Tweets On The Russia – Ukraine War
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 18 January 2023
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/fR17j1ajCd
🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/0qGka78nEd
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) January 18, 2023
#Putin‘s directive to conduct large-scale military reforms aimed at expanding #Russia’s conventional armed forces is likely to prepare for a protracted war in #Ukraine and to set conditions to build a significantly stronger Russian military quickly. https://t.co/ll0oKOkXhS https://t.co/0wjgVWMsuw
— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) January 18, 2023
A helicopter crashed near a nursery outside of Kyiv, killing several people, including children and Ukraine’s interior minister.
He is the most senior Ukrainian official to die since Russia invaded nearly a year ago. pic.twitter.com/iWxCKfCf42
— DW News (@dwnews) January 18, 2023
A helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people is the latest in a series of devastating developments in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion.
Here’s what we know — and what we don’t. https://t.co/gCkjKZSfkW
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2023
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky calls for speed from allies, writes letter to China’s Xi Jinping https://t.co/6Ikss1PxXU
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) January 18, 2023
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Putin: “We endured for a long time, tried to negotiate for a long time. As it turns out now, we were simply led by the nose, deceived. It’s not the first time this has happened. There was nothing left for us but to do what we are doing now.” pic.twitter.com/EcytP0WEvs
— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) January 18, 2023
Lavrov:”Like Napoleon mobilized almost all of Europe against the Russian Empire, like Hitler invaded and gunned down most EU countries and threw them against the USSR. Now, too, the U.S. has formed a coalition of almost all Europeans and is waging a proxy war against our country” pic.twitter.com/f5ZqnCbs7r
— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) January 18, 2023
Germany is under pressure over the delivery of Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.
But what makes the tank so special? pic.twitter.com/kqlGfe3OAG
— DW Politics (@dw_politics) January 18, 2023