The West has never been committed to Ukraine’s victory - it is committed to Ukraine’s survival. Changing this requires strategic vision, and strategic vision requires our democracies being in a better place than they are.

Pokrovsk. The last days of an empty park. Soon the "Russian world" will touch the city and everything on the photo will cease to exist.

10 years ago today RUs treacherously violated agreement on green corridor for 🇺🇦 troops which tried to leave Ilovaisk (Donetsk region). Columns of UA troops have been targeted by RU paratroopers. 366 warriors died, 128 became POWs, 158 were MIA. We will never forget.

Today Ukraine remembers its defenders who died protecting them 🌻 Restaurants in Kharkiv have memory tables set for heroes who’re never coming to dinner On 29/08/2014 Ru attacked UA soldiers evacuating via negotiated green corridor out of Ilovaisk youtu.be/xBnzzudQ7qg?si…

On this day in 2014, while hundreds of Ukrainian troops in the town of Ilovaisk were surrounded by the Russian Army (that the Kremlin still denied was there), Putin offered a “humanitarian corridor for besieged Ukrainian soldiers in order to avoid senseless victims,” Ukrainian

Coming out of Twitter hiatus purely to retweet Ed Arnold. Greetings from Kharkiv. We have an Uzbek dust storm. And, inevitably, soon we’ll also have incoming Iranian drones & missiles. That won’t be shot down.

I don’t like it on here anymore (could change) & I am increasingly in Ukraine. I wanted a place to organise my thoughts and draw attention to projects, fundraisers. So I have a substack, free ofc (but with fundraisers for those who like spending money)) smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com

On the brink of historic failure: Western policy towards Ukraine smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com/p/on-the-brink…

More action is needed to stop the bleeding and to add parity, sanctuary and morale to the Ukrainians fighting Russia smalldeedsbigwar.substack.com/p/a-safe-haven…