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"In 2025, Zelenskyy’s approval rating has stabilized at 67%. While lower than the peak approval figure after the invasion, Zelenskyy retains the support of about two in three Ukrainians, significantly higher than any rating his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, received."
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4 Charts Show Ukrainians' Shifting Views of Their Leadership Since Russia's invasion in 2022, Ukrainian public opinion has changed significantly about the war, international relations and domestic affairs.

According to a July 2025 Gallup poll, President Zelenskyy's approval rating is currently at 67%. This is 7 points higher than in 2024.
#Ukraine
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Russian propaganda channels are ramping up disinformation efforts by impersonating trusted news sources, including UNITED24 Media.

Here's how to spot a fake.

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Russia is listing abducted Ukrainian children online by photo, age, and traits—like products in a catalog.

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4/ This was not a policy failure.
This was not “collectivization gone wrong.”
It was mass murder.
By law.
Millions of Ukrainians died.
And for decades, the world looked away.
Never forget the Holodomor. Never forgive.

1/4 On August 7, 1932, the USSR passed the “Five Ears of Grain” law.
Its purpose? To criminalize hunger.
Steal a handful of grain - get executed or sent to the gulag for 10 years.
Even starving children were punished.
This law helped trigger the Holodomor: a genocide by famine.

"Задача Росії – щоб ми боялися одне одного", – Кучеренко про перспективу миру Старша аналітикиня Центру ініціатив "Повернись живим" Марія Кучеренко розповідає про Росію, Володимира Путіна, російські спецслужби, перспективи російської економіки та як суспільству протидіяти вплив...

""Russia's task is to make us fear each other," Maria Kucherenko on Putin and the prospect of the end of the war"
#Ukraine

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З 1 вересня всі працівники ТЦК та СП зобовʼязані носити бодікамери З 1 вересня всі працівники Територіальних центрів комплектування та соціальної підтримки зобовʼязані носити бодікамери.

"From September 1, all employees of the [Territorial Recruitment Center] are required to wear body cameras"

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Чернишов назвав справу проти себе «повністю вигаданою» і пояснив, чому перед підозрою виїхав за кордон Колишній віцепрем’єр-міністр Олексій Чернишов вважає, що у справі проти нього немає реальних підстав для звинувачень. Щодо свого виїзду за кордон, він пояснив, що це був один із регулярних візитів, на...

"Chernyshov called the case against him "completely fabricated" and explained why he went abroad before the suspicion"
#Ukraine

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Overnight, Russia attacked Ukraine with 112 Shahed and decoy drones, with air defenses neutralizing 89, according to the Air Force.

Drones were launched from Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Cape Chauda, and Hvardiyske in temporarily occupied Crimea.

23 drones hit 11 sites; debris fell at 3 sites.

On Wednesday evening, Russian troops fired on rescuers in Nikopol, who were inspecting the fallout of a previous attack, the State Emergency Service reports.

Emergency workers rescuing civilians were hit in a vehicle, killing 23-year-old senior lieutenant Danylo Khyzhniak.

Chris Shaw is the American artist behind @saintjavelin.bsky.social 's iconic logo — one of the most recognizable symbols of support for Ukraine. Chris has transformed this image into Saint Sentinel — to fundraise an air defense unit protecting Ukrainians🧵
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Video Captures Russian Troops Executing 70-Year-Old Man in Bucha—New Evidence of War Crime Newly released footage shows Russian soldiers executing 70-year-old Volodymyr Rubailo in Bucha, confirming ongoing war crimes in Ukraine.

🔴 Newly released surveillance footage has confirmed the execution of 70-year-old Volodymyr Rubailo by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Kyiv region, on March 4, 2022.

🔴 Olha Bordunova, a postal service worker, was killed in a targeted Russian drone attack just days before her birthday on August 10.

Despite constant Russian attacks, Ukraine’s postal service continues to operate along the front line.

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Russia Launches Online Catalog Listing Ukrainian Children for Adoption, Featuring Traits Like “Obedient” Russian authorities in Ukraine have set up a database listing children for adoption, prompting accusations of child trafficking and violations of rights.

🔴 Russia has launched an online catalog listing abducted Ukrainian children for adoption, with filters like eye color and traits such as “obedient”—a move Ukraine calls modern-day child trafficking.
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Мінус танки, артсистеми та 1040 піхотинців: Генштаб ЗСУ оприлюднив втрати рф Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 07.08.25 орієнтовно становлять: ...

Tanks, artillery systems and 1,040 invaders
armyinform.com.ua/2025/08/07/m...

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Call your members of Congress and demand the USA resumes military aid to Ukraine. Guide below.
#CrimeaIsUkraine

Yes, there were arrests and ongoing investigations.

So you're just another mouthpiece for UP's speculation-filled stories? Their argument is that authorities and security forces have not yet given them all of the information they wanted, so therefore they assume their own suspicions must be correct.

🚨 Russian drone attacks are underway in Dnipro and the region, with multiple explosions reported.

Their own intelligence was reporting on the threat several months prior, and yes, they were quietly preparing with what little resources they had and asking for help.

From 'Polls, schmolls' dept:

For what it's worth Volodomyr Zelensky is more popular than anyone in the US but the pope.

I hope Ukrainians understand this and don't get caught up in his lies.

Europe also needs to understand this and do more to help Ukraine end the war on their terms.

#StandWithUkraine

Russia bombs Ukraine within eyeshot of Romania — proof the war is right next door.

Bar graph showing trust ratings over time for President Zelenskyy

President Zelenskyy's latest trust rating is 58%. He continues to be trusted by a clear majority of Ukrainians in all regions and across all age groups.
"The current survey results do not show the delegitimization of the authorities or that the authorities have lost all support from the population."

Protests continued for the 251st day in a row in Tbilisi.

Activists held a solidarity march for journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli and teacher Nino Datashvili who are in detention.
#GeorgiaProtests

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

This miserable fraud has poisoned the national conversation about lifesaving vaccines with his conspiracy theories, but he is also doing so much more to destroy science and progress.

This will grind lifesaving research to a halt and set us back decades for no good reason.

yesterday, the lone surviving member of Sgt. Pedo’s Lonely Hearts Club Band created a commotion when he wandered out onto the roof of the White House Assisted Living Facility and started barking incoherently into the wind. no, seriously. you can’t make this shit up — because who the fuck would believe it? what’s this deteriorating old geezer doing up there? is he looking for the Epstein Files? most of Sundowning Grandpa Befuddlepants’ ranting was lost in the ozone. here’s the intelligible part. “it’s just another way to spend my money for the country. anything I do is financed by me. so you don’t have [unintelligible] contributed. just like my salary is contributed, but nobody ever mentions that.” the official White House story was that Dear Leader went up on the roof to inspect the fugly concrete parking lot that now sits where the Rose Garden used to be, and also to get an eyeful of where he’s going to put that shitawful ginormous ballroom. so, is Donny claiming he’s going to use his own money to pay for the dance hall construction? is that what this ‘anything I do is financed by me’ boast is all about? fact check: bull fucking shit. Donny never pays for anything. the opposite is true. not only is Donny enriching himself from the presidency, we the people are financing his Saudi-prince-wannabe lifestyle. Donny just spent ten million taxpayer dollars so he could spend five days goofing off and cheating at golf in Scotland. he charges the Secret Service obscene amounts of money to stay in the golf motels he visits every weekend. for fuck’s sake, we’re shelling out nearly a billion taxpayer dollars to upgrade that vulgar flying bordello that he gets to take home with him when his nightmarish hellscape presidency finally ends. so I’ll believe Donny’s personally paying for the White House to be turned into the Kremlin West when I see the cancelled checks.

from today's post, on the Mad King’s incoherent blitherings from the roof of White House —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4oq56Fg
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

Day 252. Another major march in Tbilisi for the regime prisoners. For the third day in a row, the temperature and spirit are quite high, much higher than all the routine days. #GeorgiaProtests

“Leave!” - people call on the regime.

📷 Dodie Kharkheli

Уряд призначив Олександра Цивінського директором Бюро економічної безпеки Кабінет Міністрів призначив Олександра Цивінського головою Бюро економічної безпеки (БЕБ).

"The government appointed Oleksandr Tsyvinsky as director of the Bureau of Economic Security

The government now expects to renew the work of the Bureau [and] strengthen the institution."
#Ukraine

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