Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦
@andrewchak.bsky.social
https://chakhoyan.substack.com Ukrainian-American in NL🇳🇱. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” -Elie Wiesel #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦
Goed gedaan 👏
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦@andrewchak.bsky.social · 4h agoTo my surprise, the @financialtimes.com published my response to Valdai Sam’s pathetic equivocations. 🇺🇦’s growing ability to resist russian aggression is not an obstacle to peace. The obstacle is russia’s belief that further violence may still deliver greater rewards. www.ft.com/content/bf6a...
To my surprise, the @financialtimes.com published my response to Valdai Sam’s pathetic equivocations. 🇺🇦’s growing ability to resist russian aggression is not an obstacle to peace. The obstacle is russia’s belief that further violence may still deliver greater rewards. www.ft.com/content/bf6a...
Letter: A dangerous misreading of the state of the battlefield
From Andrew Chakhoyan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Apparently, when russia fires ballistic missiles at a European capital, nobody quite does the attacking But when moscow makes a claim about 🇺🇦, the headline instantly finds an active verb, a culprit, and 7 bodies. To call this both-sidism would be a compliment 😵💫 Screenshot of my BBC podcast feed
⚡️Update: Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue. A massive Russian attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported Aug. 5.
Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...
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Russia pummelled Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight with ballistic missiles and drones; more than 14 people killed; several dozen reported wounded. (Ukraine is desperate for interceptors for its Patriot missile defenses).
Russia launched a massed missile and drone attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast overnight, killing 14 people and injuring 27 Fires burned across three raions. A residential building collapsed in Holosiivskyi district. Rescuers are searching for people under the rubble euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r...
Russia hits Kyiv and its region overnight, 14 dead as ammonia leaks and building collapses
Second massed Kyiv barrage in five days kills 14, floods four districts with fires
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This article calmly deconstructs yet another russian information warfare attack on the Western media sphere, reminding us that Ukrainian intellectuals are entitled to demand editorial consistency from The Economist when it publishes narratives from russian state media disguised as journalism.
Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?
The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.
nationalinterest.org
THE WORLD MUST SEE THESE WAR CRIMES. In Kherson, Russian terrorists hunted a fruit and vegetable seller at a local market with an FPV drone. The Russian operator deliberately tried to hit the 52-year-old civilian. He survived the explosion, but suffered shrapnel wounds and a concussion.
Thank you very much, Andrew. This is brilliant! I admire the co-authors' patience and perseverance in explaining the same thing over and over again to Westerners, while remaining calm and finding new ways to do so each time. I particularly like the final sentence. I'll re-post it tomorrow morning.
Every word! “We ask @economist.com to provide Ukrainian authors with equivalent space a format proportionate to that given to Melnichenko. This is not a request for a favor. It is a demand for editorial consistency.” Will @zannymb.economist.com respond? nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...
Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?
The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.
nationalinterest.org
For reference, Westminster is about 21.5 km², so Russia took about one and a half Westminsters. If you've ever strolled around Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, and Hyde Park, that gives an idea of the progress Russia made in July, at a cost of over 40,000 casualties.
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · yesterdayDeepState estimates Russia gained a net 36 km² in July 2026. The hottest spots are near Rodynske, Kostiantynivka, the state border, and toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, where Russian forces made small gains. Taking the entire Donetsk region in 2026 is impossible, and in 2027 it is highly unlikely.
Re-upping my post from a few days ago along with the new article on the questionable editorial judgments by @economist.com 👇 nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...
Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?
The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.
nationalinterest.org
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦@andrewchak.bsky.social · 5d agorussia is attempting genocide in 🇺🇦 It won't stop until it is stopped! Yet 'diplomacy' is a go to word in our politics. It sounds humane while shifting responsibility from the aggressor to the victim. You don’t have to work for the kremlin to amplify its lies! chakhoyan.substack.com/p/the-london...
An excellent post by Oleksandra Matviichuk, Volodymyr Yermolenko, Valerii Pekar, and Nataliia Popovych on the outrageous representation by @economist.com of a Putin's puppet. nationalinterest.org/feature/why-...
Why Did ‘The Economist’ Platform a Russian Oligarch?
The magazine’s recent interview discussing the future of Russia merely restated Vladimir Putin’s talking points.
nationalinterest.org
Stretching over 11 time zones, #russia remains an unreformed empire in search of purpose, not a nation-state defending interests. To dismiss that as semantics is to ignore how its power works: wars of aggression choose the "leader" to wage them. kyivindependent.com/why-russia-c...
In Mykolaiv, an 89-year-old woman was killed and seven others were injured, including two young girls, ages 2 and 12, in a Russian strike on a residential area of the city overnight.
9/ These 'realist' actors have lost their academic credibility. You can read an excellent and detailed 'destruction' of their flawed ideas in this one from @andrewchak.bsky.social 👇 claireberlinski.substack.com/p/academias-...
Academia's Putinverstehers
How a band of foreign policy "realists" divorced reality to marry Russia.
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Huge thanks to Kirkus Reviews for this great review of UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY: "a damning account of an unaccountable caste." My new book is out tomorrow(!) - get your final pre-orders in now! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Schrödinger's Putin may end the war tomorrow. The political tradition he embodies makes that outcome perpetually elusive. Empires rarely choose to stop being empires. They are made to stop. 28/28 END www.realclearworld.com/articles/202...
Russia's War and Putin's Choice
This article first appeared in German in Neue Zürcher Zeitung Few medieval figures loom larger in Russia’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince credited with founding an outpost o
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The world can shape the incentives under which Moscow operates, but it cannot decide when Russia de-imperializes. That is for Russians to work out, but their future rulers must learn the big lesson: wars of conquest bring ever larger costs, not rewards 27/28 nypost.com/2026/07/11/o...
For peace in Ukraine, don’t give Putin an off-ramp — force him into a dead end
If you give Putin a Crimea, he’ll try to take a whole country.
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A Dutch imperialist could go home as a Dutch citizen when the empire fell apart. The Buryats, Tuvans, Bashkirs, and dozens of other peoples whose identities Moscow spent centuries trying to erase have no such civic homeland. via #Yermolenko 18/28 theukrainians.org/en/three-fea...
Думки / Немічна імперія. Три риси російського імперіалізму
Філософ Володимир Єрмоленко про ідею нав’язаної тотожності, самоколонізацію і безнадійно старий путінізм
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When Bashar Assad fell in 2024, #Putin simply informed his people that 🇷🇺 had, "in general," achieved its objectives. The absurdity of that statement was plain embarrassing. Having propped up the Assad dynasty from 1971, Moscow had lost its client. Yet the news was absorbed without difficulty. 10/28
Olena Rozhniatovska and her 18-year-old daughter, Kateryna, both employees of the Silpo supermarket chain, were killed during a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on August 1, the company reported. They didn't make it to the shelter in time🕯
Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦@andrewchak.bsky.social · 3d agoThere is no “both sides” when it comes to civilian casualties. russia targets them knowingly and deliberately, Ukraine tries to spare russian civilians The ratio is 97 to 3, which comes from the UN! A place where russia has a permanent seat on the Security Council ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-dead...
⚡ Ukraine reportedly breaks major production bottleneck for its FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile. united24media.com/defense-tech...
Ukraine May Have Broken the Biggest FP-5 Flamingo Production Bottleneck
Ukraine may be using British turbojet engines in FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, potentially solving a key production bottleneck and extending range.
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Ukraine’s latest Magura maritime platforms, equipped to launch FPV drones, struck two Russian radar assets in occupied Crimea in late July: a command vehicle from a Podlyot radar complex and a Parol-4 identification-friend-or-foe interrogator.
The barbarism of the attack crystallizes the very contradiction in which Russia's war is rooted. Putin oscillates between insisting Ukraine does not exist and dismissing it as a fabricated state, yet Moscow's own origin story keeps leading back to #Kyiv. 3/28
But the man moscow claims as a forefather is buried not in 🇷🇺, but in 🇺🇦 Dolgorukiy’s ambition was to rule Kyivan Rus from its true center – let the name be a hint. He died there as Grand Prince in 1157 and was laid to rest at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which Russia struck on June 15 2/28
Who is Schrödinger's putin? A man who can end the war tomorrow, yet also can't [my latest op-ed in a 🧵 thread] Few medieval figures loom larger in 🇷🇺’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded an outpost on the Moskva River from which russian empire arose 1/28
