"The nightmare is over"
- a mom returns from Russian captivity and hugs her son

They haven't seen each other for more than two years.

The mom was at Azovstal. Little Dmytro was returned to Ukraine from temporarily occupied territories. His birthday was on May 24th, and he got the best present there is.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine

"The only story about freedom is the struggle for it."

On May 29, a 25-year-old medic with the Hospitallers, Iryna Tsybukh, with the call sign Cheka, died.

It happened during a rotation in Kharkiv region. In a few days, Iryna would have turned 26.

Before the full-scale invasion, she worked for Suspilne and made documentaries. At the beginning of the war, Iryna volunteered for the Hospitallers battalion. Her crew evacuated the wounded from the hottest spots.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine

President Zelensky yesterday was shown F-16 fighters, which will be transferred to Ukraine.

Deliveries are expected very, very soon."

Damn, I’ve been hearing about these F-16s (a 50-year-old plane, if anything) for two years now.

They keep coming and going (soon, almost!), and the bombs upon Ukraine keep flying and flying.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

Countries that have allowed Ukraine to use the weapon systems they provided against targets on Russian territory:

- Finland
- UK
- the Netherlands
- France
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Canada

#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia

During the audience with His Majesty the King of the Belgians, Philippe expressed his gratitude to Belgium and the Belgian people for the strong all-round support of Ukraine and Ukrainians.

They discussed the first inaugural Global Peace Summit, which will take place on June 15-16 in Switzerland.

They spoke about the vision and expectations of Ukraine from the Summit.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Zelensky #belgium

"We visited the Melsbrook military base, where our servicemen are trained.

Ukraine is very much looking forward to F-16 fighter jets from its Western partners to strengthen the defense of our skies. And we are also waiting at home for our soldiers who are training in F-16 maintenance and are highly motivated to begin combat missions and accelerate the victory of our nation."
- President Zelensky
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Zelensky #war #EU #NATO

President Zelensky met with the President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Souza in Lisbon.

They discussed the preparation for the Global Peace Summit. Particular attention is paid to the issue of Ukraine's integration into the EU and NATO. Thank you for supporting Ukraine on this path.

"I am grateful to Portugal for its help in countering Russian armed aggression and supporting our people."
- President Zelensky
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Zelensky #portugal

Unbowed, Ukrainian shop serves coffee only 8 kilometers from war's front line
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

https://www.voanews.com/a/unbowed-ukrainian-shop-serves-coffee-just-8-kilometers-from-war-front-line/7628515.html

Unbowed, Ukrainian shop serves coffee just 8 kilometers from war's front line

In the city of Kupyansk in eastern Ukraine, a small coffee shop sits just 8 kilometers from the front lines. It opened last summer — the latest in a chain of coffee shops in the region. Despite the ongoing war, its owner says more are on the way.

^{Voice of America}

Here's what we are reading today:

#European allies push the #us to allow Ukr to use U.S. made weapons to strike Rus.

Yesterday, #Macron and #Scholz said they supported #Ukraine using weapons given by allies to strike Russian bases launching missiles, but not allow other strikes on #russia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/ukraine-war-briefing-macron-scholz-agree-kyiv-should-use-allies-weapons-against-launchers-in-russia

Ukraine war briefing: Macron, Scholz agree Kyiv should use allies’ weapons against launchers in Russia

Nato secretary general says alliance members should allow deep strikes, which White House says it doesn’t ‘encourage or enable’. What we know on day 826

^{Warren Murray (The Guardian)}

Poland is back "on-board"

" Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to restore the rule of law and reset relations between Warsaw and Brussels.

Poland has officially exited Article 7, the European Union's exceptional mechanism to rein in countries that openly defy the bloc's fundamental values. "

#EU #War #NATO #USA
#NAFO #News #Putin #Ukraine #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia #Pentagon #Poland

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/05/29/poland-exits-article-7-the-eus-special-procedure-on-rule-of-law

Orban's visitors to the EU Parliment???

"Russia-Ukraine war live: police search European parliament over possible Russian interference"

#EU #War #NATO #USA
#NAFO #News #Putin #Ukraine #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia #Pentagon #Hungary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/29/russia-ukraine-war-live-blinken-moldova-macron

Drone operators from the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Magura" of the Ukrainian Ground Forces destroyed a Russian tank near Krasnohorivka.

#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia

#Poland has announced that it will impose restrictions on Russian diplomats’ movements in the country in response to #Moscow’s involvement in “hybrid warfare.”

“These will be limitations on the movement of Russian diplomats in our country,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw #Sikorski said.

He said the restrictions stemmed from Russia’s involvement in destabilising activities against the #EU, including Poland.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/1064100/poland-to-restrict-travel-by-russian-diplomats

#Ukraine #Russia

Poland to restrict travel by Russian diplomats

Poland announces restrictions on Russian diplomats’ movements in the country .

^{www.brusselstimes.com}

TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝

🇪🇸 #Spain will supply weapons to #ukraine for €1.23 billion + €5 billion until 2027.

🇫🇷 #france will send instructors to Ukraine to train Ukrainian military personnel.

❗️NATO is discussing the possibility of protecting the airspace over Western Ukraine, - BILD

🇪🇸 Ukraine and Spain signed a bilateral security agreement, - #zelenskyy

🏆 GUR drone attacked an over-the-horizon radar "Voronezh M" at a distance of ~1,800 km, — UP

Thank you for Coffee ☕️💜
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Here's what we are reading today:

#Ukraine has flown a long-range drone 140 km farther than ever before, hitting a radar station in Orsk, #Russia - 1,800 km from the Ukr border.

Ukr is accommodating for the fact that they cannot use U.S. provided #longrange weapons to hit Russia.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/27/7457788/

Ukrainian intelligence drone attacks over-the-horizon radar at distance of over 1,800 km

A drone belonging to Defence Intelligence of Ukraine attacked the Voronezh M long-range target detection radar station located in the city of Orsk inRussia’s Orenburg Oblast on 26 May.

^{Ukrainska Pravda}

Special shoutout today to the 🇺🇦 Ukrainian city and municipality of Slavutych which now has an official Fediverse account:

➡️ @Slavutych (in English & Ukrainian)

Slavutych was founded in 1986 to provide a safe home for workers and families evacuated from the Chornobyl disaster. More recently it has had to resist the Russian invasion.

(I've verified the account as genuine by emailing their official Ukrainian government address with a gov.ua domain.)

#Ukraine #Ukrainian #Slavutych #Славутич

#Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts #Ukraine’s Starlink Service

Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon #Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/ukraine-russia-starlink.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The #BRICS is an incompatible bunch of countries, with very little, if anything, in common about whatever issue one picks. UNTIL we notice how corruptible they all are by #FossilFuels and the oligarchy and criminality that arises from that murderous industry.

They are also unable to find any courage to speak honestly, and are cowardly avoiding telling Putin to withdraw his inhumane orcs from #Ukraine.

With it comes russian propaganda, discrimination against Ukraine and #genocide. They'll fail.

Russian Belgorod came under fire.

Explosions were heard in the city, and anti-aircraft defense systems were active.

#Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia

(Nitter addon enabled: Twitter links via https://nitter.privacytools.io)

Are Russia and North Korea planning an ‘October surprise’ that aids Trump?

U.S. officials are bracing for Pyongyang to take military actions close to the U.S. presidential election, possibly at the urging of Vladimir Putin.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna153828

Are Russia and North Korea planning an ‘October surprise’ that aids Trump?

^{Courtney Kube (NBC News)}

"Shoot in the direction of the United States and see what happens" - it's not just the Russian propagandists, almost all the Russian population is like that, after years of propaganda.

They want this for the whole world. Just because they can. Just because they can get away with it.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #USA

Within five months of 2024, accidental drops of Russian aerial munitions on the territory of Belgorod region were recorded 39 times: 38 FAB bombs and 1 Kh-59 cruise missile.

That's what DIDN'T reach Ukraine.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

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Denys Shmyhal, Prime-Minister of Ukraine:

"If we will not protect... #Ukraine will fall. So the global, the global system of security will be destroyed... and all the #world will need to find... a new system of #security. Or, there will be many #conflicts, many such kinds of #wars, and in the end of the day, it could lead to the Third World War... disinformation and #propaganda is influencing here in the #US on many people, in #EU on many people"

#ArmUkraineToWIN

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68840261

Ukraine warns of WW3 ahead of long-stalled Congress aid vote

Denys Shmyhal tells the BBC his country desperately needs the US to approve long-stalled security assistance.

^{By Sumi Somaskanda & Holly Honderich (BBC News)}

11/
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of #NATO:

"allies have not delivered what they promised. The #US spent months not agreeing a package for #Ukraine and European allies have not delivered the amount of ammunition they promised.

Lack of ammunition enabled 🇷🇺 to push forward along the frontline. Lack of air defense made it possible for more 🇷🇺 missiles to hit targets. Lack of deep strike capabilities made it possible for 🇷🇺 to concentrate more forces"

#ArmUkraineToWIN

https://youtu.be/BsqAV1MAe7g?si=jmZRRKEoLjLtSHsp

NATO Secretary General with the President of Ukraine 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Kyiv, 29 APR 2024

Secretary General in Kyiv: Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to NATO, support will continue.Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kyiv on Monday (29 ...

^YouTube

9/

Rob Bauer, Chair of the #NATO Military Committee

"...we have a zero #risk society. War is about taking risks and understanding what the consequences are of what you are going to do. So we have to move away from zero-risk; from efficiency to #effectiveness thinking... In a #war it's about winning or losing. Nobody in #Ukraine talks about how expensive a #Patriot missile is. Nobody. They want more. Because that is about winning or losing."

#ArmUkraineToWIN

https://youtu.be/rBbSIFpt_UQ?si=8ImvG8c2Gcnehum5

NATO Military Chief on How Countries Can Prepare for War, a Second Trump Presidency and More | WSJ

Adm. Rob Bauer, NATO's top military officer, discusses what business and government can do to defend themselves, what he sees as the need for increased defen...

^YouTube

8/

Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine:

"If the West had stopped looking at #Ukraine through the lenses of #russia things would have been different... Not a single argument about #escalation was right in the past two years."

Samir Saran, Senior Advisor at The Asia Group and the President of Observer Research Foundation:

"If you can't manage a $2 trillion #economy in the battlefield you have no chance against the #Chinese"

#ArmUkraineToWIN

https://www.youtube.com/live/PcFUnybWftM?si=Nym4bLeEMEcY4atj

Keeping Up Support to Ukraine – Defining as Long as It Takes? · Lennart Meri Conference 2024

In July 2023 President Biden declared that Putin had already lost the war in Ukraine. In the spring of 2024, however, the situation is less clear. While Ukra...

^YouTube

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Timothy Snyder:

"a broader #war can be stopped if the Ukrainians are helped by others. The 🇺🇦 #economy is about 1/250 the size of the NATO econmies taken together. A tiny fraction of what the #NATO economies have would easily be enough to make sure that #Ukraine can hold its own and win. We are not, however, mobilising our economies anything like the way the #US did in 1941-42. And at the root, that's the reason why the Ukrainians are not winning as they should be."

https://youtu.be/3y6EaZ1nKHE?si=Omp3lxqvjf9pePSc

April 15, 2024: Timothy Snyder

The history of 20th century autocracy seemed to race into the distance with the end of the Cold War. But Dr. Timothy Snyder cautions that in the decades sinc...

^YouTube

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Ada Wordsworth, co-founder of #KHARPP, a grassroots project repairing homes in eastern #Ukraine:

"This situation was avoidable. The civilians and soldiers who have died since the new offensive began can’t be brought back, but through adequate weapons and #AirDefence provisions, and permission for #Ukraine to strike Russian territory, the west can ensure that their friends and families won’t face the same fate..."

#ArmUkraineToWIN #ArmUkraineNow #US #NATO #EU

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/kharkiv-betrayed-west-ukraine-russia-war

The villages near Kharkiv were recovering. Fleeing again, their people feel betrayed by the west – and I understand why

The homes and lives my charity has been helping rebuild are on the frontline once more, says Ada Wordsworth, founder of the KHARPP charity

^{Ada Wordsworth (The Guardian)}