“The real enemy is Islam, from Moscow to Lisbon. ALL should be united to expel it completely from Europe. Instead they kill each other. Insanity.”
The Muslims are taking over Russia without firing a shot while Putin is sending troops to get slaughtered.
Those that come back find that the Muslims have taken their jobs.
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Ukrainians brace for -20C despite energy truce: ‘It will be a catastrophe’
BBC
Sarah Rainsford
1-31-2026
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75xg17rr1xo
It’s not the electricity cuts that Yulia Hailunas struggles with most after the Russian airstrikes. It’s the fact that it’s so bitterly cold inside her own home.
Like so many Ukrainians, she’s had no central heating since Russia launched a wave of targeted attacks on the power grid in January.
So Yulia now lives in a long, quilted coat and hat in her flat, and rests her feet on a saucepan-full of hot water to keep them from freezing. If that’s not enough, she lifts weights for 10 minutes to get warm.
When the weather outside is above zero, it’s just about bearable. But later this weekend, the temperature in Dnipro is forecast to plunge below -20C.
In Kyiv and elsewhere, it could be colder still.
“That’s what’s really scary, because all the heating pipes will burst and we won’t be able to repair them again. It will be a catastrophe,” Yulia worries.
On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt attacks on Ukraine’s major cities during the “horrendously cold” snap, supposedly for a week.
The US president called it “very nice” of his Russian counterpart to agree to an energy truce. But details were sparse from the start.
The next day, the Kremlin clarified that Putin’s burst of good will expires on Sunday, just as the coldest weather bites.
There is usually a week or more gap between massive aerial attacks in any case, so it’s unclear whether Russia has actually paused anything.
There has been no major strike since 24 January, when hundreds of tower blocks in Kyiv lost power and heating.
“It has been quieter for a bit, but I don’t know if that’s linked,” a doubtful Yulia says, suspecting the strikes will restart at any moment.
“I think Putin wants to turn people against their government, to have them say: ‘Just give Russia anything to make this stop’,” Yulia says.
“He wants to break us, but it won’t work.”
Ukraine’s heating system is breaking down though.
The Geneva Convention, the laws of war, bans attacks on infrastructure that cause excessive harm to civilians.
But this is the fourth winter in a row that the energy grid has been targeted by Russia deliberately, leaving it more fragile and harder to repair after each successive strike.
There were widespread power outages across western and central Ukraine on Saturday after a “technical disruption” affected power lines connecting its grid to those of Romania and Moldova, its government said.
Engineers have been drafted in from Ukraine’s national rail company and elsewhere, working around the clock to restore electricity, and to defrost and patch up the heating pipes that run beneath giant apartment blocks in Dnipro, Kyiv and beyond.
An extended pause in strikes on the sector would provide a welcome break, but few Ukrainians trust Russia to deliver that.
That’s because, elsewhere, the deadly strikes have not stopped.
On Friday, one person was killed and several injured when a bus in Kherson was hit by shelling, while there were multiple air raid warnings for drones.
And all along the eastern frontline, the fighting is as intense as ever, still forcing civilians to flee their homes.
In Pavlohrad, about 40 miles from the front, we found families dazed after evacuating, abandoning everything, with no idea whether they’ll ever go back.
They were queuing to register at a centre for the displaced, offered a small handout of cash, food and toiletries by volunteers.
Kateryna cried as she told me how hard it had been to leave Vasylkivka, where she had lived all her life. “It’s like abandoning a piece of yourself,” she said.
But she had to protect her two young children, scared by the explosions.
“Our village wasn’t touched at first, but now it’s a total combat zone. The drones are hitting every day,” her mother Iryna described the Russian advance.
“One day there were 50 Shahed drones overhead.”
Trump sees the energy truce - a halt to massive aerial attacks on Ukraine’s big cities - as a way of reducing tension as he pushes for progress in peace talks.
He pledged to end this war “in a day” long ago but now admits doing so is difficult.
Ukraine has agreed to mirror Moscow’s actions by halting its own strikes on oil refineries in Russia and its shadow fleet of tankers that move Russian oil around the world, evading sanctions.
The trade pumps vital money into Russia’s war economy, but Kyiv wants to show Trump its willingness in his peace efforts.
Another round of negotiations is scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, though it seems no senior US delegates will attend.
The US has been talking up progress and Ukraine also claims only one major disagreement remains – albeit a critical one, over control of territory in the east.
But Russian officials have been dampening expectations of a deal.
“Of course we are following the talks, we want some stability,” Iryna tells me people here long for peace more than anyone. “But how can we trust Russia not to stab us in the back?”
From the dark and the cold of this war, it does feel to Ukrainians like Moscow is just toying with Trump.
The next days and weeks will test that.
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When evil returns to Europe: The cost of Russia’s dehumanizing war on Ukraine
Jerusalem Post
YEVGEN KORNIYCHUK
JANUARY 31, 2026 20:38
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884949
Opinion: The war against Ukraine is not merely a territorial conflict: It is a deliberate assault on identity, on culture, and on the very right of a sovereign nation to exist.
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This week, a Holocaust survivor passed away in Kyiv: a woman who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history, yet did not survive this winter. She died from cold and hunger, a direct result of Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
In the very city where she had once endured persecution and annihilation as a child, she found herself decades later once again without heat, without electricity, and without basic security.
This case is especially shocking in light of the ceremony held this week by the Russian Embassy in Israel, at the monument to Victims of Blockaded Leningrad, who fought to achieve the Russian victory over the Nazis. It commemorates the Russian civilians who perished during World War II, victims of fascism who died from hunger and cold.
The memory of those victims is sacred. Yet there is profound cynicism in a state that commemorates the suffering of its own citizens from that era while today implements policies that bring hunger and cold upon innocent civilians in Ukraine.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is not only a day of memory: It is a day of moral reckoning. The Holocaust was a unique event in its scope, in the ideology that drove it, and in the systematic manner in which it was carried out. It cannot and must not be compared to any other event. Yet its moral lessons are clear and universal: the dehumanization of a people, the justification of aggression in the name of a distorted historical narrative, and the turning of civilians into political instruments, which are a slippery slope the world knows all too well.
Russia-Ukraine War: An assault on identity and right to exist
The war against Ukraine is not merely a territorial conflict: It is a deliberate assault on identity, on culture, and on the very right of a sovereign nation to exist. When power stations are bombed in the depths of winter, when millions of civilians are left without running water or heating, this is not incidental damage: it is an attempt to break the spirit of a people by targeting the civilian population.
Here in Israel, for a nation born from the ashes of the Holocaust and carrying in its heart the collective memory of “Never Again,” the meaning of moral responsibility resonates deeply. Memory that is not translated into a moral compass risks becoming an empty ritual. True remembrance demands a clear stance against aggression, against the deliberate targeting of civilians, against attempts to erase national identity.
The Holocaust survivor who died this week in Kyiv should not become a political symbol: She is a painful human reminder that history is not merely a chapter in a book, but can return and knock on our doors if we choose to close our eyes.
On the day the world commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, we must ask ourselves: Are we content with remembrance, or do we allow it to guide us? When evil once again raises its head in Europe, words are not enough. What is required is moral clarity, solidarity with the victims, and the defense of the fundamental principles of freedom and human dignity.
Memory must become a compass not only toward the past, but toward the present as well. Russia’s war against the Ukrainian people has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, and this aggression threatens not only Ukraine, but may also spread and undermine the security and stability of other European nations if not firmly stopped.