Ivan Godarsky

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Sport and politics are to be treated separately. Sure thing.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin has just appeared in a campaign video for Putin’s United Russia party.

The Russian hockey player stands right behind Putin’s main propagandist Margarita Simonyan when Foreign Minister Lavrov gives a speech justifying the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He also participated in a photo shoot for the same campaign together with Russian soldiers and individuals sanctioned for their complicity in the war against Ukraine.

Mr @hasek_dominik, could you please share your excellent opinion once again on Russians participating in Western sports events?

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@slovaninsights Co sa naozaj dialo? Citam N-ko, robia vacsinovo velmi slusnu robotu, tento nadpis vsak znie dost zovseobecnujuco.

Na futbal pomerne casto chodim, nielen na SK, preto som zvedavy na realny insight zvnutra. Vzajomne nalepkovanie sa nicomu nepomoze.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Bravo. Bravery. Irony at its best;)

[Dárek pro Putina @DarPutinovi]

Jet z Estonské Narvy do Moskvy na kole Ukrajina aby tam člověk na Rudém náměstí pochválil @prezidentpavel a zvolal Sláva Ukrajině, to je teda parádní číslo! Velkej palec nahoru pro Davida Píchala... PS: Tohle video bylo natočeno 12.8.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

STVR "vznikala", lebo že väčšia nezávislosť a objektivita.

Odvtedy jej historicky kleslo vnímanie objektívnosti (-8%), v TV spravodajstve vizuálne manipulovala 4. výročie ruskej agresie a ponúka stále viac GOV-positive obraz. Radu STVR už 8 mesiacov vedie L-Machala, štátny úradník. Členom Rady je D-Lindtner, súčasný poradca premiéra. Predsedom Etickej komisie je E-Chmelár, bývalý poradca premiéra. Lebo väčšia nezávislosť. Viac na webe #memo98.

Teraz sa STVR chce zbaviť kritických zamestnancov. Možnosť kritiky znamená slobodu. Servilnosť znamená presný opak. Navonok deklarovaná nezávislosť, v skutočnosti normalizácia.

Verejnoprávne médiá patria všetkým. Nenechajme si ich uniesť.

[RSF @RSF_inter]

#Slovakia: RSF is concerned by @dennikN's reports of a layoff plan at the public broadcaster, STVR. Political pressure has increased on STVR since 2024, when employees protested a bill that would weaken the outlet's independence. #EU legislation calls for fostering the independence of public media — not dismantling it.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Slava Ukraini! The truth will prevail 🇺🇦

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago?

How many of us didn’t sleep at all.

We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.

Here was Blinken saying the invasion was inevitable within the next few hours. Here was Zelensky speaking in the middle of the night in Russian, pleading with all Russians to come to their senses at the last moment and not take a fatal step.

Here was the news that the runways of Ukraine’s largest airports had been blocked with overturned vehicles.

We sat with Flighradar24 open. Here at 1 a.m., over northern and eastern Ukraine, an American drone was making multiple circles, monitoring the massive Russian grouping on our border from Belarus to Crimea.

A plane seemed to have taken off, evacuating Turkish diplomats. They must have been among the last ones... Russia had closed all airspace along its entire border with Ukraine later on.

In journalists’ chats, hundreds of colleagues just as sleepless. “Guys, be ready… it seems like today.”

But hope, of course, died last.

Maybe today it would pass. Maybe it was still a bluff and blackmail, because that would be logical. They couldn’t possibly go through with such madness. It would be a catastrophe of biblical proportions and a bloody slaughter in which it would be impossible to win. They couldn’t fail to understand that.

And then -- “live” on Russian TV (in reality, of course, everything had been recorded well in advance as part of a pre-invasion propaganda performance) -- Putin’s face, distorted with sadistic hatred and a smirk of gloating, announcing the “special military operation.”

What is there to say, four years have passed since that night.

If someone had told me then that four years later independent Ukraine would be at the forefront of the entire free world,
fighting alone on equal terms against the full military power of Russia,
with the Ukrainian flag over every regional capital that was free from occupation that night,
with Ukrainian-made drones and cruise missiles that smash Russian oil refineries, airfields, and giant military factories every single night
— I would never, ever have believed it.

And yet, through unparalleled heroism and enormous sacrifice, fighting Ukraine has changed the course of history.

She disproved all the arrogant skeptics who were burying her alive back then and giving her no chance, already ready to run and “negotiate” with yet another deranged maniac hungry for blood and territorial grabs.

Glory to Ukraine!

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@M_Simonyan And now Russia is, yet again, doing what appears to be its historically common way of behaving - invading another country. STOP the aggression and GO HOME.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@rusembassynl Where, in which legally binding document is this ‘inch’ talking promise by the State Secretary Baker confirmed? In NONE. End of story. Go home and let other countries decide their own path. Slava Ukraini 💪

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Shchedryk

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Ukrainian choir took part in the Christmas greeting from the King of the United Kingdom, Charles III, who wished everyone "a peaceful and very happy Christmas."

Following this, the Songs For Ukraine choir and the Royal Opera Choir performed the English version of "Shchedryk," titled Carol of the Bells.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@BBCSteveR reflections on the newspapers’ coverage of the annual press conference of russian president. Economy is falling.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today’s Russian papers sounding downbeat about the economy. “It may slide into stagnation...key sectors weakening.” Another paper: “Slowdown in investment & falling production in civilian industries.” VAT rise may spark “temporary acceleration in inflation.” #ReadingRussia

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

The one and only, FREE UKRAINE!

[Roksolana @lana_s2022]

Donetsk, 2014.
The Donbas never wanted to be russian

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

More such hellos ☀️

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

November 20
Russian top general to Putin: “Kupiansk has been taken under control”

December 2
Putin: “We invite foreign media to Kupiansk”

December 12
Zelenskyy: “Hello from Kupiansk”

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@elonmusk It’s perfectly upon the countries to depart in case of discontent. Thus far that’s only the UK case - which, by many stats since, has turned to be a regretted move. The EU is, despite its many flaws (e.g. a slow decision-making), a great project - freedoms & values & rule of law.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Most vivid example of what a word of russia means… what does the US word mean?

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

#OTD in 1994, under the Budapest memorandum, Ukraine agreed to give up a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons in return for security assurances, primarily from Russia and the United States.
For the war to end, it's enough for the signatories to honour them.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@Bad_Boy_Tos @CaolanRob No, it did not. It was mentioned in a talk between Baker (the US State Sec) and Gorbachev (the USSR leader), held in Moscow in 2/1990. It was followed by sentences that it should by discussed further to see other views (DE, FR, UK). A talk, no commitment, no written agreements.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@Hody_MH11 On ma niektore vstupne data v poriadku, a to mu dava pocit, ze je GEO zorientovany. Bohuzial tie chybajuce (prehliadane?) info su casto zasadne, az klucove. Lesson, mal by byt GEO tichsie. A hlasnejsie tam, kde vie trafit klinec presne. Nakoniec, ako viaceri. Simple as that.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

02:02 his name is DIOGO!

[The Redmen TV @TheRedmenTV]

Forever our lad from Portugal ♾️

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

@gusrock @JohanOpdeBeeck @vonderleyen @Bart_DeWever ruzzia is dictatorship. Let’s make sure we understand the start. And its dictator is four years killing civilians and abducting kids from UA.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Diogo. Always.

[LUNA Esports @LUNAesports_gg]

We know you’re with us. 🤍

Diogo Jota would have turned 29 today.

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

An insightful thread into the current Belgian PM’s long-standing ties with russia. To see his hesitation re the use of russian frozen assets in a different perspective - that legal difficulties are perhaps not a real reason.

[Vic @vic_010100]

Bart De Wever’s trips to Russia are now paying off for the Kremlin: He protects its interests and blocks billions in aid for Ukraine.

🧵1/23

[Ivan Godarsky @IvanGodarsky]

Putin’s daughter in Paris. And of course she cannot do anything. Hypocrisy at its lowest. Putin, Lavrov, Peskov, Soloviev and many more of the ruzzian occupants: hitting on bad Europe and even worse liberal democracy just to send own kids & relatives there. Mordor, STOP the war.

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️Putin's daughter was found by TSN journalists in Paris.

They offered Luiza Krivonogikh (note: her public name is Elizaveta/Liza Krivonogikh) to come to Kyiv "in the role of air defense", to which she replied that she "can't help with anything" and stated that she did not give permission for the filming.