🧵 Sec. Hegseth: If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down, without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you.*
* Except Russia. Putin has carte blanche to threaten and kill Americans with impunity (see below)
🙏 It's not a coincidence that the people closest to Russia, and those who know Russia best, are the ones who support Ukraine the most. They know from experience that Russia cannot be trusted in any deal and respects only strength.
The world is finally seeing what Ukraine deals with every single night.
The chaos caused by a few hundred drones across the entire Middle East last weekend is what a single Tuesday in Kyiv looks like.
Russia has launched tens of thousands of shaheds since this started
While all eyes are on Middle East, russia keeps doing what it loves most — terrorism. They bombed a residential house in Kharkiv, injuring children, murdered five in the Donetsk region, and targeted another passenger train.
Please, don't look away.
📸 Nakypilo Kharkiv.
While the world watches the Middle East, families in Ukraine are still waking up to sirens, still losing homes, still burying loved ones.
Their pain didn’t stop when the headlines shifted.
🇺🇦 Don’t forget Ukraine 🇺🇦
#StandWithUkrainianPeople
The russian attack on the government building in Kharkiv, on March 1 2022, should have been the trigger for the EU to massively sanction russia, suspend the movement of russians in the EU, close down russian embassies, and give Ukraine all the air defenses it needed.
Russia lost the “battle for winter.” And we won.
The first day of spring. The daylight is getting longer. It’s getting warmer. Ukraine continues the fight.
On the front line, for the first time in many months - perhaps even years - we have begun liberating more territory than we are losing.
Thank you to those who are holding the line.
Thank you to the air defense forces.
To the energy workers.
To the utility workers.
To local and central authorities.
And to each of us - for our resilience.
Ukraine has won the battle for winter.
Author: translated and adapted from Taras Chmut
Iran is bombing UAE with drones that are stuffed with Western electronics which Iran and russia purchased via UAE companies
If you don’t enforce sanctions, you eventually get Shaheds up your butt
Everyone has seen drones smashing into hotels, and burning a high rise building in the middlel east tonight.
Yeah?
Well Russian does this every night in Ukraine.
How about NATO members help Ukraine defend Europe from Russia.
Why is Ukraine the only one sacrificing blood and life to hold back Russia?
UK is a nuclear power "security guarantor" of Ukraine per the Budapest Memorandum.
This is getting more and more perverse.
The UAE have been a major transshipment hub for Western goods going to Russia. Chart shows UAE exports to Kyrgyzstan, which obviously never go there but head straight to Moscow. All these transshipments now come to a crashing halt. One positive upside...
https://t.co/VSlIud9TZI
This is not the Middle East. This is Sumy, Ukraine. A Russian attack drone (Molniya) hit a house. It’s not breaking news anymore. We see it every single day, four years straight.
If a Shahed strike UAV is launched by the Iranian terrorist state at a Middle Eastern country, NATO members will try to shoot it down.
If the same Shahed is launched by the russian terrorist state at a European country, Ukraine, then NATO members will sit back and do nothing.
This is what destroyed Kostiantynivka looks like now, a city that suffers from russian shelling every single day.
Before the russian invasion began in February 2022, Kostiantynivka had a population of approximately 67,000 to 70,000 people.
Video: 24th Mechanized Brigade
Ukraine is indirectly helping bring down dictators all over the globe by tying up their main patron, Russia. There’s a reason dissidents from Iran and Venezuela feel such affinity with Ukrainians. They share a common enemy and a common fight.