This is what’s happening in frontline towns.
Svitlana, evacuated from Kostiantynivka:
"Houses are burning, no gas, electricity, or water. There’s absolutely nothing. Bodies lie in streets. People are buried in gardens."
This is what russians brought to Ukraine
Strangely, many Americans don't seem to understand 3 things:
1. Trump has stopped ALL aid to Ukraine, financial, military & humanitarian.
2. Then US has NO role or leverage in Ukraine.
3. Trump's alleged attempts at peacemaking are empty or even harmful gestures.
A Ukrainian Defender spent three years in Russian captivity with a bullet in his heart.
Ukrainian cardiac surgeon Borys Todurov said that the Warrior had defended Azovstal and, after being wounded, was taken prisoner in 2022. He was exchanged a few months ago.
"For all those
In Afghanistan, the segregation of women is so extreme that they had to invent bacha bazi, a practice where boys dressed as women dance for powerful men, under the belief that sexual contact with young males is more moral.
Polish authorities have discovered a tunnel from Belarus into Poland through which the regime has been pouring ilegal immigrants.
A new Iron Curtail is real.
Evil clowns. Last week, Putin visited a factory (Motovilikhinskie zavody) and met "workers." And of course - of course! - the "workers" were the same security officers who posed as "fishermen" he met 2016, "grieving widows" in 2017, and "soldiers" in 2022. A traveling circus.
3 years ago I was tortured, starved & sentenced to death in a Russian sham trial.
On this day, I was exchanged for Medvedchuk & captured Russian officers.
I fought in Mariupol, was caught & brutally tortured, but I refused to give up. Even in the darkest places, hope,
Sweet Russian babushkas in Estonia are convinced that all the Baltic states will soon crawl back to Russia on their knees, and one even mentioned that Russians outnumber Estonians there.
They didn’t come up with it themselves. It’s propaganda speaking through them. That’s
Miks araablastel peab olema veel üks Palestiinaks nimetatav riik, aga baskid ja kataloonid oma riiki omada ei tohi? Miks Šotimaa ei või olla iseseisev? Miks britid okupeerivad siiani põhja Iirimaad ja Austraaliat?
🧵1: Google updated maps of Mariupol, the images are horrifying.
For over 3 years russian occupiers have closed off the city. war crimes covered up, evidence erased.
In the outskirts; terrifying amounts of rapidly growing unmarked mass graves!
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