❗️Exactly 12 years ago, Russia started the war in Donbas: under the leadership of FSB officer Girkin, armed detachments of Muscovites and local collaborators seized the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the local SBU department in Slovyansk.
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As Ukrainians celebrate Easter today, please spare a moment to reflect on how, in part of its genocide of Ukrainians, in the last 4 years, Russia has damaged or destroyed close to 1,000 places of worship all across Ukraine.
Footage has emerged of the sinking of the Russian cargo ship trying to move stolen Ukraine grain.
The Volgo-Balt 138 was hit by drones in the Sea of Azov.
Of the all-Russian crew, 3 died and 9 managed to escape to shore on the banks of occupied Kherson.
Last week of military arrivals and departures from Kaliningrad, Russia (not tracked on FR24)
To note the Il-20M SIGINT arrived on Friday evening which is unusual.
🇲🇬 Russia is secretly supplying weapons to the military junta in Madagascar, handing over BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles — the most powerful equipment in the island’s history — as well as portable anti-aircraft missile systems, - Militarnyi
Cats are in danger while russia continues bombing Ukraine.
Their feeling of safety is gone, alongside playfulness.
It’s really a simple distinction between good and evil — from those who can’t lie.
Support good, support the innocent:
u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
Genocide.
😢 Animals died. There was a hit in the area of a veterinary clinic in Chabany near Kyiv
Donald Trump is the absolute greatest gift Vladimir Putin could have ever asked for.
No one in modern history has managed to divide and weaken the West at such a staggering speed.
It is a total geopolitical disaster for everyone but Moscow
Bucha has come to symbolise the cruelty of Russia’s war.
Of the civilians killed, many were shot at close range. Some with their hands tied behind their backs.
Four years after these mass killings, we remember the victims.
What happened here cannot be denied. (1/2)
🙏🇺🇦 Maternity Hospital No. 5 in Odesa after the enemy attack
🇺🇦❗️🇭🇺 SBU identified Zoltan Andre, a career officer of the Hungarian military intelligence. He led an espionage network in the Zakarpattia region, which Ukrainian counterintelligence neutralized in early 2025 during the full-scale invasion.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/sbu-identifi...
This is the reality for thousands of Ukrainian children today. Instead of playing in a park — flowers on a heroic father’s grave. Instead of his warm hands — cold granite, that she kisses goodbye.
Help protect the lives of those they died for: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
🇨🇿🇺🇦 In Czechia, on March 20, “pro-Palestinian activists” set fire to a facility producing thermal imagers for the Ukrainian company Archer, - Archer’s CEO
Animals feel fear, too. During every attack, they sense the threat much more acutely than we do, yet they stay by our side through it all.
Every saved life begins with a safe space above: for humans and for those waiting for us on 4 paws.
Help us protect Ukrainian skies: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
The Il-20M SIGINT aircraft left Kaliningrad for mainland Russia around 10:30 UTC, as usual on a friday.
Also this week a few Il-76:s, where one did its first visit (since i started tracking a year ago)
...Aleksandr Otrakovskiy (accompanying M/V Sparta IV) made a westbound transit of the Strait of Gibraltar today
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A motion has been brought forward in Ukrainian parliament for a resolution to recognize Russian attacks on Ukraine's critical civilian infrastructure as acts of genocide.
The world must do same and help protect Ukraine!
itd.rada.gov.ua/billinfo/Bil...
What Europe's talking about this morning: at the UAE "summit," the Ukrainians were represented by professional diplomats attired in suits, where as the Trump White House was represented by mob-connected real estate executives dressed like they got lost on the way to the gym.
Left, Russian politician Zhirinovsky in 2019 slicing a cake of Ukraine into pieces.
Right, American politicians slicing a cake of Greenland into pieces.
The direction the Trump administration is taking the US in is clear.
Russia, with full support from it partners China, North Korea, Iran, after TWELVE ZYEARS of aggression and genocide STILL has not managed to defeat Ukraine. With our support, the war is WINNABLE for Ukraine. It's an indefensible POLITICAL CHOICE to prevent Ukrainian victory and Russian defeat.
All I want for Christmas:
🛳️💥 Photo of the tanker "Valery Gorchakov" hit on December 18 in Rostov.
The bridge was damaged, the engine room also received holes, the compartment caught fire.
Two crew members dead: a cook and a third engineer. Wounded: a senior mate and two sailors
..Admiral Levchenko returned to Severomorsk today after 30-day mission (somewhere). We'll have to wait to see what details (if any) RF MOD publishes in the coming days.
‼️ Many soldiers saw Shahed “cutting circles” for a very long time. This is a Shahed-radio repeater of the MESH network. Its task is to relay the control channel from Russia deep into our country for other Shaheds, - Flash
It seems like a stupid target, but in fact it needs to be shot down FIRST
According to a popular military-focused social media source, RF Navy Northern Fleet Sovremennyy-class destroyer Admiral Ushakov was decommissioned during a ceremony held this past weekend (6-7 December)
- no official confirmation
- no media coverage (Interfax, RIA Novosti, TASS)
The free world should take note that the Russian "Führer" has once again revealed his lust for more conquest. In a recent interview, he mentioned that "Donbas and Novorossya" will be "liberated." Below is a map of the imperialistic concept of "Novorossya" for reference. english.nv.ua/nation/peace...
🤬 Russians mined the bodies of executed Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk region, which made it impossible to evacuate them.
This became known during the trial of a Russian soldier accused of shooting two Ukrainian prisoners of war in January of this year.