WSJ: Russia is bombing Odesa’s grain silos, port infrastructure, commercial ships, homes and energy sites. Life still goes on.
Resorts open, freight moves, cadets graduate, engineers repair substations, and the city keeps refusing to live on Moscow’s terms. 1/
Odesa keeps Ukraine connected to the world. The city sends billions of dollars in agricultural exports through the Black Sea and the Danube, even after years of Russian attempts to cut that route. 2/
Ukraine broke Russia’s naval blockade in late 2023. Sea drones and missiles pushed the Black Sea Fleet away from the coast and reduced the immediate threat of a landing operation. 3/
Browder: Trump screamed bloody murder about sending Ukraine military aid in similar dollar amounts, asking why spend money in a faraway place.
The same argument now applies to his own Iran war, and he's backed himself into a corner. 1/
Browder: Most pro-Putin voices in American media aren't doing it out of ideology — it's money.
The DOJ prosecuted people paid by Russia to push Russian talking points on podcasts before the 2024 election. I'd love to see Tucker Carlson spend a day in Ukraine's trenches. 2/
Browder: Bombing bridges and power plants is a war crime, full stop. That's what Putin is doing in Ukraine.
It would not befit America to commit the same war crimes openly against Iran. 3X
Browder: Russia has been providing Iran with targeted intelligence to track US troops — we've known this for a long time.
The Trump administration is contorting itself trying not to blame Russia, and honestly, that's pretty horrifying. 1/
Browder: A recent Economist/YouGov poll found a majority of Americans in every party support military aid for Ukraine and see Putin as a very bad actor.
Mollycoddling Russia the way this administration is doing just isn't in America's national interest. 2X
Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief Drapatyi in 2023: Ukraine is inconvenient for Russia’s history, because without Ukraine there is no Russia or empire.
That is why they still try to control us. Ukraine did not appear in 1991; it has centuries of culture, traditions and army.
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Drapatyi: In 7th or 8th grade, I dreamed of becoming a tank officer. After school, I entered the Kharkiv Tank Troops Institute.
That is how my military path began. My rule in life is simple: whatever I do, I do it well and responsibly, so I have nothing to be ashamed of.
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Drapatyi: In the hardest moments, the first rule is: do not panic. Assess the situation, look at the best case and the worst case, and see how to prevent the worst.
What helps me is cold calculation and a clear read of the situation before making a decision.
Kuleba: Once we ran low on Patriot interceptors and started taking cover for every alert instead of just some, that itself became a signal.
To partners, that we needed help, and to Russians, who already know our air-defense situation through their own intelligence anyway. 1/
Kuleba: My position on our strikes on Russian oil logistics is simple: for every warehouse Russia destroys in Ukraine, two should burn in Russia.
Call it whatever you want morally. If the UN wants us shot at while we sit and stay silent, I have no use for the UN. 2/
Kuleba: To collapse Russia's GDP further: bomb it, sink the shadow fleet, tighten EU and US sanctions, and pass the Graham bill sanctioning anyone who buys Russian oil.
A total economic war is starting, and it will bring real hardship to daily life on both sides. 3/