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JP Lindsley | Journalist

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Oct 24

1/ Trump's rhetoric on Ukraine has fundamentally shifted.

Before: "We need to stop the killing" (making Russia & Ukraine sound equal)

Now: "Stop the Russian war machine" (calling out the aggressor)

But Ukraine is STILL blowing their chance to close the deal.

Here's why 🧵⤵️

2/ On Thursday Trump's Treasury secretary sanctioned Russia's two largest oil companies, calling them fuel for "the Kremlin's war machine."

This is huge. The White House finally acknowledges Russia must be stopped.

But they STILL don't believe in or even understand Ukraine. ⤵️

3/ The moment that revealed the misunderstanding::

West Wing Cabinet Room, Friday. Trump discusses Tomahawk missiles—millions per unit, America's finest.

Zelensky interjects: "We can offer you drones."

If you don't understand drone warfare in Ukraine, the notion sounded laughable! ⤵️

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Oct 17

1/ A Ukrainian father built toy tanks for children's parks. Then Russia invaded.

Now his combat robots are hunting real Russian tanks on the battlefield.

This is the wild story of how one inventor went from amusement rides to building Ukraine's robot army 🧵⤵️

2/ As @DefenderMediaUA reports, the transformation of Tank Bureau perfectly captures Ukraine's wartime innovation spirit.

In 2017, Dmytro Mamonov was building mini T-34 replicas for kids to ride in Kyiv parks ... ⤵️

3/ Everything changed when cluster munitions hit Mamonov's neighborhood in Sloviansk (📸), Donbas region.

He went west to Zhytomyr with his family and started working in a garage to make not toys but an electric stretcher to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield. ⤵️

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Oct 13

1/ "In Donbas, Ukrainians are killing waves of Russians on motorbikes—

—but when the Russians stall at the front, they bomb Ukrainian cities.”

A trusted frontline Ukrainian officer told me how Ukraine is holding the line—and the ONE plot-changing thing Trump can do 🧵⤵️

2/ The hinge is Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian town meaning "protection of the Virgin Mary."

For 13 months, self-serving, lazy Western media & think-tank “experts” predicted it would fall to Russia:

Sept ’24, Dec ’24, June ’25, July, last week…

It hasn’t. Ukraine keeps holding.⤵️

3/ Why it matters: If Pokrovsk falls, the “dam” protecting left-bank Ukraine cracks, potentially giving Russia a wide run over half of the vast country.

What the media won't tell you: “Our superpower is the motivation not to lose," the frontline officer tells me. ⤵️

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Oct 6

🧵 1/ Yesterday, Russia bombed Ukraine's most Catholic city.

Despite the air raid, people walked to Mass. Priests chanted in Latin as walls shook.

Every virtue @JDVance says Europe has lost is alive in Lviv.

And Putin wants it erased before MAGA learns the truth. 🧵⤵️

2/ At dawn on October 5, Russia sent Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and scores of killer drones in the biggest attack on Lviv since World War II.

Journalist David Kirichenko (@DVKirichenko) reports in @Forbes: This was targeted—at Ukraine's Catholic and cultural heart. ⤵️

3/ Lviv is the world's largest Greek Catholic city—in union with the Pope, but orthodox in style.

Russia has hated & banned Greek Catholics for centuries because it couldn't control them.

As Rutgers professor Alexander Motyl says: Lviv embodies Ukrainian resistance. ⤵️

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@JPLindsley

Oct 2

1/ See the fire here? That's a Russian oil refinery.

The Russian War Machine, though insanely violent, is proving to be a paper tiger when you strike its heart.

It's drones, rather than diplomats, who are making this possible.

Here's what Trump is starting to see. 🧵⤵️

2/ Ukraine has knocked offline 38% of Russia’s oil refineries, forced its Black Sea navy into retreat, and built a drone wall accounting for 80% of Russian equipment losses.

As David Kirichenko (@DVKirichenko) reports via the @LowyInstitute, Russia is facing chaos. ⤵️

3/ The economics:

⦿ Fuel shortages even for military
⦿ Massive queues at petrol stations
⦿ Moscow forced to boost gas imports from failed Belarus by 36%
⦿ A ballooning deficit of 5.7 trillion roubles

The war economy is running on fumes. It just needs a few more blows. ⤵️

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JP Lindsley | Journalist

@JPLindsley

Oct 1

1/ Today is the Feast of the Protective Veil of the Virgin Mary—"Pokrovsk" in Ukrainian.

Pokrovsk is ALSO a besieged city that's held on as THE protective veil of the eastern front.

Experts said it would fall a year ago.

The media is missing this amazing story.🧵⤵️

2/ The headlines in 2024:

“Pokrovsk might fall to Russia”—Euronews, Aug 30

“Pokrovsk…packing up fast, Russians 7 miles away”—Guardian, Aug 27

“Pokrovsk on cusp of falling”—Al Jazeera, Sept 4

“Just 1.5 km outside Pokrovsk”—Reuters, Dec 13

👋 It's 2025. Pokrovsk holds. ⤵️

3/ @DVKirichenko wrote in Forbes last month:

“The news cycle grew darker each week… Yet, more than a year later, Pokrovsk still stands. That in itself is a major victory.”

BECAUSE Pokrovsk has held, bigger cities like Dnipro are shielded! Many experts miss this point! ⤵️

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