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[Petr Pavel @prezidentpavel]

Noční útoky na řadu kulturních objektů včetně Kyjevskopečerské lávry odhalují čiré zoufalství a barbarství Ruska, které cíleně ničí to, co nemůže nikdy mít. Vyjadřuji upřímnou soustrast rodinám obětí. Ukrajina nyní potřebuje naši podporu, včetně uvalení dalších sankcí na Rusko.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Westerners were just in Russia proclaiming it the bulwark of Christian civilization. Tonight, Russia bombed the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of Ukraine's most revered Christian sites.

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

82 years ago today, Canadian mid-upper gunner Andrew Mynarski lost his life after he and his crew of RCAF Lancaster VR-A, KB726 departed Middleton St. George late the night before on their 13th sortie. The target was to be the rail marshalling yards at Cambrai, France. 1/3

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulates terrorist Russia, which is waging an imperialist war against Ukraine and carrying out terrorist attacks every day to kill civilians. The current US has sunk to the bottom

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

What Gabbard has released is neither new nor news—she just lends her imprimatur as outgoing DNI to her wrongheaded and tendentious interpretation, which predates her government role and serves a hostile foreign country’s interest.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency started in Ukraine in 2005 and not in secret. These are Ukrainian-owned facilities that do local disease surveillance. “BTRP sponsors no gain of function research or ‘human experimentation.’”

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv talks about them.
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See also this: https://t.co/SWrBPluC7Z

And this: https://t.co/kYdlFx52U5

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Meanwhile Putin invades Ukraine because it wants to be a democracy and free market system aligned with the West, and delivers ultimatums to the Baltics and other neighbors.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The Russians see the defectors from Trump’s movement — Owens, MTG, Massie and Carlson — as a political insurgency worth cultivating because rapprochement with the U.S. has failed and Ukraine is not only surviving but thriving. Even Vance, Russia’s best hope for 2028, is looking a busted flush as Rubio’s popularity rises. Expect to see more of this realignment, with Malofeev financing. They’ll position this as the authentic MAGA, even though it only serves a hostile foreign adversary’s interests.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

🚨 Russia just threatened Canada.
The country that started the biggest war in Europe since Hitler — the one bombing apartment blocks and stealing Ukrainian kids — went on state TV today and called CANADA the warmonger. 🇨🇦
Why? Because we agreed to build drones for Ukraine on Canadian soil.
So Moscow's mouthpiece, Maria Zakharova, announced Russia will publicly publish the addresses of those Canadian factories "so people can be informed."
That's not a press release. That's a target list.
Every accusation is a confession. They invade, then call the victims terrorists. They threaten our factories, then cry that WE'RE the dangerous ones. Pure projection, and it only works if we flinch.
We don't flinch.
I broke the whole thing down — the threat, the playbook, and why the only correct Canadian answer is "absolutely not, now build more drones." 👇🔗 https://t.co/PxQQhSdWZh
Subscribe. Share it with your Ukraine-skeptic uncle. Informed Canadians aren't optional right now.
— Dean

[Slava Malamud @SlavaMalamud]

Ovechkin, being given a special prize for pushing Russian soft power abroad during a propagandist pro-war celebration on Russian TV, with war veterans in attendance:
"I always remember whom I represent. Russia is the best. We are the champions. I love and support you all."

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

REP. BACON: President Trump wants to negotiate settlement between Ukraine and Russia, acting like referee in boxing match, but that’s not the case. There’s good versus evil here.

Russia invading Ukraine, bombing cities every night. America should be unashamedly on the right side — the side of democracy, the side of Ukraine, country that wants to align with us.

Russia hates us. Putin hates United States, hates what we stand for. I don’t know why President Trump can’t see that.

I’ve waited year and a half in this Congress to get something done on Ukraine, and we’ve done nothing.

There have been no votes, no policies from the leadership here or from President to support a country that is fighting for its life.

I agree that Ukraine has the upper hand right now, but Russia is bombing those cities every night, and we should be there to help them defend against these ballistic missile attacks.

Actions speak louder than words.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

We are blessed to have Canada as an ally & trading partner. I’ve spoken with local businesses, and talking down to our neighbor or making “51st state” comments has not helped Nebraska or gained America one advantage. We should treat this relationship with the seriousness & respect it deserves.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Army Media 🇺🇦 @armyinformcomua]

Ukraine shot down Russian Kalibr cruise missiles. Then took them apart — board by board, component by component.

What Ukraine's Ministry of Defence @DefenceU found inside should be uncomfortable reading for Western regulators and sanctions enforcement agencies.

More than 80–90% of the guidance system electronics: foreign-made. Every part marked. Every manufacturer identified. 🧵👇

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

And Congress should be on the right side of this fight. One can say they’re “for Ukraine” but actions speak louder than words.

[Margus Tsahkna @Tsahkna]

The EU must not export goods to Russia that can support its military industry or help sustain its aggression against Ukraine.

That is why Estonia has consistently called for a ban on alumina exports to Russia and put this proposal forward again in negotiations on the EU’s 21st sanctions package.

We must close every loophole and further weaken Russia’s war machine.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Here’s what should have happened.

Obama should have asked Russia if these masked men were Russian military.

When Putin shrugged and smirked, “No, not our guys,” the US should have then simply bombed the shit out of them.

[Bojan Pancevski @bopanc]

The sanctions against Russia are so lax that even Putin's cronies are able to buy western jets and expand their luxury lifestyles.
My report via @WSJ https://t.co/dVLFZ7w4mL

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Last night we had a choice to vote on the side of good or evil. It was a Churchill moment and the House sided with freedom. House leadership says they’re pro-Ukraine but that this bill had flaws. We’ve waited 18 months and they’ve done nothing. I look forward to the Speaker submitting a better bill. If he’s serious. I was tired of the excuses…history is being written and it will be a dark chapter if we don’t help Ukraine win.
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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KASPAROV: We’ve had 20 sanctions packages. How come Russian missiles that hitting Ukrainians and killing people every day are still mostly built with parts and components from sanctions list? How many criminal cases have been opened against sanctions violators? Practically none.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Last night, the House chose to stand with Ukraine, and I was proud to cast my vote.

We passed military and reconstruction aid for Ukraine, plus hard new sanctions on Russia.

We did it over the objections of Mike Johnson and Republican leadership, who spent over a year trying to keep this bill from ever hitting the floor.

Eighteen Republicans crossed the aisle and did the right thing.

Why does this matter?

Because when a giant authoritarian state invades a smaller democracy, there is no gray area. There is no “both sides.”

Vladimir Putin is a thug. He started an unprovoked war. He flattened cities. He stole children from their families. Helping Ukraine isn’t charity. It’s the test of whether we still mean a single word we say about freedom.

I heard every excuse. The war’s winding down, they said, so let’s wait and see. Nonsense. You don’t strengthen a democracy by going wobbly the second things get hard. You don’t stop the next invasion by telling the world American resolve comes with an expiration date. Putin is watching. So is every dictator who dreams of taking what isn’t his by force.

This bill still has to clear the Senate and survive a presidential signature. The odds are long. But the House did its job. And we said it plainly: no country gets swallowed whole just because a tyrant wants it.

I’ll keep fighting to see this through. Ukraine’s fight is our fight, and we do not abandon our friends.
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