💔 A 9-month-old girl had her leg torn off in an enemy strike on Kryvyi Rih

She is currently in the hospital. There are also 2 deaths.

🇺🇦 Zelensky becomes the new leader of the free world, — Opinion in NYT

Ukraine is transforming from a “weaker player” into an independent force and an important partner for the West.

At the same time, rapid changes are taking place in Europe.

The center of defense of the democratic world is gradually shifting. If earlier it was associated with Washington, now it is with Kyiv, where, according to the author, "a struggle for freedom is taking place, which Ukrainians have taken up."

🇷🇺🇮🇷 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮-𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻

Zelensky raised the issue of Russian satellite intelligence sharing with Iran again today in an AP interview, continuing what has become a pattern of increasingly specific accusations about targeting data being passed to Tehran.

The timeline of his statements, Russian satellite positions, and Iranian strikes forms a consistent pattern.
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Today marks four years since Ukrainian forces liberated Bucha from russian occupation.

Four years since the world saw what russian soldiers had done there — the killings, the torture, the rapes — against adults, children, babies.

The world was horrified then, confronted with something it could no longer deny or look away from.

But Bucha was not the end. The same things kept happening.

Four years later, the violence has not stopped. Only the reaction to it has changed.

🇭🇺🇷🇺 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗿𝘆'𝘀 𝗞𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀

The attached audio recording (transcript below) is a leaked call between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

What they document is a coordinated operational relationship between a NATO and EU member government and the foreign ministry of the country NATO is fighting a proxy war against.
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RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.

History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Health #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Children #History #Science #RFKJr

"The only war #Trump had an exit plan for was Vietnam"

Via Jimmy Kimmel

Seems about right!

Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory
Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten

Explanation: Are lasers from giant telescopes being used to defend the Earth? No. Lasers shot from telescopes are now commonly used to help increase the accuracy of astronomical observations. In some directions, Earth atmosphere-induced fluctuations in starlight can indicate how the air mass over a telescope is changing, but in other directions, no bright star exists. In these directions, astronomers can create an artificial star with a laser. Subsequent observations of the artificial laser guide star can reveal information so detailed about the changing blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere that much of it can be removed by rapidly flexing a telescope's mirror. Such adaptive optics techniques allow high-resolution ground-based observations of real stars, planets, and nebulas. Pictured here, telescopes at Paranal Observatory in Chile study a colorful sky filled with green airglow and the Magellanic Clouds on the left, red airglow on the right, and the majestic central band of our Milky Way Galaxy arching across the center.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260310.html #apod