A sign that reads โPutin, the Hague is waiting for youโ is displayed on a Vilnius City municipality building in Vilnius.
Photograph: Paulius Peleckis/Getty Images
#StopPutinNOW
JUST NOW: State Dept on the latest Ukrainian operation:
โUltimately, the decisions about how Ukraine conducts its military operations are decisions that Ukraine makes,โ DoS Spox tells me
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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
NEW!!! U.S. responds to Russiaโs latest accusations:
โWe 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
HAPPENING NOW:
Biden: โIf 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
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
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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 weโve said repeatedly, nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine."
BREAKING!!! Biden has invited President Zelenskyy to the White Houseย for a meetingย on Tuesday, Decemberย 12ย to underscore the United Statesโย unshakeableย commitment to supporting the people of Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russiaโs brutal invasion.
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 borderโฆ to try to take additional Ukrainian territoryโ, Jake Sullivan tells PBS
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NATO SecGen Stoltenberg urged members of the European Parliament to 'stop complaining and step up and provide support' to Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
๏ธ
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.
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DoS Spox: โI 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
Itโs 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 ๐๐ป๐๐ป
WATCH!!! U.S. and its allies put their air forces in harmโs way to defend Israeli civilians against drone & missile attacks coming from the terrorist Islamic Regimeโฆ
Shouldnโt they do the same for Ukraine?
I asked DoS Spox ๐๐ป
#StoprussiaNOW
"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
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.
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HAPPENING NOW!!!
I just asked
@POTUS
about Russian increasing attacks on Kyiv.
โItโs not unexpectedโ Biden said.
โThatโs why we got to continue to give Ukraine all they needโ
#StandWithUkraine
U.S. Congressional Committee passes a resolution calling for the Biden administration to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles โimmediatelyโ
#StandWithUkraine
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."
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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
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
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List of Russian oligarchs who have been found dead in mysterious circumstance since Jan, per Newsweek
โ๏ธ Sergey Protosenya
โ๏ธ Vladislav Avaev
โ๏ธ Vasily Melnikov
โ๏ธ Mikhail Watford
โ๏ธ Alexander Tyulyakov
โ๏ธ Leonid Shulman
#StandWithUkraine
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Google cuts off ad revenue to Putin's state media
โIn response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian state-funded media across our platforms"
#StandWithUkriane
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"
โWe are at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe,โ Kyivโs mayor Vitali Klitschko tells
@AP
โRight 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
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The Kremlin shut down a screening of
@MrJones_Film
, whichย exposes the fake news campaign behind Stalinโs 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
Finally!!!
The UK will scrap the so-called โgolden visaโ scheme next week in a bid to halt the flow of Russian โdirty moneyโ into the UK, the Times reports.
THIS!
The Biden administration defines victory in Ukraine as not just defending its sovereignty, but also restoring Ukraineโs territorial integrity as defined by its 1991 borders.
#StandWithUkraine
HAPPENING NOW!!
โThe 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
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.
JUST IN! Blinkenโs Statement on Venezuelaโs Presidential Election:
โโฆ It is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo Gonzรกlez Urrutia won the most votesย in Venezuelaโs July 28 presidential election.โ
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.
THIS! State Department says, Russia is โon its back footโ in Ukraine, urges the Kremlin to reevaluate its losses, and leave Ukrainian territory immediatelyโฆ
#StandWithUkraine
#russiaisATerroristState
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
HAPPENING NOW:
@SecBlinken
on Ukraine aid:
โSupplemental 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
HAPPENING NOW!!! State Dept pushes back against Orbanโs 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
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17 Embassies that have sent diplomats back to Kyiv so far:
โ๏ธ Latvia
โ๏ธ Lithuania
โ๏ธ Estonia
โ๏ธ EU
โ๏ธ France
โ๏ธ Italy
โ๏ธ Poland
โ๏ธ Turkey
โ๏ธ Czech Republic
โ๏ธ Slovenia
โ๏ธ Vatican
โ๏ธ Moldova
โ๏ธ Georgia
โ๏ธ Iran
โ๏ธ Kazakhstan
โ๏ธ Tajikistan
โ๏ธ Turkmenistan
#StandWithUkraine
If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraineโฆ
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 ๐๐ป
#StandWithUkraine
Russiaโs lavrov (along with zakharova โ both under the U.S. visa restrictions) landed in New York today to chair UN Security Council meetings.
Whatโs should it tell us about UN credibility?
I just asked DoS Spox ๐๐ป
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
HAPPENING NOW!! Georgian-American protesters gathered in front of the State Department, demanding the Biden administration to sanction Putinโs puppet Ivanishvili and minions for stealing Georgian democracy.
#StandWithGeorgianPeople
Putinโs puppet Ivanishvili and his GD (aka โrussian dreamโ) minions are doing their masterโs biddingโฆ
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!!!
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โThere is no possible justification for dropping cluster munitions in populated areas, let alone near a school,โ
@AgnesCallamard
โThis attack bears all the hallmarks of Russiaโs use of this inherently indiscriminate and internationally-banned weapon..."
JUST IN!! Biden signs Memorandum on the Delegation of Certain Functions and Authorities Under the Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act
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 ๐๐ป
#StandWithUkraine
THIS!
UK foreign secretary James Cleverly says Ukraine has the 'legitimate right' to defend itself and can "project force" beyond its borders.
#StandWithUkraine
#UkraineWillWin
โWe want Ukraine to win this war,โ State Department says
โ.. And thatโs why we think itโs so important that the United States Congress provide the security assistance that we have requested to Ukraine so it can win this warโ
#StandWithUkraine
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
"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"
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"
โWhile I was walking down [with] my wife, there were immediate explosions,โ an older man told
@Amnesty
โYou see, everyone is covered with blood, everything. ...it kills me the fact itโs a kindergarten.
Whatโs this they shoot at?
At military objects?
Where are those?"
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
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
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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
Sullivan: โโฆ. 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
'
@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
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#Amhara
security forces and officials in
#Ethiopia
โs 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
BIG NEWS!!! State Dept
@StateDeputySpox
confirms that the U.S. has already provided Ukraine with long range ATACMSย at the Presidentโs direction.
#StandWithUkraine
State Department:
โThe Georgian people are speaking with a clear voice.
Right now weโre 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.
Thatโs of concern to usโ
NEW!! โWe fundamentally want to see Ukraine win this war!โ DoS Spox tells me
โโฆ which, by its nature, means Russia loses [the war], he added.
#StandWithUkraine
Mayor Vitali Klitschko:
"Thatโs 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
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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
โThe light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.โ
NO TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT!
Rustaveli ave. today.
#TbilisiProtests
๐ท Ezz Gaber
Putin appears to be accusing the U.S. of seeking to โdragโ 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...
โ๏ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ 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.
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
EXCLUSIVE:ย U.S. Congress To Introduce First-Ever Sanctions Bill Targeting Azerbaijani Officials Over Right Violations, Arrests, War:
The Full Lst ๐๐
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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
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Why wouldnโt 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 OโBrien ๐๐ป
โIs it time for ATACMS to Ukraine?โ โ I just asked
@POTUS
Thatโs still in play, he said.
Huge thanks to brilliant
@weijia
for this ๐ท shot.
#StandWithUkraine
Dear world,
Please donโt look away as indicted war criminal Putin and his puppet Ivanishvili & Co. are trying to steal Georgiaโs democracy.
Your support to the brave people of Georgia in their fight against
#russianlaw
is vital!
#StandWithGeorgianPeople
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.โก๏ธ๐ช
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