Wide Wednesday

[Man! I was well into writing my blip when it all disappeared! Harumph!]

Samuel had to walk down stairs wobbly and stoned. 
I helped. 
Samuel hates help. 
Now he can do stairs without help. 

I don't remember what else I wrote before getting into the Ukraine reporting.

Ukraine shot down 13 Iranian-made drones in the southern Mykolayiv region overnight. As of October 19, Ukraine had downed 223 of them. Iran is lying about supplying drones. Ukrainians protested outside their embassy in Kyiv. Ukraine is reducing the number of staff the embassy is allowed to have. The EU is going to impose sanctions. There is some concern that this might push Iran further away and further complicate restoring he nuclear deal that Trump pulled out of, but video of Iranian drones falling on civilians cinched it. As of 11 am US eastern standard time, the EU was going to sanction the maker of the drones and three Iranian generals. 

“If Iran walks like a duck, talks like a duck and admits to supplying drones to the biggest duck in the world then I think we have enough evidence to say that Iran is a duck,” tweeted Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on Tuesday. “Let’s sanction the duck out of them.”


Russian occupation authorities are leaving Kherson. They are going to the other side of the river.


The US will send additional military personnel and weapons to Estonia as their relationship with Russia remains tense. 


Despite the war and the sanctions and the cutoff of gas, the EU's CO2 emissions are on course to DECLINE. There is an increase in coal use, but it is expected to be temporary as new renewable energy projects will add around 50 gigawatts of capacity next year. How is the decline possible despite the increase in the use of coal? Renewable energy and electric vehicles.