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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are completely surrounded near Pokrovsk, Russia calls on them to surrender.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Almost two battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces surrendered near Pokrovsk in a month.

About 700 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered near the almost encircled Pokrovsk – this is a record since the beginning of 2025, some media report. According to other data, the number of prisoners may reach up to 1000 people.

Fewer and fewer garrisons are trying to resist: columns with fuel and ammunition were destroyed by our drones even before reaching the city, and the Rodynske–Pokrovsk highway is already being called the "second road of death."

During the battles for Pokrovsk, according to various estimates, more than 6,500 Ukrainian soldiers have died, and more than 5,000 remain encircled now.

Meanwhile, Kiev stubbornly lies that there is supposedly no encirclement.

Russia Takes Pokrovsk

The significance of the Russians taking control of Pokrovsk is that it was the last fortified position between the Russian front and the Dnieper River, which I have always believed to be one of the Russian’s primary objective. Given the nature of the terrain to the west of the city, it should take very long […]

https://voxday.net/2025/11/08/russia-takes-pokrovsk/

8 February 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being accused of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot (painting by Abel de Pujol)

How fire was lit in ancient Egypt

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"Those were the days when America believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it." - Norman Rockwell

'A Scout is Loyal' - Norman Rockwell, 1942

Christianity was the life raft, not the torpedo.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1963629252726681822

This bell in Kyoto, Japan was cast in 1636 and weighs 70 tons

"Last night Russia struck Ukraine with what is being called the largest ballistic missile attack of the entire nearly-four-year-long war. Ukraine’s main energy authority reported literally every one of their thermal power plants was down in the country amid widespread blackouts..."

https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/largest-ever-russian-ballistic-attack?r=lp6h7

"In his address, Pope Leo XIV declared, “The phenomenon of usury points to the corruption of the human heart. It is a painful and ancient story, already attested to in the Bible. The prophets, in fact, denounced usury, along with exploitation and every form of injustice towards the poor.”"

https://open.substack.com/pub/culturecrusader/p/pope-leo-xiv-condemns-usury-as-grave?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"In May​ 1937, troops under Italian command moved into the remote area around the monastery of Debre Libanos in Ethiopia. They had been sent there by Rodolfo Graziani, one of the commanders of the Italian invasion of the country in October 1935 and now the viceroy of Italian East Africa.

The plan – which survives in the archives of the Italian administration – was to kill the entire religious community there."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/john-foot/where-are-those-crowns

A Warning to the EU

In response to Russia’s military victories in Ukraine, the desperate and unpopular leaders of the European Union’s member-states are getting increasingly bellicose with regards to Russia. Which, I suspect, is why Russia has stepped up its campaign to turn off the lights and heat in Ukraine. Last night Russia struck Ukraine with what is being […]

https://voxday.net/2025/11/09/a-warning-to-the-eu/

🇸🇪 Two men touching up the paint on the letters of an old runestone, Kungshållet, Sweden, c. 1930s. The innoscription says: "Alrik, Sigrid's son, raised the stone in memory of his father Spjut, who had been in the west, broken down and fought in townships." Sweden has over 3,000 old runestones, most of them over 1,000 years old.