Zelensky said Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service obtained new Russian internal documents assessing the aggressor state’s war losses. He cited about 400 closed oil wells at one Russian oil company, oil refining down at least 10% in just several months this year, 11 financial institutions preparing for liquidation, 8 more banks with critical problems and a federal deficit already near $80B. #Ukraine
#EU eyes approval for €90B #Ukraine loan on Wednesday
🖊️ Gregorio Sorgi and Koen Verhelst
#Hungary has said it will lift its veto on the loan if oil flows resume through the Druzhba pipeline.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-approval-90-billion-euro-ukraine-loan-wednesday
“historian Timothy Snyder [taught] a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. All of the currently-available lectures appear above… A syllabus for the course can be found here.”
These are excellent. They were posted a couple of years ago, just as relevant today. I have’t watched all yet but will.
🔴🇺🇸Russian-asset Witkoff's statements prove he, and Trump’s delegation are guilty of already providing concession to Kremlin ahead of “Trumps ceasefire talks” – ISW warns (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3973858-witkoffs-statements-seen-as-concession-to-kremlin-ahead-of-peace-talks-isw.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
🔴🇺🇸More proof Trump and Americans are undermining and attempting to overthrow President Zelensky on behalf of Putin: PM Starmer says he faced pressure from US to criticize President Zelensky after Oval Office clash with Trump, NYT reports (more) https://kyivindependent.com/starmer-says-he-faced-pressure-from-us-to-criticize-zelenksy-after-oval-office-clash-nyt-reports/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
⛔️⚠️NATO “guarantors” are not resupplying AFU’s air defense, purposely leaving Ukraine defenseless in effort to force country into capitulation (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4086869-ignat-some-air-defense-systems-are-sometimes-empty-before-enemy-attacks.html #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #Cyprus #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #Austria
#Mastodon
Russia is warning foreign nationals to evacuate Ukraine ahead of strikes on the capital of Kyiv. United States and European officials say they wont be intimidated by threats, and analysts say the warning comes at a time when the war is starting to tip in Ukraine’s favor. @CBSNews has more
⛔️⚠️Kremlin preparing kidnapping and illegal deportation of another 50,000 Ukrainian children from temporarily occupied Donetsk region (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3985736-kremlin-preparing-deportation-of-50000-ukrainian-children-from-donetsk-region.html #Ukraine #Mastodon #OSCE #CoE #PACE #Germany #France #Italy #Netherlands #Denmark #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
⛔️🇺🇸Evidence emerges U.S. Republicans and Trump are actively fighting for Russia against Ukraine on the battlefield: Current CIA deputy director’s son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claims (more) https://kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-directors-son-killed-while-fighting-for-russia-in-ukraine-investigation-claims/ #Ukraine #Mastodon #America #CIA #OSCE #CoE #PACE #France #Germany #Italy #Netherlands #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine
https://youtu.be/15k3paCFDYg
⛔️🇺🇸Failing to learn from History - How America Falls Into A Fascist Dictatorship: Trump Breaks America, Voters Yawn? (w/ Anne Applebaum) | Focus Group (The Bulwark VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #Germany #France #Italy #PACE #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #America #Fascism #Dictators #ElSalvador #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
https://youtu.be/g2xohL_-pA4
🔴🇺🇸Is Trump repeating his Afghan playbook in Ukraine? (The Kyiv Independent VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#Afghanistan #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
https://youtu.be/lAmhbchfxDA
🔴🇺🇸Another Victim Of Musk’s DOGE Chainsaw: What The GOPs silencing of ‘Voice of America’ means for listeners worldwide | 60 minutes (CBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Mastodon #VoA #BoycottMusk #BoycottTesla #BoycottX #Tesla #Musk #ElonMusk #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
In #Ukraine, it has become a powerful tradition: when vehicles carrying fallen defenders pass by, people stop their cars, exit, and kneel by the roadside.
This spontaneous act of honour and grief is a silent salute to those who gave their lives for freedom.
United 24 Media / Instagram
Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius warns Ukraine against agreeing to a deal that would involve sweeping territorial concessions in exchange for a Russian ceasefire. "Ukraine could have got a year ago what was included in that proposal, it is akin to a capitulation,” Pistorius said. “I cannot discern any added value.” Read more at @BBCNews:
2 months ago, #Russia returned to #Ukraine the body of #journalist #ViktoriaRoshchyna
There was evidence of torture: abrasions, bruises, a broken rib, and suspected electric shock injuries
Also missing from her body was her brain, both eyeballs, and part of her trachea
That would obscure evidence of death by strangulation or suffocation
But also:
She was a journalist
She used her eyes, her voice, and her thoughts
And the #mafiaState sent a message about that
The #UnitedStates & #Ukraine announced the creation of a new reconstruction & investment fund, formalizing an economic agreement between the 2 that is intended to give the US access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of rare earth #minerals.
The agreement concludes months of fraught negotiations over whether the #US will continue to provide Ukraine w/ #economic & #military support to Ukraine as it tries to broker an end to its war w/ #Russia.
#geopolitics #extortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B6D34864-523A-4478-90D7-2E06148475AB
Russia disappeared her. Russia tortured her. Russia then returned her mutilated body to Ukraine.
Whatever happens next in talks about Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine - peace deal or no peace deal - Russia’s appalling treatment of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna makes at least 2 things horrifically clear.
1️⃣ There must be justice for such vicious crimes.
2️⃣ Thousands of Ukrainian civilians in Russian detention - facing torture right now - must be freed.
My Daily Brief: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/05/06?story=paragraph-10742
This is what Sumy looked like on Willow (Palm) Sunday. Mangled bodies. Blood on the sidewalks. Russian missiles struck a residential district full of civilians. At least 34 people killed.
Putin's message to #potus
In a devastating attack, Russian ballistic missiles hit a peaceful street in the Ukrainian city of Sumy—damaging residential buildings, educational institutions, and civilian infrastructure.
This atrocity took place on Palm Sunday, a holy day in Ukraine.
Putin's mass murder of 34 and severely wounding 117 is making folks a bit uncomfortable.
Then you are part of the problem, when innocents are mass murdered, we must demand accountability. Speak up. Stop this madness. Stop wanted war criminal mass murderer Putin. I will be posting about this horrific injustice. Everyone speak up for Ukrainians.
#Ukraine #eu #UK #press #media #usa #nato #RussiaIsATerroristState
❗️Sweden is reportedly preparing to donate a number of JAS 39 C/D Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, according to Aftonbladet cited by Dagens industri. The move would mark a major boost to Ukraine’s airpower, giving Kyiv another Western combat aircraft platform as it works with Stockholm on stronger security guarantees and air defense capacity. #Ukraine
https://youtu.be/kjPJbSRURt4
‼️🇺🇦What’s happening behind Ukrainian frontline? (Reporting From Ukraine VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Poland #Sweden #News #Norway #Australia #Taiwan #Media #Japan #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #India #UnitedStates #Turkey #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionOfUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
WAR, a graphic novel created by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano, has a focused message, beginning with the quotation:
"Every war is a war against children." ~Eglantyne Jeb
Now, just so you don't worry, this is a fairly tame rendering of war. It does a great job describing the psychological and emotional effects on children, but it tiptoes past other elements. (It actually feels more terrifying by omission.) There are things even worse than death, but the story doesn't go there.
I was quite moved by the story, and emotionally affected, even more than I anticipated. I could not help but think of all the people for whom this is their world, right now. Safe in our homes, we cannot truly imagine what it would be like to be a refugee of war, not really, unless we'd already experienced it. The book does a great job of expressing that, by contrasting the demeanor of those who got out of the war zone, and those who didn't. It was like they were on different planets.
A worthwhile read. #books #bookstodon #GraphicNovel
@bookstodon #War #Ukraine
That’d be the smart move
Exclusive: #Ukraine considers shift from the #US #dollar to #euro amid #geopolitical realignments
Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the US dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global #trade & its growing ties to #Europe, per #CentralBank Gov Andriy Pyshnyi.
#geopolitics #economy
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-considers-shift-dollar-euro-amid-geopolitical-realignments-2025-05-07/
⚠️⛔️This channel will end if Zelensky is stupid enough to sign a mineral deal with Trump (more) https://kyivindependent.com/significant-progress-ukraine-us-to-sign-memorandum-on-minerals-deal-deputy-pm-says/ #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
