Dirk Philipp

@IAPonomarenko You waste cargo capacity on Nutella???

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Thank you, Ukrainian housewives. 🫡🇺🇦

#Lviv hat wie durch ein Wunder zwei Weltkriege überstanden. Jetzt greift #Russland die historische Altstadt an. Unter russ. Nationalisten ist sie ein besonderes Hassobjekt, da ihre Geschichte u. Kultur die Zugehörigkeit zur "Russ. Welt" in Frage stellt.

Alice Weidel: "They ship countless billions to one of the most corrupt regimes on Earth: Ukraine. To prolong a war that is not ours. They stand with Kyiv even when the regime blackmails, threatens, and physically attacks vital infrastructure inside EU member states." What a vile, lying russian shill. Not once has she called out russia for its invasion, for murders, for the abduction of children, for the razing of cities, or for any of the thousands of war crimes. Please, dear Germans, do not vote for this fascist.

Year five of Russia’s full-scale war. A line outside the Kyiv National Art Gallery for a new exhibition. This is Ukraine 🇺🇦

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

@feederofcats He looks so much better already!

Dweeb, the most ridiculous baby jank ever, is out of the hospital! He goes back on Tuesday for his jaw surgery. For now, he has a feeding tube so we can make sure he gets nutrients and meds. He's starving and so frantic around food :( little guy has been wasting away

Das Interview mit Kaja Kallas ist ein rarer Moment politischer Ehrlichkeit. nationalheraldindia.com/international/… Sie sagt klar: Die USA wollen Europa gespalten halten, nicht aus Bosheit, sondern aus geopolitischem Kalkül. Ein geeintes Europa ist stark und eigenständig, ein gespaltenes verhandelbar. Diese Strategie kennt man von Russland: Unterstützung nationalistischer Kräfte, Desinformation, EU-Skepsis. Autoritäre Mächte profitieren von einem schwachen Europa. Früh gewarnt haben vor allem die Ostflankenstaaten: Estland, Lettland, Litauen, Finnland, Polen. Sie sahen die Gefahr lange, bevor Westeuropa sie ernst nahm. Kallas zieht die Konsequenz: Europa schützt Werte, Sicherheit und Wohlstand nur geschlossen... nicht gegen die USA, sondern für sich selbst. In einer Welt erstarkender Autokratien ist ein demokratisches Europa ein entscheidendes Gegengewicht. Wer es spaltet, schwächt die Demokratie global. Europäische Einheit ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit, sie ist eine bewusste Entscheidung für Rechtsstaat, Stärke und die Zukunft des Kontinents.

We are now forced to close intake and not help anymore cats until we find homes for the adoptable cats in our care. We literally have no more space and I'm having to say no to cats who will die without us. all these kittens are still here. Please share. 📍 SF Bay Area

Around this time of year, I always remember this picture of the Kharkiv railway station four years ago and the people desperately trying to evacuate. ​It was the first few weeks of the Russian full-scale invasion. Our air defense wasn't properly established yet, and Russian bombers were free to drop air bombs. Oh, ​how can I describe to you, my dear reader from a peaceful country, what it is like to be targeted by airbombs on top of artillery and missiles? The sound is deafening; the destruction is massive. Every time you hear a fighter jet flying low, you freeze in fear like a deer in the headlights, not knowing where it will drop its deadly cargo. And there is a lot of bombs. ​I remember staying in my parents' basement, too afraid to leave. I recall thinking I needed sleep to keep from losing my mind, but the explosions just wouldn't stop. After one particularly loud night, my cousin called and said, "My district of Kharkiv no longer exists." ​The district still stood, but it had been so heavily damaged by bombs in a single night that it was unrecognizable. A few hours after our conversation, this picture surfaced. It wasn't my cousin overreacting; it was russia genuinely trying to raze Kharkiv to the ground. This is what drove those people to flood the train station. ​Russia would have proceeded and succeeded, had their bombers not started dropping like flies over Ukrainian cities. ​When Russian propaganda tells you they are being "gentle" and that the war is taking a long time because they do not want to cause destruction, remember this picture. they would have destroyed us, if they could.

I didn’t lose my ability to see beauty. Moreover, the war taught me to see it everywhere. Beauty is not a distraction. It shows how amazing our planet is. The one we should protect.

@KatsKitties There's Tycho on the fridge! 😍

😹😹 I love our sitter! She doesn’t know about the counter rules so I get to be up here (human says this is my fun “secret” with the sitter so she won’t tell the sitter)

A 10-month-old baby and her mother were evacuated from the red zone. The poor little girl doesn't understand what's happening. 💔 Source:Andry_boxer.

Die Ukraine hat den härtesten Winter seit Kriegsbeginn überlebt. Der Frühling kommt.

Days like these, the videos and events I see coming from the cities of my country, fill me with a raw, wild hatred and anger - every single time, without fail... This war has changed Ukrainian life; it has changed the people themselves. No matter how hard we try to remain "good people" (in a sense), this hatred sits inside each of us: for some, it’s buried deep; for others, it’s right on the surface. Sometimes or even often, this anger flares up at the worst possible times and affects the people around us. I’ve become that way myself. I remember so well the years before 2022, when I looked at everything differently - at life itself, and the value of a human life. But now, looking back at these passing years, it’s clear how much this has changed me and my nation as a whole. I truly hope 🙏🏻 that everyone living in Ukraine can overcome this hatred within themselves and not let it destroy them from the inside, because living with these feelings is a heavy burden. Some of you may be wondering, "What about the russians? Can they be forgiven?" If not now, then at least someday... I think it's best not to ask such questions, lest we see the utter hatred and rage that live within each of us, even when we're not aware of it. It's best not to awaken a sleeping beast, or one that's already on guard.

When you hear about the war in Ukraine, this is what you should remember about russia's actions and what Ukrainians are going through. This missile strike happened on February 22nd, last Sunday. This is what it looked like in the heat of the moment, not after the fires had already been put out. In those minutes, neighbors were nearby trying to help; brave people appeared who weren't afraid of the fire, entered the burning building, and helped save a family. This is how eyewitnesses from that street in Kyiv describe that day. Just remember: when you watch the news from Ukraine, most of the horror remains behind the scenes. The world only sees the aftermath, not the first minutes following the shelling of peaceful neighborhoods where families sleep. No one hears the screams or the terror in people's voices. The woman filming this was in shock... she kept crying out, "My God, people, how can I help?" But we are just ordinary people... who were simply unlucky enough to live next to those who do not know how to live in peace in this temporary physical form of life.

I don’t want a souless existence on cold dead planets like the Moon or Mars - I want us to protect our Mother Earth. 💚

Established media must stop using the Kremlin’s terminology. There is no “Ukraine conflict.” It is a full-scale illegal invasion.

So tired of leaders praising Ukraine yet proposing nothing to stop Russia. I propose a new rule for Ukraine conferences, the Bavovna House Rule: For every time you praise Ukrainian courage, you must make one new, concrete proposal of what we can do to break Russia’s war machine.

Yet Merz is delaying Europe's rise as a great power. Delaying on eurobonds, federalism, military integration etc. German conservative boomers can't imagine a world in which they're not US vassals. But they will be dragged into the new world anyway