Trump got played by Putin. Again. He accepted Putin’s position on Ukraine as his own. Ukraine and Europe are now alone, needing to increase pressure on Russia and supporting its fight on the battlefield. It’s a terrible day for peace, security, and transatlantic relations.

For all Trump’s talk that his meeting with Putin was “a 10”, made “great progress” and was “successful,” Putin didn’t budge an inch. His demands—an end to Ukraine’s sovereignty and rolling back NATO’s eastward enlargement—remain unchanged. To maintain otherwise is delusional.

EU spends more on russian fuel than Ukraine aid.

A russian missile strike on Ukraine destroyed thousands of euro worth of medical equipment donated from Ireland, including hospital beds, electric wheelchairs, crutches, medicines, fire extinguishers, and specialised nutritional supplies. www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

"The US opposed a joint G7 effort to lower the $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil exports during last week's meeting of finance ministers… The mechanism was designed to limit the Kremlin's ability to finance its war against Ukraine." kyivindependent.com/us-blocks-g7...

Let’s not forget: the economies of #russia and #Canada are roughly the same size — which is 8% of the US economy.

🕯️🕯️🕯️russia murdered these three children last night while they were sleeping in their beds. 🕯️Stanislav forever 8😢 🕯️Tamara forever 12😢 🕯️Roman forever 17😢 Russia is a terrorist state!

My op-ed about #Crimea in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/inte...

Massive attack on all of Ukraine right now. 6 rockets and numerous drones have already hit Kyiv. 3-year old hospitalized, many people under the rubble. Yeah, putin really wants peace.

Russia continues attacks despite own Easter truce, Zelenskyy says Ukraine registered extensive hostile activity including hundreds of artillery strikes, direct assaults, and drone attacks, as Moscow tries to create a "general impression of ceasefire." euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/20/r...

Stand with Ukraine, Together to Victory #ukraine #ukrainians 📽️: Feel Ukraine Ukraine Now / Instagram

Palm Sunday massacre. At least 20 people, including children, are dead and more than 80 injured.

“With an economy the size of Texas and collapsing demographics, Russia knows it is no global superpower. Rather, it is a bloodsucking kleptocracy anchored in a dream of colonization”

These 9 children were killed yesterday by Russian missile on playground in Kriviy Rih #CrimesAgainstHumanity

“politicians must be honest with their voters: either we mobilize the necessary support for Ukraine to win, or we will have to mobilize you – the citizens of Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, and beyond – for military service in the years to come.” www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/...

“those who’ve lived next to a violent empire for centuries know full well that strength deters Moscow, while weakness invites its aggression”

This is Nicole, 5 years old, her dad Oleksandr and her mom. Nicole and Oleksandr were killed by Russia last night in Kyiv. The mom is in the hospital. The family moved to Kyiv from Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region, near the frontline. Deepest condolences.

🇨🇿🇺🇦 Peter Pavel urged partners not to remove the issue of NATO accession from the negotiations, as it is "the best and cheapest security guarantee." 🫡 In a final document his country will declare its support for Ukraine and outline other issues.

Instead of a thousand words, school students kneel before a funeral procession for a fallen Ukrainian hero. Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!

The aftermath of the Russian attack on Odesa last night. A post office, private homes, civilian, energy and port objects were damaged. This is Russia's "readiness for peace."

"Son, this is for you! Let them all perish!" Ihor Parkhomenko,experienced pilot of SU-25 attack aircraft and colonel of the assault aviation,decided to return to his unit to continue carrying out combat missions forty days after his 25-year-old son, Serhii Parkhomenko,died in battle on May 14, 2022

Ukrainian pilot

The value of the 1700+ nuclear weapons Ukraine gave away in 1994 was $2 trillion. Under the USSR, these weapons were aimed at the US. During negotiations, Ukraine offered to give them to America. Instead the US insisted they go to russia. We agreed because we trusted their promise to protect us.

3,606 cases of russian disinformation researched and replied to euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformati...

Very important reflections on the new world order by the former head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger. www.instagram.com/saintjavelin...

General Petraeus discusses security guarantees for Ukraine, the security of Europe and shares his experience youtu.be/YHZT4uk9Cjk?...

Very much looking forward to reading 'Who Will Defend Europe?'—the latest book by the always brilliant Keir Giles. "The fundamental condition for [Europe's] peace and security in the 21st century is Russia being neutralised as a threat."

🇺🇦🙏 "If the war ends with the status quo now, then in 2-3 years the Russians had time to rebuild, rearm, correct their mistakes, and resume the conflict, because they'll be confident that we lost interest," - Hodges YouTube interview ⬇️ youtu.be/S7F064vzMM0?...

Kind of fascinating how much Musk or various MAGA Republicans have still not clocked how quickly Far Right European nationalism can flip into virulent Anti-Americanism.

🇫🇷 "We cannot, as Europeans, let Russia win in Ukraine. It's about our security and the international order. The question is how to support Ukraine long-term, so they can resist and eventually negotiate a lasting peace. No solution can be made without Ukrainians," Macron said.

Hi Everyone. Sent out this post yesterday—which covers the rather telling similarity between how some western analysts and the Kremlin discuss the future of Ukraine. Its what Im calling, “The Vatnik Tell”.

As of 7 AM today, Ukraine has ceased Russian gas transit through its territory. A substantial step in cutting off a key lifeline for the Putin regime's global terror operations. Whether by ship or pipeline, Russian energy has no place in the civilized world.

🇺🇦❌ At 7:00, Ukraine stopped the transit of Russian gas through its territory, — the Ministry of Energy

✊🇺🇦 "It is so important today to support all the nations that defend freedom. Those who do not give it up in 🇲🇩Chisinau. Those who fight for their future in 🇬🇪Tbilisi. And I am sure that the day will come when we will all say ⚪️🔴⚪️ "Long live Belarus!" - Zelensky

💥💥💥 “In Sevastopol - Russia’s Crimea - there are a series of explosions caused by Ukraine 🇺🇦.” 👉 Correction: The noise you hear is freedom arriving to temporarily Russian-occupied Ukraine 🇺🇦. 🔥 Russian occupation will end. Russia will lose. Ukraine 🇺🇦 will be free.

Helsinki Commission: "On this day in 1991, the totalitarian Soviet empire collapsed, liberating hundreds of millions of people from slavery and genocide. Today, Russia seeks to rebuild this failed empire. We must stand with Ukrainians and Georgians and all free peoples to ensure they do not succeed"

Footage from inside the Azerbaijan Airlines flight after it was struck by Russian anti-aircraft fire shows holes in fuselage and a wounded passenger. Russians then jammed the plane's GPS, denied it's requests to land, directing pilots out to sea to destroy evidence, witnesses.

Finnish grid company Fingrid has reported another cable break in the Baltic Sea. The power supply via the Estlink 2 cable, which connects Finland and Estonia, was cut off. This is the 4th incident in the region in a month theins.ru/news/277510

Peace will only come when Russia is given guarantees that Ukraine will not defend itself when we attack it again.

🤬 Russian terrorists have released footage of two airstrikes on the Oncology Hospital building in Kherson…

⚡️UK’s Starmer urges G7 to intensify pressure on Putin with sanctions. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has emphasized the importance of inflicting "maximum pain" on Russian President Vladimir Putin through additional sanctions and enhanced military support for Ukraine.

Russia's ships that had to flee their naval base in Syria are now under-fueled and under-supplied drifting in the Mediterranean Sea without a plan of how they will get home. That's hilarious. youtu.be/ERUrPcjlyvw?...

Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children in just Mariupol. Persecuting Russian speakers such as myself, stealing Ukrainian property and land. Just if anybody asks…….

Today the UK Ministry of Defence gave a summary of events in the Black Sea. They basically stipulate that Ukraine rules over the Sea & Russia's Black Sea fleet has been reduced to a pitiful lifebuoy of perpetual despondency.