The Telegraph has got its hands on a copy of the contract that the US tried to make Zelenskyy sign last week. Here are the terms that were proposed. They amounted to US economic colonisation of Ukraine. ⬇️ The draft contract between the US and Ukraine outlines terms that are highly disadvantageous to Ukraine. It essentially grants the US substantial control over Ukraine's critical resources, including minerals, oil, gas, ports, and other infrastructure. The main points include:

📍 Museum of the Occupation of Latvia.

The Secret Protocol, part of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, signed on 23 August 1939. It partitioned Central and Eastern Europe between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and paved the way for the start of World War II. Within days, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany, and by the Soviet Union not long after.

Russia to this day lies about or tries to deny its collaboration with the Nazis in 1939. Trolls hate it when they are reminded of this historical fact.


5 August 1940: the Soviet Union annexes Latvia.

The newspaper Pravda reports: "Yesterday the Supreme Soviet of the USSR unanimously adopted the Law on the Incorporation of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic into the USSR." Moscow, 6 August 1940.

In a recent UN report, the Commission reported on the torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces.

One Ukrainian soldier, who was detained and tortured by Russian authorities in several detention facilities, recounted his experience in Correctional Colony No. 1 in Donskoy town. In his words, Russian FSIN personnel beat him on the way to and from interrogation, which broke his collarbone. They forced him to do repeated jumps regardless of a surgery to his foot. He developed gangrene. They beat him on his buttocks in the isolation ward, causing bleeding from his anus. In the yard, they beat him on his face and injured foot, leading to bleeding. They knocked out some of his teeth. He begged them to kill him. Another time, they beat him until he could not feel his feet and was unable to stand. He was bleeding. “I lost any hope and will to live”, he said, and attempted suicide in his cell using his uniform. Perpetrators found him and beat him until he had a broken tailbone and toe and was bleeding. He was also tortured with electric shocks for two weeks. After release, he had undergone 36 hospitalisations as of January 2024. In most facilities, the prisoners of war underwent a brutal “admission procedure”, with beatings and electric shocks. One victim recalled being greeted with “Welcome to hell”. Torture occurred during interrogation sessions, where detainees were questioned about the Ukrainian armed forces and their military units. Torture was also employed to intimidate and punish. Victims reported torture “everywhere”: cells, corridors, courtyard, bathhouse. A perpetrator told a victim: “We will now teach you how to fight against the Russians.” Another victim heard a prison guard stating: “Our goal is that you never return to war.” According to detainees, particularly harsh treatment was inflicted on prisoners of war from Mariupol city or western Ukraine; those who were not fluent in Russian; and when Russian armed forces lost control of areas in Ukraine.

In an article in the Financial Times, there are stories of Ukrainians who've escaped Russian occupation, and have crossed back into Ukraine at the Krasnopillya border crossing in north east Ukraine. I will set out those civilians' horrifying stories below. Please read! ⬇️🧵 During his visit in Krasnopillya, the journalist caught word of an exchange of fallen troops under way, but Ukraine’s security services wouldn’t let him witness the swap, citing operational security. In any case, the border guard told him, he wouldn’t advise going near the crossing itself. Russian forces regularly shell it. “Sometimes they shoot at our people after they leave the territory of the Russian Federation,” says the guard. It’s a move designed to “terrorise” the fleeing Ukrainians.

It's going to be an absolute bullshit bonanza tomorrow with russian lies around their "great patriotic war".

Don't forget to remind the vatniks that even Stalin himself said that the Soviet Union would not have won without US lend lease.

"I want to tell you what, from the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The West becomes the enemy
The main slogan of Putin’s Victory Day is “We can repeat it”. In parallel, there has been an ever stronger down-playing of the importance of the material support received from the Western allies during 1941-1945. From the recognition by Stalin and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting

Staff of The New York Times
For their unflinching coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into Ukrainian deaths in the town of Bucha and the Russian unit responsible for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… December 22, 2022
Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha

nytimes.com/2022/12/22/vid…

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Public Service

Associated Press, for the work of Mstyslav Chernov, Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko and Lori Hinnant

Courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 March 2022: 'Why? Why? Why?' Ukraine's Mariupol descends into despair

apspecialprojects.com/mariupol-desce…

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Photography

Photography Staff of Associated Press

For unique and urgent images from the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including the devastation of Mariupol after other news organizations left, victims of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Ukrainian emergency employees and police officers evacuate injured pregnant woman Iryna Kalinina, 32, from a maternity hospital that was damaged by a Russian airstrike in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. “Kill me now!” she screamed, as they struggled to save her life at another… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

‘I’m Sitting Next to My Fiancée. He’s Dead’
By Lera Burlakova
May 5, 2023

The odyssey of a Ukrainian soldier, journalist, and mother through protest and war to the United States, where she is reminded that negotiating with terrorists is fatuous.

cepa.org/article/im-sit… In 2016:

My fiancée is at Butivka too. One day he leads a group on a routine combat mission and never comes back. He’s killed by an anti-personnel landmine — prohibited by the Mine Ban Convention that Russia doesn’t acknowledge.

I’m sitting on my knees next to him. He’s dead,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

'My husband lost control of the car. I grabbed the wheel. Half his head was gone'

Kherson buries the victims of Russian shelling as Ukraine’s counter-offensive looms.

At least 23 people were killed and 46 injured in artillery attack on Kherson's supermarket and railway station… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The people of Kherson – those who remain, at least – are accustomed to explosions. Since the southern city was liberated in November, it has been shelled relentlessly by Russian troops on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river. But the tempo of fighting has surged in recent days… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The Czech President, @prezidentpavel, a decorated retired general who was previously NATO’s principal military adviser, has privately warned Ukraine’s leadership against the disaster of a rushed counteroffensive.

In recent meetings in Kyiv with President @ZelenskyyUa and PM… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Pavel said he had appealed to Shmyhal during meetings last week not to be “pushed into a faster pace before they are fully prepared”.

“Because it might be a temptation to push them, for some, to demonstrate some results,” Pavel said in an interview during a visit to London for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

DEBUNKING RUSSIAN MYTHS ABOUT NATO: A THREAD

As we all know, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. It calls it ‘a special military operation’ in an attempt to fool and manipulate the world. In fact, it is a real war. Since 2014, Russia has… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… MYTH 1: NATO is at war with Russia in Ukraine

FACT: NATO is not at war with Russia, and NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia. What NATO does is support Ukraine in its right to self-defence, as enshrined in the UN Charter. Over the past months, NATO has taken strictly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

How to report Bucha deniers? Ten easy to follow steps, with screenshots, and a note at step 7 around adding additional context to your Twitter reports to ensure a successful bonking operation.

1. Click on the ellipsis next to the offending tweet(s).
2. Start report.
3.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… See my thread here, prompted by the awful kremlin bullshit from today. The thread contains resources debunking the Bucha denying nonsense propagated by kremlin clowns and pro-russian morons.

https://twitter.com/clarenafo/status/1642093428392574977?s=20

.@elonmusk you are allowing war crimes deniers on your platform. @RussianEmbassyC is denying that russia perpetrated the atrocities in Bucha last year.

@TwitterSafety Detailed report from @hrw Human Rights Watch: hrw.org/news/2022/04/2…