⚡️Zelensky: “We will rebuild, every house, every street, every city.”
“We say to Russia, learn the words reparation and contribution, you’ll repay us everything.”
⚡️Zelensky: “You came to destroy our cities, our people, to take everything that we cherish, you cut civilians from electricity, water, food, you bomb evacuation routes. There’s no weapons left that you haven’t used.”
⚡️Zelensky: “We survived two world wars, Holodomor, Holocaust, the Great Purge, Chernobyl, occupation of Crimea and war in eastern Ukraine.
We don’t have a lot of land, we don’t have nuclear arms, we don’t flood the world with oil & gas…1/2
But we have our people and our land - that’s what we’re fighting for.”
“We have nothing to lose besides our freedom and our honour.”
“If someone thought that after overcoming all this we’ll be scared, we’ll brake or give up, then they know nothing about us.”
“Иди домой.”
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Short thread 🧵 on Russia’s ongoing escalation & what comes next. 👇🏻
We now know that Putin, Macron & Scholz are forcing Zelensky to comply with the Russian spin of Minsk - direct talks with Kremlin-led proxies & vast autonomy for Russian-occupied regions.kyivindependent.com/national/sourc…
For Macron, becoming chief mediator is key for his standing on the global stage, while Scholz wants the whole situation to return to the October status quo with gas & trade.
The problem: Now Putin knows what he wants & knows how to get it.
Russia wants to force Ukraine into negotiations with its proxies, turning Russia’s war against Ukraine into a “civil war.”
⚡️BREAKING. From Feb. 14, Ukraine is turning into a de facto no-fly zone.
International airlines are canceling flights, airplane leasing companies are banning entry into Ukrainian airspace, insurance companies won’t provide services.
Unpopular THREAD. Peaceful protests are for democracies. In authoritarian countries like #Russia & #Belarus peaceful protests don’t work.
You need a specific location and you need to be ready to use force.
The main accomplishment of regimes in #Russia & #Belarus is that they were successful in demonizing Maidan. Even those who hate #Putin & #Lukashenko are scared of being associated with Maidan and rush to reassure their abusers that they will protest peacefully.
Yet, a peaceful protest is good in a country where public opinion & perception matters. In democracies, even a small protest can sway public opinion for or against a politician during the next election. In authoritarian states, public opinion is useless - there’s no elections.