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Trump says he will demand that Europe repay the US for military aid and ammunition previously sent to Ukraine, while apparently halting further arms sales to allies. After depleting US long-range precision-missile stocks in the war with Iran, he now wants Europe to pay the bill. https://t.co/CmXxu7wmEo #Trump #Ukraine #MilitaryAid #US #EU #UA #IR

Not long ago, there were a lack of strategies, irregularities, and more scandals. Today, Reuters writes with admiration about the Polish defense industry: "Polish officials say expanding domestic and regional production of drones, ammunition and other frequently used equipment has become a priority." (translated)

Nu ljuger Mogge igen. Tiotusentals barn har inte amputerats. T.o.m Hamas egna hälsoministerium uppger att ca 1500 barn drabbats av amputation. Utav dessa är det 76% som drabbats av amputationer i de nedre extremiteterna. Hur många av dessa som drabbats av försåtsminering från Hamas eller lösdrivande ammunition vet vi inte. #Barnrättigheter #Hälsa #Konflikt

God morgon! Under natten fick den ryska flygbasen i Jejsk, på andra sidan Azovska sjön från Mariupol, påhälsning och det blev tydligen rejält fart på ryska ammunitionslager både på basen och vid de ryska förläggningarna. Explosioner kunde höras i timtal efteråt. NASA:s satellitbilder visar också kraftiga bränder där. #Ryssland #Krigen #Utrikesnyheter

THE RED TSAR TURNED CHINA RED. 1945 changed everything. Stalin’s Red Army smashed Japan’s Kwantung Army and occupied Manchuria. That gave Mao something he had never possessed on this scale before: TERRITORY. INDUSTRY. RAILWAYS. WEAPONS. ARTILLERY. AMMUNITION. A STRATEGIC https://t.co/O9XjdBmzxt #Stalin #China #KwantungArmy #CN #JP

Ακόμα δεν ξημέρωσε, αλλά… όπως υποσχεθήκαμε, με τον πρώτο καφέ ☕️ Αφού μας διαβάζουν και μιας και φαίνεται πως ήρθε ξανά η εποχή των «αποκαλύψεων» και των «οχυρώσεων», το @NemesisGRE θα παίξει το παιχνίδι ξανά όπως το 2017... Αλήθεια, δεν ντρέπονται να έχουν τα πυρομαχικά τους εντός εμβέλειας των PULS; 👀 Μια μικρή συμβουλή γειτονικά εκμέκ: μην ακουμπάτε θέματα που κάνουν… τζιζ. Γιατί όταν αρχίζεις να σκάβεις, ξετρυπώνονται και οι «ποντικοί» ακόμα κι εκεί που νόμιζαν ότι είχαν κρυφτεί καλά πριν από έναν χρόνο. Καλημέρα. ☕️ --- It’s not even dawn yet, but… as promised, here it is with the first coffee of the day ☕️ Since they’re clearly reading us, and since it seems the season of “revelations” and “fortifications” is back again, @NemesisGRE will play the game once more — just like in 2017... Seriously, aren’t they embarrassed to keep their ammunition within PULS range? 👀 A little piece of advice for our neighboring ekmek: don’t touch subjects that tend to… burn. Because once you start digging, the “rats” start coming out too even from places where they thought they had hidden them well a year ago. Good morning. ☕️ #NEMESISHD 40°53'24.61"N 26°46'33.18"E #Καλημέρα #Αποκαλύψεις #Νέα

Of this, USD 14 million (approximately SEK 133 million) will go to the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List, PURL. Through PURL, Allies and partners finance priority US defence materiel for Ukraine, including advanced air defence systems and ammunition. (2/3) #Ukraine #DefenceSupport #PURL #UA

On Ukraine’s Independence Day, 🇪🇺 is standing with 🇺🇦 through action. @EU_Commission has announced €6.1 billion in additional 🇪🇺 support for air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunition & radars. Funding, part of the €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, comes as Russia https://t.co/ei6R2iTKyZ #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIndependenceDay #EUSupport #UA #EU #RU

Enligt GUR så har ryssland nu också fått Nordkoreas nya, större ballistiska robot av typ KN-30/Hwasong-11C som enligt nordkoreanska uppgifter kan ha en stridsdel på 2,5 ton. De nordkoreanska KN-23 som ryssland redan använt mot Ukraina många gånger har oftast en stridsdel på 500 kg. De nordkoreanska ballistiska robotarna var till en början kända för att ha väldigt dålig precision och kunde missa det tilltänka målet med hundratals meter, ja rentav 1,5 km. Men Nordkorea har fått hjälp av ryska specialister att förbättra detta och nu tros de vara nästan lika pricksäkra som ryska Iskander-robotar (som de i övrigt också nästan är en kopia av) och med sin räckvidd på 500 km har de blivit ett gissel, speciellt nu i sommar när det inte finns några Patriotrobotar att skjuta ner dem med. Ryssarna ska nyligen ha fått en ny leverans med 40 KN-23 och den liknande KN-24 och dessutom så har Nordkorea skickat personal som ska delta i uppskjutningen och dra lärdomar från verksamheten. KN-30 har en längre räckvidd på någonstans 600-900 km och om det stämmer att stridsdelen är på hela 2,5 ton, så blir det ett riktigt diaboliskt vapen som kommer skapa enorm förödelse. Det fanns en tid när stora västländer initierade eller stödde invasioner av andra länder baserat enbart på blotta misstanken om att ett land hade massförstörelsevapen. Men nu när det är dokumenterat att ryssland dels använder kemiska stridsmedel vid fronten (öppet och stolt erkänt av de ryska nynazisterna i Rusich) och dels använder allt kraftfullare ballistiska robotar som i sig kan liknas vid massförstörelsevapensystem mot ukrainska städer, då är det svårt att ens få köpa ammunition att skjuta ner dem med. #Nordkorea #BallistiskaRobotar #Ryssland

Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center in Washington, said that U.S. denials of missile shortages aren’t surprising. “America will never acknowledge that we don’t have enough ammunition. It will assert that it has the ability to walk and chew gum,” she said. #MissileShortages #USMilitary #ChinaPolicy #US #CN

https://bjarnekimpedersen.blogspot.com/2026/08/19082026-begge-sider-igen-og-igen.html 19.08.2026 BEGGE SIDER IGEN OG IGEN Så er det på den tid af året hvor begge sider i Ukraine krigen skal dækkes ens. I Kristeligt Dagblad skal vil lære at sætte pris på Russisk litteratur men de glemmer Winter is coming Garry Kasparov Sådan starter man en Revolution Nadezjda Tolokonnikova Patriot: min historie Aleksej Navalnyj. Politiken følger op med spørgsmål om lovligheden af ukrainske angreb inde i Rusland. Jeg tænker på alle de gange Politikens redaktion benægtede at der var russiske tropper i Øst Ukraine fra 2014 til Storangrebet 24. februar 2022. På en dag hvor russerne terrorbomber civile i Pechenihy, Kharkiv region mindst 10 dræbte 17 sårede de ramte civile huse, en café, et posthus, en forretning, og biler. Ukrainske droner ramte Wildberries i Moskva et ammunitionsdepot i det besatte Donetsk og russiske kontrolposter plus transport til de besatte områder.

Rabaa: The Hour the World’s Conscience Stood Still On the anniversary of one of the largest single-day killings of protesters in modern history, one question remains unanswered: who will be held accountable? By Adham Hasanin Egyptian journalist and political writer, based in the Netherlands On 14 August, the anniversary returns of a day unlike any other in modern Egyptian history. Not simply because it was the bloodiest Egypt has known wars and massacres before and since ,but because it was the day a state chose to open fire on its own people in broad daylight, in front of the world’s cameras, and then let thirteen years pass without a single officer ever being held accountable. This article will not be a cold recitation of statistics, though the statistics exist, are documented, and are horrifying. It is an attempt to understand something deeper: how a square in the heart of Cairo, filled with tents, children, and worshippers, became the site of the largest mass killing the Arab world has witnessed in the past decade and why the echo of that day still reverberates in every Egyptian prison cell today. I. A Morning That Began Like Any Other For readers unfamiliar with the background: in July 2013, the Egyptian military, led by then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, removed Mohamed Morsy Egypt’s first freely elected civilian president, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who had taken office in 2012 following the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. In response, tens of thousands of Morsy’s supporters staged an open-ended sit-in demanding his reinstatement. By 14 August 2013, more than twenty thousand people had spent weeks camped out at two Cairo squares, Rab’a al-Adawiya and al-Nahda, in a peaceful sit-in. They were not an army, nor a uniform bloc; they were entire families men, women, and children, some affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, many simply ordinary citizens who saw the restoration of elected legitimacy as a cause worth the risk. There were tents for sleeping, communal kitchens feeding the demonstrators, speaking platforms, and a small field clinic that no one imagined would, within hours, become one of the most terrifying places in modern Egyptian history. In the early hours of that morning, Central Security Forces and army units, under the command of then-General Sisi, began what was officially described as a "dispersal" operation targeting both sit-ins simultaneously. It was not a dispersal in any ordinary sense of the word. According to a year-long investigation by Human Rights Watch, it was a pre-planned operation that anticipated, from the outset, thousands of deaths. II. The Numbers the Regime Refuses to Speak The Egyptian government, to this day, cites a death toll of "over 600" for that single day a figure that, even at its official lowest, is horrifying enough to warrant an independent international investigation. But the field investigation conducted by Human Rights Watch, drawing on field hospital records, survivor testimony, and analysis of video footage from dozens of angles, arrived at a far more disturbing figure: at least 817 people killed at Rab’a Square alone, with the true toll likely exceeding 1,000, plus another 87 killed at the nearby al-Nahda Square. When the deaths from the weeks surrounding 14 August are added from the dispersal of the Republican Guard sit-in on 8 July, through the Mansoura Street killings, to the dispersal of an October 6 march the combined total reaches at least 1,150 deaths in just six weeks, according to Human Rights Watch’s meticulous documentation. This figure led the organisation to use a term not deployed lightly in international law: crimes against humanity. Human Rights Watch described the Rab’a killings as "one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history." Not in Egyptian history alone in modern history as a whole. What happened at Rab’a is cited in international reporting alongside China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. This is the true scale of what the Egyptian state has spent thirteen years trying to minimise, justify, and reduce to a mere "security incident" in a news bulletin. III. "All According to Plan" When Mass Killing Becomes Administration, Not Chaos The title Human Rights Watch chose for its detailed report on the massacre deserves lingering on: "All According to Plan." This is not an emotive headline; it is a precise legal conclusion built on field evidence. According to the investigation, what happened at Rab’a was not a dispersal operation that spiralled out of control amid chaos or panic, as the regime later tried to portray it. It was a carefully planned operation that assumed, in advance, massive casualties. Then-Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim admitted, in a televised interview broadcast on 31 August 2013 just weeks after the massacre that his ministry had anticipated losses of "10 percent of the people" present at the sit-in, acknowledging that the number of demonstrators exceeded twenty thousand. By simple arithmetic, this is an official admission that the state anticipated, in advance, the deaths of roughly two thousand people and proceeded with the operation regardless. This is the true horror at the heart of the Rab’a story: it was not a security operation that spun out of control, but a conscious administrative decision, made in an air-conditioned room, with advance calculations, by men who knew precisely how many human beings would die under their fire and who proceeded anyway, or perhaps because of it. According to Human Rights Watch’s analysis, the objective was to send an unambiguous message: whoever challenges the new state will pay an irreversible price. IV. Snipers, Women, and Children The Faces the Reports Do Not Tell Behind every number in the Human Rights Watch reports lies a full human story, deliberately omitted from the state’s official narrative. The investigation documented how security forces opened fire from multiple angles, and how snipers positioned themselves atop buildings surrounding the square, targeting according to survivor testimony and analysed video footage any movement in the square, regardless of whether it was an armed combatant or a nurse trying to reach a wounded person. According to documented testimony, entire families had their tents burn over their heads as fire swept through the sit-in. Doctors and paramedics were killed while trying to pull the wounded from the line of fire. Most damningly of all, the documentation shows deliberate targeting of ambulances and field medical points meaning that wounded people who survived the first bullet then faced death by bleeding out, because anyone attempting to save them was themselves a target. This detail the targeting of medics is what elevates the event from "excessive violent repression" to what human rights organisations have described as a systematic crime. When security forces target those trying to save the wounded, they are not merely dispersing a sit-in; they are preventing witnesses from surviving to tell what happened. V. Thirteen Years of Total Impunity The most painful part of the Rab’a story is not only what happened that day, but what has not happened in the years since. From 14 August 2013 to today, not a single officer, of any rank, has been held accountable for the deaths of hundreds, or thousands, of Egyptians. Quite the opposite: the state has moved to entrench impunity through the force of law itself. Egypt issued legislation granting senior military officers immunity from questioning over any violations that may have occurred following Morsy’s removal a law specifically designed to close the door on any future judicial accountability, regardless of how political circumstances might change. Even the fact-finding committee established by then-interim President Adly Mansour to investigate the June and July events concluded, in its report issued more than a year after the events, that the sit-in’s leaders bore responsibility for the deaths, on the grounds that they had allowed weapons into the square even as the same report admitted, in a glaring contradiction, that security forces had failed to target only armed individuals, meaning they had fired indiscriminately on everyone: armed and unarmed, man and woman, adult and child. This is the pattern that has repeated for over a decade: as each anniversary approaches, official statements re-narrate the events and shift blame onto the victims, while the actual perpetrators — those who planned the operation, gave the orders, and pulled the trigger — remain free. Some now occupy the highest offices of the state. VI. Why This Anniversary, Why Now? A reader might ask: why revisit this story after all these years? Has the world not moved on to newer crises? The answer lies in the very nature of impunity. When a state is never held accountable for the largest massacre of protesters in its modern history, it does not simply "forget" the crime it sets a precedent, telling every future ruler and every future security apparatus: mass killing is possible, politically profitable, and free of cost. This poisonous lesson does not remain confined within Egyptian borders; its echo reaches every Arab capital contemplating how to handle its own opposition. More dangerously, this system of impunity did not stop at Rab’a’s edges; it is the foundation on which Egypt’s entire subsequent decade of repression was built: thousands of political prisoners, grossly unfair mass trials that produced death sentences for dozens of defendants in cases linked directly to the Rab’a events themselves, laws criminalising peaceful protest, a muzzled press, and a civil society hollowed of substance. All of it traces back to the morning of 14 August 2013, when the state learned that overwhelming force succeeds, and that the world will condemn for a few days, then move on. VII. Delayed Justice Is Not Forgotten Justice Despite more than a decade of official silence and impunity, the Rab’a case remains alive in international legal memory. Human rights organisations, from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International, continue to renew their annual calls for an independent international investigation, grounded in the legal principle that crimes against humanity are not subject to statutes of limitation: delayed justice is not forgotten justice. The victims who fell in that square were not numbers in a statistical report. They were fathers who left behind children too young, that day, to understand why their father would never return. They were mothers who, thirteen years later, are still searching for a clearly marked grave to which they can carry flowers, and young people who had decades of life ahead of them that they never got to live. Their memory does not fade with time; it grows with their children, who carry with them the same question their parents asked before they were killed: when will justice come? Conclusion: What Does This Anniversary Demand of Us? Every year, as the anniversary of 14 August returns, the same question resurfaces one the Egyptian state refuses to answer: who gave the order? Who planned the operation? Who decided that twenty thousand human beings deserved to be shot with live ammunition because they staged a peaceful sit-in? This anniversary is not a call for vengeance, nor an invocation of the past for its own sake. It is a reminder that justice, however delayed, remains a debt still owed. And that every instance of international silence over a massacre of this scale opens the door to the next one, elsewhere, under a different pretext, carrying the same lethal conviction: that the world will condemn for a week, then forget. We will not forget. And we will not stop asking the question that unsettles everyone who took part in that crime, regardless of the office they hold today: where is the accountability? Rab’a is no longer merely the name of a square in Cairo. In the conscience of everyone who believes in justice, it has become a test of the world’s conscience itself a test the world has not yet passed.

https://bjarnekimpedersen.blogspot.com/2026/08/16082026-lavrov-truer.html 16.08.2026 LAVROV TRUER Ruslands udenrigsminister Lavrov truer med hårdere metoder mod de lande der støtter Ukraines eksistenskrig. Der er to ting jeg vil sige til Lavrov; for det første burde du allerede nu sidde bag fængslet mure afventende en retssag om dit ansvar for de russiske krigsforbrydelser. For det andet så angriber russiske hybrid styrker allerede: Dronen i Leipzig Halle lufthavn Missilet nær Lublin i Polen Droner mod Rumænien Droner mod Polen Droner mod Litauen Sprængning af ammunitions fabrik Italien Sprængning af ammunitions fabrik i Bulgarien Eksplosioner i Rotterdam og det er ikke noget nyt Tiergarten mordet Skripals Litvinenko og der er mange flere du skulle måske læse de nyere afsnit af Poul Funder Larsens bog Likvideret af Kreml.

I call on the European Union to prepare now for the possibility of a full-scale confrontation with Russia and Iran before the end of 2026. Europe must accelerate defence production, ammunition reserves, air and missile defence, drone capabilities, cyber protection, energy #EUDefence #Geopolitics #SecurityChallenges #EU #RU #IR

🇧🇬🔥 I ACCUSE RUSSIA — INVESTIGATE THE EMCO FIRE AS POSSIBLE KREMLIN SABOTAGE On 10 August 2026, fire and explosions struck the EMCO ammunition facility near Belitsa, Bulgaria. Workers were evacuated and an ammunition warehouse was destroyed. I believe Bulgaria must investigate #Bulgaria #Russiasabotage #EMCOFire #BG #RU