Drought, malnutrition and a worsening humanitarian crisis are devastating Afghanistan.
UN agencies are identifying severely malnourished children in remote “ghost villages,” says @UNOCHA’s Olga Cherevko.
https://t.co/iIJrDPtXOr
⚡️ @Netflix has acquired rights to the Russian series Masha and the Bear, which incorporates pro-Kremlin, militaristic propaganda aimed at children.
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Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) warns Russia may be preparing a biological disaster in occupied southern Ukraine by burying livestock infected with anthrax in occupied Kherson region.
According to HUR, the highest risk areas are around Askania-Nova, Skadovsk, and Zaliznyi Port, where anthrax spores can survive in soil for decades, posing a long-term threat to both people and animals.
Africa is becoming Russia’s launchpad for disinformation targeting Europe. From troll farms & ghost reporters in West & Central Africa to influence ops hitting European elections, Moscow is weaponizing the continent to sow chaos. I’ve seen the networks up close. We must push back
“You look at all of this and think: here are the residents of a nursing home called the ‘Russian political elite.’
Just go away already! That’s it! All of you! Leave! Don’t push the country to the brink where people lose their temper.”
— Russian journalist Dmitry Borisenko
Russia is still bombing Ukraine and Ireland is still helping them with raw materials.
It’s a scandal that’s still received almost no major international coverage.
So a huge thanks to @Telegraph for having me on to talk about the scandal at the Aughinish refinery 🫡
🔴 Russian occupation authorities evict Ukrainian locals who refused passports.
In Mariupol, officials are forcing residents from their apartments and taping eviction notices to doors for declining to obtain citizenship documents.
It isn't just Ireland that's helping russia, it's the whole of Europe. This year I travelled across the EU to expose how the shadow fleet transports billions of euros in oil to russias war machine. All of this could have been stopped years ago.
Here's the full documentary 🚨
For those who believe russia’s vast size is somehow natural — just look at this map.
It screams continual colonization and the destruction of entire ethnic groups. Today, over 65 languages in russia are endangered, and hundreds more have already disappeared. And the process was even more brutal than in the Americas, where over 90% of Indigenous people were wiped out by Eurasian diseases. In russia’s case, the Moskovians had to kill manually — with steel — because unlike in the Americas, the local populations had immunity to those diseases.
Most of Ukraine fell under their occupation only in the 1800s. Before 1600, they controlled only a small part of it. So if someone tells you that “Ukraine is historically russian,” show them this map. It’s not. Just like Finland, Poland, and many other countries — Ukraine was never inherently russian. It was simply conquered, like the rest.
This empire stops expanding only when it’s stopped by force. Not by negotiations, kind words, or “understanding” the Kremlin’s grievances. They wage war simply because they can — not because they were “provoked” by NATO, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, or whatever monster they imagine under their beds. That’s been their nature for over six centuries. And they won’t change.
Author: Volodymyr Kukharenko
In Russia's Volga region where the fuel crisis continues to spiral, Russians attempt to solve the problem not by asking the czar to stop the killing in Ukraine, but by..
🤝 Thank you to @PACE_News for adopting the relevant declaration condemning Russia’s strikes on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and Ukraine’s cultural heritage sites. The deliberate destruction and looting of cultural property are war crimes and require a strong international response.
⚡️CCD in collaboration with @eu_eeas , presents a joint analytical report on Russian information threats targeting Ukraine’s European future. The publication of this study coincides with the anniversary of Ukraine’s acquisition of EU candidate status four years ago.
Today, the European External Action Service and Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation (@CforCD) are teaming up to share a new report that takes a closer look at how Russian Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) tries to target Ukraine’s journey towards joining the European Union. Read the full report on EUvsDisinfo.
Following a devastating Russian missile strike on June 15 that shattered the administrative buildings of the iconic Dovzhenko Film Studio and destroyed a workshop containing over 100,000 unique costumes, the Kyiv Independent’s Nastia Kasinchuk joined a crowd of local residents to help clear the wreckage.
@TimothyDSnyder Dude, you have to define for whom the utopia exists as well. It is not a universal utopia, obvs. Perhaps an oligarchopia? There are many utopias of violence.