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[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

As I watched this video, my heart was filled with both joy and ❤️‍🩹 at the same time.

Look at this little boy. He is standing at the train station, not yet knowing that he is about to hear the words he has been waiting for-that he is going home, to Ukraine. Then look at his eyes the moment he finds out. So much happiness in a single glance.

And at the same time, so much pain.

Because of Russіа, thousands of Ukrainian children have lost their homes. Thousands have been forced to leave Ukraine. And no matter what anyone says, it is hard. Especially for children. They miss their homes, their bedrooms, their friends, and the places they love. They simply want to go home.

Watching the joy in this little boy’s eyes brought me to tears. I’m sitting here crying.

Because every child deserves to grow up at home, not to dream of returning one day, but to simply live in their own country, in peace.
🎥 v.hryts

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Should a country that kills athletes be allowed to participate in international athletic competitions? My vote is no.

[Beefeater @Beefeater_Fella]

❗️Russians killed the last (!) resident of the village of Tokarivka Druha on the border of the Kharkiv region, — MVA

A 57-year-old woman worked at the Dergachiv Central Hospital — yesterday she was hit by a Russian FPV drone while she was walking along the road.

Meanwhile Zimbabwean pro-Russian bint #KirstyCoventry is bringing Russians back into the #Olympics

Disgusting, gormless cnut.

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇫🇮 Stubb "Ukraine has already won this war"

Russia controls only around 19% of Ukrainian territory

🔸To achieve even this, Moscow has burned through roughly 2/3 of its liquid reserves and devoted around 40% of federal spending to the war.

European military support for Ukraine costs only around 0.1% of GDP annually.

🔸For Europe, the war cost is financially marginal.

Russia is destroying its private sector and has suffered more than one million military casualties for a country it does not and will not control.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russia's new tactic to murder as many civilians as possible in Ukraine's Kherson region, no longer merely dispersing children's toys packed with explosives, now fake wet wipes.

Understanding "Russian culture" and "the Russian mind" should start here.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Ukrainian soldier removing a Russian billboard reading: "We and Russia are one people"

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

😔 Mykhailo Deryaha, who personally shot down 273 Russian Shahed drones, was killed while serving aboard a Mi-8 helicopter during the defense against a Russian aerial attack.

Mykhailo was the senior aerial gunner of the helicopter squadron of the 16th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Brody."

He was part of the Mi-8 crew that was lost on the night of June 30 in Ukraine's Poltava region while intercepting Russian drones.

Near the village of Starytskivka, the crew engaged enemy UAVs in combat.

They successfully destroyed two Shahed drones, but a third kamikaze drone struck their helicopter.

Alongside Mykhailo, three other crew members were killed: Bohdan Khmil, Valentyn Mukshynov, and Yurii Voron.

During his service, Mykhailo personally shot down 273 enemy drones.

For his courage and unwavering devotion to Ukraine, he was posthumously awarded the Order for Courage, 3rd Class.

A farewell ceremony was held in Brody, after which his body was flown home by military helicopter to his native village of Andriivka in the Poltava region, covering 675 kilometers.

As the helicopter appeared over the village, hundreds of people formed a human corridor to honor him.

Before landing at the local stadium, the helicopter circled Mykhailo's home three times—a final salute from his brothers-in-arms to his homeland, his family, and the place he loved.

The most heartbreaking moment came when his 10-year-old son, Maksym, stood holding a bouquet of red roses, looking into the sky, waiting for his father.

Beside him stood Mykhailo's mother, Inna Mykolaivna, and his wife, Olha Volodymyrivna, overwhelmed with grief.

Eternal memory and honor to Ukraine's heroes.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

Russia stands exposed as a barbaric aggressor committing genocide against Ukraine, yet too many in the West still treat this as some distant policy debate. German MEP Sergey Lagodinsky just cut through the nonsense in the European Parliament plenary.

He made it crystal clear: Ukraine is doing something extraordinary, fighting with unprecedented courage against a nuclear-backed invader. That demands an equally extraordinary response from every free nation.

No more half-measures, no more timid incrementalism, no more hiding behind bureaucratic excuses while Ukrainian children die and cities burn. The scale of sacrifice demands we match it with real weapons, real ammunition, real political will.

Anything less is moral cowardice that prolongs the slaughter. The European Parliament heard it loud and clear today.

Now the rest of Europe and the free world must finally act like it. The time for ordinary support is over.

Ukraine needs allies who are prepared to be extraordinary in deeds, not just words. History will judge harshly those who fail this test.

[Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences @actfast]

🧵🇺🇦 NATO is not in the habit of saying useful things directly. It wrote a declaration instead.

At the Ankara summit, the alliance rolled out a massive tech plan. They didn't call it Ukraine's daily reality. They just described it and signed it. 1/🧵

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

General Vadym Skibitksy, Deputy Head of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (HUR):

Today, the average survival time of a [Russian] soldier on the battlefield is no more than about 3 minutes. 1/11

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

"Ukraine, which in April 2014 could barely scrape together seventeen thousand troops and struggled to cope with Strelkov’s detachment, is now dismantling our energy sector. What is this if not a resounding and humiliating failure?"
-Russian milblogger Maxim Kalishnikov

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Meet russia's torturer in a white coat: Vyacheslav Mykolaiovych Cherdantsev.

He didn't heal. He tortured.

A 48-year-old prison "doctor" at Penal Colony No. 7 in Pakino, he humiliated and abused Ukrainian POWs under the guise of medical examinations.

He drew penises on prisoners' faces with green antiseptic, forced naked men to hug, dance, and simulate sex during so-called medical examinations. He denied treatment for scabies, infected wounds, and broken bones. He beat them, humiliated them, and threatened them with rape.

Dozens of Ukrainian survivors who endured this hell independently identified him. Many were left psychologically shattered. One 23-year-old Ukrainian Marine died by suicide after enduring the abuse.

This is not a doctor. This is a sadist. This is a war criminal.

The investigative journalists at Skhemy identified him and revealed his face.

Cherdantsev belongs in the dock, alongside the entire system that enabled and protected him.

The world knows his face. Now he must answer for his crimes.
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[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Russian men dying young is not new. They've been dying from drinking, neglect, broken health system. Male life expectancy only crawled back to 66 by 2019.

Then Putin marched the survivors to the front (🧵1/7)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

The billionaires who got rich under Putin are starting to get nervous.

Andrey Melnichenko, Russia’s biggest industrialist, says the war is breaking Russia's economy — and if nothing changes, the country ends up broke, isolated, or run by China, The Economist. 1/

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia should be internationally prosecuted for genocide.
Russia should be declared a terrorist state, which should imply that all decent countries would end diplomatic relations with the terrorist state.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

This week, our warriors achieved important results in imposing long-range sanctions against Russian facilities that fuel this war.

Ukrainian drones reached Siberia and struck the oil refinery in Omsk – nearly 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Now, no Russian oil refinery is beyond the reach of Ukrainian weapons.

Our responses to Russian strikes also targeted oil facilities in the Saratov, Rostov, Tver, Stavropol, and Krasnodar regions, as well as in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. An airfield in the Voronezh region and a strategic enterprise in Tver were hit. Drones were also used against facilities in the Moscow, Leningrad, and Bryansk regions.

Our long-range sanctions plan against Russia is firmly on track. I thank all of the units involved for their accuracy!

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Major Russian oil refinery reportedly struck by Ukraine's military.

Ukraine reportedly struck the Ilsky Oil Refinery in southern Russia overnight on July 10, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

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[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The National Bank of Ukraine has announced that, starting in September, it will introduce a new 2,000-hryvnia banknote featuring the portrait of Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus, who was persecuted and died in a Soviet prison camp in 1985, during the early years of perestroika.

The young court-appointed "lawyer" who fully cooperated with the Soviet authorities during Stus's trial and helped send the poet and activist to prison was none other than Viktor Medvedchuk -- the future Vladimir Putin's kin and, decades later, the top-ranking collaborator with Russia in its war to erase Ukraine.

Today, the name and image of Vasyl Stus (who, incidentally, grew up in Donbas) have become deeply iconic in Ukraine -- as a man who refused to betray his convictions and accepted suffering and death for his ideals.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

Ukrainian Defence Forces attack drones hit Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov.

The shadow fleet is no longer feeling very safe in the shadows.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Russia's fuel shortage is becoming so severe that Russians are reviving Soviet-era survival tactics.

People are paying for places in fuel queues, buying gasoline through Telegram black markets, selling, arranging fuel deliveries from tanker trucks, and even searching online for how to make gasoline at home.