Bill Moon

Retired Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Nuclear Warhead Security Prog. Manager, 30 yrs experience w/ RF MOD 12th GUMO. Independent Consultant. Views my own.

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

“We will never surrender!” Ambassador Oksana Markarova at the Rally for Ukraine, Lincoln Memorial Feb 24th

[Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @razomforukraine]

Spot on 🎯

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Russia is losing on the battlefield and in the Black Sea. Its economy is in tatters. All it can do is bomb Ukrainian cities and civilians. This is why we must pass Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine. The House will vote on this in two weeks.

[Save Ukraine @SaveukraineUs]

“Children are psychologically broken by being told their parents abandoned them.”

A new @ZDFheute article exposes Russia’s system of abducting and “re-educating” Ukrainian children.
Read the full story and why bringing them home is so difficult
https://t.co/dc4ApePjt2

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Today’s attacks on humanitarian workers are war crimes. The world cannot accept this as normal. Too many aid workers have died like this around the world. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council but it attacks UN and WCK vehicles in Kherson, Ukraine. While the aid workers survived unharmed, one resident died. This war needs to end now. The suffering needs to end now. We are an American-based NGO @realDonaldTrump @FLOTUS @SecRubio #ChefsForUkraine

[Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 @razomforukraine]

❗️@SecRubio: "The Russians are losing five times as many soldiers a month as the Ukrainians are. Right now, the Ukrainian armed forces are the strongest, most powerful armed forces in all of Europe."

True. Ukraine’s military is battle-tested in a way no other army in Europe is.

[Steven Pifer @steven_pifer]

Good.

#Russia started this war. Entirely appropriate that Russian Central Bank assets now be used to help #Ukraine.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Peace begins in the human heart, passes through relationships, takes root in neighborhoods and peripheries, and expands until it embraces the entire city and the world. Peace is built by promoting a culture that rejects violence, through daily gestures, education, and practical acts of justice. #PastoralVisit #Naples

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

Proud of these brave Ukrainians. Wish we were doing more to help

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Command post of the 20th Army Corps. Today, I met here with service members carrying out tasks to liberate the temporarily occupied territory of the Dnipro region, and presented them with state awards. Among them are foreign volunteers who are defending Ukraine.

We discussed with the warriors the operational situation along the line of defense and ways to strengthen our positions: additional funding for combat battalions, supplies, and drones of various types – UAVs and UGVs. In recent months, the effectiveness of our mid-range strikes has significantly increased, so it is important that our forces have sufficient means for strikes in operational depth. We will also explore ways to support this direction.

Thank you for your strength, resilience, and for defending our state.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Command post of the 20th Army Corps. Today, I met here with service members carrying out tasks to liberate the temporarily occupied territory of the Dnipro region, and presented them with state awards. Among them are foreign volunteers who are defending Ukraine.

We discussed with the warriors the operational situation along the line of defense and ways to strengthen our positions: additional funding for combat battalions, supplies, and drones of various types – UAVs and UGVs. In recent months, the effectiveness of our mid-range strikes has significantly increased, so it is important that our forces have sufficient means for strikes in operational depth. We will also explore ways to support this direction.

Thank you for your strength, resilience, and for defending our state.

[AmericanUkraineCommittee @AmUkrCommittee]

👦 No peace deal without the children. That's what S.Res. 236 says, and it's the right call.

Thousands of Ukrainian children were forcibly taken from their families during the war. Some have been gone for years, separated from their parents, their language, their home.

Their return isn't a bonus condition to negotiate later. It's a baseline. S.Res. 236 puts that in writing: no final peace agreement before Ukraine's abducted children come home safely.

Accountability has to mean something.
This is where it starts.

💬 Urge your U.S. Senators to support S.Res. 236:
👉 https://t.co/VsnNqPpMIf

#StandUpWithUkraine #SupportUkraine #SanctionRussia #RussianWar #RussianWarInUkraine

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

@RepDonBacon @razomforukraine Where is it in DC?

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

❗️WHAT A HORROR! Russian drones hit a kindergarten in Sumy.

And this is happening while Putin is begging for a ceasefire so his pathetic parade in Moscow can go ahead safely.

[Hanna Notte @HannaNotte]

My thoughts in @ForeignAffairs on Russia, the UN, the use of force - and why Putin, maybe, didn't have it so bad in the "rules-based international order" he so despised

[U.S. Embassy Kyiv @USEmbassyKyiv]

The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Ukraine for Joint Direct Attack Munitions – Extended Range and related equipment. The estimated total cost is $373.6 million.

Full statement: https://t.co/sk3U4IKaJU

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ Ukraine drafts roadmap for return of children abducted by Russia.

In Kyiv, experts and officials gathered to create a roadmap ahead of the International Coalition meeting in Brussels on May 11.

@BringKidsBackUA

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

Great organization. Worth following and contributing

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

Today marks 4 years of UNITED24🇺🇦

4 years of unity between Ukraine’s friends worldwide, sharing and protecting the same values.

“For more than 4 years, Ukraine has been the world’s most effective startup for freedom. And you are the board of directors.”

Happy anniversary 💙💛

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

Incredible story, truly horrifying view into Putin's war

[Siobhán O'Grady @siobhan_ogrady]

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time.
https://t.co/PMxJxiaMcg

[UNITED24 @U24_gov_ua]

russia struck a bus in Dnipro, killing a person and injuring 11 more.

Deliberately targeting civilians as they go to work is a disgusting war crime. Something that only murderous psychopaths are capable of.

Help protect people from the crimes:
https://t.co/4Os08VprA0

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

Wonderful! The very least we could do, the very least!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

An important step of support by the United States – a $100 million contribution for the repair of the Chornobyl confinement, which was damaged by Russia’s strike on the night of February 14 last year. This was a deliberate attack by Russia on the Chornobyl plant, carried out with a drone equivalent to the Iranian “shahed”.

The confinement, shielding the remains of the Chornobyl plant, protects everyone from radiation threats. It was built through the efforts of an international coalition, and its restoration now requires more than €500 million.

The full safety of the confinement must be restored. We are working together with partners to achieve this, and every contribution brings us closer to the goal. Last Sunday, on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, we agreed on cooperation with partners during the Chornobyl International Conference on Nuclear Safety and Recovery. Today, we have results. Thank you to the United States for its support!

[Bill Moon @WilliamMMoon]

@BrewerEricM @StrickerNonpro Maybe it's worth considering that neither the Obama, Trump, Biden, or Trump administration policies had more than a mild impact on Iran's view that nuclear weapons would grant them more power. And that there is nothing it can do to reduce sanctions without losing power.