Greg Callaghan

Feature writer for Good Weekend in Sydney Morning Herald/ The Age. Host of true-crime podcast Bondi Badlands. Now on Bluesky @gregcal.bsky.social

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.

Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.

White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.

Russia is cancer.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

True!

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is not World War II footage.

This is Toretsk, Ukraine — and it’s not as far away as you think.

A city that once had over 30,000 residents. Now almost completely erased.

There is no excuse for this. None.

[A Little Georgian Warrior🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @True_Georgian]

🇬🇪🇪🇺 Day 532 of the Nonstop Pro-European Protests against the Authoritarian Regime in Georgia!
#GeorgiaProtests

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

President Obama on Iran: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz”

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: Things changed. Ukrainians control frontline almost completely. It’s very difficult for Russians to advance. More Russians being killed every month than they able to recruit. Ukrainian long-range drones hitting big Russian targets. Putin’s regime become very paranoid.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

While russian politicians party in Venice, waves of missiles & drones have pounded Ukraine. People are under the rubble of an apartment building in Kyiv this morning. Important for the world to see this footage and stop inviting this terrorist state back into civilised society

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Ukraine is performing a feat every day, every hour, every minute, grinding down Russia’s power.

If Ukraine had surrendered, that force would have crashed down on all of Europe. Ukraine did not “just hold.” Ukraine saved Europe. 3X

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Very few people realize the true scale of the war in Ukraine.

In the first 100 days alone, more people potentially died in the siege of Mariupol than during the entire war in Gaza.

Understanding this grim reality is crucial to grasping what is actually at stake

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Note the underlying stupidity behind these threats. US bases and troops around the world are there for US global force projection, not to protect Spain or Italy or whatever he thinks. America’s enemies would love it if he picked up his toys and went home.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

"I don’t think Americans fully appreciate the extraordinary cost of Trump’s bluster and blunders. It should go without saying, but once you threaten to invade an allied country, you don’t just place the existence of the alliance in jeopardy; you raise the possibility of allies turning into mortal enemies. You can also trigger the kind of insecurity and scramble for power that contributed to the start of World War I.

In practical terms, it’s hard to see how alienating American allies puts America first." https://t.co/bs1q6dkrcN

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian attack on Odesa last night.

Residential buildings hit, two people killed (an elderly couple), 14 more injured.

Property destroyed, people suffering. That's Russia for you.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

🇹🇼🇺🇦 Taiwan has delivered an extraordinary show of support — 68 emergency vehicles for Ukraine!

It's the largest transfer of its kind in Lviv’s history.

They’ll be headed to frontline communities like Kharkiv, Kupiansk, and beyond, where help is needed most.

These are the vehicles that arrive first when every minute counts — and thanks to Taiwan, more Ukrainian lives can be saved.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

“Only the total defeat of the russian federation and the Ukrainian flag in Sevastopol will knock the virus of empire out of the brains of russians. russians must see that the empire is dead."

-G. Kasparov

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Kaja Kallas:

"Washington is not trying to manage Europe. It is trying to dissolve it.
They do not like the European Union,..
The tactics,resemble those used by the EU's adversaries..

The answer is not bilateral deals with Trump. It is unity. Because when Europe stands together, it is an equal power. And that is exactly what Washington cannot stand."

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

After Trump returned to WH, Ukraine held out hope of winning him over. But Trump revealed his affection for Putin again and again, halted American aid to Kyiv, insulted Ukrainian leaders, pressured Ukraine to cede territory. Now, Kyiv appears to have given up on US - The Atlantic

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Latest in @TheAtlantic . The Ukrainians are no longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and therefore how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift link. https://t.co/cJMTC2ppDJ

[Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @Oksii33]

“Hoverla, Ukraine. The highest point in Ukraine now looks like this. 2061 meters. When you stand here and hear the wind fluttering these flags, you feel both pride and incredible sadness.

Behind each of them is someone's life, someone's pain and someone's feat. The guys leave them in memory of their comrades who will never see these mountains again. Someone climbs here on prostheses, overcoming themselves so that the flag of their unit flies closer to the sky. This is no longer just a tourist peak. This is a place of our strength and memory.”

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Kyiv burns as Ukraine no longer has any Patriot interceptor missiles - the only defense against Russian Iskander ballistic missiles.
Vice President Vance recently bragged of his "proudest" achievement - cutting off military support for Ukraine.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

I’m from Ukraine.
I don’t pray for peace anymore.
I pray for strength
to survive this darkness
long enough
to watch the light return.