💔 Chasiv Yar: before and after the arrival of the Russians.
This is what the city looks like today, where about 13,000 Ukrainians lived, until the Russian occupiers came to "liberate" them.
Footage of soldiers of the 24th separate mechanized brigade named after King Danylo.
Excerpts from today’s post by Daniil Tulenkov, a #Russia soldier and author of the book Storm-Z https://t.me/thulenkov2026/2098
Lex, my first company commander, was a proponent of a particular brand of fascist, Nietzschean ideology. He drew a clear distinction between ‘biological waste’ and ‘full-fledged human beings’. (…) He was, nevertheless, devout and would quote from the Gospel. (…) In March 2024, back in Moscow, my third company commander, Lis, showed me a video that Lex’s henchmen had recorded in Berdyansk. They had broken into a private house and were torturing a local family. Two of Lex’s henchmen were sitting on the sofa with their trousers down, whilst the husband and wife were performing oral sex on them. Lex himself watched the scene, reclining in an armchair in the style of Don Corleone and smoking a cigarette. The screaming and crying children were held nearby, forced to watch their parents being abused.
Tulenkov goes on to describe how Leks subsequently got a bit too carried away and began dealing in weapons, showing no respect for Kadyrov’s men. As a result, he was detained by the FSB, and whilst he was at it, they ‘pinned’ the Berdyansk case on him:
Lex, who until then had been squirming and writhing like a snake in a frying pan, suddenly pulled himself together; his voice grated like metal. “I was weeding out the Ukrainianness from these children. I was turning them into Russians.”
Tulenkov highlights, the sole reason for Lex arrest was him violating the internal rules of the Russian army system, that is illegal arms trading without a kick back for the commanders, and torturing one Chechen guy from “Akhmat” units. The Berdyansk case did not violate these rules. https://t.me/thulenkov2026/2099
«Заходьте, можете подивитися, тільки там лежить мій син Рома. Він мертвий, не дихає», — каже мати в будинок якої вдарила ракета у Дарницькому районі столиці.
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Very important detail to note in Russia-Ukraine war:
Russia hits churches, Ukraine hits oil refineries.
The targets for those strategic strikes get proposed and approved at the highest level of military-political leadership. It tells you a lot.
Another ordinary place has become another scene of a russian attack.
This video captured the moment a fitness center in Zaporizhzhia was struck.
💔Kyiv
20 people were killed and more than 80 injured in russia’s combined attack.
🇺🇦🙏 52,500 people, including nearly 4,500 children, took to the subway during the attack on Kyiv.
This is the highest number of people sheltering during a nighttime air raid alert in recent years.
Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013.
To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS, Atom, JSON or equivalent feed to your web site and keep building towards a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.
Too many dumb kids like to have "fun" by throwing small self-detonating firecrackers at the feet of others. Voting for this petition https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766448
Explosives Frequently Discovered Inside Repatriated Ukrainian Bodies
🖊️ Roman Kohanets
Explosive devices, including grenades, have repeatedly been found inside the bodies of the dead repatriated to #Ukraine, police reported on June 30.
Have just migrated #mailcow . I was not entirely happy before due to https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/1245 , now I am even more displeased. After using the official backup and restore procedure, users authentication stopped working. That's pretty disappointing, on top of backup mechanism which is non-incremental, and restore mechanism which requires mailcow to be *running*. I resorted to "rsync /var/lib/docker/volumes/" instead, which worked.
Time in russian captivity works against human life. Over 90% of released Ukrainian prisoners of war and illegally detained civilians report torture, sexual violence, or other forms of ill-treatment.
On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, we insist: as russia does not show desire for peace, it must be compelled to end its war – through effective sanctions, international pressure, and isolation from global platforms.
Source: Ukraine.ua
"Maryna can still not find words adequate to express the horror when she went to ‘identify’ the body. These were skeleton remains, she says, not a body. The remains, moreover, were not whole, with the rib cage pulled out, and the ribs poking out. Some teeth were missing and the jaw was hanging loose. She was told that this was the worst state of a body returned from Russian captivity that the investigators had ever seen."
amazing, no notes
[V. Zelensky meets with D. Trump at the G7 summit, June 2026.]
NEW by me
What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law
An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers
The Weekly Constitutional at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/73890/palestine-action-appeal-home-secretary-terrorism-law
A UK MP reported a constituent to the police for the 'crime' of writing to him about #Gaza
What's worse, she was arrested at 04:33 -- which presumably means they went into her house in the middle of the night to arrest her. I've had this happen to me fifty years ago -- over a plan to ship schoolbooks to #Namibia -- and I know how terrifying it can be.
Another fine #LILKA soldering/assembly workshop in Kyiv:
https://luma.com/34981x7u
Tasty video of assembly process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXYxCSI9n0
Speaking of which, Lilka kits (soldering required) will be available at #EMFCamp Night Market on Friday.
#emfcamp is anyone going to run a library? I can submit a couple of books and zines.