
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦
@maria_drutska • 171,372 subscribers
Ex diplomat at Ukraine’s MFA, ex MoD. @warstudies. Thoughts & updates on rus-Ukr war. I speak fluent sarcasm.
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❗️Putin says Russia “knows” about alleged violations of the rights of Russian speakers in the Baltic states and has “already developed an approach” to respond. He insists Russia will act only through humanitarian and international-law mechanisms. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like we’ve heard the “protecting Russian speakers abroad” part of this story before.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦292,512 views • 21 days ago

“Trump is not even safe now, but I hope he is a smart and cautious person,” — Putin
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦2,874,832 views • 1 year ago

Russia: invades Ukraine. Europe: starts preparing for the possibility it might be next. Russia: “Why are you threatening us?” ❗️Lavrov says European warnings about preparing for a possible war with Russia could become a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” He insists Russia has no intention of fighting Europe, but warns that if Europe attacks Russia, it would be “a completely different war” - and “a short one.” But if Russia genuinely has no intention of attacking Europe, European preparedness should not be a problem for Russia. Funny how much of a problem it seems to be.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦62,899 views • 20 days ago

Two weeks before the elections, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Russia was not considering tax increases. Four days after the elections, the Finance Ministry unveiled a whole package of tax increases. Journalist: You said there would be no tax increases. Now there are. How will you comment this? Peskov: “I won’t.” Journalist: “Thank you very much.”
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦52,626 views • 20 days ago

❗️“No army in the world is prepared to counter the number of Shahed drones Ukraine is dealing with today,” - Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces. Ukrainian forces are destroying around 300 Russian loitering munitions every day, while Russia also launches waves of 30–50 missiles between drone attacks. And this is absolutely true. No military - and frankly, no economy - was built to sustain this scale of warfare for years. Except Ukraine has been forced to learn how.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦88,515 views • 1 month ago

Sanctions against Russia are pointless and should be lifted, says AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla following the party’s victory in the German state election. He argues that the sanctions have caused enormous damage to the German economy. Well, that didn’t take long. AfD wins an election, and one of the first messages is that sanctions on Russia should go. Moscow must be delighted.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦81,150 views • 1 month ago

During the US national anthem, two B-1 bombers roared directly overhead at low altitude. Just watch Xi Jinping’s face. Not a flinch. Not a change of expression. Completely composed. Whatever you think of China, diplomatic discipline, composure and protocol are things the Chinese leadership takes extremely seriously. Trump could probably learn a thing or two.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦50,879 views • 23 days ago

Operation Epic Fail. 10 years ago in March 2016, Mitt Romney warned Trump's foreign policies would make America and the world less safe, and that because of Trump, America would cease to be a shining city on a hill. His predictions are holding up pretty well, unfortunately.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦393,551 views • 6 months ago

‼️ Russia's main state bank warned that Russia is going to lose the economic war, and compared the situation to the 1917 revolution and 1991 collapse of the USSR. In related news, Russian banks have a record shortage of liquidity as Russians keep withdrawing cash en masse. 👀🍿
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦125,394 views • 2 months ago

Trump: “It takes at least 6-12 months to learn how to use Tomahawks. The only way would be to launch them, and we won’t do that.” Yeah, they said the same about ATACMS, Patriots, and jets - three years of training, remember? Our pilots did it in 6-8 months. The only thing that really takes years is Western hesitation.
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦634,612 views • 11 months ago

Trump announced lifting of some oil sanctions on Russia. The SAME DAY we send OUR soldiers to defend YOUR bases with weapons developed at the cost of Ukrainian lives, you let those who killed them rebuild their cash reserves so they can kill more of us. FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦400,639 views • 7 months ago

🚨 Watch closely: the Russian banking crisis is about to arrive 🚨 Russia's financial state is so bad now that they can't sell bonds anymore: buyers doubt they'll get their money back. With both war spending and debt growing while revenue collapses, a breaking point is near. 💥
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦152,426 views • 3 months ago

The Russian economic collapse keeps accelerating: 🔹The Moscow stock market has dropped a record 17 weeks in a row 🔹Russian bonds are plummeting 🔹An "explosive" banking crisis is near 🔹The harvest is far behind schedule due to fuel shortages, and may not happen in areas 🔥
Maria Drutska 🇺🇦149,282 views • 3 months ago