#Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz knows from experience of living in a country ravaged by #Russia that #Ukraine will have to deal with scattered unexploded munitions for a long time, and his message on stopping the evasion of the sanctions is good, too.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1524567535508606976
#Finland's President and Prime Minister sign a joint statement: "Finland must apply for #NATO membership without delay"
https://twitter.com/TPKanslia/status/1524645891449270273
These half-measures from the #US continue to baffle: why provide #Ukraine intelligence to wage the war and kill #Russians, but somehow try to restrict Kiev's ability to launch retaliatory strikes against the invader or kill Russians of a certain rank?
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1524625817677885440
Thread. Notable: even #Russia's overnight airstrikes on #Ukraine are now confined to the south-east. Ukrainian forces being encircled in Donetsk, Russia pushing on Popasna (Luhansk), consolidating in Kherson, and nibbling at Mykolaiv. But Kharkiv is lost.
https://twitter.com/TCG_CrisisRisks/status/1524623679971229696
#Russia now losing tanks deep within territories occupied in #Ukraine in 2014. Kiev's access to drones and other advanced weapons mean the "control" maps are in need of qualification, if Russian-held territories can be destabilised remotely like this.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1524448255379222528
"If #Ukraine had been part of #NATO before the war, there would have been no war", said President Zelensky in a speech to students at the French University Sciences Po. reuters.com/world/europe/u…
Pivoting from "#Ukraine will collapse quickly and welcome us", #Russia's propagandists explain the trouble in terms of an American-controlled Ukrainian army with a Nazified officer corps and - the real strength! - a rank-and-file that is really Russian
https://twitter.com/MarkGaleotti/status/1524647544307036163
Believe this when I see it
https://twitter.com/business/status/1524674763951677441
This is from two months ago ... As it turned out, the #Ukrainians on the ground were correct about the #Russian army they were facing
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1502094858940391426
#Russia's invasion has erased all the space in #Ukraine where identity, culture, and even allegiance was quite fluid: all this Russian "soft power" existed only in addition to the Ukrainian identity; as soon as they made it binary, they lost everything.
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1524698174094413824
#Japan confirmed its unified view with #Finland on how to deal with #Russia, and statements were made about a common approach to #China, too. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/gener…
A #Russian Spetsnaz officer involved in the theft of Crimea and in the missions to #Syria and #Libya has been killed in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1524710018334998529
Not totally surprising since the overlap between QAnon and Russian state messaging might not be as coincidental as all that
https://twitter.com/maxfras/status/1524385330652188673
The #Russian advance in Luhansk is of exactly the nature one would expect
https://twitter.com/Tomthescribe/status/1524718125085868032
#Russia is shipping grain stolen from #Ukraine to #Syria
https://twitter.com/jongambrellAP/status/1524360116770082816
#Britain's intelligence report: Despite #Russia making minor headway in Donbas, #Ukraine gaining ground around Kharkiv, a "tacit recognition of Russia's inability to capture Ukrainian cities where they expected limited resistance from the population"
https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1524625525930663937
"Siemens to withdraw from Russia after 170 years" standard.co.uk/business/sieme…
Short-termism again from the Kremlin: severing energy links between #Russia and #Finland will force a change on the Finns that would otherwise have taken ages and may never have happened. Now, after a brief disruption, the Russians will never come back.
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1524762944889888768
"If this president of #Russia was a normal person, then it would be possible to make predictions": Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean #Tatar Muslims, speaks about the situation of his people in #Ukraine after the Russian invasion. newlinesmag.com/essays/the-suf…
#Britain continues doing its part in #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1524806890143854592
.@NetGulagu reports that out of 30,000 #Russians asked the question, "Do the policies of Vladimir Putin's government, and the actions of his army and special services, protect your rights and interests?", a decisive 88% said, "No".
Really not sure #Russia wants to get any further into this game of trying to put conditionality on recognising borders and independent states, with #Lithuania or anyone else: it is playing a very bad hand whether the metrics chosen are historical or moral
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1524723270674698240
Zelensky has a point
https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1524883912572424192
Turkey tried to negotiate the surrender of Azovstal, the last Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol, and a prisoner exchange to get the Russians back some of their thousands of POWs, but Moscow refuses because it wants Zelensky to order the surrender
https://twitter.com/Ayei_Eloheichem/status/1524953798908686336
#Finland has a way of dealing with #Russia that is a little different from the "leading" EU states, France and Germany
https://twitter.com/BLABLA38480996/status/1515339527920967701
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