мир - Alexia 🇺🇦🇪🇺

'When among wolves howl and devour' - Ted Hughes, 1991, dedication in my copy of Crow.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Ulyana Vorona, a promising Ukrainian athlete was killed by a 🇷🇺 gliding bomb while waiting for a bus in 🇺🇦 Sumy. She was just 13.

Meanwhile, IOC is welcoming 🇷🇺 Russia back to @Olympics.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Russian intelligence started tracking Boris Johnson while he was an Oxford student in the 1980s.

The Kremlin called him "likeable but not trustworthy," said he had "no principles" and "could be easily manipulated," The Telegraph. 1/

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

The moment has come to mobilise, folks. If you donated to the SNP's 2017 or 2019 fundraisers and you haven't had your money back, please contact Wings either by DM or via the Wings contact form. Fraud must be answered for. https://t.co/3v5tS9sswD

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ @Netflix has acquired rights to the Russian series Masha and the Bear, which incorporates pro-Kremlin, militaristic propaganda aimed at children.

🧵 1/15 ⬇️

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Hungary has blocked the next step in Ukraine’s EU accession process, according to Politico.

Budapest was the only EU member state to block approval of the joint position needed to open new accession negotiation clusters for Ukraine and Moldova. The issue is set to return to the agenda next week.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister

Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The death toll from the russian attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to 5, with 10 others injured - Regional Administration reported‼️

They launched 9 glide bombs on the city in the middle of the day. It is pure and simple terrorism. Again.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

There has been distressing news about the war in #Ukraine, which keeps expanding. There are many innocent victims, rescue workers killed, and churches and cultural heritage sites devastated by flames. I am close to all those who mourn their loved ones, to the wounded, and to those who continue to serve life with courage amid violence. Let us #PrayTogether that this war may end. Let us ask the Lord to open paths of dialogue, extinguish hatred, and make a just and lasting #Peace possible.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

WTAF???!!

As his final act, Wes Streeting just signed off ALL OUR PATIENT RECORDS to Palantir WITHOUT our knowledge or consent & then resigned

“Your medical notes, prescriptions & DNA will be used however a politician decides; you’ll have no say & no choice”

TO PALANTIR!!! 🚩

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan. 6 case.

[мир - Alexia 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Sinethugcat]

@OldYesButWise @1goodtern How do you get them? Private? NHS?

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

For 177 days, he lived in a place his unit called a kill zone.

No roads. No safe movement. No evacuation. Just shattered buildings, the constant hum of drones overhead, and the quiet understanding that most of the men around him would not make it out. Days blurred into nights. Hunger and exhaustion became background noise. Explosions stopped being remarkable. Men were wounded. Some didn’t come back.

The front line wasn’t a line anymore. It was everywhere.

And somehow, he kept going.

Not because the situation improved. It didn’t. Not because help came quickly. It couldn’t. He kept going because of a voice.

Once a week, his wife recorded a message. His commander would play it over the radio. Through static and interference, her voice would reach him – soft, steady, alive. For a few moments, the war would recede. He would answer with just a few words.

“I’m okay.”

He never told her the truth. He didn’t tell her about the bodies, or the fear that had settled into his bones, or how close death felt every single day. Instead, he protected her with silence – and held on to her voice like it was the last thread connecting him to the world beyond the ruins.

This is what war actually looks like.

Not maps. Not speeches. Not the clean language of strategy and outcomes. A man lying on cold concrete, listening to the voice of the person he loves, trying to remember that somewhere beyond the destruction, life still exists.

We talk about weapons and geopolitics. About positions and negotiations. But survival can come down to something almost impossibly small – a voice message, a few seconds of connection, a reason just enough to make it through one more day.

Source: Washington Post

[The Rest Is Politics @RestIsPolitics]

Our interview with the President of Ukraine, @ZelenskyyUa, is out now.

In this in-depth conversation, @campbellclaret speaks with Zelenskyy about everything from the personal toll of the war and his daily calls with his mother, to the bigger picture: Putin’s mindset, US involvement, and the shaping of new alliances.

Watch now. Link in replies.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

If sanctions on Russian oil have been lifted because of the war in the Middle East, will the U.S. sanctions be reimposed now that there is a ceasefire? I think that an answer to this question will expose the reason for lifting sanctions in the first place. We just need to wait and see.

In my view, Russia played the Americans again – played the President of the United States. The Russians lied about the role their oil supplies played in keeping oil markets stable. If the U.S. reimposes sanctions, that would be fair. But if it doesn’t…

We heard that Russia wanted Americans to buy certain energy assets in Europe belonging to Lukoil. I ask myself, “If I want to sell sanctioned energy assets, what do I do?” I come up with a scheme to lift sanctions. How else could I sell it?

From an interview with Rai Radio 1 (3/3).

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Terrorist and former "people's governor of Donbas," Pavel Gubarev, confirmed that the so-called "uprising" in Ukraine's Donbas in 2014 was entirely funded and coordinated by Moscow and carried out with Russia's military involvement.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

The study's conclusion could not be clearer:

"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment."

This is the finding the gender medicine movement has staked its entire ethical claim on. The claim has not held.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

The authors noted plainly: in some individuals, the medical procedures "appear to be linked to deterioration in mental health."

This is a peer-reviewed journal. This is the lead clinician of Finland's national gender clinic. These are her words.

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Finland tracked every gender-referred adolescent in the country for up to 25 years.

Their psychiatric needs didn't improve after 'gender reassignment'. They surged.

A landmark peer-reviewed study just dropped. Here's what it found. 🧵