As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.
A family came to a dentist appointment, sitting in their car and waiting for their turn.
They never made it inside — russians murdered them in the car.
In Sloviansk, a russian airstrike killed three people instantly: a 56-year-old father, his 27-year-old son, and a 75-year-old grandmother. A 52-year-old woman is critically injured.
A family erased in a parking lot — in an ordinary moment that should have never ended like this.
russia turns normal life into mass murder. The world keeps watching. Ukrainians are dying.
When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.
Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.
A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.
10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.
At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk
Four firefighters killed in Kharkiv yesterday by Russian double tap. They served in the 6th State Fire and Rescue Unit of Kharkiv:
Dmytro Boiko, Squad Leader, Chief Master Sergeant of the Civil Protection Service;
Danylo Tishchenko, Firefighter-Rescuer, Sergeant of the Civil Protection Service;
Serhiy Makovetskyi, Firefighter-Rescuer, Sergeant of the Civil Protection Service;
Vadym Zinchenko, Driver, Master Sergeant of the Civil Protection Service.
A Civil Protection Specialist at the Kharkiv Regional State Administration died with them. Name was not announced yet.
In Kharkiv, five State Emergency Service rescuers were killed while extinguishing a fire after a repeated Russian strike. At least five more were injured‼️
Double taps are the deliberate murder of first responders. Russia does it on purpose.
"How do you even keep your mental health together?"
"I don't. I lost it a long time ago. Ever since three of my closest friends and my boyfriend were killed. I was the one who recovered his body from the evacuation point."
Ukrainian Defender "Kit" ("Cat") from the Magura Brigade joined the military at the age of 24. Over four years of service, she has fought in some of the war's hottest sectors, including the defense of Donetsk region, the counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia region, and the Kursk operation.
Kit's boyfriend died defending Ukraine in Donetsk region while carrying out a combat mission.
"One evening, he brought me the wounded and the fallen from the positions, and the very next evening, he was the one being recovered..."
Today, Kit is defending the Sumy region.
📹: Hromadske Radio
@bloombergblower@Kasparov63 And before Ruzzia there were others who held the territory for even more centuries.
Ruzzia came and annihilated the Tatars.
Now what?
Veronika Chuyan threw her body over her two boys as shrapnel from a double-tap strike flew towards them in Kyiv.
Veronika is one of thousands of Ukrainian civilians killed in Russia’s relentless bombardments of Ukrainian cities.
Read the impact of just one of the hundred missiles Russia fires at Ukraine every month: https://t.co/HrH3guzl9z
This is what remains of people who were doing nothing more than being outside.
russia dropped guided bombs on the center of Sloviansk yesterday, killing three.
No military targets. No battlefield. Just civilians.
This is what russian terrorism looks like.
Друзі, а ви памʼятаєте Дмитра Шаповалова, кадри з яким, де він їсть яблуко після полону, облетіли весь світ.
Сьогодні я хочу, щоб ми згадали і вшанували цього відважного воїна, бо рівно рік тому, 9 червня 2025 року, його життя обірвалося…
Після полону він міг залишитися вдома, поряд із рідними, почати жити тихим мирним життям. Але не зміг дивитися, як ворог топче його землю. Тому знову став до лав ЗСУ. Знову пішов захищати Україну.
Він витримав kатування, біль і нелюдські випробування в полоні і все одно повернувся до побратимів на передову. Та, на жаль, серце воїна не витримало, надто важчі знущання пережив він в полоні…
Його слова: «Я про нього рік мріяв», сказані про звичайне яблуко після звільнення, тоді торкнулися мільйонів людей. Бо в ту мить кожен зрозумів справжню ціну простих речей: свободи, дому, життя…
Сьогодні боляче усвідомлювати, що тієї щирої усмішки більше немає.
Єдиний син. Єдиний онук. Добрий. Світлий. Справжній. Відданий своїй країні.
Світла пам’ять Герою…
Твою усмішку, твою силу і твою любов до України ми не забудемо ніколи.
Спочивай з миром, Дмитре…
This is Olha, she was 22-year-old. Russia killed her yesterday in overnight attack on Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region 🕯💔
She was seven months pregnant. Olha’s husband is currently serving in the Armed Forces, defending Ukraine.
Olha worked as a psychologist at "Shans" (Chance), a local comprehensive rehabilitation center for people with disabilities, where she dedicated herself to helping children.
The fact that Elon Musk’s father is actively carrying water for the Kremlin in Moscow is a national security blind spot for the United States and its allies.
Errol Musk is a heavily compromised liability, and his relationship with Russia leaves the West exposed to unprecedented blackmail and espionage risks.
Errol Musk has returned to Russia to praise the regime and enjoy his life on the Kremlin's terms. Given his dark history of abuse and scandals, Russian handlers have likely collected an arsenal of kompromat on him. The FSB does not hand out luxury treatment to foreign elites for free, since they expect a return on their investment, and Errol’s value lies entirely on who his son is (no matter if they are close or not).
This arrangement poses a direct threat to Western security. Elon Musk is a vital contractor for the US military, holding immense power over critical capabilities. He is also a volatile figure who frequently acts on impulse and exhibits highly questionable ideological stances. If Moscow decides to tighten the screws on Elon by exploiting his father, no one knows what will happen, making this entire situation deeply troubling. The US should never have put itself in this situation
I cringe every time I hear "Ukraine and russia exchanged attacks overnight."
Ukraine strikes military targets. russia strikes apartment buildings, hospitals, and civilians.
These are not equivalent actions. And they should not be reported as if they are.
Yesterday, Russians murdered 22-year-old Olha Terianyk in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast.
She was awaiting for the birth of her child,
Every day, Russia brings terror and atrocities to innocent people all over of Ukraine.