Cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13027537

Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, said in a letter with John Walters, the CEO and president of the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank, that protecting Ukraine is connected to issues at home, making the argument as some Republicans, including Johnson, have previously insisted the U.S. must secure the border before sending more aid to Kyiv.

None of our challenges at home will be made better by abandoning our allies at this time of great need, when they are staring down enemies of the free world,” they wrote.

Pompeo has called to support Ukraine before, but the April 1 letter from the conservative Hudson Institute amounts to more pressure on Johnson as Congress returns to work this week to work on a number of pressing issues.

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⚡️ We continue to destroy enemy UAVs in the south of the country. Combat work is carried out both during the day and at night. Incessantly!

Let's keep the sky!

🇺🇦 Together to victory!

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🇺🇦 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk

In an ongoing campaign that seeks to influence congressional and other political debates to stoke anti-Ukraine sentiment, Kremlin-linked political strategists and trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles, social media posts and comments that promote American isolationism, stir fear over the United States’ border security and attempt to amplify U.S. economic and racial tensions, according to a trove of internal Kremlin documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post.

One of the political strategists, for instance, instructed a troll farm employee working for his firm to write a comment of “no more than 200 characters in the name of a resident of a suburb of a major city.” The strategist suggested that this fictitious American “doesn’t support the military aid that the U.S. is giving Ukraine and considers that the money should be spent defending America’s borders and not Ukraine’s. He sees that Biden’s policies are leading the U

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🔥 Missile ship "Serpukhov" burned out in Russia - details of the damage

✔️ On April 7, 2024, on the territory of the enemy's naval base in the city of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region of Russia, the missile ship "Serpukhov" was disabled due to a fire.

☑️ "Serpukhov" is a Russian vessel of project 21631 "Buyan-m", launched by the aggressor state in 2015.

💥 Due to the fire inside the rocket ship, its means of communication and automation were completely destroyed.

⏱️ It will take a long time to restore the combat capability of "Serpukhov".

😎 The noise knows no bounds. To be continued!

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!

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⚡️ 17 ATTACK UAVS AND AN X-59 MISSILE WERE DESTROYED

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On the night of April 8, 2024, the enemy struck with an Kh-59 guided air missile from the airspace of the occupied Zaporizhzhia region and 24 strike UAVs of the "Shahed-131/136" type from Cape Chauda - Crimea, Kursk, Yeisk districts - Russian Federation.

Fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, mobile fire groups and radio-electronic warfare were involved in repelling the air attack.

💥 As a result of an anti-aircraft battle, the Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down a guided air missile Kh-59 in the Dnipropetrovsk region and 17 attack UAVs of the "Shahed-131/136" type in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr regions.

Thanks for the work!

🇺🇦 Together to victory!

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🇺🇦 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk

https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko/90825

❤️ Ukrainian polar explorers met a fur seal on Deception Island in Antarctica who was “sunbathing” on an old boat

Usually fur seals lie on flat rocky areas or beaches, but this one clearly decided to distinguish itself.

On the volcanic Deception Island, Ukrainian scientists collected samples of unique local vegetation. There are also Spanish and Argentine seasonal research stations there.

📹 National Antarctic Science Center/Anna Torgonenko

#интересное

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n.p. Velikiye Kopani, Kherson region. (coordinates: 46.4861285, 32.9742572 )

Operation of the Ukrainian UAV "Shark".

“It is stated that the Pole-21 electronic warfare system was destroyed there, the movement of which was tracked and attacked during its refueling.”

Source

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https://t.me/combatfootageua/14791

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⚡️ DESTROYED 17 IMPACT UAVS

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On the night of April 7, 2024, the enemy struck with an Kh-31 guided air missile from the occupied Luhansk region, an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Crimea, and 17 Shahed-131/136 type UAVs from Cape Chauda (Crimea).

💥 Aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, mobile fire groups and electronic warfare equipment were involved in repelling the air attack. As a result of anti-aircraft combat, the Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 17 enemy attack drones "Shahed-131/136" in the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions.

Thanks to the defenders of the sky for the combat work!

🇺🇦 Together to victory!

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🇺🇦 Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleschuk

Originally from the coastal city of Mariupol, Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin was forced to live in Moscow for almost one and a half years after he and 30 other Ukrainian orphans were rounded up by Russian forces and deported against their will.

Nicknamed the Mariupol 31, he and his friends had already lived through months of brutal siege, witnessing widespread death and destruction as Vladimir Putin’s forces turned their home city to rubble.

Mr Yermokhin said the Russians tried to gain his trust, treating him nicely at first, but things deteriorated over time when he retained his positivity towards Ukraine – he would regularly argue with those around him and it was a constant psychological strain.

The Mariupol 31 were quickly turned into a propaganda tool for Moscow to “prove” they had saved the city.

Mr Yermokhin’s best friend, Pylyp Holovnya, became a poster boy for Russia’s so-called rescue missions when he was adopted by Maria Lvova-Belova, the ombudsman for children’s rig

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⚡️ THREE cruise missiles and 28 attack UAVs were destroyed

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On the night of April 6, 2024, the Russian occupiers attacked with 32 Shahed-131/136 type UAVs from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk - Russian Federation areas, as well as six missiles of different types: three S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from Belgorod region, two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles from strategic aviation aircraft from the Saratov region and one Kalibr cruise missile from the Black Sea area.

💥 As a result of an anti-aircraft battle, the Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, a Kalibr cruise missile and 28 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.

Russian killers continue to terrorize Ukrainians, attack Kharkiv and other peaceful cities. Unfortunately, now we have the dead and wounded, our condolences to the families.

We are doing everything to get more tools to protect our people from the aggressor. Thanks to everyone who held the sky today!

🇺🇦 Tog

Finland's president on Wednesday signed a 10-year security deal with Ukraine in Kyiv where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he believed Russia planned to mobilise 300,000 new troops for its war by June. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Russian news agencies, said the Ukrainian president's assertion about a new Russian mobilisation was untrue.

The pact signed by President Alexander Stubb and Zelenskiy made Finland the eighth NATO member this year to commit to long-term security cooperation and defence backing for Kyiv as it battles to hold back Russian forces.

Finland, which shares a 1,340-km (830-mile) border with Russia, joined NATO a year ago.

Stubb said Finland would also send 188 million euros ($203 million) in additional military aid, including air defences and heavy-calibre ammunition. That sum took Finland's overall defence contribution to around 2 billion euros during the war.

"We are not giving this military support only for Ukraine to defend itself, we are

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