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Jan 16, 2025 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
Zelensky: we killed 30-35 000 Russians in Kursk, Trump is a strong leader feared by Putin.

Russia can occupy any EU country, and so EU can’t survive without Ukraine army.
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Ukraine is not talking to Russia behind closed doors.

In the EU, some try to play both sides, being friendly with Russia or pretending to balance things.

For me, the union is important - union in support, in geopolitics, in weapons, in sanctions, in the EU, in NATO.

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Ukraine needs security guarantees before any talks. Not just for Ukrainians, but for everyone.

It's clear - Russia is the enemy, and they can occupy any European country if they want.

They have the power to do it. We need to stop Putin from making any more moves.

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Trump really wants to end the war. That's his message - both publicly and privately. He's a strong leader who can put real pressure on Russia.

Russia fears America, China, and a united Europe when it comes to military power.

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Europe without Ukraine's army can't fight Russia.

Russia’s army is bigger, stronger, and more experienced. Europe hasn’t seen real war in years.

Ukraine isn’t just a wall. It's holding the line of defense. If Ukraine falls, Europe’s next.

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Europe should ramp up production 2-3 times for themselves.

What they give to Ukraine is fine, but this is about tomorrow, not just Ukraine.

Europe needs to show Russia that Europe can produce more and is ready. This hits Putin where it hurts.

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The West is missing something very simple.

Russians will keep going, and that’s just the way it is.
This is the key to understanding everything else.

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If you knew Russia was going to push forward, why not fully support Ukraine?

Why not boost military production and sanction all Russian missiles?

These missiles can fly 1,000-2,000 miles -  they’ll hit Europe. It’ll be just like in Ukraine today.

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Slovakian politicians don’t really understand war.

It’s trendy to say we should befriend Russia and stop helping Ukraine.

Fico is playing with fire. He won’t get it until the war hits his doorstep. Evil must be punished.

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On Ukraine-Poland relations: We've had our ups and downs throughout history.

This war is the toughest challenge we've faced in a long time.

But today, our relationship is stronger than ever. I don't want to lose it.

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Feb 10
Russian schools now teach children that Winston Smith — the hero of Orwell’s 1984 — was a “radical” with “destructive behavior” — The Times.

In the novel, Smith resists a totalitarian state, questions propaganda, and hates the ruling Party.

In Tomsk, Russia frames it as a crime.

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1984 was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 and circulated underground among dissidents.

In 2022 it became the most downloaded fiction book in Russia.

Officials claimed readers loved it not as a warning about totalitarianism, but as a critique of “modern liberalism.”

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A school in Tomsk showed pupils Harry Potter, Batman Begins, and 1984 in one program.

The goal, according to the school: to teach children “why heroes become criminals” and how to spot “destructive behavior.”

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Feb 10
Russian Ambassador to the UK Kelin: We could fight in Ukraine like the US did in Iraq, crushing cities, but we don’t. This war is slow and ‘surgical,’ to preserve civilians.

[Russia killed more than 15,000 civilians since 2022, this is how they preserve civilians.]

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Kelin: Three rounds of peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul brought little result except prisoner exchanges.

Russia sticks to the Anchorage understandings with the US. Ukraine, despite a losing position, is trying to dictate its own terms.

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Kelin: Of course the talks matter. With or without the U.S., we need to work through many details.

Russia has proposed three tracks — military, political, humanitarian. Dialogue at different levels and formats is better than continued fighting.

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Feb 10
Yuliia Dvornychenko from Ukraine’s Donetsk region spent two years in Russian captivity. Her two sons waited the entire time.

Yuliia: I was tortured: electric shocks, stripped, beaten. They threatened to send my kids to an orphanage. I signed anything to stop it. — DW.

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Yuliia: People traveled from occupied areas to Ukraine-controlled territory to buy basics, collect pensions, get medicine. Everyone needed to get out; for some, just to breathe.

We’d go with the kids to see the difference between life under occupation and outside it.

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Yuliia: The unit that captured me got 500,000 rubles($6,500) for taking Ukrainian “spies.” My younger son slept, the older saw everything.

Then the kids were alone for a month, the occupation security service banned neighbors from helping.

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Feb 9
The EU may give Ukraine EU-level protections before full membership

The EU is weighing a peace-deal formula that grants Kyiv early access to EU membership rights and safeguards, locking in a time-bound path to full accession, possibly by 2027 — Bloomberg.

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One option would grant Ukraine up-front accession protections, legal, economic, and regulatory safeguards, plus immediate access to selected EU rights, before formal membership.

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At the same time, the EU would lock in a time-bound accession roadmap, fixed steps and deadlines, replacing today’s open-ended process that can stall for years.

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Feb 9
Shot and bleeding in a dugout, Ukrainian soldier convinced his Russian captors to surrender.

Volodymyr Aleksandrov lay wounded in hand and pelvis as an FPV mine blocked the entrance and drones hunted above. “If I was going to die, I would take them with me” — Hromadske. 1/ Image
Russian troops ambushed Aleksandrov and his partner while they collected food dropped by drone.

Russians fired from a house, wounded him, argued over killing him, then kept him alive to register a live prisoner for money. 2/
Russians carried Aleksandrov into the dugout and stepped on their own FPV mine.

The blast tore off part of one soldier’s leg, wounded another, and hit Aleksandrov again — shrapnel wounded his shoulder and ear and left him concussed. 3/
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Feb 9
Russia gave its main security agency legal power to shut down internet and phone service nationwide. Like in Iran: cut the web when protests erupt.

If crowds fill Moscow’s streets, the switch is ready — United24.

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The State Duma passed the law on Jan. 27.

The UK Ministry of Defence says it lets the FSB order total communication blackouts for vaguely defined “security threats,” with no clear limits and no oversight.

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The order takes effect immediately.

Telecom operators must cut internet, mobile, landline, and messaging services the moment the FSB demands it — no court order, no appeal.

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