Maxim Tucker

On assignment for @thetimes in Donbas, I met recon teams from Ukraine’s Black Forest Brigade, who call in Storm Shadow and HIMARS strikes deep behind enemy lines. Although the Russians are still driving forward here, the brigade is making them pay a heavy price… 1/

President Zelensky is foolish to think that the Ukrainian people, who have fought long and hard against one would-be Tsar, will accept another. He risks betraying Ukraine’s European future, just as his predecessors did. He should reverse this egregious law before he is forced to.

Trump now knows Putin is giving him “bullshit”, but allows him another 50 days to do so. Why? Wake up, America. A lot of lives will be lost in 50 days. The news about 17 Patriots “with batteries” (presumably Duracell?) sounds exciting, but unreal.

So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the U.S. still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, leaving Ukrainian cities defenseless against Russian missile strikes. A lesson to all here.

Trump is allowing the sanctions regime across Russia to fall apart week by week through what appears to be deliberate negligence. nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/…

“It plays to concerns that Zelensky has used martial law to consolidate power.” The feud between Volodymyr Zelensky and the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, “risks damaging” the Ukrainian president’s legacy, says The Times’s @MaxRTucker reporting from Odesa.

My latest report for @TimesRadio on three days of the heaviest Russian drone strikes on Ukraine so far while simultaneously exchanging 1,000 prisoners of war. A clear message to the Ukrainian people, with a token gesture for the Americans. youtube.com/watch?v=Xgj_nz…

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago…

I found my wife curled around our son — her last act was to shield him A heart wrenching read by ⁦@MaxRTucker⁩ about the consequences of Putin’s drone attacks on Ukraine while “peace talks” continue with the White House thetimes.co.uk/article/wife-s…

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Brink on Face the Nation: I resigned from Ukraine, because the policy of the Trump administration is to put pressure on the victim – Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor – Russia. 1/

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