I try to avoid posting news here without analysis or at least adding a HUMINT perspective, but this is too horrible to avoid: Today, Russia has hit a pension distribution point with a guided bomb (KAB) in a village in the Donetsk region. 21 people killed, with bodies torn apart lying everywhere.

Today is May 9 — #Russia’s so-called “Victory Day.”
What was once a commemoration of the defeat of #NaziGermany has morphed into something darker: a cult of death that fuels Russia’s brutal war against #Ukraine and its hostility toward the West.

Kyiv now.
This is how Russia responds to peace efforts. Strength against Russia is the inky solution. When will Trump understand that?

Had the wonderful opportunity to visit the United Kingdom’s parliament and talk Ukraine

Even on vacation there is no time off from geopolitics

@apolyakova.bsky.social it seems that you have a bot of sorts that has made a copy of your account. As I cannot message you directly, I hope you can see this.

An unexpectedly rough night in Tbilisi after two nights of calm.

Kyiv’s first snow ❄️ 🇺🇦