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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦
@ZarinaZabrisky
US journalist in Ukraine. @BylineTimes @EuromaidanPress. Also BBC World, CBC, TVP World. Essays: Longreads, Paris Review, LARB. 🎥producer: Under Deadly Skies
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Mar 15 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
🧵Voiceless America.

Trump has shut down Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

This is more alarming than one might think.

Putin’s first move as the President in 2000 was crashing an independent TV channel NTV and establishing government control over it. The channel set high professional standards, broadcasting live coverage and analysis of current events.

By 1999 the audience achieved 102 million.

During parliamentary elections in 1999 and presidential elections in 2000, NTV did not support Putin.
Mar 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
đź”´ Exclusive.

Still wondering what's up?

⬇️ Interactions between Trump and Russian entities over several decades (real estate transactions, political engagements, and associations with individuals linked to Russian OG and security services)

đź’Łw/Jonathan Pearce ATP Geopolitics Image This is important and will be slowed down on this platform so help sharing is appreciated.

30 years of ties: open sources resource based on archives and major publications.

#NAFO @NAFO ⬆️

Feb 28 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Europe answers:

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Feb 19 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 BREAKING. In Riyad, the Kremlin's rep Kirill Dmitriev said Russia expects the return of US oil companies and joint projects in the Arctic.

What it means: Russia needs sanctions lifted to restart a $500B deal with ExxonMobil.

moscowtimes.ru/2025/02/18/put… Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), claimed ExxonMobil and other US firms lost $300 billion due to sanctions.

More on him and his role here:
Feb 18 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Kirill Dmitriev is a part of the Russian delegation in Riyadh. In 2017, Trump’s team rep spoke to Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), in Davos - the first public contact between Trump administration and Kremlin-backed business.

zarinazabrisky.medium.com/scaramucci-eat… On Jan 17, 2017, Scaramucci, aide to Trump, the only unofficial rep of Trump’s team at the forum in Davos discussed possible joint investments with Kirill Dmitriev, head of the RDIF, a $10bn state-run investment vehicle, sanctioned by the US in 2015.
Jan 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵🚨Trump, Musk, and the Kremlin have created a unified hybrid war front.

They use methods described ⬇️ and more to reshape the political landscape from within your brain.

Example: Musk/UK/rape: a “rotten herring” technique: facts do not matter as a bad association stays 1/3 2/ 🔴 Rotten Herring propaganda technique prompts a direct association between a person, group or institution and a scandalous accusation.

A false accusation is circulated on SM; bots/trolls push it; the media reports it as a story; it is echoed by many outlets.
Dec 12, 2024 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
#HumanSafari 🧵: A new Russian military tactic:

🔸 Small drones hunt civilians
🔸 Drop explosives, incendiary devices, banned mines, propaganda
🔸 Target homes, infrastructure, resources
🔸 Goals: Create "gray zones", sow panic, train pilots

The history of coverage, reports: I published the first report about #HumanSafari in Kherson in @BylineTimes on 29 July 2024.

The residents reported several attacks a day, referring to it as #HumanSafari and #HuntForHumans.

bylinetimes.com/2024/07/29/khe…
Dec 5, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
⚡Trump’s presidency might put at risk Ukraine’s sovereignty and encourage Russian aggression. His administration’s ties to the Kremlin, history of transactional diplomacy, promises of isolationism might devastate Ukraine and the global community.

🧵+ article for Fresno Alliance Russian officials celebrated Trump’s victory.

⚫Medvedev tied it to Russia’s war goals
⚫Putin hinted at “dialogue” but referenced an assassination attempt
⚫Patrushev warned of “obligations” Trump must fulfill, ⚫Dugin claimed a “globalist defeat”

fresnoalliance.com/what-trumps-re…
Nov 10, 2024 • 38 tweets • 11 min read
🧵🚨Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, worked for a firm lobbying for Kremlin-linked oligarchs.

Her boss, who recommended Wiles for Trump’s campaign, lobbied for a Russian oligarch with deep ties to Putin and Rosneft.

Part 2: here.

Part 1: ⬇️
Before working for Trump's 2024 campaign, Wiles was a co-chair of Mercury Public Affairs.

Bryan Lanza, Mercury partner, lobbied for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s energy and aluminum firm conglomerate EN+ Group in 2018.

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Nov 9, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Would #Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, pass a background check? Her daughter Caroline Wiles failed a security clearance in 2016.

🧵Alleged family ties to a Kremlin-linked lobbyist infamous for the Trump Tower “dirt” meeting and lobbying against the Magnitsky Act. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born US citizen, a lobbyist with a two-decade relationship with Putin allies, is a longtime associate of Lanny Wiles, ex-husband of Susie Wiles, a known GOP operative and lobbyist.

nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/…
Nov 4, 2024 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 #Election2024 Why not #Trump. A compilation.

1/ Nov 2, 2016 (a week before the US elections 2016.)

Trump’s campaign major players: #Kremlin ties.

Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Felix Sater et al, and Trump's “relationship with Putin.”

crossingenres.com/what-fbi-cant-… 2/ Nov 7, 2016 (a day before the US elections.)

Trump Tower Toronto funded by the Russian oligarchs.

More Trump's links to the former USSR.

This article is referenced by @craigunger in 2018 New York Times bestseller House of Trump, House of Putin.

zarinazabrisky.medium.com/mafia-kgb-puti…
Nov 3, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Russian oligarch Petr Aven played a critical role in #Putin’s rise to power.

Reports suggest links between Aven, #Trump’s presidential campaigns, and #Musk’s X acquisition.

These connections call for further examination. Voters deserve clarity on the national security. Image One of the entities backing Musk’s Twitter buyout employs Aven’s son.

While Petr Aven has no known formal connection to X acquisition, the nature of the Russian mafia state calls for an investigation.
dw.com/en/what-do-xs-…
Oct 21, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
#Moldova 💥🚨🧵 With 1.7% votes of the referendum (to EU or not EU?) still left to be counted, what is going on?

In 2022, I did on the ground reporting and research in Russian interference in Moldovan politics. Good background.

With Georgia and US elections next, important ⬇️ Image In Chisinau, I followed a crowd of bussed old ladies to an anti-government process. This is what I have found:

Sep 18, 2024 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
#Disinformation #Russia 🔴🧵#Microsoft reports: “Russia pivot towards targeting the #HarrisWalz campaign, with actors disseminating fabricated videos designed to sow discord and spread disinformation about the new Democratic nominee Vice President #Harris.
1/… 🧵In late Aug-Sept, Russian actors used fake videos to discredit #Harris, generating millions of views

1. an attack by alleged Harris supporters at a supposed Trump rally
2. false claims about hit-and-run accident
3. a fake NY City billboard w/ false claims (Harris’ policies)
Aug 24, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@AndrewPerpetua I have been on the ground, reporting about the "human safari" in Kherson for the last month: over 100 attacks on civilians a day. 🧵Eyewitness reports, authorities confirmations, videos: Byline Times (UK), 29 July 2024: An overall analysis bylinetimes.com/2024/07/29/khe… @AndrewPerpetua Euromaidan Press (UA), 10 August 2024: A detailed follow-up report with multiple video interviews euromaidanpress.com/2024/08/10/rus…
May 3, 2024 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
🚨#protestforPalestine are used by Russia, China and Iran to sow division, confusion in order to demoralize Americans; undermine the U.S. globally and to influence the US presidential elections outcome. 2 important new articles: quotes/links. 🧵👇🏼 “Russia is seeking to exploit America’s divisive debate over Israel’s offensive in Gaza through overt and covert propaganda, with the aim of aggravating political tensions in the U.S. and tarnishing Washington’s global image”
Mar 23, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
#Moscow, #Russia on March 22:

1. Launches the largest air strike on #Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war

2. Runs a concert “Future is Ours” next night, w/6,200 attending, in a venue owned by Putin’s ally. Fails to prevent mass murder of which it was warned.

👇🏼🧵 Attempted ecocide: the largest hydroelectric power plant and the largest nuclear power plant are targeted.

World: No reaction and little coverage.
Mar 19, 2024 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
đź”´đź”´đź”´ The Kremlin stages a propagandist event at Times Square, New York on March 16, 2024 to coincide with the celebration of Putin's sham election victory and the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.

While the video below is fake, Russian festivities were real. 🧵 Russian Youth of America (aka “Russian Youth in America,” the “Youth Russian Society” and the “Young Russian Society”) organized the event at Times Square on March 16, 2024. roscult.org/event/times-sq…



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Mar 18, 2024 • 24 tweets • 11 min read
🔴 Ivana Trump had also confirmed that Donald #Trump had Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his bedside table as reported by the Vanity Fair here:

🧵 vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…
In the 1990s, #Trump’s cousin who worked for the Trump Organization was reported by Ivana Trump to click his heels and say, “Heil Hitler” on entering Donald Trump’s office. vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…
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Mar 16, 2024 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
March 17 2018: analysts, journalists, politicians gathered in NY to warn the world (again) of the danger #Putin brings to the world if re-elected.

March 16 2024: a review from under fire in Ukraine, 2 years into the full-scale Putin war.

There'll be more if we don't stop him. Image David Satter, journalist: Putin and the FSB carried out the 1999 apartment bombings. This terrorist action similar to the Reichstag fire brought Putin to power. The West accepted the Russian government's explanation of the apartment bombing and left it without consequences.
Mar 1, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#Moldova is on Putin's wishlist. 🧵

#Transnistria, a mini-USSR, with pro-Russian authorities and the Kremlin-brainwashed population, is the tool.

In the 90s, Russian “peacekeepers” were stationed in Transnistria after a brief but intense armed conflict. Image In 2022, FSB had 3 scenarios for capturing Moldova:
->forming a corridor to Transnistria thru southern Ukraine, w/the subsequent recognition of the region;
->the capture of the whole territory of Moldova;
->access to the borders of Transnistria w/o recognition of its independence