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Russian stuff blowing up: EU says no sanctions relief for Russia [1]

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Date: 2025-03-26

Russia is demanding sanctions relief in exchange for a ceasefire.

The EU has flatly stated that Russia will get zero sanctions relief until it withdraws completely from Ukraine.

x 🚨🚨Russia's "unconditional withdrawal" from Ukraine is one of the main preconditions for changing or lifting EU sanctions, @ec.europa.eu spokesperson Anitta Hipper told Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne today.🧵

kyivindependent.com/lifting-eu-s...



[image or embed] — Jacob Öberg (@profjacob.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM

Steve Witkoff is nothing more than a Russian stooge, a useful idiot.

x Steve Witkoff told Tucker Carlson that four Ukrainian regions (which Russia partially or fully controls at the moment) should become Russian because there were "referendums" where "overwhelming majority of the people" voted to be under the Russian rule. This is not true.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM

Russia likely has everything on Witkoff’s phone, including his Amazon password.

x Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.



[image or embed] — Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Russia should pack all their armored vehicles with anti-tank mines.

Makes for an excellent bavovna.

Why go room by room clearing Russians from a building when you can just collapse the entire building?

x Ukrainian soldiers in action in central Toretsk. They rush into a building with Russian soldiers, plant explosives and make a dash.



[image or embed] — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM

They say that any landing you can walk away from is a good one. By that standard this was a good landing.

x A Russian An-12 cargo plane made a hard landing in Novy Urengoy. The left landing gear failed to lock and the plane overturned during landing,



[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM

Fly the friendly skies of Russia.

x Russia is expected to keep losing 50-100 commercial aircraft annually from inability to maintain them for lack of spare parts due to sanctions.

Currently there are about 800 jetliners, half of which are capable of international flights.

The situation will be critical in 2027.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM

Russian ships aren’t any safer these days than their planes.

The ship's most recent track shows it barely made it out of port (<5km and well within cell phone range) before it exploded and returned.

x 1/ The Russian ship Crystal Asia with 22 Russians on board caught fire off the coast of South Korea. The cause is believed to be an "explosion" in the engine room. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Russia unleashes an all-out assault on Kryvyi Rih.

x Russian drones hit Zelenskyy’s hometown in “most massive strike on city since war began Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 56 out of 117 Russian drones in a coordinated nighttime assault



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM

Russians set up a trip wire to deter their North Korean comrades from stealing their stuff.

x "Here's a tripwire. From the Koreans. It's a warning. Because those narrow-eyed f*cking loiter around here at night and steal things." A Russian soldier from Kursk region complained during a "tour" of his dugout that they are forced to set up tripwires at the entrance from North Korean comrades.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM

Another 1,280 Russians lose the Ukrainian Lottery. But only 17 artillery systems.

Two weeks? Jesus H. Christ! C’mon.

Is Russia going to roll across Poland in two weeks with its Chinese golf carts, scooters and donkeys?

x ⚡️ Poland can withstand invasion for 2 weeks before NATO steps in, security chief says. "I think, depending on how this fight goes, this defense can be carried out for a week or two at today's inventory levels," said BBN chief Dariusz Lukowski.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM

He’s not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, is he?

How bad have things gotten when you find yourself agreeing with Russian propaganda mouthpieces?

x Russian propagandists are openly mocking gullible Americans. Mikhail Zvinchuk, a host on Solovyov's channel, called the Trump administration "American pots" because Vitkoff believes that Russia is adhering to the "ceasefire."



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM

Russia is already accusing Ukraine of violating the ceasefire.

x ‼️🇺🇦 The statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about Ukraine's alleged violation of the ceasefire conditions regarding energy facilities do not correspond to reality, - General Staff AFU did not launch UAV strikes on Russian energy facilities in the Kursk, Bryansk regions, and Crimea.



[image or embed] — The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM

Yes, be concerned. Be very concerned.

x ❗️The US is discussing the status of Ukrainian territories with the Russian Federation without our participation and this worries us, — Zelensky "We are concerned about the issue when they discuss something about us without us.



[image or embed] — 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM

Zaluzhnyi tells it like it is.

x Ukraine's former Commander in Chief says NATO nations next to Russia have come to the conclusion the security of the famed Article 5, no longer exists. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now ambassador to the UK, explained why Romania won't shoot down Russian drones.



[image or embed] — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM

The danger of Russia using nuclear weapons in Ukraine has actually gone up, IMHO, because Putin knows Trump will flinch and not retaliate in kind.

x Russian ruler Vladimir Putin sees “positive battlefield trends” and doesn't want to end war, according to US intel assessment He may use nuclear weapons due to Russia’s inability to achieve quick and decisive battlefield wins, it said



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM

People in hell are demanding ice water but they ain’t gettin’ it either.

x Russia reportedly demanded control over four Ukrainian oblasts in negotiations with the US Moscow is pushing for Ukrainian territorial concessions in talks, signaling its unwillingness to abandon its occupation



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM

Gagauz is a pro-Russian enclave in the southern part of Moldova distinct from Transnistria.

According to Teleradio-Moldova, Gutsul is a suspect in the case of illegal funding from the pro-Russian party Shor. On May 14, 2023, Eugenia Gutsul won the elections in the Gagauz autonomy with backing from fugitive business magnate Ilan Shor, who was sentenced in 2023 to 15 years in prison in connection with the disappearance of $1 billion from Moldovan banks. After the election, Gutsul, as well as Shor's team that supported her, were accused of voter corruption. The National Anticorruption Center then opened a criminal case. All denied the charges.

x The leader, or bashkan, of Moldova's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority Eugenia Gutsul was detained for 72 hours at Chisinau's international airport while trying to leave the country, Teleradio-Moldova has reported.



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM

Their charred remains will nicely decorate the sides of Crimean roads.

Hey Grandpa, what did you do during the war in Ukraine?

Well, there was that time I fell off of my electric assault scooter.

In fairness to the Russian, those helmets can hurt you.

x Ukrainian soldier from the 43rd Mechanized Brigade, having run out of grenades, threw his own helmet at the enemy. The enemy, startled, then ran straight into a burst of automatic fire.

www.facebook.com/share/v/1Fdr...



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM

More wasted lives.

x Russian State-run Channel One propagandist, Anna Prokofieva, was killed in Belgorod when she and her film crew drove over a mine. Anyway... in other news... #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM

x ‼️ Russia: “Paralympic silver medalist Alexander Rabotnitsky dies in SMO” “This was reported by the All-Russian Federation of Sports for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (VFSLI).” www.kommersant.ru/doc/7605291



[image or embed] — Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM

If something in Russia isn’t working, it must be a day ending in Y.

x Unknown hackers struck Lukoil payment systems and other Lukoil cyber infrastructure. Russians are unable to pay for gas at Lukoil stations or even Lukoil employees are unable to access their computers.



[image or embed] — Orion412 (@orion412x.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM

x Russian and Regional Media: Fast and Mir payment systems stopped working in Russia Banks affected include Sber, T-Bank and Alfa-Bank. Others impacted include GazProm whose credit card system is down at the pumps. #OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar



[image or embed] — OSINT Intuit (@urikikaski.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM

Wait! Did they forget to add Kim Jong Un to the chat group?

Are reprints of the burning Kremlin painting available on eBay? I want one.

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