Francesca E.

viaggio spaventoso, tempo così così

[Francesca E. @Fra_E]

| Francois Truffaut in a bookshop | via @GettyImages

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Can you imagine what it’s like for a Ukrainian athlete to stand next to a Russian flag and listen to the Russian anthem while Russia continues to attack Ukraine every single day?

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Hellish night in Kyiv. Didn’t know if I’d wake up.

When there’s nothing on the battlefield, Russia wages war on market stalls and apartment blocks, murdering people in their sleep.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Two Sisters. Twelve and Seventeen. Buried Together in Kyiv Today.

Liubava was 12. Vira was 17. This morning they were laid to rest side by side in Kyiv, killed along with 22 others when a Russian missile struck the residential building where they lived.

Their father, Yevhen Yakovlev, was killed in combat in 2023 defending Ukraine. He never came home. Now their mother has lost her husband, her daughters, and her home.
One family. Completely gone.

When we talk about missile strikes on residential buildings, we are talking about this. Not infrastructure. Not statistics. Families. Children who had names, ages, futures. A mother who now has none of them.

Russia does not accidentally hit apartment buildings. It targets them.

Remember Liubava and Vira.

[Francesca E. @Fra_E]

| Truffaut & Baye |

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🔴 BREAKING: Russian forces hit a 19th-century landmark in the Kharkiv region with a drone, according to the State Emergency Service.

The Donts-Zakharzhevsky estate, built in 1835, had survived wars and the Soviet era, until now.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Of course, not even a day has passed before 'based and trad' Russia once again ruined another historic Christian church in Ukraine with its bombing -- this time it's the 18th-century Greek-Sophia Church, the oldest in the city of Kherson.

And of course, the Kremlin's bootlickers will once again prefer not to notice.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Every damned day. Do not look away. Do not grow numb. This is terror. This is mass murder by Russia in Ukraine. Every day. Europe could close the skies and give Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend itself and every day chooses not to.

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

On this day four years ago, Ukrainian soldiers liberated the Kyiv suburb of Bucha from 33 days of Russian occupation.

The Ukrainians will never forget the horrors left behind by the Russians. Residents tortured, raped and murdered by Russians lay on streets, sidewalks, in their yards, in their homes, basements, and in mass graves.

Russians bring only destruction, humiliation, and death to other nations. The Bucha tragedy proved to the world that Russians have no limits. They won’t stop unless the entire free world stops them.

Eternal memory to the victims.

May God rest their souls.

Slava Ukraini.

[jacopo iacoboni @jacopo_iacoboni]

Quattro anni fa, il massacro di Bucha.

Le immagini che spiegano semplicemente la Russia di Putin.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Maternity ward in Odesa. Again.
The hardest was evacuating newborn twins on ventilators.
When Russian Shaheds attacked, doctors moved 33 pregnant women and 19 newborns to safety in a bomb shelter.
Then helped put out the fire.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Lviv’s historic center. Kilometers from the EU border. Russia strikes western Ukraine in daylight.

Ukraine hit military and energy targets inside Russia. Russia hits trains, medics, civilians. Cover for a spring offensive bleeding badly with nothing to show.

To those restoring “relations” with Moscow: you’re not trading Ukraine. You’re trading yourself. You just don’t know it yet.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

Another Russian Shahed drone strike on a passenger train. This time near Sumy.

If this happened anywhere else in the world, it would be breaking news.
So why isn’t it?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Efforts to deal with the aftermath of the massive Russian attack are currently underway in the Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Mykolaiv regions. All necessary services are involved. The main target for the Russians was the energy infrastructure of the Kyiv region, but unfortunately, there were also direct hits on and damage to ordinary residential buildings, schools, and civilian businesses. As of now, four people have been reported killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Many people have been injured, and some are still seeking medical assistance.

Over the course of the night, the Russians launched around 430 drones of various types and a significant number of missiles. There were 13 ballistic missiles alone, and the total number of missiles in this attack was 68. According to preliminary data, 58 of them were intercepted by our air defense system. And every such night of Russian strikes is a reminder to all our partners that air defenses and the missiles for them are effectively a daily necessity. Every agreement on missile supplies cannot wait – everything must be implemented as quickly as possible. Our agreements to increase the production of air defense missiles are a critical direction, and this direction requires one hundred percent attention. Russia will try to exploit the war in the Middle East to cause even greater destruction here in Europe, in Ukraine. This is why we must be fully aware of the real level of the threat and prepare accordingly, namely: in Europe, we need to develop the production of air defense missiles – especially those capable of countering ballistic threats – as well as all other systems necessary to truly protect lives, regardless of what may be happening in any other part of the world. Europe is able to ensure this level of reliable protection. Thank you to everyone who is helping!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The strength and role of Ukrainian women are not about just one day. They are about all 365 days of the year. Ukrainian women defend the country, wait for their loved ones and support them, raise children amid difficult wartime conditions, create, research, rescue, teach, and heal.

Thank you for your determination, leadership, care, and professionalism. Thank you for everything you do every day.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Messages and images from inside Iran:

The Islamic Republic is using schools and students as human shields.

Multiple reports indicate that many military and security centers across Iranian cities have been evacuated, with forces and equipment relocated into schools. They are turning schools into barracks and using children as human shields to protect themselves.

Today, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson even held a press conference inside a school.

The Islamic Republic has no regard for the lives of its citizens, civilians, or even children. A regime that killed more than 230 children in just two days will not hesitate to see more children die in war if it helps them sell their narrative to the world.

#Iran
#IranMassacre

[Petite Séquence @petitesequence]

Fanny Ardant & Gérard Depardieu
La Femme d'à côté - François Truffaut, 1981

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Sport shouldn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says otherwise. This is certainly not about the principles of Olympism, which are founded on fairness and the support of peace.

I thank our athlete for his clear stance. His helmet, bearing the portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, is about honour and remembrance. It is a reminder to the whole world of what Russian aggression is and the cost of fighting for independence. And in this, no rule has been broken.

It is Russia that constantly violates Olympic principles, using the period of the Olympic Games to wage war. In 2008, it was the war against Georgia; in 2014 – the occupation of Crimea; in 2022 – the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And now, in 2026, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics, Russia shows complete disregard, increasing missile and drone strikes on our energy infrastructure and our people.

660 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia since the full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of our athletes will never again be able to take part in the Olympic Games or any other international competitions. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics. They compete under “neutral” flags at the Games, while in real life publicly supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. And they are the ones who deserve disqualification.

We are proud of Vladyslav and of what he did. Having courage is worth more than any medal.

[Ukraine.ua @ukraine_ua]

A prosthetic limb. A toy. A scooter in the snow and rubble.

This is what remains of a home in Bohodukhiv after Russia's drone strike on 10 February. Shortly before midnight, Russia hit a private house. Hryhorii Shykula, a 34-year-old Ukrainian veteran, and his three small children – two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl – were killed.

Their mother, 35 weeks pregnant, survived with burns and a head injury. The family had evacuated from Zolochiv only days earlier, hoping to find safety.

These images reveal the true nature of Russia's war: the deliberate destruction of civilian homes and the killing of children. More international pressure is needed on Russia to stop these attacks.

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

The horror Russia brings every day is unbearable.

Twin one-year-old boys and their two-year-old sister killed with their dad in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region. He survived the war and came home with a prosthetic leg.

Their pregnant mom is in hospital.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

His helmet bears portraits of our athletes who were killed by Russia. Figure skater Dmytro Sharpar, who was killed in combat near Bakhmut; Yevhen Malyshev, a 19-year-old biathlete killed by the occupiers near Kharkiv; and other Ukrainian athletes whose lives were taken by Russia’s war.

I thank the flag bearer of our national team at the Winter Olympics, Vladyslav Heraskevych, for reminding the world of the price of our struggle.

This truth cannot be inconvenient, inappropriate, or called a “political demonstration at a sporting event.” It is a reminder to the entire world of what modern Russia is.

And this is what reminds everyone of the global role of sport and the historic mission of the Olympic movement itself – it is all about peace and for the sake of life. Ukraine remains faithful to this. Russia proves the opposite.