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[Alex Bond @AlexBondODUA]

Everyone needs to hear this.

Rogozin, speaking at MGIMO, explains how russian propaganda works. And he describes it with remarkable accuracy.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Anyone willing to trust Putin is either an idiot or complicit in his crimes. Possibly both.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Of course, blame Ukraine! Never place any responsibility on Russia and certainly never on himself, since rising gas prices are directly connected to his bumbling in the Middle East. Why not tell his friend Putin to end the war on one of their frequent phone calls?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

This week alone, Russia launched around 2,100 drones against Ukraine – a significant share of them jet-powered “shaheds,” which the Russians are using in an attempt to cripple the economy and destroy people’s lives. The enemy also used nearly 1,700 guided aerial bombs and 78 missiles of various types.

Last night and this morning, energy facilities, Ukrzaliznytsia, businesses, and ordinary residential buildings came under attack. Odesa was attacked with missiles and drones. Recovery efforts are ongoing in many western regions following the overnight strikes. In particular, all necessary services are working near the Polish-Ukrainian border in Volyn, where the Russians deliberately burned a train locomotive and damaged a gas station in a drone strike.

It is precisely to prevent these strikes from spreading further into Europe that Ukrainian men and women fight every day, give their lives, and do not allow the aggression to expand. Russian terrorism is a common threat to many, but it definitely can and must be defeated in Ukraine. Thank you to everyone contributing to the protection of Ukraine’s skies and supporting our people.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Hitler said “give me the Sudetenland Land and we will have peace.” The Allies did and that only fed Hitler’s appetite.

Encouraging Ukraine to give land to Putin is foolish and very naive. 70% of Americans want us to do more to support Ukraine.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Take a close look at these two photos.

Thirty years ago, in 1996, on this day, August 31, russia and Chechnya signed a peace agreement. Russia had failed to destroy Chechen independence by force, so it signed a “peace agreement.”

Three years later, in 1999, russia invaded again.

Russia used the three year peace to prepare for revenge. Chechnya was devastated by war, economically isolated, politically destabilized, and largely abandoned by the outside world. Moscow portrayed Chechnya as a failed state and exploited their weaknesses.

When russia returned, it finished what it had failed to accomplish in the first war.

This is why neither Ukraine nor any other country of the world can trust russia to uphold a ceasefire or peace agreement. A ceasefire that allows russia to rebuild its army while Ukraine is pressured to demobilize, Western military support declines, and the world gradually moves on is simply an intermission before the next, even more devastating war.

Ukraine needs peace. But it needs a peace that leaves Ukraine strong and russia unable to attack again. History has repeatedly shown that Moscow interprets weakness as an invitation. The only language russia understands is the language of force. Without strength and credible deterrence, today’s peace agreement can become tomorrow’s preparation for another war.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

If anyone still claims the SMO is not genocide, share this video. They state their aim is to russify all of Ukraine - and that anyone who refuses to become russian will be killed.

That is the definition of genocide.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

❗️Jeden Hansel, der mir mit „Wer hat damit angefangen?“ oder „Die Ukraine hat zuerst zivile Objekte attackiert“ kommt, blockiere ich umgehend.

🚨Russland verwüstet seit fast fünf Jahren systematisch zivile Objekte in der Ukraine und macht ganze Städte dem Erdboden gleich.

Mariinka⤵️. Drei Jahre vor dem ersten ukrainischen Deep Strike.

Lasst euch ein Hirn wachsen, ihr Leuchten.🤦‍♂️

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

I hate when russian attacks are called “retaliation.”
russia invaded our country and committed countless war crimes. An aggressor does not get to “retaliate” against its victim for fighting back.

[Cyrille Amoursky @AmourskyCyrille]

💔🇺🇦 C’est un enfer sans fin.

37 morts dans la région de Kyiv. 72 heures d’attaques non-stop contre Kyiv. Une fille de 2 ans tuée dans un parc en pleine journée.

La Russie est entrée dans une logique de destruction totale de la vie en Ukraine.

Mes amis, ma famille n’ont jamais eu aussi peur qu’en ce moment, depuis le début de l’invasion à grande échelle de l’Ukraine. De nombreux civils s’interrogent et pensent désormais à quitter le pays pour se protéger.

Selon le gouvernement ukrainien, la Russie a détruit, au cours de cet été, 90 % des entrepôts modernes des supermarchés. Certaines entreprises craignent des pénuries importantes. Les prix de certains produits pourraient drastiquement augmenter.

Des dizaines d’usines, de centres logistiques annihilés.

Des millions de livres détruits par la Russie. Hier encore, une imprimerie a été attaquée : plus de 60 000 livres ont brûlé.

La Russie a anéanti tous les hypermarchés « Epicenter », l’équivalent ukrainien de Leroy Merlin, à Zaporijjia et à Odessa. Elle en a détruit plusieurs autres dans les régions de Kyiv, de Dnipro et ailleurs. Depuis 2022, une trentaine ont été détruits ou endommagés.

La Russie a détruit le centre commercial « Halereya » à Kryvyi Rih le 21 août. 16 personnes ont été tuées, 130 autres blessées.

Une semaine plus tard : un autre centre commercial. Cette fois-ci à Kharkiv, le « Karavan ». Une personne a été tuée.

Début juillet et hier, la Russie a attaqué des dépôts de munitions dans la région de Kyiv. En juillet : 9 morts, des dizaines de blessés, des rues entièrement réduites en cendres. Hier : 37 morts, des centaines de civils évacués. La plupart des victimes étaient des retraités et des personnes handicapées, tués dans un EHPAD local. L’une des pires attaques contre les civils cette année.

Le gouvernement ukrainien a promis de sanctionner les responsables de cette faille de sécurité dans un quartier résidentiel. C’est la deuxième fois que cela arrive en deux mois et, malgré les promesses, les leçons n’ont pas été tirées.

Le gouverneur de la région de Kherson a appelé la population à évacuer en raison de la destruction de toutes les infrastructures énergétiques de Kherson.

Depuis 72 heures, il y a des alertes toutes les deux heures à Kyiv, parfois toutes les heures, parfois toutes les demi-heures. Les drones à réaction touchent tout ce qu’ils peuvent : des restaurants, des stations-service, des quartiers résidentiels. Tout.

Et la liste continue. Et elle continuera à s’allonger.

L’Ukraine a besoin de moyens de défense EN URGENCE ABSOLUE ! La Russie est en train d’anéantir tout ce qu’elle peut, et le nombre de victimes civiles augmente mois après mois.

Parlez de l’Ukraine ! N’oubliez pas cette guerre !

Oui, cela fait 4,5 ans qu’elle dure à grande intensité, mais ce que vit le pays en ce moment est extrêmement difficile. Je n’ose imaginer l’hiver à venir.

Nous, médias, avons une responsabilité : CONTINUER à traiter ce sujet !

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

🤬 You don’t hate them enough.

The orcs who committed this war crime can still share a pint in Prague, sit next to your kids in Barcelona, ride London’s red bus with you.

These murderers roam your streets. They will rape and kill your children. It’s only a matter of time.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Sehr gute Grafik von @wartranslated, die mit der extremistischen Lüge aufräumt, die Ukraine hätte den Krieg gegen zivile Logistikzentren provoziert oder gar begonnen.
❗️Russland tut das bereits seit Jahren, fällt nur niemandem von AfD, BSW und Linke auf.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russia is receiving gasoline from a NATO country. A shipment of around 200,000 barrels was loaded onto the tanker *Wendrix* at the Turkish port of Mersin and is being transported to Russia.

While Russia wages war against Ukraine, fuel is making its way to Russia from—of all places—a NATO member state. And it is being transported by a tanker belonging to the sanctioned "shadow fleet."

What madness. NATO states should not be helping Russia maintain its fuel supply.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The United States asked Ukraine not to strike Moscow while senior American officials are visiting the russian capital, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Think about that.

When American officials travel to Moscow, Washington apparently has no problem asking Ukraine: Do not attack Moscow while we are there.

But just days earlier, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner canceled their planned visit to Kyiv around Ukraine’s Independence Day because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”

So why didn’t Washington simply ask russia: Do not attack Kyiv while American officials are there?

Apparently, the United States can ask Ukraine to stop bombing russia to protect American officials in Moscow. But it cannotask russia to stop bombing Ukraine to protect American officials in Kyiv.

Instead, Witkoff and Kushner canceled their trip.

This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump.

Washington repeatedly demands restraint from Ukraine while accommodating russia. It expects Kyiv to adjust its military actions around American diplomacy, while seemingly accepting that Moscow will continue bombing Ukrainian cities whenever it wants.

You cannot be an honest broker when the rules apply only to one side.

That is blatant hypocrisy.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned trip to Kyiv because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”

Witkoff and Kushner have traveled to Moscow eight times for meetings with Putin.

But when it comes to visiting Kyiv, russian air strikes suddenly make the trip too dangerous.

Meanwhile, presidents and prime ministers from a dozen European countries have visited Kyiv over the past several days — despite those very same russian attacks.

This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump.

For months, we have been told that Witkoff and Kushner are trying to broker peace between russia and Ukraine. Yet the people supposedly acting as intermediaries repeatedly travel to Moscow, meet with Putin, listen to russia’s demands - and cannot even bring themselves to travel to the capital of the country russia is invading.

You cannot understand this war by visiting Moscow eight times and Kyiv zero times.

And you certainly cannot be an honest broker if you are willing to sit comfortably across the table from the aggressor but are too afraid to visit the victim because the aggressor might bomb you.

European leaders are showing what solidarity looks like.

Washington is showing what cowardliness and complacency look like.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Former MI6 officer Christopher Steele: "I think Trump is Russian asset. If you look at Trump's behavior and policies, he always gives Putin a soft time. Everything he does seems to benefit Putin, either consciously or unconsciously. Trump is Putin's greatest asset in the world."

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia could have up to 1,300 ballistic missiles a year. Right now, they have 600–630. We have an approximate understanding of the volume they are counting on from today and through the end of winter. Roughly speaking, they could have 100 ballistic missiles a month. But they are not at that level yet. We are working to weaken their military industry. There are corresponding tasks involving strikes on military targets and other anti-ballistic sanctions.

We have become quite effective at intercepting other types of missiles. Our combat aircraft are doing so, and we have more IRIS-T systems now – the relevant systems are in place, and missiles for them are arriving to counter Russian cruise missiles. We have Hawks as well – we are using many different systems to intercept cruise missiles. But ballistic missiles are ballistic missiles. We are now working to ensure that they do not reach those 1,300 – to reduce that number.

I wanted to secure 300 missiles for the Patriot systems as part of the winter package. The request from our Air Force is for 360. But when only 600 are produced a year, 360 is not easy to obtain. We are working with countries on additional options. And I would very much like to believe that we can find a way to access some small percentage of U.S. stockpiles – say, 5% or 10%. And we are ready to pay for those supplies. In other words, America would be able to refresh its stockpile, and we would be able to get through the winter.

From a conversation with journalists (1/3).

[Brawl Sta(r)s @BcoinVla]

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[Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
In return, it received security assurances.

Decades later, Ukrainians are hiding
From missiles fired by one of the countries that signed them.

Remember that when people talk about “guarantees”