REMEMBER: #russia can always just leave.
Alex Raufoglu
✍️ DC Correspondent covering South Caucasus and beyond | #PressFreedom advocate | @AmericanU 🎓 | @ForeignPressUSA Board | Posts=personal
THIS!! #putin’s army is on track to set new record for frontline #losses, British #intelligence report indicates 👇🏻
THIS!!! State Dept approves a possible Foreign #Military Sale to #Ukraine of #F16 Training and Sustainment and related equipment for an estimated cost of $310.5 million
NEW!!! Top #French diplomat: “I’ve heard many, many times #Russia say that they don’t want #NATO at their borders. Well, we don’t want this Russia at our borders either.”
#Ukraine “has done its part” by accepting #Trump admin’s proposal on a comprehensive #ceasefire, and signing a minerals deal. “They’ve walked their part of the talk,”
“We haven’t seen #Putin send any signal, any sign of its willingness to comply with the requests of Trump.“
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51916
‘It Was Never This Close’: #Dutch Volunteer Survives Near Miss in #Zaporizhzhia Drone Strike
A survivor of the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia shared a video with #KyivPost. While everyone is talking about a #ceasefire, the Russians continue their relentless terror against #Ukrainian civilians.
READ!! 👉 kyivpost.com/post/51939
Alex Raufoglu boosted:
#Russians are currently targeting #Poland with a massive #disinformation surge in ahead of Presidential #Elections.
According to the Polish Press Agency, citing the Disinformation Analysis Center (NASK), the narratives being spread include #conspiracy theories, false claims about foreign influence, and #fakenews about voter disenfranchisement.
That includes helping #Trump establish a durable peace in #Ukraine, which means putting pressure on the party, #Russia, that has rejected various Trump proposals for a #ceasefire.”
READ!! White House Shakeup ‘Won’t Impact #Ukraine’ Diplomats Say, As #Trump Replaces Scandal-Hit #Waltz With #Rubio
Former US Amb to Ukraine says the departure of the NSA, with Rubio as interim replacement, “suggests no major change in #US foreign policy” 👇🏻
Former US Amb to Ukraine: "...China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran have been cooperating closely against core US interests and a real policy of peace through strength is needed to protect those interests.
THIS!! #US may provide #airdefense systems for #Ukraine under signed mineral agreements, senior U.S. admin officials say
Ukraine's parliament is expected to ratify the agreements "with a week", one official says
U.S. will also make "direct financial contributions" to the fund
NEW! "The fake #Georgian regime has falsely smeared President Donald #Trump as 'a tool of the deep state’ — #RepJoeWilson says on House floor
Trump, he says, is "revealing #war criminal #Putin’s lies and rigging the election in #Georgia against legitimate President #Zourabichvili"
NEW!!! The #US Embassy in #Kyiv will be led by Ambassador Julie S. #Davis who will be serving as Chargé d'Affaires, State Dept just announced.
NEW!! White House hails #Ukraine deal as 'historic' and 'first of its kind'
NEW!!! The top Democrat in #HouseForeign issues statement on #Ukraine Minerals deal, says "I hope the administration can now turn to the real roadblock for peace: Vladimir #Putin"
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#RepGregoryMeeks
: "... It should be news to no one that Vladimir Putin is a bully and will only respond to strength, not groveling.”
Alex Raufoglu boosted:
THIS! #US Partially Lifts #Military Aid Pause for #Ukraine, as #Peace Talks Slow
#Trump administration approves its first $50M arms #exports for Ukraine through direct commercial sales.
“The #Trump administration has repeatedly communicated its desire for a lasting #ceasefire in #Ukraine. To achieve its goal will require leverage with both Kyiv and Moscow,”
#RANDCorporation's Michael Cecire tells me. "If US #military aid for Ukraine continues - whether it’s continuing the previous package or further exercising presidential drawdown authority – it will strengthen #US leverage”
#Trump admin quietly informed the #Congress about its intention to greenlight the export of #defense-related products to #Ukraine through DCS in the amount of $50 million or more
Read my exclusive 👇
https://kyivpost.com/post/51800
THIS! #US Partially Lifts #Military Aid Pause for #Ukraine, as #Peace Talks Slow
#Trump administration approves its first $50M arms #exports for Ukraine through direct commercial sales.
NEW!!! #French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrives in #Washington DC for a meeting with senior #Trump officials, including Secretary #Rubio this morning to discuss #Ukraine, other challenges.
#US claims that the #Ukrainian side decided to make last minute changes to the #deal agreed over the weekend.
“We’re sure they’ll reconsider that. We are ready to sign this afternoon, if they are.”
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