Ludovic Claude

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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

"I'm scared..."

"It's okay, little one. Don't be afraid anymore. We've got you."

Rescuers freed a six-year-old girl trapped under the rubble after Russian guided bombs partially destroyed a residential building in Kharkiv overnight. Heavy equipment was deployed to rescue the kid.

The Russian strike killed one person and injured nine others, including two children.

📹: Footage of the rescue operation / State Emergency Service of Ukraine

[Ludovic Claude @ludovicc]

@Jacobsklug Native

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

Hello and welcome to Thursday's edition of the original daily Ukraine thread - every single day of Russia's full-invasion has been covered here, with honest analysis and fact-checked journalism.

Day 1576 is looking very interesting, so let's see what's already happened.

[Ludovic Claude @ludovicc]

@GuillaumeLample Keep on training for a few 1000 iterations more. We can wait for a quality product.

[Tim White @TWMCLtd]

It's Day 1573 and the attempted genocide by Russia continued through the night.

Killing the people of Ukraine, its first responders and the most sacred religious site in the country.

The world looks on, shaking its head. If Putin's Nazism isn't stopped, it will reach you soon.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Efforts to deal with the aftermath of the Russian strikes are ongoing in Kyiv, as well as in Kharkiv. Last night, the Russians launched more than 60 missiles at the capital alone. In total, 70 missiles and 611 drones were used against Ukraine. As of now, 28 people have been reported injured and four killed in the capital. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. A Russian strike on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra set the Dormition Cathedral on fire – a church whose history dates back to the 11th century. And this is one of Russia’s most serious crimes against Christian culture to date. The State Emergency Service has already extinguished the fire on the cathedral’s roof. In Kharkiv, the Russians carried out a repeat strike against our rescuers as they were putting out a fire at the site of an earlier strike on an industrial facility. So far, tragically, five people have been confirmed killed. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. Nine people have been injured. In Dnipro, Russia struck the grounds of a railway station, a college, and several enterprises.

Other cities and communities were targeted as well. The Kyiv, Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Mykolaiv regions were also under attack. This is how Russia shows the world its intention to continue the war. It is very important that there be a response from the G7 countries, which are now gathering for their summit – and that this response be decisive and substantive: more pressure on the aggressor and more support for Ukraine’s air defense, especially anti-ballistic capabilities. I thank everyone who is helping us protect lives.

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Expect Candace, Tucker, Tate, and the entire trad russia bootlicking consortium to remain remarkably silent on this

[Devana 🇺🇦 @DevanaUkraine]

⛓️ A young woman describes what life was like under occupation and how the Russian occupiers offered to let civilians return home from Russian captivity if they sang the Russian national anthem. Everyone refused—even the severely ill who had life-saving medicine at home.

The Russians also spoke of killing infants in captivity so as not to hear them crying. The Russian occupiers also played "Russian roulette": they would point assault rifles at people's temples and fire, watching to see which bullet would go off, or they would throw grenades into prison cells under children's beds.

[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.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The German far right's open attendance at Russia's SPIEF conference proves that the threat to Europe is already inside the house.

If the RN, AfD and Reform UK win elections, European security will completely collapse.

European democracy is facing its most dangerous moment since the Cold War. AfD sending representatives to Saint Petersburg to smile for cameras alongside war criminals is not an isolated incident. It is part of a coordinated, long-term strategy to place pro-Russian traitors and their puppets at the helm of the British, French, and German governments.

A political victory for the National Rally, AfD, or Reform UK at the next elections would be a historical catastrophe. These groups are designed to paralyze Europe, cut off vital aid to democracies under attack, and legitimize brutal authoritarian expansion. They wrap themselves in national flags, yet they take their marching orders directly from Moscow. Real traitors!

It is time to speak with total clarity about what a vote for these parties actually means. Choosing to support these movements is a betrayal of national sovereignty and a direct contribution to the destabilization of the West. Voters who fall for their populist rhetoric are actively enabling foreign subversion. A vote for them is a vote for Putin.

We need a massive mobilization of citizens within these countries to fight back against this creeping threat. Passivity is no longer an option when the enemy is on the ballot. We must aggressively expose their lies, contest their narratives, and protect the values that keep Europe safe and free

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

The fact that he even mentions AfD shows he is once again pinning Russia’s future on the political outcome of another country. It speaks to the desperation of a leadership still searching for external events to rescue a failing strategy.

This is not the Russia he promised.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The list of Russia’s latest “victories” over the past few days has grown to include the Yagotynske for Children plant, which produced food products for children. In the Kyiv region, rescue efforts are ongoing at the site of this strike – units of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have already extinguished the fire. As of now, seven people have been reported injured. Tragically, four people were killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones.

Also on this list are food warehouses and a postal facility in the Dnipro region, an ambulance in Kherson, a school building in the Sumy region, port infrastructure in the Odesa region, ordinary residential buildings, and an outpatient clinic building in the Kharkiv region.

Russia continues its war against life, and everyone who helps us is truly standing up to defend it. Every support package with anti-ballistic defense, every joint agreement on weapons production, every step the world takes in sanctions against Russia – all of this helps protect people’s lives. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine! It is important for all of us together to force Russia to end their war and move toward diplomacy.

[Останній Капіталіст @Ostanniy_Cap]

Депутат верхньої палати парламенту Японії Мацузава:

Україна – це країна, яка зазнала агресії і змушена вести оборонну війну, щоб захистити свій суверенітет і життя своїх громадян

І лише через те, що бойові дії тривають, не можна просто так позбавляти країну, яка зазнала нападу, права на підтримку. Навпаки, за таких особливих обставин слід дозволити передачу засобів протиповітряної оборони

Я вважаю, що жорсткі обмеження суперечать самій ідеї активного пацифізму

Оскільки росія продовжує хаотичні ракетні обстріли українських міст, від яких гинуть мирні жителі, надання засобів ППО – це не розпалювання війни, а порятунок людських життів і підтримка відновлення міжнародного миру

Вважаю, що надання систем ППО такій країні, як Україна, що зазнала агресії, має бути визнано особливою обставиною, яка відкриє шлях для допомоги

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

‼️BACON: Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities every night with ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, and we better be there to help them, or in the history books it's gonna say, "United States failed when it's most needed."

“Are we gonna stand with good, or are we gonna stand with evil? That's what this is about tonight. Ukraine is a democracy, it's a free market, it's rule of law. It's been invaded by a dictator who throws his enemies off of roofs, poisons his adversaries, and he attacked his neighbor that's four times smaller than Russia. What's the goal? To eliminate their independence, to eliminate them as a culture, as a people, 'cause he wants to control those old borders of his that he has had. We gotta stand for the good side tonight. What does this bill do? It provides $1.3 billion in direct military aid, and $8 billion in military sales, and provides tough sanctions on Russia. We should have done this a year ago. We could have done this in a bipartisan way year ago, but we have not. This decision is needed now. Russia is bombing Ukrainian cities every night with ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles, and we better be there to help them, or in the history books it's gonna say, "United States failed when it's most needed." And I know this, I want this House to stand on the right side. I want Republicans to stand where Ronald Reagan would be if he was here right now. Ronald Reagan would be voting yes tonight. He'd be standing up for Ukraine and opposing Russia. This is our Churchill moment or our Chamberlain moment, and by God, I'm gonna choose Churchill, and this House better choose Churchill tonight. With that, I yield” - @RepDonBacon on Thursday, June 4th, 2026

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter to the President of the Russian Federation: https://t.co/mEvYqYiqus

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russian strike on an ambulance in Kherson today.

Russia is systematically tearing Kherson apart, committing one war crime after another. The city is in a desperate, critical situation‼️‼️

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

🔴 URGENT: Russian drones attack Kherson in swarms

They set on fire residential blocks: hi rises, houses

Burning buildings hit repeatedly

Fire engines attacked

6 killed, 26 injured in the Kherson region in 24 hours

60,000 remaining civilians are terrorized

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[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.

Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.

White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.

Russia is cancer.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A humiliating day for Putin, as things at the St Petersburg Economic Forum start off with a bang.

Despite Putin flying in all the American influencers, Ukraine just blew things up.