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English Twitter of the Final Chapter in Ukraine's Struggle for Independence. Accounts: Mastodon: [email protected] /Blue Sky:

[Free Ukraine 🇺🇦 @Ukrainolution]

Our thought, our song
Will not die, will not perish…
Oh there, people, is our glory,
Glory of Ukraine!

[Malcontent News @MalcontentmentT]

Probable missile attack in the Moscow region with hits.

[Лeksa 🇺🇦 @lexa_lrnt]

Kyiv has been under constant attack all night. It's now 3 am.

Ukrainians will go to work or school in a few hours. Anxious and tired after yet another sleepless night, after hours of fearing for their lives.

Our countries could have helped stop this a long time ago.

[Exilenova+ @Exilenova_plus]

Moscow oblast

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

💥 The moment of explosion in Russia’s Lipetsk

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Following an RM-48U ballistic missile strike in Kyiv, a massive crater formed just a few meters away from residential buildings.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Russians locked out of bank accounts and apartments as Ukraine hits data centers https://t.co/rHTOAmghxz via @nbcnews

[Denys from Ukraine @GlushkoDenys]

💥 AT LEAST 10 EXPLOSIONS ROCK KYIV WITHIN MINUTES

Russia is launching ballistic missiles at the Ukrainian capital and its suburbs. Energy infrastructure is the primary target.

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

BREAKING: Russia has launched a missile attack on Kyiv, firing more than 10 ballistic missiles, reportedly including Iskander-M, Zircon, and S-400 missiles.

The attack comes as Moscow signals its readiness to resume trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the US.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇦🇺🇸‼️ Ukraine Lost Dozens of Strike Drones Worth Over $1 Million Due to Sudden Restrictions on U.S. Starshield — The New York Times

A Ukrainian commander said drones were losing contact with their operators and starting to fall during attacks on Russian targets. His units were forced to almost completely cease combat operations for three days.

The restrictions also made it difficult for Ukrainian interceptor drones to be used against Russian drones.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

“I saw hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, and machetes there. Everything was covered in blood.”

Ukrainian military medic Yuriy Armash describes the terror inside Russian torture chambers.

Ukrainian military medic Yuriy Armash spent more than a year in Russian captivity. Among other places, he was held in one of the most notorious torture facilities in the Kherson region, established by Russian occupiers inside a seized police station in Nova Kakhovka.

There, he learned the stories of many people and witnessed how the Russians’ system of terror against local civilians operated.

How Russians torture prisoners

“The interrogations began on the very first day. They were conducted by the same FSB officers. During interrogations, they covered my face and handcuffed my hands behind my back.

They asked where the weapons were, how many people were in our reconnaissance group, where our positions were, where we had come from, and what our mission was.

They used an awl. They would pull the skin on my neck, pierce it, and leave the awl hanging there so I could feel it.

Because I wasn’t telling them what they wanted to hear, since I couldn’t tell them something that didn’t exist, they started using a knife. They stabbed me in the leg. They would take a knife and press it into my upper leg until they felt the blade reach the bone.

When the Russians realized they weren’t going to get an answer, they used a ‘Tapik,’ a military field telephone. They attached its wires to my ears and kept turning the crank, sending electric shocks through my body until I started screaming.”

How Russian occupiers abused civilians

“Starting April 20, they began taking me out to provide medical assistance to civilians who had been severely beaten by the Russians.

I remember treating a woman who was about 40 years old in one of the two punishment cells in the basement. I bandaged her head because she had been beaten with a rubber baton.

There were all kinds of injuries. They broke people’s legs. Men under the age of 35–40 were treated particularly brutally.”

A room filled with blood-covered torture instruments

“I never expected the level of brutality I witnessed after February 24. Although I had seen many things before that, I was honestly shocked.

At the Nova Kakhovka police station, I entered rooms where I saw things that absolutely terrified me.

I saw hacksaws, chainsaws, axes, and machetes. Everything was covered in blood.

The room with the blood-covered torture instruments was on the second floor of the police station, in the left wing. It was just an ordinary office.

But there were also more secret rooms in the building where they never even took me.

At the police station, the occupiers also forcibly removed tattoos they didn’t like from the bodies of detained civilians.

Some had their tattoos cut out with knives. Others had them burned off with potassium permanganate.

Russian occupiers raped even children

“When Buryats and Kalmyks were stationed at the police department, they frequently entered the cells of young women under the age of 25–30.

They even sorted the women by age and placed them in separate cells.

From time to time, women were taken out of their cells and brought to another wing. The young women were taken there at night and raped.

When the Russians’ rotation was coming to an end, they sometimes entered the cells and raped the women right there.

My cell was nearby. I could hear everything clearly…

The worst case involved a 14-year-old girl whom the Russians were holding captive.

She tried very hard to hide the fact that she had been raped.

One day, when we were taken outside for a walk, I noticed that she was bleeding.

I asked her what had happened. She didn’t want to answer.

I asked, ‘Did Russian soldiers do this to you?’

She silently lowered her head.

I assured her that no one except me would ever know about it.

After that, she answered:

‘Yes.’”

[Cyprien Ronze-Spilliaert @cyprien_ronze]

🇪🇺🇺🇸 ENFIN, l'Europe tape du poing !
La Commission européenne exige de SpaceX le rétablissement urgent et complet du service en Ukraine.

La connexion de SpaceX est essentielle aux communications ukrainiennes et au pilotage des drones de défense.

SpaceX s'était engagée à fournir son service Starshield aux Ukrainiens.

Si SpaceX refuse de le rétablir, l'Union européenne devra lui infliger des sanctions avec une sévérité inédite.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

💔 The horrifying reality of everyday life in Kyiv. A woman breaks down in tears as she watches from her window while a person burns alive inside a car

“They're trying to save him. It just hit right here. He was driving down the road, right before our eyes — and it struck his car directly. That's it,” says the Kyiv resident off-camera, unable to hold back her emotions after witnessing the horrifying scene.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

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.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨 The whole world needs to hear these words from Zelenskyy:

“Of course, we are not losing this war, but we are losing people and time. And it's heartbreaking, because our children don't have a normal life, they don't have a childhood,” says the Ukrainian president, whose country is now experiencing something that feels very much like betrayal.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

The Kremlin warned German officials through back channels that the failed Leipzig drone attack would not be the last, despite Germany considering activating Article 5 if it has been successful-WSJ

What…

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Maryana Tokarchuk was only 21.

Killed by russian terrorists in Kyiv on October 19.

Trump calls this “frankly normal.”

A young life stolen. And he calls it normal.

Let that sink in.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

✈️👀 Exilenova shows video of a Russian Su-30SM fighter jet crashing in the Kaliningrad region.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ The Trump Administration is said to have refused to extradite from Montenegro the arrested co-founder of the Russian Rybar blog, Mikhail Zvinchuk, despite its own $10 million bounty on its capture. It also reportedly blocked several European countries from extraditing him. ⬇️

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

❗️Ukrainian forces struck the former Ukrtelecom building in occupied Luhansk, now used by Russian-installed operator Lugacom. The facility was built on seized Ukrainian telecom infrastructure and serves as a key communications, data transmission and IT support hub for the occupation administration and Russian forces. Lugacom is also used to support censorship, monitoring and information control in the occupied region. #Ukraine

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

😁 The diesel deal is in full swing

Ukrainian drones have sent another message to the Kremlin’s boss, striking Russia’s oil logistics infrastructure once again.