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Folterkeller in Cherson: »Ich wollte, dass sie mich töten, damit es endlich aufhört.« 59 Tage wird Oleksij Siwak in russischer Gefangenschaft gequält. Hier erzählt er, wie er dem Trauma trotzt – und wie es sich in einer Stadt lebt, die permanent von Drohnen angegriffen wird.

1/ Oleksiy Siwak gerät während der Besetzung v. Kherson in russische Gefangenschaft. Sein "Vergehen": sich nicht zu unterwerfen. Er berichtet über schwere Folter, völlig entgrenzte Gewalt, dass er sterben wollte, um nicht mehr ertragen zu müssen.

www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

I read about those two families from Texas (incl down the road from where I grew up) who moved to Russia. I've been saying for years that Russia is Janus-like in its foreign PR. It acts like a land of white civilization for white Americans/Europeans and like a decolonization beacon for Africans.

“We had just lived long enough to finally have everything.Now once again I have nothing,”says 93-yr-old Oleksii Fomych,with tears in eyes

He walked 7km on foot from the town of Rodynske,in the Pokrovsk district,to the Bilytske.From there,he was evacuated by chaplain Leonid Nomeriuk&police officers

Murphy's time to shine

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland.

Imagine such a bullshit excuse today

Shaping in the South. Exercises in the North.

As long as there's no real pushback, Orcan can keep enjoying the upsides of shilling for ru

My trolls on our atrocities thru this war:
2022: It didn't happen.
2023: Missile fragments did it.
2024: Ukraine staged it.
2025: Ukraine deserves it.

He didn't prevail

@heavysaurus.bsky.social

Correct. Not the president of Russia.

Why I love genocide

It's rattling-o-clock.

Rattling amplification

At home, in school and in hospital: how hundreds of Ukrainian children are dying in Russian attacks With nearly 3,000 children injured or killed since the start of the war, experts call for bombing of civilian areas to be treated as a war crime

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

refer only to NATO, they help Ru push the lie that Ru is afraid of NATO and create the false impression that if Ukraine agreed to neutrality the war would be over, which is 💯 false— Ukr was neutral in 2014 and had no chance of NATO membership in 2022 and Ru still invaded both times.

This is a very incomplete rendering of Ru’s demands and it helps Ru propaganda. Ru demands way more than control over Ukraine’s foreign policy. It demands diktat over Ukr’s domestic laws, regime change, and demilitarization, i.e defenceless Ukr. If it were abt NATO, Trump de facto conceded it.

While Kyiv and the rest of Ukraine burn, the Russian state collects over $6 bn every month in oil taxes. This is what keeps Putin's murderous war machine going. The bulk of Russian seaborne oil exports have to transit the Baltic. When will the EU finally stop cowering and find the courage to act?

Could be, but that's not the case in hand.

Context turns the analyst into a hypocrite. But sure, that was for internal consumption, where mingling with genocidal dictators is less incongruous, sadly.

Third World War, as in the war for their rightful place in the third world

"ready to consider"

"gaining an edge", as if it was a game

You know, Russians torture journalists, return their bodies without eyeballs, bomb children's cancer centers and hospitals - and then put on Italian suits, speak in English from the UN podium, passing themselves off as civilized people with whom you can do gas business and discuss Dostoevsky...
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Screenshot from linked report, discussing Western habit of forcing Russia's terms on its victims

In one way, the Trump administration's approach of forcing Moscow's terms on the victim of Russian aggression is a return to previously consistent Western policy.

www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/what...

Kyiv targeted in mass Russian missile and drone attack A round of explosions occurred in Kyiv around 1:00 a.m. local time on April 24 amid a Russian missile attack.

⚡️Kyiv targeted in mass Russian missile and drone attack.

Fires have been reported throughout the city.

A round of explosions occurred in Kyiv around 1:00 a.m. local time on April 24, according to a Kyiv Independent journalist on the ground.

Eine weitere Nacht hier in Kyjiw, wenn der Sound der „Friedensverhandlungen“ (also known as russische Drohnen, die ich gerade bei mir in der Gegend in der Echtzeit bestens hören kann) viel zu gut zu hören ist.

Putin lässt am Palmsonntag Gläubige auf dem Weg in die Kirche bombardieren.

So geht Verteidigung abendländischer Zivilisation.

A grim reminder of the real nature of the “Christian Europe” that Putin and his far-right stooges have in store for us all.