Matteo Mecacci

Director of European Policy Institute in Kyiv @epik_ukraine Advisor @iaionline
Frm. Dir. @osce_odihr Pres. @savetibetorg MP @oscepa - Views here are my own

[Matteo Mecacci @MatteoMecacci]

My latest with @TheNatlInterest - “Increasing Ukraine’s ability to defend itself would not only help protect its people, but also improve the prospects for meaningful negotiations. It could make serious talks possible.” #ukraine #russia
https://t.co/m8S09dKTBE

[Michael McCaul @RepMcCaul]

I am deeply concerned by reports that Ukraine’s access to Starshield has once again been restricted. These capabilities play a critical role in Ukraine’s defense against Putin’s relentless missile and drone attacks, which target civilian homes, parks, hospitals, and energy infrastructure.

With peace negotiations on the horizon, maintaining Ukraine’s momentum and leverage is more important than ever. I urge a full investigation into why these disruptions have now occurred twice and call for measures be put in place to ensure it does not happen again.

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW!!! The 105-member bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus is demanding answers from the Trump admin and SpaceX over the loss of Starshield access, calling for a full accounting and immediate restoration of service. 👇

[Balazs Jarabik @BalazsJarabik]

1/ In the past few months, as @EPIK_Ukraine fellow, I researched a major consequence of Ukraine’s westward shift: its western regions are becoming a new economic, demographic and logistical centre of gravity. Why does the Carpathian Corridor matter? 🧵

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

Bizarre of the Kremlin 🇷🇺 to believe that you can discuss European security architecture without the Europeans. And even more bizarre - not to use stronger language - for the 🇺🇸 to accept this.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Exclusive: A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray the government as having lost control, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters https://t.co/E9uIRt9ENv

[Novaya Gazeta Europe @novayagazeta_en]

‘That’s it’. Novaya Gazeta team vacates its Moscow office

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergey Sokolov held the final editorial meeting at the newspaper’s office in Moscow on Monday, SOTAvision has reported.

The meeting was attended by the outlet’s former editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, as well as staff members and representatives from other media organisations, including CNN and Reuters.

📹 | RusNews

[Denis Trubetskoy @denistrubetskoy]

Den ganzen Sonntagmorgen lang Strom gehabt zu haben fühlt sich im November 2026 in Kyjiw wie Paradies an.

[Katarina Mathernova 🇪🇺 @kmathernova]

Life in Kyiv is getting harder. Winter hasn’t fully set in, and already many people have no running water at home. The power goes out for hours, day and night.

Last night, russia launched waves of around 40 ballistic and cruise missiles and 172 drones at Ukraine, with the Capital and the Kyiv region bearing the brunt of the hits. There were strikes at 24 sites.

At least one person was reported killed in the overnight attack. In Kyiv, five people were injured, including a 14-year-old girl. Homes and a kindergarten were damaged. The Northern Bridge was hit and is now closed in both directions, causing major traffic disruptions.

In Pavlohrad, three people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl. Important energy facilities were hit in the Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions. Chernihiv lost power across the city.

I’m fine. The hotel where I’m staying has powerful generators. But many of my Ukrainian and international friends and colleagues at the EU Delegation live in cold flats. Some spend the night in unheated shelters.

Then I see them in the office in the morning, working on the projects the EU funds across Ukraine or on Ukraine’s accession to the EU. I still wonder where they find the strength to get up in the morning and go to work after a night like that.

Kyiv keeps going. For nearly five years, russia’s full-scale war has shown us how much we take for granted when we live in peace. Running water. A warm room. A full night’s sleep. And how quickly we can lose all of it.

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[European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK) @EPIK_Ukraine]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 How could the US midterm results change American policy on Ukraine?

In the new commentary for EPIK, @AKaratnycky (@AtlanticCouncil) argues the shift in Congress is probably good news for Kyiv.

[Matteo Mecacci @MatteoMecacci]

..but also removing from it all commitments to respect democracy, the rule of law, and human rights..

[Michael Carpenter @mikercarpenter]

Pure genius. It’s almost as if we needed to create an organization for security and cooperation in Europe…

Except the existing one has failed to prevent Russia from violating every single one of its principles.

[Actualités d’Ukraine en français @ucmc_fr]

Notre podcast a besoin de votre soutien!

“L’Ukraine face à la guerre” est un podcast francophone consacré à l’Ukraine qui est conçu, produit et enregistré en Ukraine et par des Ukrainiens.

Pour maintenir la régularité de nos publications, nous lançons un outil de soutien sur la plateforme Patreon. 

https://t.co/8cVVEoqG3g

[Matteo Mecacci @MatteoMecacci]

Stamani su @radioradicale in diretta da #Kyiv #Ucraina https://t.co/VivDwu80NK

[European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK) @EPIK_Ukraine]

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine stays among the EU’s four accession frontrunners in the @EU_Commission 2026 Enlargement Package, even though the overall assessment of the country has barely moved. 🧵

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

💡🇺🇦 Kyiv — everything is in complete darkness. The capital is illuminated only by car headlights.

[European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK) @EPIK_Ukraine]

Germany is Ukraine’s most important partner in Europe, with a record €11.5 billion earmarked for 2026. But political pressure to end that support is growing 🧵

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone doing harm, it's always better to do it with a calm rather than an agitated mind. If you act out of anger, the best part of your brain fails to function. Remember, compassion is not a sign of weakness.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Domestic was foreign and foreign was domestic in this election because corruption was transnational. An entire speech built around Wall Street Journal and New York Times investigations, and it just sang. Now imagine the Qataris, Emiratis, Kazakhstanis, Albanians, and Russians waking up today to chatter that Ossoff is liable to be president in two-plus years. After he just implicated them all in a multibillion-dollar American racket.

[Alex Salvi @alexsalvinews]

BEHIND THE SCENES: OLESHKY

For the sake of transparency, I’m publishing some of the unedited scenes — with context — from the Oleshky humanitarian mission.

Ukraine requested an American media presence. @FLOTUS tasked @Newsmax with this extraordinary responsibility. 🧵

[Fabrice Deprez @fabrice_deprez]

UN's human rights mission on the gliding bomb strike that killed dozens of civilians on Monday: "The timing and location of the humanitarian distribution were well publicised... this attack seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law"

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

This is the school in Komyshuvakha. And this is what is left of it. First, the Russians struck the school with one guided aerial bomb. Then they dropped nine more aerial bombs on the school's shelter.

Just stop for a second and imagine:
☑️ nine aerial bombs
☑️ on a school shelter
☑️ where people had taken cover.

Many dead, missing, and wounded. The numbers are still changing.

Reports say the shelter in this school was seven meters deep. That is a lot. But even reinforced concrete breaks when guided aerial bombs are deliberately dropped on it again and again.

And now the question.

� Why did the Russians drop at least nine guided aerial bombs on a school shelter and kill at least 31 people, with nearly 50 still missing, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast?

� Will this deliberate strike on a school be discussed on the international stage?

I don't think it will.

I have a lasting impression that everyone has long grown used to the fact that we and our children are being deliberately killed. And nobody is interested in it.

Photo of the school from Alina Bodnar page.