Sofiia Hecker

International relations, EU & Ukraine 🇪🇺🇺🇦

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Russia thought they could conquer Kyiv in three days. Four years later, welcome to Moscow:

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

◾️ Negotiating with Putin, I think, is not a very good idea, because, as the Americans said, if you want to speak, speak softly, but carry a big stick. We don't have a big stick; we can only speak softly.

◾️ It's time to wake up. We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow. If not, Trump can play with us. He can make us slaves because we actually are slaves then. And we'll have to take for granted whatever he does.

◾️ Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else.

◾️ People want to join the European Union. Nobody wants to join China. No neighbor of the United States says, "We want to join the United States." Nobody wants to. They want to join the European Union just because we have respect. We have the rule of law. We do speak softly.

◾️ If you talk about the Russian threat, it's not that great if the West is united. But we are not united, and Putin sees this. The economy of Russia is very weak. Their military threat is not very real unless we are divided.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

It's not ok to watch an entire nation being bombed into freezing in brutal subzero temperatures.
It's not ok to pretend russia wants peace while it targets homes, hospitals, and energy grid, aiming to destroy the Ukrainian nation.
It's not ok to delay air defences while civilians sleep in cold shelters and darkness.
It's not ok to care more about bloody russian money than the lives of Ukrainian children.
It's not ok to reward an aggressor with lands and people.
It's not ok to normalize war crimes, mass graves, and deported children.

So many things happening around are utterly wrong, pushing the prospects of real peace further away.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Do not look away! In 2026, a European capital is plunged into humanitarian disaster in the dead of winter.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

In just 4 years, he's lost all influence in Syria and Venezuela, with Iran to follow. Had over a million Russians killed or wounded in idiotic assaults that achieved nothing and brought the economy on the brink of implosion.

He's no cunning strategist, he's just a murderer.

[Wolfgang Ischinger @ischinger]

Alaska: Putin hat seinen roten Teppich mit Trump bekommen, Trump dagegennichts. Wie zu befürchten war: Kein Waffenstillstand, kein Frieden. Kein wirklicher Fortschritt - ganz klar 1:0 für Putin - keine neuen Sanktionen. Für die Ukrainer: nichts. Für Europa: tiefst enttäuschend.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So, you’re telling me that Russia -- with all its vast resources and direct backing from its dictatorial Axis allies -- after more than three years of war has failed to defeat Ukraine, has achieved none of its goals, has itself suffered a string of heavy defeats, has become hopelessly bogged down in years-long battles with minimal gains and absurdly huge losses -- and after all that, Ukraine is somehow supposed to “give” Putin the Donetsk region, which he hasn’t even managed to capture over all these years?

And that’s just the “precondition” for starting “peace talks”?

Doesn’t anyone think that whoever once again flew to Washington with such a “deal” -- and with giant dollar signs in their eyes -- is simply an incurable idiot?

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

1/ Western liberals are accusing Israel of "genocide" in Gaza while ignoring ACTUAL genocide in Ukraine.

A leading historian says this moral blindness is helping tyrants win—and the West is too busy with its "luxury beliefs" to notice. 🧵⤵️

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Europe must defend Europe. #SkyShieldNow

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

For those who believe russia’s vast size is somehow natural — just look at this map.

It screams continual colonization and the destruction of entire ethnic groups.

1/n

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Russia launches another massive attack on Kyiv with drones, ballistic and cruise missiles June 17, 2025
So far, 16 people have been injured in the capital. The number is growing.

Also, during the attack on Kyiv in the Solomianskyi district, a 62-year-old US citizen died in a house opposite the one where medics were helping the wounded.

The war will end soon, they said

[Ihor Lachenkov @igorlachenkov]

Kyiv now, as a result of a Russian attack.

[Sofiia Hecker @Sofiia_Hecker]

@marcorubio https://t.co/hn7TGg8YRR

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Sunday. Christian holiday before Easter. Barbaric brutal murder of civilians in Sumy.
Russians did it intentionally.

But never mind, @SteveWitkoff will thank Putin again and lick his bloody hands.

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Why do you support this @marcorubio?

[Serhii Sternenko @sternenko]

Sunday. Christian holiday before Easter. Barbaric brutal murder of civilians in Sumy.
Russians did it intentionally.

But never mind, @SteveWitkoff will thank Putin again and lick his bloody hands.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Will @Pontifex condemn the russian terrorist attack against the Kryvyi Rih residents on Christmas Eve? Or will he describe this as a "cousin's holiday gift"?

[Vassili Golod @VassiliGolod]

Wir sollten in Redaktionen mehr über die Gewichtung von Nachrichten streiten. Beispiel: Die Pressekonferenz eines Diktators ist in vielen Leitmedien als Thema gesetzt. Seine Propaganda-Show findet medial statt. Berichte über seine Gräueltaten gehen dagegen immer weiter unter.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Make no mistake: russia bombing the downtown of the capital city with 4 million residents is considered routine. Ukraine conducting deep strikes against russian military bases is labeled as escalation. Future historians will feel secondhand embarrassment when studying this era.

[Oleksandra Matviichuk @avalaina]

This is how people fight for freedom and human dignity!!
You are beautiful Georgia!! 💪

[Andy Schneider @AndySch64494719]

Hier erklärt Frau Major nochmals sehr gut was Russland will, was wir tun müssen um russische Agression abzuwehren