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Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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Russia has struck a hospital again. This time, it hit the operating room at the Strazhesko Institute of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in Kyiv.
It's the second time. Last year, the strike hit the fourth floor; now it was the sixth, where the operating room is located. Thankfully, no one was killed. One patient was injured and received all the necessary care.
The institute treats people with heart disease from all over Ukraine: performing surgeries, helping patients recover after heart attacks, and giving people their lives back.
Thank you to the doctors and staff who keep working and saving lives.
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Paul Shapoval retweeted
“Zelensky is the one who wants this war to continue…”
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Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
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Russia struck a park near a cafe in the Kharkiv region with an attack drone, killing at least six people, including a girl barely over a year old and an 11-year-old child, and injuring 15 others, among them seven children. Families who had come to spend time together became the targets of another Russian brutal attack.
The deliberate use of attack drones against places where civilians gather exposes the nature of Russia’s warfare and the threat it poses far beyond Ukraine. The same technologies, components and networks that enable these attacks are part of a Russian military system that continues to adapt, expand production and exploit gaps in international restrictions. Allowing those supply chains to function means allowing Moscow to prepare its next strikes and kill civilians.
We urge our partners to intensify efforts to identify and disrupt the networks supplying Russia’s drone industry, tighten sanctions, enforce export controls against circumvention, and pursue accountability for those responsible for attacks on civilians. At the same time, Ukraine needs faster deliveries of interceptors to prevent further tragedies. The most effective response to this atrocity is to make the next Russian drone harder to build, harder to launch, and easier for Ukraine to destroy.
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THREAD: Joined Senator Tillis today to host an update from President Zelenskyy with bipartisan colleagues—hearing from him highly alarmingly that intelligence sharing & Starshield access are still partially degraded. 1/
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Russia now literally empowering Iran with American money. Incredible success
Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:
Russia has no intention of abandoning the implementation of its agreements with Iran in the economic and investment spheres.
Our specialists are gradually returning to the Bushehr nuclear power plant.
There are also major prospects for cooperation in the extraction and transportation of hydrocarbons.
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"Starlink and Starshield stop working when traveling at speeds of 130–161 km/h along various sections of the front." - Zelensky.
The president also reported delays in American air defense equipment. According to him, part of the critically important shipments is being held up at the US Department of Defense level.
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Which is another clear signal that it’s not just Ukrainian fight, it’s us, Europeans, against those who think our continent is irrelevant. It’s about civilizational choices, about agency which is why it’s so weird that some people still prefer to keep Ukraine in the backyard of the EU
Kyiv and the European Union face being cut out of a potential high-level summit to negotiate a deal on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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I will be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team this week to discuss Starshield, sanctions, and other matters pertaining to the defense of our strong ally, Ukraine. I will be assuring President Zelenskyy that anyone who attempts to limit the use of Starshield for Ukraine will be fully investigated and will be held fully accountable, to include public congressional oversight hearings, and immediate harsh and punitive budget cuts to any responsible agency or agency head.
Congress will unequivocally reaffirm that Ukraine is an indispensable ally to the United States, that Russia is a self-declared enemy of the United States, and that the United States will 100% support and defend the people of Ukraine in their fight for their own freedom against this brutal, illegal, and unprovoked Russian invasion.
The United States must provide any and all defensive equipment that Ukraine needs to defend itself. The United States must not import a single drop of Russian oil. Sanctions against the Russian regime must be harsher and stronger than they’ve ever been before. Each and every one of these items will be brought to the House Floor—and each and every one of these items will pass on the House Floor by an overwhelming margin.
This is, after all, what Ronald Reagan would do. And this is what we will do now. Ukraine can, and will, defeat Russia. #PeaceThroughStrength
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That is Putin’s long time wet dream - he’s taking Central Eastern Europe while maintaining control over Central Asia and Caucasus, the US can take the Middle East and South American. China can take the rest. Splitting the world between three “superpowers” is his end goal
🧵 “The former Russian intelligence officer said Putin has broad, if unrealistic, ambitions for the trilateral format as a second Yalta summit, which would divide up the globe into spheres of influence.”
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There can be no talks about Ukraine’s future without Ukraine at the table, and there can be no real negotiations as long as Trump signals weakness and servitude to Xi and Putin at every opportunity.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine that would favor Moscow, said people familiar with the discussions. on.wsj.com/4BeZLqz
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The United States should stand unequivocally with Ukraine against Russia, David J. Kramer, John Herbst, and William Taylor argue. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Sounds like the Munich betrayal
EXCLUSIVE: Putin has proposed that he, Trump and Xi meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow, said people familiar with the discussions wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f… @Lingling_Wei @learyreports @tggrove @jdawsey1
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Paul Shapoval retweeted
.@realDonaldTrump Many American soldiers have died in the hands of the drones+intelligence provided by Russia…. Ukraine is fighting the good fight…defending USA business and interest in Ukraine against Russian aggression….please support Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa much of the money Ukraine is using ends in the hands of American companies….creating good jobs and economic development in many states across USA…##StandWithUkraine
Trump: "My decision on Russia is a very simple one. I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table. Great progress is being made, and that includes current hostage negotiations! Signing that document at this time will do that, and I can sign it later, or any time that I want! Perhaps more importantly, Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran, compared to what they could be doing, and I want to keep it that way, and will, unless stupid people get in the way. Lastly, Zelenskyy is using Diesel Refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel markets, including those in the United States. Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this, but Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World. Zelenskyy doesn’t care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did. He could have made a better deal two years ago than he can now. His country is in shambles, a large portion of his land is lost, his oceans and seas are gone, and his male population is low, wounded, and/or dead. I WANT THIS WAR END! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Trump is clearly freaking out as both parties have universally condemned his decision to remove Lindsey Graham’s sanctions against Russian oligarchs. He’s now trying to argue it’s about some secret plan he has to end the war in Ukraine. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this guy’s lies at this point.
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