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Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
🇺🇦 🇺🇲 The confrontation inside Trump's Ukraine peace negotiations is now coming into focus.
Le Monde reports that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent nearly three hours pitching Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, a postwar economic arrangement built around restoring Russian oil and gas flows to Europe through Ukrainian pipelines.
The meeting took place on October 9 at the Shell Bay golf club in Florida.
Witkoff presented the proposal as a regional prosperity plan: Ukraine would collect transit revenues, Europe would receive cheaper energy, and Russia would regain access to commercial routes disrupted by the war.
Budanov saw something fundamentally different. According to a witness cited by Le Monde, he objected that the arrangement would recreate Ukraine's dependence on Moscow.
“Our model is not Belarus, but Poland!” he reportedly replied.
The meeting was interrupted, and Budanov called Zelensky.
When talks resumed, news arrived that Trump had announced a separate agreement with Putin involving Russian diesel. Le Monde reports that an irritated Witkoff then demanded that the Ukrainians accept the arrangement and stop striking Russian oil refineries, arguing that the attacks endangered the wider world.
A source familiar with the Ukrainian delegation described its members as exceptionally distressed by the encounter.
The account adds a revealing dimension to the commercial negotiations we have been tracking. The proposed Lukoil asset sale, Novatek's involvement in an Alaska LNG venture, the broader US-Russia list of business opportunities reported by the Financial Times, and now the proposed restoration of Russian energy transit through Ukraine all point to the prominence of energy deals in Washington's diplomatic approach.
These are separate proposals, with different participants and legal circumstances. But Le Monde's reporting exposes the strategic disagreement underlying them.
For Witkoff, restoring commercial flows appears to be part of the mechanism for producing a peace settlement. For Budanov, according to the account, those same flows threaten to restore Moscow's economic leverage over Ukraine.
The reported exchange also raises a question about sequencing: why was Kyiv being pressed to stop attacking Russian refineries while Russia continued striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure?
Le Monde's reconstruction relies on accounts of a private meeting. The reported exchanges have not been independently confirmed by the participants.
Source: Le Monde
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
🚨🇩🇪🇺🇦 BREAKING: Germany reportedly says it will provide Ukraine with the weapons and support needed to strengthen its fight against Russia.
Do you support Germany’s approach? 👀
🅰️ YES 👍
🅱️ NO 👎
WHAT’S YOUR TAKE? 👇
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
После того, как Трамп объявил награду в размере 1 миллиона долларов за раскрытие избирательного мошенничества, сенатор Чак Шумер поделился аудио- записью 2021 года, в которой Трамп попросил министра иностранных дел Джорджиии найти 11 780 голосов, чтобы отменить его поражение на президентских выборах 2020 года.
"Я уже нашел это, Дональд Трамп. Где мой 1 миллион долларов?"
"Вы можете перевести его напрямую 10 000 избирательным работникам, которые добровольно отделяют свое время, чтобы предотвратить ваши попытки украсть промежуточные выборы."
Don't be so dramatic nobody knows where they are going that's the point of submarines
Exclusive:
Three of Britain’s four nuclear deterrent submarines are out at sea in an "unusual" situation, @thetimes has been told
It has been at least five years since this happened, according to former naval source
thetimes.com/article/17663c5…
Spineless wankers
A reminder
The IRA murderers watched him place the baby in a carry cot on the back seat of his car.
They waited till he got in the drivers seat then opened fire from behind the vehicle in the full knowledge that the bullets would pass through the baby before killing her dad.
There are scum in this world who think the IRA were freedom fighters.
They were cold blooded killers
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
I think that this sort of statement, from a U.K. university @uniofleicester is unprecedented.
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
“The border with Russia should look like this: a moat, acid, barbed wire, a fence, a minefield, and absolutely no border crossings.”
— Ukrainian journalist and serviceman Kyrylo Sazonov
Sazonov praised Finland for taking the right approach to its border with Russia.
📹 youtube.com/@Donetskiecom
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
You MUST read this brilliant essay by Judge Michael Luttig: “The Final Battle for America’s Democracy”newrepublic.com/article/2151… via @newrepublic
I have just discovered Agatha Christie
Reading, The murder or Roger Ackroyd
It's so well written and a total mystery why I never read or considerd one of her books before
Over 100 years ago this was written and still current
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
New Poppy pin just dropped at Tesco and Lidl in Barton from tomorrow.
Just to clarify in case of any misunderstanding. They’re a genuine Royal British Legion pin being sold on Royal British Legion stalls in Lidl and Tesco supermarkets in Barton during the Poppy Appeal.
Well done Ukraine 🇺🇦
饿到喝尿吃树皮的俄军士兵，投降乌克兰反倒活了下来。
一段从前线流出来的审讯现场，94名俄军战俘排成一排报数。
队伍里走出来一个军官。
胸前挂着伤，自报家门是第3步兵营的少校马纳姆科夫。
他面对镜头开口第一句，直接控诉自己的后方指挥官。
战斗最紧张的时候，长官自己先乘车撤了。
临走前把电台关死，扔下一句“就地组织环形防御，死守”。
电台一掐，后方就把这几十号人当成了耗材。
阵地上断水断粮整整一个半月。
几十个人趴在泥地里舔雨水积成的水坑，水坑干了就喝自己的尿。
身边一个战友严重脱水，活活死在战壕里。
饿极了怎么办？
剥树皮嚼，拔地里的野草，摘路边的荨麻在野战炉子上煮成水充饥。
三个受了重伤的士兵，连一块止血纱布和止痛药都拿不到，在旁边拖到断气。
按俄军内部的战前宣传，投降乌克兰会遭到非人折磨。
结果这帮被逼到绝境的残兵，在乌军第3突击旅阵地前举了白旗。
乌克兰军医进场，立刻给伤员做清创。
少校脑壳里嵌着的弹片、肋侧扎进去的碎铁块，当场取了出来，送去卧床休息。
吃上了热饭，喝上了干净水。
马纳姆科夫在镜头前苦笑了一下：
“整整一个半月，我第一次吃上一顿饱饭，居然是在战俘营里。”
善待战俘除了人道原则，背后有一套极其现实的利益驱动。
镜头后方，乌克兰士兵一句话点透了关键：
这批人是换回自家兄弟最好的筹码。
死战俘换不回自己人，只有活着的、治好伤的俄军军官和士兵，才能在谈判桌上按人头把被俘乌军换回家。
更深层的影响在战场之外。
这94个人亲眼看到长官把他们当炮灰扔在绝境，也亲身体验了对面的战俘营给他们治伤发饭。
这些战俘一旦被交换回国，他们亲口说出的每一个细节，都会在俄军基层私下传开。
保障战俘活下来，不仅是为了人道和换俘，也是在用肉眼可见的事实瓦解对手的抵抗意志。
Jones Robert 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🏍 retweeted
What do you say to your family when you don’t know if you’ll ever see them again?
In February 2022, he told his wife and children the war had begun. Then he left as Russian forces advanced towards Kyiv, unsure what the coming hours would bring.
This is President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Before politics, he built a successful career in Ukrainian television as a writer, producer and performer, even portraying a president on screen. In 2019, he was elected President of Ukraine. Three years later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Sitting down with him was surreal and an enormous responsibility. It was a rare chance to hear his account of the first hours of the war and the decisions that followed.
We discussed things like:
How he found out Russia had invaded.
Why he refused an offer to evacuate Kyiv.
The 64km Russian military convoy advancing towards the capital.
How Russian forces tried to capture a key airport.
His account of discovering hundreds of bodies after Russian occupation.
What he believes it will take to end the war.
But I also wanted to understand how he’d been coping.
One of my first questions was simply, “How are you doing?” His answer was: “It’s hard.”
He spoke about meeting parents whose children had been killed. Some, he explained, simply ask him for a hug.
And as he spoke, there were tears in his eyes.
Whatever your views on the war or the decisions made by those involved, this is a rare opportunity to hear his account of events that have changed millions of lives.
Because behind every map, every headline and every political decision, there are real people.
Out now on all platforms ❤️👊🏾
(President Zelenskyy was recorded in Ukrainian and dubbed in English.)