Russia has started calling its terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities a "response" to Ukraine's special operation targeting strategic bombers.
These so-called "responses" include strikes on residential buildings in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lutsk, Pryluky, and other cities.
Russia continues to drop glide bombs (KABs) on Kherson.
It carried out the most intense attacks on residential areas in Kharkiv since 2022. Over the past 24 hours alone, 6 civilians were killed and 44 wounded in Kharkiv and the surrounding region.
Russian forces also continue targeting civilians in the center of Sumy.
‼️Russia is killing Ukrainians simply because it can.
Its goal is to wipe Ukraine off the map.
Ukraine is not "provoking" — it is defending itself.
These attacks aim to spread panic, break civilian morale, and destabilize the rear.
Through terror, Russia seeks to impose ultimatums on Ukraine and intimidate both Ukrainians and Europeans.
Meanwhile, Russia deceives the U.S. with false talk of "peace."
Putin lies — as he always has.
He must be forced to the negotiating table. He only understands strength.
Throughout this week, Russia has carried out hundreds of attacks against our people using various types of weapons: around 1,200 guided aerial bombs, nearly 870 attack drones, and over 80 missiles of different types.
Every Shahed drone and aerial bomb Russia uses contains components supplied in circumvention of sanctions. These weapons include more than 82,000 foreign components.
Every day, we work with our partners to ensure that decisions are made to provide life-saving support: air defense systems, investments in our defense production, and the strengthening of sanctions against Russia. We continue our efforts to bring a just peace closer and ensure reliable security guarantees.
Letting russia keep parts of Ukrainian territories will mean genocide of Ukrainian people.
Some think that if a country is occupied, people may just continue living peacefully under a different flag and pay taxes to a different government. That’s not the case.
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The nonsense of Russian Soviet-style propaganda has not changed... and unfortunately neither has the naive stupidity of the West in dealing with it.
❗️Historical fact: On September 17, 1939, Russia invaded Poland to "protect Russian minorities."
❗️This is exactly the same narrative that Putin dug out of the store of old Soviet lies to "justify" the invasion of Ukraine.
❗️That is no coincidence, because in general the "Putin system" is a dangerous revival of Soviet imperial fantasies:
1) Putin's foreign policy is an old Soviet tactic:
Andrei Gromyko, former long-time foreign minister of the USSR, summed up this tactic clearly:
a) Demand the maximum. Don't ask, but DEMAND something that NEVER belonged to you.
b) Issue ultimatums. Make threats.
c) Don't make concessions, because there will ALWAYS be politicians in the West who will offer you something.
d) And in the end you will have a third or even half of something that NEVER belonged to you before.
2) Putin, the ex-KGB officer, has a plan for the world, and this plan has a name:
"Russkiy Mir" ("RUSSIAN WORLD", the word "Mir" can mean both "world" and "peace", but "Russkiy Mir" as an ideology is a doctrine of imperialism).
This megalomaniac imperial fantasy was largely shaped by Putin's KGB colleague Vladimir Gundjajew (today better known as Kirill I, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, this ex-officer of the communist KGB is now said to be a voice of Jesus, which in itself is completely ridiculous) and is being implemented by Putin without compromise.
3) "Russian world" means the non-recognition of the independent statehood of the ex-Soviet republics, as well as the restoration of the spheres of influence of the old "Warsaw Pact". Since some of the ex-Soviet republics are now NATO members and the Warsaw Pact reached as far as Berlin, it is obvious what kind of war is awaiting us if Putin is not stopped in Ukraine.
4) Putin wants to conquer, and he will not limit his ambitions to Ukraine in case he doesn't get stopped there.
❗️ It was no coincidence that in a much-quoted speech in 2004 Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as a "national tragedy of enormous proportions" and a year later in 2005 in his "speech to the nation" he actually described it as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century".
For Putin, it was not WWII, nor the Holocaust, that was the "greatest tragedy", but rather THE COLLAPSE OF RUSSIA'S IMPERIAL GREATNESS.
❗️Putin sees it as HIS PERSONAL MISSION, as his "legacy to Russian history", to correct this supposedly "worst of all tragedies" and to restore Russia to its imperial greatness from Soviet times.
THAT'S WHY he doesn't care what his predecessor Yeltsin signed (namely the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which guarantees the territorial integrity of Ukraine).
THAT'S WHY he invaded Ukraine.
THAT'S WHY he is already stirring up trouble in Moldova/Transnistria, a candidate for EU membership.
THAT'S WHY he is stirring up trouble and inciting hatred against Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (NATO member states).
THAT'S WHY Putin's accomplices Kadyrov and Medvedev are already devising plans to correct the mistake of withdrawing Russian troops from East GERMANY ("that was a mistake, that is our territory", quote Kadyrov, e.g. on February 15, 2023).
➡️ Russia can be defeated, Russia has been defeated several times in history and has also been defeated twice as a nuclear power.
❗️In the interest of world peace, this must now happen a third time.
There is no alternative.
Because Russian victory means war.
Ukrainian victory means peace.
➡️ The exact details of ALL relevant Russian narratives can be found in the attached post.
#LetUkraineStrikeBack
#Russia #Putin
#Ukraine
#UkraineNeverSurrenders
#ArmUkraineToWin
#ArmUkraineToWinNOW
Russian propagandists tell their audience Ukraine should cease to exist.
Show that to anyone who thinks it's possible to "settle things" with Russia.
Russia wants to destroy us, we want to survive. There's no room for compromise.
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This Ukrainian man is crying, Yaroslav from Lviv lost his entire family today.
With all my heart - I hate Biden and all so-called leaders of Europe who do nothing.
You have proven in 30 months that you slept through history class.
The Europeans are hiding behind the senile Biden so as not to have to decide anything, but if Ukraine loses, completely different problems will befall our Europe.
While the West continues importing 🇷🇺 gas + LNG, the 🇷🇺 secret service SVR runs freely multi-channel (TikTok; YT; X) disinformation campaigns. The objective was to stoke anti-government sentiments in the West, particularly over liberal democracies’ support for Ukraine. 1/2
"They beat me so hard that I started to lose consciousness. They tore people's nails off, electrocuted, tortured and kept people in cages."
Eight more children from the occupied territories have been returned to Ukraine. According to the Save Ukraine charity organization, children from 7 to 17 years old from the occupied part of Kherson and Donetsk regions are among them.
In total, the Save Ukraine team managed to rescue 405 children from Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.
📹: Save Ukraine
Nebenzya is brazenly lying at the UN about the attack on the children's hospital.
He has been blatantly lying for years.
And will he continue? Does the UN seem to be fine with that?
Istanbul agreements of 2022 remain on the table. They can become the base for the negotiations process, Putin said.
Putin continues killing Ukrainians, destroying Ukrainian energy system with winter ahead and call capitulation "peace negotiations."
A viral story that alleges Ukraine's Olena Zelenska recently bought a rare Bugatti car in Paris is the work of an AI-powered disinformation operation, run by an ex-Florida cop now based in Moscow, that pumps out fake news websites aimed at Americans.
https://t.co/GlWXX4XZuR