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Russian media report that employees of defense enterprises in the Chelyabinsk region will transfer part of their salaries to the needs of the Russian army.⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!

#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW
Epstein survivors just demanded the release of the files in this new PSA. Watch it here.
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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This video is reportedly from Ternopil. A little girl is injured and terrified by the Russian attack.

My heart breaks for Ukrainian kids and their suffering. I'm a dad myself. It's very hard to see what nightmares Russia makes of Ukrainian childhoods.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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❗️Poland will withdraw consent (close down) the Russian consulate in Gdansk as a response to the sabotage incidents on the railroad - FM Sikorski.

This is the last remaining Russian consulate in Poland. The previous ones, in Poznan and Krakow, were closes as responses to earlier acts of sabotage.
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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❗️The US, Australia and the UK imposed sanctions against a number of Russian web hosting services for their role in supporting ransomware operations and other forms of cybercrime, the US Treasury Department announced.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Please don't freak out over any fearmongering clickbait headlines about Rainier or other Cascades volcanoes.

Per @USGS, ALL volcanoes in the Cascades Range are currently at normal background activity levels.

Now is NOT the time, @dailymail.co.uk. 🙄🌋
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Her father, Vitalii Bakhur, says that on 19 November his daughter was supposed to leave for Austria to compete.
📷: Suspilne Kharkiv
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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When I started shouting,’Karyna!',she couldn’t answer me.I crawled over to her,because I couldn’t stand on my leg,realized that my child was most likely gone"
On 19 November,Berestyn,Kharkiv region,said goodbye to17-yr-old European kickboxing champion Karyna Bakhur,who was killed by a Russian strike
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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"She suddenly remembered she’d left her phone in the car.We stepped outside to get it -we’d only walked two or three meters from the gate when suddenly... There was no sound, no whistle,nothing.Just a flash,a boom - and then we were already on the ground: she was in front of me, and I was behind her
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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A Ukrainian F-16 fighter pursues a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile during yesterday's Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory.
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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He said that he tried to get into her apartment on the 6th floor,but the passage was blocked.Ihor called his great-grandmother's cell phone&heard the ringtone

Ukraine's State Emergency Service says that due to significant damage to the building, rescuers sometimes have to clear rubble by hand
November 20, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"I hope to find my great-grandmother, alive or dead"

In Ternopil,emergency workers are continuing to clear rubble at the site of a heavily damaged residential building for the second day now
Ihor shared that he has been waiting at the site of the strike for 2days for his great-grandmom to be found
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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[Q]:Do you believe that only Trump can end this war?

Kallas:
No,in order to end this war,you need the Ukrainians&Europeans also to agree to those plans.Of course,Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped killing people.But we have not seen any concessions on the Russian side
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The daughter of South Africa's former president has been involved in recruiting men from South Africa&Botswana to fight in the war against Ukraine,-Bloomberg
In July 2025,Duduzile Zuma,a member of South Africa's parliament,convinced at least 18 young Africans that they would be trained as bodyguards
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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❗️Krzysztof Krajewski, Polish ambassador to Russia, was attacked in St Petersburg.

According to TVP, the ambassador was attacked by an aggressive group of about 10 people carrying anti-Polish and anti-Ukrainian banners. They surrounded him and attempted to strike him.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Kallas:

We’ve to understand that in this war,there is one aggressor&one victim.We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.If Russia really wanted peace,it could have agreed to an unconditional ceasefire already some time ago,whereas we see again,over this night,bombings of civilians
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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In Ternopil, among the ruins of a 9-story building damaged by a russian missile, rescuers found a parrot

📹:Suspilne
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Ukrainian powerlifter Dmytro Polovych,25,diagnosed with level IV cerebral palsy (CP),repeated at the European Championship in Poland the results he achieved at the WPA Hungary World Championships-deadlifts of 90,100,&105 kg
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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A Russian sleeper drone struck an evacuation vehicle near Lyman, Donetsk region.

On the morning of November 20, Russian troops struck a car on its way to the city to evacuate civilians. A drone on a fiber optic cable lay in wait and hit the evacuation vehicle.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Today the world marks International Children’s Day

Russia’s aggression has caused mass &severe violations of children’s rights.Over 19 500 Ukrainian children deported or forcibly displaced by Russia,2 245 are considered missing, 668 children have been killed,MFA of Ukraine stated

📹MFA of Ukraine
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Even during blackouts caused by Russian attacks,Ukrainians find ways to run businesses,study,cook,perform concerts,&do so much more

We are beyond tired but we are resilient
📹salon_zlatovlaska,wearefromkyiv, tinyvinnykennel,towerzona,veryovka.ukrainia,momotsha. store,coach18vygurivschina,kvitkalilya
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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In #Ternopil, rescuers have pulled the bodies of three more people,including 2 children,from the rubble of a multi-story building attacked by Russia on the night of 19 November

The death toll is now 31,with 94 injured&13 still missing,the State Emergency Service reports.

Search operations continue
November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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US Department of War announced that $29.9 million will be allocated to ElementUS Minerals, LLC (ElementUSA), for a demonstration facility in Louisiana, to separate and purify gallium and scandium from existing industrial waste.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Completely agree.
The fates of Ukraine and Europe are linked.
European security system will be destroyed without Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Other food items stored at the site - those that had not yet been packed into kits - were also damaged.

It is noted that over the past 18 months, WFP and partner warehouses and vehicles have been hit more than 60 times.

📷: Suspilne
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM