Extraordinary: Ukrainian journalists are in the Kursk region town of Sudzha, reporting on a humanitarian operation to deliver food to civilians hiding in basements. This was - until a week ago - Russia

See the difference.

Streetlights have returned to Kharkiv for our city’s birthday, illuminating our streets for the first time in two and a half years. It’s difficult to express how the constant darkness has affected our minds. The lights have rekindled a long-forgotten and deeply missed sense of

Yes, I bought an HP laptop, which I now realise comes with a hinge as fragile as Marcelino’s finger or Siem de Jong’s calf. But absolutely not a design problem, hpespana? Probably just need to run it off…

A nursing home today, an ICRC convoy last week. And it doesn’t even make news anymore.

That's quite a paragraph. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

In the real world, this headline roughly translates as ‘Law chief does his job by checking the Met are doing theirs’. When Ionesco wrote Rhinoceros, he could have been imagining the Mail newsroom.

Remember that ill-fated destroyed bridge between Kyiv and Irpin through the debris of which people were fleeing to save their lives from advancing Russians during the Battle of Kyiv? Here's what the place looks like today. They built another bridge, and now a memorial site was

- Welcome to Kazan, Mr. Secretary General! Ironic. In Ukrainian, the word “kazan” stands for “boiling pot”. #StandWithUkraine

Literally helping himself to a bit of the cake.

One of the most iconic and historic buildings in Kharkiv heavily damaged by Russian bombs tonight.

Where the trees sing and the dead appear on hoardings. Brilliant first-hand account on the Ukrainian Premier League’s biggest game of the season.

MOCKBA (Cyrillic for Moscow) on Sheffield Wednesday jerseys (and a partner of Huddersfield Town ) is not the coincidence – they are indeed related to Russia Short thread 1/

Thermobaric warheads are terribly destructive - and terrifying in their method. Their use against civilian targets is doubly wrong (if there can be such a gradation of war crime). What was happening in Syria has come to Europe.

Me heading back here once a day to catch up on the accounts I like that still haven’t gone to Bluesky.

Putin’s response to Scholtz’s call came this morning, with a rain of drones and missiles on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. He took a diplomatic win and kept going. That’s why appeasement is doomed.

That was fast; Le Figaro now reporting Britain and France have just given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia using Storm Shadow cruise missiles. lefigaro.fr/international/…

How fascinating to witness one of Assad’s top western propagandists shift his worldview in mere hours. Maté never mentioned the regime’s repression/authoritarianism while enjoying regime-sponsored trips to Syria & passing information about dissidents to Russians intelligence