DD Geopolitics
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Channel DD Geopolitics (@ddgeopolitics) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 190 820 subscribers, ranking 238 in the Politics category and 83 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 190 820 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 05 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -1 075 over the last 30 days and by -25 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 7.35%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 6.18% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 14 031 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 11 793 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 363.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as iran, attack, missile, drone, bridge.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Transcending borders in a multipolar world.
Visit DDGeopolitics.com to grab some merch or follow us on other platforms.
You can message @DDGeopoliticsBOT if you wish to send media, news, or have any questions for the admin team.”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 06 September, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Politics category.
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| 2 | 🇾🇪🇾🇪 Ansarallah’s hunt continues….
Yemeni Military Media has released footage showing a precision ballistic missile strike on a meeting of commanders involved in Saudi-backed military mobilizations.
Several vehicles gathered before a locally manufactured ballistic missile impacts directly on the site. | 3 565 |
| 3 | At Kiev's train station, Witkoff and Kushner's train was named "Peace Express" — as if this couldn't get any more cringe.
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| 4 | 🇺🇸🤡🌎 America was the ONLY country to vote against making world maps more geographically accurate
The UN voted 164–1 to encourage use of the Equal Earth projection, which corrects the massive size distortions created by the centuries-old Mercator map.
The United States cast the sole vote against it, dismissing the effort as a “radical ideologicalproject.” Six countries abstained.
This from the country currently producing its own government maps featuring names like the “Gulf of America.”
Apparently redrawing maps to rename things after America: perfectly reasonable.
Redrawing maps to make the continents their actual relative sizes: radical ideology. 😂 | 5 172 |
| 5 | 🇺🇦 Alongside Trump's special envoys, national security advisers from the UK, France, and Germany are also in Kiev, Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the matter. The source didn't specify which meetings they'd take part in.
🐻 The usual Zelensky's emotional support club.
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| 6 | 🇺🇦 "They'll steal anything that isn't nailed down. It's a longstanding tradition in Ukraine"
The New York Times obtained secret Ukrainian government audits showing Kiev lost $1.2 billion to fraud, waste, and mismanagement in its military procurement system in 2024 alone. Seven of Ukraine's top 10 defense contractors won new business despite open fraud investigations, failure to deliver on earlier contracts, or executives arrested for corruption.
The clearest case: Leonid Shyman, director of the state-owned Pavlograd Chemical Plant, won a $280 million mortar shell contract while out on bail on corruption charges. His factory delivered 233,000 defective mortar rounds, many with faulty fuses or propellant, that failed on the battlefield against Russian troops in 2024. Even after officials noticed the defects, the Defense Procurement Agency kept awarding Pavlograd new contracts, including nearly all of the military's 122mm artillery rounds for 2025. Shyman was arrested in April 2025, charged with $68 million in fraud, and was sentenced last month to five years in prison in a separate explosives price-inflation case. He's appealing and denies wrongdoing in the mortar case. Investigators say $9 million tied to his wife passed through a Liechtenstein bank account.
A 2024 tender for rocket artillery drew three identical bids for rockets made at the same Turkish factory: $4,200, $4,600, and $5,100 apiece. The lowest bid, from Turkish manufacturer Arca Defense, lost to the highest bidder, a subsidiary of the Czechoslovak Group, brought in as a middleman despite prior audits warning against buying through intermediaries. The decision cost Ukraine an extra $130 million. Ukraine-linked contracts have helped turn CSG into a global arms powerhouse; the company's IPO this year made its 33-year-old majority owner, Michal Strnad, the richest arms manufacturer on Forbes' billionaires list, with over 40% of CSG's 2024 revenue coming from Ukraine-related sales.
A separate deal for Soviet-style rockets from Serbia, routed through Ukraine's state arms broker Spetstechnoexport, collapsed after then-Defense Minister Rustem Umerov tried to cut out the middleman. Spetstechnoexport, which had no Serbian export license and a documented history of unfulfilled contracts, became the procurement agency's largest debtor. American subcontractor Regulus Global, run by ex-Merrill Lynch broker William Somerindyke, says it was "caught in the middle."
The audits also note that a former business partner of Zelensky was secretly recorded pushing officials to buy armored vests that had failed safety tests; investigators say the man has since fled Ukraine.
Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who tried to overhaul the system, said contractors pushed him out over it: "There is a lot of corruption." His firing triggered the largest street protests of the war. Zelensky says he fired Fedorov over clashes with military leadership.
American anti-corruption expert James Wasserstrom: "Anything that isn't nailed down in Ukraine will be stolen. This has been a longstanding tradition."
🐻 Funny how the NYT article doesn't criticize Fedorov. It's like he's best buddies with US tech bros.
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| 7 | 🇷🇺🇩🇪 Lavrov: Germany’s actions are the “beginning of a real war”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov issued a stark warning over Germany’s accusations that Russia was responsible for the drone incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport:
“They found some drone. They said it was a Russian drone. Nobody bothered to investigate. This is, by and large, the beginning of a real war.”
Lavrov pointed to Berlin’s decision to close the Russian Consulate General in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin, before drawing a historical comparison:
“I remember that before the beginning of the Second World War — the Great Patriotic War, rather — the Germans also closed their diplomatic missions.”
Germany has attributed the Leipzig incident to Russia; Moscow denies involvement and says the accusation is fabricated. | 4 496 |
| 8 | 🇺🇦 Holy mother of delusional takes from Ukraine's Foreign Minister.
This is drunk-soccer-mom-at-a-PTA-meeting level of analysis. Then again, it's not really analysis — it's just Sybiha getting into Zelya's cocaine stash before Witkoff and Kushner showed up.
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| 9 | 🇺🇦 High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine is today deciding pre-trial measures for Sergey Kropiva, Head of the Cyber Department at the Prosecutor General's Office, and his "muse," Elizaveta Ivakhnenko, with whom Kropiva discussed expensive purchases and deleting luxury photos from social media.
As we covered yesterday, Kropiva is a suspect in "Operation Carthage," the National Anti-Corruption Bureau's investigation into a criminal organization at the Prosecutor General's Office accused of protecting fraudulent call centers and laundering the proceeds. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, allegedly "Chief" on the same tapes, remains unaccounted for.
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| 10 | 🇺🇸🇺🇦 “Ukraine is the defining military laboratory of the 21st century” — former CIA Director David Petraeus | 4 402 |
| 11 | 🇸🇰 "If the West hadn't stopped Ukraine from signing an agreement with Russia back in April 2022, the war would have been over long ago" — Slovak PM Robert Fico.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics | Socials | Donate | Advertising | 4 403 |
| 12 | 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky's temporary air defense arrived to meet him.
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| 13 | 🇺🇦🇺🇸 The video of Clown-in-chief of Ukraine waiting for Witkoff and Kushner is hilarious.
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| 14 | 🇺🇦 One scandal after another: is Kiev's tech-bro golden boy Fedorov cooking his own political career?
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has been mired in one scandal after another in recent weeks. Just four days after his dismissal, he secured a military service exemption through a post at the "East Europe Foundation" — an NGO whose main funder is currently Switzerland (previously USAID) and which has partnered with George Soros–linked foundations. The move drew sharp criticism given Ukraine's ongoing forced mobilization drive, an issue Fedorov did nothing to fix despite promising reform.
He then took a role advising Italy's defense minister, prompting questions over what "expertise" he's sharing — most of Ukraine's wartime military knowledge is classified, and critics ask why an ex-defense minister needs to consult foreign militaries mid-war at all.
Most contentious: while serving as minister, Fedorov handed billions in budget funds to SkyFall, a company owned by his friend, to produce the P1-SUN interceptor drone. In practice, the drones failed against Russia's jet-powered Gerans. SkyFall and Ukrainian officials claim thousands of intercepts, but by now everyone knows how Kiev's "fantasy interception" statistics work.
He's now launched his own military tech company, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp as a key investor. That's notable because Fedorov personally oversaw Palantir's cooperation with Ukraine's Defense Ministry while in office. Under Ukraine's anti-corruption law, former officials are barred for a year after leaving their post from doing business with private companies tied to decisions they made in that same period, meaning Fedorov may now be profiting directly from a relationship he helped broker as minister.
Beyond the NGO angle, some of the scandal-fueling also comes from more traditional political rivals — notably supporters of Poroshenko, who back ex-commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny, seeing Fedorov as a potential rival in a future presidential race.
Ukrainian sources and commentators argue Fedorov is nonetheless a project of Western-NGO-aligned networks, allied media, and US tech-bro backers like Karp, who see themselves as Ukraine's "true elite" and don't much care what the public or the political establishment think of them. Their strategy, these sources say, runs through corruption cases against Zelensky's inner circle: weaken his grip on power, then pressure Western partners to back laws stripping his control over security services and the courts. The end goal is to clear the field so Fedorov can eventually take the top job, regardless of how voters actually feel about him.
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| 15 | 🇮🇱🇸🇾 Israeli forces push deeper into southern Syria
Footage shows Israeli occupation forces conducting another ground incursion into Syria’s Daraa province, deploying troops and military vehicles inside Syrian territory.
Israeli forces entered the Wadi al-Raqad area of western Daraa, advancing toward al-Aqrabiyah.
The incursion comes amid near-daily Israeli military activity across southern Syria, including ground incursions, checkpoints, searches, arrests and artillery fire in Daraa and Quneitra.
Israel’s military presence continues to expand beyond the occupied Golan Heights and into Syrian territory. | 5 533 |
| 16 | 🇺🇸🇺🇦 American real estate developer Steve Witkoff and Trump's twink son-in-law Jared Kushner were met by Budanov, Arakhamia, and Umerov.
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| 17 | 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Witkoff and Kushner arrive in Kiev but their plane had to stay in Poland
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have arrived in Kiev for talks with Zelensky, immediately following their three-hour meeting with Putin in Moscow.
Their U.S. Air Force aircraft flew directly from Moscow to Rzeszow, Poland, landing at 01:31 local time. From there, the American delegation had to make the rest of the journey to Kiev overland.
Apparently Moscow is safe enough to land an American government aircraft….. Kiev, not so much. | 6 014 |
| 18 | 🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Russia destroys Ukrainian communications equipment in the DPR
FPV interceptor drone operators from Russia’s “West” Group of Forces reportedly destroyed a Ukrainian communications antenna and several UAVs in the Krasny Liman direction of the DPR. | 6 540 |
| 19 | 🇺🇦 Ukraine is facing its most difficult budget situation since 2022 — there's a risk of delays to non-military payments, Finance Minister Sergiy Marchenko said.
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| 20 | 🇦🇲 Meanwhile, Armenia's part-time president, full-time Instagram influencer, is being weird on social media again.
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