Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”
Sir, your terms are acceptable.
Reposting this for no particular reason
Liz Cheney: “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
The provocateur posing as medic and her accomplice in a fake ambulance spinning up a story about a propanganda story about an allegedly kidnapped 14-year-old being forcibly mobilized by a military unit and held in a private home in Kyiv has been detained.
The woman has previously been sentenced for assault, drunk driving and fleeing the scene of a car accident while her associate has previously been accused of espionage.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has held a briefing with other security agencies on what happened yesterday in front of the house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.
The deputy head of the SBU said the organizers of the propaganda protest had planned the action in advance.
Authorities said the woman who posed as a “medic” had visited the same spot three days earlier for “reconnaissance.”
It later emerged that the woman is not a medic at all.
Her name is Valentyna Moloda and she is the owner of a plastic and aesthetic surgery clinic. She arrived at the scene in an ambulance bearing the logo of the private clinic “Medprestizh,” which closed three years ago.
One of the conditions when the ambulance was sold had been that the closed clinic's logos would be removed from the ambulance.
Valentyna had a journalist accreditation badge around her neck and showed people videos of alleged beatings that had been recorded in advance.
Her phone contained correspondence with several media outlets that began spreading the story on their social networks.
She is now accused of participating in special operations against Ukraine in the information space and obstructing the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In 2020, a case was opened against her for intentional infliction of minor bodily harm. She was declared wanted at the time. In addition, she was caught driving drunk and charged with leaving the scene of an accident.
Ukrainian journalists have identified two more participants in the events in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.
Viktor Yena was also dressed up as a medic and accompanied to the fake medic Valentyna Moloda.
Journalists found no medical diploma for Yena, and the court register contains cases against him for unauthorized absence from service, fraud, and drunk driving.
The second identified person, Andriy Rachok, livestreamed the clashes on TikTok. He is an associate of pro-Russian Ostap Stakhiv, who is accused of leaking information about Ukrainian Armed Forces positions to the Russians.
Rachok himself also appears in cases involving calls to seize state power, antisemitism, incitement of hatred, and denial of Russia’s armed aggression.
‼️ One huge mistake Russian propaganda made in pushing the narrative about the conflict in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka is that they forgot one thing: Ukrainians don't kneel when they're demanding something!!!
Kneeling is something Russians do when they're begging their authorities for something.
Ukrainians simply don't kneel before their own authorities or before occupiers. They kneel only before God and when saying farewell to the fallen.
Otherwise, it was a brilliant performance.
Jokes aside, her performance was freaking funny as hell — and perfectly suited to Russian propaganda. 😂
🥔🇺🇦 Lukashenko on Ukraine:
The war in Ukraine will end in the coming months. That's it. There is no strength left, and there are no resources left.
Everyone is exhausted. The resources in people's minds have been exhausted. Everyone is tired of this war.
🇨🇦🇷🇺Po rozhodnutí arbitráže CAS o návratu Ruska do mezinárodního hokeje se čekalo na osud nejbližšího turnaje, Mistrovství světa juniorů IIHF v Kanadě. Ottawa situaci rozsekla rychle a efektivně: „Na turnaje financované vládou Rusy nepustíme,“ uvedl kanadský ministr pro sport.
NEW: UK Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband has told Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov that he and his government are responsible for killing innocent civilians, condemning Thursday’s attack on Dnipro railway station
Speaking directly to Lavrov at a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in the US today, Miliband said:
"Let me say this directly to the Russian Foreign Minister: we all know who the aggressor in this war is. Let's talk about what happened at Dnipro railway yesterday. Only yesterday your drones attacked and killed 15 people. And there are countless examples like this of you killing innocent civilians throughout this war. We all know you are the aggressor. We all know you started this war four and a half years ago with the full scale invasion of Ukraine. "
"And Putin thought then he would win this war easily. But you are are not winning this war. Thanks to the courage of the Ukrainian people and the solidarity of countries round this table, you are not winning. If you had the courage to tell the truth and to do what is right you would tell Putin that he is not winning this war and will not win."
🇺🇦 Budanov:
For every victim in Ukraine, Russian military-industrial complex facilities must burn.
I call on Ukraine’s partners to give the aggressor a worthy response to daily terror.
Long-range weapons to suppress Russia’s ability to wage a genocidal war, effective air defense systems to save the lives of Ukrainian civilians – this is what will really bring peace closer.
“Daddy, Daddy, come back…”
A child screams at a railway station in Dnipro after a russian strike.
His father will never hear him again. He was killed.
World, will you hear this child’s cry?
You don’t have to be Ukrainian to feel this pain. You just have to be human.
Россия атаковала вокзал в Днепре, погибли 14 человек, еще столько же ранены. У платформы стояли обычная пригородная электричка и пассажирский поезд, заявил Владимир Зеленский