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Ukraine attacked the Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery in the Samara region.
After russia’s brutal and barbaric attacks that killed dozens of civilians, including children, Ukraine ignored Trump’s demands to stop bombing russian oil refineries and struck the Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery.
The Novokuybyshevsk refinery is the largest oil-processing facility among Rosneft’s Samara group of refineries. Its design capacity exceeds 8.8 million tons of oil per year. The refinery produces high-quality RT-grade jet fuel intended for aircraft such as the Su-27 and Tu-22M3. Russia regularly uses these aircraft to carry out strikes against Ukraine.
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"I can’t imagine how that ad passed vetting in the Susan Collins campaign. That line making fun of his working class roots, that line is what’s gonna stick and it may be that line that beats her ... Women can’t deliver babies very industry in rural Maine now thanks to Susan Collins ... I cannot believe how tone deaf and stupid that was."
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❗️Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister) visited the site of a nighttime Russian attack in Kyiv where a civilian was killed. He noted that the world has grown accustomed to the war, yet attacks continue and civilians, as always, are the victims. The actor arrived for a week as part of his work with the UNDP to collect people’s stories and remind donors of the need to support Ukraine, especially ahead of winter. The day before, he spent the night in a Kyiv metro shelter.
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LOOK AT THEM. Every one of these babies has lost their mother. 💔
They came to us from different places, from different mothers — all within just two days. Their mothers were killed, and these little ones were left behind.
They should be sleeping against their mothers tonight. Instead, they are orphans in our arms.
Please help us feed, care for and keep them warm. Winter nights are already bitterly cold, and we urgently need to finish our winter preparations.
At the same time, it is month-end. Feed, medicines, wages and bills are waiting to be paid. We desperately need your support to keep caring for them and hundreds of others already depending on us.
And please — RAISE YOUR VOICE. If you are outside Pakistan, your voice matters enormously. Speak against the killing of street animals. Share their stories. Make noise for them.
Please be their voice. 💔
🌐 tawf.org.uk/donate
Fred B. Thompson retweeted
ICE broke Erik Zepeda's wrist—a special needs student in California—and he wasn't even who they were looking for. No apology, no accountability. NOTHING.
I am sick and tired of ICE's cruelty and unchecked violence.
VOTE.
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As we anxiously await the safe arrival of those evacuated from Oleshky, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Pope Leo XIV, First Lady Melania Trump, and every single person who has helped make this rescue mission possible.
Every life saved means the world to us. 🙏🇺🇦 @SkyNews
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👧 The Ukrainian girl for the first time in many years went out onto the streets of the city of Kherson. She shows the city. Earlier to go out was impossible, because the Russians hunted with FPV drones the people, the passenger transports and even aimedly struck the children who were playing. At the time of the stoppage of the fire in Oleshky, which is near Kherson, the streets of the city came alive.
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One day after a Russian drone killed 14 people waiting for a train in Dnipro, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed in Atlanta for the G20 meeting hosted by Marco Rubio.
Several European diplomats objected to being photographed alongside Lavrov and threatened to walk out, forcing the U.S. to scrap the traditional group photo.
Absolutely disgusting
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Adela and daughter Sofia are now home!
Adela was locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison four weeks after giving birth to her son. Parents know the first few weeks with a newborn are so precious and important. ICE took them away from her. Sofia too suffered from being locked away and torn apart from her siblings, dad, school, and life.
I am grateful they are now home and reunited with their family. Yet a postpartum mother and her little girl should never have been imprisoned in the first place. Thank you to everyone who spoke out. We will not stop until we shut down Dilley and end family detention.
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This is heartbreaking. Amber Mader of Arkansas is paralyzed and relies on Medicaid transportation to get to critical medical appointments. But soaring gas prices and a shortage of drivers are making that increasingly difficult.
She waited NINE MONTHS for a neurosurgery appointment, only to have to reschedule and wait another FOUR.
This is the human cost of the affordability crisis.
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This is 15-year-old Yana Pieshkova. She russian killed her today in missile strike on downtown Chernihiv. Along with her, 15-year-old Mariia Mozghova was also killed🕯💔
Yana trained at the Magic Sports Rhythmic Gymnastics School and studied at Chernihiv Lyceum No. 1. Her whole life was supposed to be ahead of her, but russia decided kill her.
Fred B. Thompson retweeted
Ukraine struck the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in Samara region, with at least six separate fire outbreaks reported, pointing to extensive damage. The footage looks like something out of an apocalyptic movie.
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El-Sayed: When they say how will you vote for a guy named Abdul? They are not talking about me. They are talking about you. That is the part that bothers me. I have had the privilege of traveling the state… The vast majority of folks in our state are openhearted and big minded
Fred B. Thompson retweeted
Yesterday, russia killed 21 innocent civilians, including children.
Today, the Pentagon is calling on people to “cool their rhetoric on russia.”
So the problem isn’t russia killing children.
The problem is people speaking too loudly about it?
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Horror at Dnipro’s Central Railway Station. At least 14 people have been killed in a russian drone attack.
Just moments earlier, this platform was filled with ordinary people living ordinary lives. Someone was waiting for a train. Someone was saying goodbye to a loved one. Someone was holding their child’s hand. They had plans, dreams, families waiting for them. And then, in a matter of seconds, everything turned into blood, screams, and death.
This is what russia does to Ukraine every single day. It deliberately targets places where civilians are most vulnerable – railway stations, residential buildings, playgrounds, and city streets. Today, while rescuers were pulling bodies from the railway platform in Dnipro, russians also killed two children in Chernihiv and three civilians in Kremenchuk.
Nineteen innocent lives lost in just one hour. Nineteen families destroyed. And for what? Because a terrorist regime believes it has the right to decide whether Ukrainians deserve to live.
What breaks my heart is not only the cruelty of these attacks, but also how accustomed the world has become to them. Fourteen people murdered at a railway station should shock the entire world. Instead, it risks becoming another headline that disappears by tomorrow.
How many more children must die? How many more families must be buried? How many more railway platforms must be covered in blood before the world finally understands that evil cannot be appeased?
Silence in the face of such brutality is not neutrality. It is permission for the next massacre.
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The full version:
It’s lovely to see residents return to what is left of their homes for momentos In some cases>2 years.
Note: 17mn mark. 2 young ladies approx 15yo same age of the poor girls who died yesterday.
Able to walk around their city once again…
youtu.be/Rfc1SxAMdxs?si=2ZFh…
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"Ukrainian Witness" journalist Viktoriia Hnatiuk reached Antonivka-one of the most dangerous settlements in the Kherson region, located on the bank of the Dnipro River opposite occupied Oleshky.
Previously, getting here was virtually impossible due to russian FPV drones. However, during a ceasefire declared to evacuate residents of Oleshky, locals were able to return to their destroyed homes for the first time in a long while to retrieve surviving belongings. Despite the truce, coastal areas remain dangerous due to mines, while Oleshky itself remains under russian occupation on the other side of the Dnipro. While people in Kherson walk the streets, the russians on the opposite bank are quietly conducting rotations and pulling up reinforcements. This silence, a necessary measure to save lives, is also a deadly trap ahead of another russian attempt to cross the Dnipro... People fear what will happen once the ceasefire ends...
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Thank you for your condolences following today’s brutal Russian strikes. It is indeed very important that support for those who protect lives continues as long as Russia keeps attacking our cities and communities.
We are also grateful for the EU sanctions, which continue to work and grow stronger. And it is important that the new EU sanctions package target not only companies and individuals involved in weapons production, but also the schemes that provide the financial foundation for Russia’s war.
All the more reason why no easing of sanctions can be allowed, as this only strengthens Russia’s belief that it can somehow achieve its aggressive objectives.
Russia’s deadly attack on the Dnipro train station is yet another brutal assault on Ukrainian civilians. It makes abundantly clear that Moscow is not interested in peace.
I extend my deepest condolences to the victims and their families.
At the EU-Canada Summit and the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Atlanta, I will urge partners to further strengthen our support for Ukraine and advance accountability, including through the Special Tribunal and Claims Commission.
Russia must be held accountable.
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Dutch PM Jetten: Today I am announcing an additional €500 million military winter package for Ukraine, including air defense and drones, to protect it against continuous Russian air attacks.
This comes on top of a new €1.2 billion package for the next three years. 1/
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"I don't want to live in a country where there is no freedom of speech." She was born in Russia—and fled to fight for Ukraine.
She arrived in Ukraine in the 1990s and finished school there.
Later, fate led her back: higher education, Yekaterinburg, marriage, and a son. It seemed like an ordinary life—but after 2014, everything changed.
Natalia tried to get through to her family and friends, explaining that Russia was waging war against Ukraine. They wouldn't listen.
That was when she realized: "I don't want to live in a country where there is no freedom of speech and where you are expected to live like part of a herd."
She took her son and left. Her husband stayed behind. To this day, she does not judge him; she simply made her own choice.
By 2015, Natalia was already in Ukraine. And when the full-scale invasion began, she didn't hesitate for a moment.
On February 25, she was already at the military enlistment office. She kept pressing them, and on April 5, she arrived and declared:
"Either you take me today, or I’ll go to another city—but I’ll end up exactly where I want to be."
Now, she works in communications. She tells other women considering joining the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "Weigh everything carefully. It’s a completely different life. You have to get used to the constant sound of gunfire."
Natalia also hosts live streams on TikTok to raise funds for our defenders. Three major fundraising campaigns, over a million hryvnias, half a million spent on electronic warfare systems—and this is just the beginning.
She helps not only her own brigade but also other units on the front line.
People often ask her: what is it like to be a nationalist holding a Russian passport?
Her answer is simple: "It’s just a little booklet used to cross the border. To me, it’s not a real document.
There are people who aren’t citizens of this country, yet they defend it. And then there are those who hold a Ukrainian passport, but you couldn’t drag them out—even with a stick—to defend their own families."
This is a story about choice. It’s about the fact that one’s homeland isn’t defined by a stamp in a passport, but by what one is willing to stand up for.
