At just 18 years old, Danylo was detained by russian authorities and sentenced to 12 years in a russian colony for donating 5,200 hryvnia, just over $100, to support Ukraine.
Now Danylo is 21 and has endured 3 years of torture in these conditions. russia tortures children.
Rep. McBride: Ambassador, I'm curious why United States is scared to call out and stand up to Putin at United Nations?
Amb. Waltz: United States under this administration has put more pressure on Russia to come to the table.
Rep. McBride: Well, they're now getting more money because of the Strait of Hormuz, but that's neither here nor there. Why did United States vote "no" and refuse to vote to denounce Putin's illegal war in Ukraine?
Amb. Waltz: As many of you know with legislation, there can be specific phrases that we find objectionable or that cross our red lines. The title says one thing and the actual legislation or resolution says another.
Rep. McBride: Apparently the only other countries that objected to any of the specific language in that resolution, at least in February 2025, were Belarus, North Korea, and Russia. So, not very good company.
Amb. Waltz: My memory is we were shifting to a more neutral, mediating position as we try to end this war.
Rep. McBride: A strategy that has not worked.
Amb. Waltz: Has worked a lot better than the last administration's.
Rep. McBride: Well, I don't think that's true.
Amb. Waltz: They're at least in the room talking, which is the art of diplomacy.
Rep. McBride: Well, there was a photo op in Alaska that President gave Putin. And I think these votes, or lack of votes, or "no" votes only send a message that we are treating Putin with kid gloves.
Sofia was only 23 days old. Her life was cut short by Russian shelling of the village of Shyroka Balka in the Stanislavska community of the Kherson region. She, her parents, and her older brother Artem (11) were in the yard and did not manage to reach the shelter at a neighbor's house in time.💔💔
Whole family died, again💔🙈
such barbarism, again an attack on a civilian area🙈!!🤬
I did say these things about Ukraine and Zelensky and I am not deleting my posts because I’ve realized, I was wrong.
I was living in a media echo chamber and I was propagandized by Russian media on social media to believe those things.
So I came to Ukraine to see the country for myself. I am going to try to find evidence for the propaganda I’ve been fed, and if I don’t find it, I will let everyone know so they too can come to see the light.
On day one, I’ve already seen photos of dead priests in Bucha murdered by Russia and I saw the mass grave where the bodies of murdered Christians were placed after Russia sent forces from Chechnya to massacre innocent people.
I spoke with officials who rescue POWs and they showed me photos of Ukrainian POWs who had swastikas engraved into their forehead by Russians.
Who are the Nazis? 🤔 I was lied to for years.
I realized Ukraine and @ZelenskyyUa aren’t the jihadi apologists… but Russia and Putin are!
I was wrong! I have a responsibility to correct the record.
Russia is very good at information warfare.
Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.
So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.
It's called World Monitor.
Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.
> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.
+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.
It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.
It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.
It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.
Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.
While adults try to stay calm, children experience every explosion in their own way.
Every explosion takes away a little more of a child's sense of safety. They deserve a childhood filled with love—not fear.
Kotovsk, Tambov Oblast, a Russian Pantsir SAM system accidentally hit a local Wildberries distribution facility with multiple bursts of 30mm cannon fire.
11.11.2014: Girkin demolishes the Kremlin’s “Maidan coup” lie. He admits meeting Aksyonov in Crimea in late January—weeks before Yanukovych fled. On 27 February, armed men seized parliament and installed Aksyonov as “Prime Minister.” The annexation was no spontaneous reaction.
18.07.2014 Luhansk (Ukraine): One day after the downing of civilian flight MH-17 by a Russian BUK air defense system, a BUK is spotted in Russian-occupied Luhansk (48.54583, 39.26435). Moscow is now scrambling to hide evidence related to the downing of MH17.
Audio recordings:
Pro-Russian separatists admitted to shooting down a plane.
„We have just shot down a plane.
That was «Miner's» group.
It fell down outside Grabovo, there is a whole lot of bodies of women and children.“
#Russia is committing war not only against Ukraine but against the entire civilized world.
Hoofd RU militairen in Oost-Oekraine op 17 juli 2014 half uur nadat MH17 neergeschoten werd: "We hebben net een vliegtuig neergehaald. We hadden gewaarschuwd: niet binnen ons luchtruim vliegen." (later verwijderd)
Nederlandse volidioten: "Oekraine zit achter MH17"
On this day in 2014 the Russian TV triumphantly reported about the downing of an aircraft over the occupied areas in Donetsk region, east Ukraine. Back at the time they assumed it was a Ukrainian military cargo aircraft and not MH17:
💔💔Barefoot. Terrified. Running for their lives.
A 12-year-old girl filmed herself fleeing explosions in Vyshneve.
She was running in her socks.
Her 8-year-old sister was barefoot.
Behind them, their mother was carrying their 3-year-old brother as the blasts grew closer.
This is what childhood looks like in Ukraine when russia attacks. Just survival. 💔
A reminder of how Farage campaigned, and won, in Clacton in 2024. Absolutely sickening.
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News exposed a campaign riddled with extreme racism, homophobia, and even allegations of election spending irregularities.
One Reform UK canvasser was secretly recorded suggesting that army recruits should use migrants arriving on Britain’s beaches for target practice. He also told a paramedic to deny oxygen to migrants in need of medical treatment, described Islam as a “disgusting cult,” and directed racist slurs at then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
The toxic rhetoric wasn’t limited to one volunteer. Farage’s events manager and other senior campaign figures were also caught making openly homophobic remarks about a police car displaying a Pride flag, mocking officers and saying they should “dance around like fairies” instead of doing their jobs.
The undercover footage also captured a senior campaigner casually claiming the local campaign had already spent roughly twice the legal election spending limit, a potential criminal offence. Reform UK later dismissed the comments as isolated incidents or jokes, but the footage raised serious questions about the culture within Farage’s Clacton campaign.
🚨 En 2012, la FIFA SUSPENDIÓ POR DOS PARTIDOS al jugador surcoreano Park Jong-woo por mostrar un cartel que decía “Dokdo es nuestro territorio” tras ganarle a Japón.
Usando el mismo criterio, la FIFA debe SANCIONAR a los jugadores argentinos.
French players were not allowed by FIFA to wear a black armband as a sign of respect for their manager Didier Deschamp’s mum dying, but I’m sure absolutely nothing will be done about this
In August 2024 Rodri and Álvaro Morata were rightly banned for one match for singing “Gibraltar is Spain”.
Now the Argentine players who celebrated with the “Falklands are Argentine” banner must be barred from the final.