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Sonja van den Ende My Comments on RT: New Years Eve Ukraine's drone strikes on Kherson region many dead and wounded Civilians

At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 others injured after three Ukrainian drones hit a cafe and a hotel in Kherson on Wednesday night, local authorities said. The attack occurred as civilians were gathering to celebrate the New Year, Vladimir Saldo, head of the Kherson region, said. "Many people were burned alive," Saldo said, noting that one of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, which triggered a massive fire at the scene.

"Wir klagen an!" – Russische Reaktionen auf ukrainischen Drohnenangriff auf Neujahrsfeier in Chorly

Als "besonders zynisch" und "abscheulich" werten russische Offizielle den Drohnenangriff auf eine Neujahrsfeier im Gebiet Cherson. Maria Sacharowa zog Parallelen zu Verbrechen der ukrainischen Nazi-Kollaborateure und beschuldigte den Westen der Komplizenschaft.

Mehr dazu: https://rtde.online/russland/266289-wir-klagen-an-russische-reaktionen-ukrainischen-drohnenangriff-neujahrsfeier/

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My latest article in Dutch, easily to be translated in any language:
Veel ophef over de Vondelkerk en Zwitserland, maar geen woord over de terroristische aanslag in Cherson-Rusland.
https://freesuriyah.eu/2026/01/02/veel-ophef-over-de-vondelkerk-en-zwitserland-maar-geen-woord-over-de-terroristische-aanslag-in-cherson-rusland/
eel aandacht voor binnenlands terrorisme in Europa (vanwege vuurwerk), maar geen aandacht voor de moord op burgers in Cherson, Rusland. Foto’s: Freepik, HNL, Telegram, bewerking: Mirjam©Photo

Russische media en politici omschreven de droneaanval op een nieuwjaarsviering in de regio Cherson als “bijzonder cynisch” en “afschuwelijk”. De westerse pers, met name in Nederland, negeerde het incident, alsof de inmiddels 27 doden en 50 gewonden, onder wie kinderen, geen mensen zijn.

Terwijl families in het dorp Khorly aan de Zwarte Zee in de republiek Cherson, de jaarwisseling van 2026 vierden – lachend, proostend en feestend met kinderen – voerde het Oekraïense leger op 31 december om 23:55 uur, vijf minuten voor Nieuwjaar 2026, een koelbloedige droneaanval uit op een café en hotel vol met burgers. Drie drones, waarvan er één naar verluidt gevuld was met een brandbaar mengsel, troffen de drukbezochte locatie en veroorzaakten een enorme brand.

Minstens 24 mensen, inmiddels 27 in totaal, bezweken aan hun verwondingen en zijn levend verbrand, onder wie een kind, en meer dan 50 anderen raakten gewond. Velen kwamen om in de vlammenzee.

Vladimir Saldo, de gouverneur van de regio Cherson, zei dat de aanval in Khorly alleen te vergelijken was met het bloedbad van Odessa op 2 mei 2014, toen Oekraïense nazi’s tientallen mensen een vakbondshal in dwongen en in brand staken.
Lees meer:https://freesuriyah.eu/2026/01/02/veel-ophef-over-de-vondelkerk-en-zwitserland-maar-geen-woord-over-de-terroristische-aanslag-in-cherson-rusland/.

My latest article on Strategic Culture: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/02/why-rich-refugees-flock-to-ukraine-from-impoverished-europe-for-christmas/ Are these still refugees who supposedly cannot return to their homeland? Anger is boiling over in German and Dutch cities – and rightly so. While many Europeans are having to count every euro twice in this crisis of Europe’s own making, convoys of Ukrainian cars are heading east during the Christmas holidays. These refugees, reportedly fleeing Russian bombs and drones, are being well supported financially by Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries – yet as Christmas approaches, they suddenly return home in high spirits.

At the Polish-Ukrainian border, cars are stuck in traffic jams for kilometers. Journalists report hours-long waits, and the flow of returning travelers shows no signs of abating. Families registered as war refugees are heading back to Ukraine for the Christmas and New Year holidays. While air raid sirens supposedly never cease in Ukraine, the fear of missiles and drones appears to fade. The contradiction is stark. Mainstream outlets like Deutsche Welle, whose reporter Christopher Wanner covered the border traffic, have reported on these queues (the report can be viewed here). Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/02/why-rich-refugees-flock-to-ukraine-from-impoverished-europe-for-christmas/

My latest article on Strategic Culture: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/02/why-rich-refugees-flock-to-ukraine-from-impoverished-europe-for-christmas/ Are these still refugees who supposedly cannot return to their homeland? Anger is boiling over in German and Dutch cities – and rightly so. While many Europeans are having to count every euro twice in this crisis of Europe’s own making, convoys of Ukrainian cars are heading east during the Christmas holidays. These refugees, reportedly fleeing Russian bombs and drones, are being well supported financially by Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries – yet as Christmas approaches, they suddenly return home in high spirits.

At the Polish-Ukrainian border, cars are stuck in traffic jams for kilometers. Journalists report hours-long waits, and the flow of returning travelers shows no signs of abating. Families registered as war refugees are heading back to Ukraine for the Christmas and New Year holidays. While air raid sirens supposedly never cease in Ukraine, the fear of missiles and drones appears to fade. The contradiction is stark. Mainstream outlets like Deutsche Welle, whose reporter Christopher Wanner covered the border traffic, have reported on these queues (the report can be viewed here). Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/02/why-rich-refugees-flock-to-ukraine-from-impoverished-europe-for-christmas/

Today marks five years since Trump ordered the brutal assassination of Qassam Soleimani and Abu-Mahdi al-Muhandis in Iraq. Both were master strategists, and thanks to them, many ISIS fighters were eliminated at the time. Now, after five years, the Middle East is a cesspool of misery, and ISIS, or as parts of it now call itself, Hayat-Tahrir-as-Sham, has risen to power. A new caliphate has emerged, this time in Damascus, where numerous brutal assassinations have taken place in recent weeks, including the killing of a brigadier general of the SAA, and many young Alawite men—even an engineer—most of whom were too young to have anything to do with Bashar al-Assad's government. Soleimani once said that if Syria falls, the entire Levant will fall, and the suffering will be incalculable, and that is exactly what has happened. On the very day of the American assassination of the two generals, explosions are heard in Venezuela. Maduro, like Iran, is America's so-called enemy. America, a continent that has fought more than 200 wars and killed millions of people, continues to wage war, even under Trump. It's probably in the American genes to be barbaric! After all, it was mostly Europeans who colonized America and massacred the Native Americans, so what do you expect from them?

So Trump is now embroiled in his next war after Gaza and Iran, after not even one year as president—this is now his third war, and he wanted the Nobel Prize? After his involvement in the Gaza war (weapons), Iran, and the coups in Syria, the brutal war in Lebanon, now it's the bombing of Venezuela, and he says bluntly: "He wants the oil and Maduro dead." The attacks on the so-called drug boats were merely a distraction. The US is a greedy, belligerent entity, as it always has been.

The new year has already gotten off to a bad start thanks to the terrorist attack in Cherson, which Western media haven't reported, and now they're claiming that Russia attacked an apartment building in Kharkov. It's unbelievable how the Western press allows itself to be exploited for the lies and political agendas of belligerent European, US and Ukrainian politicians. In my view, they are also complicit, not directly, but indirectly, in spreading lies and turning a blind eye to the murder of civilians.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence:
"The information about the alleged attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Kharkov on 2 January is not true.
❗️ The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation neither planned nor launched attacks using missile weapons or aircraft weapons within the city of Kharkov.
Based on eyewitness-made videos published by Ukrainian information resources, the epicenter of the explosion was located in the Persona shopping center at 2, Olesya Gonchara Street.
On the published footage, heavy smoke of unknown origin was recorded in the building a few seconds before the explosion, which indicates that there was a high probability of detonation of the ammunition stored there by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The statements of the Kiev regime about the alleged 'Russian strike on Kharkov' are intended to distract the attention of the international community from the violent terrorist attack committed by the AFU on the night of 1 January against civilians in the settelment of Khorly (Kherson region).

Of course, the leaders of the European Union and the countries within it are silent, completely silent. In many meaningless words, they're essentially saying they're afraid to condemn their big, fascist brother, America. All talk and organizations about human rights and democracy can be thrown overboard. America, and Trump in particular, has shown its true colors, although it was already clear to many of us after his first term. But now he's gone a step further and simply kidnapped a democratically elected president, under the pretext of drugs. If he had wanted to do that, he should have started with Colombia and, where the worst smuggling takes place, the ABC islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, which are still Dutch colonies. A Netherlands-America problem could potentially arise there. The US is nothing more than a colonial power in the style of the British Empire, racist and fascistically brutal and wanting to steal the oil, and the worse part is that the US wants to rule Venezuela says it all, Hitler did the same. People in Europe (not governments) are trying to stand up against this renewed colonialism and fascism, a good deed and effort, although of course it won't help, but still...
Like in Berlin; The American flag was torn and burned in front of the US embassy. Protests against Washington's interference in Venezuelan affairs are also taking place in other cities and countries in Europe.

Flag-burning in Berlin

No need for many words for this cartoon. If he really wanted to tackle drugs, he should attack the Dutch ABC Aruba Bonaire and Curacao and Columbia, there is the problem. But of course, it's about the oil; the American oil companies are already in, the US - British Empire 1.0.