I'm not one to usually overtly display support for something because, to me, too many people think "thoughts and prayers" and changing their profile pic are enough, and they see themselves as virtuous because of this. I guess that's why they get derisively referred to as 1/3
The decision to remove @FedorovMykhailo as Defence Minister is difficult to describe politely.
For once, Ukraine had a defence minister whose reforms were visibly moving in the direction the military had been asking for years and a real attempt to make soldiersโ voices reach the top.
You do not remove that kind of momentum in the middle of a war unless you have an exceptionally good reason. So far, I do not see one.
This looks like a textbook self-inflicted wound: unpopular with the public, badly understood by the military, and damaging to changes that were just starting to move in the right direction.
It takes real talent to make a decision this senseless.
Russians just murdered two children in Ukraine's eastern city of Kramatorsk.
Playing on a Saturday morning, as kids do, and Russians do what comes natural to them for 500 years.
๐ก The Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the IOC's decision regarding Russian athletes
๐ฌ "We call on the governments of the states that will host international sports competitions to prevent the demonstration of the state symbols of the Russian Federation on their territory.
Under this flag, an unprovoked war against Ukraine continues, peaceful people are killed every day and Ukrainian cities are destroyed. The symbols of the aggressor state cannot become an element of a sports holiday," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine emphasized.