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Taras Mykytyn

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CAT-UA @cat-ua.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇷🇺 Mobilization anxiety is rising again in Russia — and this time, Putin himself felt compelled to respond. Searches for “mobilization” and “relocation” have hit their highest levels since autumn 2022. What is driving the fear? A CAT-UA thread 🧵 #Russia #UkraineWar #Mobilization #OSINT
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/07/2026
Ukraine is changing warfare, forever
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Taras Mykytyn @tarsitos.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Russia is a terrorist state deliberetly attacking residential multistory buildings in Kyiv. #russiaisaterroriststate #attackonKyiv
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CAT-UA @cat-ua.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
June 18, a UA strike hit a Moscow oil refinery - and UA social media erupted. First time positive content beat negative in a single day in recent memory Memes. Mockery. Confused Russians queuing at petrol stations. A tank lid blown clean off. #StrikeOnMoscow #UkraineWar #Nawrocki #MoscowOnFire
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Taras Mykytyn @tarsitos.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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CAT-UA (@catua2)
How Russian Propaganda Targets You – Lessons from 8.2 Million Messages. Ukrainian study reveals how Kremlin disinformation reaches Western audiences.
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Taras Mykytyn @tarsitos.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Trump: Zelensky ‘doesn’t have anything until I approve it’. Putin: Trump doesn't approve anything until I approve it to Trump
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/12/2025
Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Putin has order continuous waves of terrorist attacks on Kyiv, targeting primarily residential buildings and civilian infrastructure. This comes ahead of the US meeting with Zelenskyy, again, in the latest round of Trump's campaign to help Russia force Ukraine to surrender.
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 27/12/2025
🔴 Overnight and this morning, Russia launched more than 500 drones and over 40 missiles mostly targeting Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. There are at least 28 people injured, fires started in several residential buildings and people could still be trapped under debris.
A firefighter standing inside a devastated flat in Kyiv after missiles and drones were launched against the Ukrainian capital.A firefighter extinguising a fire inside a flat hit by a drone in Kyiv. Outside another water hose is working on the fire.A building on fire in Kyiv. Electric cables dangling from it.A building on fire in Kyiv following a drone hit.
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Konflikte & Sicherheit @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
#EUropa spiele nun wohl mit dem Gedanken, Waffen und Munition aus den #USA zu kaufen, um sie dann an die #Ukraine zu liefern. Hintergrund sei, dass US-Präs- #Trump militärische Unterstützung alsbald einstellen könnte und #Russland wohl große Sommeroffensive plane. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Buy American: How Europe Must Stock Up On Weapons for Ukraine
European leaders are racing to figure out how to keep Ukraine supplied with weapons as US President Donald Trump appears to be walking away from the war. One option: buy American.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Putin is building new force to take on Nato www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8c07b07...
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Putin is building new force to take on Nato
The Kremlin is expanding military recruitment, increasing weapons production and upgrading infrastructure along Russia’s northern borders
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/05/2025
"For Russia grain is an instrument of political power" www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Starvation is Russia’s favourite weapon
Putin is crippling Ukraine’s ability to feed not just itself but the world
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Secretary-General of Parliament suspected of treason
Antti Pelttari is suspected of disclosing state secrets when he was head of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo).
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Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Turns out Russia played the long game and is now winning the Cold War www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Orthodox Christianity: Young US men joining 'masculine' Russian churches
A religion with traditions dating back centuries is attracting young American men.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Ahhhh it must be that time of the decade again, the "letters of marque for cyber warfare" conversation has resurfaced for the nth time. www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
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An 18th-century war power resurfaces in cyber policy talks
An old-world legal concept has drawn interest as a way to give private firms more leeway to fight state-backed hackers.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just sent this out. Notable change in JD Vance's rhetoric just now. The Admin has been pompously claiming Ukraine has "no cards" and Putin was making a concession in not seizing all of Ukraine. Now Vance says the Russians will not collapse and Ukraine cannot win. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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First Ukraine Was Collapsing, Now Ukraine "Can't Win"...
Of Course Ukraine Can Win--Here Are Two Scenarios
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Ed Arnold @edrusi.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
JEF seems on life support following the change of 🇬🇧 government. This proposal (and the JEF Bank) would give the Leaders some meaty proposals to discuss next week and get momentum going again
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“The biggest story here for me is the profound impact that the Nazis, or more specifically Jews fleeing from the Nazis, had on American music,” Dan Shore told Byline Supplement.
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Hot Type: Sane Asylum
Scientists and academics are being offered safe harbour from an increasingly authoritarian US in an echo of a dark past that could become an equally dark future, reports Heidi Siegmund Cuda
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Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Wrote a short piece for @gmfus.bsky.social on Weimar cooperation and why it's not enough to tackle the challenges for European security: www.gmfus.org/news/weimar-...
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Weimar Is Not Enough
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Once again, marginal tax rates are too low & pose an existential threat to democracy
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
‘Britain should say that it wants to renew the EU and be part of it. Renewal means requiring the EU to rein in its more meddlesome instincts’. Yeah right. Will we never learn that lecturing the EU and negotiating with it are two different things? observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Leader: This is the moment for Starmer to make a bold offer to the EU
The world has changed. Britain can renew the EU and be a part of it
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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Mark’s opener for our new EUROPE’S NEW REALITY series is also very good ip-quarterly.com/en/toward-ne...
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Toward a New European Security Order
The United States is withdrawing from Europe, but it’s not all doom and gloom. The EU and non-members will need new common structures, but the continent should well be able to hold its own. Incoming G...
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interesting thoughts by Mark Leonard: ecfr.eu/article/euro...
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Europe after the end of the liberal international order
As Europeans rearm to confront Russian aggression, they also need to figure out how to survive in the age of “unpeace” that Donald Trump and other strongmen are ushering in. The old interdependencies ...
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Great piece from Thorsten Brenner and Jakob Hensing. A sally to Friedrich Merz for rethinking Germany's industrial and economy strategy in terms of 'systemic competition'. A real challenge given Chinese overcapacity on on the one hand and US tariffs on the other. ip-quarterly.com/en/germany-n...
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Germany Needs to Rethink Competitiveness for a Hostile World
Incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to strengthen German industry, but his thinking is stuck in the past. The key question is how to make Germany and the EU thrive in the age of systemic c...
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EU Institute for Security Studies @euiss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“We must protect Europeans against all threats. And we can’t do that without the UK” says @sbeverts.bsky.social in @csmonitor.bsky.social. www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...
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With US on the outs, Europe looks to an old ally for defense: Britain
Amid the Trump administration’s disruptive foreign policy, a post-Brexit United Kingdom and Europe are rebuilding bonds, particularly on defense.
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John R. Deni @johnrdeni.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Chinese prisoner in Ukraine: We were trapped into fighting for Russia www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
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Chinese prisoner in Ukraine: We were trapped into fighting for Russia
Captured soldiers who fought for Putin say they were misled by propaganda and stopped from going home
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/04/2025
Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump Has Found His Class Enemy
The president unleashes a Marxist theory of power—but against knowledge workers, not billionaires.
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Konflikte & Sicherheit @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#Russland prüft wohl militärische Option, nukleare Anti-Satelliten-Waffen im #Weltraum einzusetzen, mit denen Hunderte (westlicher) #Satelliten, die die Erde auf niedriger Umlaufbahn umkreisen, auf einen Schlag zerstört bzw. unbrauchbar werden könnten. www.welt.de/politik/ausl...
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Mark Rutte: Nato-Chef warnt – Russland könnte im Weltraum Atomwaffen gegen Satelliten einsetzen - WELT
Die Bedrohungslage im Weltraum droht sich zu verschärfen, warnt Nato-Chef Mark Rutte. Russland prüft offenbar die Möglichkeit, Atomwaffen im Weltraum zu platzieren, mit denen Hunderte Satelliten auf e...
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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Brilliat article by @adamposen.bsky.social The stupidity on the part of the second Trump administration is breathtaking … www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose
Beijing has escalation dominance in the U.S.-Chinese tariff fight.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“While Russia has made strides in some areas, it struggles with the rapid pace of innovation required to maintain a competitive edge in modern warfare…China plays a pivotal role, providing crucial support, especially in areas where Russia’s domestic capabilities are lacking.” kse.ua/about-the-sc...
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China Supplied 76% of Russia’s Battlefield Goods in 2023 – KSE Institute Report - Kyiv School of Economics
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data www.wired.com/story/palant...
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Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
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Christian Mölling @cemoll.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Extrem hörenswert www.deutschlandfunk.de/staerkung-de...
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Polen trainiert den Widerstand
Die Polen fragen sich: Wird ihr Land nach der Ukraine das nächste Ziel russischer Aggression sein? Manche Menschen bereiten sich vor, andere planen zu fliehen.
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Konflikte & Sicherheit @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🇺🇦 Präs. #Selenskyj ´s Appell an 🇺🇸 Präs. #Trump nach Angriff auf Sumy: "Bevor Sie irgendwelche Entscheidungen treffen oder Verhandlungen führen - kommen Sie und sehen Sie sich die Menschen, Zivilisten, Soldaten, Krankenhäuser, Kirchen und Kinder an, die zerstört oder tot sind". www.n-tv.de/23143824
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+++ 07:20 Selenskyj und Pellegrini: Zu wenig Druck gegen Russland +++
Ukraine-Krieg im Liveticker
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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I argued in this piece last month that Europe may well see opportunity to: 1) Dangle market access (e.g. reduction of EV tariffs) in return for concessions from China. 2) Plays its own cards Sino-US-Europe triangle (e.g. ASML) to get concessions from the US. I think we're starting to see both.
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A significant potential escalation that must be carefully considered and debated…admin needs to do serious and honest cost-benefit analysis… to include potential retaliation in the US (top 5 MS13 presence in US includes two cities in DC suburbs). www.nbcnews.com/now/video/tr...
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Trump administration weighs drone strikes on Mexican cartels
Law enforcement and military sources tell NBC News that the Trump administration is considering drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat the flow of drugs acros...
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Internationale Politik Quarterly @ipq.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New from @meistefan1.bsky.social: Why Europe needs a Russia strategy—now. The EU needs to be more active in countering Russian influence in its neighborhood and also in Central Asia. ip-quarterly.com/en/why-europ...
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Why Europe Needs a Russia Strategy Now
As long as President Vladimir Putin is in the Kremlin, Russia will pose a threat to European security. The EU should become more active in countering Russian influence in its neighborhood and in Centr...
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Josef Janning wrote in a recent issue of Internationale Politik that the EU is closer to failing than ever before. I disagreed and got to write for why I think the opposite. Precisely because Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does right now, it is not going to fail.
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Necessity, the Mother of Invention
Europe has never had so few alternatives as it does today. But that is exactly why Europe will succeed.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
“After two months of false dawns and failed ceasefires, it is evident that the road toward a sustainable settlement in Ukraine remains long and uncertain.” A pragmatic peace plan for Ukraine by Mykola Bielieskov www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
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A pragmatic peace plan for Ukraine
A pragmatic and sustainable peace is possible in Ukraine if Kyiv's European partners dramatically increase their own defense spending while significantly strengthening the Ukrainian military, writes M...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A sober and important piece by @mykolabielieskov.bsky.social . With the US no longer a supporter of Ukraine, and arguably an enabler of Putin, Ukrainians need to envision a peace that is guaranteed by Europeans and, most of all, a strong Ukrainian military. www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
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A pragmatic peace plan for Ukraine
A pragmatic and sustainable peace is possible in Ukraine if Kyiv's European partners dramatically increase their own defense spending while significantly strengthening the Ukrainian military, writes M...
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 11/04/2025
Interesting read www.ft.com/content/ff0a...
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A new who’s who of the global elites
They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute has done extraordinary work, especially these last three years, in translating major works of Ukrainian literature. It is very worthy of support. kyivindependent.com/publishing-h...
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Publishing house of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute latest target of Trump’s federal budget cuts
The future of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) publishing program is in jeopardy, as it has become the latest target of sweeping grant cuts under the administration of U.S. President Dona...
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ECFR @ecfr.eu · 08/04/2025
Moscow’s latest disruptive measures against Europe involve targeting cables traversing the Baltic Sea. The EU needs to bolster its deterrence posture and secure its infrastructure against such sabotage, write @alberto-rizzi.bsky.social & Lesia Ogryzko @ecfrgeoeconomics.bsky.social
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Shallow seas and “shadow fleets”: Europe’s undersea infrastructure is dangerously vulnerable
Moscow’s latest disruptive measures against Europe involve targeting cables traversing the Baltic Sea. The EU needs to bolster its deterrence posture and secure its infrastructure against such…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2025
As this post makes clear, Dmitriev isn't a neutral 'negotiator': he's running a political influence campaign, trying to build a transactional relationship between Putin and Trump. Bad faith negotiations are only one part of the strategy
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Tonight I'll be in London with @edwardlucas.bsky.social and bsky.app/profile/ukri... talking about "The Future of European Defence" (no big deal). Edward has been warming up with his column in the Mail today. ukrainianinstitute.org.uk/events/the-f...
Edward Lucas in Daily Mail calling for defence and resilience, again.
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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"A recession will make you great again" Some thoughts on the Trump tariffs from a geopolitical perspective. edwardhunterchristie.substack.com/p/a-recessio...
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A recession will make you great again
There is an ideological and geopolitical logic to Trump's tariffs. But shoddy execution and arrogant laziness may be America's undoing.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
My weekly update has just been published. It includes today's major Russian missile strike on #Kyiv and other cities, peace negotiations, peacekeeping forces, fighting on the eastern front in #Ukraine & China's snap joint exercise around Taiwan. mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...
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The Big Five - 6 April edition
My regular update on global conflict. This week: a major Russian missile strike on Kyiv and other cities, peace negotiations, peacekeeping forces, and China's snap joint exercise around Taiwan.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A new report from @rusi.bsky.social that explores the industry competition over the course of the war in #Ukraine. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...
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Winning the Industrial War: Comparing Russia, Europe and Ukraine, 2022–24
In an environment where Europe must be able to deter Russia with reduced US support, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine should spur significant efforts to address what has been demonstrated to be...
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