Plasmavir

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

Ukrainian men chased out with shovels press gang in my native Volyn Region in Western Ukraine. This is latest of thousands of videos of forced mobilization which is supported by Western politicians, media & infowarriors, such as Umland & his ilk, who want to fight to last Ukrainian. The video was posted on Ukrainian Telegram channels.

[StellaMoscow @SgforgoodStella]

A Ukrainian drone attacked a civilian vehicle on the #Donetsk ring road.

You can tell it's a Ukrainian drone by the Starlink terminal installed on it.

A shout-out to adorable @elonmusk ! This is his personal involvement in terrorizing civilians.

[AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_]

A Ukrainian drone struck a passenger bus in Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, overnight.

As a result, at least 7 civilians were killed and another 11 injured.

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

THE GENOCIDE OF POLES IN VOLHYNIA AND EASTERN GALICIA

This is the first installment of a deep dive into one of the darkest chapters of the Second World War: the genocide of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.

Roughly 100,000 people, the overwhelming majority of them unarmed women, children, and the elderly, were murdered in a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Polish presence from the region. Over the coming installments, I will examine it piece by piece: the land and its people, the long roots of the conflict, the ideology that drove the killings, and the course of the massacres themselves. This is where it begins.

Part 1

Between 1943 and 1945, the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia was subjected to a sustained campaign of mass murder and ethnic cleansing. The killings were planned and carried out chiefly by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military arm of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), often with the participation of local Ukrainian villagers. Their goal was the permanent elimination of Poles from territories the nationalist movement intended to incorporate into a future, ethnically homogeneous Ukrainian state.

The campaign was distinguished not only by its scale but also by its extraordinary cruelty. Entire communities were destroyed in coordinated dawn attacks. Victims were killed with axes, scythes, pitchforks, knives, saws, and firearms. Churches and farm buildings crowded with people were set ablaze, and bodies were often mutilated to terrorize survivors and discourage any thought of return. The overwhelming majority of those killed were unarmed civilians: women, children, the elderly, and farming families.

Historians' estimates of the Polish death toll vary, but the most widely cited figures place the total at roughly 100,000 across all affected regions, with approximately 50,000 to 60,000 killed in Volhynia and a further 30,000 to 40,000 in Eastern Galicia and the neighboring southeastern voivodeships.

Geographic and Demographic Setting:

Volhynia and Eastern Galicia lay within the Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands), the multiethnic eastern provinces of interwar Poland.

Volhynia corresponded to the Wołyń Voivodeship in the northwestern part of present-day Ukraine. Eastern Galicia comprised the Lwów, Tarnopol, and Stanisławów voivodeships farther south.

For centuries, these lands had been home to an intermingled population of Ukrainians (Ruthenians), Poles, Jews, and smaller communities of Czechs, Germans, Armenians, and Russians.

The demographic structure was decisive in shaping what followed. In Volhynia, Ukrainians formed a large rural majority, accounting for around two-thirds of the population, while Poles, at roughly one-sixth, were concentrated in towns, administrative and professional positions, and among landowners and recent agricultural settlers.

In Eastern Galicia, the Polish proportion was larger, and Poles predominated in the cities, above all in Lwów, while Ukrainians dominated the surrounding countryside. The Ukrainian population of Volhynia was largely Orthodox, while that of Galicia was predominantly Greek Catholic (Uniate).

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

BREAKING Disenfranchised in Plain Sight. Lima’s Poor Were Shut Out of Peru’s Election!

We arrived in San Juan de Miraflores in Lima, where at least 15 polling centers never opened in this working-class district, among others.

People are furious. And suspicious.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is horror in real time.

The moment Israel started dropping bombs on CIVILIAN AREAS in Lebanon.

Without any warning.

Israel dropped 160 bombs in the first minute alone — massacring over 250 civilians, dozens of them children.

People are still buried under the rubble.

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

To those preaching “law” and “duty” under videos of forced mobilization in Ukraine: do you even hear yourselves?

This “duty” has been dumped on the working class. They’re the ones grabbed off the streets, pulled from buses, hospitals, job sites — and shoved into vans going one way.

They die. Others profit.

While the poor are sent to the front, the ruling class cashes in — and their children live comfortably in the West, far from trenches and graves.

So, spare the talk of patriotism.
This isn’t the rule of law — it’s class warfare in uniform.

Forced mobilization, as it stands, doesn’t defend justice.
It enforces a system where the poor bleed and the rich collect.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Poland evacuates its troops from Iraq

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/yLoLgS02Of

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: 'Entire NATO mission had withdrawn' from Iraq

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/MeCZUuZ0ez

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

The moment Israel targeted British journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

With the entire world riled up about Iran, I recall this massive Gazan protest where 150,000 unarmed young Palestinians marched to the fence bare-chested for 2 years to demand their right to life. Israel killed & maimed about 35,000 with total global silence!

Gaza had amputees in every street & every family after, to the extent that we formed dozens of amputee football & basketball clubs.

Israeli soldiers took pride in how many knees they blew up in a single day with explosive sniper bullets; one claimed he held a record of 42 knees. Only one soldier was ever held accountable for murdering a teenager "without authorization", but he was sentenced to 20 days of community service. Israeli soldiers described this massacre as a "game" (something like Squid Games' Red/Green light).

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

Has your lecture been cancelled because the IDF broke into the university with live fire and stun grenades? For the third time in the course of three months, the IDF raided Birzeit. Why? Let's talk about Order 101, the IDF’s law banning freedom of speech and assembly🧵

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Mossad and the Zionists have taken credit, but Western journalists and elites are building a wall of denial around them.

While some boast and others admit guilt, an echo chamber of denial persists.

Zionist apologists are more dishonest than Zionists themselves.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Israeli media openly admitting Israel is behind the murders of pro-government civilians and personnel.

I wonder if those are the same murders Trump is using as precedent to bomb Iran. Is the USA going to watch Israel walk them into another war? Guess so.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Deeply disturbing that Israeli TV is claiming that Israel is arming protesters in Iran with "live firearms".

Israel does not care about the Iranian people - and doesn't want a genuinely independent democratic Iran.

It wants Iran to fall into violent chaos and civil war.

[תמיר מורג Tamir Morag @Tamir114]

We reported tonight on Channel 14: foreign actors are arming the protesters in Iran with live firearms, which is the reason for the hundreds of regime personnel killed.

Everyone is free to guess who is behind it.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

A 21-year-old in Santa Ana was permanently blinded in one eye after a DHS agent fired a “less-lethal” round at close range. He underwent six hours of surgery to remove plastic, glass, and metal embedded in his face.

[Bay Area People’s Republic 🚩☭ @21stcentury_ML]

In China you can stand in front of a tank and not get killed

In the US you get killed for driving in your car

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

WATCH THIS NOW!

Doctor on scene: I'm a physician.

Ice agent: I DON'T CARE

They shot her three times in the face and head and then denied her medical care and it's all ON CAMERA.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

“There is no superior race.

There is no ‘chosen people of God’.

It is neither the United States nor Israel.

The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of humanity.”

— President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro