Ausra Paukstyte

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Every parent and teacher should be required to read these two books.

I think these two important and essential books should be at the top of every bestseller list. I highly recommend them to everyone.

One lesson from both the books:

[Gryn ✌ @gryn_a]

2 Lithuanian 🇱🇹 high school teams were disqualified from a European robotics championship in Italy 🇮🇹 because they refused to compete with ruzzia 💩 who was allowed to participate.
Read about those kids here. How cool are they?!
Buongiorno to everyone ☕️
https://t.co/9LRYBgGKMw

[Just Bill @WilliamAder]

Buckingham Palace releases new photo of Kate.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Polish PM Donald Tusk met with President Zelensky in Kyiv on Jan. 22 during his first visit to Ukraine since assuming the position as PM. Learn more here: https://t.co/sm5ZnV0up8

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Today Ukraine repelled the biggest combined air attack with the use of hypersonic missiles in history.

- 10 out of 10 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles;
- 59 out of 70 Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles;
- 3 out of 3 Kalibr cruise missiles

Not a single country, not a single air force in the world has faced what the Ukrainians have faced today.

Countless lives were saved today thanks to every country that helped to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.

The aid is working. Your tax money is saving children peacefully sleeping in their homes from being killed.

[Jonasz Rewiński @JRewinski]

How about we try and #CloseTheSkies above #Ukraine after all, @NATO @jensstoltenberg
We already know what Russia is.
NOT a great military superpower.
A cowardly terrorist state is what they are. Their redlines mean nothing.
NATO aircraft above non-occupied parts of #Ukraine🇺🇦
Likely result: Putin chickening out, terrorist missile/drone attacks cease. Ukraine can then focus on the frontlines and claw back its territory. We already said Ukraine will be a NATO member. Let's follow it up with ACTION.
Including shooting down missiles and UAVs - come on, do you believe in Russia nuking anybody over a Shahed drone?
#NoFlyZone

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

What Russias are doing to Kyiv today has zero military objective.

Pure terrorism.

100% civilian targets, to force the country's population into the EU, as they've done with Syria, immigration crisis.

And the West hasn't even begun to realize Putin's war is on them.

[Guy Verhofstadt @guyverhofstadt]

Kyiv is under brutal attack! 99 missiles fired by Russia at civilians. No alternative for the EU than to step up support for Ukraine now. Militarily, financially.

Putin is at war with the European way of life that Ukraine defends. Wake up, Europe!

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Why is Russia not labeled a terrorist state after its repeated massive bombings of Ukrainian cities?

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians flooding channels with photos of the missiles and bombs they intend to rain on Ukrainian cities for New Years Day, inscribed with barbaric Russian "greetings".

Is there any culture more disgusting than that of Russians?

[Stas Olenchenko @StasOlenchenko]

A lesser known page of the Russo-Ukrainian war is the story of how a bunch of Ukrainian digital pros launched a *massive* info campaign in Feb/March 2022 to penetrate Russian propaganda and reach ordinary Russians.

It’s time you should know this story (and learn from it).

1/19

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

To those who have missed the previous 30 years, here is a short list of the results of negotiations with Russia that it never respected:

1. The Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Russia agreed to “respect independence, sovereignty, and the existing borders of Ukraine” as well as “refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine”. Breached by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.

2. The Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty of 1997. Russia agreed to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and “reaffirmed the inviolability of the borders” between the two countries. Russia breached it in 2014.

3. The OSCE Istanbul Summit in 1999. Russia committed to withdrawing its troops from Moldova’s Transdniestrian region and Georgia until the end of 2002. That never happened.

4. The 2008 Georgia ceasefire agreement following Russian aggression against the country. Russia agreed that “Russian military forces must withdraw to the lines prior to the start of hostilities”. That never happened.

5. The Ilovaysk “Green Corridor” in August 2014 and other “humanitarian” death corridors. Russia pledged to let Ukrainian forces leave the encircled town of Ilovaysk in the east of Ukraine, but instead opened fire and killed 366 Ukrainian troops. In the following years, Russia attacked numerous humanitarian corridors in Syria.

6. The “Minsk” agreements of 2014 and 2015. Russia agreed to cease the fire in the east of Ukraine. There had been 200 rounds of talks and 20 attempts to enforce a ceasefire, all of which the Russian side promptly violated. On February 24th, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

7. The 2022 Black Sea Grain Initiative. Russia pledged to “provide maximum assurances regarding a safe and secure environment for all vessels engaged in this initiative." It then hindered the initiative's operation for months before withdrawing unilaterally a year later.

NB: I am only focused on deals made with Russia to address specific issues and conflicts. I am not mentioning almost 400 international treaties that Russia has breached since 2014.

There are no conclusions to be drawn here, except that no one can seriously use the words "Russia" and "negotiations" in the same phrase.

Putin is a habitual liar who promised international leaders that he would not attack Ukraine days before his invasion in February 2022.

Russia's tactic has remained consistent in its many wars over the last three decades: kill, grab, lie, and deny.

Why would anyone genuinely believe that Russia in 2023 is any different from Russia in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2015, and 2022?

[Anna Ackermann @ackerm_ann]

Russians killing russians because they disagree about how to better kill Ukrainians.

Such a rotten country.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Lithuania never joined the USSR. Moscow illegally occupied our territory, so we resisted until we restored our independence and the Red Army went back home.
We're not post-soviet, we're never-soviet.

[Ausra Paukstyte @AusraPau]

@ASulija Seb irgi nepasijungia

[Szabadság1956🇺🇸 Слава Україні!🇺🇦 Tisza2026🇭🇺 @Szabadsag1956]

I am once again begging Westerners of all political stripes to understand that Eastern Europeans do not object to Soviet monuments because they wish the Nazis had won.

It's because the Soviets "liberators" overstayed their welcome for 40 years.

[Olena Tregub @OTregub]

Ukraine was beautifull, but now it will become great!

[Ausra Paukstyte @AusraPau]

@ZMiST_Ua @Reuters It’s not a blokade. Choose your words carefully. It’s implementation of sanctions set in March. 99% of goods are in usual transit and ruskies can cross LT just as before.