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[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan https://t.co/W3UhBerdH0

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

Die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung eines neuen russischen Rekruten – von der Ankunft im Ausbildungslager bis zum Tod im Einsatzgebiet – liegt zwischen 10 Tagen und drei Wochen. Sobald sie auf das Schlachtfeld geschickt werden, überleben sie durchschnittlich 20 bis 35 Minuten.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

Ukrainian HIMARS rockets struck the command post of Russia's 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade, set up in a house in the village of Krasne inside Russia. A unit of Ukraine's 16th Army Corps made the hit, halting the staff's work, the corps said. HIMARS is the US-made precision rocket system.

📹 16th Army Corps

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Huge Ukrainian drone attack headed toward Moscow right now.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A line to get gas in Moscow.

Discussions are getting heated. I'm sure they are discussing Tolstoy or the ballet.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

2026 is a special year for our state. Ukraine is marking anniversaries: the adoption of the Constitution, the establishment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the restoration of our state symbols and the hryvnia. And the culmination of all this is August 24, 2026 – Independence Day of Ukraine, the 35th anniversary of its restoration. It is important that in such a year, Ukraine is giving rise to new, landmark elements of its state-building.

Today, I submitted to Parliament a law on the Ukrainian National Pantheon. The names of all the heroes who, across different centuries and eras, fought for Ukraine and inspired Ukraine will be brought together and forever inscribed in our history – with a capital letter, with great respect and attention from the state. From a Ukraine that respects itself, values its people, and defends what is its own: its right to be Ukrainian. When no one, ever, will dictate how we should live, how we should speak, whom we should love, whom we should be grateful to, or which heroes we should honor.

From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (2/5)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Q: Who is Russia's main intelligence target?

Ex-CIA officer, West: A Russian intelligence officer told me early in my career:

"You were the main enemy during the Cold War. You are the main enemy now. You always will be the main enemy. The US comes first. NATO comes second — the UK, France, Germany, all right after."

We would be foolish to think they're not actively penetrating our governments right now.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Ukraine’s 40-day operation to pressure Russia to end its war continues.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Putin continues his delusional speeches.

He said Ukraine is retreating all over the frontlines, and so launches terrorism attacks in Russia.

The reality is that the Russian army is moving extremely slowly, and Ukraine is attacking objects within Russia to diminish Russian military and money-making capabilities.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

A surrounded Ukrainian infantryman amputated his comrade's gangrenous arm with a knife and survived for months on raw pheasants cooked over trench candles.

“Boomer” marked enemy kills with notches on his rifle and stopped counting once he passed a hundred, Ukrainska Pravda.

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[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Massive Ukrainian attack on Crimea ongoing explosions all over reported including Sevastopol.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Vladimir Putin admitted that Russia is experiencing “problems” in its war with Ukraine as Kyiv’s drone strikes destroyed more oil depots on Sunday.

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine has already come a long way to the EU. Much has been built on this foundation, negotiations on our membership have already begun, clusters are already being opened, and every such step brings us closer together – Ukraine and the European Union, Ukrainians and all of Europe.

Behind every such success of the state stand our citizens, our warriors, and all our people who protect the security and the future of all of Europe. And who, through all their actions every day, bring closer not merely accession, but our affirmation as an integral part of the common European home. And behind every such step also stand our like-minded people from other countries – true friends and allies, tested by time and struggle, who have proven that Ukraine and Europe are one.

Ukraine will honor all such individuals with a new state award: the Order of Europe. A symbol of the effectiveness of our joint defense of Europe. Ukraine has fully earned the right to have an order with this very name – earned it through its round-the-clock fight for Europe’s life. And all those who have stood and continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with us in this fight will be honored with this distinction: Ukraine’s Order of Europe.

From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (5/5)

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

It's getting increasingly difficult to believe there's still an oil refinery underneath all that smoke.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Already in August, on the Feast of the Dormition, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will mark 975 years since its founding. This is a special milestone. For in just one generation, Ukrainians on this land will be celebrating the Lavra’s millennium. Our national holy site, alongside St. Sophia, the Transfiguration Cathedral in Chernihiv, and other witnesses to the thousand-year existence of Kyivan Rus’ – all of this together definitively affirms the fact that the roots of Ukrainians on this land are vast, strong, and our own.

Ukraine will mark milestones such as the Lavra’s millennium with dignity. And preparations will begin today. After all, this is about a long and painstaking process: restoring and preserving dozens of cultural monuments, museum collections, the Lavra’s buildings, our great heritage, one of the world’s centers of Christianity. This requires a major, collective effort, which we are beginning today – and we must mark the Lavra’s millennium in the same unity that strengthens and protects our people and our state. I am signing the relevant Decree here and now.

From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (4/5)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Syrskyi: Our main objective is to ensure that the enemy loses more than 1,000 personnel killed or wounded every day.

Ukraine’s war aims: hold territory, kill Russians faster than they can be replaced, destroy logistics with mid-range drones, and bleed Russia’s economy with long-range strikes. 1/

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russians are getting ideas that the fuel shortage in Russia is somehow related to Putin's "special military operation."

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⛽️ Russians in Moscow are already ready to tear each other apart over gasoline

People's nerves are giving out: two women got into such a heated argument while waiting in line at a gas station that they nearly came to blows.

"Fk you! I'll smash your face in!"** one of them shouts.

Russians are now turning on each other like spiders in a jar, even though their anger could be directed at the real source of the problem.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Russia is going back to the 90s.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: It would be nice to have American president who would say to Russians,

“Every time you threaten to use nuclear weapons, that’s another ship full of ammunition and supplies that we’re going to send to Ukraine.”

And, “Next time I hear you threaten to use nuclear weapons, let me remind you we have about 5,000 warheads and our allies have many hundreds more.”

And, this is my main criticism of Biden administration: as much good as they did to help Ukraine, they never could say we want Ukraine to win.

Because they were worried that this would be seen as too provocative to Russia. And so, it was really failed policy overall in the end.