Vlad Vernygora

International relations. Tender is the night, but the world rarely is.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

The unsettling 'soulful simplicity' of ruscism... Its ease with humiliation, contempt for promises, erasure of restraint, and shameless elevation of arrogance into anthropological virtue. Still marching on, utterly confident. But it will eventually lose.

[Mareks Matisons™ 🇱🇻 ( ex. blue ☂️) 🎗️ @marruciic]

14. jūnijs. Pirms 85 gadiem, vienā naktī, no savām mājām tika izrauti tūkstoši Latvijas cilvēku – vīri, sievas, bērni, vecvecāki. Lopu vagonos viņus aizveda uz Sibīriju. Daudzi ceļu mājup vairs neatrada..
Mēs atceramies tos, kuru dzīvības un likteņi tika salauzti, un tos, kuri neatgriezās.
Šī diena nav tikai par pagātni. Tā ir atgādinājums mums šodien – cik dārga un sargājama ir mūsu brīvība, neatkarība un cilvēcība.

/ foto : Okuācijas muzeja arhīvs /

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

@NTenzer Indeed, Professor - I still remember our online discussion about post-war Ukraine. The Kremlin has enshrined five parts of Ukrainian sovereign territory in what they call its constitution. That must not stand - those claims should be reversed and justice restored.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

This chap claims he invaded more land in Ukraine than the size of Mexico or Indonesia - if that is not a sign of his tsardom’s downfall, what is?

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🤔 Putin stated that the Russian army has allegedly already seized 2,044,000 km² of Ukrainian territory—four times more than Ukraine’s total area.

He also said that the seizure of territory is continuing "on a daily basis."

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

Is this approach ever going to be the mainstream of EU-bound politics? It is also like "standing with Ukraine until Ukraine wins". Nice. What about the next day after we win? Will we be no longer friends?

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Those who aim to "avoid escalation" must now admit that escalation is not being avoided. Escalation is being allowed, and encouraged. If we are "standing with Ukraine" — we shouldn't be standing on a huge pile of frozen Russian assets that could be used to save Ukrainian lives.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

8th Artillery Brigade “Harmash” – @harmash_brigade – of the 1st Corps, National Guard “Azov” – @azov_media – is born with its first strike. It all began with an order from @D_Redis to form the new unit – the first strike is now history. We are here. Stay tuned.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

Honoured to present at the XIV International Book Arsenal in Kyiv. Key message: "One state's strategic narrative becomes an important part of another state's identity, and identity is the foundation of interests". Preserve our identity so we don't adopt someone else's interests.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

@prestonstew_ Good luck, mate, and thanks heaps! These are needed. 🔱

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

@markomihkelson And this is how it will happen:
https://t.co/hJFIjjKZDr

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

An excellent piece of analysis (in Ukrainian) from our Corps' commander, Brigadier General Denys Prokopenko @D_Redis
https://t.co/hJFIjjKZDr

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

@GLandsbergis I cannot agree more. The quality mediation from the EU should have been back at Minsk. Did not happen. How "common" is the CFSP - that is the question...

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Zelenskyy doesn't need European mediation at the negotiating table, he needs European support on the battlefield.

[Marko Mihkelson 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @markomihkelson]

IMPORTANT: British MP and former Security Minister Tom Tugendhat gave a strong speech at a joint event hosted by the Estonian Council on Foreign Relations and @ICDS_Tallinn. The theme of his speech was: “Defending Britain, Defending Allies.” @eestivalisnk @TomTugendhat https://t.co/HlaW8mv13I via @YouTube

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital – at ordinary residential buildings, at schools; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv’s oldest markets. The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany’s ARD. As of now, 69 people have been reported injured in the capital. Tragically, two people were killed in this senseless Russian attack. My condolences to everyone who has lost family members and loved ones.

I have already spoken with the President of France and the Prime Minister of Norway. There will be further communication with our partners today. I am grateful to everyone who is not staying silent about what Russia is doing. They are waging war solely against our people – against our memory, our history, and everything that makes up normal human life. It is important that Russia understands that they will be held accountable for all these crimes.

[First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine @azov_media]

86 Days of Defense. The Fifth Year in Captivity

On May 20, 2022, the Mariupol garrison carried out the order of the supreme command: to preserve lives. Not only the lives of those who left the plant bearing arms, but also the lives of the wounded and civilians trapped under relentless airstrikes and shelling.

Those who were ready to risk their own lives sacrificed their freedom for the sake of those who could not protect themselves. Fighting for your people to the last and leaving no one defenseless are the foundational principles by which Azov fights.

The enemy holds no moral principles whatsoever, and all the declared mechanisms and guarantees provided have proven worthless. The fighters of the garrison, among them more than 700 servicemembers of Azov, are now entering their fifth year in inhumane conditions.

We remember them and continue to fight for them every day, until every fighter who carried out the order and stood as a wall against the Russian advance in 2022 comes home.

The order has been carried out. The fight goes on.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

I really wonder when NATO will finally reconsider its role in today’s international system. Objectively the alliance is still clinging to the fading Yalta-era order once meant to be enforced by the world’s five “policemen”? Or is that still too much for NATO to even contemplate.

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

The legacy of those who fought against Nazism—incl. my parents—is now carried forward by the Ukrainian people.
The same struggle against the radical evil embodied by Nazism leads us to defeat Ruscism.
As the president says, “An updated version of Nazism, marked: made in Russia.”

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

12 years on, proposals of “land exchanges” (Ukraine trading its own territory for its own territory) can be treated as an insulting grotesque of its own kind. The “so few” became a large corps, comprising 6 brigades. The “so many” are on our side. The “so much” remains to be done

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

On 5.05.26, @azov_media marks 12 years. The number invites facile numerology – cycles of renewal or, for example, zodiacal closure. However, the unit was not born of symbolism but of necessity: an urgent response to violence after the Muscovites’ 2014 aggression against Ukraine.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

I cannot help myself, but the Churchillian “so much owed by so many to so few” speaks to those times as well. Those who joined in 2014 could scarcely have anticipated 12 years of continuous war, having given up normal family lives, careers, and life as they once knew or had it.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

Trying to “freeze” the war by handing over 20 per cent of Ukraine’s territory is not pragmatism. It is a failure to understand how instability works. Instability does not disappear when rewarded.

It grows. It spreads. It metastasises.

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

One of my main academic interests has been contemporary empires. No theory today. Just two questions: How long can Russia sustain losing about 1,000 men a day? And how do you recognise the moment a violent state begins to crack?

[Vlad Vernygora @ZelandiaAzov]

Russia today is on a trajectory that is not sustainable. Pretending otherwise is wishful thinking for some. That is why Ukraine’s partners face a real question: Not how to appease an aggressor in decline, but what kind of Russia they are prepared to deal with after Ukraine wins.