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Day 1309 🇺🇦👊 #Ukraine

Strong society, weak government. My report card on Ukraine’s progress during wartime. https://t.co/D21xslJSf4

My report on the Flamingo missile from Tuesday. Its makers claim it to be a game-changer: a native Ukrainian missile, developed at speed by non-specialists with zero govt links. Too good to be true? Competitors certainly think so.

Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya, one of the country’s most capable communicators, has been taking a more prominent role in recent negotiations. Rumours of a promotion are swirling — and photo ops like this won’t quiet them.

Russia has not scaled back its ambitions. America will not pressure it to do so. Territorial issues and security guarantees are currently second-order issues. The war remains intractable. My latest for @IISS_org 👇 https://t.co/P6etgvmrYW

Clinton left office in 2001. Putin has evolved (if that’s quite the word) several times since. Those who’ve worked with him say today’s Putin is a different creature to that of 2000, 2005, 2011 etc etc. The value of this kind of interview is very limited.

A very lucid thread - agree with it almost entirely. At a stretch you might hope Putin has come to believe it is time for strategic decisions to stop. In that case he might bend and Russian position will be revealed as negotiation tactic. But as stands can’t see how it works.

This is curious story. It isn’t incorrect - my information tallies with it - but strange timing + detail suggest someone is trying to cause someone damage. If Zaluzhny ppl are behind this, it’s immature. But my guess is no: other actors are trying 2 embarrass him.

wow, a Russian official citing the pollster that was labeled an enemy of the state literally by his employer to support his argument about legacy media 🫠 if he’d try to post the same thing in Russian he wouldn’t be allowed to do that due to the censorship

A rare instance in post-summit reporting, via Axios, which suggests Trump at one point got pushy with Putin also contains a rather ridiculous U.S. assessment that Russia could take all of Donetsk by October. Two months to take two of the largest cities in Ukraine -- that sounds

Signs that Germany has gone all in when it comes to financing Ukraine's missile problem with options to mass purchase Ukrainian products in that sector is an indication of how EU/UK might handle this challenge.

It's like a man in the hospital ward saying: "Wow, look at all these doctors by my bedside. Such a great honor. And, geez, there is even a priest!"

Agree with pretty much everything Balazs writes here. Really key is how much of Ukraine’s war machine, and its military complex — half way through a massive restructuring — can be financed in a post-hot war era.

Good for her. Putin likely tore it up.

For over a decade, democratic Ukraine + autocratic Russia have been on incompatible trajectories. The West’s position has been Russia should change, become more tolerant, or be contained (freezing conflict). Now Trump is aligning behind vision that changes Ukraine—to suit Russia

Since the start of war, the West resisted Putin’s attempts to define Russian security in line with his own fantasies. That changed on Friday. “For Putin, peace means changing us,” complains a Ukrainian source. “Now America is on board.” New piece from Kyiv

Just think about it -- Ukraine is now supposedly expected to simply capitulate and hand over its territories to the aggressor who has not managed to defeat it -- all because the American president is bored, he is tired, he knows nothing and does not want to know anything about