THIS IS A FUCKING DISGRACE.

As an ex-public servant, to see the news this week about the enrichment and corruption which was uncovered within the government I served has been a deeply shocking experience which left me very sad and ashamed.

I don't want my country, my people, and my future children to be trapped in a system which allows these things to happen. It has reminded me of how the Revolution of Dignity at Maidan was against that system of enrichment and corruption, and how we must still defeat it even as we also battle for our very lives against the Russians who would murder and enslave us. 1/ My grandmother in Kyiv is without electricity for 12-16 hours a day. And it turns out it's not just because the Russians are fucking bastards!

It's ALSO because the president's close friend and business partner, the Minister of Energy, and a fuck-ton of other people in government (and elsewhere) were stealing money meant for protective structures. STRUCTURES THEY DIDN'T EVEN BUILD!!!! 2/

The agreement on the establishment of U.S.–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund was signed 🇺🇦🇺🇸

🧵Key provisions of the Agreement:

1️⃣ Full Ukrainian ownership and control.
All resources on our territory and in our territorial waters remain the property of Ukraine. The Ukrainian state decides what and where to extract. Subsoil resources remain in Ukrainian ownership — this is enshrined in the agreement. 2️⃣ Equal partnership.

The Fund will be established on a 50/50 basis and managed jointly by Ukraine and the United States. Neither party will have a controlling vote, reflecting an equal and balanced partnership.

3️⃣ National assets are protected.

The Agreement does not change any processes related to the privatisation or management of state-owned companies. Enterprises such as Ukrnafta and Energoatom will remain state-owned.

❗️“In this difficult situation, Ukraine has become a subject of international politics.

Ukraine must be reckoned with. This is now clear to everyone, even the strongest states.”

General Zaluzhny’s full speech at Chatham House.🧵
@ZaluzhnyiUA “I would like to once again emphasize that the time when you could observe everything happening in Ukraine and perhaps feel sorry for us has already passed. Some of you might have predicted all this, some understood the changes that have come, but that no longer matters today. The main thing is that we need to understand here and now what to do next, all of us. 2/

So the story:🧵
1) Head of Chechnya Kadyrov announced that Russian forces took control of the village of Ryzhivka, located on the border with the Kursk region, within three days. 2) A Russian sabotage group attempted to seize the border village of Ryzhivka in the Sumy region, but something went wrong (video of elimination of the russian’s saboteurs - the link below)

As a result of an ambush organized by border guards and the territorial defense forces, the main reconnaissance group was destroyed. The rest fled across the border.

However, Kadyrov somehow failed to mention these dead Russians, whom they simply sent to meaningless death for unclear reasons.

(Full video you can watch here, I can’t post it due to sensitivity, post is taken from-> )t.me/kazansky2017/1…

About provocations against Moldova 🇲🇩

🔶On February 28, the so-called “congress of members of councils of all levels in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” was held in Transnistria, which is not controlled by Moldova. ♦️Transnistria has turned to Russia for help due to the blockade from Moldova.

The republican congress of deputies adopted a corresponding declaration yesterday. It requests "measures to protect Transnistria in light of increased pressure from Moldova, considering the permanent residence of over 220 thousand Russian citizens in the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the unique positive experience of Russian peacekeeping on the Dnister, as well as the status of guarantor and mediator in the negotiation process."

I like how all these "balanced" and "used to support Ukraine initially" vatnik accounts average 60-70 tweets daily, exclusively spreading Kremlin disinformation. That's what, 10 hours of tweeting in the middle of the work day?

Kinda like they get paid to do this, huh? Anyway, it seems pretty intense for someone who's "balanced" and "neutral" to spend this much time each day tweeting about the same subject, with the same positions as promoted by the Kremlin.

Weird.

OTD in 2022 there was a sunny peaceful day in Mariupol. I translated the story of the reporter Serhii Vaganov:

February 19, 2022 was the last peaceful Saturday before the war. It was incredibly warm day in Mariupol. +10C degrees. Quiet. Sunny day. 1/7 2/7 It seemed that spring is very real, and the war is just a wild fiction that exists only in the imagination of American intelligence.

“A year ago, under these photos, I wrote: “Mariupol is waiting for spring. 02/19/2022,” wrote the author of the photo report Serhii Vaganov.

Evening summary of the day 353 of war from the GS of the AFU:

The enemy launched 7 missile, 23 air strikes, made 15+ MLRS attacks. Ru continues to concentrate its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Kupyansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlivka directions. Strengthens its grouping of troops in the Lyman & Bakhmut directions; actively uses aviation to strike at the positions of UA units

1 You know, I was thinking about the beginning of war, and the invasion of Kyiv, & I thought about how much went right for us that Ukraine is standing today and fighting.

Remember, Ukraine was supposed to have fallen in one week, two at the maximum 2 Most of the population didn't believe russia would try to take Kyiv. But, try they did.

I remember clearly on Feb 23rd, knowing that something would happen, but confident that there was no way they would come for my Kyiv - I mean, how could they? It's Kyiv for fucks sake!

Well, Michael Tracey didn't quote tweet me, because obviously he didnt want me to see his retort.

He's witty, isn't he guys? Also, isn't it wonderful that without me saying anything, he is aware this tweet is about vatniks like him?

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1619901132352155648

Oh hey Michael, I know you love talking about Ukraine all the time, but did you learn that Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, and before that it was part of the Soviet Union? If so, did you clarify your tweet, or will you continue to leave it to intentionally mislead?

Before 24 Feb, I had russian friends & acquaintances. Some of them I spoke to every week.

They are educated, international, so-called "liberal" russians.

After war started, 1 messaged me to see how I'm doing.

So tell me, what is friendship with them worth? Since the war has started, I have had literally 1000s of messages of support from complete strangers. But from these so-called "good russians" who I thought were my friends?

Nothing. Not one word. Zip.

Their silence is deafening.

🆕Morning summary of day 334 of war from the GS of the AFU:

The enemy continues to attack in the Bakhmut & Avdiivka directions, despite numerous losses. In the Kupyansk direction, ru conducted unsuccessful offensive operations, all enemy attacks were repelled by 🇺🇦 defenders.1/5 2/5 ru launched 9 missile strikes on Kharkiv, Donetsk & Zaporizhzhya regions, 27 air strikes, carried out 79 MLRS attacks.

For the last 10 days, in some settlements of the Luhansk region, there has been a decrease in the number of enemy personnel.

🆕 1/5 Morning summary of day 297 of war from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine:

The russian invaders launched a massive missile attack on the civil & energy infrastructure of our country. In total, the enemy launched 98 rockets & fired more than 65 MLRS attacks. 2/5 The enemy redeploys individual units & withdraws part of its troops from Kakhovka & Nova Kakhovka (the Kherson oblast) to the area of the settlement of Nyzhni Sirohozy.

🆕 Evening summary from the GS of the AFU:
60+ of the 70+ missiles that the enemy launched today were shot down by the 🇺🇦air defence.

The occupiers do not stop shelling the positions of our troops & settlements along the contact line. Aviation is actively used in Donetsk oblast 2/5 The enemy is defending in the Novopavlivsk direction. It carried out shelling in the Bohoyavlenka, Vuhledar and Zolota Nyva districts of the Donetsk oblast. Made an airstrike near the city of Vuhledar.

🆕 1/5 Morning summary of day 285 of war from the GS of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine:

The enemy launched 7 rocket, 32 air strikes,
50+ MLRS attacks on the positions of our troops & settlements along the contact line. 2/5 In the Skadovsky district of the Kherson region, the enemy strengthened the administrative and police regime and introduced a curfew. Movement between settlements is prohibited 24 hours a day, movement within settlements is permitted only during the day.

🆕 1/6 Morning summary of day 283 of war from the GS of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:

Ru launched 10 rocket, 16 air strikes, 30+ MLRS attacks on the positions of our troops & settlements along the contact line. 2/6 Between Nov. 28-30, up to 70 wounded, 230+ dead ru invaders were sent to hospitals in the temporarily occupied settlements of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. In addition,on December 2, another batch of wounded & dead occupiers' bodies was brought to the Melitopol local hospital.

1/5 Morning summary of day 271 of war from GS of the AFU:

The enemy has launched 2 missile strikes & launched 60+ MLRS attacks. Objects of civil infrastructure in the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv oblast, were hit by russian rockets. 2/5 In the Lyubymivka settlement of the TOT of the Kherson region, the occupiers, under the guise of searching for sabotage and intelligence groups, illegally break into private houses and loot the property of local residents.

🆕 1/4 Morning summary of day 269 of war from the GS of the Armed Forces of #Ukraine️ :

The enemy carried out 10 air strikes, 10 missile strikes, 42 MLRS attacks.

Objects of the civil infrastructure of the city of Zaporizhzhia were hit by a missile. 2/4 In the period from November 10 to 16, ~ 500 wounded servicemen of the russian occupation forces, most of whom were recently mobilized, were brought to the hospital from the direction of Mayorsk to the city of Horlivka.

🆕 1/5 Morning summary of day 268 of war from GS if the AFU:

The enemy launched 5 air strikes, 27 missile strikes, carried out 50+ MLRS attacks. 2/5Active recruitment of workers of industrial enterprises to the PMC Wagner has begun in the Belgorod region. Thus, according to the agreement with the management of the Oskol electrometallurgical plant, workers firstly will be involved in military training on the Wagner base.

🆕1/5 Morning summary of day 265 of war from GS of AFU:

russian invaders continue to equip defensive lines on the left bank of the Dniper, advancing in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka & Novopavlivka directions.

The enemy launched 4 missile & 23 air strikes, 70+ attacks from MLRS. 2/5 In the temporarily occupied Lugansk region, the enemy is looking for abandoned private houses to settle them in with military personnel who have arrived to replenish the losses of the occupation units.

🆕 1/5 Morning summary of day 264 of war from GS of the AFU:

The enemy is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlivka directions. To replenish personnel losses & form units, ru continues to move mobilized personnel to the areas of hostilities in Ukraine. 2/5 The enemy launched 4 missile, 13 air strikes, carried out ~60 attacks from MLRS.

Since November 10, the so-called "evacuation" of the property of the Donetsk Railway Administration to the city of Ilovaisk has been observed.