Most tweets from ISW, UkrNOW & Kyiv Indep telegram. Some info, lots of snark, no analytical training. Ducks are great. @danceswithducks.b*https://t.co/LWMbZRo5Tq
Dec 9, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
UNITED24 Media Telegram Highlights
According to Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman of the Defense Forces of the Tavria Region, Russia has withdrawn over 40,000 troops towards the Avdiyiv direction. He mentioned that the occupiers have been experiencing significant casualties in >
<that area. However, despite these losses, there's a rapid deployment of reserves—specifically, Storm-Z and newly mobilized units.
Shtupun highlighted a concerning situation within the troops, describing the command's treatment of them as extremely harsh, akin to animals. >
Apr 2, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
UNITED24 Media Telegram
🌾 The leaders of five EU countries call on Brussels to buy back the surplus of Ukrainian grain — Associated Press.
The transit channels of Ukrainian products to third countries do not work correctly.
According to the applicants, the influx >>/1
<<of "grain, oil crops, eggs, poultry, sugar, apple juice, apples, berries, flour, honey, and noodles" is particularly unprecedented.
"We also call again for financial support from the EU for the faster development of transport infrastructure," the letter states. >> /2
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Live: Ukraine Telegram
France refused to host the World Fencing Cup due to the admission of Russians and Belarusians
The SBU released photos of the search in the house of the Lavra's abbot Pavel. Among other things, icons, gold fish and Russian symbols were found there. /1
The Presidents of Ukraine and France, Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, had an hour-long phone conversation on Saturday, April 1.
President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasizes the need to reform the UN Security Council, which Russia has assumed the presidency /2
⚡️Ukraine to buy (kyivindependent.com/ukraine-to-buy…) 100 Polish Rosomak armored vehicles. /1
⚡️Ukraine sanctions (kyivindependent.com/ukraine-sancti…) former Motor Sich head, Russian companies. Bohuslaiev impeded the delivery of a combat helicopter to the Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate in April 2022, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) wrote on March 28 /2
Russian, Ukrainian, and Western sources observed that the Russian winter offensive has failed to achieve the Kremlin’s goals of seizing all of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts by March 31. /1
Growing Russian speculation about Russian military command changes likely indicates that Russia may soon reshuffle its senior military command due to the failed winter offensive. /2
Apr 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Live: Ukraine Telegram
In the village of Posad-Pokrovske in Kherson region, power engineers working to restore the power grid hit a Russian mine. Two of them were killed and one was wounded. [the dangers of post-liberation reconstruction :/] /1
WSJ calls on Washington to expel the Ru ambassador and all Russian journalists from the United States in response to the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, who is accused of espionage by the FSB.
Georgian Prime Minister speaks "the same language as Moscow" - President Zurabishvili /2
Apr 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
UNITED24 Telegram
The authorities of Argentina have begun to refuse Russian citizens to extend their tourist stay massively, — the head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in the republic, Georgy Polin. /1
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the US has trained more than 7,000 Ukrainian soldiers, – CNN ❕ Warsaw and Seoul agreed to produce Korean K2 Black Panther tanks in Poland.The plant in Poland will manufacture tanks not only for its own needs but also for export. /2
Bucha massacre survivors: ‘Why do Russians hate us so much?’ (kyivindependent.com/bucha-massacre…) /1
President Volodymyr Zelensky, along with leaders of Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, and Moldova, have honored the memory of Bucha residents who died during the Russian occupation. /2
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new Russian Foreign Policy Concept on March 31 that likely aims to support the Kremlin’s attempts to promote a potential anti-Western coalition./1
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko continues to use high-profile public statements to portray Belarus as a sovereign state despite its current de-facto occupation by Russian forces./2
Mar 31, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
UNITED24 Media Telegram
Germany has announced that its gas storages will be filled by next winter without gas from Russia, the head of Germany's Federal Agency said. /1
Lithuania will hand over 36 mobile homes to Ukraine, writes LRT Houses worth 941.5 thousand euros will be transferred to the city of Borodianka, Kyiv region. /2
Mar 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Live: Ukraine Telegram
The Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has started considering the sale or spin-off of the Russian Raiffeisenbank. The group as a whole promises to reduce its business activity in Russia. [after a LOT of pressure] /1
Norway is going to provide Ukraine with 12 diesel trains - 4 by summer and 8 more during the year - Minister of Transport Jon-Ivar Nygård. /2
Mar 31, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Kyiv Independent Telegram
⚡️Culture Ministry: Moscow Patriarchate blocking (kyivindependent.com/culture-minist…) work of state commission on transfer of Lavra property.
⚡️Blinken calls on all Americans to leave Russia (kyivindependent.com/white-house-co…) 'immediately' after journalist arrest./1
Yaroslav Azhnyuk: Why doesn't Ukraine restrict use of the Russian Telegram app? (kyivindependent.com/yaroslav-azhny…)
“The silence in the Ukrainian media regarding Telegram is deafening,” writes Yaroslav Azhnyuk, co-founder of IT companies Petcube, Spend With Ukraine, fuelfinance, and >>/2
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on March 30 launching the semiannual spring conscription cycle, which will conscript 147,000 Russians between April 1 and July 15. /1
Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a prominent milblogger and Russian proxy battalion commander as a regional Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) official for Donetsk Oblast. /2
Mar 14, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
UNITED24 Media Telegram
Russia is increasingly applying the principles of command-and-control economy to its military-industrial complex, which is not able to meet the needs of the front in ammunition - British intelligence. /1
The situation around Bakhmut remains difficult; the enemy is trying to advance to the center of the city, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi /2
Mar 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Live: Ukraine Telegram
The EU does not see Russia's readiness for any peace talks in the war against Ukraine, and without this, any idea of mediation in such talks cannot be realized - European Commission representative Peter Stano /1
🇲🇩 Moldova's defense minister believes that his country is not in military danger - Chisinau is dealing with a hybrid war started by Russia. According to Anatolie Nosatîi, Russia's goal is to overthrow the legally elected government. /2
Mar 14, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Washington Post Telegram
Ukraine war’s environmental toll will devastate lives for decades (washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/…)
More than 1 million gallons of oil from eight incinerated tanks in KRYVYI RIH seeped into the soil, raising concerns about potential contamination at a >>/1
<<nearby drinking water reservoir in this industrial city south of Kyiv
The war has scarred Ukr’s natural environment polluting its rivers, contaminating its soil, eviscerating its forests. Experts fear could lead to a long-term increase in cancers and other illnesses. /2
⚡️WSJ: China's Xi Jinping to speak (kyivindependent.com/news-feed/wsj-…) to Zelensky after his Moscow visit.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping plans to speak with >>/1
Zelensky after he meets with Putin in Moscow next week.
The first conversation between the Chinese and Ukrainian leaders since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion is expected to occur online, WSJ wrote. /2
A member of the Kremlin-affiliated Valdai Discussion Club accused Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin of pursuing political objectives in Russia that are endangering Wagner forces in Bakhmut. This attack on Prigozhin is in line >>/1
<<with ISW’s March 12 assessment that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) may be deliberately expending Wagner forces in Bakhmut to derail Prigozhin’s political aspirations. /2
Mar 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Live: Ukraine Telegram
Pro-Russian forces gather to protest in Chisinau - police warn of possible unrest. The head of the National Police, Viorel Cerneucanu, said that there are Russian provocateurs among the protesters.
Russia wants to destabilize the situation in Moldova. >>/1
<<According to him, 10 groups of 10 people were formed for the riots. In addition, a few hours ago, police received a bomb threat at Chisinau airport. No explosives were found.
The Security Service of Ukraine has finally confirmed the name of the Ukrainian soldier who was >>/2
Mar 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
UNITED24 Media Telegram
Switzerland disposes of 60 Rapier defense systems and their missiles, which could be used in Ukraine, — NZZ
Russian President Vladimir Putin is going to the occupied Ukrainian Crimea for the "anniversary of reunification," — Russian Media /1
"Behind-the-scenes disagreements" are intensifying between Kyiv and Washington regarding the end of the war in Ukraine and its goals writes Politico with reference to officials. According to the publication's interlocutors, new "hot points of tension" have arisen between >>/2
Mar 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Kyiv Independent Telegram
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Over the past day, the State Emergency Service detected and neutralized 414 explosive devices, and an area of 22 hectares was surveyed, according to a March 12 report. /1
⚡️Media: Switzerland to dismantle (kyivindependent.com/news-feed/medi…) outdated Rapier surface-to-air missiles that could have been used by Ukraine to shoot down low-flying targets, Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported on March 11. /2
