Tïm Schroeder 🦝🦩

Geopolitics | Eastern Europe | Occasional sources & fact-checks.

[Tïm Schroeder 🦝🦩 @Tim__Schroeder]

@HavryshkoMarta A country where independent media freely report on presidential corruption scandals, where anti-corruption bodies arrest presidential allies, and where critics can sue in the ECHR �� that's not a dictatorship.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Jailers and officials at Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC https://t.co/WkjCY7dI1h

[Tïm Schroeder 🦝🦩 @Tim__Schroeder]

@HavryshkoMarta Parliamentary oversight of arms transfers – legitimate concern. But 'Ukrainians celebrating killers' applied to 40 million people because of some nationalist units is collective guilt.
Tusk said 'don't play with fire' – he meant russia, not Ukraine.

[Fopege @Fopege70]

@saintjavelin

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

💔 More footage from Kyiv. People are still trapped beneath the rubble.

[VIEW @viewsoff]

Saitama, Japan 🌸

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Update: At least 8 killed, 34 injured in large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine's capital.

The casualty count has risen in Russia's overnight attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region, with officials now reporting eight victims killed and 34 injured.

https://t.co/1UU1nbQIHY

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺�� @rshereme]

Another massive attack on Kyiv. At least 7 people were killed. No military targets. Just residential buildings, schools, churches.

Russia is the manifestation of pure evil.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl.

Ukraine's military carried out an attack on the Russian city of Yaroslavl overnight on July 6, reportedly striking the city's oil refinery, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

https://t.co/qWCJyqibqm

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Russia carried out a major attack on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, overnight.

Multiple high-rise buildings have been damaged, with the death toll already at 7 as Ukrainian rescuers attempt to dig and cut survivors out of the rubble.

[freeonis @freeonis_]

БЄНЗІН ЗА 3 ДНЯ | Gasoline in 3 Days (animation)

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: Intelligence indicates that Russians are preparing new massive strike.

Typical of Putin: right after America’s Independence Day and before NATO Summit in Ankara.

Any delay with missiles for our air defense means loss of lives and it encourages Russia to continue war.

Missiles for Patriots are needed not in warehouses right now, but in Patriot units in Ukraine.

I thank everyone who is providing real help. Glory to Ukraine!

[VIEW @viewsoff]

Mount Fuji, Japan

[Tïm Schroeder 🦝🦩 @Tim__Schroeder]

@HavryshkoMarta Konończuk also says 'only some of these opinions come from russian trolls' – meaning a significant part does. Social media during a bilateral crisis ≠ institutional policy.
Real problem – but trolls exist, and Snyder isn't wrong just because of that.
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[Tïm Schroeder 🦝🦩 @Tim__Schroeder]

@HavryshkoMarta A Polish official used a historical term – clumsy, yes. Territorial claims and war? That's quite a leap.
The only country currently waging war against Ukraine is russia.
Asking if Poland might be next is not analysis, it's provocation.

[Army Recognition @ArmyRecognition]

Russia’s T-90M Arena-M Sighting Reveals How Drone Warfare Is Driving the Evolution of Tank Survivability

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Kyrylo Budanov 🇺🇦:

"The Russians were not mentally prepared for the possibility of drones—and sometimes missiles—arriving on a massive scale.

For them, this is a shock. Their society is neither prepared nor willing to accept it.

They believed this could never happen because they are very strong, very powerful, and everyone is afraid of them. It turns out that's not the case.."

(Clash Report)

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, they haven't.

Also, in this sector, the Russian forces have advanced roughly 15-25 km from the initial front line of 2022. You can check it yourself.

Yes, that's after 4.5 YEARS of war.

That's about an hour's bicycle ride if you're not in a hurry.

Do the math yourself: how many more years would it take them to crawl along this so-called "direct open path" through the Druzhkivka–Sloviansk–Kramatorsk fortified belt, one of the largest and most heavily fortified defensive systems in the world, prepared over more than a decade?

Yes, Russian military propaganda really does think you're that gullible. And yes, they're willing to lie to your face that brazenly.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

My latest on celebrating the 4th of July as an ambassador in Russia:

https://t.co/ZsBtsQnyNP

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I have congratulated President Trump @POTUS and all Americans on the Independence Day. We’ve had a very good phone call.

We are grateful to the United States for all the assistance we have received – from Javelins and Patriots to political support – and we deeply value that America stands by us in defending our independence. I am grateful to every American heart that cares about the future of Ukraine, Europe, and everyone around the world for whom freedom matters.

Of course, President Trump and I discussed the current situation on the frontline as well as our diplomatic efforts. There is a real prospect to put an end to this war, and America’s resolve is decisive. We have agreed to continue these discussions during the NATO Summit in Ankara.

Thank you, the United States! Thank you, Mr. President! Happy Fourth of July! Wishing Americans continued prosperity and every success.