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Marketer, tech lover, hookah smoker.▫️Studying #Neuropsychology in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.▫️I have #Stuttering

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

As a result of Russian strikes on Kyiv tonight, the building of the Assumption Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra caught fire.

In addition to drones, Russia is hitting Kyiv with dozens of ballistic missiles; civilians are under attack, as in previous times.

The chaotic nature of the strikes resembles agony: not knowing how to respond to Ukraine's precise and painful strikes, Moscow is flailing its fists in a blind frenzy.

I see Ukrainian channels and theologians already writing: demons and antichrists.

There is nothing to add: as you wage your war, so shall you be remembered.

Russia will be remembered as the killer of Ukrainians, a mass killer of Russian speakers, and a destroyer of Christian shrines.

[Akash Maniam @ManiamAkash]

When you see all those "russia is not our enemy" and anti-Europe posts flooding your timeline, this is why.

Before engaging, remember that.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Every night Russian drones kill Ukrainians and they keep flying only because over 5,000 Western and Asian parts power them.

[Bloomberg @business]

EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg https://t.co/P0wXMFavBS

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

Even in the age of Trump, just staggering. Here is Steve Witkoff, an American offical, coaching a Kremlin adviser about how Putin should deal with Trump. “Congratulate the president on this achievement … that he is a man of peace.” https://t.co/VgmfUFtKj0

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️ Ukrainian freediver Kateryna Sadurska broke the world record again with an 86 meter no fins dive.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

@rusembassynl On 17 Jul 2014, Russian-backed forces shot down MH17, killing 298. Over two-thirds of the passengers were Dutch.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

An 18 year old Ukrainian named Mykola Lemyk killed a Soviet agent in Lviv to make the world see the Holodomor that Moscow was hiding.

🧵 1/4 ⬇️

[Pvt. Snarky Fella 🦩 ꏢ ї 🦉 @AzovLife]

Another pro-Russian who works in a safe European home

[Yigal Levin @YigalLevin]

The situation on the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2023 and today - the strategic level.

There is a certain method, one of the first we were taught: for an objective analysis, put yourself in the shoes of a completely external (but competent) observer.

For example, if 50 years from now a Japanese historian — or even better, a Chilean one (Japan, after all, was on Ukraine’s side) — sees this map, a knowledgeable and competent historian, and also sees the figures showing what Russia spent and lost for such “gains,” he will unequivocally call it a military failure, a collapse, an act of glaring incompetence, and national impotence.

Yes, for Ukrainian soldiers who lost their friends, their health, and their nerves in those endless tree lines and villages, this offers no comfort. But the strategic level is not about the soldier; in fact, it is not about people at all.

Strategy and politics are always about big numbers, capacities, processes, potential, and capabilities.

A person, in strategy, is only the sum of sets — a resource. And in military language that is exactly what it is called: human resources.

And yes, attention: I am not going to write disclaimers here with caveats that Ukraine also has everything going badly or even worse. Any Ukrainian already knows and understands this better than you or I do; I show this map to point to something entirely different.

These virtually zero gains, achieved despite more than one million total Russian Armed Forces casualties — several hundred thousand of them killed (these are already documented facts) — along with thousands of destroyed pieces of military equipment, a wrecked Russian economy and finances, and other losses Moscow has suffered, all while Ukraine has: hundreds of thousands of deserters, “teaspoon-per-day” aid from partners, mobilization failures, organizational problems in the army, and so on.

This is what Moscow managed to achieve while fighting the Ukrainian Defense Forces in such conditions.

And what would the picture look like if the situation were improved even slightly: boosted a bit, shut down Russian information-ops, replaced the “help” from partners (especially the Americans) with actual assistance, and fixed at least 20% of the problems with desertion, mobilization, and organization?

Do you think the United States doesn’t understand this (and Europeans as well, though that’s its own story)? They absolutely do. Right now, with the situation exactly as you see it on the map, they are pressuring Ukraine into an agreement that is close in form and substance to a capitulation.

They pressure not because Ukraine is weak. If it were weak, you would be looking at a completely different map. They pressure because Russia is catastrophically weak and incompetent.

That is the essence of this pressure: at Ukraine’s expense, so that Ukrainians pay for Russian stupidity and bloody idiocy.

It seems to me that this is precisely what Kyiv’s diplomats will need to point out this week in their negotiations with the US and Europe.

Not in the sense of “look, Russia is weak, let’s finish it off” — no one planned or plans to finish Russia off (on the contrary). But in the sense of: we understand everything, thank you, but do not take us for fools.

That is the core. Everything else is dust.

[Bohdan Krotevych @BohdanKrotevych]

Почнімо з речі, яку чомусь постійно забувають у світовій історії: не існує жодної гарантії безпеки, кращої, ніж власна сильна армія.
Усі «папірці», дипломатичні формули, «довгострокові зобов’язання» — це добре лише доти, доки вони збігаються з інтересами великих гравців. Коли інтереси змінюються — зникають і гарантії.

Ми це проходили.
Будапештський меморандум — яскравий тому доказ. Підписаний, гарантований, урочисто проголошений. І що?
Коли Росія напала у 2014, а потім розпочала повномасштабне вторгнення у 2022 — єдиним, хто рятував Україну, була українська армія.

Тому будь-яка пропозиція, яка передбачає скорочення армії, — це не про мир. Це про капітуляцію.
Це про те, щоб залишити країну беззахисною перед реваншистською державою, яка вже неодноразово довела що її не стримують жодні домовленості.

Тут також абсолютно доречно звучать слова президента Азербайджану Ільґама Алієва, який прямо заявив:
жодна країна не повинна поступатися територіями, бо такі поступки не приносять миру — вони лише провокують нову агресію.
Нападник розуміє лише силу.
Коли ти віддаєш частину території — ти не зберігаєш мир, ти відкриваєш двері до наступної війни.

На цьому тлі всі ці «плани», де нам пропонують скоротити армію, обмежити союзницькі зв’язки, відмовитися від зброї чи територій, виглядають не як дипломатія, а як спроба красиво оформити чужі інтереси за наш рахунок.
І тут варто сказати окремо: жоден план, жодна «ініціатива», жодна дорожня карта миру не можуть розроблятися без офіційних представників України.
Мир не буває «для нас» без нас. Коли за стіл саджають усіх, окрім країни, яка веде війну за власне виживання — це не переговори, це спроба вирішити її долю за закритими дверима.

Назвати це «компромісом» може тільки той, хто або нічого не розуміє в природі російської агресії, або свідомо ігнорує реальність.

І тепер про головне- про армію. Проблема в тому, що одна людина, поставлена на чолі армії, може паралізувати її ефективність, якщо збирає навколо себе не професіоналів, а лояльних виконавців.

Україні потрібне повне оновлення командування, де рішення ухвалюють не за принципом «зручності», а за принципом результату.
І це означає повернення в ГШ тих командирів, які довели свою ефективність на фронті — навіть якщо вони комусь політично, медійно чи особисто незручні.

І саме над цим треба працювати найбільше:
оновлення командування, побудова сильної команди, призначення реальних професіоналів — навіть якщо вони не подобаються, навіть якщо ставлять «незручні» питання.

Бо врешті-решт:
— армія дає гарантії,
— території не продаються,
— а перемогу забезпечує не один лідер, а команда, здатна працювати разом заради спільної мети.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

The "absolutely neutral Russian Orthodox Church" that some people around the world keep defending.

[Pepel Klaasa @pepel_klaasa]

“How do you even know a European politician or party is affiliated with Russia?”

The power of deduction, my dear Watson

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

After yet another video of execution of Ukrainian PoWs surfaced yesterday, 🇷🇺 neonazi battalion Rusich announced they will pay in crypto for next three executions videos.

Rusich is headed by Aleksei „Yes, I’m a nazi“ Milchakov.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Absolutely love this photo of Bill Clinton and Donald Trump spending time together.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Back in 2002, Putin said he had no problem with Ukraine joining NATO—because, in his own words, Ukraine is a sovereign nation.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every “innocent” pro-russian travel blogger like @sashameetsrus has now been exposed as taking Kremlin money.

Everything they say is a lie to spread propaganda from a terrorist nation.

And they did it all for just $2,000 a month

Shameless

[Гюндуз Мамедов/Gyunduz Mamedov @MamedovGyunduz]

Ukrainian intelligence @DI_Ukraine has identified 1,233 paintings among more than 10,000 artworks stolen by Russian forces from @ArtMuseumK. These include works by Ukrainian and European artists of the 19th–20th centuries. This is far from the only instance in which Russian occupation has been accompanied by the removal of cultural property. Such actions are part of a broader policy aimed at erasing Ukrainian #CulturalHeritage and identity.
#WarCrimes

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

RT are directly part of the torture system, I know because they came in and took part in mine. Working hand-in-hand with the FSB, they question you while you’re being beaten, electrocuted and, in my case, stabbed in the leg. Under that kind of duress, you’ll say whatever they want. And yet RT are still allowed to pump this out on X.