Day 90 of Ukraine resistance. For 3 months, Russia has been bombing and launching missiles on Ukraine, its soldiers killed, raped and looted. More than a million of Ukrainians deported. But Ukraine is still standing, north regions liberated. World must not get tired to support 🇺🇦
Boobytrapped piano if a 10 yo girl in #Bucha. The child’s awards were displayed in the wrong order and of course the mother noticed. Tragedy was prevented. Everyday such reminders of #Russia cruelty come up in #Ukraine
⚡️ Zelensky: Macron offered concessions on Ukraine's sovereignty to help Putin save face.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that French President Emmanuel Macron’s negotiations were “in vain,” adding that “we don’t want to save something for someone and lose territory for it.”
Not only must Russia suffer a real defeat in Ukraine, one Russia cannot rise from for generations, but France and Germany must also lose their positions of power in Europe. France's and Germany's appeasement of Russia is one of the biggest reasons European security has collapsed.
⚡️ Lithuania recognizes Russia's war against Ukraine as genocide, Russia as terrorist state.
The Lithuanian parliament voted unanimously on a resolution stating that Russia's intent is to wholly or partially destroy the Ukrainian nation.
A Ukrainian flag flies over Azovstal. A Ukrainian flag over Mariupol. On the 75th day of the defence. The true Flag of Victory is not somewhere in a foreign capital. It flies over its own land.
#UAarmy
French President Emmanuel Macron says "don't humiliate Russia".
I say don't humiliate Ukraine, as France did in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles destroyed Ukrainian independence. Don't humiliate Ukraine as France did in 2008 when it blocked NATO membership to Ukraine.
America and Europe mark Victory in Europe Day today, May 8, the day that German surrender was accepted by General Eisenhower. But Stalin insisted on a separate surrender document, and a separate signing ceremony, in Berlin, on May 9. Retrospectively, this is significant.
Let's talk again. NATO countries were not going to attack Russia. Ukraine did not plan to attack Crimea. The Russian military is dying, not defending their country, but trying to occupy another. There were no rational reasons for this war other than 🇷🇺 sick imperial ambitions.
The current war has been made possible by the fact that the Russian state’s historical crimes have never been put on trial and that the perpetrators have never faced a day in court. It has been made possible by the impunity of the Russian leadership. 8/
Great irony that the Azov fighters in Mariupol, so often accused of being far right extremists, are sacrificing their lives for democracy while supposedly pacifist intellectuals in Europe are using their pens to the advantage of Russian fascism.
⚡️Azov commander says Russian troops broke into Azovstal.
Denys Prokopenko, commander of the Azov volunteer regiment, said that “bloody fighting” is going on at the highly fortified Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast.
⚡️Governor: Russian occupiers took three-year stock of grain out of Luhansk Oblast. In total, 100,000 tons of grain have been either moved out of the war-torn region or destroyed, the regional administration said.