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Nov 5 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Scoop: The Biden administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless Putin is removed from power, per sources washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The request by US officials is not aimed at pushing Ukraine to the negotiating table but an attempt to ensure the government in Kyiv maintains the support of other nations facing constituencies wary of fueling a war for many years to come. W/ @missy_ryan @PaulSonne
While U.S. officials share Ukraine’s assessment that Putin, for now, isn’t serious about negotiations, they acknowledge that Zelensky’s ban on talks with him has generated concern in parts of Europe, Africa and Latin America. “Ukraine fatigue is a real thing”

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Sep 1
Interesting development: The nuclear inspectors trying to get to the plant have been held up by Ukraine's military for "three hours," says IAEA spokesman. "Grossi has personally negotiated with Ukrainian military authorities to be able to proceed."
.@rafaelmgrossi "remains determined that this important mission reaches the ZNPP today."
@rafaelmgrossi Interfax-Ukraine now reporting that the IAEA convoy has passed the checkpoint and is moving into the "grey zone" where small arms fire was heard interfax.com.ua/news/general/8…
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Aug 26
Russia has agreed to let IAEA experts arrive first in Ukraine’s capital before visiting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba in an interview today.

That was a key hurdle in negotiations. Visit expected imminently.
The Russians are insisting that Russian media be present, Kuleba says.
“The Russians want to send Russian media to the power plant to welcome the the delegation and to stage a propaganda show,” he said. “I’m sure they are doing a lot of cleaning in all senses of the word.”
Biggest fear for Ukraine is that IAEA visit will bless the protocols being followed at the plant, and seem to legitimize Russia’s occupation.
“This is the worst case scenario,” Kuleba said.
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Aug 24
KYIV -- In remarks beside Zelensky, Boris Johnson took a hard line against offering concessions to Putin in order to end the devastating conflict saying “you can’t negotiate with a bear when it’s eating your leg.”
At home, Johnson’s bold visit may draw guffaws as an expensive vanity project for an outgoing PM seeking to rehabilitate his scandal-prone image.

When asked by a reporter if he wishes he were as popular in Britain as he was in Ukraine, Johnson simply said “yes.”
What’s not in dispute is the closeness of the relationship between Johnson and Zelensky, whom Ukrainian and British officials say speak frequently and with great warmth. Britain has given more defensive weapons to Ukraine than any other European country,
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Aug 9
coincidentally, I ran into @chefjoseandres on the streets of Kyiv this week, taking a phone call on a dark patch of the sidewalk with a cigar in hand. I asked him what he was up to & he said he was heading to Bucha tomorrow to look at one of his food distribution centers
I joined him on the trip to the Kyiv suburb, which remains scarred from the horrendous fighting and atrocities that occurred there but has also recovered dramatically. The streets were clean of debris and burnt-out cars, though signs of what transpired were abundant
Andres was last in Bucha on April 1, a day after it was liberated from Russian forces. He remarked on how things had changed:
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Jun 21
A few weeks ago, I came across an oddity: A Russian-born fashion model who decided to leave her life behind in NYC, declare support for Putin and attempt to start a clothing line to fill the shelves of Moscow's now-abandoned Zaras & H&Ms 🧵
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
The model, Kira Dikhtyar, is best known in the U.S. for her stint on the reality TV show “The Face” where she brawled with an aspiring Black model and ran afoul of former supermodel Naomi Campbell
(The two were also involved in a subsequent tabloid feud that got messy)
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May 14
The unprecedented influx of arms to Ukraine is prompting fears that powerful weapons could fall into the hands of Western adversaries or reemerge in faraway conflicts 1/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Ukraine’s history as a hub for arms trafficking dates back to the fall of the Iron Curtain, when the Soviets left behind stocks of arms without adequate record-keeping. It worsened after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, which saw combatants looting arms storage facilities
The State Dept says it thoroughly vets Ukrainian units & required Kyiv to sign contracts prohibiting “the retransfer of equipment without prior U.S. authorization.” But the means of enforcing such contracts are weak & made weaker by America's mixed history of compliance
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