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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Andrii Melnyk, Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN, speaking at the UN Security Council on Ukrainian Independence Day:

"Day and night, Ukraine, a great European nation, is being brutally destroyed before the eyes of the entire international community by Russian ballistic missiles and killer drones.

And all that the world community seems capable of doing is to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council and at best condemn Russia's war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed on a staggering scale.

And some choose instead to hide behind abstract formulas, avoiding even mentioning Russia - the country that launched this war of extinction against Ukraine and continues to wage it with impunity.

What a disgrace that to this day the UN Security Council has failed to take effective action, to hold Russia to account, and to prevent a daily genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out in plain sight of the world.

It is time to put an end to Russia's abuse of its veto power as a fig leaf, as an excuse for inaction, to stop allowing the aggressor state to hide behind the very privilege it has misused to shield itself from accountability.

We understand that this Council has its own traditions and unwritten rules, a kind of pact of mutual non-aggression, but we can see that this is a road to nowhere. Unless Russia is shown that no one will any longer tolerate this cynical course of prolonging and even escalating the war against Ukraine, while simultaneously shifting blame and spreading lies, these daily deaths of innocent people will weigh on the conscience of this Council.

This also concerns something as basic as human conduct: continuing business as usual, to shake hands with the Russians and behaving as though nothing is happening, discussing routine agenda items as if there were no genocidal war raging in the very heart of Europe is sending an absolutely wrong message. It creates the impression that Russia can continue its terror campaign against Ukraine and its independence without facing any consequences of its criminal actions." - @MelnykAndrij

[Guy Walters 🇺🇦 🇻🇪 🇮🇷🇧🇾 @guywalters]

Eddie Richardson was no hero. Stop romanticising the English gangster, I write in The Telegraph:
https://t.co/rim8h6H0JB

[Maddie Hale @MaddieHale]

Loved having Olivia on the show!

[Maddie Hale @MaddieHale]

Thursdays with @ScottLucas_EA — Trump’s bizarre Air Force One escape, his Iran dilemma, trouble brewing ahead of the midterms, the Reflecting Pool saga and Putin’s latest moves on Ukraine.

https://t.co/v1TcZdaial

[RozmowaRMF @Rozmowa_RMF]

🟡🔵#RozmowaRMF!

💬 To jest zawsze decyzja, która zapada na najwyższym szczeblu
- Kiedy zapadnie?
💬 To jest kwestia najbliższych dni - @magdasobkowiak, wiceminister @MON_GOV_PL o tym czy Polska przekaże Ukrainie pociski Patriot

@RMF24pl @Radio_RMF24

[The Daily Handle @TheDailyHandle]

@KHoholenko https://t.co/W8tUJHZL3q is off. Kindly advise.

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@KHoholenko Site offline. https://t.co/W8tUJHZL3q

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Fire Breaks Out at Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant Near Nuclear Facility https://t.co/q37ipUh6kr

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EU Approves Additional €8.3 Billion Ukraine Funding Package for 2026 https://t.co/y5tQvafZRm

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Ukrainian Drone Strikes Disable Nearly Half of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity https://t.co/0OnU1kK9MY

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Ukraine, Moldova Cut Dniester Reservoir Outflows as Dry Spell Bites https://t.co/dM96ZtSzWV

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Ukraine and Turkey Launch New Free Trade Framework https://t.co/CFLZUyhDe7

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Ukrainian Households Offered Cheap Loans to Fit Solid Fuel Heating https://t.co/qrNXp2NpZr

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Ukraine Sets 11 July as National Day of Financiers https://t.co/AAbdlPldqX

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Ukraine Looks to Underground Storage to Shield Fuel Reserves https://t.co/4QqxnaLSRv

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Russia Sovereign Debt Left Almost Entirely in Domestic Hands https://t.co/BAlgCtmz0n

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Germany’s Hensoldt Order Book Breaks €10 Billion for First Time https://t.co/icY8PtZtD2

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Volgograd. Zelenodolsk.

Two more russian logistics warehouses struck today.

18 in just 13 days.

The warehouses that fuel russia's war machine are burning.

The war russia exported is coming home.

This is the only language the mass murderer understands.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A series of explosions ripped through Russia’s Nizhnekamsk industrial zone this evening, starting a major fire.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Nizhnekamsk, russia, is burning.

You reap what you sow.