Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦

Crying for Ukraine 😢 Team Yeah Can Designs. Web Design, Content, Hosting and AI Agents.. Pic: Chinese food court KLCC.

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

We have two of our invaluable long serving developers based in the Ukraine and recently have added two interns. One outside Kyiv, two are in Kyiv and one just outside Dnipro. This war is personal. Russia get out of the Ukraine. It's not yours. 🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 315 - Pricing - Find Stale Plugins, Random Post Type, Site Clone with Reprint https://t.co/e3dIaSTdtT

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

Well done! Future star of the world.

[UCT @UCT_news]

UCT student and outgoing SRC vice-president, Maboletso Letsoalo, has been selected for the 2027 SACS Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford.

As an MSc candidate specialising in Computational Health Informatics, she is investigating how data and technology could improve the diagnosis and prevention of disease.

Read more: https://t.co/jTMIO9rFDM

@UCTHealthSci

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 313 - Critical - MCP in WP Core, Thank WP People, Woo Accessibility https://t.co/oN4IWfmX30

[Tom Fishburne @tomfishburne]

"Marketing to AI Agents" - new cartoon and post https://t.co/5ELnz1OftW

#marketing #cartoon #marketoonist

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

Vibe Coding cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://t.co/6TmOcusRXD

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

Couldn’t have said it any better myself, Illia!

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

End of story -- it is vitally and strategically imperative for Europe and the entire free world to take the most decisive steps to accelerate the development of their own alternative to Starlink.

Otherwise, this profoundly hypocritical, infantile, walking embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, drunk on his own sense of limitless power, impunity, and imagined moral superiority, will bring the entire free world to ruin -- all for the sake of the ketamine-fueled cockroaches in his head.

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

Horrific what Trump and his bros are doing here. Very few honourable leaders left.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

**You need to watch Zelenskyy's interview with Steven Bartlett.**

Sitting in front of the camera is an utterly exhausted, at times visibly broken man who has spent almost five years personally managing a war, making critical decisions day and night.

From the very first minutes, you can see just how drained he is. When asked the routine question, "How are you?" he replies that he barely sleeps because he spends his nights in military group chats, moving the last remaining air defense systems from one region to another.

Two stories are particularly heartbreaking.

The first is about a missile that struck a children's playground within seconds, while parents watched from their apartment windows as their children were torn apart.

The second is about presenting posthumous military awards to the families of fallen soldiers:

"You present an award to a father, feel his strong hand, and then he quietly asks, 'Can we hug?' At that moment, I simply cease to exist inside. These people are gone. They will never be the same again."

When the host tries to take him back into his past, showing old photographs from Kryvyi Rih, his student comedy performances, his voice acting as Paddington Bear, and scenes from *Servant of the People*, Zelenskyy looks at them with detachment, almost as though he is watching someone else's life.

He also recalls February 2022 without any attempt to portray himself as a hero.

He says that for the first 20 days, he simply ran from office to office on adrenaline, calling everyone he could and trying to organize deliveries of water and food to Kyiv.

Fear and the full realization of what had happened only caught up with him three weeks later, when Bucha was liberated and mass graves containing hundreds of murdered civilians were discovered.

Using Bucha as an example, he explains why advice from outsiders to simply negotiate a quick deal causes him such deep frustration:

"Imagine that in the United States or Britain, a mass grave is discovered containing 500 tortured people with their hands tied. How could you simply forgive everything after that?"

The rest of the conversation revolves around the deadlock in which Ukrainians, and indeed everyone involved, now find themselves.

Zelenskyy explains the causes of the war in simple terms: Moscow is trying to forcibly rebuild the Soviet empire because Ukraine's integration into Europe would finally bury that project.

But when the conversation turns to the present, there is unmistakable bitterness in his words.

Almost one-fifth of Ukraine's territory is occupied. The east is under relentless bombardment. Cities are left without electricity. People are dying every single day.

Meanwhile, every discussion about a ceasefire runs into the same demand: Kyiv must withdraw even farther from its fortified positions, without any guarantees that Russia will not launch another offensive a year later.

Toward the end, the conversation turns to Trump and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities.

Trump publicly reprimands Zelenskyy over attacks on Russian refineries because he fears rising diesel prices for American farmers ahead of the elections.

And this is where you can see just how deeply that approach affects Zelenskyy.

His country is burning.

Moscow has rejected his proposal for a mutual halt to attacks on energy infrastructure.

Patriot missiles paid for by Europe are being redirected by the Americans to the Middle East.

And somehow, Zelenskyy is the one being blamed for fuel prices in the United States.

The entire interview leaves you with a profoundly bleak feeling.

Here is a man trapped between the daily deaths of people in his own country and the pragmatic bargaining of allies who have their own elections, their own interests, and their own political calculations.

And yet, he can no longer step away from this responsibility.

**Watch it.**

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

What do you say to your family when you don’t know if you’ll ever see them again?

In February 2022, he told his wife and children the war had begun. Then he left as Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, unsure what the coming hours would bring.

This is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Before politics, he built a successful career in Ukrainian television as a writer, producer and performer, even portraying a president on screen. In 2019, he was elected President of Ukraine. Three years later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Sitting down with him was surreal and an enormous responsibility. It was a rare chance to hear his account of the first hours of the war and the decisions that followed.

We discussed things like:

How he found out Russia had invaded.
Why he refused an offer to evacuate Kyiv.
The 64km Russian military convoy advancing towards the capital.
How Russian forces tried to capture a key airport.
His account of discovering hundreds of bodies after Russian occupation.
What he believes it will take to end the war.

But I also wanted to understand how he’d been coping.

One of my first questions was simply, “How are you doing?” His answer was: “It’s hard.”

He spoke about meeting parents whose children had been killed. Some, he explained, simply ask him for a hug.

And as he spoke, there were tears in his eyes.

Whatever your views on the war or the decisions made by those involved, this is a rare opportunity to hear his account of events that have changed millions of lives.

Because behind every map, every headline and every political decision, there are real people.

Out now on all platforms ❤️👊🏾

(President Zelenskyy was recorded in Ukrainian and dubbed in English.)

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 312 - Plugins - New CPT Plugin, Compare AI & WP Made, WP In Europe Stats https://t.co/YLUAbcF969

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

@KatieKeithBarn2 @pmproplugin @GravityView Question: what are you doing about it? Keep on trying different strategies in the same field or looking for other opportunities?

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 311 - Funding - Official MCP Adapter, Automattic & Domains, Plugin Market Data https://t.co/PT2ID18Waj

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 310 - Tools - WP to Mobile, Agent First Themes, More Plugins in 2026 https://t.co/6yoa3vfcGs

[Tom Fishburne @tomfishburne]

"Gut Feel Decision Making" - new cartoon and post https://t.co/CRFt5LZJ3c

#marketing #cartoon #marketoonist

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 309 - More AI - Live Stream WP Releases, Novamira Desktop Apps, Woo Catalogue State https://t.co/f1jPboaKts

[The WP Weekly @thewpweekly]

Last chance to submit nominations at... The WP Awards 2026. Date extended to September 21, 2026.

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[Lana Miro 🇺🇦 @Lana_Miro]

Here we go! The results of our WordPress Security Survey are finally here 👇👇👇

[Bridget Willard @BridgetMWillard]

Reposting for reach.

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

@idavinder Happy birthday! Hope you had a great day, spread it over the week-end.... Worth celebrating.

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

WP Weekly 305 - Tools - Plugin Graveyard, Form Plugins Share, Secrets API in WP 7.2 https://t.co/n3eQ7aaVGw

[Anja Merret 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @anja]

Amazing!

[The New Voice of Ukraine @NewVoiceUkraine]

🌘 A Threads user under the name suvorova_elena shared stunning footage of the lunar eclipse filmed near the Kyiv Sea on Aug. 28

📸: suvorova_elena / Threads