2014 conversations.
Ukraine, "we're being invaded by russia. Russia is at war with us."
Media, "so... Separatists?"
Ukraine, "no. Fucking russia. The russian fucking state."
Media, "so, russian-backed separatists?"
Ukraine, "FFS. Fucking russia."
Media, "russia denies..."
⚡️ Ukraine’s stockpile of Patriot missiles is almost depleted — The Economist
It is still unclear who can help Kyiv defend its skies from Russian missiles: allies are reluctant to part with interceptors because their own stockpiles are also running low.
For five days leading up to September 1, Kyiv was attacked almost hourly by waves of jet-powered drones followed by ballistic missiles.
Russia uses drones to overwhelm Ukrainian radar networks before launching missiles.
In July alone, 437 civilians were killed across Ukraine, and August is expected to be no less deadly.
Here are some fun facts about Hasan Piker.
1. He was born in the US but grew up in Turkey
2. He grew up wealthy, his father was VP of Sabancı Holding for over 20 years
3. His first job was given to him by his uncle, Cenk Uygur
4. His mother was a land lord - charging and collecting rents
5. The Piker family profited off of the Armenian Genocide
6. He has claimed that he, "Hates America" on several occasions - always in context
7. He supports Hamas (the terrorist organization)
8. He supports Hezbollah (the terrorist organization)
9. He supports the Houthi's (the terrorist organization)
10. He openly supports authoritarian regimes across the world (Cuba, China, Qatar)
11. He receives money from hostile foreign actors (Cuba, China, Qatar)
12. He used a shock collar on his dog Kaya in order to keep her in frame for his Twitch stream
13. He lied about using a shock collar on Kaya
14. He has praised the manifesto of a terrorist who killed innocent Jewish people in the US
15. He promostes terrorist propoganda from groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi's on his Twitch channel
16. He receives special provides at Twitch (to the determent of other Partnered Streamers on Twitch)
17. He and his allies recieve special treatment at Twitch (uneven application of the rules)
18. He personally intervenes in the moderation decisions at Twitch
19. He claims that he was the first to mix gaming with politics (paved it on his own) when in fact his career was only possible due to the kindness and generosity of the streamer Destiny
20. He constantly complains about being targeted by harassment campaigns while actively harassing people on his own stream and encouraging his audience to do the same
21. He claimed that a Republican was no longer seeking re-election after his wife's life was threatened - and that that was a good thing
22. His audience includes domestic terrorists who shot at police officers
23. His audience includes domestic terrorists who call in multiple bomb/death threats against US politicians
24. Hasan has tweeted vague death threats against sitting US politians
25. Claimed US deseved 9/11 and hung up a photo of the Twin Towers ablaze in his Twitch stream backgrond
26. He's a soft ass pussy bitch
27. He is unable and/or afraid to defend his ideas against people he views as more intelligent (Destiny, Hutch, anyone lol)
28. He hoards his wealth/spends it on the most hyper capitalistic items imaginable while claiming to preach for the working man and advocate for their beliefs
29. He calls democrats fascists, evil, demonic, etc and still expects them to defend him when he's in hot water
30. He claimed to have been studying the Israel/Palestine issue for decades yet didn't know what the Western Wall was (in 2025!!)
31. He literally couldn't find Israel or Gaza on a map
32. He's going bald
33. He was a frat boy making rape jokes in his early 20's
34. He was a tankie making rape jokes in his early 30's
35. He believes that Russia deserves to have Crimea
36. He ignores Russian war crimes and their genocide
37. He barely views Eastern Europeans as human
38. He views Stalin, a murderous dictator, in a positive light
39. He views Mao, a murderous dictartor, in a positive light
40. He cheers for the enemies of America against America
41. He refers of Bashar Al-Assad, the former President of Syria, a man accused of shelling, gassing, torturing, starving, and subjugating hundreds of thousands of his own people, as the Lion of Syria
42. He willingly associates with known sexual criminals
that's a good start for now. i got sources for all of these so ask and yee shall receive.
Pro-kremlische Quellen bestätigen einen vollständigen russischen Rückzug nördlich von Lyman.
Die Ukraine hat mehr als 6 Schlüsselorte befreit, darunter Drobysheve und Zelena Dolyna, und damit effektiv die Offensivgewinne Russlands aus dem Jahr 2025 ausgelöscht.
An absolute masterpiece from Ukraine’s military intelligence.
They hacked russia’s Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology and identified 2,648 people involved in developing the weapons used to kill Ukrainians.
Yars. Iskander-M. Bulava. Oreshnik.
Now their names are known.
No hiding. No impunity.
💀 Successfully eliminated: Colonel Andrey Krestyansky!
Senior Lecturer-Inspector of the Inspectorate of the Command Training Center for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Overnight, Ukrainian attack drones conducted the deepest OWA strike of the war, hitting Russia's Novy Urengoy and Purovsky gas processing plants in Yamalo-Nenets, almost 3,000 km behind the frontline.
The strikes open up Russia's key western Siberian gas fields to attack.
Putin wants a deal that gives Ukrainian land to Russia, caps Ukrainian military strength & keeps Ukraine out of NATO. He wants capitulation not a deal. President Trump should make clear the only deal is that Russia stops its invasion and withdraws from Ukraine territory.
In August, Russia 🇷🇺 launched 8 673 air-guided bombs against Ukraine 🇺🇦, of which I managed to map 63%
The highest concentration was, for the 1st time since April in the Pokrovsk, Dobropilla, Drujkivka direction, while the Hulialpole direction was 2nd. The Vovcha river direction is third, followed by Sloviansk, Izium and Kupiansk.
This airstrike campaign continues to have devastating effects for frontline positions and cities, with their very good accuracy.
23:30 | 09/09
Approximate flight routes of our UAVs:
🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement;
🟣 Purple arrows — directions of USV movement;
According to Russian sources, around 410 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.
People heavily underestimate the civilian death toll caused by Russia in Ukraine.
The real total, including Mariupol, is several times higher than official estimates
At least three Russian lieutenant colonels are now known by name among those killed in the August 26 Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian command posts in occupied Donetsk:
• Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Viktorovich Moiseenko, senior officer of the Operations Directorate of the 41st Guards Combined Arms Army HQ
• Lieutenant Colonel Artyom Leonidovich Akimov, deputy head of the 41st Army’s air defense department
• Lieutenant Colonel Denis Petrovich Pavlov
Unofficial claims from Ukrainian side put Russian losses from the strikes at 27 killed and 58 wounded
PAC-3 MSE production is ramping and the near-term ramp is funded. 800 +/- this year, and likely 1,000+ next year. The current administration wants to ramp to 2,000 a year for the MSE and Lockheed Martin is working with its European customers on the PAC-3 ACE on top of that. And PAC-2 GEM/T production in the US and soon in Europe. Second and third source suppliers are being stood up to accommodate that ramp rate and planned new variants. Missiles are being actively developed or fielded that sit above and below it in capability to relieve the stress on its fire units. It is a program in active funded growth. The alternative being proposed below is not and lacks the installed base to plan a significant ramp ahead of need.
MERZ: For four and a half years, Ukraine has been fighting for its survival, and no one — yes, no one — has threatened Russia...
[AfD shouting and interrupting Merz]
Let me say this again now, quite calmly. We support Ukraine, and we will continue to support Ukraine.
Because they are also defending our freedom, even here in the middle of our European continent.
And your [AfD] reactions only show that you clearly intend to continue this downright grotesque reversal of perpetrator and victim.
No one has threatened Russia. Not NATO, not European Union, not Germany. And your [AfD] reactions show exactly how you think.
Ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.
Ukraine was on its way into European democratic family, and that is precisely the real danger to Putin’s regime in Russia.
And you in AfD know that, yet you remain unchanged on Russia’s side when it comes to defending our freedom here as well.
1/ A gang of 'black recruiters' in Russia has been arrested for spiking men's drinks with drugs, kidnapping them, selling them to the army, stealing their money and emptying their bank accounts, and marrying them off to 'black widows' to steal their death benefits. ⬇️
Friends, I’m immensely happy to announce my second book, The Land of Tears and Hope: The Ukrainian Story.
Pre-order here: https://t.co/TiOLrBhVtE
Many of you know me as a defense reporter who spent years breaking bread with Ukrainian soldiers in trenches.
A blood illness gradually made both that work and military service impossible, so I poured all my passion, my experience, and my love for this country into this book.
It is a journey through more than 1,000 years of our people’s history—from the forest-dwelling Slavic pagan tribes to the princes of ancient Kyiv and the Cossacks of the steppe frontier, through the catastrophes of the 20th century, and into our own age of revolutions and resistance.
This is no history textbook, nor is it just another popular history of Ukraine. What emerged surprised even me. It is a lyrical, epic portrait of Ukraine—its folk memory, myths, symbols, age-old legends, songs, poetry, and sacred places such as Saint Sophia of Kyiv—all that binds people into a nation today.
Ukraine is a land with a deeply complicated history, coveted by many over the centuries, its tragic chapters marked by cruelty and bloodshed.
For centuries, this land has been watered with tears and has repeatedly lost its freedom. Yet Ukraine lived on. Today, Russian propaganda seeks to reduce Ukraine to “Russia’s backyard” or “Little Russia”—an “artificial state” with no culture, language, or history of its own.
In this book, I show that Ukraine has a far greater place in human history and a story to tell, particularly through the lives of some of its remarkable figures, such as Prince Volodymyr, who brought Christianity to the shores of ancient Kyiv, or Serhiy Korolyov, whose genius sent the first human being (and a beautiful Ukrainian song!) into space; or Georgiy Gongadze, the father of modern Ukrainian journalism, whose martyrdom changed this country’s fate forever.
And all of this is illustrated with drawings by Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine’s great national poet and artist—spiritual father and prophet of the Ukrainian people.
This book is written from the perspective of my generation of Ukrainians, who came to believe in this country, resolved to make it a better place, and are now fighting to save it in Europe’s most terrible war of aggression since World War II.
For us, this is also a land of hope—the hope that we can finally break this cruel cycle of history, defend this country’s freedom and independence, and secure the right to pursue happiness in our own home.
My deepest hope is that one day people will say: “If you want to understand Ukraine, why it fought that war, and why it inspired so many around the world, read this book.”
Out November 10 from @BloomsburyPub!
Pre-order here: https://t.co/TiOLrBhVtE