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Feb 19 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Zelensky pushes back on Trump with facts, not rhetoric.

Zelensky: The U.S. has provided Ukraine with $67 billion in military aid and $31 billion in budget support.

Trump’s $500 billion fossil fuel claim isn’t a serious conversation. 1/
Zelensky: This morning, a poll showed that 57% of people trust me. So if anyone is thinking about replacing me right now it won’t happen.

As for the claim about 4%, we’ve seen this disinformation and understand that it comes from Russia. 2/
Zelensky: The U.S. helped Putin break out of years-long isolation through negotiations in Saudi Arabia. 3/
Zelensky: Yesterday, we already saw attempts to portray Russia as a victim. That’s something new. 4/
Zelensky: In the next week or two, we will ask all platforms to conduct polls on trust levels for me, Trump, Tusk, Starmer, and Erdoğan. I will make the results public. 5/
Zelensky: I have started talks with European leaders and believe they will be ready to fund Ukraine's Armed Forces if the U.S. doesn’t. 6/
Zelensky: I will go to the front with Kellogg. Let him talk to the soldiers. 7/
Zelensky: We don’t have enough missiles to shoot down incoming attacks. At 5 a.m., the commander called me and said:

“Eight targets are approaching, but we have no air defense missiles left.” 8X

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Dec 10
That’s new! Japan publicly denies it rejected the EU’s request to join the Russian-asset plan — Reuters.

Vice Finance Minister Mimura: Japan has acted for Ukraine from our national interest, noting Japan could one day face a similar threat in East Asia. 1/ Image
Politico claimed Japan blocked the EU’s push for G7 backing to mirror Brussels’ plan to use proceeds from frozen Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukraine, and that Finance Minister Katayama opposed using Japan’s $30B in frozen Russian assets due to legal risks. 2/
Japan insists this account is incorrect.

Mimura: Katayama never said Japan wouldn’t participate, instead, she told G7 ministers that Tokyo is preparing concrete steps to support Ukraine.  3/
Read 5 tweets
Dec 9
Witkoff, Kushner and Putin’s envoy chief Kirill Dmitriev now bargain with Russia like it’s 1995 again.

They pitch deals in energy, rare earths, Arctic drilling, even a Mars trip with SpaceX, while they fold these offers straight into “peace talks”, The Moscow Times reports. 1/ Image
Dmitriev pushes one mission: pull U.S. money back into Russia. He waves profits in front of American negotiators and tells them Western firms “left billions on the table” after exiting in 2022.

Ukraine stays outside these talks. 2/
This returns us to two failed fantasies of the 1990s:

– business will “open” Russia;

– markets will “turn Russia democratic.”

Putin never played that game. He used the state to seize companies, feed his circle, and tighten control and war only hardened that system. 3/
Read 7 tweets
Dec 9
The EU plans to end all Russian gas imports by Sept 2027, but keeps buying fertiliser made from Russian gas, paying the Kremlin while it bombs Ukraine — The Economist.

Russia now supplies about one-third of fertiliser used by EU farmers, more than before the war. 1/ Image
Before the full-scale invasion, Russia supplied 30% of fertilisers bought by EU farmers. Imports dipped in 2022, then rebounded: by Q2 2025 its share was a third.

In June alone the EU imported 1m tonnes of Russian fertiliser, the highest monthly figure in a decade. 2/
Nitrogen fertilisers are gas in another form: producers turn natural gas into ammonia, then into plant food.

So Europe can ban Russian gas at the border and still import cheap fertiliser made from it. Russia now makes about one-fifth of the world’s fertiliser output. 3/
Read 8 tweets
Dec 9
FT: Russia planned terrorist attacks on flights from Europe to the United States.

European intelligences seized about 6 kg of explosives from the operatives — enough to carry out the deadliest aviation attack since September 11, 2001. 1/ Image
The first stage of the operation were explosions at DHL logistics centers in Poland, Germany, and the UK in 2023-2024.

The next step was to be the bombing of aircraft on routes to the US. 2/
At least 20 defendants have already been identified in Lithuania and Poland. The organizer of the operation fled to Azerbaijan. 3X
Read 4 tweets
Dec 9
US pressure on Zelenskyy has escalated sharply: according to two senior Ukrainian officials.

Washington is now pushing Kyiv to accept major territorial losses and other concessions in Trump’s peace plan — while Europeans tell Zelenskyy the opposite — Axios. 1/ Image
The core dispute:

- Russia demands all of Donbas, including areas it doesn’t control.
- Ukraine demands binding US security guarantees.

Ukrainian officials say the latest US proposal got worse after Kushner and Witkoff’s 5-hour meeting with Putin in the Kremlin. 2/
Kyiv claims Kushner and Witkoff pushed for a yes on the call.

Ukrainian official: It felt like the US was trying to sell us the Russian desire to take the whole Donbas and wanted Zelenskyy to accept it over the phone. 3/
Read 13 tweets
Dec 9
Ukraine will hand Washington a revised 20-point peace plan today.

Zelenskyy wants to block a U.S. draft Europe sees as tilted toward Moscow.

Zelenskyy: Ukraine gives up no land, that’s the red line, Reuters.

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In London, Zelenskyy, Starmer, Macron and Merz met to boost Ukraine’s leverage before new talks with Washington.

They also pushed for U.S. security guarantees strong enough to stop the next Russian attack.

2/
In Brussels, von der Leyen, Costa and Rutte told Zelenskyy: No peace without full sovereignty and real long-term security.

Seven EU states pressed to finally use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine.

3/
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