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@okkingaj.bsky.social

Father of 2 ❤️ 👉🏻⛵️🏑⛷️ #🇳🇱 Dutch #Polyglot 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 #engineer #exCityCouncilAmsterdamW #ScienceWorks #VaccinesWork #ClimateCrisisIsReal 🌍 #Rejoiner 🇬🇧 #StrongerTogether🇪🇺 #RearmEurope #Crimea=Ukraine #Pro🇺🇦 #ProDemocracy #TDS = sanity

This is 5-year-old Emilia and 10-year-old Sofia Dvornychenko, Russia killed them in a terrorists attack on girls own home in Sumy on August 4. 🕯💔 Russians struck the family's home with a guided aerial bomb, completely destroying it and killing two children…

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Zelensky said Russia's attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and injured 44. Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles, 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles and 115 drones, mainly targeting civilian sites. He said ballistic interceptors could have saved lives. #Ukraine

One of recent ballistic missile attacks caught 7 people running on the street to shelter. They died. The issue with ballistic missile attack is that you have no time to react, and russians (as of late) are trying to make those attacks as sudden and unexpected as possible.

#UkrainianView I kept repeating it to my Western audience, where many still view the war in terms of territory or resources - it was never the case. The sole goal of russia's aggression was genocide - destroying Ukrainian identity in principle, like they were doing for the past 300 years.

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2d ago

Since 2022, Russia has systematically targeted Ukrainian culture—destroying warehouses, libraries, and print shops. This isn't collateral damage; it’s a deliberate war on Ukrainian identity and education. 🧵 1/12

Europe must stop acting like the war in Ukraine will end in the next 18 months. It could last for years. We must place massive, long-term military orders for Kyiv and finally mobilize frozen Russian assets to fund them

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"De Russische invasie wordt een ‘oorlog in Oekraïne’. (...) De weigering van Oekraïne om afgeslacht te worden, verandert in een obstakel voor de vrede." Hoe Moskou valse uitgangspunten verpakt in ogenschijnlijk onschuldige taal, door @andrewchak.bsky.social:

When righteous calls to end the war become warmongering

Russia's war on Ukraine has yet to end because Russia keeps waging it. It is shocking, though regrettably unsurprising, that in the fifth summer since the 2022 escalation by the aggressor, and 12 yea...

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🔴 Russian prison guards are torturing Ukrainian journalist Iryna Danylovych with 12 hours of blasting noise every single day. Abducted in occupied Crimea and sentenced on sham charges, she was already left nearly deaf due to medical neglect. 1/2

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Protecting Ukraine from Russian ballistic strikes is one of the main challenges for us and one of Ukraine's key vulnerabilities today. US-made Patriot air defense systems are the only reliable protection Ukraine has against Russian ballistic missiles⤵️

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War can have big environmental impacts, in addition to the human and economic impacts. An analysis reported in the Guardian found that the first 14 days of the Iran war caused 5 million tons of additional carbon emissions, about the same as a mid-size fossil fuel-using country emits in a full year.

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

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Just a reminder that since Laura Loomer announced her support for Ukraine, Trump has: 1) walked back a promise to let Ukraine build Patriots, 2) denied a ukrainian request for 300 PAC3s, 3) slow walked 400mil in congressionally approved aid for Ukraine. But the vibes were good!