💡Ukraine’s energy goldmine: What could US own next?

“American ownership of [Ukrainian energy] plants could be the best protection for that infrastructure,” President Donald Trump said earlier, suggesting that the US should take ownership of Ukrainian power plants.

What are the key facilities Trump has his eye on?

🔻Oil pipelines

Ukraine’s 3,506 km (2,178 mile) oil network comprises at least 19 pipelines, including major ones such as:

▪️Druzhba (a branch in Ukraine): from Russia through Ukraine into several Central and Eastern European countries, capacity is 17.5 million ton of oil per annum (mtpa).

▪️Odessa–Brody Pipeline: from the Black Sea port of Odessa to the city of Brody in central Ukraine, where it connects with the Druzhba, capacity is 14 mtpa.

▪️Kremenchug Refinery Pipeline: receives crude from the Drushba, capacity is 18 mtpa.

🔻Gas pipelines

The 37,600 km (23,363 mile) Trans-Ukrainian Gas Transit System includes several major pipelines, such as:

▪️Brotherhood Pipeline: capacity 32 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year

▪️Soyuz Pipeline: 30 billion bcm annually.

▪️Trans-Balkan Pipeline (partially in Ukraine): up to 25 bcm per year.

Ukraine also possesses numerous regional pipelines to distribute gas within the country and connect to its domestic infrastructure.

🔻Nuclear power stations

There are three nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Ukraine, including:

▪️South Ukraine NPP: three reactors with a combined capacity of 3,000 MW, supplies around 25% of nuclear electricity

▪️Rovne NPP: four reactors with a total capacity of about 2,835 MW, accounts for about 10% of nuclear electric power.

▪️Khmelnitsky NPP: two reactors with a total capacity of around 2,000 MW
Hydroelectric power stations

🔻Ukraine relies on a mix of large and small hydroelectric plants (HPP), with the most significant being:

▪️Dneproges HPP: a critical part of the Dnepr River Hydroelectric Cascade with a total installed capacity of about 2,300 MW

▪️Kanev HPP: 550 MW

▪️Kremenchug HPP: 500 MW

▪️Cherkasy HPP: about 325 MW

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🏊🧊 Russian athlete breaks world record under Baikal ice.

Ekaterina Nekrasova, a Russian freediver, set a world record by swimming 122 meters under the ice of Lake Baikal without a wetsuit. This incredible feat took place during the world’s first-ever freediving festival, "Under the Ice of Baikal," now in its second year.

Four world records have already been set at this year’s festival, with participants from Russia, Croatia, and Turkiye.

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🔍 New JFK files spark INTEL COUP THEORY involving Aussies and Brits

Ex-Australian lawmaker and journalist George Christensen believes Anglophone intelligence agencies quietly buried damning evidence behind John F Kennedy's murder. He drew attention to Australia's request to remove any mention of its involvement in communications related to threats against JFK or his assassination.

In 1968, Australian intelligence chief Charles Spry requested that Warren Commission document CD-971 – reportedly concerning 1963 calls to the Canberra embassy about a "$100,000 bounty on Kennedy’s head" – remain classified.

Although the CIA dismissed these calls as nonsensical, it agreed with Spry that there was "every reason" to keep them secret. The files were declassified in 1976, but portions of the text remained redacted.

Another call was made to a British reporter in Cambridge just 25 minutes before Kennedy was shot, suggesting someone overseas had prior knowledge. British intelligence informed their US counterparts about the call, but both agencies then buried the information.

Christensen links these exchanges to a document stating that, a day after the assassination, ex-intelligence operative Gary Underhill claimed a small CIA clique was behind it. He was found dead six months later.

The journalist further claims Underhill had ties to Interarmco, a CIA-backed arms dealer, and notes that Interarmco was linked to the store where Lee Harvey Oswald, Kennedy’s killer, purchased the rifle.

Two days after JFK's murder, Oswald was suddenly shot dead by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Hours after Oswald was killed, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote a memo urging the agency to "convince the public that Oswald acted alone."

Newly declassified documents also reveal that, rather than investigating JFK’s murder, the US intelligence community was more focused on classifying and destroying records, Christensen emphasizes.

Not covered by Christensen is a 15-page memo noscriptd “CIA Reorganization,” written by a Kennedy aide in 1961, warning that the agency’s growing influence and power had made it "a state within a state." Do you think rogue CIA operatives indeed carry out a coup?

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