As sens work to finalize a sweeping Russia sanctions bill, an all-senators classified briefing with senior admin officials on Ukraine/Russia is sked for Thursday at 11AM, per a Senate aide. Briefers tbd
— Trish Turner (@caphilltrish) January 30, 2022
BREAKING: The US is close to a bipartisan sanctions bill that will crush the Russian economy if Russia invades Ukraine
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) January 30, 2022
“Like a thief in the night looking to see what he can grab, Russia’s leader makes a pariah of himself and his country on the global stage.” https://t.co/GImdwXspfq
— toomas ilves, ex-verif (@IlvesToomas) January 30, 2022
"Upon taking office in 2009, NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen told him he was committed to increased cooperation with Russia.
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 30, 2022
Putin responded: 'Do you know my mission, Mr. Rasmussen? It is to make sure that your organization no longer exists.' "
https://t.co/kOmEV5KtHg
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has questioned the framing of NATO as a "defensive" alliance, complaining that the bloc's "line of defense" continues to move east towards Russia https://t.co/WxphJN3seF
— CNN (@CNN) January 30, 2022
The head of Nato says there are "no plans" for the alliance to deploy combat troops in Ukraine
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) January 30, 2022
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tells Sophie Raworth Nato will provide support and impose "severe sanctions" if Russia invades Ukraine#SundayMorning https://t.co/kSXAJAj77x pic.twitter.com/NsE8uFLK5h
"If you don’t think Putin’s current threat to Ukraine was based in part on his calculation that Trump’s divisiveness and assault on US democracy has weakened us, then you are not paying attention."@djrothkopf on the MAGA-GOP's twisted approach to Russia:https://t.co/lmlMPBRip8
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) January 30, 2022
Putin “was looking for a chance – for a crack in our system. And Trump put a crack in our system,” says @levparnas. Americans were “always united against Russia,” but not anymore. #Velshi pic.twitter.com/yrehNeTASd
— Velshi on MSNBC (@VelshiMSNBC) January 30, 2022
On May 27, 1997, Yeltsin signed the NATO-Russia Founding Act, which committed Russia to the "respect for sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security." pic.twitter.com/QdtKKkBOSc
— Marcel H. Van Herpen (@MarcelHVanHerpe) January 30, 2022
#Russia's state media is claiming that Zelenskyy is planning an offensive in E. Ukraine during the Olympics, once Putin leaves the country. It's either a red herring, or the Kremlin is preemptively justifying what it's about to do.#Ukraine pic.twitter.com/CUETkphHza
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 30, 2022
Oleksiy Danilov, head of Ukraine’s National Security & Defense Council, showed me his real-time big board of Donbas war zone this week. He even zoomed in on my old Artemivsk apartment. Danilov told me he agreed with US that Russia poses a threat but said invasion not imminent. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/WyghFV5jhm
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) January 30, 2022
Pay attention to a new Kremlin narrative on the Ukraine war: Russia does not want to wage war on Ukraine, but the West _compels_ Russia to do that. Moscow is now increasingly pushing this narrative domestically, as it has no other way to explain the war agenda to the Russians.
— Anton Shekhovtsov (@A_SHEKH0VTS0V) January 30, 2022
UKRAINE: Ukrainians in Kyiv hold a "Thank You" rally for nations that have offered help as the Russia threat looms. pic.twitter.com/nihnMFm7Ze
— Forbes (@Forbes) January 30, 2022
When you don't cave to Russia, Russia caves to you. pic.twitter.com/m58Le51MM0
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 29, 2022
I understand that proposed economic sanctions against Russia include installing Rishi Sunak as their new Chancellor.
— Keith Burge (@carryonkeith) January 30, 2022
The simplest way to deter Putin from invading Ukraine is to freeze the assets of the Russian oligarchs who hold his money in London. The U.K. can punch significantly above its weight in stopping this crisis because there’s so much Russian money here. https://t.co/q1AQdZ1Xwb
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) January 30, 2022
As @BorisJohnson pushes himself as a friend of Ukraine, worth remembering that he was accused of being 'Putin's apologist' in 2016.
— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) January 30, 2022
(After he blamed a new EU-Ukraine trade agreement for worsening relations with Russia).
My @theipaper Weekend piece:https://t.co/aNuY26Ffiw
BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tweeted to say the picture in Ukraine is "increasingly concerning" and he urges Russia "to engage in negotiations and avoid a reckless and catastrophic invasion".https://t.co/pC4o7Eojnl
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 30, 2022
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/XA10IitHCC
It’s difficult to take anything Boris Johnson says on Russia seriously after his Government tried to suppress the Russia report, misrepresented its findings and ignored all of its recommendations pic.twitter.com/w1F2EdwxmT
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 24, 2022
Liz Truss says the government is taking tough action against illicit Russian finance.
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) January 30, 2022
The Conservative Party has taken £2 million in donations from individuals linked to Russia since Boris Johnson came to power, with a quarter of his Cabinet receiving donations. #SundayMorning
Quarter of Johnson Cabinet took Russia-linked cash as Tories head to Conference https://t.co/dSEkXb1tWh
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) January 30, 2022
Good thread. A reminder that before Boris Johnson reinvented himself as the hammer of the West against Putin he spent 18 months trying to bury parliament's Russia report and has subsequently failed to implement any of its recommendations. https://t.co/eeZGDHTqVe
— Simon Nixon (@Simon_Nixon) January 30, 2022
The only roasting of Liz Truss’s bull**** defence of Boris Johnson you need to watch
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) January 26, 2022
This is another graphic illustration of why the whole rotten lot need to go pic.twitter.com/LFDPjIhhih
It was the civil service that stayed on a beach in Crete during the fall of Kabul was it? pic.twitter.com/BIn6vjlefg
— Brendan May (@bmay) January 30, 2022
I sense a long week ahead…..
— Neale Richmond (@nealerichmond) January 30, 2022
*mumbles “ah lads” as he slumps to bed. pic.twitter.com/2FjPhl4jbW
This is an actual thing that happened on an actual TV channel today. pic.twitter.com/ziH0RynE9B
— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) January 30, 2022
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Finally
16 lights above Derry’s Guildhall tonight. 14 for the dead, 1 for the injured and 1 for all those who died in the Troubles @rtenews pic.twitter.com/V2Lb63Y6Au
— conor macauley (@TVconormac) January 30, 2022
In Derry today as the city remembers Bloody Sunday 50 years on.
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) January 30, 2022
Paddy Doherty
Gerald Donaghey
Jackie Duddy
Hugh Gilmour
Michael Kelly
Michael McDaid
Kevin McElhinney
Barney McGuigan
Gerald McKinney
William McKinney
William Nash
James Wray
John Young
John Johnston pic.twitter.com/XQNlTI38eQ
50 years on from Bloody Sunday, victims families walk the original route of the civil rights march which ended in tragedy. Thirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army's Parachute Regiment opened fire. pic.twitter.com/QxlUeNNOxP
— Emma Vardy (@EmmaVardyTV) January 30, 2022
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It’s a privilege to be in Derry to lay a wreath in respect and memory, and to support the families who continue to maintain such dignity and courage.
— Simon Coveney (@simoncoveney) January 30, 2022
Let it be a motivation to all of us to work for a better future. pic.twitter.com/1B4i84uZVY
The emotional, compelling responses to #BloodySunday from Ire – such as @aoifegracemoore – contrast strongly with these detached editorials from Britain. The maintenance of the ‘inexplicable NI’ myth denies the colonial mindset that still structures it https://t.co/wsuF7lBpoQ
— Prof Laura McAtackney (@LMcAtackney) January 30, 2022
It says a lot about modern Britain and the politicians that represent it, I think, that after 50 years & 2 inquiries it’s still seen as controversial to admit that on Bloody Sunday the British army murdered unarmed civilians, some of whom were children, at a civil rights march
— Róisín Lanigan (@rosielanners) January 30, 2022
#BloodySunday50 For the day that is in it, my fathers reaction to Bloody Sunday as captured by RTE news on the day after. pic.twitter.com/DEtKKk1KPZ
— Kevin MacDermott (@Kevmacd) January 30, 2022
Bloody Sunday – ‘The Truth Has Won Out’
— The John and Pat Hume Foundation (@humefoundation) January 30, 2022
John Hume: "I have seen extraordinary courage and fortitude by individual men and women, innocent victims of violence. Amid shattered lives, a quiet heroism has borne silent rebuke to the evil that violence represents.." @BloodySunday50 pic.twitter.com/8qv58raw9P
My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger.⁰I walked among their old haunts.⁰the home ground where they bled;⁰And in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter⁰Till its oak would sprout in Derry⁰where the thirteen men lay dead.#BloodySunday50 pic.twitter.com/qcXCBJkQ57
— Seamus Heaney (@HeaneyDaily) January 30, 2022
The Overnight Note 