The Kremlin continues its persistent but very much unsuccessful push to frame Europe as “decaying and collapsing”, a FIMI narrative that has failed to resonate broadly beyond its very own echo chambers.🧵

In 2022, just as columns of Russian tanks were lining up at the Ukrainian border, Russia's entire propaganda apparatus was gearing up to instill fear into the European population with apocalyptic images of a Europe that was going to starve and freeze without Russian energy. 🧵

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov, who used to pop in for unscheduled broadcasts to cover Trump, now says that an attempt on his life is not all that newsworthy, in light of all the problems Russia is currently experiencing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-70...

Le pavillon russe à la biennale de Venise vous fait honte ? Une signature, et vous le ferez savoir :

Pour le Kremlin l’ #art (comme le #sport) est d'abord un prétexte pour poursuivre par d’autres moyens sa guerre d'agression contre 🇺🇦. C'est pourquoi notre tribune dans @lemonde.fr dénonce la présence russe à la #BiennaleVenise. Vous pouvez lire & signer ici👇 @franceculture.fr @telerama.bsky.social

Russian firms face sky-high borrowing costs • Cost of money dominates economic debates in Russia, with firms delaying investment plans • Many Russian firms are posting losses amid weakening demand and high debt-servicing costs, with no relief in sight this year www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

L'imbarcazione #Shtandart è attesa nel capoluogo dal 5 al 16 maggio. Ma un collettivo internazionale chiede un intervento delle autorità italiane www.palermotoday.it/cronaca/vasc...

👀 Reportedly, #Russia plans no military hardware at its May 9 parade, will invite hundreds of guests instead of thousands, and squeeze the whole thing into under 60 minutes. At this rate, the next parade will be held with white flags.

Ce texte de @samdebendern.bsky.social m'émeut profondément. Elle était étudiante à Kyiv lors de l'accident. L'ambassade UK a ordonné l'évacuation de ses étudiants alors qu'en URSS et en particulier en Ukraine, la population était laissée dans l'ignorance. desk-russie.eu/2026/04/26/l...

Yesterday before my departure from Kyiv. Amazing Kyiv Security Forum, each year more exceptional, three book-launch events/conferences for Our War in Ukrainian, separate talks with Ukrainian officials/friends, some visits also outside Kyiv—always too short. This is not a slogan. Here's the strategy!

Literally, withdrawing is the only military operation anything connected to the Russian military does even half way competently.

🇮🇹 🚨 Allerta #Shtandart! Se avete dei contatti in Italia, vi sarei molto grato se me li segnalaste e/o condivideste questo testo con loro. Grazie 🙏 bernardgrua.net/2026/04/25/2...

🇫🇷 🚨 Alerte #Shtandart ! Si vous avez des contacts en Italie, je vous serais très reconnaissant de me les communiquer et/ou de partager ce texte avec eux. Merci 🙏 bernardgrua.net/2026/04/25/2...

We owe Russia absolutely nothing. They are the ones who owe us for breaking every promise and committing genocide in Europe. We need to stop acting like they dictate the terms. We should be the ones making demands on Moscow, not the other way around

”developments … show that European nations are working with shocking speed to free themselves from dependence on America.” The problem never was that Europeans cannot imagine European security without the US. The problem is that Americans can’t imagine that Europeans can do it.

In 2022 Russian propagandists tried to explain away defeats at the hands of supposedly inferior Ukrainians by claiming they were Americans instead. In 2026 Russian propagandists try to explain away defeats at the hands of supposedly inferior Tuaregs by claiming they are Ukrainians instead.

🟠 Trump: “The hatred between Putin and Zelenskyy is ridiculous.” Sure, why would Zelenskyy – or any Ukrainian – hate the man who started a war against Ukraine in 2014, launched a full-scale invasion in 2022, and is now dragging it into its fifth year with full support from Russian society?

Too many Europeans are still naively pretending a war inside the EU is impossible. We are underestimating the Russian threat right on our borders. We need to wake up, step up, and place massive defense orders right now. Deterrence is the only language Moscow understands

www.reuters.com/sports/finla... Finlande, Norvège et Pologne renoncent à organiser des compétitions internationales, suite à la réintégration des nageurs russes et biélorusses. Pas la France, qui accueille cet été le championnat d'Europe de natation avec hymne et drapeau 🇷🇺 à la clé.

#SadioCamara, ministre malien de la Défense, citoyen français selon les USA et sanctionné par eux pour avoir livré le #Mali à Wagner, gracié en février par Trump on ne sait trop pourquoi, a été tué par le #JNIM. Les Russes, si efficaces pour massacrer des civils, n'ont pas su protéger leur client.

OTD in 1986 absolutely nothing happened in Chernobyl apart from a rapid, unplanned disassembly which resulted in the plant achieving its 10 year energy target in 2 nanoseconds according to the plan.

Ukraine: Leonid Kindzelski, le héros oublié de Tchernobyl

Do not hesitate to translate this interview to read it if you're not fluent in french: this is an extraordinary one.

Très bel article d' @emmanuellechaze.com

"Le Premier ministre polonais Tusk : « Pour la première fois depuis des années, il n'y avait aucun Russe dans la salle. » *Robert Fico passe par là* Journaliste : « Vous en êtes sûr ? »"👍

Pologne / Le Premier ministre polonais Donald Tusk a fait remarquer que le sommet informel de l'UE à Chypre « se tient pour la première fois sans Russes », faisant clairement allusion au Premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban

Did you know that Estonia’s (with population of a little over 1 million) total mobilisable potential is 230 000, nearly 20% of the population ? I think most European countries can do a bit more.

Not that he's insecure, but Medvedev hasn't posted from this account in nearly 2 weeks, has millions of follows but still noticed this mockery quick enough to block inside a few hours. The level of❄️is as if Obama blocked a Russian language "parody" of Biden for being mean to him.

I’m curious, have any journalists ever directly asked Putin to withdraw? I’m sick of hearing this question posed to Zelensky. It’s obscene.

KAL's cartoon in The Economist this week

We never seen "Putin threaten genocide". We have seen: -Deportations -Killing civilians & targeting infra to set conditions of life calculated to bring destruction of 🇺🇦 & 🇺🇦ians -Genocidal rhetoric -Forced adoptions -Arrests for speaking 🇺🇦 -Forced change of citizenship... But no "threats"...

This is the way yle.fi/a/74-20222298

Good morning, Kyiv! Some full days ahead. My seventh trip to Ukraine since February 24, 2022. With emotion and confidence. To predict Ukraine's full victory is nothing but rational thinking.

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”

A Prague, dans les cafés "alternatifs", comme celui-ci, vous trouvez des photos de Václav Havel et du président actuel Petr Pavel. Et un accès wifi "mortaucommunisme" et le code 17111989. Parce qu'ici être "alternatif", c'est être pour la démocratie et l'Etat de droit.

𝗗𝗲́𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗶𝘁 𝗱’𝗢𝗿𝗺𝘂𝘇 : 𝘂𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗰 𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲́𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲́𝘁𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲́𝗿𝗮𝗹 La crise économique née dans le sillage de la guerre en Iran n’est pas seulement un choc pétrolier et gazier.

Great news! The greatest crook in Moldova, the once almighty oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, has been sentenced by the Chișinău Court to 19 years in prison for having stolen $1 billion in an enormous bank-fraud case in 2014. Well done, Moldova! www.bbc.com/news/article...

The 3 biggest lies about Russian propaganda: 1) It is only social media. 2) It is only the far right. 3) It is not propaganda if they "condemn" the invasion.

NEW: The Kremlin continues to use long-standing false narratives that the Ukrainian government is oppressing religious liberties as moral justification for its protracted war. Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 22, 2026: isw.pub/UkrWar042226 More Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/2)

If a reconstituted US system emerges after Trump, do we call it the Second Republic or the Second Empire?

Soon: "Brave warriors do not need helmets."

Soon: "Brave warriors don't need parachutes."

Great Russian culture spreading:

In Tuapse, the firefighters are unable to extinguish the fire, so they decided just to take photos in front of it.

D'après la moscovie contemporaine, les polonais sont russophobes depuis 10 siècles, soit bien avant l'existence de la Russie. 💩🤡 Et quel lieu mieux que Katyn pour en faire la "démonstration" ? L'ordure d'extrême droite, ici moskovite, tristement habituelle. fr.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Excellent article qui explique les raisons d'un décalage persistant entre les ambitions affichées par la Francesur la défense européenne et le peu de résultats concrets de celle-ci. (Spoiler alert: se contenter de discours, ce mal français, ne suffit pas) legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/04/2...

Today marks 30 years since Russia killed Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of #Ichkeria. On April 21, 1996, Dudayev was killed by Russian missiles after Russians tracked his location through a satellite phone.

Sweden's spy chief Nilsson: the Russian economy is set for disaster.