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Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Just look at these horrifying images. A father is weeping in despair beside the body of his 15-year-old daughter, whom a Russian missile killed today right in the downtown of Chernihiv.
Russia is the greatest barbarian in the history of humankind🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Please read this article by @ZarinaZabrisky; a true hero whose quiet, tireless work helped bring Oleshky to the world’s attention. Now, she is sounding a warning we must hear‼️‼️‼️
Forcibly deporting civilians from occupied territory is a war crime. Moscow must not turn this ceasefire into another instrument of repression.
The people of Oleshky must be able to reach safety in Ukrainian-controlled territory, freely and without coercion. Their choices, rights and dignity must be respected.
Thank you, Zarina, for continuing to speak out and stand beside them.
Please read, share and, if you don’t already, follow her‼️
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Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
I've seen people debate why a creator would leave YouTube for Instagram if Meta doesn't pay. They wouldn't. But creators haven't been exclusive, mono-platform in years. And Reels is arguably a bigger discovery engine via short form for long form content. It's always and, never or
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
The New York premier of this important film is November 14th. Please see it if you can.
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Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Wild (and disturbing) indeed!
Completely wild @FT story that, even as Congress was passing the Graham Russia Sanctions Act over the summer, Russian energy giant Novatek was secretly involved in one of the newly-developing Alaska LNG projects, and the Trump Admin was at least generally aware of it....
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Things are moving so fast that everyone seems to have completely missed how insane it is that AI companies have been allowed to unleash agentic AI products with no regulatory guidelines.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
One of the most powerful missile attacks on Kyiv in recent memory. Dozens of explosions. Russian missiles are hitting various parts of the city tonight.
It seems Witkoff was negotiating not peace in Moscow, but more strikes on Ukraine. After his visit, "humanist" Putin became even more furious in his killing.
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Nobel laureate @avalaina has documented Russian war crimes in Ukraine since its full-scale invasion. Her reaction to Trump saying Russia has been “fine”’ there?: “We document intentional murders of civilians every day…I'm sorry to say, but this presidential administration completely lost their ability to distinguish between good and evil.”
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
These are defensive weapons that Europeans have paid for
🚨 NEW: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a "significant" batch of Patriot interceptors for Ukraine, sources say.
"It's hard to call this a 'monthly supply,' because there's no set amount of how much you need for a month," a senior Ukrainian official says. "But it's significant."
Some in Kyiv suspect Washington is holding the missiles back on purpose to pressure Ukraine, as Russia keeps striking Ukrainian cities.
With @JimmySecUK
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Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Starlink has absolutely no role in the one military campaign Trump claims he wants Ukraine to end: hitting Russian oil refineries. It only works in Ukraine and it helps with air defense — homegrown air defense, to be specific, which was born of necessity because we aren’t providing enough missile interceptors. A Russian Shahed today killed a one-year baby in a park. The U.S. is actively making it easier for Russia to commit these atrocities by throttling satellite internet. All while Trump makes excuses for Putin.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
These are not transfers from the US, but from other countries. The US is now actively sabotaging Ukrainian defense of civilians.
Breaking news: The Trump administration has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian attacks, officials said, a delay that comes as President Trump has embraced Russia in recent weeks. wapo.st/4yCb7T7
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Russia killed a one year old girl in her stroller today. Her mother died in the hospital a few hours later.
Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trump's remarks were made the same day Russia conducted a drone strike killing six civilians including children in a Kharkiv region park, plus missile and energy infrastructure attacks leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
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Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
“Russian borders don’t end anywhere” is a quote from no-one else but Putin. Which is why giving him Donbas, or Kyiv for that matter, will not be the end of a war but the beginning of a new one — with Russia in a much stronger position and Ukrainians its cannon fodder.
Donald Trump says the Russian sanctions waiver is to help negotiate peace. But one Russian paper today writes: “We will make a deal with Ukraine entirely on our terms.” Another paper: “Russia’s borders, as we know, do not end anywhere.” #ReadingRussia
Katya Kotlyar 🇺🇦 retweeted
Russia struck this little girl’s house with a drone the day after I took this photo. Her father and brother were killed. She only survived as she had gone to the kitchen to get water.
