Maria Drutska

Thank you, Sweden.

Every vessel stopped from Russia’s shadow fleet means less money for Russia’s war machine.

🇸🇪 In Sweden, Coast Guard special forces have detained the vessel Caffa, a vessel belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet that is under Ukrainian sanctions.

The ship was heading to St. Petersburg.

🛸 Ukrainian drones captured more than 100 Russian soldiers this winter.

Footage shows UAV operators remotely escorting Russian POWs to Ukrainian positions.

Russia likely struck Kharkiv with a new “Izdeliye 30” air-launched cruise missile.

It may have been made based on the anti-ship Kh-35U, with an enlarged design.

As of now, the strike killed 10 people including 2 children, a 9-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl. At least 15 others were injured.

The main directions of the attack were Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr region, Khmelnytskyi region, and Chernivtsi region.

Hits from 9 missiles and 26 attack UAVs were recorded at 22 locations, while debris from downed UAVs fell at five locations.

19 missiles and 453 enemy UAVs shot down or suppressed.

Neutralized:

🔹 0/2 hypersonic Zircon missiles
🔹 8/13 Iskander-M / S-400 ballistic missiles
🔹 11/14 Kalibr cruise missiles
🔹 453/480 attack UAVs

‼️Russia struck a residential high-rise in Kharkiv with a ballistic missile while people were sleeping.

As of now, 10 people have been confirmed killed, their bodies recovered from under the rubble. Among them are children.

Putin is pulling out all the stops to try to keep his best EU asset, Orban, in power.

The same Russian team which tried to interfere in Moldova's elections is now in Hungary, and the next 5 weeks are likely to get very ugly.

Expect even more unhinged statements shortly.🤡

In addition to interceptor drones, there is demand for other Ukrainian innovations:

🔹2S22 Bohdana 155mm self-propelled howitzers will be produced in Poland
🔹Acoustic drone detection systems are wanted by the US and Qatar

Seems Ukraine's hand has plenty of cards in it.🂭🂡

Trying to finish my dissertation before World War III.

It’s impossible to put into words❤️‍🩹

Today, this mother received the news that her son Andrii had returned from Russian captivity after three years in detention, while she was attending a rally in Kyiv in support of the missing.

Sorry, just to make sure I understand this correctly.

Russia and its dictator Vladimir Putin are providing Iran with intelligence that helps target and kill Americans –

and the The White House response is:

“Doesn’t matter” ?

Russia helping Iran target U.S. military sites?

“Doesn’t matter,” says Karoline Leavitt.

I guess Trump will keep rolling out the red carpet for Putin, while blaming Zelensky for not signing a capitulation.

🔥Two Russian Black Sea Fleet frigates - the Kalibr missile carriers Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov - were damaged during an attack in Novorossiysk, – the General Staff of the AFU.

The strike on the base took place on March 2.

So Hungary’s Foreign Minister visits Moscow, meets Putin, and suddenly Hungarian authorities stage a political spectacle targeting Ukrainians.

One might wonder whether the campaign strategy is now being written in the Kremlin.

Not a banking expert, but those look suspiciously like official bank packaging.

Vacuum seals
Bank bands
Branded containers
Standardised gold bars

Also not a lawyer, but detaining Ukrainian citizens and staging a political spectacle with seized assets hardly looks compatible with international law.

💔 It’s impossible to imagine what our defenders endured in Russian captivity.

“How they abused us there… it’s beyond words. I was taken all the way to Buryatia. When we arrived, they told us: ‘You’ve arrived in hell,’” said a soldier from Kharkiv region who spent nearly four years in captivity.

Someone should brief Trump. His friend Vladimir Putin seems busy targeting Americans.

Russia is reportedly providing Iran with intelligence to help target U.S. forces, -WP.
These data likely help Iran strike U.S. radars, command posts, and other military infrastructure more precisely.

❤️‍🩹 “All is well, Mom,” says a Ukrainian released from Russian captivity.

Today, 300 defenders of Ukraine and several civilians returned home. 🇺🇦

Welcome home! 🇺🇦

Another 300 of Ukrainian defenders have returned from Russian captivity.

Finland plans to lift its 1987 ban on nuclear weapons, allowing deployment on its territory during war.

The US asked for Ukraine's help against Iranian drones in the Mideast because they can't stop them.

At the same time, Trump again said Zelenskyy "doesn't have the cards" and should make a deal with Putin.

Is this inability to recognize cards how Trump bankrupted his casinos?🃏

Orban's desperation is reaching new levels:

🔹They took 2 Ukrainian POWs from Russia in violation of international law
🔹He threatened to reopen Druzhba "by force"
🔹2 registered bank vehicles with 7 Ukrainians onboard transiting between Ukraine and Austria were seized

Asshole.

Populism 101

1989: Orban goes to Oxford on a Soros scholarship.
'10s: Targets Soros as the enemy
'15-20: "Soros is flooding EU with migrants”
'18: KESMA (media conglomerate) formalised, run by Orban allies
'22-26: Targets Zelensky as the enemy

Same strategy, new enemy.

"The US is demolishing Iran far ahead of schedule," (initially, 4 to 5 weeks?), whilst 'Centcom' has requested additional intelligence officers to help with planning & operations for at least 100 days (a little more than 14 weeks)

Something doesn't seem to add up here...

One of my favourite things about Twitter is watching people getting into fights with Grok

🔸Zelensky:

When we asked one country for missiles for Patriot, they said they had very few left.

I don’t remember asking: “Can I come to your warehouses and check if you’re telling the truth?”

Ukraine is an independent state. Respect goes both ways.

🔹Journalist: On the status of repairs to the Druzhba oil pipeline.

Is it true that we are not allowing representatives of the European Commission there? And if that’s not true, when do we plan to allow them in?