It’s starting to strain the capacity of the human mind to interpret the mess in the politics of the 🇺🇸 with the profoundly disruptive role played by the small but militantly pro-🇷🇺 section of the Republican Party, reinforced by the support of Donald Trump. nationalinterest.org/feature/ukrain…

Just yesterday at PACE, I said that we need Patriots air defense. Today, Russia is hitting Chernihiv, the video was taken during a rocket attack on a hospital. People lie on the floor and hide from the debris.

This is the brutal reality: 🇷🇺 launched no less than eleven ballistic missiles against the large Trypilska 🇺🇦 power station. The first seven were shot down by 🇺🇦 air defence missiles, but then they didn’t have any more. The following four destroyed the power station.

While Putin declares protection of his “sovereignty,” Russia has become a full-fledged colony of China.

For Russia, China is the largest market for raw materials (32% of exports) and the main supplier of goods (41% of imports). However, Russia itself accounts for only 3.3% of…

Five people killed in Russian missile attack on Chernihiv. As Russia senses hesitation and feels emboldened , they brazenly escalate daytime attacks on Ukrainian cities

#EU institutions took another step to phasing out the import of #Russian #LNG . The EU Parliament has put in place rules allowing member states to restrict imports. But to what degree countries will make use of the new rules remains uncertain. #sanctions highnorthnews.com/en/eu-parliame…

Germany begs the Chinese dictator for dirty money contracts while the same Chinese dictator fully supports Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Instead of Europe sanctioning China hard to make it stop supporting Russian murdering of Ukrainians, Germany kneels to yet another dictator…

Bit skeptical both that Biden will do an about-face and start tough enforcement of oil sanctions (given what it would do to oil markets in an election year) and that Yellen will secure Chinese help on the issue (given that it has refused to for years). reuters.com/world/us/us-wi…

86 years

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.

He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.

86 years ago.

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Question anyone or anything which attempts to hide #Russia ’s naked aggression behind the mask of ‘war in #Ukraine ’. There is no ‘war in Ukraine’; there is a war against Ukraine, perpetrated exclusively by Russia... trib.al/Bx4990T

Getting worse by the day

Polls suggest Croatian Democratic Union could lose majority to Social Democrat-led coalition headed by populist president theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

The Lords have just voted again for an amendment to the Rwanda Bill to stop Afghans who served with UK troops being deported to Rwanda.

Tonight Stephen Kinnock and I have written to Ministers asking them to do the right thing and accept this amendment.

Iran’s Cheap ‘Kamikaze’ Drones Are Actually a Global Threat thedailybeast.com/irans-cheap-ka… via The Daily Beast

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Intensive Israeli drone flights at low altitude over the skies of Sidon -Lebanon.

Israel appears to have begun a new phase against Hezbollah, certainly.

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Ok, when I said the IRGC pulled its punches with its airstrikes, apparently I was almost comically underselling things.

Every ballistic missile that landed at Nevatim and Ramon airbase hit their intended target (by the looks of it, head-on).

But, for “some reason”, they…

The UN says they don't have the means to determine who attacks Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

'In order to say something like that, we must have proof. These attacks have been performed with a multitude of drones.' - Rafael Grossi.

How about the UN uses its…

The option of hiding from history is unavailable.

We can either win. Or we can loose.

My suggestion would be to win. And push Russia to change course, and pull itself back into Russia.

🇺🇦 needs our help.
We need 🇺🇦’s victory.

We need to do more.

Slovakia does not support Ukraine's accession to NATO, - Prime Minister Fico says

He said that #Slovakia would not ratify the documents on #Ukraine 's admission to the alliance in parliament.

'Slovakia's interests will be jeopardized if Ukraine becomes a #NATO member,' Fico…

Very frustrating to see that even finding the funding for 800,000 much-needed arty shells is too much of an ask for Ukraine‘s allies. It’s in our interest that Ukraine wins this war but so far we aren’t living up to that goal. Let’s get these funds rolling ASAP!!!