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Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. Author. 📕Our Enemies Will Vanish📕is my latest book. Instagram/Threads @yarotrof

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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Friends, current and future, come to my 📕Our Enemies Will Vanish 📕book talk in New York at the Ukrainian Institute on May 9. Moderated by @emm_mateo
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I was going to stop posting videos from Kherson but can’t resist with this one. Especially the poster at the end.
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Putin basically says Ukraine shouldn’t exist. “A steady statehood didn’t occur.” Almost the same words that Stalin said about Poland in 1939.
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Liberated Kherson singing Chervona Kalyna, a song that was banned for nine months. No electricity — Russia destroyed the power lines before leaving.
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Russia’s rapid thrust into Voznesensk was meant to showcase its military prowess. Instead, the Ukrainian town dealt Russian forces one of the most humiliating defeats of the war. My report from the battlefield where Russian bodies are still being collected
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Putin: I consider occupied areas of Ukraine to be Russia and any attempt to reclaim them will trigger a nuclear response. If this principle is allowed to stand, what’s to stop him announcing that he considers Warsaw or Riga or Berlin to be Russia?
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On day 88 of the war, Russian tanks have finally entered Kyiv.
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Russia launches massive strikes on central Kyiv on a busy Monday morning, for the first time since the war began. Where is the air defense that the US and Germany have been talking about for months, without any sense of real urgency?
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Yes, life in Gaza has been terrible and Palestinians have suffered under occupation. No, it doesn’t make it right to go rape and kill Israeli women and kidnap and parade their orphaned children in Gaza. I don’t know why but somehow lots of people don’t seem to understand that.
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Amazing footage of the first Ukrainian troops reaching Kherson’s main square.
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The U.S. isn’t giving Ukraine ATACMS missiles (range 300 km) because it would be an escalation and cross Russia’s red lines. But Iran is supplying Russia with missiles that have ranges of 300 to 700km, and that is just normal business?
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Lots of videos of Russian POWs (including a lieutenant-colonel) and abandoned Russian positions coming from the Balakliya-Izyum front as Russian military bloggers and analysts remain in doomsday mode. The speed of the Ukrainian advance seems to have stunned everyone.
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If it was Israel, as everyone seems to believe, and if Iran’s drone and ballistic missile facilities have been seriously damaged, as appears to be the case, that’s worth a hell of a lot more than 14 tanks.
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Kherson would have been a ruin, and tens of thousands would have died in the campaign, if Himars strikes on bridges hadn’t hamstrung Russian logistics and forced the Russians to withdraw without urban combat. The U.S. literally saving civilian lives with weapons deliveries.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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And so it goes. The end.
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Odesa’s main Orthodox cathedral. Established in 1794, destroyed by Stalin in 1936, rebuilt under an independent Ukraine and destroyed again by Putin in 2023. One of several historical parts of central Odesa, a UNESCO world heritage site, hit by Russian missiles strikes today.
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Probably Ukraine’s most significant counter-offensive success so far: retaking the city of Trostyanets yesterday and unblocking the resupply road from the besieged regional capital Sumy to Poltava. That leaves only one regional capital, Chernihiv, encircled. (📷 via Sumy Gov.)
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People in Iran are braving bullets to protest for women’s rights. People in China are on the streets calling for freedom. The only recent protests I have seen in Russia is by people who complain they haven’t been given sufficiently good weapons and equipment to go kill Ukrainians
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Basically the US persuaded the SDF Kurds to dismantle defensive positions that deterred Turkey, promising security guarantees in exchange. Then once the SDF Kurds became defenseless, Trump gave Erdogan the green light to invade. Hard to imagine a more sinister sequence of events.
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#SDF says that agreement with US to drawdown from key positions in N. #Syria means that, with #Turkey 's threat to launch an imminent offensive, it's become "a mechanism of death" that will "displace our people& change the stable & secure region into a zone of... permanent war."
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Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin tabloid, says that according to Russian ministry of defense numbers, 9,861 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine and 16,153 were injured. The last official Russian KIA figure, on March 2, was 498. Fascinating that someone posted the leaked number.
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Two Polish civilians are dead today because Russia unleashed a barrage of nearly 100 cruise missiles against Ukrainian cities. Even if the missiles that hit Poland are stray Ukrainian S-300 air defenses, as Moscow claims, the Russian attack is the reason why it all happened.
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When secret U.S. slides leaked out yesterday, Russian propaganda channels quickly reposted them — but after a little photoshop. Suddenly, 43.5k 🇷🇺 fatalities turned to 17.5k, while 17.5k 🇺🇦 KIA became 71.5k. Russian vehicle losses shrank from 6,004 to 600. Spot the differences.
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Russia attacks Kyiv with a swarm of Iranian kamikaze drones, some of which manage to get through air defenses and hit the city center. Iran developing and perfecting with Russia a weapons system that could be used against Tel Aviv, Riyadh or Abu Dhabi.
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How did I miss this? Russian envoy to UN cites a Ukrainian woman quoted by Meduza as saying Russian soldiers provided humanitarian aid. Ukrainian envoy reads the remainder of the quote: “And then they threw a hand grenade into the cellar.”
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jaŭhien kazarcaŭ
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небензя попытался процитировать Медузу, пользуясь тем, что её в Совбезе ООН никто и не читает Сергей Кислица напомнил небензе о том, про что он из того же интервью "забыл"
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Ukraine’s presidential advisor Oleksii Arestovych demands military personnel to stop filming demeaning videos of captured Russian pilots and soldiers, saying that Geneva conventions must be observed. “We are a European army of a European nation. Don’t be like Satan.”
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Ukrainian combat medics on the frontline in Donetsk region a few days ago.
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Putin to Carlson: we do not intend to attack NATO countries. Two days later: Russia issues an arrest warrant for the prime minister of a NATO country.
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Putin: “It would be ridiculous for us to start negotiating with Ukraine just because it’s running out of ammunition.” Republican leadership of the House cutting off military supplies to Ukraine has made Putin drop his pretense about desiring peace talks. He wants it all.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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The imagery of America shutting the borders, Germany doing nothing and China sending a planeload of critical medical supplies to Italy may be propaganda but the plane is real and it is now in Rome. Historical memories are being shaped.
@AmbCina
Ambasciata Repubblica Popolare Cinese in Italia
4 years
Appena atterrato! #ForzaCinaeItalia
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The Russian military decided to overwhelm Ukrainian logistics near Izyum with the burden of recovering and repairing a couple of companies’ worth of T-80 tanks. The cunning minds of the 4th Guards Kantemirov Division strike again. (1/2)
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Kherson liberation chronicles, from Ukrainian social media: When soldiers enter to clear a village that was occupied by Russia and a local girl comes out with a violin to play the Ukrainian anthem.
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Looks like Russian authorities are so afraid of renewed drone attacks in Moscow that they are spoofing/jamming the GPS navigation signal. Muscovites can no longer order cabs.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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The headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District in Rostov — the nerve center of the Russian war against Ukraine and a compound briefly seized by Wagner in June — rocked by powerful explosions.
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Kherson, day two. Ukrainian troops are trapped.
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The people in the online spaces where Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents posted violent slurs against Black, gay and trans people, Jews, Ukrainians and pretty much everyone else. Everyone, except the Russians.
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So basically tiny Estonia supplied Ukraine with *twice* as much military assistance as France, the EU’s strongest military power and one calling for European strategic autonomy.
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Amaël Kotlarski
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More info on French contributions to Ukraine. Total amount is EUR120 million so far. Milans, Javelins and Mistrals sent over (no firm numbers). Other aid included pre-war training and ongoing access to French satellite imagery.
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For perspective: 500 Javelins will cover three to five days of fighting. 18 howitzers will account for maybe 3% of deployed field artillery. That many or more get lost in a week. The rate of assistance is a fraction of the rate of depletion.
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Jon Cooper
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BREAKING: The latest batch of U.S. military equipment has begun arriving in Ukraine, including: - 18 155mm howitzers - 11 Mi-17 helicopters - 200 armored personnel carriers - 300 Switchblade drones - 500 Javelin missiles - 10 counter-artillery radars #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
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Russian advances in Avdiivka, which increasingly looks likely to become the first Ukrainian city to fall since the capture of Bakhmut last May, are the direct result of acute ammunition shortage — caused by the U.S. Congress withholding further military aid to Ukraine.
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Rob Lee
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After gaining a foothold in the south two weeks ago, Russian forces have advanced and entered Avdiivka from the north over the past few days. Butusov and Tsaplienko both say the situation is critical.
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Senator Graham in Kyiv in May, one of the many times when he criticized the Biden administration for not giving Ukraine enough weapons and pledged that American support will not waver.
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Lindsey Graham
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My statement on my decision to vote 'No' on the National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024:
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And now finally a video emerges of Ukrainian soldiers (wasting a few rounds) in the Izyum government building.
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Russia’s massive use of Iranian drones to target the civilian infrastructure in Ukraine is funding and improving the Iranian drone program that Tehran aims to use against Israel sooner or later. How long can Israel keep behaving as if the war in Ukraine is none of its business?
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Devastating. Central Kharkiv, a beautiful beautiful city, already looks like Aleppo. Those are war crimes.
@AJEnglish
Al Jazeera English
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@natachabut An Al Jazeera team was able to enter the devastated city of Kharkiv in Ukraine after Russia announced a pause in fighting to allow people to leave. Reporter @stratfordch was shocked by what he saw ⤵️
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Bonkers Russian Army recruitment commercial, in which soldiers under fire in a trench discuss Ukrainian real estate investments. (One wants to buy an apartment in Kyiv’s tony Pechersk neighborhood once it is conquered, the other says he prefers Odesa because of the sea…)
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The man in the middle was a 🇺🇦 soldier killed fighting Russian invaders last summer. When his family reburied him in his home village of Hroza, retaken last Sept from Russian occupation, Russia fired a missile to kill everyone else in this photo, plus 48 other villagers. Medieval
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Guess Ukraine would be the first country in the world with a Jewish president and a Muslim defense minister.
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Zelensky removes Reznikov as defense minister, taps Crimean Tatar executive and negotiator Rustem Umerov to run the ministry. My latest. ?
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For the first time, a video emerges of a recruitment talk for Wagner by Prigozhin in a Russian prison camp. Absolutely bonkers. “Nobody goes back behind bars. If you serve six months, you are free. If you arrive in Ukraine and decide it’s not for you, we execute you.”
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Water level rising fast in Kryvy Rih, one of Ukraine’s largest cities, after a salvo of Russian cruise missiles breached a reservoir dam, causing a flood. Seven months into the war, long-promised US and German air defenses that could prevent such strikes have yet to arrive.
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A reminder that Russia is using North Korean and Iranian missiles and drones to strike cities across Ukraine every day but Ukraine remains prohibited from using American and European weapons to strike military targets in Russia because OMG escalation.
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Looks like a dogfight between Russian and Ukrainian jets over Vasylkiv. The Ukrainian jet flew low over the town a few minutes later. Vasylkiv remains under Ukrainian control after a failed Russian airborne landing, and the Ukrainian Air Force is still in the skies.
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Russia’s Bryansk, a logistics hub for the Russian war on Ukraine, looks like a Ukrainian city this morning, with its huge fuel depots on fire amid unconfirmed speculation about a Ukrainian strike. Image source
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Poor, poor Vladimir Putin. Until now, nobody in the West has had the chance to hear him explain all the excellent reasons for why he had to invade Ukraine. Not in the speech that was broadcast live on every global network the morning of the invasion, and not in countless others.
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Tucker Carlson
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Why I'm interviewing Vladimir Putin.
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You know who’s got real Ukraine war fatigue? Ukrainians. The only problem is that, 19 months in, Russia still wants to wipe out their country.
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The US and allies planned to support a Ukrainian insurgency after a swift Russian conventional victory. Now, they are struggling to sustain a Ukrainian Army that has held its ground and needs more ammo to fight a large-scale conventional war.
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Czech Republic has already sent T72M tanks to Ukraine as it and Slovakia mull repairing and refitting Ukrainian armor on their soil. Scoop by ⁦ @drewhinshaw ⁩ w me.
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A negotiated permanent settlement is impossible now. No Ukrainian president will survive rewarding Russia with occupied Ukrainian land. A negotiated ceasefire would just allow Russia to rearm, refit, and try going for Kyiv again. All else is wishful thinking at this stage.
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Tom Winter
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NBC News Exclusive: Some U.S. and Western officials think neither side can win and see winter as a shot at diplomacy in Ukraine-Russia war. New details from @ckubeNBC @carolelee & @JoshNBCNews
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In today’s dam attack that’s flooding Kryvy Rih, the Kremlin sticks to the old playbook. Back in 1941, Stalin killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians, blowing up the Zaporizhzhia dam and flooding cities and villages downstream.
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Russia confirms that Maj Gen Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Army, was killed in combat in Ukraine.
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The Russians once promised safe passage out of Ilovaysk, in 2014. Then they shelled the retreating column in the middle of the safe passage, killing over 400 Ukrainian soldiers. If you’re wondering about their offer re Mariupol.
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Mark Austin
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Are the Russian military in Mariupol really surprised there is no surrender in exchange for “safe passage” and “humanitarian corridors for civilians”? No one believes a word they say . No one. It is why peace talks founder. Trust . There is none. #Ukraine
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All these US bases in Taliban Afghanistan and in Turkmenistan. Wow! They’ve been real good at hiding them. Am now fully expecting a tweet with a map of Russia surrounded by NATO bases in China.
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Russia is retaliating against its military defeat in Kharkiv by hitting the power grid across eastern Ukraine, plunging Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava and other cities — and millions of civilians — into darkness.
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Something tells me there will be another dizzying twist in the Prigozhin saga very soon.
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Spokeswoman for Donetsk People’s Republic tells Russian military TV that 50 Ukrainian POWs from Azov, kept in a separate barrack, were killed in the Olenivka strike and many more injured. But, what a happy coincidence, none of the Russian guards were killed or injured. 🤔
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To the chants of Allahu Akbar, the city once founded by Greeks fleeing the Ottoman Empire was “liberated” of its inhabitants by Putin’s Chechen militias. What a twist of history.
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Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol looks like this, according to Ramzan Kadyrov's Telegram channel
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Russia, which has been showering Ukrainian cities with cluster munitions that have dud rates upwards of 30% (meaning that 30+% of bomblets remain unexploded and dangerous) is very very upset about the U.S. supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions that have a dud rate below 2.35%.
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It’s not just Putin. Canceling Ukraine is a desire shared by many Russians throughout the years — including some of the country’s liberal luminaries and literary giants. “The Russian democrat ends where the Ukrainian question begins.” My essay in @WSJ
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We were the first journalists to visit liberated Lyman, where locals rejoice and loot Russian stores, corpses of ambushed Russian troops lay on the roads, and Ukrainian troops make a bonfire of Russian referendum posters. Photos by ⁦ @ManuBrabo
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Ukraine is literally the most documented war in the history of wars, with drone footage of dozens of engagements every day and hundreds of journalists on the frontlines.
@catturd2
Catturd ™
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With every war going all the way back to Vietnam, the press has been heavily integrated with the troops and there's thousands of hours of live video footage. In Ukraine, nothing. We get no footage, no detailed updates, no graphs explaining how the war is going, who has…
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Kupyansk, the biggest city in Russian-occupied parts of Kharkiv region and the seat of the occupation “government” is back under Ukrainian control as the swift Ukrainian offensive continues. Photos from local social media.
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The bodybags of untrained mobilized Russian men are starting to come home from Ukraine — including to big cities like Moscow. Even the Z propagandists are getting upset. Here is the 28yo former head of dept in Moscow city gov’t, drafted Sept 23, killed Oct 10.
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is a happy man tonight, greeted by an ovation as he walked into the lobby of his hotel in Vilnius, shortly after securing Turkey’s long-withheld assent for Sweden’s NATO membership bid.
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Putin is literally staring at the words “Ukraine — Pays des Cossaques” across current Ukraine on this map from 1670.
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@maxseddon
max seddon
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Putin, in full philosopher-tsar mode, peers over a Louis XIV map from the 17th century, which he says proves “no Ukraine ever existed in the history of mankind”
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If anyone cheering on Hamas from the safety of the West thinks that today’s events will make Palestinian statehood any closer or make the lives of ordinary Palestinians any easier, they live in an alternative reality.
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Zelensky says no elections to be held next year. Ukraine’s existing law bans elections during wartime. For all those shedding crocodile tears about the demise of Ukrainian democracy: the UK didn’t have general elections between 1935 and 1945, yet somehow remained a democracy.
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The weirdest thing here is that Putin tells Macron he holds Zelensky responsible for the 2014 “bloody coup” in Ukraine. Zelensky was hosting the New Year show on Russian state television in Moscow as the Maidan protests were under way in Kyiv in 2014.
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Agent Chris
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I just gained a lot more respect for France's President Macron. This is the actual telephone call between Macron and Putin 4 days before the Invasion of Ukraine. It's a very tense conversation and shows Putin's extreme delusions about what was happening in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s Third Storm Brigade on the Bakhmut front says it has encircled and routed Russia’s 72nd Brigade, killing three batallion commanders and the Russian brigade’s intelligence chief as it retook the village of Andriyivka in a two-day operation.
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How a small Ukrainian town routed a Russian battalion tactical group. “The Russians had orders to come in, seize, and await further instructions. They had no orders for what to do if defeated. That, they didn’t plan for.” My page 1 report from Voznesensk.
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Russia is switching to a war footing and preparing to fight several years to obliterate Ukraine. The West, while providing Kyiv with some weapons, continues business as usual. My @WSJ essay on why time may be on Putin’s side if the West doesn’t wake up
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Mobs break into the Makhachkala airport, in Russia’s north Caucasus, looking to lynch Jews after rumors spread about the arrival of Jewish refugees from Israel.
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Starlink says it limited Ukrainian military use, particularly for drones, because the system was never meant to be used for “offensive purposes.” Guess defending one’s country is now offensive.
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How a U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer created a pro-Russian propaganda network that brought to prominence stolen Pentagon files. Our investigation of the Donbass Devushka affair.
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Russian MOD confirms that Russian troops redeployed to “more advantageous defensive positions” along the Berkhivka reservoir north of Bakhmut — or, in plain English, retreated by several km.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Russian cruise missile strikes on cities all over Ukraine, timed to maximize civilian casualties. The biggest series of salvoes since the war began. Putin’s rage is unlikely to significantly weaken Ukraine’s military ability, but it will increase Ukrainians’ motivation to fight.
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Third successful Ukrainian strike on a major Russian ammunition depot in Crimea in a week. While Russia targets Ukrainian grain exports, Ukraine takes out stores of Russian shells and rockets.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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The genocidal nature and scale of yesterday’s wanton slaughter of Israeli civilians leaves little doubt among Israelis that if Hamas could kill six million, it would. Everything that the Israeli state will do in coming weeks will stem from that conviction.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
7 months
Death toll from the Hamas attack on Israeli towns rises to 700.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Poland’s @MorawieckiM has had enough of German procrastination with permitting the supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. “Permission is a secondary matter. We will either get it quickly or do what we see fit.” The security of all of Europe depends on it, he adds.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Russian officials say the commander of the elite 31st Airborne Storm Brigade, Col Andrey Kondrashkin, who played a key role in Russia’s bloody conquest of Mariupol last year, has been killed in a Ukrainian strike.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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It’s pretty remarkable that “We will kill you all and all your families until you submit and forget your language and culture” is now literally the official Russian policy for Ukraine. Former president Medvedev is the head of Russia’s ruling party and deputy head of its NSC.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
4 months
Medvedev’s 🇷🇺 new genocidal message: Ukraine is a cancerous tumor. The existence of any Ukrainian state is a mortal threat to Ukrainians. Their only choice is to become Russians or die. CC: those who think Russia is interested in freezing the conflict.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Breathtaking footage. Katyn is where the Soviets executed tens of thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals in 1939, back when Moscow and the Nazis were on the same side, and then lied about it for 50 years.
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Smolensk officials and local activists have brought heavy machinery to the Polish military cemetery in Katyn and threatened to destroy it in response to the "demolition of Soviet monuments in Poland". They've also started a petition to resolve the "Katyn issue" once and for all.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Ten days ago, there were 50 to 80 Russian shelling and rocket attacks on Kharkiv every day. Now, thanks to a Ukrainian counteroffensive, the number has fallen to about five. My report on what happened in these liberated villages.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Russia’s control on the left bank of Dnipro in Kherson is crumbling fast as Ukrainian SOF teams operate deep in the rear. Here, in a video released by Sobchak, troops of Battalion 1822 raised in Moscow say they’ve lost 40% of their men in two weeks.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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In 10 days, Ukraine: 1. Destroyed a submarine and a warship by hitting a Sevastopol dry dock 2 . Reopened unilateral commercial shipping to Odesa 3. Hit a Sevastopol bunker with the back-up Black Sea Fleet HQ 4. Struck the main HQ in central Sevastopol.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
8 months
Headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet after a Ukrainian missile strike today.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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These tanks and Bradleys would have made all the difference if supplied a year ago, before Russia had the time to build its Maginot line in Zaporizhzhia. And Russian Ka-52 gunships wouldn’t be able to have a turkey shoot if Ukraine had received F-16s. Lost time = lost lives.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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More than 250 bodies found at the site of mass murder by Hamas at an Israeli music festival site. That’s almost three times the death toll of the Bataclan massacre by ISIS in Paris in 2015.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
1 year
Russian media reports that a Ukrainian drone attack hit the Engels airport, damaging two Tu-95 strategic bombers that are used to lob cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities. Dramatic to say the least. Another hit reported on a Russian military airport near Ryazan.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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UN gets community notes
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UN Human Rights
4 months
Alarming escalation of hostilities, dozens of civilians killed in #Ukraine & #Russia . Int’l humanitarian law prohibits indiscriminate attacks & attacks against civilian objects. @volker_turk urges immediate steps to de-escalate, ensure protection of civilians & respect int’l law.
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Ukrainian forces seem to have seized some 3,000 sq km and going in a few days in a rapid mechanized thrust that has left Russia’s army disoriented and on the verge of a strategic debacle. There goes the theory that tanks are obsolete in modern warfare.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
2 years
Kupyansk, the biggest city in Russian-occupied parts of Kharkiv region and the seat of the occupation “government” is back under Ukrainian control as the swift Ukrainian offensive continues. Photos from local social media.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
2 years
Russian military correspondents report that the Russian army has fled the strategic town of Izyum on the only remaining road. Not clear if they left their armor behind and no visual confirmation yet. If true, a complete rout and a turning point in the war.
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Yaroslav Trofimov
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Ukrainian forces seem to have seized some 3,000 sq km and going in a few days in a rapid mechanized thrust that has left Russia’s army disoriented and on the verge of a strategic debacle. There goes the theory that tanks are obsolete in modern warfare.
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