The leading historian of conflict says the atrocities in Ukraine are rooted in a uniquely brutal mindset that can be traced back centuries. And Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump appear fully to embrace the Soviet perspective on official cruelty. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...

A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack. The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”

Guys, you should meet Cactus, a little jaguar cub from Kharkiv. He lives in the ecopark and he is soooo cute 😻🐾

Exactly. Ukrainian civil society, like that of the Republic of Georgia, is an example to the rest of the world. It simply cannot and must not lose the war. Democracy is rare in history; tyranny is the rule. If Ukraine loses, its vibrant civil society may be lost, perhaps forever.

Ukraine's teen suicide rate: 21.6 per 100,000, ranking 11th worldwide. US rate: 15 per 100,000. The gap: American teens struggle in peacetime. Ukrainian teens process trauma between air raids euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/27/w... 📷Voices of Children

One year of continuous resistance #GeorgiaProtests The fight for freedom continues! ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺 Video by David Tsintsadze

Look at her bright, lovely face. Imagine what might have been had she and her mother not been killed. Think of the laughter at all the memories they would have shared as they grew older, memories they would have passed on from one generation to the next. Oh, the laughter that is no more!

Every day at 9am, Ukraine honors those killed by Russian aggression with a minute of silence. Odesa now officially pauses traffic at red lights at 9 am.

"So, regarding these leaks. They could be fake, could be genuinely overheard conversations [...]" This is typical of Russian propaganda: "It could be this, it could be that, who knows?" the goal of which is epistemological uncertainty and eventually, nihilism.

Yes. Looking forward to teaching a few of them next semester in my Eastern European politics class!

The PLA is undergoing a dramatic purge of its top leadership. The heads of all but one of the PLA’s five regional commands are currently unaccounted for, are under investigation or have been fired. The navy and the ground force have followed the rocket force in having their commanders targeted.

A bit puzzled. I didn't expect this from Nawrocki.

Budanov retains his poker face even when greeting former prisoners who were in Belarus'. I'm so happy that they're home. Слава Україні!

I've long thought that Frida Kahlo is the better of the two, even back when she was seen as a mere appendage of Rivera. The colors and subjects of her paintings are more interesting, more unexpected, than those of Rivera.

Damn it, we've warned you people over & over since the beginning of the 2/24/22 invasion. We warned you abt the dire consequences of not supplying Ukraine with every weapon it requested, in the ranges & numbers requested, not just for Europe but Taiwan & the whole факінґ world. Yet you dithered.

This is fantastic news! Throughout history, in all parts of the world, rural populations have tended to be conservative. Hang in there, Hungarians. April 2026 is coming.

Oh beautiful, beautiful Харків! A city I know only through its writers, its artists, and reading its history! A city I dream of visiting one day so I can wander its streets: The lights, including the umbrellas hanging from the trees; and the gold statues of musicians with lampshades on their heads!

My brother put on his Appalachian Business Shirt (a flannel) and now he’s strutting around like a full-time lumberjack. Sir, you can’t even find your own tail. Please stop trying to unionize the squirrels. #TuesdayMotivation #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky #dogs

Вічна пам’ять, Oleksandr Savov!🕯️ “'Captivity keeps killing even after release,' Oleksandr Savov’s daughter said.”

Ukraine matters to the security of the free world.

Whenever we've thought that the Russians had hit rock bottom — that surely there must be a limit to their depravity — again and again, we hear knocking from below.

World War II–era shells were discovered in the Kharkiv region. The dangerous find was made in a field during routine agricultural work. This is not an isolated incident, but a common occurrence in Ukraine. We are still demining decades later.

This video is almost exactly the same as the moment I was wounded: a mortar attack, guided by a drone, contusion and another 20 minutes underground (under a train car in the video) with shrapnel in my neck before the drone flew away. Turn on the sound to hear what modern war sounds like.

The best thing for a child—other than a lot of love—is a pet, which is really part of the love. Dogs love their people unconditionally, and this unconditional love is the best teacher for children. Children who are loved by dogs will carry that experience into adulthood; they'll never forget it.

Ukrainian forces blew up the road from Selydove to Pokrovsk, a key route for Russian assaults in Donetsk Oblast Located northwest of Pokrovsk, the road had been used by Russian troops to move light vehicles and conduct attacks euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/15/u...

When I visited PEN Ukraine in Kyiv in September 2023, I was photographed by Kostiatyn Huzenko, who documented the war. He enlisted in the Ukrainian armed forces this April and was killed on November 1 by a Russian missile. Courage, truth, memory united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

✈️🇺🇦 Video about Ukrainian F-16 ground technicians who work nonstop—without pause, even under enemy fire and strikes. They prepare fighter jets for missions: they prepare the aircraft several times a day, supporting dozens of sorties from a single airfield.

I'd completely forgotten about this. As I recall, Russian officials started giving meat grinders to the families of fallen soldiers back in 2022. One would expect to find a story like this in a satirical newspaper like The Onion @theonion.com.

The Georgian version of "The Torture Camp on Paradise Street": www.artanuji.ge/book_ge.php?...

"certain measures"!

Putin had clones of his offices built&is hiding in the Valdai forests, surrounded by 14 air defense systems,according to journalists from the investigative project Systema,RFE/RL's Russian investigative unit, who analyzed thousands of official video recordings from recent years.⤵️

Happy Berlin Wall fall day! Good riddance to the Wall and the regimes that had built it. Celebrate the freedom that followed and don't fall for revisionism. The hard next decade was the pain of extrication from a failed political and economic project. This is my high school class on that day.

Zelenskyy: "Europe fears the word ‘escalation.’ They believe any response is escalation - but Russia sees non-forceful, intellectual responses as weakness." This is exactly right. We are at war a thug, or a school bully. Give them something and they will demand more!

I'm just a self-taught historian of eastern Europe & it's infuriating that I have a better understanding of ru & its history than Western policy makers. No one will listen to me but there are plenty of people with PhDs who've tried to warn these policy makers, and they won't listen to them, either.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course!

Look at these darling Ukrainian children!

Friends, In the comments to my post about a Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva performing in Barcelona there are a lot of statements that the ballerina cannot do anything on her own, that her job is art, not fighting against the Kremlin's regime.

Data on fallen volunteer soldiers from different countries who gave their lives for Ukraine as of October 27, 2025. Here are the 21 countries whose soldiers have made the greatest sacrifice. In total, volunteer soldiers from 65 countries around the world have died defending Ukraine.

A beautiful film about a small group of artists living in Kharkiv and their experiences during full-scale war. #Ukraine youtu.be/1tMHu8WxoUs?...

A happy ending in Ukraine.

This is mostly for gullible russians, so that if the attack happens, the russian people will know ahead of time who to blame. As if NATO countries could be bothered to get off their rear ends to do ANYTHING.

Senior German officials have accused the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of deliberately abusing parliamentary powers to collect and likely pass secret information about the country's military capabilities and the state of critical infrastructure to Russia. Source: Der Spiegel

I don't know how I missed this, but last year members of the NYCPD and San Antonio PD participated in UAE swat games with Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechen PMC Akhmat. The pro-Russia Akhmat has committed numerous war crimes in Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

NEW: Russian officials have seized on recent US efforts to repatriate deported Ukrainian children, downplaying the massive scale and systematic nature of Russia’s deportation campaign and to advance Kremlin efforts to restore bilateral US-Russia relations. 🧵(1/5) Read more: isw.pub/RussianDepor...

"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Join us on 12.11. at 18h for our book presentation "Russia against Ukraine: Russian Political Mythology and the War on Ukrainian Identity" with @shekhovtsov.substack.com & Tatiana Zhurzhenko. Moderation: Loïc Simonet Register: www.oiip.ac.at/events/russi...

Факінґ басьтардс. Вічная пам’ять🕯️

Interesting watching what looks like tanks pushing the Toblerones aside.

Zelensky confirmed Ukraine is already using new domestically produced missiles named “Flamingo” and “Ruta,” with mass production expected by the end of the year. He also mentioned expanded production of various Neptune missile types and missile-drones like “Palyanytsia” and “Peklo”.