Today, russian forces attempted to enter Pokrovsk via the main highway. They were almost immediately detected and completely destroyed.
Despite russian propaganda, it is becoming impossible to hide the scale of losses russia has suffered in its attempt to capture a single city.
12.12.2025 22:58 β π 129 π 44 π¬ 5 π 6
βThe Lord will stand with you and give you strength.β
2 Tim 4:17
07.12.2025 14:30 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Elon Musk wants for the EU to be abolished.
And of course, russiaβs former president and war criminal Dmitry Medvedev β who openly incites genocide against Ukrainians β agrees.
07.12.2025 01:43 β π 35 π 11 π¬ 4 π 0
India chose russia.
05.12.2025 20:53 β π 24 π 9 π¬ 4 π 1
A peace deal that rewards invasion is not peace β itβs an invitation for more war.
05.12.2025 10:01 β π 202 π 71 π¬ 4 π 1
Some Ukrainian children abducted by Russia were forcibly transferred to North Korea and placed in military camps, Ukrainian human rights organizations say. This was just announced at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing.
Source: Ostap Yarysh
04.12.2025 18:22 β π 26 π 18 π¬ 2 π 3
At this point, it should be obvious that the US administration has no intention of stopping russia. Just think about it: Trump sent a real estate developer and his son-in-law to negotiate with Putin.
At this point, itβs not diplomacy. Itβs a business meeting about the sale of Ukrainian land.
03.12.2025 19:12 β π 89 π 46 π¬ 6 π 2
If you reward aggression once, you donβt end a war β you start the next one.
03.12.2025 16:43 β π 72 π 33 π¬ 1 π 2
In the battle between David and Goliath, President Trump simply sympathizes with Goliath. In his view, the big should defeat the small, the cruel should overpower the good, the strong should dominate the weak.
Source: Valeriy Pekar
03.12.2025 01:11 β π 19 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
βOur allies must deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine as a security guarantee.β
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
02.12.2025 11:17 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Peace cannot be made by sacrificing the country that is doing the dying.
01.12.2025 23:59 β π 77 π 23 π¬ 2 π 1
"Ukraine must cease to exist - that is Russia's goal in this war.β
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
01.12.2025 00:23 β π 211 π 80 π¬ 17 π 4
They call them βpeace negotiations.β
Witkoff: βWe will take part in the peace negotiations.β
Ukraine: βAnd who will represent the American side?β
30.11.2025 21:50 β π 46 π 11 π¬ 3 π 1
βThe sooner Americaβs allies recognize that the U.S. government is no longer acting as a partner, and is instead aligning itself with Europeβs adversaries, the easier it will be to adapt to this new reality. Both Trump and Putin share an interest in seeing a weaker Europe.β
Pekka Kallioniemi
30.11.2025 16:15 β π 96 π 39 π¬ 3 π 9
βEurope must now fight to save Ukraine and itself as bravely as Ukraine has been fighting to save itself and Europe for a decade. The resources are there, but the courage is not. Stop pretending Trump will ever turn on Putin and face reality and fight.β
Garry Kasparov
29.11.2025 05:58 β π 101 π 43 π¬ 0 π 1
Either Leavitt herself provided information to ICE to detain her relative β which would make her a horrible person β or she had been covering up the fact that her relative is an illegal immigrant β which would make her a hypocrite.
26.11.2025 15:47 β π 28 π 10 π¬ 6 π 0
26.11.2025 03:10 β π 102 π 31 π¬ 3 π 1
A deal made over Ukraine β not with Ukraine β risks becoming another MolotovβRibbentrop Pact. For Europe, this is a test of whether the rules-based order still means anything. For the United States, a test of credibility: will it pursue peace with Ukraine, or peace around Ukraine?
24.11.2025 03:40 β π 94 π 24 π¬ 2 π 1
βThe two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table, but it will not succeed, for the end will still come at the appointed time.β
(Daniel 11:27)
23.11.2025 19:43 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
A heartbreaking video from Ternopil showing a father rocking the coffin of his child killed by russians. He is the only survivor from his apartment: he waited three days hoping rescuers would save his wife and two children.
23.11.2025 16:35 β π 34 π 13 π¬ 3 π 2
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Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war near the village of Kotlyne in Donetsk region.
23.11.2025 15:44 β π 10 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
A beautiful family was killed by the russians in Ternopil.
One boy was seven years old, and the other was not even a year old.
On November 20, russians hit a residential building in Ternopil. At least 31 civilians were killed, including 6 children.
21.11.2025 11:46 β π 53 π 31 π¬ 4 π 2
Today, russians hit a residential building in Ternopil.
At least 26 civilians are dead, including 3 children, and 96 wounded.
Russia is a terrorist state.
19.11.2025 22:49 β π 20 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
Russians but a residential building in Ternopil.
At least 20 civilians are dead, including children. Dozens are injured.
Russia is a terrorist state.
19.11.2025 11:47 β π 43 π 23 π¬ 2 π 0
The Republican Party is falling apart. First Marjorie Taylor Greene β now thisβ¦
19.11.2025 02:48 β π 21 π 7 π¬ 2 π 1
βThis is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never-never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.β
βWinston Churchill
18.11.2025 13:17 β π 27 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2
Autumn in Khersonβ¦ Russia attacks Kherson with hundreds of drones every week. More than 300 civilians were killed this spring during what human rights groups describe as a βhuman safari.β
17.11.2025 20:46 β π 27 π 12 π¬ 1 π 2
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom8 for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free."
Jesus (Luke 4:18)
16.11.2025 17:22 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
In a recent interview, russiaβs foreign minister Lavrov accused Britain and Baltics of provoking war between russia and NATO.
Source: Kyiv Post
15.11.2025 17:48 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
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