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[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Without China, Russia would have lost war in Ukraine.

North Korean troops and Iranian drones grab headlines. But what keeps Putin in Ukraine is China — chemicals for artillery shells, components for drones and missiles.

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[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Inside Moscow's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs, and spies. Leaked documents now expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage. https://t.co/5TTRIaWZj7

[Tetїana 🇺🇦 @TPSpindel]

A Ukrainian child disappears from occupied Mariupol.
Years later, he appears on russian television wearing a naval cadet uniform beneath a russian flag.

The theft, deportation, and forced russification of Ukrainian children is one of russia’s war crimes and one of the clearest examples of its genocidal campaign against Ukraine.

[Денис Казанський @den_kazansky]

Депутат Госдумы РФ генерал Гурулев признался, что в 2014 году командовал российскими военными на Донбассе, и в результате обстрела по его приказу были убиты женщина с ребенком.

Такого еще не было, конечно.

А ребенка этого потом они небось включили в какую-нибудь «аллею ангелов» и рассказывают, что это украинцы его убили…

https://t.co/U2dHWlIV6q

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This is the Irish minister for foreign affairs pushing sanctions for Isreal while she remains silent about the huge scandal around the russian refinery that still sends 14 ships to St Petersburg per month.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Russia’s bad scenario:

- War till 2036 and Russia’s defeat;
- Ukraine joins nato;
- disintegration of Russia;
- wars in Transnistria & South Ossetia;
- end of Russia’s sovereignty by 2050 & return of unipolar world.

So, no peace and harmony in future. Only war & domination, one way or another.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

If you didn’t notice, Russia presented in St Petersburg a “positive scenario” for Europe’s future:

- nuclear strike on Ukraine,
- war till 2036;
- occupation of Kyiv;
- disintegration of EU;
- Russia’s domination in Europe.

Think about it next time when saying 🇷🇺 means well.

[Montrey @Montrey82631182]

08.04.2014 Luhansk: Masked, heavily armed men occupying the SBU building release their first video. Before anything else, they urgently clarify they're not Russian, not FSB, and there are no Russians inside. A very normal thing to say unprompted. Totally routine.

[Сергій Коваленко @sergeykovalenko]

Пропоную замість Булгакова в Києві встановити памʼятника Стівену Кінгу @StephenKing . Бо:
- Кінга в Україні любить більше людей, ніж будь якого іншого письменника (думаю, відрив тут в рази)
- Кінг підтримує Україну
- Кінг заборонив видавати свої нові книги в росії
- Кінг хейтить Трампа
- Кінг просто красівий дід

Мінуси?

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Die AfD unterstützt Putins Terrorismus gegen ganz Europa.

Russlands rücksichtsloser Angriff auf das Tschernobyl-Sperrgebiet ist ein Akt der nuklearen Erpressung und ein Verbrechen gegen die gesamte europäische Zivilisation.

Und die AfD unterstützt diese Erpressung.

Das ist kein Kollateralschaden eines Krieges. Das ist kalkulierter nuklearer Terrorismus. Russland weiß genau, was Tschernobyl symbolisiert und welche Risiken ein Treffer birgt. Dennoch zögert das Putin-Regime nicht, Drohnen auf kritische nukleare Infrastruktur zu lenken.

Die AfD spricht jeden Tag eine Einladung an Putin aus, weiterzumachen. Wer Russlands Krieg als „innerukrainisch“ oder „NATO-Schuld“ darstellt und gleichzeitig nukleare Risiken für Europa ignoriert, stellt sich auf die Seite des Aggressors und gegen Deutschland.

Genau das macht die AfD.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.

Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.

White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.

Russia is cancer.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.

He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.

This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’ve been wondering why local news here in Limerick hasn’t been reporting the truth about the russian refinery and just noticed the biggest paper here took 5M € government funding from a minister who has defended the plant. Absolutely disgraceful. You cannot call yourself a journalist if you take government money. Explains a lot

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Horrific moment of a direct russian drone strike on an apartment building in Dnipro last night‼️

​At least 12 people were killed, including 2 children.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Kyiv was hit with a huge missile and drone attack this morning.

Also this morning, another ship with 2,200 tonnes of alumina headed from Ireland to russia to build those weapons. This has to stop immediately.

[Mariia Kramarenko @KramarenkoMari3]

When simply googled:
Oleg Deripaska is a russian-born citizen and heavily sanctioned oligarch with deep, direct personal ties to putin.

Evgenii Nikitin is a russian-born citizen and Kremlin-connected corporate technocrat executing the daily leadership of the company.

By utilizing these russian citizens to anchor its corporate structure, the Kremlin maintains a stranglehold on Europe's largest alumina refinery in Ireland, keeping a strategic asset running to feed critical raw materials directly back into russia's military war machine.

[Andrea Opachi @OpachiAndrea]

L'Armenia NON ha chiesto l'ingresso nella NATO eppure Putin e Lukashenko la stanno minacciando.

Spero che almeno così sia chiaro a tutti che la barzelletta dell'espansionismo della NATO era ed è una fesseria.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Those who aim to "avoid escalation" must now admit that escalation is not being avoided. Escalation is being allowed, and encouraged. If we are "standing with Ukraine" — we shouldn't be standing on a huge pile of frozen Russian assets that could be used to save Ukrainian lives.