Helga Stevens @StevensHelga@respublicae.eu

RT by @StevensHelga: 10:35 am in #Kyiv

Morning from Ukraine!

The night was calm in Kyiv. But at night, russians attacked the town of Zolochiv in Kharkiv Oblast. As a result, the three-storey hotel building was destroyed. There were people under the rubble. Three women were rescued. Unfortunately, a two-month-old baby boy died 💔

I will try hard to live life.

Today's piece of Ukrainian art: Mykhailo Sapozhnykov, King of Darkness, 1906-1918

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/strategywoman/status/1754786622497808649#m

[2024-02-06 08:38 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: The New York Times tells how EU leaders danced over Orban to convince him to lift the block on the €50 billion package to Ukraine.

It was a game of good cop and bad cop, writes the NYT. Some leaders jokingly told Orban they would send him bills for the nights they spent with him in Brussels trying to persuade him to support funding for Ukraine. Others were not joking and said that they would begin the procedure for excluding Hungary from EU procedures. Still others offered him a friendly late-night drink so he could complain about how the evil European bureaucracy had united against him for ideological reasons.

“Bad Cop” was played by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel. On Monday, he summoned Orban and bluntly stated that he would not see the right to veto the aid package for Ukraine in a year. Michel put his “nuclear option” on the table: he told Orban that he would face a procedure for depriving him of his vote in the EU - an unprecedented step for the EU.

On Wednesday evening, Orban met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, his comrade in far-right ideology. It was a meeting over a bottle of champagne on green velvet armchairs in the premier room of the exemplary five-star Amigo Hotel in the heart of Brussels. Meloni gently convinced Orbán that it would be much more profitable for him to join the EU’s common line, it would be better for everyone.

The next move was Emmanuel Macron. The French President suggested that Orbán make some changes to the EU joint statement, which would take into account some of Orbán's complaints about the EU. (The EU is blocking €20 billion from Hungary due to problems with corruption and democracy caused by Orban's 17 years in power. [The EU will not release these funds to Orban in exchange for the Ukraine deal].

In parallel, at the other end of the street at the EU headquarters, a meeting of…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/yasminalombaert/status/1753424216186138777#m

[2024-02-02 14:24 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Great read. Orbàn blinked.

I still do not believe that Orbàn = Hungarians, however. He is not permanent.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/wartranslated/status/1753585310024224979#m

[2024-02-03 01:04 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: 11:14 pm in #Kyiv

It is true. Every day, fewer and fewer people pay attention to what is happening in Ukraine. And every day, I am here to remind you about us. I am going to do this until our victory day. I am talking here about war and culture. This post is about war. It is #warcoffeedaily, January 30, 2024:

Attacks on civilians and infrastructure
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: The russian forces attacked two districts today, injuring a man. The missile hit a yard belonging to the locals. A residential building was partially destroyed. Another 31 houses were damaged. Several outbuildings were destroyed.
Kherson Oblast: The town of Beryslav was attacked with a drone, and a local resident was killed.

Mobilisation
Today, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers approved and submitted an updated draft law on mobilisation to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s Parliament).

Good job, boys
Many websites and applications in the .ru zone did not load today. Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has claimed that a cyberattack by its specialists has "taken down" the russian Defence Ministry's special communications server.

It is a good news, too
Thanks to a court decision, Ukraine's state budget received more than UAH 32 million ($842,500) of funds confiscated from sanctioned persons. These are the personal funds of collaborators such as Dmytro Vorona and Volodymyr Saldo and the funds from the company of russian oligarch Deripaska.

Meanwhile
The International Monetary Fund expects russia's GDP to grow by 2.6%, which is more than double the rate the IMF predicted in October and slightly slower than the 3% growth expected in 2023.
The main impetus for the development of the russian economy is provided by the increase in military spending.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/strategywoman/status/1752440368618975549#m

[2024-01-30 21:15 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: A missed development in the war in Ukraine

Ukraine’s developed capability to strike deep inside Russia with drones on targets like fuel depots, arms factories, and far military bases

This brings by a war home to Russia and limits its ability to earn oil export revenue 1/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Mylovanov/status/1752446058985128036#m

[2024-01-30 21:37 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Coincidentally I was watching the same video yesterday, and a bunch of others, from earlier in the war. The clean brand new vehicles were peak military power display then. Just two years ago.

Only now starting to contextualise all the events I was covering in real time, looking up details of battles that will never be forgotten. It’s been a long road.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/wartranslated/status/1752486810188382369#m

[2024-01-31 00:19 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️CIA director: Failing to pass Ukraine aid would be mistake 'of historic proportions'.

Failing to provide Ukraine with adequate military aid would mark a mistake "of historic proportions" for Western allies, CIA Director William Burns wrote in a column for Foreign Affairs Magazine on Jan. 30.

https://kyivindependent.com/cia-director-failing-to-pass-ukraine-aid-would-be-mistake-of-historic-proportions/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1752499699506950567#m

[2024-01-31 01:11 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Since my comment is being suppressed on his post, I'll repeat it here.

Elon Musk claims that illegal immigration has increased 1000% in the last 10 years.

I reminded him that Russian Propaganda and Disinformation has increased on this platform by the same amount in just the last 2 years with the large majority of his growth being fueled by just 3 Russian bot farms in Russia.

Of his substantial growth and with advertisers still fleeing, only ~880,000 people actually pay to use Twitter.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/spooked75/status/1752602945508499666#m

[2024-01-31 08:01 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Je kan Israël verdedigen tot je een ons weegt, maar wanneer soldaten vermomd als zorgpersoneel een ziekenhuis op de Westelijke Jordaanoever binnendringen en drie mensen standrechtelijk executeren, dan is dat een schending van de Conventie van Genève (volgens prof. Zwanenburg, hoogleraar Militair Recht).

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/vanranstmarc/status/1752611455826895322#m

[2024-01-31 08:35 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Sources say that the “Nevsky Mazut” gas storage in Sankt Petersburg, Russia, has been targeted. A substantial explosion can be seen in this footage.

The fact that a drone not only penetrated the perimeter of the Russian air defense but also hit a target close to a center of Russia’s most important cities, speaks for itself.

Coordinates of the plant:

59°54'04"N 30°23'03"E

Source: https://t.me/bazabazon/24897

#Russia #SanktPetersburg #Ukraine

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Tendar/status/1752619969215422849#m

[2024-01-31 09:08 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: My thought is that this information should reach the Russians.
There are russian bots on Twitter, but there are no russians.
YouTube is used to watch movies, documentaries.
That's why these high resolution videos will now be on this channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@pravdaforbidden

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Doktor_Klein/status/1752663644570099828#m

[2024-01-31 12:02 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: CIA Director William Burns wrote that failing to continue passing weapons to Ukraine would prove to be a mistake "of historic proportions". Burns is absolutely right.

For all sorts of reasons, Vladimir Putin's Russia must be stopped in Ukraine. Providing Ukraine with the weapons and support it needs to accomplish that objective is critical.

The Ukrainians aren't asking NATO countries for troops; they're only asking for the tools needed to get the job done themselves.

We can either help Ukraine defeat Russia now, or we can eventually fight expansionist Russia later on, at much higher cost and at the risk of a potential nuclear war.

Those are the options we have, people. Pick one.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/30/ukraine-aid-russia-00138535?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mil-ebb&SToverlay=342f5a58-c37b-4142-b049-1f737335b507

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/InfoAgeStrategy/status/1752682539691503625#m

[2024-01-31 13:17 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️It is reported that the 🇫🇷French company CEFA will supply 🇺🇦Ukraine with 16 self-propelled pontoon bridges EFA (Engin de Franchissement de l'Avant).

The EFA combines a pontoon bridge and an amphibious transporter at the same time, which ensures more rapid redeployment of the bridge structure, as well as the ability to use the equipment itself as a ferry. Several EFA units can be linked together to create a long pontoon crossing.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/front_ukrainian/status/1752695771114439086#m

[2024-01-31 14:10 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: 🔸Now there is good news. These are the kind of news we all await. Today, it was possible to liberate 207 Ukrainians from Russian captivity. 180 enlisted and sergeants, 27 officers. Almost half are defenders of Mariupol, including fighters from the Armed Forces, National Guard, units of the State Border Guard Service, and the National Police. Soon, 207 young men will be home with their families. 207 families are already happy.

We have often heard at different moments that something might not work out. When you know exactly what to do, everything is possible, even what may seem impossible to some. Ukraine knows how to achieve its goals!
Slava Ukraini!🔹

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/maria_drutska/status/1752697436538290264#m

[2024-01-31 14:16 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: 4:53 pm in #Kyiv

I love this place.
It gives me the strength to go on.
And look who I met today.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/strategywoman/status/1752707467081822666#m

[2024-01-31 14:56 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Germany has announced a new package of military aid to Ukraine

According to the information on the website of the German government, it will include, in particular:

🔹 24 APCS

🔹4 tracked all-terrain vehicles Bandvagn 206

🔹Missiles for Iris-T air defense systems

🔹More than 1000 155mm ammunitions

🔹3 tracked armored mine clearance vehicles WiSENT 1

Sea King Mk41 military helicopters are also listed, however, it is noted that their transfer is still only in preparation and will take place in the future.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/nexta_tv/status/1752709612242121103#m

[2024-01-31 15:05 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: A poignant homecoming. Ukrainian defender Junior Sergeant Zahar returns, bearing a heartrending saga. Captured at Azovstal in May 2022 alongside his wife Tatyana, he endured the unimaginable. Tatyana, exchanged six months later, perished in Dnipro under a Russian X-22 strike that claimed 46 lives, including their youngest daughter and Zahar’s mother. Today, their eldest daughter, amidst grief, awaits the return of her father, a reunion shadowed by unspeakable loss.

#UkraineHomecoming 🇺🇦💔

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/banderafella/status/1752716126931357748#m

[2024-01-31 15:31 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: The World Court has found Russia guilty of supporting terrorism against #Ukraine & attempting to eradicate the Ukrainian language in occupied #Crimea.

International Court of Justice found Russia guilty of violating some parts of an anti-terrorism treaty in eastern #Ukraine - Re Putin's funding & military support for so-called "separatists." In plain language - Russia's 2014 invasion, including the shooting down of flight #MH17. Court also ruled Russia violated a UN anti-discrimination treaty by failing to protect education in the Ukrainian language in Crimea. https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/166/166-20240131-jud-01-00-en.pdf

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/GlasnostGone/status/1752731683768377764#m

[2024-01-31 16:32 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: 😡putin declares that he will not stop at the captured territories of Ukraine and will go further.

"We will push the demilitarized zone in Ukraine further. It is necessary to move the front line to such a distance that will protect the territory of the Russian Federation from shelling from Western weapons."

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/jurgen_nauditt/status/1752732408661614629#m

[2024-01-31 16:35 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: If this is not the clearest slap that Europe / America needs to unlock funds and provide Ukraine with any and all weapons (non nuclear goes without saying) to allow Ukraine to actually win, then I am sadly at a loss for words.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Marslauncher/status/1752733753804210569#m

[2024-01-31 16:41 UTC]