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This is Zaporizhzhia today. Russian drones struck a residential neighborhood where ordinary people live their daily lives. Please, do not look away. Do not stay silent, world. Help keep the truth visible.

Ook ons kabinet wil straks mensen naar ‘terugkeerhubs’ kunnen sturen. Voor de duidelijkheid: dat zijn dus uitzetcentra. In een land dat ze niet kennen. Schokkend dat zoveel partijen het prima vinden om zélfs gezinnen met kinderen hier naartoe te sturen.

When a person says they want to keep murdering, believe them! And support the victims of the attack in their resistance.

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Don’t just invoke Article 4. Inflict consequences.

Voor de verkiezingen beloofde D66 om de rekening voor €20 miljard neer te leggen bij de grootste vermogens en winsten. Daarvan is precies €0 in het coalitieakkoord terechtgekomen. Gevolg hiervan: de rekening wordt volledig neergelegd bij gewone werkende mensen.

A Russian Shahed hit a residential building in Galați, Romania, wounding two. Romania's Defense Ministry confirmed it was Russian. Locals are sharing footage of Geran-2 debris and the moment of impact.

„We bevinden ons aan het einde van een lange historische cyclus, van een lange periode van imperia en absolute monarchieën. Die periode komt nu tot een eind. Dat is mooi.” Oksana Zaboezjko @evapeek.bsky.social @nrc.nl #OorloginOekraïne #Cossee www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

Despite the massive attack on May 24, the doors of Mystetskyi Arsenal opened, and the 14th International Book Arsenal began in Kyiv

Deze geweldige filosofe en uitmuntende columnist kan een steuntje in de rug gebruiken 🙏

London Underground announcements we’d all secretly wish to hear… a thread: “The Circle line is mostly for chumps but change here if that’s you”

I’m in Vilnius to send a clear message: Europe stands in full solidarity and unity with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. And we are stepping up our support. Because when Baltic States are being tested, Europe as a whole is being tested.

‘Beide boeken zijn, om verschillende redenen, prachtig. Bevlogen. Rijk. Menselijk.’ Mooie woorden van Joost de Vries in de Volkskrant over ‘Vrouwen die oorlog zien’ van Victoria Amelina, vertaald door @wordsecho.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/boeken/hoe-l...

Kyiv bids farewell to 12yo Lyubava and 17yo Vira Yakovlieva, murdered in the russian missile attack on their home on May 14. Many defenders, their fallen dad's brothers-in-arms arrived to pay them the last tribute. This is unbearable.

There were more Russian vehicles in Kiev than at Moscow #VictoryDay parade. This means we are winning.

Die Ukraine erlaubt es Russland, morgen eine Parade abzuhalten. Wie sich die Zeiten doch ändern

Mooi! @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social is bezig de daad bij het woord te voegen. Heel goed en inspirerend hoe hij zijn nieuwe rol vormgeeft. Ik las dit artikel en nu ben ik aan het nadenken wat ik zelf moet, wil en kan doen. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Drie Oekraïense auteurs, Andrej Koerkov, Artem Chapeye en Victoria Amelina, zijn niet alleen schrijvers – ze leven de oorlog. En wij kunnen niet langer neutraal, afstandelijk of vrijblijvend lezen. Victoria Amelina werd slechts 37 jaar.

Voor @groene.nl schreef ik over de boeken van Koerkov, Chapeye en Amelina. Ze schrijven of schreven de oorlog. Hoe lezen wij?

'Zolang we Amelina blijven lezen, is ze nog bij ons.’ Florian Jacobs (de opbrengsten van het boek komen ten goede aan Protect Ukraine, een Nederlandse organisatie die hoognodige goederen naar het front stuurt) @wordsecho.bsky.social @isvw.bsky.social #ProtectUkraine isvw.nl/podcast/afle...

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

“Magyar… has also pledged to allow the EU to proceed with its €90bn loan to Ukraine. Kyiv is the biggest winner outside Hungary of this election, while Moscow is the biggest loser…”

As Ukraine marks another Easter in the shadow of war, this message from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska reflects the resilience, faith, and unity that continue to guide the nation forward. Their words speak to the belief that even in the darkest times, light will prevail.

Meanwhile in Bucha. Happy Easter! 🐣

Primo Levi 31 juli 1919 - 11 april 1987 'De plaag is weg, maar de infectie is er nog steeds. Het wegebben van menselijke solidariteit, de cynische onverschilligheid voor het lijden van anderen, de abdicatie van het verstand en de ethiek in de uitoefening van autoriteit.’ Primo Levi #PrimoLevi

Die Rationalität der weiblichen Unterwerfung in @zeit.de heute

Roel Meijvis’ essay Waar verzet begint stond op de shortlist voor de Socratesbeker. André van Delft (Radboud Universiteit) prijst in deze recensie Meijvis’ eerlijkheid, en stelt de vraag of een beter milieu toch echt bij onszelf begint. Het antwoord vind je hier: bijnaderinzien.com/2026/04/10/b...

Seizoensafsluiter! @lubach.nl

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

Bucha has come to symbolise the cruelty of Russia’s war. Of the civilians killed, many were shot at close range. Some with their hands tied behind their backs. Four years after these mass killings, we remember the victims. What happened here cannot be denied. (1/2)

The EU is committed to ensuring that these crimes do not go unpunished, including by supporting the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression, alongside the Claims Commission. Russia must be held accountable for what it has done to Ukraine. (2/2)

Let’s be clear: Russia attacks, Russia refuses a ceasefire, Russia chooses to continue its war of aggression every single day. Ukraine has offered an unconditional ceasefire and wants peace. While Ru refuses to stop the war, Ukraine defends itself and retaliates. Ukraine has never attacked anyone.

The weather is very nice today, it’s a sunny day, and I really want to go outside for a walk, but we are staying at home because russian Shahed drones are flying around. They are being shot down, we can hear explosions, so we are hiding. This is what our Sunday looks like.

Look, world. This is a maternity hospital in Odesa that was targeted by a russian “Shahed” drone. At the moment of the strike, there were 32 pregnant women, 22 newborn babies, and 27 medical staff members inside. Everyone was evacuated. Including newborn twins who were on ventilators. 1/2

🤩 The situation in St. Petersburg after the attack by Ukrainian drones on the ports of the Leningrad region

Dit verhaal van mijn collega @lamyae.bsky.social moet elke Nederlander lezen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

AI made elite chess more human, by @kevinlincoln.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Phillips is completely right here. It is absurd to repeat an obviously false framing. And it is harmful, because once stated in the NYT it becomes credible.

Ukraine is holding back Russia and thus fulfilling the entire traditional mission of NATO without any soldiers or sailors from other countries. Trump is meanwhile demanding NATO allies leave the continent they are supposed to be defending to join him in a doomed adventure he chose in the Middle East

A well-timed pawn break

Historians will record the Ukrainian war as a turning point when the free world eventually got its act together and resisted the pressure."

Putin made this same mistake as many dictators before him. He underestimated the power of free people, the power of freedom. While Putin expected to take Kyiv for 3 days, it was very painful to see that Americans and Europeans also expected Ukraine to fall.

KASPAROV: "The outcome of the war in Ukraine will affect every struggle for democracy. The heroic battle of Ukrainian nation led by great President Zelenskyy offered us hope. It demonstrated again, at a very high cost, that nothing can break the will of free people.

One of the greatest thinkers of our time, Jürgen Habermas, has passed away, whose works we studied back at university. Much later, in February 2023, I sent a letter to Herr Habermas through my publisher at Suhrkamp. The letter was a response to his call for dialogue between Ukraine and Russia.. 1/6

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Today, media outlets around the world are publishing my winter essay in different languages. In the text, I mention my friend, whom the war gave me and took away from me and everyone who loved Viktoria Amelina. I know that as long as we remember our dead, they are alive.

Begin 2022, met sombere vooruitzichten op een Russische aanval, schrijft Victoria Amelina: "Er zullen black-outs zijn en...... " (in haar postume manuscript was deze zin onvoltooid)

◾️ Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary by Olena Stiazhkina; ◾️ The Showman by Simon Shuster; ◾️ Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina. Friends, have you read any of these? And what books would you recommend reading on this subject? 📹: ancienttorecent/Instagram