While the IOC, together with some international sports federations, is lifting sanctions against Russia and allowing Russian flags to return to international arenas, Russia continues its terrorist attacks on Ukraine. Today, the capital was once again struck by missiles.
At least 10 victims have already been reported.
a Saturday in my homecity Zaporizhzhia: great russian culture drops guided mega bombs on a peaceful downtown, killing and injuring many. not “putin’s war”, not “putin’s regime”. we are dealing with a centuries-old culture glorifying mass terror.
THIS is what 🇷🇺 russians do.
They bomb 🇺🇦 civilians in broad daylight, leaving mothers to throw themselves on top of their children in the hope of taking the blast, the shrapnel from russian rockets.
Ukraine puts its children before all, russia targets them first.
Fuck russia.
Next Thursday, July 9, at 10 a.m. (NY time), Ukraine is convening an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the latest Russian barbaric missile attacks on Kyiv, killing dozens of civilians.
We must finally kick Russia in the pants & boot it out of the UN🥊💪
Allowing russian athletes to Olympic Games - Moral Disengagement is a framework coined by an American-Canadian social psychologist of Ukrainian and Polish descent Albert Bandura. It refers to the cognitive tricks people use to separate moral standards from their unethical actions. This allows them to behave without feeling guilt or shame. Bandura originally outlined these mechanisms in his foundational work on Social Cognitive Theory. It may be characterized by - Moral Justification: Harmful conduct is reframed as serving a higher, socially worthy, or moral purpose. Disregarding or Distorting Consequences: Minimizing, ignoring, or actively denying the harmful effects of one's actions, ensuring that moral self-sanctions are never triggered.
In his later book, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves, Bandura extended these concepts to the organizational level, showing how institutional structures in the finance, tobacco, and entertainment industries facilitate these maneuvers. Today’s actions by International Olympic Committee @iocmedia may well serve as a good example of moral disengagement 👇
This is not a fire show or a star wars scene. It’s #russia bombing #Ukraine. Had no sleep tonight in #Kyiv as the city shook. 11 killed. Too many didn’t wake up, buried under the rubble of their homes.
Whatever you are doing at this moment, pause for a minute to look at this photograph.
This is not history. This is Ukraine today.
After last night's Russian attack on Kyiv, I extend my deepest condolences to every family that has lost a loved one. Among the victims was this family, whose lives ended together.
This photograph is more than a record of a crime. It is evidence of what Russia continues to bring to our land and our people.
May the world never avert its eyes. May every nation see, remember, and understand exactly what and why Ukraine is fighting.
1. Today in Parliament I raised the growing concern over “Masha and the Bear” a Russian cartoon streamed to British children on Netflix and ITVX, and flagged by Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation as a Russian soft power tool.
I called on the Leader of the House to secure a statement from the Secretary of State for DCMS on what the Government intends to do.
Caolan is a real fucking reporter. Missiles exploding behind him, and he keeps filming, while the entire Western media hides, closes its eyes, and pretends the war in Ukraine isn’t even happening.
Fucking thank you, @CaolanReports, for doing what the world won’t.
Slava Ukraini
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Drop a screenshot of any page. Gemma 4 writes the Playwright spec, an autonomous agent runs it in a cloud sandbox on Cerebras (1000+ tok/s), and you watch the recorded browser run play back in the Preview pane.
“I got up, looked down, my arm was gone.” Rescuer Oleksandra lost her arm in Russia’s double tap missile strike on Kharkiv. After recovery, she plans to return to service.
If you want to understand Ukraine, start here.
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