The greatest danger is not realizing the greatest danger. I wrote "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Democracy to Autocracy" as a plea to grasp the true danger facing America.
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Applebaum: Putin has presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about leading a traditional society
In reality, divorce is very high, abortion is common, very few Russians go to church and less than 5% have ever read a Bible. It's not a traditional culture at all 1/
росіяни проводять геноцид українців, вони вдарили КАБом 3000 кг по українському місту Покровське, Дніпропетровської області 💔
Друзі , поширюйте відео на цілий світ , нехай бачать всі, які росіяни варвари і нелюди ...
🇷🇺🇷🇺Russian officer Uldarov: “I ‘cleared out’ a basement of 300–400 civilians, including 40 children.”
According to him, it was a nine-story building. The occupier adds that “he had no choice” and that
he WAS ORDERED TO ELIMINATE EVERYONE:
“I carried out the order with this hand — I killed children. You understand, by order. The thing is, we… we were given the command to wipe out and destroy everyone.
WE WENT TO KILL everyone — women, men, the elderly, and children, even the little ones — five-year-olds.”
The order came from Prigozhin to clear out Bakhmut — to spare no one, neither the old nor the children.
“Wipe them all out.”
In Soledar, it was even worse. Direct quote from Savichev: “Civilians came out. And there was an order — everyone aged 15 and older was to be executed immediately without a word. 20 to 24 people were shot, including ten teenagers aged 15 to 17.”
"How do you even keep your mental health together?"
"I don't. I lost it a long time ago. Ever since three of my closest friends and my boyfriend were killed. I was the one who recovered his body from the evacuation point."
Ukrainian Defender "Kit" ("Cat") from the Magura Brigade joined the military at the age of 24. Over four years of service, she has fought in some of the war's hottest sectors, including the defense of Donetsk region, the counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia region, and the Kursk operation.
Kit's boyfriend died defending Ukraine in Donetsk region while carrying out a combat mission.
"One evening, he brought me the wounded and the fallen from the positions, and the very next evening, he was the one being recovered..."
Today, Kit is defending the Sumy region.
📹: Hromadske Radio
No, this is not the 20th century and not World War II.
This is Kherson. 03.06.2026. - 05.06.2026
And this is the reality people in Europe are choosing to live alongside — and the reality of how this enemy will eventually behave toward the EU as well.
The enemy burns people alive inside their own homes.
#Kherson #Ukraine #War
Trump’s influence is fading fast—from congressional pushback at home to global setbacks for Putin and Orbán. @simonwdc and @stuartpstevens break down his losing streak on Lincoln Square's Substack.
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🔴 Russian soldier confesses to rape and murder of Ukrainian children.
Captured Russian soldier Rustam Gareyev from the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade confessed to executing 20 civilians in Avdiivka, including an elderly woman and a teenager.
This is Olha, she was 22-year-old. Russia killed her yesterday in overnight attack on Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region 🕯💔
She was seven months pregnant. Olha’s husband is currently serving in the Armed Forces, defending Ukraine.
Olha worked as a psychologist at "Shans" (Chance), a local comprehensive rehabilitation center for people with disabilities, where she dedicated herself to helping children.
⚡ BREAKING: EU proposes first-ever entry ban on anyone who has served in the Russian military since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen says.
This is Iryna, she was only 18.
Yesterday, she passed away after a week-long battle for her life, succumbing to severe injuries sustained during the russian attack on Kyiv on June 2nd🕯
Iryna was a sophomore, studying psychology at Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University.
Russia killed her for being Ukrainian.
Every day, Russia commits terrorist atrocities against Ukrainian civilians that would cause outrage and catastrophe anywhere else. Unprovoked military attacks on innocents while the free world watches and talks.
This is a devastating interview.
Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.
Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
If Satan has a residence on Earth, it is in Russia: the story of former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko, who survived Russian captivity.
After seeing Russia from the inside, he described it as a moral void, completely incompatible with Ukraine.
In captivity, he survived purely through willpower—holding on by sheer determination. When he finally returned home on August 24, 2025, it felt as though he had grown wings.
What struck him most was the way Ukrainians welcomed the released prisoners. From the Belarusian border all the way to Chernihiv, crowds stood along the roads waving Ukrainian flags. For the first time in a long while, he felt genuine respect and love.
Mykolayenko neither hid nor fled, even though he had the opportunity. He joined the Territorial Defense Forces because he asked himself a simple question: who else would protect his family?
He was given an assault rifle, but quickly realized that rifles alone cannot stop tanks.
The Russians lured him to a meeting under false pretenses, threw him into a car trunk, and took him away.
In captivity, he was beaten almost daily and suffered a broken rib. The occupiers offered him the position of head of the occupation administration, but he refused.
They demanded that he publicly condemn Roman Shukhevych, yet Mykolayenko instead called him a Hero of Ukraine.
Later, he was transferred between detention facilities—first to occupied Crimea, then to Russia’s Voronezh region, where the beatings became even more severe.
He never received a single letter from his family. He even refused prisoner exchanges, insisting that wounded young soldiers should be released in his place.
In his view, this war did not happen because of abstract mistakes. It happened because of geography and irresponsibility.
Russians chose Putin twenty-five years ago, and many continue to support him today. At the same time, too many members of Ukraine’s elite behave as if they have a “backup country”—Paris, Prague, New York—places they can escape to while blaming the people who were left behind.
But most Ukrainians have no alternative. There is no second homeland. There is only Ukraine.
According to Mykolayenko, the true strength of the country lies in its people—those who have survived occupation, torture, and loss, yet continue to fight.
Victory rests on two pillars: the soldiers who destroy the occupiers every day, and the civilians who do everything they can each day to ensure that the army can keep fighting.
He himself endured for the sake of his family and his faith in victory. He is proud of his daughter, who has been fighting since the first day of the war, and hopes that his grandchildren will one day be proud of both him and their country.
This is Oleh.
He was 2.
russia decided that was enough.
A missile hit his home, killing Oleh, his mother, and 14 neighbors.
He never saw peace.
Never started school.
Never had a future.
His life ended before it began.
Today is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. For Ukrainians, this is a painful reality that has become part of everyday life.
Since 2022 alone, Russia has killed 707 Ukrainian children, injured 2,548, and left 2,318 missing. The youngest victim was just two days old - born and killed in a maternity hospital.
These figures may be far higher, as the full truth about what has happened in the temporarily occupied territories remains unknown. In addition, at least 20,470 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia or forcibly displaced.
Eternal memory to all the children whose lives have been taken by Russia's aggression...
Why did Ukrainians recognize Russia’s war as an existential threat long before much of the world?
Since Moscow’s 2014 invasion, I’ve traveled Ukraine asking this question.
10 yrs in the making, my new book When the Ukrainian Sun Rises is now open for pre-order @Georgetown_UP