Russia continues to attack civilian targets in Ukraine.
United 24 reports from Kiev:
Ukraine honored a 3-day ceasefire from May 9 to 11 at putin’s request so russia could hold its Victory Day parade uninterrupted. Just days later, russia launched one of its largest missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, once again targeting civilians in their homes.
In one district, a russian missile strike caused part of a residential building to collapse, trapping people, including children, under the rubble in the middle of the night.
Rescue workers searched through the debris for more than 28 hours. Emergency workers cleared more than 3,000 cubic meters of destroyed building structures.
24 people were killed. Among them were 3 children. 48 more were injured, including a newborn baby.
One of the children killed was 12-year-old Liubava Yakovlieva, a 6th grade student. Another victim was 15-year-old Mariia, who died together with her father and grandmother.
Among those killed were also Maryna, an English teacher, Svitlana, a kindergarten teacher, and many other Ukrainians whose lives were stolen by russia, leaving devastated families behind.
Every day, russian missiles take the lives of Ukrainian children, destroy families, and steal futures that should have belonged to them.
Today, Kyiv is in mourning for the victims of the May 14 attack. We honor the memory of everyone whose life has been taken by russia, and send our deepest condolences to their families and loved ones.
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It’s a tragedy that civilians are killed, if that’s true in this case. But bear in mind that the nazi infiltrated Ukrainian government is a master of propaganda, and their army continues to use human shields for their large arms, like cannons.
Ex: they place howitzer batteries in apartment buildings so when they are targeted they can claim that the enemy is aiming at civilians
https://mronline.org/2022/04/28/eva-bartlett-reports-from-mariupol/
Please don’t become another victim of the lying Western imperialist press which whitewashes the crimes of the pro-US war criminals around the world and blacklists truthful journalists
https://rumble.com/playlists/Azaxpg__h_8
https://therealnews.com/the-chris-hedges-report-ukraine-and-the-crisis-of-media-censorship
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Are you a Russian bot?
Ukraine was invaded by Russia in 2022.
Russia has targeted homes, hospitals, schools, and other civilian sites.
Russia has kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children and brought them to Russia to be Russified.
Ukraine has targeted military sites.
Europe supports Ukraine.
Is Europe led by Nazis?
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Okay, this is going to take a moment to unpack, but hear me out:
Trump may be one of the most consequential strategic obstacles Putin has faced in decades.
Yes.
NOT because he sounds like Churchill. NOT because he talks like a Cold Warrior. And NOT because cable news says so.
Because the STRUCTURE of the policy matters more than the rhetoric.
Twenty-four civilians killed in an apartment strike. Children buried in rubble after Ukraine honored a ceasefire Russia itself requested for Victory Day. An English teacher. A kindergarten teacher. A newborn injured.
If you find that disgusting — and you should — then opposing Putin’s regime is not some abstract geopolitical game. It becomes a moral and strategic imperative.
The question is what EFFECTIVE opposition actually looks like.
Well just crack a history book.
Clearly, current U.S. and allied policy is anti-Russian in the strategic sense. But one has to abandon the simplistic historical frame that says “strength” means marching directly toward Moscow.
Napoleon tried that.
Hitler tried that.
History points somewhere else entirely.
As Sun Tzu observed, wise strategy attacks weakness and avoids strength. Russia’s historic strengths are depth, geography, climate, attrition, and absorption. Again and again, wars centered on the steppes — precisely where Putin WANTS the struggle centered — harden the Russian state rather than break it.
Putin wants the contest framed as Kursk. As eastern Ukraine. As the old Russian story: force against force, attrition against attrition, blood and mud on the frontier.
And it is important to understand that many of his most horrific acts function strategically in EXACTLY that way.
Deliberate provocation. Escalation. Spectacle. Civilian terror. Missile strikes designed not merely to destroy, but to emotionally center the conflict precisely where Putin believes he holds advantage: the brutalization zone of the frontier war.
Putin wants outrage to pull the West psychologically into the frame he prefers — direct confrontation, emotional escalation, the politics of immediate vengeance, a giant grinding land war centered on Russia’s historic strengths.
Wise leaders see through that.
They recognize that Putin behaves this way in part because he WANTS the conflict centered there. He wants the war understood primarily through the battlefield he has chosen.
But historically, Russia has often been constrained elsewhere: economically, technologically, diplomatically, financially, and through strategic isolation and overextension.
The policies that have historically constrained Russian power looked very different: containment, alliance systems, energy pressure, economic isolation, technological competition, peripheral pressure, forcing overextension, and separating Moscow from wealth, leverage, and allies.
That pattern repeats over centuries because it WORKS.
And viewed through that lens, much of current policy suddenly looks extraordinarily forceful.
Trump publicly BERATED European leaders for relying on Russian energy while underinvesting in their own militaries. The rhetoric was abrasive, even humiliating at times, but the strategic direction was unmistakable: stop financing Russia through energy dependence and force Europe to rebuild hard military capacity.
In effect, NATO was placed on the horns of a dilemma: either dramatically increase defense spending and military readiness to counter Russia alongside the United States, or risk a future with weakened American guarantees — which would force even larger European military buildups anyway.
If your top priority is constraining Russian power, that is EXACTLY what the policy architecture would look like.
The broader coalition has also steadily moved toward restricting Russian finance, limiting technology access, reducing energy leverage, and applying pressure across Russia’s geopolitical perimeter rather than seeking catastrophic direct confrontation.
And without overstating it, places like Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran matter in this framework because they are longstanding Russian partners and geopolitical pressure points. Pressure on those relationships is not random. It fits the broader logic of constraining Russian reach and strategic depth outside its borders.
From the Kremlin’s perspective, the nightmare is not tanks racing toward Moscow. It is a patient coalition separating Russia from cash flow, markets, alliances, technology, military parity, and geopolitical depth over time.
Say what you like about Trump, but if you are a student of history, the overall direction of these policies has been shaped almost EXACTLY like the strategies that have historically constrained Russian expansion.
NOT theatrical frontal war.
From Moscow’s perspective, that is not weakness.
It is relentless.
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This creep is actually arguing that it is sometimes appropriate to target civilian apartment buildings? Seriously? Sick. Diane does not allow on her blog the language that I would like to use to refer to this deranged toady for the murderous and kleptocratic Vladimir La Puta.
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Ukraine is guided by a decent human being, but a thug murderer, who will not honor his side of an agreement, leads Russia. Putin recently claimed that the war may end soon, but his actions contradict his intentions.
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When do you think Zelensky is going to allow elections again? And before you say “they’re at war” like that’s some kind of excuse, the U.S. is at war right now too – are you going to accept that if Trump uses that as an excuse to stay in office? Zelensky has been in power for 7 years – at what point does he become a dictator?
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Are there missiles and drones hitting US cities, towns, and villages every day and night? Are our hospitals, schools, and homes been targeted by a vicious adversary?
Your adoration of Putin is astonishing. He has ruled Russia for 26 years, and the Duma extended his term until 2036. But in your eyes, he is democratically elected, because there are elections where he gets 90% of the vote. That is after any genuine opponents have been murdered.
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The question was about Zelensky, which you didn’t answer. Zelensky is not a general running the war. He’s allegedly a president and presidents are supposed to stand for election. Otherwise they are dictators.
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This is murder. It is a violation of fundamental international law. Putin is a murderer.
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Can you have an election in the middle of a war, Dienne? Where do you set up polling places…in bomb shelters, perhaps?
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Some people paint or play the piano. Putin bombs apartment buildings full of innocent civilians.
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