Olga Nesterova

Founder of ONEST | Global Affairs Analyst
Reporting on diplomacy, geopolitics & global policy
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[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

In the editing room: USS Nimitz premieres November 11
(preview inside)

https://t.co/qRJuFqvpS0

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Literally not how this works.

Again, what is the mandate for these suggestions?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Jared Kushner: “If Europe could identify one person to speak on their behalf, that would be a bigger achievement than getting the Russians to include them in the negotiations.”

[Vitaly Portnikov @portnikov]

I see no point in negotiations without a ceasefire. I see no point in negotiations without Putin’s diplomatic isolation. I see no point in negotiations that produce no result while economic deals produce results.

https://t.co/EokW0731Qv

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

No cause of death was immediately announced. The Foreign Ministry announcement said Darchiev "passed away suddenly."

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: Alexander Darchiev, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, has died at the age of 66, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. https://t.co/uaWkP1eaEh

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

When I received the second report from our negotiating team after their meetings in Abu Dhabi, they told me that the Russians think and say they have already occupied half of Donbas, which remains under our control. These were military officers, Russian intelligence, and they were serious about it. Our team told them, “We don’t know how you can even say such things. We have video footage, images, other things proving that these areas are under our control.”

This is the problem. Putin lives in a different reality. Of course, he will be sharing with the Americans that he needs one or two months to fully occupy the east of Ukraine. I can draw a picture for him too where I fully occupy Russia. But it’s not true. What was good is that the American side confirmed the Ukrainian assessment of what is happening on the battlefield.

This is why we need to sit and speak at the level of leaders. There are a lot of questions. Like we spoke about the city of Kherson that is divided by the river today. The Russians control one bank, we control the other. But people want to live united on both banks. This is a Ukrainian city. Such issues are sensitive, but we have to speak about them. I think that tomorrow the teams will discuss the possibility of meeting at the level of leaders. I'm not sure that Russia is ready, but we will raise this topic.

From a conversation with journalists.

[Terry Virts @AstroTerry]

The war in Ukraine cannot truly end until Russia pays reparations and Russian war criminals are held accountable.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA …and had cats?? ❤️❤️❤️🥹

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Kushner: “Russia is asking Ukrainians and Europeans are they really genuinely ready for peace?”

I’m glad they have flags on the tables, bc otherwise I’d be confused.

[Anita Anand @AnitaAnandMP]

Putin’s war machine will keep feeling the pressure from Canada. At the G7 in Paris, we announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s missile developers, cyber operatives and war financiers. Our oil price cap remains in place, and we will keep raising the cost of Russia’s aggression until it respects Ukraine’s sovereignty.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Lavrov: "We will not agree to another truce, another ceasefire, whatever you call it, without understanding what will happen next.”

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

US embassy to Russia:

“Peter Sloan, an employee of the political department of the U.S. Embassy (in the photo) accompanied the acting deputy head of the diplomatic mission Dante Paradiso during an official visit to Yakutsk in October. It was the first official visit of the U.S. Embassy to the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Siberia in more than ten years.

During the trip, the embassy staff got acquainted with the history of the region, including the role of Yakutsk in the Alaska-Siberia air route (ALSIB), which was used during World War II as part of the Lend-Lease program.

From 1942 to 1945, almost 8,000 American aircraft were delivered to the Soviet Union along this route. In the photo, Sloan stands in front of a replica of the P-39 Airacobra aircraft, the central exhibit of the memorial located near Yakutsk airport and dedicated to Soviet pilots who drove American planes through Siberia.”

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

“Footage exclusively obtained from Ukrainian authorities and analyzed by CNN reveals new details of how Russia struck an underground shelter and aid hub in southeastern Ukraine with a massive bunker-busting bomb.”

I’m sure there’s space for a spare humanitarian award for sanctioned murderers.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

For world’s sake, someone show Witkoff/Kushner the Budapest Memorandum so we save time for them reinventing it.

Then please point out what Russia wiped with it.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ceding Ukrainian land for peace is just abstract words. It’s not only about reality, even more about philosophy. Putin was talking about Donbas, but then he decided to occupy Kyiv, our capital. His words were about Donbas, but the reality was about Kyiv. He kept saying he was defending Russian-speaking people and then tortured hundreds and thousands to death in Bucha and other places. So that wasn’t about Russian-speaking people.

This is why when Americans asked, “Can you exchange Donbas for security?” I said right there, “Can you tell me what it means? What security? NATO?”

“Not NATO, but similar to NATO.”

“Similar? But you don't want the answer about Donbas to be ‘similar.’ You want a clear answer about Donbas. This is your goal. And this is Putin’s goal, for today. What will you do if we have security guarantees but not NATO?”

They took our nuclear weapons. I'm not a fan of nuclear weapons. I think the world would be a better place without them. But the Russians took our nuclear weapons, didn’t they? They did. Then they stopped our integration into Europe, then prevented us from being in NATO. And in the end they occupied us. This is why it’s an abstract question. Nobody trusts Putin to stop if we leave Donbas. He will pause. Then he will come back in one year, two years, or five years. And who will be guilty?

From an interview with DR Nyheder. (2/3)

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Not sure this is journalism

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Hegseth press gaggle today

Q: Sir, do you have enough Republican support to defeat impeachment articles this week?

HEGSETH: Oh, we're not worried about that. I'll tell you this, actually, I hope all of you will join us, we're going to do a press conference tomorrow morning at the Pentagon on that very topic. So, I'll save my remarks there. I hope you all come loaded for bear with your questions.

[Raphael Glucksmann @rglucks1]

Nous mettrons fin à nos dépendances énergétiques à la Russie.

Ce régime nous fait la guerre. Nous ne pouvons donc pas financer leur machine de guerre qui met au péril notre sécurité.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Distraction.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

If you are so eager to pursue this path, just resurface Budapest Memorandum.

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

US asks Russia to agree to NATO-like backing for Ukraine

“We’ve asked the Russians for us to be able to give an Article 4 and an Article 5-like security guarantee to Ukraine, along with NATO providing the same,” said a senior official, who, like others, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.

Let's ask the attacker to be the protector and an attack on Russia to be seen as an attack on Ukraine (that has all capabilities and a functioning army)?

Funny people.

https://t.co/6159Kfkzlu

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

So when Russia goes into the Baltics "to defend Russian speaking folks", Ukraine would participate on the side of Russia?

How do some even come up with this.