Anton Fric

Charity worker for Caritas Spis. Head of humanitarian aid for Ukraine. Former journalist and photographer. Email: [email protected], Cell: [phone]

[Taras Kuzio🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇹 @TarasKuzio]

Welsh Historian of Poland, Norman Davies:
1) Overall, the UPA was not a criminal organisation.
2) Davies does not deny the crimes committed in Volhynia.
3) Poland needs to distinguish between the crimes of specific factions (of part of UPA) and an entire national liberation movement (entire UPA).
4) The renaming of a Ukrainian military unit was not about glorifying the Volhynia massacres.
5) 90% of the UPA had nothing to do with Volhynia.
6) The current political escalation is a strategic mistake: “This affair will cost Poland in the future… At precisely the moment when Ukraine is in its fifth year of war with Russia, the Polish president handed Russia a very useful pretext for propaganda.”
7) “I believe Poles should be more careful about what they say regarding Ukraine and its history.”
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[Woofers @NotWoofers]

A Ukrainian drone strike destroyed 20+ Russian trucks parked in Leninsky, occupied Donetsk overnight. Part of the Logistics Lockdown campaign.

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Train attacks in 2026 highlighted with red train icons.
Green GPS icon is today's attack.

Red Line is inoperable occupied Ukrainian rail line
Purple line is the front
Green lines are currently operational occupied Ukrainian rail
Black are other miscellaneous rail lines.

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

🔥🛢️Ukrainian Shaheed-looking drones on their way to finish-off the Moscow Oil Refinery

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone hitting a storage tank at the Moscow Oil Refinery this morning, sending the tank lid perfectly soaring hundreds of feet.

[Martin Dorazín @mdorazin]

Velké mrzení v Petrohradě.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iranian opposition channels report that over the past 24 hours, the IRGC and Basij have been turning schools, mosques, and hospitals into their bases.

They are abandoning their own headquarters due to widespread strikes on Basij camps and police stations, and relocating to civilian sites, using the same tactics as Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups. By doing so, the IRGC and Basij endanger civilians and effectively turn them into human shields.

@h3976a

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration.

They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

This plan is doomed to fail, Mr. Prime Minister. Your master in Moscow won’t last 100 years even if you were ready to donate him all organs. And on the day Ukraine joins the EU, we will frame this headline in @ua_parliament to remember your lies for the next 100 years.

[Anton Fric @tonyfric]

@KatieMiller You’re a true American bitch!

[Ірина Рибакова @iryna_rybakova]

Піхотинці виїхали з позицій, де воювали 130 днів. Найважча робота ever. Ще й вивезли полоненого, який пробув на сусідніх позиціях 2 місяці.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

About 100–110 million Russians have never been abroad. That’s roughly 69–77% of the population. Around half have never even visited another region inside Russia, so even Moscow feels like a different universe to them. Only 9% have traveled to Western countries in the past five years — and most of those do not speak English.

What does this mean?

It means they have absolutely no idea who you are. They know as much about you as they do about aliens from outer space. They will believe any nonsense their media feeds them: that the West forces people into “gay relations,” that you dream of conquering “Mother Russia,” that Russians are naturally smarter, braver, and superior to you. If state TV claims you eat unborn babies, many would believe even that.

One of Russia’s most famous comedians built his entire career on mocking “stupid Americans and Europeans.” After Russia shot down a civilian airliner in 2014, he joked that it fell “because it is heavier than air,” and the whole audience laughed. He has since died of brain cancer, but his jokes are still widely popular.

Once, I was having dinner at a fish tavern in Cyprus and spoke with the owner. “Russians are rich,” he said.

I replied: “Only the ones who come here are rich. You will never see the poor majority.”

It’s the classic sampling mistake — judging the entire picture by the tiny exceptions you happen to encounter.

You do not know Russians.

The ones you may have met are at least middle-class and educated enough to cross a border, navigate airports, or speak a foreign language. The ones you never meet live in a completely different world — one you will never interact with.

A world without running water, with medieval wooden toilets, where alcoholism is a way of life and extreme regional poverty stands in brutal contrast to Moscow’s artificial glamour.

A world shaped by the mentality of slaves, because they are still treated as such.

A world where torture and violence are normalized and even legalized.

A world soaked in xenophobia, often directed even at Russia’s own ethnic minorities, let alone foreigners.

And when I describe these facts, many people refuse to believe them and dismiss it as “Russophobic propaganda.”
No — this is simply reality as it is.

Author: Volodymyr Kukharenko

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Suffocation bags, electric shocks to the genitals, broken fingers, needles driven under fingernails, and the forced removal of pro-Ukrainian tattoos.

In russian pretrial detention centers and penal colonies, this is referred to as a “gentleman’s set” — a standard package of torture used against Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians, United24 reports, citing a study by the Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre.

Nearly all released Ukrainians report systematic torture, humiliation, and a complete absence of medical care.

In January 2025, Memorial’s monitoring mission conducted 40 interviews with former prisoners of war, civilian hostages, and relatives of victims across eight regions of Ukraine.

russia holds Ukrainians in a network of penal colonies and pretrial detention centers, where it has “refined” methods of violence over many years.

At SIZO-2 in Russia’s Ryazan region, investigators used the so-called “gentleman’s set”: rubber batons, electric shock devices, needles driven under fingernails, suffocation bags, and containers of ice-cold water to revive victims between torture sessions.

In penal colonies — for example, IK-10 in Mordovia — captives were forced to stand motionless for hours, beaten on the heels and genitals, and set upon by dogs. Victims suffered gangrene, severe injuries, and permanent disabilities.

At the Kizel pretrial detention center, sexual violence was employed: electric shocks to the genitals and anus, and forced self-mutilation — cutting off tattoos with knives and wire.

Many people die as a result of such torture. In 2022, a Polish civilian died after being tortured in the Taganrog detention center.

At SIZO-3 in Kizel, the mayor of Dniprorudne, Yevhen Matveiev, died. His body was returned to his family in December 2024. According to https://t.co/ppO6zTaYqq, Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was also tortured to death there.

russian officials, security officers, and commanders must bear criminal and personal responsibility for creating and sustaining this system of torture — a system that breaks people both physically and psychologically.

Source: translated and adopted from Tymofiy Mylovanov

[Anton Fric @tonyfric]

Ruska raketa priamo trafila obytny dom v meste Ternopil. Tato raketa je presna na metre, cize aj teraz trafila presne sboj ciel. Zatial 33 mrtvych, 100 ludi zranenych, 13 nezvestnych, pravdepodobne tiez mrtvych.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Just look at this.

Ukraine’s Ternopil just this morning.

A Russian missile (Kh-101?) directly hits a residential block.

At least 25 killed, including 3 kids.

And of course, Russian propaganda and Telegram channels are wildly rejoicing in ecstasy.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

[Jan Charvát @Jan_Charvatj]

Celinet Duran (2021) přímo porovnává ideologicky motivované vraždy krajní pravice a krajní levice v USA mezi lety 1990–2020 na datech ECDB (Extremist Crime Database). Hlavní výsledek: z 269 incidentů tvoří krajní pravice 84,4 % (227) a způsobuje 87,0 % obětí (523/601).

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

Two humanitarian workers from the Danish Refugee Council were killed in a Russian missile strike while conducting life-saving demining operations in Chernihiv. 5 others were injured

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen called the attack "terrible," highlighting how Russia continues to target those trying to heal the wounds of war

📹 Radio Liberty

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

Russians are now using their shahed drones to randomly pour land mines onto Ukrainian cities, to later detonate upon civilian contact.

Video from Russian Telegram channels, which they then set to pop music.

This is how much Russians want "peace".

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Propagandist for the so-called “DNR” Marina Kharkova says people are leaving Donetsk en masse again—no future, no water, garbage piling up in the heat. Krymskyi Veter reports.