Productive exchange with HE Assad Hassan al-Shibani, new Foreign Minister of new Syria: “Each one of us is a minority, because we are all unique”.
Good fortune in future endeavors!
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Russia hit an ambulance in Kherson with a drone.
The ambulance was donated by Italy, one of hundreds of humanitarian vehicles sent to Ukrainian cities still carrying their original markings. 2 medics were injured in the strike.
Striking a marked ambulance is a war crime. Full stop.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Thick black smoke, gunfire in the distance, and a drone circling overhead were probably not the backdrop Putin had envisioned for the opening of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
It may be hard to comprehend from afar, but it's an entire culture of lies, forgeries, deception, whitewashing of its own crimes, and brazen, persistent, cunning disinformation. Russia is built on lies, and as they also lie to themselves, it's easier for them to lie to others.
It may be hard to comprehend from afar, but it's an entire culture of lies, forgeries, deception, whitewashing of its own crimes, and brazen, persistent, cunning disinformation. Russia is built on lies, and as they also lie to themselves, it's easier for them to lie to others.
"The books survived, and a mug. And here is a window—you can see the stars now," a Kyiv resident shares a look inside her apartment after a Russian attack destroyed it.
Their home is completely uninhabitable. She somehow has the strength to joke.
📹:Diana Sapozhkova/Іnstagram
تماما كما السوريون ، يحب البولنديون ⚽️! ينتشر الآن بشكل واسع على الإنترنت مقطع فيديو لجماهير نادي @WislaKrakowSA وهم يحتفلون بصعود النادي إلى الدوري الممتاز.
📸: @foto_kasia
A secret department inside one of Russia's most prestigious universities has been quietly producing hackers, saboteurs, and spies for the GRU. Now 2,000+ leaked documents reveal exactly where its graduates end up — and what they do there. https://t.co/EBC2DLb8HC
Important reminder from @sikorskiradek:
❗️Vladimir Putin is a man whose word and whose signature cannot be trusted.
He lied to us repeatedly. These are not my men in the Crimea, remember? I have absolutely no intention of invading Ukraine.
#Syria: on this night 8 years ago, the town of Lataminah was struck by a Russian incendiary bombardment.
Thermite burns at over 2,000°C - enough to melt steel.
Video h/t @MahmodHamway.
يسرنا أن نعلن أن حكومة بولندا قررت دعم جهود إزالة الألغام في سوريا. ان هذا الدعم بالغ الأهمية لسلامة المواطنين السوريين ولإعادة إعمار البلاد. سيبلغ التبرع البولندي الطوعي ل @UNMAS في سوريا لعام 2026 مبلغ 250 ألف دولار أمريكي.
@polskapomoc#demining#Syria#Poland
Interesting tidbit from Syrian actor (half Alawite) that a 2011 chant supposedly shouted by anti-Assad protestors in the costal region, “Alawites to the grave, and Christians to Beirut”, was in fact orchestrated by the Assad mukhabarat.
He says he knows this firsthand.
82 years ago, on May 18, 1944, Russian special forces deported Crimean Tatars from their homes by force, without warning. Families were given just minutes to pack. At least 200,000 people (most of them women, children and the elderly) were taken by cattle trains to Central Asia and Siberia. Their homes in Crimea were taken by Russians arriving in the peninsula.
During transit and in the first incredibly hard years, about half of the deported people died from starvation, exhaustion and diseases. Their culture was systematically being erased, as well.
After the collapse of the USSR, Crimean Tatars were allowed to return to Crimea. But after Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, they are facing systemic prosecution and suppression of their identity. A lot of them fled their homes again. Many are imprisoned for years now.
This is a horrible genocide and crime against humanity that the USSR has performed easily and quickly. Russia has never gone through remorse and de-colonization pains. That's why it remains a criminal state today, led by a war criminal.
📹: Ukrainer
🇵🇱 Warsaw’s Palace of Culture of Science, 1955 vs. Today
90% of Warsaw was completely destroyed in WWII, making it one of the most devastated cities in history…
When the USSR made Poland a satellite state after the war, Stalin commissioned this skyscraper as a “gift.”
The country it belongs to has risen from the ashes to become the fastest-growing economy in Europe.
Incredible.
Russian forces in Kherson struck a marked UN humanitarian convoy with FPV drones yesterday, then posted footage of the attack and claimed responsibility.
When they say the Islamic State is resurging in Iraq and/or Syria (claimed attacks since 2019):
-25 attacks in 2026 (as of May 7): 1 in Iraq, 24 in Syria
-144 attacks in 2025: 16 in Iraq, 128 in Syria
-363 attacks in 2024: 70 in Iraq, 293 in Syria
-272 attacks in 2023: 151 in Iraq, 121 in Syria
-781 attacks in 2022: 484 in Iraq, 297 in Syria
-1,495 attacks in 2021: 1,127 in Iraq, 368 in Syria
-2,067 attacks in 2020: 1,459 in Iraq, 608 in Syria
-2,307 attacks in 2019: 1,252 in Iraq, 1,055 in Syria
❗️Russia attacked vehicles belonging to a UN humanitarian mission in Kherson - a direct violation of international law.
Vehicles of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were damaged by a Russian drone attack. There might be injured.
نظام الدخول / الخروج هو نظام إدارة الحدود الجديد في أوروبا لتسجيل المسافرين الذين يدخلون الاتحاد الأوروبي لإقامة قصيرة. اعتبارًا من 10 نيسان 2026 ، سيتم تشغيل النظام بكامل طاقته. المزيد: https://t.co/e1osZnNdhH
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