The Russo-Ukrainian war started at 4.30 AM on February 27th 2014 when Russian troops took control of the Crimean Parliament building in Simferopol. The invasion of Crimea was followed by the invasion of Donbass in March 2014. The war has been going on ever since.

These are typical areas of concentration of russian Shahed drones amid attacks. One clearly sees they use radio stations in Belarus - but also obviously those in russia-occupied Moldovan Transnistria region. Another reason to help Moldova to restore control over their land.

France and Ukraine fed Trump false intelligence to test whether he would leak it to Putin—and he did.

On 17 Sept. 1939, exactly 87 years ago, Soviet tanks rolled into Poland to seize the east half of the country as per the USSR's secret deal with its ally Nazi Germany to carve eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Fascist Russia is trying to achieve much the same in Ukraine.

Cause Iran has nothing to do with the oil price.

Nord Stream 2 wasn't built because 2010s Germany needed more gas from russia. We got enough volume from the Poland and Ukraine pipelines. Nord Stream 2 was built so that Germany could still get gas even if russia starts conflicts with Poland or Ukraine. That is a simple fact.

German police have found multiple sabotage-related “launch ramps” for rockets aimed at high voltage power lines servicing the Weisweiler power station in North Rhine-Westphalia. The discovery comes just days after another German power station was attacked with rockets.

Ex-Moscow correspondent syndrome strikes again. Many of them either doom and gloom because they think russia is invincible or search incessantly for nuance and moral ambiguity in Russia’s aggression. And the worst part is audiences are often hoodwinked into taking them seriously.

That settles it. Ambassadors will be called up, rental contracts are torn apart. Russia is about to surrender any day now. Putin will never be seen outside his bunker again.

🚨 Zelensky issues a warning: “Skies over Russia will close. I am warning every airline using Russian airspace, every insurance company, everyone flying into key Russian airports: the sky is becoming completely unsafe.” Adds that Ukraine is not targeting civil aviation as such - but says that “there is no room for civil aircraft among drones.” t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/20…

Sweden will hold general elections in September. In my opinion the outcome of the election, even with a new government, will not change Sweden's support for Ukraine at all.

In a surprise move, Turkey will sell Ukraine a massive package of surplus rocket artillery, including: - 70x ATACMS missiles - 2,500x M26 DPICM (cluster) rockets - 12x M270 MLRS launchers - 47,000x 203mm DPICM artillery shells

Fascist Russia's "Human Safari" in Kherson should be as infamous as "Sniper Alley" in the siege of Sarajevo. It's astonishing that these vile, inhuman crimes by fascist Russia do not get more media attention. @ZarinaZabrisky has done brilliant work documenting this atrocity.

The numbers don't lie, even if the Kremlin wishes they would. After another month of Ukrainian drone visits, Russian refineries crashed to their lowest crude processing rate since May 2002: 3.6 million barrels per day in July, roughly a third below seasonal norms. That's not bad luck. That's the direct result of at least 30 strikes on oil infrastructure, the second-highest monthly tally since the full-scale invasion began. New Ros port traffic tells the rest: only four tankers loaded in the week to July 26, down from seven and eight the previous weeks. Twenty percent of seaborne crude export flows through there. The chain from extraction to export is buckling under sustained, precise pressure that Moscow cannot deter or defend against. A serious defense industry strategy looks like this once it's actually built and used. Every barrel they cannot refine or ship is revenue Moscow doesn't get to spend on missiles, meat assaults, or bribes in Western capitals. Their "energy superpower" myth is quietly bleeding out at 2500 km range while their propagandists still scream about red lines. The West should stop treating this as some rogue sideshow. These strikes are doing more to degrade the aggressor's war machine than most sanctions packages combined, and they cost a fraction of what it takes to replace a single Western main battle tank. Ukraine is not just surviving on your aid; it is delivering strategic effect that keeps the next front from opening on NATO's border. Respect is earned in fire, not in gratitude speeches. Moscow understands only pressure. We are applying it.

All jokes aside… How sick is Russian society? 500,000+ dead. No mass protests. No mass exodus. Thousands of new soldiers signing up every month. People still worship Putin. Propagandists still cheer a war on foreign soil while calling it “defending the motherland.” It’s 2026.

A hell of a night in Kyiv. At least 9 people were killed and 23 injured as a result of Russia’s barbaric attack with three dozen ballistic missiles. The second such massive strike in just two days. Failing to achieve its goals on the battlefield, Russia is intensifying its air attacks and terror against civilians. Ukraine urgently needs additional air and missile defense systems and interceptors. The speed of decisions and deliveries is critical. Every decision that strengthens the defense of Ukrainian skies saves human lives, while every delay leads to deaths and war crimes. It is the battle for the skies that will define the trajectory of this war. The stronger the air shield over Ukraine, the closer peace becomes.

"Spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute. The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion."

Mykhailo Drapatyi breaks through a pro-Russian barricade in Mariupol on May 9, 2014. Then a major and battalion commander in Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade, Drapatyi led his unit into the city as part of an operation to free hostages held at the Mariupol police headquarters.

Welcome, new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi! May the Ukrainian nation and all gods bless you on the way to winning this bloody war.

On this day in 2014 the Russian TV triumphantly reported about the downing of an aircraft over the occupied areas in Donetsk region, east Ukraine. Back at the time they assumed it was a Ukrainian military cargo aircraft and not MH17:

Unfortunately, many ignore that #MH17 was shot down not by separatist irregulars, but by a regular unit of the Russian armed forces that had intruded Ukrainian territory (and left again hastily after the mass murder). Their supreme commander was and is Vladimir Putin. @JITMH17