Rosemary Thomas

Former British Ambassador to Belarus. Served also in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Mexico. Ex Head of War Crimes, FCDO. Solidarity with people of Ukraine and Belarus.

[Petra Blankwaard @indigonl]

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[Harald Thorvaldson 🇨🇵 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @HaraldThorvald1]

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[Petra Blankwaard @indigonl]

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[Lupine 💛💙 🇪🇺 @Lupine12345]

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[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

While Trump is insulting our country and threatening our sovereignty, a state visit from our King should not be on the cards.

The only people cheering it on seem to be Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟖𝟔 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 of 🇬🇧18–25 yr-olds want to be back in 🇪🇺in latest YouGov poll👇
It's now a whopping 63-37% for Rejoin in general, even 60% of pensioners are for it

Brexiteers, when you've so demonstrably lost the young, you've lost the future

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

It’s hard to believe we’ve reached this point - 1,500 days since the full-scale invasion began.

Ukraine is still standing. Still fighting.
And russia still hasn’t won - and won’t.

[James MacCleary MP @JamesMacCleary]

Hey at @KemiBadenoch the Type 45 is literally specialised in missile defence. Google Sea Viper I think you'll find it informative.

Judging by @jcartlidgemp's face he knows the answer.

If you don't know what you are talking about stick to your lane and stop warmongering.

[Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas]

@megchl543 So sorry to hear this. Sending our love from London.

[Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas]

Bravo

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So today, Russia’s full-scale invasion aimed at destroying Ukraine has reached the same duration as the Eastern Front of World War II.

For 1,418 days, Russia has been unable to defeat Ukraine, unable to break through the front, unable to destroy its military, unable to seize its key major cities, unable to cause a Ukrainian collapse.

During those same 1,418 days, history once passed from Hitler’s attack on his ally Stalin, through the total catastrophe of 1941, the formation of the Anti-Hitler Coalition, the monumental battles for Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sevastopol, Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk, the meat grinder at Rzhev, the Allied landings in Italy and Normandy, the siege of Leningrad, operations in Eastern and Central Europe, to the Battle of Berlin and the fall of Nazism.

Putin’s Russia, meanwhile -- amid endless bravado and claims to global dominance -- is still smashing its head against a wall, trying to seize the ruined remnants of what was once a Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in Donbas, just 45 km from the original 2022 front line.

And don’t tell me about a “war of attrition.”

Yes, there is a war of attrition -- at least since 2023, when the roughly 1,000-km front line fully stabilized and has since shifted only marginally and locally.

But.

If you are the “world's second strongest military,” with the third-largest military budget on the planet (around 40% of the entire annual state budget!), vast Soviet-era stockpiles of equipment, enormous revenues from oil sales, and ammunition supplied by your totalitarian allies -- and you still cannot defeat Ukraine after four years -- you are in deep trouble.

If, because of this war, you were forced for the first time since WWI and WWII to conduct military mobilization and place your economy on a war footing at enormous cost -- you are in deep trouble.

If, by the fourth year of the war, even your gigantic Soviet reserves of mothballed equipment are gradually running out, and you have long since been buying millions of shells from North Korea -- you are in deep trouble.

If, over these 1,418 days, you have definitively lost the European gas market, lost influence in the Caucasus, Venezuela, and Syria, and fallen into complete vassal dependence on China -- you are in deep trouble.

If, in the middle of this war of attrition against Ukraine, Ukraine manages to invade your own territory and occupy part of your region for more than half a year, forcing you to buy Kim Jong Un’s expendable combat slaves to push Ukrainian troops out of Kursk -- you are in deep trouble.

If, after 1,418 days, Ukraine destroys your oil industry night after night and eliminates your generals in the center of Moscow, and at one point wipes out an entire fleet of strategic bombers on their airfields -- you are in deep trouble.

If, after 1,418 days of full-scale war, your state TV propaganda is orgasming over the capture of yet another set of useless ruins of small, remote towns in the Donbas -- places you smashed your head against for months, sometimes years -- you are in deep trouble.

If your confirmed and documented tank losses alone (over 4,300, according to Oryx) are already comparable to the entire actively used tank fleet of the U.S. Army -- you are in deep trouble.

If global intelligence services estimate your losses at 1 million killed and wounded, and even after 1,418 days of war the capture of just one Donetsk region does not appear remotely achievable in the foreseeable future -- you are in deep trouble.

Not to mention any “grand breakthroughs” toward Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv (where your blitzkrieg collapsed completely at the very beginning), or Lviv.

If, after 1,418 days of full-scale war, you still have not captured a single major regional capital in Ukraine since the 2014 war -- and the one you did take in 2022 you later lost due to military defeat -- you are in deep trouble.

If your vaunted Black Sea Fleet has been defeated at sea by a country without a navy, your flagship was sunk back in 2022, Ukraine regularly destroys port terminals and sinks your submarines, while successfully keeping its maritime routes to Odesa open -- you are in deep trouble.

If, despite all the indecision and slowness of the West in providing military aid to Ukraine (and now, with the key ally, the United States, having almost completely withdrawn support and twisting Ukraine’s arm to force capitulation), you still cannot defeat exhausted fifty-year-old Ukrainian men -- and 2025 becomes your bloodiest year yet, with no end to the war even visible on the horizon — you are not “winning.”

When you are unable to defeat Ukraine for longer than the entire duration of your so-called “Great Patriotic War,” around which you built a deranged, cannibalistic cult of violence, hatred, revanchism, and conquest -- you are “winning” only in the bravado of zombifying TV propaganda and in the imagination of useful idiots who mindlessly consume it.

Once again in your history, you are rapidly driving your “empire” into the grave -- where it belongs -- and you have not yet suffered a resolute defeat only because of the extraordinary weakness, indecision, short-sightedness, and often outright corruption and intellectual limitation of those leading the countries of the free world.

[Kira Rudik @kiraincongress]

We got electricity back at 4 AM today for the first time since the attack. I can’t express how grateful I am, knowing how many emergency workers were out in -17°C to make it happen.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

The Tories left our streets short of police. People voted for change, yet over 4,000 frontline officers have been lost in a year.

Communities deserve better and the government must deliver.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Dont forget that in Putin’s colony of Georgia, freedom loving Georgians have now been protesting against the Russian occupation of their government for 409 consecutive days.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

This is the danger of the lies spread by Farage, Reform, GB News etc.

Immigration is actually falling massively in the UK yet the public think the opposite.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

❤️‍🩹 Ukrainian energy workers restore electricity after Russian attacks.

This isn’t just infrastructure work. This is resilience under fire. This is people choosing duty over fear, exhaustion, and cold.

We thank every single one of them for bringing the light back💡

[Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas]

@U24_gov_ua What an honour! A great friend to Ukraine and to us all.

[Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas]

@TryzubRadioUA Thank you so much for this. Great to share our memories of this legendary fella!

[Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas]

This. Not acceptable.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

Musk: "There's gotta be a change of government in Britain and we don't have another 4 years or whenever the next election is. There's gotta be a dissolution of parliament."

The UK might want to start enforcing whatever law it has against calling for violent insurrection.