The Interpreter

News on Russia and its many wars at home/abroad and the people who fight back in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, worldwide.
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[The Interpreter @Interpreter_Mag]

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[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

09.05.2014: Two trucks arrive in Donetsk; on board are armed fighters, some of whom are masked, carrying Russian flags. They attack the “Shakhterskie Zori” sanatorium, where Ukrainian units are temporarily stationed.

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

I spoke with @BBCNews about the Belarus regime’s complicity in Russia’s aggression, the threat it poses to 🇺🇦 and all of Europe, and my recent visit to Kyiv, where I met with President @ZelenskyyUa.

I called on our European partners to monitor the situation in Belarus carefully.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

A hospital near Kharkiv, damaged by a russian missile in 2022, has been restored thanks to UNITED24 donors, partners, and @UKRinChicago via the C Ukraine Cultural Showcase project💙💛

Today, the facility has been renovated, installed with modern technology, and now operates a rehabilitation unit and a mental health center. The city and its surrounding communities once again have access to full medical care and support.

Thank you to everyone who helped!

[Eurasia Center @ACEurasia]

🗓️ TOMORROW @ 10:00 am ET | How is Russia exploiting foreign nationals in its war on Ukraine?

@ACEurasia and @SLPJustice host a virtual panel moderated by @Celeste_Kmiotek, featuring Oleg Gushchyn, Ilya Nuzov, Rosemary Tollo, & Maria Tomak.

Register ⬇️
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[Ani Avetisyan @AvetissianAn]

The EU market may still be too distant and difficult for 🇦🇲 producers to access in the short term, but proactive support like this boosts not only the 🇪🇺’s image in 🇦🇲, helps Pashinyan politically, but most importantly offers at least some relief to affected businesses.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

💔 Kherson.

russians are burning people alive inside their own homes. Why? Because they refused to become russia.

If this isn’t genocide, what is?

📽 An extremely heavy and horrifying video from andrii_boxer.

Watch it. Don’t look away. Share it — the world needs to see this.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Got it. If Irish aluminum is used to kill Palestinians, it’s shouldn’t be sold, but if it’s used for Russian missiles killing Ukrainians, we just need to think about local jobs first.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

A Swedish court has approved the seizure of the cargo vessel Caffa after a Ukrainian request, in what Kyiv calls a breakthrough case targeting alleged Russian grain theft from occupied territory.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has been moving grain out of occupied regions using re-registered ships, false documentation, and rerouted shipping routes to conceal its origin.

The vessel was boarded and investigated in Swedish waters earlier this year as part of a probe into maritime safety and suspected false registration. One crew member was detained on suspicion of serious offences.

Kyiv says the ruling marks the first time a foreign court has ordered seizure in a case linked to exports from occupied Ukrainian territory.

[Army Media 🇺🇦 @armyinformcomua]

☢️ 13,500.

That is the number of times Russia has used chemical agents against Ukrainian defenders since the full-scale invasion began.

In May 2026 alone: 237 recorded incidents.

Primary delivery method: drops from UAVs directly onto Ukrainian defensive positions.

Most commonly used agents: K-51 and RG-Vo gas grenades, CS and CN chemical compounds — riot control agents banned under international humanitarian law when deployed as a method of warfare.

At 237 incidents in a single month, this is doctrine — a systematic, scaled, deliberate programme of chemical warfare against a conventional military force.

The Chemical Weapons Convention exists precisely because the world decided, after two world wars, that some weapons are beyond the threshold of acceptable violence. Russia signed it. Russia is violating it. Daily.

Every incident is logged. Every case is evidence.

The question for the international community is not whether this is happening. The data answers that.

The question is what the response to 13,500 confirmed violations looks like.

Source: Support Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, June 2026

#Ukraine #StopRussia #ChemicalWeapons #IHL #WarCrimes

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🤯 Russian commissioners for children's rights propose to lower the minimum working age and revive Soviet-era labor camps for children.

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[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

🧵As I watch US podcasts on the internet about #Russia’s war against #Ukraine what I see increasingly defies reason. Academics like Mearsheimer or Sachs de facto repeat Russian talking points. For years now retired US colonels continue to declare #Ukraine’s imminent end, etc. 1/6

[Pierre Crom @PierreCrom]

The narratives "exploit existing vulnerability within Ukrainian society around depopulation to sow hatred and societal division,"
#Russia #Ukraine https://t.co/pXvPKYqYUZ

[Mariam Lambert : CEO Emile Foundation @Mariam__Lambert]

On the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, I spoke with @RFERL /@current during the @GLOBSEC Forum in Prague about the abduction of Ukrainian children.

This is not only about separation from families. It is about identity, culture, language, and the future of a generation.

When children are used as instruments of war, the consequences extend far beyond Ukraine.

Every child still missing is a reminder that our work at the @emile_fondation is not finished.

Thank you to Ksenia Sokolyanskaya and Pavel Butorin for the interview.
#ProtectChildren #Ukraine

[Rubizh @RubizhBrigade]

“Russia decimated my city. I hate Russia!”

#Bilozerske, the spring of 2026.

Russia wastes no opportunity — and no amount of money — to sell the world the myth of its noble, almost humanitarian “Special Military Operation.”

Bilozerske is 18 kilometers from the front line. But even from that distance, people only need to look out the window to see Russia’s real goal on our land.

Extermination.

#Rubizh #Ukraine #military #NAFO

[TheLvivJournal @LvivJournal]

While we waste time talking about American & European pros**tutes in st petersburg, the war continues. Olena Kviatovska (left) died in battle, leaves 3 children behind. Tina Pira (right), volunteer who evacuated hundreds of civilians from the frontline, died of a terminal illness

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A Russian drone struck an ambulance in Kherson.

A 64-year-old medic and a 65-year-old driver were injured. They sustained blast injuries and concussions.

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

my home city Zaporizhzhia is under extra intense attack today. while Ukrainians hit russian oil refineries and military bases with deep strikes, russians lash out by targeting public transport with FPV drones during rush hour. russian culture is on full display here.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Ukraine commemorates today over 600 Ukrainian children killed by Russia in its war of aggression.

May their memory be Russia’s endless damnation.

[Ciarán Cuffe @CiaranCuffe]

It's time to close the loophole that feeds Irish raw materials from Limerick to Russia’s military industry.

It's time for effective EU sanctions.

Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
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[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Andrey Bezrukov was "Donald Heathfield," the SVR illegal arrested by the FBI in 2010 as part of Operation Ghost Stories. He was one of the bases for the FX series "The Americans." His forecasts here will be seen as those of someone with an intimate working knowledge of American society, which Bezrukov indeed has.