Gustav C. Gressel

Russia started the war to keep Ukraine from existing, not to keep it from NATO. Forcing 🇺🇦 into neutrality will neither lure Moscow to the negotiating table nore contribute to lasting peace. My take for @EuroResilience european-resilience.org/analytics/why-…

"Believing you can outfox a fox is how you become its prey. And American elites, confident in their cleverness, have welcomed a fox into the henhouse." This one is brilliant: nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…

It’s no exaggeration that Ukrainian public opinion is in an absolute firestorm after the parliament today approved a law essentially dismantling independent anti-corruption agencies, just days after SBU raided key investigators. The law isn’t enacted until Zelensky signs it — and…

Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising. Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks govt officials—and dismisses them. The PM and military brass frequently defer to him. My @FTMag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal ft.com/content/4d6114…

Gestern auf @ZDFheute zur militärischen Lage in der 🇺🇦. In einem langen Abnützungskrieg ist die Minimierung von Verluste wichtig. Die Frage ob Pokrowsk gehalten werden soll oder nicht, muss sich dem unterordnen. youtube.com/watch?v=va4xCV…

For @ForeignPolicy, I wrote about my recent trip to Ukraine with the team and the importance of the battle for the air littoral along the frontline. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/23/ukr…

Russian soldiers tortured a 3-year-old boy and forced him to watch them sexually assault and kill his mother during the occupation of Kherson. His aunt was able to evacuate him to Odesa, a journey that took three days, she told @suspilne_news in an interview in 2024.

Bei der "Russischen Gemeinschaft" handelt es sich nicht nur um bezahlte Fanatiker, sondern um ein rechtsextremes Instrument der russischen Regierung, das unter dem Deckmantel des Patriotismus als Straßenabteilung des FSB fungiert. 🧵12/12

Russia is totally not interested in any territorial conquest beyond Ukraine.

Macht Selenskyj aus der Ukraine eine Autokratie? Warum funktioniert das Parlament nicht? Welche Rolle spielen🇪🇺und🇩🇪? Werden die Massenproteste etwas bringen? @mattia_n spricht aus aktuellem Anlass über die dramatischen Ereignisse in der🇺🇦 mit @aufmacher salonkolumnisten.com/ostausschuss/

Der verteidigungsablehnende Pazifismus wie auch große Teile der Friedensbewegung sind in ihren Argumentationsketten geradezu gezwungen, den Aggressor, die Gräuel der diktatorischen Besatzung sowie die Konsequenzen der Wehrlosigkeit zu verharmlosen oder gar zu leugnen 🧵

In our new investigation into Russia's use of children for their military drone program, crucial evidence came from @tashurkevich's undercover phone calls. Here are some of the most striking confessions she extracted.

Wirklich lesenswert.

Incredible. Zelensky's handpicked prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said he did not ask to increase his powers and take over control of NABU and SAPO. He learned it was happening from the Telegram channel of Holos party MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak. pravda.com.ua/news/2025/07/2…

The fact that the office of the director of national intelligence is putting out documents with titles like this is in itself a sign of a crisis within the American intelligence community.

Six years ago, Zelensky urged citizens to call the hotline of Ukraine's anti-corruption agency if they were offered bribes. Now it's at the center of the biggest political crisis of his wartime presidency. How his power grab sparked a massive backlash: ft.com/content/c98f2c…

ЗМІ: Євросоюз планував відкрити переговори з Україною про вступ, але рішення відклали на тлі атак на антикорупціонерів inforesist.org/ua/zmi-evrosoy…

Instead of replying to each question, I decided to put together a thread that better explains the context of the recent protest, and why this particular law triggered such an unexpected reaction, especially for those, who don’t follow internal Ukrainian politics. 🧵Thread: