The EU has sanctioned Russia's beloved "travel vlogger" Alexandra "Sasha Meets Russia" Jost.

Alexandra Jost, known as Sasha Meets Russia, built an audience showing Russia’s cities, culture, traditions, and daily life.    Less visible was her reported financial relationship with TV-Novosti, the legal entity behind RT.

YouTube is still advertising Alabuga drone factory. One of their drones hit the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, and many others have killed hundreds of innocent Ukrainian civilians.

Message to Russian "opposition":

Moscow bombs churches, Ukraine bombs refineries. These two are not the same.

Any updates on this?

The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will be restored. Thanks to the professionalism and swift actions of our emergency responders, the fires have been extinguished. Russia attempted to destroy the Lavra for a second time – just as it did in 1941. Thankfully, we will not have to rebuild this Ukrainian shrine from its foundations. The Government will secure funding for its restoration. As President Zelenskyy noted, the Government is preparing decisions to allocate resources from the reserve fund for urgent roof stabilization and its subsequent restoration. We expect a response from international organizations to yet another barbaric act by Russia. I have instructed Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Tetiana Berezhna @BerezhnaT to intensify this work, including through the tools of the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Fund. Since early morning, I have also received numerous messages from representatives of Ukrainian businesses and philanthropists willing to contribute to the restoration of this sacred site. Thank you for your shared values and readiness to help. The Government, together with the reserve administration, will organize this process. My deepest gratitude goes to Ukraine’s Defense Forces and the State Emergency Service teams, who are working selflessly at the attack site to save lives and protect our cultural heritage. 🇺🇦

Time to report Sasha's social media channels.

Yet somehow Zelenskyy not wearing a suit was a problem.

More here: consilium.europa.eu/en/press…

Any comments from the bread admirer on Russia striking a church?

Trump’s deal with Iran is so bad that he insisted on finalizing it during the smoke-and-mirrors UFC show at the White House. While everyone is talking about the event, Trump capitulated to Iran’s leadership, gaining absolutely nothing from this horrendous deal.

The "US biolabs in Ukraine" story is one of the Kremlin's oldest and most successful disinformation campaigns. The facilities in question were Ukrainian public health and veterinary laboratories supported by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to improve biosafety and disease surveillance. None of the publicly available documents show evidence of biological weapons. In Russian state media, these facilities are routinely described outright as "US bioweapons labs." Among pro-Kremlin influencers and politicians in the West, the messaging is often more subtle. They simply talk about "dangerous pathogens" and hint at unspecified sinister purposes, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions. Yet Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time Russia supporter who met Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad twice and questioned the Assad regime's responsibility for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, is now presenting old public documents as newly "declassified evidence." In reality, ODNI simply re-stamped documents that had already been public for years. Many of the slides are excerpts from a Pentagon DTRA fact sheet released publicly in March 2022. Gabbard's office repackaged these documents and presented them alongside Russian fabrications as evidence of a sinister biolabs program. This shouldn't surprise anyone. When it comes to Ukraine, Gabbard has consistently echoed Kremlin talking points. She has argued that the US and NATO provoked Putin into invading Ukraine, framed the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, claimed that sanctions hurt the West more than Russia, blamed an "elite cabal of warmongers" for the conflict, and suggested that peace negotiations should prioritize avoiding nuclear war. She has repeatedly claimed that the war could have been avoided by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. But Putin himself made clear in his essays and speeches before the invasion that his goals went far beyond NATO and centered on denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent nation. She has also dismissed allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "manufactured hoax" and appeared as a speaker at the "antiwar" Rage Against the War Machine rally in 2023. Tulsi's only goal with all this is to hurt Ukraine and help Russia.

Surely the American advocates for ‘trad values’ such as Tucker Carlson will not ignore Russia striking a monastery in central Kyiv (they will)

The real reason Russia is pushing the Ukraine biolab narrative is more serious than the propaganda suggests. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗶 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. As the old saying goes, accuse your opponent of what you are doing yourself. Russia claims Ukraine and the United States operated secret biological weapons labs in Ukraine. That claim has not been substantiated. The UN has said it is not aware of any biological weapons programme in Ukraine, and Ukraine has repeatedly denied developing, producing, or stockpiling biological weapons. Ukraine’s facilities are publicly described as public health, disease surveillance, biosafety, biosecurity, and threat-reduction labs. Ukraine says it complies with the Biological Weapons Convention and rejects the claim that these sites were military bioweapons facilities. Russia’s position is the opposite. Russia accuses Ukraine of hidden biological weapons activity while keeping its own military biological infrastructure secretive and largely inaccessible to meaningful international scrutiny. Russia inherited the Soviet biological weapons legacy. The Soviet Union operated one of the largest and most secretive biological weapons programmes in history. After its collapse, serious questions remained about how much of that infrastructure, expertise, and military research culture survived inside Russia. Those concerns remain unresolved. The U.S. State Department has assessed that Russia maintains an offensive biological weapons programme in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention. Russia denies this, but its relevant military biological facilities remain closed, opaque, and shielded from independent verification. Ukraine’s labs are discussed as public health and disease surveillance facilities. Russia’s military biological sites are treated as restricted state secrets. Ukraine’s cooperation with the United States was linked to biosafety, biosecurity, and reducing risks from dangerous pathogens inherited from the Soviet period. Russia, by contrast, has a documented Soviet bioweapons legacy, current official compliance concerns, and restricted military facilities that outside observers cannot meaningfully inspect. In 2024, satellite imagery and expert analysis reported major construction and expansion at Sergiev Posad-6, a restricted Russian Ministry of Defence biological research site with a Soviet-era bioweapons history. The reported construction began in May 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion and during the same period when Moscow intensified its claims about Ukrainian “biolabs.” That timing does not prove the new construction is an offensive biological weapons programme. But it does make Russia’s propaganda campaign look highly suspect. Russia demanded outrage over Ukrainian public health laboratories while expanding or upgrading its own secretive military-linked biological research infrastructure. The strongest factual argument is not that every Russian biological activity is illegal. It is that Russia has no credibility accusing Ukraine of hidden bioweapons activity while refusing transparency over its own military biological facilities. This is classic projection and deflection. Russia turns Ukrainian public health and threat-reduction work into a fake Western bioweapons plot. It shifts attention away from its own closed military biological sites. It muddies the waters around biological weapons compliance. Ukraine denies the allegations, points to peaceful public health work, and says it complies with international obligations. Russia has a Soviet bioweapons legacy, U.S.-assessed BWC violations, secretive military biological facilities, and refuses the transparency it demands from others. So when Russia talks about Ukrainian “biolabs,” the relevant question is why a country with closed military biological sites is trying so hard to redirect attention onto Ukraine’s public health laboratories.

Here are 10 things the EU and European countries could do right now to help Ukraine: 1. Seize frozen Russian state assets and use them to fund Ukraine. 2. Expand weapons aid and joint procurement, including artillery, drones, ammunition, and air defense systems. 3. Supply more long-range missiles (SCALP, Taurus) and remove restrictions on strikes against military targets inside Russia. 4. Deploy European troops to western Ukraine for training, logistics, maintenance, and air defense, freeing up Ukrainian forces for the front. 5. Crack down on sanctions evasion networks and tighten enforcement. 6. Intensify action against Russia's shadow fleet through inspections, sanctions, and port restrictions. 7. Create a Patriot coalition to provide more air defense systems and interceptors. 8. Launch a European lend-lease (PURL) program with long-term financing for weapons and industrial cooperation. 9. Lower the Russian oil price cap and ban remaining Russian LNG imports. 10. Commit to a postwar European peacekeeping and security presence to deter future Russian aggression. By doing this, we could accelerate Russia's total collapse, but the biggest constraints for these actions are political will and speed.

The Venn diagram of trillionaires and Nazis is literally just a circle.