Autodidact historian, mostly central and eastern Europe. historical musicology Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Слава фламінго!🦩 "Why, said Montag slowly, 'we've stopped in front of my house.'"
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
Merkel said, "I know who Putin is. My goal is to avoid the war by all means possible." So much for wandel durch Handel.
Kate from KharkivDalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania: Entire political and economic elite of Germany was very close to Russia in terms of economic interests. No politician could change that. These commercial relations were very much dominant.
Genau.
Kate from KharkivKASPAROV: Russia, by the way, is the spearhead of the grander coalition led by China. It’s another big story that I’m writing now, another article, about Russia basically sliding into the Chinese embrace. So the Chinese dragon is gradually, you know, swallowing the Russian bear.
This looks like a blooming hibiscus — or something else in the malvaceae family — growing out of a crack in a sidewalk! What a pleasant surprise it must have been to have discovered this lovely plant.
Flower LoversFound a single beautiful red flower growing out of a sidewalk #FlowerPower #BloomingBeauty #FloralVibes
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The Kyiv Independent"Russia's invasion becomes a 'war in Ukraine.' Moscow's neo-imperial bid for a sphere of influence, where neighbors are to be murdered until they give up sovereignty, becomes "security interests." Ukraine's refusal to be massacred morphs into an obstacle to peace," writes Andrew Chakhoyan.
This is the best interpretation I've read so far. The "proxy-war" trope so loved by those on the far left who present themselves as virtuous anti-imperialists ONLY if the imperialists are Western, is tiresome. By repeating this ready-made phrase they show themselves for what they are: thought-less.
Christophe Kopp"Il s’agit de dicter et de contrôler les cadres conceptuels dans lesquels est pensée la Russie à l’heure actuelle, afin que les Occidentaux n’envisagent pour l’après-Poutine qu’une seule formule : le maintien à tout prix de l’autocratie moscovite.
"Ukraine is winning, and evil will not prevail."
Silicon Curtain podcastPutin's Mobilization NIGHTMARE: Why He Will Feed All Russia Into the Meat Grinder! youtu.be/8ybUtPwASfM
"You're impressed with how cool this is, aren't you?" Yes, we are. It's Ukrainian, so it must be good!
NOELREPORTSUkraine’s 429th Achilles Unmanned Systems Brigade used the Firefly guided munition to destroy a pipeline branch used by Russian forces near Kupiansk. The copter-dropped weapon autonomously guides itself to the target after release, even under EW interference. #Ukraine
Don't know how I managed to miss this bavovna in Belgorod Oblast 3 days ago, but it's impressive. There have been several Ukrainian strikes in Belgorod over the past few days, which makes one wonder what Ukraine is up to. Possibly an effort to protect Kharkiv city, a great prize for Russia.
ChallengerinuaBoom!☄️💥 Ukrainian forces struck a Russian ammunition depot in the Belgorod region!
"The objective is simple: the additional troops must not rebuild RU’s reserve. They must enter a logistics system already destroying, disrupting & immobilising combat power faster than the Kremlin expected. UA’s job is to make sure that battlefield no longer exists by the time the new troops arrive"
Make Putin’s Mobilisation Fail Before It BeginsUkraine and Europe still have time to make Putin's next mobilisation failwww.theconcis.comThis is really too much. ‘Ukrainians, Have You No Empathy?’
Yana 🇺🇦russianThink is a revolting event to observe they're now playing victim and saying Ukrainians are cruel
Yikes, yet another Wildberries Bavovna!
(((Tendar)))Ukrainian forces struck the Wildberries logistics center in Russian-occupied Simferopol, Crimea, in Ukraine.
When I consider the fact that there are journalists throughout the world w targets on their backs; who've been sentenced to yrs in prison in the most appalling conditions, incl. daily torture; and who have been murdered, all for speaking truth to power, I find this woman's question unbearably stupid
AcynReporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here
Poland and Ukraine have a long and troubled history. It's not surprising that Russian operations in Poland continue to divide Poles and Ukrainians, but this article fails to mention the role of PiS/Nawrocki in cynically fomenting these hostilities as well. euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/20/6...
60-year-old Pole stood up for Ukrainian teenager on tram in Poznań. Three men beat him for it - Euromaidan PressA 60-year-old Polish man who defended a Ukrainian teenager from abuse on a Poznań tram was beaten by three men.euromaidanpress.com