Riki Stad

Banned from Russia.

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

‘Russia protects Russian speakers.’ The founding justification of this war. Let us visit the protected.

Mariupol: a city where Russian was the language of the streets, the schools, the kitchens. Flattened — theaters, maternity wards, everything — with the protected inside.

Kharkiv: Ukraine’s great Russian-speaking metropolis, a mile from the border, drenched in glide bombs week after week, year after year.

Odesa, Russian-speaking jewel of the Black Sea: missiles into its port, its cathedral, its families.

Follow the arithmetic to its end: no force in modern history has killed more Russian speakers than the Russian state that came to protect them.

Because the claim was always inverted. Moscow doesn’t protect people who speak Russian. It claims ownership of them — and an owner may do as he likes with his property, including destroy it rather than lose it.

That is what ‘protection’ means in the empire’s dictionary: you belong to us, dead or alive.

Millions of Russian speakers understood — and answered in Ukrainian.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Ukraine’s brave decision to stand and fight to protect their country for 12 years in the face of the Russian onslaught proves the power of patriotism and nationalism

It’s literally one of the bravest and most honourable decisions in history, many other nations would have capitulated

Almost every single European country wanted them to give up and roll over and die because fighting with Russia was economically inconvenient

It didn’t matter, they stood and fought

It’s one of the most patriotic decisions in hundreds of years

[@BrennpunktUA 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @BrennpunktUA]

Wildberries in Penza, RU 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Ukrainian long-range drones are slamming into the 90 000 sqm Wildberries logistics center in Penza, Russia.

The flames have now engulfed the entire buildings.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

As of now, reports indicate 400 drones are enroute to apply sanctions.

Eager to see the videos of their results, hoping for some skies as inky black as my morning coffee. ☕️

And maybe some roasted Wildberries.🥧🔥

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"The occupier must understand: Ukrainian land will never become Russian property.
Russia will not get away with stealing the land of the Ukrainian people.

The war began with Crimea, and it must end with Crimea."

- Volodymyr Zelensky 🇺🇦

Ukraine will prevail!🙌

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Dear world,

While you're getting ready for bed, families in Kyiv are preparing to spend another night in the metro.

Children will fall asleep on station floors. Parents will pretend everything is okay.

This is Europe. This is tonight.

[Riki Stad @m_stadnyk]

Cautiously optimistic?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

McFaul: Today, Trump administration is no longer trying to convince Zelenskyy to give up Donbas. I think that was promised to Putin in Alaska meeting. Zelenskyy endured months of pressure to take that deal, he resisted it. Now they’ve moved away from it. That’s really good news.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is wonderful!

For years, Laura Loomer talked about the "Azov Nazis."

Now, Andriy Biletsky, the commander of the Azov Brigade, is giving her a tour of Kharkiv.

The location is symbolic. It was on Rymarska Street, on the night of March 14–15, 2014, that Azov volunteers under Biletsky's command engaged in battle with pro-Russian militants. The clash became one of the first successful engagements by Ukrainian volunteer forces at the very beginning of russia's war against Ukraine.

This will be much harder for the MAGA audience, which helped push the "Azov Nazis" narrative, to swallow.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

As a Ukrainian, I don’t understand one thing:

Why are we told to “give up land for peace”
but russia is never told
to stop stealing land?

[Kvist @kvistp]

Ukraine bombed another russian "blueberry factory", this time in Penza.

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

💥🟣 Lady Bavovna has now passed the baton to Wildberries in Penza.

90,000 m² Wildberries sorting center is on fire.🔥

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Fedorov: I will stay in Ukraine. I will not go work for another country.

Whatever I do next will be tied to this war plan: a domain, a technology that can change the battlefield. Parliament removed me as defense minister, but it cannot take away my vision or ideas.

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[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

You know, on the anniversary of the mass murder of Ukrainian POWs at Russia’s Olenivka concentration camp (more than 50 Ukrainians were burned alive in a prison barracks!!) wailing and tearing one’s hair out over Ukraine destroying warehouses in Russia full of Chinese junk for online sale, and calling it a “war crime,” is the height of arrogant stupidity and false equivalence.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Another hard night is waiting for us.

I already took my valerian drops.

Now I’m just trying to prepare myself for the possibility that russia will try to kill us again.

Monitoring channels say tonight could bring another massive attack.

If you’re reading this from somewhere safe, please keep Ukraine in your thoughts tonight.

And if you pray…

Please pray for us🙏

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

If this information is confirmed, it would be one of the most successful operations carried out by the Ukrainian Defense Forces.

A vessel transporting a shipment of missiles and Shahed drones for Russia was reportedly destroyed in the Caspian Sea. If true, hundreds of deadly weapons will never reach Ukrainian cities.

The best way to destroy the enemy's weapons is before they can be used to kill.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The currently burning Wildberries facility in Ryazan was not only the 4th largest (not 5th), but the newest, completed less than 2 years ago.

With the company's known outstanding debt of at least $17.8 billion, a banking crisis is setting up nicely.

Targeting huge, heavily indebted, low margin businesses is Ukraine's genius move of the war.

[414 Magyar's Birds @414magyarbirds]

Commander Magyar to our partners in NATO: a drone without an ecosystem is just a tool against hooligans.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SIKORSKI: If Putin could escalate in a way that's not risky to himself, he would've done it over last 4 years.

Nobody knows what political consequences in Russia would be of a draft.

Russian Revolution in 1917 started when draftees started shooting their own officers rather than be killed immediately.

And life expectancy of Russian soldier during offensive in Ukraine is about 30 minutes.

So, I believe Putin is desperate and may do something risky, but risks for him are significant.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian propagandists and Solovyev are furious over the latest news.

They've turned on Donald Trump, calling him the U.S. president who imposed the toughest sanctions ever on Russia.

They're calling to close U.S. embassies, confiscate everything in sight, and push the red button.

Though they haven't quite decided in what order yet.

I'm actually kind of enjoying these tantrums. Good broadcast.