The video, from 2014, shows people in Donbas openly telling a journalist that the Ukrainian army is not shooting at them – that it is the DNR, essentially Russian-appointed puppets, who have been shelling the cities.
Show it to anyone who continues to spread russian propaganda that “Ukrainians were bombing Donbas for eight years.”
The Kremlin’s propagandists woke up to a real problem this morning, and it isn’t Drapatyi.
Their entire model rests on one axiom: all governments are the same. Everyone lies, everyone steals, protest changes nothing — so stay home and endure.
Then Ukrainians spent six days in the streets, and their government listened, argued, and obeyed.
That footage is now moving through every Russian-language channel, and no censor can fully stop it. Not weapons. Not sanctions. Just the spectacle of a neighboring Slavic nation replacing its top general because citizens demanded better.
Putin is 73. His system has no mechanism for succession, correction, or even honest bad news.
The most subversive thing Ukraine exports to Russia isn’t drones.
It’s proof.
🚨 Ukrainian security cameras caught these scumbags from the Russian army breaking into homes abandoned by civilians fleeing their aggression. They steal everything, from furniture to glasses. Not soldiers, but filthy looters in uniform.
Well, the ability to unite in a dark hour, take matters into our own hands, go out into the streets, and speak out against those in power has more than once saved our people when they stood on the brink of destruction.
Today, the fact that Ukraine remains a democracy despite everything has finally placed its best and most decent battlefield general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, at the head of its armed forces in this terrible war—a man supported almost unanimously by both the people and the army.
This is a great victory, one of the very many hard-won steps toward the light amid the darkness that have already been taken, with many more still ahead.
Today, the entire free world has something to celebrate.
Syrskyi is out. Drapatyi is in. The General Staff faces an overhaul.
Tonight you will hear that Zelensky ‘caved.’ That the street now runs the war. That changing commanders mid-war is chaos.
I see the opposite — and I wrote it this morning: a leader who can be argued back into the right position by his own citizens is not weak. He is governed.
But don’t miss the deeper event. This was never about two men. It was a referendum on military doctrine — the Soviet inheritance of centralized command versus the war Ukraine actually proved it could win: software, iteration, initiative at the edge.
The old doctrine just lost its chief defender.
And look at who won. Drapatyi is the general who once offered his resignation because a Russian strike killed his recruits — he claimed responsibility for deaths he did not cause. In Moscow, generals collect medals for deaths they did cause.
That is the difference between the two armies. Tonight it became the difference between the two futures.
Fedorov’s return is still unresolved. The doctrine question no longer is.
Six days of protest. Zero broken windows. One corrected government.
Democracies argue. That is not their weakness. It is their weapons system.
Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine.
Sirens blaring.
This is everyday for every Ukrainian.
I feel like such an asshole for minimizing the struggle of Ukrainians for the last 5 years. I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say.
There are people in Ukraine who have to run to a bomb shelter everyday and some of us had the audacity to say Russia wasn’t wrong because we believed the lie that Ukraine is a country full of Nazi sympathizers.
We have been so propagandized by Russia and we don’t even realize it.
Air sirens could very well be the future of America if we don’t start demanding our lawmakers crack down on communism and multipolarity.
We won’t have Trump forever and the axis of evil is moving fast.
Ситуація навколо останніх внутрішніх змін викликала сильні емоції. Розумію людей, які висловлюють свою позицію. Небайдужість – це сила, яка тримає нашу державу всі ці роки. Позицію суспільства почуто.
Ситуація вирішується фахово, конструктивно й на користь нашої держави. Тому прошу зберігати спокій. Дискусія – нормальна річ для вільної країни. Важливо, щоб вона й надалі відбувалася мирно, без провокацій, які б шкодили національній безпеці.
Закликаю нікого не хейтити. Ворог уважно стежить за кожною нашою внутрішньою суперечкою і чекає, коли ми почнемо воювати між собою. Скажу ворогам прямо: не дочекаєтесь. Думаймо про нашу спільну перемогу. Україна із цієї ситуації вийде обов’язково сильнішою.
Робота йде. Результати будуть.
Many replied to my last post: fine, removing Putin isn’t enough — but surely the Russian opposition is the alternative.
I don’t believe it is.
Most of Russia’s liberals oppose Putin. Very few oppose the empire.
Ask them about corruption, and they are eloquent. Ask them about Crimea, reparations, or the subjugated peoples inside Russia’s own borders, and the eloquence fades into ‘it’s complicated.’
I watched this for years from Georgia. In 2008, much of Russia’s intelligentsia — people who despised Putin at home — found reasons why bombing my country was regrettable but understandable.
The test of a Russian democrat was never his position on Putin. It is his position on empire.
Until Russia produces an opposition that wants a smaller, humbler Russia — not a better-managed one — regime change will only change the management.
The empire will simply hire new executives.
Congratulations to Andy Burnham @andyburnham on taking office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. We wish the Prime Minister and the British people every success in addressing the challenges of today.
Britain has always been one of the global leaders. We are ready to work together in all possible formats. We highly appreciate the UK's political, defense, and values-based support. The foundation of our bilateral relationship is stronger than ever, and we will continue to make each other stronger. I'm looking forward to our conversation later today. Thank you!
i recommended to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that he help Ukraine. Isreal declined saying they didn’t want to upset Russia. So Russia kept spending nearly $1bn+ on Iranian drones. Now ordinary Israelis have to face the consequences of Netanyahus judgement . Since the invasion of Ukraine Isreal has welcomed all the dirty Russia money and crooks. A sad decline for a once decent Country.
Both Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by U.S. Marshals outside of a private event in Miami, Florida, following an extradition request by the UK Government against the brothers on over fifty charges related to rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, as well as additional charges relating to illegal child images and pornography.
@piersmorgan Normally I'd agree with this Piers, but on the other hand the French were arguably the best team of the tournament and beating the favourites shows something about us.
На видео можно наблюдать, как кадыровцы катаются по оккупированной территории в карете скорой помощи. Когда такую повозку поразит дрон, россияне будут кричать, что «украинцы - террористы."
Actually, I can give you a very simple and comprehensive explanation of what lies at the heart of the current major political crisis and the protests against the dismissal of defense minister Fedorov in Ukraine.
The reason is that Fedorov's brief time in office, together with the impressive successes of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the air and at sea, gave the Ukrainian people one thing above all else: HOPE.
Hope that this horrific war, with its appalling sacrifices and monumental heroism, might end in something far better than, at best, the bitter and humiliating "peace" for heroic Ukraine that would certainly be nothing more than a short respite before an even greater nightmare.
It is the hope that good will ultimately triumph over evil, that life will overcome death and light will overcome the dark, that justice truly exists in this world, and that the great vile evil embodied by fascist Russia will be punished for its crimes.
And who knows how history may yet unfold -- perhaps that hope will one day lead us back home, to Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Melitopol, Berdyansk, or Crimea, so treacherously stolen from us.
And hope is a tremendous force.
I strongly advise no one to stand in the way of Ukrainians who have finally seen a light at the end of the tunnel of darkness and a source of genuine good hope.
Putin
Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.
Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.
The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:
Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.
To name a few.
An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.
Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.
The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.