Roman Semko

Economist

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Claims that the Baltic States allow Ukraine to use their airspace are utter nonsense - and Russia knows it.

Moscow’s threats against the Baltic States are not a sign of strength, but of weakness.

Russia is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine and is trying to intimidate us into reducing our support for Ukraine.

The right response is to do the opposite: increase our support to Ukraine and boost Europe’s defences even further.

[Lars Christensen @MaMoMVPY]

Why do Trump and Vance support Orbán?

Forget MAGA. Forget national conservatism. Forget the culture war. This is about Putin.

Putin controls them both. When Vance flies to Budapest and Trump posts declarations of support on Truth Social, it is not because they admire Orbán's Hungarian model. It is because Putin needs Orbán - and has told Trump to deliver.

Orbán is Putin's most valuable asset inside the EU and NATO. He blocks sanctions, maintains Hungary's gas dependence on Russia, and serves as the Kremlin's only real back-channel to the West. He is not an ideological ally - he is a strategic instrument.

And then comes the uncomfortable question: Trump supports Orbán even when it costs him politically. Why?
Because Trump is not the one calling the shots here. Putin is.

And just imagine what will spill out about Putin's direct involvement in backing hard-right forces across Europe - and how Trump and his associates have received support, directly and indirectly, from Putin via Hungary - when Orbán finally falls.

Which is precisely why both Putin and Trump are absolutely terrified of that moment.

[Roman Semko @rsemko]

@TimothyDSnyder Why is he doing this? Kompromat: money laundering and video tapes from Moscow and Epstein?

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

"The war won't end until Putin loses."

-Anne Applebaum
journalist and historian

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Anyone surprised by Ukraine’s recent advances has never met the Ukrainians! They’re not just fighting to survive, they are fighting to win—and they will win.

[InformNapalm @InformNapalm]

@elonmusk We hope Khamenei passes the baton to Putin — so that he, too, disappears as soon as possible.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 Any one of these Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians would be front-page news around the world requiring immediate action were they committed by terrorists in Berlin or Paris or London or New York. Normalizing the intentional slaughter of innocents is horrific.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

In Europa spielt sich die größte humanitäre Katastrophe seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg ab.

➡️39 Millionen Menschen müssen bei aktuell -10° ohne Heizung, ohne Warmwasser und ohne Strom auskommen. Mindestens 15 Stunden pro Tag.

➡️Doch Dank der Ablenkungsmanöver des 🟠🤡 schaut die Welt woanders hin, verstrickt sich in Scheindiskussionen über eine Nachkriegsukraine und spielt geschlossen das Spiel des Kreml.

➡️Eine moralische Bankrotterklärung sämtlicher europäischer Staatschefs.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Meanwhile, Trump has forced NATO to argue about Greenland

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

You know we could actually defeat Russia in Ukraine….if that was the REAL goal

[Radek Sikorski @radeksikorski]

In 2014, at the time of the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine was constitutionally a neutral country. It could not join NATO! And it was attacked. All the propaganda about an ‘aggressive alliance’ is false. It is just Putin's excuse.

[Radek Sikorski @radeksikorski]

Can you trust Russia?
I want to remind you that Putin calls the Ukrainian people "brothers" and then murders them. That Ukraine and Russia have a border treaty signed by Putin. I want to also remind you of the Budapest Memorandum.
Still unconvinced? Focus on facts.

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

#BREAKING: Air alert in Kyiv. russia attacks again, as expected. We expect a massive air raid within the next 48 hours, this one can be the one, or just a test. russia must be erased, this political construct has no positive example since it was created 400 years ago.

[5 канал 🇺🇦 @5channel]

Сікорський нагадав Трампу, що Європа воювала проти росії ще з часів, коли США навіть не існували:

"Економіка Європейського Союзу в дев'ять-десять разів більша за російську.

Ми успішно боролися з росією ще до того, як Сполучені Штати існували, тому ми повинні бути здатні на це сьогодні".

Відео: TVP World

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

The Kiss of Death

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Putin shows a masterclass in "strategic partnership"

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The most powerful military alliance in history, composed of the richest democratic nations in the world, is right next door and has refused to stop this imperialist Russian butchery for four years.

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

Perhaps that could have been damned putin’s face the moment he saw @potus post about the strikes on his lair that never happened. Just a handful of countries around the world failed to recognize lavrov’s bullshitting. Great coverage by @nypost

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Map of the flight paths of Russian cruise missiles and ballistic missiles throughout 2025.

The number of missiles launched and the cities targeted is simply shocking.

[Sergiy Kyslytsya 🇺🇦 @SergiyKyslytsya]

And he definitely is! And the bluster it was!