Policy Analyst at @RazomForUkraine | Nonresident Fellow at @ACEurasia | Writing on 🇺🇦+🇷🇺 published in @ForeignPolicy & @newrepublic | Views mine
Aug 15 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Scoop in @politico: @SenBlumenthal & @GrahamBlog told @ZelenskyyUa they'll push for another Ukraine supplemental this year, as well as to lift U.S. weapons restrictions on Ukrainian strikes into Russia.
Thoughts on why now is the right time and why a new supp is necessary🧵
First, the timing:
People forget what the purpose of the last supp was—the @WhiteHouse originally asked in August for an aid package that would last through 2023. After McCarthy's ouster, it then asked for a supp to last through 2024 to insulate Ukraine from the U.S. elections.
Feb 21 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine @AndriyYermak invokes America’s Founding Fathers, past presidents, and the dark parallels to the rise of Nazism in a direct appeal to Congress to pass aid to Ukraine. A few key quotes 🧵thehill.com/opinion/intern…
“Today, Ukraine hoists democracy’s torch and reflects on the words of John Adams: ‘Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our maker.’”
Jan 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Sources confirm that Trump is directly trying to tank Ukraine/border negotiations to deny Biden a political win and keep immigration as a campaign issue this year.
There's a few ways this might go. Few are good for Ukraine, and above all, precious time has been wasted. 🧵
🚨The @guardian has learned a major anti-Ukraine conference will be held in Washington, DC tomorrow.
@Heritage Foundation will bring together Hungarian President Viktor Orbán’s team & Republican congressmen to strategize how to end US support for Ukraine. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…
A diplomatic source close to the Hungarian embassy told the @guardian: “Orbán is confident that the Ukraine aid will not pass in Congress. That is why he is trying to block assistance from the EU as well.”
Aug 9, 2022 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
We're still getting more details about today's strike against a Russian military airfield at Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea, but a few big implications are already clear.
Chief among them: The West has spent months investing in Ukraine—now we're starting to see the payoff.🧵
A defining feature of this war is how quickly and smartly Ukraine's employed sophisticated weapons systems from a West that hasn't always been eager to provide them.
Each time UA got something, it used it effectively and showed that more and better weapons wouldn't go to waste.
