Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism#AnCom#AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet

Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism#AnCom#AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched a large-scale aerial strike on Ukrainian cities late on Aug. 27, attacking #Kyiv with missiles and targeting regions far from the front lines.

At least 12 people were killed in the attack on the capital, including three minors aged 2, 14, and 17, authorities reported. Forty-eight people have been injured.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-drones-target-kyiv-ukrainian-cities-in-large-scale-attack/

#Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes

🇭🇺 🇪🇺 #Hungary is suing the European Union over funnelling billions of euros in interests from frozen Russian assets to aid #Ukraine, a case formally accepted by the European Court of Justice on Aug. 25.

The lawsuit challenges last year's decision by the Council of the EU to allocate military assistance to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility.

https://kyivindependent.com/hungary-sues-eu-over-using-frozen-russian-assets-to-aid-ukraine/

#Europe#Russia

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Morning Briefing:

- Ukrainian officials discuss peace options in Riyadh, will head to Switzerland, New York
- Security mechanism inspired by NATO Article 5 remains main one on the table: Meloni
- Lithuania pushes EU to bypass Hungary on Ukraine membership talks
- Ukraine names new ambassador to US as truce efforts mount
- Ukraine sees 'priceless' digital battlefield data trove as key to West's support

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On the night of 28 August (from 19:30 on 27 August), the enemy launched a massive strike on #Ukraine territory using strike UAVs, air- and ground-based missiles, and a total of 629 air attack weapons:

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On the night of 28 August (from 19:30 on 27 August), the enemy launched a massive strike on #Ukraine territory using strike UAVs, air- and ground-based missiles, and a total of 629 air attack weapons:

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A fire broke out at a unit of the Afipsky oil refinery in #Russia's southern Krasnodar region after a Ukrainian drone attack, local authorities said on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fire-erupts-southern-russian-oil-refinery-after-ukrainian-drone-attack-2025-08-28/

#Ukraine

Russia’s combined strike on Kyiv left death and destruction.

At least eight people, including children, were killed. More than 30 injuried of varying severity, including at least five children. Russia hit many homes, residential areas and a shopping mall in the city center.

This is what Russia chooses today – not the negotiating table or a just peace, but to kill more people, destroy more homes, and exert more pressure. Instead, the greatest pressure must be exerted on Russia. Every sanction not imposed, every critical decision delayed, every hesitation comes at a devastating cost – the lives of Ukrainians. 1,282 days of Putin's mass murder of peaceful Ukrainians.

Every strike shattered another family, another home. The human cost grows with each terrorist attack. Putin's aggression must end. Russia must be stopped.

Only greater pressure on russia works with Putin’s regime.

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Novokuibyshevsk refinery in #Russia's Samara Oblast was hit by drones in an overnight attack, the Russian Telegram news channel Astra reported on Aug. 28, citing local reports and footage.

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-oil-refinery-in-samara-oblast-in-flames-after-drone-attack-media-reports/

#ukraine

Guerre en Ukraine : le gouvernement autorise à nouveau les 18-22 ans à sortir du territoire

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/08/28/guerre-en-ukraine-le-gouvernement-autorise-a-nouveau-les-18-22-ans-a-sortir-du-territoire_6636801_3210.html

#ukraine

ISW:

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Kremlin appears to be resuming its drone and missile strike campaign targeting #Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of Winter 2025, likely in an effort to undermine Ukrainian will to resist Russian aggression.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-27-2025

#russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched a large-scale aerial strike on Ukrainian cities late on Aug. 27, attacking Kyiv with missiles and targeting regions far from the front lines.

At least eight people were killed in the attack, including a 14-year-old. Another 38 people have been injured.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-drones-target-kyiv-ukrainian-cities-in-large-scale-attack/

#ukraine #RussianWarCrimes

Revealed: US Vice President #JDVance called comander-in-chief of of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy #Zaluzhny to discuss “potential leadership changes” after Oval Office meeting of February 2025.

Zaluzhny refused to talk, instead immediately called Zelensky to inform what Vance was planning.

So. In other words, #US leadership was directly involved in trying to arrange a #coup in #Ukraine. In February this year. This is the state of matters.

https://baltimorechronicle.com/world/2025/08/26/vance-attempted-to-arrange-a-call-with-zaluzhny-after-the-trump-zelensky-confrontation/
#NAFO

Putin of course knows this, so any 'article 5-like' security guarantee will be just as meaningful as a deterrent as the security 'guarantees' in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which weren't worth the paper they were written on.

#USpol#NATO#Ukraine

Ukraine holds the cards to garner support from allies with its "priceless" wartime data as Kyiv works on a policy for sharing it, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo #Fedorov told Reuters in an interview published Aug. 27.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-holds-cards-with-priceless-wartime-data-developing-careful-sharing-policy-reuters-reports/

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Ukraine holds the cards to garner support from allies with its "priceless" wartime data as Kyiv works on a policy for sharing it, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo #Fedorov told Reuters in an interview published Aug. 27.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-holds-cards-with-priceless-wartime-data-developing-careful-sharing-policy-reuters-reports/

#Ukraine#Russia