https://www.youtube.com/watch/CyT_aFcY8CQ After slow start to counteroffensive, Ukrainian forces make notable gains against Russia
For months, Ukraine’s military has been grinding through a counteroffensive designed to liberate territory occupied by Russia. Kyiv has admitted that it’s gone slowly, but this week, Ukrainian soldiers made what the U.S. called notable progress. Nick Schifrin discussed the state of the counteroffensive with former U.S. ambassador to NATO Doug Lute.
In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster’s hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core, upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. The remarkable range of brightness recorded in this image follows stars into the dense cluster core. via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/3EkYli9
M83 played at several festivals in Europe and some in the US, they had just released their last album (Junk 2016) preceded by the media success of the album (Hurry Up We Are Dreaming 2011) with its very iconic and very famous song Midnight City led the band to a success that they not had before and opened them to a new audience.
Tracklist
01.- Reunion Melt Festival
02.- Do It, try It Sasquatch Festival
03.- Steve Mcqueen / Festival Sasquatch
04.- We Own The Sky – Melt Festival
05.- Intro – Melt Festival
06.- Roadblaster – Lowlands Festival
07.- Sitting – Lowlands Festival
08.- Bibi The Dog – Eurorockeennes Festival
09.- Láser Gun – Eurorockeennes Festival
10.- GO! – Eurockeennes Festival
11.- Midnigth City – Eurockeennes Festival
12.- Echos Of Mine – Eurorockeennes Festival
13.- Outro – Eurorockeennes Festival
14.- Ok Pal – Sasquatch Festival
15.- Roadblaster – Sasquatch Festival
16.- Wait – Sasquatch Festival
17.- Oblivion – Sasquatch Festival
18.- Midnight City – Lowlands Festival
19.- Outro – Lowlands Festival
20.- Couleurs – Lowlands Festival
21.- Lower Your Eyes To Die With The Sun – Lowlands Festival
22.- Couleurs – Eurockeennes
23.- Lower Your Eyes To Die With The Sun – Eurockeennes.
“We are making different types of drones, you know, naval drones, underwater drones and including drones from cardboard.”
Adviser to Ukraine’s military Yuriy Sak says UK support is crucial but drones made from cardboard were also highly effective in attacking Russian airfields.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/NlOtos9Xh3M How secure is Putin’s grip on power after the death of Wagner chief Prigozhin? | To the point
Yevgeny Prigozhin has been laid to rest. His Wagner group’s brief mutiny opened a troubling chapter the Kremlin now wants to close.
But are Wagner’s mercenaries ready to swear allegiance to the Russian state and be absorbed by it? What fate lies in store for this huge force that has intervened in conflicts from Africa to Ukraine?
Can Vladimir Putin win over ordinary citizens who share Prigozhin’s view that Russia is on the wrong track? And how much pressure is Russia under as the Ukraine war drags on?
Today, we’re asking “How secure is Putin’s grip on power after the death of Wagner chief Prigozhin?”
Our guests: Ksenia Krimer (Historian), Gustav Gressel (Military analyst, ECFR), Wilfried Jilge (analyst on Eastern Europe, DGAP)
Chapters:
00:00: Opener
01:50 Prigozhin’s funeral shrouded in secrecy
03:40 How sure can we be that Prigozhin is dead?
04:00 Nothing is true and everything is possible
05:00 The possible involvement of Kremlin
07:00 What is Wagner without Prigozhin?
10:50 Prigozhin had become a loose cannon
12:50 Wagner was not part of the regular Russian state, but acted in Russia’s interests
16:00 Prigozhin and his lucrative troll factory
18:20 Private armies will continue to play a role in Russia
20:00 Can Putin expect more betrayals in future?
22:40 The war is far from over
24:00 A grim mood at impromptu memorials to Prigozhin
24:30 But apathy amongst the public at large
https://www.youtube.com/watch/EVYFG8QOaTc Arming against Putin – NATO in the Baltic Sea | DW Documentary
The Baltic Sea was thrust into the center of geopolitics after Russia’s invasion into Ukraine. Feeling the threat from Russia, Finland joined NATO and Sweden is on the path to be next. That would put the Baltic Sea almost entirely under NATO control.
How did this Baltic frontline look in the past? The fact that the Cold War could have turned hot right here, started to fade from public consciousness after 1990. But Moscow’s aggression in February 2022 presented a stark reminder. Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine sent shock waves across the Baltic region. Finland is now a member of NATO, and Sweden is in the process of accession. This would turn the Baltic into NATO’s “inland sea,” in complete defiance of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperial aspirations.
Russian troops and Western forces are locked in constant power plays in the Baltic Sea. While Finland has been a NATO member since April 2023, Sweden’s membership has been held up by Turkey. Estonia’s government, meanwhile, is urging action. After all, people in the Baltic states are all too familiar with the looming dangers, having lived for decades under Soviet occupation.
On Russia’s Navy Day in 2022, Putin renewed the country’s claim to global naval dominance. Russia’s fleet-building program, however, appears to be stalling in the wake of the costly attack on Ukraine. But a weakened standing does not make a regime any less dangerous. Experts are not ruling out the possibility that Russia will use nuclear weapons. And here too, the Baltic Sea takes center stage.
This documentary invites viewers on an image-rich journey to scenes from this conflict. High-ranking political and military officials as well as leading experts illustrate the volatility of the Baltic Sea. In the end, there’s a prediction as to which side between Kiel and St. Petersburg will have the upper hand – the East or the West. The film examines present dangers and the consequences that could very well follow.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/0TahChM4QSU ‘Rout’ of Putin’s forces could take just ‘a number of days’ after breakthrough | Nicholas Drummond
“The Ukrainians have achieved something that looks like a breakthrough…we could see a collapse of Russian forces.”
Nicholas Drummond analyses Ukraine’s capture of Robotyne and explains its strategic importance to Ukraine’s counter offensive on Frontline for #TimesRadio
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https://www.youtube.com/watch/Tkhyp8AJJ6g After Prigozhin: What next for Putin’s Russia after demise of Wagner leader? • FRANCE 24 English
Will Wagner outlive its founder? Russian authorities have confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his number two in the downing of their private jet on a flight to his native St Petersburg. We ask about the downing of the plane on the two-month anniversary of his aborted march on Moscow and the thousands of irregulars on three continents who still answer to the private military company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/ze8SqNgYCBk Ukrainian troops have consistently “outfought and outthought” the Russians | Colonel Brendan Kearney
“The Ukrainians, they’re better led, better trained, and they prove it on the battlefield every single day. So my bet continues to be with the Ukrainians.”
Former Chief of Staff for US Marine Corps Forces in Europe Colonel Brendan Kearney says the Russian army is a “mere shadow of its former self”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch/qylaAbjFGQ8 Heritage Foundation’s controversial position on Ukraine misunderstood? | World Today
The war in Ukraine has impacts far beyond the country’s borders, and here in Poland, history has shown time and time again the dangers of Russian imperialism. As the 2024 U.S. election season gets underway, there are many questions as to how important the Ukraine issue will be to the U.S. voters. While the Democrats support Ukraine, the same can’t be said about the Republicans. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative reganesque think tank that advises republican candidates, has previously taken a rather unreganesque stance concerning Russia and its unprovoked aggression towards ukraine. To dive deeper into the issue – we were joined by Victoria Coates, the VP at Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security & Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and Steven Moore, a former republican chief of staff, Founder of Ukraine Freedom Project.
Bringing you all the latest daily news and updates, TVP World is Poland’s first English-language channel where you can find world news as seen from the Polish perspective and the latest news from the CEE region. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Not the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage illuminated against the still dark skies. Near the center of the image, within the ragged blueish ring, are two bright points of light. The lower one is the second stage of the rocket carrying 4 humans to space in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The bright point above is the Falcon 9 first stage booster orienting itself for the trip back to Landing Zone-1 at Cape Canaveral, planet Earth. via NASA https://ift.tt/NWPcX1R
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