Stanislav Aseyev

Ukrainian journalist, writer, veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, founder Justice Initiative Fund.
Spent 2.5 years in Russian secret torture camp Izolyatsia.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

So, the main book of my life - "The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" - is available for purchase at the link below. There is no fictional plot in it: it is a non-fiction book describing the events in the Russian concentration camp "Izolyatsia" in Donetsk.
https://t.co/RA9Paar6bM

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Another war criminal involved in the mass killing of Ukrainian POW at the Olenivka penal colony has been blown up in Donetsk.

https://t.co/g65vLKqJM3

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

@GenFlynn OMG, is this the level of US military intelligence?
You could count the idiots just by the likes.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

by Nikita Titov

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Russia is methodically destroying Ukrainian publishing houses and books.

More than 60,000 books burned down as a result of today's strikes alone.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

It’s going to be a hot autumn.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

This year I am celebrating Ukraine’s Independence Day in Hamburg - a city that has taken in many of our veterans for rehabilitation.

I am grateful to everyone who represents the sane forces in Europe and consistently supports our country in the fight against Russian fascism.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Russia has effectively erased any rules governing the conduct of war.
I believe Ukraine has a completely free hand, morally speaking.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

14 dead in Kryvyi Rih from the Russian attack.
121 more injured. 22 of them children. 29 of the injured are in critical condition, five of them kids.

These numbers, this statistics - it's people's lives changed forever because of the war Russia wages in Ukraine.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

By the way, several years ago, back at the front, we were discussing among ourselves the total collapse of civil aviation - at least in the European part of Russia.

Beyond the economic damage, it would have been yet another drop of sobriety for the “ordinary people who stay out of politics.”

After all, only our missiles should be flying over Russia - just as theirs are flying over us.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Just keep talking. The more ‘hybrid’ it gets, the more of a ‘war’ it becomes.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Today, Romania destroyed a naval drone carrying explosives near its Neptun Deep platform in the Black Sea.

An escalating campaign of threats is underway, unsettling our citizens and seeking to divide our Union.

This is hybrid warfare.

The founding mission of our Union is to preserve peace. Today, that also means having the capacity to deter provocation and aggression.

Our Readiness 2030 agenda is mobilising up to EUR 800 billion.

With the European Drone Defence Initiative and the Eastern Flank Watch, we are scaling up production in Europe to deliver capabilities Member States need.

So we can respond to emerging threats with speed, unity and resolve.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

The Russians are right now pounding Kyiv and the region with ballistic missiles, literally like a shooting range - there’s simply nothing to shoot the missiles down with.

Mom was going down to the parking garage as if it were daytime: it was that bright from the explosions.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

@Euan_MacDonald Honestly? I don’t know - the technical side is something for the experts to discuss. But what worries me more is the occupied territories: it is obvious that the people there will effectively be cut out of the process, and in my view, there is no way to solve that problem.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Ukraine needs elections like it needs air.

Today’s latest corruption scandal is proof of that: an absolutely corrupt power system of the president’s inner circle, a system that is even looking for illegal cash to cover bail for a top official. It sounds like a joke, but this is our reality.

But the horror of the idea of holding elections during the war comes from another assumption - that the war is about to end and that we will soon be able to vote normally.

That is not the case.

I have already laid out many times the arguments for why Putin cannot stop the war, even if, by some miracle, he wanted to.

But the fact remains that we are already entering the eighth year of Zelensky’s rule. I can easily imagine another five years of intense warfare. Are we ready for the number 12 next to the name Zelensky? This is by no means a rhetorical question, given the pervasive corruption of the authorities.

Another fact: if elections are possible during the war at all, they can only be held online. That is a serious technical challenge, accompanied by equally serious and inevitable losses for democracy. Fedorov could probably offer a solution to the technical side of the problem.

But here we encounter another “but”: the person who raised the issue of elections is flesh and blood of the very system whose corruption he has now spoken out against. And he spoke up only after realizing that this system had finally cast him out.

This factor is now putting people off the idea of elections even more than Russian missiles.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

For 962 days in captivity, I had an enormous number of conversations with Russians. From the very first hours of my arrest, when I was beaten with a rubber baton and shocked with electricity, until my release in December 2019, I heard countless versions of “what was really going on.”

Some of those conversations took place in Isolation itself, with mercenaries who had come from Siberia to Donbas on safari, only to end up being persecuted by their own generals. But it always came down to one thing: the United States. All the Russians I encountered - from intelligence officers to mercenaries - were convinced they were fighting America, and they genuinely hated that country.

And now, nine years later, three North Korean divisions are ready to invade Ukraine with Russian support, while the U.S. president talks about his good relationship with Kim Jong Un and leaves Ukraine without a single Patriot missile to defend against Russian ballistic missiles.

I remember the words of an FSB officer in May 2017 who interrogated me while posing as the “deputy minister of state security” (the Russians were doing everything they could to conceal their presence in Ukraine at the time).

He said: “The system beats emotion.”

What he meant, essentially, was: “You are good guys, but your enthusiasm won’t last for the long haul. We’ll wait for our turn.”

I think they finally got theirs - but not in Ukraine. In the West.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

When asked, “How can we make Europeans understand what Russia is really like?” I always answered, “Don’t worry. In the end, Russia will do it itself.”

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Something very strange is happening across Europe.

In the span of a single week, NATO countries have seen a remarkable series of incidents involving ammunition production, energy infrastructure, military facilities, and russian intelligence operations.

Let me start with what we know.

🇵🇱 POLAND

On 7 August, Polish security services detained a russian citizen, recruited by russian intelligence, whose task was to execute a man holding both American and Ukrainian citizenship – in Warsaw.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it yesterday. According to him, this is the first time someone acting on russian orders has tried to kill an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country.

🇩🇪 GERMANY

On 6 August, a drone carrying explosives was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport – next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft. Two days later, two drones were spotted over the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich.
Also not a rumor.

🇮🇹 ITALY

A fire in the powder compression department at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro, southeast of Rome, was followed by a massive explosion. No one was killed. The plant produces 155 mm artillery ammunition supplied to Ukraine through European partners.

🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS

Within a few hours at Europe’s largest port: a transformer fire, a major power failure, an emergency shutdown at the ExxonMobil refinery in Botlek, and then an explosion at the Gunvor Energy refinery and terminal that killed one worker and injured six.

I wouldn’t be surprised if russia is responsible for all these “accidents”.

I wrote about this problem two years ago. Back then, Europe was already experiencing an extraordinary wave of suspicious incidents:
🇱🇹 IKEA set on fire in Vilnius.
🇬🇧 An arson attack on a Ukraine-linked warehouse in London.
🇩🇪 Sabotage plots against military and industrial targets in Germany.
🇨🇿 Attempts to attack infrastructure in the Czech Republic.
🇪🇪 An attack on the car of Estonia’s interior minister.
🚆 Attempts to disrupt European railway systems.
📦 And later, incendiary devices sent through European logistics networks – including devices that detonated or ignited in Germany, Poland and Britain.

At the time, people could argue these were isolated incidents.

Today, we know much more. European investigators and courts have connected multiple sabotage operations directly to networks organized or coordinated by russian intelligence.
The pattern was real. It was simply diagnosed late.

That is the design. Hybrid war works by staying below the threshold at which any single incident forces a response. Every event, taken alone, is deniable. Only the sequence gives it away.
So when another extraordinary cluster of explosions, fires, drones, power failures, and intelligence operations appears across Europe in one week, perhaps we should stop treating every incident as if it exists in a vacuum.

Europe no longer has the luxury of automatically assuming accidents and coincidence.

Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. Sabotage. Arson. Cyberattacks. Assassination plots. GPS interference. Attacks on logistics and critical infrastructure.

These are not theoretical threats. They have already happened.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Nothing new, just the Russians torturing their own soldiers yet again.

In the first video, one of their soldiers has a finger cut off, and when he asks for some water, they piss into a cup and on him. In the second, three soldiers are tied to trees, showing signs of torture; two of them appear to be dead. In the third video, a soldier who abandoned his position has been dressed in a woman’s dress and is beaten with a rubber dick.

What about negotiations with them, Mr. @bundeskanzler ?

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

100%

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No pride, no honor, no shame... While European leaders are preaching for peace, Russia has been expanding its war operations and turning its entire economy and society into an engine for perpetual war. Emboldened by European impotence, Putin has now openly brought North Korea to the frontline. NK ballistic missiles are already hitting Ukrainian cities and Metz + Co are too afraid to even discuss NATO options to shoot down these deadly objects in the Ukrainian skies!

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion.

New assessment updates past forecasts that Russia’s leader wouldn’t provoke the alliance during the Ukraine war:
https://t.co/thHGYn2Awo

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

If you imposed sanctions based solely on the number of Ukrainians killed in each attack, even then they'd still be more effective.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Each new attack on Ukraine is another reason for Europe to tighten the screws on Russia.

As a response to the recent series of Russian airstrikes, the EU today adopted new sanctions listings targeting five individuals involved in Russia's military-industrial complex.

With its army stalled on the battlefield, Moscow is further escalating its campaign of terror against civilians. The EU must continue to intensify pressure on Russia until Moscow ends its war.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Lesya Ukrainka's line 'I would laugh to keep from crying' is exactly how I feel when reading such statements.

Might as well tell them to take back their 120 missiles from Voronezh, which are going to be launched at Ukraine soon.

[GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo]

We condemn today’s launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea, which endangers the security and stability in the region. We urge the #DPRK to immediately stop the unlawful development, test and distribution of ballistic missiles, as required by multiple UN resolutions.

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

It is an absolute fact: their ground and missile forces are being - and will continue to be - deployed on a scale that some European states do not possess.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

North Korea is literally at war with Ukraine why is this not being talked about more…