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One city suburb. One street. One month. And this list of names is only the people the @nytimes could identify.
The youngest was just fourteen years old.
This is who Russia is.
Europe will never be safe until Ukraine is, and the people responsible for this are in The Hauge.
Using exclusive phone logs, military files and 23TB of video, we unmasked the Russian unit and commander that killed dozens of people on one street in Bucha
By @YousurAlhlou @MashaFroliak @ckoettl @heytherehaley @dim109 @ajcardia @NatalieReneau & more 👇
nytimes.com/2022/12/22/video…
Alexander Black retweeted
Regarding Russian conscripts, this is not the case. The overwhelming percentage of Russian forces fighting in this war are men well over 30 who accepted service contracts for money. They were not conscripted, or mobilized. For more on this topic: warontherocks.com/a-return-t…
Replying to @skscartoon
The endless slaughter of Ukrainian and Russians must stop.
We should some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes.
Alexander Black retweeted
The atmosphere is amazing, all the cars honking, fireworks, people smiling at every passerby, truly a holiday. I'm posting this so I can savor the moment forever. I'm not forgetting the MAGA cadavers who took part in Vučić's last grip on power though, your time will soon come.
Alexander Black retweeted
Russian troops are volunteers fighting for money, you cluelss fool...
Replying to @skscartoon
The endless slaughter of Ukrainian and Russians must stop.
We should some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes.
Alexander Black retweeted
A Russian propagandist pushing a Russian narrative is hardly surprising.
Tucker Carlson thinks there’s a 50 per cent chance Putin will use a nuclear weapon in the next six months — “believe me, I talk to the Russians a lot”.
Great interview by @ahauslohner
ft.com/content/98417e57-fe7e…
Alexander Black retweeted
Useful disclosure here from Thomas Wright. State sponsored terrorism is apparently contingent on a body count. Putting a bomb on a commercial plane is in itself insufficient, but prompts a warning of future designation. Well, seven cargo ships were hit in the Black Sea in the past two weeks alone; around 30 sailors were killed or remain missing. I wonder what the threshold is. Or if minor casualty events don’t ever add up to “mass.” theatlantic.com/internationa…
Alexander Black retweeted
A few simple questions expose the holes in Starlink/Starshield story.
1. If it was a ToS violation, why is the service working again, including drones?
2. Starshield was throttled. Since it’s a military system, which ToS did it violate?
Try asking rational questions
Alexander Black retweeted
Today the Russians yet again engaged in one of their favorite activities in Kherson: murdering old men walking their dogs. Footage released on their own channels shows them hunting down and murdering a man’s dog, while the man’s status is unknown.
This is something they’ve done over and over again. For years. Deliberately. It is a campaign of terrorism which will not be forgiven or forgotten.
Alexander Black retweeted
Russia requires a security guarantee that Ukraine will not defend itself the next time we attack it.
Not so much hybrid is it?
UPDATE: Suspected Russian Attacks on cargo ships in the Black Sea
Per @InsiderGeo, another ship has been attacked and sunk this morning, with 3 crew missing, 1 dead and 9 injured when the vessel capsized following the attack, around 13NM from Constanta. It was travelling from Turkey to Romania at the time flagged to Comoros.
This brings the total to 8 ships this month.
@InsiderGeo
Alexander Black retweeted
Putin publicly adding genetics to history in his claim that Ukraine and Ukrainians are really Russian. Again, those insisting this is about "NATO expansion" or the "Maidan coup" are at best propagandists, and many are just morons who have never actually looked at what VVP says.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cited genetics to declare that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” and reiterated his claim to Ukrainian territory, saying: “I think that it is not their territory but the historical territory of Russia.” wapo.st/48aZaZF
Alexander Black retweeted
My latest: Ukraine’s Starshield access is still crippled, no-one is taking the blame, and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dying because of it.
kyivindependent.com/analysis…
Alexander Black retweeted
NEW!! Ukraine’s chargé d’affaires in the U.S, Denys Sienik, tells @RFERL Starshield speed restrictions remain in place, with no improvement
“Every day matters for Ukraine because every Ukrainian life matters,” he said, adding that Ukrainians are still waiting for positive news
Alexander Black retweeted
So Trump called Musk to lift restrictions on Starshield speeds in Ukraine, and a day later Zelensky’s chief drone adviser says the restrictions still largely remain in place. Which raises the question: who’s in charge?
Alexander Black retweeted
“you joined Quincy to explicitly argue that nothing should be done to stop the regional bloodbath that was already happening.”
Already happening are the key words.
This is the most important point. From JCPOA advocates to Quincy agents, pretending that the region was stable while Iran was strengthening its grasp on four Arab capitals and empowering its terrorist regional militias that were slaughtering and displacing Arabs and corrupting the countries, was utterly destabilizing, dangerous, and lacked understanding and foresight. Besides that it ignored the bloodbath and humanitarian crisis in Syria alone.
Replying to @OzKaterji
I guess my $100 is safe, and you didn’t present any evidence of my alleged apologism for regimes.
You didn’t join Quincy to *stop* a regional bloodbath, you joined Quincy to explicitly argue that nothing should be done to stop the regional bloodbath that was already happening.
Alexander Black retweeted
There were no U.S. troops in Ukraine in 2022, aside from a whatever small contingent was guarding the U.S. embassy.
The document you are quoting - which you apparently either didn't read, or failed to understand - refers to "allied" troops in "Eastern Europe", not Ukraine.
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Alexander Black retweeted
It's hilarious how Western Russia apologists keep on insisting this is all about NATO and then Putin just goes out and says "no actually we're imperialist" on a regular basis.
Putin on Ukraine:
The lands lost by Kyiv are not "their territory"; they are historically Russian lands.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Kyiv predates Moscow by centuries, and southern/eastern Ukraine was ruled by the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate long before 18th-century Russian Imperial annexation. In 1991, every Ukrainian region voted overwhelmingly for independence, recognized by Russia 1994.
britannica.com/place/Ukraine/…
treaties.un.org/Pages/showDeta…
Alexander Black retweeted
The situation with Starlink/Starshield remains unclear.
Some units of Ukraine's Defense Forces have reported that service has been restored for flights at speeds above the previously set limits. However, this applies to far from all missions. Some of them were disrupted because, in certain cases, the restrictions remain in effect.
Earlier, Trump claimed that satellite communication systems for Ukrainian troops had allegedly been fully restored.
I'm incredibly moved to see that we have been able to add up more than 20k$ in less than 2 days.
We're getting very close to finishing this fundraiser.
Thank You to all the people with their hearts at the right place who supported this - and Thank You to all the people who will help us finish this now!
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Hello everyone. Today I’m starting another fundraiser to get engineering equipment to Ukraine, and I’m asking for your help by sharing, donating, and liking this post. Even if you can’t donate, sharing it genuinely makes a difference.
Plase watch the video with their CV90 Crew explaining the importance of this equipment.
The donation link is in the comments below.
A good friend of mine from the 21st Mechanized Brigade of the UAF has been working on improving the survivability and effectiveness of the 🇸🇪 CV90 IFVs and, most importantly, the soldiers inside them.
He recently reached out to me asking for help getting engineering equipment for his brigade.
This is one of those things that doesn’t look as dramatic as drones, armored vehicles, or weapons, but it directly saves lives.
A properly dug fighting position, trench, vehicle shelter, or reinforced position can be the difference between soldiers surviving an artillery or drone attack and not coming home.
Unfortunately, because of bureaucracy and often simple neglect by higher command, excavation equipment remains critically overlooked. It is one of the most obvious low-hanging fruits on the battlefield: relatively inexpensive machinery that can save soldiers’ lives and protect multimillion-dollar equipment.
The brigade already has several excavators, but they are in critically bad condition. We are already working on getting those repaired. But even if every one of them were operational, it still wouldn’t be enough for the brigade’s needs.
Their full request is for 3 excavators, transportation for them, a crane, and pickup trucks.
The total cost would be around $240,000.
I wish I could say we can raise all of it, but with the current level of donations, I don’t think that is realistic.
So we scaled the fundraiser down to $100,000.
That will allow us to purchase 3 excavators and a truck capable of transporting them.
It is still a huge amount of money. But these machines will not sit somewhere in storage. They will be working every day, digging positions, protecting vehicles, and giving Ukrainian soldiers a better chance of surviving.
And that is why I’m asking for your help.
If you can donate, even a small amount helps.
If you can’t donate, please like and repost this post. The more people who see it, the better chance we have of reaching this goal.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our previous fundraisers and continues supporting Ukraine.
Don't mind the snow in the video, they asked for this in march, and unfortunately I couldn't fundraiser until today. But we have been working on repairing their equipment and supplying some machines since June.
Donation link is in the 1st comment below.
Alexander Black retweeted
I get the need to try to calm down the situation, especially from those inside. But stating that the U.S. president is the dupe of Russian psychological warfare is not the flex this government source thinks it is. economist.com/europe/2026/10…
Alexander Black retweeted
America did not dodge a bullet. America was pretty squarely hit by a bullet which tanked global opinion and soft power, strained relationships with allies, delayed economic growth, punched science in the face, tore families apart, exacerbated wars and has fought against the buildout of renewables while simultaneously clawing away more land for oil.
One can go on and on for hours. America was hit by the bullet, it just hasn’t died.





























