Wayne Jordash

I never stop being amazed by them. Launching their “Birdhouse” — a strategic-class missile worth around $100 million, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — at a garage complex in the Kyiv region. Let’s calculate how much this night cost them. One “Oreshnik” — roughly $100 million. Around ninety cruise and ballistic missiles: Kh-101s, Kalibrs, Iskander-Ks — at an average price of about $8 million each — that’s another roughly $720 million. Six hundred Shahed drones at $50,000 each — another $30 million. Plus fuel, launch platforms, maintenance, reconnaissance. Total: around $850 million for a single night. Nearly a billion dollars. And what did they get for that billion? They hit garages in Bila Tserkva. Destroyed the “Kvadrat” shopping mall. Set the roof of a dormitory on fire in Darnytskyi district. Blew apart an entrance section of a five-story apartment building in Shevchenkivskyi district. Hit a market. A supermarket. A construction hypermarket in Obolon. Dropped debris onto the Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium. Two sleeping civilians killed. Fifty-six wounded, including children. Is this their strategic result for a billion dollars? This is their “special operation.” This is their “greatness.” They cannot move forward on the battlefield. Cannot seize a single truly significant settlement. Cannot defeat the army of a country they promised to capture in three days four years ago. And in convulsions, in agony, in powerless rage, they strike residential neighborhoods at night — museums, markets, shops, garages. Impotent on the battlefield, compensating for their failure with the number of munitions fired at sleeping civilians. Blind evil and helplessness at the same time. Monsters. Simply monsters. Rabid, paranoid lunatics with a nuclear button. I have no other words left for them.

Last night, Russia targeted a theatre, museums, shopping centres, and residential buildings in Kyiv and the surrounding region. Photo credit: The State Emergency Service of Ukraine

"The international community must do everything in its power to stop these crimes and hold Russia’s top military and political leadership accountable." – @WayneJordash, President of Global Rights Compliance.

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APPLEBAUM: Russia's war in Ukraine is sometimes described, including recently by American Vice President, as if it were nothing more than territorial dispute, kind of scuffle over lines on map. But when Russia denies that Ukraine is a real nation, builds concentration camps on Ukrainian territory, bans Ukrainian language and systematically arrests mayors, teachers, journalists, and priests, then Russia is also attacking Europe that was built after 1945, Europe whose borders are not supposed to be changed by force. Russia invaded Ukraine not only to destroy Ukraine but also to prove that treaties are meaningless, alliances are weak, and brute force still decides fate of nations. By waging imperial war of conquest, Russia seeks to undermine Europe's post-imperial order.

Over the past two weeks, Global Rights Compliance testified before the U.S. Trade Representative on forced labour and global trade. Nearly 200 experts from across industries testified over the course of two hearings

Recently, GRC's Director of Forced Labour Programs, @Samir__Goswami, was quoted in The New York Times in the context of the U.S. Section 301 investigation targeting forced labour import bans across 59 countries and the EU. Read the full article: nytimes.com/2026/05/01/bus…

Zelensky is “allowing” Russia to hold a Victory Day parade on Red Square. Absolutely hilarious.

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are… Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

Brave women fighting against an an illegal aggression

Gosh, one could almost be a royalist for a day after this pointed speech in support of Ukraine. Bravo Charles.

Investigative reporters and digital forensic experts explore a critical and often overlooked question: when journalists document #warcrimes, what determines whether that material can actually be used in court? @GRC_HumanRights offers their expertise. youtube.com/watch?v=LwgzXx…

And spoke eloquently about the terrible fate of Uyghurs under CCP rule.

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

The penny will drop soon. There will be mass panic and the media will be fighting to say they weren’t warned how bad it was. They were. Like here:

🇭🇺👀 Magyar: “Before we get started, let me just point out how strange this is. The last time I was invited on public media was more than a year and a half ago. It took an unprecedented mandate from over 3.3 million Hungarians for the leader of the strongest party to finally be allowed back on air. We will immediately suspend this lying news service. After we form the government, one of our very first tasks will be to shut down this factory of lies and build a real, independent public broadcaster — one where the opposition finally has a voice too.”

New op-ed by Samir Goswami and Nyrola Elimä has been published in @thehill ! It highlights how Beijing’s ambitions to dominate critical industries such as semiconductors, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing are closely tied to systemic forced labour practices in Xinjiang.

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GRC operates within the @ACAUkraine, a joint initiative of the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States, to support and assist Ukrainian law enforcement and prosecutors in investigating and prosecuting international crimes committed during the full-scale war.

The investigation is supported by GRC Mobile Justice Team North, which has provided legal and analytical expertise to the Sumy Prosecutor’s Office.