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[The Ginsburg Initiative 🌊 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @RBGInitiative]

I'm so sorry, Ukraine.

And Europe.

And Canada.

And the rest of our allies & the sane world.

As an American, it's deeply embarrassing you have to put up with Trump, Vance and the rest of the clown show.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A father is all about protection and safety. And today, this has taken on an even deeper meaning, because Ukrainian fathers are protecting not only their children, but also the very possibility of a safe future.

Being a dad in Ukraine today takes a special kind of courage. And a special kind of love. We thank all Ukrainian dads for their care and strength. All those who defend Ukraine and who do everything possible every day for their families and children. Those who teach, inspire, and support.

May every Ukrainian family have what we are fighting for: a peaceful and safe future.

Happy Father’s Day!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

For the first time an Ukrainian drone struck a target more than 2,000 km (1,250 miles) from Ukrainian lines. The Tyuman refinery, which is east from the Ural Mountains, was struck by a drone from the Ukrainian company "Firepoint".

This has been announced by President Zelenskyy.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

You're kind of right:

Instead of talking about how your boss turned the reflecting pool into the world's largest Petri dish, we should talking how he signed an instrument of surrender to Iran at Versailles.

Of course, the only reason why we're talking about the reflecting pool is because he was bragging about how he was fixing it.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The fact that the decision to strip President Zelenskyy of Poland’s Order of the White Eagle is being celebrated by Dmitry Medvedev and former communist Prime Minister Leszek Miller says everything.

Turning historical disputes into symbolic punishments against a country fighting for its survival is a sign of moral bankruptcy and a significant strategic mistake. Trying to make enemies out of friends serves only one interest: Moscow’s.

When your actions are applauded in the Kremlin, it is worth asking whom they really benefit.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Prime Minister Meloni fires back at Trump:

“President Trump, these constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless.

As for my popularity, being your friend certainly has not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you. My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italy’s national interest, and that is exactly what I have always done.

That is also what I did regarding the American military bases in Italy. Their use is governed by agreements that we have always respected, and that cannot be violated as long as I am Prime Minister. Italy remains a sovereign nation.

In any case, my popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Yesterday, the President of Poland noted that the Order of the White Eagle is not an ordinary award. It is a symbol of the highest trust of the Republic of Poland. It signifies a special bond with the Polish state and the special gratitude of the Polish People. Such a symbol requires not only merit, but also respect for the values that form the foundation of our community.

Therefore, if it is considered that this special symbol may remain with Catherine II, Benito Mussolini, and Gerhard Schröder, then we in Ukraine will not argue with that.

Ukraine is grateful to the Polish People for their support and cooperation, which play a significant role in the struggle for our and your independence from Russia.

Ukraine never forgets solidarity and understands that cooperation between states and peoples in our region is one of the tangible security guarantees for Ukrainians and for each neighboring state.

Ukraine will continue to defend itself in this war unleashed by Russia, and we will undoubtedly achieve a dignified peace.

Ukraine is grateful to all peoples, states, and leaders who will continue to stand with us in the defense of freedom and who, together with Ukraine, will serve as guarantors of postwar peace in Europe and a new, real security.

Ukraine will remain open to all meaningful formats of engagement with Poland in order to try to avoid conflicting interpretations of the difficult and painful chapters of our shared past and to ensure proper respect for all innocent victims of the 20th century.

And Ukrainians are doing everything in our power to ensure that Europe does not suffer defeat in this century.

I am proud of our people and of EVERY Ukrainian warrior – of the millions of Ukrainian men and women who deserve unquestionable respect for the heroism the Ukrainian People have shown in defending themselves against Russian aggression.

We believed that the Order of the White Eagle, awarded in 2023, was meant for the Ukrainian People and our army. That is what was said at the time. Today, I sent the Order back to the President of Poland.

I believe the future will confirm the respect Ukrainians deserve.

Glory to Ukraine!

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

To coin a phrase, Putin could shoot a man on 5th Avenue and Trumpists wouldn’t do anything about it…

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Every new sanctions package against Russia is welcome, but every time you wonder why it wasn’t put into effect immediately four years ago, or 12 years ago. Deterrence is based on overwhelming response, not incremental tweaks.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: I don’t want to agree or disagree with Trump, because he has his own relationship with Putin. But I’ve always told him that he can’t trust Putin or his inner circle, that Putin is playing games with him. God bless, American society remains strong supporter of Ukraine.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Fresh poll:

61% of Ukrainians living in Ukraine trust Zelensky. 34% do not.

The most popular figures in Ukraine’s military and political leadership are Robert “Magyar” Brovdi (70% trust, 7% distrust), General Valerii Zaluzhnyi (73%/21%), and General Kyrylo Budanov (70%/22%).

General Andrii Biletskyi has a 49% trust rating against 12% distrust. Commander-in-Chief General Oleksandr Syrskyi stands at 52%/36%. Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is at 50%/21%.

Interestingly, the once flamboyant and scandalous politician Oleh Liashko is now experiencing a genuine renaissance in his popularity: 47% trust him, while 43% do not. Back in 2021, 70% of Ukrainians distrusted him. The reason is that after the war began, he joined the military, quickly rose through the ranks, and unexpectedly proved himself to be an effective and honest commander of a UAV battalion.

Military volunteer and entertainer Serhii Prytula is trusted by 46% and distrusted by 44%. Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko is trusted by 38% and distrusted by 50%.

Meanwhile, Yurii Boiko, one of the most prominent pro-Russian figures in Ukrainian politics before 2022, has a trust rating of just 6%, while 78% view him negatively.

And here are the ratings of the people whom the Trump administration was reportedly engaging with not long ago as potential alternatives to Zelensky:

Former President Petro Poroshenko is trusted by 26% of Ukrainians and distrusted by 71%. Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko stands at 11%/85%.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Europe is strongest when Europeans act together, not separately. This is what we are achieving in all our formats. On Sunday, we had the Ukraine–E3 format. Today, it is Ukraine–NB8. And we stay in regular contact with the United States. We are preparing together for the upcoming EU and NATO summits, as well as the G7 summit meetings. All of this can bring real results.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: Russia attacks us with more than 650 drones and 35 to 100 missiles per day. We respond with 300 to 350 drones, it’s not a competitive number. But, when we will have 600-plus drones and missiles, Russians will feel this war the way we do, but they will feel it at home.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson treated Biden’s health like Watergate, milked it for books, TV hits, headlines, and endless “cover-up” chatter.

But Trump? Slurring, rambling, falling asleep in public, hiding records, and looking weaker by the day?

Suddenly they’re blind.

That isn’t journalism.

It’s selective scrutiny. Shameful.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Ukraine‘s president Zelenskyy in an interview with Skynews disclosed that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich came to Kyiv, Ukraine. This secret meeting took place recently and Zelenskyy made clear that Ukraine is not going to surrender any parts of Ukraine, including Donbas. Zelenskyy said that the only compromise he is willing to take is an unconditional ceasefire.

This are interesting news. Abramovich would have never come to Kyiv if this wasn’t sanctioned by Putin. In other words, Putin blinked.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

You don’t hate the Russian military enough

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I had a very substantive conversation with the President of France. We revisited the key points of our discussion the day before in London and coordinated our next steps. We also discussed the details of the conversation with the envoys of the U.S. President. We must use every available opportunity to reinvigorate diplomacy and bring the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine closer. We are preparing for the G7 format in France, and it is important that there be strong results. Thank you, Emmanuel!

@EmmanuelMacron

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

🚨Ukrainian President Zelenskyy had a brief phone call with U.S. President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The call took place at the airport during a technical landing in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova.

According to my sources, there were signals ahead of the call that U.S. envoys may finally visit Kyiv in about two weeks. However, similar promises in the past have not materialized.

Neither Witkoff nor Kushner has visited Kyiv to date. At the same time, Witkoff has officially visited Moscow at least eight times.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The question is how long Trump will continue to side with losers Putin and Russia. The GOP showed signs of life for Ukraine, which is winning on the battlefield. Trump will never be disloyal to Putin, but acting as his proxy may not be politically viable for much longer.