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Feb 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Controversial remarks of Ukraine's ambassador to the UK that Ukraine might consider dropping its NATO bid caused a stir. MFA said they were taken out of context; Office of the president reiterated Ukraine's course remains unchanged. Here's what he said: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Reading this, looks like what ambassador Prystaiko really wanted to say was that Ukraine might be pressured - both by Russia and the West - to give up on its NATO membership aspirations.
Ambassador clarified what he meant in a new BBC appearance: 'we are ready for many concessions, and that's what we are doing in our conversations with Russia. But it has nothing to do with NATO which is enshrined in the constitution'. Still kinda ambiguous

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Feb 14
Ukraine promised to present draft laws on special status and local elections in temporarily occupied districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions 'for discussion', German chancellor Scholz said at the press conference with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv🧵
‘President Zelenskyy assured me that Ukraine will provide draft laws about the special status [of the occupied Donbas] and local elections for a discussion’, Olaf Scholz said in Kyiv at the joint press conference with the Ukrainian president.
Scholz also said Ukraine’s membership in NATO is not on the table now. ‘The issue of the Alliance membership [of Ukraine] is not an actual question now. So it’s strange that the Russian government made the issue which is not on the table a subject of a big political debate’
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Feb 11
“The atmosphere in Kiev is surreal”. This is the phrase I’m hearing often from international reporters, who have flocked in droves to the Ukrainian capital. It’s something I was thinking about too".
My latest - please, @EveningStandard, it's #KyivNotKiev
standard.co.uk/insider/ukrain…
The atmosphere is surreal because everything looks surprisingly normal in Kiev — as if there were not 140,000 Russian troops stationed at Ukraine’s borders. People go to work, send their children to school and proceed with their daily routine.
In fact, I don’t know any Ukrainians who have fled Kiev so far because of the worrying news — mostly spread by the Western media — that Russia might attack Ukraine ‘any time now’. I know that some Americans, after receiving alerts from the US embassy in Ukraine, left the country
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Feb 11
After 9 hours of talks by Normandy Four presidential advisors in Berlin, no joint document was signed. Ukraine refused to commit to direct talks with Russian proxies in Donbas (rightly so). Russia didn't even want to discuss implementation of security provisions of the Minsk agrt
Ukraine's representative Yermak said a new meeting of advisors was agreed, but Russian envoy Kozak didn't confirm it. Acc to @kommersant, Kozak was irritated that France and Germany didn't pressure Ukraine enough (and German said he needed to walk a dog) kommersant.ru/doc/5207841
My comment: the view in Ukraine of the result of these talks is more positive than takes I see in West. Europeans didn't pressure Ukraine into concessions: that is good as it was the main fear in Kyiv. If negotiations go on, that's fine too, it buys time
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Jan 27
In recent days, I talked to Ukrainians, both in Kyiv and Kharkiv, about how they feel in connection to a threat of a new Russian attack on Ukraine. A thread:
Many people said they were packing go-bags with essential items, such as documents, medicines, cash, to grab if they need to leave their houses urgently, for example, in case of an airstrike alert. Iryna, manager at the construction company, said she had one ready since 2014
‘I have it ready since the war started. Now I just need to buy some dry food to take with me’.
Iryna, like many Ukrainians, has been following with increasing anxiety the news of Russian military buildup at Ukraine’s borders. She is pondering whether she should leave her home
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Jan 26
“We laugh in the face of threats not because we underestimate them, but because what else should we do? Laydown and cry? Tears have never won anyone freedom.”
Your must-read of the day: the story of @Ukraine account, summing up the spirit of Ukrainians 🔥
washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/…
“The truth is that humor has an enormous power, especially when facing a brutal, self-aggrandizing and extremely serious authoritarian regime like Russia,” the account added. “They are so serious that they actually fear humor no less than nukes. Memes do just that.”
Some classics:
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Jan 25
There are some things I disagree with @BBCRosAtkins assessment: 1) what Ukrainians want is missing from the big picture: the fact that 81% of Ukrainians don't like Putin is less relevant than the fact 60% support the EU and NATO membership: a direct result of Russian aggression
2) it's unclear who is the man in Donetsk and whose views he represents. This clip creates a false impression of some kind of a popular separatist uprising in Donbas: which it wasn't, it was and is a conflict instigated by Russia, who sends military, weapons and money
3) a false equation between Russia and the West actions re Ukraine: while Russia was the first to attack Ukraine and is massing troops at Ukraine's borders now without any realistic motive, the West has been just responding, and quite slowly.Military aid to Ukraine is a deterrent
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