Robert White

Husband. Father. Entrepreneur. Former policy advisor to US Senator Chuck Grassley.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Nineteen-year-old Liza reunited with her father on Oct. 31 after he arrived from Russian-occupied Oleshky. Following a perilous 19-hour journey to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory, families torn apart by Russian occupation are finally coming together again.

Video: Olena Zashko / the Kyiv Independent.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Instead of a thousand words.
Ukraine. Europe. XXI century.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Baby Anhelina and her mom Inna were buried today.

Anhelina's stroller was put into her grave together with her. She was in the stroller when the Russian drone attacked.

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

“The Ukrainians are not going to fold. They're not going to surrender. You can cut off their Patriots, you can cut off their intelligence. But people don't like to live on their knees. Ukrainians are not going to give up their territory because doing so would condemn all the people in that territory to torture, rape and murder. So it's not going to happen.”

“So what President Trump has actually done is he's undermined his own objective, to get to a quick resolution of the war, which I think he really wants, by pursuing a strategy which is to lower pressure on Putin and to raise pressure on Ukraine, which is going to achieve the opposite result.”

“So, it's not going to work, because you can't choose a country's fate without including that country and its people. 44 million people who have a right to dignity and sovereignty and a say over how they live. And none of those people want to live under the cruel rule of Vladimir Putin, no matter what President Trump thinks about it.”

“And then you add the fact that Trump is actively aiding Putin, by promoting a narrative of the war that is false, exactly matches Russian propaganda, and places Zelensky in a terrible position where he's got to either decide to live in Trump's reality, which is a bunch of lies about how the war started and how how it's going, or to defend his people and do his job as the president of the country.”

“You add all those things together, it's a perfect storm of toxicity whereby the president is putting America on the side of the aggressor and the war criminals and against the side of the victims of this conflict. And it's bizarre. And there's no way to to look at that and to say that's anything that America has ever stood for in the past. Yet, here we are.”

“And the result is very predictable and predicted. He's going to get a lot of Ukrainians killed without actually solving the problem. And that's a tragedy.”

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Contender for the best tweet of 2026.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Imagine if in 1943 FDR had decided that the US would stop helping Britain and instead would side with the Third Reich. That's a bit like what President Trump is now doing by cozying up to Russia as it tries to destroy Ukraine. Utterly shameful. A humiliating moment for the US.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Insteaf of a thousand words.

A woman trapped under the rubble after a Russian strike is showing rescuers how old her daughter is. The little girl was killed by Russia.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Ukraine can't destroy Gazprom's pipelines because doing so inconveniences German consumers.
Ukraine can't hit Russian refineries because that inconveniencs US consumer.
Russia, on the other hand, can destroy Ukraine's energy grid because it inconveniences no one.
Shameful.

[Oleksiy Sorokin @mrsorokaa]

A senior Ukrainian official involved in the talks responded with bitter humor.

"I hope the Americans don't give them Patriots to protect their oil refineries," the official said.

A great read by @timzadorozhnyy for @KyivIndependent on the U.S. talks. https://t.co/7mrRLD3n3v

[Deseret News @Deseret]

The Sociological Genius of Geographic Congregations

McKay Coppins calls it "the sociological genius of Mormonism." Geographically assigned congregations where everyone has a job and no one has a paid minister. The result? You end up building relationships with people you'd never choose to associate with. Former federal judge Thomas B. Griffith says this is where Latter-day Saints learn the skills America desperately needs right now.

Listen to the full episode on Deseret Voices.

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

Predictable renewed tactics from Russia ↓ with an aim of emptying Kyiv. Starting with diplomats + foreigners.

Mass murderers meanwhile take note of the Russian logic: there is no crime if you warn your victims beforehand

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Polish PM: "In May 1939, a certain French politician -a future Nazi collaborator - asked in the French press: 'Why die for Gdańsk?'

A few months later, all of Europe was dying. To those who today say this is not our war, I offer that lesson of history."

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

The Ukrainian national anthem rings out from the Great Lavra Bell Tower on June 15, hours after a Russian drone strike severely damaged the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

Video: Archpriest Oleksandr Tsisar / Facebook.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Putin rejected today President Zelenskyy's peace offer, making once again clear that this war only exists because of him and Russia.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

The Ukrainian drones that struck St Petersburg this morning flew north through Russian airspace for over 5 hours without being shot down, I repeat 5 hours.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.

[Hope For Ukraine @hopeforukraine]

A little girl is shouting at the Russians to get out of her Ukraine.

[Hope For Ukraine @hopeforukraine]

💔This letter is one of the most haunting artifacts of the siege of Mariupol. It was written by a young girl named Katya, whose mother died in her arms after their building was struck.
Here is a rephrasing that captures the raw, heartbreaking weight of her words 🇺🇦

[Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson]

Important to remember that each Iranian drone strike against U.S. forces or the Gulf states is informed by years of Russia battle-testing Iran's drones against Ukraine.