Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov)

Russia is militarizing for war with Europe. Putin told his generals: The new state armament program must focus on developing the most advanced weapon systems. Where we are now is the result of decisions made 10 years ago. 1/ ...

Nobody in Ukraine expects peace in 24 hours or 100 days. We have adapted to life next to Russia. We don’t believe in “memorandums”. We prepare, survive, and fight. Anne Applebaumʼs fantastic dispatch from Lviv. 1/ ...

JD Vance was right to slam Europe for no free speech, the Economist When J.D. Vance slammed Europe for censoring speech at the Munich Security Conference, critics called him a hypocrite. But The Economist says he’s right: European laws now punish speech the state dislikes. 1/ ...

Reuters published a full Ukraine-Europe peace counterproposal to the US from talks in London. There’re four main parts: Ceasefire, Security guarantees for Ukraine, Territory, and Economics. 1/ ...

Trump wants to radically overhaul the US State Department, NYT His executive draft order would shut most Africa operations, bureaus on refugees, rights, and climate, and embassies in sub-Saharan Africa New hires at StateDept must align with the Trump's foreign policy vision 1/ ...

TIMES says Putin has played every U.S. president since Reagan. He used religion for Bush, poetry for Talbott, sabotage for Clinton, flattery for Trump, and open confrontation for Biden. He finds weaknesses and exploits them. 1/ ...

Zelensky: Russia wants to keep the war going. NATO membership is off the table. The U.S. is backtracking on a ceasefire. Crimea is dying under occupation. Ukraine leads in drone warfare. Europe must step up. 0/ ...

Trump: Putin didn’t demand a stop of aid to Ukraine and disarmament; we didn’t talk about that at all; I am tougher with Canada than with Russia because it is meant to be our 51st state; China and Russia want to get along with the U.S. 0/ ...

Budanov: Lukashenko convinced Prigozhin to stop the assault on Moscow. Otherwise, Russia would be torn apart and have had two governments, Prigozhin in Moscow and Putin elsewhere Budanov spoke about this during the graduation ceremony at the Kyiv School of Economics 1/ ...