Aliide

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Journalist, author. I write about #Russia, the #Baltic states, and #Ukraine. I don't write about diatoms, I just think they're cool. Hi! 
Russia often returns bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers in horrific condition. “Sometimes it’s just a bag of bones,” Maksym Tsutskiridze, First Deputy Chief and the Head of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police revealed. In some cases, remains of different individuals are mixed in one sack.
Seven killed in Kyiv in new Russian aerial attack

Russian missiles and drones hit residential areas and hospitals in Ukraine's Kyiv region, the interior minister says.

BBC News
This is what three years in russian captivity does to a Ukrainian soldier.
Not a prison — a concentration camp by another name. A machine of humiliation, starvation, and cruelty. Russia didn’t invent this, it inherited it.
This is Gulag 2.0.

⚡️Russia sends its most valuable planes to sites 500km from America - Rubio congratulates Russia and hopes it realises its “bright future.”

A “bright future” for Russia means America’s annihilation.

‘She lived without fear’: daughter of #Chechen activist publishes book she vowed to pen after mother’s murder - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/06/she-lived-without-fear-daughter-of-chechen-journalist-publishes-book-she-vowed-to-pen-after-murder-natalia-estemirova "Lana #Estemirova promised to tell story of her mother, a renowned human rights activist. This month it is published"
‘She lived without fear’: daughter of Chechen activist publishes book she vowed to pen after mother’s murder

Lana Estemirova promised to tell story of her mother, a renowned human rights activist. This month it is published

The Guardian

Three rescuers were killed in Kyiv while battling a blaze, targeted during a russian double tap strike. Nine others were injured, some critically. In Ternopil, five more emergency workers were wounded.

This is the price of russian terror.
And the cost of Ukrainian courage.

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🇫🇷🇧🇪 France and Belgium have declined to support the European Commission’s plan to phase out imports of Russian gas by 2027, citing the need for more clarity on the economic and legal implications, Politico reports.

France prefers seeking alternative suppliers, like Qatar, and warns of potential legal risks for companies such as TotalEnergies. Belgium requests a detailed impact assessment before committing. Both countries remain among the EU's top importers of Russian LNG.

russia recruiting Ukrainians for illegal activities in Europe, Ukrainian intel warns

russian intelligence services are actively attempting to recruit Ukrainian nationals for illegal operations across the European Union, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR)

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-security-services-recruiting-ukrainians-for-illegal-activities-in-europe-ukrainian-intelligence-says/

Russia recruiting Ukrainians for illegal activities in Europe, Ukrainian intel warns

"The recruitment of Ukrainians for hostile operations in Europe is yet another tool of hybrid aggression that the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine and the entire European community," Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) said.

The Kyiv Independent
US, EU no longer coordinating enforcement of Russia sanctions, media reports

EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan noted that there is "no more outreach" between the two sides on sanctions evasion and that G7 cooperation has "also lost momentum" in this regard, according to an internal report from an EU ministerial meeting in Brussels on May 20, Suddeutsche Zeitung reported.

The Kyiv Independent