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@ZelenskyyUa A university campus, a park, a metro station. Not a single military target. Meanwhile, Patriots for Ukraine have reportedly been waiting about a month for one signature in Washington.

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@nexta_tv Okay, we’ve got the gas prices figured out — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine explains the spike.

What about diesel?

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Six months ago, Hungarian voters removed Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power. Two of his former ministers are now under arrest.

Washington has a new job in mind for him.

UN Secretary-General. Trump officials are reportedly pushing his candidacy, with Moscow and Beijing reportedly supportive. Nothing is final yet.

The man who spent years delaying and blocking EU aid to Ukraine, as a joint pick of Washington, Moscow and Beijing.

At home, his former ministers are under arrest. Abroad, he’s being promoted.

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@angelshalagina Adding one to your list: if Russia is winning, why does it need Trump to pressure Ukraine to accept its demands?

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@Breezy236 @ZelenskyyUa Fair point, production is tight. But part of this isn’t about US stocks. Some of these are missiles allies already own and want to send. What’s missing is Washington’s approval to transfer them, and that doesn’t take a single missile from the US inventory.

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Ukraine needs Patriot missiles. Some of its allies are ready to hand over their own. Not American stocks.

They’ve been stuck for almost a month anyway.

Because they’re American-made, other countries need Washington’s sign-off to transfer them. That signature belongs to Pete Hegseth. He hasn’t refused, people familiar with the delay say. He just hasn’t signed.

A week ago Rubio called it “scandalous” to suggest anything was being held back from Ukraine. In the meantime, Russia hit Kyiv’s historic centre with a cluster-warhead ballistic missile.

No one has to say no. Not signing works just as well.

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A $25 billion American gas project in Alaska was secretly funded by Russia’s Novatek — before Washington even gave permission.

Its former CEO says the money wasn’t from the investors he was told about. It came from Russia’s largest independent gas producer.

He says the company asked Washington for permission to deal with Novatek. It never got it. The Russian money, he says, was already there.

According to people familiar with the talks, the project came up in US-Russia negotiations, next to sanctions relief for a Russian LNG plant. Novatek denies any link.

Venezuelan oil with owners hidden in Barbados. An Alaska gas terminal with Russian money behind it. Same week. Notice a pattern?

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A $25 billion American gas project in Alaska was secretly funded by Russia’s Novatek — before Washington even gave permission.

Its former CEO says the money wasn’t from the investors he was told about. It came from Russia’s largest independent gas producer.

He says the company asked Washington for permission to deal with Novatek. It never got it. The Russian money, he says, was already there.

According to people familiar with the talks, the project came up in US-Russia negotiations, next to sanctions relief for a Russian LNG plant. Novatek denies any link.

Venezuelan oil with owners hidden in Barbados. An Alaska gas terminal with Russian money behind it. Same week. Notice a pattern?

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After ten days of finger-pointing, Musk admits SpaceX throttled Ukraine’s Starlink. His explanation is worse than the cap itself.

He says Ukraine’s military broke the terms of service with offensive drone strikes. But the cap also grounded some of the interceptors Ukraine uses against Shaheds.

And this year SpaceX helped Kyiv build a whitelist that includes military terminals.

So a private company writes the rules, decides when they’re broken, and enforces them on a country at war, without warning.

Here’s why it matters for Europe:

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Trump’s Venezuela oil deal hides its owners in Barbados, sends disputes to a court in Texas and runs for 75 years.
You don’t build a deal like that to last one term. You build it so the next president can’t undo it.
Look at the rest. The US pays nothing up front for 35% of the company, one cent per share, and gets part of the oil at a discount. Venezuela, whose oil it is, can’t challenge any of it in its own courts.

The man running the company has been investigated for money laundering in three countries, though never charged. Of everyone in Venezuela, why him?

Senators are still asking who had the authority to sign this. That’s the question. A deal this long, this hidden and this hard to undo should come with a name attached to it.

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@ZelenskyyUa The painful part of 1956 is not that Hungarians lacked courage.
It’s that the free world saw it and still did not act.
History matters only if we decide differently this time. The next 1956 is already here.

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Great news: Nokia and ICEYE give Ukraine and Europe a way out of Starlink. Not out of Musk, though. ICEYE has launched 69 of its 74 satellites on SpaceX rockets.

Europe can build the satellites, but getting them to orbit without Musk is the hard part.

And if launches start slipping, once again no one will be responsible.

https://t.co/qvXSe5gdK7

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@ZelenskyyUa Finland learned in the Winter War what Moscow does to a neighbour it thinks it can take. Investing in Ukraine’s drones is investing in its own freedom, and in Europe’s.

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@ZelenskyyUa @PetteriOrpo While one ally is still debating whether Putin is a humanitarian, another signs seven agreements and builds satellite capability with Ukraine.

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@JoJoFromJerz LeBron opened a school for at-risk kids in his hometown. Trump stole from his own charity, per a court.
And he wants to talk about respect…

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On Wednesday, Steve Witkoff called Putin “a humanitarian” for releasing a 74-year-old American Russia had held since 2022.

That night, Russia fired 21 missiles at Kyiv in three waves. One was an Iskander carrying a cluster warhead, scattering 58 submunitions across a 400-by-400-metre area in the historic city centre.

At least two people were killed and 34 injured, including five children, according to Zelensky.

The “humanitarian” didn’t even wait a day.

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@Teoyaomiquu The “great progress” already has a date: Thursday, when the first Russian diesel tanker leaves for the US.

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@YourAnonCentral @ZelenskyyUa Ukraine can hold. It just can’t intercept missiles with patience.

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This week Russia sent Washington a freed American prisoner. On Thursday, it sends 40,000 tons of diesel.

Washington sent Kyiv a message: the Patriots NATO allies already paid for may have to wait.

Gifts work.