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Slava Ukraini!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[Sweden in EU @SwedeninEU]

”Last year almost 500 000 Russian tourists were let into Europe, while Ukrainians were dying on the battlefield. This situation needs to be stopped.

That is why we, together with 10 other Member States, have put forward an initiative for new EU visa restrictions for Russian citizens.” @JohanForssell at JHA

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

The European Parliament has decided to say goodbye to Google.

Internal computers will now run the European Qwant search engine by default.

Sovereignty is non-negotiable! 🇪🇺

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

37 years ago today, the Chinese government brutally crushed peaceful protesters in and around Tiananmen Square who were demanding an end to corruption, freedom of speech, and democratic reform. The massacre revealed a truth the world should never forget: the Chinese Communist Party will do whatever it takes to preserve its grip on power. If it did not value the lives of its own citizens, why would it value the lives of others?

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1965, a 17-year-old girl in Sicily was kidnapped, assaulted, and held captive for over a week.

Then her attacker offered her a deal:

Marry him, and everything would be “forgiven.”

At the time, Italian law allowed rapists to avoid punishment if they married their victims.

It was called “reparatory marriage.”

The logic was horrifying:

A woman’s “honor” mattered more than her consent.

If she married the man who violated her, her reputation could supposedly be restored — and the rapist could walk free.

Most women had no real choice.

Families pressured them.
Communities expected obedience.
The law itself encouraged silence.

But Franca Viola said no.

At 17 years old, traumatized and publicly shamed, she refused to marry the man who assaulted her.

That single word changed Italy forever.

Her decision sparked outrage in her town.

Neighbors turned against her family.
Their vineyards and olive groves were burned in retaliation.

But Franca’s father stood beside her and supported her decision to press charges.

In 1966, Franca testified publicly against her attacker in court.

At a time when most victims were expected to stay silent forever, she spoke openly in front of the entire country.

Italy watched in shock.

Her attacker, Filippo Melodia, was convicted and sentenced to prison.

For the first time in Italian history, a woman had publicly rejected “reparatory marriage” and won.

The case became international news.

But the law itself still remained.

For another 15 years, rapists in Italy could technically still escape punishment by marrying their victims.

Then finally, in 1981, Italy abolished the law completely.

And many activists pointed to Franca Viola as the moment the country first began confronting the cruelty of that system.

Years later, Franca married a childhood friend who had stood beside her through everything.

Not because she needed her “honor restored.”

But because she deserved love, dignity, and a life defined by her own choices.

That’s why her story still matters.

Franca Viola wasn’t just resisting one man.

She was resisting an entire culture that treated women’s suffering as something to hide rather than something to fight.

At 17 years old, she stood against her attacker, her community, and even the law itself.

And eventually, the law changed.

Sometimes history moves because powerful people decide to act.

And sometimes history moves because one terrified teenager quietly refuses to surrender.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

A striking account of the Russian fascist army from Said Ismagilov, the Grand Mufti of Ukraine, who has been fighting for Ukraine for the past three years:

"This society is a swarm of locusts. Their goal is to keep moving forward at any cost, seizing new territory. Every day in Vovchansk they advance in small groups of three to five men, climbing over the bodies of those who attacked the same position just hours earlier. There is no logic, no reason, no success — they simply pile up bodies against us.

The only difference between this and the meat-grinder tactics of Soviet Marshal Zhukov is that now they attack in smaller groups, not to capture kilometers, but to seize a single position of just a few square meters. Day after day, methodically, wave after wave. If they lose a position, they retreat — if anyone is still alive to retreat.

But they do so with a kind of mad persistence. The individual dissolves into the swarm, where the deaths of a few do not even register. I cannot explain why they keep coming, even knowing that we will kill them.

My philosophical education does not allow me to view this routine through the eyes of a mathematician, simply counting: minus one, minus five, minus forty. My philosophical and theological background pushes me to understand why this conditional Homo erectus — because I cannot honestly call him Homo sapiens when I see no rationality in his actions — climbs over the corpses of his own swarm toward certain death, through ruins that resemble a Martian landscape.

For what purpose? What motivates them? What do they hope to achieve?

When I spoke with Russian prisoners of war, every one of them said they wanted money from Putin's regime to improve their financial situation. Not one mentioned ideology, belief in higher values, or some noble cause. Only loans, debts, mortgages, poverty, and the need to raise children.

You came to kill our children so you could raise your own? Silence. Eyes lowered. But that is the reality. They would calmly kill us and our children, take our homes, sleep in our beds, even wear our clothes. They do not see this as disgusting or wrong. Their authorities gave them permission, so everything is acceptable. Without a second thought, they would wear your clothes and eat from your plate because their tsar and their church blessed it.

They come to take and consume our resources, to settle our land with themselves. While the leaders of the swarm try to explain why they attack and kill us, those at the bottom simply want to enrich themselves through killing and looting.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) offered an interesting observation about human greed and foolishness: 'The Hour will not come until the Euphrates uncovers a mountain of gold. People will fight over it, and out of every hundred, ninety-nine will die. Yet each one will think: perhaps I will be the one who survives.'

Watching them, I wonder whether each of them charges into battle believing that he will survive and become rich. But then our guys strike, and the statistics report:

Five more killed."

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Hopefully, Ukraine can keep sending drones to St. Petersburg throughout the five days of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The guests need to understand two things: Russia is losing, and you don't fuck with Ukraine.

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

🇸🇪⚡ Swedish proposal could ruin Russian summer
Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M) is now coming out with a Swedish initiative that could hit Russian tourists hard in the EU.

Last year, 477,878 Schengen visas were issued to Russian citizens.

Forssell: “It is completely unreasonable that Russian citizens are enjoying luxury holidays while Ukrainians are dying.”

Sweden wants EU countries to be able to deny visas based on nationality — something that is currently not allowed.

The proposal has the support of all Nordic countries, the Baltics, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Poland.

Why Sweden is pushing this:
– stop Russian luxury tourism
– reduce security threats and espionage
– close loopholes used by the Kremlin
– make a political mark during ongoing wars

Forssell: “We must put an end to Russian weekend trips around the Mediterranean.”

What is happening now:
The proposal is at the EU migration ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg.
If it goes through, Russian travel to the EU could be severely restricted — perhaps as early as this summer, depending on processing times.

In short:
Sweden wants to close the door to Russian tourism.
The question is whether the EU dares to take the step.

[H @hoisgaard]

@NXT4EU EU is fantastic, may it live long 💪🥳

[H @hoisgaard]

@NXT4EU Yay it’s a ruzian troll party in the comments

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

The most powerful country in the world, the European Federation of Nations.

Are you also proud to be European? 🇪🇺

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Moscow is killing our children. No words in the world can ever ease this unbearable pain and horror.

According to official figures alone, Russia has taken the lives of 707 Ukrainian children. Another 2,548 have been wounded and maimed by explosions. More than 20,000 have been abducted and forcibly taken from their homes. These are just dry numbers, but each one represents a lifetime of pain for a Ukrainian family.

Today, June 4, is the Day of Remembrance for Children Killed as a Result of Russia’s Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.

Everything the Russians are doing amounts to genocide. It is a systematic and clearly planned attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation. They deliberately target our children, committing war crimes for which there can be no justification. They are destroying our history, our memory, and trying to physically kill our future.

We will never forgive the Russians for this. There is no and will never be any justification or forgiveness for crimes committed against our children. Everyone who gave these orders and everyone who carried them out will be found and destroyed. The ground will burn beneath your feet wherever you try to hide.

There are no words that can comfort parents whose lives have been shattered forever by Russian killers. But we have a duty: to bring home every abducted child and to do everything to ensure that the truth about these crimes is heard around the world.

Eternal memory to the innocent victims of Russian terror.
Glory to Ukraine!

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"The Russian Federation is not fighting for territories. It is fighting for the existence of its imperial myth.
Sooner or later, all empires collapse. Russia is no exception"

- Budanov🇺🇦

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

Наш ворог має колосальний історичний досвід у сфері інформаційно-психологічних операцій та спотворення сенсів. Тому когнітивна війна потребує системного підходу, значних ресурсів і професійних кадрів. Сказав про це сьогодні на Kyiv Stratcom Forum 2026.

Те, що росіяни роблять зараз на тимчасово окупованих територіях України, – це інженерія людської свідомості. Науково доведено, що достатньо систематично транслювати один і той самий посил протягом 40 днів, щоб він глибоко осів у мисленні. Ворог намагається повністю випалити українську ідентичність на загарбаних землях, і ми повинні протиставити цьому нову модель стратегічних комунікацій із нашими людьми на окупованих територіях.

Вважаю, що спроби Кремля збудувати всередині РФ «цифрове гетто» –заборона іноземних месенджерів, обмеження інтернету – є підготовкою до ухвалення майбутніх непопулярних рішень. Тотальне перекриття альтернативних джерел інформації потрібне їм для того, щоб зомбоване населення засвоювало виключно офіційну та контрольовану позицію. Росія бере приклад із Північної Кореї та будує цілком ізольовану країну.

Проте реальність на полі бою ламає будь-яку пропаганду. Шлях від «Києва за три дні» до «Донбасу за будь-яку ціну», а тепер уже й до суто декларативних вимог про позаблоковість України свідчить про неможливість досягнення початкових цілей. Зараз пропаганда поспіхом вигадує нові формати «перемоги», щоб переконати російське суспільство та виправдати величезні втрати у війні.

Маємо нарешті усвідомити масштаб ментальної війни, яку веде проти нас ворог. Ми занадто довго добровільно віддавали величезну частину своєї спадщини. Росія просто приватизувала й переписала під себе нашу історію. Тому повернення історичної правди, наших героїв і самосвідомості українців має стати першочерговим завданням.

Працюємо далі. Слава Україні!

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Russia's defeat is already a settled matter, and they know it very well themselves.
Russia's professional army ran out..they have no strength..

Even if the fighting continues, Russia's future has changed,. forever."

- Kyrylo Budanov🇺🇦

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Canada has moved to strengthen Arctic defense ties with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, & Sweden after Trump’s Greenland threats. The Canadian military is also expanding its capabilities and manpower. PM Carney calls for stronger alliances among middle powers. #cdnpoli

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has obtained new Russian documents assessing the aggressor state’s losses from the war. Importantly, this is specifically a Russian internal assessment – one they are trying to conceal both from the world and from their own domestic audience.

The first major indicator is a reduction in active oil wells. Just a single Russian oil company – and not even the largest one – has already been forced to shut down around 400 wells. Given the specifics of Russian oil production, these are significant losses, as restarting wells in Russia is far more difficult than in other oil-producing countries.

The second indicator is a reduction in oil refining of at least 10% in just a few months this year alone. We see that our Ukrainian long-range sanctions are truly effective, and we will continue to scale up this line of our active actions. The data on the banking crisis in Russia is also quite convincing: 11 financial institutions are preparing for full liquidation due to problems that cannot be resolved by other means, while another eight banks have accumulated critical issues that cannot be addressed without external resources. This year’s federal budget deficit figures also look encouraging for us, standing at almost $80 billion by the fifth month of this year, alongside the bankruptcy of a significant number of Russian regional budgets.

I have also instructed the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Luhovskyi, to share, in a format that does not compromise our sources, the obtained information on Russia’s attempts to involve global companies in resolving its financial hardship and in sanction-evasion schemes. In particular, we have recorded attempts to organize the export of grain from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea – and, regrettably, other forms of economic exploitation of the peninsula involving entities from the United States. We will inform our partners. We are also recording attempts to bring investment and technology from democratic countries into Russia’s Arctic oil and gas projects. We know how to counter this. Thank you to everyone who helps us. Thank you to all our Ukrainian intelligence officers.

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

On May 18, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

Eighty-two years ago, the Soviet totalitarian regime launched the deportation of the Crimean Tatars – the forced expulsion of an indigenous people from their homeland. People were transported in boxcars, stripped of their homes, their future, and their right to live on their own land. For thousands of them, it was their last journey.

Today’s Moscow continues the genocidal practices of the Soviet empire. Following the occupation of Crimea, political persecution, repression, unlawful arrests, and attempts to erase the identity of the Crimean Tatar people have returned to the peninsula.

Together with the Crimean Tatar people, we bow our heads in memory of all victims of totalitarian terror and continue the fight against today’s Moscow aggressor – for our shared freedom, dignity, and justice.

Eternal memory and eternal honor.

[Roman Giertych @GiertychRoman]

They betrayed those in Afghanistan who trusted them.

They betrayed Ukraine by withdrawing support, even though they had guaranteed the inviolability of its borders.

They betrayed Denmark, their longtime ally, by demanding Greenland from them.

They betrayed Taiwan by calling it “a small and distant island” while in China, increasing the risk of a Chinese attack.

Now they are withdrawing their troops from Romania and Poland, leaving Eastern Europe on its own.

We will manage on our own, because for centuries we have known one thing: if you want to rely on something, rely on yourself. But these betrayals will forever strip the United States of its role as a superpower. What kind of superpower does not keep its word? In our part of the world, a new superpower must rise to take America’s place: Europe.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our long-range capabilities are significantly changing the situation – and, more broadly, the world’s perception of Russia’s war. Many partners are now signaling that they see what is happening and how everything has changed – both in attitudes toward this war and in the reachability of Russian targets on Russian territory.

The war is quite predictably returning to its “native harbor,” and this is a clear signal that one should not pick a fight with Ukraine or wage an unjust war of conquest against another people.