Trump is once again groveling before Putin.
Russia has been invited to the G20 summit in the US, â Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Pankin.
Inviting a country with 217,000 documented war crimes to the G20 summit in the US is not diplomacy â it's a disgusting trivialization of mass murder. While Putin and his cronies are already wanted in The Hague on arrest warrants, Trump grovels before the war-criminal state and rolls out the red carpet for it.
This is a disgrace, a slap in the face to every Ukrainian child, every raped woman, and every bombed city. Anyone who brings mass murderers to the table instead of bringing them to justice has lost all moral legitimacy and is spitting on the graves of the victims.
đźđč The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for⊠memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes â his friends, colleagues, champions â killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet âdid not comply with regulations.â
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal â but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended⊠for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
âȘïž Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete â killed in Kharkiv.
âȘïž Mariia Lebid, 15 â missile strike in Dnipro.
âȘïž Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater â killed in Bakhmut.
âȘïž Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete â also Bakhmut.
âȘïž Daria Kurdel, 20 â missile strike in Kharkiv.
âȘïž Alina Perehutova, 14 â standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
âȘïž Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer â killed defending Luhansk region.
âȘïž Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka â missile strike in Kyiv.
âȘïž Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast â airstrike on Mariupol.
âȘïž Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion â shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would âcompeteâ alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal â its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength â but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations â then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
đșđŠ We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.
Shocking moment as a russian âMolniyaâ drone struck an apartment building in Kharkiv today âŒïž
Pure and simple terrorism with no military goals. Bloody russian terrorists bastardsâŒïž
Illarionov says he learned of the Trump administration decision to cut off all military support to Ukraine on February 25th, before Zelensky's White House meeting on February 28th.
Zelensky's visit was then blamed retroactively in the March 4th announcement of the decision.