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[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

Lifting the sanctions is how the EU reacts on THIS!!!

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Russian soldiers tortured a 3-year-old boy and forced him to watch them sexually assault and kill his mother during the occupation of Kherson.

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

@RihardsKols https://t.co/6aiWzGhjIA

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

The investigation about Friedman's dirty business
https://t.co/6aiWzGhjIA

[Rihards Kols @RihardsKols]

Sanctions were meant to be a common instrument. As of today, they are a bargaining chip.

EU ambassadors extended sanctions on nearly 3000 listed individuals and entities for 36 months instead of the usual six. That part was long awaited. The price was the delisting of Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, demanded first by Slovakia, then France, then Luxembourg. There were "reasons" - national interest, arbitration claims. None of them have anything to do with Ukraine or European security.

The worst of it is that there was no case for delisting. Both men challenged their listings in court and both lost. The evidence held. The procedure worked. And now they come off the list anyway, because one or two capitals had national interests to service. There is no better gift to Moscow's core argument: that EU sanctions are arbitrary punishment requiring no justification, applied and lifted at political convenience. We spent years proving the opposite. We disproved ourselves this afternoon.

Latvia held the line longest and apparently we held it alone. In the end we abstained, after Paris offered closer air defence cooperation and potential access to its nuclear umbrella. Read that again. An objection on sanctions policy was settled with a bilateral security offer. However good the offer, this is not how a common foreign and defence policy works.

Nobody wrote prisoner release into the decision. Everybody knows that is what it buys. Authoritarian regimes now have a tested method: detain European citizens, pressure the relevant capital, and the EU's Russia policy becomes negotiable. Kremlin drew the conclusion within hours, backing Paris and Luxembourg and demanding relief for all Russian businessmen and all Russian citizens.

Pandora's box, once opened, does not close on request.

The three-year cycle is the one sound element here. Six-month renewals invited blackmail, hostage to shifting political moods and election results.

Nothing prevents the rest from acting. Latvia will impose national sanctions on Usmanov and Fridman. The other 23 can do the same tomorrow. The question is whether they will.

[Pina Picierno @pinapic]

The decision to delist Usmanov and Fridman is disgraceful, cowardly and completely unacceptable.

But let’s be crystal clear about where political responsibility lies: with the Member States in the Council, not the Commission.

Under the EU treaties (such rules that must change!), the High Representative proposes sanctions, working with the Commission on their economic aspects. But restrictive measures can only be adopted unanimously by the Council.

This unanimity rule makes the EU fragile and weak.

We need a politically strong, sovereign Europe: one that is more than the sum of its Member States.

Let us be angry and outraged but, above all, let us work for a stronger, more sovereign EU so that such shameful episodes never happen again!

[Rich Tedd 🛰 ✈️ @AfriMEOSINT]

Zebu Air’s Il-76TD cargo aircraft (reg. 7Q-ASU, callsign MZB9111) departed Al Reef Airbase in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 and is now heading towards Ethiopia 🇪🇹.

[🇺🇦 Dmytro Zolotukhin @Dm_Zolotukhin]

Kirill Dmitriev is a liar!
In 2009th he has fooled people in Kyiv in the real estate fraud and then escaped to Moscow from the Ukrainian criminal prosecution.
Now he is trying to fool @SEPeaceMissions and American nation with usage of the bots network
https://t.co/zREvda0hdj

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

@gently_kys Йоко, ти відьма? (С)

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

@shashj Can you please define "most consequential"?

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🔴 This is how the Russian forces launch Shahed drones to attack Ukraine, using American Dodge pickup trucks, as seen in videos released by Russian state media.

[Mariana Betsa @Mariana_Betsa]

5 hours of non-stop massive attack on Kyiv. Numerous explosions and the constant whirring of drones, missiles over my head… Ukrainian air defense is unstoppable #StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

@DNIGabbard @realDonaldTrump @threadreaderapp please unroll

[Intelligence Online @Intel_Online]

Ukrainian intelligence is increasingly concerned by the activities of Chinese firms operating in the country and fears a growing risk of industrial and military espionage. https://t.co/XgXpsMwd8X

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

The 3d assault brigade communication ads campaign is considered to be the most effective in Ukraine.

The slogan of the campaign is "We prepare you to any kind of scenarios"

On their Facebook one of the scenarios that they consider is "the betrayal of partners".

Think of it...

[🇺🇦 Dmytro Zolotukhin @Dm_Zolotukhin]

China wins strategically again.
The statement of the @realDonaldTrump on his inability to get any progress from Putin is a sign of weakness and low agency.

The statement by Wang Yi that they won't let Russia lose is the sign of the lack of agency from both - the US and Russia.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

69 𝕏TRA MINUTES: UKRAINE AID—REAL HELP OR ACCOUNTING ILLUSION?

Americans are told Ukraine is bleeding them dry.

But according to @JPLindsley, reporting from Kharkiv just 30 miles from Russia, the numbers tell a different story—one no one in Washington wants to explain.

Allegedly, only a sliver of the so-called “$100B+” in Ukraine aid was ever spent on actual weapons for Ukraine.

Most of it? Supposedly, old gear from U.S. warehouses—given a price by the Biden White House itself.

And allegedly the biggest chunk—$45B—wasn’t aid at all, but Pentagon stock replenishment.

Is Ukraine rebuilding while Washington launders defense spending? Or is this just good accounting disguised as bad headlines?

You decide.

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

Sad but true

https://t.co/prK0S30MUA

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

16% of GOP primary voters believe that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy bought two yachts for $75 million. That number jumps to 39% among Joe Rogan viewers and 32% among Candace Owens viewers.

https://t.co/py58rcaMYw

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

Russian telegram channels say that Russian air defense and electronic countermeasures lowering the altitude of drones, which cause damaging the houses.

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

The ammunition warehouse of near 2 square kilometers in size was hit by Ukrainian drones in Kotluban village, just 30 km from Volgograd.
Ukrainian sources in Telegram say that about 45 tons of ammunition and missiles were destroyed. Including Iranian Fath-360 missile launcher

[🇺🇦UA🛡️OSINT @ua_intelligence]

Besides Kotluban warehouses Ukrainian kamikaze drones hit Yeysk air base again and some targets in Voronezh.