93 years old.
Russia steals childhood from Ukrainian children.
Russia steals adulthood from Ukrainian adults.
Russia steals the twilight years from Ukrainian elderly.
Russia doesn't allow Ukrainians to be born in peace, live in peace, or die in peace. No justice great enough.
After three days witnessing record levels of open election fraud, Russians have become emotional, now with understanding and 100% certainty that life is only getting worse and that Putin is only leaving when he is taken out in a box.
Vi supplico PARLATE DI OLESHKY. È una catastrofe umanitaria e la Russia si rifiuta di far evacuare i civili, li usa come scudi umani e non fa entrare cibo in città. Non possiamo voltarci dall'altra parte, dov'é la nostra umanità? 💔❤️🩹
Russian occupiers shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who was trying to escape the war with his mother. He had to be buried twice.
This is the story of 13-year-old Yelisei Ryabokon from Brovary.
In the photo on the left is an ordinary schoolboy. On the right is the hat he was wearing, riddled with bullets and shrapnel, along with his white soccer jersey, which he wore over his jacket to show that he was a civilian.
On March 11, 2022, Yelisei’s family tried to escape from the village of Peremoha, already occupied by russian forces.
As they were driving, russian soldiers initially waved to them, as if wishing them a safe journey.
Then they opened fire on the cars carrying civilians.
Yelisei’s mother and younger brother were in one car, while Yelisei was traveling in another.
The first vehicle exploded after being struck by a shell. People scrambled out of the cars and tried to hide.
“I was pulling the little one by his hood,” his mother, Inna, recalled.
She hoped her older son was still alive. When she was finally allowed to return to him, she realized he had died instantly.
He was lying on the back seat, curled into a small ball. His mother barely survived and managed to pull her younger son out of the gunfire.
At first, Yelisei was buried in a vegetable garden in the village.
Only later was his family able to bring his body home to Brovary and bury him properly.
They never opened the coffin.
His father, Yevhen, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, never had the chance to see his son one last time.
His mother wants the world to know what russia has done in Ukraine and to remember every murdered child.
Those who knew Yelisei remember a calm, polite boy who was always smiling.
Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.
This is pure gold. What to make of Russia pretending to protect conservative values—and how to counter its aggression.
The brilliant Avi Sahar at the European Parliament on why words like “hybrid,” “resilience,” and “below threshold” just hide our cowardice.
Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, their families, their nation, their freedom. Russian soldiers are fighting for a few bucks they know they’ll never spend on the orders of a corrupt mafia. Ukraine will win.
Zelenskyy:
After 9/11, America didn’t politely talk to the terrorists. I can’t imagine that. That’s why they hit back hard. Ukraine is living that every day.
On this day, September 17, 1939, russia invaded Poland — just 16 days after Nazi Germany had done the same.
This was the result of Stalin’s collaboration with Hitler under the secret protocol of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which carved up Eastern Europe between them.
While Nazi Germany unleashed terror from the West, Stalin’s soviet army struck from the East. Poland was crushed, and the Second World War began.
Stalin was not a bystander — he was Hitler’s greatest collaborator, supplying the Nazis with resources, signing joint declarations, and even holding joint military parades.
That legacy of collaboration with fascism, hidden behind lies and propaganda, continues in russia today. Once again, russia invades its neighbors, justifies aggression with twisted narratives, and partners with dictators and rogue states to undermine freedom.
History does not merely repeat itself — in russia’s case, it persists.
"Они устраивают сафари на нас. Мы - мишени", - говорит украинская проводница о постоянных российских атаках на поезда. Недавний удар дрона по поезду возле границы с Польшей стал новой эскалацией. Вот что рассказывают пассажиры
Russians are abducting 20,000 Ukrainian children.
According to Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, these children are classified as deported or forcibly abducted.
Reports indicate that Russian companies, such as Gazprom, were also involved in the abduction and housing of Ukrainian children in Russia. Names, dates of birth, and identities were allegedly altered, and the children subjected to Russification.
And Europe? Despite this mass abduction of children, Europe is doing nothing—absolutely nothing.
Extraordinary journalism from @NewYorker, on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth"
https://t.co/pgzpZUmNMe
ОДЕСА 💔
15 загиблих за три дні внаслідок російських атак. Серед них четверо дітей. 😢
Щирі співчуття рідним і близьким загиблих.
Світла пам’ять кожному, чиє життя забрала ця війна. 🕯️
#russia_is_a_terrorist_state