→ Charity Tweet of the Week: Polina Shumakova

Sometimes we will feature individuals who are doing all they can to support their fellow Ukrainians. Polina is such a person. She has organized multiple collections in the past two years and is now collecting to help a sick relative.

PHOTOS FROM YESTERDAY’S MISSILE ATTACK ON KHARKIV: Death toll is now at five, with five others missing, the search continues but things sound grim.

→ US Senator Graham in Kyiv: If you want aid to Ukraine, you had better start talking to American taxpayers

“I want the Russians not only to see the aid coming this spring, but we have come up with a model to make it more sustainable for the Ukrainian people,” the senator said.

“You are going through hell. I want to help you. We have problems at home, too. I am trying to make this a win-win. I am going to the Mideast to say the same thing,” he added.

Graham expressed full support for Ukraine on its path in attempts to join NATO and said that he wanted to provide Ukraine with as much weaponry as possible to achieve “a qualitative advantage on the battlefield.”

In related news: Zelensky says it is ‘Critically Important’ for US to approve aid soon.

RUSSIAN ELECTIONS DAY THREE: HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!

Some of the voters have taken to dressing up the ballots…

Also right now, the ‘Noon against Putin’ protest, where everyone shows up at noon on Sunday to vote against Putin, both in Russia and abroad:

And, as if right on schedule, another oil refinery is hit, this time near Krasnodar: (the billboard reads ‘Stability’)

RUSSIAN ELECTIONS DAY TWO: Belgorod is Going Through Some Things:

In other news, the death toll in yesterday’s Odesa attack stays at 20 and another oil refinery is ablaze in Samara.

UPDATE: A SECOND oil refinery is on fire in Samara.

RUSSIAN ELECTIONS DAY ONE: Looks like it’s going well…

→ Charity Tweet of the Week: Kharkiv National Guard

To be honest, the folks at Animal Rescue Ukraine could use some help as well.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: ‘Just genocide, zero military objectives.’

→ Drone strike hits another oil refinery in Russia, several wounded

Drone strikes targeted Russia’s oil refineries for the second day in a row on Wednesday, with one sparking a fire and injuring several people after it struck a facility in the Ryazan region, officials said.

FULL COURT PRESS: In the run-up to Russian elections, we’re seeing multiple actions within the RF: Drone Attacks in nine Russian regions, two fuel depots ablazeAir defense active in KurskFighters of the Siberian Battalion call on Russians for liberation, start offensives in KurskBoth Freedom of Russia and Siberian Battalion fighters are carrying out operations on Russian territoryFire breaks out at a thermal power plant near St. Petersburg.

More News Updates because It Is That Kind of a Day: Dramatic footage of a Russian IL-76 crashing near IvanovoClaims of a drone strike hitting a Belgorod administration buildingand the Vatican states that Russia should cease all aggression before negotiating with Ukraine.