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1991: Ukrainian SSR proclaims its intention to become a permanently neutral stat.
1994: Russia signs Budapest memorandum guaranteeing Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty
2010: Ukraine passes legislation with a binding neutral status
Early 2014: russia invades Ukraine
Late 2014: Ukraine removes its neutral status due to russian invasion
2014-2022: absolutely every NATO member denies Ukraine possibility to join NATO.
2022: Russia invades again
2026 idiot on twitter: if it Ukraine stayed neutral russia would have never invaded.
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One has to be insufferably fucking dumb to still seriously believe that Boris Johnson suddenly came and “forbade Ukraine from making peace with Russia” in 2022 -- rather than the fact that Russia had never offered no genuine peace deal at all, instead demanding Ukraine's complete capitulation and the annihilation of its military.
And that's despite having just suffered a crushing defeat at Kyiv and already being in the process of redeploying its battered forces to Donbas to continue the war (remember how in April 2022 we were counting days to the beginning of Russia's new grand offensive in the east as the war's new phase after Kyiv?).
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has always been easy to understand if you were paying attention.
It was never about NATO expansion or language or land or “ethnic unification.”
It has always been about breaking a people’s ability to remain Ukrainian - to live, raise their children, preserve their identity, and build a future on their own terms.
It is genocidal. Look at the last 48 hours.
A Russian drone hits a school in Kyiv, with more than 100 school children sheltering inside.
Russia strikes the bridges that connect the city across the Dnipro.
It attacks the energy and water infrastructure Ukrainians will depend on as winter approaches.
And in occupied Oleshky, civilians are starving while Russian forces confiscate food dropped by Ukrainian drones and then interrogates people who dare to accept aid to keep from dying of hunger.
Schools. Bridges. Power. Food.
These are the basic architecture of civilian life.
And this pattern did not begin this week. It stretches through destroyed cities, deported children, pressure on Ukrainian language and identity in occupied territory, and the systematic dismantling of normal life wherever Russia occupies.
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Every single Russian who moved to Mariupol is a criminal.
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Russians bombed an Orthodox church in Kramatorsk today.
These people also constantly accuse Ukraine of oppressing Christianity.
Crazy barbarians
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: An interview with the human safari survivor.
Yuri, 52, was sorting out garlic at his farmers market stand when a Russian drone started to chase him. It pursued Yuri around in circles and then struck him.
Yuri and his doctor spoke to me at a hospital in Kherson🧵
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In the frontline city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, I just met with the renowned General Andrii Biletskyi, founder of the Azov Battalion and commander of the Third Army Corps in Ukriane @ab3army. Combat operations against Russia are ongoing just 30 kilometers from Kharkiv, and Russia attacks the city with ballistic missiles and drones almost daily.
It was very dangerous for me to travel to this city in Eastern Ukraine amid nonstop air raids, but I went there anyway to speak to the founder of Azov and ask him what every taxpayer in America wants to know:
Is it true or false that Azov Battalion and the Ukrainian Army are full of swastika waving Neo-Nazis? Are our tax dollars funding an army of Nazis to fight the Russians? I asked the General and Founder of Azov himself. No questions were off limits.
General Biletskyi gave me a tour of the city and showed me Rymarska Street, where Ukrainians fought their first armed battle against the Russians in 2014.
He answered all of my questions and walked me through the detailed history of Azov Battalion and the Third Army Corps. We also spoke about the future of modern warfare and how Ukraine’s fight is relevant to the USA and America’s long term national security.
Full interview coming soon! You don’t want to miss it!
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‘Just stop sending weapons, and the war will end.’
Correct. It will. Let me describe the ending, since its advocates never do.
We know exactly what Russian occupation looks like, because Ukraine has liberated towns and counted. Bucha lived under Russian rule for thirty-three days: 458 bodies. Torture basements in district after district, standardized like franchises. Twenty thousand children deported for ‘reeducation.’ Mayors executed. Teachers filtered. Mass graves with bound wrists.
Now extend thirty-three days to forever, and one town to a nation of forty million.
That is the ‘peace’ this arithmetic purchases.
If Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends — not as a flag on a map, but family by family, basement by basement, off camera, for years.
Weapons are not prolonging this war. They are the only thing standing between an entire nation and Bucha at scale.
Pacifism that disarms the victim has a proper name: complicity with better manners.
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Thank you to General Oleksandr Syrskyi for years of selfless service during the most difficult times for our state, and for continuous support of the Azov Brigade and, later, the Azov Corps. These years as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine demanded exceptional resilience and professionalism from General Syrskyi.
At the same time, I want to congratulate Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi on his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine! General Drapatyi is a commander forged in combat and one of the finest examples of Ukraine's new generation of officers, bringing extensive experience and a deep understanding of the situation across various sectors of the front. He also brings a team capable of driving positive change, and I believe this team can significantly strengthen our military capability. I wish the Commander-in-Chief strength, wisdom, and steadfastness in this demanding role. Let's keep working together to defend our homeland.
Mykhailo, congratulations on assuming the toughest job in the world!
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Another Wildberries logistics hub was struck in Russia, this time near Domodedovo, Moscow region.
It was bound to happen, eventually.
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This is what I filmed today as I went to buy vitamins in a corner drugstore after work. (Oh and at work I filmed anti-drone unit shooting down Russian drones)
Drones are executing people at bus stops and in buses.
Moving around Kherson is harder and harder.
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Woche um Woche erhöhen wir den Druck. Die Ukraine kann sich auf uns verlassen.
Es ist auch unsere Freiheit, die auf dem Spiel steht.
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People often ask, why wouldn't you leave Ukraine...
Nevermind the fact that I am doing volunteer and journalist work here and I don't want to leave my countrymen and my Ukraine at its darkest hour.
But let me be super real with you, being a refugee sucks fucking ass.
Nobody is beating me up here for being Ukrainian or speaking it.
Nobody will tell me "go back to your country, leech" or "go home" or lecture me about our own history and forcing me to accept their version.
I am home.
Amongst my people.
Living in dignity.
If I die to yet another russian drone or bomb, then so fucking be it. Worth it.
On that note...
Gonna go buy protection for my soldiers.
Slava Ukraini.
A 19-year-old Ukrainian was brutally beaten in Wrocław after speaking his native language.
In the Polish city of Wrocław, a group of young men violently assaulted a 19-year-old Ukrainian after hearing him speak Ukrainian on the phone. The attack took place on July 4 on Słodowa Island.
The victim suffered a broken nose, a spinal injury, and multiple bruises. Police are investigating the assault and are asking witnesses to help identify the attackers.
