Jimmy Rushton

Kyiv based foreign policy/security analyst

Currently focused on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Special Correspondent @KyivIndependent - opinions mine alone

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

NEW: Zelensky’s former chief-of-staff ran a “troubling” back channel with Trump’s former chief-of-staff Susie Wiles… that was “more harmful than helpful” multiple Ukrainian and American sources tell me and @TimZadorozhnyy.

https://t.co/gKHv4i5mQg

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@Matthew_Kupfer Their account is accurate, but we weren't the first to report this... https://t.co/gonf1pnmlA

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@luckless_gamble @timzadorozhnyy That's not the framing of the article at all.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

NEW: Zelensky’s former chief-of-staff ran a “troubling” back channel with Trump’s former chief-of-staff Susie Wiles… that was “more harmful than helpful” multiple Ukrainian and American sources tell me and @TimZadorozhnyy.

https://t.co/gKHv4i5mQg

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@revishvilig Thanks!

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I assume Michael Tracey is frantically Googling David Walliams right now so he can figure out how best to defend him for dating 15-year-olds.

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Typically meaningless gibberish from Kushner. Every combatant in every war since the dawn of time has been ready for peace "under suitable terms". I'm sure Putin would happily end the war if Ukraine decided to unconditionally surrender. This is not news.

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Kushner stated at the negotiations in Abu Dhabi that Putin is ready for peace "under suitable terms."

Are these the "terms" where Ukraine surrenders regions that the Russians failed to capture over years of war, withdraws its troops, and essentially agrees to capitulation?

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Australian man travels to Russia, voluntarily joins military, (almost certainly) dies. A cautionary tale.
https://t.co/B7CVvzYekJ

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@Nrg8000 Womp womp

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It's the exact opposite; American displays of weakness - which is how Witkoff and Trump's obsequious submission is viewed by Moscow - makes Russia less likely to compromise and more likely to stick to maximalist positions.

[Anton Barbashin @ABarbashin]

Tell me you have no idea how Putin works without telling me:
"President Trump and his team hope Putin will be more willing to compromise after the U.S. lifted sanctions on Russian diesel sales and took other steps welcomed by Moscow"
https://t.co/gHn6Nfwt8P

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@QuincyInst @lieven_anatol Anatol Lieven is a Russian propagandist and a notorious liar.

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@HeavenScallop Assuming more victims don't come forward, which they almost certainly will.

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Pro-Russian propagandist and far-right conspiracy theorist Russell Brand sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

He will serve at least two thirds of this sentence in jail.

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@BenWigg31996683 Yes, have you been asleep for the past five years?

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@DylanMalyasov @RachelPAV You’re wrong; algorithm is open source has been analysed many times. Blocking deboosts accounts. https://t.co/HHzSFLVRmS

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@DylanMalyasov @RachelPAV No, if you have a big platform, and you leave Russian propaganda in your mentions, you’re just boosting it. Plus the Twitter algorithm deboosts accounts that pick up lots of blocks as it flags them as low quality.

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@BearGrylls You were working with children and helped conduct a PR campaign for a man whose habit of sleeping with 16-year-old schoolgirls was well known. You are a morally bankrupt little man.

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@KateMaltby @girlonetrack Yikes

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@PaulEmbery Interesting that you sense that, Paul, considering you've now deleted your initial, entirely false tweet, after multiple people pointed out it was a lie.

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You can never expect intellectual honesty or basic fact checking from culture war grifters like Paul, so allow me to be clear, the English national curriculum is not being modified in any way. Ukrainian is now an optional GCSE that anyone can take; like Chinese… or Russian.

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53 people are now confirmed to have been killed in Russia's massacre at an aid distribution station in Komyshuvakha. This number is expected to continue to rise.

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The death toll from Russia's massacre in Komyshuvakha continues to rise. 30 people, who had gathered at a school to receive humanitarian aid, have now been confirmed killed, a further 48 are listed as missing.