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โœ๏ธ DC Correspondent covering South Caucasus and beyond | #PressFreedom advocate | @AmericanU ๐ŸŽ“ | @ForeignPressUSA Board | Tweets=personal

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Alex Raufoglu
2 years
A sign that reads โ€œPutin, the Hague is waiting for youโ€ is displayed on a Vilnius City municipality building in Vilnius. Photograph: Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images #StopPutinNOW
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JUST NOW: State Dept on the latest Ukrainian operation: โ€œUltimately, the decisions about how Ukraine conducts its military operations are decisions that Ukraine makes,โ€ DoS Spox tells me 1/2
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' @Amnesty has confirmed that a 220mm Uragan rocket dropped cluster munitions on the Sonechko nursery and kindergarten in the town of Okhtyrka in Sumy Oblast, on Feb 25, where local people were seeking safety from the fighting. "The strike may constitute a war crime." - Amnesty
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NEW!!! U.S. responds to Russiaโ€™s latest accusations: โ€œWe provide weapons to Ukraine so that it can defend its sovereign territory against armed aggression. That includes in Crimea, which is, of course, a part of Ukraine,โ€ DoS Spox tells me #StandWithUkraine
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HAPPENING NOW: Biden: โ€œIf we walk away and Russia is able to sustain their onslaught and bring down Ukraine, what do you think is going to happen in the Balkan counties? What do you think is going to happen from Poland to Hungary?โ€ #StandWithUkraine
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JUST NOW! White House responds to putin's latest accusations: "The only people at war in Ukraine are the Russians. They're the ones that invaded Ukraine... This is Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Pure and simple!"Kirby tells reporters 1/2
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1 year
NEW: The Biden admin did NOT sanction secret meetings that former officials held with prominent russians on potential talks to end the Ukraine war, Staye Dept says. "And as weโ€™ve said repeatedly, nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine."
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BREAKING!!! Biden has invited President Zelenskyy to the White Houseย for a meetingย on Tuesday, Decemberย 12ย to underscore the United Statesโ€™ย unshakeableย commitment to supporting the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russiaโ€™s brutal invasion.
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NEW!!! White House says U.S. agreement with Ukraine allows Kyiv to fire American weapons into russia across from Sumy. "It extends to anywhere that Russian forces are coming across the borderโ€ฆ to try to take additional Ukrainian territoryโ€, Jake Sullivan tells PBS 1/2
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2 years
NATO SecGen Stoltenberg urged members of the European Parliament to 'stop complaining and step up and provide support' to Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine ๏ธ
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NEW!!! NATO Chief has encouraged allies to give Ukraine full flexibility in targeting military objects within the Russian Federation with long-range missiles, senior NATO officials just told reporters. 1/3
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DoS Spox: โ€œI have seen the statements from the Russian government is a little bit rich - them calling up to the provocation given Russia violated Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, you said, 900 days, and actually goes back much longer. That goes back to 2014 and
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Itโ€™s official: War criminal putin and co are using chemical weapons in Ukraine Is it time for the United Stated to finally do the obvious right thing: designate russia as the state sponsor of terrorism? I just pressed DoA spox ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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WATCH!!! U.S. and its allies put their air forces in harmโ€™s way to defend Israeli civilians against drone & missile attacks coming from the terrorist Islamic Regimeโ€ฆ Shouldnโ€™t they do the same for Ukraine? I asked DoS Spox ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป #StoprussiaNOW
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2 years
"Russia will lose" - panicked soldiers from a Kremlin-backed breakaway region in Georgia who fought for Russia in #Ukraine said after they retreated from the front line... "Yes, we think they will lose..." #StandWithUkraine
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JUST NOW!!! White House announces another security assistance package for Ukraine. "This would be our 63rd font of equipment, since August of 2021" Kirby tells reporters. 1/2
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HAPPENING NOW!!! I just asked @POTUS about Russian increasing attacks on Kyiv. โ€œItโ€™s not unexpectedโ€ Biden said. โ€œThatโ€™s why we got to continue to give Ukraine all they needโ€ #StandWithUkraine
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1 year
U.S. Congressional Committee passes a resolution calling for the Biden administration to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles โ€˜immediatelyโ€ #StandWithUkraine
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2 years
Kharkiv is Ukraine! Kherson is Ukraine! Donetsk is Ukraine! Luhansk is Ukraine! Crimea is Ukraine! Ukraine is Europe! #StandWithUkraine
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NEW!!! NATO to make 'important decisions' on Ukraine this week, @NATO Chief @jensstoltenberg says at the State Dept. "We will make decisions on Ukraine, and I think what you have seen over the last days demonstrates the need to step up our support for Ukraine." 1/2
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DoS Spox Miller: "It's not unusual for the Ukrainians not to notify us that their exact tactics before, before they execute them. It's a war that they they're conducting. We provide them with equipment. We provide them with advice, but when it comes to the kind of day by day
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HAPPENING NOW!!! Biden just wrapped up Oval Office meeting with @NATO chief Stoltenberg @jensstoltenberg told me he expects that NATO leaders will agree next month to have a NATO role in providing security assistance and training as well as financial support to Ukraine 1/2
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1 year
@PM_ViktorOrban Oh, no worries. Your place is definitely NOT in NATO, Viktor!
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2 years
List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek โœ”๏ธ Sergey Protosenya โœ”๏ธ Vladislav Avaev โœ”๏ธ Vasily Melnikov โœ”๏ธ Mikhail Watford โœ”๏ธ Alexander Tyulyakov โœ”๏ธ Leonid Shulman #StandWithUkraine ๏ธ
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JUST IN!!! Biden admin to send additional $126ย million in assistance to Ukraine under the Foreign Assistance Act #StandWithUkraine
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1 year
NEW: U.S. @HelsinkiComm Commissioners @RepJoeWilson , @RepCohen , @RepSpartz call on the White House to transfer ATACMS to Ukraine 'immediately'! #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin
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1 year
THIS is why!!! โค๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช #GeorgiaISEurope #NOrussianlaw
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3 years
Google cuts off ad revenue to Putin's state media โ€œIn response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian state-funded media across our platforms" #StandWithUkriane
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BREAKING: I just asked @POTUS : โ€œShould Putin be trialed for war crimes in Ukrianeโ€ Biden: โ€œHe clearly committed war crimesโ€ #PutinIsaWarCriminal #StandWithUkraine
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Kirby calls Putin' latest narrative "a bunch of horse hunt" "Make no mistake: this is Putin's war, and if he doesn't like it, if it's making him a little uncomfortable, then there's an easy solution: He can just get the hell out of Ukraine and call it a day"
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3 years
โ€œWe are at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe,โ€ Kyivโ€™s mayor Vitali Klitschko tells @AP โ€œRight now, we have electricity, right now we have water and heating in our houses. But the infrastructure is destroyed to deliver the food and medication.โ€ 1/2
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2 years
The Kremlin shut down a screening of @MrJones_Film , whichย exposes the fake news campaign behind Stalinโ€™s Ukraine genocide. It was filmed in Kharkiv, banned in Moscow. So tonight we blasted it at the Kremlin's D.D. propaganda office.ย  Movie night w/ @benjaminwittes @OlgaNYC1211
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3 years
Finally!!! The UK will scrap the so-called โ€œgolden visaโ€ scheme next week in a bid to halt the flow of Russian โ€œdirty moneyโ€ into the UK, the Times reports.
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1 year
THIS! The Biden administration defines victory in Ukraine as not just defending its sovereignty, but also restoring Ukraineโ€™s territorial integrity as defined by its 1991 borders. #StandWithUkraine
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10 months
JUST IN: Joint Statement on Israel by President Biden, PM Trudeau,ย President Macron, Chancellor Scholz, PM Meloni, and PM Sunak
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HAPPENING NOW: Blinken says, world โ€˜should not be fooleedโ€™ by Russiaโ€™s efforts to freeze the war on its terms. #StandWithUkraine ๏ธ
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HAPPENING NOW!! โ€œThe only message we should send to Moscow is that the West is united more than ever before when it comes to Ukraineโ€ Polish PM @donaldtusk tells reporters after meeting with @POTUS #StandWithUkraine
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2 years
Blinken says, U.S. has 'credible reports' that Russian forces may use variety of riot control agents, including tear gas mixed with chemical agents that would cause stronger symptoms, to incapacitate Ukrainian fighters & civilians, as part of aggressive campaign to take Mariupol.
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JUST IN! Blinkenโ€™s Statement on Venezuelaโ€™s Presidential Election: โ€œโ€ฆ It is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo Gonzรกlez Urrutia won the most votesย in Venezuelaโ€™s July 28 presidential election.โ€
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2 years
JUST IN: Statement from President Biden on Russiaโ€™s Attempts to Annex Ukrainian Territory #StandWithUkraine
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2 years
Is it time for U.S. and its allies to impose human rights-related sanctions on #Iran 's Supreme Leader? #IranRevolution
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NEW!!! Why wouldnโ€™t the U.S. allow Ukraine to strike back at russian launch sites? I just pressed DoS Spox. WATCH ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป #StandWithUkraine
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HERE!!! The full list of ALL 84 Kremlin agents who voted for "russian law" today to push Georgia back to russia AGAINST the will of the people of Georgia! Know them! Sanction them! NEVER let them off the hook! Pinned! 1. Barvenashvili Giorgi MP 2. Benashvili Gia MP 3.
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1 year
THIS! State Department says, Russia is โ€œon its back footโ€ in Ukraine, urges the Kremlin to reevaluate its losses, and leave Ukrainian territory immediatelyโ€ฆ #StandWithUkraine #russiaisATerroristState
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Here!!! ๐Ÿ‘‡ The Great People Of Georgia!!!! See them! Hear them! Stand With Them! Do NOT abandon them!!! #SanctionIvanishvili #StandWithGeorgianPeople
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BREAKING: U.S. says 'stands with Georgian people' "We are standing with the people of Georgia and the aspirations that they have," State Department Spox tells me. #GeorgiaIsEurope
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HAPPENING NOW: @SecBlinken on Ukraine aid: โ€Supplemental is important because the people who want to see it fail, the people who want to see it not go forward, are sitting in Moscow, they're sitting in Tehran, they're sitting in Beijing.โ€ #StandWithUkraine
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3 years
NEW: Biden just signed a memorandum for @SecBlinken regarding immediate military assistance to Ukraine #StandWithUkriane
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THIS! Ukraine should be able to 'skip' key requirements in its bid to become NATO member, says British Defense Minister Ben Wallace #StandWithUkraine
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HAPPENING NOW!!! State Dept pushes back against Orbanโ€™s ceasefire calls in Ukraine "We and the NATO Alliance have been clear that there really is only one solution here, and that is Russia simply leaving Ukrainian territory,โ€ โ€” Deputy Spox Vedant Patel tells reporters 1/2
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BREAKING!!!! State Department announced Georgia sanctions
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2 years
17 Embassies that have sent diplomats back to Kyiv so far: โœ”๏ธ Latvia โœ”๏ธ Lithuania โœ”๏ธ Estonia โœ”๏ธ EU โœ”๏ธ France โœ”๏ธ Italy โœ”๏ธ Poland โœ”๏ธ Turkey โœ”๏ธ Czech Republic โœ”๏ธ Slovenia โœ”๏ธ Vatican โœ”๏ธ Moldova โœ”๏ธ Georgia โœ”๏ธ Iran โœ”๏ธ Kazakhstan โœ”๏ธ Tajikistan โœ”๏ธ Turkmenistan #StandWithUkraine
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If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraineโ€ฆ If Ukraine fights with F-16s and ATACMS, there will be no more war. Why not just sending those weapons now? I asked DoS Deputy Spox ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป #StandWithUkraine
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Russiaโ€™s lavrov (along with zakharova โ€” both under the U.S. visa restrictions) landed in New York today to chair UN Security Council meetings. Whatโ€™s should it tell us about UN credibility? I just asked DoS Spox ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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โ€” You're tearing up. Tell me why you're tearing up. โ€” Because people in my country get killed for criticizing. Get shot in head for the crime of criticizing. @AlinejadMasih #IRGCterorrists
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HAPPENING NOW!! Georgian-American protesters gathered in front of the State Department, demanding the Biden administration to sanction Putinโ€™s puppet Ivanishvili and minions for stealing Georgian democracy. #StandWithGeorgianPeople
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Putinโ€™s puppet Ivanishvili and his GD (aka โ€œrussian dreamโ€) minions are doing their masterโ€™s biddingโ€ฆ Time to spare a moment from our own division and discord for the sheer bravery of the great people of Georgia saying #NOTorussianlaw and stand with them!!! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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3 months
BREAKING! U.S. and Ukraine will sign bilateral security agreement tomorrow, White House says #StandWithUkraine
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2 years
Norway to close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships, joining sanctions imposed by the EU over the war in Ukraine... #StandWithUkraine
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Alex Raufoglu
3 years
โ€œThere is no possible justification for dropping cluster munitions in populated areas, let alone near a school,โ€ @AgnesCallamard โ€œThis attack bears all the hallmarks of Russiaโ€™s use of this inherently indiscriminate and internationally-banned weapon..."
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JUST IN!! Biden signs Memorandum on the Delegation of Certain Functions and Authorities Under the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act
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@LindseyGrahamSC POTUS: "I know you don't want to hear any more Lindsey, but I have a few more things to say."
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It's official: Russia and Belarus will not receive formal invitations to the Paris 2024 Olympics #russiaIsATerroristState
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2 years
Stunning moment at the UNSC today as Ukrainian Amb @SergiyKyslytsya confronted his Russian counterpart about women and children killed by Russians. "Ambassador, do the eyes of Ukrainian children, women, and elderly killed by the Russians flash before you?โ€ ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป #StandWithUkraine
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THIS! UK foreign secretary James Cleverly says Ukraine has the 'legitimate right' to defend itself and can "project force" beyond its borders. #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin
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โ€œWe want Ukraine to win this war,โ€ State Department says โ€œ.. And thatโ€™s why we think itโ€™s so important that the United States Congress provide the security assistance that we have requested to Ukraine so it can win this warโ€ #StandWithUkraine
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3 years
Biden "made clear what he would like to see: Ethiopian army not going in to Tigray; to halting airstrikes, including - & particularly those that have caused a loss of life among civilians; expanding humanitarian access; & engaging in direct ceasefire talks,"-Senior Admin Official
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"Biden expressed concern that the ongoing hostilities, including recent air strikes, continue to cause civilian casualties & suffering, and he reaffirmed the US commitment to work alongside the African Union & regional partners to help Ethiopians peacefully resolve the conflict"
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State Dept on putin's latest speech: "This is nothing new.. Over the course of this conflict, he has saber rattled, used escalatory language" "If Mr. Putin is interested in a quick resolution to this, would simply be for russian forces to leave Ukraine can be as simple as that"
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โ€œWhile I was walking down [with] my wife, there were immediate explosions,โ€ an older man told @Amnesty โ€œYou see, everyone is covered with blood, everything. ...it kills me the fact itโ€™s a kindergarten. Whatโ€™s this they shoot at? At military objects? Where are those?"
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Amid the crisis happening in Tigray regional state of Ethiopia, internet & telecommunication have been reportedly cut since Nov This should stop! Ethiopian govt should publicly assure ppl that the internet remains open, accessible, inclusive, & secure
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NEW! U.S. has a message to Georgian Dream: "If you want to be in our community, including to benefit from things like where your kids go to school, then you have to start acting like a member of that community." Amb O'Brien's briefing just ended. Here are some quotes 1/7
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JUST NOW!!! U.S. Tightens Sanctions on Belarusโ€™s Military Support to Russia and Lukashenka Regime
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HAPPENING NOW: Russia โ€˜should withdraw and stop occupying Georgiaโ€™s territory,โ€™ State Dept says. #russiaIsATerroristState
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The United States "is gravely concerned by unconfirmed new reports alleging mass detentions, killings, and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in western Tigray by Amhara security forces" - DoS
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Sullivan: โ€œโ€ฆ. That's happened in Kharkiv. We have seen initial indications that Russia has made exploratory moves across in Sumy. And so it would apply there as well." #UkraineWillWin
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' @ZelenskyyUa "Europeans, please, wake up! Tell your politicians, Russian troops are shelling Zaporizhia nuclear power station, the city of Enerhodar. There are six energy units. Six. One unit exploded in Chernobyl." #StopPutin #StandWithUkraine ๏ธ
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#Amhara security forces and officials in #Ethiopia โ€™s Western #Tigray Zone, have carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against #Tigrayans in the area, amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes, per new @amnesty & @hrw report
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BIG NEWS!!! State Dept @StateDeputySpox confirms that the U.S. has already provided Ukraine with long range ATACMSย at the Presidentโ€™s direction. #StandWithUkraine
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State Department: โ€œThe Georgian people are speaking with a clear voice. Right now weโ€™re seeing some of those clear voices, those loud voices drowned out by tear gas, by efforts to suppress that peaceful exercise of freedom of assembly. Thatโ€™s of concern to usโ€
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NEW!! โ€œWe fundamentally want to see Ukraine win this war!โ€ DoS Spox tells me โ€œโ€ฆ which, by its nature, means Russia loses [the war], he added. #StandWithUkraine
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Mayor Vitali Klitschko: "Thatโ€™s why the message for everyone is: Support Ukraine together... We are strong. Every Ukrainian is proud to be independent, proud to be Ukrainian, and we are proud to have our own country" #StandWithUkriane 2/2
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Turkey to ban Russian warships from Black Sea #StandWithUkriane
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U.S. will continue to provide weaponry to Kyiv so that Ukrainian officials can negotiate from a position of strength when they think the time is right, per DoS Spox #StandWithUkraine
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JUST IN!!! Biden authorizes additional assistance for Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
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4 months
The brave people of Georgia are NOT giving up! Neither should you!!! #NoTorussianlaw #StandWithGeorgianPeople
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Mariam Geguchadze
4 months
โ€œThe light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.โ€ NO TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT! Rustaveli ave. today. #TbilisiProtests ๐Ÿ“ท Ezz Gaber
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Putin appears to be accusing the U.S. of seeking to โ€œdragโ€ Russia into war so it can impose sanctions on Moscow. Gee, why oh why did the U.S. move over 100,000 Russian solders to Russia-Ukraine Borders...
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REMEMBER: russia can always just leave. #StandWithUkraine
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Why, Biden admin, why? #StandWithUkraine
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Colby Badhwar ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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โ—๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The UK has formally asked the Biden Admin to stop prohibiting Ukraine from using Storm Shadow to strike Russian territory! Over a month later, they are still waiting for a response. Absolutely disgraceful. Reporting via The Times. Link in alt text.
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3 years
NEW: Biden designates Qatar as a Major Non-NATO Ally.
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1 year
NEW: U.S. sanctions 39 entities involved in โ€œshadow bankingโ€ network that moved billions for Iranian regimeโ€ฆ Blinkenโ€™s statement ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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WATCH!!! Powerful words by @GazelleSharmahd , the daughter of #JamshidSharmahd , a U.S. resident who was abducted by the Islamic regime and has now been sentenced to death: "To the Islamic regime in Iran, I have nothing to say. They're not a legitimate government. This is a
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4 months
EXCLUSIVE:ย  U.S. Congress To Introduce First-Ever Sanctions Bill Targeting Azerbaijani Officials Over Right Violations, Arrests, War: The Full Lst ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ 1/7
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Alex Raufoglu
2 years
Russian oligarch Deripaska's yacht arrives in Turkish waters.. Recently, 2 other superyachts linked to Roman Abramovich also docked in Turkish ports Turkey has emerged as a safe haven for Russians fleeing sanctions This must stop! #StandWithUkraine ๏ธ
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Alex Raufoglu
4 months
On this #PressFreedomDay2024 Please just take one minute to take stock of the freedoms and rights you enjoy and ask yourself: Why should the great people of Georgia be denied the same? #StandWithGeorgianPeople Say #NoTorussianlaw
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Olga Lautman ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
4 months
Amazing! Georgia tonight ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ช #NoToRussianLaw
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Alex Raufoglu
30 days
JUST IN!!! United States to Pause Assistance to the Government of Georgia, Blinken just announces
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Alex Raufoglu
2 months
Why wouldnโ€™t the U.S. allow Ukraine to strike with its weapons on the territory of russia beyond 100 km deep, given that this range does not cover the main Russian airfield? I just pressed @StateEUR Jim Oโ€™Brien ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป
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Alex Raufoglu
1 year
โ€œIs it time for ATACMS to Ukraine?โ€ โ€” I just asked @POTUS Thatโ€™s still in play, he said. Huge thanks to brilliant @weijia for this ๐Ÿ“ท shot. #StandWithUkraine
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Alex Raufoglu
1 year
Turkish President Erdogan: "Ukraine deserves to become a member of NATO" #StandWithUkraine
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Alex Raufoglu
4 months
Dear world, Please donโ€™t look away as indicted war criminal Putin and his puppet Ivanishvili & Co. are trying to steal Georgiaโ€™s democracy. Your support to the brave people of Georgia in their fight against #russianlaw is vital! #StandWithGeorgianPeople
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Eto Buziashvili
4 months
More footage from the protests in Georgia. A boy climbed the barricades at the entrance of Parliament to wave the EU-Georgia flag. If the Battle of Hogwarts immediately comes to your mind as well, stay tuned until the end to hear the spell against Russian influence.โšก๏ธ๐Ÿช„
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Alex Raufoglu
3 years
ICRC delivers 1st medical supplies to Tigray since... September "This assistance is a lifeline for thousands of people, and I can't emphasize enough how crucial it is that these deliveries continue." - @ICRC 's Apollo Barasa, #HumanRights
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