Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 Profile picture
Former Foreign Minister of Lithuania. Values-based policymaker. Founder of Friends of Democracy. https://t.co/1Nq19S7e1I Bookings: agent@championsukplc.com

Aug 4, 2024, 7 tweets

I would like to address the recurring question of those “ordinary Russians” who “shouldn’t be sanctioned”.🧵1/7

I hear talk of ordinary Russians’ innocence, but then I see ordinary Russians murdering ordinary Ukrainians.🧵2/7

I see ordinary Russian mothers saying goodbye to their ordinary Russian sons and wishing them good luck with their ordinary Russian war crimes.🧵3/7

I see ordinary Russians celebrating murder. I see ordinary Russian parents dressing up their ordinary Russian children in military uniforms and painting the letter Z on a cardboard tank costume.🧵4/7

I see ordinary Russians coming together to make a huge Z formation in the town square.🧵5/7

Ordinary Russia is sick. Healing will be a long and gruelling process which can only start when Russia, not just Putin, is defeated. Without a defeat in Ukraine, Russia will just keep spreading.🧵6/7

So about those “unfair” sanctions against “ordinary Russians”... Well, anything which slows down Russia’s total war machine will have ordinary Lithuanians’ support. Whatever victory takes. Slava Ukraini.🧵7/7

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