Frank Filip Østergaard🇺🇦🌻🌤

Greenland has been on the map since roughly the year 982, when a Norwegian called Erik the Red sailed there and named it. The Vikings. Not Donald Trump. Vikings with axes and no central heating. It is the largest island on Earth. It appears on every atlas ever printed, every globe ever made, every satellite image ever taken. NASA photographs it from space on a daily basis. It has its own government, its own flag, its own capital city and its own deeply held opinion about not being owned by anyone in a red baseball cap. The United States Air Force has had a base at Thule since 1951. Which means American military personnel have been eating terrible food and freezing their bits off on Greenland for 74 years, apparently without telling Governor Landry. And yet here stands Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, a man elected by actual human beings to run an actual American state, explaining to a Danish television crew that Greenland did not exist until 2025. This is the intellectual foundation of the most aggressive territorial land grab attempted by a Western democracy since the Second World War. Not strategic doctrine. Not legal argument. Not geopolitical necessity. A governor who apparently believes the world’s largest island was invented by a property developer from Queens. They want to take Greenland. They cannot find Greenland. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

The Wrong Side of History Has a Very Specific Smell By Gandalv / @Microinteracti1 Ben Hodges is not a man who wastes words. The former commanding general of US Army Europe has spent the better part of three years telling anyone who would listen that Ukraine was going to win, that Russia was going to lose, and that the only real question was how much unnecessary dying would happen in between. He has now added a postscript, and it is not a comfortable one: America, he says, is going to deeply regret what it failed to do. He is, of course, absolutely right. Ukraine is not merely surviving this war. It is industrialising it. The country that Russia expected to fold in 72 hours has spent three years building one of the most sophisticated drone warfare ecosystems on the planet, developing long-range strike capabilities that have genuinely rattled the Kremlin, and producing battle-hardened soldiers who have forgotten more about modern combined-arms warfare than most NATO generals have ever learned. When this war ends, Ukraine will not be a grateful, shell-shocked recipient of Western charity. It will be the single most capable and battle-tested defence industry in the World. Full stop. And the United States, which spent the last stretch of this conflict flirting with the aggressor, slow-walking ammunition, blocking long-range strikes, and sending its president to Mar-a-Lago to take phone calls from Putin like a middle manager hoping to avoid a performance review, will have precisely zero claim on any of that. Now imagine the day it ends. Imagine a billion people in the streets. Kyiv, Warsaw, Tallinn, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Seoul, every city that understands what it means when a free country refuses to die. The flags, the tears, the noise of it. The sheer, thunderous relief of a world that held its breath for years and can finally exhale. It will be one of those moments that gets burned into the collective memory of a generation, the kind that people will tell their grandchildren about with the particular pride of having been on the right side. And America will watch it on television. Not as a liberator. Not as the arsenal of democracy, the role it once played and once deserved. It will watch as the country that looked at the greatest struggle for freedom in a generation and decided, at the critical moment, to see which way the wind was blowing before quietly backing the wrong horse. The Stars and Stripes will not be waving in Maidan that day. Ukrainian children will not be naming their sons after American presidents. The defence contracts, the partnerships, the strategic relationships, the soft power that the United States spent eighty years accumulating as the world’s indispensable nation: all of it auctioned off for nothing. There is a particular kind of shame that comes not from doing something terrible, but from failing to do something obvious. The historical record does not grade on a curve, and it has no sympathy for anyone who says they were confused about which side was which. Russia invaded. Ukraine bled. The rest of the world chose. America, under its current management, is choosing badly. And when that billion people starts dancing, the silence from Washington will be the loudest sound in the room.

CARNEY: We will be cooperating with other partners in critical areas like Ukraine, where it's outside of direct NATO responsibility but consistent with our values as Canada. We stand there, Ukraine is going to triumph, and we're going to be on the right side of history for that.

Zelensky: "Ukraine will 'creatively' expand long-range sanctions on russian territory in June." 🧵 1/14

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Third jet-powered Shahed downed by the “Rubin” crew of the 1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment 🔥 Interceptor STING in the hands of the “Paskudy” unit destroyed another Shahed-238. Thanks to its enlarged warhead, it can carry up to 50 kg of explosives and reach altitudes of up to 9,000 meters. Proud of everyone who contributed to destroying enemy explosives.

From propagandists melting down over empty fridges, Duma deputies begging to stop the war, and burning oil infrastructure across the country — the illusion is over. russia can no longer hide the cost of its war. If Ukraine’s fight matters to you, RT #NAFO #Nafofellas 14/14

In April, Taiwanese private groups and fire departments donated 68 emergency vehicles - fire trucks and ambulances - to Ukraine. 26 of them will go to Kharkiv, the rest to frontline units, military and border guards in Lviv, Kupyansk and other affected regions. This brings the total number of such vehicles donated by Taiwan since 2023 to over 200. Thank you, Taiwan, for standing with Ukraine and freedom!

Ukraine isn't subjugated. Its government still stands. Its military is stronger than before. NATO expanded with Finland & Sweden joining. And Russia has paid an enormous price in casualties & economic strain. After four years, Putin is further from his goals—not closer.

French President Emmanuel Macron is completely right: demanding an election in Ukraine, under these conditions, isn't about promoting democracy; it's a trap. Dictators like putin want a rushed, chaotic vote so they can manipulate it and freeze the war on their own terms. As Macron rightly points out, if you actually care about Ukrainian democracy, you have to help them achieve a lasting peace first. Anything else is just carrying water for the Kremlin. Macron: "I mean, we shouldn't, we shouldn't buy into the arguments that I hear everywhere. The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine. In fact, he wasn't the favorite at all. I remember it as if it were yesterday. And so, he is a president elected by a free system. That is not the case for Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time. That is not the case, unfortunately, in other countries around the world. He then had to implement martial law because there was a war in his country. Do you think he can organize presidential elections or legislative elections in a country where several million Ukrainian women and men have fled for their safety? In a country where he has mobilized several million others who are at the front? Where there are 1,000 dead and wounded per day, and where a whole strip of his territory has been conquered by Russia. What are we talking about? Do you think that we, in the same situation, would amuse ourselves by holding elections? He cannot hold elections. So if we want free elections in Ukraine, well, we need a lasting peace in Ukraine. That is the prerequisite. Anyone who does it before then is manipulating. And what is the plan of some people? I know it very well. A ceasefire that will not be respected, then quick, quick elections to manipulate them. That is not a good idea. So yes, President Zelenskyy is legitimate, and we want more democracy in Ukraine over the long term, thanks to a lasting peace. President Zelenskyy wants democracy in Ukraine too, since he is the product of it. If the system had been manipulated, he would never have been elected president of Ukraine."

This month saw changes in the dynamics on the frontline in Ukraine’s favor. We are holding more positions and inflicting more damage. The impact of our long-range sanctions against Russia has been especially significant. Today, I approved our long-range action plans for June.

Here, in the very heart of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, there is a place where hundreds of thousands of words have been left and whispered by casual passersby and those who come here to honor the memory of those who, overcoming fear and pain, held onto faith in the future of their country. A place of strength and gratitude, of love and devotion, of pain and courage, of compassion and peace, of understanding and empathy, of respect and sorrow. Everyone comes here to bring something of their own in silence, speaking it in whispers or in their thoughts…

In Russia’s parliament, a rare public call has been made to wind down the war State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Renat Sulyemanov said that the Russian economy cannot sustain a long war against Ukraine, and that a swift end to the “special military operation” is necessary. He added that around 40% of the federal budget is now spent on defense and security, which is driving inflation and reducing social and investment spending. The deputy also noted that after the war ends, the country will face major costs linked to reconstruction and the reintegration of “veterans” into civilian life.

Stepnohirsk is under Ukrainian control! Exclusive footage shows the "Artan" special unit of Ukrainian Defense Intelligence clearing the city on the Zaporizhzhia front. Our Defenders pushed Russian occupiers out of the city and stabilized the area. During the mission, a Russian FPV drone tried to hit their vehicle, but the Artan fighters destroyed it and kept moving. After tough street fights, Russian troops were kicked out of their strongholds. Key parts of Stepnohirsk are now held by Ukraine. 📹: Ukrainian Defense Intelligence

The next time somebody says Putin came to “save Russian speakers,” this was my Mariupol just 7 years ago. It was Ukrainian, mainly Russian-speaking, and already safe. Putin just wanted our homes🙏🇺🇦

HODGES: We are going to regret that we, United States, didn’t do more to help Ukraine, because Ukraine going to win this war. Ukraine’s defeat of Russia is in best interests of all of us. Ukraine will become dominant defense industry power in Europe. America will be left behind.

“Ukraine is paying the highest price” to return “home to European values” Oleksandra Matviichuk, Ukrainian human rights defender said as she addressed the European Parliament. “For three centuries, we were in shadow of Russian Empire. And I’m here to say, Europe, we are back.”

"Russia's defeat is already a settled matter, and they know it very well themselves. Russia's professional army ran out..they have no strength.. Even if the fighting continues, Russia's future has changed,. forever." - Kyrylo Budanov🇺🇦

This is becoming increasingly common as Russia continues targeting civilian transport and railway infrastructure. Passengers on the Kyiv–Kryvyi Rih train spent the morning wrapped in blankets in the middle of a field after being urgently evacuated from carriages due to the threat of a “Shahed” drone attack. In any other context, deliberately terrorising civilian transport like this would simply be called “terrorism”.