Year 4 of Russia's genocide war: the genocide now embedded into Russian entertainment industry 👇 Shocked but unastonished: 🇷🇺 state telly has been dehumanising Ukrainians & celebrating the murder of 🇺🇦 civilians for years. This is the logical end point.

On November 8, a Russian Shahed drone hit the house of Natalia from Dnipro. At the moment of the attack, she was on the balcony and recorded the first minutes after the strike. "I heard my dog howling. My legs went limp when I heard my daughter screaming, 'Dad, help me!'

The day so far in Russia's genocide war 👇

You can't smuggle wind or sunshine.

A Berlin-Warsaw alliance might be the most effective way to keep Russia at bay.

🕯️ Kherson farmer Oleksandr Hordiienko, who single-handedly cleared hundreds of hectares of mines after liberation from Russian occupation, was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Some? Given that intel passing through desks of Hegseth, Gabbard, Trump or other Rusamerican quislings goes straight to Kremlin, it's existentially insane for 🇬🇧 or 🇪🇺 intelligence services to share ANY info with 🇺🇸 👇

Instead of asking who bought & paid for Nigel Farage’s house in Clapton, or investigating the fraud committed by Farage’s allies in the European Parliament or asking why Farage is repeating the propaganda of the Kremlin,

the media are focused on who may or may not replace Starmer after a budget which hasn’t happened yet. The media sector is broken & they seem determined to avoid directing any scrutiny at Nigel Farage.

💔🇺🇦🏅 A deceased farmer from the Kherson region, who was demining fields on his own, has been awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

⚡️ Number of people injured in the Russian drone attack against Kharkiv has risen to 5, regional administration said. 📷 synegubov/Telegram

Reminder that Ukraine does a million times more to defend Europe than treacherous Rusamerica 👇

🤨 In Russia’s Far East, recruiters who failed to meet enlistment quotas are being sent to assault units.

In better news #everylittlehelps #slavaUkraini 👍👏👇

2/2 As part of the chemical works, a gas processing plant was built at the Stavrolen plant, which is a subsidiary of LukOil. It was last hit just 2 weeks ago. Officials hope you believe perfectly targeted "debris caused a fire in an open area which was quickly extinguished"

It's Wednesday 12 November 2025 and this is the start of THE daily Ukraine🧵 Some numbers: Day 1358 of Russia's full invasion 4279 days since the initial invasion 296 days since Trump's 2nd inauguration 246 days since Trump demanded a ceasefire. Ukraine agreed. Russia refused.

In Kharkiv multiple explosions this morning. Three drones have hit the central area of the city. Early reports indicate a civilian business and private houses have been damaged. So far, no update about injuries.

Before this new attack, 121 drones were recorded being launched by Russia. Ukraine stopped or shot down 90 (74%) of those UAVs But that left 31 strikes, which hit 19 different places.

💔 Ukrainian defenders and their cats. RIP Oleksii "Kuba" Stetsiuk.

But also this - limits to staying chirpy after more than 3 years at hard end of genocide war 👇 Those of us sleeping safely at western end of our continent can at least keep Ukrainian voices raised & batter our 'leaders' into waking up & smelling the fascists at our gates. And donate to 🇺🇦 defenders.

Good morning 👍👏👇 #slavaUkraini

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump Seeks to Soften UN Position on Ukraine — Not Just Ukraine at Risk? Washington wants to recast the resolution under the broader label “war in Ukraine” and omit wording such as “territorial integrity” or “aggression.” Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/trump-un-res...

Metaphor Klaxon!

1/6 Russia’s war economy is cracking under stagflation. Ukraine’s ongoing strike campaign could make things worse

6/6 This is stagflation. The war is bleeding Russia dry. Ukraine’s strikes and sanctions work, but only if Europe and the US keep up pressure. More weapons, more sanctions, and frozen assets for Ukraine will break Russia faster

"Homegrown, female-driven scary movies in which witches and zombies lay waste to invading troops are proving popular in Ukraine. But why seek out horror on screen if you have so much of it in real life?"

“The Ukrainian customer doesn’t care about attacks, doesn’t care about an absence of electricity supply: the Ukrainian customer needs their delivery on time.”

Why we can't have nice things: literally nothing can't be fucked up by feeding $billions to Blokes with social difficulties 🤦‍♀️👇

"If the war ends on any terms other than the total subjugation of Ukraine to Russia, 🇺🇦 will recover economically & rebuild its defenses. Moscow finds this outcome intolerable & its only plan to deal with it is to destroy the Ukrainian state. This is what Moscow means by addressing “root causes.”

Probably how Russians got taste for their 'human safari' on 🇺🇦 civilians 👇 "Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s."

Kherson marks one year since liberation. The film “Kherson: Resistance Goes On” follows locals rescuing people and delivering aid under Russian fire. 🧵 1/10 ⬇️

Watch the full documentary with English subtitles youtu.be/nYOSp4_quV0?...

🤬 Odesa is now under massive attack by UAVs

Russia’s plan to conquer Ukraine unfolds in three stages, according to Foreign Affairs. First: battlefield dominance. Second: occupy or devastate enough land to cripple Ukraine’s economy unless it complies with Moscow. Third: turn Ukraine into a satellite like Belarus. 2026 will be decisive.

Want to know how scared Russia is? Watch their actions. From "Kyiv in 3 days", to disconnecting mobile internet until "the end of the war". The Kremlin is so afraid of drone sanctions that they are now taking measures that risk mass social unrest. And the collapse continues.📉

Two things here are true. 1) Trump is MAGA and the movement will back whatever he wants. 2) the pivot to confront China by Trump was, is, and always will be a sham. He has strengthened China and weakened US allies.

The Democrats in the Senate who handed the GOP a lifeline with the shutdown cave in stopped a massive Trump cave in that would have happened sooner rather than later. With the busiest flying season approaching, Trump desperately needed a deal. Sadly Democrats gave it to him.

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