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Russia fired 44 missiles and more than 400 drones across Ukraine. Three first responders were killed in Kyiv while working at the site of one of the strikes, Ukraine’s state emergency service said on Friday morning. via Fabrice Deprez ft.com/content/2e1f37…

Scenes from Kharkiv this morning after Russians committed the largest attack of the war, pouring missiles, guided bombs and drones onto apartment buildings in several districts of the city. Many victims, including children.

Balkans & Bromance tanjamaier.substack.com/p/balkans-and-…

We’ve become basically desensitised to successive record breaking air attacks by Russia against Ukraine. “Russia launched almost 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian forces said on Monday.” nytimes.com/2025/06/09/wor…

Very heavy overnight for Ukraine, for Kyiv and Odessa in particular. The russian army is purposefully hitting residential buildings with iranian-russian drones, even a maternity hospital in Odessa was hit. Unfortunately there are wounded and dead... I pray for them, and I ask you

Another night of Russian terror in Ukraine. Kyiv and Odesa under heaviest attacks by hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles. Russians struck a maternity ward and ordinary residential buildings, killing and injuring civilians. Russia rejects any meaningful peace efforts and

What a week tanjamaier.substack.com/p/what-a-week

Doesn’t even make headlines anymore. What a nightmare. Kyiv is far less safe now than it was two years ago. Meanwhile Europe is closed if you don’t have €

Текстовая версия расследования: storage.googleapis.com/istories/stori…

Shocking investigative reporting. One of the accused was in Austria in 2022 and the country refused to extradite him to Russia. No words. I thought I had heard it all…how naive I was. storage.googleapis.com/istories/en/st…

Trump, several times over the past months and even after admitting Putin was “tapping him along”: I’ll give him two weeks to make a deal. Putin today: “All Ukraine is ours.”

See how the language has shifted too? No longer bollocks about "liberating" anything, just an intent to take land and assimilate people.

Siarhei's sudden release was a big surprise to everyone, I'm told He has been forced into exile and has lost lot of weight in prison. But this is a huge relief for his family, of course Still, so many political prisoners - including Masha Kolesnikova - remain behind bars

Heatwave tanjamaier.substack.com/p/heatwave

After the new Trump-Putin call Kyiv was under attack all the night, multiple fires across the city and very poor air quality this morning. No signs of de-escalation or any Moscow's intention to stop its war against Ukraine

“Trump seems to value intelligence only when it validates his own instinct; he does not look to it to challenge his beliefs or to help him consider different angles.” foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

I few into Dubrovnik today: our hotel warned us via email 500,000 (!) people might attend a concert in Zagreb today. I googled the population of 🇭🇷: 3.8 million. That’s 1 in 8 Croats. This is a fascinating 🧵

In today’s Russian papers: more Russians trying to do their own dental fillings with DIY kits “due to rising cost of dental treatment.” Sanctions causing "chronic illness" for Russia's economy. Plus, the rehabilitation of Stalin continues. #ReadingRussia

Independence day tanjamaier.substack.com/p/independence…