Horrific appeasement and capitulation. More deal-making about Ukraine without Ukrainians.
Ukrainians look at this insanity and fear another Yalta betrayal is coming. After the Nord Stream 2 sanctions waiver and previous talks about Ukraine without their participation, Ukrainians see Biden as a feeble U.S. president like Roosevelt was in 1945.
Three “engagements” with the Russian dictator by the U.S. president without the participation of Ukrainians is a betrayal of Ukraine. #RussiaInvadedUkraine
Over 7 years of futile trench warfare in Donbas convinces the Russian regime of state terrorism that it cannot defeat Ukraine militarily.

The aggressors are having an easier time overwhelming Ukraine’s unsteady allies, the United States and Western Europe, with hybrid warfare.

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30 Dec
#RussiaInvadedUkraine in 2014. The Russian Federation temporarily occupies Ukrainian territory of Crimea plus parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The Russian Federation violates the Minsk Agreements and ceasefires made under it unrelentingly and has faced no consequences. 1/11
Aggressor Russia was supposed to respect an “immediate and comprehensive” ceasefire starting from 15 February 2015. Instead, the invaders from Moscow have been shelling Ukrainian defenders almost every day. There’s never been a ceasefire. 2/11
Both sides were to withdraw artillery systems of 100-plus calibre at least 25km back from the battlefront. Ukraine complies but the Russian Federation deploys and uses large-bore artillery regularly. Death and destruction from Moscow’s guns is a constant visitor. 3/11
Read 11 tweets
28 Dec
Ukrainian military intelligence reports:

The high command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued to increase the combat capabilities of Russian occupation forces in the temporarily occupied territory in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

mil.gov.ua/news/2021/12/2… Image
Russian occupation forces in the east of Ukraine are made up of the 1st (Donetsk) and 2nd (Luhansk) Army Corps, 8th Combined-Arms Army, Southern Military District, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
During December the occupiers secretly imported fuel, war matériel, weapons, ammunition, electronic warfare equipment and UAVs by road and rail from the Russian Federation to the 1st & 2nd Army Corps. Fake “humanitarian convoys” were a component of this military resupply.
Read 4 tweets
19 Dec
When Russia started mobilizing for an offensive against Ukraine, Jake Sullivan advised Biden to meet with Putin, delay a meeting with Zelenskyy, waive sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 war project, and cut a deal with Merkel to complete NS2.
Ukraine betrayed. Russia encouraged.
Jake Sullivan is a more effective asset for the Russian regime of state terrorism than Putin puppet Trump was.
Jake Sullivan is doing harm to United States national security, greater harm to U.S. allies in Eastern Europe, and devastating harm to Ukraine – the only fighting defender of the West from Russian armed aggression.
Read 4 tweets
18 Dec
Ukrainians call enemy Russian soldiers орки (orcs), москалі (Moskali), кацупи (Katsups), ватники (vatniks), тероросіяни (terro-Russians), Талібан (Taliban), груз 200 (Cargo 200).

Some names I’ve missed? Let me know.

#RussiaInvadedUkraine
орки - orcs, from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; orcs are inhuman creatures who make up Sauron's army from Mordor

москалі – Moskali is a vulgar term for a Muscovite with the sense of a barbarian, a savage, and an imbecile; someone who believes anything the Vozhd (Putin) tells them
кацапи- Katsapy, from a Turkic (Tatar) word meaning "butchers", "slaughterers”; the Muscovites are the slaughterers of the Crimean Tatar people

свинособаки, meaning "pig-dogs"

відпустники – vacationers; Ukrainians mock Putin who said captured Russian soldiers were "on vacation"
Read 7 tweets
17 Dec
These look like the demands Nazi Germany made of Vichy France.

To the dictator Putin, NATO member states are collaborators and weaklings to be subordinated. The only real opposition to Russia’s imperialist aggression in Europe is Ukraine.
Putin is a KGB man, not a military thinker. He regards the United States as weak because Russia was able to recruit Trump as an agent of influence in the 1980s and put him in the White House in 2016.
Putin believes he understands Americans. He’s got their number. He can bend enough of them to his will (MAGA, anti-vax) that he doesn’t fear them.

Putin doesn’t understand Ukrainians. He projects imperialist fantasies on them, e.g. “one people.” Putin fears Ukrainians.
Read 4 tweets
11 Dec
In February 2014, Putin puppet Yanukovych ordered the Maidan Massacre in a failed attempt to crush the Revolution of Dignity of the Ukrainian people. The Donetsk gangster fled Ukraine to Russia. #RussiaInvadedUkraine in the chaos of the following weeks. 1/14
By the time of the Battle of Debaltseve (January-February 2015) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was grinding to a halt.

Putin gulled the worst appeasement nations, Germany and France, to be false “guarantors” of Minsk Agreement II. Russia was given years to consolidate. 2/14
The Russian regime of state terrorism set about dismantling the Western coalition supporting Ukraine.

In 2016, Russia sponsored the GeenPeil joke referendum in the Netherlands against Ukraine. A massive effort of information warfare turned the result in Moscow’s favour. 3/14
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