Helga Stevens @StevensHelga@respublicae.eu

RT by @StevensHelga: Kharkiv today mourns the loss of 10 lives of its citizens in the Russian missile strike on the city on January 23.

10 people whose lives Russia took for the crime of being Ukrainian

Among them was the 8-year-old daughter and wife of a player of the national rugby league team of Ukraine, Volodymyr Mashkin.

The man received the news of the death of his family at the front. Volodymyr had volunteered to serve in the ranks of the AFU since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/BohuslavskaKate/status/1750526532295307629#m

[2024-01-25 14:30 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: This is what real Heroes look like. Glory to Freedom Defenders. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

📸 Максим

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ukrainiansquad/status/1750535929498927574#m

[2024-01-25 15:07 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: The latest attempt by chancellor Scholz to organize a swap deal with UK and Ukraine where TAURUS missiles go to UK so that more Stormshadows can be transferred to Ukraine is as shameful as it is illogical. It defeats almost every excuse Scholz and other SPD members where bringing up, such as that it would leave Germany vulnerable. How does a transfer of missiles to UK instead Ukraine make Germany not weaker? Absolutely ridiculous. Ukraine needs this missile for a specific purpose which the Stormshadow cannot deliver. I laid this out in a post a few months ago and it hasn’t changed.

This German government is the manifestation of political embarrassment. It has nothing to do that Ukraine might use this missiles against targets in Russia (even though it would be perfectly ok). Scholz and the rest of the SPD are terrified by the thought that a German missile might destroy Putin-Russia’s pride, the Kerch Bridge. This bridge is the “problem”, together with the interference of the Schröder cartel within the SPD.

Source (German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/ringtausch-taurus-vorbehalte-100.html

#Germany #Ukraine

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Tendar/status/1750566458088689863#m

[2024-01-25 17:09 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Today, Russia launched around forty missiles of various types in an attempt to evade our air defenses.

We were able to intercept the majority of them, but there were still some hits. Over 200 different objects were damaged. 130 residential buildings, all ordinary houses. 130 people were injured. They are all getting assistance.

Unfortunately, 18 people were killed. My condolences to their loved ones. The number of casualties may still increase. In Kharkiv, the rescue operation is still ongoing, and debris is still being cleared. This was a regular multi-story building where ordinary people lived.

We are working to advance our cooperation with partners regarding the Ukrainian air defense.

This year, the main priority is to strengthen air defense to protect our cities and towns, as well as defend frontline positions, which will have an impact on the strategic situation and the war effort as a whole.

I am grateful to all of our partners who are helping us complete this task.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ZelenskyyUa/status/1749910065564221830#m

[2024-01-23 21:40 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️Authorities: Russia attacks Kharkiv for 3rd time in 24 hours, injures 8.

Russian troops launched new strikes against Kharkiv, most likely using S-300 missiles, in a third attack against the city in a day, said Oleksandr Filchakov, head of the regional prosecutor's office.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749922016696660204#m

[2024-01-23 22:28 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: "The prevalence of sanctions evasion calls into question the effectiveness of the current regime and underscores the need for Western powers to consider the costs and risks to their own economies," writes Anne O. Krueger in her guest op-ed.
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-why-the-russia-sanctions-are-failing/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749839167373086948#m

[2024-01-23 16:59 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️Authorities: Russian attacks kill 3, injure 2 in Kherson Oblast.

Russian strikes against Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine killed three people and wounded two more on Jan. 23, regional authorities reported.https://kyivindependent.com/authorities-russian-attacks-kill-3-injure-2-in-kherson-oblast/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749840450159079657#m

[2024-01-23 17:04 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: This chronic lack of resolve, leadership, and strategic vision will bury the free world.

Systemic fear of responsibility and historical decisions, trying to hold on to the comfort zone as hard as possible — this is why we are where we are now. And the free world is at its weakest throughout the entire post-1991 era.

That's the endless procrastination, security escapism, and over-compromising at any cost (upon someone else).

It's painful to realize that in February 2022, much of the Western decision-making elite was generally ready to come to terms with Russia's complete takeover of Ukraine, which seemed hardly preventable. But a lot of things on the Russian side suddenly went very wrong.

Ukraine unexpectedly (for some) prevailed at the Battle of Kyiv and effectively derailed the central axis of Russia's blitzkrieg.

The 'special military operation' failed, and Russia's full-scale, protracted war on Ukraine followed. And as you know, the entire history of the war is Ukraine and its friends beating their heads against the wall of the 'don't-provoke-Putin' attitude.

Again and again. It started working only as late as springtime and summertime 2022, when the Battle of Donbas was at its horrific peak and when it became apparent that Russia was not stopping and Ukraine was not going down just like that.

First, it's tank killers, then artillery, then armored vehicles, radars, ammo, rocket systems, radars, tanks, air & missile defense, now it's F-16. And with every single weapon and hardware class and type, there has been generally the very same scheme:

1. "Ukraine will never get X and Y, that's a major escalation, that's too complicated and too expensive for Ukraine to use"
2. Months-long deliberations, denial, and discussions
3. Ukraine eventually ends up getting X and Y many months late and demonstrates outstanding results on battlefields
4. Russ…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IAPonomarenko/status/1749847542802595861#m

[2024-01-23 17:32 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Where is Gerasimov?

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/_memeticwarfare/status/1749592170687066368#m

[2024-01-23 00:37 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: As Russia’s full-scale war approaches its third year and looks ready to drag on for several more, one topic is dominating the discussion in Ukraine: mobilization.

https://kyivindependent.com/move-to-expand-mobilization-brings-ukrainian-society-face-to-face-with-immense-pressure-of-war/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749595267337179395#m

[2024-01-23 00:49 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️Russia to be grilled on fate of forcibly deported Ukrainian children at UN Committee.

Russia is set to respond to questions posed by various countries on the fate of forcibly deported Ukrainian children at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child on Jan. 23.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be-grilled-on-fate-of-forcibly-deported-ukrainian-children-at-un-committee/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749663245307158897#m

[2024-01-23 05:19 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: And moreover, this “war with the West” has comfortably became the Kremlin’s foremost instrument of consolidating it's power.
They need war as such.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IAPonomarenko/status/1749667417087689109#m

[2024-01-23 05:36 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Photo of a Russian X-101 Cruise Missile being shot down by Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Air Defenses today in Kyiv

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ukraine_map/status/1749668201422598655#m

[2024-01-23 05:39 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Kyiv

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/IAPonomarenko/status/1749672530640568554#m

[2024-01-23 05:56 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Video of a Russian Cruise Missile that has been shot down in Kyiv today falling down while burning

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ukraine_map/status/1749672866004554221#m

[2024-01-23 05:58 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️ Governor: Russian missile strike against Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills 1, injures 1.

A Russian massive missile strike against Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Pavlohrad early on Jan. 23 killed at least one person and injured another, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749680438459662388#m

[2024-01-23 06:28 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Харків 🥺

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/vlad_beseda/status/1749684236481613876#m

[2024-01-23 06:43 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Civilians remain under the rubble in #Kharkiv. What did Lavrov say yesterday? “Two brotherly nations”?

There must be a special stinking hole in hell for 🇷🇺 “diplomats”.

#StandWithUkraine #imperialism

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/olex_scherba/status/1749688111397802315#m

[2024-01-23 06:58 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: ⚡️Update: 5 killed, at least 40 injured in Russian missile strikes against Ukraine.

At least five people were killed, and at least 40 were injured in a mass Russian missile strike against Ukraine early on Jan. 23, the State Emergency Service said.

📷State Emergency Service

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749693422384886051#m

[2024-01-23 07:19 UTC]

RT by @StevensHelga: Russian forces targeted Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Kharkiv, and Pavlohrad, damaging multiple residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/KyivIndependent/status/1749693446783176786#m

[2024-01-23 07:20 UTC]