Gosha Tykhyi

Spokesperson, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Follow me at @SpoxUkraineMFA for official updates.

[Gosha Tykhyi @goshquiet]

For those who have followed me over the years, here is my new official handle in my new capacity as @MFA_Ukraine spokesperson. Follow for updates and let’s keep in touch.

[Heorhii Tykhyi @SpoxUkraineMFA]

I am honored to serve as the @MFA_Ukraine spokesperson and a member of @DmytroKuleba's wartime diplomacy team, working to counter Russian aggression and advance Ukraine's interests. Our press service is committed to providing timely updates and assisting the media. Stay tuned 🇺🇦

[Heorhii Tykhyi @SpoxUkraineMFA]

The German side has informed of its intention to hold a call with Putin. However, even if the German Chancellor did not express positions that contradict Ukraine's, conversations with the Russian dictator as such do not add any value to the pursuit of a just peace.

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

MFA of Ukraine has appointed Heorhii Tykhyi as the new Spokesperson!

Heorhii will be working in the press service to ensure that the voice of the MFA, and most importantly, the voice of Ukraine abroad, is even louder.

🔗 Follow the new spokesperson @SpoxUkraineMFA

[Andrii Yanevskyi @yanevskyi]

There are so many ways to support Ukraine now. Read about one of them in the joint Op-ed by @DmytroKuleba and @larsloekke for @business.
Denmark is leading by example, time and again. #dkpol
@mfMorten @Eifo_fond @Erhvervs_min @DKAMBinUkraine @DanishMFA

[Dante Licona @Dante_Licona]

Our #SoMeInsights podcast is now live!

Thanks to @goshquiet, comms advisor to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister for sharing tips about his craft in Episode 1.

@luefkens and I will be interviewing digital diplomacy leaders and experts behind key social media accounts.

[Gosha Tykhyi @goshquiet]

Thank you @luefkens and @Dante_Licona for launching this exciting podcast and having me for a talk on @DmytroKuleba’s and @MFA_Ukraine’s communications and digital diplomacy in the times of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.

[Matthias Lüfkens 🇪🇺 #DigitalDiplomacy @luefkens]

Wonderful conversation with @GoshQuiet about Ukraine’s #DigitalDiplomacy in our brand-new Social Media Insights podcast with my friend @Dante_Licona. Worth a listen if you have 25 minutes to spare.

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Russia's war on Ukraine is the largest aggression in Europe since WWII.

Wars of this scale are fought in stages. Positional warfare is just one of them.

Ukraine’s allies should stay focused on the goal of Ukrainian victory and ensure sufficient support to achieve it.

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The war against Russia is, after all, a technological battle.��� Former Ukrainian defense minister @Andriypzag argues that the West’s technology and resources are crucial to securing a Ukrainian victory:
https://t.co/Hu3KTHv2Bq

[Vassili Golod @VassiliGolod]

Außenminister @DmytroKuleba fordert im ARD-Interview schärfere Exportkontrollen: „Angesichts der Masse an Bauteilen, die nach Russland geht, angesichts der Masse an russischen Raketenangriffen, kann man sagen: Exportkontrolle ist für die Ukraine eine Art neuer Luftverteidigung.“

[NATO Spokesperson @NATOpress]

❌ MYTH: #NATO promised #Russia it would not expand after the Cold War.

✅ FACT: Such an agreement was never made. NATO’s door has been open to new members since it was founded in 1949.

Check out 🇷🇺 myths about NATO ⤵️

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

Staying the course is a difficult task. But we know how to win, and we will.

In my piece for @ForeignAffairs, I counter skepticism and lay out Ukraine’s strategy on the path to victory.

We should not allow defeatist voices to shape our policy decisions. https://t.co/xNmA7hIyfl

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

liberté
dignité
invincibilité

[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?

[Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba]

To those with short memories:

Between 2014 and 2022, Ukraine held about 200 rounds of talks with Russia.

During this period, 20 cease-fire agreements were reached, all of which were quickly violated by Russia.

None of the 200 rounds of talks or the 20 ceasefires have prevented Putin from launching a brutal all-out invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022.

Those who argue that Ukraine should negotiate with Russia now are either uninformed or misled, or they side with Russia and want Putin to take a pause before an even larger aggression.

We should not and will not fall into this trap.

[Нова пошта @NP_official_ua]

Our colleagues spent their last seconds alive helping - sorting parcels with medicine and humanitarian aid for the civilian suffering from the war. The russia destroyed a civilian building and should be convicted of war crimes. Please, spread the word #RussiaIsATerroristState

[Gosha Tykhyi @goshquiet]

@ITUADE @VassiliGolod @WDR @DmytroKuleba @berdynskykh_k @GermanyinUA @UKRinDEU @Vitaliy_Klychko @APUkraine @Ukraine @MFA_Ukraine 🙏🏻🇺🇦

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Danylo (23) & Diana (20) - the young couple who was killed last night in Zaporizhia. Got married a year ago after he proposed to her in a bomb shelter.

Damn ruzzia….

#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia

[Gosha Tykhyi @goshquiet]

@mattia_n @noclador my deep sympathy 😢

[Paul Ronzheimer @ronzheimer]

Was die ukrainischen Soldaten motiviert: Sie wissen genau, dass Putin am Ende keinen Kompromiss, keinen Deal will. Er will die Ukraine zerstören, sein Sowjet-Reich zurück. Sie kämpfen also auch für ihre Enkel. Meine Einschätzung bei @maischberger 👇

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Trust, strength, and respect.

These are the pillars of Ukraine's unbreakable spirit. These are the reasons why, despite all odds, Ukraine is advancing. These are the reasons why Ukraine is sure to win.

Our warriors are paving the way forward. I thank each and every one of them.