Robin Molnar @robintel

🇩🇪 Engines from the German company MAN continue to arrive in Russia, an investigation by the Dossier Center and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has shown. They are supplied to Russia via a Turkish company, where they are installed on the Sobol border boats. The Turkish company does not indicate Russia as the final buyer, so the manufacturer may not know where the products are going, but experts say that without engineers from the manufacturing company, the engines cannot be installed on Russian boats.

Europe can no longer rely on American weapons and must develop its own politico.com/news/2026/06/0…

Initially, the deadline was set on May 28th, so we can allow ourselves 48 hours to drive to Svalyava, sign papers, pay invoices and so on. Then, we decided on June 1st as the second deadline. Unfortunately, things are moving at a much slower pace than I had hoped for. And it's not just the fundraiser, there seems to be a lot of discussions and meetings without action. Without funding, there wouldn't be much to do anyway. So, if we finish the first playground by September 1st it would be awesome. And the second one by October 1st. Only 15 eur added to the pot in the last 4 days. Here is the math: Raised: 6,127.23 eur Left to raise: 4,872.73 eur If you are still interested in bringing joy to Ukrainian orphans and want to join the mission, all info is available in the quoted tweet. Thank you!

Horia🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @horia85

2 months ago

"MISSION JOY: IMPOSSIBLE NO MORE" A high-stakes race against time to bring playgrounds to the children of Svalyava and Chynadyiovo Orphanages. Mission Briefing: "Agent Horia, your mission—should you choose to accept it—does not involve stealing secret files or disarming bombs.

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#OTD 80 years ago, Traian Popovici died, aged 53. The lawyer served as mayor of Cernăuți from August to December 1941. During that time he argued against deporting the Jewish population to Transnistria, saving thousands of lives. He was made a Righteous Among the Nations in 1969.

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Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: president.gov.ua/en/news/vidkri…

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service claims the EU is pressuring Armenia to carry out ‘vicious religious persecutions’ as a condition for EU integration. This claim is false. It is a timeless Russian disinformation classic that gets recycled with every set of elections Russia seeks to disrupt and interfere in.

People often compare JPMorgan to individual European banks. But that’s the wrong comparison. The EU banking sector holds around €33 trillion in assets, compared with roughly €21.5 trillion in the United States. Europe’s problem is not scale. It’s fragmentation. Instead of a handful of continental banking giants, Europe has dozens of large banks spread across 27 markets, protected by national interests and regulatory barriers. Collectively, Europe’s banks are enormous. Individually, they are too small to compete with the largest global players. This is why deeper banking integration, a true Banking Union and more cross-border mergers matter. The proposed UniCredit-Commerzbank deal should be viewed through that lens. A stronger Europe needs stronger European banks.

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The US has resumed regular postal service to and from Russia. Yes, the Russia that openly and regularly admits that they aim to completely destroy the US, even referring to America in all internal intelligence as "the main enemy".

@kajakallas Does Israel know about this ceasefire? I don't think it does.

@EP_President @SkupstinaCG Yes, I'd love that. The more, the merrier.

The French hate air conditioning. So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold. It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem. Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes. The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again. It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back. The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers. The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though. It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold. A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe. The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground. The boring part is the breakthrough. Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms. That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building. Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions. The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists. Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible. The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes. This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

@AJEnglish Of course it did. Germany may think that ignoring the genocide in Gaza and Lebanon is fine, but the world doesn't agree. Germany keeps selling weapons to Israel.

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’ I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine. I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

Orban exiting the Russian embassy in Budapest before his planned move to the US. Having looted Hungary to the bone, it's time to double down on service to Putin, but from the safety of the US.

Those red lines are not random repairs — they are the ghost routes of old chimneys. On many older Paris buildings, fireplaces and stoves were connected to vertical terracotta or brick flues built into the walls. When a neighboring building is demolished or a side wall is exposed, these hidden channels can appear like reddish veins climbing toward the roof. Each track marks where smoke once traveled from rooms on different floors to the chimney pots above.

@Euractiv I suppose, Germany's ignoring the genocide in Gaza didn't help.

“Only the total defeat of the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol will knock the virus of empire out of the brains of Russians. Russians must see that the empire is dead." - Garry Kasparov

8 billion people in the world, yet no one hears their screams. No one even speaks of our genocide in Gaza.

zinah𓂆 @zhal80

24 hours ago

Israel bombed the house next to me at 2 AM. People are burning alive and screaming!!!!!!

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