David Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺

Widower vegetarian environmentalist former financial controller, likes classical history classical music opera art gardening bats birds butterflies nature.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Putin to hint at nuclear war by displaying ‘doomsday’ plane at parade.

Russia’s annual May 9 parade will include a flight by the Il-80 “doomsday” plane, which would carry Russia’s top brass in the event of a nuclear war, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, as cited by Reuters.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Did not even make main stream news in West
Millions in India and Pakistan this week were in spitting distance of temps at which human cells start to cook, animals suffer and air conditioners overload power grids. Once an extreme rarity, 50C is fast becoming a new #climate reality

[Oleksii Reznikov @oleksiireznikov]

Today is Infantry Day in Ukraine. 🇺🇦 infantry carries the main burden of the war on its shoulders.
From the Battle of Konotop to Donbas, our traditions remain unchanged. Our readiness to defend our land is a constant.
Glory to Ukraine’ s infantry!

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

In the Kharkiv region russians booby trapped graves in order to kill civilians which will come to the cemetery. Sharing it for those who still thinks there are other ways forward apart from kicking this evil out of Ukraine promptly & fully #ArmUkraineNow
Credit: на фронті України

[David Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @DavidWo73269386]

@glenkingfisher @Preservation945 I remember having to wipe the insects off my car windscreen in the 1980’s every day, but not any more. I guess we are all to blame in a way.

[David Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @DavidWo73269386]

@AmyLNeeley @jean_pjtwood It was pure flying feeling the wind in your face. What memories!

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Welcomed a group of European parliamentarians and urged them to streamline Ukraine’s integration into the EU. Public in the EU supports it. Time for European leaders to set aside fears & make big steps to shape the future of Europe. Grateful to @GLOBSEC for organizing this visit.

[Peter Gillibrand @GillibrandPeter]

BREAKING: Plaid Cymru GAIN Sir Gar and Ceredigion from a no party majority.

They've bolstered the Plaid heartlands this election, it seems. #LocalElections2022

[WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WalesOnline]

Angry Welsh Tories lash out at Boris Johnson as party suffers battering at Wales' local elections 2022
https://t.co/eeYbBHnqG8

[Tomos Morgan @tomosmorgannews]

Very strong day for @Plaid_Cymru taking THREE councils today - all of their targets in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Anglesey (and holding onto Gwynedd) #wales #BBCElections

[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

Fascinating that Russian media is reporting the CNN report that US intel helped sink Moskva. The Kremlin will have a lot of explaining to do in the morning after telling Russians for weeks that a “fire” was responsible for the sinking.

[Alexander Khrebet @AlexKhrebet]

⚡️⚡️⚡️ The Ukrainian counterattack bore fruit. The army regained full control in Oleksandrivka, Fedorivka, Ukrainka, Shestakovo, and Peremoha in Kharkiv Oblast. The village of Cherkaski Tyshky is partially liberated, the General Staff reported.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ 2,100 people left occupied Kherson Oblast on foot, by car.

Over 2,000 civilians escaped from frontline villages north in the direction of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, according to the Kherson Regional Administration.

[Signe Maene  is on Bluesky, Instagram & elsewhere @MaeneSigne]

'Literature is my Utopia.'
-Helen Keller

🎨Wilhelm Menzler (detail)

[David Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @DavidWo73269386]

@BabaSHamal_T @ZelenskyyUa Same old delusional story, you really have been brainwashed.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

Sweden is already a terrific partner…they will be great as part of @nato.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine calls on @MSF to organize a mission to the besieged Mariupol fortress of Azovstal to evacuate the Ukrainian defenders trapped in the steelworks compound

https://t.co/aaNHUT5aoJ
#savemilitaryofmariupol

[David Wood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺 @DavidWo73269386]

@Malinowski @BorisJohnson has been selling arms to Saudi Arabia for years, and this is all the thanks he gets when he’s trying to support Ukraine.

Why doesn’t the Saudi’s increase oil production? Something for @Keir_Starmer to mention at PMQ’s perhaps?

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

The main reason gas prices are sky high is that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are deliberately helping Russia, and undercutting our sanctions, by refusing to increase oil production.

As this piece argues, the time has come to tell them to choose sides.
https://t.co/xExSqhrGTG