Today in Bucha.

Today, Ukraine celebrates Orthodox Easter under the Julian calendar with faith and defiance, baking paska and decorating pysanky during wartime. Ukraine's Jewish President leads the celebrations with an Easter truce while the Roman Catholic Pope Leo leads prayers for peace in Ukraine.  

So much has happened in Ukraine's situation on the world stage. The US administration has turned its back on Ukraine and in "peace talks" urged Ukraine to give up that "sliver of land" for an end to war. They will never understand that it's not just a sliver of land, but a large chunk of population who are Ukrainians not russians. The russians have stolen hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children who are being "re-educated" to fight for russia in camps on land held by russia's oil giants. This is but the beginning of Putin's plan. 

But things aren't exactly going to plan for the US or for Russia. 

A month ago, the US and Israel attacked Iran without provocation, presumably to distract from Trump's Epstein woes. But Iran shot down very expensive fighter jets and other planes. They fought back using their Shahed missiles, which they had been supplying to russia for its war in Ukraine. The US was fighting the Shaheds with very expensive Patriot missiles. And Iran was also shooting missiles into neighbouring Arab and Israeli targets. They then closed the Strait of Hormuz. The price of fossil fuels skyrocketed. The US was suddenly the world's pariah, and Americans were not happy campers in an election year when Congress could be flipped. 

Zelensky made a strategically brilliant move. He offered cheap drones and experts to assist the US in fighting off the Shaheds. The US declined. Then he travelled to the Middle East and made agreements with five Arab countries to supply surface drones, subsea drones and other tech in exchange for protection from the Arab leaders. Suddenly, Ukraine was in the leader's seat. They had been fighting Shahed drones for years and had gotten pretty good at it. They developed a whole new approach to warfare, and they were the only experts in these new war tactics. They will probably get a good bit of money for their defence effort in the deals. 

On top of that, they are now exporting their technology to European soil, building drone factories for surveillance, drone defence, and undersea offence. They destroyed the russian fleet, and they can help open the Starits of Hormuz. My, how the tone has changed. Zelenky may not have had the cards, but he's great at playing chess. 

Meanwhile, the US delegation negotiating with Iran in Pakistan has announced that Iran has not accepted their peace plan. So the war in the Middle East continues. 

Today also, Hungarians are voting for their next leader. Huge protests against Viktor Orban, Putin's puppet, have taken place in Budapest over the last few days. The turnout by mid-day has broken all the records. 

Христоc Воскресе! Slava Ukraini.