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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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/
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/
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/