'The $60bn US package has been stalled for months by what, for Americans, is domestic politics; for us Ukrainians, it is a matter of life and death.': Oleksandra Matviichuk for Financial Times
ft.com/content/e63d6b…

Big news: Ukraine took down Tu-22M3 bomber, the one Russia uses to attack Ukrainian cities with Kh-22 missiles.

And get this: Ukraine shot down two of those missiles today!

Just think about it: if Ukraine had all those air defenses right now, how many more lives could've been

Spain, where Borrell has been a foreign minister, is the obvious candidate to provide Patriots to Ukraine: it has three -- and few countries are more secure today than Spain, certainly in Europe.

The US can quickly resume providing military aid to let Ukraine stabilize the front lines near the current locations. Or it can let the Russians defeat the Ukrainian military and drive toward the NATO borders from the Black Sea to central Poland. There is no third option. (1/3)

Essentially Putin is all in: his stakes are so high that if he manages to win, he wins everything, and no amount of losses would matter or hurt him.

If he is to lose, he’ll lose everything, including his head, and Russia is likely to enter turmoil.

But many still believe

1/5 'Specially for Special Military Operation'

Elon Musk
said that Starlink cannot be bought in russia.

Molfar
contacted sellers from 🇷🇺 stores to see if it's possible.

We found out russians obtain terminals through the UAE and Kazakhstan, as well as fake accounts.

Mariupol had a population of half a million, like Toulouse, Bologna or Miami before Russia razed it to the ground. Kharkiv at 1.5m is the size of Munich & Prague. Aleppo was even bigger before Putin helped Assad destroy it. The West is worried more about hypothetical escalation

Ukrainian soldiers are being slaughtered because they are being outgunned by Russian artillery at a ratio of 10:1, while more than 30 of Ukraine’s partners sit on huge ammunition reserves that they are saving for a rainy day, such as the day after a Russian victory in Ukraine.

Russia freely hits Ukrainian hospitals, universities, residential houses, cars; kills civilians en masse.

Ukraine isn't allowed to hit russian oil refineries that generated 650 billion $ profits for russian war machine in 2022-23. Nor is getting air defences & missiles to defend

On this day 10 years ago, after 🇷🇺 special-ops groups invaded Donbas, they seized the town of Horlivka. Local MP Volodymyr Rybak got arrested for hanging 🇺🇦 flag.

They tortured him, slit his stomach & pushed into a river. Never forget.

His son is soldier now.

#StandWithUkraine

Disarming Ukraine will NOT lead to the end of the killing of Ukraine. Disarming Ukraine will only encourage Putin to try to take more Ukrainian land & kill more Ukrainians.

'Kharkiv is at risk of becoming “a second Aleppo” unless US politicians vote for fresh military aid to help Ukraine obtain the air defences needed to prevent long-range Russian attacks, the city’s mayor has warned.'

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Escalation management and sound military strategy are in conflict.

Our international partners need to decide finally whether they aid UA in waging war or exercise escalation management primarily which ultimately leads to Ukraine failure with all negative repercussions.

Our film about the Russian abduction of thousands of Ukrainian children premieres in the United States tonight on PBS Frontline. American followers, please spread the word about this important story at a critical moment for the defence of Ukraine. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

So, West cannot produce enough shells, but also cannot find money to buy shells. Czech initiative still did not get all the money. West, whose GDP is 27 times greater than russia cannot find money to buy 800.000 shells. Third year of war. I was that disappointed only in March ‘22

🧵 This is already making rounds, so I will try to shed some more light on March/April 2022 Ukraine-Russia talks since the article is still far from the point, and because Poland played a much bigger role than anyone is willing to admit publicly
foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-…