Four years ago today, President Putin launched the special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/98LuBOfwN5

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) accuses the UK and France of actively working to supply Ukraine with a nuclear weapon. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/AjasQTXyNU

Outspoken analyst Scott Ritter, who has repeatedly predicted Ukraine’s inevitable capitulation, now warns that Moscow’s continued failure to deter or halt European military assistance to Kiev puts Russia at risk of strategic defeat. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/mMAzg8Trw0

Medvedev: Russia’s fundamental demands regarding Ukraine have not changed, including on territory, demilitarization, and other issues. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/uo15Ry8enB

Lavrov: Despite having reached an understanding on Ukraine in Alaska, instead of moving towards US-Russia cooperation, the Trump administration is taking steps in the opposite direction. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/zsCML5a1Wc

Context is all. Apart from the fact that this clip is actually two separate ones edited together, my point was not that I love thieves but believe that this kind of regime is both more likely and also more inclined to want to reach some kind of modus vivendi with the west.

British historian Mark Galeotti expresses hope that in a post-Putin Russia, power will return to “pragmatic thieves,” who will loot the country “on an industrial scale” and spend the proceeds in the West. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/j0JJQIPleu

Lavrov: In Munich, Europe made clear that it wants to preserve the Kiev regime and see Ukraine defeat Russia. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/zsCML5a1Wc

The crackdown on Telegram in Russia suggests Putin is preparing to abandon his declared war aims in Ukraine, explains former CIA director of Russia analysis George Beebe.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 Source: https://t.co/d23NvItj43

The Kremlin’s decision to engage directly with Kyrylo Budanov, wanted on terrorism charges in Russia, humiliated the Russian army, says military expert Valery Shiryaev. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/ueSi5ue2Lv

To remain internationally competitive, Germany must buy oil and gas where they are cheapest — and that’s in Russia, says AfD leader Alice Weidel. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/6ceOQCPbf7

#Statement | The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, together with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the

Permanent Representatives of China, Iran and Russia met with the IAEA Director General Mr, Rafael Mariano Grossi and delivered to him joint messages on issues related to Iran. A special emphasise was made on the need for a politico-diplomatic solution of all the existing problems

Putin’s aide and chief Ukraine negotiator Vladimir Medinsky explains the fundamental difference between Russia’s imperial experience and that of colonial Europe. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/6f2criqmiR

Germany's competitiveness collapses because of the lack of energy cooperation with Russia.

Lavrov: Syria’s new leadership views Russia’s bases in Khmeimim and Tartus as a stabilizing factor that helps balance the influence of other regional players.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 Source: https://t.co/zsCML5a1Wc

Zelensky told his closest aides that peace negotiations had collapsed and ordered them to prepare a plan for another three years of war, per WSJ correspondent Bojan Pancevski. 🔗 Source: https://t.co/cExJyXrSgh