⚠ Don’t delay upgrade of your #Chrome #Chromium #Vivaldi and other derivative browsers - CVE-2025-6554 is being actively exploited…

I saw the upgrade available in all popular channels on all systems I use, except for Chromium installed from #Ubuntu Snap Store, where it’s currently in latest/candidate channel. You can expedite it using sudo snap refresh --channel=candidate chromium

Цімох Снайдар — база

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0oWMZVhsI

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#UN analysis finds Russia responsible for 2022 Olenivka prison explosion killing Ukrainian #POWs

Internal analysis of the UN shows it was #RussianFederation that planned & carried out attack

Days before the July 2022 attack, #Russia deliberately put #Ukrainian members of the #Azov Regiment, who were awaiting a #prisoner exchange, in a separate part of the #Olenivka prison building that was later destroyed in the #explosion.

https://kyivindependent.com/un-analysis-finds-russia-responsible-for-2022-olenivka-prison-explosion-killing-ukrainian-pows-ombudsman-says/

#WarCrimes #RussianAggression

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About #Russia military budget and this #Putin statement[^1] from two days ago: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114763005008371244

What Putin said were two things: “we plan to cut defense spending but there’s no concrete decisions” and, of course, blamed “the West”. How reliable these “plans to cut” are?

Only in December 2024 Putin himself signed the new Russian Federation state budget for 2025-2027.[^2] The plan already allocates record increase in overall spending and budget deficit, including military spending. Overall spending increase (relative to previous):

• 2025-2026 - +3 trillion RUB
• 2026-2027 - +2 trillion RUB

“National defense” allocation (absolute):

• 2025 - 13.5 trillion RUB
• 2026 - 12.8 trillion RUB
• 2027 - 13.1 trillion RUB

Together with “state security and law enforcement” these expenses make 41% of the whole state budget!

So there are two possibilities: Putin is indeed planning to revise the whole state budget after it had been signed half year ago, or he’s simply bullshitting Russian audience, who does indeed personally experience budget cuts in all other categories.

Is that 41% war spending sustainable for Russia? No, but it never was from the beginning. But Putin’s political goals of the war on Ukraine are the only tangible objective that is important for Putin. He will continue the military spending as long as there’s a penny left in his cash flows.

Talking about “we plan to reduce spending” to concerned citizens costs him nothing, so he can continue that for years, just as he promised almost anything for the last 20 years. Russian audience doesn’t ask questions about past promises, so why would he worry? And if they ask, Putin has 50’000 “Rosgvardia” structures who were created for the very purpose of preventing such questions… and they’re funded from the very “state security” budget.

[^1]: https://kyivindependent.com/despite-escalating-war-plans-putin-claims-russia-will-cut-military-spending-starting-in-2026/ [^2]: https://meduza.io/news/2024/12/01/putin-podpisal-zakon-o-trehletnem-byudzhete-rf-v-2025-godu-v-nem-zalozheny-rekordnye-rashody-na-voynu (in Russian)