Zelensky rips the West for inaction as shellings make Russia-Ukraine war seem increasingly imminent https://t.co/MhQKLOLivC
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 20, 2022
Ukraine leader wants new security guarantees to fix 'almost broken' global system https://t.co/g8eju8Q2JE pic.twitter.com/70jHR1ZZHY
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 19, 2022
Biden will convene a National Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine tomorrow, per @PressSec pic.twitter.com/2xFJmpr0G6
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) February 19, 2022
NATO relocates Ukraine staff to Lviv and Brussels for safety reasons https://t.co/23vNKux2OD pic.twitter.com/7hLsULjBF7
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 19, 2022
Lviv is fast becoming Ukraine’s western capital & is thought of a safe haven amid the threat of a new Russian invasion. We were there nearly two weeks ago reporting on the first people to arrive & others planning evacuations, including Western embassies. https://t.co/Iu9K8FvMMX
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) February 19, 2022
As predicted by the US and other allies, the Russians are blowing up buildings in occupied Eastern Ukraine and blaming the Ukrainians in order to justify a full scale invasion. Exactly the same playbook as Georgia in 2008. This is really happening https://t.co/nBMe2kbF1g
— Bill Browder (@Billbrowder) February 20, 2022
Nataliya Gumenyuk, writing from the front, as always with a fresh angle on Ukraine and Russia @ngumenyuk https://t.co/Xwi2uydeYi
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) February 19, 2022
“Russia’s challenge to the West today, as it amasses its troops on Ukraine’s borders, is predicated on its belief that American power is retreating,” @TomMcTague writes. Europe’s response has been to reveal how powerful America remains. https://t.co/CI0U0T2i8R
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 20, 2022
How is it that Europe-a continent with a GDP that dwarfs Russia’s and full of pieties about the “rules based international order,” plus the alphabet soup of int’l organizations to boot has been unable to stop a KGB bully from invading one country after another? Just saying…
— Andrew A. Michta (@andrewmichta) February 19, 2022
Russia’s massive and open military threat to Ukraine is now shaking a sense of complacency among young and old Europeans alike who have never known war, hot or cold.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) February 19, 2022
For some, at least, the moment is an awakening as the threat of war grows real. https://t.co/Wrux8yJcDI
During his 2 decades in power, Putin has gone to war many times: Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Syria 2015, Ukraine 2014. In Putin's view, he won every time. Given this perceived track record, he believes he can win again now.
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) February 19, 2022
President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus once skillfully managed Moscow, but now he is doing the Kremlin’s bidding in Russia’s confrontation with Ukraine. https://t.co/S4K4Rf1WgL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 20, 2022
Ukraine crisis: Criss-crossing the country with Zelensky https://t.co/zX1rZBz9d0
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) February 20, 2022
A Russian invasion of Ukraine is very imminent – UK minister https://t.co/66k9ASfEB4 pic.twitter.com/JTkMsVSas6
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 20, 2022
I agree with @ZelenskyyUa about the utility of making sanctions public now. The Russian people should know what their leader is dragging them into before war, not just after. https://t.co/TV0VIxknqm
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) February 19, 2022
.@ZelenskyyUa is unflinching. Putin has failed to intimidate him/ Ukraine. Ze still needs to plan for the best, prepare for the worst. His calls for clearer signaling on sanctions & graduated respond options are 100% valid. So are his calls for unconstrained economic cooperation.
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) February 19, 2022
Say what you will about whether it was smart for Zelensky to go to Munich, and the argument not to go is a valid one. But he came prepared to support his country and does not at all sound like a leader who is scared, weakened or unstable. All measures Putin desperately seeks…
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) February 19, 2022
This bizarre film, with its "Jason Bourne" soundtrack, underlines once again that Boris Johnson is not a serious politician and more, that even in the biggest diplomatic crisis facing Europe since 1939 – he feels obliged to make it all about himself. https://t.co/arUrQYolhV
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 20, 2022
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Doctors cautious as Johnson to tell Britain to ‘live with Covid’
Covid self-isolation rules will be scrapped next week, Boris Johnson to announce https://t.co/Q3Wc5BBXkV
— The Independent (@Independent) February 20, 2022
All the Covid rule changes set to be announced by Boris Johnson tomorrow as isolation axedhttps://t.co/gnHpADS4QK pic.twitter.com/v8BDAp9Owi
— Mirror Politics (@MirrorPolitics) February 20, 2022
Chair of the British Medical Association: Boris Johnson's political decision to end all Covid restrictions is “not based on current evidence & is premature. It clearly hasn’t been guided by data or done in consultation with the healthcare profession.”https://t.co/yL2jLR2U08
— GET A GRIP (@docrussjackson) February 19, 2022
Can we be clear?
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) February 19, 2022
This is not "living with Covid".
This will lead directly to the deaths of more immuno-compromised & disabled people.
I care for such patients – triple-vaxxed yet dying in ICU in their 40s, 30s.
Are their lives really worth nothing?https://t.co/HrjIJGsVLs
Absurd and dangerous to end all Covid restrictions. By doing so, Boris Johnson will once again gamble dangerously with life and safety. His bogus ‘Freedom Day’ is a shameless ploy by a doomed PM to curry favour with his libertarian right wingers.
— Mary Riddell (@MaryRiddell) February 20, 2022
If @BorisJohnson goes, it'll be this that gets him.
— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) February 12, 2022
Stark contrast between the close attention he paid to the detail of *drafting* the Covid laws and the lack of attention in *obeying* the Covid laws. https://t.co/X3aTrsbVMn
“The government needs to set out how it will make sure the immune-compromised are not left behind as the pandemic’s forgotten victims as the country returns to normal.”https://t.co/2RsumTDsBy
— Blood Cancer UK (@bloodcancer_uk) February 17, 2022
PM: gets Covid-19 and nearly dies, partially attributes that to his obesity
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) February 19, 2022
Also PM: dumps national obesity strategy in a desperate attempt to shore up flagging support with his own partyhttps://t.co/AsrjrOejXR
Boris Johnson, 2016: ‘Take back control from unelected bureaucrats’
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) February 20, 2022
Boris Johnson, 2022: hope no-one finds out about my secret advisory board of donors pic.twitter.com/GeR5z2lA2Y
🚨 1. Hancock's Dido Harding appointment
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) February 16, 2022
🚨 2. Failing to provide a BSL interpreter for Covid briefings
🚨 3. PPE "VIP lane"
🚨 4. Covid contracts
🚨 5. Proroguing parliament
🚨 6. Disability strategy consultation
🚨 ….7. Partygate?https://t.co/8hrc8QC7fb
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