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[Hidde Bouwmeester @H_Bouwmeester]

Ja het is allemaal Poetins oorlog.

Daarom moet je al die “ik ben tegen Poetin-Russen” altijd naar hun standpunt m.b.t. de territoriale integriteit van Oekraïne vragen.

[GeoConfirmed @GeoConfirmed]

GeoConfirmed conflictmap UKR.

We try to avoid statements but there are limits.

After analyzing thousands of videos over more than four years, we feel we have earned the right to speak plainly: Russia is committing war crimes repeatedly and systematically and they are getting worse.

The longer the West fails to respond decisively, the more these crimes continue. This inaction also sends a dangerous signal to other authoritarian regimes, suggesting that international law can be violated with little consequence. As a result, the boundaries of international law are becoming increasingly weak and difficult to enforce.

The last few days have once again shown that the Russian regime is a terrorist regime that has little regard for humanitarian law:

(1)
After Ukraine agreed to a Russian 3-day ceasefire proposal, for the Russian commemoration of the end of World War II and its victory over Nazi Germany, Russia launched one of the most severe attacks on Kyiv since the beginning of the war, resulting in multiple civilian casualties.
This stands in stark contrast to Russia’s public rhetoric about peace and historical memory.

(2)
It is not enough that Russia is deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, also known as the “human safari”, it has now also started attacking clearly marked UN vehicles, which would represent another serious violation of international law. Attempts to hide or destroy evidence only make these actions more alarming. And its not the first time they try to hide or manipulate evidence.

Western leaders, especially the Trump administration, should wake up instead of being so easily manipulated by the Russian regime.

0:00-0:17, location at 0:05 - United Nations (UN) vehicle was hit by Russian drones.
46.62328, 32.595023
JHFW+826 Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

0:18-End - United Nations (UN) vehicles were hit by Russian drones.
46.621161, 32.576600
JHCG+FJ9Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine

Great work by @99Dominik_!

GeoLocated by @99Dominik_ and @Zeldamices

Geolocation:
https://t.co/LvhmmJVj4o
https://t.co/vL0o9545gr

Location:
https://t.co/ndA9stLim2

Statement by the UN representative:
https://t.co/6Wqf6v24ro
https://t.co/4LblB2U1FI

Sources:
https://t.co/rjrtra5WCv
https://t.co/uxKiJHpMvN
(Longer)
https://t.co/KdQmjFmJ4m
https://t.co/u9gLCy07sW

The original source has deleted their Telegram post with the video, but the information and the Russian unit claiming responsibility have been archived. https://t.co/QNakvALfNi

Visit our map: https://t.co/g9OP1aPlGP

[Валентин @Kapitanki]

@ligth_daniel @mrjeffu @grok Grok, estimate if living like a pig in a dirt takes less time than living in a clean enviroment.

[Валентин @Kapitanki]

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA Still higher than before 2022.

[Tayor Uyghur @TayorUyghur]

Mehdi seems lost his moral compass:

1.Ukraine did not invade another country—Russia invaded Ukraine.
2.Ukraine is fighting for its national survival, not to preserve a regime.
3.Ukraine has not sponsored terrorist groups in the Middle East, unlike Iran.
4.Ukraine has not attacked Gulf states, unlike Iran.
5.Ukraine does not impose a religious doctrine on its citizens, while Iran does.
6.Ukraine has not killed tens of thousands of its own citizens for protesting, as Iran has.
7.Ukraine does not punish women over their choice of dress, while Iran does.
8.Ukrainian leadership has not called for the destruction of other countries, unlike Iranian leadership call “death to America”
9.Iran has supplied Shahed drones to Russia, which have been used to kill Ukrainians.
Ukrainians have right to defend themselves against Iranian regime who supplied Russians with weapons

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Palantir’s founder is pro-Russian.

Ukraine should not work with Palantir

[Валентин @Kapitanki]

@osimantaz @TallbarFIN @idk_600z Thanks for clarifying.

[Валентин @Kapitanki]

@glenn_tunes Isn't it nice to be in a position where you can even comprehend that giving away your medal is something you have to do, otherwise big powerful baby will get upset and throw a tantrum that will harm your country.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

I genuinely don’t understand why everyone suddenly rushed to prove that soot is black and that there was no specific “attack on Putin’s residence.”

What I understand even less is why everyone automatically accepted these rules of the game, where Russia — in its aggressive war — is allowed to systematically plunge entire Ukrainian cities into cold and darkness, attempt assassinations on Zelensky, collapse apartment buildings full of civilians with missile strikes, wage full-scale warfare, and repeatedly refuse any ceasefire — and none of this is supposed to create any problems for the so-called “peace negotiation process.”

Meanwhile, Ukraine is expected to sit quietly and endure the strikes in silence, just so as not to “threaten the prospects of a peaceful settlement”?

That’s not going to happen. And the very fact that this state of affairs exists at all, in the largest war of aggression of the modern era, only shows how far the catastrophic degradation of global politics has gone under Trump.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

‼️ In February 2024, the Russian-installed governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Yevgeny Balitsky, claimed that pro-Ukrainian residents of the region had been deported to Ukraine-controlled territories (see video below).

But as we now know, that wasn’t the case. The people Balitsky said were released were, in fact, turned into slaves.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Olena Yagupova, a resident of the city of Kamianka-Dniprovska in the Zaporizhzhia region, published by The Insider:

“I was sent from the pre-trial detention center to a labor camp on January 18, 2023.

Before that, they filmed videos showing that a person is supposedly being released — so that relatives won’t look for them and so they can absolve themselves of responsibility.

There are many such videos online. After I was freed, I collected them — about myself and about everyone who had been in the camp with us.

In the video, at a checkpoint in Vasylivka, they read out a “sentence” saying that by decision of the head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Yevgeny Balytskyi, you are being expelled beyond the borders of Zaporizhzhia Oblast and will never return to Russia.

They supposedly hand over your documents, and the person walks away.

A RIA Novosti journalist, Rostislav Zhuravlyov, who was there on January 18, comments in the video: “You see, we’re letting them go to Ukrainian territory, and how they’re received there — we don’t know.”

So they show that people were released — but the people never arrived. And relatives think: so they must have been killed somewhere along the way. But us — they put us in the trunk of a car and took us to labor camps.

Two other men and I were handed over to the commander of a Russian military unit in Krasnodar Krai.

He gave us shovels and said that it was time to work for the benefit of the Russian Federation — he said it outright, that we were slaves.

We all slept on the floor in an abandoned shed, packed together — men and women. The guards were military, armed with rifles.

Wake-up was at five. At 5:30 the guards arrived. They took us to the site and told us what to do — for example, to dig a certain number of meters of trench in an hour. If you did less, they would shoot you.

And so it went on all day — sometimes until eight or nine in the evening; once I remember it went on until two in the morning, and once even until six in the morning. It depended on how much work they needed done.

We dug new trenches, repaired old ones, and built dugouts. Their dugouts there are multi-room — entire underground cities built by our hands.

We cleared fields of mines. They give you a metal detector, and you have to walk and probe the ground and pull them out.

They didn’t give us any clothing, even though it was winter. They had nothing to give us anyway, except maybe their old military coats. They fed us pasta made by pouring boiling water over it.

The work was brutal. Healthy men tore their backs because the ground was frozen. They could barely breathe let alone dig.

Some had already been there for half a year. They said: One more week of this work, and I’ll ask them to shoot me.”

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[(TCAG) Командир Бред Кроуфорд (CDR Brad Crawford) @evo1tactical]

I buried a friend a few days ago. Her name was Anastasi Kolinko. She was a warrior, a Ukrainian Marine. She had no family left. Her father was killed. Her mother was killed. She was a junior sergeant in the Marines, and she stood her ground when her country needed her most.

I paid 1,200 dollars to have her laid to rest because there was no one else left to do it. She had cancer, but before that she fought for Ukraine in 2022. From mid-2023 until December 1st, she fought for her life with the same courage she showed on the battlefield. I did everything I could to take care of her. I loved her very much. She was kind, strong, and deeply devoted to her country.

She was wounded and still volunteered to fight in Kherson. That tells you everything about who she was. She did not fight for recognition or reward. She fought because she believed in Ukraine and in protecting others, even when it cost her everything.

This is one of the hardest things I have ever experienced in my military career. I sat alone with her in the funeral hall. There were no crowds, no speeches, no family members standing beside me. When I rode with her to her burial, I held her hand. I did not let her be alone.

I threw three shovels of dirt onto her grave, alone. When the soil was placed over her, I gave her a final military salute. There was no one else there to witness it. I cried, not out of weakness, but because this is what this war takes from people who never should have had to give so much.

This is not politics. This is not narrative. This is the real cost of this war. This is what sacrifice looks like.

We cannot quit. Victory is coming.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

‼️ Zelensky: Putin publicly lied, claiming that Russian forces had already taken Kupiansk. So I went to Kupiansk to show the world that Putin is lying.

Let’s look at Russia’s history since 1991. From then until today, Russia has changed: it has been poor and rich, and it has gone from oligarchy to dictatorship.

But one thing has remained the same — it keeps bringing war and hatred. From Chechnya to the Balkans, from Moldova to Syria, from countries in Central Africa to Ukraine.

The Russians always blame others and always try to explain their wars through someone else’s actions.

As if the reason for their aggression is never in Moscow but always in their neighbours’.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

ICYMI. As Ukraine is offered "NATO-style" security guarantees on paper while Russia is handed Ukrainian territory and people in negotiations, remember that even actual NATO guarantees are only worth the national leaders who back them. In Trump's case, they're worthless.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Imagine that absolute moral rot that must have set in your brain to call the destruction of this Ukrainian city liberation. I mean, this douchebag even has the temerity to cite population numbers. Even with the correct population statistics — 60,000 in 2022 and 1,500 now — it’s obvious that these Russian “liberators” are only bringing death and destruction.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russian "opposition" is rising against… no, not Putin. Against Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63), of all people - one of the very few genuinely adequate anti-war voices from Russia.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

You want to calculate what Ukraine “costs”?

Fine. Let’s calculate what the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum owe Ukraine.
People who complain about “how much the West spends on Ukraine” forget one thing:

Ukraine has already paid the highest possible price for promises that were never fulfilled.

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1. What Ukraine gave up under the Budapest Memorandum

Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal:
•1,900 strategic nuclear warheads
•176 ICBMs
•44 Tu-160 / Tu-95MS strategic bombers
•Full launch, storage, and command infrastructure

Current value: $2–4 trillion.
Yes — trillion.

Ukraine traded this arsenal for security guarantees from the US, UK, and Russia.
Guarantees that cracked in 2014 and completely collapsed in 2022.

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2. How much the US has spent on Ukraine

In 11 years of war, the total US support amounts to:

$80–90 billion.

For comparison:
Ukraine gave up a nuclear deterrent worth 30–50 times more.

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3. How US support has been restricted

For years, Ukraine was denied critical tools needed for survival:
•ATACMS long-range missiles
•F-16 fighter jets
•Adequate Patriot air-defense systems
•Permission to strike inside Russia (only partially allowed in 2024–25)

These delays cost thousands of Ukrainian lives and entire cities that could have been saved.

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4. The real cost of war for Ukraine

In 11 years:
•450,000+ killed and wounded
•Over 50% of energy infrastructure destroyed
•Trillion-dollar economic losses
•Factories, investments, and human capital wiped out
•A development trajectory comparable to Poland’s — shattered not only by Russian missiles but also by Western hesitation

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5. So who really owes whom?

Ukraine never asked for charity.
Ukraine asked its guarantors to honor their own signatures.

While the US and UK insisted the Budapest Memorandum “was not binding,” Russia prepared for a full-scale invasion.

Today, Ukraine is defending:
•NATO’s entire eastern flank
•Europe’s energy routes
•The Black Sea
•The global security system the United States built after WWII

Ukraine is presenting the real bill: for cities erased, for millions of lives broken, for decades of development stolen — and for the security guarantees that existed only on paper.

And that bill is not for Ukraine to pay. It is for those who promised protection — and failed to deliver it.

Author: Yuliya Azizova

[Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @Oksii33]

What a disgusting world are we living in?

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

Garry Kasparov is 100% correct. Thank you for always telling it like it is, @Kasparov63. Listen before it's too late.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

This is a good statement, but Europe has mastered the art of the good statement. Turning them into action is still the problem. North Korea and Iran send weapons and troops, China gives full support to Russia and America threatens Ukraine. Statements won’t deter Russia.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

Video from Russian voenkors 🤬🤬🤬

🔞 Russians shoot five Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered, presumably in the Donetsk region.