Goran Rotim

journalist at HRT

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ Senior Russian Orthodox cleric detained in Czechia over suspected drug possession.

Police in Karlovy Vary, Czechia, detained Russian Orthodox Church official Metropolitan Hilarion on May 24 after discovering four containers with an unidentified white substance in his vehicle during a traffic stop.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Ukrainians struck a dormitory that housed military personnel, which was evident from the school’s Telegram channel. Several videos also show how the “college” was used for training drone operators.

6/13

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Every major Western country condemned the attack, except the United States. Shameful.

[Slava 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava]

Even a $100 million Putin's Oreshnik not able to ruin morning coffee for Ukrainians

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Ukraine is better prepared for Putin's endless invasion: "Whereas four years ago Ukraine depended entirely on military support from abroad, today about 60% of the military capabilities used by Ukrainian forces are produced domestically." https://t.co/UdaawNm86m

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

Ukraine's drone forces destroyed a Russian S-300 launcher, a rare 9S19 "Imbir" radar, fuel tank cars, and a Merlin-VR recon drone in occupied Donetsk on 24 May.

The SBS has knocked out 23 Russian air defense elements this May.

🔗 https://t.co/kIQAicAUvp

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

💥 Punishment from heaven awaits every Russian who finds himself in the area of ​​responsibility of the 39th Marine Brigade. And even more so – in the reach of our FPV pilots!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Gen. David Petraeus, former CIA Director and former CENTCOM Commander on the new reality of the Russia-Ukraine war:

"Ninety percent of the casualties on the Russian side are caused by drones.

Ukraine is going from 3.5 million drones manufactured last year to 7 million this year, so they can get up to 20,000 drones per day if they can find the pilots."

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

Today was the historic reburial of OUN leader Andrii Melnyk and his wife, Sofia Fedak-Melnyk – figures of Ukraine’s national liberation movement who, after decades abroad, have been returned to their native land.

We are bringing our Heroes home and restoring historical justice.

Andrii Melnyk once said: “We know that the Ukrainian State will not be the result of a fortunate coincidence of circumstances, but that it will be built first and foremost by Ukrainian hands.”

We continue to remember the heroes who defended Ukraine throughout the centuries. Their cause is carried forward today by our Defenders, who are repelling the same enemy. I thank our warriors for every day we have.

We honor and support our Heroes, both past and present.

Slava Ukraini!

[Decodïng Trolls @DecodingTrolls]

⚡️Russia’s Starobilsk Troll Exposed

Stage 1 (22 May): Ruschia accuses Ukraine of bombing a school in occupied Starobilsk. Putin: "monstrous crime." 21 dead. Ukraine: we struck the Rubikon drone-HQ.

Apparatus self-incriminates.

Viktor Vodolatsky — EU-sanctioned, founder of VOIN (Putin's UAV-pilot recruitment network, 50bn rubles, 21 branches) — on VOIN's own Telegram, in the same statement calling the strike a war crime, claims the facility as:

“OUR Pedagogical University."

VOIN trains drone operators "for units such as Rubicon" at Luhansk-occupation universities.

Stage 2: To Revenge Cycle Historians, one apparatus-announced "provocation" always begins the cycle.

Stage 3 (24 May): 90 missiles + 600 drones on Kyiv. Oreshnik hypersonic. National Art Museum, Chornobyl Museum, ~30 residential blocks. Framed as "retaliation."

CNN and Al Jazeera say Russia’s onslaught on Kyiv to avenge Ukraine’s strike on Starobilsk:

The question for Western media now isn’t “did Ukraine strike a school?”

It’s “why is the named EU-sanctioned operator of Russia’s drone-warfare-recruitment infrastructure being treated as a credible witness to its own facility’s civilian character?”

The case has moved from “Ukraine’s Rubikon claim vs Russia’s denial” into apparatus-self-incrimination at the named-operator level.

The new picture:

Viktor Vodolatsky — Duma member since 2007, EU-sanctioned, founder and head of VOIN — has personally signed the statement on VOIN’s own Telegram channel claiming the Starobilsk facility as “OUR Pedagogical University.”

VOIN is:
•Kremlin-sponsored, 50 billion rubles in the past 5 years
•21 branches, two in occupied Ukrainian territories (Donetsk + Luhansk)
•Explicit doctrine per the apparatus’s own materials: train youth (14–35) in weapons, war tactics, drone combat, “in order to then be directed to special UAV pilot units such as Rubicon”
•“Technical institutes are privileged places for training” — apparatus-doctrine confirmation that pedagogical-institute facades are by-design
The Starobilsk facility is simultaneously:
•A registered “pedagogical institution” (civilian-cover surface)
•An EU-sanctioned named-operator’s claimed VOIN node (apparatus-substrate)
•Doctrinally tied to Rubikon (Ukraine’s named target)

So Vodolatsky’s signed statement does two contradictory things in one paragraph:

it positions the strike as “monstrous terrorist act” targeting children (the children-as-shield framing), while simultaneously confirming the facility is VOIN’s own — an apparatus he himself heads.

The substrate-fakery is documented in the apparatus’s own claim of innocence.

Let me run this through the Twelve Tools quickly, because the toolkit is what turns the case from an outrage we shout about into an instrument we can hand to other people.

*Tool One. Archetypal Literacy.* What archetype is being deployed? *Ukraine hides its weapons in schools, so when we bomb the schools we are merely being provoked by Ukraine.* The archetype is *Provocation Logic.* I have called it the dominant trope of the war. Once you have seen it, you cannot un-see it. Every Russian ultimatum, every nuclear threat, every accusation of NATO expansion — *A accuses B of provoking A.*

*Tool Two. Troll Radars.* Is this incoming or outgoing? Both. Incoming to me, the listener, the analyst — the apparatus would like me to argue about the Starobilsk casualty figures, to litigate the Rubikon-headquarters claim in detail, to be drawn into the apparatus's chosen terrain. Outgoing from me — what am I broadcasting? Am I retransmitting the apparatus's framing by quoting it without naming it? The discipline is to gatekeep in both directions.

*Tool Three. Mana in the Meme.* What is the energy the framing is carrying? The energy is *moral inversion.* Aggressor dressed as victim. The Mana is the apparatus's signature. 1/2

h/t @mfphhh @fabio_tab

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

"Russian strikes on Kyiv damage Albanian ambassador's residence. "The residential complex where the Ambassador of Albania to Ukraine resides was struck, putting his life at serious risk," Ferit Hoxha, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania, posted on X."
Time for Europe to stand up to Russia's terror bombings of civilians and diplomats (!) in Ukraine!
https://t.co/U9gLxX7M5N

[🇺🇦Ukraine Resists ruzzian Genocide... Yeah Again @ArmedMaidan]

Rescuers continued the search today for bodies and survivors in the rubble after nazi ruzzia's massive strike yesterday with 600 drones and 90 ballistic and cruise missiles—one of the biggest of the war

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

“Ukraine provoked russia.”

Yes -
By existing.
By speaking Ukrainian in Ukraine.
By refusing to disappear quietly.
By choosing freedom over obedience.

How dare we survive.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Efforts to deal with the aftermath of yesterday’s Russian strikes continue in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi and Podilskyi districts. Nearly 100 State Emergency Service personnel are involved. In total, around 300 sites across Kyiv were damaged. Most of them are residential buildings – over the past day, notifications of varying degrees of damage were submitted for nearly 150 private homes and apartment blocks.

As of now, 87 people are reported to have been injured in the capital, including three children. Twenty-one people have been hospitalized, while the rest are receiving outpatient care. I am grateful to the medical workers treating and supporting our people. I thank everyone involved in recovery efforts, all emergency and public services.

Overall, six of our regions were affected by yesterday’s attack. Protection must be strengthened: support for air defense remains a daily priority of Ukraine’s foreign policy work at every level. And pressure on the aggressor – along with accountability for all these strikes – must be ensured. I thank the partners who condemned yesterday’s attack and everyone ready to help us with concrete steps.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🔥 Almost 70 kilometers — at such a distance, FPV drone destroyed a Russian ZIL in the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region.

[AnnaT 🇬🇧 🫶 🇺🇦 @1AnnaT]

💔💙💛
Free Azov Defenders
Defenders of Mariupol
We must fight for EVERY Ukrainian heart
Still in🇷🇺captivity, some for nearly 5 years
Captivity kills . . be their voice
Please don't be silent . . spread the message🙏
Violin Moisei Bondarenko @MoiseiUA
#FreeAzov
#FreeAzovstalDefenders

[Will Thiel 🇦🇺🇺🇦 @willthiel]

FYI in case anyone was wondering. The tank farm at the Novorossiysk terminal is still on fire enough to be generating a hot plume drifting SE.

This is good news for 🇺🇦 given 🇷🇺 inability to put out fires at this critical storage location for crude oil oil for export.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Before captivity, Serhii weighed 98 kilograms. When he returned home, he weighed just 50.

Serhii Bentsa served in the Ukrainian military under contract since 2020. He was part of Unit 3057, working in a radio-technical reconnaissance group that monitored enemy communications near Shyrokyne.

When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, he met the invasion on the front lines in Mariupol. After 86 days defending the city, he was forced into Russian captivity by order.

Serhii was told captivity would last only 3-4 months. Instead, it became 1,424 days.

During those years in Russian captivity, he endured horrific conditions — lack of hygiene, poor food, psychological pressure, abuse, beatings, and constant humiliation from prison administration.

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

On Saturday-Sunday 23-24 May, Russia slammed Kyiv with a lot of missiles it had been saving up, including the Oreshnik, an intermediate-range ballistic missile lanched from near-space, which rains misisles down from the upper atmosphere.

Most everyone I know in Kyiv said it had simply been the worst night. And yet the spirit is not broken.

Indeed, as Russia gets weak, such missile-and-drone temper tantrums will likely happen.

Kyiv still holds, as do cities like Kharkiv, just 30 miles from Russia.

https://t.co/0OqCEk5ob2

[KIU ✪ Russian Officers killed in Ukraine 🇨🇿🇺🇦 @KilledInUkraine]

Spot the five differences — it’s the same person 🥴
Lieutenant volunteer Штепа Алексей Владимирович (Shtepa Alexey Vladimirovich), commander of an assault platoon, signed the contract in April 2023 and was eliminated near Antonivka Bridge, Kherson, Ukraine on 24 January 2025.