The Ukrainian Madonna. By Vladyslav Shereshevsky of Kyiv. #StandWithUkraine #PrayForUkraine

Just FYI... Iran just won the Trump-Iran war. And Trump gave away far more than Obama ever did.

So, Trump is gonna give Iran $300 billion to open a strait that wasn’t closed, so long as they promise not build a nuke they didn’t have? Do I have that just about right?

St. Petersburg joins the Russian fuel shortage. What happened? Did you bastards start a war and plan to pretend nothing is happening just because you're far from the frontline? It's not going to work.

The Ukrainian military is attempting to turn the Crimean Peninsula into the "island" of Crimea, and this is extremely important for the entire war. How did we get here? The Crimean Peninsula is connected to the mainland via two routes: the first is Crimea-Kherson (Ukraine) in the north of the peninsula, where three bridges serve this purpose: Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk. The second is Crimea-Krasnodar (Russia), via the Kerch Bridge. Crimea was essential to the 2022 invasion because attacks on Ukraine’s southern front were launched from there. The invasion toward Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and later toward Mykolaiv and Odesa originated in Crimea. The stabilized fronts in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were maintained in the first months of the invasion solely because of Crimea, through which the supply lines ran, where the military bases were located, and from where some of the Russian airstrikes on this flank were launched. In 2022, the Kerch Bridge was targeted by the Ukrainians. That strike knocked down a section of the bridge, destroyed the railway lines, and damaged its structure. To this day, the Kerch Bridge has not been used as a serious military logistics route. Fast-forward to 2026, and we arrive in May of this year when Ukraine began targeting the logistics lines connecting Russia and Crimea via the "land bridge" of Mariupol-Berdiansk-Melitopol. These lines sustain and keep the southern front alive. What is happening now? For more than a year, Crimea has been the target of Ukrainian “mid-strike” attacks that are part of a shaping, modeling, and groundwork operation. Russian bases, radars, air defense systems, and naval bases have all been simply obliterated during this period. The two operations—the one against the Mariupol-Crimea lines and the one against Crimea itself—have led to a dire situation on the peninsula. The population is on fuel rationing. Military bases are no longer defended. The naval fleet was forced as early as 2023 to flee to Novorossiysk. It must be understood that if Crimea becomes militarily (and civilian) unsustainable, the Russian southern front faces a danger unlike any seen before in this war. Crimea REMAINS essential to this front. So the Ukrainians have gotten to work and: This week they struck multiple times at the three access routes from the mainland to the peninsula: the Chongar, Henichesk, and Armiansk bridges. Crimea is close to complete isolation (it will never be entirely so). The only operational military route is the one in Armiansk, because the bridge crosses the old canal that used to bring water from the Kahovka reservoir (destroyed by the Russians in 2023) to Crimea. Crimea is on the verge of becoming a new disaster for the “second army of the world.” This year, the Ukrainians will certainly do everything in their power to isolate the Russian army there, weaken the southern front, and thus try to turn the tide of the war (because yes, Crimea could be one of the keys to an unexpectedly favorable outcome for Ukraine). What might follow? These operations will continue and intensify during these summer months, because Ukraine has the necessary resources: equipment (FP-2 attack drones and Behemoth—we’ll be hearing a lot about this new “Shahed-type” drone, but Ukrainian-made, with a dual payload), identification technology, acquisition, AI-guided strikes, and the necessary financial resources. In Crimea, this year, the fate of this war MAY be “decided,” at least in part. To give you an idea, the isolation and blockade of Crimea could open the possibility (in a best-case scenario) of liberating the Kherson region (on the left bank of the Dnieper) and liberating Melitopol, the collapse of the Zaporizhzhia front, the liberation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the liberation of Berdiansk, and forcing the Russians to redeploy units from the eastern front, opening up opportunities for Ukraine there as well. Slava Ukraini!

Another rule of thumb: if Russians suddenly yell something about international law — it means they’ve got their asses handed back to them somewhere.

Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years." (AfD members laughing) Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."

God bless the places we dwell in and our efforts to make something good.🙏🏼

This is Tartu University in Estonia, founded in 1632. Russia’s first university was established in 1724. That’s 92 years later! But please continue the story about how the Baltics were sitting in villages waiting for enlightenment from Moscow.

Putin has seriously embarrassed himself: no one believes in the much-hyped “Oreshnik” anymore The Russian leader publicly admitted that “Oreshnik” missiles were not used against strategic targets, but were instead fired at what were literally garages, supposedly for testing purposes. After this, Russian propagandists and military bloggers found themselves in an awkward position, Forbes reports. They previously described “Oreshnik” as a “superweapon” capable of destroying key targets. Now, social media is filled with mockery — suggesting that an expensive weapon system was used in unclear ways. Forbes notes that the Kremlin’s awkward explanation may be an attempt to cover up the poor results of the new weapon’s deployment. Either the missiles failed to hit intended targets, or they were originally used more for propaganda and intimidation than for real damage.

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❗️Zelenskyy warned putin that Ukraine will soon start hitting russia with ballistic missiles if he does not agree to end the war, — The Telegraph. Zelenskyy said that Ukraine is very close to producing its own ballistic missiles.

RT @stecki_2_0: SO geht das...

Yes, definitely, and without any beating around the bush: Putin has deteriorated significantly, and he continues to weaken in plain sight. He used to appear in public as a cold, psychopathic, cynical, cruel, treacherous, and calculating predator, always wearing that smug little sadistic grin. Now, month after month, he is increasingly descending into outright buffoonery and farce. He is drowning in his own childish giggling, awkward antics, and crude off-color jokes. He now routinely blurts out poorly thought-out nonsense straight from the top of his head, which contradicts itself and even the mainstream narrative of his own propaganda machine. It's almost as if Donald Trump bit him. As a result, he now constantly shocks his own officials and Russia's Z-fascists on Telegram. He keeps making mistakes. He keeps absorbing painful public blows from Zelensky. He keeps allowing himself to be backed into corners. I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe age is finally taking its toll. Maybe accumulated exhaustion. Maybe a growing, reluctant realization that things are not going well in the war against Ukraine, that the prospects ahead promise nothing good, that a certain threshold has been crossed beyond which Russia will no longer be able to break Ukraine, and that only the countdown remains to the most terrifying thing of all: the eventual acknowledgment of failure. And so the Kremlin war machine (and the dictator's own veins) are filling with nervousness, frantic activity, denial of reality, impulsive decisions, palace intrigues, and a growing loss of control. Add to that the recent setbacks in Syria, Hungary, Moldova, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Most likely, it's all of the above. Because you can puff out your chest, pound your fist, issue threats, and project as much small-dick-energy bravado as you want, but against the backdrop of devastating Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil industry -- and now on its military and fuel logistics -- Putin nevertheless authorized Roman Abramovich's trip to Kyiv. The thing is, the old Putin probably would never have bragged about something like that in public or signaled to everyone that beneath all the swagger, laughter, and bravado, he had blinked first.

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact. Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

Well, it looks like Russia has suffered yet another (entirely predictable) foreign policy defeat. 🇦🇲 Armenia appears to have voted today to leave the Kremlin's sphere of influence and move closer to the free world. Once again, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has proven to be the beginning of the countdown to the final collapse of the Russian Empire. The continued stupidity and brutally self-destructive mistakes of this KGB clique across the region will drive the remaining nails into the coffin, and 🇺🇦Ukraine will be sure to finish the job with a shovel.

Putin's defeat will be a wonderful moment. We just need the guts to help Ukraine win faster. mol.im/a/15878049

I wanna be him when I’m old

As a Ukrainian, I don’t understand one thing: Why are we told to “give up land for peace” but russia is never told to stop stealing land?

Angriffe auf Krankenhäuser, Schulen & 🇩🇪 TV-Studios, Aufforderungen an unsere Botschaft, #Kyjiw zu verlassen: #Russland setzt auf Drohen, Terror & Eskalation. Deshalb haben wir heute Russlands Botschafter einbestellt. 1/2