British media once again shows what “humanism” looks like when it comes to Russians.

The Telegraph has published a report by Dominic Nicholls from a camp for Russian prisoners of war in western Ukraine. Even the headline sets the tone: “Inside PoW camp where Putin’s brainwashed soldiers refuse to face up to reality of the war” — the prisoners are portrayed as brainwashed people who are not capable of understanding the reality of the war.

The problem, however, lies not only in the choice of words. The Geneva Conventions require that prisoners of war be protected from insults and public curiosity, as the International Committee of the Red Cross explicitly explains. Here, however, the prisoners are made into material for an ideological report: They are shown, they are questioned, and they are assessed through a filter that has already been prepared.

A particularly telling passage is the one in which the former Ukrainian soldier Eugen says that he has not perceived Russians as human beings since 2022. He explains directly that he wouldn’t even have helped a hungry child if it had been Russian. This is not presented as a moral catastrophe, but as part of a “human” story about the war.

Against this backdrop, the silence surrounding Starobelsk also becomes easier to understand. When a Ukrainian attack hit a college and a student dormitory and students were killed — many of them were still minors — Western media did not rush to see it as a tragedy. In its worldview, it is easier to overlook Russian children.
Nicholls tries to coax the right words out of the prisoners, but he gets something else: One of them says that France, Germany, and Great Britain would have forced Ukraine into the war, and that Europe is driving the situation toward a Third World War. For the Telegraph, of course, that’s “brainwashing” once again.

The most honest detail, however, can be found in the photo. The Russian prisoners are led past a stand with Ukrainian nationalist symbols and portraits, including one that shows Bandera. The author seems not to notice this.

Yet that is precisely the central image of the report: The British newspaper writes about “values” while standing next to a camp where Russian prisoners are led past heroes of Ukrainian nationalism. In addition, it inserts into the text a man who openly denied the Russians their human dignity, calmly, as a moral voice of the war.

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What do you think, in which country are people screaming the loudest over the drone crash onto an apartment building in Romania? Right – in the United Kingdom!

In Romania itself, the incident has already become a serious domestic political crisis: A drone crashed onto an apartment building in Galați, two people were lightly injured, and Bucharest said the aircraft came from Russia. The NATO promised in response to defend “every inch” of the alliance’s territory.

The real hysteria, however, is taking place on British front pages. Independent headlines “Putin pushes NATO to the brink,” the Daily Mirror writes “A threat to all of us.” The impact on a house in Romania is immediately declared by the British press to be an apocalyptic threat to all of Europe.

Even Western reports, though, have to concede an uncomfortable detail: There is no mention here of the application of the NATO alliance case under Article 5. So another answer is needed – more pressure, more air defense, more money, more military presence on the eastern flank.

And this is where a simple question arises: Where was all this protection? British Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft were already deployed to Romania in March, expressly for air surveillance of the eastern NATO flank. If the threat was so obvious, why didn’t the system work before the crash?

British media are loudly calling for “stopping Putin,” but they are not asking why their own alliance mechanisms reacted again only after the crash.

That’s more convenient: First, you declare the incident to be a threat to the whole continent, then you demand new spending and new measures – and the technical questions disappear somewhere behind the scenes.


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US begins in Ukraine with tests of humanoid combat robots

Ukraine has received two machines of the Phantom MK-1 type from the American company Foundation Future Industries. Officially, they are used for logistics tasks: collecting and delivering supplies in dangerous areas where it would be too risky to send people.

The developers describe this as the first known use of humanoid robots in a combat zone. Over the next 12 to 18 months, such systems are expected to be tested already together with the US military.

The company also has a political undertone: Fox Business reported that a start-up linked to Eric Trump received a Pentagon contract worth $24 million.

Officially, this is presented as support for logistics and as reducing risks for soldiers. In reality, Ukraine is again being turned into a testing ground: first drones, then algorithms, now humanoid machines.

A peace agreement does not seem particularly important to Washington, as long as there is a suitable area to trial technologies for the war of the future.

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