My childhood friend covered me with himself, saved my life, and died in my arms. "I love you" were his last words. — Cobra, 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade fighter.
It was the hardest psychological moment for me. We were close to evacuation, but he didn’t make it. 1/
Cobra: When his mom found out what happened, she hit me really hard. My cheek was burning for 2 days.
She said “if not you, he would be alive.” But I didn’t ask him to do that.
Only his wife and daughter understood me.
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Cobra: During shelling, my son looked at me and said, "Mom, I don't want to die, I'm still young”.
I started crying hard. They aren’t in Ukraine right now, and I don’t want them to be. I can visit them, but I don’t want them to live through this.
Zelenskyy is meeting Starmer, Macron, and Merz in London to decide how to force Putin into a ceasefire.
What pressure to add, which Russian targets to squeeze, and how Europe keeps negotiations moving while Trump is focused on Iran, — The Telegraph. 1/
The summit follows Zelenskyy’s open letter challenging Putin to a face-to-face meeting and a truce along the current front lines.
Putin: “I don’t see any point for now.” 2/
Zelenskyy responded that Russia is “choosing war again.”
Putin does not want peace, so Russia should have less money and face more pressure. 3/
GPS jamming has reached space, and from orbit a single source can blank an entire continent at once, far beyond any jammer on the ground.
Scientists traced short GPS outages across Europe, from Iceland to Italy, to three Russian satellites in at least 3 of 75 cases logged since 2019, NYT. 1/
The disruptions are short, lasting under 10 seconds, but they spread across a continent.
They hit the GPS networks of the U.S., China and the EU. Russia's own system stays untouched. 2/
Richard Bowden of Spanish tech firm GMV said the signal is clearly structured and well designed.
It sits next to a widely used GPS frequency but runs strong enough to bleed over and drown it out. 3/
FT: Zelenskyy invited Roman Abramovich to Kyiv on May 21 and asked him to tell Putin he was ready for their first one-on-one summit after more than four years of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine tried a direct peace channel. Putin still saw no point in meeting. 1/
Ukraine wanted to prove it takes direct peace talks seriously while the US, which tried to broker a ceasefire, focuses on the Middle East war.
Kyiv also sees leverage in Russia’s slowed offensive, huge casualties, and Ukraine’s deep strikes behind enemy lines. 2/
Kyiv hopes its success in halting Russia’s offensive, now slowed to a crawl, and hitting deep behind enemy lines can push momentum toward an immediate ceasefire.
Putin still believes Russia’s larger resources will eventually wear down Ukraine’s resistance over time. 3/