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Former Ukraine PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk: The position of the American administration is to avoid involving the EU in negotiations with Russia on Ukraine.

Zelenskyy performed here to the maximum — everything that could be said and everyone that could be met, he did it. 1/
Yatsenyuk: We have to prepare for the next winter. Russia caused $65B in damage to Ukraine's energy sector.

Without long-range missiles, without Tomahawks, without Ukraine having the ability to retaliate, we will not be able to ensure energy security for the next year. 2/
Yatsenyuk: Starmer's statement is very clear. Even if a peace agreement is signed — Great Britain, the EU, and everyone else must continue funding Ukraine's defense.

He is saying that even if a peace agreement is signed, Russia will continue preparing for the next offensive. 3/
Yatsenyuk: Putin is not really negotiating. He wants to drag out negotiations, delay sanctions, sow discord within the EU, and keep bombing Ukraine.

Come to Kyiv if you're tired. There isn't always water and almost never electricity. That's what Putin is counting on. 4/
Yatsenyuk: China's FM statement is a textbook example of cynicism — they completely repeated Lavrov's narrative. China finances Russian economy, supplies dual-use goods, cooperates on intelligence, sponsors North Korea. They are co-conspirators in Russia's war. 5/
Yatsenyuk: These are no negotiations — even Russian FM calls them consults. Medinsky is a nobody with no authority. Ukraine sent the head of President's Office, diplomats, military. Russia sent no one allowed to make decisions. There isn't even a hint of a real negotiations. 6/
Yatsenyuk: If NATO had accepted Ukraine in 2008, there would have been no Georgia, no Crimea, no great war. Rubio's arrival here is perceived far better than JD Vance's visit last year. But there are cracks in NATO — and they need to be mended. 7X
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Feb 19
In Geneva, Ukraine tries to prevent Russia from getting Donbas but to no avail.

The latest round of talks ended without progress, as Moscow demands Kyiv hand over a 50×40 mile strip of territory in Donetsk as the price for ending the war. — NYT 1/ Image
Russia wants a strip of land about 50 miles long and 40 miles wide between the frontline and the administrative border of Donetsk region, covering dozens of towns and villages.

Ukraine refuses to withdraw unilaterally. 2/
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Zelenskyy: “Allowing the aggressor to take something is a big mistake.” 3/
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Feb 19
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Trump sees the world through a superpower lens: when a superpower tells a country what to do, it should comply.

Ukraine doesn’t fit that worldview.

1/
Former Ukrainian FM Kuleba: I don’t expect any deal before the end of winter.

Russia bringing Medinsky back sends a signal: “We’re not in a hurry.”

This is a circus. He’s a clown, not a negotiator.

2/
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First: the front stabilizes. He can no longer claim “we advance every day, we hold the initiative.”

Second: Russia’s economic problems become so severe that he needs a pause to ease sanctions pressure.

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Sanction one firm — another appears. But mapping the full network at once could hit production harder. 1/ Image
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Their confirmed deliveries to defense firms — 80B rubles ($1B). 3/
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Snow hides positions and exposes them. Footprints can give coordinates away within minutes. 2/
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Nationalism at home. Nationalism abroad. 3/
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Despite sanctions, Russia and others receive components for their weapons — The Telegraph. 1/ Image
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Zelenskyy said the missile contained 116 Western-made components. Sanctions exist. Yet the parts keep flowing. 2/
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Dual-use electronics — as useful in a computer as in a ballistic missile. 3/
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