Kate

Traveller. Bibliophile. Mother | Medieval History & Dragonlance at home | Customer Success & Cybersecurity at work

[Financial Times @FT]

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Orbán in power https://t.co/GV7KYvdOCp

[UK in Australia 🇬🇧🇦🇺 @ukinaustralia]

“Children in the Fire” is a harrowing account of Russia’s brutality and disregard for international law, and the depths to which they have sunk. The film is also an inspiring insight into Ukrainians’ resilience.  We continue to #StandwithUkraine for as long as it takes. @AmbVasyl

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

In the photo on the left is an ordinary boy, a schoolboy from Brovary, who was only 13 years old. His name is Yelisey Ryabokon.

On the right is the hat the boy was wearing, completely riddled with bullets and shrapnel, as well as his white T-shirt, which he put on over his jacket to show the russians that he was a civilian.
However, the bullets from the russian soldiers pierced right through it.
This is a terrible reminder of what happened.
On March 11, 2022, Yelisey's family tried to escape from a village called Peremoha, which had already been captured by the Russians.
As they were driving, the Russian soldiers first waved at them, as if wishing them a safe journey.
But then, for no reason at all, they simply opened fire on the car full of people. When the column came under fire, Yelisey's mother and younger son were in one car, while the boy himself was riding in another.
The first car exploded after taking a direct hit from a shell; people started jumping out of the cabin and hiding.“I dragged the little one by the hood,” Inna recalled.

She hoped that her older son was alive and simply hadn’t managed to get out of the car. It was enough for her to glance at her son to understand: he had died instantly. The mother miraculously managed to survive and pull her younger son out from under the shelling.
At first, Yelisey was buried simply in someone’s vegetable garden in that village. Only after some time was the family able to transport his body back home to Brovary to bury him properly.
The coffin was never opened. His father Yevhen, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was never able to see his son one last time.

Yelisey’s mother Inna says: she wants the whole world to know what Russia has done in Ukraine. So that people remember every murdered child, every woman. So that Russia is held accountable for all these crimes.
Those who knew Yelisey say he was a very calm, polite, and always smiling boy.
In May of that year, he would have turned 14…

Source: W.a.f.Ukraine

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

Reports that Russia is helping Iran with evolved drone tactics should not surprise us. For sometime, a new authoritarian learning & adaptation bloc has been operating, metastasized by the war in #Ukraine. We are finally realizing that there is a larger Adaptation War being waged against western nations. 1/10 🧵 https://t.co/l9CLfsDC1q

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

Last night in Canberra we watched a film that is as difficult as it is necessary.
Children in the Fire tells the heartbreaking story of Ukrainian children growing up under Russia’s war — their resilience, their trauma, and their courage in the face of unimaginable circumstances.

My sincere thanks to the film’s director, @evgeny_director , for bringing these powerful stories to the screen and reminding the world what is truly at stake.

Grateful also to @ukinaustralia for sponsoring the screening and helping ensure these voices are heard. Thanks a lot to Dr @BrianJJonesUK , deputy HOM for his poignant remarks. 

These stories are painful, but they must be seen. Because behind every statistic of this war are children whose lives have been forever changed.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Europe, the United States, and the entire civilized world imposed sanctions on Russia for its aggression. In my view, if these sanctions are lifted, it means we are recognizing the legitimacy of this aggression – that is, one or another state is forgiving Russia for this crime. Of course, as the President of a country that is a victim in this war, and as someone who fundamentally understands that aggression cannot go unpunished, I consider this absolutely unjust.

From a media briefing ahead of the meeting with the President of the German Bundestag, Julia Klöckner (2/3)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Macron: We agreed at G7 that the Iran war in no way justifies lifting sanctions on Russia. They must continue.

This situation must not reduce our attention to Ukraine, its support, and the clarity we have about sanctions. 1/

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

Thank you, Ukraine, for helping to protect Americans in our war of choice against Iran.

We should be doing so much more to help defend you from Russia’s war of aggression. https://t.co/QPpTiIbV2z

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making China-Free Drones.

Two companies in Ukraine that have built “China-free” drones were picked to compete for contracts in a Pentagon “drone dominance program” under which the United States plans to buy thousands of low-cost attack drones. 1/11

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

War has a strange way of revealing distances. Not the distance on a map the distance in loyalty. Ukraine, thousands of miles away, proved closer to us than Sudan. France, across continents, stood nearer than Yemen. When Iran’s missiles and drones came toward the UAE, the world quietly sorted itself into two groups: those who stood up, and those who simply stood by. South Korea sent its people to support the UAE. Ukraine shared the hard-earned knowledge of stopping drones.
France stood firm with us when it mattered.

Others preferred to watch from a safe distance. And some, like Starmer, sent his boy only to claim credit for the success of intercepting the very missiles and drones we stopped.

Moments like these redraw the map of friendship. Geography becomes meaningless. Because in the end, the nations that stand beside you in danger are always closer than those who merely share your region.

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Disabling Starlink for the Russian troops in occupied Ukraine resulted in a 75% drop in Starlink internet traffic in Ukraine.
Just think how insane that is, and how many Ukrainian lives this simple act already saved on the front lines.
Could've been done years ago.

[Decado @ItsDecado]

Some people questioned my earlier post.

I said the real danger in Iran does not come from the sky.
It comes from the regime’s gunmen on our streets and rooftops.

This video from Kouhak, Tehran last night shows exactly that.

People chanting javid shah (long live the king) from their balconies.
And the regime thugs start responding with bullets.

Watch carefully.
This is the reality we live with.
#IranWar
#IranIsraelWar

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Hungary seized a Ukrainian bank convoy transporting $80 million in cash and gold from Austria…

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

This capability has flipped the economics of drone operations. It is now cheaper to intercept Shaheds than it is to use them. Such capabilities will have many impacts on sustainable air defence systems, particularly in protracted conflicts where massed drone attacks are employed. But there is more… 1/3 🧵

[Kate @KateMWF]

@IneBackIversen 🥲

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Thank you, President Zelenskyy and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for stepping up to help protect American servicemembers.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

The United States just voted with russia, China, and Niger against condemning attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid.

What a remarkable coalition.

[Throwback Iran @Tarikh_Eran]

Every sports journalist and media should be covering this story.

It’s a matter of life & death for Iranian women’s national team.

The regime in Iran on national TV promised to make an example and punish them severely for refusing to sing the national anthem.

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Dear colleagues at @FoxNews, this is very cringe and embarrassing. While talking about “amazing U.S. AI drone capabilities,” you illustrated it with footage of not American interceptors in Iran, but Ukrainian interceptors in the Russian war against Ukraine without a proper credit on the video.

The footage features STING — a Ukrainian interceptor drone developed by engineers at @wilendhornets and used by Ukrainian air defense units to destroy Shahed-type drones.

This result is the outcome of long and difficult work. Please give proper credit on your video.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Around 40 Iranian Shahed-136 drones targeted the UAE. Ukraine, experienced in stopping them, has offered support, sharing technology that disrupts their navigation systems with up to 90% success.
A million thanks to Ukraine. 🇺🇦
@Abdulkhaleq_UAE