Squidgy Bidge

Ukrainian defenders fight for their loved ones and the future.

More explosions reported in Sochi. Similar reports are coming from Adler, Krasnodar Kraj.

PM Tusk:

Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything.
The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.

Evacuation of exhausted Alabai Lisa and cats Dimon and Amour from military positions

Now Lisa and Dimon are receiving treatment at clinic. Amour the cat is looking for home!

📹🖊️Animal Rescue Kharkiv

In temporarily occupied Yakymivka near Zaporizhzhia, russia threatens Ukrainian children with persecution and imprisonment for the ‘crime’ of liking posts on social media.

russians know they’re invaders, not ‘liberators,’ and are afraid of local resistance.

Kyiv residents queue for hot meals as tens of thousands face power, heat and water shortages after Russian strikes.

The EU provided €50 million in energy relief, while US-brokered peace talks have yet to produce results.

📹DW

A line of snow-covered bodies in Ukraine

1/ In January 2026, Ukraine reported killing 34,000 Russian soldiers – on average 1,096 a day, or 7,846 per week. Thousands of Ukrainians have likely died in the same period. Last month in Ukraine was much bloodier than the average monthly death toll at Auschwitz. ⬇️

Russian Pantsir loses a duel with a Ukrainian strike drone.

President Zelenskyy:

Putin still has guarantees of financial stability.A large part of those guarantees lies here in Europe.

Russian oil tankers still move freely along Europe’s shores—in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean. Overall,Russia still uses more than a thousand tankers.

Valentine’s Day celebrates love.

A love that knows no distances or bounds.

A love that only grows stronger despite separation.

A kind of love that many Ukrainian defenders and their significant others have.

Happy Valentine’s Day❤️

„— Who’s the richest farmer in the world?
— Putin
— Why?
— Because he has 140 million sheep and the biggest pigsty in the world.“

NEW: Western reporting suggests that the United States has accepted Russia’s demanded sequence of having Ukraine cede territory to Russia before receiving formal US or European security guarantee commitments. 🧵 (1/8)

Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar021326

Other Key Takeaways ⬇️

Hello again on Saturday 14 February, but Valentine's Day is no different for Russia, still killing & injuring any Ukrainians they can.

Day 1452 of the full invasion, with Ukraine trying make use of Russia's communication problems to push the enemy back.

Let's start the daily🧵

The work of de-USing NATO in Europe is slowly getting to place where it needs to be.
Don't let the door slam you in the arse.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the features release. Meta Neural Band The maker of Meta's smart glasses said it sold more than seven million pairs last year. Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times

HELL TO THE F’NG NO‼️

“In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the features release.”

These b*st*rds are out of control.

Ukraine’s 256th Cyber Assault Division tricked Russian troops into thinking they unblocked Starlink.

🧵 1/3 ⬇️

Hanne Engan was deprived of insulin in ICE detention.

She has Type 1 diabetes & needs insulin to survive.

They deprived her of urgent medical attention & she almost died.

This isn't a one off. This administration is torturing immigrants to get them to sign away their rights.🧵

#ICELawlessness

How utterly embarrassing.

It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.

Olympic chiefs have got it badly wrong over Heraskevych ban and owe him an apology | Lizzy Yarnold As athletes we try to focus on our event and the task at hand, but our lives do not take place in a vacuum

🤮 absolutely disgusting also...

Heraskevych "Italian snowboarder Roland Fischnaller displayed a 🇷🇺 flag on his helmet, for which there were no consequences. 🇷🇺 is banned from competing here and the use of its flags was thought to be forbidden."

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

bsky.app/profile/sain...

While Ukrainian athlete who honor his fallen teammates face ban, Russian lugers Pavel Repilov and Daria Olesik were allowed to compete under a “neutral” flag after openly promoting a company that co-produces the very drones killing Ukrainians.

Repair🫡

What an absolutely pathetic traitor. Real scum

YouGov US poll 👀🇺🇸

🇺🇦❤️ Five more children (aged 4-15) taken by Russia have been returned from occupied territories and Russia.

Job done: US armada back to Middle East as Venezuelan oil flows to Israel Everyone knew Trump's attacks on Venezuela had nothing to do with narcotics - now the US have just used the nation to ship oil to Israel

Everyone knew Trump's attacks on Venezuela had nothing to do with narcotics - now the US have just used the nation to ship oil to Israel

You[Europe]need to prepare yourselves before war comes to you.In this,we Ukrainians are your best partners,because we already live in the future of war-
Oleksandr Falshtynskyi,Chief of Medical Service of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the🇺🇦 Air Assault Forces,at the Munich Security Conference:

"Post-COVID-19 cognitive dysfunction appears to follow a temporal course, evolving from acute focal deficits in attention, working memory, and executive function to more persistent multidomain impairments" #LongCovid #chronicallyill #fatigue #MECFS