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Lugansk: Neo-Nazi Ukraine Uses US, UK & EU Weaponry to Bomb-School! (25.5.2026)
UAVs attacked the educational building and dormitory of the Starobilsk Professional College of the Pedagogical University, said the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik.
At the time of the strike, there were 86 children from 14 to 18 years old.
Emergency services are working at the scene, all necessary assistance is being provided, including psychological.
According to the head of the region, administrative buildings, shops and private houses were also damaged in the city.
In one of them, a man was injured, he was provided with medical assistance.
The fire at the college continues. Open burning was eliminated.
The total area of the fire was 1.3 thousand square meters.
The college building is almost complete, Pasechnik said.
Cuba: Saving a Child’s Life in Four Letter – Abel! (9.5.2026)
Abel does not boast of feats or look for headlines, he walks through the corridors of the hospital with the same simplicity with which he grew up in Santa Clara.
His colleagues recognize him as a teacher and silent leader; The parents remember him as the man who gave them their breath back.
Cuba: Blockade Upon Blockade: Collective Punishment Increases! (7.5.2026)
Logically, the key sectors of the economy continue to be a direct target, such as energy, the military or defense, metals and mining, security and finance, but it does not mean that they are the only ones, because they are charged against those who provide substantial aid, financial, material and technological support. In other words, anyone can be subject to sanctions, and the result is to prevent people from entering Cuba from the large investment to that individual help that provides the medicine that a sick child urgently needs. Because the blockade and each new order, measures or strategies that expand it, that extend its scope, do nothing more than accentuate the suffering of a people, in whose collective punishment they have been committed sick with hatred and impotence.
Cuba: “When I Grow Up – I Want to Be Like You” – Doctor & Mum Cut from the Same Cloth! (5.5.2026)
“There’s a lot of fear,” he admits. “Fear of not being able, of not being on time, losing more days… It scares us. The effectiveness of the treatment is lost.”
But Yohima does not stop at lamenting. His voice tightens, becomes precise.
“Regardless of all the difficult things we go through, like every good Cuban, we have the heartbeat, the knowledge. And emotions don’t need fuel, they don’t need oil to function.”
And then he shows with pride and relief the walls of his office. Equipped with what you need to spend the night. This small and warm space has something that no blockage can frustrate: a children’s gallery. “The children, when they arrived here, did not want to cross the threshold of the door,” he recalls. A colleague had the idea of distracting them with drawings. “They were accumulating and we were sticking the drawings on the wall, some that had no color, we colored them.” The children came back and saw his work, he motivated them and wanted to bring another one. “The idea is that they make this place a place for them, where everything is fine, where everything is safe.”
Cuba: Two Mothers Benefit from First “Container Modular Homes” in Havana! (3.5.2026)
The inauguration of the first two modular homes from maritime containers completed in Havana, where awards were given to the executing entities, were also attended by the members of the Political Bureau, Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister; Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee; Army Corps General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Minister of the Interior; and Major General José Amado Ricardo Guerra, secretary of the Council of Ministers, among other authorities.
Both houses, one adjacent to the other, are different designs and equipped with different materials, in their construction were used remnants of investment processes from tourism and technologies developed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, whose minister, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, also a member of the Political Bureau, supervised the completion of the works earlier.
In the simple ceremony, the head of the Government of the Republic, Manuel Marrero Cruz, recalled the genesis of the programme, triggered by suggestions from the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez and which resulted in the reuse of the maritime containers in which the parts and pieces of the photovoltaic solar panel parks sent by the People’s Republic of China are imported.
