Lizzy Princeton

Drones attacked an oil refinery in Kirishi, Russia’s Leningrad region. Kirishinefteorgsintez (KINEF) is one of the largest oil refineries in Russia, with a processing capacity of up to 20 million tonnes per year. The facility produces gasoline, diesel, kerosene, fuel oil, and petrochemical products.

European history is being erased by Russia. A 17th century church in Lviv was deliberately hit by a drone. The footage shows it diving straight in. 630 Ukrainian religious sites have been destroyed since 2022 Meanwhile Russia parades itself as the ‘defender of Christianity’

🚨 One letter. Two signatures. Zero tolerance for funding Russia. @RepGregoryMeeks and @RepDonBacon sent a joint letter to Bessent and Rubio demanding answers on one thing: Why is the U.S. easing sanctions on Russian oil - right now? Right when Ukraine is advancing. Right when Russia is sharing drone tech with Iran to target U.S. forces. Right when Moscow needs cash the most. This isn't about politics. This is about funding an aggressor at the worst possible moment. Meeks and Bacon are asking the right questions. Congress needs to hear more voices like theirs. 📌 Sanctions must stay. 👉 amukr.org/do-not-lift-sa… 📰 Source: spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news… #StandUpWithUkraine #SupportUkraine #SanctionRussia #RussianWar #RussianWarInUkraine

Strong man and strong nation❤️🇺🇦 Every day, Ukrainians choose courage over fear. ...for us all. Supporting Ukraine means protecting what is right🫂 Let’s not look away. Let’s act🤝

⚡️ @DuaLipa’s Service95 brand raised money for @DrivingUkraine, a UK nonprofit turning decommissioned vehicles into ambulances and military transport.

I remember telling you at the end of last year about the Ukrainian film U Are The Universe, which became a national sensation in cinemas here. Well, it has literally just been released on Netflix today: lnk.ua/EvnHNwn8b And if you’re interested in Ukraine (or just in genuinely good, lyrical, intimate cinema), I definitely recommend it. It’s a tragicomedy about a Ukrainian space trucker alone in deep space. At once very funny and very sad, the film is carried by a single actor, comedian and war veteran Volodymyr Kravchuk, who has an incredible amount of charisma and perfectly embodies that “simple guy from the Ukrainian countryside,” with all the distinctive accent and flavor. The visuals of space are surprisingly good (especially considering the very modest budget), the music is fantastic, and there’s a lot of Ukrainian color throughout, along with plenty of hilarious nods to famous space films. In the theater, I caught references to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, Moon, The Martian, and possibly even Gravity. I’m telling you: I had never seen a packed theater for a Ukrainian film like that. Here in Ukraine, the theatrical run was even extended multiple times because of the unprecedented demand. And now, after Project Hail Mary, another intimate and deeply touching space story, especially a Ukrainian one, feels just right. Especially if you’re from France! On Netflix, it’s available in Ukrainian with subtitles. I hope it’s accessible in your country as well. If not, here’s a Letterboxd link: boxd.it/ChSa

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirms: a Russian combat icebreaker in the Leningrad region at the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant was destroyed According to preliminary information, this is a military icebreaker, a patrol ship "Purga" of Project 23550, which was planned for operations as part of the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation. Such ships perform tasks both as icebreakers and as military ships in the northern latitudes. t.me/Crimeanwind/96…

In Ivano-Frankivsk Russians killed 15‑year‑old Anelia and her father, Volodymyr, in a Shahed drone strike 💔🕯 They had been visiting the mother and newborn baby brother at the maternity hospital when the russian drone hit.

As a result of a russian attack on Lviv, the windows of St. Andrew’s Church were blown out — yet the image of the Virgin Mary remained undamaged. A symbol of protection and faith that holds us in the darkest times. Help protect Ukrainians: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?ut…

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Today, European Commission have proposed that the EU become a founding member of the Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. Those responsible for the aggression against Ukraine must be held accountable.

Today, the U.S. Congress is holding a hearing on the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia. This is one of the gravest and most systematic crimes of this war. 2,058 children have been returned to Ukraine, including through the efforts of @FLOTUS. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children still remain in temporarily occupied territories. The occupying authorities are intensifying pressure, attempting to forcibly mobilize teenagers, and further complicating return routes. This unlawful deportation and transfer of children is the basis for the 2023 arrest warrants issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova by the International Criminal Court.

Zelensky says Russia tried to pressure the U.S. by offering to stop sharing military intelligence with Iran if Washington cut intelligence support to Ukraine. - Reuters Zelensky: "I will not pass on intelligence to Iran if America stops passing intelligence to Ukraine. Isn't that blackmail? Absolutely."

⚡ Ukraine says UNESCO experts will visit Lviv to assess drone strike damage. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reached an agreement for the team’s deployment following the Russian attack on March 24. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/un…

🇺🇸 "This is not a business deal - it's a war that needs to be ended" - Keith Kellogg on the war in Ukraine The American general emphasized that the aggressor is Putin, and it is him who needs to be pressured to end the conflict. Speaking about Volodymyr Zelensky, Kellogg noted that the Ukrainian president "is very similar to President Trump". The general also paid tribute to the Ukrainians, who over four years of war "firmly stopped the Russian military machine". "I think that over time, Putin will just have to understand - he can't win this war. He won't win the war, he won't succeed," Kellogg stated.

Today I reached one million followers combined across my platforms. I’m so incredibly proud and happy to be able to tell the stories that matter, and it is amazing to see that so many people still care about the truth. And, I’m just getting started 🫡❤️🔥

A local maternity hospital in Lviv reported that two babies were born in their shelter yesterday during the massive drone attack on the city — Yaroslav and Sofia. Life must prevail over death. Light must prevail over darkness. 💙💛 Via Hromadske

Excerpt from a powerful speech by Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN @MelnykAndrij: What we have seen in the last weeks is that it is Moscow that has been providing substantial military support to the Tehran regime. It is Russia that is not just the principal ally of Iran, but the main accomplice and co-perpetrator of unlawful attacks against civilian infrastructure of the Gulf states. Russia has long portrayed itself as a "big friend" of the Global South opposing the "vicious" West. But this narrative collapses under the weight of the real actions of Moscow helping Iran to ruin oil and gas production facilities in the region. Russia does not care about the Global South. It has actually betrayed it. The Kremlin is not just providing Tehran with intelligence support, including satellite imagery and other crucial data that facilitate targeting of US military assets across the Middle East. This axis of evil between Moscow and Tehran constitutes an enormous threat to international security. Their military cooperation is truly alarming. The United States and the international community must take this threat seriously and act before it is too late. Production sites of Russian drones should be considered legitimate targets for military strikes in the campaign against the Mullah regime. Ukraine is already contributing to the weakening of the military potential of the Moscow–Tehran unholy alliance, as our troops are hitting these production facilities, exercising the right of self-defense. So, providing Ukraine with the means for deep strikes and helping ramp up our domestic production of long-range missiles will support collective efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. In reality, Russia is the primary beneficiary of the new wave of instability in the Middle East. First, it automatically diverts global attention away from its ongoing aggression against Ukraine. Second, the massive deployment of air defense systems is already creating shortages on the international market. And third — and most critically — rising oil and gas prices are generating extraordinary windfall revenues for Russia.

A extremelly powerful book has been published some years ago "deported for eternity" remaining us this terrible events. From Tatar deportation from Krimea to Holodomor, from these terrible times in the Baltes States to current situation in Ukraine. Only one name #russiaisaterroriststate @MFA_Ukraine @APUkraine @UKRinFRA @kajakallas @PayasoUKR

Today, 77 years ago, around 95,000 people were violently deported from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Siberia in 1949. Many were small children and elderly, forced into freezing, damp cattle wagons. Just four years after World War II, while much of Europe lived in peace, Soviet terror continued behind the Iron Curtain. Same russian terror continues to this very day in Europe.

I see no real military purpose in Russia unleashing Shahed drones on the historic center of Lviv and other Ukrainian cities yesterday, except to create a striking media image: - people are killed and cultural and historical landmarks are demonstratively destroyed. - Ukraine is made to look as if it cannot cope with swarms of drones, so other countries shouldn’t cooperate with it on counter-drone efforts, shouldn’t invest in its technologies, and shouldn’t treat it as a serious partner. But the full picture looks very different. In one of the attack waves yesterday, 556 drones were launched at Ukraine. Only 15 reached their targets in Ukrainian cities, that’s about 3% (according to Magyar). I’d like to see what other country could achieve that level of effectiveness against such an overwhelming number of targets, and do it not once, but almost every night. Meanwhile, Russian propagandists like Fighterbomber love to clown around, boasting that the “khokhols” failed to shoot down their glorious drones (what a triumph of Russian arms: they burned the roof of a historic church and killed a man and his 15-year-old daughter who had come to visit their mother in a maternity ward). But for some reason, they never mention what happened to the hundreds of other Shaheds.