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My 3 cats cost me £25pw as their food contains mostly meat. Plus their vet bills when required, which have soared alarmingly.

No wonder so many are abandoned or given away. So sad it's been forced on so many people who are struggling to live.

“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the 20th century.”

― Aneurin Bevan

Plus 60p saved on petrol.....cold engines drink petrol

Rheinmetall AG announced on Saturday that it signed a memorandum of understanding to start a joint venture with a Ukrainian partner company on the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine. Rheinmetall will hold 51% of the joint venture.

The plant should produce a "six-digit number" of 155mm caliber bullets per year, although Rheinmetall did not indicate when it is expected to be opened. The German company also established a joint venture with the state-owned Ukrainian Defense Industry JSC in October 2023 to maintain and manufacture military vehicles.

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The most BRUTAL yet ‼️

" it is $3.57 BILLION "

sounds much more like it....just 1000 times bigger

BRILLIANT PIE ‼️

"The difference between politicians and robbers, is that robbers don't pretend to be helping you"

from the comments.

Putin had him killed as a warning to any other presidential contenders who become too popular. As Russian Presidential elections near.

She will lose out to the orange menace.

Ukraine's War: The Other Side airs on ITV1 London at 10:45 PM, Monday 19 February. (Subtitles, new, audio description.)

Sean Langan journeys into the heart of Putin's war in occupied Eastern Ukraine to deliver an intimate look at the lethal reality of war. He meets with Russian soldiers where drones loiter over trenches amid the steady barrage of artillery and rocket fire. Sean travels through the Russian-occupied Donbas where he is greeted with suspicion and speaks with the civilians living under siege

https://www.tvguide.co.uk/schedule/b161cf2a-1b5e-57e5-a5ed-fbcde840af49/ukraines-war-the-other-side

Putin running out of troops as Ukraine reckons Russia has now lost over 400,000 troops, forcing Putin to raise the draft age to the ridiculous age of 70.

Meanwhile Ukraine is running out of ammunition (mostly shells) and is now fighting a defensive war, even pulling out of positions to save lives.

Sora is an AI model developed by OpenAI –– built on past research in DALL. E and GPT models –– and is capable of generating videos based on text instructions, and can also animate a static image, transforming it into a dynamic video presentation.

“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the 20th century.”

― Aneurin Bevan

". An incentive to get folk into work would be ...."

to reduce the 7,000,000 NHS waiting list

Trump has to pay the $300m into a trust BEFORE he can appeal.

Nice one.

Excellent.....Trump is already broke.

Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Friday that both Washington and Brussels are to blame for the unexpected death of Russia's opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

"The cause will be determined by forensic experts and investigation," Volodin said, adding that the collective West, from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the US leadership to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, will benefit the most from Navalny's death.

Earlier, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service announced that the 47-year-old died in penal colony No. 3 in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

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‼️ BONKERS PROPAGANDA ‼️

French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bilateral security agreement on Friday evening, including Paris' pledge to send €3 billion worth of military aid to Kiev this year.

As part of the agreement, France will provide Ukraine with military equipment, and promote cooperation of the two countries' defense industries, training, and intelligence. "We are determined to put a stop to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine," Macron stressed. The French president however reiterated that Paris is "not at war with Russia or the Russian people" and called for "a change in Russia" which requires "a collective start."

France is estimated to have provided €1.7 billion in support to Ukraine in 2022 and €2.1 billion in 2023.

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