A Ukrainian boy comforts his mom, Svitlana, during a Russian drone attack:
"Mom, listen to the sounds of nature instead of all this horror. Just enjoy nature and listen to what the trees are telling you."
"My heart is breaking. I'm supposed to be the one comforting him, but he's stronger than I am," Svitlana wrote.
📹: chykanova_coach / Threads
Saturday 24 October 2026
Did you know today is United Nations Day? Ah, how I long for the day when the UN was a force for good and stability.
It's now effectively held hostage by malign actors.
It's one big reason Ukraine is still fighting for survival on Day 1704.
Here's the🧵
Report: Israeli intelligence shared with the US that terror group Hamas has no plans to disarm, has rebuilt its tunnel system, restored its pre-October 7, 2023, force levels of 30,000 to 40,000 terrorists, and has reimposed full governance over Gaza.
And now Hamas has made its intentions explicit.
Last week, Hamas officials met with the UN humanitarian coordinator in Gaza - and used the meeting to deliver a direct threat to Israel: they are prepared to carry out another October 7, 2023-style attack, inside Israel, in the West Bank/Judea and Samaria, and abroad, wherever an opportunity arises. Israeli officials described the warning as “unusually explicit and severe.”
While the world pressures Israel to make concessions - Hamas is rebuilding, rearming, and promising to do it again.
🇺🇦 ZELENSKYY: UKRAINE CANNOT AFFORD A WEAK PRESIDENT DURING WAR.
“Maybe after the war, Ukraine can have any kind of president. That is entirely the people’s choice.
But today, if Ukraine wants to survive, it needs a strong army, a strong president, and strong people.
That’s why my response to any pressure is strong. I will always respond.
Because otherwise, they will devour us. And by ‘they,’ I mean the Russians, of course.”
This Defender has spent FIFTY MONTHS in Russian captivity. He says the chances of survival there were slim and many died.
He looks emaciated...
None of the letters from their families reached our Warriors in Russian captivity.
📹️️️️️️: army. media. ua/Instagram
Ukraine is not Russia. That's Putin’s problem – refusing to recognize a separate nation, refusing to recognize a separate country – that's what did him in. He was shown a military operation that was supposed to take three days. We found parade uniforms in their various military vehicles. They were literally marching to a parade. He still doesn't understand and doesn't want to admit that this is a different nation, a different people.
They were advancing on Kyiv from all directions. Their main goal was to seize the capital of Ukraine. They reached Kyiv. They trapped us, and then we started hammering them, and they didn't know what to do about it. They were especially shocked when they drove toward the capital and people were just throwing burning mixtures. People were setting their armor on fire. It wasn't a matter of some general being an idiot. I believe the one who gave the order just didn't fully realize what was happening.
Because what does taking Kyiv mean? When you've taken those towns on the way to Kyiv, you have to leave troops behind to hold those towns. And that takes a huge number of people. It's a pretty large territory. If the people inside offer resistance, then you need an army to hold every town. That was their mistake. They didn't even realize there would be resistance. That was their main mistake. That's it.
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (1/3)
Важкий і дуже важливий обмін.
Сьогодні ми визволили 9 цивільних та 261 захисника.
Більшість – 266 оборонців – потрапила в полон у 2022 році, зокрема 221 – під час захисту Маріуполя. Сімдесят два з них брали участь в боях за «Азовсталь». П’ятеро пережили теракт росіян в Оленівці.
Серед звільнених 38 офіцерів та 223 вояки солдатського і сержантського складу. Це представники Військово-Морських Сил, Національної гвардії, Сухопутних військ, Держприкордонслужби, Сил ТрО, Державної спеціальної служби транспорту, ДШВ, а також ДСНС.
Дев’яносто чотирьох наших військовослужбовців держава-агресорка незаконно судила за абсолютно вигаданими звинуваченнями і для 90 винесла фейкові вироки.
Тепер вони вдома, на волі, на рідній землі. І це насправді великий день для України. Ми боремось за кожного й кожну і будемо докладати всіх зусиль заради повернення всіх наших людей з полону.
Слава Україні!
😭💙💛 Make sure you have some tissues handy before watching this video.
“We come out and rejoice for every mother who has finally seen her son return. For every wife who has been reunited with her husband. For every child who waited for their father to come home.”
📹 Suspilne
❗️I never wanted to kill anyone, but after Bucha I wanted to find these people who are not people and kill them. Pure revenge,” – Zelenskyy.
“Bucha was the most terrible day of my life. I have never seen so many human bodies scattered on the street. After that, everything changed.
This morning, two Palestinian gunmen, armed with hundreds of rounds, tried to launch a mass-casualty terrorist attack, seriously wounding Israeli soldiers before being eliminated.
The attack was caught on video.
NBC’s headline? Israel kills two Palestinians “accused of launching an attack.”
WHAT A FUCKING DISGRACE. AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.
I am absolutely furious about what is happening.
Putin asks for his gratitude to be conveyed to US First Lady Melania Trump for her efforts to help bring children home.
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!
This is coming from a dictator under whose rule Russia has deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children, separated them from their families, imposed Russian identity upon them, and subjected them to militarisation.
And this is not something I am making up. These crimes have been documented and investigated by international institutions.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova over the alleged war crimes of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children.
International organisations have documented the Russification, ideological indoctrination, and militarisation of Ukrainian children under Russian occupation.
CHILDREN!
They are deprived of the opportunity to live normal lives in their own country, only to be raised within a system that justifies war against their homeland.
And after all this, Putin wants to express gratitude for “saving children”?!
How the hell does the world allow this man to appropriate the language of humanitarianism when his own state is responsible for crimes against Ukrainian children?
AND DONALD TRUMP!
I am fucking outraged by the way your administration continues to normalise engagement with Putin while Russia violates human rights, international humanitarian law, and Ukraine’s sovereignty.
You are the President of the United States of America. Your decisions and your words have consequences.
And when a dictator receives international attention and political legitimacy without accountability for his crimes, that sends a dangerous message.
UKRAINIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT TOOLS FOR DIPLOMATIC PUBLIC RELATIONS.
They are not Russian children. They are not Putin’s trophies. And they are not props for his propaganda performances.
HERE IS WHAT INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATORS HAVE ALREADY DOCUMENTED:
UNITED NATIONS — 12 MARCH 2026
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine verified the deportation or forcible transfer of 1,205 Ukrainian children.
The Commission concluded that Russian authorities had committed crimes against humanity through the deportation, forcible transfer, and enforced disappearance of children.
Approximately 80% of the children whose cases were investigated had not returned.
OSCE — 9 JULY 2026
An independent expert mission documented the systematic militarisation and ideological indoctrination of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation.
The findings describe practices aimed at erasing Ukrainian identity and imposing loyalty to the occupying power.
TORTURE FACILITIES IN KHERSON
Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, reported the discovery of ten detention and torture facilities in Kherson, including one with a separate cell where children had been held.
Evidence of the mistreatment and torture of children was also reported.
AND AFTER ALL THIS, WE ARE SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO PUTIN EXPRESS GRATITUDE FOR “SAVING CHILDREN”?
THIS MUST NEVER BE NORMALISED.
The world should not be seeking expressions of gratitude from those responsible for the abduction and unlawful transfer of children.
It should be demanding the return of every unlawfully deported or transferred Ukrainian child, independent international monitoring, and accountability for those responsible.
We will not allow crimes against our children to be transformed into a beautiful diplomatic story.
We will continue speaking the truth, documenting crimes, and demanding justice.
UKRAINIAN CHILDREN MUST COME HOME. TO UKRAINE.
#BringUkrainianChildrenHome #RussiaWarCrimes #Ukraine #HumanRights #ICC #StandWithUkraine
The first woman in the history of the National Guard to receive Ukraine’s highest honor.
“Surrender!”
The russians were shouting her callsign outside a destroyed dugout near Spirne.
Inside, Oleksandra Davydenko was concussed and suffering from chemical gas exposure. Two wounded comrades lay beside her. She refused to surrender.
For two days, they remained beneath the rubble with little water and no communication.
During the night of March 13–14, she and a comrade dug out the entrance. Two russian soldiers opened fire as she emerged. She killed both, contacted headquarters, and led her wounded comrades to a Ukrainian position.
Both survived.
Before joining the National Guard, Oleksandra was a radio journalist in Zaporizhzhia. In March 2026, she became the first woman in the Guard to receive the title Hero of Ukraine.
When explaining her actions, she said: “I was the one who led them into that position, and I had to be the one to bring them out.”
Read the full story on my Substack and subscribe: https://t.co/RsLrHK6jeo
🇺🇦💔 Zelensky:
I know so many people had their hearts ripped out, and there won't be a new heart.
You have to give them at least something. Some trial, some justice, at least some moral solace.
You can't just leave it because that hole inside them won't heal, and there will be revenge.
The guilty must be punished. At the very least, you have to show a path that it will happen. It's totally impossible to simply forgive.
This is why the Epstein Files should be released in full.
I had no idea who @RealScottRitter was until this man started harassing me two weeks ago.
He calls me a scammer, a grifter, a larper, a fake and then his followers start commenting saying things most people would never say to a woman and now my social media accounts are being mass reported.
A quick google search and I knew Scott Ritter is a convicted sex offender, I knew he was involved in an FBI sting operation but, today, reading what actually happened…
Scott Ritter is a sick and twisted individual who should not be given any platform to speak on, who should not be allowed near minors in any case and should not be allowed to harass women on the internet.
The fact that over 500k people are willing to not only forgive this but support him in his disgusting behaviour online and financially, shows how truly depraved the world has become.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Yesterday, the Spanish authorities flew another 2 passenger jets full of illegal migrants from the Canary Islands to mainland Spain.
This video shows the flight which left Gran Canaria
Via @CanarioToday
🇺🇦„Es ist schwer. Ehrlich gesagt, ich schlafe nicht. Es ist ein riesiger, furchtbarer Schmerz, den ich niemandem wünschen würde.“ @ZelenskyyUa
Das Gespräch zwischen Selenskyj und Bartlett erschien heute im Podcast „Diary of a CEO“.
Bartlett hatte ihn an seinen Satz vom Kriegsbeginn erinnert, er habe sich das Recht auf Schlaf nicht verdient.
Mehr als vier Jahre später gilt das immer noch.
Jede Nacht spricht Selenskyj mit den Leuten, die die ukrainische Luftabwehr bedienen.
Ein Präsident, der seine Nächte am Telefon mit den Soldaten verbringt,
die den Himmel über seinem Land schützen, die größte Sorge ums überleben der Ukraine ist nicht Angriff, sondern Schutz.
Die knapp zweistündige Folge ist auf YouTube, Spotify und Apple Podcasts zu hören.
Quelle: Diary of a CEO (Folge vom 22. Oktober 2026)
⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system.
"Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls."
https://t.co/KsWrV5ssS6
📌 Day 1,702 of the full-scale war
Yesterday, a further 300 kilograms of dog food and 100 kilograms of cat food were delivered to the “Love and tenderness“ animal shelter in the Odesa region. On 29 September, Russian shelling claimed the lives of 7 dogs and 15 cats, whilst a fire destroyed all their food and medicine supplies.
We also delivered 101 kilograms of pet food to military personnel in the Donetsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions, who are looking after 14 cats, 7 dogs, 10 kittens and a puppy.
Animals were neutered and microchipped at three shelters:
▫️ at “Pegasus” in the Dnipropetrovsk region — 93 dogs and 116 cats;
▫️ at “Dreams in the Palms” in the Dnipropetrovsk region — 24 dogs and 6 cats;
▫️ at “Novyi Svit in the Mykolaiv region — 34 dogs, 37 cats and 4 nutrias.
UAnimals volunteer Vladyslava Shylo distributed 340 kilograms of pet food and 215 veterinary supplies in the Kharkiv region. We are truly in awe of the courage and big hearts of these people.
We also provided advice on what to do if a pet goes missing.
Thank you to each and every one of you who supports us and helps us carry out our work. Together, we are a force that saves lives ❤️🩹