Russia attacks before Geneva talks
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Russian forces launched about 400 drones and 29 missiles across Ukraine hours before U.S.-mediated peace talks in Geneva, Ukrainian officials said, accusing Moscow of sabotaging negotiations.
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As the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion approaches, @FRS_org is publishing today a short paper by
@FHeisbourg and myself on the strategic lessons of the war, based on work done for @NATO_SACT
www.frstrategie.org/en/publicati...
@FHeisbourg and myself on the strategic lessons of the war, based on work done for @NATO_SACT
www.frstrategie.org/en/publicati...
Twenty-one strategic lessons of the Ukraine war | Note de la FRS | Foundation for Strategic Research | FRS
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February 17, 2026 at 9:51 AM
As the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion approaches, @FRS_org is publishing today a short paper by
@FHeisbourg and myself on the strategic lessons of the war, based on work done for @NATO_SACT
www.frstrategie.org/en/publicati...
@FHeisbourg and myself on the strategic lessons of the war, based on work done for @NATO_SACT
www.frstrategie.org/en/publicati...
Reposted by Dorothy Bishop
Greetings from Kyiv.
Ukraine survived another russian attack.
Energy facilities in Western Ukraine were targeted. Dnipro and Odesa were also under attack.
I had a warcoffee. Will write about another night here – for someone in the future.
They can read it one day and understand the price of peace.
Ukraine survived another russian attack.
Energy facilities in Western Ukraine were targeted. Dnipro and Odesa were also under attack.
I had a warcoffee. Will write about another night here – for someone in the future.
They can read it one day and understand the price of peace.
February 17, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Greetings from Kyiv.
Ukraine survived another russian attack.
Energy facilities in Western Ukraine were targeted. Dnipro and Odesa were also under attack.
I had a warcoffee. Will write about another night here – for someone in the future.
They can read it one day and understand the price of peace.
Ukraine survived another russian attack.
Energy facilities in Western Ukraine were targeted. Dnipro and Odesa were also under attack.
I had a warcoffee. Will write about another night here – for someone in the future.
They can read it one day and understand the price of peace.
Reposted by François Guesnet
Russia launched a night missile and drone attack using Tu 95MS bombers and Shahed UAVs. In Dnipro a fire damaged an administrative building and a car. In Odesa infrastructure and civilian sites were damaged and two people were injured. Explosions were reported in Burshtyn and Stryi. #Ukraine
February 17, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Russia launched a night missile and drone attack using Tu 95MS bombers and Shahed UAVs. In Dnipro a fire damaged an administrative building and a car. In Odesa infrastructure and civilian sites were damaged and two people were injured. Explosions were reported in Burshtyn and Stryi. #Ukraine
Says the man who was silent for the first 4 months of the war!
❗️“It was a great mistake not to provide Ukraine with assistance earlier; this should have been done in 2014,” — former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
If NATO had armed and trained Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022,
If NATO had armed and trained Ukrainians between 2014 and 2022,
February 17, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Says the man who was silent for the first 4 months of the war!
"The United States under Donald Trump is still somewhere between highly unreliable ally and de facto adversary." Yet Ukraine - with an assist from Elon Musk (!) is not only hanging in there but possibly turning the tide:
Ukraine Exploits a Russian Stumble
. . . launching counterattacks while invaders cope with comms confusion.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
"The United States under Donald Trump is still somewhere between highly unreliable ally and de facto adversary." Yet Ukraine - with an assist from Elon Musk (!) is not only hanging in there but possibly turning the tide:
by Peter Jacobs
The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.
Kaja Kallas in Munich:
"The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield."
Exactly. For a year, the USA has been pressuring Ukraine to surrender in a war it hasn’t lost, and those
"The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield."
Exactly. For a year, the USA has been pressuring Ukraine to surrender in a war it hasn’t lost, and those
February 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
The mass deportations will reorient domestic law enforcement while the slow motion destruction of NATO and the emboldening of Russia plays out internationally. This is all being openly planned.
New hypothesis/ polisci inside joke: JJM has supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to make Europe's medium powers finally do the thing he famously wrongly predicted they would, three decades and change ago.
Polish President President Karol Nawrocki: "the path to Polish nuclear potential, while respecting all international regulations, is the path we should take" (Sounds like nuclear latency.) notesfrompoland.com/2026/02/15/p...
President calls for Poland to seek nuclear deterrent
notesfrompoland.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:49 PM
New hypothesis/ polisci inside joke: JJM has supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine in order to make Europe's medium powers finally do the thing he famously wrongly predicted they would, three decades and change ago.