David Edgar

Play up sky blues. Coventry City and Boldmere St Michaels supporter

[Joanne Kenny @Muxley14]

Forcing Starmer to resign is a terrible decision. I'm sick of this merry go round of unelected PMs. You have forced a decent, moral man who is respected in Europe out of office and played into Trump, Farage and Putin's hand. Country is full of idiots.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[David Edgar @DavidEdgar19]

@Nike Disgusting from Nike

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine.

There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs.

Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

[Lincoln City FC 🇺🇦 @LincolnCity_FC]

Say nothing. Just repost.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

These are the Russian Shahed drones that attack Ukraine daily.

You can see on the video how large a combat drone really is, compared to a car.

Just this last week, Russia used over 3,000 combat drones against Ukrainian cities.

[John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar]

War Diary Day 1,482
On the frontline, Ukraine is pushing Russia back.

But now Trump’s stupid war against Iran is delivering $150m a day to the Kremlin.

And the world economy is going to hell in a handcart.

#DTDFO!
#VPDFO!

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

It's like the beginning of an apocalypse: Russia has attacked Kostyantynivka with banned phosphorus, which incinerates all living things, and dropped a FAB-1500 bomb on the city.

Terrible.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Sir Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Arthur Dron to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion 💙💛

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Four years ago, Europe awoke to the sound of Russian bombs falling on Ukraine.

Four years of a war of aggression chosen by Russia, in blatant defiance of international law, of a people’s sovereignty, and of human life.

Four years of cities struck, of schools and hospitals destroyed, of energy infrastructure methodically targeted to plunge families into cold and terror.

Four years: 15,000 Ukrainian civilians killed.

Four years of shattered lives—violence, rape, torture, war crimes, and terror.

Four years, and thousands of Ukrainian children torn from their land and their families.

And yet, for four years Ukraine has held firm and resisted.

One day, Russians will grasp the enormity of the crime committed in their name, the hollowness of the pretexts invoked, and the long-term, devastating effects on their own country.

While the Kremlin promised to conquer Ukraine in a matter of days, only 1% of Ukrainian territory has been taken since the front stabilized in November 2022. Last month, Ukraine even regained ground.

And at what cost for the Russians?

More than 1.2 million Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed—the highest number of Russian combat casualties since the Second World War.

Faced with these losses, Russia is recruiting individuals on the African continent to send them to fight on the Ukrainian front, often with no prior training whatsoever.

This war is a triple failure for Russia: military, economic, and strategic.

It has strengthened NATO—the very expansion Russia sought to prevent—galvanized Europeans it hoped to weaken, and laid bare the fragility of an imperialism from another age.

Because Ukraine is the first line of defence of our continent, France and Europe stand resolutely by its side.

Financial, military, humanitarian, and energy assistance: Europe has already mobilised €170 billion. At the European Council in December, we agreed on a €90 billion loan to provide Ukraine with predictable funding over the next two years. There is no justification for calling this into question. We must now deliver on it.

Deliveries of equipment and ammunition, training, strengthened air defences and counter-drone capabilities, and support for the systems already supplied will continue.

So that Ukraine can hold—and so that Russia understands that time is not on its side.

We will also continue to target Russia’s war economy: we will stay the course on sanctions and press ahead with action against the shadow fleet.

Because there can be no peace without security—and because our security is being decided in Ukraine—we will continue our engagement within the Coalition of the Willing.

In Paris on 6 January, we built strong convergence with the United States on future security guarantees. Today’s new meeting must allow us to keep moving forward.

We will also ensure that Europeans’ interests are properly taken into account in the discussions, including—when the time comes—when it is a question of the security architecture our continent needs.

To the women and men of Ukraine: we think of you with deep emotion. Of your families who have endured so much, of your children, of all those who keep resisting under the strikes.

To those who believe they can count on our fatigue: they are mistaken.

We are, and will remain, by Ukraine’s side.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

10,000 North Korean soldiers are now on the territory of Russia. It is extremely dangerous that they are gaining knowledge about modern hybrid warfare. They know how to defend against missiles, against different types of drones – including fiber-optic drones – from FPV to long-range drones. They are learning on the territory of Russia now, because we are responding to Russia’s attacks. So they have this opportunity. What will they do with this knowledge? At the very least, they will bring this knowledge and experience home to North Korea.

From my conversation with Kyodo News (2/3)

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

So let me get this clear: the veterans of the russia's full scale invasion are competing in Paralympics under their flag. Such a disgusting message this sends. To the memory of everyone killed, to the families, but most of all - to the whole world. Go start wars, commit all kinds of war crimes, and hope to separate the accountability. Disgrace.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I’ll save you five minutes of your time today so you don’t have to read the news about yet another round of “negotiations” in Geneva:

Ukraine is still willing to agree to absolutely any ceasefires, compromises, a halt to the war, a freeze along the front line, and all possible and impossible mineral deals to please Donald Trump -- but it is not willing to capitulate and be destroyed by Russia.

Russia still refuses any ceasefires, any compromises, any halt to the war -- and agrees to nothing short of Ukrainian surrender, with ever-growing demands leading ultimately to Ukraine’s destruction.

And the U.S. administration still has neither the power to force Ukraine to surrender, nor the conscience or the wisdom to stop this idiotic charade with Putin and instead begin pressuring Russia and arming Ukraine so that Ukraine can make Russia accept a stable and lasting peace.

The parties agreed on nothing and will meet again at yet another meaningless “summit” in a month, so that Russia can continue buying time and making a fool of Donald Trump while continuing to destroy Ukraine.

You’re welcome.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No words left to say.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Kick out the parasite Trump from any negotiations about Ukraine!
He does nothing for Ukraine but everything for his beloved Putin.
Europe needs to stand up & tell Trump to get out or start supporting Ukraine.

[Klitschko @Klitschko]

„The essential thing is to take part“. For russian and belarusian athletes. For the Ukrainian athletes who were killed, not even remembrance is allowed. The IOC claims this is not about politics, only about sport. This has nothing to do with Olympic Games anymore – these are political games.

The IOC is not protecting neutrality, it is protecting its image. The faces of the Ukrainian athletes who gave their lives for freedom are “too political” for your perfect TV show. The Olympic ideal is being lost in the cold calculations of the global sports business.

When I think of my Olympic gold medal today, I don’t feel pride anymore. I feel shame. For the IOC, the show must go on. I am here to say what they don’t want to hear: the killing must stop 🛑

@iocmedia

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Man who closed down Grangemouth oil refinery to make a few more quid overseas, resulting in thousands of job losses throughout the community, says too many people are on benefits.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Hard to believe none of the Reform MPs turned up for the debate on Russian interference in our politics. Maybe they were visiting former Welsh leader Nathan Gill in prison for his Kremlin propaganda work? Or en route to their next BBC interview to help with their propaganda work here?

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

This is truly moving in so many ways.
You see their spirit is strong.
You also see that the Russians have starved them, as you would have expected & probably tortured them.