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Jun 4, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read Read on X
I was in Dnipro today. A missile hit this building earlier this year. 46 people burned and evaporated.

Dnipro is close to the border and missiles can come any time without warning.

Yesterday, there was an attack and more people died.

But the city lives. 1/ Image
Just next to the destroyed building there is a new development full of live. 2/
There is beautiful architecture and art 3/ Image
People open and operate upscale stores, designed by Ukrainians, and giving a shockingly different vibe. 4/
The authorities put up shelters around the city so that people can get to some kind of safer if there is no warning attack. 5/ Image
The city is clean, garbage collection is working. 6/
They appear to be playful and in good mood. But the moment you talk to them you see trauma, fear, exhausting, commitment, resilience and anger. All at once. 7/ Image
The drinks are innovative. This is a lemonade with raspberries. 8/ Image
Our waiter was giving attitude :))9/ Image
I have not slept well for weeks now, but even my mood got lighten up. 10/ Image
And the colors of the city are beautiful. 11/ Image
Dnipro city is wonderful, and it is horrible crime what Russians are doing to it. There are good people in Dnipro, goof humans, who want to live free. Without Russia. And it will happen. 12X

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Nov 5
Hodges: Trump is sincere when he says he wants to end the killing in Ukraine and see peace.

The problem is he hasn’t done what’s necessary for lasting peace. He won’t say Russia is the aggressor or tell Putin to get his troops out. 1/
Hodges: The hope was that Putin would overreach and make Trump angry enough to act, using his economic and diplomatic leverage and aid for Ukraine.

But he’s been hesitant. Now Putin has crossed the line, keeping the same maximalist objectives after planned Budapest meeting. 2/
Hodges: The USSR collapse caught us by surprise. Millions became free, but it left a terrible situation in Russia leading to today. Strategically, we should anticipate what happens if the Putin regime collapses. 3/
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Nov 5
Sikorski, Poland's Foreign Minister: We have a war at our borders.

Ukraine plans to resist for three years. Our job is to provide resources.

Russia’s economy is already weakening. As in World War I, the war may end when one side can no longer sustain it.

1/
Q: Will Ukraine survive this winter?
Sikorski: Russia is targeting electricity to force civilian hardship, push Ukraine to capitulate.

Ukraine's striking refineries that fuel Russia’s war effort. Race between pressure on civilians and pressure on the Russian war machine. 2/
Q: Kasparov says Putin rejected negotiations because stopping the war means losing power. Do you agree?

Sikorski: Yes, leader who starts an illegal war cannot admit failure and survive. For Putin, continuing a bad war is safer than accepting a bad peace.

3/
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Nov 5
Me: The situation in Pokrovsk is critical. Russians are inside the city — not in large numbers, but fighting them is extremely hard.

Ukraine has sent reinforcements. The town is destroyed yet crucial, as it opens the path deeper into Ukraine, my interview for CNN. 1/
Me: Winter cuts both ways. Frozen ground makes kill zones easier but supply harder. If Russians push beyond Pokrovsk, they may gain some advantage, yet moving will be tough.

For Ukrainians, defense will be brutal too. Winter makes everything harder on both sides. 2/
Me: Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s energy sites matter — they cause shortages, disrupt logistics, and weaken operations near the front. These are real, military “sanctions.”

They won’t force Putin to negotiate yet, but they create pressure that makes talks likelier later. 3/
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Nov 5
War is reshaping Ukraine.

Kharkiv, 40 km from Russia, faces constant strikes. Lviv, 70 km from Poland, is booming as people and companies move west.

Since 2022, Lviv’s population has reached 1 million, with 280 firms relocated, including 60 from Kharkiv. — The Economist.
1/ Image
Lviv’s mayor Andriy Sadovyi says the city gained a new industrial park, a university and EU-funded rail links to Poland and Romania.

The historic center is full again with residents, tourists and students. Geography now defines opportunity.

2/
Kharkiv, once Ukraine’s second-largest city, is half-empty.

Before the invasion, it had 270,000 students; now most study online. Human-rights advocate Nataliya Zubar says only 1.2–1.3 million of its 1.6 million residents remain.

3/
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Nov 5
Lukoil’s overseas assets may soon get a new owner.

Swedish billionaire Torbjörn Törnqvist, CEO of Gunvor, plans to buy the Russian oil giant’s foreign operations (worth up to $20B) after new U.S. sanctions hit Lukoil, reports WSJ. 1/ Image
If approved by the U.S. and U.K., the acquisition would hand Gunvor control of refineries across Europe, gas stations from the Bronx to Sicily, and oil fields in the Middle East and Central Asia.

2/
Gunvor says no buy-back deal exists for Lukoil after the war. The company has asked Washington and London for sanctions clearance, stressing it made “no such assurances.”

3/
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A Ukrainian double agent known as “Andrei” is playing Russia at its own game - The Telegraph.

When the FSB ordered him to bomb a government building, he built the device, sent the coordinates and let Ukraine’s SBU catch the Russian courier red-handed.

1/ Image
Andrei answers FSB “job ads” on social media, poses as a saboteur, and flips the missions into sting operations - helping Kyiv foil attacks and capture collaborators.

2/
The FSB pays up to $5,000 for arson or sabotage and even $3 per fake “Nazi graffiti” photo to fuel propaganda.

Agents post on Telegram, luring desperate Ukrainians to act as mercenaries.

3/
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