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Elon Musk admitted that his company, SpaceX, purposely restricted Ukraine's internet access because they were using it "to kill people" in its war with Russia.

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Now THAT is what I am talkin about

No agreement that the United States and Russia could hypothetically sign in Miami would end Russia’s war against Ukraine if the Ukrainian government were not a party to it, The Wall Street Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov told NV Radio on Oct. 23.

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Drones attacked the Omsky Kauchuk chemical plant in Omsk, Russia, more than 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine, the Exilenova+ OSINT project reported on Oct. 24.

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A major fire broke out at the Togliattikauchuk chemical plant in Tolyatti, Russia's Samara Oblast, following a reported drone attack overnight, the Exilenova+ Telegram channel reported on Oct. 24.

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A major fire broke out at the Togliattikauchuk chemical plant in Tolyatti, Russia's Samara Oblast, following a reported drone attack overnight, the Exilenova+ Telegram channel reported on Oct. 24.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war in Ukraine is about the Donbas, which Russia has been unable to capture since 2014.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy offers thanks to US allies for restoring system key to air defence and ‘frontline logistics’

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This is not another samey article fearmongering about Ukraine's manpower problem in a way that leans into the propaganda of russian inevitability, this is a much more interesting read than that.

The Ministry of Defence’s mental-health programme for 2025–2030 envisages a unified support system, greater staffing by qualified military psychologists, training of military doctors, new psychotherapist and clinical-psychologist positions, suicide-prevention measures, peer-support training and methods for identifying psychological disorders earlier. Subsequent reforms have permitted civilian psychologists to participate directly in support for servicemen and formalised interventions including crisis assistance, counselling, decompression, peer support and psycho-education. They have also placed responsibility upon commanders to recognise signs of psychological maladaptation and obtain timely assistance.

This is broadly the correct direction because soldiers frequently do not present themselves to psychiatrists saying that they have developed a psychiatric disorder. They complain instead that they cannot sleep. They drink. They become angry. They quarrel with commanders or spouses. They stop speaking. They take unnecessary risks. They become physically exhausted by tasks they previously performed easily.

Hence the value of peer support. A fellow soldier may notice deterioration before a clinician ever sees it, precisely because he knows how the person behaved before something began to change. Ukraine’s emerging system accordingly begins with self-help and peer-to-peer support, proceeds through psychological personnel within units, and escalates towards specialist treatment where necessary. NATO-supported programmes operating in Ukraine have likewise concentrated upon combat stress, psychological recovery and restoring unit readiness.

There is also a specifically Ukrainian intervention known as Combat Path Debriefing, developed to help personnel process combat experience and restore readiness before returning to operations. Its designers situate it within the broader tradition of combat and operational stress control rather than treating every normal reaction to extreme circumstances as psychiatric illness.

That distinction is important. Grief after watching friends die is not insanity. Sleeplessness after months beneath drones is not evidence of defective character. Fear after nearly being killed is not a psychiatric aberration. The danger of over-medicalising combat exhaustion is that medicine can inadvertently be asked to make tolerable circumstances that ought instead to be changed.

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These reforms restore a small quantity of agency, and agency matters enormously to exhausted people. One of the most psychologically destructive features of prolonged military service is the sensation that nothing one does affects one’s circumstances. If a serviceman knows that he can apply for leave, change an unsuitable unit, appeal an administrative decision, obtain treatment and eventually leave military service under comprehensible rules, then the army becomes an institution in which he participates rather than a machine inside which he is trapped.

Ukraine is still struggling with Starlink access, and Donald Trump doesn’t seem to care.

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This is a less obvious dimension of the energy war: every new strike forces Ukraine to deal with the aftermath of previous attacks while rethinking how to make its energy system more resilient. Restoring a power plant will not solve the problem if electricity cannot be delivered to consumers. Likewise, purchasing a generator will do little to help a hospital or district heating plant without fuel, maintenance, or a suitable connection to the power supply.