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They were children with their whole lives ahead of them. Russia has arrested hundreds of people in the occupied territories for "treason and espionage", many of them women and teenagers. A hostage crisis that is virtually untouched by the media.
Russia arrested two 16 year olds from occupied Melitopol on false charges. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak were both killed in captivity, likely tortured to death.
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💔In Sumy region, russia again killed an entire family including two young children.

A mother, father and their sons, aged 4 & 6, was killed inside their home when russia deliberately hit the residential building with a drone around 2:40 at night.

Never forgive.
Never forget.
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We are celebrating today’s International Translation Day with the launch of a project we’ve been dreaming about for years! 🎉
Here is Chapter Ukraine – an interactive digital platform that brings together comprehensive information about Ukrainian books available in translation: chapterukraine.com
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No Gripens for now
1/5 Is Ukraine going to get Swedish Gripen jets?

The question is back in the headlines and stirring excitement.

But what is actually happening?
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€392 to go to get generator, can we do it today?🥹 Please🥺Really need to close these requests ASAP
Are you ready, fellas? The last small requests in this huge fundraiser and we can open the next huge fundraiser😅

send.monobank.ua/jar/2EzCErxKUK
PayPal [email protected]

Let’s go fellas🥹

- 423rd Battalion – 2 mini Starlinks (€500)

- 56th – winter wheels for another unit (~€300)
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🕯️ Her name is Oleksandra Polishchuk.

She was supposed to go to school, laughing with friends, building her future.
Instead she will forever only be 12 years old.

Another Ukrainian child murdered in her home by ruzzia.

Never forgive. Never forget.💔😔
#RussiaisATerroistState
The war is continuing, it has not stopped or calmed down– you are just hearing about it less.
Something that is being missed with diminishing attention on Ukraine is that the attacks on Kyiv and other cities are only increasing. Last night was one of the biggest attacks of the war with 600 drones and 48 missiles being launched.
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Another person was found dead at the site of a strike on civilian infrastructure.
Across Ukraine, there are currently more than 70 people injured.

​In some areas, the enemy attack has devastated entire neighborhoods. During the emergency response efforts, a structural collapse occurred,
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For over 12 hours, Russia has been attacking Ukraine.

​In Kyiv eight locations was attacked. Four people have been killed. Among them was a 12-year-old girl who was crushed by a concrete slab. A nurse and a patient were killed at the Cardiology Institute.
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Many of you don’t want to hear this but the liberal international order currently rests upon the shoulders of a Ukrainian Comic and a former AQI insurgent
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6 June - Russia launched 452 aerial assets, including 405 drones
17 June - 472/440
29 June - 537/494
9 July - 741/728.
Today - 823/810

The summer I almost turned sleep-deprived.
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Thought-provoking thread. 1st question: is there a European grand strategy towards Ukraine? To me, it looks more like exercises in wishful thinking, falling back from 'Perhaps Ukraine can beat Russia without Western weapons striking RU territory' to 'Perhaps Trump can negotiate a deal'. 1/2
Working on a chapter about the 1942 Singapore campaign for an upcoming book, and I’m struck by how this historical disaster exemplifies the same strategic failures I’ve critiqued in contemporary European grand strategy toward Ukraine.
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⚡️ 9 killed, 81 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 54 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type attack drones, and fired four S-300/400 guided missiles.
9 killed, 81 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 54 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type attack drones, and fired four S-300/400 guided missiles.
kyivindependent.com
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🔴 Russian forces attacked the city center of Sumy killing three, and injuring at least 20.

"[They hit] the city, ordinary streets with rocket artillery. An absolutely deliberate attack on civilians," Zelenskyy wrote

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Anyone calling Ukraine’s operation, long-planned and happened to come right after a massive Ru drone attack on Ukrainian cities, “an escalation” is being ridiculous.

Ru only attacks, Ukraine only defends.
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Russia has escalated from
the very beginning of this war, it wants to destroy Ukraine/its people which it doesn’t even acknowledge as a nation. So how on earth can defence against such an existential threat be escalation (also legally, the scale of the attack is the yardstick for proportionality)
Anyone calling Ukraine’s operation, long-planned and happened to come right after a massive Ru drone attack on Ukrainian cities, “an escalation” is being ridiculous.

Ru only attacks, Ukraine only defends.
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According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine has destroyed up to 40% of Russia’s strategic aircraft today, with estimated losses around $7 billion.
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The phrase that comes to mind is "reasonability theatre" - this whole circus is played out by the Russians to try and construct the false impression they are not in fact lunatics who are intent on killing Ukrainians until Armageddon. It is not clear who the target audience for this is.
Putin has made it clear: first, negotiations on the causes, then talks on a ceasefire, said Russian MFA spokesperson Maria Zakharova, commenting on Zelensky's reaction. She claims Kyiv misread Putin’s statement regarding talks.
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It's always really fun to point out how the overwhelming majority of land battles in the Russo-Japanese war were fought on what is now the territory of the People's Republic of China
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NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine
Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
Russia would have you believe that their alliances are built on the basis of anti-Western, anti-colonial sentiment while obscuring Russia's own deep history of colonialism that impacted these very same countries.