Post

twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

More from @anno1540

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 26

1/
Russia does not have the military power to seize Ukraine: ISW explained why there is no "big concession" that Trump is talking about

2/
US President Donald Trump recently called Russia's alleged abandonment of plans to occupy all of Ukraine a "very significant concession."

- However,
the Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion precisely for this purpose, and subsequent years of bloody war have demonstrated Russia's inability to achieve this goalobozrevatel.com/ukr/person/don…

3/
Therefore, "renouncing" something that Russia is incapable of doing can hardly be considered a "major concession," according to a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
understandingwar.org/backgrounder/r…

Analysts recalled that in 2022, Russia expected to capture #Kyiv in February-March in order to force Ukraine to completely surrender, overthrow the current Ukrainian government, and disarm the Ukrainian army, which would mean the complete defeat of Ukraine.

Russia failed to achieve this goal.

The Ukrainian military, with limited Western support, stopped the Russian offensive on the Ukrainian capital, as well as the advance of Russian troops in the east and south of the country.

And then,
by early April, they forced the Russians to flee from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions, and a few months later liberated most of the Kharkiv region and part of the Kherson region, including Kherson

Read 6 tweets

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 25

1/
Trump will not be able to jump off, because dictator Putin will not let him out of this situation. Interview with the Immortal

Last week in Paris, the United States presented its proposal for a settlement of the war to Ukraine and its European partners and awaited their response at talks in London.

That meeting of high-ranking representatives of Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, which was supposed to present a joint plan for a peaceful settlement, never took place.

- This is not surprising, because the "Trump plan", the presentation of which had been awaited for a long time, as it turned out, resembles more of a Putin-style "comprehension of the goals of the "SVO" than a list of mutual concessions.

The scale of this demand shows that Trump’s negotiator Steve Witkoff has apparently already made a deal with Putin during the talks in St. Petersburg, and that the US is now trying to impose it on the Europeans and Ukraine.

What the Kremlin is demanding today, and which, regrettably, the US supports, is nothing more than rewriting the internationally recognized borders of Europe for the Russian dictator Putin.

Of course, neither Europe nor Ukraine will agree to such steps. At a press conference in Kyiv on the eve of the announced meeting in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that recognizing Crimea as Russian is out of the question.

One way or another, but now the question arises - what will happen next?

Will the US, as it threatened the day before, withdraw from the negotiation process, recognizing this as the first foreign policy defeat of US President Donald Trump, or will they continue to "twist the hands" of Ukraine and Europe?

Ukrainian diplomat and politician Roman Bezsmertny shared his thoughts on these and other relevant issues in an exclusive interview.

2/
The scale of this demand shows that Trump’s negotiator Steve Witkoff has apparently already made a deal with Putin during the talks in St. Petersburg, and that the US is now trying to impose it on the Europeans and Ukraine.

What the Kremlin is demanding today, and which, regrettably, the US supports, is nothing more than rewriting the internationally recognized borders of Europe for the Russian dictator Putin.

- Of course, neither Europe nor Ukraine will agree to such steps.

At a press conference in #Kyiv on the eve of the announced meeting in London, Ukrainian President Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa said that recognizing Crimea as Russian is out of the question.

One way or another, but now the question arises - what will happen next?

Will the US, as it threatened the day before, withdraw from the negotiation process, recognizing this as the first foreign policy defeat of US President Donald Trump ,
obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/don…

- or will they continue to "twist the hands" of Ukraine and Europe?

3/
Ukrainian diplomat and politician Roman Bezsmertny shared his thoughts on these and other relevant issues in an exclusive interview
obozrevatel.com/ukr/person/288…

– In Paris, the US presented its proposal to Ukraine and its European partners on the settlement of the war and waited for a response at the talks in London, but the meeting never took place.

Even before the start of the meeting, it became clear that the negotiations in the British capital lacked not only a common agenda, but also the declared key participants.

After all, the "Trump plan", the presentation of which had been awaited for a long time, as it turned out, more resembles Putin's so-called "comprehension of the goals of the "SVO"

- than a list of mutual concessions.

It is not surprising that Russia has already stated that this plan of the US president to end the war in Ukraine will be included in Russian school textbooks

Read 14 tweets

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 23

1/
Today, Friedrich Merz says he wants Europe to gain complete "independence" from the US, and has put forward the idea of creating a new European defense union to replace NATO, including nuclear cooperation with France and the UK.

He is hawkish on Russia and, apparently, intends to speak out against Trump just as decisively.

obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-mi…

2/
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
obozrevatel.com/ukr/location/g…
have reached a coalition agreement, which was concluded against the backdrop of strong pressure on German politicians to quickly form a new government that can confront the historic challenges of US President Donald @realDonaldTrump trade war and the military threat from Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Friedrich Merz is likely to be elected as German Chancellor on May 6.

The coalition agreement is expected to be signed the day before. This is good news for Ukraine, as the coalition that Merz has assembled has every chance of agreeing on a much more active line of support for Ukraine and strengthening European security than Germany has managed in recent years

3/
Today, Friedrich Merz says he wants Europe to gain complete "independence"

- from the United States and has proposed a new European defense alliance to replace NATO, including nuclear cooperation with France and the United Kingdom.

He is hawkish on Russia and is likely to be just as determined to oppose Trump. Merz is trying to position himself as a supporter of increased military aid to Ukraine and is in favor of supplying Taurus missiles.

"In this Europe, Germany must play a leading role. We must take on this responsibility. I, for one, am determined to do this," Merz notes.

Read 20 tweets

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 23

1/
Rubio canceled his trip to London because Zelensky did not want to recognize Crimea as Russian, - CNN

cnn.com/2025/04/23/eur…

2/
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend talks in London on Wednesday aimed at working toward an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine,

as Kyiv signaled it would reject a key detail of the Trump administration’s proposal to end the three-year conflictcnn.com/world/europe/u…

3/
Rubio had been expected to take part in the discussions with Ukrainian, UK and European officials, but State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said Tuesday that he would no longer attend due to “logistical issues.”

President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will represent the US instead, Bruce said.

The talks follow a meeting in Paris last week in which officials from the US, the United Kingdom, France and Germany discussed a US framework for a ceasefire

The proposal includes recognizing Russia’s control of Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, an official familiar with the framework told CNN. It would also put a ceasefire in place along the front lines of the war, the official said
cnn.com/2025/04/21/eur…

Read 8 tweets

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 22

1/
The explosion of the Crimean Bridge on the morning of October 8, 2022 was a carefully calculated special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine .

Apparently, none of the eight defendants currently on trial by the occupiers actually consciously participated in the sabotage and did not know what it was all about.

obozrevatel.com/ukr/politics-n…

2/
The BBC ,
bbc.com/ukrainian/arti…
citing its own sources, in particular in the SBU, reported how a cargo containing explosives – construction film in rolls – ended up on the Kerch Bridge . The DAF truck transporting it flew into the air. The flames spread to the fuel tanks of a railway train passing along a parallel railway branch of the bridge.

As a result, two spans of the roadway collapsed, and the railway tracks were damaged over a section over a kilometer long

3/
Detailed planning

The development of a complex plan to blow up the Kerch Bridge began in the spring of 2022. And only on October 8 – the day after dictator Vladimir Putin's birthday – did the "cotton" happen

SBU Chief Vasyl Malyuk previously stated that this symbolic "coincidence" was actually carefully planned.

"The bridge was a symbol for the Russian Federation: the enemy spent $8 billion on its construction. This bridge is mega-protected. And we showed that we are capable of conducting our own special operations on such an important facility for the enemy," he explained

The SBU reported that immediately after the explosion, Russian investigators detained 22 people , but due to a lack of evidence, they were unable to prove the guilt of most of them. The Russian authorities accused eight people of involvement in the explosion . They allegedly acted as part of a "criminal group." But Ukrainian special services insist that there was no group involved - people were used blindly.

" We went through seven circles of hell, we used so many people in the dark! They are all accused of complicity in a terrorist act. Although in reality they were doing their usual routine business. They were ordinary Russian smugglers," Malyuk said in an interview in 2023.

Read 13 tweets

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

@anno1540

Apr 22

12
Putin may "forget" about Kherson and Zaporizhia if he is given a "gift" on May 9. Intervie2w with Ivan Stupak

war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/putin-mozh…

2/
One of the main reasons for Russia's aggression against Ukraine

since the very beginning of the war, since 2014, was an attempt to divert the attention of the world community from the annexation of Crimea.obozrevatel.com/topic/vojna-v-…

3/
The large-scale war that is currently underway is also directly related to the Crimean issue. Currently, the US administration is voicing proposals for Ukraine to recognize Crimea as Russian, and this recognition could be a "bun" that could really satisfy

Read 13 tweets

Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @anno1540

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!