Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’
I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.
I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues
❗️According to visual data, damage to the 🇷🇺Ilsky Oil Refinery has been confirmed — a strike in the area of ELOU AVT-5 (primary atmospheric-vacuum crude oil distillation unit) and damage to the tank farm with a spill of petroleum products. Several tanks sustained critical damage. The scale of capacity losses and the overall impact on the plant’s operations require further clarification.
💔 She lost her husband. She lost her two sons and her daughter. She survived carrying their fourth child.
On February 10, a Russian strike on Bohodukhiv in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region killed Hryhorii Shykula and the couple’s three young children - two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and one-year-old daughter Myroslava.
Hryhorii was a Ukrainian veteran who had returned home from the war after losing a leg in service.
His wife, Olha, survived. She was pregnant with their fourth child.
Today, she stands alone where a family of six should have stood together.
Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine.
While American influencers are cavorting at Russia's 'Davos' in St. Petersburg, here is a throwback to 2018, when head of RT Margarita Simonyan discussed using influencers to sway public opinion and affect the outcome of elections in America and elsewhere.
https://t.co/sv7VMMPYkc
russian occupation is not peace.
On Nov. 12, 2025, pro-Ukrainian Crimean resident Marina Ryff went to migration services in Gurzuf to extend her Ukrainian residency. She had refused a russian passport.
FSB agents forced her to unlock her phone, accessed her Facebook account, saw a Ukrainian flag and posts supporting Ukraine's military, then fabricated charges: “discrediting the army,” “extremist symbols,” and hooliganism.
She was sentenced in absentia to 14 days of administrative arrest — and then she vanished.
Six months later, there has been no contact, no confirmed location, and no access to a lawyer.
This is a well-known russian tactic: use minor administrative charges to abduct people, isolate them, and later accuse them of treason.
When people talk about “peace” under russian occupation, remember Marina Ryff.
She disappeared simply for refusing to stop being Ukrainian. That's what russian occupation means.
Thank you to everyone for chipping away at the #alumina21 campaign over the past few weeks.
Now it's gone mainstream some have decided to use this as a stick to beat Ireland with.
Please don't be an empty vessel.
Promote the campaign instead!!!
https://t.co/mJRec73whn
“Only the total defeat of the Russian Federation and the Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol will knock the virus of empire out of the brains of Russians. Russians must see that the empire is dead."
- Garry Kasparov
"There will likely be further strikes into Russian territory. I think so.. They will come deeper and deeper.
Crimea is Ukrainian territory, and we can use any weapon on our territory."
- Kyrylo Budanov🇺🇦
Moscow is killing our children. No words in the world can ever ease this unbearable pain and horror.
According to official figures alone, Russia has taken the lives of 707 Ukrainian children. Another 2,548 have been wounded and maimed by explosions. More than 20,000 have been abducted and forcibly taken from their homes. These are just dry numbers, but each one represents a lifetime of pain for a Ukrainian family.
Today, June 4, is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.
Everything the Russians are doing amounts to genocide. It is a systematic and clearly planned attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation. They deliberately target our children, committing war crimes for which there can be no justification. They are destroying our history, our memory, and trying to physically kill our future.
We will never forgive the Russians for this. There is no and will never be any justification or forgiveness for crimes committed against our children. Everyone who gave these orders and everyone who carried them out will be found and destroyed. The ground will burn beneath your feet wherever you try to hide.
There are no words that can comfort parents whose lives have been shattered forever by Russian killers. But we have a duty: to bring home every abducted child and to do everything to ensure that the truth about these crimes is heard around the world.
Eternal memory to the innocent victims of Russian terror.
Glory to Ukraine!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukraine ends up forcing Russia to the negotiating table while on the brink of liberating Crimea.
And when that happens, watch the narrative suddenly change. The same people demanding concessions from Kyiv today will claim Ukraine is “holding up peace” by refusing to stop before securing its position.
Mark my words: if Crimea genuinely comes under threat, the pressure for a ceasefire won’t be about peace. It’ll be about preventing a Russian defeat.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukraine ends up forcing Russia to the negotiating table while on the brink of liberating Crimea.
And when that happens, watch the narrative suddenly change. The same people demanding concessions from Kyiv today will claim Ukraine is “holding up peace” by refusing to stop before securing its position.
Mark my words: if Crimea genuinely comes under threat, the pressure for a ceasefire won’t be about peace. It’ll be about preventing a Russian defeat.
Putin will wage war until the end of his days. The wars may differ. Their intensity may rise and fall, with pauses and renewed fighting. But the logic behind them will remain the same: his place in history, not politics or economics.
It's incredible that Marxists still insist the Russian war against Ukraine is a "proxy war". A proxy war by who? The Americans pulled all their aid over a year ago. Europe? Ukrainians are currently training and teaching Europeans how to fight wars, not the other way around.
🇭🇺❗️🇺🇦 An investigation by the Telex states that the seizure of Ukrainian cashiers and Oschadbank funds in March 2026 was a personal decision of Orban, and there was no sufficient legal basis for the operation.
On the day of the attack on the convoy, he received updates on the progress of the operation in real time.