Mrs. C

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Today, Russia damaged:

- Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a nearly 1,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site;
- The Mystetskyi Arsenal cultural complex in Kyiv;
- The Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv;
- The Kharkiv Art Museum;
- The House of Chamber and Organ Music in Dnipro.

These are not military targets. This is Ukrainian culture, history, art, and identity.

So tell us again, what exactly is Russia fighting for? Or is it fighting against the very existence of Ukraine itself?

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

For nearly a millennium, Christians have prayed at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

Empires rose and fell. Wars came and went. The monastery endured.

Tonight, flames rise over one of Christianity’s holiest sites after a Russian strike.

This is not a war over territory - Russia is assaulting memory, identity, faith, and civilization.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city.

This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

A 102-day summer vacation after sitting for only 29 days this year. If you were trying to avoid questions about your own corruption, this is what you'd do.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital – at ordinary residential buildings, at schools; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv’s oldest markets. The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany’s ARD. As of now, 69 people have been reported injured in the capital. Tragically, two people were killed in this senseless Russian attack. My condolences to everyone who has lost family members and loved ones.

I have already spoken with the President of France and the Prime Minister of Norway. There will be further communication with our partners today. I am grateful to everyone who is not staying silent about what Russia is doing. They are waging war solely against our people – against our memory, our history, and everything that makes up normal human life. It is important that Russia understands that they will be held accountable for all these crimes.

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Today is a historic day. We are making history. Just like the Nuremberg tribunal 80 years ago, this Special Tribunal in The Hague will restore justice from the ruins of war.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Russia is building concentration camps on Ukrainian territory. JD Vance calls it a territorial dispute.

Historian Anne Applebaum has a sharper read. When Russia bans the Ukrainian language, arrests mayors, teachers, journalists, and priests, and denies Ukraine exists as a nation — it is not fighting over borders. It is dismantling the European order built after 1945, the order that said force cannot rewrite the map.

Russia's goal, Applebaum argues, is to prove treaties are meaningless, alliances are hollow, and brute force still decides the fate of nations.

That is not a scuffle over lines. That is an imperial war against the rules that kept Europe at peace for eighty years.

This page documents that war. Help us keep going.
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[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

They all died today in a missile strike. Kyiv.
My deepest condolences to all their families and loved ones... 🥲🕯️

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

As of now, already 5 people have been reported killed in Kyiv as a result of last night’s Russian attack. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Around 40 people have been injured in the capital, and another 7 in the Kyiv region. There are already 28 injured in Kharkiv. And two people have been injured in the Odesa region. In total, 180 sites have been damaged across the country, including more than 50 ordinary residential buildings.

A search and rescue operation is still ongoing in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. Efforts continue to find people under the rubble. More than 10 people are reported missing. All necessary services are also operating in the Obolonskyi district. And recovery efforts are underway after Russian strikes in the Poltava region. Overall, more than 750 personnel of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and nearly 750 police officers have already been engaged across the country to eliminate the consequences of the attack. I am grateful to all who help the rescuers and the police

Also, earlier today, during a humanitarian mission in Kherson, the Russians twice attacked a vehicle of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs with FPV drones, and the Russians could not have been unaware of which vehicle they were targeting. The Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and eight other staff members were inside. Fortunately, no one was injured. The mission personnel have been evacuated.

Even so, a significant number of missiles and drones were shot down during these attacks – the overall interception rate is over 93%. Of course, it needs to be higher. And of course, the most difficult challenge is defending against ballistic missiles. I thank everyone who is helping us with this. There must be a just response to all these strikes. And pressure on Moscow must be such that they feel the consequences of their terror there. It is important that global sanctions against Russia remain in place. Russia’s accountability for this war, and our sanctions pressure, must work at full strength. And it is also very important that the world does not stay silent about this terror and stands with Ukraine.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

While russian politicians party in Venice, waves of missiles & drones have pounded Ukraine. People are under the rubble of an apartment building in Kyiv this morning. Important for the world to see this footage and stop inviting this terrorist state back into civilised society

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism. The day when all of Europe marks the end of the most terrible war of the 20th century. A war after which there should have been only genuine peace. That was the dream back then, when the guns of World War II began to fall silent.

That war turned our land into a battlefield of brutal fighting, abuse in occupied territory, and the mass destruction of people and life. The losses of the Ukrainian people were among the greatest in World War II. And the contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of the Nazis was also among the greatest. Millions of Ukrainians, serving in various armies of the Anti-Hitler Coalition states, fought against Nazism. Millions of Ukrainians were among the victors, having done everything in their power to ensure that absolute evil was defeated.

Unfortunately, 81 years later, we are once again forced to stop evil – evil that is just as absolute. Evil that brings nothing but ruins and abuse. And evil based on a similar ideology of enmity. An updated version of Nazism, marked: made in Russia.

Today, such Russian aggression can and must be defeated by the united free world. And I am grateful to everyone who helps us defend life. I am grateful to everyone who is not allowing this Russian regime to dictate to the world what comes next. Defending people’s lives and the freedom of nations from Putin is an absolutely dignified way to honor the memory of those who did not allow Hitler to subjugate Europe and the world.

Eternal gratitude to all who fought against Nazism and liberated people! Blessed memory to all innocent victims of World War II! Glory to every defender of life! Glory to Ukraine!

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Today, we announced $270 million of new military support to Ukraine.

Ukraine’s fight is our fight. Their cause — freedom, democracy, sovereignty — is our cause. Good to see President @ZelenskyyUa today in Yerevan. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

[Sister Denby 🇨🇦💜🇺🇦 @DenbySister]

Doug Ford LIED about the Greenbelt
Doug Ford LIED about Wilmot
Doug Ford LIED about the Trustees
Doug Ford LIED about the Teacher/Board expenses
Doug Ford LIED about the Gravy Plane
Doug Ford LIED about the Metrolinx
Doug Ford LIED about the Billy Bishop
Doug Ford is a LIAR.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford gets a free degree in the U.S. while taking OSAP away from Ontario students.

[Jason Pugh 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @TheJasonPugh]

🚨WATCH: Disgusting display by @PierrePoilievre's #CPC Conservatives. Screaming over #LPC MP John-Paul Danko's question, and then Patty Hajdu's answer.

The Speaker has to start tossing Cons out if they can't follow the rules and behave!

#cdnpoli

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Doug Ford went to court to keep his personal phone - the one he uses for government business - hidden from the public.

He lost.

So now he’s changing the law to dodge the ruling.

That’s not leadership. That’s rewriting the rules to protect yourself from accountability.

What’s on that phone, Doug? Another Greenbelt giveaway? Another Ontario Place deal? Another gravy plane?

Ontarians deserve answers - not cover-ups. Enough is enough. #onpoli
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[ForMYCanada @ForMYCanada]

🧾 Pierre Poilievre spent two years screaming about grocery prices. Yesterday, Parliament voted on Bill C-226, a national framework to improve food price transparency, and force grocery chains to show Canadians where the money actually goes.

Poilievre voted NO. Every Conservative voted NO.

📊 Final tally: 168 Yea. 150 Nay. The bill passed, no thanks to the party that built its entire brand on "axe the tax" and grocery affordability.

🎭 This is the pattern. The grievance is the product. Solving the problem would end the grift. When there's an actual mechanism to hold grocers accountable, Conservatives fold for the industry every single time.

Poilievre doesn't want lower food prices. He wants the issue.

#cdnpoli
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[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

Local man tells post-secondary students money doesn't grow on trees and then picks private jet from private jet tree.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

On this day, last year, the U.S. joined russia, Belarus, and North Korea in voting against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning russian aggression against Ukraine.

I never would have imagined that the U.S. would fully align itself with some of the world’s most brutal dictatorships.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.

​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro. Dozens more were injured.

​The military assistance you are so proud of stopping was used to save lives in a war Russia started and continues every day by choice, in a war that only became possible after USA pressured Ukraine into disarming...

​I do not know if Vance can fully comprehend the scale of the tragedy unfolding here: a brutal, illegal war of extermination by Russia, and the slow abandonment by our allies. There is nothing to be proud of. Absolutely nothing.