Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦

YesCymru, Welsh football, CCFC, Mods, Allotment, Wisgi...

Formerly known as ninianboy36 where I ran a lively account but now I have to start again...

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

As did Ukrainian miners and their families.

[Wici Cymru @WiciCymru]

3 FACTS:

1. The Soviet Union supplied food parcels to miners in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales. [See below 👇]

2. The Red Army Ensemble was welcomed at the Llangollen Eisteddfod.

3. Russia has never been a threat to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

@PascalouNafo Fantastic news. Who on earth could depend on Trump and Musk to safeguard their country against the terror of the Kremlin.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

@thebarryhorns It should never be about funding for either Wales or Ukraine. Especially when there is a growing number of billionaires in the UK.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

Not often you can say well done to oil brokers but in this instance, well done oil brokers!

[Joel The Dane 🇩🇰🇺🇦 Данський Козак #NAFO @JoelTheDane]

BREAKING‼️ russian oil tankers bound for USA are floating aimlessly in the ocean - as oil brokers in USA refuse to touch the russian blood diesel.

TRUMP GAMBLED AND LOST 🇺🇸🤡

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

Just need the rest of the HS2 being held from Wales..

[CardiWoman @DonnaWarburton1]

If I wanted to get to Cardiff by train I’d either have to get to Carmarthen by bus or car first or go via England. This is why we don’t vote for English parties, they dgaf about us.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

Keiffer Moore for me, badly used by the manager. He was also wrongly accused of celebrating a goal against us.

[Scott Johnson @roathboy]

Which Cardiff City player do you most miss from recent years? Can I add the caveat that I’m not talking about key figures and icons like Joe Ralls, Sol Bamba, Sean Morrison and Peter Whittingham, I’m thinking more about players that made a mark over a few months or years

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

Yet another amazing achievement by the armed forces of Ukraine.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Another mass surrender of Russian forces near Kupiansk - resulting from Ukraine's ongoing operations clearing out old soviet gas pipeline networks.

This is the town Putin claimed only 45 days ago Russia had "liberated".

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK is committing an additional £10 billion in aid to Ukraine: £7 billion will go toward economic support over the next three years, and £3 billion will back export support, focused mainly on supplying essential weaponry.

Thank you UK!

Also two things: First, in a troubled world where some Western democracies turn on their allies, and on democracy itself, while others cling to realpolitik refusing to face the reality, the UK is proving to be a true reliable ally.

Second, the pro Farage-Russia bots are outraged, pushing hard to convince people to be isolationsts. But the victor of this war will determine whether Europe faces peace or war, prosperity or ruin.

Supporting Ukraine is not only the right moral choice, it is an investment in Europe’s future, peace, security, and prosperity .

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

Did he ever finish building that bungalow?

[Tony Rivers @TonyRivers1927]

Here come a thousand and one Petrocelli’s

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Ryan Bridge of Raise the Colours rocks up at Wetherspoons demanding entry while sporting a fake enamel poppy badge, specially manufactured in China for flag shaggers. Not a penny goes to the Royal British Legion, but at least the performative patriotism looks the part.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

His home town team is officially called Derry City.

[Stuart Paul @StuartPaulr3]

@RichFay Obviously, the London Derry boy mucshit or crappy Sheen doesn’t have any respect for Wrexham and of course that applies to his home team of Londonderry who won’t play him in their team because he is too disruptive and disloyal a total narcissistic arse.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

@wasUESH Yep. The poster was mocking the far right who are making a drama out of businesses not accepting people wearing poppies while ignoring the fact that they arrive at the door mob handed and usually with a megaphone.

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

UPDATED: This is the list of confirmed UK retailers who will currently not allow you to enter their premises if you’re wearing a poppy. Please reconsider and take your business elsewhere!

C&A
Our Price
Little Chef
Happy Eater
Mister Byrite
Debenhams
Berni Inn
Abbey National
BHS
Allders
The Link
Comet
Allied Carpets
Do It All
Madhouse
Index
Safeway
Gateway
Dan-Air
Keddies
Gateway
Ratners
Alliance and Leicester
Gamestation
Dixons
Phones4U
Rumbelows
Bejam
Monarch
Netto
Thomas Cook
Littlewoods
Bradford and Bingley
Texas Homecare
Somerfield
Barratts
Tandy
Courts
JJB Sports
Radio Rentals
Virgin Megastores
Woolworths

[Tony Rivers @TonyRivers1927]

From @CardiffCityFC visiting the Aberfan Memorial this week, to the beautiful matchday programme and the poignant tribute before the game.

We have our ups and downs, and they constantly drive us crazy, but our club have had a sublime week on and off the pitch

Diolch 💙

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

If these were genuine people from Wrexham you'd likely see a Wrexham or Wales football top, or at least some reference to Wales. But there's nothing, which suggests to me that this is an AI generated slop or they've all been bussed in from England for a photo opp.

[Restore Britain @RestoreBritain]

Wrexham patriots.

[ccfcinsider @ccfcinsiderr]

Message from the FAB to be in your seats for 2:45 for Cardiff City’s clash against Birmingham City on Saturday for an Aberfan memorial that will be taking place.

Please share!🙏

Cofiwn Aberfan. 💙

#CardiffCity

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

“I saw hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, and machetes there. Everything was covered in blood.”

Ukrainian military medic Yuriy Armash describes the terror inside Russian torture chambers.

Ukrainian military medic Yuriy Armash spent more than a year in Russian captivity. Among other places, he was held in one of the most notorious torture facilities in the Kherson region, established by Russian occupiers inside a seized police station in Nova Kakhovka.

There, he learned the stories of many people and witnessed how the Russians’ system of terror against local civilians operated.

How Russians torture prisoners

“The interrogations began on the very first day. They were conducted by the same FSB officers. During interrogations, they covered my face and handcuffed my hands behind my back.

They asked where the weapons were, how many people were in our reconnaissance group, where our positions were, where we had come from, and what our mission was.

They used an awl. They would pull the skin on my neck, pierce it, and leave the awl hanging there so I could feel it.

Because I wasn’t telling them what they wanted to hear, since I couldn’t tell them something that didn’t exist, they started using a knife. They stabbed me in the leg. They would take a knife and press it into my upper leg until they felt the blade reach the bone.

When the Russians realized they weren’t going to get an answer, they used a ‘Tapik,’ a military field telephone. They attached its wires to my ears and kept turning the crank, sending electric shocks through my body until I started screaming.”

How Russian occupiers abused civilians

“Starting April 20, they began taking me out to provide medical assistance to civilians who had been severely beaten by the Russians.

I remember treating a woman who was about 40 years old in one of the two punishment cells in the basement. I bandaged her head because she had been beaten with a rubber baton.

There were all kinds of injuries. They broke people’s legs. Men under the age of 35–40 were treated particularly brutally.”

A room filled with blood-covered torture instruments

“I never expected the level of brutality I witnessed after February 24. Although I had seen many things before that, I was honestly shocked.

At the Nova Kakhovka police station, I entered rooms where I saw things that absolutely terrified me.

I saw hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, and machetes. Everything was covered in blood.

The room with the blood-covered torture instruments was on the second floor of the police station, in the left wing. It was just an ordinary office.

But there were also more secret rooms in the building where they never even took me.

At the police station, the occupiers also forcibly removed tattoos they didn’t like from the bodies of detained civilians.

Some had their tattoos cut out with knives. Others had them burned off with potassium permanganate.

Russian occupiers raped even children

“When Buryats and Kalmyks were stationed at the police department, they frequently entered the cells of young women under the age of 25–30.

They even sorted the women by age and placed them in separate cells.

From time to time, women were taken out of their cells and brought to another wing. The young women were taken there at night and raped.

When the Russians’ rotation was coming to an end, they sometimes entered the cells and raped the women right there.

My cell was nearby. I could hear everything clearly…

The worst case involved a 14-year-old girl whom the Russians were holding captive.

She tried very hard to hide the fact that she had been raped.

One day, when we were taken outside for a walk, I noticed that she was bleeding.

I asked her what had happened. She didn’t want to answer.

I asked, ‘Did Russian soldiers do this to you?’

She silently lowered her head.

I assured her that no one except me would ever know about it.

After that, she answered:

‘Yes.’”

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

🤣

[Tony Rivers @TonyRivers1927]

Rupert Lowe is now 16/1 to become the next Prime Minister. In betting terms it means if you placed £100 on Lowe you would lose a hundred quid

[Michael Phillips 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇦 @NinianMod]

@EthanLevins2 If UK marines were in Ukraine they wouldn't be so stupid as to wear their own patches. So pipe down, stop being a drama queen, and pressume that some Kremlin bot created the image with AI.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Russia has killed 762 kids in Ukraine. These are documented cases. The real number is much higher.