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Sep 3 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian marine Vladyslav Zadorin lost 60 kg, his gallbladder, and nearly his toes in almost 2 years of Russian captivity. Russians captured him on day 1 in 2022 at Snake Island and moved him through 7 prisons in Russia and occupied Ukraine.

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Russians stripped new POWs and ran them through a gauntlet: batons, stun guns, brass knuckles, glass bottles. They electrocuted every body part, set dogs on men, forced fights. They smashed bottles over Zadorin’s head and broke 3 vertebrae with a hammer.

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UN: over 95% of released POWs report torture. As of summer 2025, Ukraine freed 6,400 captives; thousands remain. Russia blocks Red Cross access, leaving guards free to torture with no oversight.

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Captivity cripples survivors: untreated infections, TB, hepatitis, cancers. A Russian doctor branded “Glory to Russia” on a POW during surgery. Constant electric shocks wreck hearts; one victim needed double leg amputations. Many die 2–3 months after release.

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Starvation, filthy yellow water, no care. Guards gave Zadorin size 41 shoes for size 45 feet; his toes began to rot. Surgeons removed his stone-hard gallbladder. He lives with a broken spine and trauma.

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Sep 4
Putin hasn’t just found partners—he’s flaunting them. In Beijing, he stood with Xi, Modi, Iran’s Pezeshkian, and Kim, showing a bloc that fuels his war and challenges Western dominance. CNN: Europe now feels in the firing line.

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Russia’s war lifelines: Chinese & Indian money, Iranian drones & weapons, North Korean manpower. This bloc keeps Moscow fighting after 3.5 years. Isolation hasn’t broken Putin—it gave him new leverage.

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China & India call themselves “neutral” but bankroll Russia with oil buys & dual-use tech. U.S. Treasury: their firms supply chips & telecom parts ending up in Russian drones.

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Sep 4
Ukraine knocked out up to 20% of Russia’s refining—over 1M barrels/day, The Economist.

Since early Aug it hit more than a dozen refineries and depots. On Aug 30 drones struck Krasnodar and Syzran supplying Russian units. In 2025, 40% of UA long-range targets are refineries.

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Forecourts across Russia run dry, queues grow. Wholesale petrol prices jumped +54% since Jan 2025, hitting records. Moscow banned gasoline exports and ordered rationing in some regions. Jan–Jul budget deficit: $61.4B. Strikes now cover an 800 km arc from Ryazan to Volgograd.

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Ukraine’s FP-1 drone drives the campaign: built at ~100 per day, cost $55K, range 1,600 km, 60–120 kg warhead, hardened against jamming. Lyutyi drones also used. Larger swarms overwhelm air defenses, repeatedly hitting the same sites to choke fuel flows to the front.

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Sep 4
I knew Daria. Students like her are the reason I came back to Ukraine, the reason I am building a university.

She embodied the Ukraine I imagine — because Ukraine is its people. People like Daria. 1/ Image
Daria was killed at the front. She was our student at KSE Univeristy and chose to join Azov to defend Ukraine.

We are incredibly proud of her. And it hurts, unbearably, for me and for all of us. 2/
This time evil won. I will do everything in my power to keep Daria’s memory alive at KSE, to make sure she remains present for us.

For now, we feel like she is only absent from the room — as if she stepped out for coffee. 3/
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Sep 3
Nataliya Gumenyuk for Foreign Affairs: The Aug 15 Alaska summit didn’t end the war. Putin offered no credible terms; Trump met him without Ukraine at the table. Ukrainians expect a long fight and thinner U.S. support.

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Russia hits cities almost nightly; the front runs 750 miles. On Aug 28, a strike on Kyiv killed 22 in a five-story block. Some nights bring 500+ drones/missiles; that night Ukraine shot down 563 drones and 26 missiles.

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The front: Russia pressed the Pokrovsk axis; Ukraine checked breaches but faces pressure in Zaporizhzhia and elsewhere. Putin still aims to occupy all of Donetsk and even floated taking the Kramatorsk–Slovyansk “fortress belt”in a “deal.”

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Sep 3
Putin: We have always opposed Ukraine becoming a NATO member, but we have never objected to its membership in the EU.

Every country has the right to choose its own security system, this also applies to Ukraine, but not at the expense of another country’s security. 1/
Putin: Every country must have security guarantees, including Ukraine, but this is not related to territorial exchanges.

We are not fighting for territories, but for people’s rights to speak their own language [Russian].

If people expressed their will to be part of Russia, that opinion must be respected. 2/
Putin: As for a meeting with Zelensky, I have never ruled out such a possibility, but whether it makes sense is another matter.

According to the Constitution of Ukraine, the extension of the President’s powers is not provided for. 3/
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Sep 3
Finnish President Stubb told Trump and Zelenskyy that Finland "found a solution in 1944" and can help Ukraine in 2025.

Finland ceded 10% of its land to Russia but kept its independence and democracy, unlike many other former Russian territories — The Economist. 1/ Image
Stubb said Finland "still feel we won" despite losing territory. In 1944, with 21 years of independence and under the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Finland faced Stalin's invasion.

Led by Mannerheim, they balanced fighting and accepting a "bitter peace" to keep independence. 2/
After 16 weeks of brutal fighting, Mannerheim told troops the army "still stands unconquered" despite enemy numbers.

Over 400,000 Finns from Karelia were evacuated. His speech reached Zelenskyy early in the war but was "put to one side.” 3/
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