This 74-year-old pensioner in occupied Berdiansk just got 14 years in prison for allegedly financing the Ukrainian army.
Her crime was donating $33.
This is what Russia does wherever it steps in.
Kyiv has gone through 12 air raid alerts today amid nonstop attacks. The most intense day I can remember. Trains and public transport severely disrupted. Combined with strikes on food warehouses, it looks like a new Russian strategy to suffocate Kyiv
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I went to Kramatorsk to show the incredible energy workers keeping the city alive. + how ordinary peolle refuse to let their city die in the face of russian terror.
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At Independence Square, Ukrainians are honoring the brave lives tragically lost in Putin’s war of inhumanity & aggression. We join them in their sorrow & redouble our support for their fight to stop Russia’s slaughter.
On the eve of Ukraine’s 35th Independence Day, the blue and yellow shine bright.
They have become the colours of courage, resistance and determination.
Tonight, they light up our building. A symbol of steadfast support to our brave neighbours.
Our trusted partners. And future EU member.
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦🇪🇺
Congratulations to Ukraine on its Independence Day! 🇺🇦 Now more than ever, Ukraine is teaching the world the meaning of independence and how and why it must be fought for. A great shame that it is still fighting alone against Russia and its axis allies.
This is terrible. Another Russian terrorist attack on civilians! Ten killed and many injured. These insane crimes must be punished! Putin and others responsible must be condemned just like the fascists in Nuremberg in 1946!
Richard Gere recites Ukrainian poetry.
Golden Globe-winning actor Richard Gere delivered a moving message of support to Ukrainians, reciting a poem by Ukrainian author Yurii Izdryk.
Gere expressed his deep connection to the Ukrainian people, declaring, "I am your brother", before closing his recitation with the phrase in Ukrainian: "Be silent. Breathe" ("Помовч. Поди��ай").
🎥: Facebook/yaroslava.gres
My Russia Sanctions bill—passed by an overwhelming bipartisan Senate vote—shows that America stands with Ukraine. These sanctions will throttle Russia’s war machine by cutting Russian oil & gas revenue.
🎬 More than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia. Watch THE STOLEN CHILDREN — a powerful documentary by @mobbs_mentality following the fight to bring these children home and expose one of Putin's most horrendous crimes. #BringKidsBack https://t.co/6E7EYSafsd
After another night of heartbreaking death & destruction, Zelenskyy again pleads for air defense—& sanctions—to help stop Putin’s murderous missiles & drones. We must meet the moment—with Patriot interceptors & the Russia Sanctions Bill.https://t.co/WS4GlNLgGV
HODGES: For Russia, it's absolutely humiliating, for their military and government, that Ukrainian drones flying almost uninterrupted through Russian airspace to hit targets deep inside Russia.
The ones that hit St. Petersburg traveled about 5 hours through Russian airspace. How embarrassing that Russians couldn't identify it, track it, or knock it down somewhere along the way.
I think Russians will continue doing the only thing they can do, which is to hit civilian targets. They're not gaining anything on the ground. The great Black Sea Fleet is no longer a factor, and they can't seem to stop Ukrainian attacks of different types.
The one thing that Ukrainians have not been able to completely stop, for now, is Russian missile attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets.
And what utter nonsense when Kremlin talks about how they have to retaliate somehow, or that somehow Ukraine is the aggressor.
SEN. BLUMENTHAL: My trip to Ukraine showed me how desperate Putin is becoming. He is losing troops at unsustainable rate, about 30,000 a month.
He's losing territory at this point. His net losses have to be deeply troubling to him. And so out of desperation, he has launched this ferocious, bloody attack on Ukraine, literally on civilians.
When we were in Ukraine, we went into bomb shelters probably three or four times a day, sometimes at 3:40 a.m. or in the midst of forums and conferences.
Putin is targeting homes, apartments, hospitals, and schools out of desperation. But he is also having to contend with tremendous technology that Ukrainians have developed.
They're helping us, they're teaching us, but they're also using it to hit St. Petersburg oil depots deep within Russia. Tremendously impressive when you think about what it shows about Russia’s vulnerability.
And that kind of technological prowess and advances they’re showing has to be deeply troubling to Putin as well.
This is 2-year-old Oleh and his mother, Maryna. Russia killed them in Dnipro on June 2nd when russian missile struck their apartment building🕯💔
The attack also kilked Maryna’s partner, Yuriy, and 13 of their neighbors.
Russia is losing this war, but continues to terrorise Ukrainians.
Yesterday’s brutal attack on Kyiv damaged homes, critical infrastructure, & humanitarian offices, injuring more than 80 people.
This is terror in its purest form. Those responsible must be held accountable.
Sorry, guys, but I'm fed up with messages such as "we express our solidarity to Ukraine," "we'll increase our pressure on russia," "we'll step in our military assistance to Kyiv," and bla bla bla, without directly intervening, at least—bare minimum—by closing the skies.
#disgrace
Russia again threatens diplomats & foreigners, urging us to leave Kyiv. But we are not going anywhere!
Russia wants fear. Panic. Isolation of Ukraine. It will not work.
🇪🇺 is not going anywhere. We stay in Kyiv. We stay w/ Ukraine. 🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺
Another massive attack on 🇺🇦 w/ Kyiv as main target.
Russia launched 90 missiles, incl. ballistic, & 600 drones overnight. Even launched “Oreshnik” at Bila Tserkva.
Homes, schools, museums & infrastructure hit. 83 civilians injured.
🇺🇦 needs support. This terror must stop 💔
Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine last night shows the Kremlin’s brutality and disregard for both human life and peace negotiations.
Terror against civilians is not strength. It's despair.
We stand firmly with Ukraine, with further support on the way to reinforce its air defence systems.