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Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons. Rubio’s list still left Ukraine out. ㅤ Keating reminded Rubio that Ukraine once held the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal and gave it up under the Budapest Memorandum. ㅤ The legal word was “assurances.” The moral word was promise.

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Russia is not winning. Rubio called the invasion a strategic disaster. ㅤ He said Ukraine is fighting effectively, making battlefield gains, while Russia may never achieve its war aims militarily. ㅤ This is not a lost cause. This is a fight Russia can still lose.

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An ambulance came to save lives. Russia hit it too. ㅤ A Russian drone struck an emergency medical vehicle on hospital grounds in Kherson. Three medical workers were injured. ㅤ Russia is trying to make rescue feel impossible. ㅤ Support link is in our Bio

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Ukrainian strike drones hit a Russian ammunition depot in occupied Donetsk and triggered a chain detonation. Not just a target. Shells, rockets, frontline supply. When it detonates, it takes weeks of offensive capacity with it.

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Ukrainian drones hit a Russian patrol boat while moving near occupied Crimea - one of seven targets in a single operation near Yurkine. Also struck: Pantsir-S1 air defense, radio navigation system, locomotive, transformer stations, fuel storage. One sortie. Seven targets.

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A Ukrainian farmer was working in his field with a combine harvester. Russians aimed a drone at him. Not a military target. Not infrastructure. A man harvesting a field. No further explanation needed. Support link is in our Bio

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Kostiantynivka, Donetsk. Russians dropping burning phosphorus over the city. Burns at 800 degrees. Cannot be put out with water. Burns everything it touches. Support link is in our Bio

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Russia's Boyky corvette spent years chasing NATO ships. Ukraine found it in dry dock in Kronstadt and set it on fire. Guided-missile corvette. Baltic Fleet. In for repairs since February. June 3. Ukraine's drone forces. The safest place Russia had. Support link is in our Bio

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In Saint Petersburg, a soldier tries to shoot down a drone with a rifle, while people behind him film the scene and laugh.

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Russia has one of the world's largest air defense networks. Ukrainian drones reach Saint Petersburg anyway. Kremlin concentrates defenses around Moscow and key sites - leaving gaps everywhere else. Four major targets hit per night. Swarms of 100-200 drones. Eleven time zones. Too big to defend.

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🔴 Drones struck a major oil terminal in Saint Petersburg, one of Russia’s largest fuel export hubs.

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Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk shared her thoughts on the stance of Russian players amid the ongoing war: “You know, after four years, I think they’ve made it very clear whose side they are on. So, again, this is their burden to carry and this is what they live with, not me.”

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U.S. Rep. Keating: Trump's envoy Witkoff called Putin trustworthy - then coached a top Putin advisor on how to manipulate Trump. Even Rep. Bacon from the other side of the aisle says Witkoff should be removed. "The Baltics are next."

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Ukrainian drones struck St. Petersburg's oil terminal on the opening day of Putin's economic forum. One of the largest Baltic oil hubs. 50 drones intercepted. Putin speaks Friday. Ukraine made its own statement first. Support link is in our Bio

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This is not a movie. This is Kyiv last night. Residents recorded impact after impact - consecutive, relentless, no pause between them. This is what a massive Russian attack on a capital city actually sounds and looks like. Support link is in our Bio.

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Russia destroyed a Zeekr dealership in Kyiv overnight. Zeekr is a premium Chinese EV brand. China is still deciding whose side it's on. Russia is bombing Chinese businesses while Beijing hedges. Support link is in our Bio

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Horrific moment of a direct russian drone strike on an apartment building in Dnipro last night‼️ ​At least 12 people were killed, including 2 children.

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He gave her his shoes. Then he walked barefoot himself. ㅤ A Ukrainian graduate saw a girl’s shoes were hurting her feet, gave her his own, and walked barefoot. ㅤ A small act of care. No speech needed. Support this page so these small human truths about Ukraine do not vanish behind the war’s noise

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Warning: footage from the aftermath of a missile strike Rescuers recovered the body of a child from under the debris of a destroyed building in Dnipro. A child who should have had a future 💔💔💔💔💔

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Twenty drones came for Zaporizhzhia. Khortytsia pilots cut them out of the sky. ㅤ 20 aerial threats were destroyed overnight: 10 Shaheds, 9 Gerberas and 1 Lancet. ㅤ A city under attack. Pilots working between it and disaster.

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Russia's Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar is on fire after a drone strike - one of the largest private refineries in southern Russia. OSINT footage shows heavy smoke. Governor unconfirmed. The facility directly supplies Russian frontline forces.

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Russia hit Kyiv overnight. One dead, 29 wounded - two of them children. A polyclinic collapsed, a 24-story residential building on fire. Russian strategic aviation still active at 5 AM. Support link is in our Bio

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Ukraine is hitting Russian supply trucks on a highway near Taganrog, Rostov region - before they ever reach the front. Drones operating without Starlink, autonomous, deep inside Russia.

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Bolton - Trump's own former NSA - says Ukraine has the best army in Europe, brought Russia to a halt, and has drone tech the West should adopt. "It's a shame we didn't do more earlier. War might be over by now." Trump doesn't see any of it.

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Let’s fly! 📹: @KpsZSU

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Finnish President Stubb: Ukraine neutralizes 35,000 Russian soldiers per month, launches more drones into Russia than the reverse. Territory reclaimed. Russian war support cracking.

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Russia made energy a weapon. Tonight, its war fuel burned in Saratov. ㅤ Video showed fires and thick smoke over the Saratov oil refinery after explosions around 3 a.m. ㅤ Fuel is what keeps Russia’s army moving.

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"Ukraine bombed Donbas for eight years." Russian footage, two Grad launchers: one fires at Ukrainian positions. The other fires toward Donetsk. Russia's own archive answers Russia's own claim.

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Bakhmut was a living city. Russia left dead ground. ㅤ A large industrial city in Donetsk Oblast became burned, dead ground after Russia’s invasion. ㅤ This is Russian “liberation”: not saving a city, but removing it.

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One night. A tanker, an oil depot, and a maritime terminal - all hit. Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck 23 Russian military and infrastructure sites overnight - including an Iskander launcher and two Tu-142 aircraft.

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Power 🔥💙💛

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Taganrog was not rear tonight. It was inside Ukraine’s drone range. ㅤ Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces reported two Tu-142 aircraft taken out at a Russian airfield, plus an Iskander launcher near Taganrog.

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"America is not abandoning Ukraine." U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said it plainly - and added: "We are not afraid, and the people of Ukraine should not be intimidated either." When senators say this publicly, the moment speaks for itself.

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"You can do a lot with Gripen fighter jets. But they’re built for one thing. Good luck, Ukraine," - Ulf Kristersson, Prime Minister of Sweden

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A Russian drone has injured civilians on NATO territory for the first time. It hit a residential building in Galați, Romania. Two people injured. 70 evacuated. Russia's war just reached people under Article 5.

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A stork got trapped at the front. Ukrainian soldiers stopped to save it. ㅤ Russia’s war is not only breaking cities and lives. It is turning roads, fields, forests and skies into traps for everything still alive.

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Occupation cannot become legal. Russia broke it, Russia pays. ㅤ Kaja Kallas said any peace deal must reject legal recognition of occupied Ukrainian territory, include accountability, and accept Ukraine’s sovereignty and right to choose alliances.

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The greatness of a person is shown by how they treat weaker creatures 💙💛

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In a single night: Russia's air surveillance systems hit across three regions, Tuapse refinery on fire, Nebo-SV radar, Buk-M2, and a drone factory. All confirmed.

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New friends 💙💛

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Hungary's government blocks aid to Ukraine. Budapest's mayor just flew to Kyiv to accept an award for helping. Karácsony received the "City-Rescuer" award from Zelenskyy. Generators, refugee aid, summer camps for Ukrainian children. One country. Two very different ideas of what a neighbor owes.

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Russia was moving a missile ship to reinforce its Caspian fleet. Ukraine found it on Lake Onega. SOF drones destroyed the Grad - a Buyan-M Kalibr carrier - October 4, 2025. Video just released. No safe transit route. Proved on a lake 1,500 km from the front.

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If Russia wins in Ukraine, Putin gets a license to invade a NATO country. Sen. Shaheen: a Russian victory empowers Xi, damages U.S. allies, moves war to NATO's borders. "We should support Ukraine."

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Merkel said ten years. Why not forever, if Europe only waits? The goal is right: Ukraine independent, free and sovereign. But wars do not end because someone hopes the calendar will be kinder. Ukraine needs pressure on the aggressor now.

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700,000 barrels per day. That is what flows through Sheskharis - Russia's key oil export hub in Novorossiysk. Ukrainian forces struck it last night. Every barrel that doesn't leave is a barrel Russia can't sell.

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Here's why Ukrainians are so good with their drones: they tame them with a lot of love and patience. Also: three years of war. A domestic industry. Operators learning in real time. But yes. Mostly love and patience.☺️😜 Support link is in our Bio.

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"If Russia stops its aggression, the war is over." Von der Leyen. Russia isn't stopping. New sanctions package coming. €90 billion EU loan for Ukraine finalizing - two years of military and budget certainty. Goal: negotiate from strength. The EU isn't waiting for Russia to want peace.

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Ukraine's 412th Nemesis Brigade blocked Russia's main southern highway. R-280 - Mariupol to Simferopol - restricted for heavy vehicles after dozens of trucks and tankers destroyed. Russia's own command issued the order. When you restrict your own supply road, that is a logistics crisis.

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Yale historian Snyder on why U.S. diplomacy cannot work. Two negotiators: president's son-in-law and friend. Neither a diplomat. Already failed with Ukraine and Iran. No clear national interest. No working diplomacy. That is not a failure. That is a design feature.

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How do you intercept a drone flying at 500 km/h? Estonia just tested its answer in Ukraine. P4P by Alatyr Group: vertical takeoff, then rocket booster for pursuit. Multicopter flexibility. Missile acceleration. One system. The coalition keeps expanding.

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Russia destroyed the Chornobyl museum one month after Ukraine built it for the 40th anniversary. Zelenskyy: Ukraine hits military targets. Russia hits museums, schools, apartments. The museum was a memorial. Russia destroyed it anyway. Support link is in our Bio.

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Russian military logistics are burning. The footage keeps coming. Destroyed trucks and fuel tankers deep behind enemy lines. Not one strike. A pattern. Ukraine is dismantling the supply chain that feeds the front. Support link is in our Bio

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Russia threatened Kyiv. Rubio gave it wet-noodle diplomacy. Russia chooses this war. Ukraine does not choose to be attacked. “War must end” means nothing if you cannot name the side that keeps choosing it.

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Russian military equipment was packed together like someone forgot FPV drones exist. Ukrainian pilots reminded them. One careless storage point, one drone team, a very expensive Russian mistake. ㅤ Support link is in our Bio.

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Russia tried to shoot down a stork with an FPV drone. The stork dodged it. Ukraine's national symbol of peace is apparently also better at evasive maneuvers than the Russian army. Support link is in our Bio.

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Buddies 💙💛 Support link is in our Bio

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Fire Point is reportedly assembling 300 drones and 3 Flamingo missiles a day. That is not a workshop anymore. That is a wartime production line. Ukraine is turning survival into industrial capacity.

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Lukianivka, Kyiv. A market, a street, ordinary civilian life, turned into horror by Russia. This is not “collateral damage.” This is not something that “just happened.” Perpetrator: Russia. ㅤ Support link is in our Bio.

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"These are not my men in Crimea." "I have no intention of invading Ukraine." Polish FM Sikorski: Putin's word means nothing, he never knows his true situation, and dictators cannot admit mistakes without losing power. His conclusion: this war will be ended by someone else.

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In Ukraine, storks are a national symbol of peace. This one just got a fish. Even in wartime, some things don't change. Some things are worth protecting even when everything else is on fire.

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Ukraine will manufacture 7 million drones this year. That is just the beginning. Petraeus: 20,000 launches per day. Then autonomous systems. Then autonomous swarms -- for which we have no countermeasure. A weapons revolution. In real time.

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A Russian Kh-101 was heading for Kyiv Oblast. Ukraine's defenders were already waiting. They intercepted it before it reached anyone. Between that missile and the buildings below stood Ukrainian air defense. They did not let it through. Thank you to everyone on duty that night.

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If Fast & Furious had a Ukrainian ground drone, this is the scene they'd cut for being too unrealistic. Dodged. On camera. Support link is in our Bio.

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Buddies 💙💛

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💔 Just yesterday, this was one of Kyiv’s operational emergency response units. Today — ruins. The building is destroyed, along with the rescue equipment that saves lives. russians are striking those who pull people out from under the rubble. Pure terror.

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Ukraine's answer to Russian Shahed drones: a helicopter, an M134 minigun, and someone willing to get very close. Nobody said it had to be elegant. Support link is in our Bio

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Ukraine says it can now shoot down up to 97% of Russian Shaheds. The U.S. has deployed Ukraine’s Sky Map platform at a Saudi air base, with Ukrainian specialists training U.S. troops. Russia made Shaheds a terror weapon. Ukraine turned survival into technology others now need. ㅤ

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This morning, a missile hit a building 100 meters from her parents' house. Then she walked onto court at Roland Garros and won. Kostyuk after the match: "I don't want to talk about myself today. All my heart goes to the people of Ukraine." 6-2, 6-3. Then said the only thing that mattered.

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Even after defeat. Even after Putin's regime collapses. Even after reparations and sentences. Ukraine's Ambassador Melnyk at the UN: no reconciliation with Russia for decades. Maybe centuries. Not emotion. A calculation. Russia chose to make it.

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Kyiv last night. Under the sound of sirens, grandma and grandpa carried their little rabbit to the shelter. Because when every life matters, no one gets left behind. Respect to the people who stay human in hell.

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A dormitory. Schools. A shopping center. A supermarket. Residential buildings. Russia's target list for Kyiv last night. Possibly the heaviest attack since the invasion began. Five years in. Still not surrendering.

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Three NATO bases, two Trumps and four Budanovs were reportedly destroyed in Bila Tserkva. The video shows a damaged garage cooperative. Russian propaganda in one frame: imperial mythology on TV, damaged garages on the ground. ㅤ Support link is in our Bio.

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SBU drones struck Vtorovo, a fuel station supplying Moscow oil depots and airports. Russia destroys civilian life. Ukraine pressures the fuel lines behind Russia’s war. This is the line Moscow wants blurred: civilians on one side, war infrastructure on the other.

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"Putin can't even pronounce 'ura' anymore. He slurs it. Yet he keeps defeating residential buildings." Zelensky, after last night's attack: 90 missiles, 600 drones, 83 injured, fatalities confirmed. Kyiv was the primary target. "Make that old Oreshnik in Moscow finally say peace."

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