The lives of thousands of Mariupol residents were cut short by Russia’s Forces. They were people with their own stories and love of life. Russia should be tried for its crimes against humanity. #StopRussiaNow
The other day a historic event took place - a meeting of representatives of defense agencies of more than 40 countries at the Ramstein American Air Base in 🇩🇪. These include the representatives from NATO countries,and across the EU,Africa,the Middle East,and the Asia-Pacific reg
Following the meeting, the Advisory Group for the Defense of Ukraine was established. It will help to optimize important processes for obtaining weapons, improving logistics, and ensuring coordination 2/4
Ukrainian Forces will also switch to Western calibers and equipment. Eventually, this will ensure full interoperability of the Ukrainian army with the armies of NATO countries.
In the future, Ukraine will join the production of Western-style weapons and equipment 3/4
All over the world, Russia has cells that it uses to its advantage. Russia's actions threaten other European countries,including Moldova.Losing the war in Ukraine, Russia began to destabilize Transnistria.Several explosions have already taken place in the unrecognized republic1/4
Russia is trying to use locals, although the so-called "government" of Transnistria has stated that they do not plan to join the war against Ukraine. Ukraine also has no plans to go to war with Transnistria.2/4
Russia’s troops plan to open a new front and cut off the south of the Odesa region so that Ukrainian forces are drawn from the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Russia’s troops have fired on the bridge across the Dniester estuary twice already. 3/4
Russia's intentions to seize the South of Ukraine were clear from the start of the war, but for the first time it dared to make it official. 1/4
One of the senior🇷🇺commanders Rustam Minnekayev said that Russia is aiming to take full control of southern Ukraine.That would allow Moscow to form a land bridge to Crimea, annexed in2014, and would give access to the Russian-backed separatist region of Transnistria in Moldova2/4
For the first time since World War II, one state has openly announced its intention to seize another for its own interests. Russia's idea of a "land corridor to Crimea and Transnistria" is a threat not only to Ukraine but also to Moldova and NATO's Black Sea countries 3/4
War stories: people who don't give up. Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security publishes exclusive stories and pictures from the sites of the occupiers' most atrocious crimes. Here is our latest report from the Chernihiv region. [1/4]
Kyianka is one of the worst-ruined suburbs of Chernihiv. At the beginning of the war, three police officers died as heroes here. They guarded the checkpoint, and the occupiers kept shooting at them. [2/4]
The father of one of the killed police officers, Anatolii Khrysteniuk, lives in Kyianka. After losing his son, the man did not give up. Anatolii is now fixing the bridge: he has found ground, sand, and a tractor and has organized the creation of a fill bridge. [3/4]
"Russia miscalculated everything about Ukraine because, to a certain extent, Russia has become a victim of its own disinformation," Ukrainian philosopher @yermolenko_v said in a talk with @ezraklein. Here are some more extracts from their conversation 🧵
.@yermolenko_v: "Putin's idea that Russian speakers would sympathize with Russia, would align themselves with Russia, proved to be wrong. And that means that Ukrainian identity goes beyond these differences, linguistic differences, cultural differences."
.@yermolenko_v: "It's not about only Ukrainian or Russians as a nation. It's a question of values. It's whether you can build anti-tyrannical politics in Eastern Europe [...] And Ukrainians always said that this is possible."