Raar hè, ik stem D66 en heb kritiek op het beleid van dit kabinet. Maar dat is helemaal niet raar; dat is volwassen. Daar kunnen uiterst-rechtse mensen nog iets van leren. Stemmen betekent niet dat je je verstand inlevert bij de partijbalie. Je mag het oneens zijn met je eigen partij. Je hoeft niet alles van ze recht te praten.
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.
Afschuwelijke nacht voor de inwoners van Kyiv. Poetin zit in het defensief, en reageert zich af met een lawine aan raketten. Op woonwijken, scholen, winkels en zelfs gericht op schuilkelders.
Deze terreur mag niet winnen! Daarom blijven we 🇺🇦 steunen.
This was one of the most powerful and painful blows to Russia’s defense industry since the start of the war.
The facility was located deep inside Russian territory, in one of the country’s central regions. It was there that Russia mass-produced and stored thousands of tons of explosives, including guided aerial bombs (KABs) used daily to terrorize Ukrainian cities — from Kharkiv and Sumy to Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro.
This is not just the loss of a single factory. It is a serious disruption of the entire aerial bomb production chain.
Russia lost:
• Thousands of tons of ready-to-use guided bombs
• Production facilities that will take enormous amounts of time and money to rebuild
• Part of its ability to continue the mass terror bombing of Ukrainian cities
Russian propaganda is already in hysteria. First they called it an “industrial accident,” then “Ukrainian terrorism,” and now they have largely fallen silent because the scale of the destruction is impossible to hide.
In total, since midnight yesterday, Russia has used more than 1,560 drones against our cities and communities. These are definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end, — Zelenskyy.
It is important that our partners do not remain silent regarding this attack.
Merz is silent, Macron is silent, Starmer is silent, Meloni is silent, Tusk is silent...
Ruim veertig raketten, meer dan duizend drones in de afgelopen 24 u.
M’n verslag over de grootschalige Russische aanval op #Oekraïne bij @vrtnws:
https://t.co/bk67OMHa0t
Childhood in Ukraine : teachers blocking the road so school kids could run to bomb shelter to hide from Russian drones and missiles . It’s been a massive attack on Ukraine today , all regions , and now it’s moving west and continues
The first morning of russia’s so-called “ceasefire” in Dnipropetrovsk region begins with civilians killed.
Two people are dead, two injured — including a 39-year-old woman in critical condition.
Nearly 20 attacks overnight — artillery and drones hitting Ukrainian towns again.
❗️The Netherlands is pushing the EU to revisit using €210 billion in frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, Politico reports. Dutch Finance Minister Eelco Heinen raised the issue in a closed Brussels discussion with EU counterparts on May 5. #Ukraine
Exactly 26 years ago, on May 7, 2000, Putin became the president of Russia.
Now, a whole generation of Russians has grown up who don't know any other life than under Putin's rule.
Despite his wishes, Putin will go down in history as a war criminal, dictator and murderer.
During the Nuremberg Trials, Hermann Göring gave an interview to psychologist Gustave Gilbert and said:
“Of course the people don’t want war. Why would some poor farmer want to risk his life in a war when the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally, people don’t want war. No one wants war in Russia, England, America — not even in Germany. That’s obvious.
But in the end, it’s the leaders of a country who determine policy. And it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it’s a democracy, a communist state, a parliament, or a fascist dictatorship.”
Gilbert objected:
“But there is one difference in a democracy — the people have a voice through their elected representatives.”
To which Göring replied:
“That’s all well and good, but whether the people have a voice or not, they can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
— Nuremberg Diary, April 18, 1946
Doesn’t it sound familiar?