#europe & russia

[justacynicalromantic]

Viral photo from today's meeting of world leaders in Kyiv:

Ukrainian already making memes:

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

[rienafoutre]

[ravenkings]

i know this is hashtag cringelib shit (and i don't fucking care tbh) but believe me when i say that vladimir putin is probably the actual most evil person on the planet currently. you can hem and haw and try to be ~edgy~ and say that whichever us president is just as bad blah blah blah but the fact is that, even notwithstanding the horrors he is currently perpetrating in ukraine and has also perpetrated in places like syria, chechnya, multiple nations in africa, etc. vladimir putin actively orchestrated the complete suppression of his own country through turning it into a true mafia state and also has most likely been involved in (or even orchestrated) multiple examples of state terrorism IN RUSSIA ITSELF in order to start wars or to cause fear to consolidate his own power.

furthermore he's assassinated an ever-increasing list of people who stood against him and frequently IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

like there is ultimately no way to negotiate with that man, and not even just for moral reasons but because the first chance he gets HE WILL FUCK YOU OVER. anyone who is suggesting (ahem donald trump ahem) that he is a reasonable actor who you can ""do business with"" either thinks he's in cahoots with him, is subservient to him, or is just fucking stupid (and i'm sure the current us president falls into all three categories.)

i know this is obvious to many but i do still feel like there are some reasonable though uninformed people who think that if a ceasefire in ukraine is brokered now, even on russia's terms, that it would still be a preferable option for ukraine.

i'm telling you RIGHT FUCKING NOW (with almost 30 years of prior evidence to go on) the second he gets a chance to regroup, putin would break that fucking ceasefire and try to seize the entire country once again just like in 2022 and this time, does literally ANYONE see ukraine getting sufficient help to fend him off then?????

and trust me, being under russian occupation under putin would probably lead to EVEN MORE torture and rape and bloodshed and cruelty (as we have EXTREMELY ample evidence of) than continuing the war and giving ukraine a fighting chance would.

the only way to think of vladimir putin and the only way to treat him is like a mad dog who needs to be put down because, at the end of the day, that is all he is.

[mariakov81]

[useless-englandfacts]

of course i don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here but super duper rare british… w?

[wachinyeya]

European bison released in England’s ancient woodland have doubled in number since 2022, and the woodland has gotten healthier since, reviving previously extinct beetle species and increasing sightings of dormice and reptiles. And England isn’t the only European nation getting bison back in business: In the 1920s, there were just 54 European bison after intense hunting over millennia, but thanks to re-wilding efforts there are now around 10,000, mostly in Russia and Belarus. RTBC

[metalobrukht]

"Not once did I see a representative of the Red Cross", says Maksym Kolesnykov, who spent a year in russian captivity, lost over 30 kilograms and could not walk due to a severe injury.

Most Ukrainian POWs have never been visited by the representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) while in russian captivity. Instead, they faced starvation, torture, and humiliation.

Both the U.N. and the ICRC did not provide sufficient or even existing responses, including when russian troops blew up the Kakhovka Dam in June 2023, instead celebrating the "russian language day".

The active part Red Cross is taking in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories is also worth noting.

[kenrakenokwaho]

Romania won, today, in the hybrid war launched by Russia during presidential elections. The Constitutional Court annulled the first round, and the process, which was vitiated from the very beginning, will be restarted from step one.

Everything after the president in office, Klaus Iohannis, listened to the people, and declassified all the documents about Călin Georgescu's Russian-supported campaign with shady financing and TikTok schemes.

The risk of having a pro-Russian president was too high to let things slide. We couldn't be another victim of Putin's meddling. The people who voted for Călin Georgescu scream that it's unfair, that their choice is being overlooked, but they forget that they aren't the majority. They are 2 million out of 19. Their self-proclaimed "Apostle" isn't what he says he is.

If the national institutions – having information on him from all the secret services – took CG seriously, we wouldn’t have reached this point.

The Sun will shine on us again!

[illustratus]

Morning in a Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky

[snototter]

A stalked jellyfish (Lucernaria quadricornis) in the White Sea, Russia

by Alexander Semenov

[justacynicalromantic]

1) King Charles receives Zelensky in Sandringham.

It's a private residence.

There is no record of a foreign leader being received there for a private audience EVER.

2) President of the European Council, and former prime minister of Portugal António Costa, ALWAYS wears suit and tie in public.

Today, for the European leaders meeting in London, he wore a turtleneck.

[rienafoutre]

[folkfashion]

Komi woman, Russia, by respublika11

[cid5]

Soviet soldiers crouched in a trench as a Russian T34 tank passes over them during the Battle of Kursk, 1943.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood - ST. PETERSBURG