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    The Conviction of Estonia's 'Lord Haw-Haw' Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow's Interference in Brexit Read Our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Saying the 'Unsayable': Russian Int

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen The role of Sergey Nalobin, the senior 'diplomat' at the centre of my story about Russian political interference in the run up to the EU Referendum, was among the key evidence that clinched the successful criminal prosecution in a Russian interference case by Estonian law enforcement. The British authorities repeatedly refused to investigate Russian interference in the Brexit campaign and the UK's broader politics. However, court proceedings have revealed that Nalobin, who was looking for a way to channel money into the Conservative Party in the early 2010s, had also been at the centre of a political interference campaign in Estonia. Moreover, he was identified as an intelligence officer by Ukrainian and Estonian sources. Oleg Bessedin, arguably the country's most influential Russian propagandist, was sentenced to seven years in prison for non-violent activities against Estonia and breaches of international sanctions. Perhaps the most infamous propagandist that comes to mind in the British historical context is William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw"), who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Germany to UK audiences during the Second World War. According to Delfi, an Estonian investigative news outlet, Bessedin operated Estonia's most influential Russian-language propaganda platform, supported by individuals linked to Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and Federal Security Service (FSB). Disinformation is a key element of Russian political interference operations, alongside covert political finance and cyber. In line with established practice, Russian intelligence did not pay Bessedin directly. Given that he did not have access to classified information, there was no need for a designated handler, either. Instead, the Russians helped Bessedin with setting up a large distribution for his YouTube channel. For example, in 2024, his two interviews pushing a well-timed Kremlin narrative about the apparent superiority of the Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile clocked 2.8 million and 2.4 million views respectively on the platform. The Civic Resilience Initiative with support from Google found that 34 of the 50 most-engaged Kremlin-aligned posts it monitored in Estonia came from Bessedin's YouTube channel. The set up paid off: YouTube provided him with a monthly income of EUR 5,000 – 7,000. He supplemented that with secretly selling the rights to two of his documentaries to RT, a Russian government propaganda broadcaster sanctioned on both sides of the Atlantic. About €77,000 of Bessedin's criminal proceeds were confiscated in the end. The police also seized large amounts in Russian roubles at his home, the origin of which was unexplained. Andy Burnham has broken a decade of establishment silence over Putin's plan to get Britain out of the EU. Peter Jukes reports Peter Jukes What is interesting from the British perspective is that the Estonians gave particular weight in the evidence to the fact that Bessedin was supported in his activities by none other than Sergey Nalobin, the same Russian diplomat who was at the heart of Russian political interference operations in London when David Cameron was at No 10. Chief Public Prosecutor Taavi Pern told the court how Nalobin secured high-profile and very hard-to-get interviewees for his programmes. There was extensive correspondence between the two, with Bessedin asking Nalobin for guidance in his activities, for contacts and even personal favours, such as helping to obtain a place for his wife's daughter at a university in Russia. It was also Nalobin who facilitated "technical" help from ANO Dialog, an organisation which was linked to Russia's Doppelganger (Twin) disinformation operation by the US authorities. Reporting to the Russian Presidential Administration, Dialog is at the heart of Putin's propaganda and political interference effort and is sanctioned by the European Union. I have...

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    Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel Read Our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Rotron's Drones and the Ondas Acquisition ENJOYING THIS AR

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen A British drone maker that has received Ministry of Defence funding has been bought by a US group developing attack drones for the Israeli military. Rotron Aerospace, based in Wiltshire, develops long-range 'kamikaze' drones. It trialled its SkyLance system under the Ministry of Defence's Project Brakestop, which Rotron calls "a Taskforce Kindred funded project", and Ondas has itself referred to "taxpayer investment in Rotron technology". The Israeli military's drones have played a central role in the targeting of civilians and aid workers in Gaza, as previous Byline Times reporting has shown. On 11 August, five months after completing the acquisition, Ondas Inc said it had been selected by the Israeli Ministry of Defence for a multi-million-dollar programme, known as Digital Bat, that would lead to it developing and producing a new generation of tactical attack drones. Eight days earlier, it had announced the appointment of David Barnea, who headed Mossad – Israel's intelligence agency – from 2021 until 2026, as global president and chairman of its defence arm, Ondas Defence. The acquisition brings British engineers, intellectual property, propulsion technology and manufacturing capability into the same corporate group developing attack drones for the Israeli military. That creates the potential for technology to move within the Ondas group. There is no public evidence that Rotron's SkyLance or Defendor systems have been or will be supplied to Israel, nor that drones manufactured at Rotron's Wiltshire facilities form part of the Digital Bat programme. Rotron Aerospace, based in Semley, south-west Wiltshire, develops unmanned aircraft, propulsion systems and what the defence industry calls "one-way effectors", 'kamikaze' aircraft designed to strike a target rather than return. Its flagship SkyLance system is described by Rotron as a long-range autonomous strike platform capable of delivering "precision payloads" over extended distances. In June 2026, the company announced that it had successfully trialled SkyLance under the UK Ministry of Defence's Project Brakestop. Rotron says the programme has helped create more than 160 jobs in the British defence and aerospace sector. It says the propulsion system used by SkyLance is designed, developed and manufactured entirely in the UK. But Rotron is now part of a much larger international defence group. In March 2026, Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), a London-based charity, traced Rotron's acquisition by US-listed defence technology company Ondas Inc. In a filing announcing the completed acquisition, Ondas said Rotron would add "one-way autonomous attack systems with long-range strike capabilities" to its portfolio. Rotron said the acquisition would help it "expand the development and deployment of long-range unmanned platforms". Receive the monthly Byline Times newspaper and help to support fearless, independent journalism that breaks stories, shapes the agenda and holds power to account. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We're not funded by a billionaire oligarch or an offshore hedge-fund. We rely on our readers to fund our journalism. If you like what we do, please subscribe. The Digital Bat programme is intended to provide Israeli combat units with relatively inexpensive attack drone swarms to be deployed at scale. Israeli business publication CTech has reported that the programme is expected to involve several thousand tactical attack drones for Israel Defense Forces units, including aircraft capable of operating in swarms. CTech reported that the Israeli tender provided "a concrete example of how Ondas intends to use [its] expanding network and technology portfolio". Defence publication Israel Defense reported that Rotron is expected to increase its manufacturing capacity following its acquisition by Ondas, a move the company said was likely to create significant "export opportunities"....

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    Three Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a Far-Right Bookshop Read Our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE? HEL

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen Three Labour peers have been criticised by one of their party colleagues after speaking at the 'Battle of Ideas' festival, which is sponsored by a Reform mega-donor and which partnered with a far-right bookshop, which sells books by Joseph Goebbels and Oswald Mosley. Labour MP Phil Brickell accused his colleagues of "legitimising" Reform's crypto billionaire Ben Delo by participating in last weekend's event, which was partnered with the far-right Oldspeak bookshop. The festival, run by Baroness Claire Fox's Academy of Ideas, partnered with the bookshop, as an official partner last weekend. Its guide pointed attendees their way, to source "works that challenge contemporary narratives and reinforce foundational beliefs". Several speakers also conducted book signings at the stall. As Byline Times recently reported, just days before, Oldspeak's owner received a visit from police over an allegedly racist post on X. Oldspeak's account frequently posts calls for "remigration" – the mass expulsion of people deemed not to be 'British' – but the visit focused on a photo the account posted of two Muslim men in the Suffolk village where it was previously based, captioned: "It's started." Responses included racist abuse. The organisers had been asked about the bookshop's more extreme content. This has included claiming that the black England footballer Marcus Rashford's parents' nationalities mean "he cannot be English", and approvingly sharing a video arguing that entire communities four generations deep should be stripped of citizenship, detained and deported. Another post included the hashtag "#millionsmustgo". Receive the monthly Byline Times newspaper and help to support fearless, independent journalism that breaks stories, shapes the agenda and holds power to account. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We're not funded by a billionaire oligarch or an offshore hedge-fund. We rely on our readers to fund our journalism. If you like what we do, please subscribe. Three Labour peers spoke at the festival, which was presented "in association with" the foundation of Reform mega-donor Ben Delo. Lord (Jack) McConnell, former Scottish First Minister, spoke on two panels: one titled "Should we put Britain first? The 'national interest' question", and another on devolution. His first panel included Boris Johnson's former spokesman Lord Ross Kempsell, who had promoted Oldspeak on X in a post that now appears to have been deleted. When approached Kempsell told this outlet: "I obviously had no knowledge of these posts as I just bought a book from a book stall at a conference and, it goes without saying, I don't agree with the content." Blue Labour founder Lord (Maurice) Glasman, seen as on the right of the party, spoke at a keynote session titled "We don't 'do God': have we lost faith in secular liberalism?" In November last year, he addressed the Together Declaration's fourth-anniversary conference, DeSmog reported. The Together Declaration rose to prominence opposing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, and was listed as a festival supporter this year. Fellow Labour peer Baroness (Ann) Mallalieu, who spoke on a panel about the urban/rural divide, is president of the Countryside Alliance, which was also a named festival partner. She told this outlet: "I was invited to take part in the festival session on the town/ countryside divide by a member of the panel. It was the only session I attended . I was neither offered or received any fee or expenses for doing so." SIGN UP TO EMAIL UPDATES Labour MP Phil Brickell told Byline Times: "Labour peers should – under no circumstances – be legitimising Ben Delo's involvement in British politics. Peers have every opportunity to engage in a battle of ideas each week, in the House of Lords chamber. There's simply no excuse for taking part in Delo's efforts to launder his reputation via such events. "As for Oldspeak Bookshop...

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    'We Intend to Succeed': French Student Protesters Explain Why They're at the Barricades Read our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system The Far-Right Billionaire Who Is Buying Up French Cu

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen Bins were piled up in front of the Lycée Claude-Monet in the 13th arrondissement of Paris when I arrived. Students milled around, standing on top of them, some performed dances. Others had placards and banners. This was not part of some elaborate drama class performance, it was in fact a 'blocus', part of the largest wave of student protests in France since May 1968. The current protest wave in mainland France began in Lycée Antoine Saint-Exupery in Creteil, on the outskirts of Paris, and has since spread to schools and universities across the country. Between closures and 'blocuses' – the tactic in which students pile bins, chairs, lime bikes and other obstacles to create an improvised barricade – at least two thirds of French high schools have experienced some kind of disruption, according to a statement by education minister Édouard Geffray last week. At Lycée Saint-Exupery, one of the main demands was for the government to fill vacant teaching and support posts. Chloe,17, a protester at Lycée Claude-Monet, told me that students in the banlieue were protesting because their buildings were crumbling and they have no teachers". The 2026 budget removed 4000 teaching posts from the beginning of the academic year in September. She added: "In Paris we have some privilege, but it's not perfect. We are lacking some teachers too". Vincent Bollore is helping push France to the right as he gathers a growing empire of publishing houses, newspapers, and film studios across the country Olly Haynes Self-awareness about their own position and solidarity between students was a recurring theme. Speaking to me in a cafe in the 13th arrondissement, Camille, 17 from Lycée Gabriel Fauré acknowledged that her school sits broadly in the middle of the pack in terms of affluence, and said: "the birth of the movement in schools more deprived than ours made us think. Yes we have some privileges, but we are also subject to things that are far too normalised, and which shouldn't be". "For example the middle school building [Gabriel fauré combines middle and high school] is in an absolutely catastrophic state and needs to be renovated". Nathan, also from Lycée Gabriel Fauré, added: "we are comparatively lucky to have a good team of teachers who check on us and support us (including in our protest) this is not always the case in some schools where, when a student starts to fall behind, the teachers say well hard luck to those who are falling behind, but I've got to carry on working with those who can keep up". Another of the factors that has made students start thinking more about their conditions of education, was the sweltering heatwaves in June of this year, which hit French cities particularly hard. Camille said "we endured a very hot summer this year. We want cooling systems for our school because this summer we were 35 students per class with a classroom temperature of 32 degrees. It's very difficult to work properly in these conditions". According to Nathan: "the majority of high schools in France are 'thermal sieves' that means that they're cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Too cold in the winter to work properly, too hot in the summer to concentrate properly". "This summer, a student doing the French baccalaureate exam fainted because of the heat". One of the demands across the movement is the abolition of the Parcoursup platform, through which students apply to university. Students are ranked based on marks and teachers comments' and they are either rejected or accepted by the courses and universities to which they have applied. The platform has been criticised for alleged bias and lack of transparency in how decisions are made. Another girl at Claude-Monet, who was also called Chloe, told me: "It's really biased. If you're in a good school you'll have more chances [of being accepted to university] if you're in Paris you'll ha...

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    UK Universities Accused of 'Silencing' Pro-Palestinian Students and Academics Read Our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system ENJOYING THIS ARTICLE? HELP US TO PRODUCE MORE Don't miss a st

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen A raft of UK universities have restricted solidarity with Palestinian people amongst students and academics, including speech that could be perceived as critical of Israel, according to a new report from Amnesty International. The Silencing Dissent report finds that universities have cancelled meetings and events, framed peaceful protest as 'disruption', shut down encampments and taken pre-emptive punitive measures. It presents 26 case studies across nearly two dozen universities, covering 7 October 2023 to 30 September 2025. Amnesty found that the restrictions often did not meet the high bar in international and UK law for interfering with political speech and peaceful assembly. Sanctions have included suspensions, campus bans, threats to withdraw degrees, visa statuses being jeopardised, in moves "often causing great personal harm." In several cases, sanctions were imposed before disciplinary hearings had concluded, "effectively transforming precautionary measures into punishments and contributing to the chilling effect." Some universities prolonged investigations without clarifying timelines, outcomes or routes of appeal, which – combined with campus bans and restricted access to services – had "severe impacts on people's education, mental health and future prospects." Receive the monthly Byline Times newspaper and help to support fearless, independent journalism that breaks stories, shapes the agenda and holds power to account. SUBSCRIBE TODAY We're not funded by a billionaire oligarch or an offshore hedge-fund. We rely on our readers to fund our journalism. If you like what we do, please subscribe. Some universities relied on overly broad disciplinary codes, characterising protests as 'disruptive' or 'offensive' despite what the NGO says was "no apparent evidence of targeted harm". Others treated peaceful protest as trespass, even in campus squares, foyers and union buildings used for protests for decades. Some now require advance approval for protests, while others have sought court injunctions imposing blanket bans across large parts of campus, exposing students and staff to the risk of fines and imprisonment. Kerry Moscogiuri, CEO of Amnesty International UK, said: "This is an attack on our freedom of speech and the right to protest from the very institutions who are supposed to encourage free thought. "Students and academics care about the victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza. It's beyond belief that some of our prominent universities see this as a threat that requires punitive measures like court injunctions, and harsh punishments that leave students with their lives turned upside down." She said the findings were "part of a wider crackdown on communities coming together to make their voices heard on Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and other issues they care about." Amnesty is asking universities to commit to its 'Defend Dissent Charter'. SIGN UP TO EMAIL UPDATES According to the human rights body, some universities have shared legal strategies, received instructions from the Department for Education, and shared security planning, with the effect of clamping down on those perceived to be showing support for the victims of Israel's apartheid and genocide in Gaza. The authors argue Palestine-related expression frequently came under greater scrutiny than other student protest, with Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and other racialised students and staff, as well as non-British students, experiencing "particular and disproportionate impacts." Usama Ghanem, a 22-year-old student, was suspended by King's College London in 2025 over his involvement in pro-Palestinian activism, and told to "return to [Egypt] during this period of suspension", where he had previously been detained and tortured. His suspension was lifted after review in September 2026. Usama said: "I left an authoritarian regime in Egypt to find o...

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    Jason Arday Again Cleared of Plagiarism as His Attackers Launch an 'Independent Inquiry' Read Our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system The US Far-Right War on British Institutions ##LIGH

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen A fresh investigation by scientific publisher Taylor & Francis has concluded without substantiating plagiarism allegations again raised against Jason Arday, the former Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge earlier this year, vindicating Byline Times' reporting and further undermining The Times' portrayal of him as a serial plagiarist. A spokesperson for the publisher told this publication that after considering media claims about an article by Arday, raised this summer, they had found "no grounds" for adding to their previous assessment. "In August, a preliminary investigation was opened to consider concerns raised with us about the article, 'Attempting to break the chain: reimaging inclusive pedagogy and decolonising the curriculum within the academy'," the spokesperson said. "Following further review and in agreement with the journal's editors, we concluded that there were no grounds for adding to the correction notice published in 2024." However, despite this a "private inquiry" commissioned by a group involved in the campaign against the late Cambridge professor looks set to shield the press from accountability for weeks of inaccurate reporting. The organisation behind the "independent" investigation into the late Jason Arday's Cambridge appointment is backed by billionaire Reform UK megadonor Ben Delo, who also finances a Westminster political hub that has hosted Aporia, a platform promoting anti-black race science, Byline Times has established. The Committee for Academic Freedom (CAF) has previously publicly acknowledged Delo's support, though how much he has given to it is unclear. Delo, a cryptobillionaire who has donated £36 million to Reform UK, also finances a Westminster office and events space for right-wing groups called The Sanctuary. In July 2024, The Sanctuary hosted an Aporia event featuring Nathan Cofnas, the "race realist" whose allegations about Arday helped drive the campaign against the former Professor of Sociology of Education at Cambridge University. Aporia is a stealth race science magazine operating as a rebranded front organisation for a Nazi eugenics foundation set up in 1937. From the National Trust to the National Theatre, from the BBC to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Britain's landmark institutions are locked in the sights of an extreme ideological network. With your support, Byline Times is launching a dedicated #LightUpTheDark investigative series into the people, money and institutions seeking to transform British public life. Contribute to our #LightUpTheDark crowdfunder EXCLUSIVE 17 September 2026 EXCLUSIVE 10 September 2026 7 September 2026 19 August 2026 18 August 2026 EXCLUSIVE 9 July 2026 Byline Times has previously revealed that Delo also helped secretly finance a failed libel case against a Jewish artist, brought by two alleged neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists who had exchanged pro-Hitler messages. In an article in The Critic, CAF announced its own "independent inquiry" into Arday's academic standing; Cambridge University's handling of his appointment; and the role of equality, diversity, and inclusion ('DEI') policies in recruitment. The Critic is owned and financed by Jeremy Hoskings, who donated £1.7 million to Reform UK in 2025. The announcement was extensively reported by The Times, The Telegraph, Times Higher Education, and GB News – which published often sensationalist and inaccurate articles about Jason Arday in the weeks before he was found dead at his home in south London on 14 August this year. The same publications, however, have failed to report that claims made by The Times on 5 August about "impossible data" and "plagiarism" in several of Arday's papers have not been supported. As Byline Times has previously revealed, The Times had falsely claimed that a central 2018 paper by Arday had been "retracted". In reality, ...

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    'Andy Burnham Has an Opportunity to Lead the Fight Against Russian Interference' Read our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Reform UK's Crypto Billionaire Donor Could Profit From Mili

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen Andy Burnham's statement that Russia interfered in British elections over recent years caused a huge amount of controversy. However, what commentators objecting to his observation have forgotten is that Boris Johnson, when Foreign Secretary in 2017, said very much the same thing. In an extraordinary joint press conference in December 2017, Johnson crossed swords with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on the issue. Lavrov told reporters that Johnson had told him that Russia did not interfere in the EU referendum. "Not successfully," Mr Johnson shot back. At the time Sky News reported that the then UK Foreign Secretary also insisted there was "abundant evidence" that Russia had attempted to influence polls in the US, Germany, Denmark and France. As was often his way, Johnson is now saying exactly the opposite when it is politically expedient for him. However, successive Conservative ministers settled on a collective policy that there had been no "successful" interference in UK elections, including the Brexit Referendum. How they determined whether interference was "successful" or not was never made clear. What has changed now is that we have a Prime Minister who appears to welcome an open, frank and honest consideration of what has actually been going on around our elections in the past decade. In that time, elections in our liberal democracies have resulted in profound, often unexpected, change. Brexit and the presidencies of Donald Trump are examples. Trump's election in 2016 marked the start of a profound reordering of politics worldwide and the assumptions which underpinned post World War II diplomacy no longer apply. The NATO alliance is under threat in a way never previously experienced during the Soviet military build ups between 1945 and 1989. We know from the independent Congressional Mueller Commission in the United States that Russia interfered in the US Presidential Election in 2016 – a position that is accepted across the political divide in the US. Russian policy in the Putin years – territorial expansion coupled with online and offline interference in democratic processes across the globe – has been hugely successful in undermining opponents' alliances. Division, uncertainty and distrust permeate relations between what had previously been close allies.The European Union and NATO are just two organisations shaken to the core by the events of the last decade. When, as a member of the DCMS Select Committee's inquiry team on disinformation in 2018/9, we heard evidence from technology company Cambridge Analytica's executive Alexander Nix, it was very clear that its work in the 2016 Presidential election was being used by Nix to promote it worldwide for use in other elections. The advent of targeted online campaigning was what appeared to be a novel "silver bullet" which could have the capacity to sway elections in liberal democracies. For the first time in history, technology platforms could collect information on individual voters' opinions and motivations by tracking their computer use and use that information to target them with political messages. This could influence opinions on a scale and with a specificity never before available. Not only could arguments be put to individual voters, they could be put in private, as political opponents were not aware of the arguments made online as they had no access to them. Democratic debate on the arguments made was excluded, eliminating a key aspect of the process. EXCLUSIVE British Defence firm QinetiQ, which Christopher Harborne owns a large stake in, received a military export licence involving Israel long after the UK suspended certain arms sales to the country Iain Overton Furthermore, the ultimate source of messaging to voters was not constrained in any way: it could come from any country, from individuals, businesses, even governments. Lack of regulati...

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    'Trump's Russia Strategy Is Opening Himself Up to an Inevitable Humiliation' Read our Monthly Magazine And support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system What Ukraine's Strikes On Data Centres Really Revealed About Ru

    Support Our Mission Read Our Latest Edition BYLINE TIMES IMPACT: Find out about the changes you made happen Maybe Donald Trump likes being humiliated? Maybe that's another thing to add to the very long list of possible reasons why the US President is seemingly always open to doing the bidding of his opposite number in Moscow. If, as the most powerful man on the planet, you ask someone to do something and they publicly rebut the request, that's a very public humiliation. So when Trump announced last week that he has secured an agreement from Russia and Ukraine for an energy ceasefire, and Russia follows that by spending all week carrying out waves of attacks deliberately targeting energy facilities in Ukraine, that would be embarrassing for Trump. So how does he react? On Friday night, a time when news is dropped in order to be buried, Trump announced that "in the national interest" he was signing an Executive Order to waive the sanctions on Russia that were contained in a bill designed by the late Lindsey Graham. One wonders, which nation this is in the interests of? That bill went through the Senate with an 86-11 margin. In seeking to help Vladimir Putin, Trump is defying an overwhelming vote from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. This comes in the wake of Trump, along with Elon Musk, calling for Ukraine's President to be replaced. Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed, saying he will call elections that could see an end to his own rule, if Russia can be persuaded to agree to and respect a 60-day ceasefire in order to create the necessary conditions for the vote. And once again the Kremlin refused. Another humiliation for Trump. Once again his wishes were taken into account by Kyiv but there was rejection by Moscow. And yet, pressure continues to mount on Ukraine, rather than on Russia. As well as having to deal with the realities of a brutal war being waged by the Russian Federation, it is clear that the United States is now acting in tandem with Russia in an attempt to end the war through forced Ukrainian capitulation. The nature of the latest act of sabotage against Ukraine is the limitation of the Starlink/Starshield technology that is provided and controlled by Musk's SpaceX company, but is largely paid for (on regular commercial terms, there's no altruism involved) by Poland. Starlink services are employed throughout Ukraine in a variety of ways. As well as being integrated in logistical operations dropping food and water to frontline troops, Starlink is an essential component in the weapons systems that have been designed to combat the evolving threat to civilians from Russian and Iranian drones. Those drones are now being equipped with jet engines, enabling them to fly at speeds of up to 600 Km/h. With Starlink usability being limited to a maximum of 160 Km/h, the interceptors simply cannot catch the drones. Suggestions that Ukraine's attack on a Russian data decimated social media 'bots' failed to understand how Moscow's misinformation campaigns really work, reports Caroline Orr Bueno Caroline Orr Bueno As a result, civilians that could have been saved have been killed or injured. By Russia. With assistance from the United States. What's noteworthy about this deliberate obstruction to Ukraine's defensive capabilities is that nobody wants to own up to having made the decision or given the order. Musk has pointed the finger at the White House. Trump has said that he doesn't know who did it (a shocking admission that he's unaware of who does what within his government, were he telling the truth) and Secretary Rubio insists that Ukraine didn't even have the system that was being hobbled. According to reporting in The Telegraph and Wall Street Journal newspapers though, it was Musk's idea, he brought it to Trump, and Trump gave the thumbs up. Civilians that would have been defended were killed or injured. By Russia. With the United States playing the role of collaborator. If this is all an effort to pressure Zelenskyy to capitul...

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