#Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children

U.S. foreign assistance cuts and sanctions against the International Criminal Court are obstructing efforts to track and recover thousands of #UkrainianChildren taken by #Russian forces during the ongoing war, a senior European official warned on July 17, according to Politico.

Thordis Gylfadottir, an envoy of the Council of Europe, said the end of U.S. financial support to monitoring programs has complicated the search for more than 19,500 Ukrainian children who have been unlawfully #deported or #forcibly transferred to #Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

According to Ukraine's official Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 19,546 children are confirmed abducted. Only 1,399 children have been brought back to Ukraine as of July 2025.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-cuts-undermine-efforts-to-track-abducted-ukrainian-children-european-envoy-says-07-2025/

#WarCrimes #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine #ComradeKrasnov

Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children, Council of Europe envoy says

"European countries will have to fund it," Thordis Gylfadottir, an envoy of the Council of Europe, told Politico. "We cannot stop tracking them and then just re-track them (abducted children) in the months ahead."

^{Anna Fratsyvir (The Kyiv Independent)}

HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in #Armenia

#HUR published what it claimed was a #Russian army order to increase its military presence at a base in Armenia, two days after HUR's warning of such a move was denied by Yerevan.

HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying #Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South #Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."

https://kyivindependent.com/hur-publishes-russian-military-order-claims-proof-of-moscow-increasing-military-footprint-in-armenia06-2025/

#RussianAggression

HUR publishes Russian military order, claims proof of Moscow increasing military footprint in Armenia

HUR first made the claim on July 5, saying Russia was increasing its forces at the Gyumri base to exert greater influence in the South Caucasus and "destabilize the global security situation."

^{Chris York (The Kyiv Independent)}

AdNow exposed: How Romania became a test lab for Russian interference in the West

#russian #propaganda #romania #election #influence

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2024/12/03/adnow-exposed-how-romania-became-a-test-lab-for-russian-interference-in-the-west,110347109-evl

A *very* interesting in-depth article about how the #russian #propaganda infiltrates machine analysed (#search) and learned (#AI) content.

What I'm missing is the AI used to identify these and filter from learn material/negatively score them in LLM.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

^{NewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)}

Today, someone on #Diaspora called me a troll. It was the second time that happened! And who were the kind people calling me #troll? Well, two kind supporters of #Russian mother land! Two #communists!

I have to thank the first Russian #propagandist because, after having had the first dialogue, I ended up reading some more information about #communism, which strengthened my anti- communism position and led me to discover #anarchism!

Today, this fellow, called me troll because I didn't agree with him and his propaganda discourse! He said that I had to prove everything I said. I don't have the time to write a treaty every time I say something. Nor do I want to bother myself with blindfolded communists!

He blocked me! Wow! Great argument!

It's interesting that all the sources they cite are good, but any that I mention isn't!

Well, I'll just say this here: it's an honour for me to be called a troll by #communists, #capitalists, #fascists, #racists, etc! They are all the same!

I'm just an #anarchist and I have dedicated my life to contribute for a better world, not for killing people!

It is too hot.

The temperature limit of Canadian firefighter hydroplanes is 38°C, and it was 45°C in #Greece where the #fire was nearing Athens. Only the #Russian BE-200 (with a 43°C limit) was able to work, and the crew risked safety flying little above the limit. Done more than 35 flights between 14:30 and 21:00, dropped more than 400 metric tonnes of water that day (a few days ago).

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/548103303/be-200-aircraft-dropped-2500-tons-of-water-on-the-hotspots-making-36-sorties-in-greece