North Korea fully engaging Ukraine on behalf of Russia, troops and missiles included, and the rest of the world “can’t get involved.”
Weakness always leads to eventual war.
@KremlinRussia_E keeps using drones to target civilians and humanitarians. No country, no democracy can never ever use drones against civilians and humanitarians. They can never a be a target…The world can not allow it…
Ukrainian children are making their first steps amidst traces of russian terror — oblivious to the fact that someone wants to take their lives, before they’ve even started.
Kids shouldn’t know such cruelty. They must be safeguarded from it:
https://t.co/4Os08VprA0
Applebaum: Witkoff and Kushner prolonged war in Ukraine.
Their approach was flying to Moscow to cut deals with Russian companies. The Russians offered them deals in the Arctic and minerals, and came away thinking Americans were on their side. 1/
⚡️ Russian missile strike kills three generations of Ukrainian family.
A Russian missile strike killed an entire family inside their home, taking the lives of parents Artem and Olena, their children, and their 18-month-old grandson.
Swedish Defense Minister Jonson: Ukraine should join the EU and NATO as soon as possible.
Ukraine is the only defense-industrial market working right now: prices are falling, competition is rising and output is up. Europe’s defense industry has yet to achieve this. 1/
Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania:
I first met Putin in Helsinki in 2010. For us, the gas price from Russia was a huge question.
We fully depended on gas supplies from Russia. And we had been paying about 30–40% more than Germany was paying, for example.
For a neighboring country where the pipelines are some 2,000 km closer, we were paying so much.
During the meeting, Putin read me a list of what Lithuania was supposed to do, and it was clear to me that it was about obedience, about surrendering.
It was clear to me that with countries neighboring Russia, you either kneel or you are the enemy, and you have nothing in between.
Of course, I was not able to accept these requests. After this meeting, I understood that Lithuania needed to get rid of its dependency on energy from Russia.
We moved very quickly to build an LNG terminal. We were the first in Europe to do this at that time. By the end of 2014, we had an LNG terminal.
This allowed us to fully cut our dependency on Russian gas and Gazprom in Lithuania, and even to help our neighbors in Latvia and Estonia.
By the way, General Drapatyi is from Kamianets-Podilskyi, and I absolutely recommend the city for a weekend trip.
This historic gem is often overlooked, very unjustly. It is like a miniature Lviv, but without the huge tourist crowds, with equally excellent food and drinks, old streets, a huge river canyon, a spectacular fortress, and very nice prices.
June 2026 was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine documented the toll: at least 293 civilians killed and 1,990 wounded in a single month.
After May set a four-year record, June exceeded it — up 10% from May 2026 and 37% from June 2025.
Behind the statistics are specific nights:
June 15 — Russia launched 681 weapons at Ukraine in a single mass attack. 11 killed, 53 wounded. Among the targets: the Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra, the Dovzhenko Film Studio, and a concert hall in Dnipro.
June 17 — another mass combined strike on Kyiv.
Throughout the month — relentless daily strikes on Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro.
The six-month picture is worse. In the first half of 2026, 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 wounded — 37% more than the same period in 2025, and 114% more than in 2024.
The primary cause, again: Russia's use of long-range weapons in urban areas. Missile and long-range drone attacks accounted for 45% of all casualties — 126 killed and 907 wounded — mostly in Kyiv and Dnipro.
And a new, grim record: near the front line, short-range drones caused the highest monthly civilian casualty count since February 24, 2022 — 89 killed and 588 wounded.
Mission head Danielle Bell described what survivors report:
"Many say they feel as if short-range drones are hunting them simply for doing ordinary everyday things — going to buy groceries, walking the dog, riding a bicycle, or working in the yard."
The hardest-hit locations in June: Dnipro (25 killed, 77 wounded), Zaporizhzhia (23 killed, 229 wounded), Kherson (18 killed, 236 wounded), and Kyiv (11 killed, 112 wounded).
The overwhelming majority of civilian casualties occurred in Ukrainian government-controlled territory.
These are not military targets. They are people buying groceries and walking dogs — hunted by drones for the crime of daily life.
293 killed. 1,990 wounded. One month.
Every number is a name.
Source: UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, July 20, 2026
#Ukraine #WarCrimes #StopRussianAggression #RussiaUkraineWar
🕯️ Ukrainian Red Cross volunteer killed in Russian strike on Odesa.
Olena Arkhipova, an instructor for the Ukrainian Red Cross, died on July 16 while leading her three children to shelter during a Russian missile attack; the children survived the incident.
The Google Brain (& @GoogleDeepMind) team back in 2015 feels like a stronger fit to this picture: Andrej Karpathy, Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Noam Shazeer, Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, Mustafa Suleyman, Jeff Dean, Andrew Ng, Greg Corrado, Geoffrey Hinton, Ashish Vaswani, Jakob Uszkoreit, Łukasz Kaiser, Niki Parmar, Aidan Gomez.
Today, the Russians once again "vanquished" purely civilian sites – ordinary passenger buses in Odesa, ordinary apartment buildings in Zaporizhzhia, and an ordinary hospital in the Kharkiv region. Every single day of this war that Russia is waging against life only proves that supporting Ukraine is the right thing to do from every perspective – defense, political, and simply human.
And everyone around the world sees it. They see that Ukraine needs more air defense, more protection for people's lives, and that the Russian authorities have gone insane over this war and are completely irrational in refusing to end it.
But pressure on Russia must work. New sanctions against the aggressor, new support packages for Ukraine, new projects – like our European anti-ballistic initiative, FREYJA – all of this must work. Thank you to everyone who is helping. In the near future, there will be meetings and negotiations that must strengthen our defenses.
CCTV footage captures the exact moment Russian guided aerial bombs struck the city of Sumy on July 11.
The attack hit a busy area near a road and a public transport stop, damaging residential buildings and local businesses. The death toll from the strike has risen to five people, including a 13-year-old girl.
Video: https://t.co/v4GuGVUTp3; piccolino_coffee / Instagram.
Browder: Putin started a war because he stole so much money that he became afraid of his own people.
The easiest way to stop people turning against you is to create a foreign enemy. That is Machiavelli 101. 1/