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🇺🇦🇨🇿 “President Zelenskyy took a moment to talk to the Ukrainian women who work as cleaners during his visit to the parliament. Not as a staged play for photographers, but simply because he is a decent and kind human being. This is what a leader looks like to me.” - Petr Jan Vinš Czech theologian

This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.

🇺🇸 Kellogg: Russia will not win the war. In the last 1.5 years, Russia hasn’t achieved serious victories—no capture of Kyiv, no progress west of the Dnipro, and no capture of Odesa. They’ve lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers with minimal progress.

In an interview with Germany‘s leading daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, FM Kęstutis Budrys warns: “Today, Moscow’s goal is to destroy Western democracies. This too is war – not on the battlefield, but in secret."

⚡️Allies alarmed as Trump pushes Ukraine peace deal allowing Russia to keep seized land, CNN reports. "If one country in Europe is forced to give up parts of its legal territory... no country in Europe or elsewhere can feel safe, NATO or no NATO," one diplomat told CNN.

⚡️Zelensky: We would like a 'common understanding that Russia is the aggressor,' not Ukraine. Ukraine would like to have a "common understanding that Russia is the aggressor," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a wide-ranging interview with American commentator Ben Shapiro released on April 24.

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"He loved animals very much, saved hedgehogs and snails": family says goodbye to 7-year-old boy killed by Russian airstrike in Kryvyi Rih People in Kryvyi Rih said goodbye to 7-year-old Radislav Yatsko. He died as a result of a Russian missile strike on the city on April 4.

A pregnant woman and her son, aged 2, were trapped under rubble after another Russian strike. The mother shielded the boy with her body. Both were rescued and taken to the hospital with injuries. Doctors are fighting for their lives.

People bring toys and flowers to a bombed-out playground in Kryvyi Rih, where 18 people, including 9 children, were killed by a russian missile.

i am like 80% serious when i say that woke is the only thing that kept this country together

Attention White House: Thou shalt not joke about how you sent an innocent father of 3 to a gulag while his autistic son smells his shirts to remember him.

You don’t negotiate with Russian terrorists who fire missiles with cluster ammunition warheads at playgrounds and killing 9 children, as happened in Krivyi Rih. You send those Russian terrorists straight to hell and break their remaining empire into pieces. Period.

🕯️A Ukrainian mother holding the hand and stroking the arm of her dead 15-year-old son, ki##ed in a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.

New paper out in npj Complexity today. We construct large data-informed US-based contact networks (~20M nodes) and explore how misinformed populations can affect the spread of disease.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

What the actual fuck:

If you read one article today, let it be this one. It unveils the harror of russia's mass abduction of Ukrainian children and reeducation camps, showcasing bravery from kids that surpasses what most adults could muster, and miraculous tales of rescue. www.politico.eu/article/save...

Ksenia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport, USA, after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention center in Louisiana , — The Insider. She actively criticizes Putin's war and is facing possible deportation to Russia.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll talk about the takeover of social media by illiberal, populist influencers. For the last ten years, social media has been dominated by these voices and it is one of the main reasons for the political rise of people like Trump and Orban. 1/25

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

Fellas, a good watch which puts a light on the acting other than the Krasnov theory and to my opinion nailing it

WSJ: Downloads and views of MeidasTouch on platforms including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple, more than doubled over the past month to top 115 million, according to measurement company Podscribe. That total compared with Rogan’s 64 million during the same period.

Murdered by Russians, 4 years old.

SpaceX should pay the time lost to each passenger, the extra cost (fuel,..) of the airlines, IMO. They can put the costs then on the spaceflight costs, because it is what it is. Then let's see if NASAs own programs (trying not to use the fafo method with rockets) were all that expensive.

An Estonian flag from the 1920s, hidden away in our family home for the duration of the Soviet occupation

(🧵) How Elon Musk betrayed America: a thread from a Musk biographer and former federal criminal investigator. Please share widely, here and elsewhere. This will be long. Author bio: www.sethabramson.net/bio Latest book: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-d...

Everything old is new again. This poster first appeared in 1930 in the English-language Ukrainian magazine Tryzub.

“We can drink a beer next time.” These were the last words Odin, a military volunteer from Germany, said to his friend Ruben. Odin was killed in action while defending Ukraine. But he will live forever in Ruben’s memory and ours. Prost! Rest In Peace, Hero.

After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to refuse service to American forces.

Hey #fellas for those who are confused by what seems to be very little protest or push back against Trump and his regime - I'm going to #NAFOArticle5 this; please take a look. Things will take longer than you ever thought but then will happen faster than you believed could be possible

“Fast approaching is a might-is-right world...Team Trump claims that its dealmaking will bring peace and that, after 80y of being taken for a ride, America will turn its superpower status into profit. Instead it will make the world more dangerous, and America weaker and poorer.” (Gift link)

FINALLY one western nation is acting to root out Russian interference. Romania's investigations into Pro-Russian candidate Georgescu reveal another puppet of the Putin regime. $10,000,000 in cash, trips back and forth to Moscow, all the usual. Why can't other nations get serious about Russians?

European to do list: Create European defense alliance Cancel F-35 buy and replace with European Expedite creating a European Starlink Increase support for Ukraine Close the sky over Ukraine Release seized ruSSian assets to Ukraine @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @donald-tusk.bsky.social

MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Russia's war against Ukraine did not begin in 2022 – it has been ongoing for 11 years. On February 20, 2014, Russia launched its first acts of armed aggression against Ukraine by invading Crimea. Ukraine's territorial integrity must be restored. Crimea is Ukraine!

🇺🇸❗️🇪🇺 European diplomat tells Politico: "The transatlantic alliance has broken down, and now there is an alliance between the Russian and American presidents to destroy Europe."

I am Ukrainian, and I have a say in this. Zelenskyy isn’t a dictator, he is the only legal president until victory of Ukraine. To all the Americans repeating Trump/Putin’s lies, go f* yourself.

Kamala did foresee the move of Trump/Putin quite exactly

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

These are talking points straight from the Kremlin. It is clear that Trump’s plan to “end the war” is to remove Zelenskyy, replace him with a Putin stooge, and then let Putin take over Ukraine.

⚡️ Zelensky's trust rating increases to 57%, survey shows, contradicting Trump's claims. The poll, carried out between Feb. 4 and 9, was published shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump alleged that Zelensky holds a "4% approval rating" without providing a source to back his claim.

1-6 European governments can and should restructure their foreign policy thinking completely, namely as follows: 1: Stop viewing the defence capabilities of Europe and those of Ukraine as separate pots. Make it ONE POT. Why? Because we only have one kinetic enemy, the Russian Federation.