An important reminder for the media: what happened today was not „a fall of Kherson“. Kherson has not „fallen“. It was liberated. Respectively, the Ukrainian Army has not „taken“ Kherson, but liberated the city.
First F-16s are officially patrolling Ukrainian sky today. While celebrating this, please remember Ukrainian pilot with a call sign “Juice” who was an unstoppable champion of the idea to provide Ukraine with F-16, and was KIA just a few months before his dream has come true.
We had a privilege to co-organise a parliamentary breakfast at 🇩🇪
#Bundestag
with
@RKiesewetter
's brilliant team. Oleksandr Danylyuk, Center for Defense Reforms of Ukraine, made a presentation on how Russia buys raw materials for shells production (it comes from Germany too).
U.S. veteran and podcaster
@RealJakeBroe
was interviewed by
@sumlenny
at our podcast: about Russia's war against Ukraine, the U.S. perception of this war, a military view on possible outcome of the war, and how to raise $1m of donations for Ukraine. Watch!
🚨 Check out our interview with
@AlexKokcharov
to uncover how Alyaksandr Lukashenka transformed from an anti-corruption activist into a brutal dictator, and the impact of the Belarusian opposition protests against his 30-year rule:
On this day in 2020
#Belarus
rose up. This was the biggest protest - the Freedom March - in Belarusian history ever.
The regime felt threatened and cracked down on the civil society, freedoms and human rights, and using unprecedented repression.
Our director Sergej
@sumlenny
is happy to announce the upcoming delivery of the next five night thermal vision Mavic 3T drones to Ukraine where they are urgently needed by 47th mechanized brigade. Interested to donate? Here is the link:
🚨 Livestream ALERT! 🚨
We can confirm that
@sumlenny
&
@officejjsmart
will join our livestream tomorrow to talk about their trip to Russia's Ukraine-occupied Kursk region 🔥
📅 Date: Monday, August 19th
🕗 Time: 19:00 CET / 1:00 PM ET
📺 Where:
Europe has to decide if it wants to seriously counter Russia. If so, there's lots to fix. There's the egregious behavior of Greek shipping oligarchs, who undercut the G7 cap in Brussels at every turn. There's the flood of EU goods to Russia via third countries. This must stop...
With U.S. President Biden
@POTUS
withdrawing from the presidential race, his national security adviser
@JakeSullivan46
should also be replaced with a more capable successor. Watch our interview with
@MCTothSTL
to learn why Sullivan must go:
Russia boosted recruitment bonuses to $22,000 to attract more soldiers, US military pay. The same policy led to the collapse of Russia's economy & Russia's defeat in WWI, says
@GresselGustav
, a fellow at
@EuroResilience
&
@ECFRBerlin
. Watch!
Here is why our new
@EuroResilience
video with
@GresselGustav
explains why 🇺🇦 wants to strike back on 🇷🇺 territory and why this will NOT cause WWIII. 💥
‼️BREAKING: Ukraine will be flying operational F16s this summer‼️ Watch our interview w/ U.S. Air Force Lt. Col.
@JaharaMatisek
, a professor at the U.S.
@NavalWarCollege
&
@EuroResilience
research fellow, explaining what
#Ukraine
can achieve w/ F16s:
🚨Livestream Alert🚨
@MBielieskov
, Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies from Ukraine, will be joining
@sumlenny
live to discuss the 2024
#NATOSummit
!
📅 Date: Thursday, July 11th
🕗 Time: 19:00 CET / 1:00 PM ET
📺 Where:
Our recent podcast guest, Roderich
@RKiesewetter
Kiesewetter, a German MP, got attacked in Aalen, south-western Germany, and suffered minor injuries. Mr Kiesewetter isn’t well liked by pro-Russian groups due to his vocal support of Ukraine:
Great news:
@GresselGustav
from
@ecfr
is joining us as a policy fellow!🙃🎉🍾 We are currently brain-storming new project ideas. Get ready for more security analysis & insights about defence policy & military affairs from our expanded team.
Welcome on board, Gustav!
A second wave of explosions is reported in Kyiv, following Russia’s bombing of Ohmatdyt, the biggest children's hospital in Ukraine.
On these pictures: A chain of people to transfer water to the rubble removal site at the hospital. Photo credit: 5W project
A small update on our side: here is a new direct link to our stream!
We are live in an hour 🩷 Our day-long TV marathon in support of Ukraine is running: join, ask questions, & don't forget to subscribe!
🚨 LIVESTREAM IN JUST 2 HOURS! 🚨
Join our livestream with
@sumlenny
from
@EuroResilience
&
@officejjsmart
from
@KyivPost
as they discuss their trip to Russia's Ukraine-occupied Kursk region
📅 TONIGHT
🕗19:00 CET / 1:00 PM ET
📺
🚨 Now with added livestream link! 🚨
Join our livestream with
@sumlenny
from
@EuroResilience
&
@officejjsmart
from
@KyivPost
as they discuss their trip to Russia's Ukraine-occupied Kursk region
📅 Monday, August 19th
🕗19:00 CET / 1:00 PM ET
📺
Sometimes, our director
@sumlenny
types faster than he thinks 😂 FSB director is Bortnikov, while Portnikov is a famous and a very cool Ukraine's journalist (please follow:
@portnikov
). Otherwise a great thread on rivalry between Russia's secret police and Russia's army.
THREAD Putin has removed Army's Gerasimov from command over Kursk operation, installed FSB's Portnikov. This is great. Let me explain:
1) Russian system of power always set on the secret police over the Army. The Secret Police was over-financed over-empowered for centuries /1
#Russia
is dropping up to 150 glide bombs daily on
#Ukraine
. Often launched beyond the range of 🇺🇦 air defenses, these bombs are nearly impossible to intercept. Check out our new
#BattlefieldBreakdown
with
@MBielieskov
on how 🇺🇦 can counter this threat:
We cannot find words to express our feelings as we see, that someone is reading our article on Russian colonialism from a frontline location in Ukraine tonight. Who is this person? A soldier defending Ukraine? A civilian enduring Russian shelling? We don't know, but salute you!
A cache of explosives was found deliberately buried hundreds of meters from a NATO oil/refined products pipeline section near Heidelberg, Germany
Want to know more about threats to Europe's infrastructure? Watch our interview with
@BLSchmitt
by
@sumlenny
:
🚨ALERT🚨 Suddeutsche Zeitung
@SZ
reports that a cache of explosives & detonators was found *deliberately buried* just hundreds of meters from a section of the
#NATO
oil/refined products pipeline network southwest of Heidelberg, Germany.
Investigators have not attributed the
We are proud to support Ukraine with everything we can - from drones to power stations, from medical equipment to hygiene articles. In many cases, we don't start a separate campaign but use your donations you send us on recurring basis. So please donate:
Toiletten- und Hygieneartikel für 300 Inlandsvertriebene sind eingekauft und verladen. Möglich gemacht wurden dies durch euch,
@BrennpunktUA
und
@sumlenny
von
@EuroResilience
❤️❤️❤️
About 1,400 'shadow' vessels worldwide transport Russia's western-sanctioned oil, while simultaneously operating as a spy fleet. Why can't littoral states block such vessels from their waters?
Watch our interview with
@elisabethbraw
from
@AtlanticCouncil
:
Russia has been nuclear blackmailing NATO & its partners for years, casting doubt on NATO's nuclear deterrence. Watch our new interview with
@MatejRisko
from
@AdaptInstitutet
to find out if the alliance can still credibly deter Russia🥊:
A new episode of Battlefield Breakdown by Dr.
@GresselGustav
is already in production! 🥳🎉 This is the final part of our short series about how the Russo-Ukrainian war might end. If you missed the first episode (🤯), this is your chance to watch it:
Even after battles like
#Bakhmut
will be over, and Ukraine wins this war, war-induced trauma will remain for decades, says
@PaulNiland
, an Irish-born Kyiv founder of Ukraine's first suicide prevention hotline
@LifelineUkraine
Watch our interview with Paul:
Our
@sumlenny
has just interviewed Olga
@OlgaNYC1211
Lautman from
@cepa
who talks about how Russia projects it’s corruption on other countries & weaponizes these accusations against those states. Worth watching!
In a case, you did not ask what news is dominating the Russian media landscape now. Here is the cover page of popular media. Scholz is against sanctions, some advice on how to raise kids, "DNR" has developed a new aiming device, China attacks Pelosi.
This week, our director
@sumlenny
who regularly brings night vision drones to Ukraine, has got a message from Kyiv Crimean Tatar restaurant
#Musafir
: they had 100 FPV drones to donate, and asked what brigade could be provided with them. Guess what? Today drones went to
#Avdiivka
!
Watch our interview with
@A_Melikishvili
by
@sumlenny
delving into the roots of these protests in
#Georgia
: a ‚foreign agents‘ law initiated by the pro-Russian government
Want to know more about great Russian culture? Watch our interviews about how Russia fights wars & what people are forced to live with afterwards
1) An eye-witness story by
@ennolenze
who entered Ukraine's Bucha after Russia's withdrawal from the town ⬇️
Watch our interview with amazing
@elisabethbraw
explainig how
#Russia
-operating shadow fleet has been employing narcos-style tactics to transport goods from its Baltic Sea ports to India & China in violation of international sanctions:
1/7 Russia's shadow fleet is a global environmental threat and a growing rift in the sanctions regime. A new study by
@KSE_Institute
examines its origins, current operations and future, and suggests effective countermeasures:
Our team has lost track of time 🙈preparing a new project on Russia‘s air war in Ukraine🤬 (stay tuned!). Our fresh interview w/
@RyanMcbeth
will be released tomorrow🎥 In the meantime, here is a Friday
#BattlefieldBreakdown
compensation w/
@GresselGustav
We at ERIC have recently received donations marked with "for landmine clearance" notes. As we don't fund mine clearance directly, we guess this money came after people watched our interview with Chris
@Swampy_EOD_Ukr
Garrett (see below) So we have forwarded this money today 😇 ⬇️
I talked to our new
@EuroResilience
Research Fellow
@GresselGustav
about his recent trip to the front area in Ukraine, and the development in the war dynamics. And I enjoyed every second of this almost an hour-long story by Gustav Gressel!
A perfect reminder to watch our interview with Shaun
@olddog100ua
Pinner who fought against Russians in
#Ukraine
‘s Mariupol, got captured & survived tortures in a
#Russia
|n prison:
Our new Sunday video with amazing
@GresselGustav
, Senior fellow at
@ECFRBerlin
and Fellow at
@EuroResilience
: is ready! Watch the new episode of battlefield breakdown: A Strategy to End the Russo-Ukrainian War:
I talked to
@mhmck
about the recent development in the U.S. Ukraine-related politics, why
@POTUS
has misinterpreted Russia; the differences between Israel- and Ukraine-related politics; and why neither the Republicans nor the Democrats really read the room
A mine prodder, essential for demining operations, costs as much as a cup of coffee ☕️
Help PREVAIL rid Ukraine of the deadly risk to civilians posed by landmines and unexploded ordnance 🙏🏽
Watch our interview with Shaun
@olddog100ua
Pinner who fought against Russians in Ukraine‘s Mariupol, got captured & survived tortures in a Russia|n prison: Ukraine's Marine POW who got exchanged for Putin's friend Viktor Medvedchuk
Watch our interview with
@AlexKokcharov
on how a young anti-corruption opposition leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, became Belarus‘s dictator rulinh the country for 30 years.💥 Belarus's Stolen Freedom:
Our Friday interview with amazing Mark Toth
@MCTothSTL
had a rough start: we had to reupload the video due to technical hiccups & it is now being shadow-banned by YouTube😭 Do us a favor: watch it, like it, & share it! It’s too important to be left unseen:
The U.S. has finally allowed Ukraine to hit Russia, but only "near Kharkiv". The strategic paralysis of the U.S. continues since over two years and must stop. We need a change in politics. Check our interview with Mark Toth
@MCTothSTL
(recorded 2 days ago)
Watch our interview with Volodymyr
@yermolenko_v
, a Ukrainian philosopher & writer, on
#Russia
's imperial culture, the root causes of its misunderstanding by the west, &
#Ukraine
‘s fight against Russian imperialism - w/
@sumlenny
The U.S. has formally accused
#Russia
of using chemical weapons “as a method of warfare” against
#Ukraine
, in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention
Watch our recent interview with
@JimmySecUK
about Russia‘s chemical warfare in Ukraine:
Our interview with Michael
@neo_neo_con
DiCianna by
@sumlenny
on Russia's war crimes, the origins, strategy, and methods of Russia's terror. Please, watch:
Russia's Systematic War Crimes in Ukraine
NEW: The current US debate about providing additional military assistance to Ukraine is based in part on the assumption that the war will remain stalemated regardless of US actions. That assumption is false. Russian advances will accelerate absent urgent American action. 🧵(1/8)
@BrennpunktUA
@sumlenny
@X
@RKiesewetter
@RABrennecke
Das war sumlenny's Aussage - interessant, dass er betonte, dass er sich keine Angriffe auf Städte wünscht (wie im Zweiten Weltkrieg gegen das Nazi-Reich), sondern lediglich punktuelle Stiche gegen die russische Militär-, politische, und staatseigene wirtschaftliche Infrastruktur.
#GeorgijsIvanovs
from
#UkraineMatters
podcast in his
@EuroResilience
interview on how Russian gaslighting, Ukrainian resistance, Western reluctancy, and the future of our world. The full interview below, as usual ⬇️
A Friday interview alert 🚨 Shaun
@olddog100ua
Pinner tells how he fought in Mariupol, survived tortures in a
#Russia
|n prison and got exhanged for Putin’s buddy Medvedchuk - all to come back to
#Ukraine
💛💙
Watch our full
@EuroResilience
interview with Shaun
@olddog100ua
Pinner on how he trained Ukrainian Army, fought in Mariupol side by side with
#Azov
heroes, was captured by ruzzians and went through tortures, and how he got news on
#MoskvaDestroyed
:
Prior to the
@NATO
#DC
summit, we at
@EuroResilience
, together w/
@RUSI_org
,
@defence_centre
, &
@prismUA
, held a workshop to discuss the critical role of Ukraine's long-term security & the potential & limitations of bilateral security agreements between Ukraine & its allies
Morning, April 3,
#Germany
's Foreign Minister
@ABaerbock
in a Politico piece: 'Germany,
#France
&
#Poland
: European allies should shoulder their fair share of
#NATO
’s collective burden and demonstrate readiness to take more responsibility for
#Europe
’s defense'
Evening, 3 April:
G7 leaders must “dispense with half-measures” and confiscate all $300 bn in Russia’s frozen state assets.
So writes
@MiRo_SPD
(🇩🇪) & 25 other Foreign & European Affairs parliamentary committee chairs & MPs in today’s
@FT
#MakeRussiaPay
It is not the format which we normally do at
#EuropeanResilience
, but the call by
#DefundRussiasWar
is so important, that we decided to publish a part of it on our web page, and calling everyone to visit the
#DefundRussiasWar
initiative page and support it
Watch our interview with
@Mikiashvili_M
from
@DroaParty
by
@sumlenny
about
#Georgia
’s fight for democracy & against
#Russia
’s influence in the country
‘Just the Tip of Russia's Iceberg: Marika Mikiashvili on Georgia's Foreign Agent Law’
Our security policy fellow
@AaronGBurnett
for
@thecic
: 'After decades of free-riding on US security guarantees,
#Germany
is finally hitting
#NATO
defence spending targets. But even this won’t be enough, & the Scholz government is still missing the strategic compass allies expect'
More than two years into
#Zeitenwende
Germany's rearmament remains slow & underfunded.
But more important than that - the political will to fulfill its special responsibility for European security is flagging.
My latest for
@thecic
Read our recent analysis how Russia‘s disinformation efforts, including those targeting social media users, have been affecting Moldova and particularly its elections:
Amazing
@RealJakeBroe
was our guest at
@EuroResilience
, and provided with his insights into Russia's war against Ukraine, the U.S. perception of this war, a military view on possible outcome of the war, and how to raise $1m of donations for Ukraine. Watch!
You say: Sunday! We say: did you already watch our fresh interview?💥 This time our
@sumlenny
hosted
#Estonia
’s
@markomihkelson
to discuss the current challenges for European security:
As Ukraine Peace Summit is opening today, we talked to
@EuroResilience
non-resident fellow U.S. Air Force Lt.Col. Jahara 'Franky' Matisek
@JaharaMatisek
on how NATO can help Ukraine secure peace. A link to a full interview below. All views are Franky's own, not the U.S. Air Force
#Russia
's Foreign Ministry
@mfa_russia
blacklisted the Human Rights Foundation
@HRF
's Casey Michel. Want to know why? Watch our interview with
@cjcmichel
explaining how Russia &
#China
infiltrate U.S. politics:
'Intelligence agencies believe that
#Russia
has been preparing covert bombings, arson attacks & damage to infrastructure in Europe, directly & via proxies'
Our
@sumlenny
just interviewed
@BLSchmitt
about
#Russia
's &
#China
's attacks on 🇪🇺infrastructure:
Evidence points to a more aggressive and concerted effort by Moscow to plan violent acts of sabotage with little apparent concern for civilian fatalities, intelligence officials told the FT
Russia used its sanctuary to protect and assemble an operationally significant force on the Russian side of Ukraine’s NE border. The Russian military is exploiting its sanctuary space to shield Russian ground forces from Ukrainian attacks before marshaling them into Ukraine.
Our new interview for this weekend:
@BLSchmitt
&
@sumlenny
are discussing what the strategy to protect Europe’s critical infrastructure should look like
While Chinese and Russian vessels destroy European underwater energy and telecommunication infrastructure, and the number of sabotage cases rapidly increases in Europe - do we have any strategy to protect our assets? Watch out interview with
@BLSchmitt
: