Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦johnmaton.bsky.social @johnmaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026substack.com/@andrewchakh...substack.comAndrew Chakhoyan (@andrewchakhoyan)russia’s criminal war continues because russia wants it to continue. By defending itself, Ukraine is fighting for peace. The delusion that yielding to russia will stop the killing has been disproven... 041
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026russia is the callous aggressor that “defends itself” in other people’s countries. It’s appetite for war-making will only grow if it is not stopped in Ukraine! 26933
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A girl at the Kyiv train station couldn’t stop shaking from the stress caused by another Russian missile attack. “Girl next to me can’t stop shaking. For god’s sake, give this people air defense. Unbelievable cruelty,” wrote reporter Ani Chkhikvadze. 🇺🇦 Stand With Ukraine 💙💛💔 Thread 2/5🧵 1017093
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The moment a drone or missile whistles nearby, 🇺🇦 women instantly become a shield for their children—covering them with their bodies, holding them tightly, covering their eyes and ears, comforting them. Every Ukrainian mother, sister, & grandmother is always ready to become a shelter. Thread 1/5🧵 24337196
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This compulsive dealmaking won't put an end to Russian warmaking. To a Moscow-centered predatory empire, accommodation is encouragement. End. This was an excerpt from my latest column ⤵️ kyivindependent.com/washington-a...kyivindependent.comWashington attempts dealmaking, Moscow sticks with warmaking"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions," Lindsey Graham joked hours before his passing. Nine weeks later, the bill bearing his name became law with the U.S. president's signature. ... 0154
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Attempts to sacrifice Ukraine on the altar of peace-through-weakness have had the opposite effect, costing America its reputation as a trustworthy, serious world power and Ukraine its bravest sons and daughters. 1206
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026America can't resolve Moscow's need to sustain an extractive system of rule from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. This is why the framework of a "deal" with the Kremlin is an error of first principles. Reagan's doctrine of strength and moral clarity worked on Moscow. 1123
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Moscow needs an enemy, a grievance, and a story of greatness 🤦🏻♂️ strong enough to justify its right to pillage Tatarstan's oil, Yamalo-Nenets's gas, and Yakutia's diamonds. There is no conflict, no chance of a win-win. None. Only moscow's war of choice. It persists because russia keeps waging it. 1132
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The USSR collapsed in 1991, Moscow shed 14 republics. russia that remained, looked rock-solid From Moscow's POV, this is naivete wrapped in ignorance If you sit on a russian throne, you know this Frankenstein state, spanning 11 time zones, is forever exposed to centrifugal forces pulling it apart 182
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The primary aim of Moscow's war on Ukraine is, paradoxically, not in Ukraine. It is the survival of the "Russian Federation" itself, and the Kremlin's grip on the internal colonies that make it up. To an outsider, this may seem strange. 1112
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Subverting Western institutions, fracturing the most successful military alliance in history, and making democracies abandon their principles and strategic interests serve a purpose for the Kremlin, which is much closer to home. 1101
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Putin says he wants all of Donbas 🤷🏻♂️ Have American envoys asked why? The kinetic battlefield is in Ukraine, yet Moscow has long told its people that they are at war with NATO and that NATO is a fig leaf for American power projection. 1152
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What are russians fighting (read: committing heinous war crimes) for? According to British intelligence, russia suffered 1.5M casualties, half a million dead. The vast majority of the losses were incurred after January 2023 in exchange for 2% of Ukraine's territory. 🧵 Thread ⤵️ 23312
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Rose 🇺🇦 @bluesand62.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Trump non capisce che Putin non vuole un accordo, vuole solo vincere la guerra che ha iniziato." Ma certo che lo capisce, si chiama il gioco dei due compari. www.linkiesta.it/2026/09/russ...linkiesta.itErrore di valutazione | Trump non capisce che Putin non vuole un accordo, vuole solo vincere la guerra che ha iniziato - Linkiesta.itIl problema della diplomazia americana è pensare che il conflitto possa essere risolto trovando una formula che funzioni per tutti. Ma per Mosca l’invasione dell’Ucraina risponde a una logica molto pi... 011
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026russia’s war will engulf Europe if war crimes on this scale continue to go unpunished. Ukraine is doing everything it can to stop russia and restore peace. The so-called Free World is abdicating its responsibility to confront naked aggression, feeding russia’s appetite for warmaking. 24119
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What is consequentialism? Connecting actions, or in the case of russia’s war, the West’s inaction, to what comes next. Every failure to meaningfully arrest moscow’s appetite for war is an INVITATION for russia’s war to move westward 23414
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ukraine is the frontline in a general contest between freedom & expansionist tyranny. We must all together support Ukraine in every possible way 🇺🇦🫂🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸 #UnitedAgainstTyranny #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIsEurope Thread 3/3🧵 212152
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Russian War Criminals "Before going to hell, you will go to THE HAGUE." #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal Thread 2/3🧵 110155
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Is It Really Too Much To Want To Live My Normal Life Again? It’s Not My Kyiv, It’s Hell Now!!! My Heart Breaks For Every Ukrainian Every Day. #UnitedAgainstTyranny #StandWithUkraine #UkraineIsEurope 💙💛💔 Thread 1/3🧵 19275125
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fascists burned books. Ruscists burn Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. If not stopped in Ukraine, russian evil will slowly but surely envelop the rest of Europe 46738
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russia is not planning to end its war on Ukraine 79647
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fascists burned books. Ruscists burn Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. If not stopped in Ukraine, russian evil will slowly but surely envelop the rest of Europe 46738
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is no “conflict” to resolve, no misunderstanding, no magical win-win formula russia’s war persists because russia keeps waging it Reagan's doctrine of strength worked. Attempts to sacrifice 🇺🇦 on the altar of peace-through-weakness had the opposite effect kyivindependent.com/washington-a...kyivindependent.comWashington attempts dealmaking, Moscow sticks with warmaking"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions," Lindsey Graham joked hours before his passing. Nine weeks later, the bill bearing his name became law with the U.S. president's signature. ... 13494185
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every "escalation management" delay in air defense is a down payment on nights like this. The West has the interceptors. It just prefers the optics of restraint to the sight of a child pulled from rubble. 041
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026russia is a terrorist state, its appetite for war feeds on the projection of weakness from the West which can stop russia, but chooses not to! 13021
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026russia’s war will engulf Europe if war crimes on this scale continue to go unpunished. Ukraine is doing everything it can to stop russia and restore peace. The so-called Free World is abdicating its responsibility to confront naked aggression, feeding russia’s appetite for warmaking. 24119
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The Russians definitely deliberately targeted the INKOM business center in central Kyiv - they had a recon drone overhead with its camera trained right on the building right at the moment of the strike. Four civilians were killed and between seven and 11 wounded, including a teenager. 25728
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Minnesota Mary @minnesotamarys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Andrew, THANK YOU. 🙏 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 081
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 26/09/2026September 26 marks the European Day of Languages, celebrating Europe’s linguistic diversity. Ukrainians continue to defend their language as Russia targets Ukrainian books, schools, and cultural institutions. 🧵1/7 813633
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 26/09/20261. Ukraine accepted an unconditional ceasefire within 24 hours in March 2025. Moscow did not. 2. The Kremlin needs an enemy, a grievance and an imperial narrative to sustain its rule. War therefore remains politically useful even when it is economically or militarily costly. 2325
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Baba Yaga Fèlla @babayagafella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Check out @andrewchak.bsky.social new op-ed. Pass it on. Till victory. 🇺🇦 #UkraineNews 3265
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦robinsue1948.bsky.social @robinsue1948.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This 👇👇 031
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Victory L. 🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦🇦🇹🇾🇪 We are All Born Antifacist @victoryrenfrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026kyivindependent.com/washington-a... ##StandWithUkrainekyivindependent.comWashington attempts dealmaking, Moscow sticks with warmaking"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions," Lindsey Graham joked hours before his passing. Nine weeks later, the bill bearing his name became law with the U.S. president's signature. ... 093
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026russia’s criminal war continues because russia wants it to continue. By defending itself, Ukraine is fighting for peace. The delusion that yielding to russia will stop the killing has been disproven again and again. With russia, surrender is when the killing starts. 514073
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦lacerantplainer.bsky.social @lacerantplainer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Totally worth a read. Andrew says it well. This is a genocidal ruzzian attack on a peaceful nation. And he explains how appeasement never works! H/t @andrewchak.bsky.social 🫡 #Ukraine 0134
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Olga Diem 🇺🇦🌊🇺🇸 @olgadiem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The primary aim of Moscow's war on Ukraine is, paradoxically, not in Ukraine. It is the survival of the "Russian Federation" itself, and the Kremlin's grip on the internal colonies that make it up." The main threat to russia is the existence of democracy, that's why it will continue fighting. 31911
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Victory L. 🇨🇦🇵🇱🇺🇦🇦🇹🇾🇪 We are All Born Antifacist @victoryrenfrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@markhamillofficial.bsky.social @lyndacarter.bsky.social @nancysinclair.bsky.social @canadasky1.bsky.social @saynotobs.bsky.social @mikenellis.bsky.social @realgdt.bsky.social @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @bloomberg.com @imcivicaction.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov @xychelsea.tv 073
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Babusya Bonkious @quackersncheese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Q: Why isn't there a agreement in the Ukraine war? Andrew: "The war continues because of Moscow's belligerent revanchism, not because, in Donald Trump's words, "two people (Putin and Zelensky) that hate each other."" 👇 #Ukraine #russia #Putin #Zelenskyy #NAFO #Fellas 0134
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There is no “deal” to be made. Putin fights not for any legitimate purpose, but because it serves his power. He’s using that power against Ukraine first and foremost, but also Europe, Israel, and the United States. We have the tools to contain him. We should do it. 0249
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Association Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre ! @pourlukraine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Il n'y a ni conflit, ni malentendu, ni perspective de solution "win-win" dans cette guerre que la Russie a choisie de mener. Absolument rien. Elle perdure parce que la Russie continue de la mener. @nicolastenzer.bsky.social @fheisbourg.bsky.socialkyivindependent.comWashington attempts dealmaking, Moscow sticks with warmaking"I can't die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions," Lindsey Graham joked hours before his passing. Nine weeks later, the bill bearing his name became law with the U.S. president's signature. ... 074
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Б'єрнберт @bjornbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Great piece by Andrew 0124
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Will Neuhauser 🗽⚖️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱 @wneuhauser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“There is no conflict, no misunderstanding, no prospect of a win-win [because of] Moscow's need to sustain an extractive system of rule from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. This is why the framework of a "deal" with the Kremlin is an error of first principles. 043
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is not hard. Dictators only care about starting in power. Where can you really hurt Putin ( it’s not kicking out diplomats)? Ukraine. Every “hybrid” attack should equal 100 ballistic or cruise missiles sent to Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/w...nytimes.comEurope Warns of Russia’s Hybrid Attacks but Struggles to Counter ThemIf President Vladimir V. Putin was hoping to get Europeans’ attention, he’s succeeded with a series of close-call incursions. The question now is what they will do about it. 513441
Reposted by Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦Inge @ideetje9.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please, read this excellent article. Although I am no expert, I am a ‘stand by Ukraine’ person from the start of this horrible war. More and more so during the passing years. Still I have no shred of understanding why and how this psychopathic leader and ilk do what they do. It’s total madness. 032