🇺🇦 Look at Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019. Now look at him in 2026. It's almost impossible to believe this is the same man. War has changed his face, his eyes, and his entire life.
Four and a half years of unimaginable pressure. Thousands of sleepless nights. Fallen soldiers, destroyed cities, shattered families, and millions of lives depending on his decisions.
People criticize him, demand victories, and blame him for mistakes. But how many of his critics could survive even a month carrying such responsibility?
Imagine confronting Putin's brutality, begging allies for weapons, enduring betrayal and empty promises, and knowing that every decision could cost human lives.
Zelenskyy is not perfect. He makes mistakes, and criticism is essential in a democracy. But there is a difference between holding a leader accountable and blindly hating someone who carries the weight of an entire nation.
On February 24, 2022, many expected Ukraine to collapse within days. Zelenskyy was offered evacuation. He refused. He stayed in Kyiv with his people.
Today, he continues fighting for Ukraine's survival, independence, and future.
You don't have to love Zelenskyy or agree with every decision he makes. But you cannot deny his courage, endurance, and extraordinary responsibility.
History will judge his presidency. But it will also remember that when Ukraine faced its darkest hour, he did not run.
War has aged him. Exhausted him. Changed him forever. But it has not broken him.
🇺🇦 He stayed. He stood firm. And Ukraine is still standing.
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According to CNN, Zelensky’s workday begins between 3 and 4 in the morning, when the first battlefield reports arrive.
He drinks strong black coffee, no sugar, to push through the early hours.
Even under constant pressure, he has not lost his sense of humor and still finds brief moments to reset.
The years of war, strain, and emotional weight are visible on him. No one carries that kind of burden without it showing.
And yet he remains standing.
Respect to Volodymyr Zelensky.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris TORCHES Trump for his jaw-dropping diesel "deal" with Putin and says that it "reeks of weakness"
Imagine if this brilliant woman were President right now...
"Donald Trump and his war in Iran are to blame for our nation's sky-high diesel and gas prices," Harris wrote on X. "His latest ploy—buying fuel from his friend Vladimir Putin—reeks of weakness and will help pay for Russia’s war but will do nothing to make life more affordable for American families."
"The American people deserve a leader who cares about them, and the Ukrainian people deserve allies who will stand by their side in the fight for a free, democratic, and independent nation," she added.
The former Vice President was responding to an AP story about Trump calling for Ukraine to find a "new leader" to replace President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The remarks — a stunning betrayal from Trump — follow right behind his announcement that the U.S. will be allowing millions of gallons of Russian diesel into the global markets.
That announcement was a major win for Vladimir Putin, who will be able to pump the money made off that diesel directly into bullets, bombs, and drones to kill innocent Ukrainians and keep his murderous war raging on. And of course, all of this is downstream of Trump's disastrous decision to start a war with Iran on behalf of Israel. He created this oil crisis and now he's selling our ally out to patch up the problem ahead of the midterms. It's one big towering stack of malice and incompetence.
Few people have been as historically vindicated as those Americans who voted for Harris against Trump in 2024. Recall the insane lies that they told about her. Prominent MAGA accounts insisted that she was a bloodthirsty monster who would start a war with Iran. They said that a woman wouldn't be strong enough to stand up to dictators like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. How did that work out folks?
Ukraine doesn't need a new leader. America does.
Please ❤️ and share if you think that Kamala would have been a million times better than Trump!
🇺🇦💔 I want foreigners to understand what it actually means to live in Ukraine during this war.
Tonight, I was reading messages in a Kyiv residents’ chat and writing about a Russian Shahed drone that had been shot down in a neighbouring district. I had heard it very clearly, even from a distance.
And suddenly, completely out of nowhere, I experienced something terrifying.
I felt like I was dying.
My heart was racing. I thought it was going to stop. I felt like I was about to lose consciousness.
And there was one thought in my head:
What if another missile is coming?
I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I couldn’t understand why my body was reacting like this.
I told my father, and he immediately sent me instructions for a breathing technique to help me through a panic attack.
But what frightens me even more is what happened earlier today.
Twice, I caught myself thinking:
What if ballistic missiles come without any warning? What if there is no alert, no information, nothing?
And then it happened.
Six explosions in a row near my home.
No advance warning that I had received. No time to prepare myself.
And now, hours later, even the distant sound of a Shahed being intercepted can make my body react as though I’m about to die.
Do you understand what this means?
The attack doesn’t necessarily end when the explosions stop.
It continues in your nervous system. In your heartbeat. In the way you listen to every sound outside. In the way your mind constantly calculates whether you have enough time to survive the next missile.
And this is not just about me.
Millions of Ukrainians live with the consequences of Russia’s war. Children, parents, elderly people, soldiers’ families, people who simply want to sleep, work, study, have dinner and wake up the next morning.
Sometimes I feel so incredibly sorry for all of us.
For what we have been forced to endure.
For the lives we could have had.
For the fact that even an ordinary evening at home can turn into a moment when you genuinely believe you’re about to die.
And then I read politicians talking about peace and ceasefires as though saying the words is enough to make them real.
I see a reported exchange in which Donald Trump is asked why Russia and Ukraine supposedly agreed to a ceasefire despite both sides denying it.
And his reported answer?
“Because I said, ‘You agree.’ That’s why.”
I don’t know whether that quotation is accurate without seeing the original recording. But the attitude it describes is exactly what frustrates me about political discussions of this war.
Peace is not a declaration. A ceasefire is not a press release. And ending a war is not something you accomplish simply by announcing that you’ve done it.
While politicians argue over their achievements, Ukrainians are still hearing explosions, losing their homes, burying their loved ones and struggling to feel safe in their own bedrooms.
Please, when you talk about Ukraine, remember that behind every headline there are real people.
People whose hearts race at the sound of a drone.
People who wonder whether the next missile will come without warning.
People who are exhausted from surviving.
We don’t need another performance about peace. We need the attacks to stop. We need real security. We need to live.
I’m writing this from Kyiv.
And I wish the world understood what that really means.
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#Ukraine #Kyiv #RussiaUkraineWar #ProtectUkrainianCivilians #StandWithUkraine
No president in American history has ever sided so passionately and shamelessly with an imperial dictator like Putin and derided so militantly a democratic leader like Zelenskyy.
Reagan would be appalled.
"Zelensky better damn well stop," the President said. "He's making problems for our farmers, our ranchers." The two people making problems for farmers & ranchers are (1) Putin by invading Ukraine in the first place, and (2) Trump by invading Iran. Mr. Zelensky has nothing to do with it.
Our new trading partner (Putin) just blew up a residential neighborhood near Kharkiv and killed 3 people including a kid on his scooter. But hey you guys, we're going to save $0.27 on diesel soon.
"Russia invaded Ukraine. The first country to surrender was the United States." (Michael MacKay)
There are nine thousand American graves above Omaha Beach, and Europeans still bring their children there to explain what courage looks like. A whole generation of us grew up believing that was who America was, the country that crossed an ocean to face a dictator and later stood in Berlin and told Moscow to tear down its wall.
This weekend that same country asked Moscow for diesel, and threatened to cut off the weapons Ukraine fights with unless it stopped hitting Russian refineries.
It is a sad thing to watch, and it must be sadder still for Americans, whichever way they vote. The men in those graves earned a pride that cannot be inherited, only kept or lost.
Today the home of the brave is in Ukraine.
These people are full of emotions, empathy and pain💔
Volodymyr Zelensky entered office without losing his humanity. Power changed his level of responsibility, not his character.
"True personality" is a gift.
Don't stop supporting him and Ukraine 🇺🇦,
they need our help until victory and beyond 🫂
🇺🇦 Charkiw brennt – und dieser verf**** Trump 🇺🇸 fordert ernsthaft, Moskaus 🇷🇺 Dieselfabriken zu verschonen, nur um seinen Wählern für die nächste Wahl billige Spritpreise vorzulügen. Nicht die Ukraine braucht einen neuen Präsidenten, Amerika braucht dringend einen neuen.
#StandWithUkraine #Charkiw #Trump
Wie es zu erwarten war. Ein Tag nach der CDU Klausur fährt Kretschmer Bundeskanzler Merz bei der Ukraine 🇺🇦 Politik öffentlich in die Parade. Dass er dafür auch noch die für jeden durchschaubare billige Wahlkampf-Taktik von Trump instrumentalisiert, ist ein besonderer Tiefpunkt.
Es grenzt mittlerweile an Intellektuelle Bankrotterklärung, wer nach Jahren des Krieges weiterhin diese Floskeln raushaut. Es gibt einzig eine Person an der Gespräche/Diplomatie/Frieden aktuell scheitert: Putin.
President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.
While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.
Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.
As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.
America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.
Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.
America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
Russland hat in den letzten Tagen 80 ukrainische Zivilisten ermordet, darunter auch viele Kinder. Russland zeigt mit dieser Brutalität, dass es keinerlei Interesse an Verhandlungen hat. Altkanzler Schröder macht sich mit seinem Posten zum nützlichen Werkzeug des Kriegsverbrecher Putins und schadet Deutschland und dem Amt.
Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies.
Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.
This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t.
On Monday, EU Foreign Ministers intend to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the start of the war.