Basketball player Brittney Griner on her arrest in Russia, months in prison and eventual release in a prisoner swap

It’s mostly the personal not the political, with a reminder of the Americans still captive ⁦Free Paul Whelan⁩ ⁦Evan Gershkovich⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/02/mag…

In ~7 years of watching protests in Georgia from the ground, I've never seen anything like this. Starting to look bad for the Georgian Dream government.

April 9,’89 is imprinted into memory of every Georgian.Soviet tanks rolled into Tbilisi, killing & wounding pro independence demonstrations. 35 years on, a note on the victims memorial amid fresh anti Russia protests “mum, I am exactly where you were on the 9th of April” 😍💔💪

Lights went off the parliament building in Tbilisi but protesters kept it alight with laser torches. Georgians are determined not to allow the government to steal their European future from them.

A day of mourning in Odesa after yesterday's Russian missile strike on the seafront

5 are dead and more than 20 in hospital, incl a 4-yr-old girl in a serious condition

The mayor blamed 'Monsters. Beasts. Savages. Scum.'

Today in Kharkiv there are more missiles, more dead

Georgia’s u-turn away from the West that began when the Georgian Dream came to power seems to be near complete. Feels like being a passenger on a hijacked airplane.

BREAKING Reuters producer Konstantin Gabov was just sent to pre-trial detention in Moscow, accused of “participating in an extremist community” for preparing content earlier for Navalny LIVE YouTube channel

A ‘proof of life’ video in which Chechen leader Kadyrov doesn’t move a muscle, apart from his lips - which just about part to utter some barely intelligible words (though that part is normal for him)

Article here 👇🏼

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The US House of Representatives is voting on a $61bn aid package for Ukraine today.

Sarah Rainsford reports from Ukraine on the impact of the country’s struggling air defences.

🎧 From Our Own Correspondent.

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One day it’s Chernihiv

Another it’s Dnipro

This time 9 people have been killed by Russian missiles & drones. 3 of them were children

18 people died in Chernihiv

Sometimes it seems like the world’s moved on. But the attacks on Ukraine have not stopped. This is not ‘normal’.

Zelensky spells it out: Ukraine can’t defend itself from massive Russian attack

Trypilska power plant was destroyed because Ukraine ran out of rockets

Its allies won’t do more because it’s not in NATO & they fear escalation. So Zelensky wants to know: is Israel in NATO?

‘Just another night’ in Ukraine: Iranian-made shahed drones launched by Russia at multiple parts of the country (the same drones Iran fired at Israel)

This is why Zelensky & co are frustrated: they’re calling for Patriot air defence systems and still struggling to be heard

On Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukraine & some frustration in Kyiv👇🏼

“Israel has had direct support to protect its skies from Iranian missiles and drones, even as the same countries limit their help to Ukraine which is under Russian attack every day” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Just found this story from 2 years ago - about Russia’s war on truth. Since then, it’s only got worse

On Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukraine & some frustration in Kyiv👇🏼

“Israel has had direct support to protect its skies from Iranian missiles and drones, even as the same countries limit their help to Ukraine which is under Russian attack every day” bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

“Thank God Demidenko was there to help us.” How Russia tortured and killed a volunteer whose house near the border was the last stop for nearly 1000 Ukrainians escaping the country as part of a modern day underground railroad. Read Pjotr Sauer theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…