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Sep 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
For Donbas watchers: This has many in Ukraine worried. "I haven't seen a single confirmation that Russia is waging a war against Ukraine," says Vitold Fokin, newly appointed dep head of Ukraine delegation to Minsk group meant to facilitate end to the war. pravda.com.ua/news/2020/09/2…
Fokin's comments have been widely condemned in Ukraine. Russia's direct involvement in the war in the Donbas has been documented in great detail. Now a group of MPs wants Zelensky to condemn Fokin's remarks and fire him. en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/6…
Now Zelensky's own chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, and Ukraine's powerful interior minister, Arsen Avakov, are calling for Fokin, who served as the country's first PM, to be fired. Avakov went so far as to call him an "idiot" and said he should be put into retirement again. ImageImage
Zelensky dismissed Vitold Fokin a day after public outcry over his highly controversial and inaccurate comments about not seeing Russia’s involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine.

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Aug 16
Scoop: Putin demanded Ukraine withdraw from Donetsk region as condition for ending Russia’s war but told Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met.

w/ @FT team @ak_mack @maxseddon @ChassNews
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In exchange for the Donetsk region, Putin said he would freeze the frontline in partly controlled southern regions of Kherson & Zaporizhzhia, and to not launch new attacks to take more territory, according to three of the people familiar with the talks. ft.com/content/6b0b49…
Putin made it clear that he had not dropped his core demands to “resolve the root causes” of the conflict, which would essentially end Ukraine’s statehood in its current form and roll back Nato’s eastward expansion. ft.com/content/6b0b49…
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Aug 7
🧶 New @Gallup poll: “More than three years into the war, Ukrainians’ support for continuing to fight until victory has hit a new low. In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.

“This marks a nearly complete reversal from public opinion in 2022, when 73% favored Ukraine fighting until victory and 22% preferred that Ukraine seek a negotiated end as soon as possible.”Image
Over two-thirds of Ukrainians — 68% — think it is unlikely that active fighting will come to an end in the next year, according to new @Gallup poll. Image
“In 2025, 16% of Ukrainians approve of U.S. leadership, while 73% express disapproval, a record high. All of the goodwill that Washington built up in 2022, when 66% approved of U.S. leadership, has evaporated.” — @Gallup Image
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Jul 21
🧵A lengthy thread here on today's news of searches and arrests in Ukraine and what the various parties involved as well as civil society and Kyiv's Western backers see happening.
Ukraine's state security service (SBU), State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) today conducted ~70 searches related to employees of the independent National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), detaining at least one official accused of spying for Russia. gp.gov.ua/ua/posts/ogp-t…
NABU said in a statement the searches involved at least 15 employees and were conducted without court warrants. "In most cases, the grounds cited for these actions are the alleged involvement of certain individuals in traffic accidents. However, some employees are being accused of possible connections with the aggressor state. These are unrelated matters."
nabu.gov.ua/en/news/offici…
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Jun 4
New @Maxar satellite imagery today, June 4, of Russia's Belaya and Olenya airbases struck by Ukrainian drones. Multiple Tu-95 and Tu-22 bomber aircraft are destroyed and some cleanup activity is seen near the plane debris, Maxar says. Cloud cover obscured several of the other Russian airbases that were reportedly also struck by drones. A thread 🧵
1. after Ukrainian drone strike, overview of Belaya airbase, June 4
2.before drone strike, group of Tu22 aircraft, Belaya airbase, May 22
3. after drone strike, group of Tu22 aircraft Belaya airbase, June 4
4., before drone strike, Tu95 aircraft, Belaya airbase, May 22
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5. after drone strike, destroyed Tu95 aircraft, Belaya airbase, June 4
6. before drone strike,Tu22 aircraft, Belaya airbase, May 22
7. after drone strike, two destroyed Tu22 aircraft, Belaya airbase, June 4
8. after drone strike, closer view of destroyed Tu95 aircraft, Belaya airbase, June 4
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Jun 2
Satellite images made by @Maxar before Ukraine's big drone strike operation show Russian airfields in Belaya, Ivanovo, Ukrainka, Olenya & Ryazan Dyagilevo, as well as close-up views of bomber, transport and airborne warning aircraft.

Maxar writes: "At each of the five airbases, defensive measures have been observed on many of the planes, presumably in an attempt to protect the aircraft from drone attacks by placing tires and other objects on the top of the wings. Additionally, the use of decoy aircraft was also seen at the airbases including painted aircraft outlines on the tarmac and materials positioned in the shape of bomber aircraft."

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1. overview of belaya airbase, May 22
2. objects on Tu 22 aircraft at belaya airbase, May 20
3. Tu 160 bombers and decoy painted on tarmac at belaya airbase, May 20
4. Tu 160 bombers at belaya airbase, May 20 Image
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5. tires and objects on Tu 22 aircraft at Belaya airbase, May 20
6. decoy Tu 22 aircraft at Belaya airbase, May 20
7. decoy aircraft at Belaya airbase, May 20
8. decoy aircraft Belaya airbase, May 20
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Jun 1
Ukrainian SBU security service sources tell @FT the agency is conducting "a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft" deep inside Russia.

"SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night. At this point, more than 40 aircraft have reportedly been hit."

Video footage filmed by a Ukrainian reconnaissance aircraft and shared by the official appeared to show Russia’s Belaya airfield, located in south-eastern Siberia some 5,500km east of the frontline, in flames.

This was a hugely ambitious SBU operation. According to people familiar with the attack, codenamed “Spiderweb”, it was planned more than a year in advance and “personally supervised” by Zelensky. It used dozens of FPV drones armed with explosives that were smuggled into Russia. Photo: SBU Chief Vasyl Malyuk looks over a map of Russian targets in today's attack.Image
The SBU has shared photos of the drones it says were used in today's attack on Russian airfields. The images appear to show how the drones were hidden during transport to Russia ahead of the attack. Image
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