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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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Mar 1
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/
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Feb 28
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/ Image
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/
Read 12 tweets
Feb 28
“Help me! I’m freezing to death!” — an 87-year-old woman screaming from a Kyiv balcony during blackouts.

Writer James Meek returns to Kyiv after 3 decades and finds a city surviving winter strikes, cold apartments, and exhausted people, The Guardian. 1/ Image
“A Russian attack two nights earlier” tore up the grid. Even places with generators lost water.

Kyiv keeps getting patched up, then hit again — power, heating, water, repeat. 2/
A young photographer tells him she once saw a Russian drone operator’s POV locked onto her car — then it veered away.

Different scale of risk. People still take the lift when a foreigner hesitates. 3/
Read 10 tweets
Feb 28
Musk shut down Starlink for Russia because its drone glided into Kyiv’s government district, heading to Zelenskyy’s office, The Atlantic.

Drone flew so low, officials in the Cabinet of Ministers could see it from the 7th floor. Then the battlefield shifted for the Russians. 1/ Image
Ukraine’s defense minister, Fedorov, presented Musk with evidence that Russian forces were using Starlink to operate long-range drones.

On January 29, he wrote: "Western technologies must protect civilians — not be used for terror.” 2/
SpaceX implemented a whitelist of Ukrainian users in late January.

Russian access was shut off. Inside SpaceX, the instruction was: “No limits. Take off the gloves, use Starlink for anything to help Ukraine.” 3/
Read 10 tweets
Feb 28
“If anything happens to me, I’ll be buried here in Ukraine.” — Antony, 34, Colombian fighting in Kupiansk, Ukraine.

More than 7,000 Colombians have fought for Ukraine since 2022. Over 800 are reported killed, The Times. 1/ Image
Colombia is now the single largest source of foreign fighters in Ukraine. About 25% of all foreign volunteers are Colombian.

With Argentines, Brazilians, Peruvians, and others, South Americans form the biggest foreign contingent on Kyiv’s side. 2/
Ukraine signs around 600 foreign recruits per month on 6-month contracts.

Mobilization at home is limited to men over 25. In January, over 200,000 Ukrainian soldiers were AWOL, and 2 mln men were wanted for draft evasion. 3/
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Feb 28
A Bundestag aide who tried to slow Germany’s Leopard 2 tank shipments to Ukraine was working with an FSB officer, The Insider and Der Spiegel.

Vladimir Sergienko, 52, aide to AfD MP Eugen Schmidt, corresponded with an officer of the FSB’s Fifth Service known as “Alexei.” 1/ Image
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His real name: Ilya Vechtomov, born 1987 — officer of the Fifth Service, the FSB unit tasked with destabilizing Ukraine before the Feb 24, 2022 invasion. 2/
Phone metadata shows Vechtomov in constant contact with dozens of FSB officers, including Vladimir Petrovsky, head of the Ninth Division.

Usernames, passwords and avatars linked his “Alexei” alias to his real identity. 3/
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