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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement":

"You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other, claim that we are in some kind of diplomatic stalemate. We are not in a diplomatic stalemate.

Shut down Russia’s entire economy. Shut Russia's mouth. Stop feeding them through your sales. Impose sanctions on their weapons.

Open Starlink for Ukraine. You opened it when responding to Iran, after all. Everything worked there. Israel completely controlled the skies over Iran. So when you need it to work, it works.

It costs them nothing to help Ukraine. And I said quite frankly: help us protect our skies and gain dominance there.

Then Putin will sit down at the negotiating table. Why? Because he will lose everything. In two or three months, he will lose everything.

And instead, we are waiting for the Chinese to develop an equivalent and hand it over to Russians.

This is not a stalemate - this is called a lack of will."

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack.

I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus.

There are many reasons for this. It is not only people's "fatigue" from the war, but also the fact that social networks, particularly X, have started artificially suppressing the reach (pessimizing) of posts on military and political topics, especially regarding Russia's war against Ukraine.

Furthermore, Russia has recently radically transformed its propaganda and information warfare. From straightforward propaganda, the Kremlin has moved to the large-scale use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and agent networks. Their primary role today is to constantly blur the boundaries of truth as much as possible, create artificial information noise, and systematically carry out "mass reporting" so that automated safety algorithms block accounts preemptively or impose shadow bans.

That is why it is so important to keep writing, reading, and sharing news about Ukraine.

And that is why I sincerely thank everyone - journalists, politicians, OSINT researchers, bloggers, photographers, and volunteers - who continue to document Russia’s war crimes, conduct investigations and analysis, and report the truth.

📹: DW

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "I spoke to Zelenskyy, I said, 'You got to take it easy on the refineries as much as you can.' Because we're causing a world problem."

First of all, the right thing to do is demanding that Russia end its invasion, rather than asking Ukraine to stop defending itself.

​Second, Russian diesel has been under sanctions for almost five years and is not sold in the U.S. The recent price spike is driven by the war in Iran.

​Finally, Zelenskyy never agreed to stop strikes, nor can such an agreement happen without symmetrical de-escalation from Russia, whether through an energy ceasefire or a complete end to long-range strikes.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Why don't Western news outlets report daily on the humanitarian situation in occupied Oleshky?

Russia is letting 6,000 Ukrainians starve.

According to the local military administration, no food supplies have reached the city since May 26. There are even reports of families eating dogs out of desperation.

Where are the complete idiots who claim Russia wants peace? No, Russia wants to wipe out Ukraine.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

In 2003, I showed Putin that $400m had been stolen from the budget. Later, I learned that it went into his pocket.

🧵Here's what confronting him taught me about his system — read on and follow. [1/6]

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@Motorsport Marcus Ericsson

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GOTCHA! Kaitlan Collins springs the PERFECT TRAP as MAGA Sen. Bernie Moreno attacks Hunter Biden while defending Don Jr.’s Russian-funded wedding!

Last night, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno one simple question: Are you comfortable with a Russian oligarch close to Putin spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on celebrations for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding?

Moreno’s answer was pure MAGA deflection – and it handed Collins the perfect opening.

“I don’t know who the Russian oligarch is,” Moreno said. “I know that Don Jr. is a great human being, an amazing American, I’m super happy for him and his family that they had a great wedding.”

He then tried to shut the whole thing down: “I think this is not the story that is worthy of your show.” Seconds later, Moreno went straight for some classic whataboutism:

“Look, you compare Don Jr. to Hunter Biden and you have one that’s a complete drug-addicted degenerate compared to a great human being and successful entrepreneur.”Collins didn’t miss a beat.

“Well, I’m glad you bring up Hunter Biden,” she replied. “I mean, if a Russian oligarch had bankrolled some of *his* celebrations, would you have questions about that?”

Moreno launched into the usual Burisma and China talking points, but Collins kept pressing: “So you do think it’s appropriate?���

When he tried to wave it off as “Hunter Biden stories,” she delivered the kill shot:

“Right, but if that’s inappropriate for him, why would this be appropriate?”

Moreno had no answer. He suddenly claimed he didn’t know the circumstances and insisted “there’s not a human being in Ohio that really cares about this story.”

Here’s what he didn’t want to talk about: Russian billionaire Umar Kremlev, a Putin-linked figure, reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on two nights of celebrations around Don Jr.’s wedding – including a private island and a massive fireworks display.

House Democrats have already opened an investigation into the arrangement, citing national-security and public-corruption concerns.

Moreno could have simply defended the gift on the merits. Instead he volunteered Hunter Biden as the standard for judging foreign money and influence – then immediately choked when Collins asked him to apply that same standard to the Trump family.

And this is exactly what Kaitlan Collins does so well.
She didn���t need a speech. She didn’t need to shout Moreno down. She listened to his answer, caught the contradiction he handed her, and refused to let him escape it by changing the subject.

When Moreno invoked Hunter Biden as the standard, Collins simply made him live by his own standard he just delineated.

That kind of persistence matters. Powerful people rarely volunteer the answer to the question they would rather not be asked, and journalism fails when an interviewer accepts the first deflection and moves along. Collins didn’t.

Fearless, savvy and unwilling to be distracted by the shiny object tossed in front of her, she demonstrated the kind of truth-to-power journalism that matters most when the people being questioned would much rather talk about somebody else.

If you are grateful for journalists like Collins, please like and share this post.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

My heart is united with the suffering of the people of #Ukraine, who have lived in anguish and fear for years. I renew my appeal to put an end to the violence, halt the destruction, and open hearts to dialogue and #peace! I hope that the efforts undertaken in recent days to resume negotiations will bear concrete fruit and make room for diplomacy. Let us #PrayTogether to the Lord that concord may prevail in every conflict throughout the world.

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@Scarletkoito333 🤔🙄🫪wow…

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@jurgen_nauditt 😂😂😴😴

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@nexta_tv 😂😂😎👍

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@Gerashchenko_en 🤢🤮

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@atrupar "If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican.
They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox Jews. I could lie and they'd still eat it up I bet my numbers would be terrific."
Donald Trump
People Magazine, 1998

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@Gerashchenko_en A result of the latest CIA visit in Moskow😳🤨