COP of USAID Support to Anti-Corruption Champion Institutions program in Ukraine, mother, lawyer, eternal optimist, tireless reformer, tweeting my private views

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Honcharuk: Innovations require faster and faster evolution of the technologies. That's why I decided to build a London-based company to bring investments to Ukraine, to support all the incredible engineering teams, to give them access to the capital, to give them bigger scale. 4Х
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Honcharuk, ex Ukraine’s PM, UForce co-founder: Russia will act like a terrorist, but on the scale of a state. Russians are hunting civilians with the FPV drones. Just because they can. Western army would be potentially safer than their civilians. 1/
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Lavrov and UN Secretary-General António Guterres discussed the war in Ukraine and its global impact. Lavrov handed over a report claiming the Bucha massacre was "staged" and demanded that the UN Secretariat conduct a detailed investigation. Imagine if in 1943, the Nazis were submitting evidence to the League of Nations about the "falsification" of information regarding concentration camps and the Holocaust, demanding an investigation.
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I participated in the Nizami Ganjavi International Center's XXXVII High-Level Meeting "Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future". I argued that trust is the scarcest and most valuable asset of diplomacy, and that the UN must regain it through engagement with the UN membership, through discipline and through delivery. I also reiterated that to defend the UN today is to have the courage to change it and that, and that Peace, reform and cooperation for the future should be the priority. #newUN @NizamiGanjaviIC
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I was driving nearby when the air raid started. Minutes later, Russian drone hit this busy area. Four killed, simply going about their business. Heavy smoke still rising. Living in Kyiv feels like a deadly lottery, you never know if you’re next.
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#XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 7: From Baku to Belem to Türkiye: Keeping Climate Cooperation Alive in an Era of Global Fragmentation Speakers: - Eka Tkeshelashvili (@tkesho3 ), Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012 - Tarja Halonen (@TarjaHalonen ), President of Finland 2000–2012; Co-chair, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation; Land Ambassador, UN Convention to Combat Desertification - Boris Tadic (@BorisTadic58 ), President of Serbia 2004-2012 - Eldor Aripov, Director, Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan - George Papandreou (@GPapandreou ), Prime Minister of Greece 2009-2011 - Chris Skidmore, Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, United Kingdom 2018-2019, 2019-2020; Minister of State for Health 2019 - Michal Kurtyka (@KurtykaMichal ), President, COP24; Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland 2019-2021; Member of COP31 Advisory Board -Christian Mensah, Senior Advisor to the COP31 CHLC -Jehangir Khan, Secretary General of the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly (UNCPGA) #NGIC #NewYork
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It was a great honor to meet President Zelenskyy and receive his endorsement of our book. 🙏 It’s the first operational record of civilian governance under modern war. Proceeds benefit charitable organizations supporting the people of the Kherson region: a.co/d/04LNOLVA
I thank all the experts and leaders of U.S. think tanks for the meeting: John Walters, Luke Coffey, Robert Doar, Frederick Kempe, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Shelby Magid, Geoffrey Pyatt, Paula Dobriansky, Ambassador John Herbst, Andrew L. Peek, Evelyn Farkas, Cindy McCain, Kimberly Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Carrie Filipetti, James Jay Carafano, Michael Froman, Daniel Baer, Philip Luck, Alina Polyakova, Kurt Volker, Eileen Donahoe, and Joshua Rudolph. It was a very useful conversation. It is important that everyone is closely following what is happening in Ukraine, how the negotiations are progressing, and what prospects we have. I’m grateful for the questions, your engagement, and your desire to help Ukraine, support our people, find the right path to ending the war, and guarantee security. We had less time to talk than there were topics we all are interested in, but we could see from everyone’s words, actions, and views a genuine desire to work together on important things that strengthen the protection of people’s lives and freedom. The more we work together, the more reliable our solutions will be and the more opportunities we will have to achieve a just peace. Thank you all for your support!
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eka tkeshelashvili retweeted
Sam Altman is warning the world about Sam Altman, and says we need to stop Sam Altman because Sam Altman can’t stop Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on potential dangers of AI: "First, we could lose control of the future to AI. The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what's happening or intervene when needed."
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#XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 4: From Ambition to FID: How COP31 Can Make Climate Commitments Investable Moderator: - Jean Baderschneider, Board of Directors, Fortescue Ltd.; Founder and Chair, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; Vice President, ExxonMobil 2000-2013 Speakers: - Samed Agirbas (@samedagirbas ), Climate High-Level Champion of COP31; President, Zero Waste Foundation (@turkiyecop31 ) - Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair Energy Transitions Commission; CEO, Bridge Carbon; former CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; former founding CEO, European Climate Foundation - Theresa May (@theresa_may ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019 - Faustine Delasalle (@FaustDelasalle ), CEO, Mission Possible Partnership; Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator - Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the UK - Jonathan Silver, Chair, Global Sustainability Platform, Apollo; Former Head, DOE Loan Program Office - David Eaglesham, Co-founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen - Nili Gilbert, Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct; Independent Board Director, Brookfield Asset Management; Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel - Ayesha Choudhury , Chief Commercial Officer, Infinium - Osman Arslan, CEO, VakıfBank (@VakifBank ) #NewYork #NGIC
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A strong investigation by the Financial Times. Its journalists dug into a huge leak from inside A7, the Kremlin-backed payment network, and it confirms what we have been saying for a long time about how Russia finances its war. What was an informed assumption is now documented. Here is the essence: Russia's oil export earnings stay abroad. Exporters, including Coral and Rosneft-connected traders, deposit them into the accounts of front companies and in return receive roubles inside Russia. The foreign currency then pays for components and other imports for the war. According to the FT, Rosneft-connected traders alone supplied more than $2 billion to this network. Forged paperwork provided the cover. Inside A7 this was called "legend creation": invoices for "fuel oil" or "grain" delivered to an Algerian port. In one case, in August 2025, 39.9 million dirhams ($10.8 million) from Coral was offset by an equivalent rouble payment to Hurus. The roles of the oil companies and traders, A7, third-country banks and Tether are confirmed. This is state-scale money laundering serving the war against Ukraine. Here is what the response must be: 1Sanction every entity and front company exposed in the leak, and the people behind them. 2Apply secondary sanctions to third-country banks that keep servicing this network. 3Require stablecoin issuers, including Tether, to freeze linked wallets and cooperate fully with enforcement. 4Treat these flows as money laundering and document fraud cases, not only as sanctions violations. 5Banks should re-check past transactions built on similar "legends". The U.S. government can do all of this now under the Lindsey Graham Russia sanctions law. The tools are there. What is needed is the decision. Every dollar in this pool buys drones and missiles used against Ukrainians. Closing it is one of the most effective ways to cut the Kremlin's war financing.
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Glory to Ukraine!! 🇺🇸🇺🇦
I thank all the experts and leaders of U.S. think tanks for the meeting: John Walters, Luke Coffey, Robert Doar, Frederick Kempe, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Shelby Magid, Geoffrey Pyatt, Paula Dobriansky, Ambassador John Herbst, Andrew L. Peek, Evelyn Farkas, Cindy McCain, Kimberly Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Carrie Filipetti, James Jay Carafano, Michael Froman, Daniel Baer, Philip Luck, Alina Polyakova, Kurt Volker, Eileen Donahoe, and Joshua Rudolph. It was a very useful conversation. It is important that everyone is closely following what is happening in Ukraine, how the negotiations are progressing, and what prospects we have. I’m grateful for the questions, your engagement, and your desire to help Ukraine, support our people, find the right path to ending the war, and guarantee security. We had less time to talk than there were topics we all are interested in, but we could see from everyone’s words, actions, and views a genuine desire to work together on important things that strengthen the protection of people’s lives and freedom. The more we work together, the more reliable our solutions will be and the more opportunities we will have to achieve a just peace. Thank you all for your support!
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#XXXVIIHLM | PANEL 4: From Ambition to FID: How COP31 Can Make Climate Commitments Investable Moderator: - Jean Baderschneider, Board of Directors, Fortescue Ltd.; Founder and Chair, The Global Fund to End Modern Slavery; Vice President, ExxonMobil 2000-2013 Speakers: - Samed Agirbas (@samedagirbas ), Climate High-Level Champion of COP31; President, Zero Waste Foundation (@turkiyecop31 ) - Jules Kortenhorst, Co-Chair Energy Transitions Commission; CEO, Bridge Carbon; former CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute; former founding CEO, European Climate Foundation - Theresa May (@theresa_may ), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 2016-2019 - Faustine Delasalle (@FaustDelasalle ), CEO, Mission Possible Partnership; Executive Director, Industrial Transition Accelerator - Patricia Scotland (@PScotlandKC ), Former Commonwealth Secretary-General; Member of the House of Lords of the UK - Jonathan Silver, Chair, Global Sustainability Platform, Apollo; Former Head, DOE Loan Program Office - David Eaglesham, Co-founder and CTO, Electric Hydrogen - Nili Gilbert, Vice Chairwoman, Carbon Direct; Independent Board Director, Brookfield Asset Management; Chair, GFANZ Advisory Panel - Ayesha Choudhury , Chief Commercial Officer, Infinium - Osman Arslan, CEO, VakıfBank (@VakifBank ) #NewYork #NGIC
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eka tkeshelashvili retweeted
I was invited to address the @UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents. Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage catastrophic risks before. This is one of those moments, far bigger than any personal, commercial, or national interest. The choices we make about this technology today will shape generations to come. We must act now.
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Putin is becoming increasingly dangerous as his war with Ukraine drags on - but just because he can escalate against NATO doesn’t mean he will choose to do so, NATO’s deputy Europe commander told me. @KristenMichalPM likened Putin to a “rat in the corner.” apnews.com/article/nato-russ…
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Moving around Kyiv while the city is under attack is a surreal experience. Talk from New York of diplomatic discussions feels like a total abstraction. In 6 weeks, the constant alerts have become Kyiv’s new reality.
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❗ ❗ ❗ Some breaking news from Kyiv with your lunch. A little while ago, in a span of fifteen or twenty minutes we heard three enormous, deafening explosions. These were followed huge plumes of smoke. We could see that from our offices. We immediately moved from our offices into the corridor. The photo shows how we are working right now. russians do not let us sleep, breathe or work. 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦
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#NGIC participated in the “COP31-IEA-UN High-Level Energy Transitions Solutions Dialogue” held in #NewYork. We are thankful to H.E. Emine Erdoğan (@EmineErdogan ), First Lady of Türkiye, for inviting us and for her valuable collaboration since the very beginning of the #COP31 preparations. @tkesho3 @AmreMoussaPR @amremoussa @Csaba_Korosi_ @turkiyecop31 @UN
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Good evening from Ukraine. I wish this were a film. But the sirens, explosions and fear are real. Overnight, russia launched 212 drones, along with missiles and other weapons. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, four people were killed and six injured. In Kyiv, a strike on a five-storey apartment building injured four people. Yesterday, attacks on Zaporizhzhia damaged apartment buildings and a shopping mall. They also destroyed the oldest building of Zaporizhzhia National University, built in 1902. Five people were injured. In Lozova, one person was killed. That is just two days in Ukraine. In the places named here alone, five people were killed and at least 15 injured. Homes, a university and railway infrastructure were damaged. Putin shows no sign of stopping. He is killing Ukrainians and destroying their country every day. We must never let the repetition of these attacks make them seem ordinary. 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦
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