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Feb 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Putin claims Russia is mostly fighting "nationalists" and calls on Ukraine's armed forces to surrender.

"Take power into your own hands. It looks like it'll be easier for us to make a deal with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis."
The whole root of the Ukraine crisis, according to Putin, is that the 2014 Euromaidan revolution was a foreign-backed armed coup against a democratically elected president. Here he is calling for a foreign-backed armed coup in Ukraine in this very video
The way Putin pronounces “banderovtsy” (followers of Ukrainian nationalist icon Stephan Bandera) makes it sound like he is taking about Ostap Bender (wily anti-hero of classic Soviet satire The Twelve Chairs)
Peskov just did a surprise call with reporters and didn't take any questions.

It was bizarre. He said Russia has agreed to peace talks with Ukraine and is haggling over a venue. Russia suggested Belarus, Ukraine countered with Warsaw and then "took a pause" as fighting goes on

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Feb 27
Putin is meeting defense minister Shoigu and chief of general staff Gerasimov in the Kremlin.

He says western sanctions are "illegitimate" and has ordered to place Russia's deterrence – i.e. nuclear – forces on "a special regime of duty," per @tass_agency
@tass_agency Putin: "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country, but leaders of major Nato countries are making aggressive statements about our country. So I order to move Russia's deterrence forces to a special regime of duty."
@tass_agency This isn't the first time this week Shoigu has looked visibly uncomfortable at the orders he's taking from Putin
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Feb 27
It's day four of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Russia has broken into Kharkiv and has offered talks Kyiv has rejected as a ruse. Moscow's banks are bracing for meltdown from tough new western sanctions.

All the latest on our live blog:

ft.com/content/475838…
Follow the FT's top team bringing you round-the-clock coverage:

– @JohnReedwrites in Kyiv and @GuyChazan in Lviv
– Moscow crew @NastassiaAstra and @polinaivanovva
– @HenryJFoy, @hallbenjamin, and @JP_Rathbone on the security beat
– @JamesPoliti, @Dimi and @Aime_Williams in DC
@JohnReedwrites @GuyChazan @NastassiaAstra @polinaivanovva @HenryJFoy @hallbenjamin @JP_Rathbone @JamesPoliti @Dimi @Aime_Williams And we've made some of our key pieces free to read, here: ft.com/content/77ab8d…
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Feb 27
The Kremlin says Russia has sent a delegation to Belarus and is prepared to start peace negotiations with Ukraine there.

Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, tells RIA Novosti: “Russia is already ready for talks in Gomel. Now Moscow is waiting for the Ukrainians.”
Zelensky says Ukraine wants peace but can't negotiate in Belarus, which Russia is currently using to attack it.

"Warsaw, Istanbul, Baku – we offered Russia to hold talks in these cities, or any other city where missiles aren't being launched at Ukraine," he says.
"There's nothing in the country the occupiers don't consider an acceptable target... kindergartens, apartment buildings, even ambulances. They are using reactive artillery and missiles against entire neighborhoods that have never had any military infrastructure," Zelensky says.
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Feb 24
US sanctions on dollar transactions for Sberbank, Russia's largest bank by a long way, are a big deal and will be painful in the short term for the Russian financial system.

But those sanctions aren't as tough as those on VTB, which cut it out of the financial system entirely.
A few quick notes on these banks.

Sberbank was a staid Soviet-style institution before it got a new lease on life under Herman Gref, Putin's most liberal confidant. He styled it after Silicon Valley and tried to make it an example for Russian reform.

ft.com/content/3450c8…
By all accounts, Gref did a great job modernizing Sberbank – it was one of Europe's most profitable companies.

But as it became clear in recent years Putin had no interest in reform, however, its tech ambitions began to founder as well.

ft.com/content/4b5248…
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Feb 24
Some Russians are protesting Putin's attack on Ukraine despite a total ban on protesting and immediate heavy crackdowns from riot police. Here's a gathering of about 200 in St Petersburg
A few hundred people in Moscow, where there are also reports of many arrests.
People in Moscow shouting "No to war!"

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Feb 24
It’s too early to say what the Russian people make of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but he’s already lost a few celebrities. Most of these guys rely heavily on the state for their living.

A short thread.
Ivan Urgant, Russia’s equivalent of Steven Colbert (who was once on his show): “Fear and pain. NO to war.”
Maxim Galkin, singer and husband of Alla Pugacheva, Russia’s biggest celebrity:

“I’ve been talking to friends and relatives from Ukraine since early morning! I can’t find the words to say what I feel! How can this be possible! There can be no justification for war! No to war!”
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