🇷🇺 🇺🇦 During #Russia’s occupation of Kherson, dozens of Ukrainian children were taken into Russian custody and transferred 180 miles from home. A year later, the NYT journalists found their photos on a Russian federal adoption site.
ruSSian Nazi murderers and war criminals have hit strategically highly important target in Kharkiv - a hobby market!, with more than 200 people inside, killing at least two. I call upon president Biden and other leaders of NATO countries to lift the ban on striking ruSSian territory with western weapons!
♲ @mlansbury@despora.de:> ## Opinion: The West should launch a new economic Cold War against Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to revive the Soviet Union, but two can play this game. To complete the Kremlin’s grotesque historical reenactment, the West should launch a new economic Cold War in response.
In addition to the war of aggression waged against the civilians and cities of Ukraine, Russia has also waged an asymmetrical economic war against the global economy and the international trade system that underpins it.
Russia’s #weaponization of trade, particularly of energy supplies, has caused massive disruptions in international markets and triggered a cascade of economic setbacks globally.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces appear to have executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers as they attempted to surrender, and possibly six more who were surrendering or who had surrendered, since early December 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. These incidents should be investigated as war crimes.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed four people and injured 28, local officials said.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has deported more than 19,000 Ukrainian children over the past two years, says Olena Kondratiuk, vice speaker of #Ukraine’s parliament, Verkhovna Rada, citing official Ukrainian data.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian Federation uses sexual violence as a weapon against civilians and prisoners of war, #Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya said during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on April 23.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The tendency of Russian troops to use munition with prohibited chemicals grows and has become "systemic," the command of #Ukraine's Support Forces reported on April 5.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia's war and occupation of large swaths of #Ukraine have led to hundreds of churches being damaged or destroyed, dozens of priests killed or kidnapped, and entire religious groups that don't conform to Moscow's brand of Orthodoxy being banned.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A Ukrainian energy provider said Friday that three thermal power plants had been damaged in an overnight barrage of Russian missiles and drones, the latest aerial assault to target #Ukraine's critical infrastructure.
Why is this even a story? First, Russian aircraft are caught flying near American airspace all the time. Our patrols have their protocols for such encounters, and it's not a big deal. Second, we have only the Russians' claims that this even happened. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't, but we've got no confirmation. Third, even by the Russians' account, no borders were crossed. They saw the aircraft, and the aircraft moved on. This is a nothingborscht.