Jonathan Nicholson

Russia again threatens diplomats & foreigners, urging us to leave Kyiv. But we are not going anywhere! Russia wants fear. Panic. Isolation of Ukraine. It will not work. 🇪🇺 is not going anywhere. We stay in Kyiv. We stay w/ Ukraine. 🇺🇦🤝🇪🇺

While Romanian families shivered in unheated apartments and waited hours for meager bread rations, Nicolae Ceaușescu built himself a 1,100-room palace that consumed $3 billion of his nation's wealth. The Casa Poporului stands today as a monument to the inevitable outcome when central planners face zero market constraints on their appetites. Ceaușescu's palace contains 12 stories above ground, spreads across 365,000 square meters, and required 20,000 workers laboring in shifts around the clock. He demolished entire historic neighborhoods of Bucharest to clear space for his architectural ego trip. Meanwhile, his citizens endured bread queues, rolling blackouts, and heating restrictions so severe that hospitals couldn't maintain proper temperatures. The dictator diverted the nation's resources toward marble, crystal chandeliers, and gold leaf while his people literally froze. Without market prices to signal genuine demand or profit-and-loss mechanisms to punish waste, political authorities inevitably channel resources toward projects that serve their personal preferences rather than human needs. Ceaușescu faced no competitors, no angry shareholders, no bankruptcy risk. He simply commanded the nation's productive capacity to serve his grandiose vision. The palace required 3,500 tons of crystal, 480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lights, and 700,000 tons of steel and bronze. Every ton of material that went into those ornate rooms represented food, medicine, fuel, or housing that never reached Romanian families. The arithmetic is brutal but simple: centralized control means resources flow toward political vanity projects rather than genuine human priorities. The building still stands, largely empty, costing millions annually just to maintain its unused splendor.

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Yesterday, Russian military destroyed a protestant church in Balakliia, Kharkiv region. Church of the Gospel published the video of the fire on its YouTube channel. The roof was totally lost in 15–20 min. Luckily, nobody was hurt. The link to the original video is below. 1/2

Two women killed. Dozens wounded. Yet another vile strike by Moscow against Kyiv and its residents. Last night, the Russians targeted the very heart of our capital. The National Art Museum, the Philharmonic, the Music Academy, and the Yaroslav the Wise Library were badly damaged. The Chornobyl Museum was almost completely destroyed. Architectural landmarks of Podil and the historic center were also damaged: the Contract House, the Postal Station, the Church of the Nativity of Christ, the Kyiv Opera, and schools. This is a war against our culture, memory, and identity. For centuries, Moscow has tried to destroy everything that makes us Ukrainian. This is genocide. We are documenting each of these crimes for future tribunals. Our memory cannot be burned away by missiles. We will rebuild everything. My deepest condolences to the families of those killed. Strength to all Kyiv residents affected by this attack. Glory to Ukraine!

It was a horrible night in Kyiv. But if Putin thinks he can terrorize Ukrainians into submission, he is mistaken.

A Russian missile attack hit the entrance of Lukianivska metro station in Kyiv, but the underground station itself wasn't directly affected and people sheltering there were safe.