The greatest lie Russia ever told was convincing people it is a superpower.
Its economy is smaller than Italy's.
Its GDP per capita is lower than Uruguay's.
Its military is the second-best... in Ukraine.
The only things Russia truly invests in and innovates are kinetic warfare and information warfare.
It has one of the worst demographic outlooks in the world.
Russia is a paper bear.
⚡️ Russia’s new terrorist tactic
Submunitions from Iskander missiles are increasingly detonating not immediately, but 20–30 minutes after impact.
The apparent goal is to kill rescuers, medics, and civilians who return to the strike site or take part in evacuation efforts.
It seems the occupiers have reached a new level of cruelty.
Do not approach suspicious objects after missile strikes.
The press scrum around Candace Owens says a lot about the world we live in.
Four years ago, I was facing a Russian death sentence after the destruction of Mariupol. Today, people who have never lived through the war are helping rehabilitate those responsible for it.
The normalization of war crimes should concern us all.
Do not be fooled by Candace Owens and her shiny propaganda tour of Russia.
The only reason she can walk around safely is because she is acting as a state propagandist.
In reality, Russia is an incredibly dangerous and bad place for her.
The Kremlin is giving Owens a massive platform because she tells them exactly what they want to hear. She is a propagandist for the Russian state. What she is hiding from her followers is that Russia is an intensely and increasingly authoritarian, sexist, and racist society.
In their rigid social hierarchy, an ordinary Black woman would possess zero rights and find herself at the very bottom of the ladder. Domestic violence is normal and legally tolerated in Russia. She would also face daily racism. She loves to claim that Russia is safe, yet the country has a murder rate higher than the United States, and significantly higher than Europe. It is also impossible to trust the authorities, who can arbitrarily arrest you as a foreigner at any moment.
Instead of telling this truth, she is pushing the false narrative that Russia is a shining beacon of Christian conservative values. It is a total fabrication. Russia has staggering rates of societal violence, domestic abuse, divorce, abortion, and state corruption. Russia is also committing genocide in Ukraine. Not very Christian.
She is operating as a direct tool of Russian state media, betraying her own audience with dangerous lies. The freedom she claims to experience is a total illusion, manufactured by a regime that locks up its own citizens for holding up blank pieces of paper. She is a fraud and a traitor selling a fake utopia. She belongs in jail for betraying the US on behalf of Russia
Given the scope of corruption in Ireland - aiding and abetting Russia, the enemy of Europe, it's abundantly clear the entire government in Ireland, from top to bottom, is bought and paid for by Russia.
Sanctioned Putin mafia member Deripaska is the literal owner of the refinery.
Unfortunately, the Russian side once again chooses war – everyone heard the response today. Weak response. He simply does not want to end the war.
I think many around the world were disappointed by that response. He does not want to change anything, and he does not want to admit that this war appeals only to him – and to those who are making money off him. They were all smiling very broadly today.
That means Russia must have less money, and there must be more pressure on Russia.
I thank everyone who is helping us. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine and wants a real peace.
There will be no peace: "Do your job, brothers," Putin said in an address to the military, according to Russian media reports.
With this, Putin rejects President Zelenskyy's open letter.
The fighting will end when Russia has achieved its goals—Putin.
What is so hard to understand about that statement? The perverse monster in the Kremlin does not want peace—Putin must be bombed to the negotiating table.
Crimea is quickly becoming a gasoline-free zone.🚫
All gasoline sales in Crimea have stopped: only vouchers are accepted, and voucher sales are suspended indefinitely.
People were also warned that posting videos of fuel trucks, even burning ones, could mean 20 years in prison.
Putin will continue this total war against Ukraine until he chokes on his own blood.
Nothing else will stop him in this madness. No “concessions,” no empty “dialogue.”
If his bloodthirsty, hate-filled response to Zelensky’s plea for peace is not enough to make this question clear once and for all, then I don’t know what ever will.
Putin needs war to survive, and anyone criticizing Ukraine for not surrendering "for peace" should realize that Russia's war would then continue, but without Ukraine defending Europe.
The EU issued nearly half a million tourist visas to Russians in 2025.
Not to dissidents. Not to refugees. Tourist visas. For holidays. The highest number since Putin sent his army into Ukraine, up 10% on the year. France, proud, principled, morally unimpeachable France, raised its Russian approvals by 23% in a single year.
When the numbers got awkward, the EU did what the EU does. It deleted them. Russian visa statistics quietly vanished from the official Schengen tracker in early 2026. Eight countries had to formally demand they be put back.
They hid the data. Not the policy. The data.
Ten countries, the Nordics, the Baltics, and the Netherlands among them, had to write an actual letter to get this onto a ministers’ meeting agenda. The remaining seventeen apparently saw nothing strange about any of this.
No law is coming before summer. Because before any law can exist, there must first be a proposal. Before the proposal, a consultation. Before the consultation, a scoping exercise. Before the scoping exercise, a working group must be convened to determine whether a scoping exercise is appropriate. The working group requires terms of reference. The terms of reference must be approved by a subcommittee. The subcommittee reports to a committee. The committee feeds into a framework. The framework informs a roadmap. The roadmap gets amended seventeen times and renamed a “strategic pathway.” The strategic pathway is then circulated to member states for comment. France requests more time. The whole thing goes back to the working group.
Any legislation won’t pass before 2027. Possibly 2031, if Italy has a strong summer season.
Ukraine is entering year five. Russians are entering Italy.
Four years of sanctions packages, candlelit solidarity vigils, and solemn declarations about European values, and Paris increased its Russian tourist approvals by nearly a quarter.
The EU didn’t fail to stop the missiles. It didn’t even try to stop the sunbathing.
Irish politicians are avoiding questions about Aughinish. Patrick O’Donovan refuses to answer my calls. The refinery is in his constituency
He says the Russian owned plant is not connected to Russia’s war machine, without showing evidence. They want this to blow over. It won’t
No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have.
You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles.
That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot.
But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.
I’ve been investigating the russian refinery for days now and the story gets darker and darker. The shipments are sent to Siberia, smelted, and sold to the russian company ‘ASK’. This company distributes aluminium directly to Russia’s missile & drone manufacturers.
Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’
I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.
I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues
Oh, so Russian propaganda (with war criminal Margarita Simonyan leading the charge) is now calling Armenia’s prime minister a “drug addict.” All because of the upcoming elections and Armenia’s growing ties with Europe, which drive the Kremlin into a frothing rage.
The Kremlin’s propaganda tactics of hatred are repetitive and primitive to the point of being laughable.