Today is #Ukraine Independence Day, on the anniversary of Matthew VanDyke’s escape from a #Libya prison on 8/24/11. Wounded and captured in the war, he was a POW for nearly 6 months.
Today, Matthew continues to be wrongfully detained at Delhi, India Tihar jail with all basic detainee rights denied since March 11th, 2026. #FreeVanDyke #FreeMatthewVanDyke
The moment of the Russian strike on Sumy today.
Five people killed, including a teenage girl.
Turn the sound on if you can.
I have no words.... the horror of it all.
🚨🧵 RISE OF FASCISM IN POLAND
Adam Michnik, prominent Polish historian and key architect of Poland’s 1989 victory over communism delivered a speech titled "We Are All Ukrainians" warning of a creeping slide toward fascism in Poland and comparing the climate to 1930s Germany.
Task Force Orange.
You've never heard of it.
That's the entire point.
What we know...
what we don't...
and the one question nobody can answer:
What does it do here at home?
https://t.co/LIUmDCCI3Y
When our deep strikes were not reaching Moscow and St. Petersburg, Putin did not think much about it. He understood that the war was far from the Kremlin. Of course, once he feels what is happening in Moscow, he will begin to understand what is happening in the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions. He’ll begin to grasp the reality of the situation.
When not one hundred drones but a thousand start reaching Moscow, and when he feels it and sees it, he will be advised to move somewhere beyond the Urals. That will be a moment that opens a new chapter on the path toward ending the war. The farther Putin is from Moscow, the closer the end of the war and peace will be.
He fears for his life. And then there are the elites. Where do the Russian elites live? Moscow and St. Petersburg – the two major cities. Those places will be reached, because that is where they make the decisions to kill us.
That is why deep strikes have had, and continue to have, a major impact. We must keep working on this. It is constant, difficult, and daily work. We must all stay focused and energized. The heroes are those on the front line. And all of us, the entire state, must keep carrying shells to them. If we do, we will bring a just and strong peace for Ukraine. That is what victory means for us.
From an interview with the Financial Times. (3/3)
The world drained 35 years of oil reserves in 60 days.
The US SPR is at a 43-year low.
Now the hard part: the US won't even START refilling until 2027.
And a full rebuild will take 15-18 months at best.
Every day these tanks stay empty, Iran keeps its Hormuz leverage.
Vance literally admitted it: the deal was about giving the world time to refill "and see where the hand is."
It's a race. And Iran knows it.