Saskia V M🇪🇺

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[Balans, vereniging voor ouders @Balansdigitaal]

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[𝖕𝖚𝖘𝖘𝖞 𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖙💦 @pussyrrriot]

Imagine this is your city. Overnight: 656 drones, 73 missiles, 21 dead, two of them children. A residential building in Kyiv collapsed into rubble.

When asked about these attacks, the Kremlin’s response was simple: “This practice will continue.” Kremlin doesn't hide its intentions.

Why are we treating this as normal? Why aren’t we helping Ukraine more?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Russia Is a Terrorist State.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.

[Henri Bontenbal @HenriBontenbal]

Wij willen geen land zijn waarin de grootste mond zijn zin krijgt. Het CDA staat pal voor alle lokale bestuurders, zij verdienen onze volledige steun. Wie de wet uitvoert, staat niet alleen.

Lees mijn gehele inbreng via de link hieronder 👇🏻.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Jens Stoltenberg went on Fox News this week. It did not go the way Trump would have liked.

The former NATO Secretary General, now Norway’s Finance Minister, was asked about Trump’s threats to pull the United States out of the alliance.

He answered with the kind of calm, precise demolition that only a Norwegian diplomat can deliver without raising his voice once.

On why Europe didn’t join the war: “NATO is a defensive alliance. The strikes or the war against Iran were never an attempt to make that into a NATO operation.”

On whether Europe disagrees with America about Iran: “We all agree the Iranian nuclear program is dangerous. The question is how we achieve that goal.” Translation: the problem was never the destination. It was the lunatic who decided to get there by setting the car on fire.

On what Trump should have done before launching: “If you want NATO to contribute, then at least you have to sit down with NATO allies, as you did after 9/11. You cannot expect us just to be there without any consultations, any discussions in NATO before you take the decision to launch the attack.”

This is Stoltenberg saying, in the most polished terms imaginable, that you do not start a war at two in the morning on Truth Social and then ring your allies for help at breakfast.

On whether Europe abandoned America: “The majority of European allies have made sure that their bases and infrastructure were available for the United States. There are some exceptions, but most have contributed.” Most helped. Quietly. Without being asked to endorse a war they considered illegal.

On why leaving NATO would be catastrophic for America specifically: “The United States is 25 per cent of the global economy. But together with NATO allies, we are 50 per cent of the global economy and 50 per cent of the world’s military might. So it makes the United States safer to have friends and allies — something that Russia and China don’t have at all.”

And then, in a separate interview, the warning nobody in Washington wants to hear: “It’s not a natural law that we will have NATO forever. It’s not carved in stone that NATO will exist for the next ten years.”

That last line was not a threat. It was a diagnosis.

Trump called NATO a Paper Tiger. Stoltenberg replied, with characteristic Norwegian understatement, that paper tigers tend to be considerably less useful once you’ve set them on fire yourself.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Saskia V M🇪🇺 @MeerkerkSaskia]

@TonyHellings @PetravanDam3 Sneu

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Kyiv burns as Ukraine no longer has any Patriot interceptor missiles - the only defense against Russian Iskander ballistic missiles.
Vice President Vance recently bragged of his "proudest" achievement - cutting off military support for Ukraine.

[Saskia V M🇪🇺 @MeerkerkSaskia]

@TonyHellings @PetravanDam3 Wauw, lees jij je eigen tweets wel eens terug? Een beledigende tekst over vrouwen, links en mensen van kleur in 1 tweet.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The horrific images we are witnessing in Ukraine today are a direct consequence of Trump’s actions.

Since Donald Trump returned to power, the number of russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians — and the resulting death toll — has increased sharply.

Why?

First, Trump has emboldened Putin.
Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Putin and emphasized improving relations. He even invited this war criminal to the United States. And now, Putin’s photo is hanging in the White House – a symbolic gesture that does not go unnoticed.

In geopolitics, signals matter. They shape expectations about future support, consequences, and resolve.

Second, credibility and trust have eroded.
Trump has surrounded himself with russian-linked figures to such an extent that foreign intelligence agencies “fear sharing secrets with the U.S.,” viewing his administration as highly untrustworthy.

Just a few examples: the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has expressed pro-russian views, spread conspiracies about alleged American biolabs in Ukraine, and blamed NATO for russia’s invasion. The FBI Director, Kash Patel, received a $25,000 fee from a russian film company that promoted pro-russian and anti-Western narratives.

Third, support for Ukraine has effectively stopped.
Instead of “ending the war in 24 hours,” he ended all of the assistance Ukraine was receiving from the United States. Just yesterday, JD Vance said that stopping funding for Ukraine was one of the proudest actions of the administration. So the devastation we are witnessing today is a direct consequence of these actions. History will remember this — and it will also remember those who supported it.

All of these actions have changed incentives for russia: if the cost of aggression decreases, escalation becomes more likely. So what we are witnessing today is not random. It is the result of these choices.

History will remember this — and it will also remember those who supported it.

Link: https://t.co/AU0kCaqqd7

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous:
1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China.
2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.
3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does.
Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia.
US foreign policy has hit the bottom.

[Reinier Eggersman @reggersman]

Links zie je Massimo Etalle, redacteur van het extreem-rechtse periodiek 'De Dissident' en medewerker van FVD. Hij is de vriend van Lidewij de Vos en samen met haar in december '25 hoofdgast op het JFVD Kerstgala in Nijkerk, waar zij buitenlandse neo-Nazi's aan hun tafel hadden en zich door hen lieten toespreken. Deze Massimo gaat Freek Jansen vervangen die met wachtgeld op ouderschapsverlof gaat. Massimo, ongekozen en zelf een bewonderaar van het neo-Nazisme, gaat dus 12.000 Euro per maand toucheren als kamerlid, een cadeautje, want enige competentie ontbreekt, meer nog, ook hij zal het extreem-rechtse, Rusland-vriendelijke fascistische standpunt van FVD uitdragen, op kosten van de belastingbetaler. Dit is een grof schandaal en minachting van de democratische rechtsstaat. Merk ook op dat Thierry Baudet, op wie de meeste stemmen zijn uitgebracht, de Kamer heeft verlaten en een andere medewerker van de partij heeft geparachuteerd als kamerlid. Dit is puur kiezersbedrog en maakt de lijst van schandalen rond FVD langer en langer. Andere partijen verdenken FVD van wachtgeldfraude vanwege de vele personele wisselingen waarbij totaal incapabele medewerkers schijnen te worden bevoordeeld. E.e.a. is een grof misbruik van de regels die gelden voor volksvertegenwoordigers(!), en tast de politiek in diepste wezen aan. Nederland gaat hier een zware prijs voor betalen.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

There's one moment from the liberation of Bucha that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

At the entrance to the city from the Irpin side, near the railway line, there's a very nice and cozy apartment complex, I once wanted to buy an unfinished flat there, but it was out of my price range.

When we returned to Bucha alongside Ukrainian forces, that same complex had been badly hit. The Russians had positioned artillery in the courtyards nearby, so shell and fuse crates were scattered everywhere. Burnt, torn-off BMP tracks lay strewn around.

In the parking lots, among mountains of debris and wreckage, Teslas burned to the ground. Nearby, rows of small buildings with little shops, cafes, bakeries, riddled with bullets, looted and torched.

All around -- grayness, darkness, the feeling of an exhumed grave, as if you could feel with your very skin that something evil had happened here.

And there, on the basketball court, a man was wandering aimlessly in silence. Just walking in circles, over and over again. He still couldn't come back to himself.

All 33 days of the occupation he had hidden in a basement right there under those buildings, literally right under the Russians' noses, hiding so as not to end up among those who, as captured on camera, were marched in single file with their hands behind their heads and taken around a corner to be shot.

But that guy was lucky.

Several days had passed since the Russians left, and he was still walking there in circles, in silence. I tried to talk to him, to ask if he needed anything, and he raised his eyes to me and said: "Do you know why they hate us so much?"

He started to sob, wiping away tears. "Do you know? Tell me, why, why, what did we do to them? Tell me."

I think that evening I came home to Kyiv after a day in the field reporting on the atrocities in Bucha, and for the first time in a long time, I got drunk.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"Bucha" is the one-word answer to why Ukrainians cannot surrender land to Russian occupation. Land is people, and it means torture and death. Ukrainian victory is the only way the war ends.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

When the whole world learned about Bucha. About Ukrainians butchered in the streets of Bucha by Russian occupiers. About our people tortured in basements. About those shot on the roads. About adults and children whose bodies were found in graves in Bucha. Everyone saw the horror that Russia and its aggression bring. They saw what Ukraine is really defending itself against.

Today, on the fourth anniversary of Bucha’s liberation from Russian occupiers, we honored the memory of Ukrainians who were killed and tortured there. We remember and will never forget what the enemy did. Every Russian murderer, executioner, and terrorist must be held accountable for every crime against our people.

Blessed be the memory of everyone whose lives were taken by Russia – to all who were killed in Bucha and across Ukraine at the hands of Russian occupiers.

[Remko Theulings @RemkoTheulings]

Goeie column over Erdbrink in Rusland:

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

Everyone in the world apart from @POTUS and @JDVance understand 🇷🇺 russian OIL sales directly pay for this war, please stop being War mongers and sending trucks full of cash to the Kremlin.

KEEP THE SANCTIONS, end the war.

[Kirsten Verdel @locuta]

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