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Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.
And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.
I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!
I hate it when my trolls claim we got a promise certain countries would not be permitted to join NATO. It means I have to post this video of Gorby saying it's rubbish.
He set the bones in his broken leg himself: the story of a British volunteer who fought for Ukraine and ended up in Russian captivity.
A former British soldier is now serving a 15-year sentence in a Russian high-security penal colony. And he says it feels as if his own country has forgotten him.
His name is Hayden Davis.
More than a year and a half ago, he volunteered to join the International Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But he was captured by Russian forces.
Russia labeled him a mercenary — claiming he fought only for money, as nothing more than a “contract soldier.”
Last December, a court in occupied Donetsk sentenced him to 13 years in prison.
And last week, a Moscow court added another two years because the original sentence was considered “too lenient.”
Britain’s Foreign Office says it condemns the sentence and remains in contact with Hayden’s family.
In letters sent from detention and obtained by the BBC, Hayden described how he was captured after being severely wounded on the front line.
His radio had stopped working.
His partner had been killed.
He had only two options:
lie there and die —
or keep moving.
He crawled around 150 meters toward a place he recognized. The journey took him an entire day.
The pain in his leg was unbearable.
Bones were protruding from it.
Eventually he reached a ruined building with a basement. Inside, he found canned food — enough to survive.
There, completely alone, he treated himself the only way he could:
with his own hands, he pushed the exposed bones back into his leg.
He says he had never experienced pain like that before.
He made a splint and crude crutches out of wood.
He survived in that basement for two months before Russian soldiers finally found him.
For an entire year he was held in solitary confinement before later being transferred to a cell with other prisoners.
Now, he says, he feels deeply isolated. During all this time, no one from the British government has contacted him directly behind bars.
He gave 12 years of his life serving in the British Army.
And now, when he needs help and medical treatment most, he says it feels like nobody cares.
British officials, meanwhile, are reportedly given almost no access to prisoners held in Russia, and are completely barred from occupied territories.
All letters are read and censored by Russian authorities.
Hayden allowed his letters to be published publicly. His family declined to comment.
International organizations say Russia systematically denies prisoners proper medical care. Moscow denies the accusations.
The Red Cross has also stated that it does not have unrestricted access to prisoners held in Russia — despite this being required under the Geneva Conventions.
Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
💥 70,000 signatures 💥
...and the petition closes on June 8th.
If we can get it over 100,000 and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd - that'd be powerful.
Sign and share, share, share.👇
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2014 happened and the world went back to normal. Then 2022 happened and now the russians are getting invited back to the Oscars, Opera, Olympics and this week, the Venice Biennale. Dictators use sport & art to legitimise their crimes. It’s how they survive.
Some people use the Force… 🤨 I prefer a well-timed toast and a five-year mission. 🥂
May the Fourth be with you… if you must but let’s be honest; I’ve been boldly going since before it was cool. 😉🚀
More humiliation for the increasingly inconsequential Russian dictator today, with leaders of over 40 countries meeting right on Russia's door step in Armenia, discussing Ukraine's defense, among other other subjects that will bring no happiness to the Kremlin.
Lukashenko has already come out explaining that "no one needs Armenia".
Mother of god.
This is already nothing short of a colossal and humiliating slap in Putin’s face.
Russia has ultimately lost Armenia as part of its sphere of influence, and this is far from the end.
@sashameetsrus How much does the Kremlin pay you for pushing #PutinWarCriminal’s fantasies? And do you prefer to be paid in Roubles, Dollars, or Euros?
Godspeed to the people of Hungary today, who deserve to escape the misrule of a corrupt Kremlin lackey. May they return to the path of democracy and prosperity without bloodshed. 🇭🇺
Here is the list of NASA science missions that the Trump administration proposes to terminate.
Note that it includes many missions that are already in space, fully operational.
This is a wrecking operation against America.