Author of the Ukraine Decoded newsletter on Substack. Former Ukrainian news reporter. Veteran officer of the Ukraine Army.

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DEVELOPING. #Ukraine is actively planning to influence the first round of renewed by US President Trump peace negotiations with Russia in Abu Dhabi or Switzerland by requesting to start them a week earlier than November 10. (Every day counts before the freezing winter under the Russian bombardments). Also, Ukraine is planning to bring "the representative of Europe" to those talks, according to the Ukrainska Pravda news outlet. Meanwhile, any EU official won't have a mandate to participate in this US-mediated peace talks. So, the Ukrainian delegation is planning "to brief" the European representative about talks on their own (basically, leaking sensitive information, incl. to the press, and overall making it harder to agree on something). At the same time, Ukraine frames such their strategy not as "disruption of Trump efforts" or "resistance to Trump," but as "preventing the Russians from fooling everybody into a bad peace deal."
BREAKING. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nullified the President Trump's push for the next round of peace negotiations with Russia under the US mediation. This is planned in Abu Dhabi for early November. On Ukrainian TV, Zelensky just said the next: 💥NO to limits on Ukrainian army (it's now 1,3 million) 💥NO to Ukraine's neutrality 💥NO to territorial discussions --it's only a topic for discussion between him and Putin (their personal meeting is unrealistic).
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Storm Shadow cruise missiles devastate the Russian arms electronics manufacturing plant.
A chip fabrication facility at Russia's Proton military electronics plant in Orel was heavily damaged over the weekend. Footage shows several Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles hitting the factory.
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Here is one more creative way not to go to war in #Ukraine. An able-bodied Ukrainian man from the Khmelnitska Oblast bought a paraglide motor and flew away to #Moldova. The Moldovan border guards spotted the loud vehicle in the air and captured him. The guy quickly asked for a refugee status, so he can stay in Moldova for some time while the country's immigration court would hear his case.
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Why is Zelensky and Co. against Musk?
Unreal… Elon: Don’t use Starlink to kill people. Zelensky: I used Starlink to kill people. Legacy Media: Elon is a monster for stopping Zelensky from using Starlink to kill people. Democrats: We must investigate Elon for stopping Zelensky from using Starlink to kill people.
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Facts vs. propaganda.
Starlink’s Acceptable Use Policy explicitly prohibits remotely controlling drones. Zelensky himself acknowledged using Starlink for mid-range strikes. Elon is right: Ukraine’s military violated those terms by using the Starlink system for offensive drone strikes.
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Today in my Ukraine Decoded newsletter! "Ukraine’s Steel Industry Collapses: 80% Production Plunge, Mass Job Loss, and Growing Budget Hole" Russian missile strikes threaten Ukraine’s ability to finance prolonged defense. ukrainedecoded.substack.com/… Subscribe to my newsletter on Substack! Enjoy the special 20% discount for new subscribers for the first 12 months.ukrainedecoded.substack.com/…
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Russia without its arms industry won't be a threat to neighbors.
Ukrainian forces continued to hunt down Russian missile production facilities with their UK-supplied Storm Shadows today, successfully striking the Yelets Energia Plant. The plant, hit by multiple Storm Shadows, produced subcomponents for the Iskander, Kinzhal, and Zircon.
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BREAKING. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky nullified the President Trump's push for the next round of peace negotiations with Russia under the US mediation. This is planned in Abu Dhabi for early November. On Ukrainian TV, Zelensky just said the next: 💥NO to limits on Ukrainian army (it's now 1,3 million) 💥NO to Ukraine's neutrality 💥NO to territorial discussions --it's only a topic for discussion between him and Putin (their personal meeting is unrealistic).
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When their war ends.
.@POTUS: "We'd like to get back to life where Russia and Ukraine make a deal, and then we'd be able to do business with both... We'll do business with Ukraine and with Russia after this war ends, I would think."
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"Young [Russian and Ukrainian] boys who don’t know each other are killing each other on behalf of old men that do know each other [Putin vs. Zelensky].”
Elon Musk’s message today is the same one he shared 3 years ago. He wants peace and an end to the killing. “The reason I proposed some sort of peace a year ago was because I predicted pretty much exactly what would happen, which is a lot of people dying for basically almost no changes in land. And the loss of the flower of Ukrainian and Russian youth, and we should have some sympathy for the Russian boys as well as the Ukrainian boys, because the Russian boys didn’t ask to be on their front line, they have to be. So, there’s a lot of sons not coming back to their parents, and I think most of them don’t really have, they don’t hate the other side. It’s like young boys who don’t know each other killing each other on behalf of old men that do know each other.”
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True.
Elon Musk becomes deeply moved, and deadly serious, when Bret Baier asks him why he called Sen. Mark Kelly a "Traitor" for pushing to send more US aid and weapons to Ukraine. Watch every second of his response. "We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday in the trenches. For no movement in the lines. For the past two years thousands of people have died every week for nothing." "I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day." "I have contempt for such people and I want to make that clear. Because they're virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don't have a father. It means parents lost a son. For what? Nothing."
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The latest in my Ukraine Decoded newsletter! "Melania Trump Brokers Ceasefire for Up to 2,000 Civilians Trapped in Russia-Occupied Oleshky" A humanitarian pause in one ruined Kherson Oblast town tests whether Washington’s channel to Moscow can deliver what others could not. ukrainedecoded.substack.com/… Subscribe to Ukraine Decoded on Substack to get prompt analysis! Enjoy the special 20% discount for new subscribers for the first 12 months.
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Truth is told debunking the lies of Zelensky & his arms dealers.
Elon Musk accused Ukraine of using Starlink to support offensive drone strikes “to kill people,” defending restrictions that disrupted Ukrainian military operations for more than a week. He said Ukraine violated the service’s terms and that Starlink was never intended to support offensive attacks. Musk also said SpaceX has done more than any other private company to defend Ukraine, while warning that shutting off Starlink entirely could cause the country’s front line to collapse.
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The latest in the Ukraine Decoded newsletter on Substack! "Midterm Weaponization: How Ukraine and Global Media Demonized Elon Musk Over Starlink Speed Limits" With U.S. elections weeks away, a sudden throttling of Ukrainian Internet connectivity sparked a coordinated smear campaign painting the Starlink founder as an enemy. ukrainedecoded.substack.com/… Subscribe to the Ukraine Decoded newsletter on Substack to get prompt analysis! Enjoy the special 20% discount for new subscribers for the first 12 months.
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Normal people want the war to end. Governments of both #Ukraine and #Russia don't want this. Feel the difference.
Replying to @johnhawkinsrwn
Yeah, this retard is so fucking dumb that he doesn’t realize that our policies serve the Ukrainian people. Pieces of shit like this want the war to continue until every last man in Ukraine has died in a ditch. They are utter scum of the Earth.
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Interesting 🤔
Marco Rubio on Ukraine War: That war, while people keep talking about it as a war in Ukraine, that war is about Donbas. It's about one region of the country. At its core, it's about 11% of one part of that country that Russia wants and cannot take militarily, and that Ukraine is unwilling to give up.
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Exactly 💯
Elon says Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service, amid reports of GPS chips being removed to circumvent geofencing. 🤦‍♂️ I don’t understand why people who love Ukraine and America keep picking unnecessary fights with Elon Musk. There used to be a saying in politics: “Never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel.” Well, Mr. Musk buys electricity by the gigawatt! Never bring a knife to a satellite fight, people.
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NEWS: Elon Musk clarified that Ukraine’s claims of Starlink slowing their drones stemmed from Kyiv violating the commercial service’s terms of service by using it for offensive strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week, the SpaceX CEO said, stressing that Starlink has never been allowed for such purposes and remains limited to civilian or defensive activities. Musk distinguished this from Starshield, the separate military system controlled by the U.S. government, whose limits are set by the U.S. military and ultimately the president. Musk wrote on 𝕏: “Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact. Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia. SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR. That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell. End of story.”
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Zelensky warns that he is the only one.
Zelensky: Ukraine cannot have a weak president now. Maybe after the war, any kind, absolutely, it's the choice of the people. But for today, if Ukraine wants to survive, Ukraine needs a strong army, a strong president, strong people, with all respect to everybody. That's why the reaction is strong, and that's why any pressure on me—my attitude, of course, I will answer. Because otherwise they will eat us. I mean Russians, of course.
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