Daniel Szeligowski

Head of Eastern Europe Programme & Chief Analyst on Ukraine, Polish Institute of International Affairs @PISM_Poland

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW! Rubio tells Senators that Russia will NOT achieve its objectives in Ukraine, and “they may not even be able to militarily EVER achieve the objectives they're demanding now in negotiations”

Says “not only are the Ukrainians bravely fighting, they're effectively fighting”
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[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

White smoke: 🇭🇺 has finally indicated that they will lift the 2-year-old veto on 🇺🇦 (and 🇲🇩) to start de facto 🇪🇺 accession talks. Will officially happen on 15 June

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

@TheTrut56838635 Wiem, czytałem oryginał

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Polski twitter a rzeczywistość polityczna to dwa różne światy. Może nawet wszechświaty

[Ewa @E11watthh11]

@dszeligowski Ale polscy politycy nie rozmawiają z ukraińskimi, to jak może dojść do porozumienia?

[John Foreman CBE @John_ForemanCBE]

I’m reminded of Molotov visiting Berlin in November 1940.

The Germans had to usher him to a bomb shelter during an RAF raid shortly after they had told him they had Britain fully under control, and there was nothing to fear from them.

When they were in the bunker, Molotov asked the Germans: "If it's correct what you are telling me, why are we here then?"

SPIEF attendees must be thinking similar about Putin’s claims about Ukraine.

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Tłumaczę: polskim bólem głowy nie jest to, że Ukraina jutro przystąpi do UE - bo jutro do niej nie przystąpi. Polskim bólem głowy jest to, że inni na nas spróbują zrzucić winę za to, że Ukraina nie przystąpi, bo będziemy nadgorliwi

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Z polskiego punktu widzenia ten wpis węgierskiego premiera to jest po prostu gwiazdka z nieba. Chuchać, dmuchać, robić zrzuty ekranu

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

You already offered the Americans something like six times Russia's GDP, so there's not much left for the Germans

[Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev]

Looking forward to building a great FUTURE together with AfD, Germany’s most popular party.

Along with AfD’s Deputy Chairman Markus Frohnmaier, I discussed the economic cooperation with Germany, including restarting the Russia-Germany-US business dialogue.

@SPIEF

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

@alexmfrost Et voila ;)

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Z polskiego punktu widzenia ten wpis węgierskiego premiera to jest po prostu gwiazdka z nieba. Chuchać, dmuchać, robić zrzuty ekranu

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

In just three weeks, we have achieved what Viktor Orbán and his government failed to achieve in ten years.

We have reached a comprehensive agreement with Ukraine on expanding the linguistic, educational, cultural, and political rights of the more than 100,000 members of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia.

The agreement is the result of several weeks of intensive techical-level negotiations between Hungary and Ukraine, in which political and religious organisations representing the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia also participated.

The Ukrainian government has committed to incorporating the agreed measures into its legal system in the near future. As a result, the Hungarian minority will enjoy significantly broader educational, cultural, linguistic, and political rights than before.

These commitments will also be included in Ukraine’s action plan submitted to the European Union.

If this happens, the Hungarian government will support the opening of Ukraine’s first accession cluster.

Hungary continues to oppose accelerated EU accession. If Ukraine succeeds in closing all 33 accession chapters within the next 10 to 15 years, Hungary will support Ukraine’s accession, subject to a legally binding referendum.

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Na litość boską, przecież prawa mniejszości węgierskiej są tu bez znaczenia. Rząd Magyara zobaczy je tak samo, jak rząd Orbana - bo ich warunkiem jest... przystąpienie Ukrainy do UE

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Z polskiego punktu widzenia ten wpis węgierskiego premiera to jest po prostu gwiazdka z nieba. Chuchać, dmuchać, robić zrzuty ekranu

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

@Filip03963706 Pan zupełnie o czym innym pisze, o kwestiach drugorzędnych

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

@Filip03963706 Zimno

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

Not all of them yet see a shift in momentum - but E3 is pushing hard, indeed, as they believe Ukraine will not make it through the next winter

[Bloomberg @business]

A group of Ukraine’s key European allies are working on plans with Kyiv to engage Russia in negotiations to end the war as they see a shift in momentum strengthening Zelenskyy’s position https://t.co/Ao5GUoKEHV

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Sorry your Evil Empire fell apart, m'dude. And condolences on your day job: blowing retards, grifters and clickwhores on behalf of your corrupt and murderous former KGB paymaster, Vladimir Putin.

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

There are some things that money can't buy. For everything else, there's Mastercard. Oh wait, it's been blocked in Russia...

[Alexander Dugin @AGDugin]

Most russophobic team Loomer, Shapiro, Levin, Graham.

[PISM @PISM_Poland]

✍️ W 1996 r. podpisano ustawę o #PISM

O misji i roli Instytutu mówi dr hab. Jarosław Ćwiek-Karpowicz, Dyrektor PISM.

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

A certain young gentleman on Bankova Street in Kyiv deserves quite a bit of praise for this. But let's hope it doesn't make him overlook some of his less brilliant moments elsewhere 😉

[Andrew Moore @MooreIAm]

Reporting from Kyiv for @LoomerUnleashed

As @RealCandaceO held hands with Putin in the Kremlin and posed for photos with celebrities in Red Square, Putin was planning one of his worst drone and missile strikes of the war.

Candace is sleeping in her bed in Moscow comfortably, probably in a presidential suite the Kremlin

Sitting in a secure bunker with dozens of other Ukrainians and people from all over the world, I can hear explosions and gunfire. This is likely a combination of antiair and incoming missiles.

Putin is conducting a war not to win on the battlefield, but to destroy the civilian population of Kyiv. There are no rules for Putin, only death and destruction of anything and everyone that gets in the way of this disastrous war.

When Putin says he wants to "De-Natzify" Ukraine, he means two things.

First: He wants useful idiots like @RealCandaceO, @TuckerCarlson, @RealAlexJones, and @megynkelly to believe him so they can spread his propaganda on their platforms. They do the work for him. He knows the affect on English-speaking audiences he's trying to make with the word "Nazi."

Second: He means to threaten Ukraine. What did the Russians do to the Nazis? They reduced their cities to rubble. Created an open-air prison in East Germany. Raped women. And killed indiscriminately. Not just soldiers, but women and children. Putin means to say that he wants to do to the Ukrainians what he did to Nazis. It is evil.

[Andrew Moore @MooreIAm]

Several Ukrainians have told me in person and X that my original spelling of Kyiv is wrong. I said “Kiev” originally, which is the Russian spelling.

When the war started, on-air journalists gradually switched from saying Kee-yev to Keev. I never understood why. Until now.

Russia is waging a cultural war on Ukraine. They are indoctrinating kidnapped children to only speak Russian, forbidding the use of Ukrainian. Russian leaders claim Ukraine has no distinct cultural identity or history separate from Russia.

But last night I ate borscht, a Ukrainian dish, for the first time. I’m in a city originally named Kyivan Rus’. Muscovites took the name to create “Russia.” Even the underlying technology for Russia’s nuclear energy is Ukrainian.

Russia has appropriated Ukrainian history and culture since Russia’s founding. Ukrainians take pride in their history and identity. They do not like to see it appropriated by Russians killing their families every single day.

So if you’re an American asking yourself why this matters, you have your answer.

Reporting from KYIV with @LauraLoomer @LoomerUnleashed

[Daniel Szeligowski @dszeligowski]

What's so ironic about that? There is a huge difference between how NATO's eastern and western flanks perceive threats, between how we see the end of the war and future relations with Russia. It's always been that way

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

Ironically, Europe now finds it easier to build military capabilities, especially at national levels, to deter and defend against Russia than to establish a common diplomatic strategy toward Russia.

[Rikard Jozwiak @RikardJozwiak]

the working assumption is that 🇺🇦🇲🇩 will open de facto 🇪🇺 accession talks in Luxembourg on 15 June with contacts between 🇭🇺&🇺🇦 described as "intensive". If successful not only cluster 1 could be opened but potentially also cluster 2.