roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
โผ๏ธTrump's "Energy Ceasefire" applies exclusively to strikes on refineries, not the entire energy infrastructure, โ Axios.
Meanwhile, only one oil refinery remains in Ukraine, and it is not functioning due to russian strikes.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
This Toonie Tuesday we will be raising funds for Somebody: a combined special operations detachment. Besides that โ itโs all OPSEC. This one is a black-ops Toonie fellas! We are collecting for 2 net guns, a sexy new laptop, an EcoFlow, diving gear for training and a van (or a Bentley if we can afford it).
Our goal is $17,960. This is a big order, but trust us Tooniacs, this one is definitely worth it. If you want to make a difference in a big way, this is the one to go big on.
Our top 3 donors will be able to send a message on a ๐ฅ๐ฉ๏ธ, and 3 random fellas will be picked to also send a message! Tony would like to give you a hint for one of the times picked (it is within the first 30 minutes of kickoff).
PP: [email protected]
Jar: send.monobank.ua/jar/9v2ZEzNโฆ
Donate โฌ2 ยฃ2 $2 screenshot in replies & repost
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Good morning from The Hague! ๐ณ๐ฑ
Yesterday I spoke with a few volunteers from the flag watch ๐บ๐ฆ across from the ๐ท๐บ embassy while I was dropping off the Alumina22 cards.โจI picked up what the plans are for 24 February 2027 at this location. Last year there were four barrel organs. You can probably guess the plan for next year. Iโll be there all day.๐บ๐ฆโ๐ผ
By the way: for friends of Ukraine in the Netherlands who want to take part in the #Alumina22 card protest: see my tweet below!
Look what landed in my mailbox yesterday ๐ From the Train to Kyiv fundraiser by @RealJakeBroe via @69thSB
Almost $1.2 million was raised. The money bought pickup trucks, drone buses, medevac vehicles, drones and other frontline gear for Ukrainian units. They will save lives again.โค๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ
Today the programmer whoโs been on my team for 16 years is coming to The Hague for the day. Because of the long commute he usually works from home. We know each other inside out, and days like this are always useful and enjoyable.
Late this afternoon Iโm scheduled for an hour with the flag watch ๐บ๐ฆ
Have a good day, everyone!
Fellas uit Nederland ๐ณ๐ฑ
Ik heb #Alumina22 kaarten op voorraad.
Wil je ook meedoen met je familie, vrienden of collegaโs? Ik stuur met plezier een setje naar je toe.
Zie de tekst in de afbeelding hieronder hoe het werkt.
DM bij interesse.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
I donโt think most people understand how unique and beautiful Kyiv is. And while Ukraine targets Russian supply lines and munitions, Putin targets Ukraineโs culture and people - from my visit there 6 months ago
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Replying to @JayinKyiv
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
It is a scandal of alarming proportions: for four years, a German company has unhinderedly supplied European high technologyโincluding microcontrollers, sensors, and other dual-use componentsโto the Russian military-industrial complex, thereby directly supporting Putinโs war machine.
Around 16,000 shipments, valued at over 30 million euros, were processed while the German government apparently stood idly by. Only now, after years of systematic circumvention of EU sanctions, is action finally being taken. This is not merely a failure; it constitutes active complicity through willful blindness.
The German Federal Governmentโwhich rhetorically positions itself so vociferously as a pioneer in sanctions policyโallowed a network under Russian control (operating via the sanctioned firm Kolovrat) to place fictitious orders for four years, funneling goods through Turkey so that they would arrive in Russia in record time (often within just 5 to 10 days). Particularly insidious is the fact that many components ended up at the All-Russian Research Institute of Automationโan institution directly involved in the development of Russian nuclear weapons.
Thanks to these 16,000 shipments, Russia was able to modernize its weapon systems, enhance its precision guidance capabilities, increase the reliability of its drones and missiles, and further expand its nuclear infrastructure. Every single shipment has potentially endangered German and European soldiers, as well as Ukrainian civilians.
Why did the German government merely stand by and watch for four years?
โข Bureaucratic inertia and a lack of political priority: The relevant authorities (BAFA, Customs, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and the BND) evidently possessed information but failed to consistently translate it into concrete action.
โข Fear of economic repercussions: There was a reluctance to unduly disrupt Germanyโs export-oriented economy, leading officials to instead turn a blind eye.
โข Political hypocrisy: Loudly proclaiming "Stand with Ukraine" while simultaneously allowing German companies to supply Putinโs war machine with dual-use technology.
Why?
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Direct message from Giorgia Meloni to Volodymyr Zelensky:
"Dear President Zelensky, you know that you can count on our loyal support for the cause of freedom of Ukrainian people.
Stay strong and keep your faith steadfast!"
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Just, wow ๐
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Imagine an American vice-president traveling to Budapest in 1956 to support a pro-Kremlin government. Thatโs how pathetic the current U.S. government is.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Replying to @indigonl
Long story but no PP address.. Ik heb een klein bedrag overgemaakt PP: [email protected] Campaign for the 34th Coastal Defense Brigade. Raising money for the Marines in the Kherson region to buy a vehicle. Glory to Ukraine! @PolpoGelato #Oekraine #Ukraine
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Replying to @viktorikolibri
Repair of a vehicle for medics of the 77th Airborne Brigade. Thanks to you, saviors of humans. Glory To Ukraine! Doneer ook en help #Oekraine
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
BROWDER: It makes no sense to ease sanctions on Russian oil. China, India, and Turkey buy about 80% of it, but thanks to sanctions they get it at a deep discount, so Putin gets less money for his war machine.
Lifting sanctions now won't increase oil supply or lower prices; it just lets Russia sell to those countries at full market price, or even higher.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
๐ด FUNDRAISING FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF A MEDICAL POINT
for the 77th Separate Airborne Brigade of the Dnipro Region (77 OaEBr)
The 77th Separate Airborne Brigade is performing combat missions in the active combat zone in the Kupiansk direction. In these conditions, fast and stable medical care for the wounded is a matter of life and death.
An autonomous power source is needed to deploy and ensure the uninterrupted operation of the medical station.
๐ฏ Fundraising goal:
to provide the medical station with electricity to provide emergency care to wounded soldiers.
๐ฉบ Planned purchases:
โข ๐ diesel generator โ for stable operation of medical equipment;
โข ๐ EcoFlow charging station โ as a mobile and backup power source (lighting, charging medical devices, communication).
This equipment will allow:
โข providing assistance even during power outages;
โข ensuring the work of medics in the field;
โข saving the lives of wounded soldiers.
๐ Please join the fundraiser.
Every donation is a contribution to saving lives.
Even a small amount makes a difference.
Together we are stronger.
Together we save our people.
๐๐
Goal: $3000
PP [email protected]
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Why Venezuela Fell Within Hours, But Ukraine Did Not?
An important detail from Ukrainian officer Dmytro Vovnianko.
โSurely, we Ukrainians are badass. Those of us who, in the first days and hours of the war, headed straight to defend Ukraineโare infinitely badass, simply because these people, at the moment of highest threat, did not run away from danger but moved toward it. And overcame the danger.
All true. But. I have to remind everyone of something.
Technically, Moscow acted almost exactly like Americans in Venezuela. The first strike was missile and bomb attacks on bases and air defense positions, as well as on military aviation airfields.
Now imagine for a moment that Moscow had destroyed the main air defense units and combat aircraft on the airfields in the very first hours of the war. Imagine that Moscow had achieved complete air superiority. What would have happened then?
What would have happened is that
Russian airborne troops would have guaranteed the capture of the Hostomel airfield near Kyiv. Because the resistance from the militia would have been suppressed by Russian planes and helicopters. The artillery that started shelling the runway would have been suppressed by Moscowโs aviation. Moscow would have captured the airfield. Moscow would have accepted the personnel of their bloody Airborne Forces by landing methodโฆ
Yet none of this happened. Because, literally just before the Russian invasion, Ukrainian combat aircraft were given the order to take to the skies. And air defense units were ordered to leave their bases and deploy to positions in the fields. Because of this, Moscow struck empty squares, and then Ukrainian air defense and Ukrainian aviation went into action. And Moscow gained no air superiority at all.
However.
Moscow could still maneuver with the troops it had in abundance. Butโฆ
For example, the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade arrived in Kyiv in time and took up defense along the Irpin River.
I served in the 72nd and spoke with sergeants and officers - they told me that they began moving to their positions not on February 24, when Moscow attacked, but as early as the morning of the 23rd. For a long time, I couldnโt understand how that happened.
It turns out that Ukrainian brigades were given the order to advance to combat lines before the Russian invasion, and thatโs why they made it in time. Not just in Kyiv. The same thing happened in Kharkiv. The occupiers were met on the Kharkiv Ring Road just a few hours after the invasion - and engaged in battle. It wasnโt militia that met them, but regular army units- with command, combat equipment, and fire support.
The enemy was met by an army - with equipment, technical means, coordination, artillery, and missiles. And thatโs precisely why the enemy was stopped near Kyiv and then started babbling about a โgesture of goodwill.โ
All of this happened because in Ukraine there was a person who ordered the air defense to leave bases with their equipment and assets. This person ordered the aircraft to take to the skies. This person ordered ๐บ๐ฆ brigades to advance to combat lines.
This person took an incredible risk. Because he wildly exceeded his authority. That person was the then-Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valerii Zaluzhnyiโฆโ.
RT @JayinKyiv: Comment from Ukrainian social media this morning sums up Kyivโs position on Venezuela events today.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
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GENERAL LEONID IVASHOV STRONGLY CRITICIZES THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP
The well-known Russian general, General Leonid Ivashov, has sharply criticized the Russian leadership and assessed the 1,400 days of the โspecial military operationโ as follows:
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Facts:
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Russia started the war with Ukraine unprovoked.
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Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are Ukraine.
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Putin is a billionaire oligarch and a criminal.
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Trump is a traitor
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Zelenskyy did nothing wrong
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
Historian here. Donbas was never a territory of Russia. Until 18 century, it was used (but not inhabited) by predominantly Turkic nomadic tribes (but also Greeks); it was called a "Wild Field" because there were almost no permanent settlements there due to constant infighting between those tribes and Ukrainian Cossacks.
Then, after the threat was eliminated, Ukrainians started to create basically the first settlements in centuries in this "Ukrainian Wild East" repopulating this wasteland.
The process was later fueled by investments of British and French industrial magnates (which is why one of the original names of Donet'sk is Yuzivka - it was developed by the Welsh businessman John Hughes, but the city itself was founded by Ukrainian Cossacks as Oleksandrivka). Thus, the Donbas population census of the 1920s has clear numbers - 64% identified themselves as Ukrainians and only 26% as Russians.
But because of Holodomor, which specifically targeted Ukrainians and migration (often forced by the Soviet Union), the number of Ukrainians in 1939 fell to 61% while Russians grew to 36%. But they never were a majority, not even once for the last 10 centuries.
So Kremlin is using ignorance and laziness to make you believe in the lies they are spreading to prove their territorial claims. And extremely diverse and sometimes complicated history of Ukrainian Donbas is not something that is often studied in universities outside Ukraine.|
I hope this helps.
roevka ๐๐ป๐ retweeted
๐๐If you want to understand this war:
Look at Dnipro today.
Missile hit civilians
Bodies under rubble -
Three dead, eight injured.
A rescued little girl covered in dust.
This is not โconflictโ
This is terrorism.






































