Zelenskyy: Russia will never again have the status it once had. The perception of Russia has changed. It is fear, not respect.
Russia will never again have a good relationship with Europe, at least not in the coming years. 1/
Zelenskyy: Ukrainians want the war to end as soon as possible, without ifs and buts. This winter was emotionally exhausting.
But claiming that Ukrainians are ready to give up everything just so Putin stops launching rockets and drones would be wrong. 2/
Zelenskyy: At the beginning Trump and I did not have enough trust in one another and people saw it publicly.
Later our teams found each other better and now there is a better atmosphere. But Trump is not yet ready to exert pressure on Russia. 3/
Zelenskyy: Presidents come and go. Both I and Trump and with God’s help also Putin will one day go.
But the security guarantees for Ukraine must be institutionalized. They must be coordinated and legally binding, confirmed both by the president and by the Congress. 4/
Zelenskyy: Ukrainians do not trust Putin and do not trust Russia.
Even if Russia chooses a different path tomorrow and a liberal future comes, Ukrainians from a country that has been hit so hard still feel no trust. It will be a long road. 5X
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Oleksiy Brekht was the man who rebuilt destroyed transformers, connected Ukraine to the European power grid, and resisted attempts by Energy Minister Halushchenko to take control of Ukrenergo.
He was posthumously awarded Hero of Ukraine, Suspilne reports. 1/
On January 21, 2026, Brekht was killed at a substation in Kyiv region while restoring equipment damaged by a Russian strike. The cause was electrocution. He died on site, doing field work, not managing from an office. 2/
Brekht started in 1999 at the Kyiv Pumped Storage Power Plant. In 2001, he joined Ukrenergo as a dispatcher.
Over 25 years, he rose through the ranks, focusing on system-level grid stability and high-voltage infrastructure. 3/
Zelenskyy appoints former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak to his International Advisory Council for the Economic Renewal of Ukraine — in an unpaid role. — Telegraph 1/
The council will advise Zelenskyy and his economic adviser Chrystia Freeland. Kyiv is accelerating efforts to rebuild its energy sector before next winter. 2/
Sunak served as UK Prime Minister (2022–2024). As PM, he backed military aid to Ukraine and expanded UK training for Ukrainian troops. 3/
Dan Hoffman: Putin wouldn’t end the war if Ukraine gave Russia territorial concessions.
We might see a tactical pause, but Putin would continue to pursue his strategic objective to overthrow the democratically-elected government and install a puppet regime. 1/
Hoffman: If Ukraine were forced to give up that territory, it would put Zelenskyy in an incredibly weak position and compromise all of Ukraine's military leadership.
That's exactly what Putin wants: to create internal instability inside Ukraine and take advantage of that. 2/
Hoffman: The Biden administration, US intelligence accurately forecasted Russia's invasion, but our policy was to send a plane to exfiltrate Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy bravely said, no, I don't need a plane, I need ammunition because the fight is here in Ukraine. 3/
A British corporal tries to surrender to a fiber-optic FPV drone — live-streamed on TikTok — but the cable makes his jammer useless. He dies as thousands watch.
That is the war NATO fears next. Ukraine is already fighting such a war, Times. 1/
Russia is already using fiber-optic FPVs: 1970s cable tech with a 30-mile spool that bypasses electronic warfare.
If jamming fails, infantry becomes target practice — and the kill chain becomes content. 2/
Gen. James Rainey, head of US Army Futures Command: “We cannot send men and women into harm’s way. If we can’t protect them.”
Western armies are now racing to buy speed: sensors, data, autonomy. 3/