Russia attacked kindergarten in Kharkiv. Russia’s daily terror across Ukraine continues.

"Understanding [Russia's] long-term patterns of strategic deception is essential in order to effectively counter" them. Important long read from @katri.bsky.social and @atolvin.bsky.social breaking down how Russia shapes outcomes through narratives over decades. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our paper with @atolvin.bsky.social at #iccees2025 about Russia's strategic deception, will be published later this year!

They hit a subway station in Kyiv where people were hiding from explosions

The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live

Ceasefire shmeasefire. Air alert in Kyiv - threat of ballistic missile launches from east. Explosions reported in Kharkiv.

Ru ceasefires are always lies. Time for a broader audience to learn what Ukrainians have known for 11 yrs.

Foreign policy asks a fantastic question - why don’t Russian soldiers revolt. After all they all die. Here is the answer. 1/

Russia killed at least 21 people in Sumy, northern Ukraine, today, on Palm Sunday. Two ballistic missiles hit the center of the city. More than 80 people are injured. This attack made absolutely no sense other than to terrorise civilians and to showcase Russia's impunity.

My first Foreign Policy essay is out - it examines the role of violence in Russia's military, which both creates docility in the face of meatgrinder tactics, and encourages increased violence towards fellow soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

"Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders." - a brilliant piece by @atolvin.bsky.social at foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome @atolvin.bsky.social's debut piece in Foreign Policy, on how the ingrained violence of Russia's military system helps explain both acquiescence in the meatgrinder and atrocities toward its victims. Keep writing please. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

this is just abjectly fucking terrifying nobody should be disappeared because they wrote an op-ed nobody should be disappeared at all

None of these crimes will stop if Russia manages to formally keep the occupied territories. On the contrary, they will escalate. Because they are not the product of the war per se but of Russia’s objective of erasing the Ukrainian nation as Ukrainians define it and imposing a ru-defined Ukr identity

On this International Women's Day, please consider donating to VETERANKA - a Ukrainian charity that helps women who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and female veterans. uwvm.org.ua/uk/

Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim. President Zelensky was the only one in the room to behave with dignity.

Helsinki tonight

Today, the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki is hosting a series of roundtable discussions on three years of Ukrainian resistance to the full-scale invasion

Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!

New: Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones. Story w/ @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social + @cen4infores.bsky.social on.ft.com/4fTNzAL

brilliant presentation on the Shiyes Protests and waste colonialism by @lenagorbacheva.bsky.social at this year’s ASEEES!