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๐ Zaporizhzhia. The city's been under Russian attack since morning. Three people were killed. A 17-year-old boy among them.
One of the strikes hit a five-story residential building. More than 50 people were injured, including eight children. Many residents were trapped in their apartments.
A concrete slab fell on one of the rescuers while he was clearing rubble. He died.
Devastating.
Deepest condolences.
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This needs to be widely shared ๐
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Kallas: "I know that Russians don't want me [representing Europe in peace talks], but, you know, do we have a say in who is representing Russia? No, we don't."
This! To dictate conditions, Russia would first have to win the war, which it is incapable of doing. I don't understand why the Trump administration is engaging in negotiations from a position of submission, when the united West and Ukraine hold all the cards and have the instruments to negotiate from a position of strength or pressure Russia hard to make them accept it.
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Putin is not going to play ball. His plan is to wait until Spring and hope that Europe is too slow to provide the financial support Ukraine needs to continue the fight. @TVPWorld_com
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Incredible details have emerged of Russias proposals to end the war in Ukraine in Abu Dhabi according to Bild which includes many demands beyond Ukraine:
-Russia wanted Finland to leave NATO and have no NATO bases in the Baltics.
-Russia wants a full restricting of Moldova into three separate republics Moldova, Tranistria and Gagauzia.
-Kremlin demanded 0 European troops in Ukraine, that Russia would maintain occupied territories and be given control of the whole Donbas.
-Russian ships would have free movement in the Black Sea and the Baltic and there would be a full demilitarisation of Ukrainian ports.
-Territories of Transnistria and Gagauzia would be given independence referendum if Moldova joined the EU.
In return Russia would:
-Withdraw troops from Transnistria and demilitarise that region
-Withdraw nuclear weapons from Belarus
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What @andyburnham told COP he did in his first 3 weeks as Usurper PM. Spoiler alert; he didnโt quite tell the truth.
![What Andy Burnham did in his first 3 weeks as [Usurper] PM](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HW7xNhrWEAA_Mys.jpg)
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Arlene Phillips, Harriet Walter, Lindsay Duncan and Samuel West are among 10,000 people to have signed an open letter to the government calling for arts subjects to be restored in schools ๐ thestage.co.uk/news/arlene-pโฆ
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This is so very damaging for any and all US diplomacy for the foreseeable future. How will anyone ever be able to take this country seriously?
To send a random unelected mafia errand boy who arrogantly insults allies and openly sides with the enemy?
Who tf does he think he is?
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Clarke: What worries Europeans is what goes on behind the scenes in Abu Dhabi. It's about resetting Russian-American relations on an economic basis.
The fear is that Trump changed sides in the war on Ukraine and will now betray the rest of Europe. I don't think he has the power. 2/
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UK defense analyst Michael Clarke: At Melania Trump's ceasefire meeting, Trump saw Russian wealth-fund chief Kirill Dmitriev. He saw none of the Ukrainians.
Dmitriev, I think, pitched big Russia-US deals. Then Trump began talking about a reset in European security 1/
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Abu Dhabiโs big diplomatic breakthrough by Trumpโs real-estate boys: Zelensky had to sit them down and explain, like they were five, that Ukraine isn't a distressed asset in Florida.
"I've had to explain this to the Real Estate Bros Kushner & Witkoff: the Donbass isn't my personal property to flip. I can't just gift them an extra two kilometers because it makes the term sheet look cleaner or because someone in Moscow offered a 'package deal'. The Donbas is not my building. People live there.
Try thinking about it as if Russians had already taken half of Florida and were asking Trump to hand over the rest so you two could finally close the deal and go back to building luxury resorts on the rubble."
Once again, Ukraine rejected the US plan to gift its regions to Moscow.
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Have ๐บ๐ธ negotiators ever consulted serious CIA experts to understand the Kremlinโs negotiation tactics and culture?
1. First and foremost: NEVER smile unnecessarily, especially fake smiles. They signal insincerity.
2. Never display submissive or impressionable behavior.
3. You represent the USA, THE SUPERPOWER. Even your handshake and body language should communicate strength.
4. Never raise your voice and smile loudly . Putin Speaks calmly. The quieter you speak, the more authority you project.
6. In American negotiations, the traditional approach is often win-win and splitting the difference. Putinโs approach is different: if he has to lose, he wants the other side to lose even more.
7. Never allow artificial deadlines to dictate your decisions. Strategic patience is power. Donโt rush into a bad deal because Russia creates urgency.
8. Never reveal how badly you need an agreement. The moment the Kremlin believes you need a deal more than they do, your urgency becomes their leverage.
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Nick Symonds making it clear that this EU deal was negotiated by him under Starmer, would have been delivered months ago by July 26.
He makes point that he had already started discussions on the debate on next manifesto EU.
Grown up vs muppet pretending his work @TimesRadio
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President Zelenskyy met with U.S. envoys Kushner and Witkoff at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, located west of Dublin.
They will probably suggest surrender plans coated in sugar, and try to explain that peace is good and war is bad. Its goingto be a looooong meeting.
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Come on American Democrats and any decent Republicans.
Time to put a stop to the deliberate sabotage of Ukrainian efforts to defend itself in the name of greed and increased wealth for the very few in Trumps inner circle.
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Trumpโs DOJ just told its prosecutors theyโre a wartime department now. But three division heads and the Miami U.S. attorney running the immigration and revenge investigations have already quit since the election.
Oh, and the career people they drove out will be star witnesses in 2027 oversight hearings. I hope some of them decide to testify against the admin.
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