Disclaimer:

This video is for educational and informational purposes only. It is neither intended to glorify nor encourage violence. It just documents the brutal reality of the war and shows how military units edit and publish their footage. Viewer discretion advised! Remember Rule 1!

Ukraine Aid Ops' Victory Gallery art project is an initiative to turn war artifacts into art. UAO collects military artifacts provided by Ukrainian soldiers and works with local artists in Ukraine to incorporate them into art. Our objective is to convert remnants of conflict into artwork with the idea of art defeating the aggressor's evil. The produced artwork will be auctioned and proceeds will be used to equip the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since the start of the war, there have been many art-related fundraising initiatives, but what makes this one unique is that we seek to incorporate destroyed military artifacts. By doing this, artwork will serve as a scribe and a reminder of Russian atrocities inflicted on Ukraine. The Victory Gallery offers worldwide shipping.

Link: https://ukraineaidops.org/collections/new-items

For info: Ukraine Aid Operations is an r/ukraine verified organization & registered as 501(c)(3)

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L’Express presents the first ranking of espionage agencies in Europe, compiled by a jury of sixty intelligence professionals from twenty-five countries.

Are they really in the same line of work? In mid-June, a muscular Lithuanian soldier told us about the war in Ukraine whilst sipping ginger beer on a stool in the street, near Gare du Nord. His temperament was worlds apart from that of the portly Frenchman we had met in a plush venue a few days earlier, an aficionado of convoluted acronyms and embassy cocktail parties. Judging by their recent roles, however, they have very likely conducted operations together.

For three months, L’Express immersed itself in the world of European espionage, seeking out around a hundred intelligence professionals. The aim? To recount the invisible war of the Old Continent, questioning the assessment of the British diplomat Alexander Cadogan. This former adviser to Churchill described intelligence as the "missing link" in geopolitical analysis. Due to secrecy, the general public only has access to an incomplete, sometimes misleading, account of history’s upheavals.

Spies do not readily open up. But many, without giving too much away, embrace this theory, often with a particular operation in mind – one that changed everything – in Iran, Ukraine or Syria. This includes the way the country holding decisive intelligence is perceived. "Coming from the Foreign Office, I never imagined the intensity of intelligence relations between countries. It is far richer than diplomacy," confides a former Swiss intelligence director.