One city suburb. One street. One month. And this list of names is only the people the @nytimes could identify. The youngest was just fourteen years old. This is who Russia is. Europe will never be safe until Ukraine is, and the people responsible for this are in The Hauge.

Hey dumbasses, “Biolabs” are research facilities, the type that track things like tick diseases. The US does fund them globally, including in Ukraine, that’s not a secret. Pretending it is a secret and pretending it’s something dangerous is a literal Russian talking point.

In the early hours of this morning, I directed our Armed Forces to intercept a shadow fleet oil tanker attempting to pass through the English Channel. This successful operation delivers yet another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not let them hide. I want to thank those involved, including our Armed Forces and law enforcement officers who keep this country safe 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Every time some Russian general nowadays boasts about how he commanded operations by Russian regular troops and unofficial mercenaries such as the Wagner Group against Ukraine in Donbas in 2014–2015 (and even casually admits to committing war crimes by mistake), I feel like sending my warmest regards -- to all those who stubbornly denied Russia’s direct aggression against Ukraine back then, parroted the Kremlin’s lies about “we are not there,” the “Donbas people's militia,” and the so-called “rebels” in the name of their cherished “balance of views,” while condescendingly lecturing us about our lack of “objectivity.”

Irish politicians are still denying the russian refinery is fuelling the Kremlins war. Well it is. Here’s how 👇

Google: It's no big deal for us to train AI with creator content. Think of it like a person learning by watching YouTube videos. Other AI Labs: Then can we train with creator data too? Google: NO! THAT'S OURS!!! IT'S EXTREMELY VALUABLE PROPERTY. Creators: ????

#ThrowbackLoss This day year ago (2025) holds 6 confirmed 🇷🇺 losses in 🇺🇦. Among them this T-62MV destroyed in fully equipped firing position in Polohy raion while, essentially, performing as SPG — smth tanks often have been reduced to in what this war has become now. 1/4

RT @MayorofLondon: Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and compla…

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the United States hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl @johnismay @ArtemisChats

"Unfortunately, we cannot drone strike Andrew Tate," Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces tells the internet, to widespread disappointment.

Не міг зрозуміти, чому пішло більше донатів на дрони. А це чоловік Скабєєвої прорекламував мій подкаст із Мішою Правильним, та ще й QR-код збору на Русоріз дав на всю росію! Дякую, Євгєній Попов🤝

My first article ever on Russian armor is now public! Happy to collaborate with @WarFrontsWeekly, go check it out! fronts.co/article/deconstruc…

Kind of fascinating how America and Russia have managed to culture war meme themselves into the role of declining powers in a multipolar world that neither really want.

Clearly Trump has all the cards, but the problem is that everyone else at the table got to shout Uno first

Trump says a lot of things

The Kremlin and the White House are so fixated on the idea that only great powers have agency that they're willing to destroy their countries' power to prove it.

Seeing some tweets about how Iran has imposed a new deterrence equation on Israel and the region. That seems like a whole lot of motivated reasoning. First, let's be clear about how much of a reversal this represents for Iran's strategic doctrine: instead of its Arab proxies protecting Iran from attack, Iran is now trying to bail them out—and inviting attacks on its own territory as a result. Second, in four past rounds of fighting (going back to April 2024), Iran was unable to deter Israel because its missile barrages failed to cause strategic damage. It could not impose costs significant enough to change Israeli behavior. Indeed, as @NicoleGrajewski and others have written, those attacks arguably invited further conflict rather than deterred it. The salvos overnight do not seem any different. Iran's act of "deterrence" wound up causing more damage to Iran than to the country it sought to deter. The tools that have been more successful over the past few months—at compellence, rather than deterrence—have been the ones aimed at Gulf states and global energy markets. But to use those tools now (or in the future) risks collapsing the entire ceasefire. The "equation" here relies on Donald Trump to restrain Israel. It doesn't seem viable at all in the long term, unless Iran is prepared to risk endless escalatory cycles that would ultimately be very damaging for Iran itself.

All the usual suspects on twitter and the blue site are now out claiming that the Iranian regime are 5 dimensional chess master strategists when in reality the IRGC is flying by the seat of its pants with no margin for error as much as Bibi, Trump or UAE

One day prior to the full scale invasion. Kyiv, Ukraine.

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

This is fundamentally flawed logic that unfortunately many on the left continue to embrace: "Economic sanctions punish ordinary people who did not ask for this war." Interestingly enough, in their minds, the same logic somehow doesn't apply to Israel. However, it presumes that most Russian citizens are victims of the regime, not its enablers. Obviously, there are a brave few who actually try to do something and have paid a price for doing so, but they are rather the exception. The vast majority either actively supports the war or simply does not care enough to oppose it because it hasn't significantly disrupted their daily lives. Yet. Many in the U.S. are not aware that Russia's war machine is not primarily fueled by conscripts dragged unwillingly to the front. It relies heavily on volunteers who knowingly sign contracts and travel to Ukraine to kill people for money. They don't have a moral problem with it and see it as just another risky job. Those who are not in the military manufacture drones, sew uniforms, maintain military logistics, and keep defense factories running around the clock. They produce propaganda on TV, print books that justify aggression, adopt stolen Ukrainian kids, create "patriotic" art, spread pro-war messages on social media, and pay taxes that finance the war - or simply do nothing and accept the invasion of Ukraine because "what can we do?" Sanctions are not designed to be pleasant. Their purpose is precisely to increase the economic and political cost of aggression both for the regime and its enablers. If Russian society can continue living largely normal lives while missiles rain down on Ukrainian cities every single night, there is little incentive for anyone inside Russia to question the war.