12-year-old Artem Koval died in hospital today from injuries he got when a Russian drone struck a park in Nova Vodolaha. His 8-year-old sister, Arina, was killed that day, too.
Their mom, Liliia, was also injured.
Deepest condolences...
๐๐บ๐ฆ โOver 400 children were forcibly deported from the Kharkiv region during the occupation,โ โ Synehubov
The head of the Kharkiv OVA said that this was the period before the deoccupation of the territories in the spring and fall of 2022.
๐บ๐ฆ Zelensky: This week alone, Russia has launched about 1,600 guided bombs, 48 โโmissiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and almost 2,300 strike drones on Ukraine.
Unfortunately, almost every day there are deaths and injuries from these brutal strikes.
โ๏ธUkraine violated the terms of use of Starlink and used it for offensive drone strikes with the aim of killing people. This loophole was closed last week โ Musk.
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
๐บ๐ฆ๐ Zelensky: Three waves of ballistic strikes were launched by Russian โhumanistsโ on Kyiv since the evening. 21 missiles.
There was a significant number of hits and damage in the city: ordinary houses, energy, infrastructure of one of the stations and the metro, shopping malls, enterprises.
โ๏ธAccording to The Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Putin personally ordered an intensification of the sabotage campaign against NATO countries.One of the first operations was the August 4 attack on Leipzig/Halle Airport:one explosive-laden drone crashed into a Ukrainian An-124 (but failed to detonate),
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
๐บ๐ฆโ๏ธAs a result of the enemy attack, one of the metro stations on the left bank of Kyiv was damaged.
Also, near the station, due to the impact of debris, the running and contact rails broke.
Insteaf of a thousand words.
A woman trapped under the rubble after a Russian strike is showing rescuers how old her daughter is. The little girl was killed by Russia.
Of course, Trump will never impose any significant sanctions on Russia because he supports Putin and Russia against Ukraine and Europe.
All lobbying for this Russian sanctions law was a meaningless endeavor.
Congress should instead have given Ukraine arms & funds
www.ft.com/content/836e...
โ๏ธRussia will be able to control missiles and UAVs in real time across Ukraine: full satellite coverage is expected in about 6 months. This is a big disaster for everyone, โ Presidential Advisor Serhiy โFlashโ.
๐ต๐ฑ Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Putin started this war, and he will pay the consequences. Russia doesn't have the right to occupy Ukraine, which was a peace-loving state.
Putin has one German chancellor on his payroll, and I'm sure a few other politicians as well.
๐ต๐ฑ Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Just because someone is bigger, he or she does not have the right to invade a smaller country.
When Saddam invaded Kuwait, we all rallied around precisely that principle, and we pushed Iraq out of Kuwait. The Ukraine-Russia war is a very similar situation.
Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations.
Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported.
NOW WHAT?
โข Did you get that job they supposedly took from you?
โข Did grocery prices drop?
โข Is rent cheaper?
โข Did your health insurance premiums drop?
#TrumpsAbuseOfPower
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OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
Trumpโs policies kill Ukrainians who are trying to get gas and raise prices for Americans who are trying to get gas. And he wants the Americans to blame the Ukrainians. This is wrong and despicable.
snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...
๐ฅด American intelligence warned Ukraine that in the event of further strikes on Russian oil refineries, the US would immediately halt any exchange of intelligence information, โ WP.
The exchange of intelligence information has not been fully stopped, but the threat remains.
Excellent summary of the present state of relations between Russian and American oligarchical clans. Please read and share.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Putin-Trump diesel deal is disastrous and illegal โ but it is also a sign of the desperation of both men, one fearing to lose a war, the other to lose an election.
OTD in 2002 ๐บ๐ฆ began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.
30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise ๐ท๐บ would never invade.
But you can believe our promises now
Peskov said that the energy ceasefire was "just Trump's words" and it was not specific.
So Russia doesn't adhere to the energy ceasefire.
Ukraine has agreed to keep the ceasefire suggested by President Trump. Russia blatantly rejects it. Ukraine wants peace. Russia doesn't.
Today,Volodymyr Horbulin,former Secretary of Ukraineโs National Security&Defense Council,sustained injuries from shattered glass in a Russian strike on the building of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv.
His assistant,Natalia,was killed.Deepest condolences...
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky are facing severe food shortages, with reports of civilians eating grass and weeds, Ukraineโs FM Sybiha says. Medicine, clean water, electricity and medical care are increasingly unavailable. He called for humanitarian access and evacuation. #Ukraine
The death toll from Russian attacks in the capital on September 25 has risen to 7 . A total of 46 Kyiv residents have been injured so far, with 25 currently receiving care in city hospitals. - Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reports.
7 people killed for being in Kyiv today...
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today.
The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room.
His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
๐๐บ๐ฆ Oleshky in the Kherson region is under humanitarian blockade and is on the verge of disaster.
According to various estimates, more than 6 thousand people remain there, including about 200 children.
The Russians are preventing people from leaving the city.
๐คฌ Russian "Donbas liberators" dropped a FAB on an evacuation point in Kramatorsk, where civilians being evacuated from the city are being temporarily housed.
Our efforts to protect Poland involved Stalin ordering 20,000 of them shot. We blamed the nazis. We lied & later admitted it was us. There were many who said Stalin should have had all of Poland to do this in.
Again. Imaging that happening today...
A Russian attack destroyed the warehouse of Olena Zelenska Foundation today.
Humanitarian aid t be distributed to Ukrainian kids, their families and schools was kept there, waiting to be transported across Ukraine: generators, household appliances, e-books, laptops, tablets, medical equipment etc.
๐บ๐ฆ๐ฏ๏ธ Legendary Ukrainian soldier Serhiy โBortsukhaโ died at the front โ a fighter who, in the first days of the full-scale invasion, rode his bicycle to Irpin with three RPG-7 shells to stop Russian armored columns advancing on the Kyiv region.
Serhiy was a commander of a marine unitโฆ
โ๏ธโ๏ธThe Telegraph reports that a leaked Five Eyes intelligence memo claims SAS and other Western special-forces veterans have been training Russian citizens at private combat camps in Bulgaria and Serbia โ including after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
๐ฅบ In Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, UAV hit the very center of the city. A child died, a woman was seriously injured, 3 killed overall.
Private houses were damaged, information about other victims is being clarified.
๐ต๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ Polish PM Donald Tusk:
We must help Ukraine survive today. We cannot repeat those mistakes.
Munich must not happen again. This policy of yielding to evil must not be repeated.
If today we say, "Itโs only Ukraine," someone in a few months, a year, or two will say: "Again, itโs only Poland."
Heartbreaking. A mother holding a child sits beside a large crater in the courtyard of an apartment building in Boryspil today, destroyed by Russian strikes. #Ukraine
๐ต๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ Tusk called for strengthening Ukraine's air defense after conversation with Rutte
Polish Prime Minister said that the next six months will be critical for Europe's security.
Ukraine needs more air support, and NATO must be ready for possible provocations by the Russian Federation.