Anne 🌷❤🌻

🌻 enthusiastic sower of sunflower seeds 🌻 Dutch Division🌻 she/her 🌻 #NAFOfella #NAFO 🌻 follows a fella back 🌻 intl. account, 'cause it's all connected.

[Anne 🌷❤🌻 @AnneFella]

🚨 If you want to understand WHY russia invaded Ukraine, and why they will NEVER give it up (unless they are forced to), this is an absolute MUST-READ.

➡️ If you're not Dutch, hit the translate button in your browser. Easy-peasy. You will not regret it!

https://t.co/GyI92SVgN5

[Robin Osinga 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 @robinosinga]

Jarenlang werd ons verteld dat Rusland alleen de Donbas wilde. Daarna bleek het om de landbrug naar de Krim te gaan. Vervolgens om "Novorossiya". Deze slide bevestigt wat velen al jaren zeggen: voor de Russische elite is heel Oekraïne het einddoel, niet slechts de Donbas.

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

Aid groups like The Emile Foundation, which operates in frontline villages, have been using Yale’s findings to help reunite children with their families." - @Reuters

HRL has been working with the @emile_fondation to identify and trace children stolen from Ukraine 🇺🇦 by Russia's forces in 2022.

Read more >> https://t.co/ZiexyUZ79Y

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

It’s actually insane that this needs to be a law.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Trump’s big America 250 celebration is already losing performers left and right 😭

[🇳🇿 Graham Oliver 🔱 DMs require permission @rgrahamoliver]

How would you feel if you lost communication in a combat mission for want of a battery? Brrrrr. Doesn't bare thinking about.

Support them in any way you can!

[Immortal Mustang™ @TheAnonImmortal]

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[Anne 🌷❤🌻 @AnneFella]

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[Kirsten Verdel @locuta]

Trump dag 494: Trump op $250 biljet, 6 van 9 artiesten trekken zich terug van 250 jaar VS concert, Justitie vraagt gegevens critici op Trump op bij social media platforms, Democratische partij twittert ‘shut up you ugly fuck’ in reactie op Stephen Miller: https://t.co/JysdGr191q

[Isa Yusibov 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 @Isa_Yusibov]

Starting to think. Na 4 jaar hele duidelijke aanwijzingen dat hij de Baltics gaat binnenvallen. Starting to think. Zelfs onze inlichtingendiensten zeiden tot vorige maand: "Hij gaat t niet doen"
Stop thinking, act on it!

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

The Russian drone crash into apartments in Galați was a blatant and serious violation of Romania’s sovereignty and European airspace.

I spoke with Foreign Minister @oana_toiu this morning to convey the EU’s full solidarity with Romania.

Russia has long ago stopped respecting borders.
Moscow cannot be allowed to breach European airspace with impunity.

EU Foreign Ministers yesterday vowed to ramp up pressure on Russia, increase support for Ukraine, and invest in Europe’s own defence readiness.

[MercuryMarin(er)Strade @MarinStrade]

.@sashameetsrus, you’re like 5 years old and have Instagram brainrot, so let an old crank with two degrees in Russian (and East European) Studies who was actually alive during the time of the USSR lay some learnin’ on you.

In 1991, when the USSR collapsed, those of us who were fascinated by it were ecstatic, not because we hated it, but because we were SO EAGER to meet our russian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Georgian, Ukrainian (and so on) brothers and sisters.

For much of my life, I had been told that citizens of the USSR were just like us - they wanted homes and jobs and food.

But more importantly, they wanted freedom - freedom to move about their own country without control, freedom to travel abroad, to speak freely and write freely without being thrown into a gulag. Famous defectors like Baryshnikov only reinforced to all of us that the USSR was filled with wonderful, talented people who were essentially imprisoned in their own nation.

Sure, of course our leaders, governments and hardcore ideologues on both sides still had beef, still plotted, but even Reagan and Gorbachev (as well as Bush Sr.) cultivated a relationship based on trust and mutual respect.

Yes, I get that the breakup of the USSR was traumatic for many of those who lived in it. Yes, I acknowledge that the 1990’s were very hard for the average citizen of all former Soviet Republics.

But here’s the thing, Sasha. It was hard for Poland and Ukraine and Hungary and East Germany and really hard for the former Yugoslavia too. Every single former Republic and Iron Curtain country came out from under the yoke of the USSR and faced ENORMOUS social, cultural, economic, civil, judicial and military challenges.

35 years later though, which country is the only one left prosecuting bloody, genocidal wars, wasting lives and materiel, and truly squandering its prolific natural resources to kill Ukrainian children?

Which country is the only one cutting off the internet for its citizens, the same way it did for books and tv and radio during the time of the USSR?

Which country can’t get its
shit together and join the rest of the civilized - albeit imperfect - world?

Your precious russia.

Russia marinates in the past. It bathes in bitterness. It is the equivalent of a high school quarterback who never left its small shitty town and sits in a bar drinking to drunkenness cursing out his more successful classmates and picking fights.

It’s a place where children fall into potholes in Yakutsk so big they’re swallowed up but hey, dumb Oligarch bitches in Moscow need more Gucci and a house in Geneva so fuck them kids amirite?

That’s why nobody wants to engage with russia, Sasha.

Russia is a mean, ugly bully who won’t keep its military in its pants towards its own former peoples, who constantly threatens its neighbors, and just will not let the “glorious past” go when in fact the rest of the world just wants to get on with things in their own messed-up countries, drink coffee, try to go to Mars, etc.

One of my favorite songs growing up was Billy Joel’s “Leningrad”. Man, I wore that tape out listening to it. It’s one of his lesser-known songs, but it captivated me so much so that 8 years later, I myself would land in Leningrad, by then renamed to St. Petersburg.

While there, I met so many wonderful people, people just like me who had dreams of being singers or hairdressers or accountants (ew). But what the young people wanted most of all was to MOVE FORWARD.

It’s 2026, and russians once again find themselves imprisoned by their own government, cut off from the world, and forced to engage in a pointless fucking war.

I miss the promise of Leningrad, and you should too, instead of stanning a murderous dictatorship.

“And so my child and I came to this place
To meet him eye to eye and face to face
He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced
We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad”
— Billy Joel

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.

You want to know what insults Jesus?

Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.

[Anne 🌷❤🌻 @AnneFella]

@EdKrassen Her boss defunded cancer research. Just saying.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Did you know that Donald Trump's son just married the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein's accountant? Well now you do.

[Franky & Coen @FrankyandCoen]

Door de ogen van Franky

“Jonge Oekraïense mannen in dikke auto’s”

Ik hoor het regelmatig.
“Mooie dikke BMW voor een vluchteling.” “Waarom zitten die jonge mannen hier eigenlijk?”
En ik snap die reactie ergens best.

Want als je op televisie alleen maar beelden ziet van kapotte flats, loopgraven, explosies en uitgeputte soldaten, dan voelt een jonge Oekraïense man in een dure auto ergens in Nederland tegenstrijdig.

Maar mag ik u iets vragen? Heeft u zelf een zoon?
Een broer? Een vriend? Iemand van begin twintig tot vijfendertig?
En stel dat Nederland morgen in oorlog raakt. Een echte oorlog. Met raketten. Met drones.
Met een verplichte mobilisatie. met echte gewonden en vele doden.

Zou u dan tegen hem zeggen: “Jongen… jij moet blijven. Offer jezelf maar op.”
Of zou u hopen dat hij wegkomt? Dat hij veilig is? Dat hij ergens opnieuw kan beginnen?

Wij komen al jaren in Oekraïne en geloof me: oorlog is zelden zwart-wit.

Sommige jonge mannen blijven en vechten. Sommigen zorgen voor ouders of kinderen. Anderen slaan op de vlucht.
Soms uit angst. Soms uit noodzaak. Soms omdat hun familie smeekt om weg te gaan.
En weet u wat het lastige is? Wij zien vaak alleen de buitenkant.
Een dure auto. Een merktrui. Een telefoon.

Maar we weten niet wat iemand heeft achtergelaten.
Misschien stond die auto vroeger gewoon voor zijn eigen huis.
Misschien had hij een bedrijf. Een normaal leven.
Vrienden en plannen. Een toekomst. Misschien had hij alles

En misschien is hij met die auto gevlucht en is dit, samen met wat tassen persoonlijke spullen, letterlijk het enige wat hij nog heeft.

En ben eerlijk:
als wij zelf zouden moeten vluchten… zouden wij dan te voet vertrekken?
Of zouden we ook gewoon onze eigen auto volladen met spullen, familie en huisdieren?
Zouden mensen in het land waar wij terechtkomen dan ook zeggen: “Kijk hem eens rijden in zijn dikke auto”

Ik oordeel niet over die jonge Oekraïense mannen.
Want oorlog dwingt mensen tot keuzes die wij ons hier in Nederland nauwelijks kunnen voorstellen.
En misschien moeten we daarom soms iets minder snel oordelen over wat iemand nog heeft…
…en iets meer nadenken over wat hij allemaal is kwijtgeraakt.

#standwithukraine

[Army Media 🇺🇦 @armyinformcomua]

A priest of the Moscow-affiliated church walked the streets of Odesa in his cassock, marking targets on Google Maps for Russian missiles.

One of those targets was hit twice — the second strike timed for when rescuers arrived.

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) counterintelligence has detained a cleric of a parish of the Moscow Patriarchate church (UOC-MP) in Odesa, who directed a double missile strike on the city in March 2024.
The SBU announced the arrest on May 27.

What he did
Using coordinates the priest provided, Russian forces attacked a recreational area of the port city with two "Iskander-M" ballistic missiles.

"The first hit residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure in the regional centre, where, in the corrector's opinion, military personnel might have been. The second strike hit the same location when emergency services arrived at the scene."

A double-tap strike — the second missile aimed specifically at the rescuers, medics, and first responders who rushed in after the first. This is a deliberate tactic designed to kill the people who come to save the wounded.

After the strike, the agent reported the results to Russian military intelligence (GRU) and went to ground to avoid detection. SBU officers established his involvement and detained him at his residence.

How he was recruited
The investigation found that the cleric came to Russia's attention when he posted pro-Kremlin comments in Telegram channels. After being recruited, the priest — without removing his church cassock — walked the city to mark the geolocations of potential "targets" on Google Maps. He passed the collected information to a chat-bot administered by a traitor, Serhiy Lebedev (alias "Lokhmatyi"), who is hiding in Donetsk and works for Russian military intelligence.

What else he betrayed
The agent also passed the enemy:
🔴 Coordinates of Ukrainian air defence forces protecting Odesa's airspace during Russian missile attacks 

🔴 Information about an electrical substation near Odesa, including its protection systems — and, after a Russian strike on the energy facility, a damage report
During searches, officers seized the smartphone he used to collect intelligence and contact the GRU.

SBU investigators have charged him under Part 2, Article 111 of Ukraine's Criminal Code — high treason committed under martial law. He is in custody without the right to bail and faces life imprisonment with confiscation of property.

Why this matters
This case is a clean illustration of how Russia weaponises and uses the Moscow Patriarchate church inside Ukraine. A man in a cassock, trusted by his community, used that trust and that freedom of movement to mark Ukrainian homes for ballistic missiles — and to help target the air defence systems protecting the city's civilians.

It is also why Ukraine's scrutiny of the Moscow-affiliated church is a security matter, not a religious one. The cassock here was not a symbol of faith. It was operational cover for an agent of Russian military intelligence.

— Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), May 27, 2026
#Ukraine #Odesa #SBU #RussiaWarCrimes #UkraineWillWin #UAF

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

To date, Trump’s ambitious “Board of Peace” project has collected... drum roll... zero dollars!

Yet another great achievement from POTUS. He simply can’t stop winning.

Video courtesy of @ByDonkeys.

[Anne 🌷❤🌻 @AnneFella]

@adammocklerr Dear Adam, I have a son your age. He is very eloquent and smart, just like you, but a bit introverted. I hope he will find his purpose as you have found yours. I am a great admirer of all you do. Keep it up! 😘 #PeaceOut

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Trump’s Iran messaging is starting to look repetitive.