted Budapest, Ukraine faced diplomacy without power and war without end. The Day’s Reckoning Three men in three capitals performed a choreography of contradictions. In Washington, Volodymyr Zelensky sat across from Donald Trump, speaking of missile exchanges while carefully avoiding the word…
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10/18/2025 — Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1332) Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,yet they have not prevailed against me.Psalm 129:2 The school days blend into one in the whirlwind of all the battles, struggles, and anxieties. We’ve had several power outages this week, but thankfully, they were relatively short (up to 2 hours)…
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10/17/2025 — The Day Trump Spoke Peace and Putin Launched War
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / October 17, 2025 As Trump and Putin planned a Budapest summit, Russia unleashed its largest power-grid attack on Ukraine—while North Korean soldiers guided strikes from Russian soil. The Day’s Reckoning – When Peace Talks Met Missile Strikes On October 16, 2025, the war’s contradictions reached their most surreal collision yet. At…
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10/16/2025 — Oil Explosions, Grid Blackouts, and a Shifting Front – The Real War Story 
From: Professor Gerdes Explains — Ukraine just launched some of its most devastating strikes of the war — hitting Russian oil refineries deep inside enemy territory and crippling part of Moscow’s energy network. In response, the Kremlin targeted Ukraine’s power grid in a wave of drone and missile attacks that left cities in darkness. Meanwhile,…
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10/16/2025 — The Day Alliances Shifted: Cyberstrikes, Oil Deals, and a World at War with Itself
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / October 16, 2025 As drones ignited refineries and hackers emptied Russian accounts, world leaders traded promises and threats in a single day that revealed how the Ukraine war has become a conflict without borders. The Day’s Reckoning Smoke rose over a Russian oil refinery more than a thousand kilometers from Ukraine…
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10/15/2025 — Dispatch from Ukraine: The path to a durable peace is emerging
From: Atlantic Council By Frederick Kempe From a secret Ukrainian waterfront location, I follow my trainer’s directions on how to steer a kamikaze sea drone, this time not armed with explosives, from a gamer’s console toward an imagined target at sufficient speed to lift the boat’s nose above the waves. The technology is so advanced and…
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10/15/2025 — Taurus and Tomahawks: The Missiles Putin Fears Most May Be Headed to Ukraine
From: Professor Gerdes Explains — Ukraine’s arsenal may soon take a massive leap forward. Western allies are weighing the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles from Germany and Tomahawk long-range missiles from the United States — weapons that could dramatically reshape the battlefield. With their ability to strike deep inside Russian territory, destroy command centers, and…
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10/15/2025 — Putin Losing Control: Oil BURNS, Oligarchs FLEE
From: Jason Jay Smart — A quiet collapse is accelerating across Russia, not on the battlefield, but at the gas pump and in the nation’s power grid. Ukrainian precision strikes have systematically dismantled Russia’s energy infrastructure, taking an estimated 38 to 40 percent of its primary refining capacity offline as of October 2025. This investigation…
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