Georgia’s u-turn away from the West that began when the Georgian Dream came to power seems to be near complete. Feels like being a passenger on a hijacked airplane.

At least four people killed, many more injured in Odesa at the latest count. Russia fired a missile with cluster munitions at a seaside park on a warm afternoon. Zero military justification.

This kind of discourse doesn’t differentiate between the victim and the perpetrator. It’s not “we” who chose war, it’s a man named Vladimir Putin on Feb 24, 2022, and that is why military expenditures globally are rising.

The U.S. supplemental has passed and aid is on the way to Ukrainian frontlines. But months of delay for ammo and manpower have come at a cost. Problems cannot easily be undone, especially in Donetsk. A brief thread on what Russian decisions say about their summer plans. 🧵

SCOOP: The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. reuters.com/world/un-exper…

One of those injured in today’s Russian missile attack on Odesa is Serhiy Kivalov. Once one of Ukraine’s most notable pro-Russian politicians, he oversaw the fraudulent 2004 elections that sparked the 'Orange Revolution' and then was a long-serving MP from Yanukovych's party,…

“The Russian economy increasingly resembles a marathon runner battling the flu yet bolstered by steroids, propelling them forward in the race. Currently around the 15th kilometer, the runner faces slim odds of winning but persists, sustained by the performance-enhancing effects…

Another day in Odessa. While some countries are contemplating whether to provide Ukrainians with Patriot systems, russians hit the city with a missile carrying cluster munitions. Two civilians and a dog were killed.

More Russian hybrid warfare

Killing of two Ukrainian soldiers may be political, German prosecutors say reut.rs/4dlSWrh

Wow

Funny, that national security stuff which somehow doesn't have traction in 🇮🇹 (a SCALP-equipped non-nuclear but DCA country like 🇩🇪) not to mention 🇫🇷🇬🇧. Or is Berlin trying to tell us that Taurus doesn't work? Hard to believe, though; but more rational than the security argument

EU and US banks operating in Russia paid nearly $1 billion in taxes to the Russian government in 2023, with Austria’s Raiffeisen the top contributor. How many thousands of Ukrainians were killed or maimed with this revenue? There is a deep unseriousness with European politicians…

Not all lessons from Ukraine will apply to NATO militaries, but this is one that will. Russian Orlan ISR UAVs are not very sophisticated but they are cheap and easy to produce. That means Russia produces them in large numbers and they are expendable. But many of the current…

Purely shameful that Z thugs feel free to express themselves in #Germany
- and shocking if it turns out they feel empowered to kill here.
If they murdered wounded Ukrainian veterans Germans need to wake up & act. The impunity must end.

Damage from a Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Kushchyovskaya air base is visible in new high resolution satellite imagery.

This site is more than 200 kilometers from the front line in Ukraine.

World War II history is haunting Western attempts to seize Russian assets and funnel them to Ukraine’s defense against Moscow wsj.com/world/europe/w… with laurence norman via The Wall Street Journal

“Half the German tanks that invaded Poland in 1939 were actually Czech. So if Putin conquers Ukraine, he will be more powerful. And the challenge for us would be bigger,” says 🇵🇱 FM Radek Sikorski politico.eu/article/dont-j…