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[Oksana Boiko @swyatozzarra]

Kyiv Circus sketch

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We commemorate the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer:
https://t.co/esLMTa8fn2

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Ukrainians are fighting and dying every day so that we can be safe and enjoy the right to say asinine, ignorant, and cowardly things on podcasts.

[Roksolana @lana_s2022]

Two worlds

[Jaanika Merilo @jaanikamerilo]

Share if you dare.
Brilliant speech and great point by representative of Ukraine to UN Sergiy Kyslytsya.
Is Russia even legally member of United Nations?

[Marten Kokk @martenkokk]

Worth listening to Timothy Snyder in Tallinn 🇪🇪 yesterday: We are in 1938 now. If Czechs had resisted Nazi Germany at the time, there would have been no WWII. If Ukraine gives up or we give up 🇺🇦 we will move to 1939. Ukraine helps us to extend 1938.
https://t.co/n5tOYdazjR

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

Russia cannot defeat Ukraine or the West – and will likely lose - if the West mobilizes its resources to resist the Kremlin.

That the war is unwinnable due to Russia’s dominance is a Kremlin information operation & a glimpse into Russia's real strategy & only hope of success.🧵

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

True solidarity with Ukraine? Less words, more ammunition.

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

Übrigens:
- Der Krieg ist nicht “ausgebrochen” sondern Russland hat die Ukraine überfallen.
- Es gibt keine “Eskalationsspirale” sondern legitime Selbstverteidigung, bei der wir helfen.
- Alle außer Putin wollen Frieden. Frieden gibt es, wenn Russland die Ukraine wieder verlässt.

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Robert De Niro, Viggo Mortensen, Catherine Deneuve, Imagine Dragons, Bono, Hilary Swank, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry — over 30 celebrities and U24 ambassadors have addressed Ukrainians with words of support.
Thank you to everyone who has been with🇺🇦during these 2 years.
#StandWithUkraine

[Vassili Golod @VassiliGolod]

Kyjiw statt „Kiew“ – Deutschland wählt jetzt die ukrainische Schreibweise der ukrainischen Hauptstadt und benennt die Botschaft um. Für die Bundesrepublik ist das eine Formalie – für Ukrainerinnen und Ukrainer ein Zeichen der Anerkennung. @tagesschau

[Rob Gaudette @GaudetteRob]

Everyone in the West should be aware of the “good Russians.” It’s a century-old phenomenon that has crippled our security.

Notice how Navalnaya uses possessives “I, our, my, my.” It’s always about her. She hardly talks about Ukrainians. With the “good Russians,” it’s always about their self-interest, how they are victims, and often, how the regime du jour is ruining the Russian empire (though they don’t use that language). There are exceptions, of course, but they’re few and far between. Boris Nemtsov, Maria Snegovaya, and Vladimir Kara-Murza come to mind as actual good Russians who see Russia for what it is.

After the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War from 1917-1921, tsarist White Russians fled to the West and convinced us that Bolshevism/communism was the problem.

After the fall of the USSR, Russian émigrés convinced us that corruption was the problem. But notice how the European
former Soviet states — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldova, Georgia, Hungary, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, and Ukraine — all transformed themselves from corrupt dictatorships to free democracies. (Ukraine deserves kudos, because Russia views Ukraine as integral to its identity, along with Belarus. So Russian meddling there was particularly intense. Yet the Ukrainian people managed to resist, and are now singularly holding back the Russian horde for the rest of Europe).

Of course, some countries backslid, and others made more progress than others, but by-and-large, the transformation was remarkable.

It begs the question: why can’t Russia get its act together? The answer: Russian imperialism is deeply ingrained in Russian culture. Navalny was anti-corruption, not anti-imperialist. A corrupt Russia is a weaker Russia. He, like Igor Girkin, was an advocate for a more efficient empire.

Today’s “good Russians” don’t support the war because it’s weakening Russia’s “prestige” in the West, which Muscovites have always craved. The war makes it hard for Muscovites to travel to the West and enjoy its freedoms and prosperity.

For example, Muscovite and @meduza_en/@meduzaproject’s owner bitched that a “weak intelligence service” [not Russia’s, because Russia’s is strong!] put Pegasus spyware on her phone. Meduza blamed Latvia. What they didn’t mention is that the GRU regularly infiltrates “good Russian” dissidents in the West. If Latvia did place the spyware on her phone, they were completely justified in doing so.

https://t.co/8zs9mEYT62

Ignore the Russians who fled to the West and bitch about how we treat them with suspicion. Ignore the ones who raise false awareness, claiming it’s just Putin that’s the problem. Ignore the ones who aren’t advocating for weapons and aid to Ukraine.

Navalnaya should be talking about Ukrainians. Why? Because right now, the Ukrainians are the only ones who could have set her husband free. If she allied with them, instead of going to the Oscars and indulging in her celebrity status, maybe, just maybe Navalny wouldn’t be dead. But she doesn’t care about Ukrainians.

The truly great Russians are the ones inside Russia, blowing up railway lines, recruitment offices, defense industrial facilities, assassinating officials, providing Ukraine and its allies with intelligence, and stoking paranoia. They’re undermining the regime and its war effort at their great peril.

If you want to understand the “good Russian” phenomenon better, listen to this episode of @PowerVertical.

https://t.co/sskbEjjsEj

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Dear Republican Senators of America. Ronald Reagan, who helped millions of us to win back our freedom and independence, must be turning in his grave today. Shame on you.

[D.R. 🧐 @DrRachek]

‘Ukraine fatigue’ is unpardonable https://t.co/M7K5X3PuSd via @ft

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

I am in Ukraine to deliver a simple message.

Our support cannot and will not falter.

To all Ukrainians, Britain is with you – for as long as it takes 🇬🇧🇺🇦

[Thomas Leurs 🇺🇦 @ThomasLeurs1]

Mein Blog ist online! Zugegeben früher als geplant. Sieht auch noch sehr "nackt" aus und muss noch einiges dran machen. Aber zumindest findet ihr dort schon einmal all meine bisher erschienen Rezensionen. Immerhin 48. Kanns selbst kaum glauben.

Gerne RT!

https://t.co/ENnQR5zW3c

[D.R. 🧐 @DrRachek]

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[Charles Michel @CharlesMichel]

The European Council has decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine & Moldova.

#EUCO granted candidate status to Georgia. And the EU will open negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina once the necessary degree of compliance with the membership criteria is reached and has invited the commission to report by March with a view to taking such a decision.

A clear signal of hope for their people and for our continent.

[D.R. 🧐 @DrRachek]

#UkraineWillWin

[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?