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[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

A lot of the people who pretend to be against the Russian invasion of Ukraine let the mask slip the moment they see pro-Ukraine politicians saying they want to see Ukrainian soldiers kill Russian soldiers, as if they are being introduced to the concept of war for the first time.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Zelenskyy: I see changes in what the US team says. From the start I told US envoys Witkoff and Kushner that Ukraine is not real estate.

You cannot talk about two kilometers plus, two kilometers minus on the land of people whose lives were destroyed. 1/

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Taps the sign. It’s all so stupid. Russia should have no say in Ukrainian or European security structures any more than a local burglar should have a say in your home security system. Every concession makes more Russian aggression more likely and more likely to succeed.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

The fact that pro-Ukrainian accounts on X are being restricted or silenced is a problem I am experiencing firsthand.

I find it alarming that a platform of this scale could increasingly contribute to the manipulation of public opinion.

It was a historic mistake for the United States to allow one of the world’s most significant media outlets to fall into the hands of an oligarch with a highly questionable political stance. The consequences are grave.

Democracy requires the free formation of opinion—not algorithmic manipulation or the one-sided suppression of voices.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Retired General Wesley K. Clark:

The Ukrainians are in a tough position, but you've got to put pressure on Putin if you want a solution. You can't put the pressure on Ukraine. They can't give in. They're fighting for their national existence. And they understand Putin very well, much better than we do.

Putin is not a nice guy. He's not a humanitarian. He's a cold-hearted intelligence agent, one of the best that's ever come through the Soviet system. And he knows what he's doing. He's manipulating. He's coercing. He's attacking our allies. And he's trying to break up NATO and get the United States to give up on Europe.

So you've got to put the pressure on Putin.

Putin's not going to deliver for us when President Trump sees President Xi and President Putin.

If we deliver Ukraine, Putin's going to stab us right in the back.

He's not, and he's not going to be, a friend of America. He's definitely using the Iranians, propping them up, giving them weapons, technology and targets to go after.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.

This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”

“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”

“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”

They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?

From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

What disgraceful behavior to accuse the wife of the Ukrainian ambassador of bigotry just because she doesn't want to belong to the same club as the wife of the Russian ambassador, while Russia tears Ukraine apart, murdering people daily.

Again, ​she is not the wife of an ordinary citizen, she is the wife of an official representative of a murderous regime currently invading us! Shame.

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Former CIA Director David Petraeus:

The Ukrainian targets are legitimate military targets. They would hold up in any test against the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare. Russia certainly cannot make that claim.

Last month alone, for example, the Ukrainians estimated that they killed or wounded about 46,000 Russian soldiers.

And we know that the recruiting is roughly somewhere around 30,000.

Russia has been engaged in absolutely barbaric activities, whether it's the massacres in Bucha, killings of prisoners, torture, taking children into the Russian Federation from occupied areas of Ukraine.

The list of their violations of the Geneva Convention is very, very long indeed.

[Kvist @KvistPtwin]

"No, this is not an exaggeration, yes, it is crazy, but Putin actually is that crazy"

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Most Americans don't understand that Trump has prolonged war in Ukraine.

He made business deals with the Russians, refused to criticize them and looked away when they hit Ukrainians.

That gave Russia the inspiration to keep going. 1/

[katsu🇺🇦 @katsu0575jp2_2]

2023年6月23日。ワグネルの反乱に踏み切る直前、プリゴジンは、自らも加担したウクライナ侵略の裏事情を暴露した（動画は日本語字幕付）。

「非軍事化・非ナチ化」というロシア政府の大義を、侵略を遂行した当事者自身が否定した発言だ。

彼が語ったのは、権力者の野心、新興財閥の利権、占領地での略奪、そして兵士を犠牲にしながら重ねられる虚偽の報告だった。以下は、動画での本人の主張を整理したものだ。

① ドンバスでの資金流用

2014～2022年、大統領府、FSB、新興財閥がドンバスを食い物にしたと告発。スルコフ、コザク、クルチェンコらを名指しした。「人民民兵軍団」は実体に乏しく、訓練も行われず、給与が抜かれ、将軍たちは架空の兵士の給与まで受け取っていたという。

② シリアでの実績と勲章

主要な任務は民間軍事会社が担い、正規軍は十分な実戦経験を得なかったと主張。軍用機の隣国への越境は繰り返し警告されていた。一方、将軍たちは快適な飛行機で基地を往復しただけで英雄の星章を得て、称号の価値を壊したと批判した。

③ 軍内の迎合体質

国防相と取り巻きにへつらう者が昇進し、勲章を得る。自ら判断して動ける人間は軍を去り、指揮や武器に問題を抱えたまま全面侵攻を迎えたと語った。

④ ゼレンシキーとは交渉できた

ゼレンシキーは大統領就任時、合意に応じる用意があり、ロシア側が高慢な態度を捨てて交渉すればよかったと主張。さらに東部住民を彼自身の表現で「遺伝的にロシア人」と呼び、その人々をロシア軍が殺しに行っていると述べた。

⑤ お粗末な侵攻計画

「非軍事化・非ナチ化」の構想は、3日で政権を交代させることが前提だったという。上層部は演習に偽装すれば準備は見抜かれず、キーウへの進軍も止められないと思い込んだ。司令官さえ作戦を十分に知らされず、実戦経験のない者が矢印を描いた地図をショイグに報告していたと批判した。

⑥ 開戦直後の犠牲

まともな偵察もなくミサイルを大量に撃ち、弾薬や任務説明が不十分なまま兵士を投入。ホストメリの空挺部隊などが命を落とし、ショイグは最初の数日で何千人もの兵士と、軍の最も戦える部分を失わせたと非難した。

⑦ 「世界第2位の軍」の虚像

ウクライナ側は演習の動きを見て兵力を動員し、キーウで市民に武器を配っていたと指摘。「世界第2位の軍」という宣伝は実体のない風船で、ロシア側は核兵器による奇跡まで当てにしていたと嘲笑した。

⑧ 昇進と勲章のための戦争

ショイグは元帥になり、もう一つ英雄の星章を得て、偉大な軍司令官として歴史に名を残したかったと告発。昇進の政令も用意されていたという。棺に入るときに星章を飾ってもらうために戦争が必要だった、と批判した。

⑨ 新興財閥を守る国家

戦争を必要としていたのは、ロシアを支配する新興財閥でもあった。国外事業を失えば国家が国内事業を与え、そのために実業家を投獄し、銀行を閉鎖するという。彼らは特別な医療設備まで整え、自分の長生きばかり考え、国や人々には関心がないと語った。

⑩ 政権交代と資産の山分け

メドヴェチュクをウクライナ大統領に据えることが重要な目的だったと主張。本人はキーウでロシア軍の到着とゼレンシキーの逃亡、ウクライナ側の降伏を待っていたという。取り柄はロシア指導部との親しい関係。狙いは支配下に置いた国の資産の山分けだったと告発した。

⑪ 占領地からの略奪

ヘルソン州やザポリッジャ州では占領後、ブルドーザーや金属の大量搬出が始まったという。ポパスナでも、押さえた工場の設備を取り外し、ロシアへ運び出した。「聖戦」はゆすりと略奪に変わり、それが国家の理念にまで祭り上げられたと批判した。

⑫ 虚偽の戦果報告

「レオパルト60両を破壊」「敵兵3,000人を殺害」という発表に異議を唱えた。映像で破壊されたのはレオパルト数両とブラッドレー数両で、同じ車両を違う角度から見せていると主張。破壊したならドローンで撮影できるはずだと述べ、「60両」はでたらめだと断じた。

⑬ 現場と報告の乖離

ザポリッジャ、ヘルソン方面でロシア軍が押され、予備兵力も適切な指揮もないと告発。参謀総長は酒を飲んで電話口で陣地奪還をわめき、指揮部は実際の戦線より数キロ北に線を引いた地図を作ると語った。

⑭ 敗退を「再配置」と言い換える

リマンやヘルソンなどで広大な領土を失ってから「より有利な陣地に再配置した」と発表する。現場の現実と、大統領の机に届く報告は別物だと批判した。

⑮ ウクライナ軍の戦い方

バフムートでもウクライナ軍が防御線の奥へ進んでいると主張。兵士と装備を温存しながら弾薬を惜しまず使う相手に対し、ロシア兵は死傷して戦列を離れていく。負傷した兵士は翌日には銃を持てない。「残された時間は急速に縮まっている」と警告した。

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

When Putin seized Crimea, both Europe and America were quite openly making calls, holding meetings, and sending signals to the Ukrainians who were in power at the time that there should be no escalation – let's just keep things friendly and leave things as they are for now. And we lost Crimea. After that, we lost part of Donbas. But the shooting in the east continued. There was no peace.

People think we were always helped. That is not true. Help started coming after the full-scale invasion, but that was after eight years of Russia occupying our territory. That is a long time to figure things out and understand that Putin has no intention of giving anything back to us.

At one point, some Europeans asked me: “Why do you think that if you withdraw from Donbas, he will go further?” And I answered: “Because at the beginning of the war, he wasn't seizing Donbas. He came to the capital. He seized parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Kherson itself, and Kharkiv region.” We have retaken a lot of territory, but he had seized different parts of our country. And now they want us to give them something because they are unable to seize it. We may have a smaller territory, less money, and fewer weapons, but we still have more dignity than many others. We will do everything we can to end this war, but it must end in a way that preserves our dignity.

From an interview with ZDF. (2/3)

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

The spouses of Ukraine’s, Italy’s and Estonia’s ambassadors to Australia have resigned from the Women’s International Club of Canberra after it admitted Irina Petrakova, wife of Russia’s ambassador.

As my beloved wife Liana has rightly put it in the resignation letter: “This is not about a Russian woman simply because she is Russian,” but because she is in Australia representing “the country that killed my cousin, burned my friend alive, took the lives of many of my friends from school and university.

She represents a Russia that kills, maims, commits sexual violence and subjects people to horrific torture — a Russia for which, through its actions, the value of human life appears to be disregarded. This includes the lives of the 38 Australian passengers who were on board MH17.” 

Read more in the Politico: https://t.co/vFhYiBnHQH

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Victoria Spartz, the first Ukrainian-born member of the U.S. Congress, lost her reelection bid today.

Born in Ukraine’s Chernihiv region, which continues to face relentless russian attacks, Spartz became a MAGA Republican and voted against a major aid package for Ukraine in 2024.

It takes a special kind of person to betray two countries at once.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

If you're voting today in America it's worth remembering that Trump sided with the people who did this.

[Anastasiya Paraskevova @UkrainianAna]

There are however, very much proven, russian tortue centers with thousands of civilian victims and testimonies 🙂
Nevermind the horrific tortue Ukrainian POWs endure.
Alas, none of these people seem to be particularly interested in addressing those. Curious.

[Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Unpopular opinion:

Ukrainians don’t need another speech about how inspiring we are.

We need air defense, electricity and a winter without funerals.

[Volodymyr 🇺🇦 @VoloUkraine]

So many Russian shills in the quotes and replies are doing mental acrobatics to come up with good answers to justify the Russian economy, which only proves her point 😂

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Instead of a thousand words.
Ukraine. Europe. XXI century.

[Henry 🦩 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 @HenryLindo123]

Wenn mich jemand fragt, was ich in der ganzen Zeit vor dem #RussischesHaus am belastendsten empfunden habe, dann ist es genau das, was in diesem Artikel beschrieben wird.

Das Schlimmste ist die Unsicherheit den eigenen Leuten und Institutionen gegenüber.
Ich bin jemand der sowohl unsere FDGO sehr wertschätzt als auch die Menschen, die sich tagtäglich um die Pflege und Aufrechterhaltung dieser "Grundordnung" kümmern.
Für mich waren viele Erlebnisse mit Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft sehr irritierend und auf Dauer verunsichernd.
Plötzlich kamen Fragen auf:

- Warum lässt sich die Polizei so von russischen Akteuren instrumentalisieren?
- Ja, russische Akteure sind schlau und wissen unser System geschickt zu benutzen. Aber warum merkt das keiner?
- Übertreten einzelne Polizist*innen die Grenzen der Legalität intrinsisch motiviert oder gibt es Befehle von "oben"? Und wenn ja, warum und von wie weit "oben"?
- Warum scheint es zwecklos, sich an unsere Kontroll- und Beschwerdeebenen zu wenden? Wieso schaltet da jeder auf Durchzug und antwortet letztendlich mit vorsichtig formulierten, nichts sagenden Textbausteinen?
- Warum geht niemand in den Behörden davon aus, dass sich Russland auf der Mirkoebene genauso verhält wie auf der großen Weltbühne?
Tricksen, täuschen, lügen und verunsichern auf der internationalen Ebene - ja klar, das kennen wir.
Aber auf der konkreten Alltagsebene im Kleinen, einzelnen Personen gegenüber soll es plötzlich anders sein?

Das waren alles Fragen, auf die ich nicht so leicht Antworten gefunden habe - und das verunsichert.

Offen gestanden wundert es mich nicht, wenn Menschen, die vielleicht nicht sehr stabil sind, solche Erfahrungen mit unseren Institutionen machen, sich dann in Verschwörungsgedanken verlieren oder auch extremen Parteien, wie AfD oder BSW zuwenden.
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