Very cool stuff!

On May 21, #Ukraine celebrates Vyshyvanka Day, which falls on the third Thursday of May. The holiday was started in 2006 by students of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. The idea was simple: for one day, everyone who wanted to could come to school or work wearing a vyshyvanka.

Another journalistic investigation (this time from Armenia) shows, through internal documents, correspondence, and operational reports, how Russia systematically organizes (through networks of agents and European collaborators) disinformation, propaganda, and manipulation campaigns in Europe. 🧵

You should know. From the ISW, via Reuters

Do not be fooled. This is Trump going to China to beg Xi for help with Iran and opening the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has now succeeded in making US the de facto Power no 3 of the world, after EU and China. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is just one of many. As I've said before, the Russian diaspora is a critical part in the grey import market, and especially the import of dual-use technologies.

That it fellas, we're done for. They're spraying unholy water at us.

A must read for anyone of influence in Europe (or just concerned like me 🙂). 👇 some of the “mental” problems of Europe today but Vexler also points to what can be done.

Twenty six, incl a toddler girl & a 10yo boy, were injured in a brutal overnight bombing of Dnipro. For 6h, russians shook the city w drones, ballistics & cruise missiles. Isn't it terrifying that this daily violence stopped being newsworthy? Silence kills. Photo Hromadske.

A depressing read, but just in case anyone still had doubts about russia being an imperial monstrosity.

This gave me chills. Watch.

Interesting

I explained how things are going on in Romania and figured it might be interesting for other fellas to look at this horror show. I can back everything I've said with links, if anyone wants them, but I didn't want to clutter the thread too much.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

😄 The situation on Russian Telegram channels now…

If you haven’t heard a Ukrainian song today yet, you should fix that 💙💛 🎥 kvitka_official

It's kind of crazy to think that three Russian invasion of Ukraine has lasted for longer than the "great patriotic war", and has similar casualty numbers. And just like before, it started with a mild success for the fascists before things turned around and the bunker man is ended.

Sometimes you read something, and the only possible reaction is "WTF?!?" As Russia's birth rate drops to levels not seen since the early 1800s, Putin is demanding mass reproductive health screenings. And the Health Minister claims these screenings are "very popular." WTF?!? 🤯

This scenario reminds me of the Romanian film “The Silent Wedding”, inspired by a real event that took place in March 1953, when a silent wedding was held in a Romanian village as a result of the national mourning caused by Stalin’s death. 🧵

You can’t imagine how desperate a volunteer feels, trying to help, but fundraising posts get ignored, even a simple share feels good. I appreciate all of you who desperately try to boost our fundraisers🫶

❗️Ukraine and Italy will work out the details of the Drone Deal between the countries, — Zelenskyy “Ukraine has developed a special format of the security agreement, which we call the Drone Deal format.

I'm shocked. Shocked and surprised.

BREAKING NEWS: Kuwait says its air defenses are currently intercepting hostile drones that breached the country’s airspace and targeted several vital facilities.

Couldn't have said it better myself...

So much winning. Please, can we stop winning?

I would like to point out that the #US military has already committed several such war crimes on behalf of the #Trump regime, for which German officers were executed after 1945!

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The only correct usage of the Budapest memorandum…

Can we maybe now all agree that our total dependence on the US is a greater threat than the notion of a federal European Union? While national leaders were spreading scare stories about an all-powerful Europe, we are now at the mercy of a deranged guy with his finger on the nuclear button

Will likely become a useful resource in the coming days.

This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>

If you're a fellow EU citizen, consider this initiative and supporting it. If you're not aware, this is not a useless "change.org" style petition. It will have ramifications, if enough people sign it.

This news hasn’t been posted enough to "bury" Hungary’s and Serbia’s accusations from yesterday. The head of Serbian intelligence rejected the claims that Ukraine was behind the TurkStream incident and said that the markings on the explosives indicate American manufacture, without accusing US. 1/2

🇸🇾🇺🇦 #Zelenskyy met with Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. Just a reminder: Syria was one of Russia’s biggest strategic assets for more than half a century. This was not just a humiliation for Moscow - they wiped their feet on it.

If 349 fellas would donate only €5, we will close this fundraiser today, let’s go🫶

‼️ Russia: “United Russia has been waiting for almost a month for the primary website to be included in the "white lists."” 👉 “to make the preliminary voting website available immediately after the widespread mobile phone outages in Moscow” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL www.kommersant.ru/doc/8569722

Oil port in Novorossiysk, Russia is on fire 💥🔥 Perfection 😍

It's been my conviction that Trump is envious of Zelenskyy's inability to hold elections due to constitutional provisions, and he is trying to replicate it.

Why is the world today in the state it is? We can all see it, right? Just look at what the USA has become. That alone ought to give you pause and get you to work together against the evil we see all around. But where does it come from? Who's pushing this and how long has this been going on?

This is quite something. Not even Ruzzia stooped this low. UA commander of the armed forces, Syrskyi is russian, and his parents and rest of his family still live there. Embarrassing. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

🇺🇦🇪🇬 The President of Ukraine held a conversation with the leader of Egypt. During the discussion, the Egyptian president stated that his country will no longer accept grain exported by Russia from Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories Egypt will purchase Ukrainian grain through legal channels.

‼️ Russia: Thread There’s a new article out today related new data published by the Russian Ministry of Finance on Oil & Gas sales. I want to provide some context about what is going on first because these sorts of things make headlines, but unfortunately…

I quite liked the guy until now :(

🇺🇦🇮🇷 Zelensky on Iran: We went through difficult relations with Iran... We didn't do anything to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers, the crew of the plane. People died. They did not admit it. They did not let the experts in.

Reuters reports that Russia’s Primorsk port has lost at least 40% of its storage capacity as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks. www.reuters.com/business/ene...