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On April 18 literally 3 days after my X account was unsuspended, the anonymous account @MyLordBebo dropped a thread accusing me of running some made up “Russian disinformation operation” called “Storm.” He threw in screenshots that look manipulated, then immediately pivoted to dredging up my old 2016 conviction (the charges were political as I held a leadership position within the Liberal party of Canada trying to change the trajectory to an anti war, anti globalist policy platform) and calling me a “pedo.” Within mere minutes the post was being amplified by NAFO accounts and what looks like NATO aligned cyber force bots pushing the standard Western intelligence narrative. Bebo would double down using Western Intel agency NAFO talking points himself.
Let’s be clear: I’m Irish Canadian with dual citizenship. I’m not Russian. I’ve never been part of any foreign operation. I’m anti war and pro.sanity, full stop. I empathize with Russia’s legitimate security concerns about NATO expansion and the 2014 Maidan coup because I’ve followed the facts, not the corporate client media script. That’s it.
Here’s what actually happened back in 2016, because the same smear machine that’s hitting me today tried to bury me then.
started in politics at a young age while in university in Ottawa. In 2002 I volunteered for Nancy Karetak-Lindell (eventually taking on a full time position), the MP for Nunavut, I was often at Prime Minister Paul Martin’s office from 2004-05. From 2007 to 2013 I lobbied for the Canadian credit union system, pushing to keep them competitive against the big banks. In 2014 I moved into a senior executive role at Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston, Ontario — corporate communications and community engagement. My name and cell number were on every press release because we were fighting for a $200 million hospital redevelopment that needed real government support.
By 2014-16 I was openly posting on social media against the West’s illegal war in Ukraine and the Maidan coup. Local people who shared those views, including a former mayor, asked me to help take over the Simcoe–Grey Federal Liberal Riding Association. We did exactly that at the 2016 AGM. I became Vice Chair and we started building a slate of anti-globalist, anti-war candidates. I was also planning to run for municipal council.
That’s when the threats started. Anonymous phone calls telling me to drop out of the Liberal executive and forget about running locally. Then the adopted daughter of the head of the local Spry Freemason Lodge in the Alliston area contacted me. She said she was a 22 year old nursing student looking for a volunteer spot at the hospital. I directed her to HR. She kept messaging on Facebook, turned flirtatious, I blocked her. She made new accounts. By summer she was demanding $10,000 or she’d go to the OPP and claim I was "luring" her.
In November 2016 the OPP showed up. Officers waited outside my house until I left for work, then went in and questioned my wife and our two young daughters in a threatening way. My wife asked to see proof — they refused. I was arrested at the hospital right in front of my colleagues. During interrogation I asked to see the alleged screenshots — again, nothing was shown. That was the first time I heard the claim she was 17, not 22 as she had presented herself the whole time.
The Liberal Party kicked me off the executive within days, without due process or a conviction. You can watch the video of it here: youtu.be/g_UHNOjTZZ8
The case dragged on for two years. My career was wrecked, I burned through about $200,000 in legal fees, and my family was under massive stress. Discovery showed the young woman had a pattern of contacting powerful men and then trying to extort them with police threats. The adopted father admitted in court he’d been watching my house and could describe my wife and daughters in detail. He was also friends with the guy I was running against.
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60% interception on jet drones vs 90%+ on propeller ones… and Russia is making thousands. Every missed intercept is another strike on logistics or energy. Simple arithmetic.
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𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗖𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗬𝗢𝗦𝗛𝗞𝗜 🇷🇺
Russian forces halted fire on the Kherson front at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time to facilitate a humanitarian operation in Alyoshki, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defence.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff also introduced a ceasefire regime.
The cessation of fire is linked to preparations for a humanitarian operation in Alyoshki.
“Our task is to determine what assistance the residents of Alyoshki need, assemble a humanitarian convoy, and deliver everything necessary to the city,” said Yana Lantratova.
The governor of Kherson Region has also urged anyone in contact with the city’s residents to pass on information about them to the Human Rights House, either through the "Federal State Information System for the Human Rights Commissioner" (fgis-upch.ru/) or by calling the hotline:
📞 8 (800) 707-56-67
t.me/wargonzo/37920
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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO COME BACK ALIVE:
"I'm from the Kursk region, and when the invasion began, I made the decision to go to the front voluntarily. The Kursk region, Bryansk region, or any other region – it's all one big home, our big family. Everywhere, there are our people, children, adults, and the elderly. And we all need to be protected..."
Recently, I visited a training ground with the marines, observed a training exercise, and spoke with instructors and recruits...
WE ARE ALIVE #385, 177th Separate Guards Marine Regiment of the Caspian Flotilla, Donetsk People's Republic.
We continue to work, friends. More photos and videos will be coming soon.
We are collecting material for our "We Are Alive" project, delivering humanitarian aid, and talking to people, our people, ordinary Russian people, whose lives have been affected by the war.
Watch, listen, subscribe, help, and participate.
No one will help us except ourselves; we are all in this together.
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A split Republican Party means even less coherent US policy on Ukraine. Perfect. The longer Washington fights itself, the clearer it becomes that Russia holds the stronger hand.
Listen to the founder of the Zelensky project: without endless war and Western cash, Ukraine has no economy, no industry, no future. Exactly why denazification and demilitarization are non-negotiable.
𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗞𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗬𝗦𝗞𝗬 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗨𝗞𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗙 𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦:
“Will Europe keep giving us money when peace begins? We’ve lost our energy sector, lost our metallurgy industry. Our foreign trade balance is minus $60 billion. How are we going to live? We only have enough reserves for a year. The real dollar exchange rate is 150. So before talking about peace, think about what comes with it. The Moskals will be clapping their hands.”
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FYI - Elon Musk makes his money from war….
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Elon Musk's Non-Opposition to US War on Russia in Ukraine
▪️SpaceX founder Elon Musk is pretending to oppose war in Ukraine and claims Starlink is not to be used offensively but has himself admitted Starshield IS for use offensively and IS being used against Russia offensively!
▪️In other words Musk/SpaceX who created and maintain Starsheild are directly involved in the war in Ukraine while pretending to oppose it, and confirms just how crucial and absolute US involvement is in the war, simply laundered through Ukraine as Musk himself admits Starsheild is ultimately controlled by the US military, not simply a service Ukraine also has access to;
▪️Again, Starsheild is controlled by the US military but built and maintained by SpaceX, not the US military, which means Musk himself is directly involved not only in the war in Ukraine, but SPECIFICALLY in strikes on Russian territory - does Musk just hope no one notices?;
▪️Stop falling for the theater and listen to what is actually being said and done.
Both Starlink and Starsheild rely entirely on Musk's SpaceX for continuous operation including launches to maintain or expand constellation capabilities, software updates, maintaining the orbits of actual satellites, etc - it's not like the US military "bought" and runs Starsheild independently of SpaceX.
Pretending to deny Ukraine Starlink while claiming the US military's use of Starsheild against Russia doesn't involve SpaceX is not some sort of principled position, it's simply another lie and another example of corporations distracting attention away from themselves and onto puppet politicians and proxies.
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Ich finde @IslanderWORLD klasse:
🇮🇪 Eine neue „Russische Besatzung“-Website fordert die Iren auf, sich vorzustellen, dass 20 % ihrer Insel unter fremder Besatzung stehen, während sie bequem ignoriert, dass BRITEN SCHON 17 % IRLANDS BESATZEN.
Und während Kiew und Brüssel ironischerweise die Heiligkeit der Souveränität predigen, ist Dublins politisches Establishment damit beschäftigt, die UN-Sicherung im irischen Triple Lock abzubauen und damit eine weitere Tür zu militärischen Verwicklungen öffnet, die die irische Neutralität bedrohen.
Die pure koloniale Heuchelei Londons (unabhängig davon, dass sie diese Website nicht gemacht haben, sie wird Ihnen präsentiert von einem georgischen Paar), das Irland partitioniert hat und immer noch ein Sechstel der Insel regiert, und es wagt, die Iren über Souveränität zu belehren, während Europas Kriegsmerchants immer größere militärische Tribute und kollektiven Selbstmord in ihrer Verzweiflung fordern.
Irland ist kein NATO-Außenposten, und die irische Neutralität ist nicht deren Pfand zum Verscherbeln.
🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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Peace, sovereignty and neutrality should not be sacrificed to military alliances. Ireland’s future must be decided in Dublin, not dictated by outside powers.
🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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Robots in Saint Petersburg. They deliver food … very reliably. Take that, Merz! 👇
@IslanderWORLD @BowesChay
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🚨The greatest enemy of the Ukrainians is not Russia, but ZELENSKY, America and Western Europe — just as in WWI, WWII and NOW.
🚨The only guarantor of Ukraine's sovereignty is Russia.
🚨Iuliia Mendel: When Zelenskyy was an entertainer, he often performed in Moscow, he knows a lot of people from Putin's elite. He actually professionally grew in Moscow and earned his first millions in Moscow, and today he pretends that he has nothing in common with them. He needs to go to Moscow and needs to agree on compromises that are acceptable, stop playing his maximalist games and noble acting. He prioritize his people.
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From behind to victory. Another independent leader who doesn’t bow to Washington. Good for the Global South.
𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗭𝗜𝗟’𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 – 𝗔𝗡 𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗧…
Brazil’s incumbent president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has achieved what seemed impossible. After losing the first round, he managed to mobilize his supporters in the second round and snatched victory from his rival, Flávio Bolsonaro.
According to the country’s Superior Electoral Court, with more than 99.67% of ballots counted, Lula received 51.76% of the vote, while Flávio Bolsonaro secured 48.24%.
This is unprecedented in Brazil’s political history. For us, this is simply wonderful news…
t.me/yurasumy/29814
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Excellent news. The new forces openly reject sanctions on Russia and call us strategic partners. Real friendship.
𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗕𝗜𝗔 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜-𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗣𝗟𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗔 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗗
Ivan Kostic, Secretary-General of the International Movement of Russophiles, told Tsargrad what the Serbian election results mean for the Serbian people and for Russia:
“Serbia has shown that it is possible to replace an anti-people regime without a single drop of blood or any unrest — a regime that sold most of the country’s state resources to foreigners and handed over the Serbian people and Serbian institutions in Kosovo and Metohija to separatists.
The next steps are to form the National Assembly and a new government of Serbia, as well as to initiate proceedings to hold all politicians who violated the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Serbia criminally and financially accountable.
Our relations with Russia will become even better, since the ‘Student List’ has officially stated that Russia remains Serbia’s strategic partner and that imposing sanctions against Russia is out of the question.
President Putin and the Russian Federation now have new partners for negotiations. We have a great deal of work ahead of us — we must finish what Serbian politicians failed to accomplish, those who have until now hypocritically invoked friendship with Russia solely to serve their own interests.”
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Nice to this familiar face…
Lula versus Bolsonaro: Passei 1.901 dias em confinamento solitário por revelar a verdade sobre os assassinatos e a espionagem do governo dos EUA, inclusive contra o Brasil e suas indústrias. Lula, fora do poder, lutou pela minha liberdade. Lula, no poder, discutiu minha perseguição com o papa Francisco, que decidiu se encontrar com minha família e ajudar. Depois da minha libertação, Lula e eu nos encontramos em Roma para lamentar a morte do Santo Padre. Lula foi gentil com meus filhos e não pediu nada em troca. Em contraste, Jair e Flávio Bolsonaro nada fizeram e nada disseram. Sem a capacidade de dizer não a Washington e a Tel Aviv, não pode haver política interna, apenas ordens estrangeiras. Essas instruções são sempre as mesmas: “Ampliem nosso roubo de recursos e salários e calem a boca sobre nós assassinarmos crianças”. Os entreguistas entregarão tudo em troca de uma fatia, até a própria língua.
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Is it worth it?
In the age of high technology it seems that a few strikes on digital infrastructure could lead to societal collapse. Practice shows that achieving this is far more difficult.
During September and October Russian forces delivered several series of strikes on data centers in Kyiv and other cities in so-called Ukraine. The most large-scale attack caused communication disruptions for one hundred thousand households.
This proved an isolated case and the remaining consequences were localized. There were no prolonged disruptions to cellular or internet service even in Kyiv; only individual government and banking services were affected.
Why? First, it proved impossible to deliver critical damage to the data centers themselves in a single strike. Second, the adversary quickly adapted and shifted traffic processing to foreign and cloud servers as well as to data centers in the western part of the country.
Does it make sense to strike digital infrastructure if it is difficult to damage and Europeans can provide backup capacity? Yes, it does. Even without a large-scale immediate effect, each destroyed and damaged data center requires resource-intensive repairs.
They are unlikely to restore them during combat operations. After a peace agreement is reached, whenever that may be, the damage to the Ukrainian economy will be felt even more strongly, making investments in the country difficult to recoup. Europeans are also unlikely to let the Ukrainians off their servers; they need to recoup the funds already spent.
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Moralisch und ethisch sind die meisten Mörder und schweren Gewalttäter bereits „irre“. Nicht im medizinischen Sinn, sondern in dem einfacheren, älteren Sinn des Wortes: Sie haben sich aus der gemeinsamen menschlichen Ordnung herausbewegt. Sie haben den elementaren Satz übertreten, der in nahezu allen Kulturen gilt – dass man das Leben eines anderen nicht willkürlich auslöschen darf. Diese Übertretung ist keine Kleinigkeit. Sie markiert eine Grenze, hinter der das gewöhnliche Miteinander aufhört.
Und doch ist damit noch nicht gesagt, dass sie im strafrechtlichen Sinne krank sind.
Die meisten Menschen, die töten oder schwer verletzen, wissen, was sie tun. Sie unterscheiden zwischen Recht und Unrecht, sie planen, sie verbergen, sie berechnen Folgen. Ihr Handeln folgt einer inneren Logik – oft einer sehr dunklen –, aber es ist nicht das Handeln eines Menschen, der die Realität vollständig verloren hat. Zwischen dieser moralischen und ethischen Verirrung und einer echten seelischen Störung, die die Einsichts- oder Steuerungsfähigkeit erheblich beeinträchtigt, liegt ein Unterschied, den das Recht aus gutem Grund aufrechterhält.
Würde man diesen Unterschied aufgeben und jeden schweren Gewalttäter automatisch als krank behandeln, würde man mehr aufgeben als nur eine juristische Kategorie. Man würde die Vorstellung aufgeben, dass Menschen für das, was sie tun, verantwortlich sein können. Dann bliebe am Ende nur noch die Verwaltung von Gefährlichkeit übrig: Man sichert, man behandelt, man verwahrt. Gerechtigkeit im eigentlichen Sinn fände nicht mehr statt. Die Opfer und die Gesellschaft würden keinen Unterschied mehr sehen zwischen demjenigen, der aus kalter Berechnung tötet, und demjenigen, der im Wahn handelt.
Genau hier setzt das Strafrecht an. Es fragt nicht zuerst, ob jemand moralisch gescheitert ist – das ist bei schweren Gewalttätern meistens der Fall. Es fragt, ob er im Zeitpunkt der Tat noch in der Lage war, das Unrecht seines Handelns zu erkennen und sich danach zu richten. Nur wenn diese Fähigkeit durch eine echte seelische Störung massiv eingeschränkt war, entfällt die Schuld. In allen anderen Fällen bleibt die Verantwortung bestehen, auch wenn der Täter charakterlich, affektiv oder kulturell „verrückt“ erscheint.
Die praktische Folge dieser Unterscheidung ist bekannt und umstritten. Wer nicht schuldfähig ist, kommt nicht in den normalen Strafvollzug, sondern in eine forensische Psychiatrie. Dort wird er behandelt und gleichzeitig sicher verwahrt. Diese Einrichtungen sind teuer, die Aufenthalte oft sehr lang, manchmal lebenslang. Ob eine Gesellschaft verpflichtet ist, bei jedem Verdacht auf Krankheit eine solche aufwendige Behandlung zu finanzieren, während schuldfähige Täter eine zeitlich begrenzte Strafe verbüßen, ist keine rein juristische Frage. Sie ist auch eine Frage danach, wie weit man die Grenzen der Verantwortung verschieben will, ohne dass am Ende die Idee der Verantwortung selbst verschwindet.
Nicht jede Gewalttat ist Ausdruck von Krankheit. Viele sind Ausdruck von etwas, das wir früher schlicht als Böses bezeichnet haben. Das Recht kann und sollte diesen Unterschied nicht verwischen. Sonst behandelt es am Ende alle gleich und verliert damit gerade das, was es rechtfertigt: die Möglichkeit, Menschen für das zur Verantwortung zu ziehen, was sie getan haben, als sie noch hätten anders handeln können. @Nik_Boutakoglou @SOLUTIONSMG @Maria372779 #GPN #UPN #FPN
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What a "creative" use of Open Society Foundation's grant money 😂Also, small-letter "r" in 'Russia' - betrays a towering intellect of ukro-baltoid heritage 🤣
🇮🇪 A slick new “Russian occupation” website asks the Irish to imagine 20% of their island under foreign occupation, while conveniently ignoring that BRITAIN ALREADY OCCUPIES 17% OF IRELAND.
And while Kiev and Brussels ironically preach the sanctity of sovereignty, Dublin’s political establishment is busy dismantling the UN safeguard in Ireland’s Triple Lock, opening another door to military entanglements that threaten Irish neutrality.
The sheer colonial hypocrisy of London (notwithstanding they did not make this website, it comes brought to you by a Georgian couple), which partitioned Ireland and still governs a sixth of the island, presuming to lecture the Irish about sovereignty while the Europe's merchants of war demands ever greater military tribute and collective suicide in their desperation.
Ireland is not a NATO outpost and Irish neutrality is not theirs to bargain away.
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Zelensky’s own signature on a decree glorifying “Heroes of the UPA.” No more excuses about regional councils — this is official policy.
"HEROES OF THE UPA" BEARING ZELENSKY’S SIGNATURE
On October 20, the Lvov Regional Council decided to designate 2027 in the Lvov region as the year of Roman Shukhevych, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and Oleg Olzhych.
This initiative immediately sparked a new controversy with Poland, where the figures of Shukhevych and the UPA are directly linked to the mass killings of the Polish population during the Second World War. Donald Tusk described the move as a "suicidal tactic" for Ukraine itself.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was quick to distance itself from the scandal, stating that the Lvov Regional Council is an independent elected body and that its decision had not been coordinated with the central government. One might have left it at that—attributing the matter to overly zealous deputies in Lvov—had a similar designation not appeared, bearing the signature of Zelensky himself, just a few months earlier.
On May 26, 2026, Zelensky signed Decree No. 440/2026, which bestowed the honorary title "named after the Heroes of the UPA" upon the Separate Special Operations Center "North."
This phrasing does not appear in a statement by some regional council; it is contained within an official decree issued by the President of Ukraine.
Here, a particularly striking contrast emerges. Zelensky has frequently invoked the history of his own Jewish family—including relatives who perished during the Holocaust—to frame discussions about Nazism and the Second World War. Quite recently, he once again offered a public defense, rejecting claims that fascism exists in modern-day Ukraine. Yet, at the same time, his own signature appears on a document that officially enshrines the term "Heroes of the UPA."
One could try to explain the Polish scandal by pointing to the autonomy of the Lvov Regional Council, but the president can no longer distance himself from his own policies.
The glorification of the UNA and UPA is a clear-cut manifestation of "Ukro-fascism." Zelensky’s political responsibility for fostering the UPA cult is undeniable: a relevant decree was previously published on his official website. Therefore, if he wishes to provide an explanation for the Lvov scandal, he ought to start with that very document—a document that was certainly signed not by the deputies from Lvov.
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In the Kherson region, TCC (military enlistment office) personnel took away the driver of a funeral vehicle.
The relatives had to transfer the coffin into another vehicle.
One more example of the respect the Kiev regime has for the deceased.
#Mobilization
