Russia was unprepared for war with Ukraine due to underestimating the enemy and overestimating its own forces, with Foreign Intelligence Service falsely claiming 70% Ukrainian support, former Russian Ground Forces Commander Chirkin admitted.

European leaders are getting closer and closer to getting it. Its not a question of if Trump will betray Ukraine--its a question of when. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

40 animals were evacuated from Kostyantynivka,Donetsk region,on the 27th of October. 26 animals were adopted by volunteers,3 dogs have been reunited with their owners, volunteers said. 📹Animal Rescue Kharkiv

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has underlined his true intentions by issuing a presidential decree calling for an escalation in efforts to eradicate all traces of Ukrainian identity from the approximately 20% of Ukraine currently under Kremlin control.” www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

This week could be pivotal for diplomacy. It is clear that Russia does not want peace, and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible. My doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council on Defence ↓

It was not a plan but a capitulation document. It did not come together. It was a Russian document presented by some Americans as American. Be clear in your headlines. Help people see the simple awfulness of things.

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Very happy to have spoken to @michaeldweiss.bsky.social about the problems, shall we say, of having Russians write our foreign policy. The details are being confirmed now by major outlets. Get the analysis here. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

Yet again, we have Jared Kushner, unelected billionaire, acting as middle-man to launder Kremlin policy to help Russia carve up its neighbor.

Stay tuned for the @theins.press story, in collaboration with @spiegel.de, about how we knew Kirill Dmitriev was the architect of this “peace plan.” Drops tomorrow at 5am EST.

Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm going to be speaking with @michaeldweiss.bsky.social about Ukraine and the Russian "peace plan," tomorrow, Nov. 23, at 2pm ET on Thinking About... Live. Please join us! snyder.substack.com

Minus Kellogg… 🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦

We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work. snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...

A peaceful protest against the performance of Russian ballerina Maria Khoreva will take place today and tomorrow by the main entrance of Liceu Theater, Barcelona. The participants will be holding portraits of Ukrainian artists killed by Russia - actors, writers, dancers, singers.

Russia has started using jet-powered glide bombs to hit targets far beyond the frontline, an upgrade to Moscow’s arsenal that poses further strains on Ukraine’s stretched air defences. via @fabricedeprez.bsky.social on.ft.com/3Lq9Rzt

Which is why this war, and the threat of expanded war, will never end while Putin is still in office. Any permanent resolution to this war will only come once Putin is out of the Kremlin. The sooner Western policy-makers realize that, the better of we'll all be.

We have reached peak "NATO expansion propaganda". Jeffrey Sachs claims he was personally told by someone he didn't meet that there was a broken promise to a person who says it wasn't made.

Two things the UAE is currently sponsoring: 1) The NBA in-season tournament 2) Genocide in Sudan

Please watch and share. Pete Hoekstra is fundamentally unfit to be ambassador. His record of race-baiting and extremist disinformation needs to be called out. MAGA is actively undermining our nation. Canada needs to send him packing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThL...

Ukrainian from Kharkiv is trying to find out from what and why a Russian is “saving and liberating” him. 📹 persianic1337/Instagram

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Italian Senator Carlo Calenda left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and someone who repeats Russian propaganda narratives. I believe this is exactly how public accountability should work - when a liar is called a liar.

In Trump’s world, telling the truth is a crime and deserves punishment. Reagan was a committed free trader and the Canadian summary of the speech was spot on.

A Chinese LNG tanker owned by Pacific Gas was spotted receiving fuel from a sanctioned Russian vessel off Malaysia, the first documented case of a Chinese ship assisting blacklisted Russian LNG transport, Bloomberg reported. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Video from Daraya – Damascus (2015) When Assad’s regime and its allies, Russia and Iran, were bombing residential neighborhoods with highly explosive missiles. We will never forget that, and we will never forgive those who abandoned the Syrian people through all those long years.

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Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors. He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years, My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US 2/

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, Russia is responsible for the killing of at least 6,993 civilians, including 2,061 children and 984 women. We will never forget what Russia did to us, and this wound will remain a lasting testimony to one of the most heinous crimes of our time.

Keir Starmer's attempt to prosecute artists for speaking up against genocide failed. @kneecapceol.bsky.social has been found innocent of all charges. As for Canada? Not a great look to have stood with Orban's Hungary and Trump in targeting this popular Irish group.

I called my Mom to see how she is doing. She broke her arm but was out again this morning with the Grandmothers Against Genocide vigil. She said, "Do you know someone named Timothy Snyder?" Wow Mom. He is the expert on fascism. She said he took a picture of her sign. My Mom rocks.

Zelensky at the UN General Assembly session:

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

Ukraine has requested to take part in the upcoming UN Security Council meeting on Russian fighter jets over Estonia, Foreign Minister Sibiha said.

Here's my message to MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra. He gaslights our nation, blames Canadians for being mean to the US. He accuses of us being anti-American. He says we are mean and nasty and doesn't like us saying Elbows Up. Too bad Pete. We are proud anti-fascists www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Jh...

In response to Russia's airspace violation over Estonia, Turkish journalist Ragıp Soylu recalled why Turkey shot down a Russian jet in 2015. After at least five such incidents in October that year, Ankara warned Moscow it had changed its engagement rules — and then took action.

A NATO representative told Ukrainian media that part of the military equipment under the PURL program has already arrived in Ukraine. This involves supplying weapons from U.S. stockpiles at the expense of NATO member states. So far, four packages worth about $2 billion have been funded under PURL.

On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

Thousands of mercenaries are known to be fighting for Russia, but little else is publicly known. Our team at Frontelligence Insight holds exclusive lists with thousands of records, including their names, units, and home countries. In the coming days, we will release this data, broken down by country

Keir Starmer sacks Peter Mandelson over Jeffrey Epstein revelations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Polish Foreign Minister responded to Orbán’s post about "solidarity" after Russian drones invaded their territory.

Russia murders pensioners kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...

The survivors of the #Epstein trafficking and rape network will speak out today (Sept 3rd) in D.C. at 10:30 am EST. Amplify their voices. #3E #OpDeathEaters

While Russian missiles rain death on Kyiv, Hungary bans a brave ethnic Hungarian who dares to fight for Ukraine's freedom. Commander Magyar: if you need some R&R and Hungary won't let you in, please be our guest in Poland.

"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."

Canada will provide $1 billion for drones, ammunition, and armored vehicles for Ukraine, with deliveries expected as early as September, Prime Minister Carney announced.

John Bolton is a brave and clear critic of Donald Trump. We interviewed him for season one of Autocracy in America, for the episode on alliances and kleptocracy www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

As Syrian citizens, we can never forget — and will never forget — that Russia committed thousands of massacres in Syria over many years, just as it is doing now in Ukraine.