Mark Calver EUROPA 🇪🇺 #ukraine

Remainer Brit with family, friends and business interests throughout Ukraine..absurd passion for driving fast cars on German Autobahns #Ukraine

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

A mother of two was killed just six days before her 25th birthday.
Liliia volunteered to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine, asking her mother to care for her children while she served.
In October 2024, at just 23 years old, she applied to the Army Recruitment Center in Kropyvnytskyi. According to recruiter Lesia Nestroyna, Liliia quickly proved herself during basic training, ranking among the best in her course.
While she was serving with the 141st Separate Mechanized Brigade, her brother went missing in action. Despite this devastating loss, her commitment never wavered. What drove her above all was her patriotism and determination to defend her country.
In October 2025, she transferred to a battalion of unmanned systems.
On February 11, Liliia was killed near the village of Mahdalynivka in the Zaporizhzhia region. She would have turned 25 on February 17, 2026.

[AnnaT 🇬🇧 🫶 🇺🇦 @1AnnaT]

💔🇺🇦🥹🕯️
A farewell for the young family murdered by russia
A father & 3 toddlers under the age of 2 years old
The burial was held in Skovorodinivka,the native village
Of Hryhorii the father, who was a war veteran
Sorry will never ever be enough 🙏
The world let you down🖤

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

HUR special forces wrote the names of fallen Ukrainian athletes known as Angels of Sport on a combat helmet backing the protest against the IOC disqualifying athlete Heraskevych for his memorial helmet.

[Olga Stefanishyna @StefanishynaO]

This week, a Russian drone killed a war veteran and his three kids at their home. His pregnant wife and 74-year-old grandmother survived.

The couple had moved from a frontline community to protect their children from war.

No one and nowhere is safe when Russia targets civilians. #Ukraine needs more air defense and stronger pressure on Russia to stop these crimes.
📸Suspilne

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No words left to say.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Mykhailo Heraskevych, you raised an incredible son. His act made the whole world talk about Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia.

We are all incredibly proud of @heraskevych

[AnnaT 🇬🇧 🫶 🇺🇦 @1AnnaT]

💔🇺🇦🥹🧸
russia murdered this young family
While they were sleeping, a father & 3 little toddlers
The pregnant mother is alive but seriously injured
He was a defender who'd returned home from
The frontlines after having his leg amputated
The world looks away & remains silent
Please keep supporting Ukraine
We are their voices Don’t be silent 🙏#russiaIsATerroristState

[Kate Higgins🌻 @SunflowerKate66]

@MargoGontar #FuckTheIOC
#FuckRussia

#SLAVA UKRAINE

💛💙 🇺🇦 💙💛

[A_Scablander 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @BoCampbell18]

@MargoGontar https://t.co/R3u4rwT1I7

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"Russia is trying to destroy our power plants and our entire energy system. It’s trying to kill our light. And Ukraine, together with our friends, is fighting against the darkness.

This is a battle where everything is clear. There are no gray zones here. And there are also deep Christian meanings in this – in how we defend ourselves, in how we get assisted, in how our people help each other in any circumstances.

We fight every day so that darkness loses"

- Volodymyr Zelensky
President of Ukraine 🇺🇦

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

😭 Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl were killed by Russians in Kharkiv region, — Regional State Administration

A 34-year-old man who was with his children in a private house also died from his injuries.

74-year-old woman was injured.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Never forget

[AnnaT 🇬🇧 🫶 🇺🇦 @1AnnaT]

💔🇺🇦 🧸
Kyiv . . .Children are freezing in their apartments
Without light & without heat
Children that should be carefree & happy
These children are not statistics
This is someone's childhood happening
Right now in the dark & cold sub zero conditions
Shame on us 😟🖤

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

No child should ever have to live like this.

Nothing will make us forgive russians. Never.

[Їne Back Їversen @IneBackIversen]

🧵The best response to the bogus decision by the IOC @Olympics to ban the helmet of @heraskevych and silence the memory of Ukrainian athletes murdered by russia, is to see their faces, learn their names and share it with the world!

They want it gone, we’ll show it everywhere!🇺🇦

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Don’t look away. The richest nations, the strongest military alliance in the history of the world are right next door and choose every day not to stop this. All while Ukrainian soldiers defend their cozy complacency.

[Antoninaodesa NAFO @antoninaodesssa]

#NAFO Everyone needs to read this.
This text is not mine, but I agree with every word.

“An open letter to the U.S. Congress and Western media

Donald Trump’s statement that he “asked” putin 🤮not to strike Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles for a week — and that putin allegedly agreed — is not diplomacy.

It is a moral collapse, delivered with characteristic self-satisfaction. Because from this moment on, this is no longer about war.
This is about the legalization of terror through a personal arrangement.

The President of the United States — a country that for decades symbolized the containment of evil — publicly admits that he does not stop war crimes, does not punish them, does not enforce the law, but politely asks a murderer to take a pause. For one week.

This is not peace.
This is a feudal deal with an executioner, where the lives of millions are reduced to a “gesture of goodwill” by one criminal.

A photo of a terrorist in the White House is a symbol of the surrender of values.
When putin is shown not as an accused war criminal, not as an international criminal, but as a “partner for negotiations,” it is the public legitimization of terror.

It sends a signal to the world:
democracy no longer has a backbone,
law is no longer mandatory,
force is once again the argument.

And this signal is not only heard in the kremlin.
It is being carefully read in Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Caracas.

Trump came to power on a sweet lie:
“I will end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.”

Today we see the result:
– missiles hitting residential neighborhoods,
– destroyed hospitals,
– infants pulled from rubble,
– parents losing their minds over their children’s graves,
– elderly people dying alone in destroyed homes because no one is left to care for them.

Against this backdrop — phone calls about business, cynical repetition of Kremlin lies about “military targets,” and self-praise:
“If it weren’t for me, putin would have advanced deeper into Ukraine.”

The truth is the opposite.
It is precisely this policy that gave putin a second wind.
It is demonstrative weakness that shattered the isolation of a criminal.

Asking putin for favors is not a strategy.
It is a historic mistake — one the world will pay for.

And if this is not called what it is today, tomorrow the world will wake up in a reality where every dictator knows:
all you have to do is wait for weakness — and the law becomes optional.”

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.