For almost six years now, Putin has been desperately trying to strike a “deal” with Ukraine and finally announce the long-awaited peace, but somehow, something always gets in the way.
First, that evil Boris Johnson shows up and forbids the Ukrainians from making peace.
Then those treacherous Europeans secretly replace his incredibly generous, peace-loving proposals and concessions to Ukraine with insane demands for Ukraine’s unconditional surrender and its elimination as an independent state in Istanbul.
Then Ukrainian drones fly within 50 kilometers of his Valdai residence and scare everyone there half to death, making it impossible to get any work done.
Then those evil Europeans are at it again, causing trouble by insisting on having a seat at the negotiating table.
Then he’s tormented by bitter memories of how Zelensky wasn’t sufficiently respectful to him in Paris in 2019.
And so poor Putin just sits there, suffering. He’s personally sent half a million Russians to their deaths on the battlefield, bombards Ukraine with thousands of missiles and drones, kills civilians by the dozens at a time, weeps bitterly, and yet they still won’t let him make peace.
And apparently, his aides in the Kremlin have screwed things up again and somehow still haven’t brought him those folders containing dozens of Ukrainian proposals to declare a ceasefire, even a partial one, freeze the fighting along the current front line, and put an end to this senseless bloodbath.
And poor Putin has no idea those proposals even exist. Otherwise, he would have happily made peace ages ago!
Today we launched the Vulcănești–Chișinău power line, linking Moldova to Romania and the European grid. For decades, Moscow used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova buys zero Russian gas, and two more power lines to Romania are on the way. Thanks to all who made it happen.
Glenn Diesen: Tvil om dokumenterte russiske massedrap – skråsikker om et udokumentert ukrainsk torturkammer.
I mai 2025 mente professor Glenn Diesen at mye fortsatt var uklart rundt Butsja-massakren.
Dette til tross for at FN, Amnesty International, vitneforklaringer og satellittbilder allerede hadde dokumentert omfattende russiske overgrep mot sivile.
Men 3. november 2026 var tvilen tilsynelatende borte.
Da presenterte Diesen historien om et angivelig torturkammer utenfor Kyiv, med over 40 fanger og en 14-åring som yngste offer. Han knyttet anklagen direkte til Zelenskyj.
Problemet? Historien om 14-åringen viste seg å være misvisende, og det påståtte torturkammeret er ikke dokumentert.
Ifølge Den norske Helsingforskomité ble Diesens akademiske tilknytning brukt i 18 russiske medieoppslag om saken. AfD-leder Alice Weidel videreformidlet også anklagene.
Når russiske soldater dokumenteres å ha drept sivile, krever Diesen mer bevis. Når Zelenskyj beskyldes for tortur, ser det ut til at langt mindre er tilstrekkelig.
Det er ikke kritisk kildearbeid. Det er en påfallende forskjell i beviskrav.
Om Diesen bevisst sprer desinformasjon, kan vi ikke si sikkert. Men vi kan dokumentere hva han publiserer, og hvordan påstandene hans blir brukt.
Spørsmålet er ikke lenger bare hva Diesen forteller. Det er hvorfor kildekritikken tilsynelatende forsvinner når fortellingen rammer Ukraina. 🇺🇦
Putins professor ved Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge får god spredning på sin propaganda. Historien er selvsagt svindel; en russisk informasjonsoperasjon.
Har skrevet en bokanmeldelse av den ekstremt aktuelle boka til @pcfrolich, «Om krigen kommer», på Nordnorsk debatt. Det er ikke så viktig om du leser bokanmeldelsen. Det viktige er at du leser boka:
https://t.co/dZSeqig3Bb
17 busloads of ordinary people from the Ukrainian town of Oleshky, who had been on the brink of starvation under Russian occupation, chose to evacuate to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Only 4 busloads chose to go to Russia.
That, pretty much, tells you everything you need to know about what Ukrainians want, even after all these years of this inhumane war.
Du har over mange år vist frem din uvitenhet, ufinhet, løgnaktighet og pro-russiske grunnholdning. Egentlig fortjener du ikke et svar, men siden ønsket ditt om straffeforfølgelse er så ekstraordinært stupid: Les deg opp på «lex mitior» - den mildere lovs prinsipp. For øvrig får det være greit å bruke vest (og ha hjelm tilgjengelig) når det er artillerikamper i området. Du får evt ta turen selv og kjenne på det, men du hadde vel fort vært på feil side av linjen og vært ikledd russiske Z-merker.
Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.
Please watch and consider that Russia is proudly targeting and murdering Ukrainian children, and that there are real people operating these drones. That they have commanders all the way up to Putin authorizing this terror campaign.
❗️A New York Times investigation details an extensive Russian campaign to destabilize Moldova. It says GRU-linked operatives ran training programs in Serbia, Bosnia and Moscow to prepare pro-Russian Moldovans for election interference, including breaking police cordons and setting buildings on fire. Moscow also paid hundreds of Orthodox priests to recruit voters and push Russian narratives, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a vote-buying scheme. #Europe
Russian forces deliberately targeted an unarmed civilian fruit vendor in Kherson.
There was no military objective, no, battlefield necessity, just another civilian trying to earn a living, deliberately hunted and attacked.
This is how Russia wages war in occupied and frontline communities, terrorising civilians for sport.
💔 A Russian missile wiped out an entire family in the village of Radushne.
In their own home, 47-year-old Artem and 41-year-old Olena were killed. Along with them, the Russian strike took the lives of their children and their 18-month-old grandson.
Among those whose bodies have already been recovered or are still being searched for beneath the rubble—are:
Mark, who would have turned 18 next month, Dominika (16), Viorika (14), Zakharii (13), Azarii Ilai (11), Federika (9), Emiliia (7), and little Artem, just 1 year and 6 months old
Although not all of the bodies have yet been recovered from the rubble, their loved ones no longer have any doubt about their fate.
Last night, a Russian missile strike on Radushne in the Dnipro region killed parents and three children. Two more children were pulled alive from under the rubble. It was an ordinary home, blown into smithereens by a ballistic missile... Rescue efforts are also underway in Lviv at the site where a residential building was hit, with the rubble being cleared and the search for people continuing. So far, eight people have been reported killed across the country. My condolences to their families and loved ones... Dozens of people were injured, and everyone is receiving the necessary medical care. All the relevant services are involved.
Kyiv and the region, as well as our Dnipro, Lviv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, came under attack overnight. Dozens of ordinary homes, civilian businesses, and infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged. More than 70 missiles were used in this strike, a significant number of them ballistic. There were also over 280 attack drones. More than 260 drones were intercepted. Our combat aviation shot down a significant number of cruise missiles, and even mobile fire teams managed to take on cruise missiles. Given the critical shortage of air defense missiles from our partners, our warriors are accomplishing truly incredible things, demonstrating a very high level of professionalism. This is extraordinary expertise that saves lives when air defense missiles are not provided, or deliveries are being slow walked.
This Russian terror once again proves that protection against the Russian missile threat is the most important task when it comes to saving the lives of our people. And this is not a task that can be left to Ukraine alone or to any one country alone. All partners know how and with what they can help. Untimely assistance and delays in the delivery of anti-ballistic missiles lead to this kind of destruction, these kinds of casualties that, unfortunately, we are seeing today. It is important to support the protection of life. Thank you to everyone who is truly helping!
Die ukrainische Armee hat eine mit Sprengstoff beladene Schwimmdrohne gegen das FSB-Schiff „Izumrud“ im streng bewachten Hafen von Noworossiysk eingesetzt.
➡️Vom 62 Meter langen Grenzpatrouillenschiff der Rubin-Klasse ist laut ersten Satellitenbildern nicht viel übrig geblieben.
Per official calculations, the total number of ships, mostly tankers, damaged or destroyed overnight by Ukraine's USF has reached a whopping 28.
Still waiting for the "independent thinkers" to give it as much coverage as a five-house village captured after 6 months of fighting
1/ An ongoing 'massacre' of Russian tankers in the Sea of Azov is prompting apolexy and denunciations from Russian warbloggers. They ask what is going on, and some suspect a conspiracy: "incompetence of this level does not exist". ⬇️
https://t.co/wlj77ld0PY
🔥🚢Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces hit 14 Russian shadow-fleet vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight on July 9 — 12 tankers, one dry cargo ship and one tug.
The 96-hour tally now stands at 35 vessels hit: 2 on July 6, 10 on July 7, 9 on July 8 and 14 on July 9.
Identified targets include Chelsea-6, Aura, Sonar-1, Ilya Repin, Mercury, Galiaskar Kamal, tug Alfeo with barge Aphrodite, Venera-3 and Penelope. Five more vessels are still being identified.