If russia wanted to stop the war or at least cease fire, it would have done so, because it is russia that is attacking Ukraine. It is their troops that are storming our positions, it is their drones that fly every night, it is their ballistic missiles that are hitting us.
22.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 183 🔁 94 💬 8 📌 5
Russia sent 15 soldiers down a highway in 1 unarmored truck in broad daylight.
A 🇺🇦 FPV drone hit it first, then artillery finished the job. The mop-up team found only body parts
That's what happens when your army loses Starlink &Telegram at the same time—command& control collapses; troops panic
In 2014, Russia violated Ukraine’s borders&shattered our peace.
“For 12 years, Ukrainians have fought every single day to restore it – and not a single day have we been safe from brutal Russian attacks,”MFA of Ukraine stated
📹MFA of Ukraine
“Automatkarbinerna står intill sovplatserna. Några drönare står färdiga, redo för flygning. Det är återkommande prat i radion. En katt strosar runt. Det övergivna djuret har blivit soldaternas maskot.”
Jag har bott några dagar med ukrainska FPV-piloter.
Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen.
28.01.2026 17:40 — 👍 291 🔁 74 💬 8 📌 6
To shed some light on the story of civil society in Eastern Europe, the Kyiv Independent spoke with Maria Popova, professor of political science at McGill University and an expert on the region.
Read here: kyivindependent.com/chart-of-the...
⚡️Zelensky, Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya meet for first time in Vilnius.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya held their first bilateral meeting on Jan. 25 in Vilnius, the two leaders said.
#HandsOffGreenland #solidarity
Big pro-Greenland demonstrations in major town and cities in Denmark today (including Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Kolding, Esbjerg and more).
People saying "Our solidarity is stronger than their greed"
Source: dr.dk
Lots of people on demo in Copenhagen protesting re: Greenland.
17.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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Russia reportedly struck Lviv with an Oreshnik missile.
Thankfully, there are no reports of victims so far.
We must remember that russia kills Ukrainian civilians daily using a barrage of drones and missiles.
❤️🔥 The world’s only surviving wild horse species, the Przewalski horse, has been spotted roaming the Chornobyl exclusion zone despite heavy snow.
📹: Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve
Russians were asked to comment on the arrest of Nicolás Maduro.
By the way, no public comments from Putin on Maduro's arrest appeared so far.
Here are some of their answers:
När en stormakt ensidigt använder militära hot eller våld mot ett annat land bryts FN-stadgan och folkrätten försvagas. Om våldsförbudet blir valfritt undergrävs den regelbaserade världsordning som ska skydda även små och utsatta länder. #venezuela #USA🧵⤵️
04.01.2026 11:49 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
The year 2025 arrived with talk of peace. It ended to the rattle of air-defense systems across Ukraine.
This is 2025 in Ukraine, told in photographs:
kyivindependent.com/2025-ukraine...
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Carol of the Bells in #Kyiv railway station
📹Aleksa Shaaa/instagram
Russia’s Famed S-400 Air Defense Systems Rely On U.S. Technology
Two prominent political prisoners are released in Belarus: opposition leader Maria Kalesnikava and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ales Bialiatsky
13.12.2025 13:54 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
The U.S. is lifting sanctions on Belarusian potash, U.S. presidential envoy to Minsk John Cole said on Dec. 13 following a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, in exchange for the release of political prisoners in Belarus.
13.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 131 🔁 39 💬 23 📌 14
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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Meanwhile in Russia: Dimitri Simes said that Trump never even read the "peace plan" he wanted Zelensky to sign. Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov said Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRVc...
This is also Taganrog, Russia. They’re having quite a hot night. Allegedly an aircraft factory is on fire 🔥 🍿
24.11.2025 23:55 — 👍 263 🔁 39 💬 9 📌 4
⚡️ Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missiles, drones toward Ukraine.
Kyiv Independent journalists reported explosions in Ukraine's capital as Russia launched Shahed drones & Kinzhal missiles toward Kyiv & other cities on Nov. 25.
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
"Manifest expansionist ambitions of the three most powerful countries in the world — China, the United States, and Russia — are undermining the current world order,” writes Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS), in this op-ed.
22.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 524 🔁 171 💬 21 📌 8I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.
Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
Viktoriya Krymova,editor-in-chief of Russkoye Slovo magazine:
"There’s no special Russian soul with its Russian mystery;no special Russian way,nothing special about Russians.We see this Russian soul in the daily killings of Ukrainian children.If this is the Russian soul,then go to hell"
