Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.
JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?
ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.
JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?
ZELENSKYY: I love you.
JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?
ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.
JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?
ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.
And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.
JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?
ZELENSKYY: No.
JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?
ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.
This is the Irish minister for foreign affairs pushing sanctions for Isreal while she remains silent about the huge scandal around the russian refinery that still sends 14 ships to St Petersburg per month.
Before I leave Ireland, I want to place on record that in the last 24 hours I have received constant stalking and death threats for my reporting. However I will not be intimidated.
What I have uncovered is deeply troubling, and the effort to silence it only makes that clearer.
Rusal, the company that owns the Aughinish Alumina, continues to be controlled by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to a confidential report by Swedish tax authorities.
https://t.co/TaEVXlG5Dz
When he’s right he’s right
DAN HODGES: When Britain needed a leader to articulate our pain, disgust and despair, Keir Starmer was missing in action. Kemi stepped up - and spoke like a real Prime Minister https://t.co/nO2gma62H8
Why does Aughinish in Ireland export so much alumina to Russia?
Ownership! It's a Russian company, part of an internal supply chain feeding Russian industry despite the invasion of Ukraine
There are alternatives
Listen here:
Irish exports to Russia have risen significantly since 2022, reaching €830 million last year. The single biggest commodity group in 2025 was 'metalliferous ores and metal scrap', valued at €316 million.
These are @CSOIreland figures, and it's important to note that companies share such data confidently, for reasons of obvious commercial sensitivity. Statisticians aggregate the data from all company submissions and publish only aggregated totals.
Ireland cannot continue to hide behind the notion of an investigation of where Rusal’s alumina goes. The @IrishTimes and partners have done that and revealed 80% of Aughinish supply goes directly to Moscow.
As @CaolanReports says sanctions needed now.
Very difficult to claim neutrality when you are a critical part of an active war criminal's supply chain.
As an Irish citizen this is not only deeply concerning, it is embarrassing, and quite frankly a testament to the absence of values-based leadership in Irish politics.