How residents of Lukianivka carry on is a measure of what is at stake as Washington and Western nations debate their support for Ukraine: not abstract political platitudes, but people who refuse, stubbornly and at real cost, to be erased by Russia.

“Come in, you can take a look, my son Roma is lying there. He is dead, not breathing,” says the mother whose house was hit by a missile in the Darnytsia district of the capital. 💔💔💔

Kyiv’s death toll from Russia’s mass attack has risen to 25, city authorities said. In Darnytskyi district, rescuers are still working at one of the destroyed sites, where 5 bodies have already been recovered and 8 people remain missing. Search and rescue operations continue without pause. #Ukraine

Kyiv endured another horrific night. At least 8 people have been killed and 34 others injured in Russia’s latest attack. Authorities have confirmed damage at no fewer than 28 locations across the city, with the vast majority affecting residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.

❗️In Kyiv's Darnytskyi district, there is damage to the first through sixth floors of a nine-story residential building, according to Klitschko.

❗️Horror: building on Darnytsia in Kyiv almost demolished by missile to its foundation, — local channels

A Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv killed at least 11 people and set off a major fire at the Pechersk Lavra monastery, one of the holiest sites in Eastern Orthodoxy, local officials said. https://wapo.st/4gmDFKM

Russia is a monsterous country that persecutes Christians in Russia and Ukraine. Any so called “believer” who supports Russia doesn’t follow REAL Jesus

In Kharkiv, five State Emergency Service rescuers were killed while extinguishing a fire after a repeated Russian strike. At least five more were injured‼️ Double taps are the deliberate murder of first responders. Russia does it on purpose.

tonight they're denazifying art, culture and history the world watches filthy russians abuse a nation and continue to hold meetings and not do much else in fact they still do business with russia funding their terror Europe is not what I thought it was

Russian forces hammered Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight, firing more than 70 missiles and launching 650 attack drones that killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more, officials said.

There is nothing human in Russians left. They are destroying everything around.

🇺🇦 Crazy assholes! — this is how President Zelenskyy commented on today's Russian attack on Kyiv and the region.

💔😪 21 people, including 3 children, died in a Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of May 14

Russian strikes killed 8 people and wounded 11 in Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, the regional administration said. Nikopol, Synelnykove and Kryvyi Rih areas were hit, damaging homes, infrastructure, vehicles, an enterprise and a gas pipeline. #Ukraine

Don’t let them tell you that Ukraine depleted our weapons stocks. They didn’t. Completely different systems. In fact, because of Ukraine our industrial base has improved. They lie and lie. We won’t fall for it

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24 hours ago: Trump says Iran will never close Hormuz. Today: Iran closes it and fires on ships. Add in Vance celebrating defunding Ukraine—and yeah, it’s a mess. I break it all down in this week’s review 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsI_...

⚡️ Russia slams Ukrainian cities in mass missile attack overnight — at least 13 dead, 86 injured. Russian missiles destroyed homes, burned buildings, and killed civilians in Ukraine's major cities in a mass overnight strike.

And here was a so-called "referendum" when Russians simply forced people to vote.

💔 An 11-year-old child was killed and five adults were injured as a result of strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region, - OVA.

Nikopol 🙏

This is heartbreaking to watch💔 Russia hit Odesa overnight with strike drones. Three people were killed. One of them was a two-year-old child. Sixteen more were injured, including a pregnant woman and children - the youngest not even a year old.

Update: Russians killed 3 people including a 2-year-old child, local authorities said. At least 15 were wounded, including a pregnant woman and two children. Victims suffered shrapnel wounds, burns and smoke inhalation, with some in serious condition. #Ukraine

Today in Odesa, a little two-year-old girl was killed by Russia, along with her 30-year-old mother. A 53-year-old woman was also killed. And this is only Odesa.

You can agree on two things simultaneously. 1) Europe absolutely needs to increase defense spending and be more self-sufficient. Quick aside: many of their weapons WE make. Good for economy. 2). NATO is essential.

⚡️ 2 Moscow Patriarchate-linked monks exposed in Kharkiv over alleged sexual crimes against minors. The case involves a 52-year-old novice monk and a 24-year-old hieromonk from the same church, according to investigators.

🙏🇺🇦 There were 19 newborns in the Odesa maternity hospital attacked by a Russian drone at the time of the strike. At the time of the strike, 33 patients, including 22 women in labor and 19 newborns, were in Odesa Maternity Hospital No. 5.

⚡️Russia strikes maternity hospital, educational institutions in Odesa, injures 10. Russian forces launched a drone attack on the city of Odesa overnight on March 28, injuring at least 10 people, including a child, in strikes on civilian infrastructure, officials reported.

A reminder to all of us that it is for years innocent people and children continue to die in Ukraine.

🤬 Russia struck Zaporizhzhia, two children were killed and two were injured. ❗️+ Most of the Chernihiv region is without electricity after a Russian attack on an energy facility in the Nizhyn district.

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Israel never sent the ground troops to help the US in either Iraq nor Afghanistan. This time I will be the same, although it started to help them in the first place. But Israel is good and Europe, UK and Ukraine are bad...

🇺🇸🤔 Jared Kushner is reportedly trying to raise $5 billion+ for his private equity firm Affinity Partners from Middle Eastern governments while serving as Trump’s Middle East envoy, raising conflict-of-interest concerns, - NYT

🇦🇪🇮🇷 Port of Fujairah (UAE) after Iranian drone attack yesterday.

“I broke it now you fix it.”

🇺🇸 John Bolton on U.S. easing sanctions on Russia for lower oil prices: "I think they drank a lot of vodka in the Kremlin when they heard that news. This is an absolute gift to the Russians."

Here’s how you save the war: Enter a joint venture with Ukraine build as much counter drone stuff as they can, give Ukraine as much as they need to press Russia on the battlefield, and knockout Iran and Russia at the same time Or retreat in a worse place than we started

So Russia is helping Iran target American troops. Ukraine is offering drone defense. Guess who Trump NEVER ONCE has EVER criticized? Correct. Russia

❗️👀 Axios: Iraqi Kurds are trying to stay neutral in the Iran war, resisting pressure from both Iran and Iranian Kurdish militants who want to launch attacks from Iraqi territory. Kurdish officials fear they cannot defend against Iranian drones + fear being abandoned by the U.S. if the war ends.

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❗️Half of the house in Kharkiv is gone: ballistics simply demolished it. People are lying under the rubble

Ukraine offers to help defend the West from Iranian drones. Russia helps Iran track American forces. And the White House eases sanctions on Russian oil. Explain that to the families of U.S. troops. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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Why Ukraine Is Helping the U.S. in the Iran War And Why Allies Matter youtu.be/1BAovNq55b0

🇺🇳🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US did not support the UN resolution on Ukraine. The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution "Supporting a lasting peace in Ukraine" The resolution calls for an immediate ceasefire, respect for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, the exchange of prisoners of war

An explosion was reported at a closed gas station in Mykolaiv. Seven police officers were injured, with two in serious condition, according to preliminary reports. This is already the third attack in two days on police buildings and officers. #Ukraine

❗️Slovakia has officially stopped emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine in response to the suspension of Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline, Prime Minister Fico said. He stated that Slovakia will not provide assistance if Ukraine requires support to stabilize its energy system.