Russians won two Nobel Peace Prizes in a row. They also won the 2022 Prix Europa for best journalism.

It looks like Russia must be a very peaceful nation, with a very strong civil society and powerful wide-ranging independent journalism.

Working without power in Kyiv. Energy companies say the power outages are about to be extended from 4 to 8 hours a day.

Still much better than being Russian. That would be the absolute worse.

📷: Reuters / Gleb Garanich

⚡️Military jet crashes in Russia, second within week.

Russia’s regional emergency service said a Su-30 fighter aircraft crashed in Irkutsk, Russia. The plane hit a residential building.

On Oct. 17, a Russian military aircraft crashed into a residential building in Yeysk.

Russian military jets, used to bomb Ukrainian civilians, now frequently fall on Russian civilians.

Irkutsk, Russia.

Imperialistic Russia wages war on its neighbours, China conducts a genocide in Xinjiang and slides into a personality cult. Iran kills women for showing hair outdoors.

People born in democracies are so fucking lucky. Never take it for granted. Always fight for what you believe.

Russia created a methodical system of torture to crush the bodies and minds of Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories. Key word here is “highly organized,” leaving little to no doubts on Russia’s genocidal intent. Read my latest for the The Kyiv Independent here.

Survivors’ accounts from torture chambers in liberated parts of Ukraine reveal that the torture of civilians was far from a spontaneous act of certain Russian units: It appears to have been a standard, organized effort to terrorize local populations.

kyivindependent.com/national/how-r…

Moving around Kyiv looking for electricity. The new weird reality.

Today, Russia continued to target Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

The IRIS-T air defense system is really good. It already saved Ukrainian lives.

Hopefully we can get all four pledged systems ASAP. And then even more.

Russians in February: “Kyiv will fall within days.”

Russians in October: “Wagner mercenaries are constructing a fortified defense line in Belgorod Oblast.”

'Many married women remained in Moscow when their husbands fled.

Meanwhile, downloads of dating apps have significantly increased in the countries to which Russian men fled. In Armenia, the number of new registrations increased by 135 percent.'

Pathetic. nytimes.com/2022/10/19/wor…

The European Parliament has awarded the 2022 Sakharov Prize to Ukraine and its people.

I’m grateful for our soldiers, civil society, volunteers, medics, utility workers, men and women, who move this country forward, despite the bombs, despite everything.

Putin says he imposed martial law in Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts.

For those asking, this changes absolutely nothing.

Russia: Launching missiles at Kyiv.

Ukrainians in Kyiv: Continuing to work on their laptops in cafes, sipping filter coffee on Ethiopian beans.

Russia: Ok, watch this, sending kamikaze drones.

Ukrainians in Kyiv: Sip.

I spent my last evening in Warsaw in Karma, a bar moved from Minsk to Kyiv and now to Warsaw.

After Ukraine wins, Ukraine-Poland-Belarus will be a powerful international force.

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba proposed to break off diplomatic ties with Iran.

The political regimes of Russia, Belarus and Iran must be sanctioned and eventually destroyed.

“Providing weapons to wage a war and kill Ukrainians makes Iran complicit in the crime of aggression, war crimes & Russian terrorism against Ukraine.”

- Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. He called on the EU 🇪🇺 to impose additional sanctions on Iran 🇮🇷.

Israeli neutrality in Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine was always an ethical error. It is now perfectly clear that it was also a strategic disaster.