Russian strike on an ambulance in Kherson today.
Russia is systematically tearing Kherson apart, committing one war crime after another. The city is in a desperate, critical situation‼️‼️
What is the deal with the Russians worth? Trump recently agreed with Putin that he could hold a parade, but there would be an exchange of prisoners and no strikes on Kyiv.
Kyiv this morning. A ballistic missile struck a residential building. Civilians are under the rubble.
In total, over the past 24 hours, the Russians have launched about 1000 drones and dozens of missiles.
This is why.
When some russian in a hotel asks me why I do not want to talk to him, when some European asks me why I am not "tolerant" – the answer is in this photo.
There are thousands of such kids in Ukraine whose parents were killed simply because russians followed their crazy tsar instead of stopping him.
The russian army is 2.4 million. Most of them have been to Ukraine. The police is about 1 million. There are also smaller forces – FSB (200 thousand), National Guard (340 thousand) and others. So we are already at more than four million people involved.
And then count those who work as subcontractors for the army. Those who work in weapons factories. Count the government and everyone working for it. You get every 10th adult russian working for the war. 30% of russia's budget is spent on it.
This is not "Putin's war," this is "every russian's war."
So when I meet a russian man in some hotel, I know there is a 10% chance he is directly involved. And the remaining 90% support it –
by action or inaction.
So how should I treat them?
If he wants a conversation, he should start by asking for forgiveness and condemning their army and their regime. In all other cases, I won't even talk to such a person.
This is what Russian occupation looks like.
Filtration camps, torture, rapes, killings, deportations, denial of basic services unless one accepts Russian citizenship.
Ukraine cannot and will not abandon its people under Russian occupation.
In 2003, russia’s president Putin went to Kyiv and signed a russo-Ukrainian Treaty on Border, saying “all border questions between russia and Ukraine are closed” and “russia and Ukraine will cooperate further as equal partners”. Of course he lied.
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.
Bucha. 4 years. When genocidal monsters from Russia revealed themselves.
Since then, there's thousands Buchas uncovered in Ukraine.
Never forget. Never forgive.
Madness – Orban is getting orders directly from Russia.
Siyjarto is passing on information from internal discussions among EU officials to Lavrov – audio recordings of the conversations have been leaked to the media.
Sanctioned Russians arriving in DC to present another aid package to the Trump family bank accounts in exchange for continuing to cut off and pressure Ukraine into surrendering. European had better wake up.
@NawrockiKn If you go to Budapest to support Orbán, Putin's bootlicker, then you're no longer "right-wing"—you're simply on the side of autocracy. Period.