🔴 Watch a Russian drone attacking a civilian woman in Kherson driving a civilian car.
The pilots have proudly shared the video, arranging it to music.
The drone and artillery attacks today are at the highest.
Source: a Russian Telegram channel (see 2/2 🧵)
Kyiv, today.
A russian “Geran” drone launched at a city of over 3 million people was packed with shrapnel.
Read that again. Shrapnel. Deliberately designed to tear through human bodies.
Enough talking to terrorists. Stop negotiating with russia.
Worms in the soup. Sewage flooding prison corridors. Women forced to use dirty rags instead of sanitary products. Starvation, beatings, sexual humiliation, and the screams of Ukrainian soldiers being tortured behind prison walls.
This is what Ukrainian combat medic Halyna Fedyshyn endured during nearly 20 months of Russian captivity.
She survived the siege of Mariupol and the hell of Azovstal, only to face another nightmare in Russian prisons.
Her testimony is horrifying. What she witnessed, what she suffered, and what she heard happening to her fellow prisoners must never be forgotten.
I have published her story, including the terrible details of her captivity and the extraordinary strength it took to survive.
Please read it. Share it. And remember the Ukrainians who are still suffering in Russian prisons.
https://t.co/qDtzlByutw
Kyiv. Seconds after a russian drone strike. People flee a damaged trolleybus, running for their lives into the metro, not knowing if another strike is coming.
This is the horrifying reality of life in Ukraine.
The Russians continue to destroy the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region. Today, as a result of a strike by a FAB-500 and several FAB-250 bombs, about 60 private houses, at least 22 high-rise buildings, a medical facility, and cars were destroyed.
Russian Z-propagandist Simonyan called Ukraine a "cancerous tumor" and said "nothing can be preserved, you just have to pound away until nothing is left."
Russia's desire for genocide aginst Ukrainians is well-known.
I'm sharing this to show it still persists.
The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
📽 Five weeks of russian terror in a 57-second video.
This is what everyday life looks like for ordinary people in Ukraine today. A glimpse of what we go through, day after day.
Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.
This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”
“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”
“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”
They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?
From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)
I've seen a lot during this war, but sometimes Russia still leaves me completely stunned by its violence. Such cruelty, such blind, driving hatred. Without reason. Without end.
40 people are confirmed killed in the russian double-tap attack with nine glide bombs on the humanitarian aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha.
Forty.
30 more are still missing. Some bodies cannot be identified so far.
We don't speak enough about this horrendous crime.
I often hear from Westerners that Russians are victims too, that they live in an authoritarian system and can do nothing about the war.
That is simply not true, but this post isn't about that.
This post is about timing, acting before your democracy turns into a pile of ash and a mad old dictator suddenly starts sending you to war.
Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was the annexation of Crimea. Before that, the invasion of Georgia. And before that, political prosecutions, the dismantling of democratic institutions, the takeover of the press, and police violence ignored to the point of turning the country into a police state. The time to act was back then. Years ago.
Instead, we watched Russian society slowly degrade into a crowd of obedient little sheep.
I saw people horrified by police violence jump into their cars and trains to head to the capital to protest and demand change. I saw them stand their ground, refusing to budge even when snipers started shooting. Those people are my people, and that revolution started the beginning of our long, hard fight for our democracy and freedom.
And I saw people swallow police violence, repression, and the takeover of the press, until one day, their army started marching through the fields of Donbas, and all they could do was blink like idiots and ask, "What can I do?" Well, duh!
America is at the beginning of this road right now, but it is the exact same road. Today, they choose whether they want to fight for their democracy or let it die. Because their time to act is now, not when the police start shooting at peaceful protesters in the streets and their army starts bombing their neighbors.