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[Freedom Fella 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩 @davefcohen]

I'm pleased to say the supplies I sent have reached the 26th Artillery Brigade and they are incredibly grateful. £1300 worth of tourniquets, bandages, powerbanks, headtorches and some treats thrown in for good measure. Thanks so much to everyone who donated 🇬🇧🇺🇦

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

This is what Tulsi Gabbard shared. A terrible AI-generated map with Kyiv in the south of Ukraine — and what even is “Cherniv”? 😭

What an embarrassment for the United States 🤷‍♂️

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

@dinosaurcola Survived 25 years of military operations. Defeated by Microsoft Word. Classic.

[Solidarność fella🇵🇱🇺🇦🇬🇧🇬🇪🇬🇱🇪🇺🇹🇼✡️ @SolidarityRnwd]

@Keir_Starmer you need to wake up and deal with your primary responsibility, ensuring the security and welfare of your nation. If you don’t have guts step aside and allow someone who does to lead UK, someone capable of understanding and dealing with the clear and present dangerruZZia poses to UK and all Europe

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

I have been reluctant to criticise the government over the state of our Armed Forces, largely due to the mess they inherited. I believed that the Labour Defence Team had the right intentions from the outset, and they were right to take a measured approach to the reset. 🧵1/7

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

John Healey has given this country serious service in a serious time.

He took on the Ministry of Defence at a moment when the world was getting more dangerous, not less, and he carried that weight with the discipline and decency that the job demands.

I worked alongside him closely. I saw the hours, the care, and the seriousness he brought to every brief, including the hardest ones. There are issues facing this Department that do not lend themselves to easy answers. The work on funding, on veterans, on Legacy, on the welfare of those who serve.

The threats facing this country have not paused for a change of Secretary of State. Our Armed Forces remain on operations around the world, standing with our allies, protecting our interests, and keeping the British people safe. They deserve a Ministry of Defence that matches their seriousness with our own.

That is the job. It continues today.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

On John Healey's resignation: the DIP settlement cannot stand. It does not deliver the SDR commitments; nor does it deliver a path to 3.5% - therefore HMG will have to rethink, and before Ankara 1/~

[John Healey @JohnHealey_MP]

My letter to the Prime Minister

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

Чи насправді «спорт поза політикою»?

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

This is the dumbest tweet ever written by an American, an astonishing achievement given the depth of competition for that accolade.

It's hard to know where to even start.

I'll go from the top and try wade through it, to arrive at where the focus should already be. /1

[Freedom Fella 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩 @davefcohen]

@Ilhan

[Freedom Fella 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩 @davefcohen]

@TheAngry53586 @kbf_ntc @gregbagwell @DrChaseSpears

[Freedom Fella 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇪🇲🇩 @davefcohen]

@GloOouD @TheAngry53586 😍

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

You can do a lot with Gripen fighter jets.

But they’re built for one thing.

Good luck, Ukraine.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Robert Kenyon is Reform UK's candidate in the Makerfield by-election, and he's said some wild things about Russia's 'right' to invade Ukraine

By @willem_moore_uk
https://t.co/jEAlrwWuo6

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

For the record:

▪️I opposed Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014

▪️I called on FIFA to strip Russia of the 2018 World Cup

▪️I have resolutely supported Ukraine and Ukrainian Mayors since 2022

▪️I believe the British Right’s closeness to Putin is a risk to our national security

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

We couldn't be less surprised that Reform UK's #Makerfield candidate is not only a sexist, homophobic, anti-migrant bigot, but a supporter of Russian imperialism.

That, not the nonsense explanation of being an ex reservist, is why he didn't want to talk about Ukraine 🧵

[Kama @Kama_Kamilia]

Yeah, I’m putting together a team.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I confronted the russian ambassador at Venice Biennale because no one else did.

In the last 24 hours russia bombed city centres & a kindergarten. Dozens murdered in the streets.

The russian pavilion here is filled with free champagne & art to whitewash their war crimes.