I’ve been investigating the russian refinery for days now and the story gets darker and darker. The shipments are sent to Siberia, smelted, and sold to the russian company ‘ASK’. This company distributes aluminium directly to Russia’s missile & drone manufacturers.
For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine.
So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show.
He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected.
Avoidance.
⚡️ 'We don't recommend' — Zelensky warns foreign officials against attending Russia's Victory Day parade.
"(Russia) wants permission from Ukraine to hold their parade, so they can safely march onto the square for one hour once a year, and then go back to killing our people and waging war again," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kyiv. And that says a great deal about our resistance, about how Ukraine has fought all this time. Behind those words stand millions of our people, immense courage, incredibly hard work, endurance, and the long path Ukraine has been pursuing since February 24.
Looking back at the beginning of the invasion and reflecting on today, we have every right to say: we have defended our independence, we have not lost our statehood; Putin has not achieved his goals. He has not broken Ukrainians; he has not won this war. We have preserved Ukraine, and we will do everything to secure peace and justice. Glory to Ukraine!
U2 has released a new track, Yours Eternally, recorded in collaboration with Ed Sheeran and the Ukrainian band Antytila.
Do you like the song?
"Yours Eternally is written in the form of a letter from a soldier on active duty with a bold, mischievous spirit to match Ukraine's," the band said in a statement. The Ukrainian Defenders of the 13th Khartiia Brigade, as well as civilians, appeared in the lyrics video.
One MP told the BBC,
‘I’ve literally never seen a man so focused and powerful as the PM tonight. He was riffing happily and at one point played The Entertainer using only half-empty Pringles tubes and a glockenspiel which he conjured by using the Force.’
🇺🇦🧐🥰💪When, during negotiations in Abu Dhabi, the Russians started saying something about territories, Budanov would address the speaker and ask:
“Excuse me, could you remind me of your last name?”
Then he would write something down in his notebook.
After that, the Russians stopped talking about territories.
Based on a recent X search, no senior UK cabinet ministers appear to have posted about the ongoing protests in Iran and the fight for freedom as of Jan 10, 2026. This includes PM Keir Starmer, Deputy PM David Lammy, Foreign Sec Yvette Cooper, Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Defence Sec John Healey, and Health Sec Wes Streeting.
Stand-up show by Russia’s Foreign Minister Lavrov 🤡
▫️ “The West is openly preparing for a new major European war.”
Oh really? Maybe that’s because Russia keeps threatening to take Berlin, erase London, nuke the Anglo-Saxons every other week?
Or maybe, just maybe, when you bomb, occupy, and invade your neighbours for a decade straight, people stop believing your “peaceful intentions”?
▫️“NATO expansion never stops, despite all the commitments made.”
What commitments, exactly? The imaginary ones Moscow invented while tearing apart every actual international treaty it ever signed?
▫️“Russia has no intention of attacking any NATO country and is ready to enshrine this in security guarantees.”
Of course. Just like it had “no intention” of invading Ukraine right before… invading Ukraine.