Joe

Actor. Cymro. Lady Inger's son. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Kate Bush, Sugababes and Tomb Raider stan.

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@totalwar I would love to have Cymru/Wales as a faction 🤞🙏

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@lmkifiwin https://t.co/lCSXBnU2sO

This isn't true though

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@Cafi2k It was to JFK in New York

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@MovieNumbers Will the percentages be returning? They were a great part of the picture

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@plaidifanc Rhun is not pronounced like that, it has a "rh" not just a "r"

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"Russians told us: if you try to escape, we’ll shoot you in the knees": Ukrainian teenagers abducted by Russia spoke in the Senate of Spain

Spanish Senate President Pedro Rollán Ojeda expressed support for Ukraine and stressed the need to return more than 20,000 children deported by Russia.

The officially confirmed number of Ukrainian children deported and forcibly displaced by Russia stands at no fewer than 19,546. However, the real figure may be significantly higher.

Particular attention at the hearing was given to testimony from Ukrainian teenagers who survived deportation and occupation. Their stories became a key argument against Russia’s narrative of "evacuation" and "liberation."

Ivan Matkovskyi from Mariupol described witnessing one of the most cynical crimes committed by Russian forces - the destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theatre, where civilians had been sheltering:

▪️ "Every time I talk about it, I see all those people I saw back then. There were people of all ages - kids, animals, elderly people who couldn’t even walk; they could only sit or lie down. There were thousands of civilians.

But despite the fact that only civilians were there, on March 16 a Russian aircraft dropped an aerial bomb on the theater, destroying it. After that, my older brother and I decided to leave Mariupol on foot for territory controlled by Ukraine."

▪️ "I saw Mariupol being destroyed... I lost 10 kilograms - we just wanted to eat and drink."

Another episode - "filtration" at a checkpoint:

▪️ "Russians forced me to undress. They examined my body to see if I had any tattoos with Ukrainian symbols - anything they could use to detain me."

After that, Ivan was separated from his family. Russian military threatened him and his brother with weapons in case of disobedience:

▪️ "We were told to wait for officials from the children’s services in occupied Donetsk to come for us. We tried to escape, but they began threatening us with weapons. They said that if we ran, they would shoot us in the knees."

In Donetsk, according to Ivan, Ukrainian children were promised a new life in Russia:

▪️ "They told me I would have a new family and a Russian passport."

Moreover, the children were forbidden from contacting their relatives and were effectively being prepared for transfer to Russian families or camps. No one cared that they already had families and biological parents.

Russia seeks to portray the deportation of children as a humanitarian measure. But testimonies like these dismantle that narrative, showing that this is a systematic policy of deportation, assimilation, and stripping children of their identity - one that is already being classified as an international crime.

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@absolutegazelle One Foot In & Today

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@nationalexpress Oh no! Thank you for confirming, I hope everything is okay

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@nationalexpress hello, can you please confirm the tracker for the 507 to London below is accurate please

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@MovieNumbers I really like the projections vs estimates articles you usually do, there wasn't one this weekend, I hope they are not gone!

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@MAXMOUSE_X @zkdculture Sugababes are not a 90s girl group, they released their first single in 2000

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@mrrasmulan That's not the English flag

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@itxdan13 You are missing Kate Bush's Hounds of Love

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@Cal_McFab @Sugababes Surely it would be the other way around, unless you mean in the USA?

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@popeofchilitown You are wrong in fact, Sugababes has been back to the original line up for many years now

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Thank you for such a great review! We are absolutely over the moon
https://t.co/wfsAkFBthF

[Susan Elkin @SusanElkinJourn]

My review of last night's show. @towertheatre https://t.co/0H37knzAYH

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@yushiszs @GayIconDrake She has been back with Sugababes for nearly fifteen years 😂

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@TfL They have given up and are trying another way

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@TfL my friend is waiting for the 58 bus from Walthamstow Central (heading to East Ham), the timer has been changing for about 45 mins with no bus, is there an issue?

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@CoopyJ @pop_underrated 100% this! The Heidi brigade are some of the most annoying people on the internet and need to let it go. Heidi was in the band a long time and worked hard but she was still with the A&J when the originals got back together, who have been working their socks off for years!