A skinny 19-year-old from Cuba accepted an offer posted on WhatsApp to make good money doing “construction work” for the Russian military. Instead, he and a friend were taken to a base, outfitted with weapons, and sent against their will to the front lines of a war they never intended to join. Time Magazine reports that similar stories are starting to surface across Cuba. https://flip.it/t1_9Qy #News#RussiaUkraineWar#Ukraine#Cuba
Yesterday my wife gave birth to lovely twin babies — a boy and a girl. We can’t choose our parents, we can’t choose where we are born. Ours were born to parents who unconditionally love them, and they were born in the capital of a free country, Kyiv of Ukraine.
But just because the nation of a neighboring country, in its absolute majority, is sick with chauvinism and has dark barbarian worldview, our newborn babies had to spent their very first night in this world in the basement of a maternity hospital along with dozens other newborns, their parents, and those who are only about to give birth; a basement which serves as an improvised shelter for more than two years already and not only saves lives, but is occasionally a place to give lives — some women give childbirth right there. Last night russia sent 11 strategic bombers to launch 29 cruise missiles towards Ukrainian sleeping cities; then, expecting that they’ve exhausted Kyiv’s air defense, they tried to break through with 2 more ballistic missiles, which they long claimed and threatened to be “impossible to intercept”. Thanks to all partners who supplied Ukraine with anti-missiles systems, and to titanic efforts of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, all missiles were shot down over Kyiv. No people were killed, 13 were wounded, 4 hospitalized, as missiles debris damaged several buildings and burned a few cars.
This time all our newborns are alive. But we should remember that more than 500 Ukrainian children have already been killed in this war. And it’s ongoing. Please, support Ukraine, give us more weapons to defend ourselves. This weapon is just some money that literally can save a lot of lives, and stop aggressor from doing even more evil, to stop even more newborns coming to this world in basements hiding from missiles that are targeted to kill them the very first day.
We all make mistakes in life. One mistake I made was in voting for the man on the right in this picture, Dimitri Lascaris. He was running for leader of the Green Party of Canada at the time and was, I thought, an exciting eco-socialist option. He has always been anti-NATO and anti-USA hegemony, and that's fine. But now he has turned into a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda in Canada. He repeats the same words as Putin. Here he is, last week, speaking to the RT newschannel from Athens, Greece on the 'persecution' of pro-Russia journalists. I wonder how much he gets paid for towing Putin's line. Screw you Dimitri. I'm sorry I shook your hand. #RussiaUkraineWar#Canada#CanPoli#CdnPoli#Russia#Ukraine#FakeNews#Propaganda#GPC#GreenPartyofCanada
CNN:
Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners
US intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is attempting to influence public policy and public opinion in the West by directing Russian civilians to build relationships with influential US and Western individuals and then disseminate narratives that support Kremlin objectives https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/politics/us-intel-russia-propaganda/index.html
🇺🇦 Ukraine has completely abandoned the supply of spare parts for nuclear reactors from Russia and was able to replace them with its own production or production in partner countries, said President of Energoatom Petro Kotin.
Baltic leaders have urged #Nato member states to prepare for a possible attack from #Russia .
The presidents of Latvia and Estonia have proposed reintroducing compulsory conscription and a military tax, as well as increasing military expenditures to a level seen during the cold war.